Some tasty morsels have been set out for you this morning:
- If Georgia wins Saturday, it will become the first team ever to reach the SECCG after an 0-2 start.
- Your Dooleyism of the day: “He said feed the orange dog. Good stuff — not the red dog, the bad stuff.”
- But things are about to get better in Knoxville, because the Urnge Savior hath returned.
- Here’s a story about the first Georgia helmet with a “G” on it.
- There are times when I just love opponents’ message boards.
- If you don’t read Playboy – does anybody read Playboy? – there’s a good piece in there about Herschel Walker, MMA badass.
- Damn, Charlie Strong, I don’t think I would have said that.
- Bill Connelly’s summary of Georgia-Auburn? “Honestly, this one could have been even worse.”
Get The Picture 
And that is why we should always keep Kentucky in the SEC.
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Nice buffet, Senator. Nothing personal, but I think Dooley is losing his marbles.
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And isn’t it a remarkable coincidence that now that the UT schedule turns easy Tyler Bray is again healthy and can play against Vanderbilt and Kentucky. “Miss the tough games, play in the easy games” Bray is at it just like before. The media will undoubtedly pronounce Bray as, once again, the savior of UT should UT win those easy games with him playing QB.
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Watch that pesky VU secondary shut down the Vols ball catchers and snag a coulple of INTs. I like their safeties and that player Hayward (#19).
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You mean there is still someone in Kentucky that still cares about football right now?
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It doesn’t seem even that Joker does anymore.
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In regards to bill connelly uga auburn could’ve been a lot worse. you know it’s bad when the game was more lopsided than the score and the final tally is 45-7. If bobo went to the air in the second half we score 63 or more easily.
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Back in old Milledge Hall, Playboy was “looked at.” Other magazines were “read.”
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So when Charlie Strong says a player of his is a “gamer,” we now know what he means. That Louisville team is who we were supposed to open the season with. How would anybody on here like the Dawgs to be 9-1 right now?
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Dooley needs to get with the Coastal Carolina coach and co-write a book of incoherent analogies.
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I knew exactly what the Coastal Carolina coach was saying. Dooley….not so much.
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What in the heck is that Gamecock fan talking about? Message board people are really lame. I don’t know a single UGA fan who isn’t taking Kentucky seriously. I think it’s fairly obvious that Georgia should beat them easily, all things being equal, but I think we all remember that game in 2009 and know that anything can happen. Certainly, I’ll be surprised if Georgia doesn’t cruise on Saturday, but I also don’t know where this guy is getting the idea that Georgia is “disrespecting” Kentucky. And how lame is it to go to a message board to try to rally the troops to win? Fans don’t play the game, loser.
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He’s trying to stir them up, that’s all, and they won’t be stirred. It’s hilarious!
“In fact at this point they might lie down and lose just to knock usc out of the picture for Spurrier being a douche in our game.” Senator is right, I’m laughing out loud at this.
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And this priceless exchange:
SCU fan: “You KY fans are frickin losers. You would mail in your season just so Spurrier can’t win the East. If anything you owe it to the kids who play every Saturday. I’m not over here asking you to win because I know you don’t have a prayer in hell in even scoring A point in Athens much less win the game. I hope all of the KY recruits understand what loser fans you are and kill your football program. Oh wait, its already dead. Just like every year, Basketball season has arrived. Pathetic….”
UK fan: “Shut up you inbred dipshit. We’re not happy about sucking, but only looking for the silver lining in that our crap season will at least produce a bit of agony for dumbshits such as yourself and the rest of the USCjr fanbase.”
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This is particularly funny considering historically USCe’s football program ain’t a whole hell of a lot better than UK’s, and USCe lacks the traditional powerhouse basketball program to make for it. A gamecock may tell you different but I still remember when USCe won its first bowl game, it was during the Clinton presidency.
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Let’s adopt the UK fan who wrote that. At least for next year’s SC game.
