Ah, hell. Felt bad about the game when the fumble call was overturned near the end of the first half.
Congrats to Missouri, who did it the hard way.
Next time, don’t take Florida lightly, Dawgs.
On to Tech.
Bert. Bert. Bert. Bert. Bert. Bert. Bert. Bert.
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Get The Picture 
Maybe FSU will make the same mistake as UGA.
I can dream
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Dream on, and pray for a miracle in the Coaches’ Market.
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Miracle? It won’t take that. Just a good hire.
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Fuck pulling for fla. Who cares. Always & forever.
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I’m making an exception tomorrow because this is one loathsome FSU team. Also, once it dawns on UF fans that Chip Kelly isn’t walking through that door, but possibly Dabo Swinney, minus his coordinators, is, and yes, it can get worse than Mushcamp, it’ll be an enjoyable time.
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It was their day for sure. I was losing my mind when they kept throwing it. Number 10 couldn’t hit the side of a barn in the second half. I can’t understand how a running team just completely abandoned the run for a QB who couldn’t throw – oh hell…
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Balance?
JK. Lol.
Ok all you Haz Clowns just let that go.
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+10000. You’re a team built to run the ball, you’re having success running the ball, you’re QB is hurt and can’t throw the ball in the ocean while standing in the waves, so let’s throw it!!!!! way to go Bert! However, we can’t rely on a team that’s 6-5 playing on the road. The trip to Jax cost us the entire season. 2007 all over again!!
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Closer than I thought it would be. Missouri just didn’t look like they were going to lose once we lost to Florida.
Bert must owe that quarterback some money. No way that guy should’ve been out there in the second half.
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Just another year with no title, but possibly a crap bowl game that will give Richt another cheesy watch for the display case. Here comes the Richt excuse train. All aboard!!
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Unless we lose tomorrow, our bowl game definitely won’t be crappy. Are you an actual fan of college football, or one of those people with the “national title or bust” mentality every year?
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I think everyone knows the answer to your question. Beat tech!
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+1
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+2. Beat tek
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Maybe we’ll get a New Year’s Day bowl in Florida against a Big 10 team that wears red!
Can’t hardly wait
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Again, unless we lose, we are going to be ranked in the top 8 and will definitely be going to one of the big boy bowls.
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Again is the right word, alright. http://espn.go.com/college-football/bowls/projections
Peach Bowl against the GREEN Big 10 team. wake me when it’s over.
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Yes, playmaker, I am a fan, but unlike you I don’t like to lose and prefer ro win a title at least more than once a decade. Loser!
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It’s not win a title or bust but we shouldve beat UF by 20 so we don’t have to pull for Arky to win. That’s what makes me mad. Beat Tech and win a good bowl game.
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Yup
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Btw, give me your ticket so I can punch it. Richt excuse train is pulling out.
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You’re a dolt.
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Dolt? I haven’t seen that word since I last read a comic book when I was maybe ten years old.
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Whole year and a half, huh?
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Screw you dude
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Here’s an excuse for you: STFU loser!
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My favorite thing about that game was the way the moron managed to call a timeout just before the Mizzou K missed a 50-yard FG, but couldn’t manage to call one when the play clock was running out just before a 4th and 3. What a buffoon.
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But, after all, he is charismatic.
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Chantastic is more apt.
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Chan was always more charitable to the Dawgs.
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Bert is a bigger idiot on time (mis)management than CMR. Did you notice how near the end of the first half, with Mizzou down 14-3 and Mizzou with the ball at their own 10 yard line, Mizzou called a first down running play for a 1 yard gain and didn’t call timeout? Mizzou was going to run out the clock and go into halftime down 14-3. So Bert calls a TO for them. Next thing Pinkel switches modes and starts throwing the ball. Mizzou ends up kicking a FG as time expired. Anyone also notice how Bert “iced the kicker at the last minute by calling a TO just at the snap. The Mizzou kicker missed the FG but because of Bert’s TO got to do it again and kicked it through the second time. What a dope!
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Or SC…beat the geeks!
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It’s frustrating because imho the Dawgs were obviously the best team in the east and didn’t get it done. In retrospect, Dawgs lost to two pretty mediocre teams. It doesn’t feel like after the 2012 SECCG where you just have to tip your cap to the other team and I got over it pretty quickly. It just feels like a stolen wallet, a missed train, like I forgot to put the tag on my dog’s collar and now he’s lost and I’m kicking myself.
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We. Must. Destroy. Tech.
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I don’t hate either Arkansas or Mizzou, but Richt is really pissing me off right now. We are guaranteed a game or 2 that we are not prepared to play each season. BTW, I do hate Tech…on to tomorrow…
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So we were “not prepared”? You are actually saying that? Should buy yourself a TV and watch the games. We lost two games, lack of preparation wasn’t a part of either loss. But you would have to either watch, or have a clue about, football to not embarrass yourself like the other dude.
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What’s your explanation for the 2 losses – “football expert?”
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As I continue to read the rest of the comments below, I notice some other folks make the same point I do. I hope they don’t continue to hopelessly embarrass themselves too like you say I have…
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And they are the same folks who come out after any news they feel they can exploit. And yes, they are pretty horrible too. You negatrons that always down the program don’t have the sense to stop losing games for decades, grow up and man up when you lose. And don’t cast blame where it doesn’t exist. A team that “wasn’t prepared” doesn’t dominate the first quarter, they would have lost form the start. Nor would they go down to the 1/2 inch measurement at SC. We didn’t make plays when we had to, someone else did. Happens every single game in football, a winner and a loser…doesn’t mean you have to lose all your life.
