Notebook: UGA players believe vandalism an isolated incident by ’small group’
ATHENS – Georgia linebacker Christian Robinson said he had to go back and delete the tweet he sent out early Sunday morning claiming a “Good Samaritan” had cleaned up his egged and toilet-papered house and yard as he slept.
As it turns out, it was teammate Arthur Lynch, one of his four roommates, who took it upon himself to clean up the mess in the middle of the night.
“I wanted it to be a Good Samaritan,” Robinson said Tuesday after Georgia’s practice. “But I found out later it was Arthur. He said couldn’t leave it out there.”
Joked Lynch: “I needed eggs in the fridge so I was hoping they’d left some for me.”
Robinson and Lynch share an off-campus house on the outskirts of town with teammates Aaron Murray, Ty Frix and Dustin Royston. They returned to Athens in the wee hours of Sunday morning from their 35-7 defeat at the hands of South Carolina in Columbia to find trees covered with toilet papers and eggs splattered on the front door and all over the front of the house.
Lynch was able to remove the bulk of it sometime between 3-4 a.m. The property’s landlord sent out a cleaning crew later that cleaned up the rest.
“I didn’t want anyone to see it,” Lynch said. “It’s just one of those things. I didn’t take it personal. It was probably just a couple of guys who felt that way. After it got out, I got hundreds of text and messages from people saying they didn’t feel that way.”
“They sent out a pressure washer and got it cleaned up,” Robinson said. “They thought they were going to have to repaint but they don’t think so now.”
The players filed a report with the Athens-Clarke County police department, which told the Athens Banner-Herald that they were going to step up patrols around players’ residences on game days.
Lynch and Robinson said the act of vandalism has not tainted their perception of fans.
“It’s a small group,” Robinson said. “That’s what I;’ve been hearing and that’s what people have been talking about. It’s a small group of people. Right when I sent out that tweet, I had probably 700 people tweeting me reminding me of that.”
Said Lynch: “I’m learning more every year how much people invest emotionally into Georgia [football]. So I can see why. This is the state school and I can see why people feel like they do about it.”
But no matter how much fans want Georgia to win, it pales in comparison to the players.
“It was an unfortunate situation,” said flanker Tavarres King said. “But if there is anything I can get out there it’s that we want to win just as bad as everybody else wants us to win. We practice 365 days a year for 12 opportunities that are precious to us. So all that added stuff could be done without.”
SE Michael Bennett hospitalized
Sophomore split end Michael Bennett underwent reconstructive surgery Tuesday at St. Mary’s Hospital to repair the torn ACL in his right knee. Bennett was to remain hospitalized overnight.
Bennett tweeted from his hospital bed Tuesday afternoon. “Surgery went great! I feel like a million bucks on these pain meds.”
Bennett also tweeted a message to his teammates over the weekend: “Shout out to my boys. We are gonna be just fine! We know how to overcome adversity, especially with the leaders we have.”
Aaron Murray returns to campus
Murray made it back in time to practice with the Bulldogs. But he barely made it, despite breaking some speed laws on his drive back from Tampa.
In fact, Georgia’s junior quarterback was pulled over for speeding in Gainesville, Fla., home of the Florida Gators. Said Murray in a tweet at about 10 a.m. Tuesday: “I would get pulled over in Gainesville. Don’t think I am gonna be able to get out of this one.”
Murray, his brother Josh and sister Stephanie went to Tampa Sunday night to be with their father, Denny Murray, who underwent cancer surgery on Monday morning at the Moffit Cancer Center in Tampa. The family reports that it went well and he is recovering.
Rambo speaks up
Free safety Bacarri Rambo spoke with reporters Tuesday for the first time since he tested positive for marijuana in March.
“It happened and it’s over with,” Rambo said. “I’ve just dealt with my consequences and I’ve done moved on and I’m back on the team.”
Rambo admitted to feeling “a little” rusty and just a half-beat slow on his reads and reactions. He pointed to the first-quarter pass play in the South Carolina game in which Damiere Byrd ripped a would-be interception out of his hands for a 42-yard gain. The Gamecocks went on to score their first touchdown in a 21-point first quarter.
“That’s the one I beat myself up about,” Rambo said. “I wonder if I’d made that interception would it have changed the momentum of the game. That’s where I’ve just got to correct the small things and read the quarterback and offensive line better and put myself in better position.”
Rambo said he didn’t have second thoughts about returning for his senior season, even though he missed four games due to suspension.
“I don’t regret coming back to school,” Rambo said. “I love my guys and I’m glad I’m here helping achieve team goals. Everything happens for a reason. God has a plan for me. I’m just going to keep working hard and try to be the best player I can be for my teammates.”
Harvey-Clemons among captains
Georgia coach Mark Richt announced captains for the Oct. 20 Kentucky game and the group included a true freshman. Guard Chris Burnette is offensive captain, John Jenkins and Abry Jones are defensive captains and freshman Josh Harvey-Clemons was tabbed as special teams captain.
“It’s rare that a true freshman becomes a captain, but the staff and I felt he did the best,” Richt said. “Every special team he was on, he excelled and had a winning grade. All of the coaches were saying how excellent he played. It is really hard to become a captain as a freshman, especially true freshman, but he earned this and I’m proud of him.”
Etc. . . .
Outside linebacker Jarvis Jones, who has been struggling with knee and groin injuries this season, sat out practice on Monday due to a sprained ankle. It’s unknown when he might return. . . . The Bulldogs’ two-hour practice was visited by members of Extra Special People, or ESP, an Oconee County organization that assists individuals with developmental disabilities and their families.
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1969 Graduate
October 9th, 2012
8:24 pm
Let’s hope for more class on the part of our fans, generally great people, upset for a reason.
1969 Graduate
October 9th, 2012
8:28 pm
I know most Bulldog fans are fully supportive of our players, and our football team. It’s the coaches who are on the hot seat. The coaches have let our football team, our players, and our fans down.
1969 Graduate
October 9th, 2012
8:30 pm
Best of luck for a speedy and full recovery to Mr. Bennett, a fine player very much missed by everyone.
GDawg
October 9th, 2012
8:43 pm
Those cowards vandalizing ANYTHING are NOT members of the Dawg Nation.
Simpson
October 9th, 2012
8:48 pm
Gotta stay behind the dawgs. Ran into a buzzsaw Saturday.
lol
October 9th, 2012
8:55 pm
fire mark richts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JDawg
October 9th, 2012
9:02 pm
People who react so immediately and so judgmentally typically lack personal self-confidence, and base their happiness on the performance of others that they rely upon to prop up their own personal inadequacy’s. South Carolina won fair and square, but played their minds out on Saturday. I don’t read into their win any more than I do our loss. All of you ready to judge UGA overrated and useless, need to join the ranks with the same folks ready to declare USC national champs. USC has never played a better game in it’s history, and won’t play a better one for a long time to come. UGA still needs to continue to improve and mature. The support structure doesn’t replace our coaching staff, because we know we have what we want, to move forward. Not to mention that we realize that the staff and the head coach represent the type of class and integrity that our university and it’s REAL money paying alumnus support and embrace. I would typically never respond in this manner, but enough is enough. WE ARE ALL DOGS! To treat one of our own, especially men who have been busting their a$$ for the last year in order to get better and stronger, like we would a person who had did some intentional harm to us is both classless, and excuse-less.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
JUST SAYING
October 9th, 2012
9:08 pm
Is anybody really surprised here….this is the same idiot redneck fans that trashed their own stadium and “beloved” hedges 10 years ago when they finally beat Tennesee! Hunker Down Morons! You do this to yourselves every year…..
Browndog
October 9th, 2012
9:12 pm
JDawg, very well said!
Aarron Murry
October 9th, 2012
9:16 pm
Someone egg my house! UGA fans ae the worst in college football, you drunk hillbillies!!!
antonio romero
October 9th, 2012
9:17 pm
it is just “rolling a house, like all of us did in high school. it aint no grand act of vandalism. and hey, christian, worry about your play instead of your ‘tweets’ for your attention. what a joke. by the way, i never hear about the players under saban or meyer or patterson sending out their ‘tweets’. how about play ball!!!!!!!!. great samaritan, christian. how bout make a tackle that matters. and if you ‘think’ i am being rough to this ‘college kid’ , we have boys overseas at 18– so play college ball at 20—– and dont get your ‘love or props by your tweets’.
JDawg
October 9th, 2012
9:20 pm
Will, with all due respect, and I really mean with all due respect, your passion is appreciated.
Rangerdawg
October 9th, 2012
9:23 pm
Florida passed UGA in 2006, LSU in 2007, Bama in 2008, USC in 2012. The next program to pass UGA is UT and that will happen in 2013 if Florida don”t beat UT to it. Look at the talent that Richt has had, and look at the results. It is called complacency, and that is what happens when Richt is not worried about keeping his job. Yes he is a nice guy, and a good Christian, but the fans want a coach that will coach his team up and not let the players turn their back to him (crowell), and make a fool of him. Does this happen to Saben or Meyer? No because they control their teams and DO care about winning National Championships. No worries though, unless something significant changes, I am not spending a 1000 bucks on season tickets anymore. I will continue my donations because I believe in the players, but I am fed up with Richts half hearted attitude, and Bobo’s hard headedness. Greg McGarity, what exactly were you hired for again? I can hardly wait for the Ga Southern game, UGA will look like a top 5 team again!
antonio romero
October 9th, 2012
9:23 pm
as an addendum, i am aware of the third string qb clown at ohio state last week. my deal is——- win a game that MATTERS! facts are facts—– look at last three years, and saying only three years is being graceful.
G-Dawg
October 9th, 2012
9:25 pm
Vandalizing a house will do wonders to help a team get better. Stupid thing to do. Dawg fans are better than that. Go Dawgs.
Dawg89
October 9th, 2012
9:25 pm
I support the Dawgs, win or lose. Only morons would vandalize a persons house. I hope the players understand that an overwhelming majority of fans and alumni support them and appreciatie how hard they work to wear the G on gameday.
SSIDAWG
October 9th, 2012
9:27 pm
Egging and Rolling used to be harmless pranks. Now it is a big news story and requires increased police patrols. What a bunch of Gen Y cry baby tweeters. No wonder SC won. This team is soft.
Mark
October 9th, 2012
9:28 pm
Vandalism is never o.k. Jeez, grow up. I am with my Dawgs win, lose, or collapse.
Attitude Reflects Leadership
October 9th, 2012
9:38 pm
The players want to win more than the fans? Hmmmm then why do I see players tweeting “here is what shoes I am wearing today” and “Can’t wait to judge Greek Grind tomorrow!!!”
I have seen some players around campus and they are all in good spirits. Some were even debating on going downtown tonight, ya know because it is Tuesday.
I bet when Alabama loses, those players are madder than Hell all week, but here our attitude reflects the leadership…”Hey the sun came up WHOO HOO!”
It is horrible that the egging incident occurred, but Robinson is a prime example of our “great when the going is good, who gives a crap when it is bad” attitude.
Before the loss, he was one of the ones always tweeting about “Our team, our time, no regrets” and “We work 351 days of the year for 14 opportunities.” Now after a loss, “winning isn’t everything.” Obviously it was before we lost. PATHETIC!
While I believe some players really care, they do not want to “be the bad guy” and hold each other accountable for poor play. NO ONE on the sideline had ANY energy Saturday; we just bent over and took our spanking.
Attitude reflects leadership.
