UGA vs. Michigan State in Outback Bowl; homecoming for Murray, Charles
Georgia and Michigan State, both with 10-3 records and losses in their conference championship games, will meet Jan. 2 in the Outback Bowl in Tampa.
The matchup was set Sunday, one day after Georgia lost 42-10 to No. 1 LSU in the SEC Championship game and Michigan State fell 42-39 to Wisconsin in the inaugural Big Ten title game.
Georgia was among three SEC teams, along with South Carolina and Arkansas, that were in the running for the Capital One, Outback and Cotton bowls.
Orlando’s Capital One Bowl, which had the next choice of SEC teams after LSU and Alabama were tabbed for the BCS national title game, selected South Carolina. The Gamecocks (10-2, 6-2 SEC) finished second to Georgia in the SEC East, but defeated the Bulldogs 45-42 in Athens on Sept. 10.
The Outback and Cotton bowls, equals in the SEC’s bowl pecking order, were next in line to make selections from the league. The Outback preferred the East team (Georgia) and the Cotton the West team (Arkansas).
The Outback, which will kick off at 1 p.m. and be televised on ABC, will be a homecoming for two of Georgia’s top players, quarterback Aaron Murray and tight end Orson Charles, who were teammates at Tampa’s Plant High School.
“Heading home for the Outback Bowl!” Murray said Sunday night via Twitter.
“It’s a great destination for our student-athletes and our fans –- warm weather, wonderful attractions, a first-class stadium -– and we look forward to competing against a great Michigan State team,” Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity said in a statement. “Our fans have been a big part of our success this season, and I’m confident they will support the team with attendance in this bowl game.”
Michigan State is ranked ahead of Georgia in the latest polls, released Sunday. The Spartans are No. 12 in the Associated Press poll and No. 13 in the USA Today coaches’ poll, while the Bulldogs are No. 18 in both.
While Georgia won the SEC East, Michigan State won the Big Ten’s Legends division. Both teams were 7-1 in regular-season league play.
This is the 15th consecutive season that Georgia has reached a bowl. The Outback is a step up in the bowl landscape from the Bulldogs’ destinations the past two seasons, the Independence Bowl in 2009 and the Liberty Bowl last year.
Georgia and Michigan State have met twice previously in football, with Georgia winning both times.
The first meeting was in Jacksonville’s Gator Bowl at the end of the 1988 season. Georgia won that game, Vince Dooley’s last as the Bulldogs’ coach, 34-27.
The other meeting was in the Capital One Bowl at the end of the 2008 season. Georgia won 24-12 in the final college game for quarterback Matthew Stafford and tailback Knowshon Moreno. Stafford threw three touchdown passes in the second half, the last one to Moreno.
“This promises to be a great match-up,” Michigan State athletics director Mark Hollis said in a statement. “The last time these two teams met … the outcome wasn’t decided until the fourth quarter, so we anticipate another competitive game.”
Georgia has played in the Outback Bowl three times previously, winning all three, while this will be Michigan State’s first trip to the Tampa game.
Michigan State seemed on the cusp of a potential game-winning touchdown in Saturday’s Big Ten title game when the Spartans returned a Wisconsin punt inside the 5-yard line with less than two minutes to play. But a running-into-the-punter penalty negated the return and gave Wisconsin a first down, ensuring its victory and a Rose Bowl berth.
Georgia coach Mark Richt and Michigan State coach Coach Mark Dantonio will discuss the Outback matchup in a joint media teleconference Monday. In a news release from the bowl Sunday night, Richt was quoted: “… Playing a top quality opponent like Michigan State will be a challenge we’ll look forward to.”
Both teams rank in the nation’s top five in total defense. Georgia is No. 3, allowing 268.5 yards per game, and Michigan State is No. 5, giving up 272.7 yards per game.
– Tim Tucker
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FLA DAWG
December 5th, 2011
9:41 pm
It took The Number 1 Team in the country for us to know that our 10 – 0 streak was not as great as we thought and due more to WHOM we played rather than HOW we played.
We were slaughtered.
Now The Dawgs face the test of, “Just how good or bad are we?”.
Michigan State is a strong team.
If we beat them then we are respectable.
If we lose then we are absolute crapola as most of us have thought all season long.
Bring it on and let’s get it over with.
Another embarrassing season under Richt.
FLA DAWG
December 5th, 2011
9:44 pm
Hey Georgia Techster,
We may be crapola in The SEC but GT is CRAPOLA in the country.
Johnson & Groh……………HA, HA, ……………………………HA, HA, HA,
GT hasn’t the execution right to even blog on this site they are so bad.
I feel ashamed even responding to the hapless GT fan of a school that hardly ever fills its stadium.
GT = JOKE
FLA DAWG
December 5th, 2011
9:46 pm
Flat,
You are dead on my friend.
We played 3 good teams this season and lost to every one of them.
If McGarity doesn’t see this then he is a blind man and not worthy of his position at UGA.
FLA DAWG,
Class of ‘79
FLA DAWG
December 5th, 2011
10:05 pm
My Dawgs having been giving up ever since Pollock left.
Want to verify? Watch the WVa & LSU post season games.
