Hit the road jack...

Buc & Wlayton,

Thanks for the welcome! Yes, I do live in Florida and yes, the \"USF\" part of my name is The University of South Florida, College of Engineering. In many ways, the parallels between Georgia's season & South Florida's season is eerily similar. USF had every reason to waltz backwards & blindfolded into a Big East BCS bowl spot, but fell apart mid season. This was their best shot at getting a BCS spot in their program's history. Seeing the programs down here does indeed show the similarities between Richt's loyalty to Martinez and Bowden's loyalty to his son. Bobby's loyalty to Jeff almost cost him his position as head coach because the boosters, alum and athletic director got involved and told him - Jeff goes or you both go. I sure hope that the situation with Coach Richt doesn't reach that type of scenario because no matter what is said after that, the relationship is never the same between head coach and school when the school begins issuing ultimatums.

Prozack,
Defend Willie Martinez all you want, and I respect your opinion. But let's do the math here. You say that Our players werent as good as predicted. Our offense shot itself in the foot just as much as the defense struggled in our games against fla and bama.. I hardly think our offense, which averaged 31.75ppg this season can be classified as an offense that \"shoots itself in the foot.\" If we, in the SEC East, are putting up ~32ppg, then there is no reason why we shouldn't be winning those games. Where does the problem lie? Not with the offense.

By the way, don't let the Gator fans fool ya, I'm surrounded by orange & blue down here and I can promise you that every Gator fan was FURIOUS when Aaron Murray committed to UGA.

Quick note . . . Kevin and Danny Verpaele are from Merritt Island, where I reside. You make good points, and you will find wlayton to be a wealth of knowledge when it comes to UGA. Go Dawgs!

Just FYI on the FSU thing, in Tallahassee they are already calling for the buyout of Fisher! HAHA They are even talkin bout getting Mickey Andrews out and you guys think were bad!

Wow, thanks Buc but you and others have all the knowledge on the Dawgs, I just have a good \"contact\" that I rely on.

BTW, on the post from Carolinadawg about our D having to handle drives from our 40. Granted, it does put the D in a bad spot but good D's at least hold the opponents to field goals, where our D gives up TD's like giving out candy to kids. Take UF's D for example, when they played FSU last weekend, they turned the ball over 3 times inside their 25 (?) and one was around the 10 (approx) and FSU managed to get only 3 field goals out of those turnovers, not 21 points like we give up. That wins ballgames for you, a 12 point swing is huge!!

wlayton wrote:

... Take UF's D for example, when they played FSU last weekend, they turned the ball over 3 times inside their 25 (?) and one was around the 10 (approx) and FSU managed to get only 3 field goals out of those turnovers..

Dude, it was one turnover at the 14 yd. line.
The first one was a long kickoff return by FSU to start in the Gator's red zone.
I understand your point, just playing \"Gator-truth monitor\".

Ok, so oops, still the UF D didn't allow them in the endzone which shows me a lot of strength. UF has done it most all year as well. They hold you to 3 while they are scoring 7.....THAT tends to \"work\", ya think?