I’m getting ready to head out to Columbia, rain gear in tow. It’s my first trip there since 1988, which may still rank as the hottest football game I’ve ever attended.
I’m hoping that “Sandstorm” doesn’t get burned into my brain.
Consider this your invite to a game day thread in the comments section.
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Clemson 2003 was the hottest game I’ve ever been to. Miserably humid and they ran out of bottled water by halftime.
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They ran out of ice too! Ironically, we did too last time we played them.
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Wow.. didn’t realize that. Crazy.
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Hope you brought your earplugs then if you’re worried about it getting ingrained in your mind!
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You should have prepared by blaring it all week while blogging.
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Them dawgs are bad muthas wet or dry. Let’s go dawgs! GATA
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Drive Safe coming home, especially after the Dawgs (hopefully) win!
Those SC deputies can be bad losers.
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Good warning. They are bad winners also.
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Anyone remember UGA/SC ’86 when our QB (Jefferson?)put the ball down in a close one thinking that time expired at the end of the 4th? SC fell on the ball on our 20 and thought they had one play for the win. Refs huddled for a bit, then said time did expire. Fans got UGLY. I remember beer bottles flying. Hope they’re just as happy today.
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Left the house around 5, been here since around 8. USC is a road game we rarely miss since we usually always have a good time. Can’t say the same of Knoxville. Probably should have bought a new Georgia canopy before this game with the threat of weather. Mine has seen over a decade of games, concerts and camping. Even survived a nasty storm at Miss State but she’s definitely showing here age. I doubt she’ll survive heavy rain or winds.
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We hunkerd down I Chicamauga!
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I did the same next door in Catoosa county. The ladies in the family will be in Atlanta but that’s still in-state so we should be okay. Bad things happen when members of my family leave the state during football season.
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The “objective” side of me thinks we will handle them today. The dawg fan in me however thinks spurrier is saving a whole new offense for today he dreamed up inspired by an episode of the jet sons he saw in the 90s.
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Herbie sure did jump off the bandwagon quickly. He’s such a tool.
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+1
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Waiting for a flight at the Atlanta airport can’t stream the game. Bought WiFi in flight and it was delayed. We need to take off so I can watch.
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I think it’s catchy, maybe Ludakit will make another Munson Mix using it…
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Ah…Missouri looks pretty good. Mauk reminds me of Murray…little more speed. UCF ain’t chopped liver.
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Ulp…ECU and Va Tech. THAT gives pause.
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No joking … This is shaping up as the Weekend of Weird, to wit ath this moment: ecu21-0VT ; umass14-6VANDY ; pitt0-16FIU.
But ain’t going to be any shenanigans in Cola. The headgear is affixed and proper ceremonials have beegun. Sic ‘Em.
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It looks like ECU is pretty good
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No kiddin! Does this mean SC is better than we thought.
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Comparative scores are useless. Ohio St sucks.
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Yeah, but 21-0? I can see Va Tech being flat….big win, but 21-0?
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OOPS 21-7 maybe. Didn’t ECU get up on Carolina early?
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Close early. And late.
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Here in Louisville, Ga – thundering ominously and static electricity in the air. Portends heavy rains.,,
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It’s raining in the Classic City too.
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Not it Normaltown it ain’t.
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My weather map shows it’s raining in and all around Columbia. One way or another, it’s gonna be wet.
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http://www.weather.com/video/stormy-wet-weekend-46100
Wow it snowed last night in Wyoming. 1 foot! Global warming has given way to the coming Ice Age. 😉
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Tight game early but we pull away in the fourth. Dawgs by 10+.
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It rains in the fourth Cocks roll but stall at the 20. Dawgs hold on to a 10 point victory…
Hey we’re pretty good. 😉
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GA Southern putting Tech away!!!!
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38-34………..4 minutes on clocks GATA!!!!!! Damn the House that Erk Built schooling The Fishmonger!!
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😦 Tech managed a late score.
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Anybody notice that Virginia leads Louisville 21-7 early in the 4th? I bet a certain DC is wishing he still had Mike Bobo to bail him out.
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Virginia intercepted the ball to stop L’ville in the red zone, but a BS roughing the passer penalty saved Petrino and they scored on the next play. 21-20 L’ville.
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Virginia back up by 2
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Somehow the Cardinals D couldn’t get a stop at the end when they needed it… heh. Virginia wins.