Lattimore and Shaw Are....
October 9th, 2012
9:45 pm
In the film room while our players are judging sorority girls shaking their butts.
SEE A PROBLEM HERE?
When USC is head and shoulders above our program, it is time for a change.
NateDawg
October 9th, 2012
9:48 pm
UGA fans did not do this.
ARdawg
October 9th, 2012
9:51 pm
Will
Those remarks are spot on
Outer Banks Dawg
October 9th, 2012
9:53 pm
Can I get 2 tight ends, a full back and Gurley off tackle on 2nd and 3? Then the next time we get 2nd and 3, same formation, play action and try to hit the single WR who’s 1 on 1 on the outside. If he’s not there, you got 2 TE a FB, & Gurley to check down to outta the backfield.
When we get 2nd and 3, it’s shotgun 4 wide, and then it’s 3rd and 7…
Can someone send Bobo a copy of Bama’s playbook and some of their game film so he can study Down and Distance strategy? Moving the chains football?
The best defense is a clock control offense. I’m not paid 6 figures to coach offense in the SEC, but this sh@& ain’t rocket science. Study bama, study LSU, Study FLorida, study what SC did to us Saturday nite. How many times do those teams get in Power Formations when it’s time to move the chains… They all like to pick up 1st downs before it gets 3rd Down.
We like to go for the big play on 2nd and 3, or try to trick someone with a draw out of the shotgun (loss of 2) which puts pressure on us on 3rd down to convert. Then we line up shotgun spread and try to throw for it on 3rd and 4.
Bama lines up power and moves the chains… If they don’t make it, they are stubborn and line up and do it again. Then when you finally get sick of them powering you for 4-5 yds every carry and stack the box, they hit you deep.
You rarely if ever will see bama in the shotgun spread on their own goal line, or on the opponents goal line. But Georgia loves it… Backed up deep in their own end one… Shotgun 4 wide. Knocking on the opponents door… Imagine… Shotgun spread! 4 plays in a row from the 2…
We line up 3-4 wide every play. And our poor 5 linemen our overmatched and we give them no help. We talk about balance, but we have no balance. We don’t understand Down and Distance and how to sustain slow steady drives which eat clock. We don’t huddle and use the play clock. We don’t keep our defense on the sidelines resting while the other offense watches our steady march. We don’t wear out the opposing defense with power football.
We have become so 1 dimensional and it makes me angry to watch Gurley and Marshall struggle when an extra blocker or 2 would give them all they need to break into the secondary.
Please Coach Bobo…. For the love of Georgia…. Bring back the dawg gone I formation. Bring back the TE. It does not have to be so flashy. It doesn’t have to be so sexy. Just move the dang chains. Get in the huddle… Eat the clock. Rest the D….Copy Bama. Use these RB’s wisely. There will be plenty of chances to throw it, bud…. For the love of Georgia.
Hmmmm
October 9th, 2012
9:56 pm
I thought only Vol fans were redneck enough to turn on their own. Maybe is was some Gaymecock trash that did it?
Outer Banks Dawg
October 9th, 2012
10:04 pm
And I think it sux that people egged the players home… Classless like the braves fans who chucked garbage on the field. Embarrassing more than getting spanked…. Also, congrats to SC who played outstanding. I can only imagine the excitement and surprise when Jadevon Clowney and Devin Taylor realized they would be lined up 1 on 1 all night long. Talk about licking your chops! I wonder why SC double teamed Jarvis Jones all night, but we didn’t think of that?
UGA is full of Morons!
October 9th, 2012
10:08 pm
You want players to be mad all week after a loss, how about start paying the players first!
DAWG with two bags still over his head
October 9th, 2012
10:15 pm
Will,
Thanks for reposting what many, many of us are thinking. We’ve all seen this movie play out before. The ending is always the same, Dawgs are unprepared, outcoached, and out schemed in every big game that counts. Now, instead of really working their butts off (like running every step in Sanford Stadium), our brain trust gave our players Monday off and apparently they have most of next weekend off as well. Not what I’d expect from a team that was totally embarrassed on national TV and was expecting to be in Miami in January.
bamaguy
October 9th, 2012
10:21 pm
Every fan base has its share of idiots. Throw some alcohol into the mix and these things happen. Move on. It seems Aaron Murray has more important things that could distract him other than eggs and toilet paper.
Al Parker
October 9th, 2012
10:25 pm
Never a reason to act like this. I follow the dawgs from out west. Fans or whatever they call themselves have no excuse to act like this. Don’t be surprised if opposing coaches use this behavior to their advantage. Shame on us.
Richt Is As Good As Fired
October 9th, 2012
10:27 pm
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dawg52
October 9th, 2012
10:47 pm
JDawg……..you should run for office…lolol….very well put
Dawg-Gawn
October 9th, 2012
10:56 pm
Dawgs = Team
JDawg, well said.
Simple, support your team or get off the team… it’s mid season! Everyone is entitled to there own opinion but save it for the end of the year…. UGA must play this season out!
UGA players coined the phrase Grown Man Football… how about some Grown Man Fans support this team and give them a chance to play it out. Get your expectations in line with reality… perfection is an unrealistic goal!
“Team plays Fans watch”
“Stick with Richt”
“BELIEVE” in the “G”
Hanky Panky
October 9th, 2012
11:13 pm
HIRE JON GRUDEN.
DRAFT JON GRUDEN FOR UGA HEAD COACH.
Hanky Panky
October 9th, 2012
11:16 pm
GEORGIA HAS THE MONEY. PAY JON GRUDEN WHATEVER IT TAKES.
HIRE A WORLD CLASS STAFF OF NFL AND NCAA CHAMPION COACHES.
HIRE JON GRUDEN.
Silver Fox
October 9th, 2012
11:32 pm
I don’t care how low the team gets….they will never get lower than average idiot who post on these blogs and those vandals. I love to win but I love my family better….
Cobb Dawg
October 9th, 2012
11:33 pm
JDawg, no truer or more well-spoken words. A lesson for all of us who claim to be fans and alum of the red-and-black. Go Dawgs!
Cobb Dawg
October 9th, 2012
11:35 pm
We’re seeing the passion from the fans. We’re about to see the passion from the team. GO DAWGS! GATA!!!!!!
slobodan
October 9th, 2012
11:37 pm
The only thing the dogs could have countered the gamecocks defense Saturday night was with QB runs. Richt and Bobo cured Murray of running 2 years ago after he scored on a 23 yard td run as first half time expired in his first home game start. The crawled all over him for running. I mean the boy pulled off a nifty td run and got lambasted on the field and in the paper by BoboandRicht. Murray has been reprimanded when he actually showed toughness by his own coaches.
wreckmaniac
October 9th, 2012
11:40 pm
Why is it a surprise that SC now beats UGA with equal talent ? When Spurrier was at FL he beat UGA every year with worse talent. He said so himself. Does it matter what school the good coaches go to ? NOOOOOOO. Spurrier could beat UGA regularly if he coached at Vandy. Bet on it.
wreckmaniac
October 9th, 2012
11:43 pm
The solution to this problem is to join the Big East Conference where UGA really belongs. But really, no one is looking for an actual solution to this prob
Sick and tired
October 9th, 2012
11:45 pm
You Richt/Bobo supporters are ridiculous! “It’s just one loss!” No, it’s the pathetic record of 2-14 against ranked teams. I can except loosing when the team shows up and just gets beaten by a better team. But consistently getting blown out and embarrassed every year on a national scale is not acceptable any longer. Did you not hear the guys on ESPN talk about our coaching staff? Even they were saying how embarrassed they would be if they were a UGA fan. Bobo is absolutely clueless what to do when his game plan falls apart. He instantly falls back to his conservative, vanilla plays that everyone can see a mile away. Even my wife who knows nothing about football asked “why does he keep running the ball up the middle? It hasn’t worked one time the entire game. Why is the quarterback holding the ball so long?” Where was the screen pass? Where were the slants? Absolutely clueless. We will never win big games with these coaches. You people seem to be ok beating cupcake teams and being embarrassed year after year. I’ve been a Dawg fan for 40 years and I have never been embarrassed like I was Saturday night. Seeing that stupid grin on Spurrier’s face was bad enough but then to see Richt smiling and acting like the loss was not big deal was nauseating! “Golly gee, we just got whipped.” WHAT A JOKE!!
Lamar
October 9th, 2012
11:47 pm
Here is the problem Dawg fans. The numbers don’t lie. Ga did not have a BAD GAME Saturday night, GA has been doing this the last 4 years. THINK NOT?? FROM 2001- 2008 GA WAS 22-10 AGAINST RANKED TEAMS. SINCE THEN, FROM 2008 UNTIL NOW, THEY ARE 4-13. ALSO THE LAST TIME THEY BEAT A TOP 10 TEAM WAS IN 2009, THE LAST TOP 5 TEAM THEY BEAT WAS IN 2006. BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS THEY ARE LOSING ALL THE BIG GAMES. UNTIL THEY START BACK BEATING THESE TEAMS, THEY WILL NEVER WIN A NCG!! THE MAGIC RICHT BROUGHT WITH HIM IS GONE!! NO OTHER WAY TO PUT IT!!
Lamar
October 9th, 2012
11:55 pm
PS. HOW IS IT GARY PATTERSON AT TCU CAN BRING IN 2-3 * RECRUITS AND NEVER HAVE A TOP 25 RECRUITING CLASS AND BEAT OTHER TEAMS THAT HAVE TWICE AS MUCH TALENT AS THEY DO??? DO YOU GIVE UP??? ANSWER, THEY RUN A SCHEME THAT THEIR TALENT WILL PRODUCE WITH!!! WHAT COULD A GUY LIKE HIM DO WITH THE TALENT GA HAS??? HE COULD WIN A NC WITH THEM!! RICHT WAS GREAT FOR GA, BUT HIS MAGIC HAS BEEN GONE SINCE 2008. A TON OF NFL TALENT, BUT CANT WIN WITH IT!! WATCH HOW MANY OF GA’S DEFENSIVE GUYS GET DRAFTED IN THE FIRST 2 ROUNDS!! They can play in the NFL, BUT NOT IN COLLEGE?? GIVE ME A BREAK!!
Irish Dawg
October 10th, 2012
12:28 am
The Right Reverend Richt is not an SEC head coach – never was, never will be. He would fit nicely in the ACC where the competition suits his style and there are no real expectations of a national title at any school. If you want to run with the big dawgs, you can’t pee like a puppy. I know the jury is still out on Muschamp, but look what he’s doing at Florida, and he’s one of ours. I’m afraid we missed a golden opportunity when he was available. I only hope that 5 years from now, when we’re 0-5 against his Gators, we can pry him loose and bring him home. (That does not mean I want 5 more years of Rev. Richt.)
jack
October 10th, 2012
12:44 am
Says it all really…
http://cfn.scout.com/2/1227765.html
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dawgs85
October 10th, 2012
1:55 am
im going to a to uga vs ole miss games so
Wronghouse
October 10th, 2012
2:14 am
The worst thing about the vandalism….they took it out on the poor players, when the guys responsible for this embarrasment go home to their mansions with eggs in the fridge! Wrong houses idiots! LOL
j-dawg
October 10th, 2012
3:19 am
It’s obvious Jarvis Jones has been playing injured. He is just not the same player out there he was for the Mizzou game…
Bpm
October 10th, 2012
5:51 am
You stay classy UGA!
gomdawg
October 10th, 2012
6:04 am
OK FANS IT TIME WE GET OVER THE LOST ,I DIDN’T LIKE IT BUT I LOVE MY GEORGIA DAWGS AND COACHES. GO DAWGS I DO LIKE THE IDEA OF LETTING MURRAY GET A LITTLE MORE MOBILE
Cal22
October 10th, 2012
6:14 am
Maybe someone should find whoever egged Murray’s house and give him the starting quarterback position. At least he can hit something.
dmr
October 10th, 2012
6:40 am
Let’s see. Sanford Stadium holds over 92,000+. UGA apparel and merchandise sales typically rank in the top 10 nationally. UGA graduates and fans live all over the Country. Point? You cannot link a few teenage, bonified, knuckle-headed, morons to an entire fan base because of actions that are so stupid and pathetic.