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Mac – I post plenty of positives on the Senator’s blog. I firmly believe that preparation trumps luck every time. There are though times Georgia teams don’t appear prepared to play and that’s what these coaches get paid lots of $ for. I wasn’t at all disgusted with the Georgia team that lost to Alabama in the SEC championship – I was proud of them. They played above themselves and almost won it. We looked incredibly prepared 2 weeks ago as we whipped Auburn. Finally, Richt and his staff have always had the team prepared for Tech (except of the Martinez-led debacle in ’08). I’m a lifelong Georgia fan and alumni, so I will be cheering hard for Georgia like I always am. So Mac, like Richt would want me to do, I’m going to turn the other cheek. Go Dawgs!
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There are times I truly believe I have better prepared for my tailgate. Once, twice a year. Getting “Richted”.
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We beat Auburn this year and Tech every year because we’re the better team. I really think you’re placing too much emphasis on preparedness.
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Actually, you are an alumnus. “Alumni” is the plural of “alumnus. “
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Well, maybe SGD is as big as 2 people. I am an “alumnus” but after Thanksgiving I usually I feel like “alumni.” 🙂
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He has the right to question a team that destroyed Missouri, Arkansas, Clemson, Auburn, and Kentucky but got raped in Jacksonville. That doesn’t make him any less of a fan than you.
Just keep your blinders on and focus on the the status quo. I bet making no changes to a program that always coughs up two games will definitely ensure we win a Natty some day.
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Now he’s going on about “Nattys” — what a treasure.
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I’m with you. Let’s fire the likely 11 win, top 5 finishing coach instead.
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“Natty”???
From which Big 10 bar in Cleveland are you sockpuppeting everyone, brah?
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Nah. That’s just what he’s been drinking–Natty Lights.”
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McFanlover, If you think UGA was prepared to face that horrible UF team after watching the game, then nothing anybody says on this board will change your opinion. Truly unbelievable!
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One of the Georgia players admitted to reporters after the game that the team overlooked FU–until CMR told him to shut up.
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When a bunch of youths overlook an inferior opponent then it is on the coach.
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Always.
But the answer to all this, IMHO, at this stage of the game, isn’t another coach. The answer is Richt figuring out how to keep his team team from beating themselves.
To do that, IMO, he needs a better grasp of the psychological aspect of managing the schedule. It’s the one aspect of the job he’s never gotten a handle on, and it leaps out at you from the record.
As I’ve said many times, it’s not that surprising seeing how his mentor, Bowden, never grasped it either. But until he figures it out, this will continue. Luck can intervene, but that’s always temporary.
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I agree Ivy, but after so many seasons I have little confidence that he can turn the corner. He does not, and has never had luck on his side, that is certain.
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In the long run there really is no luck to it. Breaks even out long term. Remember, Georgia won the SEC East over South Carolina in 2011 and 2012 exactly like Mizzou won it over Georgia this season. Wasn’t that luck in Georgia’s favor? In 2012 South Carolina put a whippin’ on the Dawgs about like the whippin’ Georgia put on Mizzou this year, but Georgia still won the East over the Cocks. What goes around comes around.
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Well, he’s only been there 14 years. I’m sure he’ll figure that out if we just give him some more time.
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I know. But it’s the one thing he lacks. He does so many things well, but just doesn’t have a handle on how to manage the psychology of his team through an entire season.
The same fault costs Bowden multiple Titles at FSU over the years, and the same has happened to Richt. Richt has a tougher go of it, being in the SEC, but it’s the same thing.
I wish Richt would identify the problem and focus on it, because he’d fix it if he did. But like you, I have no confidence that he will.
He’s fixed so many things since 2010, a lot of them this year. This is the one thing left, in order to get the consistency that it takes to go through a tough schedule without beating yourself.
If somebody beats you? Fine. That’s a totally different thing. And it will happen. But in the last 5 years or so, there’s been very few of those, where the other team was better, or even just played better that day. 90% of our losses are because of us.
And so it was again this year.
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I don’t think he knows how to fix it. I think he thought he figured it out in 2007, and then the blackout in 2008 happened. Maybe if he can find another guy like Murray, that’ll solve it for a little while. For all of their faults in 2013, the team didn’t lay down in any game.
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I pretty much agree. He hasn’t identified it yet, that’s why it isn’t fixed.
They sure didn’t. But there’s more to it than just showing up. We beat ourselves multiple times last year, as usual, in other ways.
But your statement brings up a great point. The things we did to beat ourselves last year, like so many of the years before, he largely fixed this year. Pruitt was a big part of that, just playing relatively solid defense most of the year. But the mindset changed, many things changed. Not just the defense, though that was most of it. And in the right direction.
The South Carolina game was a coaches’ loss, the result of a bad decision with the game on the line. But the Florida game is evidence of the one thing we’re talking about. And that one, Pruitt can’t help with, or anybody else on what is now an outstanding staff.
No, Richt has to do that one on his own. The Jax debacle goes straight to Richt, and not his coaches. And he’ll either figure it out, or he won’t.
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Exactly. And he was a team leader and captain. There were others starters who said the same.
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What a kick in the gut that was. I know we didn’t take care of our own business, but why do NEVER seem to catch a break?
Have fun getting your ass handed to you in the Dome again, Mizzou.
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We caught breaks in 2011 & 2012. We weren’t/ aren’t unlucky, we’re unprepared and sloppy.
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I’ve seen a lot of Georgia fans talking about them getting killed in the dome. Why? They play enough defense to hang with Alabama and Mississippi State. If Mauk plays well, they could even win.
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You’re stupid.
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I’ve been saying all week that the outcome of the Arkansas-Mizzou game will likely determine the outcome of the UGA-Tech game. Hope I’m wrong, but I fully expect Tech to run all over an uninspired Georgia defense tomorrow. Could be really ugly.
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I think I disagree — the pressure is off now.
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At least we don’t have to worry about chop blocks taking our players out for SEC championship. Hunker down dawgs, and rip the nerds pocket calculators straight out of their assholes and send them crying back to the north avenue trade school, using their tears for lube as they sit typing their write up on StingTalk about how at least they going be our boss one day. Let my Chubb loose! Pun intended!
