Richt: Important Dogs ‘focus on daily process’ now that they lead East
Here’s a somewhat raw transcription of Sunday night’s media teleconference call with Georgia coach Mark Richt:
How does it feel to control your own destiny and how excited is the team?
“Well I haven’t talked to the players yet. This is their day off. I didn’t really get a lot of text messages or anything like that from the guys. But I know they understand what’s at stake and the fact that we are in a better position now. We do control our own destiny. We’ve been fighting like mad for that ever since the moment South Carolina beat us. But the thing that’s gotten us this far on a weekly basis is just trying to take care of business. Again, that’s got to be our focus, for every man to do their job, starting tomorrow and not waiting until Saturday. Everybody’s got a job to do, scout teamers and special teamers and coaches. So we’ve got to focus on that and just focus on the process and we feel like good things will happen if we do.”
Where he watched the game and what was the scene when Arkansas won:
“My wife and I were just kind of sitting side-by-side on the couch. It was just us. I think we both were kind of tired. We were awake and we were interested and we were excited, no doubt. But we didn’t jump up and dance or anything like that. But we were happy no doubt
Watch any of Alabama-LSU?
“When there was a commercial break I was checking it out. Then when the [Arkansas-South Carolina] game was over, I finished up watching that game.”
What happens with the return of tailbacks Isaiah Crowell, Ken Malcome and Carlton Thomas?
“I think they’ll be very thankful to play. All last week — and y’all saw just a taste of it — they did a lot of extra work. They did some extra work early in the morning, they did a lot of extra work during practice and they were pulling the sleds and sprinting and lifting more weights this past week. Maybe in some sense they’ll be in better condition and be even more ready to play because they missed an opportunity. I don’t think they’ll take anything for granted. I think they’ll be hungry to prove to everybody — well, maybe not prove anything — but maybe try to make up for what they’ve done by trying to play hard this week. I hope that will be the case.
Will Crowell return to starter?
“We haven’t thought about it. If Richard [Samuel] was not injured it certainly would have been a good competition. Right now I would have to say everything’s a little competitive, but I’d say the first snap we take Isaiah would be the No. 1 tailback. In practice I’m saying.”
More playing time for Harton?
“We liked what he did. There’s no doubt about that. We would definitely, with Richard out, I’m not going to say with certainty he would be at worst the No. 3 back but he’ll certainly be battling for that spot if not a No. 2 guy. We’re just going to have to play it out this week in practice real hard and see who we think is best suited to play. We also used our Brandons and they both had big plays, which was great. I’m sure we’ll have a way to get the ball to those guys again, too.”
Auburn-Georgia not only an old rivalry but a fierce one. Any concerns of spill-over from last year’s game?
“A lot of people have been asking me about that and I guess I just have a short memory. I don’t think about those things much. I’m just so focused on this season and what’s important right now, I haven’t even thought about last year and what might have happened. I think one thing that may have helped us a lot this year is we’ve had very few issues with personal fouls. We just haven’t had much extracurricular stuff after snaps or kicks. The Vanderbilt game certainly was an exception to that, but other than that we’ve had very, very few personal foul penalties. As I watched our guys recently, this game and the Florida game, in particular, we had none of that. That was a point of emphasis. We wanted to be very disciplined in that way. We want to play as physical as we can during the snap but, when it’s over, get off the field or get back to the huddle. That’s what we want to continue to do. We don’t want anything to take our focus off the game or do anything that could hurt us as far as penalties or worse like an ejection or something like that. We don’t want anything like that.”
What’s up with WR Israel Troupe?
“I think the lack of playing time and balls coming to him has been a combination of injuries and the competition level. I think the young guys have come in and really competed well. I think that Israel’s injuries here and there, whether it’s missing practice time or not being 100 percent for games and stuff like that, has certainly hurt him. I just hope he’ll continue to practice hard and, if he’s called upon, he’ll make something big happen. He certainly helped us in a game or two. Last time we were at home against Auburn, A.J. got hurt and he made a big play. So he’s had his moments and hopefully he’ll have another one or two before it’s over.”
Do you think Malcolm Mitchell will be able to play against Auburn?
“We do, we do. [Monday] is a very light practice. I think he’ll be practicing at the tempo we go with tomorrow. We don’t really go break-neck speed. Tuesday will be more of competition day. We’ll have our two-on-two drill where he pulled a muscle last time and we’ll have one-on-one routes and 11-on-11 stuff. We may or may not let him go in those. We probably on Tuesday, I’m just guessing, have him just do the scout-team work, which is competitive but not nearly as full speed as one on one. The tempo will be just a little less and it will be safer for him. Wednesday we’ll see how he’s doing and we may let him go full speed by then and let him compete in some 11-on-11 and some one-on-ones.
Championships always seem to go through Auburn or Georgia
“There’s no doubt it’s because of where it’s placed on the schedule. Usually you have to win in November to get into a championship game or to win a championship. I know, historically, listening to people who know a lot about the series, how many times Georgia didn’t make it because of Auburn and how many times Auburn didn’t make it because of Georgia. So there’s a spoiler element to this series over the years.”
Impressions of Auburn RB Michael Dyer:
“You know what, I’m very impressed with him. I really am. He’s very strong, his lower body strength is different than most guys. A lot of guys you hit them low and he’s going down. He breaks tackles just out of sheer power of the legs that he’s got. He’s more elusive than I think some people want to give him credit for and he’s got more speed than most want to give him credit for. He’s one of the best backs if not the best back in the league right now. I think a year ago as a freshman a lot of people thought he was benefiting from having Cam [Newton] back there in the backfield because that’s where the focal point was. But he’s been the focal point this year and he’s been producing in a big way. I’ve been very impressed with him.”
How’s offensive line playing?
“It really was a clean day in the pocket for [Murray against New Mexico State]. Our line created a lot of space for Aaron. There were no issues with the protection. There was one time where we had a quick-game protection and our back kind of got knocked into his lap a little bit. He certainly had to feel that, but it certainly didn’t affect his throw. . . . The line did a really good job, the number one line. I tell you what, the second-team lime in the second half did a very good job. I think we had one sack in the second half.”
What was the strategy on special teams.
“We were trying to mentally erase anything that had happened, especially anything negative. We wanted to go back to fundamentals and being aggressive with what we want to do. For me personally, I think it was about just allowing our teams to just go play ball, whether it was kicking it deep or whatever we do on our punt return or whatever. I didn’t want to to call the game any different because of anything we’d done this year. I wanted to call the game as if it was the first game of the year and see what we’ve got and try to build momentum for the future. Because we knew we had to improve. I think we took a step in the right direction both fundamentally and I think we changed some things around a bit that’s going to help us, too.”
On Missouri joining the conference:
“I think it’s great. I think it’s great because I have an awful lot of faith in our leadership in this league to make the best decisions for our league. So I’m all for it.
Will it be strange having Missouri in East?
“I think it makes the most since because we’ve already got 12 teams and 6 traditional rivalry games. If you start taking one from the West to the East or the from the 12, then all of the sudden everything gets blown up. so it probably made the most sense for scheduling and for traditional rivalries not to get messed with. I thin it makes good sense. Nowadays the travel is not going to be that big of a deal.
“Up until about a year ago, we’d bus to Atlanta and fly out of Atlanta. Nowadays we can probably get to Missouri quicker than we could get to Nashville going through Atlanta and through security and all that stuff. Travels pretty quick and it won’t be that big of a burden at all.”
– Chip Towers
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275 comments Add your comment
maddawg 913
November 6th, 2011
8:11 pm
I think Conley and McGowan both deserve more time too.
maddawg 913
November 6th, 2011
8:13 pm
Those 2 backs looked great…I hope it wasn’t just due to the competition.
A person SMART enough to know......
November 6th, 2011
8:13 pm
TEBOW TEBOW
Vegas
November 6th, 2011
8:14 pm
has the dawgs favored by 12.5pts…..??? WHAT!!!! somebody please double check that..
DougsMugsCoffeeDOTcom
November 6th, 2011
8:15 pm
I wish we had added FSU or Miami instead of Missouri.
We should put them in the west and move Auburn or Alabama into our league. Maybe move both and move Vandy into the West.
A person SMART enough to know......
November 6th, 2011
8:18 pm
maddawg 913 of course it was because of the competition. You don’t think so you must be drinking on Sunday night.
Classof92
November 6th, 2011
8:18 pm
Take care of business boys and we will battle in the Atl. God Bless CMR – real Dawgs believe in you and are glad your are our leader.
DougsMugsCoffeeDOTcom
November 6th, 2011
8:21 pm
Even as a Dawg, I am a TEBOW fan. I hope he continues to prove his critics wrong. Go Tebow! Go Broncos!
45ACP
November 6th, 2011
8:24 pm
Good info Chip. I like hearing what CMR has to say and GO DAWGS!!!
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
8:33 pm
Richt was just at home with the wife watching the games! Interesting. I thought maybe some of the players and coaches might be watching together.
maddawg 913
November 6th, 2011
8:40 pm
smart enough.
I am drinking on a Sunday night and I know some of it was competition. I have no visions of them doing that against an SEC team but I’m thinking they could at least provide some spark at times in the game. I thought Kempolaris showed nice field vision and Harton looked a lot like C Thomas.
suwaneedawg
November 6th, 2011
8:49 pm
Wow, who woud have thunk that we would be in this position after the SC game? Boy, that Richt is a terrible coach. Now all you haters can sh*t out your comments all week. And that is about what they are, sh*t.
maddawg 913
November 6th, 2011
8:49 pm
smart enough,
If you think Tebow will stay healthy running like that in the NFL your drinking more than me.
mike addington
November 6th, 2011
8:49 pm
Crowell is a girl
jaglaw
November 6th, 2011
8:50 pm
I was at home with my wife too…..but we weren’t watching tv. Haha.
More of the same
November 6th, 2011
8:52 pm
The usual meaningless bullcrap babble from Richt.
He’s already puckered up thinking about how being destroyed by Auburn may cost him his $10,000 a day job.
BlabbyDawg
November 6th, 2011
8:56 pm
Any team led by Richt will have big discipline issues. Mrsec.com has counted 80 miscues so far, so plenty for Richt to work on and correct, no that he will, just plenty of areas to improve from penalties, interceptions, a whole lot of self inflicted woulnds under a Richt led team, as we’ve all come to expect.
teewest
November 6th, 2011
8:56 pm
Hey Chip did you see Malcom Mitchell part 2? The kid from MLK!!! Mitchell, Conley, Blake Tibbs. What a future!!!
Fridawg
November 6th, 2011
8:56 pm
With Mizzou in the East we avoid playing Bama next year. Looks like 2012 could be a memorable season!
BlabbyDawg
November 6th, 2011
8:59 pm
I think mrsec includes areas like:
1) missed field goals
2) sacks allowed
3) penalties
4) big plays given up
Richt’s team has given up 80 self inflicted mistakes in just 9 games in 2011. Amazing the team has won a game.
http://mrsec.com/2011/11/mrsecs-fife-rankings-11111/
Gender Studies
November 6th, 2011
8:59 pm
@mike addington: “Crowell is a girl.”