REAL GEORGIA FANS care about this team and care about these kids! Don’t paint a group with such a broad brush. That would be like me telling all of you that “JUST SAYING” comes from a long line of idiots. That’s not really fair because none of them are showing their backsides publicly. So for now, I’ll stay limited in my view that only “JUST SAYING” is the idiot.
Keep your head up DAWGS! YOU HAVE A GREAT DEAL OF SUPPORT!
BIG MIKE
October 10th, 2012
6:40 am
Why is no one answering the obvious question????
What happened? Why did we look so pedestrian with so much NFL talent on board? Two Heisman candidates in Murray and Jones and All Americans galore….we come out looking like Kentucky………WHY…………WHAT HAPPENED?
Derrick
October 10th, 2012
6:45 am
It is time for the coach to show more passion and the players too. Thier is no way sc is better than us talent wise. Stand up dawgs and fight. Also bono stop turning on the offense and then off then on. Also put Mitchell back on the field.
BIG MIKE
October 10th, 2012
6:48 am
My personal belief is that they don’t believe they belong on the same field as the best anymore. UGA has lost their swagger. The Junkyard Dawgs have lost their bite, yet they can still bark like hell. The coaching staff and leaders of this team better figure out a way to infuse the team with some confidence in the BIG GAME environment.
Dawgs used to live for the BIG GAME. They might not have always won, but by God they always left it all on the field. Saturday night I felt like I had entered an alternate universe.
DAWGS……WHERE’S THE ATTITUDE ON THE FIELD????????
Jojoba
October 10th, 2012
6:57 am
How sad that once again uga fans have to rely on USC and UF to lose since their schedules are tougher? The SEC hooks richt up with softest sec schedule and he still can’t pass the test.
Just embarrassing
Jojoba
October 10th, 2012
6:59 am
I saw coach grantham buying 4 dozen eggs at the piggly wiggly on Atlanta highway at 2am Sunday morning
BIG MIKE
October 10th, 2012
7:05 am
That’s cause he had just got through laying 48 eggs out on the Gamecocks field. He needed to stock up, it had nothing to do with Murray.
fan
October 10th, 2012
7:12 am
Big Mike, That is the problem. You mentioned TWO Heisman canadites. Nobody but UGA bloggers ever considered them so. All SEC sure but not Heisman. As long as you believe the hype your expectations are too high
Joe
October 10th, 2012
7:13 am
Our players should know that we true UGA fans are just as embarrassed and sick about what happened as they players are. We are all in this together and I have no doubt we will be fine….I say- guys, make your statement in Jacksonville!!!!!! Wonder how the Bama fans felt after the regular season loss to LSU? Look what happened there. Lose by 1 or 30….doesnt matter…..We will be fine!!
Dawgbreath
October 10th, 2012
7:15 am
Spurrier is just a mean SOB who takes no prisoners. Doesn’t care what anyone thinks. Richt, not so much. I dread playing USCe the next few years.
mgdawg
October 10th, 2012
7:15 am
I’m going to start by saying in no way do I condone trashing a person’s house as well as any other unlawful activity. However, coaches and players want fans that are passionate, fans that are loud and help cause false starts. That kind of passion can also cause people to do dumb stuff also, like vandalizing houses. Read what happens at some of the loudest stadiums after a big win or big loss, you’ll see very similar things.
Also, it does amaze me sometimes when players do dumb things, such as drugs and failing a drug test. That players get mad when fans bash them, but when a UGA fan does something stupid everyone bashes them and doesn’t think a second about it. Double standard anyone?
BIG MIKE
October 10th, 2012
7:17 am
That’s not Bloggers talking. That’s on ESPN’S Heisman watch list. Before the USC game, Murray was listed at #6 and Jones was #10 on the list. You might want to monitor more than just the AJC Blogs.
Pretty much sums it up.........well said!
October 10th, 2012
7:20 am
It is horrible that the egging incident occurred, but Robinson is a prime example of our “great when the going is good, who gives a crap when it is bad” attitude.
Before the loss, he was one of the ones always tweeting about “Our team, our time, no regrets” and “We work 351 days of the year for 14 opportunities.” Now after a loss, “winning isn’t everything.” Obviously it was before we lost. PATHETIC!
While I believe some players really care, they do not want to “be the bad guy” and hold each other accountable for poor play. NO ONE on the sideline had ANY energy Saturday; we just bent over and took our spanking.
this will not change
October 10th, 2012
7:21 am
UGA being blown out ever year, once or twice IS the mark of a Coach Richt team.
Until UGA hires a serious minded FOOTBALL Coach, this will continue. Richt simply has his emotions and his persona directed toward his missionary work.
I say do one OR the other but NOT both.
UGA Alumnus
Craig
October 10th, 2012
7:24 am
Since every team on our remaining schedule has a losing record- except 1…we will likely finish 10-2 with another blowout in Jax. 10-2 and a bowl game with this talent is unacceptable and if that doesnt move McGarity to do something- nothing will! Even the head ball coach himself said- it will be a disappointing season if we dont get back to Atl……well boys….Carolina took care of that Sat and Fla will drive the final nail in the coffin in Jax………so great to be a GA Bulldog with a team that basically got smacked in the mouth and ran like a chicken (no pun intended)…….NEVER have I seen a more embarrassing loss than this one- even Bama in our blackout- the players showed some sign of fight in the second half….this team is a bunch of pansies and showed it Sat……
all in the eyes of the beholder this is
October 10th, 2012
7:26 am
Some UGA players get suspended for ther punk, selfish acts, like so king weed, slapping ther girlfriend around or driving without a license, or DUI.
Some fans trash homes of players. both are stupid acts and both acts hurt UGA.
UGA players are soft and they are coddled babies.
Class of 71&73@UGA
Please explain.
October 10th, 2012
7:34 am
How Georgia puts players in the N.F.L. and C.M.R.’s record is 2-14 since 2008 when playing top 25 opponents. This is how it takes place.
Good athletes not team players.
Lack of team not being disciplined on and off the field.
(1) Reason the head ball coach and his lack of having a spine.
GT
October 10th, 2012
7:44 am
Don’t understand the egging. The players didn’t lose that game the other night, it was the coaches not having them ready. Now you guys start egging the houses, make Georgia look like a bad place to play football, the students don’t support the PLAYERS, not only do you lose to South Carolina but you lose recruits. Get rid of the coaches, the one thing you have is great players, don’t chase them off, You should find out who did this and turn the nut in. Someone on that campus knows who it is. You are not helping your team or your school doing this or hiding it. I think it had to be a local person, how would you know where these guys lived, but I could see an outsider like a Tech fan doing it too. If it is and I found out about it I can promise you I will turn him or her in personally.
The Tide is Rolling and Nothing can stop it
October 10th, 2012
7:48 am
Penal colony…
Why don’t you guys just become a basketball school already?
Football is obviously not your thing
32 Years…
GT
October 10th, 2012
7:53 am
Tree killers..
kentjacket
October 10th, 2012
7:59 am
Nothing finer in the land……
Notebook: UGA players believe vandalism an isolated incident by ’small group’ – Georgia – Dawg News
October 10th, 2012
8:06 am
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Starr
October 10th, 2012
8:11 am
Jacksonville is going to be really ugly this year.
Florida 45, Georgia 20
Really ugly.
TheGoodDAwg
October 10th, 2012
8:16 am
Are people only assumming it was UGA fans that trashed Murray’s house? It just as well could have been SC fans rubbing salt in our wounds. Sounds like what they would do.
PaulPaul
October 10th, 2012
8:17 am
As the Bear once said “I can take mine an beat yours and take yours and beat mine”. Spurrier is one of those coaches who has that ability . I have been a Dawg fan 46 years and this is the worst performance I have witnessed. I saw Houston come to Athens in 68 when both were ranked in the top 10. From the first long pass completed by Houston it was obvious we didn’t have the talent or speed they had. Some how Dooley and Irk adjusted and managed to eek out a tie 10/10. They were able to play to our strengths and stay in the game with an obviously superior team. Even Jake Scott one of our best defensive backs ever said he didn’t want to see that team again.
Coach Richt and his staff do not seem to have the ability to adjust or inspire. I have been on these blogs many times defending this staff but I just can’t see this staff improving our team. It may be time for a change. We need someone who can take top notch talent and win. As everyone says CMR is a great guy who has reached his top level which is not where the fan base wants to be.
BTW rolling these young men’s residence shows a total lack of class. Show some class fellow fans although I doubt these people are true fans.
fan
October 10th, 2012
8:19 am
Thanks for pointing that out BIG MIKE
Clockers
October 10th, 2012
8:29 am
It’s far more likely that the vandals were UGA students, not fans.
SimpleDawg
October 10th, 2012
8:32 am
JDawg @9:02…..
Maybe what you said has some truth to it, but why must Georgia always be the team that sacrifices themselves on the altar for some other team’s glory.
Every BIG game in recent history has seen the Bulldogs go down in defeat so another program can climb the next rung on the ladder of success.
When will we bow up and take the prize?
TY
October 10th, 2012
8:33 am
Outer Banks Dawg
Duh!!!!!! You sir or madame whichever are correct, hit the nail on the head, and every cliche you come up with. GA has had so many great athletes Bobo does not have a clue how to manufacture a drive to keep the chains moving. The only time he attempts this is when we are ahead late in the game and he tries to run the clock out on the ground without much success, allowing other teams to get back in the game. No coach in the SEC is not aware of our tendency to run trick pays or reverses in the early part of the first drive. So everyone is ready for that usually after the first play. They are so pathetic in their play calling. Spurrier said it plainly. GA scores too quick and puts pressure on the defense. Well…We did not score quick at all and their running game and 10 passes kept the ball, controlled the clock and quickly put our defense back on the field with the punt return for a TD….What a concept, we go for the KO and they grind it out and kicked us in the mouth. Bobo’s play calling to keep the ball is the worst ever. Great post. It really blows my mind that he had no alternative plan except to use the Freshmen Gurley and Marshall to protect for passes and no one to block for runs. This little jab step the backs do to get the ball from Murray before they step to the LOS does not work vs a great defense. Lattimore heads straight to the line in full speed. That is fundamentals for moving the ball.. Not necessarily for 25 yards but it keeps the chains moving, it keeps their defense on the field and it runs the clock.
Vampire Bill
October 10th, 2012
8:33 am
I’ve been critical of the dawgs lately but that doesn’t mean I don’t support them. They are my college team and will always be. When a football player doesn’t perform well or execute correctly on the field, they are benched by the coaches. It’s that simple. I feel strongly about certain aspects of UGA football that are not up to standards that every team should have and I’m frustrated by them.
