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The Colorado trip was wonderful except one of the worst games I have ever sat thru. I was in disbelief a team that bad beat UGA as Carlton Thomas ran between the tackles over and over.
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It really is too bad that pot wasn’t legal on that trip to Boulder in 2010.
Would’ve softened the vicious blow of suckitude in that game.
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What? It wasn’t legal? Yeah, that right there should have been your tipoff to bring cookies.
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I fully expect a bed shitting of epic proportions tomorrow. We may lose by 50.
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Maybe, Rocket. But maybe the Dawgs learn that you can’t always lean on just one guy…and step up their game. (I’m that guy that presents opposing platitudes 🙂 )
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Except that all they have done in ’14 is lean on that one guy. How can they possibly change in 2 days?
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last time I saw Chubb run he was pretty good, I understand he’s no Gurley, but he is more than capable
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Exactly. We are historically very mentally fragile in situations of adversity. Not exactly Auburn.
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Barn played Newton, unlike our dithering AD who is forcing Gurley to sit.
They had no reason to be emotionally fragile.
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Auburn couldn’t google evidence of sCam’s impropriety the same way our compliance office can. Not disagreeing with the “damn the torpedoes” sentiment, but the evidence stares you in the face with TG in a way that it didn’t with sCam.
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Still, I was impressed with the way Chizik had the team focused internally rather than getting caught up in the noise surrounding Cam.
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Chizik was too stupid to be nervous.
The reason that team won was b/c of sCam and Gus.
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then we can expect Gurley back only to lose to some shit team..ie Colorado
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Gurley so gone for good. Face it.
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We’ll put this game on Mason’s shoulders and ride our passing game to victory
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Funny.
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LET ‘ER RIP!!!
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Ha!
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Don’t worry, this year McGarity has a contiguity plan. There will be a press conference Monday to mobilize the fans behind it. He is going to let us know the first step will be for us to send checks payable to “UGAA Reserve Fund.”
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This made me laugh.
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The odds UGA gets housed in this game are pretty good. I have zero faith in Richt to get his team amped up for this. They’re done.
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Putting the “us” in hosed is appropriate.
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And if Gurley is out for the season, it comes down to winning at Kentucky to get to 6-6. So at least Bauta and Ramsey get some more reps.
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The pragmatic question here is how long will the NCAA take in completing their “investigation”. A week? Four months? March 3, 2019? Difficult to believe that Todd dropped the ball on this violation. Just incomprehensible to me. Heard David Greene talking about this last night and the compliance meetings. Somehow, this is going to be cast as Coach Richt’s fault again. Which could not be further from the truth. You can’t fix stupid or immature behavior. Which is what this apparently is. Blown season, blown Heisman, etc etc etc. Coach Richt can’t be held accountable here, only Todd. Wonder what Todd is going to say to his teammates, or whether he will be allowed to speak/apologize to them? I share the pessimistic view here as well – I have not seen UGA respond well to adversity in the past. I would love to see that cycle broken here but I am praying for a miracle in the hearts and minds of the players and coaches. It could be, just could be a seminal moment, a paradigm shift if they do go in and play well enough to win. They can, they are capable and they need to get some fight in them and attack. Like cornered dogs.
Sorry for the stream of consciousness here……a bit dazed with this news.
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My money’s on March 3, 2019. It sounds like you are dangerously close to assigning some of the blame for this shit storm to Gurley. I agree, but be careful. That isn’t a popular sentiment in Dawg Nation.
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Richt is never held accountable…..you have nothing to worry about.
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That is total BS. Richt is ALWAYS held accountable…except when it is Bobo’s fault.
I can’t stand our AD. I think he is horrible. But he did not do the crime here. The number of Georgia fans who want to blame everyone but Todd Gurley and the slime ball who set him up is amazing. Am surprised no one has blamed Bush yet.
Yes, the rules are stupid. Yes they need to be changed. I assume Richt talked to Gurley and it is very likely that he admitted to the violation. If that is true, and I realize we don’t know that at this time, then the same people who want to destroy everyone but the perpertrator would eviscerate Richt and McGarity for knowingly putting the team in jeopardy of forfeiting games.
Todd Gurley did this. He was set up. But damn, some of these reactions are so insane it is amazing.
I hope that Chub and Douglas can step up. I hope Mason has the game of his life. Right now I am not optimistic, but I am not giving up on the other 84 players who did not knowingly break the rules, regardless of how wrong those rules are.
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“…I am not giving up on the other 84 players…”
Where did the number 84 come from? I hope you’re not under the impression that we have 84 players on scholarship.
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84, 74 or 64. Whatever the number is this week. 😉
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Ok, good. Glad you know your stuff.
If I had to guess, I’d say we’re probably closest to 74. It’s fun being on probation year after year after year after year, even when we’re not technically on probation. It’s more of a challenge this way. We win too many conference championships as it is.
