Change of heart? Richt issues statement that UGA is ‘not pursuing Penn State players’
ATHENS — “Currently, Georgia is not pursuing any of Penn State’s football players. We wish Coach O’Brien and the players the best.”
That statement came from the UGA’s sports communication office to beat reporters a little after 5 p.m. on Friday. It came as a raw statement without any context or explanation.
I happened to be talking to Christopher Lakos, one of Georgia’s associate directors of sports communications, just before the email was sent out. All he could tell me was the release was simply “a message Coach Richt wants to get out about something he’s been getting a lot of calls about.”
You’ll recall that Richt on Monday told reporters covering the annual Greater Atlanta UGA Days event at Cobb Galleria that the Bulldogs would in fact be interested in recruiting some of the Nittany Lions players. The NCAA, in its historic ruling against Penn State for covering up child sex atrocities committed by a former assistant coach, announced that Penn State players would be allowed to transfer anywhere without penalty and that schools would be allowed to openly recruit them.
Here’s what Richt said Monday:
“We do have some space available and if somebody fits a need and they’re excited about coming we would look into that possibility,” he said at the Cobb Galleria Centre. “There may not be anybody. But we’re at least going to explore. … I don’t want people to think we’re trying to load up a bunch of them. It could be zero, it could be one or two.”
One of two things has had to happen since then: One, no Penn State players expressed any interest in transferring to Georgia; or, two, Richt and UGA had a change of heart.
I was skeptical from the get-go about what Penn State might have to offer Georgia. The Bulldogs were recruiting finalist for two of their players, redshirt freshman defensive end Deion Barnes and junior linebacker Khairi Fortt. As we all know, Georgia is pretty well set on the defensive side of the ball. Penn State running back Silas Redd is apparently close to transferring to Southern Cal. Otherwise, it doesn’t appear there is going to be a lot of movement.
It’s late on a Friday and I have somewhere to be this evening, so for now I can just throw it out there for you guys and see what you think about it. The Bulldogs report for camp next week and we’ll start having regular access to Coach Richt and players, so we’ll get more from then later.
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SamDawg
July 27th, 2012
6:01 pm
Must have had no interest from the Penn St guys.
Bob
July 27th, 2012
6:14 pm
This is not racist, but a lot of slow, white guys. I like our recruits. Just my opinion.
Frank Lane
July 27th, 2012
6:16 pm
Think that UGA decided to get first interest from a player rather than recruit and none were forthcoming.
Their OL is not big enough for the SEC anyway.
Bulldog on the Bayou
July 27th, 2012
6:19 pm
Bob – when something is prefaced with “this is not” – it usually is. Case in point.
DirtyDawg
July 27th, 2012
6:22 pm
I think Mark suddenly had an epiphany…in the form of ‘if Lame Kiffin thought it was a good idea to openly go after these kids that are struggling to hold their school and team together, it must be a pretty unseemly practice.’
Smitty
July 27th, 2012
6:27 pm
Sam….I figured it out…you are GTbob…makes sense now…you being such a turd…No he is not as bad as you. can’t figure out who you are except just a turd
kingdaddy
July 27th, 2012
6:28 pm
Good call Coach Richt. Go Dawgs…
Big Mike
July 27th, 2012
6:29 pm
After evaluation, not one 0f them could beat out our 3rd string..
Big Mike
July 27th, 2012
6:30 pm
If ur a freshman or sophmore…. dont listen too the seniors.. Leave asap Penn State players
Smitty
July 27th, 2012
6:32 pm
Did seem kind of creepy like eating road kill trying to leap out of road
Bob
July 27th, 2012
6:33 pm
“Think that UGA decided to get first interest from a player rather than recruit and none were forthcoming.
Their OL is not big enough for the SEC anyway”.
Sure they’re not big enough. The rushed for more yards on Bama than Florida, Vandy, Arkansas, Ole Miss, Miss State, and Auburn combined. Only LSU rushed for more yards against the Tide than PSU. I think Georgia could have used 1 or more of those guys.
SamDawg
July 27th, 2012
6:37 pm
Wow, the new Penn St S & C coach hired here at UGA must not have had any godd relationships, couldn’t even bring 1 guy in? Not a good sign.
Big Mike
July 27th, 2012
6:39 pm
you would be a complete Idiot to miss ur entire College experience to never play a meaningful game.. 10-0 means nothing….. no bowl…
Smitty
July 27th, 2012
6:39 pm
I think Penn State OL would be good enough but the ones that would help UGA are juniors and seniors and they are not leaving. Good for them I am a Dawg but I don’t want those kids to suffer for someone else bad mistakes
RTR22
July 27th, 2012
6:41 pm
Good for Jawja and I hope CNS is doing the same……. Roll Tide
it is what it is AND it ain't what it ain't (no national title for you fools)
July 27th, 2012
6:42 pm
bwahahahaha, like the PSU players were heading to inbredville to smoke some dope, conceal weapons and then proceed to join your backwoods team
Smitty
July 27th, 2012
6:42 pm
Anybody that does not feel bad for the Penn State players left behind of this mess are a$$ holes
Big Mike
July 27th, 2012
6:43 pm
Maybe he knew the size and talent difference ….
kral
July 27th, 2012
6:49 pm
you consistent on every blog sam..either your not a GA fan or your just an embittered one who believes the past team and coaches have let you down…keep up high noble standards..point out every mistake..that way our UGA football team will get better..and keep checking that mailbox because I am sure there is an apology on its way
Smitty
July 27th, 2012
6:50 pm
RTR22…nice to hear a Bama fan with class. I agreed with you. Actually most Bama fans I have ran into always were really nice. Ate some great BBQ with them over in T town when my son played college baseball
Smitty
July 27th, 2012
6:52 pm
I am a Dawg fan but my son played for Tennessee. Hard to put that orange stuff on but he played in Omaha and let me have a great time as a Dad.
Butter Bean Floyd
July 27th, 2012
7:03 pm
Looks like damage control for Richt huh…. Nobody wants to come on to UGA’s sinking ship.
rugbydawg79
July 27th, 2012
7:04 pm
+1 smitty–I can tell you are a class act–I also feel for PSU–my opinion also changed after hearing their players speak–going after them was not the right thing to do !!
Gater Hater
July 27th, 2012
7:06 pm
Bob, rushed against who though….
Smitty
July 27th, 2012
7:08 pm
Butter Bean….what ship are you on?
Smitty
July 27th, 2012
7:10 pm
Gator hater …good to see you on blog
Red Stick
July 27th, 2012
7:11 pm
I’m glad that Richt is backing off from recruiting any Penn St players. I hope other SEC coaches do as well.
You have to give O’Brien credit for keeping his team largely intact and how he has handled this mess so far. It seems Penn St made a good hire in him.
Geaux Tigers
Go SEC
Smitty
July 27th, 2012
7:16 pm
Red Stick…I agree
BigDawg
July 27th, 2012
7:18 pm
We need to throw a welcome party to them. Only 70 scholarship players, or less, and we are not on probation? Hope we get a lot of early enrollments!
Butter Bean Floyd
July 27th, 2012
7:20 pm
Fan Of UGA Smitty but tired of Richt.
LOL
July 27th, 2012
7:23 pm
No one at Penn State wants to go to a mid tier SEC School like UGA.