Still love my team, just wished they were more competitive.
GT
October 10th, 2012
8:35 am
Could have been high school kids, about that maturity level.
TY
October 10th, 2012
8:36 am
And it wins the big games period!!! Ask Alabama.
VADAWG
October 10th, 2012
8:46 am
next head coach at UGA……….Kyle Whittingham (Coach at unversity of Utah)……..
Alphare
October 10th, 2012
8:48 am
You guys have to admit Spurrier is an evil. The plays he called and the defense that explored your weakness, all too evil to a point of genius.
Give credit where credit due.
Bremen Dawg
October 10th, 2012
8:49 am
I think this is being blowed out of porportion. This was college students who did this. This was not done by fans.
HBC owns Uga
October 10th, 2012
8:56 am
Guys, I’ve got to tell you. GATA sounds like something Bubba says to the new inmate. Gay!! You may want to come up with another saying
beanster
October 10th, 2012
8:56 am
“What a bunch of Gen Y cry baby tweeters.”
There’s a lot of truth to this statement. Something tells me if C Robinson and Murray spent less time on Twitter declaring to all how hard they’ve worked and how lofty their goals are, repeatedly reminding the fans with silly (and hollow, apparently) little catch phrases, there wouldn’t have been an embarrassing, high school prank committed by UGA STUDENTS (I have very little doubt here).
Stop with the Twitter garbage. Just shut up and play football.
BigRedandBlackDawg
October 10th, 2012
8:58 am
Stupid non-fans!
Say what you want now, but I don’t want to see you all back when UGA wins it’s 7th NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP next year.
Yes, we were flat against a worst team than us last week. But remember that we have more talent than anyone because we get the best from the best HS football state in the country. I know because I played in Cobb Co. and would have been a Dawg but blew out my knee my softmore season.
Remember the Dream Team? Their coming of age and will OWN SC, TN and FL.
MARK IT DOWN HATTERS!
Go DAWGS!
Billy Joe Bobby
October 10th, 2012
8:58 am
Every act of vandalism is “an isolated incident by small group”.
It only took one guy to throw a brick through Bill Curry’s window when he couldn’t win at Alabama.
It only took one guy to poison the TP Trees in Auburn.
What’s your point?
DrDawg
October 10th, 2012
9:01 am
My wife who doesn’t know much about football was watching the SC game and asked “Can’t the players go out there and call their own plays? They know what they can do.” And I had to agree with her. I would love to see a game with no coaches whatsoever. I think the players would call the right plays and mix things up much better than having to follow what the coaches call.
Billy Joe Bobby
October 10th, 2012
9:04 am
@PaulPaul
Bear Bryant never said “I can take mine an beat yours and take yours and beat mine”. Bear Bryant was not an egomaniac.
You’re thinking of this quote: “He can take his’n and beat you’rn, and he can take you’rn and beat his’n” — Florida A&M Coach Jake Gaither
Homer
October 10th, 2012
9:08 am
We are all taking about 18-22 year olds. Remember when you were 18-22, you didn’t have a clue about life or anything for that matter. The only thing you were thinking about is sports and who you were going to lay down with at night. Give these guys a break. It is one game! You people complaining will bet the same ones that will be sitting in the Georgia Dome if (and that is a big if) South Carolina (they don’t deserve to be called USC becouse there is a power house with championships on the left coast that deserves that honor) loses 2 times and UGA beats Fla cheering for them in the stands. Some of you guys and ladies are pathetic with the way you act towards sports. Get over it and move on, they lost. Regroup and win out. GOOO DAWGS is all you have to remember. And Jon Gruden, he!! no! Lane Kiffin, Jr.
333
October 10th, 2012
9:11 am
How can the actions of 2 or 3 guys be construed as speaking for millions?
Billy Joe Bobby
October 10th, 2012
9:13 am
333
October 10th, 2012
9:11 am
“How can the actions of 2 or 3 guys be construed as speaking for millions?”
You guys have never had a problem with that concept — so long as it has involved a different school.
PaperChamps
October 10th, 2012
9:14 am
RangerDawg – I dont know what world you are living in but UT has won a National Championship much more recently than UGA. And UF has been an elite program that has won more SEC championships and National Championships over the past 20 years. Get out of your bubble.
UGA has never been on the same level as UF from a National perspective and based on WINS. This is what’s wrong w/ UGA and their fan base, they are so used to winning the recruits in FEB that they forget that you have to win on the field.
You are correct that SCAR has officially passed UGA this year in terms of program status – at least based on wins, rankings and national perception.
ARdawg
October 10th, 2012
9:15 am
Chip Towers
Were no Mark Richt Tuesday news conference yesterday? I haven’t seen a word about one
crossdawg
October 10th, 2012
9:16 am
Takes an idiot to vandalize. Also takes an idiot to drive a Ford cause cmr advertised it. Make want a Chevy.
Moobs Johnson
October 10th, 2012
9:16 am
Did Mark Richt learn anything from ESP? I’m sure they could have come up with a better gameplan than he did against South Carolina.
OLD DOG
October 10th, 2012
9:17 am
As to the egging my late father said “just consider the source.” It takes a stupid man to do stupid things. First off SC is a very good football team and they put it to UGA, but that game has been played and bitching can’t change it. The future is where everyone needs to focus. Coaches, players and fans need to show what they are made of. The future will tell where the character lies with the coaches, players and true fans. Be careful what you ask for there may be another Ray Goff in waiting. Look at Auburn: Scam is gone and boy do they have problems. Just some thought from and “OLD DOG” that has seen most everything.
ARdawg
October 10th, 2012
9:18 am
BigRedandBlackDawg
Now that just funny. What is even funnier than that right there is the fact that you actually believe it. 7th NC next year. Already with the “get’em next year” Bullkaka
papadawg
October 10th, 2012
9:20 am
Cmon ALL DAWG fans aren’t like this. Sure we’re dissappointed with a loss but we’re not going to jump off the bandwagon and vandilize players property. I’ll leave that to the Weak Low Class Wannabee Low Lifes.
snoop dawgy dawg
October 10th, 2012
9:22 am
mike bubu screws up again
prpldawg
October 10th, 2012
9:26 am
J Dawg- Great and proper quote- Teddy Roosevelt.
I sadly am coming to the conclusion that the problem is at the top. A few things bother me about the critics on this blog- not you J dawg
1. You are not at practice so you do not what is going on. You do not know who is working hard. Shut up your stupid uneducated whine about the players.
2.I am tired of people ripping Rich for being a Christian. That does not disqualify him. That is not the problem.Have you critics ever heard of Tom Landry or John Wooden?
3. Anyone who mentions Jon Gruden is CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY. You do not know the whole story.You do not want him.
RainDog
October 10th, 2012
9:27 am
Bacarri’s still feeling the effects of all that weed—he looked slow on his reactions against usc.
BigRedandBlackDawg
October 10th, 2012
9:27 am
ARdawg,
Remember, I addressed you Stupid Non-Fans and you responded. Get off the train now if you want off. I just don’t want you back after we claim our 7th NC WITH our players.
ARdawg
October 10th, 2012
9:32 am
OLD DOG
A Ray Goff in waiting is very much worth the risks. We need a coach that will get the program over the hump and not cower on the big stage. It’s a risk and a gamble but one many folks are willing to risk
builderdawg
October 10th, 2012
9:33 am
Richt must go. RICHT MUST GO!!!!!!! thats all there needs to be said. He kind of reminded me of obama durning the debate with Romney the other night. Same kind of lame performance. And bobo would he be biden in this???? Yep, so what do you people expect? getting tired of watching the players getting their teeth kicked in on national t.v. Do not blame them. they are under the leadership of someone who has forgotton how to win a big game.
McDawg
October 10th, 2012
9:35 am
my house was egged last Halloween nasty stuff
Now -get abry jones healthy and J. Jones healthy–go out and execute at KY and come back and beat UF which will probably be ranked 3rd in the country
that is what the team needs to be focusing on -Just win
Dawg for life
October 10th, 2012
9:36 am
We need to find out who these egg throwing losers are and let the media make fools of them. Find these goons and bring them to ight. We dont need this
dawgfan
October 10th, 2012
9:37 am
I would hope that it goes without saying that it was a “small group” of people responsible for the egging and rolling. If the entire UGA fan base was responsible, which numbers in the hundreds of thousands if not millions, it would have been quite the spectacle.
About our big game struggles, I was thinking about this the other night. This isn’t necessarily a new development under Richt. Haters and detractors have been saying since day 1 of his tenure it seems. We lost to eventual national champ LSU twice in 2003, getting blown out the second time. We lost to undefeated Auburn in 2004 and it was never really that close or even interesting. That team was loaded, but we couldn’t compete. Sure, Richt had his fair share of big wins back then but we were getting blown out in big games too. West Virginia got a big lead on us in the Sugar Bowl because we were totally unprepared for that game. This year’s South Carolina game is nothing new.
We will never win a national title with Mark Richt as our head football coach. I am officially finished with hoping for that miracle. It just isn’t going to happen.
Thanks.
Dawg for life
October 10th, 2012
9:38 am
Find these goons and lets egg THEIR houses or mobile homes
ARdawg
October 10th, 2012
9:43 am
BigRedandBlackDawg
:ROFL:
beanster
October 10th, 2012
9:43 am
I was not commenting on the players’ work habits. I know they work hard. However, the Our Team, Our Time, No Regrets garbage needs to stop. To quote a great line from Top Gun “Your ego is writing checks your body can’t cash.”
Just shut up and play football.
ARdawg
October 10th, 2012
9:45 am
BigRedandBlackDawg
That’s so funny. Let me see. If you hadn’t blown out your knee and you were a Georgia Bulldog, we would have won the game last Sat night too? Right?
LOL
October 10th, 2012
9:45 am
LOL, look at all the sports psychologists on here waxing poetic about reasons someone rolled their house. How bout maybe it was just funny, and something you do when your in college. Maybe if murray didn’t blow their house would not have been rolled either. Jesus, its like someone stabbed him for losing the game the way some of you talk about it.
UGA Insider
October 10th, 2012
9:49 am
It wasn’t fans who egged the house it was UGA classmates. It all started back in 1994.
If you guys will remember I was with Will Muschamp the night classmates threw food and cussed us because Chris Doering and Steve Spurrier just hung 50 at Sanford Stadium. oh the memories!
UGA has been so pathetic in big games for so long….. I guess it’s like Obama says about the crappy economy… this is the new normal.
6 National Championships????
October 10th, 2012
9:50 am
You can’t include equestrian and women’s gymnastics titles into your football count moron.
UGA has no more than 2 NC’s in football you could call legitimate and weren’t by being awarded from the Dunkin Donuts National Poll or the Athens Banner Herald Poll.
Which once again puts you behind UF and their THREE actual National Titles played for and won.
ARdawg
October 10th, 2012
9:50 am
LOL
Exactly, and I am sure the group of “fans” responsible for egging and rolling the house natrually left their calling card? How else could someone know if they didn’t? These are college kids, could have been the game, could have been one banging another’s girlfriend, someone didn’t chip in enough at the last kegger. But no, let’s blame the entire UGA fan base. You homers are really becoming annoying
1eyedJack
October 10th, 2012
9:51 am
When your team sucks, go for the Dawg joke.
BIG MIKE
October 10th, 2012
9:51 am
If you’re looking for a COACH that can motivate…..Lou Holtz is your man. I’d bet he’s willing to get back in the game by now.