Reminds me of the time I attended a ND game in South Bend when they were playing the insects. My Southern accent was appreciated by all the ND fans around me because it was distinctive to the playing field (NDers politely clap until a td is scored so the stadium gets pretty quiet between plays). After leaving the stadium, a woman’s Southern voice chirped about 20yds back (i was still shouting loudly about the putdown ND put on’em),” We know who you are and what school you go to and we are coming to Athens to beat you silly!”. Everyone laughed as if they had never been near Good Ole Fashioned Hate before.
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It’s not like Georgia’s been hurling insults at Kentucky this week, though there does seem to be an attitude among the fan base (and I’ve been as guily of it as anyone) that the game Saturday is a mere formality. That may be where the sense of “disrespect” is coming from.
Nevertheless, going to a Kentucky message board to offer words of encouragement is the act of a desperate individual. And it’s the act of a towering douchebag to expect any camaraderie/consideration from them when barely a month ago you were throwing well into the fourth quarter against them with a five-TD lead.
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I have never felt this confident the week before the game. Unless the entire 1st and 2nd string fails a drug test today we win easy.
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45-7 sounds about right again, and good for the rambler gamblers amongst us.
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Raise your hand if, after the South Carolina game, you expected to hear this quote regarding Mark Richt’s contract at some point:
“There’s an appropriate time to talk about that and right now is not appropriate. All focus, like it has been the past 10 weeks, is on the next opponent. We’re not doing anything to stray from that focus.”
Now raise your hand if you expected that quote to come after 8 wins in a row; one of those being a dismantling of Auburn so thorough it resembles something that happens in a meat processing facility. Context is everything, people.
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There is a gloriously cocky post by Will Shelton up over on Rocky Top Talk about the Vanderbilt game chock full of jewels like this:
“If Vanderbilt wants Tennessee’s respect, they’ll have to take it by force on Saturday night. Until then? You’re still Vanderbilt, and we’re still Tennessee.”
I hope Vanderbilt beats the dogshit out of them this weekend. This guy has definately called down the thunder.
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You tell them Vandy is comin’ and they’re bringing Franklin with ’em!
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I see an orange satin jacket, I kill the man wearin’ it!
YOU TELL EM FRANKLIN’S COMIN’, AND HELL’S COMIN WITH HIM!!!
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This one also seems apropos.
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And Logan Stewart (C#60) hasn’t lost his powerful appetite for prominent orange knees. Or even the backs of ’em.
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The coach wears orange pants. In fact, the coach continues to wear orange pants well after it has become clear that it’s not working as any kind of a motivational gimmick.
If anything, Tennessee needs to start thinking about winning Vanderbilt’s respect.
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Looks like Vegas already respects Vandy. When was the last time Tennessee was a home dog to Vanderbilt? Line is 1.5.
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Probably round about ’75 — maybe.
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Your red dog just bit my energy vampire.
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That square G was perfect for the atomic age.
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My favorite part of that article was noting that the red and silver/gray clashed with each other on the helmet. Clearly, this guy isn’t in charge of designing Nike Pro Combat helmets (but maybe he should be).
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Someone is actually in charge of designing the combat helmets? I thought they just threw darts at a color wheel?
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If I am not mistaken, UGA actually contacted the Green Bay Packers for approval to use their logo. When Dooley arrived he assigned someone to redesign the helment.
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True.
Coach Lombardi added it to the Packers helmet three years earlier.
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I think that if UGA plays any game with retro uniforms the Dawgs ought to wear that silver helmet with the block red “G” with silver britches and white or red jerseys. They could alternatively wear the black jerseys, which would give a kind of Oakland Raiders look, but maybe there is too much bad karma from the last time they wore black jerseys for that.
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Several college teams don throwback uni’s from time to time. Throwback uni’s should be in the rotation for the Dawgs. That is a change most Dawgs fans would be happy to see, including myself. And I hate changing uni’s.
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Or tossed a Chucky Cheese full of 2nd graders in a padded room and let their doodles play themselves out.
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Does any fan base in the SEC like South Carolina?
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Mullet fans?