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I jus wished Arky wud have tried to pass it on 2nd down. Wait, whts tht? They did & totally sucked at it? Ok cool – lets keep tht going all game.
Richt shud have been more prepared for fla – the team he needs to beat the MOST – & he was not. This outback bowls on him. Can’t fuckin wait.
Hope they’ve got their minds right for gt 2mrw. I know at this pt I don’t really give a fuck.
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Tip of the cap to mizzou, 7-1 in the sec is nothing to sneeze at. As far as Georgia, that’s what happens when You A)get blown out/lose to an awful awful team and B) lose to an sec east opponent EVERY. DAMN. YEAR. It’s the reason we haven’t played for a national championship in 30 years and frequently need help to win the east.
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Eh, when you look at the combined records of who they’ve beaten, it’s pretty sneeze-worthy.
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Mizzou has won the SEC East twice and only defeated a team with a winning record once (UGA ’13 when half the team was on the MASH unit). Every other team that they beat was .500 or below, kind of hard to give “kudos” to that kind of team.
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Arkansas second QB must be a huge drop. I gotta lay the loss on no. 10’s injury.
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He is the little brother of the starting QB and played against Ole Miss last week when the injury occurred. Apparently he got almost all the snaps in practice this week until Wednesday. They played 2 and 1/2 quarters without a capable QB, mystifying.
Hope the Dawgs come out strong tomorrow and move up in the rankings, could be a great bowl matchup coming up. Hate we can’t get to the SECCG game, like our chances of either of the two coming from the West but don’t see Mizzou having enough firepower on offense to make it exciting.
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And you, who’s opinion I Totally respect, don’t think any of this has to do with Richt havin them unprepared for that shit-egg they laid in J’ville? You don’t think they we’re ill-prepared for that game?
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No, I don’t think the loss was due to preparedness, at all. We came into that game ready to play and began by taking it to them for the entire 1st Qtr. Overwhelming stats and execution of the plan on both sides of the ball. I think the fake FG and David Andrews injury were major factors but the defense did not execute and play disciplined, assignment defense was the overriding reason we lost. I don’t think Pruitt, Richt, or Bobo were unprepared, or surprised, by what FU did. And I think anyone who feels the coaches didn’t take FU seriously is beyond naïve, it wasn’t the guys earning 6 and 7 figures that went to sleep on this game, it was the 18-22 year olds and some of them admit it. And, of course, SC wasn’t a lack of “preparedness”…the word is not even close to me and it is totally illogical to think so as an explanation of either loss.
The loss hurt all UGA fans, we can all speculate how any player couldn’t take it seriously but to think the coaches didn’t “prepare” is just the wrong way to characterize it. I don’t blame any fan for hating the loss and agree we are the better team, but better teams lose every week due to numerous factors…rarely preparation. I am also sure Pruitt, who had to be expecting a heavy dose of the run, attempted to change the personnel and made adjustments. Just because the student does poorly on the test doesn’t mean the teacher didn’t prepare them. We seemed to get it against Auburn, I am sure the FU film was used as an example to illustrate what they didn’t do in Jacksonville.
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Great post.
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Thank you. Anyone who has tried to get a teenager to listen to them SHOULD understand that even the greatest teachers (and that’s what coaches are) can’t always motivate their students (and that’s what players are) to operate at peak capacity. From sheer talent alone, Alabama should blow all but one or two opponents off the field every season, yet they still have games like theirs against Arkansas this year. It happens, and it especially happens with teenagers. Is it an excuse? No. Is it a reason? Yes.
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That was my first thought while watching the 3rd and 4th quarters. How BAD must Ark’s backup QB be if they won’t put him in over Allen…who looked like he was throwing passes with the wrong arm. Tuuurble.
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Why are people getting pissed at Richt for Arkansas playing a shitty game against Mizzou? What happened in Jax a month ago is over and done with. Get over it.
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Because there are people for whom NOTHING short of a national championship is enough.
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Or be prepared to beat your rival, THE ONE GAME RICHT NEEDS TO WIN THE MOST, especially when they are mediocre at best. Maybe that’s it…??? To be able to move on to bigger & better things??
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Yea, I’m not sure football is healthy for you.
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You mean the one we have won the last 3 years in a row?
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Yes that one. Should have been the 4th in a row. And what Cosmic says below. He eloquently states my frustration.
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That’s a little unfair. I thought the Dawgs showed up for the South Carolina game but just got beat. And I was over the Florida game until today, and I’ll be over it again tomorrow.
But tell me – none of the frustration of that Florida game came back to you as the seconds ticked away in that Arkansas game today? Obviously it was on The Senator’s mind, too – it made his post. It felt insane to be rooting for a marginal Arkansas team to beat a marginal Missouri team so a Georgia team who mopped the floor with both of them could sneak into the SECCG. Most of the big (and realistic) goals for a very good Georgia team in a weak division turned to smoke today, not because they got beat by Florida in a tough game, but because – impossibly – the Dawgs never mentally made it to Jacksonville.
That’s a far cry from being unsatisfied with “anything but a championship”. I know it was just one game, but it sure counted for a lot today for a team with a lot of potential, much of it realized and much of it unrealized.
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“sneak” is the wrong word, they would have made it fair and square.
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If I were the Arkansas QB’s dad I would have come down and taken my son out of that game. Not sure what Bert, the OC, and training staff was watching but ten or fifteen million fans that may have been watching on TV understood Allen was in no condition to contribute, in fact, he was an anchor after the first 20 minutes. Arkansas fans are in the WTF? mode, and you can certainly understand it. Congrats to Mizzou on hanging on, not a very interesting SECCG looming next Saturday.