PaulPaul
October 10th, 2012
9:51 am
Billy Jo Bobby
Thanks for the correction. However I think Bear could have done that. Even as a Bulldog he is still one of my favorite coaches. Tough as nails and hard to beat.
ARdawg
October 10th, 2012
9:52 am
beanster
October 10th, 2012
9:43 am
I was not commenting on the players’ work habits. I know they work hard. However, the Our Team, Our Time, No Regrets garbage needs to stop. To quote a great line from Top Gun “Your ego is writing checks your body can’t cash.”
Just shut up and play football.
AMEN
bamafinbautards
October 10th, 2012
9:52 am
I love how the bama fanbase is equating rolling someone’s house to their fanbase’s actions. (Whoever did it deserves a beatdown, however,,,).
If you think throwing a few rolls of toilet paper is the same as sodomizing another dude, then I finnaly understand the extra/missing/mutated/ chromosomal thought process of bama folk.
These are the same people who entertain educated America each day on the finebaum reality radio show. Grown men calling in giving themselves names like legend. I bet he was a real legend in math class too. What a tool.
RedPantiesDawg
October 10th, 2012
9:53 am
I’m sure that Tony Barnhart will have a special section in his new TV show on the “Egging Incident” and how it affects college football. Talk about a leftist approach to college football! Geez!
I like Mark Richt and his ethics and morality; but, he is a Big East grade coach. He has stocked UGA with the best athletes in college football, but he’s like the dog chasing the car; when he gets them, he doesn’t know what to do with them. Saban or Spurrier, and many other coaches would win NC with UGA’s players. We can continue to fawn over beating Vandy and GT, and be satisfied, or we can change coaches. Those are the only two options.
UGA Insider
October 10th, 2012
10:00 am
UGA fans did NOT egg the house. It was kids in the student body! It happens at schools around the country every week sadly. However the AJC has pick up and run with the story like it’s important.
BIG MIKE
October 10th, 2012
10:02 am
Whom, in the game today, would any of you consider a better coach and UGA representative than Mark Richt. Dooley and Butts didn’t win Championships every year either and I guarantee you there were disappointments along the way. UGA should have won more championships in the early ’80’s than they did. They had the best talent in the SEC. Bad games happen. It’s identifying the reason for the failure and correcting it then moving on that counts. By the end of the year USC, UGA and UF could all have one loss against each other. Let it play out. The kids will overcome this adversity and it may be the final lesson they need to win the NC next year.
We’ll see.
gdawginkalamazoo
October 10th, 2012
10:04 am
Yes, now I can’t wait till next year. We get SC at home. Whoo hoooo!
gdawginkalamazoo
October 10th, 2012
10:06 am
Whoo hoo we also get Bama and LSU next year!
ARdawg
October 10th, 2012
10:06 am
Big Mike
There has been no correction on the part of the coach in the last six years. How many of these blow outs should we endure before we come to the realization that perhaps we have the wrong coaching staff to achieve a championship? If we are happy with not being a championship team then, by all means let’s just keep the status quo and we’ll get plenty of milktoast mediocrity
bamafinbautards
October 10th, 2012
10:10 am
Billy Joe Bobby = Brian “sack of Krystals” Downing
RedPantiesDawg
October 10th, 2012
10:11 am
Big Mike, the aforementioned, already identified problem is not the need for the kids to learn an adversity lesson. The problem is the coaching staff and its leader, Mark Richt. Look at the record against ranked teams since 2008; it isn’t the players.
The only times I can remember Dooly getting embarrassed like Richt was Saturday night, was when he foolishly accepted an invitation to play Nebraska in the Sun Bowl (45-6) with a very under-qualified team, and in the ‘77 Sugar Bowl agaist Pitt (27-3). That was over a period of 25 years, and no, Dooly did not have the best players in college football like Richt does now.
dawgfan
October 10th, 2012
10:12 am
Then you hear about Aaron Murray not being able to sleep for days before the South Carolina game. That is not good. You need a QB who is relaxed under pressure. You need a QB with “ice water in his veins” as the saying goes. Too much of the offense is on his shoulders. That’s just all there is to it. Its fine when we’re playing a Vandy or a Missouri, but against the big boys a QB can only take you so far. You’ve got to be physical up front or you’re toast. I’ve been saying this until I am blue in the face. Its been proven time and time again. Murray can’t beat teams like South Carolina all by himself but that is what he is asked to do. He has no support up front. This is Bobo’s biggest and most fatal flaw. He wants us to be like an NFL team but this isn’t the NFL and we don’t have the horses up front to be like an NFL team against good teams.
I’m sure we’ll score 40 or more points on Kentucky though and then all the Bobo apologists will start coming out of hiding and say he’s doing a fine job. They’ll blame the South Carolina loss on Murray. Murray is only doing what he’s told to do. You put Murray in an Alabama uniform and he’s probably not shattering records and throwing for a zillion yards but he’s winning championships. True story.
Thanks.
DawgFanInBama
October 10th, 2012
10:14 am
How does anyone even know it was a Georgia fan? It probably was, but how do you KNOW?
I live in Alabama…So if I go and egg the houses of the Alabama QB or Auburn QB, will it be blamed on one of their own fans???
Probably not.
Ole Big Dawg
October 10th, 2012
10:16 am
Seriously??? I hope the guys are more concerned about their uninspired play on the field rather than some toilet paper and eggs…….middle school shenanigans!
dawgfan
October 10th, 2012
10:19 am
“Whom, in the game today, would any of you consider a better coach and UGA representative than Mark Richt.”
Kirby Smart would take the job in a heart beat. Former player. Studied under the best of the best and knows what it takes to get to the top. It would be a gamble for sure. Everything is a gamble. Keeping Richt is a gamble. I see nothing but Outback Bowls and runner up finishes in the SEC East in our future, if that. We’ll probably have plenty of 8 win seasons or worse thrown in to. We’re only a couple of injuries away from being an 8 win caliber team right now. I’m bored with it. Time to move on to something new.
Ole Big Dawg
October 10th, 2012
10:20 am
Seriously?? Why is this even news worthy in an article?? In my little small home town of 30,000 folks the highs school qb house is rolled…it is NOT news for the small town newspaper. But this is for the city paper of the 7th largest media mecca in the country. Sake of having fresh articles I assume.
shankit
October 10th, 2012
10:31 am
Did the Athens police take any finger prints off
the egg shells?
BIG MIKE
October 10th, 2012
10:34 am
What happens when Kirby doesn’t produce? The head coach in college is mostly a figure head. Even Spurrier said he has nothing to do with the USC defensive success, ”The defensive coordinator and those other coaches handle all that” (speaking of the defensive schemes).
Richt manage to do well winning championships at FLA ST and later as head coach of UGA in early 2000’s. The problem is deeper than that. The actions of the Athletic Director and the former defensive coordinator left UGA with a severe hangover that has to be overcome. Same as when Ray Goff was head coach. In fact this reminds me of those years, only I don’t think Richt is the problem. I think Richt is on the verge of correcting the problem which he in part created with the hiring of Willie Martinez.
DAWG FAN KICKED IN THE NADS
October 10th, 2012
10:35 am
Back to back 10-2 seasons is not going to get Richt replaced. Three 6-7 seasons in a row would. Hoping UGA wins a national championship is the carrot and stick every few years. Demanding it is delusional. There is such parity among the top tier teams that it comes down to coaching. We have “good” coaches, but the grades are poor, fair, good, and excellent. The distance between good and excellent is analogous to making the cut in a golf tournamnet to play the weekend, and winning it.
shankit
October 10th, 2012
10:35 am
BIG MIKE – Georgia did not look like Kentucky.
Kentucky actually had the lead at half time, as I recall.
Dawglasville
October 10th, 2012
10:42 am
Alphare – Nothing Could Be Finer – Congrats. Your fan base has suffered for years. Supported your team through disappointment. You have your reward. You have one of the best coaches of all time. I think he is a total douche bag of a person, but he is truly a great coach.
I was so mad Saturday I swore that I wouldn’t watch us again until we hired Petrino, started gray shirting and dropped our drug policy. Basically sell our souls. 4 days later… I don’t know what the answer is. I think Richt is fine but we need coaching changes. Most noteably we need someone who can recruit offensive lineman and develope them. I don’t understand why Bennett is the only receiver we have who can block. I agree with Mark Bradley, I think the UF game should hold a lot of weight for this coaching staff. I would like to know where all of the Mettenberger fans are now?
LogicalUS
October 10th, 2012
10:44 am
Unrealistic and overhyped expectations are somewhat to blame for this reaction to a very predictable result vs SC.
We all witnessed the inflated predictions by the vast majority of the forum UGA fans leading into the game….52-17, 48-21, etc. These were of course understandable considering the unrelenting sunshine pumping by the local UGA beaner “journalists” at the AJC who have been pushing the UGA as the greatest team in the history of football angle for the past 10 months.
The never-ending promotion of every RB as the next Hershel is just one small example. That “Gurshall” ran up their yards against some of the worst run defenses in college football was never mentioned as the resident UGA homers masquerading as sports journalist were too busy pimping up “their Dawgs”. In many cases, they are worst than many of the UGA fans by getting caught up in their own hype, so why shouldn’t the rest of the UGA fans who rely on these journalists to give them the real scoop on the team. So fans are in shock when the actual team appears on the scene like on Saturday night and react irrationally. Conner Shaw outrushed the great and mighty “Gurshall”.
UGA was\is what they always were….a very pedestrian top 15 to 25 level team who still lacks playmakers at WR and quality OL.
BMOC
October 10th, 2012
10:44 am
I’ve said similiar things before, but I cann not emphisize enough how bad the UGA coaching staff needs to evaluate player talent coming out of High School. Granted, we have lots of talent, but South Carolina does, too. And while they have a couple of 4 & 5 star recruits, the majority of their players are 3-star recruits – Just like Michael Bennett – which just fo happens to be Georgia’s leading receiver. I believe UGA scouts need to spend more time evaluating talent – Or hire a different set of scouts, to go out & find the Michael Bennetts of the world. Sout Carolina is beating Georgia’s 5-star guys with 3-star guys. Point taken.
Preston Thompson
October 10th, 2012
10:50 am
I like the banter on here. But when anybody trashes somebody’s stuff the line has been crossed. And to think a redneck did it make the whole thing worse. I hate to fathom one of my own would do something like that. Just cuz they might not have but 2 teeth, drive a pickup with a gun rack is not reason enough for trashing anybody’s stuff. As a younger boy I was probably as mean as anybody. If somebody wanted to fight I was just about as ready as anybody. But I never messed with other folks property. That’s off limits and it not limited to rednecks. I would dare say it probably some drunk high falutin college student. They would know where Murray live before some “redneck” out in the sticks would.
Then to Richt and Bobo. There is two problems here. One is Richt wants the players to love him. Maybe they do but they don’t have the fear of respect. Second is Bobo is and has learned on the job. If he doesn’t learn from his mistakes he won’t have a second one.
BMOC
October 10th, 2012
10:53 am
LogicalUS
While I disagree with most of your blog, there is some truth to it. I believe most UGA fans were shocked at not that UGA lost, but the way UGA lost. South Carolina is a good team – Maybe a Very good team, but UGA was flat-out unprepared. Granted SCar has talent in areas UGA lacks, such as the Line of scrimage, things shouldn’t have gotten out of hand so fast. And I think the fact that SCar barely won vs Vanderbilt & played close games for most of the season, UGA fans had reason to think that UGA would win this game – or at least it would be a nail-biter. As the season rolls on we will find out how good SCar really is, and if this was just a game where the setting was right for SCar on a night where they got all the breaks.