Richt will never lead us to a championship.
McGARITY WAKE THE HE!! UP !
FLA DAWG
December 5th, 2011
10:18 pm
Richt is taking McGarity for a Ride……..
……..play one or two real teams and lose then play a bunch of losers and win and you’ve got the secret to college football HC security.
The worst part of this is that UGA Alumni are sitting back, saying and doing NOTHIING.
You’re a bunch of damn cowards – all of you in my opinion!
FLA DAWG,
Class of ‘79
Larry the Cable Guy
December 5th, 2011
10:25 pm
Crowell, SEC Freshman of the year. Now that’s funny right there. I don’t care who you are that’s funny!
Only one question
December 5th, 2011
10:25 pm
Can Christian Lemay throw a deep ball better than Aaron Murray? If so, then let him challenge Murray next year. Also, can Hutson Mason throw it deep? I suspect that he can and for this reason …………………Murray needs to be REALLY CHALLENGED HARD come spring game.
For my money Aaron Murray is too inconsistent and cannot WIN the BIG GAME. If you look at the SEC Champs for years now, except for Cam the Scam, SEC WINNING QBS are not TD record setters but they are game managers. Murray is NOT that.
Mark Richt loves BUT loses with FSU style of throwers and that …………….Bobby Bowdon JR, does not work in the physical SEC> witness LSU and Bama this year alone.
Go Dogs.
UGA class of 71 & 73
McGarity WILL make an assessment soon
December 5th, 2011
10:29 pm
I htink Mcgarity will make recomendations to Richt about certain positions and position coaches ……………….AFTER the Bowl.
It ain’t a slam dunk for Richt. Without CTG, UGA will be in deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep trouble if he left and then if UGA was saddled with 4 or 5 MORE YEARS of Mark Richt. Heck, he might call CWM back. Ugh !!!
Let us see what happens. I am sure that the administrators of UGA AD are upset about the second half collapse.
He :Hate Gator
December 5th, 2011
11:07 pm
Ten wins…..which one was over a quality team? What quality team have they beat in the last 3 years?
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December 6th, 2011
12:09 am
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7576DAWG
December 6th, 2011
1:26 am
We actually out gained LSU for the game. I don’t look at it as Georgia collapsed as much as our turnover’s gave LSU 21 unanswered point’s.
As much as I know CMR likes Murray I knew what was coming in the second half and everybody esle should have. Murray fumbled in the second quarter to let LSU go in at half time only behind 10-7. That mistake eat at Murray the entire half time and when he came back out he was hell bent on making up for one of the costly mistakes of the year. Up until then he really was careful with his throws but after that in the second half he made very risky throws and as we saw in the South Carolina game if you turn the ball over to a good team in the second half they will take advantage every time but the most important thing was it change momentum and then the game was over. If Murray hadn’t tried to force anything and doesn’t have any turnover’s Georgia would have beaten LSU because Miles would have replaced Jefferson with Lee and that would have been a mistake.
If Murray can’t play under pressure CMR need’s to find someone who can. So far Murray grades out as a C- or D+ as far as being able to lead when there is a lot of pressure. I hope that Murray will prove he has learned something and will run the offense in the bowl and in the spring better. I think he has the potential of being one of the great’s but he has got to stop making game changing mistakes.
Snoop Dawg
December 6th, 2011
2:54 am
Get used to it Bulldog NAtion. this is as good as it gets with Richt.
The idiot Koolaid Kids and the Bible Belt Zombies can prase him till the cows come home, but this is as good as Richt can do on a good year….
Snoop Dawg
December 6th, 2011
3:02 am
Is the Outback Bowl where the UGA fan base wants to be? On a good year? The easiest schedule in a century?
The coach’s name is Richt. I mean, the CEO’s name is Richt. There is no head ball coach at UGA. That is the problem.
The sub-problem is called Bobo. Our offensive coordinator position should not be a welfare program because this guy is married to a relative of the Dooleys and has something like seven children
WAKE UP, IDIOTS!
Get used to the mediocrity if you do not have the gonads to fire Richt.
The SEC chamionship game was squandered at halftime when the LSU coaching staff made the adjustments needed. The UGA coaches, especially the OC coaches, lost the game.
The buck stops with Richt.
Fire this 3 million dollar a year bozo….
MEAN DAWG >:^O
December 6th, 2011
3:27 am
Watch Boo Malcome walk ALL over the Spartans in the outback bowl
Aaron Murray is not all america ? What a hose job. Absolutely the Best QB in the nation, Heisman Trophy, National Championship just wait 'til next year !
December 6th, 2011
4:18 am
42 unanswered points, 0-8 vs teams who finished in the top 25 every year for our QB (sacks, interceptions, fumbles, over throws, throws behind receivers, 1 yard a carry 7 carries a game) and who picked Georgia ?
4 TD +
How will they feel if Alabama WAS the better team the 1st time and proves it when it counts ?
I don’t see us beating Michigan State, either, for the same reason.
Cannot deny that after stealing our Sugar Bowl invitation, Michigan looks good vs Virginia Tech who beat no one. Michigan did.
Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Vandy, and Missy State cover.