What gave it away for you?
Eric C.
November 6th, 2011
9:01 pm
Think about the RB situation this year…Ealey and King gone before season, 4 backs out this past week, so it’s pretty impressive that the Dawgs still put up 49 pts in one half…the most ever in UGA history.
Bank on IT
November 6th, 2011
9:05 pm
WOW! Mark Richt is now in the Nick Saban” Process” School.
The ultimate compliment is when a Head Coach mimmicks anothers words.
Process Process Process…now if CMR can learn to coach like Saban we may have a winner.
bart
November 6th, 2011
9:08 pm
I’m thrilled with our situation. We now have to take care of business against Auburn, the best team we’ve faced since South Carolina. Even though we have won 7 in a row, we have not beaten anybody good, so the Auburn game will be a real test. I’m nervous about it. Go Dawgs!
Bank on IT
November 6th, 2011
9:10 pm
Nothing is impressive about beating N. Mexico St. Sorry, but a bottome feeder in BCS they have a hard time beating a FCS team. Impressive the team stayed together
Eric C.
November 6th, 2011
9:14 pm
Bank on IT, NMST is harldy the worst team to every play in Athens. And 42 pts in one quarter IS impressive against any FBS team…especially when your top 4 RBs are out.
Summit Dawg
November 6th, 2011
9:15 pm
Was it just me or did BooBoo actually change his offensive strategy to compliment the new young backs?????? If so, he needs to continue doing so!!!!
Hit A Single
November 6th, 2011
9:29 pm
Give credit where credit is due. Bobo called a great game yesterday. I personally thought Ala and LSU OCs did a poor job. Pressure got to them. I agree that both defenses were great, but why did Ala. keep trying to run between the tackles. I would have like to have seen the toss to Richardson or passes out in space for him. But they know alot more than I do. It is hard to argue with their success.
hop
November 6th, 2011
9:29 pm
Dawgs are on a roll! what is so special about this team is the depth throughout the team!
The team continues to insert capable players to replace ones who cannot play.
That is a huge plus that we have not had in the past.
This team is developing into one that could be awesome in the future.
DAWGS have a great team that will continue to be a top tier one
and competing for championships in upcoming years.
Bank on IT
November 6th, 2011
9:29 pm
Just to Clarify…
New Mexico St. is ranked by Sagarin at 126- 5 spots below Harvard.
JB
November 6th, 2011
9:31 pm
Richt says ” I haven’t really thought about the Auburn game from last year. Maybe I have a short memory”…………………Maybe Richt is lying, not very Christian like, or maybe that’s what’s wrong with this team………….And you can talk about 7 in a row blah blah blah, but we ain’t beat nobody. Auburn and Tech will present challenges. Maybe if Tech stays ranked and we beat them, it’ll get that monkey off his back going back to 2009. We all pulling for him and the team.
Studmuffin
November 6th, 2011
9:34 pm
I know everyone wants to focus on the SEC championship (me included)! But I hate Auburn now more than ever because of the incredibly DIRTY way they played last year. I implore our team to remember and kick in their teeth. Please!
Larry Ware
November 6th, 2011
9:34 pm
Thanks to the rebirth of the UGA defense under Todd Grantham we are starting another era like 2002-2005 in which we are favored to win the east each season…..just beat Auburn.
JB
November 6th, 2011
9:35 pm
Dawgs on a roll………………..Bobo called a great game yesterday……………….Please, I love the Dawgs, but don’t get carried away. Buford high could of beat that New Mexico team Saturday. Really, they could of. If Richt was a SOB, he could of hung 100 on them. I’ll feel better when we beat a good football team.
Brewmaster
November 6th, 2011
9:44 pm
BlabbyDawg = Marcus = Moron
Viking fan
November 6th, 2011
9:47 pm
Yes just beat Auburn!!!!!!!
Brewmaster
November 6th, 2011
9:49 pm
Hey Blabbydawg Marcus-Moron, why don’t you enlighten us with one of your Hutson Mason should be starting rants ?
Even
November 6th, 2011
9:53 pm
Eric come on –that team could not have beaten MLK or Stephenson
Buckhead Bulldog
November 6th, 2011
9:57 pm
BCS:
Dogs 15
UsC 12
Hogs 8
Tide 3
AU 20
Bill Stanfill
November 6th, 2011
10:01 pm
Missouri will join the East division. This is fitting: the stronger academic universities are clearly in the East. Vanderbilt, UGA, Florida have much higher admission and academic standards than schools like Miss. State and Auburn and the other West schools. No way the presidents of the East universities let somebody like Auburn move to the East.
On our way back to the dome
November 6th, 2011
10:02 pm
I hope Isaiah Crowell has a big game against Auburn & we put it on them in the second half like they did to us last year. We also need our d line to step up big with their rbs playing well this year. I was ay the Auburn Clemson game & they def do have lots of speed in the backfield for us to worry about. I expect a big game out of Malcolm if he’s 100% also. Go Dawgs
Weak Side--the East
November 6th, 2011
10:06 pm
Prediction– UGA and USC both lose this weekend. Makes the Kentucky game all that more improtant. Dawgs back into the SECCG– and lose.
Doobie Brothers
November 6th, 2011
10:07 pm
You ain’t ask Richt if Crowell smoked some weed over the weekend ?
You ain’t ask him if Blair Walsh can kick straight ?
You ain’t ask him if offensive & defensive starters will be on special teams ?
You ain’t ask him why Beamer can coach special teams but he seem to can’t ?
Eric C.
November 6th, 2011
10:12 pm
Bank On It and Even, lol…NMST beat Minnesota at Minnesota just a week before MN nearly beat USC. That must count for something???
Eric C.
November 6th, 2011
10:14 pm
Weak Side–the East, maybe so, but I’ll take Missouri over Texas A&M any day! ha
GA DAWG
November 6th, 2011
10:15 pm
Yeah, Kentucky and South Carolina are really strong academic powers?? IF you look at admission SAT/ACT standards etc…it goes like this now…Vandy,Texas AM, UF, UGA, Missoui, AU, UT, Bama, South Carolina, Arkansas,Kentucky, Miss St, Ole Miss, LSu….
Generally Stronger academic schools in the East but AU has much higher standards than we dawgs fans say with a average ACT of 27 in this freshman class…I know this because my daughter is going there next year…Kids in the ATL that can’t get into UGA,GT,AU now go to Bama and Ole Miss……….GO Dawgs…..
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
10:16 pm
Eric C. it means Minnesota was looking forward to USC maybe.
ole dawg
November 6th, 2011
10:16 pm
Still… just because you wife will not spend any time with you on Saturday night does not mean everybody is in your boat!
AltamahaDawg
November 6th, 2011
10:16 pm
aside from misquoting that, how is that “what’s wrong with this team” JB?
Eric C.
November 6th, 2011
10:21 pm
Still@theKool-aidBar, actually…I had that backwards, NMST beat MN “after” MN nearly beat USC at USC, so it was probably the hangover effect.
Now you know
November 6th, 2011
10:22 pm
Lose the big ones and pound on the little ones – its the “Georgia Way.”
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
10:25 pm
Now you know………..that is good if you are talking about women, but not so much in football.
Mobile Dawg
November 6th, 2011
10:26 pm
It’s like having a high school sweetheart that keeps breaking your heart. You want to believe in her but you’re just afraid. Experience is a good teacher if you’re smart enough to pay attention and look at things realistically, vs how you wish they would work out.
NOBODYYOUKNOW
November 6th, 2011
10:28 pm
Yea! Yea! we ant played nobody. But the guys played hard and they won. They’re on a roll. I’m gonna stay positive. I know this Ga. team can beat anybody if they put they’re hart and soul into it. You people act like CMR wants to lose. Admit it fans after the first 2 losses most gave up on the team. Fire this one, fire that one. GO DAWGS
AltamahaDawg
November 6th, 2011
10:29 pm
What’s like “having a….”?
AltamahaDawg
November 6th, 2011
10:35 pm
I suggest that you do not let your wife read that comment either. I’m guessing tentions are high enough the Georgia/Auburn, without her throwing in a “What is that supposed to mean?”
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
10:40 pm
Can the suspended players come back for AUBURN? I saw the NMSU game. That qualified as maybe 1/2 a game. Crowell and the boys shouldn’t get to play but the 2nd half.
Mobile Dawg
November 6th, 2011
10:40 pm
Good point @ 10:35, although it’s been so long since High School I can hardly remember and she didn’t know me then. We’re trying to pick up a couple tickets for the game, but since she won last year she wants to sit in their section.
Mobile Dawg
November 6th, 2011
10:44 pm
It was just an analogy. I’ve just been preconditioned the last few years to expect something bad to happen, kinda like a fake punt returned for a long touchdown costing us a huge win. I wonder if Larry was married to “old lady luck” and took her with him.
ARdawg
November 6th, 2011
10:45 pm
These mixed marriages must be tough heh heh
hop
November 6th, 2011
10:49 pm
Dawgs defense is the best since we won the last SEC championship and should be the difference when we play auburn and tech.
Mobile Dawg
November 6th, 2011
10:49 pm
Actually a few simple rules keep things civil. She has brainwashed the four year old though.
Mobile Dawg
November 6th, 2011
10:52 pm
If we win Saturday, I won’t start celebrating yet but will feel pretty good going into the Kentucky game. But those are the trap games Richt has struggled with at times. Then there’s the Bees, they will probably give us a good game this year. A loss there would sure take the lusture off of going to the big game “should we make it”. Bottom line is these Dawgs better stay focused. Win out and I might start giving CMR the benefit of the doubt. Still say no extension until he shows some consistency, another good year and he could earn it.
Thomas Brown
November 6th, 2011
11:01 pm
# 14 AP # 16 Coaches’ Rankings # 15 BCS
Auburn is # 24 in the AP Poll and # 25 in the Coaches’
Obviously, Auburn is not going to be ranked
Auburn cannot Pass, has no Defense, no Special Teams
Our opponents we beat are 28-35.
We’ve played 22 games Aaron Murray Starting QB
7 TD pass, 0-7 vs 7 teams who are ranked
36 TD pass, 13-2 vs teams who are not ranked
What’s wrong with this team is that we don’t beat the good teams
AltamahaDawg
November 6th, 2011
11:03 pm
My experiences with the Auburn game are testing my ability to fend off the energy vampire within for sure.
AltamahaDawg
November 6th, 2011
11:05 pm
How many sacks do we have so far?
Jimmy
November 6th, 2011
11:06 pm
Is it just me or has the AJC not updated for daylight savings time yet? I see some comments that have posted at 11pm, and it’s just past 10. Nice job AJC.
Jimmy
November 6th, 2011
11:08 pm
Thomas,
We get it. You don’t like UGA. You don’t like Mark Richt. Even if the Dawgs win the SEC East you wouldn’t be happy would you? Are you the type who would complain about having to pay so much in taxes even in winning the lotto??
Just go away already.
AltamahaDawg
November 6th, 2011
11:08 pm
It’s because the AJC is actually housed in India now Jimmy.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
11:13 pm
The AJC cut down to 4 Vents and they still can’t post new Vents 7 days a week. the AJC can’t get one name for each bloggers email address. You want them to adjust the time? AHAHAHAHH maybe Monday by noon.