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Mac, I pointed out how (in the thread right above this one) what a bizarre situation that was. The back-up QB is the starter’s little brother. He’s been filling in just fine…but today he was left standing on the sideline while his older brother had, perhaps, the worst game I’ve ever seen an SEC QB have. There must be some friction..rivalry going on between them or something…there must be SOME reason BB left him in. I felt like his theatrics on the last drive was mostly ontrived to draw sympathy for what was a very shitty performance. That may seem cold, but if he was really about to die..as he was telegraphing with his antics….then he should have taken himself out. That’s not “toughness”, it’s hard-headedness. Bilema may have left him in for a really bad reason…if you’re going to recruit brothers to compete for the same positon, you have to be able to forget that theyr’e brothers and do what’s best for the team.
When I contrast Arkansas’ O coordinator (did they even have one?) with CMB and Bilema with CMR…I’m thankful.
Now let’s go out and win half of the ACC! Smear the Yellow Stain!
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Right, Mac. Brandon Allen had no business being in at the end of that game. He was hurt to badly. The University of Arkansas AD (the God-like Jeff Long) needs to look into this and take action. But he won’t.
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Boy, the whiners were just waiting for this.
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That’s a bit unfair. A big chunk of everyone’s (perfectly rational) hope for this team / season went up in smoke a few minutes ago. You surely share some of the frustration…? It’s not the end of the world, but it stinks.
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Unfair, really? Because “hope for this team / season ” means what? Nothing but a Natty? They would have come with this whenever the dawgs lost.
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How about a SEC title for a change?
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Richt’s been there as much or more than any coach in the conference. We’ll be there again soon.
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Did you honestly fucking think that this team would win the SEC with a first time starter at QB and a brand new defensive coordinator? Seriously? If so then you need your head fucking examined. Go back to your XBOX where UGA is undefeated for 20 years straight.
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“Go back to your XBOX where UGA is undefeated for 20 years straight.”
That should be XBOX’s marketing slogan. You almost made me want to go buy one.
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Gus won the SEC with a UGA DB reject at QB last year who transferred in from a JUCO. All aboard the excuse train!
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He’s not talking about excuses; he’s talking about expectations. If you were told at the beginning of the season we’d have a chance to win 11 games with a new defense and a largely untested QB, would you have been this disappointed?
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Oh, and he won it with the help of two of the most miraculous plays in college football history. Maybe you heard about them.
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Win the SEC? Maybe not. But win the East? Absolutely. Because, as anyone who follows college football knows, this is about the worst the Eastern division has looked in a long, long time. So, with a 5th-year senior at QB, insane depth at RB, returning depth at WR, and a front-7 on defense that should be good enough to compensate for a patchwork secondary, Georgia abso-fucking-lutely should be playing in Atlanta next week.
If that’s so crazy that I “need [my] fucking head examined,” then I honestly have no clue how to gauge my expectations for this program. I mean, for Christ’s sake, the team representing the East next week is a team that we beat 34-0 … on their own fucking field. But, for some insane reason, you think it’s irrational for fans to be disappointed that we missed out on Atlanta … again.
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I’m with you on this, Turd. The Dawgs are the best team in the East and the fact that they didn’t win the East this year is a travesty. Also, I guess I need to have my fucking head examined because I think the Dawgs match up well with both Bama and Missy State and while probably not favored to win, would certainly with an outstanding effort be able to beat either of those West teams on a neutral field.
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See my longer post above.
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Beat Tech and UGA will almost certainly go to one of the Big 6 Bowls…probably Peach against Michigan State or Ohio State.
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Disgusted, of course, with the outcome of the game.
But we get EXACTLY what we deserve. Exactly. Are we better than Missouri? Of course. It isn’t even close.
We took strides on coming out of our dreadful, habitual pattern this year. Positive strides. But until we finally learn how to quit beating ourselves, we’re going to remain at the mercy of luck and other teams.
We had a Godsend chance to beat South Carolina, and blew it. Then, even with a week off, we were so full of ourselves over how great we were playing, that we didn’t even bother to get ready for Florida. Seemingly, we had no idea, even at the coaches level, what we were up against in that game.
Beating ourselves has been our M.O., our SOP, our standard way of going about our business, for going on 10 years now. Until we figure out how to get out of that, we won’t win anything unless we luck into it, as we almost did several times over those years.
That’s just the reality of the deal. And quite frankly, as much as we all wanted the SEC East, we got exactly what we earned today.
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This. A million times this.
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So true. so painfully true!
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We are what we are and we ain’t what we ain’t.
Damn shure ain’t got no complaint.
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Yes, exactly.
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For all the whiners, I still have yet to hear a suitable name to replace CMR. Am I pissed about the Florida game? You bet, but it’s not heightened because Arky gave out in the 2nd half of the Mizzou game. “Fire everybody” is rarely a successful strategy.
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How about Gary Pinkle? Gus Mahlzan,? Les Miles? Jimbo Fisher? But they aren’t “Great men” off the field. Get the point?
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Frankly no, but maybe you meant that to be humorous. I don’t know anyone who would make a trade for any of them, on or off the field. I like Pinkle and Miles but I don’t really want them on my sideline, we could do worse certainly, but I don’t know any currently employed winning coaches who would come to a school that fired Mark Richt with his record, reputation, and accomplishments…they would think we were looney tunes. If we win tomorrow, and win the bowl game, we will finish in the Top 5, again. Fans who whine yearly about the level of success we have enjoyed and whine for years about every, single stumble are not sane enough to be involved in the hiring/firing process. And they are unhappy people continually. I hope they find a place that never loses because that is all that keeps them from acting irrationally.
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Gary Pinkle I respect. But he’s been exceedingly fortunate. The others…did you see what Georgia did to Auburn? Do you think you can hire Miles away from LSU? Do you realize that Jimbo Fisher wins in the ACC and would be middlin at best in the SEC? You may as well add Paul Johnson to your list..hell, he won his half of his conference…
Be careful what you wish for.
