Spurrier: ‘They can’t say they own us anymore, that’s for sure’
WHAT THEY SAID AFTER SOUTH CAROLINA’S 35-7 WIN OVER GEORGIA
“Obviously this was a special one … beating three years in a row a school that used to own you. They can’t say they own us anymore, that’s for sure.”
— South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier on the Gamecocks’ first three-game winning streak in the history of the Georgia-South Carolina series, which UGA leads 46-17-2
“This was actually my 250th overall win as a coach [including college, NFL and USFL], and having it against the Georgia Bulldogs is special, too. That’s a team that used to beat my alma mater [Florida] very well. I’ve been fortunate as a coach against them, not so much as a player, but as a coach.”
– Spurrier, 15-5 as a coach against Georgia (11-1 with Florida and 4-4 with South Carolina)
“Like I told the guys, ‘The bad news is we took a whipping, but the good news is that we all took it together.’ I don’t think anyone could look in the mirror and say, ‘I had a great day, but the other boys didn’t.’ … We got beat by a very good team that was primed and ready to go.”
— Georgia coach Mark Richt
“It stings. We felt like we had a great rhythm offensively going on in the first five games. … [South Carolina has] a very talented defense all over the board. They’re up there with the best I’ve ever played.”
— Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray after the Bulldogs, who averaged 48.2 points per game in the first five, were held to one touchdown against South Carolina (that with less than two minutes remaining)
“This was the greatest atmosphere I’ve ever played in.”
— South Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw
“He was pretty much reading me. If I got up field, he was going to take off running. … He made plays with his feet, and he was fast, faster than I thought he was.”
— Georgia linebacker Jarvis Jones on Shaw, who had 78 yards rushing on 14 carries
“I think we did a good job tonight. That was our goal — to come out here and put pressure on [Murray] and cause a lot of conflict with the offensive line. … [Georgia’s] offensive line gave away when they were going to hike the ball, so I got a good jump on it.”
— South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney
“We just made a lot of bonehead mistakes. Giving up big plays, jumping offsides, turning the ball over — we can’t do things like that and win ballgames. … It was just lack of focus on our part. When that happens, it’s easy for a team to make a big play, and that’s what they did.”
— Georgia cornerback Sanders Commings
“They had us on our heels all night. You’ve got to give that defense credit.”
– Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo
“We gave up two touchdowns right off the bat on explosive plays. You can’t do that. … Give them credit. We dug ourselves a hole.”
— Georgia defensive coordinator Todd Grantham
“I think our stadium was probably the loudest in the country today.”
– Spurrier
COMPLETE COVERAGE OF GEORGIA-SOUTH CAROLINA GAME
- Game story: South Carolina 35, Georgia 7
- Bradley: A sobering night for overwhelmed Bulldogs
- Spurrier: ‘They can’t say they own us anymore’
- Georgia’s defense no match for South Carolina’s offense
- Notebook: Gamecocks’ Shaw shows off against state school
- Photo gallery from No. 5 Georgia vs. No. 6 South Carolina
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Sick and tired
October 7th, 2012
7:53 am
“We have the players & coaching staff to have a great year.” It’s attitudes like this that keep this crap happening every year. We will never win big games with these coaches!! Open your eyes people! Look at our record against ranked teams since 2008. It speaks for itself. 2-14 and you are ok with that?
Go Vols
October 7th, 2012
8:04 am
When was the last time UGA actually lived up to the annual hype? Georgia fans seriously think they are national contenders every year. With the talent that is taken out of GA high schools by this program it would seem obvious by most people that a good x’s and o’s guy would get them there. Do you really think that Saban, Meyer, Spurrier, Kelly, Peters, Kiffin, Gruden etc. could not coach this incredible talent up and win the big ones?
This staff will get you what you’ve been getting on talent alone. Your annual/biannual challenge is to get rid of a nice guy who recruits well in the living room. Tough to make that call. But if you complain and believe what I say is true, then do it and move on or stay content and chances are you will never know.
