Report: Florida strength coach shoved Georgia’s Corey Moore
Best account I’ve seen yet of the pregame skirmish that occurred before Georgia-Florida this past Saturday comes from Palm Beach Post reporter Jason Lieser.
I didn’t see but the very tail-end of the incident myself as it happened right around the time they were preparing for the pregame toss. But according to Lieser, Florida safety Matt Elam instigated the incident by bumping Georgia’s Devin Bowman. Apparently a bunch of Georgia players then responded to the taunts of Elam and teammate Dominique Easley, including Todd Gurley, Malcolm Mitchell, Corey Moore and Arthur Lynch.
Liesler reports that Florida strength coach Jeff Dillman interceded and ended up shoving Moore. That drew Georgia defensive coordinator Todd Grantham and some other assistant coaches and referees into the fray. This is the part I saw and skirmish quickly dissipated with both sides squawking as they went their separate ways.
Wrote Lieser:
Gators strength coach Jeff Dillman, who later had at least one very animated conversation with a ref, was involved as well. Dillman shoved Georgia safety Corey Moore, then got in the face of a Bulldogs assistant.
The whole affair was over in less than a minute and no penalties were assessed (though officials would make up for that later).
Georgia coach Mark Richt claimed on his Sunday conference call he knew nothing of the incident until seeing a vague reference to it on the TV broadcast replay.
“You know what, I don’t know what happened,” he said. “I watched the TV copy of the game and they showed a little bit of that. You could tell there was some chirping and all that, but I don’t think anybody got physical or anything like that.”
Informed for Dillman’s shove and when it happened, Richt said: “I’d have to look at it. I’m not really worried about that right now.”
Grantham acknowledged the incident after the game but claimed he was merely telling the Georgia players to get out of the way. “I was telling our guys to get off the field,” he said.
The “chippiness” carried over into the game, where the teams combined to be flagged 24 times, including several personal foul penalties.
“That was one of the most intense games I’ve ever coached from start to finish,” Richt said. “. . . You want intensity with discipline. But I didn’t want to slow anybody’s ability to keep their blood hot.”
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birdo
October 29th, 2012
8:19 pm
Why start something with this report. It’s over, move on. Wasting your time with this topic.
Mobile Dawg
October 29th, 2012
8:22 pm
The best part of the six turnovers were they were all forced. We didn’t get any cheap turnovers. Didn’t we miss an opportunity on a turnover too?
jtdawg
October 29th, 2012
8:22 pm
I saw the whole thing. Florida players were coming out of the tunnel and some Georgia players were going towards the end zone to do their “Tebow” prayer. They ended up walking through each other. And yes, the bald headed strength coach shoved one of UGA’s players.
dawggirl
October 29th, 2012
8:24 pm
Mobile Dawg – Beast was on here Saturday night, and was very classy as usual. And he did congratulate us.
As was stated by the sports bloggers such as Aschoff, Florida needs more playmakers. Reed can’t do it all by himself.
Ed
October 29th, 2012
8:25 pm
Georgia did its talking on the field. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many wounded Gators writhing around on the field in a game in my life.
Mobile Dawg
October 29th, 2012
8:29 pm
Thanks dawggirl, I’m sure he’s still smarting some.
T-Dawg
October 29th, 2012
8:30 pm
Ed
October 29th, 2012
8:25 pm
Georgia did its talking on the field. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many wounded Gators writhing around on the field in a game in my life.
And that talking cost the team over 100 yards in penalties.
