Chris Low goes through all the pluses and minuses of Georgia’s chances of making one of the big six bowls this season, and it’s a pretty extensive list both ways that I doubt many would argue with. The pluses outweigh the minuses, but, at the end, there is this:
Georgia’s undoing, more times than not, has been losing a game it had no business losing. See the Florida game a year ago.
We’ll see if the Dawgs can keep from falling into that trap in 2015.
Is that all it’s going to take to make us happy this time?
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Simply put, yes.
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I fear it will be in that stretch from Bama to Mizzu. CMR has to keep them focused through that gauntlet.
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I’m not as sure as you are about that. History shows us that the Dawgs win the tough games, sometimes handily, then inexplicably lose a game they have no business losing.
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Does no one remember the years that Bowden won the Championships. He would always have a loss that just did not make sense. Even Spurrier has those it happens.
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Saban doesn’t seem to have that problem. His team gets upset sometimes but by another team that is pretty damn good.
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I’d be happy…but not all of us “fans” would be. There are some real Negative Nellies around here that would complain about an undefeated season and a National Championship. I can already see the posts:
“With anyone but Richt, the Tech and SEC Championship games wouldn’t have been close. We need to hire a winner.”
“He won…but when Florida and Tenn are down. Meh.”
I know some of the folks are being sarcastic…but some are not.
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“…that would complain about an undefeated season and a National Championship.”
Maybe… But boy, would I love to find out for sure.
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You and me both.
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When we beat florida I am happy-very happy
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I would like to see the SEC Title myself…undefeated or not…MNC or not. Gotta start somewhere. It just got harder to win the MNC….one more quality game ups the odds somewhat. SEC is the same…need to get it done.
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Lamont, those people would be just a bunch of “big dummies” 🙂
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If Richt goes undefeated and/or wins a national title, no reasonable fan will complain. It’s not however, crazy talk to think that won’t ever happen, considering how many standard deviations that outcome is from richt’s mean.
We haven’t been to a BCS bowl since 07, and haven’t won the sec since 05. I hope the guy does win it all but considering our recent record I’m not holding breath.
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Yes QB and new OC are big questions but it will boil down to how physically and mentally tough the Dogs are. Will this team reach the threshold of greatness only to choke on the opportunity like they have many other times? We are watching basketball do it right now. Its like a plague in Athens.
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BI, the team hasn’t choked in those situations–the coaches did. Bad coaching decisions at the end when the game was on the line undid some really great accomplishments by the players. I do not mean that vindictively, but that is a more accurate statement than blaming the team for choking. That said, I think the guy who was responsible for most of that left town so I am really optimistic for 2015. The more I look at the schedule for 2015 the better I feel about it. Georgia gets (gasp) a tune-up game to get ready for the season (ULM) then opens the SEC schedule at Vandy. We get South Carolina, Mizzou and Bama in Athens. UT in KnoxVegas won’t be easy but we’ve beaten them 5 years in a row and while the press seems to love Sgt. Carter as HC of the Vols I just don’t see it. Auburn at Auburn isn’t easy but the Dawgs have a really good record against Auburn winning 6 out of the last 8. FU is still a bad team and after what happened last year–well, lightning won’t strike twice. Tech, well, last year it took the most colossal end-of-game f#ck-up I have ever seen in over 50 years of playing/watching football to lose that game and I really don’t think it will happen again. I know it’s way too early but I’m mixing the Kool-Aid already.
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The team always includes the coaches. Can’t have one without the other.
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Fans usually separate the players from the coaches when assigning blame. That’s pretty typical. But I guess you might have a Chubbs haz a Crayon meme equal to Fire Richt! After the Tech meltdown. Ok with me.
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That and UGA gave up almost 300 yards rushing in the second half to Tech. That game will be tough again.
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This isn’t the year. There are 2-4 losses on that schedule.
But all is not lost. I think recruiting is on another level right now, and B-M’s new found buy-in is encouraging. I think things are shaping up nicely for 2017 and 2018.
Just a hunch.
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I’ve been consistent that I don’t think ’15 is championship-type of year because of the questions at QB. If Ramsey or Park can take the reigns with this offense, it could become a special year. On defense, the main question is whether some combination of ILBs can replace Herrera and Wilson, who, for some of their faults, played a lot of meaningful downs over the last 4 years.
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reins – I need another cup of coffee
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Isn’t this Georgia’s problem every year? Not necessarily getting upset, i get that happens to everyone, but you know every year there’s a game(s) where the team shows up completely unprepared and loses in embarrassing fashion.
I don’t expect undefeated seasons (although one would be nice) but it sure would nice to go a whole season without our annual bed shitting.
Also, before anyone goes there, Alabama losing to Oklahoma or Ohio state is nowhere close to our UT 07&09, Florida 14, 09, &08, blackout, south Carolina 12, lsu, Boise state 11, etc.etc.
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I don’t think Georgia had a “bed-shitting” (your term) game in 2013. They lost some games because of injury and had one game stolen by bad officiating (Vandy). But I agree that the one or two games per season that the Dawgs fail to show up is really disconcerting. I can take losing to an opponent that is equal or better because the Dawgs just get outplayed but when the team loses to an inferior opponent because the team wasn’t prepared to play……
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Every season is a championship season. OSU won the thing with a 3rd string qb last season. Teams turn things around quick and just need to win the game in front of you. you dont win them all at once.
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I agree. We may not win it all next season, but I see no reason to throw in the towel already. I’ll continue to believe it’s all going to come together until it doesn’t.
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unless we get better QB play than I saw in the bowl game, we may be lucky to have a winning record
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Jeepers there is no end to this po mouth is there?
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Ha ha ha … what ^ said!
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Savvy GTP commenters know to wait until after G-Day to assess Georgia’s QB situation. 😉
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Not to worry, my man. Ramsey was just giving the Jacobites and Fatonians grist for their respective mills.
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It stings because it’s true.
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Call me crazy, but I’m just as worried about life w/o David Andrews as I am about anything else in 2015. When he went out against UF, things got ugly.
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D Andrews wasn’t what led to that loss. It was not being able to stop the run, even when a team only threw 5 or 6 passes the whole damn game. Also, Coaches laid an egg, took UF for granted and overlooked how determined Muschamp would be to finally show he could beat Georgia. Team was not ready, had no edge.
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Damn, our Head Coach still can’t figure out how to win his own division. Just focus everything on beating up the East teams and that will be success in 2015. Stop acting like all games are equal or beating Clemson or Auburn > beating Florida or South Carolina.
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