Ace
October 7th, 2012
8:06 am
SC whooped butt — man up and quit acting like you gave it away.
SimpleDawg
October 7th, 2012
8:17 am
Grantham: “We dug ourselves a hole.” Sure did.
Then you all crawled in it.
Embarrassing……
SimpleDawg
October 7th, 2012
8:21 am
Jarvis Jones has been dominated 2 weeks in a row.
If he’s injured, play someone else before he becomes an undrafted free agent…….
Team
October 7th, 2012
8:31 am
In Clowney statement– the offensive line was giving away when they were hiking the ball– what is up with that? Has the old ball coach found something on game film and out coached CMR again.
takeowndawg
October 7th, 2012
8:36 am
Gruden, Gruden, Gruden…….or even Todd Grantham…..Even he would not allow such incompetence and lack of preparedness from his assistant coaches….including himself! ..Looks like this nightmare in leadership is probably is not going to end for years…..and a..750 team forever and the loss of more future low level bowl games…..is probably in store….This is painful…..My two son(who both play f-ball) have directed my wife to not buy them anymore Georgia related clothes which they have been wearing since they were kids(they are now 17 and 13) A bad year to be a DAWG. ….Alumni ‘71.
Way, Way, Way Over-Hyped
October 7th, 2012
8:43 am
So….how is that “Dream Team” thingy working out for you?
Ed Pilcher
October 7th, 2012
8:53 am
Unprepared, uninspired, underachieving. Those 3 words best describe my feelings about this team right now. 2-15 against ranked teams since 2008. That stat says it all right there. This team has no business even being top-20, much less top-5. Worst performance I’ve seen since…..well, Alabama in 2008, which is, coincidently, the game that started the downhill slide. Mark Richt was really good…….for about 6 years. Now he’s as uninspired as his team. We need a coach up here, not a Chaplain.
333
October 7th, 2012
8:57 am
Its OK to lose to a better team—-but its not OK to be unprepared, unmotivated, uncoached, and finish totally dominated and completely embarrassed !!!
Dawg02
October 7th, 2012
8:58 am
The player’s names change every year: Green/Smith, Stafford/Green/Moreno, Murray/Jarvis/”Gurshal”, but the outcome remains the same. It was funny to see Gurley trying to pump the team up in the first quarter while Murray was chewing his towel, the senior guys knew the script. Another big game another big let down from a Richt/BoBo team. We had to answer after the first drive, the 1st and goal, or the first drive of the second half. These quotes make it worse. Not one coach taking responsibility, not one player showing passion. A Tebow moment vowing to play with heart apologizing for letting the dawg nation down. I’m georgia raised UGA alumni and will always support the school, but this script is predictable and pathetic.
In OT
October 7th, 2012
9:01 am
Ed Pilcher 17-14
South Carolina Sam
October 7th, 2012
9:10 am
What’s the definition of insanity? Trotting Mark Richt, Mike Bobo, and Todd Grantham out there year after year and expecting a finely tuned, well disciplined team as a result of their efforts. UGA is being left further and further back in the SEC dust, and Barack Obama’s debate performance this past week shows what happens when you’re unprepared and you think you’re better than what you actually are. A tip of the hat to Steve Spurrier, UGA’s Antichrist, for exposing the UGA-ly truth!
Joey
October 7th, 2012
9:15 am
Attention, members of the Richt-Fan-Boy-Club. Now don’t get all worried about your classy “boy” losing his job.
Check out the schedule – only one more (though possibly embarrassing) loss, in Jax, then clear sailing, a win over Tech, a kiss for the water-girl, then to a New Years date in Tampa.
Rejoice, Fan-Boys, rejoice!
But, where are the Fan-Boys this morning? Columbus, Brainiac, ARdawg?
Taco
October 7th, 2012
9:20 am
I am stunned how bad this UGA team was coached. This much talent and you looked like fools. It is hard to make thugs perform in the face of adversity. Aaron Murray is flat joke when the heat is on. I love watching UGA fans suffer in a loss but I never suspected anything this bad. I hope Richt stays there for may years. The historic mediocrity of the UGA team continues on with more to come! Cupcake schedule and still no trophy? Ouch.