Mobile Dawg
November 6th, 2011
11:15 pm
They may not be able to tell time but the filters are alive and well.
Jimmy
November 6th, 2011
11:18 pm
Altamaha,
It’s a sad statement about the times we live in that I’m not sure if you’re joking or not.
Bank on IT
November 6th, 2011
11:18 pm
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/fbt11.htm
Please read the link above that will show the schedule strengths, prediction of final BCS finish regular season, the record against top 30 BCS teams, record against top 10 BCS teams.
SE GA Fan
November 6th, 2011
11:20 pm
These blogs are just mind-numbing stupid, and I’m signing off. Maybe someday some AJC readers/bloggers can carry on decent chats, but it’s not obviously happening here on AJC anytime soon. Why can’t Dawg fans blog on their blogs, and other SEC teams blog on their respective blogs? These comments are nasty and totally silly.
Mobile Dawg
November 6th, 2011
11:22 pm
Jimmy, the point of this blog is to discuss things. Why do you want people to go away that have a different opinion than you? If you don’t like what someone posts, skip it. I probably miss 60% of the comments.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
11:22 pm
Bank on IT……………it is too soon for picking the BCS games.
Jimmy
November 6th, 2011
11:23 pm
…and one other thing Thomas Brown,
You do realize it’s because of the lunatic fringe such as yourself that a team like Tennessee is in the mess it’s in. UGA would be heading down that same path because of your lunatic fringe.
They fired a good head coach in Fulmer because he didn’t win big every dang year. Forget the multiple SEC East titles, SEC championships and one MNC. Where is that program at now?
That’s exactly the path UGA will be heading down if you of the lunatic fringe had their way.
Forget Richt’s 100+ victories over the past decade and multiple SEC championships.
I guess nothing is ever good enough for you of the LUNATIC fringe, huh?
Let them fire Richt and bring in some bozo “hot” assistant, and watch UGA go back to the previous 20 years before Richt came along, where they won NOTHING.
Of course the LUNATIC fringe would then blame the administration for firing Richt if UGA were to go down the same path as Tennessee, right?
You do so well w/ all of your stats, but you’ve never once told us who you think would do a better job than Richt. No, you LUNATIC fringe just say “we should demand excellence” as if the UGA administration doesn’t already do that.
LUNATICS are what you all are, exactly, sir.
Jimmy
November 6th, 2011
11:26 pm
Mobile,
You have a good point, but people like the poster who uses the name Thomas Brown just really get on my nerves.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 6th, 2011
11:27 pm
Looks like the Baltimore v Pittsburgh game is looking like the Bama v LSU game.
Mobile Dawg
November 6th, 2011
11:28 pm
Stay tuned, the “lunatic fringe” vs the “kool aid krowd” will continue this saga. Dawgs, have a good evening.
Jimmy
November 6th, 2011
11:31 pm
I wouldn’t consider myself a part of the “kool aid krowd,” I just think Mark Richt is a mighty fine coach and a better man. You don’t win 100+ SEC games w/o being a great coach, despite what people such as Thomas Brown would have you think.
Take care, Mobile.
Dawg48
November 6th, 2011
11:34 pm
Every one talks about how Sabin is the best coach, well look at it since he has been at bama. Yes a national title great job, but look at his ” big game record” vs Utah in the sugar lost, vs auburn last year lost lsu this year lost vs Texas in NC won. That’s just one out of four.so every body that says coach richt can’t win the big game……… That happens at all schools…… Look at bob stoops! It takes more than just great coaching to win a NC it takes the right schedule or catching the team at the right time your bye week were it falls, freak injuries and don’t forget ole lady luck also.
AltamahaDawg
November 6th, 2011
11:36 pm
Jimmy the problem is this: you are not really addressing the real person behind the curtain, so arguing or pointing or your view is wasted effort. Haven’t you noticed that it never really talk TO anyone, just AT them. TB/BuLLdawg/Boweevil/12-2/Bulldog Joe is just a role play character.
Jimmy
November 6th, 2011
11:36 pm
Dawg48,
Saban actually has two MNC’s. Don’t forget about the one when he coached LSU. I wouldn’t exactly compare Richt to Saban, but he’s still a great HC.
tide roll
November 6th, 2011
11:37 pm
2nd Unit Offensive line has also formed a singing group. The Name? The “FIVE MARSHMELLOWS”
Jimmy
November 6th, 2011
11:38 pm
I know Altamaha,
I’m just “relieving some blog stress” if you will. He’ll come back w/ a 5,000 word essay now complete with stats, and refer to me as sir. haha
Of course that will be at 3am, when most of the normal world is asleep.
Mobile Dawg
November 6th, 2011
11:39 pm
I can respectfully disagree with you, and I don’t rely on people like Thomas to influence my opinion. The conference has changed and the bar has been raised the last five years overall. Richt has struggled to keep up with that, statistics, records, facts, performance all point to that, even though our recruiting classes have been better than average during that period. The kool aid krowd flat refuses to acknowledge, or discuss facts, and I’m not saying you’re one of them.
bitter dope smoking running backs
November 6th, 2011
11:40 pm
Enter your comments here
Dawg48
November 6th, 2011
11:41 pm
I was talking since he has been at bama….. It was in my post……. Just trying to say that saban does not always win the big game.
NOBODYYOUKNOW
November 6th, 2011
11:41 pm
SE GA Fan; you’re nasty and silly and you got bad body odor.
AltamahaDawg
November 6th, 2011
11:44 pm
I know. It’s like a puppet. You can’t but walk over and pull it’s strings every now and then, but always sit it back on the shelf and wonder why anyone would keep such a creepy toy laying around.
OkieDawg
November 6th, 2011
11:46 pm
I have not forgotten last year. Last year, Auburn was the dirtiest team the SEC has ever fielded. Fairley was a cheap shot chump and who can forget Trooper Taylor saluting Fairley’s late hits. Murray has not forgotten the cheap shots. I’m ordering my SEC Championship tixs this week because Auburn will go down in Sanford. I’m not worrried. As far as tailback, Harton is #1 followed by Karempelis. The other dope smokers can stay home and pass a doobie. I had rather lose than see the 3 amigos back on the field this year, yes really.
Jimmy
November 6th, 2011
11:48 pm
LOL Altamaha,
I wish “it” would respond to me soon. I’m heading to bed in a few.
AltamahaDawg
November 6th, 2011
11:48 pm
Mobile, now you have to admit that the “kool-aid” crowd as you describe them as such a minority in here that compared to the never find one thing right crowd, you can’t ever see them in the back. I find very few folks who profess to be supporters of Richt that ever refuse to discuss facts in here. In fact I think they readily acknowledge the issues and struggles recently.
bitter dope smoking running backs, tree killer fans, flu--ra-duh fans
November 6th, 2011
11:49 pm
great play from the bench==dope heads to the bench==bamma fans its said were trying to kill
—————–there kicker—and his family—————-flu–ra–duh!!!! well next season boy,s
——————————war hogs see ya saturday————————go ar–kanas
———————darth visor—hahahahahah
Jimmy
November 6th, 2011
11:50 pm
Mobile,
If Richt is “struggling” with a 7-2 record in the SEC, i’ll take that any day of the week. People just don’t realize how hard it is to win in this league. Do you want to become Kentucky or Vandy?
That’s where Tennessee is heading because of the lunatic fringe portion of their fan base who said multiple SEC championships and one MNC weren’t good enough.
Over time, the cream ALWAYS rises to the top.
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AltamahaDawg
November 6th, 2011
11:53 pm
I’m betting is we actually saw who was behind that character called BuLLdawg, we would never have guessed it was that guy.
BTW, many of my freind and family and quite a few folks who post in here know exactly who I am, so I live up to every single post I make. If that were the norm, I beleive we would ahve a much better blog.
Dawg48
November 6th, 2011
11:53 pm
Now that missouri is in the “east” do we drop bama next year? Has any one heard rock solid news on that?
AltamahaDawg
November 6th, 2011
11:54 pm
and on that note………..
bitter dope smoking running backs
November 6th, 2011
11:55 pm
pan–nah–mall “red”——colum–bee-a–gold—-and home grown—-the three turds
———————-made for T,V,
Mobile Dawg
November 6th, 2011
11:58 pm
I hope you’re right Jimmy. I hope I don’t come across as always being negative. I try and call the good things as well as the things that trouble me. Maybe three years going in the wrong direction is a normal part of the cycle as a lot would say. I just seems that an awful lot of things that are directly under Richts control have led us in that direction.
You are right on some counts Altamaha, a lot of Richt supporters “such as you” acknowledge that there are problems. You’all sleep well.
AltamahaDawg
November 6th, 2011
11:59 pm
and yes, they all give me grief about my typing skills
Jimmy
November 7th, 2011
12:02 am
It’s the internet age we live in Altamaha. Anyone can be a computer “tough guy.”
Of course talking about “that guy” probably is the reason he does it anyway.
Jimmy
November 7th, 2011
12:03 am
Night Mobile,
There will always be down cycles. Look at Saban when he was at Michigan State. Or Dooley for a few years here at UGA. I think someone already posted earlier, that if the internet and blogs were around back in his day he would have been gone a lot earlier.
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Jimmy
November 7th, 2011
12:16 am
Altamaha,
Keep “Thomas BuLL” on ice for me. I’ll have to play some other day. I’m heading to bed.
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athdog
November 7th, 2011
12:30 am
Brewmaster, take it easy on BlabbyDawg….he’s only going to say that Hutson ‘I have a decision to make at the end of the season’ Mason would’ve looked great with the first team playing around him.
Hutson is a kid, I realize that, and I’m glad he’s a Dawg. But if he’s not happy, and wants to start, let him transfer. He’s obviously not beating out Murray.
On another note, maybe we haven’t beaten a good team yet, folks, but we’re first in the East and it feels good.
Finally, Missou? Really? In the SOUTH EASTERN Conference? And in the EASTERN division? Double Really? I hoped we’d add Free Shoes or the college up on Lake Hartwell…Clemons, I think it is. Money drives it all, and sense takes a holiday.
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angela
November 7th, 2011
2:58 am
do not get tricked by the record and forget that we almost lost the fla game due to poor coaching
do not forget that bosie beat the dogs with far less talent
only the coach can be responsible if there is more talent and losing big
remember ga has the biggest off line in football
are these guys just not good players or is there some problem with how they perform because of coaching
Fair and Balanced
November 7th, 2011
5:05 am
Not happy to welcome Mo into SEC. I’d rather invite Tech back in and. a FL school. Then tha Tech v Ga game means more to the conference and maybe even the nation. MO is not in the SE of the USA. Don’t want ‘em!
Fair and Balanced
November 7th, 2011
5:08 am
Why dent the SEC invite Southern Cal or San Diego St? At least they are in the South. Mo is not. Don’t want ‘em! Doesn’t make sense.
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Black Mountain NC Bulldog
November 7th, 2011
6:25 am
The Georgia D will win the game against Auburn.
The Physical play from our D is going, to be intense.