CHDawg
October 29th, 2012
8:30 pm
Hey, maybe we should hire Dillman to push our guys around before every game! One serious point: nobody seems to think having a hurricane a few hundred miles off the coast could affect the game, but I think that is a mistake. Try throwing a football in 20-40 MPH winds. They affected the play calling and especially both QBs. The QBs compensated by throwing fastballs at close range, but that leads to tips and interceptions. The field was damp. It doesn’t excuse all of the turnovers and dropped balls, but it definitely affected both teams.
gamewatcher
October 29th, 2012
8:33 pm
Tampa Gator you really love to run your mouth don’t you? You act like your an authority on everything. What you really are is a loud mouth bullshitter that nobody has any respect for. Have you ever noticed how many friends you don’t have? Why would anybody want to hang around a person like you that thinks he knows everything.Everyone is laughing behind your back and you don’t even know it because your so full of
sh-t…
T-Dawg
October 29th, 2012
8:34 pm
CHDawg….wind wasn’t really that big of a factor. We were watching the flags on the goal posts and they weren’t moving all that much. That was the weather report leading up to the game but the wind died down hours before the game.
Kirby
October 29th, 2012
8:47 pm
ugly football on both sides, quarterback play was awful
Home School Drop Out
October 29th, 2012
8:51 pm
With all the T.V. coverage.
I thought Jor Gee had won the National Championship.
All they did was beat another team.
Bitter dawg fan
October 29th, 2012
8:54 pm
Throw the ga_yturds players a pair of CUT OF SHORTS
———–necks—-blahahahahahahah
Bitter dawg fan
October 29th, 2012
8:57 pm
new and improved —-JUNK-YARD DAWGS
—————# 2 GA_Y TURDS—9—-GEORGIA 17
—————-YEP
Mark (another one)
October 29th, 2012
8:59 pm
The Sugar Bowl team selection rules are simple.
1. If the SEC Champion is not playing in the BCS Championship Bowl, they are automatically selected as one team.
2. The remaining one or two slots are selected from the BCS qualifiers. Those are:
There is no rule that the SEC Championship loser gets a BCS bowl. Remember that LSU beat Tennessee in the 2007 SEC Championship. LSU went to the BCS Championship and Georgia went to the BCS Sugar Bowl. Since BCS rules only allow two schools from the AQ conferences, Tennessee was relegated to the Outback Bowl.
It is concievable that UGA plays Alabama in the SEC Championship, loses and Florida gets a BCS bid. That would block UGA from a BCS bowl, meaning no Sugar Bowl. Sometimes in the SEC it pays to come in second in your division. Ask Alabama.
Kentucky
October 29th, 2012
9:01 pm
Haven’t heard or read anything about this, but did a UF player rip off a UGA players helmet and punch him in the face in the 1st qtr? Thought I saw that, and Richt lost his cool.
Tampa Gator, you are pitiful, hanging around another team’s message board looking for some kind of self-validification. Get a life!
Tampa Gator
October 29th, 2012
9:05 pm
gamewatcher…..
Thanks for your insightful, thoughtful, generous, kind….and uplifting comments. Same back to you.
P.S. I am not in need of friends on a blog site. Real life is more appropriate for such.
gt mess
October 29th, 2012
9:07 pm
it was paul jonhson –puched in the nose–i saw the results–the player was , hey thats all there is
Buzzz
October 29th, 2012
9:07 pm
That is one classy bunch you have there !!!
World's Largest Outdoor Gator Beating Party
October 29th, 2012
9:09 pm
…….. Two Years in a Row !
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
October 29th, 2012
9:09 pm
@ Home School:
That’s the way you get to the MNC game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Beat another team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tampa Gator
October 29th, 2012
9:12 pm
Kentucky….
No….actually……everyone heard that a Florida player came over to coach Richt and punched him in the face. Another Florida came over to a Georgia cheerleader and ripped off her….Georgia logo. Yet another Florida player coached threw a water ballon at UGA when he was not looking. Then we went and stole his doghouse and his water bowl. Heck….I even witnessed a Florida cheerleader giving a Georgia cheerleader the throat cut sign when she was being tossed into the air. I even saw coach Muschump spit on the TV camera as he was leaving the field…missed….and hit coach Grantham right in the eyes. And Pease put a rat in Bobo’s seat at halftime. Damn all those Gators. They have absolutely no class…..just like me.
