Missouri’s Sheldon Richardson apologizes to Mark Richt after Georgia’s win (UPDATED)
Missouri defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson apologizes to Georgia coach Mark Richt after the Bulldogs 41-20 win in Columbia, Mo., on Saturday. (AP photo by L.G. Patterson)
FIVE MORE THINGS
Wrapping up this past weekend and looking forward to this one.
The Georgia Bulldogs are coming off a 41-20 win over Missouri in the SEC opener for both teams. The Bulldogs are now 2-0 overall and 1-0 in the SEC as they head into Saturday’s game against visiting Florida Atlantic (1-1, 0-1 Sun Belt).
1. Last thing on “Old Man Football, Hopefully forever. I do want to give credit where credit is due. Sheldon Richardson, the Missouri defensive lineman who infamously coined that phrase for Georgia, came up to Bulldogs coach Mark Richt after the game to apologize. Pretty impressive considering how easy it could have been for him to just slink off to the Tigers’ locker room.
For what it’s worth, Richardson was not made available for interviews after the game and is not available today, as a Missouri beat writer tells. That’s why you haven’t seen him quoted anywhere. But Missouri coach Gary Pinkel addressed on Monday and said Richardson’s apololgy was “not orchestrated by us.”
“People make mistakes, you know, and get second chances,” Pinkel told reporters. “That’s all part of maturing. I think that’s a good statement on his part.”
Below is a video that shows the on-field celebration by the Bulldogs after the game. Obviously everybody was pretty pumped after the game. . . .
2. Georgia remained at No. 7 both in The Associated Press writer’s poll and the USA Today coaches’ poll. The Bulldogs, of course, started the season at No. 6 but dropped a spot in both polls after a ho-hum 45-23 win over Buffalo in the opener.
By the way, South Carolina moved up to No. 8 right behind Georgia after its 48-10 win over East Carolina and a really bad night for previous No. 8 Arkansas. The Gamecocks (2-0, 1-0 SEC) play host to UAB this Saturday, then get Missouri at Williams-Brice on Sept. 22. It’ll be interesting to see how they fare against the Tigers, who seemed like a pretty game club to me. Mizzou, by the way, plays host to Arizona State on Saturday.
3. As I mentioned, UGA has Florida Atlantic — or FAU, as they like to call themselves — coming into Athens this weekend. The Owls are members of the same Sun Belt Conference as Louisiana-Monroe, which pulled off a shocking upset of eight-ranked Arkansas 34-31 in overtime. Certainly that victory has made believers out of everybody in the Sun Belt and will give the Bulldogs’ coaches plenty of fodder for team motivation. But from what I’ve seen I don’t think FAU is quite on par with their conference brethren.
The Owls this past weekend lost this 31-17 to Middle Tennessee State. Apparently ball security is an issue for them. They’ve had six fumbles in two games, including four in the 7-6 win over Wagner. Meanwhile, La-Monroe continues its tour of the SEC. Next stop: Auburn on Saturday.
4. Kind of lost in the late-game heroics displayed by Jarvis Jones in Georgia’s win over Missouri on Saturday was the spectacular play of split end Marlon Brown. the big senior from Memphis had a career-best 8 catches for 106 yards and caught two big TD passes for the Bulldogs. He was asked afterward if he thought it was a “break-out game” for him.
“Yes, definitely, sure,” he said. “It feels pretty good but there’s always room for improvement. I’m going to go back and watch film and see what I can improve on and try to get better every week.”
That’s typical of Brown. He’s an incredibly humble kid who has had to overcome a lot of injuries — not to mention high expectations — since he’s been at Georgia. He was more excited to talk about how the Bulldogs finished Saturday’s game. They scored 24 unanswered points to put it away.
“We came in at halftime and heard a great speech from Coach Richt,” Brown said. “He said the last two ballgames we didn’t finish the drill. After that, we were like, ‘Man, he’s right. Let’s finish the drill like Coach Richt said.’ And we did.”
5. Other news items from Monday, Georgia’s Sept. 22 home date against Vanderbilt got picked up by ESPN2 for a 7:45 p.m. broadcast, Jones was named Walter Camp national and SEC defensive player of the week. And don’t forget “Russ” gets his official sworn in as Uga IX on Saturday.
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GTBob
September 10th, 2012
11:22 pm
GTBob is the GTBob of AJC blogs.
Mind blown.
10-2 is a good year! Right?
September 10th, 2012
11:25 pm
@kingdaddy. Thank you for a well-thought response. More than I can say for slick rick, but it was fun goading him. And I do enjoy the wins but there’s not been enough lately to make up for all the other crap surrounding this program, it seems. Maybe this year. I just want them to do it in a way that makes UGA proud for years, unlike somebody like USC or Auburn.