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Pinkle and Miles have losing records to Richt. Malzahn is 1-1 by sheer miracle. And you really seriously want them for improvement? Yeah, sure.
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I really don’t care how great a man CMR is. Two losing seasons and I would pray for him and send him on his way. Just like I didn’t care if Grantham was ‘showing some fire’. I care about consistency. A chance every year. I think he will bring us a shot at the championship.
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“‘Fire everybody’ is rarely a successful strategy.”
It’s also not a strategy that anyone is seriously suggesting.
For my own part, I still have yet to hear a decent argument for thinking that one cannot reasonably discuss whether or not Coach A deserves to keep his job unless one already has a replacement for Coach A lined up. (Because there is no such argument.) It’s just a distraction that people like you use in order to change the topic: now, all the sudden, we’re not talking about the actual merits of Coach A; instead, we’re talking about the hypothetical merits of Coach B. It’s stupid. You should stop doing that.
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Turd, I’m not trying to be smart, I really don’t understand what you’re saying. You can’t say there aren’t fans that want a coaching change. There are.
We knew Jax was going to come back and haunt us. I guess my point is that we’re not the only team who’s lost a couple of games that we shouldn’t have (in fact, I’m certain we’ve WON some games we had no business winning since Richt has been here). We dissect everything the players and coaches say, and if we don’t like it, it goes through the translator as, “he loves Jesus too much to win in the SEC”.
I personally think CMR will give us a chance every year, and I don’t think it’s time to start over. It’s not just that I don’t believe in the hypothetical merits of coach B, it’s that I’m not ready to dismiss the merits of coach A. I’m not gonna stop doing that,
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Couldn’t agree more, BB. CMB is arguably the best OC in the conference and Pruitt is THE ANSWER. He showed marked improvement using only spit and mud and I see some strong talent in the pipeline for this team… I’m gonna give the old skipper credit for these areas that we are strong. Next year we find a QB and this league is in trouble. Keep the ship steady for next year and GATA. We’ll be fine.
Fuck tek and bring on Ohio St.
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Can’t we be annoyed and still not want to fire Richt?
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Yes. Yes, we can. We’re all there, anyway. We can also feel a whole lot better by watching the atrocity in Blacksburg.
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Anybody besides Tom Fuckin Brady think that wasn’t a fumble? Add in a late hit penalty & bang – 6pt half time lead instead of an 11pt lead – WORST case scenario w 3pts in their back pocket.
Sec refs are awesome. At least it’ll be Mizzou gettin fucked instead of us next week.
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I dunno, Nate. I think they could have given Arkansas the ball on the half yard line and a first down and they would have let that girl throw it away four times. Man…what a scaredy cat..
As far as disappointment, I’ve put it behind me. I knew Arkansas was finished at half time..
I just want to see Georgia beat the living, stinking, bee shit out of the creeps from NATS.
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Right — I thought about a mention of this earlier. It appeared clear that there was no throwing motion involved on that play. Hogs go in 21-3, you got an entirely different game.
Tack that on to the blown holding call vs. USC and the Eyore Dawg will abide.
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I think Mauk began the throwing motion and tried to stop and pull it in as the ball was hit. No question his arm started forward for 6-9 inches based on that one camera view…that is the reason for the over turn. I think had the CBS camera been one foot further toward the direction of the “throw” the photo of the ball would have been blocked from the replay official and it would have been Arky’s ball. The game could have, and probably did swing on that little factor. That, and Bert/Bret was too dumb to realize his QB was AWOL for the last 2 quarters which wore his defense out. What a flip/flop one half to the next.
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Meant to say, my opinion/conclusion on the call was, based on what they saw with the ball moving forward, they probably made the right call. You cannot assume Mauk stopped his motion because the video doesn’t show that, last picture was it moved forward.
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I gotta disagree with you on that Mac.The video wasn’t conclusive either way. Remember, the call on the field was fumble recovered by Arkansas. If the TV ref followed the “conclusive video evidence” test like he’s supposed to do, there is no way that call on the field gets reversed and it’s Arky ball. Arky probably gets at least another 3 points (and Mizzou doesn’t get 3 points) before the half and the entire second half plays out differently. That call by the TV ref changed the outcome of the game. Which brings me to my point: For the first few years the TV refs in the SEC basically did what the rule said–they reversed calls made on the field that were clearly wrong and stopped with that. Now you see them substituting their own judgment for that of the game officials time and time again. If that’s the way it is going to be, the SEC and the NCAA need to just stop using replay because it is being abused rather than used to correct mistakes. The TV ref just becomes the “super ref” who decides all things. That’s dangerous and threatens the integrity of the game, IMHO.
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I am not hard core on this Mayor, I was also confident there would be no overturn until I saw the angle that showed the ball moving forward and then I was pretty sure that would be their proof because there was no video of him stopping the ball/arm’s forward movement. I “believe” it did stop, but cannot say that 100%, what I can say was the last look we had was a ball that looked to move almost a foot toward the LOS. When the announcers read the rule book regarding this “if there is any doubt it is a forward pass” I knew Arky was doomed to lose that turnover.
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Yes … it is the seemingly egotistical insertion of judgment calls when replays are reviewed that has become infuriating.
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Big game for CMR. Being able to get your team up with little to play for other than the rivalry is the sign of a good coach. What say you, UGA Nation? If we win is all OK? If not, do we have the balls to make a change?
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WE, who?
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You know….”We” that think winning ten games and finishing in the top five makes UGA losers…
I’m damn proud of this team and it’s coaches. They’d probably like to replace some of their fans.
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We’ve got the number one offense in the conference and a DC that has our defense going in the right direction. Not just no, but HELL NO.
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+1 Thats 2 +1s I’ve given you now!