Thomas Brown
November 7th, 2011
6:58 am
Black Mountain NC Bulldog,
Yes, SIR, Georgia will win this game vs Auburn, as they have no passing offense, no special teams and no defense. They are currently ranked # 25 in the Coaches’ Poll and # 24 in the AP Poll. Therefore, they clearly are not going to end up a ranked team this season. IT isn’t a good football team we play Saturday at 3:30; IT is a team who isn’t going to finish a ranked team, like the other 7 we beat in a row. They did beat South Carolina; but we should have too. In fact, South Carolina probably does not end up a ranked team. Had we beat South Carolina, instead of backing into The SEC East Championship at HOME watching the game on TV 7 hours after cupcake # 7, we would not have backed into it. But, we did lose to a South Carolina team who we should’ve beat. It is what we do. Funny stuff about posters wanting to discuss the issues, and before it can even post, seeing the Richt0philes say, let’s delete all of Thomas Brown’s posts. Make him leave; ban him. So, they can hear only their opinion. Phat Fil is now the example that a person cannot look and see that we are not even top 25 in won/lost after 2005 season through today, with all the bad press daily the Richt0philes do not want to hear about all 11 years. In this blog we have poster after poster tell you. Not me telling you. Poster after poster. In fact, you admit yourself, we have beat no one. Our opponents we beat this season are 28-35. Impressed ? Glad to hear you are. I hope that you know fully that I 100% support your right to post that you are 100% satisfied, and use as your measure a football coach who LOST IT, had zero discipline, gained the term Fulmer Cup (which we have since a # 2 overall ranking after the 2005 season, which is the timeframe the Fulmer Cup has been awarded.) On the field, Phat Fil couldn’t do anything. But, of course, we are to compare ourselves not to beat no ranked team, but to Ray Goff. As for Jim Donnan, he lost 19 games his 5 seasons here and Mark Richt lost 21 his last 5 seasons here. So, we haven’t done better than Jim Donnan the last 5 years. The 1st 5 years of the Mark Richt era, we benefited 2002 by there being only 1 other team finish in the Coaches’ Poll Top 25, a 4-loss Auburn; and in 2005 the only other SEC Championship, we ended up not # 1 but # 3 of SEC teams in EVERY poll.
I have not listed 25 other teams who have in fact done better than us, on the field after 2005 ? Sure I have. You just ignored it. Repost it and you ignore it again. Why is that ? Because you HAVE NO COME-BACK. So, I am to leave. I am not a Bulldogs’ football fan. Ban my posts. Hear only that which you yourself say, which pardon me, is not SIR that you discuss the issues. We do all this while daily nothing but BAD PRESS for 11 years.
We beat the teams who end up not ranked (Well, we have lost 17 times in 11 years to such teams.) but, these are the teams we sometimes beat. We do not beat the teams that end up in the top 10, not at 3-10. Why do you NEVER discuss these and say I have nothing to hang my hat on, while we lead the nation in BAD PRESS off the field and on it.
Find the areas and times when we did play football when I was jumping up and down. AGAIN, REPEATEDLY you have had poster after poster all day Friday and all this blog too, who have told you I once was a RICHT0PHILE MYSELF. That time has come and gone. And, there you sit living in the past, trying to tell me that Phat Fil was great. He was NOT SIR. I told them not to hire Lame Kitten. I also told them I like Derek Dooley. But, what Will at Florida and what Derek with the vols had in their cupboard, is not in the same ballpark as what Jim Donnan left Mark Richt by Mark Richt’s own admissions as to why he came here on December 20, 2000.
We play sloppy. We are no match for any of the 3 top teams in The SEC West and if Missouri ends up in the East 2012, there will be a quick assertion that they belong in the SEC West with Texas A&M, just 2 teams who cannot beat the good teams and who also lose to the bad teams. While we get instead Auburn and Alabama. The racketing up of The SEC after 2005 season is quite obvious to all. We are anything but a part of that. Yet, we are # 11 all-time in !-A wins; forget this daily bad press and outside the top 25 in 1-A wins after the 2005 season. The 2005 season was SEVEN (7) seasons ago. This cycle BS discussion is your excuse for 7 seasons ago ? Oh, I see we are playing any 1 of the SEC West teams as SEC East Champ and you think I will NOT say that the SEC East is DOWN, WAY DOWN, was WAY down last year, is way down this year.
No. You know I will say that.
That is why you don’t want my posts.
Because you have NO REPLY to such.
Paddy
November 7th, 2011
7:26 am
tide roll……I see you are back with more O-Line info that means nothing to anyone.. You little fella, have the mind of a small grape!
BobDawg
November 7th, 2011
7:31 am
@Vegas… check out how many Points the Barners have given up this season… I believe the most in the SEC on D. Now you know why the spread is so much…. Plus, we are peaking just at the right time as in past Chmpshp seasons
Destin Dawg
November 7th, 2011
7:32 am
Richt has won more SEC. games than Saban… he’s 2 out of 3 against Nick in the SEC… and we get to play ‘em next year too … Go dawgs !!!!
Destin Dawg
November 7th, 2011
7:35 am
Go Dawgs.. beat Auburn !!! focus after last year should not be a problem… Run Harton… he reminds me of Jeff Demps… this is a non smoking bus…
Destin Dawg
November 7th, 2011
7:37 am
Thomas Brown… we can beat Ala… what if we beat LSU ???
Prediction
November 7th, 2011
8:09 am
Mizzou will become the first team in the history of the SEC to win their Division Championship in their very first year of competing in conference play.
Weak Side--the East
November 7th, 2011
8:11 am
Destin Dawg– beat Alabama– how about Auburn first–
Realist
November 7th, 2011
8:14 am
Thomas Brown: One thing you have to remember: The truth always hurts. Especially for UGA fans who think Richt has done something this year. All he has done is to beat the seven dwarfs, Yes, he’ll probably back into the SEC Championship Game and McGarity will be all gaga like a sixteen yr old girl and want to give him an extension, which he will later regret. But, after all is said and done, there awaits LSU, a real football team. Richt won’t be in the game after the first quarter. McGarity, you might better wait on that extension until after Miles and LSU get through with Richt. You might just save the Hartman Fund donors a lot of money.
Prediction
November 7th, 2011
8:18 am
South Carolina backs into the SECCG again this year. Georgia ain’t man enough to take on Auburn. Don’t matter what color unis they wear.
JB
November 7th, 2011
8:23 am
Dawgs ahead of Carolina in the polls……Just like we all thought. Spurrier always has trouble with the back nine.
Prediction
November 7th, 2011
8:25 am
Don’t know much about the Evil Genius’ golf game, but I do know that there’s not a team in the East who can beat Arkansas. Maybe next year?
Big Dawg
November 7th, 2011
8:31 am
Fello Dawgs,
We will see this coming Saturday if Coach Richt and his staff have in deed turned another corner in bringing this program back to respectability. New Mexico State was no test but what was needed after an emotional and big hurdle in beating the Gators. With Crowel, Malcome and Thomas back hopefully Coach Richt stays with running the football and throwing it occasionally to keep Auburn off balance. We will see if we continue to improve and get more consistent and the players are believing in themselves that they can beat anyone.
Go Dawgs
CHDawg
November 7th, 2011
8:32 am
42 points in one qtr was great. Against anybody. The Dawgs did something I don’t remember them doing in a while–capitalize on the other team’s mistakes. We have been moving it, but getting stopped and missing FGs. This is a strong positive. Conley looked great, along with Charles, and all did well. The TB situation might have helped by forcing us out of our predictable patterns. No matter the talent, if the other DC knows what is coming, it is hard to move the ball. The team is clearly maturing and improving–a sign, btw, of good coaching. Saturday is critical to that process–we will see. Auburn is good this year, very talented, ranked, and well coached; it will be a challenge. This makes or breaks the season, along with Tech–they are must wins. UK is too, obviously. Go Dawgs. The haters are consistent–nothing the Dawgs do pleases them–not even 42 pts in one qtr! I think that reveals other agendas.
Thomas Brown
November 7th, 2011
8:55 am
Yeah, that really matters 42 points vs the # 116 team in football. I am so gaga over that, you know ? Which is why we left early. Did you ? Auburn is # 24 in the Coaches’ and # 25 in the AP Poll and they are never going to end up a ranked team. They have no passing, no defense and no special teams. They are a horrible football team, who will end up NOT RANKED. Auburn is the test. Keep telling yourself that. Missouri well could win The SEC East 2012, so could Texas A&M. It will mean nothing, just as it meant nothing that South Carolina with 5 Losses got blown out by SEC West last year and just as it means NOTHING this year either, with us being blown out by any of 3 SEC West teams.
I do think Alabama is the better team. But, like us, they cannot hit a field goal. Sorry. I forgot only we can dream up excuses. I didn’t mean to say that.
Alabama would beat us by 50 points.
Wait for it…
What if we beat LSU ?
DISNEYdawgs.com and you KNOW IT.
Buzz 2011
November 7th, 2011
8:59 am
Playing two top 10 ranked teams in less than two weeks…GT…………………………………That’s all right UGA plays their share of ranked teams, right?
BobDawg
November 7th, 2011
9:00 am
This past week was about shoring up the special teams which we did and the D played very vanilla all game with I think J. Jones blitzing one time off the edge… Auburn won’t be able to run on our linebacking corp and we will slowly strangle them like a Boa Constrictor… Nice analogy even if I think so! Now I have to find more Makers for the game as everyone was drinking from my flasks like H2O this past weekend!
Buzz 2011
November 7th, 2011
9:02 am
Well said Thomas Brown….You left out that GT would beat you by 30 points..
BobDawg
November 7th, 2011
9:02 am
@ Buzz 2011….. YAWN… We are a steamroller just fine tuning the engine’s right now… Watch and learn this weekend….
BobDawg
November 7th, 2011
9:03 am
Buzz, you better win out so our game finally means something this year… Hopefully there will be some fans at Grant Field to block the wind… My Makers only goes so far……
DawginLex
November 7th, 2011
9:09 am
SEC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME VIEWING PARTY
DEC 3, 2011
NICK SABAN’S HOUSE
ALL FORMER STAFF INVITED INCLUDING MUSCHAMP AND DOOLEY
Servers:
Kirby Smart
Jim McElwain
RSVP to: Eli Gold at http://www.weaintgonnawinsquat.com
Dreamland BBQ will be served
BobDawg
November 7th, 2011
9:11 am
Hey Buzz Lightyear… speaking of ranked… How is your ranking looking so far this year??? Yeah, that’s what I thought… woulda, coulda, shoulda… It’s not how you start my friend… It’s how you end the year… Maybe we can give you an award for September games????
BobDawg
November 7th, 2011
9:13 am
Dawg in Lex… there you are! Hey, what is the restaurant in downtown Lexington that serves the sweet Makers Cornbread as a loaf??? Right across from Rupp Arena… Man, great steaks there also…
BobDawg
November 7th, 2011
9:15 am
speaking of Saban, he is wound tighter than a “snare drum on Christmas”!!! I’m becoming a huge Les Miles fan as he just seems pretty cool and doesn’t take himself too seriously… and what about that Aussie punter nailing a 72 yarder from the endzone… Geez.