Tim JJ
July 27th, 2012
7:29 pm
I don’t really care if we get any of their players or not but why would anyone in their right mind want to play or coach there now? Even if you rush for 2500 yards and 40 touchdowns, they are still going to mention child abuse before they talk about your stats. Everything that program does now will be associated with the molestation of young boys. Just sad. I would transfer as quick as they would let me. And If I was O’Brien I would beg Belichik for my job back.
kingdaddy
July 27th, 2012
7:35 pm
That is the best thing that could have happened. If one of them wants to leave and contacts UGA, I imagine CMR will take a look then. I wish all those kids the best but still hate that they will miss so much because of something they didn’t do…
ramguy68
July 27th, 2012
7:48 pm
I don’t know but it sounds like CMR is trying to show once again that he’s not like the other college coaches and he’s above raiding Penn St for players. I don’t understand the media portraying coaches as vultures for pursuing these players after the NCAA said they are free to transfer without penalty.
Game Changer
July 27th, 2012
8:03 pm
Any word yet on the clearinghouse about JJ?????????
kingdaddy
July 27th, 2012
8:08 pm
I think the kids should have to initiate contact with any other program. This may keep the predator use-car salesmen from corrupting the younger ones. If this team stays togeather, it would make an interesting movie, especially if they could go undefeated. Barney Frank can play Sandusky, lol..
Go Bravos 2-1…
kingdaddy
July 27th, 2012
8:09 pm
BTW,
Good story C.T…
i'm a big georgia fan
July 27th, 2012
8:10 pm
yesterday yall were all for raiding the penn state roster. today st mark makes an announcement and yall all fall in line. no wonder we are looked at by other sec fanbases as “the weakest link”. the missing link is more descriptive. pathetic.
adawgfan
July 27th, 2012
8:11 pm
Not sure what UGA and CMR are thinking on this one… If I were a student athlete it would be difficult to continue at PSU, not only because of the NCAA sanctions, but because it would be hard to be loyal to a University that would hide such atrocities. The University of Georgia should offer these young men a place to continue their careers, and they are needed at UGA. The Univeristy is making a mistake in favor of ‘politically correctness’. Just my opinion
David C
July 27th, 2012
8:16 pm
There was one player that they thought they had a shot at. He said he was staying so from PR Stand point CMR decided to do a 180. Sound great, but really they would have taken the native Georgian had he showed interest.
BIG MIKE
July 27th, 2012
8:18 pm
Bob…Bob….Bob. They rushed for more yards against who???? I think the competition level between the SEC and “other conferences” has been well established as a mismatch. And some body is using my name without signing a release!!!! .
Mark (another one)
July 27th, 2012
8:21 pm
There appears to be some trouble interpreting a simple statement. UGA is not (currently) pursuing any Penn St. players. That could change tomorrow if a Penn St. player contacted UGA. I don’t expect it to happen but it would require a player to show initiative.
This is going to be a great fall. I am looking forward to a healthy Brown showing what he can do as a starting WR. Last year he avg. over 15 yards per catch, he’s listed at 6′5″, 222 lbs., and is a sprinter. If people double King, Brown can make them pay.
Game Changer
July 27th, 2012
8:24 pm
McQuackity:
Todd Grantham still has not signed you piece of trash offer, recruits know he is leaving asap after 2012. McQuackity, you are as much to blame regarding UGA recruiting problems as the others. You should be fired yesterday.
Will
July 27th, 2012
8:47 pm
I was disappointed when Coach Richt said he was going after PSU players. If a player is interested in UGA and wants to contact to the school that’s one thing, to actively recruit is
“Taking boots from a dead solder”.
Budlight Dawg
July 27th, 2012
8:56 pm
Im guessin Sandusky personally recruited all these young, delicate boys with a special touch… sounds like the ones wanting to stay liked his kinda coaching… if u know what Im gettin at….lol… Bet ya thers alotta towels poppin some gluts up in the Biaaach…. Especially the big dude who want keep Bigggggggggggggggggggggggg ………..
his mouth shut on ESPN
Budlight Dawg
July 27th, 2012
9:01 pm
GALT….. OMG ur freakin stupid…. Pen State students go to a College were they repeatively allowed little boys to the violated!!!!! really…. They need to change the name from Nittany Lions to “Litttle boy butt rangers” cause thats all u gonna hear for the next 4 years friend… Butt Rangers….. Maybe u know Sandusky too!!!! just sayin… defend that…
Gater Hater
July 27th, 2012
9:01 pm
Allowing a PSU player to transfer to UGA would be doing them a favor…their program truly is a sinking ship and fairly irrelevant of late. Plus I’d feel kind of creeped out playing ball there. A bunch of weird cats in that program……
LuvmyG
July 27th, 2012
9:07 pm
CMR did the right thing not to pursue any penn state players but if they decided to leave then they all welcome to UGA Go dawgs!
Son of Sammy Davis Jr, Jr
July 27th, 2012
9:11 pm
Don’t think they could stomach the smell of sweet mash that saturates Athens on game day.
facts
July 27th, 2012
9:13 pm
To bob. Georgia southern rushed for more yds than everyone against alabama and scored the most points. Pretty impressive for an fcs school
UGA has certain needs
July 27th, 2012
9:18 pm
UGA has certain needs by position for back up starters or more depth. We saw no opps maybe, so we withdrew. UGA was unique with about 3 or 4 or 5 openings but it did not happen because we could not attract keen interest and or, our immediate needs could not be met. This makes good sense.
Go Dogs.
Budlight Dawg
July 27th, 2012
9:19 pm
PENN STATE BUTT RANGERS …… WHEN THE TEAM HITS THE FIELD.. THEIR GONNA PLAY.. ” ITS RAINING MEN” OR MAYBE ” MR ROGERS THEME SONG”
uncledaddy
July 27th, 2012
9:21 pm
CMR misunderstood the question. He thought he was asked if he was recruiting state pen players and he thinks he has enough already.
Budlight Dawg
July 27th, 2012
9:23 pm
Son of Sammy Davis Jr, Jr
Don’t think they could stomach the smell of sweet mash that saturates Athens on game day
” THEY LIKE THE SMELL OF A FRESH CHANGED DIAPER”
Mobile Dawg
July 27th, 2012
9:37 pm
Sounds like Richt and company figured out he spoke to soon, and it was an unpopular position. If I remember correctly he had already reviewed the roster a couple days ago. Now we’re not pursuing Penn St players. Just sounds like hypocrisy to me.
Just the Facts
July 27th, 2012
10:00 pm
The Penn St players had zero interest in Georgia.
Hairy Dawg
July 27th, 2012
10:18 pm
We don’t need the slow Big 10s players when we got SEC talent with speed from Dream Teams. The Big 10 is always getting spanked by the SEC. It cause we better and knows how to playing best at football. Coach Richt won more games last decade than Joe “kiddie showers” Pa. And that even with the sorry schedules in Big 10 where all the badly stinkys teams plays each others. But truth is none of them could make team for Dawgs and they used to losing to.
The one thing that Penn St players gets if they play for Coach Richt is learning to be Christian instead of Sanduksy treatment of kids. But they not getting that even though they needs it. Cause they not good enough to play for Dawgs and learn to walk in path of Lord under Coach Richt.
georgia fans are certainly he stupidest
July 27th, 2012
10:24 pm
0 for 19 according to nbcsports:
http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/07/27/uga-targeted-19-psu-players-richt-now-says-hes-not-recruiting-them/#comments
That70sGAdawg
July 27th, 2012
10:26 pm
Nice Guys finish LAST, Nuf said…..
TampaGator
July 27th, 2012
10:33 pm
NEWS FLASH….
Mark RIcht announces that he will no longer recruit Penn State….and will start to recuit the state of Georgia.
Hairy Dawg
July 27th, 2012
10:33 pm
Exactly. If these PSU boys is any good then we get to pick best from litter. But they don’t got talents and that why we not signs em up.
TampaGator
July 27th, 2012
10:45 pm
Penn State players….mostly….have no interest in any other program. I think all but maybe one or two stay.