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I’ll take the Peach Bowl. At least I don’t have to buy a plane ticket to watch us play uninspired Bowl football and lose to the Big 10 again.
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Weakest SEC East I can ever remember. Anyone who can’t shake their head at that missed opportunity loses their rihht to complain about anything. Ever. But demanding a new coach is a complete overreaction.
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Damn. UGA didn’t even play and you’re pissed off at the coaches. STRANGE.
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I had the dubious pleasure of having T-Day dinner where there were a bunch of Auburn fans. Learned that Marshall is a bum and Malzahn is stupid and hardheaded. You know what Roseanne Roseanna Danna said.
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We are going to have to hang in and see if JP is the real deal.
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Dear Gary, Give me my $#*# ing rabbit’s foot back.
sincerely yours, Gus.
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Only way to learn from a mistake is for it to cost you something. Next year maybe they wont take a week off against anyone.
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Bingo.
Old habits die hard, though.
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Couldn’t agree more. The day after the bowl game they should remind the team what the egg in Jax cost us this year! And remind them every single day all through next year. Prepare for everyone and don’t take anyone lightly
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Truth, Merk.
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Agreed 100%. I don’t want a new coach at all. I just want him to try to do his job a little better. Every great leader should try to continually improve themselves. If you can’t improve, how do you expect those who follow you to improve.
Beat Tech!
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I think we’ve had enough learning opportunities the past few years.
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No kidding.
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Congratulations to Missouri. They deserve credit holding up against a suddenly scary Hawg unit. While a moot point, I’m pretty sure Saban & Mullen are breathing just a bit easier with Missouri finalized on the other side of the championship bracket. Hope UGA coaches can keep the kids focused on Tech. Richt needs this one.
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Idiots are people that put words in other people’s mouth. By the way, sparky, who said Richt was about to get fired? Richt needs this game to avoid going back on the hot seat, to be sure. BWT, if you’re comfortable losing a game or two every year your team shouldn’t, just come out and say it. But Richt always has his kids up for Tech. I think tomorrow will be a big day for the Dawgs. Mizzou, on the other hand deserves respect as SEC east champion. They earned it.
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Man, it’s like Christmas has come early for some of these people. Don’t all of you know that we have sucked pretty much every year since 1980? And before that, we sucked all the way back to 1946? Oh, and that ’46 team sucked too because even though they were 11-0, they didn’t win the championship!
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Or, we’re just all a bit dissappointed b/c our favorite team wasn’t prepared against arguable our biggest rival and/or the rival Richt needs to beat the most when said rival just isn’t that good this year and very beatable and that cost us a shot at ATL & a championship. So we’re all just blowing off the steam from a heart breaking result, as I believe the Senator allows us to do. None of us hate or love the Dawgs any less than you do. So maybe take a step down off your high horse and sympathize with us. And maybe do that by not posting something that mocks our feelings. Thanks. Go Dawgs.
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Nate, you just have to look through this thread and many others to see that as soon as we don’t win a championship it’s all about “the excuse train” and “would be nice to win a championship sometime in the next 30 years”, and all sorts of hyperbole. If you can’t see it, I can’t help you.
I’m just as sick of the FL loss as anyone, but I haven’t heard as much whining about a loss in my life. And people are still whining. But 9-2, with a chance to go 10-2 is still a very good year in my book. But to a sizable subset of commenters here and elsewhere, it’s win or else. I prefer to enjoy the victories and quit letting the losses define me and the team. Obviously others don’t agree, but it must suck being miserable all season.
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GATA RUSS
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10-2 IS a good season. The problem is that this season could have been better. I look at this way: Georgia has been good enough to win the SEC 3 times since their last SEC title, and two of those years they didn’t even make the SEC title game. Most people acknowledge that unless things really go south, Richt will coach as long as he wants to. I just don’t think there’s much hope of them winning anything as long as he’s there, especially if Florida and Tennessee ever land good coaches again. I think it would be nice to stop wasting opportunities like they had this season.
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That’s where we disagree. You don’t think Richt will ever win the big one and I think he can and will. I think Pruitt is the key and we will finally have the defense that these great offenses deserve. But no way will we know which of us is right until it happens, or we die, I guess. I prefer to be optimistic. It’s just more fun that way. I’ve been the other way (expecting the worst) and I just don’t enjoy it.
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Just to add a bit, Richt has had seasons equal to the seasons that Miles and Corch won MNCs with, but we didn’t get that late loss by the teams ahead of us like they did (or the year we did, ESPN campaigned against us moving up). Does that make Corch and Miles better? No, they just got the breaks those years. Richt’s time will come.
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I sincerely hope I’m wrong. I like Richt. I think he’s a good coach and decent person in a profession of mercenaries and snake oil salesmen. I’m just not getting my hopes up again until I’m proven wrong.
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And I think the fact that we have that chance to be 11-2 (considering what most prognostications for the season were before it started) shows that this will go down as one of Richt’s better coaching jobs. Tomato-tomahto.
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To those who are belittling Missouri’s SEC East championship. They did manage to beat the two teams we lost to. To the folks who say they had an easier schedule, they played aTm and we played AU, other than that, our conference schedules were identical.
Until Richt stops crapping the bed a couple of times a year, usually in SEC East games, we will always be sitting on the edge of our seats late in the season hoping someone else gets us into the SEC Championship game. Next season may be our last good chance to win a championship of some kind. Florida will have a brand new coach, Tennessee will still be something of a work in progress (probably for the last year) and South Carolina doesn’t appear to have any upcoming superstars. After next season, I think Tennessee and Florida will be back to being forces to be reckoned with. History has shown that when our opponents have talent nearly equal to ours, we generally manage to lose.
No other Georgia coach has had the good fortune of Florida and Tennessee being down for such an extended stretch. It’s sad we have done so little with the opportunity.