BILLY JACK
November 7th, 2011
9:16 am
ALL THESE TECH NERDS POSTING AS SOMEONE ELSE-WE HAVE HEARD THIS ALL YEAR FROM THESE IDIOTS-UGA WAS SUPPOSE TO LOSE TO TENN-FLA BLA BLA BLA WHEN WE BEAT AUB TECHIES WILL SAY AUB IS DOWN-WHEN WE DESTROY TECH THEY WILL SAY THE SUN WAS IN THIER EYES.THANKSGIVING BEATDOWN RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER-UGA STYLE.
DawginLex
November 7th, 2011
9:22 am
Bob
Desha’s
Might not have spelled it right………
loel
November 7th, 2011
9:24 am
Don’t know who you are JB but you have got problems. Even Buford by you standards would have not Played ANYBODY,,, but they have Calhoun ahead of them. Go eat with you pagans, and get a job, take care of your family> Oh have you got one?
gdawginkalamazoo
November 7th, 2011
9:26 am
Really, what say did we have in who we played in the SEC this year? It is just the way the schedule fell. We got beat by a very experienced Boise State team that had a much better QB than us. SC scrapped by us on a bunch big offensive & special teams mistakes. All these kids have done since is beat the teams in front of them. Is it their fault that the other team just isn’t that good or hasn’t beaten anybody? No, all they can do is win the next game. Auburn as some play makers in Dyer and McCaleb. This game will determine IF our program is heading in the right direction. Take care of business then take care of Kentucky and wrap the season up exterminating some bees.
BobDawg
November 7th, 2011
9:29 am
that’s it… You just won me some Makers for the weekend… Had a bet with a friend that I could come up with the name by 9am before he could…. I owe u!!!
Spaceman Spiff
November 7th, 2011
9:30 am
I see that Thomas Brown the fool is back with his usual crap of a post…you know, he never did answer the questions about his man crush on the real TB that he has to use his name as his handle…Funny though, I didn’t think technerd fans adored UGA players…
Chris Snow
November 7th, 2011
9:33 am
First thing in order: Beat Auburn. Worry about the Kentucky and Tech game AFTER.
DawginLex
November 7th, 2011
9:34 am
I love how losers like Thomas Brown discuss games we are going to lose before they are even played.
You sir, need to mail in your diploma.
You are a disgrace.
What exactly do you want?
A debate? Forget it, you won’t answer anyone’s questions.
Richt fired? It’s McGarity’s call, not yours or mine.
UGA to lose all the rest of its games so Richt will get fired and you get your wish?
OR
Do you just want to sit behind a computer and type all of your nonsense?
We all would LOVE to know what your deal is.
HawkNose
November 7th, 2011
9:43 am
I thought Murray had his best quarter yet in 2nd quarter. Why? Conmpetition. He knew Hutson Mason was coming in the 3rd quater. Like to see more of that.
gdawginkalamazoo
November 7th, 2011
9:46 am
It really doesn’t matter what the records are or where either team is ranked. UGA v Auburn is always one of the toughest games of the season. I know that our competition hasn’t been top notch but we have had some kids really step up the past few weeks. I applaud the RB’s frome Saturday for having big days. I hope they enjoyed them. Go Dawgs!
YellowJacketMatt
November 7th, 2011
9:47 am
All I know is UGA better not take Auburn as lightly as they took New Mexico State. If they think the defending nat’l champs will roll over like the Aggies, they’ve got another thing comin’
Joey
November 7th, 2011
9:48 am
“Alabama would beat us by 50 points.”
*******************************
Thomas, I usually don’t waste the finger movement required to respond to your rambling, but this time I had to.
You are bat-crazy to think ANY TEAM could score 50 + points on Grantham’s defense.
Bat-crazy.
JAWJeRDAWG
November 7th, 2011
9:49 am
Thomas Brown
You continuously TRY to besmirch everything UGA; we don’t care what you think or say! Get it?
Go Dawgs! and everything good about our university and program; coaches, players and fans!
Dawg_Mike
November 7th, 2011
9:49 am
There have been more than a few cases of ranked teams losing to unranked teams so far this season.
Oklahoma losing to Texas Tech comes to mind.
So, all you folks claiming we havent beaten a ranked team please remember anyone can beat anyone on a given day.
gdawginkalamazoo
November 7th, 2011
9:50 am
DawginLex, are we guessing his occupation? I bet accountant or actuary.
HawkNose
November 7th, 2011
9:50 am
I saw start Hutson Mason and the QB play will be much better, look at New Mexico State. Murray is TOO comfortable back there, knowing Mason won’t play in a big game. Shake it up, put Murray on notice, play like a top QB, or if you pull your regular below par stuff against ranked teams, Mason will come in.
Jborodawg
November 7th, 2011
9:51 am
I applaud CMR for not remembering last year’s game. Gotta focus on the now; this week’s game, not the past. It’s fine for us fans to want revenge, but the team has to focus on the job at hand, with possibly a little pay-back in the backs of their minds.
Travel for fans is gonna be a beeahch for games at T A&M and Mizzou.
Chip, CMR said, “Up until about a year ago, we’d bus to Atlanta and fly out of Atlanta…” So, how would they get to Mizzou or T A&M nowadays?
gdawginkalamazoo
November 7th, 2011
9:52 am
Tebow was admiring all the crying in Tuscaloosa Saturday night.
Buzz 2011
November 7th, 2011
9:53 am
Hey Big Dawg… That GT ranking is looking pretty good so far.. #20
By the end of the night Thursday look for about #12… How would you like that?
I understand the Dawgs with a #15 ranking, I mean look at all the highly ranked teams they have knocked off this year, right? Oh wait, you played only two and you lost both.. joke…
Ga defense
November 7th, 2011
9:55 am
plus special teams = SC 45 points, so 50 is not out of the question
dkg
November 7th, 2011
9:58 am
Two things about the game last saturday. One is the enthusiasm the two running backs displayed. They acted like it was an honor to play,not a privilage. They may not have the athletic gifts that crowell has,but they have way more heart than he does. It was great to see that enthusiasm and it was contagious throughout the team. Hopefully Crowell has caught some of their energy. Maybe he can actually stay in the game for four quarters.
The other thing is the defensive line. I know they played an inferior offensive line. But their execution has be fantastic. People keep talking about how great are linebackers are, and they are great. However, our defensive line has greatly improved. Without them our linebackers would not shine as well as they do. The main job of our d-line is to keep blockers off our linebackers. They do this with stunts and aggressive play. It is the same priciple as the offensive line blocking for our RBs. Rbs are nothing without their offensive lines, same holds true for our LBs.
Niceville Dawg
November 7th, 2011
9:59 am
gdawg,I’m guessing he’s a convience store clerk.He’s always awake at 3 AM.
crowell is da man
November 7th, 2011
10:02 am
unfortunately he failed another drug test and will be suspended against kentucky.
Jalex49
November 7th, 2011
10:03 am
Regardless whether or not the top running backs play in this game or not, I hope Richt and his staff let both of the rb’s get some playing time. They did a good job and could use some snaps against a top-tier team such as Auburn.
Georgia better be at it’s very best, because Auburn is for real and could very easily make this game a real blow-out! I thin Georgia can win if they stick to fundamentals on Defense and offensively, but it’ll be close.
GO DAWGS1111
gdawginkalamazoo
November 7th, 2011
10:10 am
That Trent Richardson is a beast. I hope our guys watched that game Saturday and learned something from. 1) You give hits you don’t take them. 2) You don’t let up until the whistle is done.
3)You don’t take yourself out of the game, you take others out of the game.
Saban
November 7th, 2011
10:10 am
Saban NC 2 since he started coaching in the SEC
Richt NC 0 since he started coaching in the SEC
enough said
gdawginkalamazoo
November 7th, 2011
10:13 am
Buzz2011, does it really matter where you gals are ranked? Once the last decade. Maybe you beat us this year for once this decade. We have a DC now that actually pays attention not only to the competition before the game but he is capable of making adjustments during the game. BTW, I think you guys do beat VT handily Thursday.
Adam
November 7th, 2011
10:16 am
I don’t usually comment on this due to the fact that I have my own fair share of typographical errors, but GOOD LAWD……user your spellcheck man!!!!!!
Chris Snow
November 7th, 2011
10:26 am
Agreed Jalex. UGA will need to play their heart out on Saturday. The certainly CAN beat Auburn. We CANNOT let the mental mistakes beat us like the SC game. If we can keep the penalties and turnovers to a minimum, we will win this game. Also please no more special teams break downs!!
Chris Snow
November 7th, 2011
10:26 am
They* (I wish you could edit these post)
BobDawg
November 7th, 2011
10:27 am
Most folks are typing on their I-phones and caint’ Saem ta Git er wright bly tpying thar wrords alz wrongz…
Jborodawg
November 7th, 2011
10:28 am
Thomas Brown: “…And, there you sit living in the past, trying to tell me that Phat Fil was great. He was NOT SIR. I told them not to hire Lame Kitten. I also told them I like Derek Dooley….”
Good for you son; you tell em. LMAO! You and ‘Realist’ really should go over to Bama or LSU if you hate UGA’s program so much. Wanting the team to excel is one thing, but constantly bringing up the failures and negatives just gets teejus.
Like the Jackson Brown song says, “…Don’t confront me with my failures…I had not forgotten them.” We don’t need to be reminded ad nausea.
RE adding Mizzou and Tex A&M…I would rather have added Central Florida, the second largest university by enrollment in the U.S. I think they’d be quite competitive, as we all know from the bowl game. And perhaps it would drain some recruits from the Gators.
BobDawg
November 7th, 2011
10:29 am
Ya’ll are worrying like Vince did in the 80’s…. Vegas has us at 12.5 in the spread and the Barners haven’t stopped anyone this year… Look at their total points given up this year…
Honey, how is my Makers stock doing????
Joey
November 7th, 2011
10:30 am
Saban, appreciate that info Mr Obvious. I had no idea . . .
BobDawg
November 7th, 2011
10:37 am
@ Saban… glad to see you folks are not jumping off bridges like your coaching staff should. BTW, your Coach wound is tighter than a snare drum and your team is showing it in the 2nd halves…Better get it corrected for the SEC Chmpship game… oops, sorry about that… my bad…
Saban
November 7th, 2011
10:38 am
you are welcome, just thought I would bring a different perspective to the comment that Richt has won three more SEC games than Saban. GA can have those three games, I’ll take the the 2 NC.
Saban
November 7th, 2011
10:42 am
lost to the #1 ranked team in the nation, still ranked # 3 and in the NC hunt, unlike you boys. OK beats OK State and right back in another NC game, something you boys have not sniffed since 1980. So keep yapping at our ankles little poodles we will see you next year.
Gator Mike
November 7th, 2011
10:42 am
Best of luck to the DAWGS against AU. Since the Gators are out of the hunt, I want to see UGA get a shot in Atlanta.
Delbert D.
November 7th, 2011
10:42 am
These infrequent (Texas A&M) and bi-annual (Missouri) away games should not present a problem for the fans that travel in groups via motor homes or by air. As usual, the fans that currently do not buy season tickets will watch on TV like any other game.