Actually, if you look at the BCS bowl games this season, this is the 1st year ever that the BCS offers us any good bowl games at all outside the NC game.
Don’t think anyone cares about Climpsum Farmers not covering against West Virginia. But, Michigan Virginia Tech Sugar Bowl is a lot better Sugar Bowl than what The SEC has been getting handed to play in that sorry BCS bowl. Okie State, who I figure ends up # 9 in the Final AP Poll does not cover facing off vs Stanford in the Fiesta consolation game. As an SEC fan, I find that amusing that those 2 have to play each other. It’s like the previous “BCS Bowl games” where they pitted the 2 weenies from non-BCS Conferences against each other. Just really funny Stanford causes Okie State to not cover. I mean after all, Okie State lost to 6-6 Iowa State and did not even play in a conference championship game; yet somehow never explained to ANY OF THE VOTERS IN ANY OF THE POLLS, Alabama who lost to # 1 in the nation at 13-0 LSU only, is somehow not as good as Okie State ? Double-wrong. Alabama beat # 7 Arkansas 11-2 (after bowl) who covers in the Cotton Bowl vs Kansas State 10-2 now soon 10-3. And, the Rose Bowl which usually gets the shaft from the BCS too, like Sugar Bowl has been happening to us every year – also got a nice match-up too : Oregon (who LSU beat) covers against Wisconsin who beat no one. I am really tired of the “Strength of Schedule” of Wisconsin EVERY year.
Aaron Murray is not all america ? What a hose job. Absolutely the Best QB in the nation, Heisman Trophy, National Championship just wait 'til next year !
December 6th, 2011
4:20 am
Top 4 SEC teams all got a lot better bowl with more monies than we got. I see Ohio State seeing Florida not cover to get their 1st bowl win ever against The SEC, since last season’s “win” tainted as it is over Arkansas is now vacated. Penn State after their scandal too, sees Houston not come close to covering and in fact losing too to Penn State. Auburn covers against Virginia in the Peach Bowl the vols don’t play in (5-7 no bowl) and that should be a fun game to watch as always too. The Peach Bowl gets it right, except paying SEC less than ACC when we kick their fanny with our what is it # 6 team vs their what # 2 team, whatever it is. SEC wins EVERY year. 6 vs 2. Give us our monies Peach Bowl. Vandy covers and gets a win vs Cincinnati at 9-3. Vandy wins a bowl game. Amazing stuff in bowl games this season, from The SEC perspective. Ok, so Georgia tek finally after 6 bowl losses in a row, has an opponent they can cover against – big deal a 7-5 Utah but the Sun does payout $ 4 million. Better than $ 325,000 Georgia tek has been winning to lose their bowl games every stinking year forever now.
Aaron Murray is not all america ? What a hose job. Absolutely the Best QB in the nation, Heisman Trophy, National Championship just wait 'til next year !
December 6th, 2011
4:21 am
Top 4 SEC teams all got a lot better bowl with more monies than we got. I see Ohio State seeing Florida not cover to get their 1st bowl win ever against The SEC, since last season’s “win” tainted as it is over Arkansas is now vacated. Penn State after their scandal too, sees Houston not come close to covering and in fact losing too to Penn State. Auburn covers against Virginia in the Peach Bowl the vols don’t play in (5-7 no bowl) and that should be a fun game to watch as always too. The Peach Bowl gets it right, except paying SEC less than ACC when we kick their fanny with our what is it # 6 team vs their what # 2 team, whatever it is. SEC wins EVERY year. 6 vs 2. Give us our monies Peach Bowl. Vandy covers and gets a win vs Cincinnati at 9-3. Vandy wins a bowl game. Amazing stuff in bowl games this season, from The SEC perspective. Ok, so Georgia tek finally after 6 bowl losses in a row, has an opponent they can cover against – big deal a 7-5 Utah but the Sun does payout $ 4 million. Better than $ 325,000 Georgia tek has been winning to lose their bowl games every stinking year forever now.
7-5 Iowa finds Choke-la-homa, who beat no one again as per always every year, cannot cover. And, Missy State covers against Weak Forest. Florida State who beat no one, cannot cover vs Notre Dame who never wins a bowl game. Boise might put up 64 points. They actually found an opponent Texas can cover against.
No, sorry. I like the bowl games this season. Not defending the BCS, but Michigan State Georgia will be a whale of a ballgame, and I love Tampa – even if it is $ 7 million Outback, $9.2 million CapitalOne Bowl South Carolina not covering vs Nebraska, $ 7 million 250 thousand for Cotton Bowl Arkansas and Alabama and LSU both getting $ 17 million for us to share. Even Vandy gets $ 1.7 million for us and Missy State adds $ 3.67 million for us to share.
Gator Bowl pays only $5.4 million and Florida is their choice. Fascinating. Don’t tell me the game every year in Jacksonville is not at the Gator Bowl. Sure it is. Gator Bowl Florida and Ohio State in the U r ban M e yer Gator Bowl.
Aaron Murray is not all america ? What a hose job. Absolutely the Best QB in the nation, Heisman Trophy, National Championship just wait 'til next year !