Joey
October 7th, 2012
9:21 am
“but this script is predictable and pathetic.”
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Dawg02, so I take it you won’t be happy with the 10-3 season, followed by $50K – $100K raises for the staff, either?
You do realize we will beat Tech then lose a bowl game again, right?
And it will all be done WITH CLASS. Because our head coach is classy.
Taco
October 7th, 2012
9:22 am
Dawg Fans please come to accept this is your station in life and you won’t be so dissappointed. The irrational excuberance year after year is sad to watch. Herschel ain’t coming back.
bubba4dawgs
October 7th, 2012
9:22 am
It’s so hard to believe how the chickens played with Vandy vs. UGA! I believe they must have built their game plan around the Vandy game film…….HUGE difference!
This was a reality check and we got the message……totally unprepared and not a clue about how to fix it at halftime. The turning point of the game was right after they played the National Anthem! Gee, it was all over! They might have well given all the DAWGS a pillow and blanket and turned out the stadium lights! I kept asking myself: “Did the real UGA team make the trip to Columbia?” That was such a butt whipping, I pray that no one was hurt!
The beasts (and I do mean beasts such as the bookends) on the chickens line were eating the DAWGS line for dinner! Talk about DAWG food…..it really was! Damn, they were even licking their chops! They were energized so high, they had to be on some super-hype juice! Was that their 4th string they put in that allowed Boo Malcolm’s score at the end of the game?
This game was scary, to say the least, about UGA’s program! This one takes an introspection beyond description and should figure in on coaches and player’s evaluations! It was the poorest showing of the proud UGA football program that I care to remember! Something is amiss and I hope they can muster enough intellect to turn it around and be waiting at the gates when these chickens come visiting in Athens next year! At this point, that is all they can do! My gosh, they were clawed to the proverbial DAWG bone in this one! Just hope they can stop the bleeding, re-attach their balls and get on with it! We’ll all be watching with our hands over our eyes hoping they will! GO DAWGS!
Joey
October 7th, 2012
9:26 am
Well, Taco, you make some good points, but, it could be worse for us Dawgs.
We could be 2-4, on NCAA Probation, AND getting our butts handed to us every week.
In OT
October 7th, 2012
9:27 am
It’s bad when the commentators try to figure out when and if they have ever seen such an ill prepared Top 5 team. Carolina beat us like Bama beat unranked Western Kentucky.
joe
October 7th, 2012
9:28 am
Hey murray are you watching film this morning???? So sick of this bs I am done
PT
October 7th, 2012
9:29 am
I was wrong. I said that a different team would show up in Columbia in reference to the previous game with the Vols. The same UGA team also played the Gamecocks. I thought the offensive line was better than they were and the defense has to many great player to put up a showing like that. There is a lot to ponder about this program. Is this staff able to compete with the elite programs in D1 football anymore?
joe
October 7th, 2012
9:30 am
Thanks coach richt for the embarrassment on national TV hope we get smacked by Fla too so at least e cant back into Atlanta again
Joey
October 7th, 2012
9:31 am
Hey, is ESPN College Game Day going to Jax in 3 weeks?
I damn sure hope not.
Hell I wish it wasn’t televised at all . . .
MT
October 7th, 2012
9:34 am
Well folks as bad as it was,Truth be told I think a lot of brand name
teams would have taken it on the chin last night. Were gonna have to admit it SC has arrived and certainly surpassed Richt and crew.
Dawgboy
October 7th, 2012
9:37 am
It is clear now. Saban, Spurrier, and Muschamp will control the SEC for the foreseeable future (until Spurrier retires). We had a chance to get Georgia alum Muschamp, but didn’t do it. We’ll have a chance to get Georgia alum Kirby Smart probably one more time, then that will be it.
1969 Graduate
October 7th, 2012
9:37 am
Spurrier Is Our Daddy. South Carolina Owns Us. Not that we’re a big prize.
