HELP!!

wlayton wrote:

DawgnLA.....THAT figures!!!!



You know averagedawg, I think I'm getting tired of the \"they always play us tough\" scenario. USC, UF, AU, Vandy, UK etc. We have enough talent to step it up and blow some of these teams out ESPECIALLY when they are having \"down\" years......such as AU yesterday. My gosh, UF doesn't have that mentality, they just go out and kick butt and if you are having a \"down\" year, well they just kick your butt even MORE!!!!!!

I say this because I believe we have as much talent as ANYBODY in the country. We should have beat USC by more than 7...AU by more than 4, what a JOKE....squeek by UK, not acceptable.

With our talent, I'm tired of saying \"well, this is the SEC, a win is a win\". While I like winning, I like they way UF wins MORE. Something's wrong and I believe you need to look no further than the Butts-Mehre coaching offices (with a few exceptions, CMR, Searles etc).

wlayton, this could not have been said better. I have a question that I would like to have answered. If we have two or three top recruiting years, meaning that the players we have coming to UGA are either 3, 4 or 5 star athletes, and many of these athletes fit into this category that we have recruited. . . . . where does the SHOE FIT.

COACHING OR POSITION COACHING IS ( ) GOOD ( ) BAD
PLAYERS RECRUITED ARE ( ) GOOD ( ) BAD

I think that UGA has been pumped up too high, especially after the Hawaii game. Carry this a little further . . . . we are a good (good) football team, not the best. If anyone is satisfied with 11 wins, that does not bother me. That is where they are. Personally, do not want to be ruled out of the TOP GAME. (BCS) Top recruits go to Southern Cal and Alabama because the recruiting forces tell the recruits that they only (only) want to win the National Championship. We started the season as #1, we are now ranked #11. What and why are we at #11 if we have the TALENT AND COACHING. Makes me wonder . . . Go Dawgs!

BUMP!

I was 19 years old when we won the National Championship, and I still remember that lump in my throat like it was yesterday! Why do these teams line up on Saturdays and play.........TO WIN. If winning didn't matter, we wouldn't keep score! Am I spoiled because I expect more than a 2 loss season.... you D@mn right!
We were the top ranked team at the beginning of the season! That tells me a lot of qualified people expected more than a 2 loss season! With that being said, I also remember the feeling of tanking the seasons during the Goff years and we are in a lot better shape now than then. If we continue to get better we can win it all- I truly believe that. Sometimes minor adjustments and changes need to be made to the things that aren't up to a Champion's standards. We really need to look at those problem areas after we win out and finish 11-2. We have a shot next year also!

Alabama is a good team.
Let's not forget last year they lost to LAMO.
They have the \"it\" thing going. I don't think they have any more talent than we do. We need to get the \"it\" thing going. If I could bottle it and sell it, I would be the richest man alive.
GO DAWGS!

Everyone has \"off\" years. When your \"off years\" as a Georgia coach are 9-4 and 9-2 with two to go, you're doing well. When both \"off years\" feature victories over Auburn, you're doing well.

I read something about what Saban has done in his second year. In Richt's second year he won the team's first SEC title in 20 years. Saban hasn't won an SEC title for Alabama yet, and the way Florida's playing he still might not.

Think about it this way. In his third year, Vince Dooley won an SEC title, the first one for Georgia in 7 years. Two years later, he won his second SEC title and the Litkenhaus poll national championship. The year after that, Georgia stank. The very quarterback who led us to that title, Johnny Cavin, had a series named after him. The Cavin Series, of course, is a series which gains negative yardage. 1969 was a bad year.

Mark Richt has never failed to win 8 games. Stop complaining. Stop saying we should have done more with the talent we have, because a lot of that talent was lost along the way to injury. You can't say that the losses of Vince Vance, Jeff Owens, Trinton Sturdivant, Marcus Washington, a healthy Tripp Chandler, a healthy Bruce Figgins, and so so SO many others haven't hurt this team. We don't use those losses in public as excuses, but the fact of the matter is that with Sturdivant in and a stable -- not ever-changing -- offensive line, Stafford would have had more time to throw. You can't say that, with Brandon Southerland in to block for him, that Knowshon wouldn't have had more of a chance to gain 100 in those sub-century games he's had this year. You can't say that we couldn't have put more pressure on other teams' quarterbacks or stopped the run more efficiently with Jeff Owens and Marcus Washington in, not to mention the time that Dannell Ellerbe lost.

Guys, I love my Dawgs. I love fellow Dawg fans. But shut up and stop whining. Here's why:

1) We got revenge on South Carolina.
2) We beat Tennessee for the first time since 2005.
3) We beat LSU in Baton Rouge for the first time under Mark Richt
4) We did what no one thought we could do, went out to the west coast and dominated Arizona State.
5) We beat Auburn for the third time straight, the first time that's happened since 1982.
6) Knowshon Moreno became only the second back in Georgia history to rush for 1,000 yards two seasons straight.

Just because there were high expectations for us at the beginning of the season doesn't make the potential of an 11-2 year a bad one. Stop crying in your beer. Georgia is still one of the elite teams in the nation. I'm going to be in Athens the last weekend in November, in my black Georgia jersey, rooting on my Dawgs. I'm going to be happy with this season.

By the way, did you all forget Knowshon leaping over Vince Agnew? Did you forget him Supermanning into the Arizona State end zone? Did you forget DeMarcus Dobbs' pick-6 against CMU, or his game-winning INT against Kentucky? Did you forget Stafford's 20-yard run out of the endzone against Georgia Southern? You forget that 30-yard screen pass to Chapas against Tennessee?

This season's had highlights. You have to remember them. You have to cherish them. I certainly don't remember this much whining when 2004 was over, folks.

I don't really see this as whining as much as what's going on?

Now....UT sucks...USC sucks...AU sucks....ASU sucks... and LSU should have lost to Troy. I'm sorry but I can't get too excited with those wins. I'm certainly GLAD we won but in looking back, they are terrible teams.

Since we were perceived as preseason #1, why wouldn't we have great expectations. Like sadlerdawg said, if we had lost to UF and Bama by 3-7 points then, ok, great game---tough loss. But to get embarrassed the way we did really is a big downer for the program and in the media. We are going to have to start establishing credibility AGAIN. Bottom line....WHO have we beat that is really good this year?...nobody.

Yes, I totally agree about our injuries. Now we all haven't really discussed that issue much. What's going on there?....bad luck?...conditioning?....what? No excuses, a TEAM isn't 22 players it's 85.

I had high expectations and feel rightfully so. Highlights are great and fun, 11-2 is normally fantastic, beating a few rivals (that are really bad this year) is enjoyable, rah-rah is great....but with all this said, in my mind, if I'm happy about this year then I'm SETTLING. You shouldn't have to \"settle\" for anything at UGA!!!