BIG MIKE
October 10th, 2012
10:57 am
You guys have to keep in mind that the hinge pin of this or any offense is the O-LINE. Our guys are extremely young and underdeveloped (naturally). After a year or two in the weight traing program, they will beef up and be able to handle D-LINES like the one they faced Saturday in Columbia. In the meantime, I’m extremely disappointed that our coaching staff did not game plan (at all) for this mismatch. I don’t know, maybe there was no option available. Or the could have had our quarterback, not necessarily Murray, run the ball more on sweeps with pitch options. Not even sure that would have worked. USC was amped up and overachieving (if the results of their previous 5 games are accounted for).
In any case, the offensive line has not peaked and probably won’t until next year. When they do, no one will stop this attack. With Murray or Mason.
gdawginkalamazoo
October 10th, 2012
10:59 am
BMOC, I think the close games that SC played earlier in the season were close because SC spent the practice time preparing for us instead of the other guys. Spurrier knew he could beat those other teams on talent alone and with minimal preparation. Us, he wanted to have the best gameplan to win it like they did.
TBone
October 10th, 2012
11:03 am
The fans should be more gracious to these (for the most part) teenagers who entertain us on Saturdays. Are they going to perform to our expectations every time, probably not. Do we want them to win every Saturday or bowl game, damn right but that’s not going to happen. Even Hershell didn’t win ‘em all. Go Dawgs and make us proud often.
dawgfan
October 10th, 2012
11:07 am
“You guys have to keep in mind that the hinge pin of this or any offense is the O-LINE. Our guys are extremely young and underdeveloped (naturally). After a year or two in the weight traing program, they will beef up and…”
Blah, blah, blah, blah. Give it a rest dude. We’ve been hearing this same tired crap for years now. It isn’t happening. We’re talking about HALF A DECADE of abysmal failures in big games here. You act like this is something new. You act like problems on the O-line are something new. They most certainly are not. He’s had YEARS to fix it and it hasn’t happened. Its been nothing but excuses about injuries, inexperience and we’re supposed to “wait til next year.” With all due respect, you are in fantasy land.
What would happen if Kirby Smart didn’t produce you ask? I don’t have the foggiest effing clue and don’t really care at this point. Richt has gone stale. He has no idea how to win a big game. The evidence is insurmountable. If you disagree you are in la la land, with all due respect of course.
Thanks.
Inlet Dawg
October 10th, 2012
11:11 am
I love my players and I will be first in line to whip up on the cheap vandals that threw the eggs and toilet paper.It is my coaches that I don’t like,same old story time and time again show up unprepared for any games of significance.They do less with more than any other staff in the country.
a voice in the wilderness
October 10th, 2012
11:15 am
hey Big Mike, you know that the whole world can read your remarks…put down the keyboard and walk away…
DirtyDawg
October 10th, 2012
11:16 am
It’s really disheartening to read those that refuse to accept the concept of ‘we’re all in this together’. Sure I’m as unhappy about that damned game as any…almost as unhappy as the coaches and players…but I’m smart enough to appreciate that the only way out is to pull together and ‘right the ship’. Nothing good can come of the caterwauling and naysaying, and certainly something bad can – like signaling to prospective recruits…recruits that can make us better…’why the hell would I want to go to Georgia? They’ve even got to have extra patrols around players and coaches homes to protect them from their own fans.’ Talk about effin stupid.
a voice in the wilderness
October 10th, 2012
11:20 am
How many recruiters from other SEC schools have saved the Herbstriet comments saved to laptop hard drives to be played to prospective recruits? Probably all of them.
LogicalUS
October 10th, 2012
11:21 am
“SCar barely won vs Vanderbilt & played close games for most of the season”
But this sort of PROVES my point…looking at SC season so far they have not played close games for most of the season? Where did people get this idea? They did appear to struggle vs Vandy in the very first game of the season but tons of thems do that…otherwise they looked to have beaten the crap out of most of the teams they have played.
Vandy 17-10
East Carolina 48-10
UAB 49-6
Missouri 31-10
UK 38-17
I saw them completely demolish the Mizzou team on CBS in the exact same fashion as they plummelled UGA on Saturday night. UGA struggled with that team and pulled away with Jones two ints…yet everyone simply blocked that out of their analysis as if it never occurred and was unimportant.
If the AJC beaners were doing their job they would have been doing a in-depth analysis of SC so that the UGA fans were aware that SC would be bringing a dangerous team into the match up and they should be wary…instead all the UGA fans got was “GURSHALL” and that UGA had finally found the newest Hershel.
BIG MIKE
October 10th, 2012
11:32 am
Obviously you can’t analyze a team by what they did against common opponents; otherwise, based on the common Vanderbilt opponent, UGA should have wiped the floor with USC.
Some of you so-called ‘fans” remind me of the character Randy Quaid played in MAJOR LEAGUES. Bitching and griping through the whole season, doubting what you can plainly see, only to jump on the wagon when it looks like things have turned around.
UGA ‘WILL’ win the rest of the games this season, including UF. Mark my words. I knew from the get go, they would probably lose against USC because of the O-LINE:D-LINE mismatch. UF is going to face the same chainsaw in a couple of weeks. USC earned it, let’s face it…..oh yeah, we still have the rest of the season to play…….
troser
October 10th, 2012
11:39 am
As for me…I am tired of having to hope somebody else has to beat SC or FLA for UGA to get to Atlanta….My goodness….CMR..I support you step up and make something happen…It was embarrasing to hear the commentators script which play we should be running and not our OC….dissapointed dawg!
Rick James
October 10th, 2012
11:41 am
Told ya…thanks for visiting Columbia…Y’all come back now!!
Bulldog Born & Bred
October 10th, 2012
11:46 am
you are absouletly right sick &tired we will never contend for a national championship under this coaching staff if we are satisfied beating Buffalo or fla atl or Ga southern then these are the coaches we need
sawdawg
October 10th, 2012
11:51 am
this egg throwing was probably done by drunk tech fans to make uga look bad. ga fans wouldn’t do that.
Nothing Could Be Finer
October 10th, 2012
11:53 am
Four-star DT Kelsey Griffin from Hoschton, GA just committed to the Gamecocks over Georgia.
HUGE get for Carolina.
McDawg
October 10th, 2012
11:56 am
win the rest of our games and there is a good chance that we will be right back in it
i think USC loses to LSU not sure about UF
Real Dawg Fan
October 10th, 2012
12:00 pm
The same ole fools get on here everyday and call for Richt head, get over it!
He’s one of the best coaches in the land that wins and loses with integrity. Sometimes teams just want it more. If you ask any coach in the History of sports: they will tell you that being consistent and being in the conversation every year is all you can ask for in sports.
WE HAVE THAT NOW! Richt has brought our program out of the mud that Donnan and Goff stuck us in THANK YOU CRM!
BIG MIKE
October 10th, 2012
12:12 pm
@Real Dawg Fan
Here, Here. I happen to believe that UGA is close, but not there yet. With a little more seasoning they will be ready and CMR will be the one that gets them there. There is only one Nick Saban and Steve Spurrier. They are great coaches in their own right. They have also been Head Coaches a lot longer than CMR. Don’t think Richt is stupid, he is learning and taking his lumps with every loss. Why should we train him to be a Head Coach only to let him go to another program, so that they might reap the benefits.
Stick with him a couple of more years and you will see a difference. He is a much better coach now than he was 10 years ago, even though he won a couple of championships then. I have never seen an offense operate the way this one does. The maturing of the offensive line is the final piece of the puzzle.
Under The Bleachers
October 10th, 2012
12:13 pm
The basics are: CMR is one heck of a recruiter. Good Evaluator of talent. A Good Play Caller.
He has proven he can take talent from the previous coaching regime and win and
and win big with them. But since that talent worked its way through the program
the numbers have fallen. The man is a good man, a good christian man as UGA
fans say when he is attacked or falls short. But good men are not always the best
football coaches. In 10 plus years we have seen the wins against top 25 teams
become losses. Now his players personal lives and property are being attacked.
Let me ask you a question. If the egging and TP attack happened at one of the
other schools, how long would it take for a Nick Saban, Les Miles, Bob Stoops,
Urban Meyer, even Will Muschamp to address it in a more than aggressive manner?
One word adjective to describe Mark Richt; Soft
ARdawg
October 10th, 2012
12:18 pm
Big Mike
The definition of insanity as Einstein put it is “doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result”.
Where does this vicious cycle end?
Dawgsgone
October 10th, 2012
12:25 pm
Re: BIGMIKE You’re right, our O line is young and undeveloped but when have they not been? Last year we had experience on the line and still lost the four games that meant the most. Our coaches spend far too much time recruiting 5′9′ 178 lb. db/wr as opposed to linemen that can be coached and trained to CONTROL THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE AND THE GAME. We play freshmen, r freshmen and sophmores every year (look at the roster and note the classes of O linemen) and are unable to grind out hard yards and first downs when it means the most. Maybe we are always going to run this shotgun offense regardless of score and field position but the results speak for themselves. We have not and most likely will not go any further than we are now until this changes.
doug dawg
October 10th, 2012
12:28 pm
if the dawgs were 6-0 right now, having beaten sc by 28, there would still be complainers on here — it should have been 35 points. these are our guys, folks, and they are talented, and they work hard, and the do have good coaching. s==t happens in football, and in all sports. success often breeds complacency; when alabama goes a couple of years without a championship — and it WILL happen — see what goes on over there. but, egging the home of our players is out of the range of simply being a disappointed fan; it is vandalism. and for those who think egging is ‘just a prank’, try seeing what eggs to do a car, a house, windows, etc. it is vandalism pure and simple, and it is expensive to repair. you STUPID PEOPLE WHO DID THIS DID MORE HARM TO OUR TEAM THAN YOU KNOW. YOU ARE NO DGDS TO BE VERY SURE. if you cannot do or say anything to help, just GO HOME, TO WHATEVER TRAILER PARK THAT IS. DISGUSTING. GOOOOOOOO DAWGS, WE LOVE YOU.
i hope you idiots are caught and made to pay the landlord of this property to repair the damage.
ARdawg
October 10th, 2012
12:34 pm
doug dawg
What is ,ore stupid is to blame an entire fan base for a common college prank. It’s a deflection, pure and simple. Even if it were a fan it still isn’t the fan base. These are big boys and quite likely they are egg and rolling someone elses house too. It’s a non-issue for the sole purpose of deflecting
BIG MIKE
October 10th, 2012
12:35 pm
I agree, the O-LINE and TEAM strength and conditioning were not close to par for years. Back in the 70’s and 80’s, UGA, Clemson, USC among other 1A teams had a steroid program to go with their weight training. Not sure if that ended with the big push against steroids, but, Richt and team have changed their weight training program after realizing what we all see. What they were doing was not working. What they are doing now, is working; however, it takes more than one year in the program to make a difference and UGA has a lot of Freshmen they are counting on this year that haven’t even been in the program a year.
Really?
October 10th, 2012
12:35 pm
As I read all the comments from posters who have been in hiding for most of the season now thumping their chests and trying to rub salt in the wounds of Georgia fans I question if that cowardly vandalism was done by even a fair weather Bulldog fan.