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Looks like they weathered the rally. A nice drive to win it with a 42 yard field goal.
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Nevermind, that lead is gone. Last-minute comebacks seem to be a theme today. We’ll just need to put the game WAY out of reach. Go Dawgs!
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Fucking Spurrier…anything to get in our heads…lightning
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Game delayed at least an hour.
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A little rain delay humor: we’re talking bout Pistorius verdict last night. Guy asks, how did he lose his legs? Buddy answered, he thought they were intruders and shot em. Always has been kinda trigger happy.
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The radar does not looking promising through 5:30pm in Columbia. Munson would be fretting even more by now…”My God, we’re never gonna get this game in. The fans have left, they left and are drinking again at all those tailgates. Can you imagine what Spurrier is saying to those guys in the maroon jersies to get them even more fired up? Delta, hold my flight!”
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My buddy took two of my family mvps up there with his grp in a Cessna Caravan… this weather has me prickly now.
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Love the fake juice SC had coming onto the field again and now have to leave again. It’s a rally killer, I sez. They are using up their energy in a rabid frenzy, blocking each other blind ,jumpin’ up and down screamin’. They had the kamikazi on for the early part of the game and now the lightning has dampened their spirits again.
What’s the over and under for them coming out with that energy again?
Meanwhile, the Dawgs patiently go thru warmup and glance balefully at the jacking up antics that SC needs to compete. Until now, I didn’t know how nervous SC was about this game. Think I’ve just been given a clue.
Sic’em Dawgs!
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Sometimes juice is just juice. They’re boatracing our D.
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OK, am I the only one that has ZERO interest in last year’s Alabama – Auburn game during the rain delay? You would think both fan bases would be irate that we have to sit here and watch Malzahn analyze that game with the yahoos from CBS. There is plenty of tape from previous meetings of the 2 teams playing today fellas. WTH? Guess I will watch Duke beat up on Kansas a little more. LOL
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Our secondary looks lost
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How can we be so lost on defense ?
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The same way we did last week.
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2 weeks ago.
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Got to play a LITTLE defense. That 2nd hold on Kublanow was crap. Go Dawgs!
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We’re dead. We can’t beat Spurrier and the refs. This game will end with 20 penalties for 200+ yards against the Dawgs and 1 penalty for 5 yards in the 4th quarter during garbage time against the cocks.
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Hope that holding call on Gurley’s non-TD doesn’t come back to haunt us. Didn’t look like holding to me.
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An interception called back on a bogus pass interference call and a 70 yard TD by Gurley called back on a holding call where replay shows no holding. It’s gonna be a long night. Hubert Bell’s crew is one of the SEC crews that’s………..
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I’ve noticed incompetence from this crew before but this is the first time I’ve wondered about bias.
They are terrible at tackling. Let’s beat them despite the refs. Go Dawgs!
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I’d stop whining about the ref’s after that.
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No shit…proly should have been on 3.
Hubert Mills?
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Yup, they’re back to being actively incompetent rather than malicious. And SCar is doing a better job tackling Gurley.
Mason is off-target – I hope he gets it together soon
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Good grief … we’ve been beaten over the middle too many times! Hope the half-time adjustments work better.
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Pass defense is painful to watch!!!
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Making Thompson look like a Heisman contender.
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Zero pass rush, LB’ers covering WR’ers downfield, bullshit penalties… This is frustrating to watch. Pruitt needs to get his troops right
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Do we have ANY defensive backs out there?
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SC is doing a good job of blocking the rush
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Eat ir Vern
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Eat it
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SOS has entered “strategery” mode …
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Is there a defensive play to rush eleven? I’m about ready to give up on coverage entirely.
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I guess TAMU is pretty good.
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Yeah East Carolina looked pretty good today too.
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Sorry, but HM just doesn’t have enough zip on the ball. Short passes arrive in slo-mo.
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Yeah, he’s awful.
Hutson Mason
16/22
191 yards
8.7 yards per pass
2 touchdowns
0 interceptions
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Looks like we have to out-score them. Not sure we are capable of that. Don’t think we have the QB to do that.
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Mizzou is going to destroy us; they actually do have a good quarterback.
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Our only hope against a good QB is a better pass rush. We have the guys up front for it. I think the wet field is slowing them down as much as anybody.
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It more O line.
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I’m praying we make solid adjustments at halftime
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I hope I am wrong, but I don’t think we can adjust that much.