I’m switching my allegiance to MTSU, from which I also graduated. Middle Tennessee has a better chance of winning the national championship than Georgia with Richt as coach.
Go, Blue Raiders!
MT
October 7th, 2012
9:40 am
. Is this staff able to compete with the elite programs in D1 football anymore?
Were they ever? We have exchanged Florida for South Carolina.We have never been dominate at least since the early eighties, in other words the Herschel years.
JSD
October 7th, 2012
9:43 am
Job Opening……..Head Football Coach….At University of Georgia…….This whole staff has got to go..They were out coached and out x and o in all aspects of the game. CMR in big games has never had this team ready to compete.UGA fans its time to turn up the HEAT and let the AD know how
you feel……..Its time for a change.
MT
October 7th, 2012
9:44 am
1969 Graduate
Come on Man. You can’t be serious.Im pissed as well, ready to see a change, but I’m not a fair weather fan.If you can’t stay when things are bad,don’t come back when changes are made and they are real contenders.
joe jenkins
October 7th, 2012
9:45 am
We will never ever win the big game with richt…..anybody on here that doesn’t think we will lose more big games with richt isa damn fool….their is more to come…..I cant believe their is some idiots on here still want grantham as head coach…..CTG sucks…..he is not much better than willie….as a dawg fan living here in crackolina….this one sure does sting!! Our special teams are inconsistent….our o-line and d-line are terrible…our qb is not elite……richt should let murray run the ball more…but richt is scared to get him injured….so what our season is already over…we will get beat by fla and somebody eles. I hate the chickens so damn much…i dont think yall yard birds should be crowing to much….yall will lose to fla and lsu and possibly tenn….the east is wide open this season….
GT
October 7th, 2012
9:46 am
Spurrier now needs to do something about the SEC, Georgia obviously owns somebody there. They swapped Alabama for Missouri with a straight face. Who wants to see Alabama eat up Georgia in the championship game? Here’s hoping USC runs the table so we have something to watch, instead of three better teams sitting home watching Georgia.
Dawg02
October 7th, 2012
9:54 am
Joey…..I’ve haven’t expected greatness from UGA football in a while. I’ll admit I thought Stafford and the gang might win us the big one. I always tune in, although I have quit the expensive trips to Athens. I don’t spend my money watching UGA beat up cupcakes or under achievable against quality opponents. Our program has become predictable. The players keep changing, coaches stay the same, and the outcomes the same. I’m by no means a football genius, but I do manage resources and analyze trends and it’s fairly obvious what factor in the equation needs to be adjusted.
Joey
October 7th, 2012
9:55 am
Don’t worry about that, GT. UF will do the same thing to us in Jax, so no worries.
We will all be watching the “big” SEC East game in two weeks – SC vs UF.
I’ve been sayin for 3 weeks that UF is really good, and getting laughed at by the likes of ARdawg, who also thought SC had no chance yesterday . . .
joe jenkins
October 7th, 2012
10:00 am
If we had a ST coach….MM would have been ready to be our top punt returner….or branden smith….we use to use him…he had some sucess…we use to have killer insticnt on special teams…now we look a bunch of deer caught in headlights
Larry Munson
October 7th, 2012
10:00 am
Loren, whatta ya got ……… Never mind, Loren. I know what you got. A severe beat down. Oh, would you look at the beat down falling from the sky
Fullup Filmer
October 7th, 2012
10:02 am
Spurrier’s teams aren’t like my Vols, are they? Good job, mutts. LOL!
DGD
October 7th, 2012
10:03 am
Our fans are the worst in all of CFB. Yes we got our asses handed to us. But when did everyone decide uga was great. All these fans hype the team up year after year but the fact remains we are not elite and haven’t been in a while. Richt has had two elite teams in his career here. But yr after yr u guys hype the team up to where people think NC. Boys we have one in 30+ yes. That is not an elite program. Get over it. We were out coached out played and out hearted.