That trade school player that was jacked up on steroids and attacked the cops in Athens may have been on another spree. I wonder where gt boob and 5150 AHOLE were during this incident?
timthebrave
October 10th, 2012
12:47 pm
My house got rolled back in high school and I never thought it was a big deal. I found out later that it was friends in the neighborhood. I thought it was a funny prank. Egging someone’s house could damage the paint so that is not so funny. I don’t see why this is even a big story. Just my opinion. Go dawgs!
Under The Bleachers
October 10th, 2012
12:57 pm
I just do not see what some of you see when it comes to the defense next year. I see your two big men in the middle going to he NFL, your best Defensive Outside Lb/DE is gone to the NFL, your best DB is gone to the NFL, your best LB is gone to the NFL. UGA is not Alabama in terms of depth of depth and talent of talent at this point in time, but I may be wrong.
BIG MIKE
October 10th, 2012
1:06 pm
I don’t think Jarvis Jones will leave for the NFL this year although he could. He still has one year of eligibility left and I think he will use that. There is more to this kid than most. He has the right stuff.
Bob
October 10th, 2012
1:13 pm
As a fan, I think it is ridiculous and extreamy imature the behavior of the punks that would egg and roll a players residence, after a football loss.
The players surley didn’t want to loose the game, they kept fighting, South Carolina, had a good gameplan, and they won…..so we’ll get’em next year..there still plenty of football left to play! So Go Dawgs!!! The SEC East is still in our sights, we just need a little help now……
dawgfan
October 10th, 2012
1:20 pm
Under the bleachers, you aren’t wrong. The defense will be ugly next year. I was a huge Grantham fan but not anymore. Willie Martinez is probably wondering why in the hell he lost his job. Look what Grantham has done this year with all this NFL talent at his disposal: Jack squat. Our defense has to be one of the biggest underachievers in all of college football this year. There are huge swaths of the field completely unmanned game after game. Its painful to watch. Its almost like all we seem interested in is rushing the QB and getting sacks. That’s great, but if you don’t get the sack bad things can happen. Let’s think outside the box a little bit here Grantham. Connor Shaw almost mocked our defense in his pregame interviews. He said he saw plenty of things to exploit. I thought he was being a little arrogant until I saw him go out there and make it happen on the field without breaking a sweat. He was just stating the obvious. To be called out like that and do absolutely nothing about it is absolutely humiliating for our defense. So how in the world is it going to get better when all those NFL guy’s leave? It isn’t. We’re in for a world of hurt next year.
The blind homer apologists will say I’m not a true fan for stating what should be painfully obvious to anyone with the cognitive abilities of a 4 year old and fully functioning eye sight. Then when what I predict happens they will act like they never saw it coming and bury their heads in the sand even further. Its the blind homer apologists that are perfectly content with the occassional Outback Bowl berth and “wait til next year” that are driving this program in to infinite mediocrity, not people like me.
Thanks.
ARdawg
October 10th, 2012
1:21 pm
Bob
After a 35-7 beatdown we are not worthy of representing the East even if we were to back into it. On top of that, two years in a row? C’mon man, have we NO pride?
MT
October 10th, 2012
1:23 pm
Ditch Richt, I no I don’t hate him.
MT
October 10th, 2012
1:26 pm
A good christian football coach was Tom Osborne, moral man but could win the big game.
Mike T.
October 10th, 2012
1:29 pm
Clowney said most of the time he knew when Georgia was gonna snap the ball. Outcoached again.
El-Toro GATA
October 10th, 2012
1:39 pm
I have few thoughts about our loss to carolina
1- Bobo lacks big stage ideas! his plan for the game should count on short passes and protection, he approached the game as he was playing Vandy, Clowney should have been neutralized by double team. i reminds me of our loss to Bama in 08 and LSU last year. he has the same damn plan! no innovation!
2- Murray is an easy breakable QB, once he get knocked down a couple of times he becomes a terrible one!a mirror immage of his OC
3- despite our loss I still believe our D is for real
4. if we lose to Florida, I will never believe Georgia can be an elite program again under Mark Richt
RiffRaff
October 10th, 2012
1:41 pm
I think Rambo had something to do with the vandalism – there was egg on his face early in the SC game.
cdog
October 10th, 2012
1:47 pm
the bulldogs don”t have the right qb, head coach and defensive coordinator to win national championships.the defense hits one lick and stays on the line reading instead of going after the ball.south carolina put them to sleep reading.mark ritch can”t win because he kicks off players or suspends them for getting a traffic ticket.learn to use other methods of punishment lick running or something to assure that if you go in the big games you will be at full strength. and finally aaron murray is not the kind of quarterback you win with.he”s weak, slow and rubber legged.all of this equals losing which he usually does in big games.
scbigdawg
October 10th, 2012
1:50 pm
These young men have such great attitudes and all seem to know what direction they need to be headed. I believe in this group of DAWGS and had to eat alot of crow this week here in Carolina but thats ok we will be a better team after the thumping we took. LOVE this team GO DAWGS !!!!!!!!!!!!
Disgusted Dawg
October 10th, 2012
2:13 pm
Fire Richt or keep losing. This is not rocket science.
Disgusted Dawg
October 10th, 2012
2:16 pm
@ El-Toro GATA
If we beat Florida, you will then believe Georiga will be an elite program un CMR???
Last big win 2007. Florida is not good this year. If we win big deal. They have no offense. It won’t be defensive dominance that wins it for us, it will be offensive stank.
Mr. Hankey (Pankey)
October 10th, 2012
2:20 pm
I’m really not surprised that, a, we got are collective butts whipped and, b, Arron Murray choked and looked like a deer in headlights. I’m an alumni and season ticket holder and this is my last year after 30 years. Not because we lost, not because Murray choked, but because of DDDDBAGS like the idiots with the eggs and t paper and other idiots all over the country poisoning tress and making death threats. Seriously, are you kidding me? Somebody will leak the word who is guilty and I wouldn’t want Arthur Lynch showing up late at night on my doorstep. As for Richt, tell who you’re going to replace him with and I might listen, but for now he’s our very stand up guy and 5 days ago was everybody’s best pal. Just saying. Hang in there guys. I look forward to part 2 when we find out who did it and the YouTube of what their front yard looks like. Might be a few bodies. And richly deserved.
Mr. Hankey (Pankey)
October 10th, 2012
2:24 pm
Oh, yeah. I REALLY SINCERELY HATE to say this, but I wouldn’t hold out a lot of hope for the FL game, folks. He’s got thosse kids down there rolling. I might listen to Muschamp coming here. That game could VERY EASILY get out of hand. It literally depends which dogs show up. We’ve got an off week and they’ve got LSU so you would think that’s in our favor, but like the Braves, the Hawks and the Falcons for WHATEVER reason, some unholy pact with the devil or a curse from and indian tribe somebody built a building over their graveyard on P’tree Street, we’re just as like to do down there and wet 56 pairs of silver britches. Sorry. Just being realistic.
Dawggone
October 10th, 2012
2:46 pm
FL is overrated at No. 4, but I don’t know how you can say they’re not good. They have a dominant defense, one of the best RB’s in the conference and a young QB who doesn’t make many mistakes and runs their offense very well.
Dawg for life
October 10th, 2012
2:50 pm
I say we need to find the goons that went after Murray ’s house in Athens. The line got dumped on all night long. Don’t make Murray take all the blame. The whole dm team got embarrassed. Get over it and win the East Division and that will shut Spurrior for the year.
Dawg zone
October 10th, 2012
2:53 pm
This story has to do wonders for recruiting…
Tech Sucks
October 10th, 2012
3:33 pm
Definitely would have changed the game if Rambo caught that. It’s unfortunate.
dawgfan
October 10th, 2012
3:37 pm
“FL is overrated at No. 4, but I don’t know how you can say they’re not good. They have a dominant defense, one of the best RB’s in the conference and a young QB who doesn’t make many mistakes and runs their offense very well.”
LOL @ this post. Allow me to translate: If you look past the fact that they’re solid in just about every phase of the game, they’re overrated. That makes about as much sense as Mike Bobo’s game plan this past Saturday.
We’ll be lucky to be ranked after they hand us our azz in a few weeks.
Ole Big Dawg
October 10th, 2012
3:40 pm
Again..why is this a topic….a rented house that Murray is living in???? Lets hear from the owner of the house. How he feels about his house being egged and tp. Lol this is the stupidest story ever…guess what folks…kids have egged and tp houses for generations. You think Christian Robinson or Murray really care…lol….they just writing a rent check at the first of the month,…get real morons…college students renting..sheesh
Dawggone
October 10th, 2012
3:46 pm
I’m not sure they’re the 4th best team in the country. You can be a very good football team and not be one of the four best in the land. It’s not a tough concept (well, perhaps for you).
dawgfan
October 10th, 2012
3:49 pm
“Definitely would have changed the game if Rambo caught that.”
There were about 100+ other plays in that game that say differently. Our offensive line would have magically figured out how to block South Carolina if Rambo catches that ball? Our defense would have magically figured out how to stop Connor Shaw from pretty much running on them at will? They would not have had busted coverage after busted coverage if Rambo had caught that one ball? We put absolutely no pressure on Shaw the entire game, but that changes if Rambo catches that one ball?
You’ve been listening to too many Mark Richt press conferences. This is not how big time football programs operate. They don’t hope that great things happen to them. They make them happen.
Thanks.
dawgfan
October 10th, 2012
3:55 pm
I don’t know dude. They’re undefeated and its October 10th. They beat LSU. This is the SEC we’re talking about. Sounds like top 5 material to me. I’ve seen them play. Sure, they aren’t flashy and putting up fancy stats like we are (or did), but they’re doing the things that you need to do in this league to win big like winning the battles up front and controlling the football. Richt & Co. should be taking a lot of notes.
I’m sorry. I’m really not trying to give you blind homer apologists too much of a hard time, but your acceptance of mediocrity is killing this program.
Thanks.
Dawggone
October 10th, 2012
4:06 pm
I’ve maintained all along that UF is good. I’m stunned by what Muschamp has accomplished in a year. They folded in the second half last year (look at our win in Jax). This year they haven’t given up a single point in the fourth quarter. I still think they’re a year away from being a top 5 team. Again, that’s hardly disparaging them. We’ll see how they do against South Carolina. If Florida wins that game, then I’ll freely admit that they’re top 5 material.
BTW, I’m hardly a Richt apologist. But I also don’t lump him in with Ray Goff either. But you’d better have a good idea of who is coming in next before you part ways with Richt. Despite what some believe, canning Richt does not automatically mean that the program will improve.
Troup Co. Dawg
October 10th, 2012
4:20 pm
Bobo lays eggs every big game we play in…if any house should be egged, just sayin’ ! Dumb teenagers that had nothing better to do!
ARdawg
October 10th, 2012
4:22 pm
“But you’d better have a good idea of who is coming in next before you part ways with Richt”
Dawggone, thats a pretty lame statement right there. Changing coaches is always a gambling risk. No coach expresses an interest in a position that isn’t yet available, much less a quality coach
Michael Dyer
October 10th, 2012
4:24 pm
“Despite what some believe, canning Richt does not automatically mean that the program will improve.”
You’re right. The only thing for certain is that keeping Mark Richt means that UGA will never be anything more than mediocre. Mediocre, by definition, is not “worst”.
