Rise and shine, campers.
- “I don’t think you’ve seen quarterback play in the SEC this good in a long time.“
- What’s on the menu? Ray Drew.
- Siri is fickle.
- If Georgia gets down early on Saturday, don’t panic. North Texas blows a lot of leads.
- Mark Richt hadn’t thought about this week’s battle of the ex-Dawgs until the media reminded him about it.
- Somebody gives credit to Richt for being the father of the no-huddle offense in the SEC.
- Vegas buys into the national title game meme. (ESPN nods approvingly.)
Get The Picture 
Sad to see Scott Adams died. Nice piece by Chip Towers about him (see link below the Richt piece on Marshall and Mett).
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Ya know…maybe I am drunk on the Koolaid, but I really believe Mark Richt means what he says about Mettenberger and Marshall. And yes, I was very aware that Richt started the no-huddle stuff in the SEC…I remember Fulmer being very upset with the officials for not giving the Vols time to eat a BBQ sandwich between plays in Knoxville.
In fact, does my memory fail me, or was there not an official stink with the SEC about the no huddle under Richt?
Seems like there was.
Look, in a rational world, there is no way the Mean Green gets up on Georgia Saturday…but this college football stuff is anything but rational… this gonna be the first real test of my new hat, I feel it coming. But hope I am wrong.
And a tip of the hat to Starbucks.
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I wonder if there will be a piece out there exploring why CMR stopped the hurry up and why it is allowed now. If memory serves me correct (not a reliable assumption I confess), CRM took some heat from the SEC and toned it down.
BBQ sandwich between plays, now that’s funny.
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That BBQ has to be chopped, cause you know they have that “toothless” problem in TENNESSEE.
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So that’s why Mephis has “melt-in-your-mouth” BBQ. It’s the incredibly low tooth-per-head count.
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[“In fact, does my memory fail me, or was there not an official stink with the SEC about the no huddle under Richt?”]
No, you are correct. The SEC, at some level, didn’t like the advantage the fast pace offense gave Georgia, so the officials slowed it down. So much so, that Richt gave up running it because there was zero advantage anymore. So he went back to the standard huddle and pace.
The officials control the pace of the game, and the pace offense can’t be run if the officials don’t cooperate. At some point 3 or 4 years ago, they apparently decided it was OK to go faster (makes you wonder what would’ve happened had it been Georgia who wanted to do it). Georgia waited a couple of years, but then in 2011, I believe, we put it back in.
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Lord, I hope the hat is the one that will take us to the NC. We want it, we need it …it is our turn.
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Oh and WE ARE GOOD ENOUGH!
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I love our Dawgs but we are not NC material on D this year. Last year was our best shot in ages…. I am settling down for a nice 10 win season of awesome GA Bulldogs football and learning not to base my enjoyment of the game on whether we’re in the hunt for the NC.
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To each their own. I enjoy this time of year most because it is a possibility. Possibility is powerful.
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Our D will get better as the season progresses. We have the talent.
The early win against South Carolina was huge. We have a very good shot to win the SEC.
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Maybe its a semantic argument, but I think its more accurate to say CMR tried to bring the ‘hurry up’ O to the sec. It was abandoned pretty quickly and never brought back at UGA. We now run the no huddle.
My argument is a lot of folks confuse the no huddle with the hurry up. Our current scheme is no huddle, but I certainly wouldn’t say we are a hurry up O, like Oregon. We rarely snap it quickly after we line up.
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Not only does Mark Richt have a high no-huddle/hurry up/haul ass IQ, he brings his lunch pail to work every day. This caused slower workers to become a whiter shade of pale. They were concerned that he would eat the baloney sandwiches in their lunch pails after he chowed down on his peanut butter sandwich
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‘If Georgia gets down early on Saturday, don’t panic”.
Nice advice, but I’ll choose to panic.
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Boy…you drink enough of that Kool Aid and you will be fine.
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Apparently the solution was to get more coaches who thought they were going too slow.
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I’ll say right now neither Oregon nor Alabama will be in NC game
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I agree. Actuaries would say chances are extremely slim.
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