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What I believe is insane is that our AD and coach proactively sought out this “informer” based on rumors and innuendo…and with no actual evidence of TG taking money….we then throw said player under the bus as we have done so many times in the past…they don’t care about winning, the fans or the team in BM only the bottom line and the Georgia Way BS
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What I believe is insane is that if our AD and Coach had a report of a major violation and ignored it and hoped it would go away. They are PAID to do the right thing. Who threw anyone under the bus? How freaking dumb is that. Todd Gurley allegedly did the deed. He surely was questioned.
What do you really expect the administration to do? Ignore it? How stupid.
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I would expect the ad and coach to protect the player just as texam did…but glad you have chimed in greg…and major violation if you believe that than I would question you’re intelligence oh high horse
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And just like Auburn did. But it’s not “the Georgia way”.
All that’s left now is to hear that Jimmy Williamson helped crack the case.
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Bob, is the way of the world…some would blame the girl Winston raped for showing too much cleavage.
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Now you’re being an idiot for even comparing the two…
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Wasn’t comparing the two incidents, just character of people that don’t know where to place blame.
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The fact that anyone gives a shit about “forfeiting” games is a joke. Who cares?
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+1,000,000
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“Richt is never held accountable…..you have nothing to worry about.”
You got that right, it’s never Richt’s fault. According to all the “Good” Fans.
First of all, Gurley II was suspendended during an investigation for breaking a rule and at the end of the day he made his choices. Under Coach Richt, UGA already suspended a 1st Round Draft Pick for this sort of thing in 2010. Those of us that have “Been in the Arena,” know: Once is an accident; Twice is Evidence; Three is a trend. If a trend emerges, things beyond bad decisions by players probably need examination. UGA needs to figure out something wether Richt is accountable or not. At some point, if the same thing keeps happening under Richt’s Watch, something’s going on beyond every kid on scholarship plotting to break the rules for no reason…
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No reason? Money is a pretty good motivator, especially for a broke college kid. Unless Richt set the meeting up or gave Todd a ride and waited in the getaway car, I don’t see how you blame him.
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Are you surprised? Some of these knuckleheads blame Richt for ISIS. Nothing about college football fans should amaze us anymore. And we laugh at Phyllis from Mugla.
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So is the trend recruiting top NFL talent or is it having a couple of those guys get caught taking money for autographs?
Because if we are going to look at things ‘happening under Richt’s watch’, I assume we should also point out that he has recruited the most top flight talent in the history of the program as part of the analysis of ‘trends.’
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And then pissed it away
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With Mason and Concrete Feet Douglas carrying the load, we’re done for.
At that point, all I care about is playing Brice Ramsey. The “QB that gives us the best chance to win” argument doesn’t matter anymore. Time to get ready for 2015, and hopefully get Ramsey’s lumps out of the way in what has turned into a lost season.
Remember when people thought we were the #1 team after Clemson? Comical.
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Jeebus, you people… Back away from the ledge. Nick Chubb will get the priority carries, with Douglass spelling him. Mason will be spelled by Ramsey. These guys all are on SCHOLARSHIP. You need a drink…
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I plan on having quite a few. A shot every time Gurley and NCAA are mentioned in the same sentence on Saturday.
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Please, for the sake of your health, don’t do that. You’ll be dead before kickoff.
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Laughing.
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I’m heading out to Cali on vacation this evening. It’ll be a liquid breakfast for me…
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Chubb will get his carries, but doubt they trust him too much in pass protection. Hence, why we will see plenty of Concrete Feet.
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Why don’t you take your “Concrete Feet”, find a deep water dock and jump off.
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Coudn’t have said it better, Cojo…
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Goodness gracious Mr. Cojo, bless your heart. All this makes me kinda, sorta regret the tasteless comments I made about Boom’s QB, sorta, kinda.
The Bitches watch that stuff…maybe its all my fault…sigh.
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“Tasteless comments” concerning FU’s QB? That’s an oxymoron waiting to happen.
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🙂
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Just go ahead and gather up your best HAT for tomorrow!
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Nice criticism….all the Douglas kid does is play his absolute ass off.
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There was a fair chance the team would have shit the bed with Gurley. They’ve got one or two every year lately where they seem to do just that. Without him, they will fold like a murphy bed.
Greg McGarity is that friend who just has to tell his wife that guys’ night out ended at a strip club, even though no one did anything really bad, but he just has to tell her everything. The NCAA is his wife…and she’s on the rag.
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surprised he wasn’t too busy writing memos to the league office requesting noon starts..
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This might be the best comment I’ve ever read on this site. Just perfect.
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Funny.