@Cherokee. You do understand this is entertainment on a certain level, correct?
Fair n Balanced
September 10th, 2012
11:32 pm
I’m sure the MO coach had a good talk with Richardson but that was a good move to apologize to CMR. He should apologize because Richt knows nothing of “old man football”. That was Dooley when Ga was “Tailback U”. I for one have said that the Richt era has overemphasized the pass and we have not been known as a team with a rushing attack. Teams that win championships have good D and know how to run the ball..
kingdaddy
September 10th, 2012
11:34 pm
Rick James
Many times I have wanted to ring CMBs neck or kick a couple of players in the pants but the one thing I always have , is my love for UGA. Football is just a game, but UGA is a family. You may be new or old, it doesn’t matter. Wheather I agree with CMR or not doesn’t mean squat. He is the team captain and I trust him to get the team in line and do what he can do for this team. Its not up to me to judge 10-2. I just wish he went to a school where he wasn’t so unhappy. I know one thing: I am happy with the direction of this program and if you don’t like it, leave it…
kingdaddy
September 10th, 2012
11:40 pm
Rick
I wasn’t telling you to leave it bro. I know you’re all Dawg. I was talking to the unhappy fans. If you don’t like UGA, feel free to be happy elsewhere…
graphite
September 10th, 2012
11:41 pm
@Kingdaddy and GTBob……..I propose a summit meeting for you two.Come to Orange Beach,we will ease out into the bay,have a toddy and watch a game or two and see if we can all become friends.RollOn…………
kingdaddy
September 10th, 2012
11:47 pm
graphite
You and GTBob might leave me a couple miles off-shore, lol. Maybe we should start off at the Mall in a public place, lmaoff. The toddy sounds good though…
Rick James
September 11th, 2012
12:02 am
@10-2 is a good year! Right?
@Cherokee. You do understand this is entertainment on a certain level, correct
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Obviously not..
GTBob
September 11th, 2012
12:07 am
Come to Orange Beach,we will ease out into the bay,have a toddy and watch a game or two and see if we can all become friends.
Hmm. I haven’t been to Orange Beach since I was a kid. Sounds fun.
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
September 11th, 2012
12:07 am
@ 10=2:
Just what in hell is wrong with dancing in the stands when your team wins a game like UGA did on Saturday???
You leave CMR alone you knucklehead!!!!!!!!! GOD is going to get you sooner or later
According to ESPN, CMR is the 4th winningest active coach in the nation. None of the 3 coaches ahead of CMR is named Saban or Miles or Spurrier or Paul Johnson or Petrino!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kingdaddy
September 11th, 2012
12:12 am
Rick
we won a great, “historic” game and it still isn’t good enough for everyone. Hope we smack FAU by 60. If we destroy them, at least we won’t go back in the polls. All is good in the Dawg Nation right now…
graphite
September 11th, 2012
12:14 am
Enter your comments here
kingdaddy
September 11th, 2012
12:14 am
Brain !!!
Huh?
September 11th, 2012
12:15 am
kingdaddy…UGA beating Missouri was a good win…not a great one….just like UGA is a good team, not a great one.
And as far as beating FAU by 60, you probably will…but you don’t need to. All you need to do is win all of your games.
GTBob
September 11th, 2012
12:20 am
According to ESPN, CMR is the 4th winningest active coach in the nation. None of the 3 coaches ahead of CMR is named Saban or Miles or Spurrier or Paul Johnson or Petrino!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, to be fair, if you include FCS games then Paul Johnson is well ahead of Richt. CPJ has also won at three different schools now. I would love to see how Richt would do at Navy.
graphite
September 11th, 2012
12:20 am
@Kingdaddy…You are probably too young to remember the Darwin Holt Chick Granning incident but Coach Dodd dropped Al and they still use that feeble excuse not to play us.I’m sure that Saban would play but Tech has to stay with the Presby’s!! RollOn…..
kingdaddy
September 11th, 2012
12:23 am
Huh
We beat Buffalo by 22 and got jumped by Fla.St.! No we have to quit taking it easy on the cupcakes. If it didn’t matter, then Fla.St. shouldn’t have jumped us and we should be 6th still. Sorry bro, you’re wrong on this and Missouri has a really good team and it was on the road…
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
September 11th, 2012
12:24 am
@ Kingdaddy:
I have been shooting(AT) doves and preparing deer food plots; grilling steaks, shrimp and chicken and drinking a few ice cold Coors in them fancy aluminum cans with the screw tops(That’s about all the screwing I get involved with anymore). The cans are great and make really good spit cups when having a “Chaw” while driving. I am still high(Not alcohol high) while watching reruns of the 41 – 20 game in Columbia on Saturday night????