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Spurrier has the shit eating smirk-not good.
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It looks grim but we are not beat yet. Get it together, Dawgs. You are better than this.
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We’re going to have to throw the ball to set the run up in the second half. Scary to say this but it looks like this one is in Mason’s hands. On D, we made some great adjustments at the half vs Clemson. Let’s hope CJP can do the same tonight.
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Nice drive. I particularly like the blocking by the o-line on the fourth down and then the TD. Now let’s try and remember how to play D.
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SCar answers with a good drive of their own. Spurrier made his name by finding the holes in zone coverage. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised to see it happening today. I really though Thompson would be less effective without play action but he has proven me wrong.
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Defense comes out looking tired and SC gashing runs up the middle.
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Pruitt! Pruitt! Dawg Porn! GATA! LOL
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Observation after the first two games: Spurrier > Dabo
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Time to go to Home Depot. Weedeater Bowl here we come.
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Observation after this game: Spurrier >>>>>CMR
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If Spurrier holds on to win here, he’ll be 4-4 against Richt. But don’t let facts get in the way of your trolllolololololoing
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Don’t let butthurt get in the way of your GU reading comprehension…THIS GAME, repeat, THIS GAME: Spurrier>>>>>>>>>CMR
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Okay, make that 5-5. Still not exactly worthy of quite so many > signs.
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Why does Bobo not throw the ball more on first and second downs? I think Vince Dooley is the guest playcaller tonight.
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We agree for once. The big difference is that when Vince called running plays he had a good, often great, O-Line.
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Well. The kool aid is going bad. I really thought after the second half of the Clemson game we could make adjustments. We’re not giving up 3rd and Granthams bc that would mean we got them to third and long. Has Dylan mediocre Thompson even gotten his uniform dirty? Making him look like a heisman candidate.
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We’ll, we definitely don’t look like a playoff contender. But one good sack ended that drive. If we keep it up we are not done here yet. Pass rush can keep us in it.
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I still hope we win this game and see how we could, but this is a flawed team.
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Defense is getting manhandled up front and outclassed in the secondary. If Pruitt can pull something out of his butt, it would be a miracle. This all of a sudden is like last year, WITHOUT Murray.
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Yeah. Can’t blame the offense in this one. They have already put up more points than they have in Cola than they have in a lot of years. Unfortunately the D decided to crap the bed.
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They need one, maybe two stops and all that won’t mean shit. GO DAWGS!!
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Someone has got to make a freaking play on defense.
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Pruitt! Pruitt! 2nd coming of Erk! GATA! GATA! GATA!
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There goes the sunshine.
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Our defense looks sad …
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Like sad bullfighters waiving at SC as they fly by
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Today the defense is what we feared it would be.
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For CMR so loved the DisneyDawgs that he gave his only begotten defensive coordinator…
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…a sieve?
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But I will say this: the TEAM hasn’t quit. The Eeyore Dogs need to find another team..or are you really for this team?
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Yes, I’m indeed for this team and yes they didn’t quit…but USC did move thru our D easily…and I’m hurt about it. I hoped for better but feared what I saw today. That doesn’t mean I’m not for this team…
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Hello 7-5. I fell for it again this year.
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It’s not as bad as all that. It’s only week three! I hate to lose but the season is far from over.
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They are blocking really well up front. If they don’t pass we can’t sack em. Keep the pressure on them and maybe we can make them blink. If they hold serve, there’s really nothing we can do.
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What a bunch of down in the mouth douchebags.
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I’m not giving up but ffs why do our players act like their balls are crawling up into them in Columbia? Ffs. This is a team that has never won the SEC for gods sake.
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If we can get some more stops, our RBs can win this game…
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Richt warned us this would be bloody. These defenses, both of them, are TIRED. We just need one stop.
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“These may not be 2 great defensive teams but these are 2 tough teams”.
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No stops for us. Deloach is just getting killed at right DE.
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Tell me about it now crybabies!!!!
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Swann reminds us that we do, in fact, have scholarship players in the secondary. You are making me forgive a lot of sins, young man.
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Roller coaster ride … that ends in crying
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A painful possession. The grounding by Mason was a bad, bad mistake. Still 11 minutes left, so save your tears.
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Ha! My bad. 4 minutes. I need to work on my clock management.
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I think CMR needs to work on his clock management
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Ther SEC refs have a thing against GEORGIA.. We are screwed and i don’t understand why.