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I suspect that the 50+ guys who got on the airplane this morning who were alpha dogs enough to earn scholarship offers at SEC schools aren’t taking a “We’re Domed” attitude.no different than if Gurley got injured on the opening kickoff. Next guy up has to show he belongs. Maybe we aren’t good enough to win without Gurley but I am not throwing in the towel.
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Actually, I hope they do think they are Domed, but not doomed.
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That’s Russ Tanner’s take on the morning radio show.
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Thank you I think some people forgot the G on the helmet stands for Georgia not Gurley.
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We should just forfeit tomorrow’s game. We’ll lose by 100!! It’ll be the worst loss in Georgia history!!!1!!
Some of y’all are so dramatic it’s comical. Grow up and support the damn team or find a new team.
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You pay for my tickets and all the other expenses and then I’ll do it your way.
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All fans spend money. You are not special and that does not give you or anyone an excuse to bash the group of young men who will take the field Saturday.
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Please quote where I bashed the group of young men. Good grief! Lol!
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I never said you bashed them. I said that spending money does not give you an excuse to do so.
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Whoot whoot! From Gurley man to Chub man…I’m all in. Dawg to the end!!!
I hope Mizzu thinks this one is in the bag.
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P.S. If Gurley is the end of UGA football, what were we planning to do next year anyway? I guess I need a new hobby.
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No offense hon. But maybe you should pull for Harvard or something if you want everything to be positive.
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Wtf? That comment applies to you. And stop the “hon” remarks. Ginny’s my girlfriend.
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Agree with Cojones.
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Bruce Feldman is now reporting that UGA expects Gurley to miss 2-3 games. That puts him back for either Florida or Kentucky.
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The suspension is irrelevant at this point. We know he’s not playing tomorrow, and if we lose, the East and everything else is out the window. Missouri would have to lose 3 games, with Georgia and South Carolina already out of the way. If we win, then things become more interesting.
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Let’s be honest, given the lack of playmakers in our secondary, the east being out the window this season, when the West is arguably the best it’s ever been, is probably a good thing. Let Mizzou claim back-to-back east titles and back-to-back “most points given up in the SECCG” titles with it.
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Bruce is guessing since UGA has clammed up.
Opinions will fill the media until we hear from AD and Coach.
The dent was placed in the Ark game since it was going to be an old-fashioned RB duel.
C’mon, D. Play lights out as long as you can. Undermanned and outgunned; just the way we are used to playing. Give it your all, men.
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Exactly. I’ve seen people projecting that Gurley will miss just this one, based on the NCAA violation guidelines ($400 apparently = 1 game, $401 apparently = 2 games).
I do think that we might benefit from the high visibility of Gurley to provide for a quickER resolution than we could otherwise expect from the NCAA. AJ was a baller, but he wasn’t #1 in the Heisman polls back in 2010
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I will be shocked if he is not gone for the season. That is the UGA way.
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Good gracious, guys. This team we’re playing lost to freaking Indiana. They looked terrible for 3 quarters versus a seemingly disinterested South Carolina team. Indiana didn’t have Todd Gurley either.
Nick Chubb is better than any back they’ve played not named Mike Davis. We still have better athletes than they do, and remember we played them last year without Bennett, JSW, and Mitchell. And we played them with a Todd Grantham defense.
In 2010, we were an emotional wreck with a redshirt freshman playing QB and a very meager, meager running game. We also started off the tough part of that stretch with a good South Carolina team (who also beat #1 Alabama that year) and an Arkansas team that went to the Sugar Bowl. This Mizzou team is NOT that. We have better players. We’ll have to be careful, but we’ll be ready.
I thought Todd was going for 250 and we were going to win by 21. We’ll still win, and Chubb might go for 150. Good Lord, get behind our team. If you think we can’t handle adversity, you must’ve missed starting 0-2 in 2011 and reeling off 10 straight and you must’ve missed last season when we fought back in game after game after game after game, no matter who was on a stretcher.
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+1,000
I don’t know if we’ll win, but we certainly won’t see this team just roll over. They’re going to fight and claw all the way until the clock runs out. And shame on the folks on this blog who think otherwise.
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How do you know? We’ve seen them roll over under less trying circumstances in the past. Resiliency hasn’t been one of the team’s strengths in quite some time.
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Thank you.
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Good points!
Some of the nellies in here need to hitch up their skirts and quit crying. “Why does bad stuff always happen to us?” Boo hoo, all is lost, we suck.
If that’s how you feel, fine. Is it frustrating to see Auburn, TAMU, etc. skate on this kind of stuff or worse while we keep shooting ourselves in the head? Sure. Is whining about it going to make it any better? Nope.
Suck it up, strap yourself in, and pull for the guys we’re trotting out there tomorrow. If you can’t or don’t want to do that, fine, but quit boohooing about it. It’s Missouri, not the mid 70s Pittsburgh Steelers. Hopefully, our players can handle adversity better than some of our less properly spined fans.