December 6th, 2011
4:51 am
“Aaron Murray versus Jordan Jefferson. PLEASE?!?!?! If you think Jordan Jefferson outplayed Aaron Murray, you’re as incompetent as you are ignorant.”
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Aaron Murray 2 interceptions
Jordan Jefferson -0- interceptions
Aaron Murray COST US THE BALLGAME WITH HIS BLOODY FUMBLE. Up 10-7 at the time, Aaron Murray tried to prove he is Jordan Jefferson and put his head down trying to run the football with his 7 carries a game his entire career for a grand total of 1 yards per carry. He fumbled. Honey Badger recovered the fumble WITH LITTLE AARON MURRAY JUST SITTING THERE PLAYING REFEREE. “I ain’t going after that ball everyone could see I fumbled while I was still struggling forward. I’ll just sit here and yell I was down, I was down.”
He actually should have thrown 4 interceptions.
Anemic Offense, having to punt the football, and my God, watching slow Aaron Murray run his wee little body after one of the defenders after 1 of his 20 fumbles or his 20 interceptions in his sorry 26 games with 10 LOSSES (He LOSES 40 percent of his games for us as our Starting QB.) And, this is EXACTLY how he loses the games.
Aaron Murray 9 rushes for MINUS -6 Yards.
Jordan Jefferson 6 rushes for MINUS -5 Yards.
16 of 40 with 2 interceptions.
42 to 10.
42 unanswered points, while Jordan Jefferson directed the offense and got others involved. When Aaron Murray does not, you just make the excuse there isn’t anyone else on our entire team, except for Aaron Murray.
Well be a field general.
Lead the team.
Take charge out on the field.
Don’t look like a ninny, lose every game, call your own number every play, and give up 42 unanswered points with your FUMBLE, and 2 interceptions, and otherwise NOTHINGNESS of 16 out of 40.
4 sacks Aaron Murray
2 sacks Jordan Jefferson.
5-13 for 1 TD pass Jordan Jefferson
40 passes for Aaron Murray to get same 1 TOUCHDOWN PASS.
Jordan Jefferson WAS MUCH MORE EFFICIENT than Aaron Murray.
I said he would be pre-game. I said 4 touchdowns they beat us by. They beat us by MORE than 4 TD.
I’m right. You’re wrong.
Aaron Murray had A BETTER GAME THAN JORDAN JEFFERSON Saturday in The SEC Championship Game he LOST 10-42.
My God.
There is NO 1 who had a WORSE GAME Saturday than Aaron Murray.
Come in here, and Aaron Murray was BETTER than Jordan Jefferson. You have said some dumbsheet statements, but NONE worse than this 1.
Aaron Murray is not all america ? What a hose job. Absolutely the Best QB in the nation, Heisman Trophy, National Championship just wait 'til next year !
December 6th, 2011
5:29 am
There is an ENTIRE BLOG full of nothing but HOW POORLY Mark Richt has done coaching this team, again this season TampaDawg. Sit there all day every day typing and get your hat handed to you while I am working by this Rule the Roost. But, there are 25 other GOOD SOLID BULLDOG fans. They all say the same. Why not call them ALL Georgia tek fans ? You are holding this program BACK settling for your EXCUSES and tirades that every poster is some Georgia tek fan. Sad excuse. You cannot possibly sit there and think we beat anyone this season at 10-3 fixing to be 10-4 having beat NO ONE and with 26 other 10-Win Season teams too. As for your LIE that I want Kirby Smart; I said Kirby does not call the shots there at Bama. I listed for your perusal every fact, sat here and looked them all up of all the 26 teams with 10-Win seasons and those teams actually beat each other and therefore have wins among themselves while Mark Richt does not and plays in the # 5 bowl paying less monies to play in the Outback for us than the CapitalOne pays South Carolina, the Sugar Bowl Title Game for Alabama the Sugar Bowl Title Game for LSU, the Cotton Bowl for Arkansas. We are 2nd tier. In a conference of 4 teams at the top who all 3 from the west finish in the top 10, we have South Carolina outside that and us at # 18 fixing to be more like # 24 – having beat no one. And, a year to show for it. Ok, so you took on all comers last week while I was working and said to each how wrong they are. What happened after 5 pm TampaDawg ? Have to give up your Internet at work and go home ? 9 hours of telling everyone how great Mark Richt is ? This is your JOB, SON ? I played db. What did you play ? I know a better QB when I play him. Jordan Jefferson would start at LSU and Aaron Murray would RIDE THE PINES. I would far prefer to face AM because I know what I am getting a pass. A poorly thrown pass without zip. I can defend that. Jordan Jefferson comes to the line and I have to respect him. He’s bigger than I. I watch the pitch man, I cover JJ. I have my hands full. AM is A LOSER. Jordan Jefferson is A WINNER.