QUESTION: What ever gave you the idea that 10 – 2 went to any school?? They ain’t been no evidence on here that would cause me to think he has ANY schooling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10 – 2 is Game Changer. Ain’t no doubt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Huh?
September 11th, 2012
12:27 am
kingdaddy…every week, some school/team has some argument of unfairness regarding the polls…it’s waaaaaaay early in the season to be worried about it. If UGA loses to TN, SC, and/or FL, it won’t matter. All you have to do is win all of your games…very rarely are their more than 2 unbeatens, and in most years not even that.
Why does Missouri have a really good team? Because they were ranked when you played them? Oh wait…Time will tell how good Missouri is. For now, UGA beat an unranked team. Again, a good win, but certainly not a “great” win.
kingdaddy
September 11th, 2012
12:31 am
graphite
I guess we will be playing an extra SEC game pretty soon. That will help all of our SOS. With Arkansas out of the polls, that is going to messup you strength of schedule, especially with Auburn losing early…
kingdaddy
September 11th, 2012
12:37 am
Huh
Sorry bo, if Mizz had a little more depth, we could have been in for a very close game. Theur starters and Coach are good. You will see as the year goes on. Also, they are a class act and bring something positive to the SEC…
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
September 11th, 2012
12:37 am
@ GT Bob:
Navy can’t afford CMR and CPJ is nowhere near CMR on won/lost records among active coaches but CPJ is a Damn Good Coach. I can’t believe all the BS that was posted about GT losing to VT in a damn good and close game.
Regardless of how you want to put it CPJ is not, nor will he EVER be ahead of CMR in won/lost records
even if you go back to the sandlot pick up games CPJ coached and played in………………………………….but it’s okay if you want tp say otherwise because I love your stupid little a$$ anyway. (Don’t think I didn’t notice the part of your post that said you did NOT like girls but loved getting a RISE out of us guys)
Huh?
September 11th, 2012
12:40 am
kingdaddy…a lot of teams could be good if they had depth.
Do Alabama fans say that they had a “great” win when they beat an unranked team? How about LSU? “Great” wins usually regarded as a team that beats a Top 10 team…or maybe a team that beats a team that was ranked higher than they are…However, a number 7 team beating an unranked team? Nah
graphite
September 11th, 2012
12:42 am
@KIngdaddy…I was thinking of a way for Tech to fill their stadium?? as small joint’s they are.Alabama would fill it up and not have to pay us to come.We are just trying to help!
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
September 11th, 2012
12:44 am
@ Kingdaddy:
Mizzu will win several games IF……………………………………………………………………………………..James Franklin stays healthy. He carries that team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kingdaddy
September 11th, 2012
12:48 am
2-0 beats the hell out of 0-2, just ask Auburn. Also I have to agree on the GT/VT game. I thought GT played a good game and their defense looked much better. Hostile enviroment, pitiful refs, yeah the bugs could be 2-0, but they are a dangerous 1-1 team. Can’t wait to play them…
kingdaddy
September 11th, 2012
12:56 am
There have been some decent blogs today. Bob got alot of Doggies stirred up, but doesn’t he always? I’ve got to run guys. I hope we get some good recruiting news soon. Tired of these rehashed stories. I would like to hear a little about Auburn & Arkansas and how they are dragging the west down. Also want to hear about Watts ankle sprain. How bad???
kingdaddy
September 11th, 2012
12:57 am
Chip
BTW, GOOD JOB BRO…
Huh?
September 11th, 2012
1:00 am
Nighty-night king.
kingdaddy
September 11th, 2012
1:01 am
Chip
Your articles are fine. I was talking about the recruiting blog. You sir are a DGD…
kingdaddy
September 11th, 2012
1:02 am
Later huh…
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
September 11th, 2012
1:03 am
@ Graphite:
One would yhink that a Bammy fan would be more concerned about the recent uprising of Louisiana-Monroe spanking of Arkansas than rattling on about GT and making light of what Holt did to Granning about 100 years ago at Grant Field. I saw that game and Holt should have been arrested. I don’t remember Bammy-ites taunting ANY SCHOOL about refusing to play Bammy until Saban came to the rescue. You will recall that EVERYBODY was clamoring to schedule Bammy for their Homecoming game.
Very bad news for The SEC West. Rumor has it that L-Monroe will be joining the SEC next year and playing in the West Division. Surely you remember L-Monroe, the team that kicked Bammy butt and Saban butt .all over the field in the Tuskaloser Bowl. Since L-Monroe has already beaten Arky and Bammy(They beat Bammy the worst) LSU(aka Loose Screw U) is next.
Nother Thang!!!! UGA isn’t on L-Monroe’s schedule!!!!!!!!!!!!
graphite
September 11th, 2012
1:05 am
The clock has struck midnight and I must bid everyone a good night.The fish will bite tomorrow,a real good tide! Life is good,even for us old folks.RollOn…..