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We’ll folks, we had our chances. I wanted a win but I refuse to get too down over a hard-fought loss on the road against an opponent that hates us WAY more than we hate them. Remember, we can lose this game and still win the East. Go Dawgs!
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THIS!
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I’m withya, but gurley, 3 or 4 times after the turnover, makes a lot more sense than getting cute…as for Morgan a wet field affects your plant foot
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what a joke job by marshall morgan!
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My god. Will I ever get a team that I can count on not to crap the bed in at least once a game a year?
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I’m not sure. There are still some undefeated teams out there. Buy one of their hats if you’d like. I won’t tell.
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It just wouldn’t be a Georgia football season if we didn’t find ourselves 2 or 3 weeks in and already hoping to back our way into a division title.
Hate to say it, but I’m thinking that we now know the real state of our defense. And it’s even worse than expected.
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Yeah, but PRUITT! PRUITT! 2nd Coming of Erk! GATA! GATA! GATA!
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If UGA is Spurrier’s White Whale…well, let’s just say Spurrier has one hell of a lot of oil stored up over the years…White Whale KILLED AGAIN!
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season over! no titles for this piece of shit defense!
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This is what happens when we read too much Dawg Porn…nuthin’ but a bunch of B-M propaganda…PRUITT! PRUITT! 2nd Coming of Erk! GATA! GATA! GATA!
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Well we finally scored more than 20 in C-bus…
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Glad we could give Dylan Thompson a heisman moment in his career. Can’t wait to see Jeff Driskell have his game of his career. Jesus f-ing Christ. I’m 37 and I have no real hopes that I’ll ever see a MNC. So much for defensive adjustments. I’m effing nauseated by that game. And so much for the improved ST. Morgan still can’t just kick it in the end zone and choked badly on FGs.
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Obviously CMR needs to go back to the high dive. Maybe Mrs. Richt can go back to water-wife duties.
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Don’t forget Maty Mauk at Mizzou and the Arkansas RBs. They’re all going to have a field day with this defense.
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Good job Bobo. 1st and goal on the 4: zero points.
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Yeah but PRUITT! PRUITT! 38 points! Another Erk in the making! GATA! GATA! GATA!
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Lol! Somewhere Run-A-Muck-Chuck is dusting the cob webs off my fav Eeyore Blog and trying to make a game of it. Goodness..here we go again with Bobo haz a crayon.
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Our defense made the play we needed to win the game. Bobo decided to not utilize the best player in the nation to take the lead late on the road.
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I don’t understand people who excuse the defense for not making plays the rest of the game. Yes, they made a huge play, and it should have allowed Georgia to win. Bobo should have handed the ball to Gurley. The defense was still terrible and had more to do with the loss than the offense.
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Bobo is a moron. After all the mistakes we had to suffer though where he lost game after game in 2009, 2010, 2011 during his OJT you would think he would have learned by now. But he still hasn’t learned. First and goal from the 4 with the best back in the nation on your team. Give the ball to Gurley!!! 4 straight times if you have to!! But to try a passing play on first down and lose 11 yards? The single stupidest offensive call in Georgia football history. Bobo deserves the Georgia defense. A match made in heaven.
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Sigh.
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Dude, calm down. Georgia Scored 34 points on the road and lost. The Defense is what lost this game, not that call. I agree that we should have ran Gurley 4 times. However, all game long the D has been chasing any hint of Gurley getting the ball. The announcers even mentioned they never felt Mason was going to have that ball on the back side and were not respecting it. However, the one time they do it leads to the grounding call. If that play works, he looks like a genius, it just did not.
One play does not a game make. 2nd and 24 and a wide open SCar WR, to me that play epitomizes this loss.
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just another year in georgia football…
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paging todd grantham….
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Bozo pulls out the old play book on the 4 instead of feeding it to #3. I could see a gap between the ball and the stock at the end
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Stupidest call I have seen in 35 years of watching football.
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Bozo didn’t throw the goddamn ball into the ground nowhere near any receiver.
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He also didn’t call for a handoff to the best player in the country.
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Actually, he was trying to throw it at the running back’s feet, and it kicked off the South Carolina player’s leg. It was a blown call, one of many the refs botched against both sides. I can’t believe that crew is one of the top two in the conference.
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I though I saw that also.