RedandBlackDawg
November 7th, 2011
10:46 am
thomas,
Once again you post statistics and facts based on of your statistics in hopes that no one will actually check and call your bluff. Concerning this Fulmer Cup crap you like to say that UGA is always so guilty of showing CMR’s lack of control and discipline of the UGA team..
Let’s review the truth instead of the Thomas Brown truth, the REAL TRUTH.
Since 2006, UGA has had a total of 49 Fulmer cup points, leading the pack with 21 points in 2010…
Florida has had 63.
Tenn. has had 37.
Auburn has had 87. and won the cup in 2011. Total points 81.
Alabama has had 37 and won the cup in 2008. Total points 28.
Now this means that UGA won it one year, with the lowest total of points in the year they did win it at 21. This year alone, three teams that finished behind Auburn had more than 21 points, and three others were within 5 points of the UGA winning total in 2010. Th winners that were not SEC members won by a margin equal to or greater than the UGA total for 2010.
You sir are a blow hard, that hopes nobody checks your facts that you somehow come up with in I believe your head half the time.
I had to take a course in statistical analysis for my degree and one thing was made perfectly clear about statistics. Anybody that continually uses them, prefers not to do in depth research, but only enough to make his or her point. In the scientific community, it is known as lazy. All statistical studies can be skewed to prove the persons point and just as easily used to disprove one’s theory as prove it. It is impossible to take into consideration all conditions used or responsible for a particular ending point and statistics are used as only a beginning reference point, not as a valid argument for or against anything. A six year study to arrive at statistical data to prove a point, is not even valid in the real world,, much less the scientific one. I could quote you statistics hours on end about climatology, and Astrophysics and I could skew them, so that you could present them as evidence of the world coming to an end based on the coming ice age theory or the theory suggesting that the sun will destroy us all in a giant flare one day. They would mean about as much as your statistics do. UGA has been playing football for 123 years now, and had a flotilla of coaches. Thank God, there are smarter men than you, that makes decisions based on facts that count for something, other than the rantings of what appears to me to be, a deranged person who delights in always trying to find negative things to say about one team, or class of fans.
GO DAWGS and GATA
Thomas Brown
November 7th, 2011
10:48 am
Our special teams and our offense, easily, could give up 50 points to a top football team. They alone, by themselves, gave up 28 points to South Carolina – a team who had no business beating us and will not end up a ranked team for 2011. No more than Auburn will end up a ranked team, which they will not at # 24 and # 25 today without any semblance of a passing game and without ANY special teams, like us, and without a defense.
BobDawg
November 7th, 2011
10:49 am
@Saban,,, my crystal ball tells me we are at Mizzou now and not visiting your lovely village… BYW, on a serious note, glad to see Tuscalloosa is doing better.. That tornado was horrific and I did some relief work there with my church…. Never saw anything like it and what your long snapper has gone thru with his girlfriend lost in the storm was terrrible…
Red Stick
November 7th, 2011
10:52 am
DawginLex, your 9:09am post is in poor taste. You also posted it on another blog last night.
Anyone with any sense at all knows Saban is a better coach than Richt and Bama’s program is light years better than the Dawgs’. You should be thankful that you don’t play Alabama this season. I saw them in person Saturday night and they have one of the best defenses I’ve seen in 30 years as a season ticket holder. Trent Richardson is the real deal and would run circles around Crowell.
Georgia would be a national power with someone like Saban as he wouldn’t put up with the crap with your players.
It is what it is.
Geaux Tigers
Go SEC
War Dang Dawg
November 7th, 2011
10:53 am
“I didn’t really get a lot of text messages or anything like that from the guys.”
I’ve been a big Richt critic for the past couple of years, mostly because of his record against Florida. But I’m still pulling for him to make it all the way back, win championships, and be a long term, successful coach at UGA.
But comments like this drive me crazy. The players can text the head coach…really? Are they BFF’s?
This is just more fodder for those who think that Richt is lax on discipline and too eager to be buddies with his players. Maybe it’s just his nature.
Regardless, go Dawgs, beat Auburn!
Saban
November 7th, 2011
10:54 am
@BobDawg
on a more serious note that truly shows us how in the scheme of things all this is just a minor distraction from the true meaning of life….our GOD, our families and our communities. Thanks be to GOD for all the help we received and prayers for those who suffered later that night in Georgia.
gdawginkalamazoo
November 7th, 2011
10:55 am
Gator Mike, Thanks. Here’s to you guys beating SC!
G-Dawg
November 7th, 2011
10:55 am
Thanks Gator Mike…now thats a class…compared to the regular d-bags on here!! Especially from our fanbase!!
gdawginkalamazoo
November 7th, 2011
10:57 am
Saban, really? NC game. Don’t you have to win your conference to do that?
Saban
November 7th, 2011
11:00 am
Nope just be ranked #1 or #2 in the final BCS rankings.
Saban
November 7th, 2011
11:02 am
don’t get me wrong I am all for a playoff, but this is the system we have now.
Saban
November 7th, 2011
11:06 am
so if we win out, and that is if, and OK beats OK state, we move up to #2 from #3 as I don’t see any body jumping us in the rankings. Maybe this will add more push to a playoff system. IF, and I mean IF, we played LSU again in the NC and won, then LSU would have gotten to the SEC championship game by beating us and then we won the NC by beating them. What a mess.
Saban
November 7th, 2011
11:08 am
got to do a little work be back shortly. Oh, by the way beat AllBums.
bart
November 7th, 2011
11:13 am
I am thrilled to be on a 7 game winning streak. However, we need to be realistic and undersatand that the 7 teams we have beaten are mediocre to poor. The Auburn game will give us an idea of how good we really are. Go Dawgs
BobDawg
November 7th, 2011
11:22 am
Red Stick.. that was a great game with the defenses outclassing the offenses big time… I’m not into debating coaches and am on here more for “comic relief” with a touch of seriousness every once in a while… I’m sure you are pulling for us this weekend against your hated rival on The Plains….
gdawginkalamazoo
November 7th, 2011
11:26 am
Saban, I know, this may force the playoff system as there will be a lot hooping and hollering from you know who. Hell of a game Saturday though. There’s still a lot of football to be played and anything can happen.
BobDawg
November 7th, 2011
11:30 am
Kalamazoo… Played a little tennis there years ago in the Nat’ls… Nice place…. you are right..1/3rd of the season left still… let the posturing begin…
DIT
November 7th, 2011
11:30 am
For you that really believe when Richt said “maybe I have a short memory” , meaning from last years game I have swamp land to sell you in the Mojave Desert.
The man is classy enough not to give into the media knowing that they will run with it, but I guarantee you that he reminds them of last years game all during this week.
I know for a fact that just because CMR is calm and nice with the Media that he is not like that with his team in getting them ready for the game.
I know it’s wishful thinking, but I wish the CMR haters would go find another team to root for because I STILL have not seen any of them name a replacement that would: 1) come to UGA and coach, 2) Do a better job than CMR.
This will be the toughest game of the year Dawgs buckle down and get to work…. Go Dawgs!
BobDawg
November 7th, 2011
11:35 am
@DIT, Vince Dooley had a 5-6 year in 1979 right when I graduated there and we about ran his butt out of town. then some little RB named Walker came to town and the same schedule from ‘79 netted us a Nat’l Chmpship in 1980… Maybe this year is a repeat at least from the relevance of last years stink-o.
FAMILY
November 7th, 2011
11:38 am
Overlook the Tigers. Please go ahead and buy your SEC championship tickets. Rave about the 12.5 point spread. All motivation………We coming!!!! WDE
DIT
November 7th, 2011
11:39 am
Love to see it BobDawg!
All I know is that the attitude and team is playing much better compared to last year. Is it where us Dawg Alumnus’s would like to see it stay? No, but most of the smart folks know that you have to walk before you can run.
We ARE heading in the right direction under CMR!
DIT
November 7th, 2011
11:42 am
@FAMILY
Not even close to thinking about the SEC CG. Y’all will give us fits if there is not 100% focus this week.
Vegas is smoking something over the 12.5 point spread. I would bet that it’s cut in half by game time.
Joey
November 7th, 2011
11:42 am
Pretty sure UGA went 6-5 in 1979 . . .
gdawginkalamazoo
November 7th, 2011
11:43 am
BobDawg, thanks, yes it is a neat city until the snow falls.
I think if Stanford gets by Oregon this week and wins out they jump Bama.
Dirty Dawg
November 7th, 2011
11:45 am
Hey guys, long-time Georgia fans understand, in spades, the rivalry that is the Georgia-Auburn game. As was said, they’ve broken our hearts just as often as we’ve broken theirs…it won’t be easy but we can beat ‘em.
As for ‘Brother’ Saban, your logic about having teams ranked ahead of you at this point, and assuming you won’t be playing in the SEC Championship game – Arkansas still could beat LSU ya know – losing and you automatically moving back up to # 1 or 2, remember that argument didn’t work for Georgia a few years back so what makes you think it’ll work for you? Oh I forgot, you’re Alabama and you are, after all, ‘Brother’ Saban.
We like how we’ve responded since the SC game and we’ll ’show up’ for Auburn and hit ‘em in the mouth.
DIT
November 7th, 2011
11:46 am
I’m not saying that Bama does or does not deserve another chance at the NC. However, the people that run the BCS knows the hot water and storm they will cause if they let Bama back into the NC game if you have other undefeated teams out there.
What was that they people were saying about UGA a few years ago (which I agreed on, “They were not even in the SEC CG so they do not have a right to play in the NC game.”
It will be very interesting on how this year plays out in the end.
Gman
November 7th, 2011
11:48 am
If Alabama doesn’t play in the SEC Championship Game, there is NO WAY they play for the NC!
FAMILY
November 7th, 2011
11:52 am
@DIT
Certainly didn’t mean that ALL UGA fans were overlooking us, however a lot of them seem to be. Which is just fine by me, we flourish in an underdog role typically. With some solid D on our part, and if the Gus bus is running on all cylinders, should be a fun matchup. Refreshing to get a rational and logical post from a dawg fan. Best of luck to you and your team this Saturday and moving forward.
Saban
November 7th, 2011
12:00 pm
Regardless of what Ga fans think, if Ala ends up ranked #1 or #2 in the final BCS rankings they most assuredly will play for the NC. If Stanford or OK State remain unbeaten then I think one of them or both of them ( if LSU loses a game) will play in the NC game, BUT if any two of the above teams lose, then Ala will be back in the NC game, and why not? We lost to the #1 team in the nation. If the teams listed above lose they will have lost to a lower ranked team.
Saban
November 7th, 2011
12:05 pm
What if LSU wins out, both Stanford and OK state loses, and Boise State remains unbeaten. Should they play for the NC ahead of Ala and the above teams? What about unbeaten Houston?
Chip Towers
November 7th, 2011
12:17 pm
Jborodawg: They fly directly out of Athens now.
gdawginkalamazoo
November 7th, 2011
12:23 pm
Here is a doozy, say we make it to the title game and beat LSU, I wonder what that does for Boise State’s ranking considering they beat the team that beat #1? I bet they would be PO’d if Bama got in there.
gdawginkalamazoo
November 7th, 2011
12:25 pm
Family, Auburn could be 0-9 and I wouldn’t overlook them. Never in my close to four decades of watching this rivalry.