Dawg Whisperer
July 27th, 2012
10:47 pm
TampaGator… don’t immitate the immaturity of the 10 year old GT children that seek attention on the boards. It is a poor attempt at humor that reflects much worse on them.
Dawg Whisperer
July 27th, 2012
10:49 pm
It is the right decision and respectful to the PSU team/coaches.
Dawg Whisperer
July 27th, 2012
10:54 pm
I, for one, believe that PSU has suffered enough. It is time to applaud their actions to uncover the administrative indiscretions at a significant cost to themselves (even though they had little choice).
GT GRAD
July 27th, 2012
10:54 pm
Sooooooooo many UGA fans thought the Penn State players would flock to UGA just begging be a part of the team………………………….wow………………the truth is that very few if any even considered the idea of transferring to UGA (I imagine many are considering other schools, but UGA is simply not one of the teams which will benefit from this fiasco).
Marc Richt is trying to save face and minimize the negative vibe associated with the fact he publically stated he wants some Penn State players AND the fact that no Penn State players want to even consider the possibility of transfering to UGA.
Wow
Dawg Whisperer
July 27th, 2012
10:56 pm
Furthermore, what high profile collegiate football program is above the mistakes that were made at PSU. Not to say any would but the possibility existed.
Dawg Whisperer
July 27th, 2012
10:59 pm
GT Grad… my guess is you know nothing of the sort. Pure speculation on your part.
Dawg Whisperer
July 27th, 2012
10:59 pm
…. Wow, bow wow.
flo-ri-duh
July 27th, 2012
11:11 pm
They had a couple of OL that UGA would have been interested in but early on they all said they were staying at Penn State. Richt would not try to talk them out of leaving but would listen if the called him.
Peanut gallery
July 27th, 2012
11:26 pm
Has anyone seen the current list of NFL players from Penn State?
It’s a list of nobody’s.
Moobs Johnson
July 28th, 2012
12:15 am
Coach MediocRe just changed his mind and wanted to award 16 more walk-ons with a scholarship this year.
D Fence
July 28th, 2012
12:17 am
Please…..There might have been 1 or 2 playas that would have served the Dawgs well…
Well,…I guess not. The Dawgs will em all this year anyway so its one less ring we gotta cover. 14-0 I guaraaaaantee damn tee.
zbulldawg
July 28th, 2012
12:27 am
When did the word explore & pursue start having the same meaning ? You can’t make me believe that some other colleges aren’t going to look into a player who might be EXCITED about transfering to their school ! It’s the players choice. They have the right to if they wish to. It’s not the players fault that Penn St. is in this mess. If I had a son there I would advice them to make the best of their college experence ! Bowles Championships National exposure ETC. It’s still fresh you’ll see some players wish to transfer. BE REAL PEOPLE This is a once in a life time for these young men. What about those who opt for the NFL early. Does that make the NFL the bad guy ? These young men where recruited under a false promise SO way not let them have the full college DREAM ! The guilt is not theirs to bare nor any school that weclomes them ! GET REAL
Paul in NH
July 28th, 2012
1:13 am
BIG MIKE
July 27th, 2012
8:18 pm
Bob…Bob….Bob. They rushed for more yards against who???? I think the competition level between the SEC and “other conferences” has been well established as a mismatch
—
The comment from Bob was about rushing yards against Alabama.
PSU rushed for 107 yards aganst ALA which was more than Arkansas (17 rushing yards), Florida (15), Vandy (41), Ole Miss (28) MSU (12) combined.
These numbers certainly show a “well established mismatch” between the SEC and other conferences.
Blake
July 28th, 2012
2:23 am
I don’t think Richt was ever really “recruiting” their players to begin with. He simply said UGA was interested if they were interested in UGA. Coach O’Brien even commented on Richt calling him and letting him know his interest, and even commended Richt on doing so, saying “he did it the right way”. I still think if one of their guys really wanted to come to UGA, Richt would give him a shot, and as well he should. There is a big difference in what Richt and a few other coaches did and “poaching”.
dawgs1966
July 28th, 2012
2:47 am
Yeah, right – UGA has already shown it’s true colors. This is not the school I went to. http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/07/27/uga-targeted-19-psu-players-richt-now-says-hes-not-recruiting-them/
lj
July 28th, 2012
6:33 am
Getting a Penn St player is not going to help UGA. They have been put on this high pedestal this year of winning the EAST but that is not going to happen. Everytime UGA is put on a lofty pedestal they fall quickly. There OL is not experience and their running backs are mostly inexperienced. I bet they have a lot of fumbles this year and Murray when under pressure will crack and cough it up just like he has done in the past.
GFJacket
July 28th, 2012
7:28 am
“Offseason attrition and off-the-field issues have been unusually cruel to the Bulldogs ”
I disagree with that statement from the NBCSports article – - the unusually part.
Beast from the East
July 28th, 2012
7:33 am
Did Richt have a moment of pause and realize poaching another school’s players was morally wrong or did the 19 players he was interested in show no interest in coming to UGA?
I’d bet on the latter.
EG
July 28th, 2012
7:35 am
Penn State has always recruited players who were intelligent, athletically gifted, and had good character. There is absolutely no way that any of these guys would transfer to UGA and play with the low class trash that Richt recruits.
ugab
July 28th, 2012
7:47 am
CMR backed off after seeing all of the other coaches back off on TV.. This means CMR is a follower and not a leader. If Uga needs an OL or DB, CMR should of persued one of the Penn State players. Alot of the players have decided to stay and play. There is still alot of colleges looking at players at Penn State. IT IS ASHAME THAT THE YOUNG PLAYERS AT PENN STATE ARE BEING PUNISHED FOR SANDUSKY AND PATERNO’S FAULT. I BELIEVE PATERNO KNEW ALOT AND SEEN ALOT, GOD PLEASE BLESS THE VICTIMS……….
Paddy
July 28th, 2012
7:52 am
ugab…….Paterno not onyl knew alot, he participated in the cover up. The investigative report says so
Joey
July 28th, 2012
7:58 am
God is about to bless the victims, ugab – they are all about to become multi-millionaires . . .
bitter vince dooley
July 28th, 2012
7:58 am
Good call UGA———-@BOB——–SOUNDS RACIST TO ME—-YOU STAND CORRECTED
WHITE MEN CANT JUMP———-GET IT RIGHT FOOL———WE HAVE SPEED—-SOME
The Tide is Rolling and Nothing can stop it
July 28th, 2012
7:59 am
Makes sense. They probably have a better chance to win a title at PSU.
collegeballfan
July 28th, 2012
7:59 am
“…running back Silas Redd is apparently close to transferring to Southern Cal.”
Why would anyone transfer from a school on probation to another school on probation?
The Tide is Rolling and Nothing can stop it
July 28th, 2012
7:59 am
Plus, I still think PSU may be a little classier than UGA.
rajahdawg
July 28th, 2012
8:05 am
The sins of today or, will be paid for by the innocent of tomorrow. But no one will escape judgement.
RHall55
July 28th, 2012
8:05 am
Coach O’Brien seems to be the guy who can handle the adversity @ PSU….now let’s see if Coach Richt can handle his own adversity….an mismanaged roster…with less than 70 scholarship players…and a staff that includes Garner, Bobo, VanHalanger, Ball, and Tereshinski…read the Antonio Riles’ column….4 star DE/DT that grew up a UGA fan and UGA did not continue to contact him…would have committed to UGA but chose FL….C’mon Man!!!
LHarding Dawg
July 28th, 2012
8:05 am
EG – Well you should know, you wrote the book on low life trash.