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old dawg September 23rd, 2011 3:26 pm
“i m tired of hearing about the “thin 0-line” every year. how about fixing it, for a change?
do you expect me to say ok, boys i understand, it is no wonder our backs get tackled in the backfield. it’s because you are so thin. i seem to remember that in preseason they were the biggest in D1 and expected to be the strength of the team.
quit making excuses and kick some butt. step up and drive them off the ball. live up to your hype for a change.
step up or get out and let someone in who wants to and will get it done.
whiners, and i’m talking to players and coaches, perform and believe or get off the bus and take your power ranger uniforms with you.
i’m just an old dawg who remembers dawgs and coaches that played with heart and an sincere belief that they could and would win every game. you could see it on the field. and when they didn’t you could see the disbelief and torment on their faces.
turn off the jumbotron, extra work for every player that does a dance after a play or on the sideline. if you don’t like it, transfer to auburn. they will cater to you and pay you too. this is georgia football not dances with the stars.”
PurpleNGold
December 6th, 2011
5:41 am
I didn’t see a single Georgie fan on the streets of Atlanta yesterday. Guess all that Georgie paraphernalia was magnetic.
“Aaron Murray is not all america ?…” true Murray is not as good as everyone thinks he is. If Saturday afternoon’s game isn’t proof enough of that, nothing will be. He obviously cannot play under pressure, and the weak defenses you had faced thus far did your team no justice in preparation. But he did not “cost you the game” as you stated. Remember, you have to play all 60min in order to win. I know that you would like to find one single reason why you lost, but give it up already. The Bulldogs were outplayed in a game that they did not deserve to be in, and that they could have never competed in. But don’t feel too bad, no one in the east (or in the nation, save Bama) could stand toe to toe with us either.
JdawgT
December 6th, 2011
5:42 am
Crowell is a none deserving JOKE ! If #20 was healthy Chokewell wouldn’t be playing !
drew
December 6th, 2011
5:50 am
Ooooooohhhh….a college exhibition game. This is almost as exciting as a Falcons preseason game.
At least Ga. Southern gets to play meaningful post-season games.
Every bowl game except ‘bama/LSU is meaningless. Win and you’re done; lose and you’re done. I will not watch any of these glorified exhibition games. And if everybody else did the same, this “mythical national championship” bullsh*t would disappear and make way for a playoff…which is the way God intended champions to be determined.
BOYCOTT EXHIBITION GAMES!!
Aaron Murray is not all america ? What a hose job. Absolutely the Best QB in the nation, Heisman Trophy, National Championship just wait 'til next year !
December 6th, 2011
5:56 am
When the score is 10-7 when you have SQUANDERED 4 opportunities for touchdowns and NOT GOT THEM, and you come out in the 2nd half, up 10-7, and PRETEND YOU ARE JORDAN JEFFERSON and can run the football up the middle of a defense every bit as good as The Junkyard Dawgs, and fumble – sit there pouting, whine to officials waving your arm I WAS DOWN I WAS DOWN when everyone knows like, you, too, that you were NOT CLOSE to being down, and that results in 10-14.
The Game was OVER.
We never did score after 10-14.
The game was LOST, right there, right then, for that VERY REASON.
Ok, so what if LSU went on to put up 42 unanswered points ?
The game was OVER.
10-14.
So, he threw the football to LSU players 6 times and had 2 intercepted AFTER THAT.
Ok, so those ended up TDs for LSU too.
He also, Aaron Murray, was SACKED 4 TIMES. And, settled for field goals punts and 16 of 40. 40 passes to get 1 TD pass. Jordan Jefferson threw only 13 passes and MATCHED AARON MURRAY’S 1 TD PASS in 40 FLINGS OF THE FOOTBALL, playing one man band.
For all this time, you have totally ignored EVERY POST on the blog and said whatever you wanted purple and whatever gold I guess, look tiger, (1) The better team will PROVE it when it matters and the early lines once -1 LSU are -1 Bama now and (2) this post is some numbnutts DISNEYdawgs.com RING LEADER telling his Mark Minions that Aaron Murray WAS A LOT BETTER THAN JORDAN JEFFERSON.
I refute that. No Aaron Murray did not give all the 42 points. He put up 10 points and he gave up about 21, right ? By himself. And, he LOST THE GAME FOR US.
Now, go whine on the bama blogs how bama doesn’t deserve to be playing you so you could play with YOUR SORRY OFFENSE against the # 107 defense of Okie State who ends up # 9 in the Final AP Poll while you end up # 2.
DawgNation
December 6th, 2011
7:17 am
I am NOT disagreeing with all you experts wanting CMR fired but again I will challenge you to submit a qualified candidate that will meet your requirements and give proof he is. Otherwise you all sound as flat as a tire on I-95. Yes change is needed as the direction under CMR has fallen in the past 6 years but what you knee jerking spoiled brats are suggesting is to totally destroy this program just like Tenn.’s fan base did to the Vols. Until I hear of a coaching candidate that can take this program forward with success from you bugger eating morons then there are few new names I will scroll by on these blogs. It will certainly mean a much quicker reading experience instead of the 10 pages from the same so called fans.
Old Dog
December 6th, 2011
7:27 am
Dawgnation – so you are not disagreeing with us that CMR isn’t up to the job, but we should give him an extension because there isn’t anything else and we should just get used to being a second tier football program.
How about this? We keep Richt but we change his pay scale. He gets $300,000 for every win over a ranked team. He gets $50,000 for every win over other SEC teams. And he gets $10,000 for every win over OOC teams like Coastal Carolina. Oh, and throw in a Big bonus for Championships. Think he would go for that? That sounds fair to me. Then he might be more interested in WINNING.