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You would have fired Dooley before he won the natty. SHUT THE F UP
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Maybe you are right… But when its all said and done, we will have played a far more difficult schedule from start to finish. But it really is a shame we couldn’t have taken advantage of the Tenn/Fla winter. I think Mizzou’s biggest advantage in the conference right now is not so much schedule but is no-one, I mean no-one, comes into the year and circles the Mizzou game. They haven’t played long enough for the rivalry factor, and they haven’t even been highly rated this year to help provide some juice.. Now winning the east a few times will perhaps create some rivalry more quickly…
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Ernie and Bert, Ernie and Bert, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie and Bert, Bert, Bert. 🙂
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“Brandon Allen, who was 13 for 30 for 133 yards and two touchdowns, played through a hip injury.
“In the last couple drives he asked me, `Hey, are you still good?” Allen said about Bielema. “I told him I was fine, I wanted to stay in. It was my decision to stay in.”
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That is some mighty fine coaching right there. I’m sure others saw it before my moment of clarity but when Allen started getting happy feet and then missed a out pattern which an average high schooler could make, I knew he should be pulled. If he didn’t trust Allen he should’ve put in another running back.
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The COACH is supposed to make the decision, not the player. The loss by Arky yesterday is all on Bert. He totally went away from what Arky does best–run the ball– and started throwing on every down with a QB who was injured and couldn’t throw it. What a moron! I only wish Georgia hadn’t had to depend on that idiot! This is just as bad as what happened in 2007 when UK had UT dead to rights and blew that game and the Vandy kicker missed the winning kick, letting UT beat Georgia out of going to the SECCG. I’m absolutely convinced Georgia would have won the SEC Championship and The BCSNCG that year if either UT or UK had beaten UT.
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What a strange year! We lose an early game we should have won by not handing the ball to the best player in the nation, who then proceeds to make national news for something other than being the best player in the nation, who then goes away and comes back in a show of great loyalty and sadly blows his knee up. He loses the Heisman and probable 1st round riches, and we lose his big presence in the WLOCP. We win big games by being aggressive and ferocious and then lose to the hated (and very average) Gators by being tentative and soft. We put Auburn in their place in a shocking demonstration of sheer football excellence and start hoping for another shot at Bama in the SECCG.
And now the team we beat like a rented mule finds itself again in the SECCG–a team it’s hard to acknowledge that, a) is much better than average, b) will stay with Bama for more than one quarter, and c) still looks odd being described as an SEC team at all, much less a division champ.
I know, I know. We got what we earned. Which is the cold, harsh truth. Still, it’s been strange.
Which begs the question: Who really knows what will happen tomorrow?
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Well said, and the abiding reason I keep coming back to this damned sport. On the collegiate level, at least.
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Wait a minute ,I thought his name was Bret. O I see what you did ,,,,since he didn’t win ..ok I get it….Actually Bert is too nice a name for him . How about “big stupid idiot who was ok in the Big 10 but sucks in the SEC but would still make a great coach for Florida”? Too wordy ….I’ll work on it.. Tuck Feck
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All this talk about UGA being unprepared all the time is obviously coming from people not watching the UVA-Va Tech game.
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I was going to post something about that. It’s my wife’s Alma Mater and they are some great fans. The Hokies are god awful and the joint is packed and rockin.
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I was at a loss as to why they wouldn’t put the little brother in/back up QB. The receivers were getting good separation to such a degree I think it would have offset any “don’t throw a pick” doubts one would have. If the QB isn’t getting the job done and you have no running game to speak of I would think putting in the back up would be a no brainer.
Congrats to Mizzou though, have fun in Atl.
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Congrats to Missouri. Didn’t let a bad performance beat them twice.
Reminds me of Georgia’s 2012 team. I will be pulling for them in the SECC. I hope Hansbrough is OK. Didn’t look good at the end of the game.
Car is packed for another buzzkill tomorrow. They never get old.
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“The hard way” ????? Losing to Indiana and getting smoked at home 34-0 by Georgia while drawing the worst two teams out of the west? The Dawgs have 6 rivals on their schedule this year. 6! 2 of which aren’t even in the same conference, and 3 of which aren’t in the same division. Every team we play gives us THEIR BEST SHOT. Missouri has never known the meaning of the word “rival”. They now have one. Go Dawgs. Screw Missouri, I give them NO CREDIT, and SCREW anyone who says to fire Mark Richt. Am I bitter? You better believe it. Roll tide or cowbell or whatever in the hell average team out of the west that is going to smoke missouri but would have had a football game on their hands against THE Dawgs.
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All aboard the excuse train!
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Richt crushed Gus and Gary. Miles is good for two inexplicable losses a year, so that’s worse than Richt’s one annual head-scratcher. Dan Mullen is good but not great. There are no coaches better than Richt, except for one: and you know who he is. He’ll be hoisting a trophy next week after whipping Mizzou just as bad as Auburn did last year. All of you who only care about trophies should pull for that guy instead. His trophies are often featured at local Walmarts.
I am as unhappy about Jacksonville as anyone. That’s a game we should have won and there is no excuse for losing in the fashion we did. That’s on Coach.
But I’m still a Disney Dawg. Pulling for Bielima today left a terrible taste in my mouth and left me grateful that I don’t feel that way about my own coach. Now we got some anger about how we failed ourselves. Luckily there’s some yellow jackets in front of us to take that agression out on. Is there any animal so universally despised as a yellow jacket? I don’t think so. (Note the lower case.)
Go Dawgs.
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I like that people think there is legitimate debate about firing Richt. I want everybody fired along with a few others on here, but nobody actually thinks it will happen. I’ll just be waiting on the other shoe to drop next year and enjoying the wins when they come. I’m sure Georgia will have another nice season without an SEC title. Maybe they’ll even finish in the top 10!
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Yep, I thought you were stupid. Now you just confirmed it.