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So “whining” doesn’t make things any better and we should all just trust the coach and AD based on prior experience. Like how well the AJ Green situation worked out. Oh wait. We screwed ourselves that time too.
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What’s this “we” shit, troll?
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all the whining about AJ was a real boon to the program back in 09, wasn’t it?
You want to fire McGarity, or Richt, or the entire NCAA, have at it. I admire your principled stance. Just quit crying about it.
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Hear, hear. Get on the Motha!
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(Fans quickly replace their heads that they severed , stagger to consciousness, place a small red and black flag in each hand and blow out their vigil candles.)
Sorry, sUGAr, weepers gotta weep, rats gotta jump ship and hairpullers gotta ……
Many of us who aren’t the worshipful type are ready to sit and cheer the rest of our team to a wildass victory. This statement of fan loyalty was made in a smokeless environment. The O will get theirs and I’m cheering like hell that the D gets theirs.
The betting line shifted to Mizzou as a 1pt betting favorite. That means that Vegas thinks the game is wide open.
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Yo! We’ll all watch…even the naysayers..Georgia still has a a great shot at winning this game.
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If ever there was a moment for “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”!
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Mein Gott.
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Mein too!
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I’m with you.
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This is not the time or place for rational thoughts.
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Thank God, Sugar…at least some of us are back from the edge.
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I think its reasonable to be pissed at Gurley. I am. What is unreasonable for me is that I had NO IDEA I could loath the NCAA and this administration even more. I am really quite shocked at myself.
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Nah! The Georgia way is moral victories. Celebrating following immoral rules written by immoral people. The ultra conservative responses by the admin and much of the fan base are why we’ll never be the best.
This is my preemptive strike since I know some asshole will turn this into me wanting us to cheat and give players cars and allow them to do drugs and rape women. Lol
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Hey now. Don’t you realize we are the Harvard of the south? If you disagree you should hand out AK-47s to all players and become Auburn. /sarcasm.
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Who are you calling an asshole and I would never advocate raping women. 🙂
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Some of you disney’s don’t realize that it was our money hoarding wuss of an AD that suspended Gurley. Look at the Manziel case to see how an athletic department that backs their players can defang the NCAA.
But hey. Greggy has to worry about that reserve fund. Btw. #FreeGurley has been a trending topic on twitter since last night. Of course whichever flunky controls McGarity’s twitter account keeps deleting any negative messages. He’ll deign to talk to us next week. The UGA way.
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Scott, neither the AD or Coach are responsible for this event and they acted immediately upon hearing the news because it’s their job to follow the rules like over 90% of NCAAF teams do. We (as in the University) are investigating and will report results to the NCAA as is our responsibility whether you are aware of what goes on or not. I’m sure their hearts are heavier than ours because we have the luxury to vent without responsibility.
Vent, but don’t shoot at personalities. This isn’t the time. Try cheering the team forward because that need is obvious and depressing them further just adds to Mizzou’s chance of winning. Right now we have the same chance of winning as they do.
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Sorry but suspending a guy in a case where the facts get more and more sketchy as they come out is stupid. I doubt McGarity or Richt lost much sleep in their million dollar homes last night. Stick up for your player instead of trying to cover your asses. Gurley is twice the person Manziel is yet A&M stuck up for their player and UGA did not.
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The AD has a responsibility to take certain actions. He was given information that an athlete violated an NCAA rule. To do ANYTHING other than immediately suspend him would be irresponsible.
Texas A&M had the advantage of the accusation being made before the season started. AND nobody admitted to any money changing hands. In this case, they guy told UGA outright that he paid Gurley. McGarity had no choice except to do what he did.
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This guy sure seems to be a legit source. Taped gurley signing stuff and then months later decides to “come clean”. Rumors are that he is a UF fan and if you read his email to various sports outlets he sounds about as shady as Al Capone.
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This has absolutely nothing to do with Coach Richt not sticking up for his player.
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Sumlin and the A&M guys stuck up for Manziel. Hence the toothless soon to be defunct NCAA backed off and he missed half a game.
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Again, everyone in the Manziel case kept their mouths shut.
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And his school didn’t indefinitely suspend him before the NCAA even called.
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Yes, they did. NCAA rule require schools to immediately suspend the player when an accusation comes to light. A&M had the advantage of learning of the issue a month before the season started, so Manziel did not have to immediately miss playing time.
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+1
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I suspect Butts Mehre knows if money was exchanged on the video or not. If no money was exchanged, take your chances and jujitsu the NCAA clowns by conducting a lightning quick investigation on the matter and ask for his suspension and reinstatement in consecutive days. Because while he didn’t take money, his father did, but Gurley didn’t know about it, or something. Anything.
There is precedent here.
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I feel badly for the rest of the team. And the coaches. Not to mention then fans.