LHarding Dawg
July 28th, 2012
8:07 am
Tide – Plus, Georgia is a lot classier than Bama.
bitter vince dooley
July 28th, 2012
8:09 am
tHE YOUTUBE VIDEO SHOWED THE ENTIRE PENN ST TEAM JUMPING FOR JOY AFTER IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT THEY COULD TRANSFER
ITS EARLY FOLKS—-OVER THE NEXT MONTH SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
UGA IS LOADED WITH TALLENT AND HAS MANY HIGH QUALITY KIDS COMMITTED FOR 2013
CLASS.—STOP WITH THE HATE-IN TROLLS———DAWGS ARE READY
NEWS FLASH——RUMOR HAS IT THERE IS A BIG STORY BREAKING TODAY THAT SABAN
IS BEING INVESTIGATED BY THE YAHOO SPORTS FOR CHEATING!!!—STAY TUNE LATTER
TODAY—————MURKEE TIDE——–hahahahahahah—tusk–ur–loosers
Ruff
July 28th, 2012
8:31 am
The players from Penn State needed to know if there were programs out there that would take them at this late date before renouncing their Penn State scholarships. The Penn St players would have been crazy to just walk away from PS and their scholarships and not have schools that would welcome them on campus with a scholarship.
I think the Penn State players who stay at PS should be commmended!
Don’t blame Mark Richt for saying he would be interested if there were PS players that wanted to change schools.
RedandBlackDAWG
July 28th, 2012
8:37 am
It is really pretty simple to almost all of the trolls on here, who have now shown they wouldn’t know what a football is, if they set on one and it became a permanent part of their anatomy, that in fact, a lot of the kids at PSU are going to stick it out. It has become a “We will show you”, type of situation. To take a kid with maybe one year of ball to play, in the case of seniors and juniors would not have made sense, and secondly, these kids are playing there because they like the region. Half only know what they learned about the south from a 7th grade geography class, and the other half know, they wouldn’t have a lot of chance for playing time. Up north and in the mid west, football is a diversion but in the south, it is everything.
Game Time
July 28th, 2012
8:41 am
Isn’t it clear why Richt did a 180 degree reversal? That jerk – Lane Kiffen – is actively recruiting a PSU player. He’s doing that in the face of PSU players and fans trying to hold their program together. Kiffen is getting blasted for that position. Richt wasn’t smart enough to understand the ramifications of going after PSU players in the beginning but now sees the downside.
Hairy Dawg
July 28th, 2012
8:53 am
Football is a PSU diversion but showering with kids is a PSU perversion.
The truth is that none of there players is good enough for Dawgs. We don’t needs the slow Big 10 plodders that always get beat by SEC in bowl games. And another thing is they been corrupted and around pervert Sandustky. They need to do some penants for Lord. Coach Richt could help that but they knows Dawgs not put up with child molest and not good enough players any ways.
Jim
July 28th, 2012
8:54 am
I agree with Richt about chasing players already in the school. However, I believe they should go after any commits not yet enrolled–that seems to be fair game for everybody. Penn State has a tight end commited for next year that was interested in UGA and Ga. seems to have missed on all the upper tier tight ends ( I think the kid’s name is Brenderman??)
Hairy Dawg
July 28th, 2012
9:03 am
That what we always knew is Saban is a cheating. He come into GA and try to steal recruits that Dawgs own. But that why we don’t need the Joe “kiddie showers” Pa slow poke players. We own recruiting in GA where talent is better than stinky Penn St. Why we want to waste time recruiting slows players from Penn St when we are the dawgs and gets any player we wants.
Hairy Dawg
July 28th, 2012
9:07 am
If Brenderman goes to PSU over Dawgs then he can change his names to Bend Over Man.
OrlandoDawg
July 28th, 2012
9:30 am
Love the childish haters! Makes me contribute more to UGA fund! We are set on D…and I always liked PSU, sorry to see this happen, hate it for the students and the players, the staff and admin. simply did not do their JOB…to have a mental project like Sandusky on staff and no one know it is hard to believe…
GT
July 28th, 2012
9:31 am
Penn State didn’t go under because of a corruption of players like SMU. I imagine a lot of those players at Penn State would look at Georgia as another candidate for negative things to happen. The reason Georgia has room on their roster is exactly what this Penn State crowd doesn’t need after what they have gone through. In many respects UGA is a looser outfit than Penn State. They keep telling us and the press repeats it, that they are fitting it, yet here they are looking for more bodies because they have not fitted it. And now Richt has made a decision, the dicision was made for him by disinterested players at Penn State I am sure.
Beast from the East
July 28th, 2012
9:45 am
Hairy Dawg,
Those slow Big Ten players beat the Dawgs in the bowl game last season. How soon we forget…
Neutral
July 28th, 2012
9:49 am
@GT
And how would those kids perceive GT? Lost ACC title, obstruction of NCAA investigation, coach accused of assault, etc. Quit throwing stones in your crystal palace!!!!
Just Saying
July 28th, 2012
9:53 am
Right on Neutral
Prick James
July 28th, 2012
10:03 am
You dawg fans are kidding yourselves if you believe Richt n CO didn’t pursue some players. The “currently” part just means they got rejected early.
mcdaviddawg
July 28th, 2012
10:17 am
It’s just too much trouble. Effort is not what Richt is about. The list is getting pretty long of players who just haven’t heard from Georgia\. There just isn’t enough time in the day after going to church and playing golf with the crew.
TampaGator
July 28th, 2012
10:23 am
HairyDawg….
Your 9:07 post was in my opinion highly inappropriate and crude….considering those abused that way were children. I would think carefully before making any of those kinds of posts again. And that sick person had nothing to do with the players at Penn State or the ones who choose to go there in the future. I would prefer that everyone take the high road concerning that situation in the future.
TampaGator
July 28th, 2012
10:32 am
Dawg Whisperer
July 27th, 2012
10:47 pm
“TampaGator… don’t immitate the immaturity of the 10 year old GT children that seek attention on the boards. It is a poor attempt at humor that reflects much worse on them.”
Dawg whisperer……
I hadly think my comment……”Richt decided to stop recruiting Penn State and start recruiting Georgia”…….was hardly childish in nature……but appropriate based on the discussions this week concerning Georgia losing a lot of the top Georgia recruits this year…..including one to Florida. But is was intended to just poke fun at the situation….not at Richt or Georiga. Sorry you took it that way.
KJ
July 28th, 2012
10:40 am
“One of two things has had to happen since then: One, no Penn State players expressed any interest in transferring to Georgia; or, two, Richt and UGA had a change of heart.”
Um, why can’t it be Three: Richt took all week to evaluate PSU’s roster, and decided none of them filled a need? Pretty dumb article.
claytondawg
July 28th, 2012
10:43 am
Here we go again: You’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t. These blogs prove we live in the greatest country on this earth. No matter what is said or written, SOMEONE will disagree and SOMEONE will agree. Ok, off my soapbox. The other losers of this horrendous scandal are the players themselves. It is now documented that if these players choose to go to another university, they have that right. At least something “good” came out of this.
Brainiac(CMR/UGA fan for life)
July 28th, 2012
10:44 am
@ Smitty:
Stay as far away as you can from Butter Butt Floyd or you may catch something Ajax won’t remove!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really like CMR Smitty but am tired of BUTTER BUTT FLOYD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Penn State players don't want Richt as their coach.
July 28th, 2012
10:49 am
That’s the bottom line. After having a hard-hitting, driven coaching staff, why come to a staff that seems as if it just doesn’t care. If you have motivation, you don’t want to go to Georgia football.
Mike
July 28th, 2012
10:51 am
One, they probably have no one outstanding that we need at a particular position. Two, I’m sure they asked and no one expressed an interest in Georgia. Three, kind man that he is, Richt probably doesn’t want to act like a vulture circling over Penn State (like Lane Kiffin). Richt probably puts himself in the Penn State coach’s position and has some empathy for him.