HOW ABOUT 1 OF THESE, THEN ?
December 6th, 2011
7:28 am
Teams who get 10-Win Season this season alone :
1-LSU
2-ALABAMA
3-OKLAHOMA STATE
4-STANFORD
5-VIRGINIA TECH
6-ARKANSAS
7-STANFORD
8-OREGON
9-SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
10-HOUSTON
11-BOISE STATE
12-SOUTH CAROLINA
13-WISCONSIN
14-MICHIGAN STATE
15-MICHIGAN
16-KANSAS STATE
17-OKLAHOMA
18-TCU
19-NEBRASKA
20-WEST VIRGINIA
21-CINCINNATI
22-SOUTHERN MISS
23-ARKANSAS STATE
24-CLIMPSUM FARMERS
25-PENN STATE
Really?
December 6th, 2011
7:38 am
I mean really? Most of you so-called fans are blaming Murray? Really? How about the three critical drops by the WR’s, of which two were sure touchdowns? Don’t throw up stats without those facts. Also in the second half we were without our #1 and #2 RBs – IC (for all intents and purposes) and Thomas. Like Dawg in Lex said, without any running game the result was inevitable against LSU’s D. Murray plays hard, plays hurt, keeps his nose clean, and is a very good QB. Blame IC for this loss, as well as our putrid special teams, if you want to point fingers. After sitting in Memphis last year and getting our butts kicked by Central Florida, I’m thrilled to be in the Outback Bowl this year against a quality opponent. Go Dawgs!
DawgNation, you aren't getting anywhere with Old Dog, sir.
December 6th, 2011
7:43 am
All he has is FLAME POSTS about every poster to every blog EVER.
Never once just he share his view of the game from his seats and what he saw. Not once, does he discuss from his vantage point of the position he played what he sees and does not see.
All DawgNation can do is come running in here, login, and say this poster or that poster is NOT a Bulldog and he is – all the while ADMITTING that Georgia STINKS and has STUNK he says for 6 years now. He said that just now. 6 years STUNK TO HIGH HEAVEN.
Oh, but NAME me a coach. Oh and I am so smart having never discussed what I see from my seats or what I see from my experience at this position or that position, that I just SCROLL PAST YOUR JUNK. Well, I read his posts Old Dog, and yours. You run rings around him and hand him his hat. So, does everyone else. Because he CANNOT DREAM that Georgia is not 1 of the 25 teams with a 10-Win Season. He actually thinks 10-Win season is special. You can have 10-Win season, beat no one and NOT END UP RANKED in the top 25. Can’t tell him that. Because HE is LEGEND in his OWN MIND.
Forget all the 33 transfers out, quit, kicked-off just gone scholarship players that would have made our 10-7 lead have some chance of being held up. But, no. He wants to say YOU don’t know what YOU’RE talking about, never mind he never has established ANYTHING except that he is GREAT in his own mind and by the way, prove to him that someone else is better.
Forget the coaching debacles such as Mike Bobo. Bryan McClendon. Willie Martinez. That’s not the fault of the head coach. A head coach never held the position, clearly knows what the heck he is doing, even if the fan in Macon was RIGHT. And, Mark Richt knows the fan in Macon is right.
Forget calling his own players DUMBa**, a scholar on the dean’s list but it is ok for Mark Richt to call him a DUMBa**. Gave him the Scholarship HIMSELF, but still he is DUMBa**. Takes the a** back leaving still the dumb. “I apologize,” Mark Richt said “for using the curse words.” There only was 1 curse word. And, yes he used it. Take away the a** and you are STILL LEFT with Mark Richt calling his own Scholarship Recruit “DUMB.”
Forget 3 wins out of 14 games over 11 years vs teams finishing in the top 10 all 11 years.
Forget 17 wins out of 44 games vs teams finishing in the AP top 25 all 11 years.
Forget 17 losses over 11 years vs teams NOT 1 OF WHICH end up top 25 without their Win over Mark Richt (and 10 of the 17 still were not top 25 even with their win over Mark Richt.)
Forget the lies that he is the 4th best coach in all of America when in HIS BEST YEAR IN AGES THIS SEASON, HE IS NOT IN THE TOP 4 in his OWN CONFERENCE, even.
Dogs Smell
December 6th, 2011
7:47 am
HOW ABOUT 1 OF THESE, THEN ?
There is not one of those schools who if given Georgia’s schedule wouldnt rattle off 10 straight wins. To these Georgia”Homers” who chose to play the we won 10 in a row card, look again at who you played v/s the other 10 win schools and see if you could have won 10 with theirs. No you wouldnt because history shows you cannot beat quality teams. As far as the future looking bright, same ole, same ole words every year.
David Greene set the record for Most Wins Ever in the US history as Starting QB at Georgia
December 6th, 2011
7:49 am
Now, it’s not all Aaron Murray’s fault.
Make up your mind.
Notice, if you will please, that you are NOT saying that Aaron Murray was LOADS BETTER than Jordan Jefferson, his efficient counterpart head-to-head. In fact, you READILY ADMIT Aaron Murray did NOT PLAY WELL AT ALL.