Two to the shoe
October 10th, 2012
4:31 pm
3MM a year for what? All of you homers need to wake up and get a dose of reality. Mark Richt is not a great coach. He is a good man, we’ve all said it. So what, so is my pastor and there is no way in hell he should be a football coach. Richt has a Ferrari sitting here and has no idea how to drive a stick. But wait some say, he’s a good man an represents the school well. What? Give me a freaking break. What are we getting for the money? Thats the real question. Kirby Smart, Dan Mullen, Joker Phillips, etc could all give us the exact same wins that Richt has given us since 2005 (LSU). He hasnt done anything that any other coach couldnt do. Get rid of him and lets right the ship. Spend the money and put an end to this low-level bush league bs. Go waive 6MM a year in front of some hungry OC in the NFL and see how much interest you get.
Dawggone
October 10th, 2012
4:36 pm
AR, not many coaches who win 75% of their games get a pink slip. You usually toss them because they’re not winning, so what do you have to lose. I share the frustration with Richt’s inability to beat ranked teams, but look at this way: he’s done better overall than the three guys before him (Donnan 68%, Goff 57% and Dooley 72%) and Richt’s won considerably more than Georgia’s historical 64.5% winning percentage.
Doesn’t mean he shouldn’t go. There are good arguments for making a change. But we could (and historically, we have!) done worse. That’s not spin, it’s just reality.
Michael Dyer
October 10th, 2012
4:36 pm
Meh. A “good” man would properly discipline his staff and team. Claiming Christianity doesn’t automatically make someone a good man.
Observer
October 10th, 2012
4:38 pm
111-39 coaching in the SEC is “mediocre”? I wonder how many actual college coaches (as opposed to armchair quarterbacks) would agree with that statement?
Michael Dyer
October 10th, 2012
4:43 pm
@Dawggone
Q: What do all of the coaches that you mentioned have in common?
A: All were assistant coaches when Georgia hired them to take their first Head Coaching job.
Maybe you should try to hire someone who is a proven Head Coach next time?
Michael Dyer
October 10th, 2012
4:45 pm
Mark Richt has done okay when the major powers in the conference have been down for one reason or another. He’s been lucky. Lucky is good, but Mark Richt isn’t an elite CFB HC.
Dawggone
October 10th, 2012
4:49 pm
@ Michael Dyer – I agree with looking for a proven head coach, although I recall that Donnan had been a very successful head coach at Marshall before coming to Athens.
Observer
October 10th, 2012
4:52 pm
Honest question for the folks wanting Richt gone. Who do you think UGA could get to replace him (who realistically might take the job, not guys like Chis Petersen who clearly isn’t leaving Boise). I’m not sure who I’d want UGA to target.
The Tide is Rolling and Nothing can stop it
October 10th, 2012
4:54 pm
What did UGA do inbetween Dooley and Richt?
Be careful what you wish for pups.
castle pines canine
October 10th, 2012
5:29 pm
What kind of rednecks do we have as fans now. How on earth do you do that to your team (or any team players for that matter). I would hope that someone knows something, and the will report it. I read where Carvell had his car trashed at Clemson, 31 years ago, that happened to me. Those are some classless fans for sure. Having said that, the best fans which I have ever seen were in Missouri, I’ve been to games at every SEC venue except for Arkansas, and A&M now, and none could hold a light to class those Mizzou fans displayed. I hope that we can learn a lesson here and not let our team be treated in the manner in which some rednecks chose to do after the SC game. WOW
castle pines canine
October 10th, 2012
5:31 pm
AR Dawg, no coach except Urban Meyer, and Nick Saban
castle pines canine
October 10th, 2012
5:32 pm
Tide is rolling, probabally similar to between Bryant and Saban, except for the cheating year that were Stallings
Jorge O'leary
October 10th, 2012
5:35 pm
Finesse football doesn’t work in the SEC. It does in the ACC. P.S. Oklahoma shut Richt’s mighty offense down in the last bowl game he coached Free Shoes U!
Jorge O'leary
October 10th, 2012
5:38 pm
Observer
October 10th, 2012
4:38 pm
111-39 coaching in the SEC is “mediocre”? I wonder how many actual college coaches (as opposed to armchair quarterbacks) would agree with that statement?
Wait it out, it will reveal itself…by the way, you sucked a big turd against UCF in a meaningless bowl game where Richt admitted being out coached. All any team has to do is look at UCF’s game film that day….
Game Changer
October 10th, 2012
6:18 pm
John Jenkins plays like a FAT SLUG ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD, HAS NOT DONE ONE THING TO HELP THE TEAM. HOW DOES HE GET APPOINTED CAPTAIN????
Game Changer
October 10th, 2012
6:28 pm
2007 to 2011 Mark Richt is 26 and 15 SEC record .634% winning record
2012 Currently 3 and 1, loss a big game we had to win
I would not use the word mediocre / I CALL IT TOTAL FAILURE AND UNACCEPTABLE
Vince Dooley
October 10th, 2012
6:33 pm
Y’all may have forgotten, but I went 20-13-1 from 1977-79, you know, right before 1980.
Fred
October 10th, 2012
7:08 pm
Very classy Dwags..
Billy Joe Bobby
October 10th, 2012
8:20 pm
At least you get Kentucky in a couple of weeks. Maybe you can beat them. That’ll have you all back to talking about winning the NC again!
Blake
October 10th, 2012
8:47 pm
I’ve been silent for a while now, but I still can’t get past the lack of game planning for that game. We continuously tried to block Clowney one on one and with a tailback. I’m not a coach, but I could tell you that wasn’t going to work. Maybe we just got too full of ourselves. I’m still just dumbfounded. Either way, our coaches and players are gonna have to step up and put this one behind them. The nation thinks we’re overrated and until we do something to disprove that, it will never change.
Jojoba
October 10th, 2012
9:13 pm
In 2013 uga gets bama in Athens – gets Lsu and Clemson on the road. Next year will be richts time to sink or swim
Game Changer
October 10th, 2012
9:21 pm
@Blake
Aaron Murray is to short to play against quality defensive teams in the SEC. The good defensive teams load the box with 7 to 8 men across the front. This total stops our offensive running backs from having any lanes to run in or to break runs to the outside. This also allows the defense to block the few passing lanes that Aaron Murray needs to see and have any opportunity to complete passes. The only passes Aaron Murray is able to attempt and complete are sideways to recvrs and 25 yard passes down each sideline, throw it long and hope we catch it, problem is we dont have AJ or the Durham any longer. Aaron Murray is the weakness in the UGA offense, has been and will continue to be until Mason or a future recruit with height and throwing accuracy is playing QB
Mike
October 10th, 2012
9:24 pm
Coach Richt you’re not going to win the big game if you don’t change your,attitude against South Carolina you showed no emotion at all,which I know your player see this & really don’t worry if they screw up,need to get angry at times,be like Saban,Dooly,& Miles,& Meyer when at Florida,really getting tired of us getting embarrassed.I’ve always backed you,now time is running out.
Fats G
October 10th, 2012
11:20 pm
Love to see UGA win out and take the SEC East again from Spurrier like last year. It is very possible
Blake
October 11th, 2012
12:06 am
@Game Changer,
You couldn’t be more wrong. There are plenty of 6′1″ QBs in the country who do just fine. For the record, Connor Shaw is the same size as Murray, we loaded the box on him and he did just fine. The problem has been, and continues to be our coaching staff’s (especially on offense) inability to make key adjustments or their flat out inability to go into a game with a solid plan. You can’t block a guy like Clowney one on one and you sure as heck can’t assign a freshman RB to block him on pass plays. You are hands down setting yourself up for failure. We should have went more hurry up, and ran more screens and stop and go routes. We actually moved the ball pretty decent in hurry up. At least that way, we could’ve worn their defense down a little. Our gameplan, set us up for failure, and when we fell behind late, we just became to dejected to fight back. It was like watching the second half of the SEC championship game all over again. We made a couple of good stops in the second quarter and had a chance to make it a game or at least go into the half down 21-7, but didn’t take advantage. Then we come out at halftime with a chance to go down and score and slow their momentum and didn’t look as if we changed a single thing. Went three and out and the route continued. It’s series like that, that have been the difference in this team being able to take the next step or not. 90% of the teams in America would die to have Arron Murray behind center. It’s not his fault! He doesn’t block, he doesn’t tackle, and he doesn’t come up with the game plan. Given that and he just found out HIS DAD HAD CANCER, I would say he did the best he could. It’s obvious whta the real problem is and I’ve been a Richt supporter forever, but 0-10 or 11 against top ten teams is pathetic when you have the talent of this team and some of the teams he’s had in the past.
Fats G
October 11th, 2012
6:01 am
Small group? Lets get busy finding these bums. Alumni needs to organize a reward for someone to sing like a bird and spill the beans on who these bums are. Get busy Dawg fans. Lets find em and embarrass em.
GatorBait 18-4
October 11th, 2012
7:20 am
Same old same old, dream team becomes a nightmare
Bulldawgman49
October 11th, 2012
7:48 am
There always seems to be a bad apple in any group . Was a tough loss Saturday night . I am sure the Dogs willl bounce back and take care of Kentucky . GO DAWGS !!!!
Joe College
October 11th, 2012
7:51 am
Everyone keeps referring to the “fans” who vandalized Murray’s house. I think the odds are about ten to one that it was students who did it. Most fans wouldn’t have a clue where any of the players live, but the students know.
Bob Lovell
October 11th, 2012
8:23 am
UGA fans are classy, especially when compared to Crimson Tide followers who poison trees on opponents campus, T Bag opposing fans and count championships awarded by Golden Flake potato chip salesmen to achieve 14 National Championships they discuss at the top of their lungs relentlessly.
JvilleDawg
October 11th, 2012
5:10 pm
Would people who keep calling for Jon Gruden, PLEASE give it a rest!!! Gruden has the BEST gig in all of football, analyst for Monday Night Football. He’s making millions doing that, plus a little extra cake on the side with ESPN (although he gets one check from the Disney corp.), but he isn’t leaving that gig to come coach UGA, Bama, the GB Packers or anyone else. Why would he possibly want to come and coach UGA and deal with our fans!!!
WoofWoof
October 11th, 2012
5:15 pm
As a UGA grad,fans should be grateful that at least Georgia wins games. I live in Vegas and UNLV is a terrible terrible team. So glad my daughter wants to attend either UGA, Alabama, TCU, or Oregon next year.
That is teaching values...
October 15th, 2012
12:53 pm
Woof Woof…. why don’t you teach your kid some values…. Are you serious, her college education and future life are dependent upon the football team wins and losses….
If so, I would suggest a school who can at least beat a top 25 team more than once every 4 years…..
We got lucky last year in avoiding BAMA, LSU, and Arkansas…. somehow we got lucky this year and did not have to play any of the good teams in the west again!
The problem is we are only winning against the cellar dwellers of the SEC and are like 0-9 against the better ranked teams in the SEC over the past few years….
Here are our wins over the Losers of the SEC.. and their Conference Records
Missouri = 0-4
Vandy = 1-3
Tenn = 0-3
UK = 0-4 (Assuming we win this weekend and then they will be 0-5).
That is a collective 1-15!!!!! Why should we be surprised at the USC beatdown when we don’t ever face good competition?
But you say I am forgetting the other wins…. that’s right we beat
Buffalo = 1-5
Florida Atlantic = 1-5
BTW, we beat Buffalo 45-23 and yet this past weekend Northern Illinois beat them 45-3!! Shows you how we have been drinking our own kool-aid.