AAAAA Athens Bail Bonds R Us
July 28th, 2012
10:54 am
Any more dawg players arrested today?
Brainiac(CMR/UGA fan for life)
July 28th, 2012
10:56 am
@ Tampa Gator:
Never apologize to ANYBODY on here when your comments are “Just Funning”. It will be taken as a sign of weakness and if “Just Funning” is eliminated on here I will be really concerned!!!!!!!!!!
Have a great day and take a free shot at me so you can get back to enjoying this blog……………………….Lizard Breath…………………………………..”Just Funning” dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kingdaddy
July 28th, 2012
11:03 am
P.S. players don’t want Richt
Spoken like a true football fan of anywhere but UGA. You know ZERO, about UGA football, but don’t let that stop you from posting moronic insults at COACH RICHT. I’m sure you say “well they beat us on the field, but I’ll cheap-shot them in the blog! ” You are an inspiration to real men, lol…
Edward
July 28th, 2012
11:04 am
“If you have motivation, you don’t want to go to Georgia football.”
———————————————————–
Motivation or intelligence or sobriety or character. Georgia players have none of those qualities.
kingdaddy
July 28th, 2012
11:10 am
Brain
I guess M.C. got his thong twisted in a knot yesterday and bounced me while I was at work. Came back home and couldn’t post on recruit blog. What a thin skin baby. His loss…
kingdaddy
July 28th, 2012
11:12 am
Edward
What program doesn’t have problems with 18-19 year olds???
azdawg
July 28th, 2012
11:13 am
Except for IL and one other coach, the Other HC’s from the big 10 said they would not go after PSU players for moral and ethical reasons. could be CMR followed their lead and issued statement GA would not pursue those players. Thats not to say any one of these coaches nor other coaches in the US would turn PSU players away if they came calling and had a spot for them. From reports out of happy valley these kids are sticking together at least for this season. May see some defections in coming seasons from the younger players especially if things go south and losses pile up. The new PSU HC is former asst coach from the Patriots and listening to him in interviews one is impressed w/his attitude and pedigree. I wouldn’t doubt they’ll show up and be in every game they play. Wish them all the best.
duronimo
July 28th, 2012
11:15 am
To prey upon someone when they are down aint’ exactly “Christian” anyway. Coach O’bien, doesn’t deserve this. None of this mess his fault. Now, if a player comes to you own their own, that’s a bit different. My advice is to try to control your own players. Put in place some mechanism that will stop your freshmen recruits from “clubbing” at 3 in the morning. Also would see if I could figure out how to “game plan” for the second half. The whole world knows we get outcoached during the games.
manUGA
July 28th, 2012
11:49 am
Crap!
Seriously these Penn State players need a team to leap to from a burning boat and we have spots open at UGA!.
Just beause the Penn State coach gets mad the other college coaches stop trying to HELP the drowning players at Penn State.
Again the victums at Penn State are the kids not the COACHES!
Remind me to never go swimming in the deep water with a bunch of D1 football coaches.
kingdaddy
July 28th, 2012
11:55 am
Edward is so smart he can diagnose all of UGAs shortcomings, but he can’t answer a simple question, lol…
Hairy Dawg
July 28th, 2012
12:39 pm
Those abused that way were the PSU players by the NCAA. They didn’t do nothing but now they can’t go to any bowls and have to play short handed with less schollies. The only way the PSU players don’t get violated that way by NCAA is to transfer out immediately. But we don’t need them at UGA cause we got better players already. The PSU players could probably transfer and helps a team like the Vandy Commodes, Kens Tuck, Dooley Boy Orange Pumkins or even your Gaytors.
Gater Hater
July 28th, 2012
12:43 pm
manUGA, exactly…
It isnt morally or ethically wrong to persue or express interest in these players. It lets them know they have options.
Gater Hater
July 28th, 2012
12:44 pm
Talk abou morals and ethics…covering up a child molester for who knows how many years….
Gater Hater
July 28th, 2012
12:45 pm
what an ethical coaching staff and institution
Gater Hater
July 28th, 2012
12:45 pm
NOT
fayncdawg
July 28th, 2012
1:06 pm
Redd was the only player on the PSU roster that would have been an upgrade. And as I mentioned in other blogs, a player from New England coming South is a hard sell. Plus I have a feeling some people (PLAYERS, COACHES AND OTHERS) made it clear to CMR that they simply do not want any PSU players on the roster. To simply put it, a lot of these PSU players knew strange things were going on there while they were being recruited by PSU. AND THEY STILL SIGNED WITH PSU???
georgia fans are certainly stupid
July 28th, 2012
1:11 pm
after reading the nbcsports article about cmr striking out in happy valley, uga has moved up from a regional to a national joke.
a country boy can survive
July 28th, 2012
1:14 pm
hey kingdaddy, sthu boy. nobody cares what you think.
Milton County will happen
July 28th, 2012
1:22 pm
Hey country boy, Shultz should have closed the door on that clown last week. Won’t be long before he’s gone from the AJC blogs. Adds nothing but juvenile vitriol to the conversations. Just ignore the dummy and he might go away.
tenn.DAWG
July 28th, 2012
1:31 pm
Just another classy move by CMR.
Milton County will happen
July 28th, 2012
1:32 pm
What move was classy?
fayncdawg
July 28th, 2012
1:41 pm
To the one who thinks Dawg fans are so stupid:
YOU MEAN THAT WE ARE A JOKE JUST BECAUSE WE DON’T WANT ANYBODY ON OUR TEAMS WHO KNEW PSU WAS DOING WIERD THINGS AND SIGNED WITH THEM ANYWAY?? AFTER THE ISSUES THE DAWGS HAD WITH CROWELL, I CAN”T BLME THEM FOR NOT WANTING TO TAKE RISKS (YES I SAID RISKS) WITH PSU PLAYERS WHO WOULD BE FAR FROM HOME, NOT ALL THAT TALENTED (OUTSIDE OF REDD), AND WORSE OF ALL MAY BE EVEN MORE IMMORAL THAN CROWELL WILL EVER BE. IF CROWELL IN HINDSIGHT WAS A RISKY RECRUIT THEN ANY PSU PLAYER IS JUST AS RISKY FOR THE AFOREMENTIONED REASONS!
georgia fans are certainly stupid
July 28th, 2012
1:50 pm
thanks for the support fayncdawg. my point is now proven.
fayncdawg
July 28th, 2012
1:57 pm
The blogger who thinks UGA fans are stupid must be a GT fan. I guess the PSU players would be a talent upgrade for GT!
georgia fans are certainly stupid
July 28th, 2012
2:02 pm
no,not a tech fan. just not a fan of the beligerent uga fanbase. any opportunity i get to knock them down a peg or two i take full advantage.
LHarding Dawg
July 28th, 2012
2:26 pm
Good day, my season tickets just came in the mail. The earliest ever!
LHarding Dawg
July 28th, 2012
2:28 pm
Good day, season tickets just came in the mail. Earliest ever!
LHarding Dawg
July 28th, 2012
2:49 pm
Sorry about the double post.
fayncdawg
July 28th, 2012
3:00 pm
UGA Fans are so stupid,
Understand you like to pick on us. NO PROBLEM! I would like to know who is your team AND based solely on talent, would you want your team recruiting PSU players outside of Redd.
Penny Laine
July 28th, 2012
3:00 pm
Georgia Tech has the nation’s highest average SAT score for football players, and also the highest average high school GPA.
UGA, on the other hand, has one of the very lowest SAT averages, as well as a very low GPA average. As a result, three-fourths of UGA players are “special admits,” when means that they can not meet the minimum educational and intelligence requirements for admission to UGA, even as low as that is.