James
October 29th, 2012
9:13 pm
Someone was sharing this story as I was leaving the Fox Theater Saturday. I wa so pleasantly surprised that Georgia had beaten Florida that the magnitude of the opposing coach shoving a Georgia player story ecaped me. I am a fan of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Georgia State and Georgia Southern. I don’t understand why the president or athletic director of Florida has not issued some sort of statement or apology in a press release.
Tampa Gator
October 29th, 2012
9:15 pm
Kentucky…..
What is really pitiful……is the Kentucky Wildcat football team…………you know….they should give up football up there and pick up the game of basketball. But we all know they will never do such a thing. Basketball could never be BIG in the state of Kentucky. Everyone knows that…..even me.
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
October 29th, 2012
9:20 pm
In my BIASED opinion Tampa Gator has ALWAYS conducted himself classy on here!!!!!!!!!!
I believe it takes a little class to make the type comments he has made after what had to be a devasting loss Saturday so I have to say to all dawg fans HOW ABOUT SHOWING A LITTLE CLASS and quit acting like Auburn and Bama fans after they won a MNC!!!!!!!!!!!
I really liked seeing Muschamp go to Jarvis Jones and have a conversation after what had to be the ultimate downer. He could have been asking JJ to go on to the NFL after this season but that too was classy IMHO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mobile Dawg
October 29th, 2012
9:25 pm
That wasn’t class Braniac, JJ went to Muschamp and told him he could get 10 Mil a year to go to the NFL but was coming back for his senior season. Muschamp offered him an extra 2 mil to go ahead and leave.
JB
October 29th, 2012
9:27 pm
Florida through the Sprurrier years and then on to Meyer pretty much owned the Dawgs for that time and became to think of us like we think of Kentucky or Tech, like it’s out God given right to win every year. Georgia as a state has too much talent for that to happen long term. Coach’s come and go, like Goff,Sprurrier, Meyer and one day Richt. Things change….and looks like they have the last two years.
Don’t think Gators winnning 8 or 9 of 10 will be around much more.
Mobile Dawg
October 29th, 2012
9:32 pm
Proof’s in the pudding JB, one win doesn’t change my perception of our staff permeating a weak environment. Nothing points to the coaching staff getting the Dawgs up for the game, everything points to a player challenging his mates manhood. Nothing about the coaching, at least offensively gave us the edge. Grantham called a good game, Saturday.
Mr Dawg to you!
October 29th, 2012
9:32 pm
When a coach, teacher or who ever must less someone from the opposing team pushes, shoves or pus his hands on a player even i the midst of the commotion. He should be fired. No he didn’t do the Woody Hays break hid jaw thing! But what if the player got hurt! Show lack of control! Just saying!
Knox Culpepper
October 29th, 2012
9:35 pm
Tampa Gator,
Despite what other UGA fans may say your comments are normally fair, balanced and quite intelligent. That is until your last couple tonight. Please go back to the old Tampa Gator or please leave this UGA blog. Hopefully, you’ll take the message respectfully and bury your negativity and continue to be welcome here. I hope so as I welcome other points of view but not the crap that Alabama fans spew and your last couple comments were coming close to that drivel. You’re better than that and you know it.
Thanks,
Georgia fans
flo-ri-duh
October 29th, 2012
9:35 pm
As I predicted a couple of days before the game, the LIZARDS would have REPTILE DYSFUNCTION – fumbles, interceptions and penalties. Not bragging but that is what happened primarily because of the pressure put on the Lizard QB.
flo-ri-duh
October 29th, 2012
9:38 pm
Ole Miss impressed me, coming from behind to beat Arkansas. They have a good QB that can pass and run and they are very well coached. UGA better have their mind on this game. It is not going to be easy.
SolDog
October 29th, 2012
9:44 pm
ricth owns mushamp–this will continue for a long time. Ga has won 2 in a row–look for a 10 year type streak!!! Dogs–back on top!