B'dawg
November 7th, 2011
12:25 pm
PLAYOFFS, PLAYOFFS, PLAYOFFS. Take the top remaining 8 teams. Done. I dont see the problem, except for the fact SOMEONE will not line their pockets. And that is sad sad sad. Name one sport that doesnt have some type of playoff. ONE!
Saban
November 7th, 2011
12:25 pm
What if there are no unbeaten teams left?
gdawginkalamazoo
November 7th, 2011
12:26 pm
But I hate what if’s. So let’s focus on Auburn.
Saban
November 7th, 2011
12:29 pm
IF there was a playoff system, WHAT would we have to argue with each other about?
milk dud
November 7th, 2011
12:32 pm
We need to focus on Auburn. We have alot of work to do before we get to the SEC championship.
gdawginkalamazoo
November 7th, 2011
12:33 pm
Saban, I am sure we could find something.
SmartMan
November 7th, 2011
12:45 pm
1) Richt hasn’t won a game against a ranked team since 2009
2) Murray doesn’t play well against ranekd teams usually
3) Crowell doesn’t play well in the 4th quarter usually
4) Top WR Mitchell is hurt
5) Charles doesn’t play well against ranked teams usually
Auburn wins by 7, UGA self destructs, as usual.
Overlooking
November 7th, 2011
12:55 pm
I hope SC beats Fla earlier Sat so the team will know that they have their destiny in their own hands. Beat Auburn and KY and they are SEC East Champs when so many had written them off this year after the first two games. If that does not motivate them to play their hearts out Saturday, then we have a long way to go before this turns around.
TampaDawg
November 7th, 2011
12:56 pm
SmartMan
November 7th, 2011
12:45 pm
1) Richt hasn’t won a game against a ranked team since 2009
2) Murray doesn’t play well against ranekd teams usually
3) Crowell doesn’t play well in the 4th quarter usually
4) Top WR Mitchell is hurt
5) Charles doesn’t play well against ranked teams usually
Auburn wins by 7, UGA self destructs, as usual.
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Gee, we haven’t heard this crap before have we? Yup, all freaking year actually. Loser.
Overlooking
November 7th, 2011
12:59 pm
I want SC to beat Fla Sat so the team will know that they must play a complete game against Auburn and even KY to win the east . No backing in, just win it on the field. If having their own destiny in their hands will not motivate them, then we have a long way to go before this turns around.
TampaDawg
November 7th, 2011
1:00 pm
Buzz 2011
November 7th, 2011
8:59 am
Playing two top 10 ranked teams in less than two weeks…GT…………………………………That’s all right UGA plays their share of ranked teams, right?
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Spoken like a guy whose team couldn’t beat UVA or Miami. Let’s try this instead of doing the same thing year after year. Beat UGA FIRST, then come on here talking crap. But like 2009 when GT wore their rank on their freaking helmets then got popped in the upset (I know, I know, we can’t beat ranked teams though), 1-9 over a ten year span doesn’t happen by accident.
Overlooking
November 7th, 2011
1:01 pm
AJC just changed their clocks so our posts are going crazy. The ones we posted on the old time are now being mixed up with the new ones.
Delbert D.
November 7th, 2011
1:02 pm
No need to use logic to figure out who will meet in the BCS CG. The computers provide binary logic based on their specific algorithms, and people voting provide the rest of the formula. It will be #1 vs. #2, or the BCS system will be busted without lawsuits, congressional action against what at least 1 congressman has called the NCAA/Mafia, or Occupy Indianapolis movements.
beatau
November 7th, 2011
1:03 pm
Goo Dawgs!!! Beat Auburn. It is going to be a good game. The best team we have faced since SC and Boise.
bucket
November 7th, 2011
1:03 pm
Some of the bloggers on this site may be overlooking AU, but I promise you that the guys with the headsets in Athens are not. The only impressive play New Mexico St had Saturday were a couple of wheel routes where they threw the ball to a running back out of the backfield. If UGA defends that play this Saturday the way they did last Saturday it could be a long day in Sanford Stadium. I bet Coach Malzohn has already identified that play.
beatau
November 7th, 2011
1:04 pm
Watch wheel routes.
what of it?
November 7th, 2011
1:06 pm
Richt is way overdue for another we-forgot-to-show-up game and Chizik runs too disciplined a program.
bucket
November 7th, 2011
1:07 pm
Ok SmartMan – I get it. You are just trying to be a tool, but I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you are as smart as your handle proclaims. By definition you can only “overlook” lesser opponents. So it is entirely possible that if UGA is fortunate enough to get past Auburn and Kentucky that they might “overlook” GA Tech as they prepare for the SEC Championship Game. That’s what your coach said a few years ago that they had “bigger fish to fry” than UGA. I personally don’t think Richt can afford to overlook anyone left on the schedule and I would be willing to bet that he is not, especially Tech.
SmartMan
November 7th, 2011
1:14 pm
Richt usually overlooks ranked teams.
That’s why he’s 0-8 against them in last 8 tries.
I guarantee you Richt and the leaders are overlooking Auburn.
bucket
November 7th, 2011
1:15 pm
@ what of it? – you may be right, but IMO this year feels alot like 2007 when UGA had 2 bad losses early and then slowly gained momentum through the season and by the end of the year they were one of the best teams in the country. Obviously this Saturday will tell us alot about how far we have come, if anywhere. But 10-2 is not nearly as unrealistic a goal as it seemed after the Boise and USC games. The team can’t think about 10-2, but just needs to stay focused on trying to be 8-2.
Delbert D.
November 7th, 2011
1:16 pm
Regarding the oft-quoted 1-9 record, as long as we are comparing 2 Georgia Tech coaches against Georgia’ current coach, let’s add the previous Georgia coach to the comparison for 2 against 2. That makes it 4-11. Yippee.
SmartMan
November 7th, 2011
1:20 pm
I think we all know why Richt is 0-8 vs. ranekd teams since 2009.
BEATING SELF WITH MISTAKES: PENALTIES, TURNOVERS, BIG PLAYS, MURRAY GETTING SACKED, TURNOVERS, MISSING FIELD GOALS….
McSec actually ranked all SEC team so far, and Georgia was ranekd as the 2nd worst team, had 80 cases so far this season of shooting self in foot.
That’s what you get with Richt/Murray and this group. Sloppy.
Works against poor teams like New Mexico State, but doesn’t work against ranked teams like Auburn (see 0-8 record since 2009)
http://mrsec.com/2011/11/mrsecs-fife-rankings-11111/
WDE
November 7th, 2011
1:23 pm
@SmartMan if you watched the game last year you KNOW no one is over looking Auburn this year…nice try.
WDE
November 7th, 2011
1:24 pm
@SmartMan just wondering what was your troll handle last week?
bucket
November 7th, 2011
1:26 pm
@ SmartMan – you are right. I bet Richt doesn’t even show up at practice this week. I mean really? Say you hate Richt. Say you think he is a terrible coach. Say you hope the Dawgs lose. Say anything but something as silly as Richt has been overlooking teams. Who is Richt overlooking Auburn to get to? Kentucky? UGA has been in a bad trend recently, but CMR knows that anything less than 10-2 and he is probably toast. So, yes, I guarantee you that Richt is not overlooking anyone the rest of the way.
G-Dawg
November 7th, 2011
1:27 pm
Any blogger that has to write a novel to get their point across loses all credibility. Especially those who say “you have no comeback to that”.
how2fish
November 7th, 2011
1:28 pm
Well we control the East at least for the moment, how the bashers are crying and moaning. We still have to beat a very tough Auburn team and stay focused vs UK…but man it’s quite the turn around in direction considering which way myself and most of the Bull Dog Nation thought we were headed after the 0-2 start. My hat is off to the coaches and players…stay focused and lets beat Auburn! Go Dogs!
Overlooking
November 7th, 2011
1:29 pm
is not the problem, but game day performance has been a problem for some time now against higher quality opponents. Saturday will tell whether Ga has finally gotten over that.
Delbert D.
November 7th, 2011
1:30 pm
@SmartMan “He overlooks ranked teams when he plays them, that’s why he’s 0-8.”
That would not be called “overlooking” in any linguistic form that I know of. It is illogical; if he “overlooks” those, who does he”look?” Every other opponent?
I don’t think any coach could be so deranged to say, “Okay, these guys are ranked; let’s go ahead and lose to them and try to beat everybody else.” Why don’t you e-mail Richt, or call him up on his weekly presser and see if that is his plan?
G-Dawg
November 7th, 2011
1:31 pm
These annual Auburn showdowns always have something huge on the line for either team..sometimes both!! I remember plenty of heartbreakers for UGA…as well as many for Auburn throughout our history playing together. This will be the game we find out if these boys have really learned anything these past several games. Go Dawgs!! Hunker Down!!
Delbert D.
November 7th, 2011
1:33 pm
The clock on this blog is messed up. Posts are showing up in the wrong order by 15 minutes or more.
SmartMan
November 7th, 2011
1:34 pm
Richt is 0-8 in last 8 games against ranked teams.
Proof is with me.
you are drinking kool aid.
Richt since 2009 has overlooked EVERY RANKED TEAM.
That’s why he’s 0-8.
SmartMan
November 7th, 2011
1:36 pm
Auburn will catch Richt lokking ahead to the SEC Championship, Richt will overlook Auburn.
bucket
November 7th, 2011
1:37 pm
@ Overlooking – you are correct. UGA didn’t overlook South Carolina – they just gave them 28 points!!! It’s hard to beat a good team when you give away points off turnovers and mental mistakes. Do we have to coach better? Absolutely! But the players also have to play better and not turn the ball over and give away points on special teams.
Delbert D.
November 7th, 2011
1:43 pm
Plays per “miscue”? Okay, I bit on following the link, and it shows Georgia ahead of Vanderbilt, Ole Miss and Florida (that doesn’t make them “2nd Worse”), and the drop-off of those bottom 3 was pretty steep.
That aside, that self-appointed “MrSEC” included missed FGs as “miscues”. What about dropped passes under no duress? Missed tackles? Plays where everybody went left, and the QB went right? Coaches’ decisions? Running out of time outs? Players falling down without contact? Fumbles recovered by the fumbling team? Fielding a punt inside the 5 yard line? QB’s missing an open receiver? Weak punts? Passes that should have been intercepted but were dropped by the defender?……………………..
Overlooking
November 7th, 2011
1:45 pm
While Auburn is in a rebuilding year, they are still a competitive team which will require 100% effort to beat. They do have enough talent to be competitive and they did beat SC, so I don’t think the coaches will be “looking ahead”. The players better bring their A game because a B game just will not do against Auburn.
WDE
November 7th, 2011
1:45 pm
Smart Man please could you be a bigger tool? I think not…and I suppose CPJ is overlooking Va Tech too?
WDE
November 7th, 2011
1:47 pm
@Overlooking agreed only a complete game will beat Auburn, we won’t get a win by phoning the second half in..60 mins! Go Dogs!