Yes, it would be great if Tech was more competitive with UGA, but Tech fans are proud of our heritage of having intelligent, responsible athletes who go on to rewarding careers and contribute to society.
Contrast this with the very unintelligent dummies that UGA recruits. The fifty arrests over the last four years is proof enough, not to mention winning the Fulmer Cup. Most of these goons are tossed out after their eligibility is over, and many end up on welfare.
UGA is clearly just a football f-a-c-t-o-r-y dedicated to winning at all costs, and most UGA fans are okay with this, with no concern about the embarrassment this brings to the State of Georgia.
Mark Richt is the architect of this situation. As long as he is paid a huge salary, he will continue to recruit the illiterate brain-dead t-h-u-g-s who he thinks will win. Unfortunately for UGA fans, he’s not remotely in the same league with the top coaches in the SEC.
So the bottom line is that Georgia Tech – win or lose – does so with honor and integrity, while the lowlife punks, woman beaters, drug users, and drunks in Athens continue to embarrass us all.
fayncdawg
July 28th, 2012
3:21 pm
penny
You know there have been years (RECENTLY) that GT wassn’t graduating their athletes any better than UGA. And the GT athlete comes in with better high grades and test scores (so you say). IF GT recruits athletes have say 1800 SATs and 3.7+ GPAS out of HS (which the vast majority DO NOT) that does NOT make GT or ANY school more honorable than other schools. And if 1800s and 3.7s don’t graduate from college any better than 1400s and 2.7s, then what? PENNY: until GT is Stanford is athletics and academics (nowhere close) HUSH YOUR MOUTH ABOUT HONOR AND INTEGRITY!
Swamp Thing
July 28th, 2012
3:44 pm
CMR would have taken players from Penn St, if they showed an interest in UGA. I think the vultures (Lame Kitten – USC) and other coaches should approach Bill O’ Brian (Penn St. HFC) before contacting the players. If Will Muschamp is contacting Penn St players, I hope he has gone thru’ the coach first. They are still Penn St. players even tho’ the NCAA says they don’t have to be.
Hell, let’s all pile on Penn St… The football team had nothing to do with any of this..GO GATORS! !
fayncdawg
July 28th, 2012
3:55 pm
Swamp Thing,
Based on pure talent, Muschamp does not need to pursue PSU players. Like Dawgs, the Gators need to coach up to enormous talent that’s already on the roster!
1980 Dawg
July 28th, 2012
4:59 pm
The right thing to do.
After the national media and Lane Kiffin shamelessly recruited Silas Redd for USC, this was the right thing to do. Apparently the media is tired of the SEC dominating the national championship series and want to do everything in their power to promote USC. Their active recruiting of Mr. Redd on behalf of USC was disgusting. I wish Mr. Redd all the best if he decides to go, but I don’t have to respect his decision or his new team if he does. Besides, there are no Georgia born players on the PSU squad. I would not expect that they would be interested in GA. If the roles were reversed, I don’t know of any Dawg who would necessarily have Happy Valley as their priority.
richt -o-phile
July 28th, 2012
5:04 pm
he only quit the recruiting after he couldn’t get anyone to bite. (see nbcsports) 19 offers, no takers. hes no different than kiffin, nor or uga fans, who 3 days ago were all for taking players out of happy valley. what a bunch of hypocrits.
1980 Dawg
July 28th, 2012
5:41 pm
I’m no Richt fan, but everyone knew that he originally went after the PSU players. It was reported here (link in the above article) first that he was actively pursuing them. (NBC sports – I have no respect for NY based media either) And it should not be news that none of the players were interested. Many are from the Penn area. Do you really think after this scandal they would transplant all the way to Georgia? Richt is different from Kiffin in that Kiffin will do what ever it takes to win. Richt won’t. And I don’t necessarily mean that as a compliment.
1980 Dawg
July 28th, 2012
5:50 pm
To either Kiffin or Ricth.,
gt4ever
July 28th, 2012
6:10 pm
LOL @ Bob….
Those slow white guys would beat your 4 and 5 star kids like a drum…. Priceless… Thanks for that bit of wisdom Bob…
Dawg Tired
July 28th, 2012
6:15 pm
I’m pleased that we stopped acting like vultures. I just think CMR actually came to his senses.
kingdaddy
July 28th, 2012
6:39 pm
I’m glad UGA is always on the haters little minds. Milton county & country girl couldn’t go a day without taking a cheapshot at UGA. I’m glad that the Dawgs and I am always in your heads, lol. That’s about all that’s in there…
The Last Word
July 28th, 2012
6:51 pm
Richt is a douch… but you know that already.
The Last Word
July 28th, 2012
6:52 pm
Richt is such a douch… but you know that already.
PacificNW Falcon
July 28th, 2012
6:58 pm
Grew up in Georgia, but not a Dawg fan but I have to say Richt did nothing wrong by saying he would sign former PSU players. Penn State was put on probation for very good reason and so by NCAA rule they are free agents and their is nothing wrong by talking to their players as long as you make a courtesy call to Bill O’Brien. So tired of the ethical codes that CFB coaches claim they follow..they’re worse than our elected officials.
TampaGator
July 28th, 2012
7:45 pm
While Richt was busy recruiting 19 Penn State players unsuccessfully……Will Muschamp was busy getting commitments from Vernon Hargreaves III and Antonio Riles…..and now…..another 4-star DE…..Jordan Sherit….just committed to the Gators after FNL.
kingdaddy
July 28th, 2012
8:50 pm
I didn’t know that filling needs in recruiting was a race. Nobodys signed yet, lol. I think it’s a long time till NSD. We will have a great class regardless of what anyone else does. Love the way people try to make UGA look bad everytime a kid commits to a different school. Get your shots in on the blog, you can’t do it on the field, lmboff…
harold
July 28th, 2012
9:49 pm
Classy move by CMR.
TampaGator
July 28th, 2012
9:58 pm
kingdaddy….
Boise State did on the field. South Carolina did on the field. LSU did on the field. Michigan State (the only Big Ten team to win a bowl game last year)…did on the field. The teams that didn’t on the field….did not finish in the top 25…including Florida. Georgia did not prove a whole lot last year against quality teams…..so they have a lot to prove this year. And Florida…unlike last year when they lost by the wide margin of 4 points to Georgia….WILL field a quality team this year. Better hang on tight to those 4 points.
TampaGator
July 28th, 2012
10:04 pm
Folks….Richt knows this is his best change to win this year. HAS to win this year. So….he went after some depth to fill that deeply attritioned and suspended roster. Can’t blame him. But I do not remember Georgia ever competing with Penn State for a recruit……or many other SEC schools for that matter. He had very little chance of getting any of the Nittny Lions players.
TampaGator
July 28th, 2012
10:05 pm
“chance to win”…..in that above post.
Brainiac(CMR/UGA fan for life)
July 28th, 2012
10:47 pm
@ Tampa gator:
The original article included at least 2 recruits that went down to the wire between UGA and Penn State before they picked Penn. I believe they were both from Georgia!!!!!!
Brainiac(CMR/UGA fan for life)
July 28th, 2012
10:50 pm
@ Harold:
Bless you my son!!!!!!!!!!!!
Finally a quality comment from you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I take back all……….er…uh…..some of the nasties I wrote about you!!!!!!!!!!!
Brainiac(CMR/UGA fan for life)
July 28th, 2012
10:57 pm
@ Techster:
What are GT’s priorities or does GT have any ????????????????????????????????????
richt -o-phile
July 28th, 2012
11:14 pm
yall ever notice the kingdaddy/brainiac connection…its the same person!
Brainiac(CMR/UGA fan for life)
July 28th, 2012
11:27 pm
@ Ga. fans are certainly:
You will “knock gown UGA”!!!!!!!!!!!