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At least you didn’t tell me to shut the fuck up. I must have hit some middle ground between that and +1.
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Shut the fuck up.
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You can’t talk to my alter ego like that!….Wait…you’re talking to me like that, too…I’m the same guy as he is…Hell, YOU CAN’T TALK TO ME LIKE THAT!!!
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HA
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Shut the fuck up.
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I have been really harsh on our coaching staff at various times, but I think they are not the main problem. I think this is an institutional problem. We are too cheap, and I think that permeates the whole program in some insidious ways.
1) Why do we have someone grossly unqualified and lacking in the bare minimum educational requirements as our S&C coach? Probably because we are too cheap to go out and get someone top notch that is actually qualified.
2) Indoor training facility? Nuff said.
3) Additional consultants to make our coaches jobs easier? Nope. Those cost money.
4) 9 million other things we don’t even know about that probably make our coaches and players lives miserable on a daily basis. Imagine all the little cheap ass indignities they deal with, knowing other programs don’t have to deal with that crap, because our athletic department is cheap and stingy as hell.
Institutionally, the message comes across that as long as we’re making huge profits, nothing else matters. I think this actually creates a bit of complacency as long as the money is rolling in. I think this warps people’s perspectives.
Imagine if at your job, it was very clear that the only thing that mattered was showing up on time. Performance didn’t matter nor did they care what time you left the office. Would you work hard? No. Would you leave early? Yup.
We have a severe institutional program at Georgia that is much bigger than any occasional bad playcall or other failing we blame the coaches for. I think they are a victim as much as our players and our fans are.
Just a thought.
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You are more right than you know. The “Georgia Way” allows us to take the moral high ground with our SEC brethren. But, in truth it is a lot easier and certainly less expensive to do it the way we do.
The institution will not change unless people suddenly stop giving and buying tickets I’m droves or we go on a snide against tech. The latter is not a lot if fun, but it appears to be the only thing that gets the institutions dander up enough to demand better performance. See Donnan.
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I think the university president needs to clean house at B-M. That’s the only way the direction of the program actually can change.
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I think you are right, Mayor.
I know a lot of folks around these parts hate Michael Adams, but at least that was one thing he wasn’t afraid to do. As bad as the culture is at our AD now, it was even worse under Dooley.
H. Randolph Holder: Yeah, I should have mentioned the whole “Georiga Way” thing. We hide behind the cloak of a moral high ground when in truth most of those decisions are just easier, cheaper, or provide excuses for failure. So frustrating.
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If I remember correctly the Dawg Nation was overjoyed when Mizzou
came from behind in the 4fh quarter to beat Spurrier & USCe.
Boy were we wrong.. Still the only currently ranked team that Mizzou has
played was the Dawgs’ They lose the SECG & They are not a top 25 team
after losing to the 9nly 2 ranked team on their final schedule
What an easy season they had in 2014.
{ IF CMR Wins the SEC next year, both Dooley & CMR will have won 3 Titles in their first 15 years with CMR having won the statistical battles.
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Half full: We’re so close, we just have to avoid that one mental/whatever lapse that seems to plague us every year. Do that and the sky’s the limit.
Half empty: We’ll never get over the hump because we’re going to have that one mental/whatever lapse every year that’s going to cost us a chance to win a SECC or more.
The common thread: We’ve proven over time to expect a mental/whatever lapse every year.
The dilemma: Is it worth rolling the dice on finding a new coach who might be able to avoid that mental/whatever lapse every year, or who might be Agent Boom.
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Nobody can avoid that mental lapse. Even Saban’s teams have those mental lapses; they just have a talent differential to overcome them more often.
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Everyone brings their C game a couple times a year. Alabama never brings their F game though. That’s what Georgia rolled out in Jacksonville.
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Again, tomato-tomahto. In my eyes, Bama should have run Arkansas out of the building, but they won because they have much better athletes and Arky couldn’t hold it together for 4 quarters. That’s an F game to me.
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Tech can lose tomorrow and will still play for their conference championship. Wish UGA could say the same.
Weakest SECe in years and it goes to Mizzou b/c, well Jax.
Perhaps we get a shot at Urban Crier in the Peach Bowl.
I guess that’s something….
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why does everyone just ignore the lose to South Carolina? Were we prepared and I just didn’t see it. Does South Carolina have more 4 and 5 star recruits than UF and UGA and they are suppose to win? Did our defense actually show up and I missed it? Why is it all about JAX and UF ? Have we come to expect to lose to the gamedorks? Really people get over it UF happens but why is losing to USC ignored or accepted..I would have taken #8 in the nation with a new starting QB at the beginning of the year. Beat Tech and keep moving forward.
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Not speaking for myself here, but I think most put the SC loss on the defense, and it was still a work in progress at that point.
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Agree with you Will. Anytime you score 35 points you should win unless your D fails to do their job.
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amd so this different from UF how…our Defense sucked at both games, “A work in progress ” hell that is just another way of saying they were not ready hdn’t been Coached up. …just like UF, Just like UF win at USC and we’re in ATL.. Get over over UF/Jax people they actually are a good group of talent just not a good team .
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Except that when the game was on the line at South Carolina, with a first and goal from the 4, the Dawgs’ offense came away with no points and minutes later the game is over with Georgia on the losing end of the score. That loss was really on the O, specifically Bobo, who has the disquieting habit of kicking away close games at the end and has done that for years.
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Losses are always “team losses” to a degree so each can share in the disappointment but when you score 35 points, on the road, in the SEC, and the other team isn’t handed points by turnovers, I think you have to put it more on the defense.
The lack of getting points from the 4 was ridiculous but that happens to a lot of teams over the 12 game schedule, look at the stats on Red Zone offense, UGA fans have just focused in on the result of one play. Obviously missing the FG was critical…I blame the wet conditions on that but still, we scored 35 points.
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