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Watching the disasters or near disasters at UT, FU, Ole M, and MSU, UFA is still lucky to have a more stable coaching staff despite all that has been said. I think it allowed the players to grow faster than usual.
On the other hand the pressure of the fans and concerned individuals in the athletic board on the coaching staff seem to have allowed them to take more risks and get out of their comfort zones particularly evident in the last 4 games when calling plays.
Just saying.
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Correction: UFA = UGA.
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Make no mistake the pressure will be on the Dawgs on Saturday. This game locks up the East and we need to make sure that the offense keeps on ticking and the defense keeps shutting teams down. We aren’t quite in beauty pageant territory yet, but if the Dawgs have thoughts of a decent bowl game floating around in their heads they need to take care of business in a decisive manner this weekend and be ready to wreck tech after thanksgiving.
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When has the pressure not been on the Dawgs this year, after the 0-2 start?
Their ability to handle pressure is what has impressed me about this team. I say they roll easily on Saturday, and the second half becomes a 30 minute celebration.
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i love this KY fan. “I would root for Coach K to win 902 more games before I root for South Carolina to win one game EVER.”
i dont think i realized the universal disdain for spurrier.
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Hating a prick knows no borders. And Spurrier is a founding member of the Prick Hall of Fame. It’s easy to look at more recent history and see that his snarky rhetoric toward UGA has calmed down a bit, but we should never forget the Florida days. He’s at the perfect school now, because he’s always been a cock.
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In 19 meetings against Kentucky, Spurrier’s only lost once (last year). His average margin of victory: four TDs. So yeah, it’s safe to say UK fans don’t have much incentive to think kindly of the man.
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Leave Derek alone!
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Derek Dooley, master of deflection.
Reporter: “Coach Dooley, do you actually know how to coach football?”
Dooley: “Coaching football is a lot like a red dog biting your orange pants.”
Crowd: “What?”
Dooley: “See you next week. Smokebomb!” (He vanishes.)
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Favorite UT Player Quote of the Week
I’m not how you “built some guys down“, but I suppose anything is possible in Derek Dooley’s world.
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Yes, the possibilites are limitless. Prentiss will get an extra dose of the hose this week for that malaprop.
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All three “phrases.” “Can’t learn nothing”…I’m guessing this scholar had to take the Coach Dooley’s cleanliness class a couple of times, having failed the first.
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When I read the headline “the Urnge Savior hath returned” I immediately thought THE Trooper Taylor must be going back to Tennessee. Oh well, maybe Ole Miss will consider him…I’m sure Archie Manning and company would love him!
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“When I read the headline ‘the Urnge Savior hath returned’ I immediately thought” they let Johnny Majors back in town?
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Ole Johnny is more likely rolling down the street somewhere in a whiskey barrel. But it would be entertaining to see him rolled back into the fold.
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From CatsIllustarted.com:
I hope Columbia gets nuked and then swallowed into the earth by giant mutant worms.
My sentiments exactly.
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Oops. CatsIllustrated.com
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How would anyone know the difference?
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Truth, BMan, truth.
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Funny how you idiot UGA fans make fun of Dooley, the off-spring of your fluke National Championship coach in the 80s. Most UT fans I know want to send him packing. It’s a loser family name from a loser state that played for a loser University (also with a fluke NC last year).
Living in ATL I have come to hate everything bulldog. I hope you do win out and we spank you down like the bitches you are after Arky takes care of LSU. Could you please wear all black like u did last time we spanked that arse?
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Mrs. Dooley, is that you?
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We have just not been making enough fun of Nick lately. In the spirit of not being slackers and for equal opportunity conference unity, we will try to do better
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Just move bitch.
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I’m sure everyone thinks you’re just a ray of sunshine. How the hell did you get to this blog anyway?
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Well it’s always a good time when one of the Fighting Updykes pays a visit.
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You LOST, so just get over it and move on. Call PAWWWLL with your heartaches — he is more than willing to put lunatics and malcontents on the airwaves to spice up the atmosphere.
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