DGD
October 7th, 2012
10:04 am
And we are always out fanned
DGD
October 7th, 2012
10:07 am
And UF played the worst #4 team in the history of #4 teams. Show me in two weeks. LSU has one TD on the road this season. UF is better but not there yet
Joey
October 7th, 2012
10:08 am
Dawg02, the great head coaches are always tweaking their staffs, sometimes by choice, sometimes because their assistants get HC jobs. Look how many assistants Myer went through at UF.
My point is, a staff staying put is not a good thing. No fresh ideas. No new blood. Thus, the “predictability” you mentioned. And coaches like Spurrier, Saban, and Myer will eat up a predictable team.
AP
October 7th, 2012
10:11 am
Not many UGA coaches on the radar of other programs for jobs! Just sayin…. Also, our lack of quality OL recruiting for the last couple years has finally came to roost. Ha Ha Beginning of painful end for Richt era in Athens. How long will this march take? I say two more years before a change is made.
Mark
October 7th, 2012
10:15 am
I still think we can beat Fla. We lost to a well prepared and talented team. Yes, we quit but we can beat the gators and we will…
Joey
October 7th, 2012
10:16 am
It ain’t the losing that is the big deal to me. Honestly, if we played SC again next month, they would beat us again – they are good, and Spurrier exploits matchups.
It’s the fact we still are not competitive against the better teams. We haven’t been for years now. A flukey schedule the past 1+ seasons made us believe we were better, but the truth is, we’ve played 5 good or great teams in this time, and we lost to EVERY ONE of them.
Come on Columbus! Tell me again how “Richt has righted the ship.”
MT
October 7th, 2012
10:18 am
They swapped Alabama for Missouri with a straight face
Hey Genius, it was called Mizzou joining the SEC EAST.UGA HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.Remember we were taken off Bama schedule as well.we were in the middle of a rotation with Ole Miss, that had to be completed.I don’t remember you guys complaining about Georgia’s 2008 schedule.It was ranked the toughest that year.
Dawg02
October 7th, 2012
10:18 am
DGD…..when you have the resources and consistently recruit well, then who is at fault? I never yell BCS championship in the summer, but the 0-9 vs teams that finish ranked is pathetic. The players are students and deserve unwavering support and they get it. The coaches and staff are employees hired to do a job that they have consistently done poorly. They have all the players and resources of everyone in the top ten, and the fact that we aren’t a better program is precisely the problem.
beanster
October 7th, 2012
10:22 am
Is that all CMR really had to say? The expression on his face last night said it all I guess. Clueless.
Joey
October 7th, 2012
10:22 am
Mark, tell me how you can possibly think we will beat UF? Their D is better than LSU’s last year, and better and faster than SC’s D. They held UT to 20 points in Knoxville, and beat Texas A&M on the road.
Lastly, their QB doesn’t choke in big games, unlike you know who, and our D plays good for 1 or 2 quarters per game.
AFDawg
October 7th, 2012
10:27 am
You folks saying “we still have a good team, etc.” just don’t get it. It’s not that we lost the game — it’s how we lost. First of all — you have Jarvis Jones saying Shaw was reading him. Give me a break — he (or someone) should have been spying Shaw all night. You hit him every play. You take Shaw out of the game and SC has no offense. That’s the problem with this coaching staff — bad gameplan coming in and very poor play calling. If the running game isn’t working and you’re way behind — you throw the rest of the way. Roll the QB if you have to. Why didn’t we use our tight ends more effectively? Our coaching staff also doesn’t know how establish disciplined execution. Lastly, the motivation just wasn’t there. So, like I said — it isn’t the losing part, it’s how we lost (unmotivated, undisciplined, and not being smart). The announcers even pointed it out. This game truly was an embarassment to the Dawg Nation. McGarrity had better do something quick.
The Central Scrutinizer
October 7th, 2012
10:30 am
Sorry Coach, 46-17-2? We’ll own you for a long, long time…Like Sitting Bull said after the Battle of the Little Big Horn, “we won today, we won’t win tomorow”…A great game for you guys and props to you, you guys played like champs today and clearly took it to us. The best team won..today…but… We’ll be back.