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My two cents… College football is morally bankrupt. That the exploitation of athletes is sanctioned by rules doesn’t make it any less repugnant. That something at innate as Todd Gurley’s control of his own name has to be given up to participate in this morally bankrupt system only further highlights its hypocrisy.
Burn it all down.
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Senator, we’re all part of the same hypocrisy.
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I keep beating this drum..Civil Disobedience gets attention and results. Look how the people of Hong Kong stood up the Chinese Govt. last week….If every player (of course nothing is ever 100%..but “most”) would go out and openly sell stuff..if only for a dime….say..next Monday…it would kill this problem in a day. They can’t suspend the whole damned body of NCAA atheletes without costing the institutions and the TV networks and the NCAA many, many millions of dollars….Strength in Numbers
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Uglydawg. The biggest thing that surprised me was that the protesters weren’t carried off in body bags. I’m grateful that HK is unique in it’s government. Western style business with a Chinese face. Beijing did nothing more than acknowledge the dissent. And then move them off the streets with the promise of discussion. I give that round to Beijing. They took the protesters off the offensive and off the cameras with the promise of “talks”. Sound familiar? Now watch Beijing go to work.
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The question Bejing has to ask it’self is “Do we really want to kill the goose that lays the golden egg?”. Hong Kong is an economic gem. When the hard handedness returns so will the protests. Bejing can’t win this battle without losing the war.
If the football players (but they’re unorganized kids, of course) were to stick together, they’d win very quickly. Public and Media opinion determines who wins these disobedience showdowns…and I think the kids would have both.
Granted…it ain’t happening. Really just a rhetorical argument.
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We signed an agreement with NCAA to abide by the rules, no matter how much it hurts. We can’t pick and choose like some have and we will never become them knowingly. Let this thing ride thru and later gimme “the ashes in the hair” crap.
The team needs us now. There is a game to be won tomorrow by this team. They are ready to go and we are pulling up the rear while remonstrating and gesticulating invectives that won’t do shit for them.
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“This was in reply to Connor and you had to stick a reply in between, you %&#@* “, he said as the fan base unraveled. 🙂
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I doubt that the team is going to be demoralized to a loss because fans are questioning the incompetence of their administration or AD. I’m all for the team winning and hope they do. Doesn’t mean that mcgarity et al acted like morons in this case so far.
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Incompetence? Boy, you like to rachet shit up if you can get away with it, don’t you? NOT!
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I just call them like I see them. If anyone has proof that McGarity gives a crap about anything but money I’d love to see it. His hires in other sports haven’t exactly been great either if we’re talking overall competence.
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You have zero cred for stating such. And everyone here knows that.
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This is a site for voicing opinions. What gives yours anymore cred than mine? Sorry we disagree but I’m not arrogant enough to be sure I’m right and you’re wrong.
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And if you honestly think that people venting their anger at the situation on a blog has eff all of an effect on whether the team wins or loses tomorrow then I’d question your sanity rather than your cred.
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Sick and tired of being sick and tired…
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You buy the ticket…you take the ride.! Yesterday will take care of itself— lets focus on tomorrow and the kids that are boarding that plane getting ready for a road trip.
GO DAWGS! Time to get ready for Missouri! We got us a tiger to tame.
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I’ll be there by tomorrow. Just sulking right now.
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If I’m Gurley, I’m outta there. There’s no sense in sticking around for the remaining few games after being suspended for 2-3.
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I’ve been so mad at the AD and the NCAA and the set up man that I hadn’t even considered Gurley just deciding to say to heck with it sign with an agent, start getting paid, and get ready for the draft. Ugh. I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
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Yep. Why risk an injury?
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Because he committed to Georgia. If he has the integrity he is said to have he should be practicing and ready to play as soon as he can.
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I’d like to ask a question please. I’ve read several articles that discuss the suspension and what Gurley supposedly did, but I haven’t read HOW this instance came to light. How did McGarity and Richt find out about this? Was their a letter, a voice mail, a messenger pigeon with a note on its foot?
I’m asking for the front-end of this story because it does not add up.
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SB Nation ratted out a vendor who was ratting out Gurly’s articles for sale in succession on e-Bay. They ignored him until the news broke, then called him; whereupon, he whispered that the news had broken and he didn’t want to be called anymore. Originally, the asshole suggested that SB Nation should get juicy advantages by reporting it to ESPN.
Just some asshole out there doin’ dirt because he didn’t have the Gurley articles others had.
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Thanks Cojones. Someone sent me the article. Scumbag dealer whose name will eventually surface. His get his due at that time.
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I hope so. Needs to be run out of the state on a rail.
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SB Nation said nothing until the story was already public.
The memorabilia dealer shopped the story around until he finally found someone who would run with it. When they did, UGA was contacted for comment and acted accordingly.