SmartMan
November 7th, 2011
1:47 pm
Florida had the most miscues, Georgia was 2nd at 80, Vand/Ole Miss were not having more than 80 miscues.
You are missing the point:
Richt is 0-8 vs. ranked teams since 2009.
He overlooks ranked teams when he plays them, that’s why he’s 0-8.
If he didn’t, he’d be something other than 0-8, and he isn’t.
Overlooking
November 7th, 2011
2:04 pm
let see where this post goes now that it is past 2PM
Overlooking
November 7th, 2011
2:06 pm
Posted this before the AJC changed the blog clock and mixed up all the posts:
I hope SC beats Fla earlier Sat so the team will know that they have their destiny in their own hands. Beat Auburn and KY and they are SEC East Champs when so many had written them off this year after the first two games. If that does not motivate them to play their hearts out Saturday, then we have a long way to go before this turns around.
Logic or illogic
November 7th, 2011
2:19 pm
UGA has done fairly well “because the SEC is down or the SEC East is down or lousy” and so it goes. That makes no sense. I can prove it.
GT plays every year in the hapless ACC and every year the ACC is a joke and evey year GT DOES NOT WIN their title. See? ACC and SEC are possibly “down” this year and this year GT will not win the ACC title. See?
Now you know, how foolish it is to suggest one conference is down, therefore so and so U wins all of their “easy”games. Goofy that lack of logic is. Child like. LOOK at GT for further explanation.
No, a team plays their schedule and things CAN fall into place IF THEY WIN. UGA needs to defeat AU and KY and then, they play in the DOME> strange things do happen in college football.
Goooooooooooooooooooooo Dogs.
old dog
November 7th, 2011
2:55 pm
We’re gettin’ better…but have a ways to go. We still gotta beat a GOOD team, and we haven’t done that yet; we just beat teams that HAPPENED to be worse than we are for whatever reason! However, if there is a fault of the coaching staff it has been finding players who not only want to play, but can…see Harton, Conley, etc. Granted Harton started agains the Sisters of Mercy, but he took a hit or two that would have sent Crowell haulin’ ass to the bench! Lets see who WANTS to play, who CAN play, and play ‘em. I remember a little walk on linebacker who happened to get into a game one tine, and never was moved out….can you say Nate Taylor? Those who ain’t sissies will step up!
DAWGMAN
November 7th, 2011
3:09 pm
Stopped into the Publix today. Doing a little shopping. Went down the aisle with the vitamin water, the gator aid, the country time lemonade, and such. Lo and Behold! Not a single packet of Kool-Aid to be seen!
Alabama, a great team, just lost to LSU, another great team, in part because of the failures of Alabama’s special teams. Who was minding the store when LSU’s punter kicked a 75 yard bomb right over the head of the Alabama hobbled return man? Which coach on the sideline was supposed to know the Auzzie punter could kick it that far? Which coach was supposed to know that the Alabama punt returner could lose a footrace to a 5th grader at that particular moment?
As far as I know, no one coach is responsible/answerable to the alumni and fans for the University of Georgia Football Special Teams.
Cherry? Grape? Orange?
Let the rationalizing continue. coach richt says he doesn’t know. He guesses he might give it some thought after the season ends. Pass him some more. He likes cherry. Which flavor of Kool-Aid do you folks enjoy the most? Now discipline yourselves. No one else will. Maybe that’s another thing to consider during the off season…Naw, that would be to much like, like… what’s that thing…you know that long word…oh, oh yeah…responsibility.
Have I earned my $10,000.00 today yet? Stopping by the Publix on the way to the house.
Will that be 1 lump, or 2 with your Kool-Aid?
Could very well be two lumps. ‘Lumps’ begin with an ‘L’.
Bon Appetipe!
DawginLex
November 7th, 2011
3:29 pm
Yeah Red stick, I posted it, and I posted it again.
So what?
You lost.
There will be no rematch either.
You have the self proclaimed greates coach on the planet and you won’t win your DIVISION for the 2nd year in a row.
CHDawg
November 7th, 2011
3:52 pm
Thomas Brown, you should be a motivational speaker, man. I haven’t heard so much negativity since the last WWII movie with one of Tokyo Rose’s motivational speeches on it. We got blown out by Tn, and we lost to SC in 07, but we didn’t give up and we wound up in a BCS bowl–Sugar, and we finished #2 in the nation! How about a little hope! We have won 7 in a row and we scored 42 in one qtr against decent team. There is a lot of talent on this team, and they are improving each week. If we can win out, this could be a great year. Don’t forget that dreams come true at Disney–don’t be dissing the dream, Rose!
GT Joe
November 7th, 2011
5:02 pm
LOL, mutt fans making fun of BAMA fans? Seriously?
GT Joe
November 7th, 2011
5:02 pm
UGA hasn’t beaten a team RECEIVING VOTES in either poll. Signature win: candy Vandy.
GT Joe
November 7th, 2011
5:04 pm
Auburn is now +13.5. Bet the house on Auburn. Hell, bet momma’s house on Auburn.
DawgDocinBama
November 7th, 2011
5:54 pm
@DougsMugsCoffeeDOTcom
I agree. I’m a UGA alum and DieHardDawg; was in Athens at game this weekend, but I like Tebow too and I wish him the best. So does my 10 year old son. We at the Senior Bowl in Mobile last year and saw him play and warm up on sidelines. And I usually don’t say all that about Florida players.
ca dawg
November 7th, 2011
7:23 pm
@beatau: about the only sensible remark made about the auburn game to this point. thank you for commenting about something that might actually bear on the outcome of the game.
Dodger Dawg
November 7th, 2011
10:35 pm
@GT Joe//I think if you look at SOS and the victories and losses UGA trumps GT EASILY. Yes, you beat climsun (yes I misspelled on purpose just to shoe you my distaste of what the Almost Collegiate Cailiber – ACC – calls fooseball)….DUDE tech is dead in the Joke by the Coke. UGA will enjoy the victory almost as much as I will Thanksgiving Dinner….GT is a TURKEY
VA dog
November 7th, 2011
11:18 pm
You are what your record says you are. I believe that was Bill Parcell’s line.
RedandBlackDawg
November 8th, 2011
1:11 am
Smart Man,
For a supposedly smart man, you sure have some twisted logic. Why would you overlook an SEC team, that if you lost to them, you would most likely lose a chance at the SEC championship game any way. If that is your logic, I fail to understand your reasoning. I think there was a comic at one time, about an English fellow, who used similar reasoning in his logical conclusions also. His was “He was going to hit me, so I hit him back first”.
papadawg
November 8th, 2011
7:43 am
This is UGAs rivalry game because Auburn is a real football team and no matter the records this will be a slugfest as always. After this game we’ll go back to our cupcake schedule for two more games thento the SEC Championship Game
"We ain't beat no body"
November 8th, 2011
8:11 am
THE ACC is full of no bodies and GT has not gone un defeated. To suggest UGA is defeating schools of no consequence is laughable. SEC is a top drawer conference and the 100 year old rivalries are chock full of traditions,etc. Lay down in a big boy conference like the SEC BABY and you will be beaten.
ACC was down last year and GT did not go undefeated there. Same is true this year.
Goooooooooooooo Dogs.
UGA team chemistry
November 8th, 2011
8:17 am
So, Malcom Mitchell comes back as a wide out and who sits down on the UGA wide out roster? I believe that if he is ready, he does not start but is involved on the opening series if it is extended and we allow him to come into the game slowly and not interupt the chemsitry of this squad.
Mike Bennett has fly paper for hands and so does Conley and this Rhett McGowan kid. Why mess with that?
Go Dawgs
RedandBlackDawg
November 8th, 2011
9:14 am
UGA Team Chemistry,
Most coaches try and use the philosophy of “You don’t lose your job because of an injury”. In the case of Mitchell, I think that is the way to go. Before his injury, everybody was praising him for his outstanding catches and comparing him to a young A.J. Green. He got hurt after catching a long pass, I believe of 71 yards. I still believe it is his job to lose. I do agree about letting him slowly, at least work back into the game, but id he is healthy, I certainly wouldn’t relegate him as all of the sudden one of the guys so to speak. He is UGA’s legitimate long ball threat and with Auburn having a pretty dismal defense, I would say, if he is ready, get him in the game flow as soon as possible, and send him down the field. Yes the others have done an admirable job, but you have to admit, if he is healthy, Mitchell, is the best of the bunch, simply because he has more speed and he knows how to separate from the D backs. If UGA is going to contend for the SEC East, play for the SEC championship and secure a good bowl game, we have to put our best players on the field. I applaud Conley’s 10 catches last week, but let’s remember the caliber of the opponent we played. Conley did a good job, no doubt, but he is not on par with Mitchell, in my opinion. Mitchell is UGA’s legitimate long ball threat and he could put up big numbers this week, if Murray can get the time to pass, and is accurate. From what I have seen, he runs through the coverage really well, and causes double teams on himself, there fore opening up receiving lanes for the other wide out, and TE’s.
GO DAWGS and GATA
Jborodawg
November 8th, 2011
11:30 am
RedAndBlackDawg….correct sir. Too many fans here are “what have you done for me lately” and “instant gratification”; forgetting that Crowell was our leading rusher before the suspension and that Mitchell is a true deep threat. Yes, the backups did a great job and the coaches were able to play 75 guys against NM St. But, there’s only so many plays run in a game and you ‘normally’ can’t play everybody; we definitely won’t be able to play 75 of em against Awbun. We’ll have our starters and they will need a blow every now and then. It WILL take great effort by all the team to beat Awbun. Stopping Dyer and that Lutzenkirchen feller will be big tasks.
I dislike all this talk of SEC CG and GT. It’s all premature speculation until and if we beat the Plainsmen Kitties. Sorry, just my opinion.
I think “Smartman” is “Thomas Brown”, or his little brother…or they sit next to each other at the public library computers.
RedandBlackDawg
November 8th, 2011
2:15 pm
Jborodawg,
Right you are sir, very few UGA fans have the patience needed when it comes to the football team. If this is supposed to be the DAWGS toughest game, and a must win. We need the best young men on the field. Looking at Auburn’s Defense, I think we can score on them pretty well with our passing game. Their running defense is suppose to be a little better, but I really tend to ignore stats. because they are skewed without enough factors considered. Over all though, I believe UGA has a better offense against their defense, versus the other way around.
GO DAWGS and GATA
Jborodawg
November 9th, 2011
8:24 am
R&BDawg…mutual admiration society…lol.
Anybody see that highlight of the Lutzenkirchen ‘kid’, making that one-handed grab; palming the ball like it was a nurf ball or something?! Lawdamercy!
Yes, our D is arguably better than Awbun’s. Our O is arguably better, notwithstanding Dyer. Our ‘big play’ ability is arguably better than Awbun’s. So, IF we at least slow Dyer down a little, we win just like Vegas says we will. And, IF we don’t give up big plays on special teams.
Lotsa “ifs”…lol.
Yep, Go Dawgs and GATA!
Jborodawg
November 10th, 2011
8:14 am
Saban overlooked LSU.
LOL