Columbia SC Dawg
October 29th, 2012
9:47 pm
From the sound of this CMR is getting it: “That was one of the most intense games I’ve ever coached from start to finish,” Richt said. “. . . You want intensity with discipline. But I didn’t want to slow anybody’s ability to keep their blood hot.”
intellibird
October 29th, 2012
9:50 pm
If Georgia can win out the regular season, and almost certainly lose the SEC Championship Game, then they will have done what was expected from them.
There is no use in expecting them to achieve at the level of the best 5 programs in the country. Clearly they are not among this group.
Be satisfied with what you have, and have always had (save one miraculous season), and simply enjoy the sport of football.
Expectations far exceed reality and the situations at Bama and LSU won’t last long in the scheme of things. Don’t forget that Saban was a total loser in the NFL, so there is a limit to his “greatness” as well. He is surrounded by people at Bama who help him succeed.
Things are always changing and last years success does not guarantee next years success. The loss of a few people may change things completely.
Bulldogs can enjoy the next 365 days of a victory over Florida!
McDawg
October 29th, 2012
9:51 pm
the Muschump curse-he will never beat UGA
Mobile Dawg
October 29th, 2012
9:53 pm
Let’s start with SolDog, have another shot.
Gaters
October 29th, 2012
9:54 pm
Kind of reminds me when that thug tried to blind our running back.
Mobile Dawg
October 29th, 2012
9:54 pm
Et tu Columbia SC Dawg.
Mobile Dawg
October 29th, 2012
9:59 pm
intellibird, change your moniker, it doesn’t fit.
Why does one win expose so much ignorance? Would seem like real Dawg fans would just enjoy the victory and move on. Why all the chest pumping, you would be penalized 15 yards for unsportsmanlike conduct if you were playing the game. Richt is no better, nor no worse, as a coach, as he was before the game.
gator18
October 29th, 2012
10:00 pm
You beat us two years in a row for the first time in what,20 years or more? and you act like you own the Gators? Please! Win a few National Championship Games (like 3 since you have won 1) and run your mouth pups! That game could have very,VERY easily gone either way. If you think not, you’re just kidding yourself. This (2012) was not going to be our year anyway,UF is way ahead of where most thought they would be. Let me use a FAMOUS Bulldog line, wait till next year.
Todd Grantham Swallows
October 29th, 2012
10:01 pm
He does, for real.
nobodyyouknow
October 29th, 2012
10:01 pm
UGA came in that swamp ready to kill. If they have that attitude the rest of the season, look out. As far as the shoving incident, its an intense rivalry. We have hot heads on both sides.
Captain
October 29th, 2012
10:04 pm
tennDAWG @8:18
Assaulting a minor??? I was there, there was no assault nothing remotely approaching an assault. Corey Moore is a second yr player at Georgia so he is definitely NOT a minor.
Tampa – the best team on Sat won the game. No excuses for the loss, Georgia won, plain and simple. The Univ of New Jersey at Gainesville was beaten.
Mobile Dawg
October 29th, 2012
10:08 pm
We’ve owned you the last two years 18, and it took OT the year before that, oh, and it feels good. Kinda like the old days with Dooley when we rode you like a Schwinn before sos. Look forward to next year. Much better than the alternative, huh, it’s just a game.
Real Todd Grantham
October 29th, 2012
10:09 pm
It’s true………..I do.
I’m a little Elton.
Real Aaron Murray
October 29th, 2012
10:10 pm
Me too!!!!!! Me tooooooo!
joe jenkins
October 29th, 2012
10:15 pm
hey tampa gator….your qb is not better in the shotgun….wth!! he sucks period…..yall suck…..your qb threw int’s he fumbled…hell it didnt matter what kind of snap of the ball he was taking…lol….here is a prediction….your coach will never win in jacksonville…have a good week in lizardville
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youstillgotzip!
October 29th, 2012
10:19 pm
Buford High School could have owned UF last year with a one legged QB and a new coach. And from what I remember, that game was far from either side owning the other.