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I expect to see the team come out to make a point. That point either will be to show the nation this team isn’t a one-man show or to embarrass the athletic administration like the Vandy 1994 game. I hope it’s the former but am nervous it’s the latter.
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I think this team has too much pride for it to be #2.
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Ginny, I really hope you’re right.
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Ginny’s onto this mutha! And we know she’s correct. Nothing’s changed as far as going after this win with everything.
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+1
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Are you saying the loss to Vandy was deliberate in ’94 or a protest of some type?
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Yep – that’s exactly what I believe happened
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500 @ $8-$25?? Damn, printing press! Lol! You see…what had happened was…Gurley heard 500 autographs over the season but buddy said 500 autographs by Sunday after the Vandy game. Well we all know Gurley was resting the Sunday after the big game and Gurley don’t carpal tunnel on Sunday.
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I still think we win. We are deep enough to beat Mizzou and my guess is Gurley is back next week. If Manziel had to sit out for a half for the same violation I don’t see Gurley being gone for more than one game.
While this is unfortunate there is nobody but Gurley to blame. I hope he has apologized to his coaches and teammates for this incredibly idiotic and selfish mistake.
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Hope you’re right. But Manziel swore that he didn’t accept cash, though most of us naturally think that was a lie, but one that couldn’t be disproved. If Gurley’s admitted taking money, it could be a longer suspension.
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Yep. Tell the truth and get punished more. It’s the Georgia Way.
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Gurley won’t be back next week. We are already suspending him before the NCAA has done jack shit. You really think they are going to resolve anything in a week?
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Manziel never admitted to anything. He was never found guilty of taking money. We’re rolling over and asking the NCAA with their limp dick to fuck us in the ass. We’re as pathetic as it gets.
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Bingo.
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I swear some of you disneys are as over the top as you like to accuse anyone that doesn’t parrot the company line of being. I’ve never called for MR to be fired but I honestly think that some of you could watch him strangle a player in front of you and as long as he went to church the next Sunday you’d still worship at his feet.
Still not saying this is all or even more than partly his fault but damn he IS human. Just because he’s a great Christian doesn’t excuse any and all faults or mistakes.
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I balme the coaches and AD. Why? That is their roster. Can’t be everywhere, but you can create a culture or atmosphere where compliance is better than the recent history at UGA.
These guys are young, do not have a lot of life experience and education, vulnerable. You have to account for the fact Gurley is a talent. He has a value currently and in the future in football. Does he have remorse. Probably and I say that just from watching his reactions during games. But what happens at UGA this season [titles, awards] has no real bearing upon him in the football culture. He is going to get his value barring a major injury. It is simple a matter of short time…just a few more months and he can sign a multi-million dollar piece of paper rather some trinket. That is for all purposes his position. For the team, coaches, fans, supporters, and alums…well it is what is … a damn lot of bad …there goes your season regardless of what happens.
What it amounts to is it makes the programs at UGA look out of control…stupid…think not…take a look at that roster…hell, CMR does not have one to compete in the SEC.
Why all this now. Look back at Walker and Dooley’s roster. Did we have those issues like this. No. Times and the culture has changed. What has not changed is what is happening with the coaches, staff, and AD
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Heard a remark last night from a major sports network that Georgia has protected players from this better than nearly every team since the AJ/agent fallout. Proactive classes that are given go into great detail with UGA players. Press and agents are prevented access before and after games like no other school was the gist of their remarks.
This took place during last Spring when no one from UGA was around. You can only stop agents by refusing them. That’s entirely on Todd and the ahole who undermined our program..
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Senator… a question. Since the NCAA has lost the lawsuit about players images, how can the NCAA still enforce this thing? I guess they can do so because it’s under appeal. But dang, you would think they would already take steps to get within the law. Can you expound on it? Thanks
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What is the “Georgia Way?” Depend on just one man to win games? We have a 14 year coach and probably twice the talent Missouri has, even without Gurley. If this were a high school game, based on Georgia’s talent pool, it would be like a 6A school playing a 3A school. It should not matter that Georgia lost one player. We should still win.
The fact is, unfortunately, that we are not a good team. A well-coached Missouri, like a well-coached SC, will give our 4 and 5 stars all they want and probably more. Coaching matters. And Georgia does not have the consistency, schemes, play-calling, innovation, etc. that championship teams have. We should own the SEC east right now, based on talent alone. The fact that we don’t should be a huge red flag and an indictment of our coaching staff. Chronic underachieving should not be the “Georgia Way.”
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This man is obviously having a delusional moment here from excessive Kool-Aid consumed this past summer. Have you watched many games this year?? I mean if UT QB doesn’t get hurt we lose by 2 td’s. This is an average team with above average running backs of which we are down to ONE. I maybe a fan but I’m not blind.