You couldn’t knock down my 2 year old grandson or my 78 year old granny. That goes for your 2 suckups(a country boy and Milton County) as well. Of course we are all aware of that Single Digit IQ of yours and your 2 suck ups and the fact that the three of y’all couldn’t find your rear end with both hands in your hip pockets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have stepped over better men than you 3 getting to the fight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kingdaddy For President!!!!!!!!!!
Brainiac(CMR/UGA fan for life)
July 28th, 2012
11:33 pm
@ Richt – o- phile:
I have heard of people that don’t know anything but you don’t even SUSPECT anything but don’t get me wrong. I think King Daddy is a DGD and could care less what you and your ilk think or say. That would be mostlt say on your part because “think” is a foreign word to you and your ilk.
Brainiac(CMR/UGA fan for life)
July 28th, 2012
11:34 pm
Enter your comments here
Brainiac(CMR/UGA fan for life)
July 28th, 2012
11:43 pm
@ Tampa Gator:
You left out Florida DIDN”T on the field in Jacksonville!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brainiac(CMR/UGA fan for life)
July 28th, 2012
11:45 pm
King Daddy For President!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hairy Dawg
July 29th, 2012
4:58 am
How Fla goning to field a quality team with Judas Muschump running the program in the ground ala Zook. He don’t have the experience as nothing more than a Coach in Waiting. And then Dawgs have more talent and depth this year unlike last year. Aaron Murray knows how to beat Gaytors and Coach Grantham has D best it been in years. That makes Dawgs top in East and just looking for rematch to beat the LUSer Tigers. We ran out a gas in 2nd half in Dome last year cause no depth but we fixed that this year with Dream Teams starting to kick in talent onto field.
AAAAA Athens Bail Bonds R Us
July 29th, 2012
8:07 am
Any of Richt’s players arrested today?
TampaGator
July 29th, 2012
9:01 am
Brainiac(CMR/UGA fan for life)
July 28th, 2012
11:43 pm
@ Tampa Gator:
“You left out Florida DIDN”T on the field in Jacksonville!”
@Brainiac….
Suggest you go back and read more carefully. The following was in the post you were making reference to….
“The teams that didn’t on the field….did not finish in the top 25…including Florida.”
TampaGator
July 29th, 2012
9:03 am
…..but….Brainiac….you had no interest in addressing the main point of the post….did you? No defense for that point….is there?
Jborodawg
July 29th, 2012
9:18 am
Many of y’all need to re-read “…what Richt said on Monday…” I conclude that we were not “actively recruiting” PSU players, compared to Kiffin et al.
It’s a shame the way there is unbridled swooping going on at PSU…unlimited visits, interviews, texting, etc. Gotta feel for the players and coaches. Big 10 should put some rules and/or limits in place.
Tampa Gator
July 29th, 2012
11:01 am
BudlightDawg….
Those were very young boys concerning that messed up human being. You making light of that situation in your posts shows that you have no understanding or sensitivity to that situation….and your posts are totally classless. Please show some respect for those kids and their families.
kingdaddy
July 29th, 2012
11:26 am
Tampa
You never pass on an opportunity to slight the Doggies and try to make the Gators something more than they now are. You act like a child whenever UF gets a recruit and UGA didn’t. If you really read my post, then you’d see that I said recruiting wasn’t a race and NSD is still a long ways off. If it makes you feel better about yourself to make snide comments about the Doggies everytime the lizards get a commit, then feed your insecurities and even act innocent if you need to. I enjoy posting with Gator fans and respect your opines. BTW, the 4 points we beat UF by was more than the the margin of the S.C. loss and the triple-overtime bowl loss to a very good Michigan St. team that would have also have beaten a sad UF bunch. Remember, my post was about recruiting not being a race and I never mentioned you or Florida did I???
Brainiac(CMR/UGA fan for life)
July 29th, 2012
11:44 am
@ Tampa Gator:
Who needs a DEFENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You and me have already established that most of this is “Just Funning” so lighten up or is this encroaching on your PMS time??????????????
kingdaddy
July 29th, 2012
11:46 am
Let me remind you all that this is A BULLDOG BLOG! This isn’t about general sports or recruiting. You are a guest if you aren’t a Doggie so please don’t act obnoxious. Try to show some class. I know it’s impossible for some of you because you have no class, but at least try. I have had to lower my standards to respond to some of you just to defend UGA. I would rather talk shop and I’m sure mist of the posters on here feel the same. Waiting for football to start, is like waiting on Christmas when I was a child, lol…
kingdaddy
July 29th, 2012
11:54 am
Brain,
I see you have things well in hand. Am getting ready to go cook Sunday dinner for my mom. I really enjoy our Sunday dinners. Don’t know how many she’s got left so we make the best of our Sundays…
50 arrests in four years
July 29th, 2012
1:30 pm
I imagine that Mark Richt stays puckered up, wondering just how many more Isaiah Crowells there are on the team, and how many more late-night phone calls he’ll be getting from the Athens -Clarke County jail.
Your guess?
bob
July 29th, 2012
2:07 pm
Sure they aren’t but its not like HD wouldn’t accept them if a couple of guys wanted to switch, most limpet Richt saw what a douche kiffin looked like by going after their RB and decided to have a little class. Something kiffin knows nothing about.
Ed
July 29th, 2012
2:12 pm
The “superiority” of the SEC over other conferences is actually the superiority of the one or two best SEC teams over the one or two top teams from the other conferences. I mean, does anyone think that the 3rd or 4th best SEC team would beat Oregon, USC, Ohio State, Texas or Oklahoma most years? Or Boise State and TCU? Maybe once out of ten tries. It’s not like we sweep all of our bowl games every season.
Ed
July 29th, 2012
2:14 pm
Case in point: Georgia, last year’s SEC East winner, has lost to Oklahoma State, UCF, Boise State, and Michigan State in recent years.
Hairy Dawg
July 29th, 2012
2:25 pm
The top teams in SEC like Dawgs would do a beat down on other conferences. It cause we stockpiled deep talent that we always unloading the whooping can on scrub teams that best in other conefrences. Coach Richt knows how to build depth from recruiting best players based on getting them to NFL. Wel’l show how bad Big 12 is when we expose Mizzou to real football in the SEC. Then they know how far away they are from SEC quality.
richt -o-phile
July 29th, 2012
2:41 pm
just like you showed the big ten and the wac last year, huh hairydawg? do us all a favor and sthu.
Hairy Dawg
July 29th, 2012
3:45 pm
Enter your
Hairy Dawg
July 29th, 2012
4:01 pm
Boise got lucky. Mich St needed kicker to get mental and choke. That still don’t mean we didn’t beat them all over field.
richt -o-phile
July 29th, 2012
4:27 pm
both boise and msu manhandled your pathetic dawgs. end of story.
Devon F.
July 29th, 2012
4:29 pm
Hey, Hairy Dawg, do you still put your pulled teeth under your pillow for the Tooth Fairy?