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The grounding call was bogus, Bro. Mason threw the ball at the feet of Quaavon and the refs blew it by calling grounding. But that still doesn’t change the fact that to call a pass of any kind in that situation was a bonehead move. So many bad things could have happened doing that like an interception, a tipped ball with an interception, a sack, a holding penalty (real or imagined with the shitty crew calling the game) etc. Just hand the ball to Gurley. He never fumbles and he gets 7 yards a carry. But nooooooo.
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It’s nice that everyone got to contribute to this loss. The defense sucks. Bobo still tries to be too clever at times (though I’m probably as surprised as he is that anyone stayed home on that play). Morgan decides to miss his first two field goals in a year on a night when two more field goals would have won. Georgia football is perpetually a dollar short. If I believed in some sort of cosmic balance to all things, I’d say Georgia used up every bit of luck they would ever have in 1980.
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Curse of the Track People
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/108668-georgia-football-now-has-an-official-curse
At least we didn’t get embarrassed. But damn, just damn. Spurrier ties Dooley. Morgan breaks the record and returns to freshman ways. Bobo Picks the precise moment not to RTDB.
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That’s as good an explanation as any. The crazy thing about Bobo not handing it to Gurley at the 4 is how mulish he was about getting him the ball in the first half when South Carolina’s whole defense was keying on him.
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Here’s an idea. Let’s take 2 weeks to devise a gameplan that DOESN’T take advantage of scu’s weaknesses. Give their QB a giant cushion. Run into a 7+ man box. Don’t hurry up. Act like a game clock doesn’t exist. Totally ignore the success a&m and ECU had against our opponent. And don’t attribute the loss to the half ass genius.
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I’m amazed at how many homers here think the refs should only throw flags at the other team, they’re always out to get us, etc, etc. Do you know how idiotic that sounds when South Carolina was getting penalized left and right at critical points of the game, often on pretty minor calls? The only bad call I saw against UGA was the holding call, but South Carolina had its share of petty calls against it, plus the unsportsmanlike that probably should have gone against us.
It sucks to lose, but if these guys were a shade flat at first, they still appeared to play hard for four quarters in a place we typically have trouble with. If you can’t watch your team lose a game without all the wah wah wah and dissing somebody like Mason (who stayed because he loves the college and had a damn strong stat line tonight) or Pruitt (coaching his second game with inherited players) or Morgan (who has won a lot of games for us and who threw himself in front of a return man and who did indeed “kick them into the end zone” all night) then you need to find another hobby because football ain’t your sport.
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The officiating was incompetent, but it wasn’t biased. As for not dissing players and coaches, have you visited blogs before?
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And do you not know the difference between writing “Bobo should have RTDB into the endzone on 4th and goal” or “that was a lousy decision by Mason to throw the ball at Andrews’ heels” to the kind of posts you are reading above?
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People get emotional after losses. I don’t condone it, but I understand it.
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I do, too. I just tend to feel worse for the kids than the commenters. Have a good night BR.
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DING!
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Agreed, Bro. The officiating was bad but not one-sided.
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I think that blogs and comment sections in newspapers just draw fucking crybaby douchebags that wouldn’t know how to put a damn mouthguard in for their lives.
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so, cosmic, we are wrong to expect georgia to win a big game on the road that it should have won? choke job, plain and simple. richt cannot win the big game. that is and will be his legacy!
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See my comment above…you go ahead and expect whatever you want. I felt like our guys played pretty hard and imo many of them appear to be playing above their natural talent level this year in most positions, which has not always been the case. Bobo screwed up once, and it was a bad one, but he’s still one of the best in the country. I still prefer CJP’s defense to CTG”s after two games. The kids played hard and lost. Tip your cap to them, crack a beer, and consider that it’s still just football.
I’m gonna try and remember that myself and not stay here until midnight defending that post. Good night everybody and GO DAWGS!!
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Try not to feed this asshole troll.
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jeeze, I had a hundred sh—- comments to make, but you guys already made them. These boys belong to us, let’s own up to the fact that God tests the pious man and rewards the town drunk and leave it at that, and be happy with our boys for fighting for 4 quarters. And always remember, No matter what, Stanfil will have the last laugh.
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Ha ha ha ha! It does make me feel better to think that Spurrier can’t ever look back on wins like this one without remembering how the field tasted at everbank field.
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Yeah? How does 4 out of the last 5 taste, bitch?
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Better than pulling for a loser program that has its best coach ever and still can’t win anything of consequence cock. 🙂
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