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Would you want to make a commitment to a CMR team? He signs them but they never stay. Suspended, transfer to Auburn or Louisville for violations…even after getting the benefit of a paid tuition and coaching at UGA. Hell, even a Bama is not that stupid … they do not release them.
AD and CMR need to understand it takes a roster to win and win big time.
Why come to UGA, those teams are always embroiled in some issue.
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I wouldn’t. Because he can kick you off the team w/o any explanation and the MR sycophants will always support him no matter what.
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You see a lot of negative comments on Dawg blogs when stuff, like the frosh QB at UF, happens at other SEC programs.
Well…do you wonder what they are saying about us…the Dawg Nation…more so in light of a suspended or dismissed player a week in Athens. If we keep it at one a week, a tema may remain by season’s end. But who knows about UGA anymore.
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Ok…its a double bummer. Lost Gurley and did not have time to re-jigger the offense to try to deal with that loss.
So all we can do is “hunker it down one more time, you guys.”
And THAT, you defeatist mutherfuckers, is the Georgia way.
I am gettin fired up about this game…maybe the team is, too.
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I like your version of the Georgia way.
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Sick’em, Scorp, and bite their legs off, Dawgs.
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We went to the final 4 the year after Nique did.
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Well, Mizzou won’t have Todd Gurley around to grab by the scrotum anymore.
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Dear Kharmic Sweeties….I’m a Georgia fan, I been down so long it looks like up. Can you help a guy out here ladies?…a couple timely fumbles, a pick six…something, anything…
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So everyone is ok with the mindset of winning without cost. As long as we win we are ok with breaking and overlooking rules. We are ok with recruiting undesirable people simply because they are great athletes and give us a better chance to win.
I am very proud to call myself a Georgia fan, I have been a very proud fan for my entire life. My father is UGA letterman and ran track, so I was born a DAWG fan. I would like to see nothing more for us to win a championship. I have also been very disappointed that those dreams have not been fulfilled but I am not willing to sake my moral standards to do so. I get angry to hear UGA get tagged with the trouble program label simply because they choice to discipline wrongdoers and other programs sweep things under the rug.
I will continue to support UGA, our coaches, and those players that choose to play by the rules. Those that do not want to comply need to go. 1000 upon 1000 athletes are denied admission from UGA that have dreamed their entire life and want to play for the university, that hold true to the traditions that have been set at UGA over the past years. These are the athletes that need to recruited. Those that want to play at Georgia, those that respect and know of the traditions, respect the players that have gone before them, respect coach Richt for the man that he is, and respect Georgia. Those that think sole of themselves need to go. You win as a team, not individuals and that is the sole reason that this program will not be successful is they do nothing but think of themselves. Selfish, ungrateful individuals!
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Sounds good but if you only take the lesser talented but “want to be Dawg” players you’ll find yourself at the bottom of the SEC pretty fast. This isn’t the Ivy League. If you’re happy with mediocrity bc Mark Richt gives you the warm and fuzzies great, but a lot of us like to win championships.
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Go back through the history and traditions that I spoke about and then make that same statement. Georgia has pride itself of taking lesser talent and making it into to something. Most of our top players were not your typical 4 and 5 star players. Erk Russell took mediocre talent and made them into players, and Georgia was damn good back then.
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And yet our only recent national title was largely the result of the best RB ever to play in the SEC.
Hate that some of our fans think if we stood up for TGII like TAMU did for Manziel that somehow means we’re Auburn. Internet rumors over autographs is in no way the same as “let’s recruit QBs who were kicked off other SEC teams for theft, or sexual assault”.
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Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
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It was the Italians.
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Come on people, every body in the world knows that ISIS bombed Pearl.
And the mother fuckers sold Todd’s jersey, too…
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I hope that, in a hotel, somewhere on the outskirts of Columbia, Missouri…there’s 75 or so Georgia football players sitting in meeting rooms, and their teeth are beginning to grit, and their collective psyche is beginning to jell into a dogged determination.
Ignore the nattering nabobs of negativity Dawgs….hunker it down and kick Mizzou’s ass.
Come on folks, all you Dawgs of the true blood, they can feel us, I believe it, you believe it.
GATA
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I believe that there was a game that Herschel had to miss and Carnie Norris ran wild?
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Yep, that would be correct….and this is not even Herschel, its just Todd Gurley.
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And it’s Chubb, not Carnie Norris.
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If you’re right, sounds like negativity is actually a motivator for the players rather than the opposite. So your positivity is pretty anti-productive and more than a bit Pollyanna, considering what we’ve seen from this bunch so far and the team reaction from the loss of AJ in 2010 (remember the original post?).
This, of course, is assuming that cheering from the internet makes the slightest difference one way or another with respect to tomorrow’s game. And, of course, it doesn’t.