Old Dog
December 6th, 2011
7:50 am
Did you realize that Mark Richt’s won-loss record over five years from 2006-2010 was the same as Jim Donnan’s. Yet Donnan is gone and Richt got to stay. Of course, Richt won more over Tech.
DawgNation, you make the EXACT SAME POINT ALL OF US MAKE, all 35 of us in this 1 blog right here sir.
December 6th, 2011
7:55 am
DawgNation December 6th, 2011 7:17 am
“I am NOT disagreeing with all you experts wanting CMR fired but again I will challenge you to submit a qualified candidate that will meet your requirements and give proof he is. Otherwise you all sound as flat as a tire on I-95. Yes change is needed as the direction under CMR has fallen in the past 6 years”
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There is ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE in this position by you, and my position.
Hire an experienced head coach. What ? Alabama can do it and we with the 2nd most profits in the nation from football, cannot ? LSU can ? Florida can ? We cannot ? Arkansas can. We cannot ? Oregon can. We cannot ? Again, I submitted a list of 25 to begin with. I have put up lists in the past of 22 who did better over these last yes, six (6) years than Mark Richt. You want me to put that list up again, too ?
Be real.
What Mark Richt wanted to do to MOTIVATE his players was have them wear the Power Rangers CLOWN SUITS
December 6th, 2011
8:00 am
They ALL SHOT HIM DOWN, yet the very posters here in this blog who read all that, posted again and again how Mark Richt SAID THEY ALL WANTED TO WEAR THE CLOWN SUITS.
No they did not.
I told you that then.
You asked for examples of LIES by Mark Richt and daily I provide them to you.
What do you do with them ?
Say you too for the last 6 years see a change in direction of the program under Mark Richt, but NAME you someone as an experienced coach in the NFL or some other team who could possibly come in here and then, turned down on his uni change as MOTIVATION
Goes for an onside kick like we don’t have a chance in the world, just get ahead and then give up
42 unanswered points as your headliner of your DREAM TEAM
TURNS HIS BACK on you complaining about his 15-yard
PENALTY
I told ALL of you WAS GOING TO HAPPEN ALL SEASON LONG.
PurpleNGold
December 6th, 2011
8:00 am
“Aaron Murray is not all america ?…” just because you are used to hearing whining from all the Georgie fans doesn’t mean the rest of the nation does it. And just look at your comments… you say that I’m gonna whine about blah blah blah? I’ve heard three-year-old girls complain less than you. But I understand why you boys do it… it hurts when you’re made to look like the cupcake we all knew you were, on national TV. In fact the entire east and all of your opponents have been cupcakes. You were simply the one with sprinkles.
Bama does deserve to be there with us. They are definitely the second best in the nation. With regards to your comments on lack of scoring, unlike Georgie, they have a run game and the size and strength to run up the middle. Unlike Georgie, they have receivers who make an effort to catch something thrown within three yards of them. But like Georgie, fortunately for us, they have a FG kicker who couldn’t kick a bad habit. I can’t see why you’re surprised about your lack of offensive punch. You lost one of the two SEC games you scored more than 40 in, and other than that you’ve been the one with anemic offense outings, even against very marginal defenses. What I still cannot even fathom is why you think you had a shot. Your play in the second half was no different than the first. We made the adjustment, you didn’t.
So no it was not one person’s fault. You simply want to give him (Murray) all of the blame. Spread it around, cause losing as bad as you did is a shared effort, one that your whole team can be proud of.
Tiger
December 6th, 2011
8:09 am
I don’t whine. You do. You are whining about Alabama not wanting to play them because you know they will not miss 4 field goals against your no offense LSU team.
I have said all along, but you NEVER READ THE POSTS IN THIS BLOG that we would lose to LSU by 4 TD.
Tiger, you just cannot make those statements to ME.
December 6th, 2011
8:15 am
I am the very 1 who called us CUPCAKE.
I did that BEFORE you beat us.
I am NOT giving Aaron Murray ALL THE BLAME.
You know NOTHING about that which I write, because you RUN IN HERE, LOGIN, post 3 posts and LEAVE.
Mark Richt is to blame # 1.
Mike Bobo is to blame, but that’s not his fault, he was stolen from JAX State as their QB to be our Offensive Coordinator for Mark Richt.
Bryan McClendon a WR teaches and recruits our RB. We don’t have 1 or a FB. You have 5 RB with MORE TDs this season than Isaiah Crowell.
Take your opinions if you aren’t going to ask, and assume you know how I feel, having NOT READ A SINGLE POST ON THIS BLOG, EVER, and shove it.
I blame Isaiah Crowell.
I also, YES SIR, I absolutely do BLAME Aaron Murray as well.
I blame him to EVERY DISNEYdawgs.com poster to this forum ever who all have told me along with blog writer Chip Towers that he is the # 1 QB in The SEC.
Well, that vote went out today and as I said, he is NOT.
Tiger, you just cannot make those statements to ME.
December 6th, 2011
8:19 am
You have plenty of blaming to go around and have set yourself up well on that point with your whining here that Alabama does NOT belong in the game with you.
Sure they do.
