Georgia’s 2011 season gets off to a high-profile start with two games against highly ranked opponents, including what should be a much-hyped season opener in the Georgia Dome, while Georgia Tech…
“This first game, it’s very exciting for us,” Richt said. “To play in the Dome, it’s a big deal. To play Boise State is a big deal. To know that if we’re not ready, we’re going to get whipped; if we’re not ready, we’re going to get embarrassed.
“That should be a lot of motivation for our players and our coaches. It already is. Of course, game No. 2 is pretty big, too. We just can’t be warming up. We have to be ready to go from the very beginning.”
Georgia Tech opens at home against Western Carolina and goes to Middle Tennessee.
“We’ve had probably varying things through the years,” Yellow Jackets coach Paul Johnson said. “That’s just the way it gets set up sometimes. I think it’s beneficial if you can play most of your nonconference games early. … Middle Tennessee is a bowl team and we’re on the road so that won’t be an easy game. It’s just kind of the way the schedule fell.”
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Don’t discount Tech’s match-ups. They’ve been picked by ESPN
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Mark Richt says the opener is “big deal.” Hopefully, for the UGA faithfull anyway, he “will handle it” in the appropriate fashion
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Yeah, but I was really hoping he would issue threats while speaking in third person.
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A stretch Mike, but a half point for recall.
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Well played, my Gator friend
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Hey, Maryland managed to lose both legs of a home-and-home with MTSU in 2008-09. The only thing funnier than Tech’s early-season 2011 sked would be if the Jackets actually managed to lose one of those games.
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Tech lost to a wretched Kansas team last year, so anything’s possible.
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Sadly, so did Colorado, who…
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The thing that jumpred out at me was that Richt acknowledged that the first 2 games are huge for us. He didn’t slide into the typical coach speak of “We are totally focussing on that first game & will plan for SC as time permits.”
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Western Carolina and Middle Tennessee back to back to open the season? And they think they’re a worthy rival? Bobby Dodd is rolling over in his grave.
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It’s Sting Time! Yea!!!1!
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The fact that Georgia Tech is playing a home-and-home with Middle Tennessee State should tell you everything that you need to know about the program and the supposed greatness of Dan Radakovich. Big boy football programs don’t go play in Murfreesboro.
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Probably because they have 170M in debt and Rad has ran up around 70M of that since 2006 – his first year. That’s a lot of free hot dogs and cokes.
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Sorry, but I would feel a lot better about this upcoming season if UGA opened with Western Carolina in Athens before playing Boise and the rest of the schedule.
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Ordinarily, I can see your point, but I think this year’s team needs a big game at the start to help focus.
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Absolutely. Do it. Beat Boise right off the bat. Payback Steve, Garcia and Lattimore next. Cruise through wins until we get to Jax. Beat Will and Charlie. Then finish off the rest of them. There’s no reason we can’t.
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Fla, that musical support worries me. Microsoft used it for Windows 95 and within months the only line people riffed was: “you make a grown man cry”
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That’s a very good point. Now you’ve got me worried rather than thinking we were going to do undefeated.
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Mayor, we did just that with the school f/k/a USL last season. Stomped them the week before South Carolina.
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Agreed. Even if it doesn’t always work I still like at least 1 tune-up game before the serious games start though.
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