That makes more sense than what you just wrote.
my guess here is that
July 29th, 2012
5:44 pm
penn state players have had enough of coaches that are all about hugging kissing singing happy birthday and swimming with the recruits.
creepy.
kingdaddy
July 29th, 2012
5:58 pm
The last few posters hateing on UGA were on one of the teams we spanked last year, lol. The four losses were to teams ranked in the top 11 in the country. Have to do better this year. To you losers on a UGA blog posting hate, one question, did your team beat a team ranked in the top 11? Probably not…
kingdaddy
July 29th, 2012
6:02 pm
Creepy is always being on a site of a team you can’t stand because your team can’t beat them on a football field, lol. It’s also a little pathetic…
richt -o-phile
July 29th, 2012
6:04 pm
hello kingdaddy/brainiac..my team is LSU. what do you think about that, boy?
florida is doing just fine against the
July 29th, 2012
6:08 pm
frawgs.
the truth about your coach hurts doesnt it?
the bigger question
July 29th, 2012
6:13 pm
king daddy is whether or not you’ll even be able to field a team this year. what are you frawgs at now? 65 players on your team.
not only that but the recruits are finely wising up to the fact that the dawgs more often than not are 3d place also rans. but for playing in a weak division last year the dawgs would have probably lost to ucf in the bowls again.
how many recruits have picked other schools than the dawgs this week?
oleary owns the dawgs. lmao.
kingdaddy
July 29th, 2012
6:46 pm
Question, why would you even care??? You aren’t a Bulldog anyway, just a nerd troll…
CMR is puzzling
July 29th, 2012
7:03 pm
You know sometimes one just needs to click on another story or link, and not expose their back side so readily.
UGA had a bad week all the way around over the last seven days, I don’t know what in the hell CMR was thinking on this one, but it has only caused more distraction and mayhem.
Recruiting is a mess, we are short on players for the season and little to nothing is being done about it….
Season tickets and parking are high as hell and keep going up! Somebody better get with the program or people will quit paying these exorbitant prices from mediocre results…
Go Dawgs!
Kingdaddy
July 29th, 2012
7:16 pm
Thats why we’ve sold out all of our home games except Buffalo, LOL. Troll on. BTW, Most LSU players don’t hang out on a BULLDOG blog, but nerds from Tech do. Keep on trolling nerds …
richt -o-phile
July 29th, 2012
7:27 pm
kingdaddy, come back as your brainiac persona…he’s more beligerant and incredibly stupid. a winning combo!
kingdaddy
July 29th, 2012
7:32 pm
R-o-p,country girl, milton county and all your other cute names, 10 of 11 and counting, lol…
kingdaddy thinks he is a brainiac?
July 29th, 2012
7:34 pm
nah no way. mentioning a dawg and a brainiac in the same sentence is an oxy moron.
Coach O'Brien
July 29th, 2012
7:38 pm
Up yours, CMR.
If we ever play Georgia, we’re going to whup your ass. It’s a Yankee tradition.
kingdaddy
July 29th, 2012
8:10 pm
Poor Nerds…
Sold out?
July 29th, 2012
8:23 pm
Sold out usually means no tickets are available, but there are still plenty to get through the ticket office and stubhub.
1980 Dawg
July 29th, 2012
8:24 pm
@Coach O’Brien
You’ll never play Georgia.Your program is on probation….pretty much forever. And you won’t be there when they come off. Mac McWhorter will be head coach.
kingdaddy
July 29th, 2012
8:46 pm
Souled out, so if all the tickets are sold but some of them to people that want to resale them and make themselves a few bucks, them it’s not really sold-out? LOL…
kingdaddy
July 29th, 2012
9:01 pm
Coach O`Brien
you might want to invest in some soap on a rope…
BIG BEE
July 29th, 2012
10:01 pm
Budlight, your name speaks for you. Too many of them(BL). The kids that are at PS had nothing to do with the sexual abuse. Neither did he kids from 1998 up. Why do you try to connect them to the problem. You are a pure idiot.
kingdaddy
July 29th, 2012
10:24 pm
Big Bee
Expound please. I agree about the kids. Not sure your point???
SEC Football Daily: July 30th | Saturday Down South
July 30th, 2012
5:23 am
[...] After recently expressing interest in reaching out to Penn State players, Mark Richt now says he is not pursuing them. Here is what Richt said in a statement: “Currently, Georgia is not pursuing any of Penn State’s football players. We wish Coach O’Brien and the players the best.” Richt either had a change of heart or the Penn State players showed no interest. [AJC] [...]
WDE
July 30th, 2012
9:50 am
@Coach O’Brien your not Yankee’s your pedophiles…so shut your pie hole.
kingdaddy
July 30th, 2012
10:07 am
I understand that the P.S.- QB Bolden has left Penn St. for ………..wait for it………..wait for itttttttttttt…..LSU.
@Richt-o-phile, what were you saying about CMR??? Nerd-boy….
Had to comment
July 30th, 2012
10:20 am
@Kingdaddy: The assumed “moral’ stance of not poaching players right next to the comparison of a homosexual politician (with whom you disagree I assume) with a convicted child molester. Typical bigot. Go dawgs!
UGA Insider
July 30th, 2012
10:36 am
I am really worried about the UGA special teams unit.
Richt Says UGA Doesn’t Need Penn State Players | Barstool South
July 30th, 2012
4:26 pm
[...] ATHENS — “Currently, Georgia is not pursuing any of Penn State’s football players. We wish Coach O’Brien and the players the best.” [...]
ugaclassof2004
July 30th, 2012
6:47 pm
After 11 years on the job, I think it is safe to say that we pretty know what we’re going to get from Mark Richt. Some Bad, some Great, and a whole lot of Good. Richt is no Nick Saban, who despite his epic failure at the Pro level, clearly knows what he is doing when it comes to building a college powerhouse. Richt is also no Les Miles, who knows how to come into an established program and keep it at peak level. What Richt IS: is a guy who can overachieve with “B-level” talent( David Greene, Thomas Brown, Fred Gibson etc.) but when he has NFL 1st rounders like Knowshon Moreno, Matthew Stafford, and A.J. Green; he just can’t put it all together. Theoretically, a team should improve when their talent improves, but at UGA that is not the case.
Taking into account that Richt overachieves with “B-level talent”( which is what he currently has), I think the Dawgs will have a decent year IF everyone can remain healthy. Overall, the 2012 schedule is very navigable. Getting Bama off the schedule is a huge break, and facing South Carolina in October will benefit the Dawgs as opposed to having to play them at the beginning of the year. Richt’s teams tend to get better as the season goes on, and I think the Dawgs will go on a bit of a run in 2012 like they did in 2011. Florida is horrible, as is Tennessee. The Dawgs will beat both of those teams again, although those games probably won’t be the blowouts we as fans will want/expect them to be.
I like the Dawgs to win the SEC East, go 11-1( losing to a Mizzou team on the road early in the year), and get to the SEC title game.Either LSU or Alabama will emerge from the West. I say the Tigers or Tide win something along the lines of 37-24 or 35-14. The Dawgs will then get hosed and end up in a non-BCS bowl( I’m thinking Chick-fil-A or Capital One) with that game being a tossup depending on how much the players actually give a crap.
I say the Dawgs finish 11-3 or 12-2, leaving the Bulldog faithful with our traditional ” What if’s, shoulda woulda’s, and wait until next(recruiting)season!
wreckmaniac
July 30th, 2012
10:31 pm
We’ll probably see UGA players going to Penn State.
jb the stoner
July 31st, 2012
10:07 am
Heaven forbid GA gets some white guys on the team.
Georgia initially notified Penn State of their interest in 19 players | UGA sports blog
July 31st, 2012
4:34 pm
[...] coach Mark Richt abruptly pulled the Bulldogs out of the Penn State transfer sweepstakes this past Friday. Just four days after telling reporters at a big alumni gathering in Atlanta that [...]
Debbiedawg
August 1st, 2012
12:01 pm
Knowing Richt, he understands that the current players had nothing to do with it nor did the coaches, and if he was in the same place he would not want his players taken away either. Richt is a Godly man with a huge heart, which spoke to him and said let it go! WE HAVE OUR WINNERS ALREADY!
Notebook: Georgia confirms Chase Vasser’s May DUI arrest | UGA sports blog
August 3rd, 2012
2:04 pm
[...] Bulldogs no longer pursuing Penn State players [...]