I have to admit it’s not getting better.
Maybe McGarity can turn this into a fund-raising exercise – you know, something like, supporters of the program, make a contribution to help us Free Gurley! We need your help…
Daily Archives: October 17, 2014
“There certainly is a path to Atlanta for the Gators.”
Forget it, Matt. It’s the SEC East.
“We have everything in front of us,” junior tailback Matt Jones said. “We have next up Missouri, Georgia, Vanderbilt and South Carolina. We’ve got to win four games straight. They’re all beatable teams.”
The catch is that so is your team.
Filed under Gators, Gators...
The consequences of being Stephen Garcia
The inevitable response to running your mouth:
South Carolina officials are aware of Garcia’s comments and “will be looking into it further,” sports information director Steve Fink told The State on Thursday evening.
It feels like they’ve had a guy on Garcia Watch in the athletic department going back to his playing days, just in case, and now it’s back to Defcon One for that guy. Good times!
Can’t wait for the Spurrier quip, either.
Filed under 'Cock Envy
Free Gurley goes everywhere…
… including the governor’s race.
First, Jason Carter.
Then, the Deal response.
@bluestein @carter4governor I've always supported Gurley, not just during election season. #FreeGurley http://t.co/tw0EHu2Rea—
Nathan Deal (@NathanDeal) October 16, 2014
Um… isn’t football season during election season?
Filed under Georgia Football, Political Wankery
A couple more details about Arky-Georgia
That thing about Arkansas spitting the bit against SEC teams in the fourth quarter… turns out it’s an “it’s in their heads” thing.
Arkansas spent two weeks working on its fourth quarter flaws after suffering a 35-28 overtime loss to Texas A&M. The struggles — at least on offense — didn’t end in the 14-13 loss to Alabama in Razorback Stadium last Saturday.
Arkansas was scoreless in the fourth quarter against a Southeastern Conference opponent for the third time this season. Auburn, Texas A&M and Alabama have now outscored the Razorbacks 38-0 in the fourth quarter and overtime.
“I saw drives that didn’t get going, drives that stalled out,” Arkansas coach Bret Bielema said Monday. “It’s kind of been a continuing theme for us, unfortunately in SEC play, and it’s something I’m really began to hone in and be aware of last week and tried to make certain adjustments. But it’s something I’ve challenged our offensive staff with, and our players. Obviously, the biggest failure for us overall is to not put points on the board in the fourth quarter, and to win close games.”
The Razorbacks could manage only 35 yards on 16 plays against the Crimson Tide, struggling to move the ball with the game on the line. Arkansas had four possessions, but went three-plays-and-out twice, was stuffed on fourth down on its third chance and quarterback Brandon Allen threw an interception at the end.
“That’s where most of our mental mistakes are coming,” Allen said. “We have a lot of mental errors in the fourth quarter and you can’t do that if you want to win games. It’s up to us just to polish things off and going into the fourth quarter and staying mentally sharp and doing things we’ve been doing the whole game.”
The fourth-quarter struggles in SEC games go back to last season, when the Hogs also lost late leads against Mississippi State and LSU. In all, Arkansas has been outscored 62-0 in the fourth quarter and overtime of its past five conference games dating back to the 2013 season. The Hogs led in the fourth quarter of each one.
But tight ends coach Barry Lunney Jr. said the issues aren’t limited to one theme.
“It’s a myriad of different things that have popped up for us,” Lunney said. “I think whatever it has been, whatever it should have been or could have been, when we play a good fourth quarter and we win, that’ll be our answer. So we’re working towards that and hopefully it will come sooner than later.”
Arkansas offensive line coach Sam Pittman said the ongoing struggles are frustrating for everyone involved. But he added the coaching will attempt another tactic when the fourth quarter arrives against Georgia on Saturday.
“We’re going to coach them in the fourth quarter like we did in the first three and see if that will help,” Pittman said. “I think that we’ve become a little tighter with the players and I think they’ve become tighter when we do. So we’re going to coach them to go out there and have fun just like they did in the first, second and third quarters. We just need to be more upbeat and more positive with them at that point.
“If you play three quarters of ball a lot of things have gone right and some things have gone wrong and you’ve got to flush it. We’re going to start the fourth like we start the beginning of a game and see if that will help us. I bet it will.”
I’ll take that bet, Sam. It’s the kind of thing that’s a lot easier to say than it is to do.
It’s definitely something to keep in mind if Georgia enters the fourth quarter in a tight game.
Also, the Georgia has been ridiculously good managing field position thing? It’s even better. In fact, it’s the best.
Give me another dose of that and positive turnover margin, and I like Georgia’s chances on Saturday a lot.
Filed under Arkansas Is Kind Of A Big Deal, Georgia Football
Friday morning buffet
Get your feed bag on.
- Les Miles ain’t gonna let one thing go, Mike Slive.
- Bo knows Jameis.
- Herschel doesn’t want to know Jameis.
- Face painting isn’t politically correct at Arizona State.
- The mayor of Little Rock resorts to begging fans to buy tickets for Saturday’s Arkansas-Georgia game.
- If watching a lot of college football games is what it takes to be the next SEC commissioner, I’m as qualified as Condi Rice.
- Autograph fever – don’t catch it!
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