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You can prove that posit, of course?
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Let’s get Scorp to suit up, tape his ankles, and put on the eye black!! GATA Scorp!!
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Godamighty, Spike, are we that deep in the shit?
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Yes. We are. I’m saving one bullet for myself. I’m with you!!
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Dear Kharmic Sweeties…I know ya’ll done fell in love with Ole Miss, but can we poor down-trodden Georgia fans have just a few minutes of your time, just a few seconds of your precious time Saturday afternoon in COMO? Come on ladies….help a Dawg out here.
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“If we are not VICTORIOUS, let no man come back alive!”
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“.. Americans love a winner,.. Americans will not tolerate a loser..”
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Here’s a thought for Mr. Chubb and Mr. Douglas and their teammates…especially the offensive line we are told so often here is incompetent.
“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor—by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.
“He will take no man’s money dishonestly and no man’s insolence without a due and dispassionate revenge. He is a lonely man and his pride is that you will treat him as a proud man or be very sorry you ever saw him.
“The story is this man’s adventure in search of a hidden truth, and it would be no adventure if it did not happen to a man fit for adventure. If there were enough like him, the world would be a very safe place to live in, without becoming too dull to be worth living in.” HT Raymond.
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I don’t want to go all football equals war here but in a battle when one side has taken numerous casualties it can cause a loss of morale. Lets look at what has happen to our team since just last year. We have suffered what 5/6 kicked off 1 transferring , a couple of career ending medical injuries and the regular run of the mill losses from injuries. Trust me if UGA was a rife company it would be pulled out of the line until it could get replacements. IF we get bowl qualified Richt will have done a great job.
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Football does equal war, 69, it is our way of life against the damn Missourians’ way of life.
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So is there any chance a UGA win results in the Cards getting swept in the NLCS? Because that’d be great.
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NLCS??? WTF is that? or them?
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My god, it’s the same excuses year after year. Play that broken record!
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I have one other point then I’m going to go back to real life. If this team that lost to SCe and escaped UT can pull this off I’ll be happy. I will also think that this team is a lot like most UGA teams and plays to the level of their competition and no more. If it is true that a team mirrors it’s coach’s personality, they are not worried and they are NOT prepared for all phases of the game. We have not played a total game, all quarters no breakdowns, in my memory, so I always hold my breath waiting for the screw up to happen and hoping we can overcome our own errors. It’s tough to be a Georgia Bulldawg.
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Yep, being a Dawg ain’t easy…would you have it any other way?
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The only hope we have is this Georgia team is hungry to get its first win of the season.
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I’m glad there are so many of you that can go on as if all is well. Support the guys we have because they play by the rules. Mark Richt is still in charge and college football is still fun. I envy you. It isn’t fun for me anymore. Not because Gurley is gone. He is fun to watch, and I wish he could play, but it is what it is.
It isn’t fun for me because I have been part of the machine that has exploited kids for their own benefit. I told myself that it was for their own good. It was to protect the integrity of the sport I love and get so much from, whether it be fun with friends, harmless ribbing of friends and coworkers, etc. Now my team, my alma mater, has suspended the player that has carried the team on its back this year because he made a little money for himself. I understand he knew the rule and knew the consequences, but UGA is taking the side of the blithering organization that has found itself on the wrong end of legal challenges for this very thing instead of protecting and fighting for the best interest of the player.
I just can’t seem to generate the adequate amount of care for this game. I support the players, and I want them to be treated fairly. I just wish I felt like my university was fighting for them instead of covering their own asses.
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If you are so close to it you KNOW that none of us really know what the “University” is doing or why.
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CPA …A question…Do you really think the administration is “covering their own asses” ? Is is possible that they are trying to limit the punishment of Gurley by being up-front and HONEST about it? Would you rather this stew for another few weeks and lose Gurley for Florida, Auburn and GT? Not me. If he’s going to be suspended, let it be now. I understand everyone’s frustration with Georgia always being the fall-guy when they seem to be the only program with integrity..(nice guys finish last, huh?) but I’m believing the admin knows a lot more about this and is seeking to limit the damage.
Sometimes it hurts to do the right thing.
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Yes. Just like with AJ Green. We aren’t talking morals and law breaking. We are talking compliance with a corrupt organization’s rules governing the behavior of the help. UGA is looking out for UGA. There is no other way to look at it. If Gurley hit a woman, smoked weed, or cheated on his taxes, then I be 100% behind suspending him. Complying with made – up rules is not a priority for anyone else in the country, and the legality of the rules are even being challenged. I don’t think the moral high ground is as high as everyone who claims it thinks it is.
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If they really wanted to do the “right thing” they’d pull all #3 jerseys for sale. But they won’t do that.
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Well, CPA…I just read the Senator’s post at 1:58 and I’ll have to say it bolsters your point.
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