An Opinion on Two SEC Teams

I'm glad you posted that, Buc, even if Bleacher Report IS on the banned list, and I'll tell you why: it reminds me of the greatest rallying cry against the \"schedule is too hard\" argument I've heard. And I'll yell it from the rafters if our boys have any doubts: \"FLORIDA '06!!! FLORIDA '06!!!\"

Everyone in the world said that Florida was stacked at the wrong time, ready to win a national championship as a team but with the toughest schedule possibly in history. Then they went through their schedule with one loss and won the national title, if you'll recall. Sound similar to this year?

IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN, DAWG LOVERS, BUT THIS TIME IT WILL HAPPEN TO THE RIGHT TEAM!!! GOOOOOOOOO DAWGS! SIC EM!!!!!

luckily it removes profit margin for tickett brokers...someone'll pay it tho....someone obviously has!

Well lets make like Michael Keaton on celebrity jeopardy and break it down:

1.) The Hype
There's hype, sure, plenty of it. This arguement works against any team in the top 5 preseason as to why they won't be there in the end.

Let's put it in high school terms: Getting an A is easy. Keeping it is hard. Having the A involve an organized fist fight against peole who want nothing more than to beat the tar out of the most popular/best athlete/straight A student in the High school.

Really all \"the Hype\" means is \"It's yours to lose\". This still means it's yours though. Act Accordingly Dawgs!

2.) The Schedule
He's right and he's wrong here. The Schedule is tough. More importantly it's tough on paper. In the words of the Ultimate Warrior, \"How should I train for this? Should I jump off the tallest building in the world? Should I go out to the yard and have people run over me with lawn mowers? Should I go to africa and be run over by raging elephants?\"

A national champ will be able to deal with a hard schedule. Look at Hawaii or OSU. Cupcake schedules. They get to their big games. We then realize the emperor has no clothes. The schedule is a reason we WILL win the national championships, not a reason we won't.


3.) Florida

Tell them to bring it. It's not like Georgia doesn't have it's share of bad blood in this game. He is right about recent rival history.

Over the past several years the number of wins on the Georgia side has been disproportionately low. Mark richt has plenty of footage of his own to show his team, including that same celebratory dance. One of the things this team does well is have fun. The mongolians grinned as the rode into battle and took joy in doing so. The Bulldogs were having a problem last year confusing \"class\" with \"zombie like lack of enthusiasm\".

The last time the Dawgs won back to back games was almost twenty years ago. This means they're due. Florida couldn't stop our blitzes last year. While everyone's a year older thats the problem. If one player is a nine out of ten and one is an eight of ten and you both improve one, the guy that was the 9 is still better.

4.) Inexperience in Big Games


It's true that they barely escaped Alabama with an OT win because the fourth quarter went to pot, so i'll concede the fourth quarter of Bama. Saying they struggled to put away Troy and Kentucky in back-to-back weekends is simply wrong. First, they weren't back to back. Secondly, double digit margins aren't what most people call struggling.

I also wouldn't call Troy a \"big game\". Kentucky is a worthy conference rival at it's best. Now that Andre Woodson is gone so is the challenge they represented.

So while the Dawgs don't have the \"big game\" victory experience, they do have plenty in the arena of coming from behind. I don't care if your lineman is hewn from living marble and your running backs were descended from Mercury you will never be ahead the entire season. Learning how to come from behind with a decisive victory is imperative to a national championship victory.



5.) Kicking.

Two words Blaird Walsh. The 2nd most highly recruited kicker in the country. Pulling off 50+ yarders routinely as a junior in high school.

Want more proof?


More footage from our friends at Dawgpost.com which allude to the fact that he's already preparing for his role as UGA's main man by listening to Crank Dat!

Good post swamphox it really breaks things down. If you look at our schedule as a whole. it's frieghtening and it seems overwhelming. BUT, if you break it down on a game by game basis, then it's managable. Yeah we play some good teams. But as we all know, anything can happen on any given Saturday in collage football. Take for instance Appalachian State last year. Know one thought they would never in a million years beat Michigan like they did. And all they did was play one game at a time. Maybe Michigan underestimated them, probly so. But Applachian State still played their game. And if we play OUR game every Saturday then we will be just fine. But if we start looking ahead to next week or the week after, then thats when were gonna be in trouble! So long story short, we have to play one game at a time!!!

I like the fact that our schedule is being touted as tough, and it is, but I think the schedule may prove to be less daunting than it appears. I think we're giving Arizona State and Auburn a little more credit than they deserve at this point. LSU and Florida, sure, tough games, but none of these opponents is beyond us, especially this year.

What gets missed in the discussion is what the Dawgs gain from a tough schedule. We get Kryptonite for complacency. The past few years have seen our hearts broken by the doldrums that seem to afflict this team sometimes. I think that happens because of the hype that surrounds the program now, and the expectations that hype creates. This year won't be any different in that regard; the hype will be there, probably moreso than ever. What will be different, however, is that we will hear about the toughness of the schedule every week of the year. We will have doubters as to our ability to finish out unbeaten for most of the season, and that doubt amidst the hype will, I hope, filter down to the team. They hear it, we know they do, but this year it will be different. It won't be the \"the Dawgs should have an easy time with such and such\" kind. It'll be \"it is highly unlikely the Dawgs will make it through this stretch unscathed\" hype. The kids are athletes, competitors. Nothing, not even the highest praise lavished upon them by the media and so called gurus of sports will fire them up as much as the continued, relentless doubt bubbling to the surface every time the last victory is discussed. Remember how they weren't man enough???? This team is man enough.

the idiot wrote:

You can bet Urban Meyer will be showing Georgia’s celebratory dance from last year a few times. Florida was humiliated in that game, and revenge

Guys who say things like this obviously never played the game. Emotion and revenge last for, oh, about 2 plays. So, all I can say is...

where the heck is the eyes rolling emoticon...