NO 1 agrees with you.
And, you are LOSING TO THEM.
You’ve done it now.
I was going to cheer for LSU vs Alabama.
Now, since I have them in the bowl pool I won last year again this season, I will cheer them on – I knew they are going to beat you.
And, I am positive that is the only reason why you don’t want to play them but some team who did not play for any conference championship and who LOST to a 6-6 Iowa State really cruddy team.
Instead, you actually think absent anything to the contrary here by you YET, that Alabama does NOT deserve to play you.
Whiner.
You KNOW you lose to Bama.
Les Miles is NOT Nick Saban.
DawginLex
December 6th, 2011
8:45 am
The posting at 4 am has GOT to be therapy for bulldawg
Nothing else explains it.
Reality Gator
December 6th, 2011
8:48 am
I see 4 loses comming against a team with a winning record, yes the gators will get slaughter against Clemson, what two things did Ga and Fl had in common this year? they both did not beat anyone with a wining record ha, ha
DawginLex
December 6th, 2011
8:57 am
gator logic:
GT 8-4
Auburn 7-5
These 2 teams did not have winning records.
I don't care about Florida.
December 6th, 2011
9:01 am
Mark Richt should have been 7-4 vs Florida; instead he is 3-8. The 7-4, by the way, assumes that the better players win. Better players, worse coaching staff. Obviously and clearly. A good coach would have won some of the 4 losses. 1 or maybe even 2. That could be 9-2 vs Florida and certainly should have been 8-3 instead of 3-8.
4 losses, so what ? We’ve played 4 teams who end up in the top 25 and lost ALL 4. All 4 games, Aaron Murray was NOT the better QB head-to-head.
Same as last year, played 5 teams who end up top 25 and Aaron Murray LOST ALL FIVE (5) and all 5, the better QB head-to-head all 9 of these games over his starts to-date, were BETTER than Aaron Murray.
He didn’t play Tyler Wilson, or that would be 10. South Carolina did. South Carolina and everyone else beat you Florida crocodiles. Florida is actually favored over Ohio State U r ban M e yer Gator Bowl. I’ll take the points, but will not need them against that program is such disarray as they are. Ohio State beat no one, either. There are a lot of teams who beat no one. But, their fans don’t run in here login and say we are great having beat no 1 ranked in any poll nor likely to end up being ranked for this season in the top 25.
Jim Donnan lost 19 games in his 5 years here.
Mark Richt lost 22 games in his previous 5 years here.
DawginLex
December 6th, 2011
9:03 am
Get it out bulldawg
cleanse that soul
Therapy, therapy, therapy
YOU SAID that Auburn was NO GOOD all Summer and all Fall long. You STILL SAY Georgia tek was no good since the Summer through this very day.
December 6th, 2011
9:04 am
Oh, wow.
We beat an 8-4 team and a 7-5 team.
Zowie.
Cherry Picker
December 6th, 2011
9:05 am
@Reality Gator
I thought Florida was playing THE OSU?
@DawginLex
Congrats on those impressive wins over API and GIT.
YOU SAID that Auburn was NO GOOD all Summer and all Fall long. You STILL SAY Georgia tek was no good since the Summer through this very day.
December 6th, 2011
9:07 am
I am not about to be finished.
You act like it is just I.
I count 35 other blog posters to this blog, such as Old Dog and 34 more just like him who are NOT HAPPY with this FOOTBALL PROGRAM.
Headliner Dream Team # 1 RB in the nation jawing at the LSU player who ALREADY had a 15-yard penalty called against him. All year I have been telling you he would get this 15-yard TAUNTING penalty.
Mark Richt goes over to his DREAM TEAM HEADLINER recruit # 1 RB and Isaiah Crowell
TURNS HIS BACK ON MARK RICHT.
YOU SAID that Auburn was NO GOOD all Summer and all Fall long. You STILL SAY Georgia tek was no good since the Summer through this very day.
December 6th, 2011
9:10 am
Anyway, Auburn is NOT RANKED and neither is Georgia tek RANKED EITHER.
Neither will be in any top 25 poll when the season is over either. This with both winning their bowl games Auburn over unranked Virginia and Georgia tek over unranked Utah.
14-game season and they end up with 8 and 9 wins.
About what Mark Richt averages for his 11 seasons.
Mediocre.
leg humper
December 6th, 2011
9:11 am
Heard when Crowell got news about being freshman of the year, he jumped three feet off the ground. OOPS, was that weed that just fell out of his pocket?
VADAWG
December 6th, 2011
9:16 am
i have no problem with this matchup in tier 2 bowl in Tampa…..I AM USE TO IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am BEEN ready for a NATIONAL TITLE now for 10 yrs.!!!!!!! GO DAWGS!!
DawginLex
December 6th, 2011
9:19 am
Do I need to start charging for my services?
Breathe bulldawg
Take deep breaths
Therapy, therapy
junkyarddawg
December 6th, 2011
9:43 am
The Bulldogs will be making their 47th appearance in a bowl game. Georgia currently has a 26-17-3 record in bowls. This will be the Bulldogs’ 11th straight bowl appearance under Coach Mark Richt and 15th consecutive overall.
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