Triple floption
September 11th, 2012
4:08 am
Gt bob is saint simons…the CIA has just confirmed this. Good to have you back saint simons, now how about those bulldogs? how about that Triple floption?
TecH
September 11th, 2012
4:14 am
do instate kids even take a look at us?
Wow…..we blow hard…..
Bama Fan#2
September 11th, 2012
6:10 am
Good to see Marlon Brown have a good game against the tigers!!
Craig
September 11th, 2012
7:09 am
I was skeptical at first about Missouri in the SEC, but after this weekend,I am glad they are. They seem to actually fit right in. As for Richardson- he is a kid…but it was a classy move on his part to say something to Coach Richt. Missouri- stop feeling like you have to prove you belong. From what I witnessed Friday and Sat in Columbia you will be fine. NOW- go beat SC !!
The Voice of Reason
September 11th, 2012
7:20 am
Nice win by UGA but I would hold off on making reservations just yet for the NC game in Miami.
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
September 11th, 2012
7:22 am
@ Huh?:
What’s with the spelling of your name backwards?????????????????????????
Return to Glory
September 11th, 2012
7:33 am
If everyone would ignore GT Bob he would go away,,,but what fun would that be ? As long as our Dawgs spank his jackets 9 to 10 times a decade I can put up with him..lol.
GT you know it takes a man to admit he was wrong so give the Miz. kid his due.
Also the option offense at Tech is great when it works and you move the ball and have the lead, but fall behind in the 4th qtr with limited time and your dead. Heres to hoping that happens a lot this season for the insects…GO Dawgs !
aps
September 11th, 2012
7:45 am
We had a great road trip to Missouri. The fans there could not have been more hospitable. Thank you to the University of Missouri and their classy fans, Let’s see if we can do the same when they come to Athens next year.
Wite Power
September 11th, 2012
8:01 am
A class act by Richardson! Kudos to him. I hope he has a great season!
Bulldog59
September 11th, 2012
8:03 am
1. Richardson showed some maturity and some character.
2. SC is definitely our biggest obstacle to winning the East, and yes, Missouri proved they can compete in the SEC. Look at the Box Score, pretty even stats, and wasn’t it a 24-20 game at the start of the 4th quarter?
3. The goals for this Saturday, (1) win as impressively as we should, in order to hold our spot in the polls, (2) don’t get anybody hurt!
4. JJ is David Pollack reincarnated. It took a while, but welcome to big-time football Marlon Brown, keep it up!
5. JJ named Walter Camp and SEC Player of the Week was a no-brainer. When is the last time you saw a D player take over the game in that fashion? David Pollack against SC in 2002?
P.S. Alabama visits Fayetteville this Saturday. What if the earth stood still for a few hours and Arkansas upsets the Tide? Watch the polls go crazy. (I know, I know, but remember, I said, what if the earth stood still…..)
Just Saying
September 11th, 2012
8:34 am
Sheldon Richardson went from “classless” to “classy” in my book. Glad to see he realized his mistake (insult) and made amends. I wish him the best this season……please have a great game against FL, TN and SC!!!
peachfuzz
September 11th, 2012
8:45 am
I luv it. CMR uses as motivation the fact that FAU is in same conf as La.- Monroe. I bet that will get players’ attention.
Bank Walker, Texas Ranger
September 11th, 2012
9:07 am
1sr. The Mizzou kid showed a lot of class. From frineds who went to the game, the whole crowd had class and wished UGA well this year. The compared it to going to Ole Miss in regards to the attmosphere.
2nd. Marlon Brown and Richard Samuel are both class acts and do the University proud. I wish both would have outstanding years and contipults them to the next level.
kingdaddy
September 11th, 2012
9:21 am
peachfuzz
Coach Richt hasn’t got anything on Coach Dooley, lol. Ol Vince would have Fla. Atlantic looking like last years LSU in the SEC-Championship Game. Dooley was the best at building another team up to legendary status. Great memories bro…
GTBoob
September 11th, 2012
9:22 am
What is the Paul Johnson Special at Shoneys?
All the cereal you want, without the bowl.
SECGRAD
September 11th, 2012
9:24 am
GT Bob, How is everything on that ghetto you call a campus? Anymore armed robberies in your dorms? Car jackings? Any truth to the rumors Ghetto Yech is going to reduce the seating in Booby Dude Stadium AGAIN? All Dawgs hope Yech will keep CPJ for many years to come. He is so much fun to watch after our annual beat down.
GTBoob
September 11th, 2012
9:27 am
What’s it like being 39-62 -5 against UGA and losing 10 of the last 11 games?
It sucks.