From Athens - Game Day Friday #2

Saw Buck Belue's blog this morning. Please, try not to laugh when you read this quote:

Isaiah is a scat back type. Mike is trying to get him the ball in space, where he can be explosive. And again, his skill set includes this: Isaiah is an excellent receiver.

Is belue watching the same play calls that I am??? How do I know that Bobo tried to get the ball to IC in space? The only runs I remember were the deep handoffs straight into the line.

Brother..............

I was reading an article the other day, and the gist of the story was that talent
had been spread around so much in college football that what it takes to get
your team over the hump is just having 1 or 2 superstar studs.

We saw that last year with Auburn, which was really an average college football
team excepting for Cam Newton and Nick Fairly. Without them now, most people
are expecting Auburn to return to the ranks of the 8-4 7-5 teams.

Now think about UGA. We have year after year of top 5-12 recruiting classes.
We had Matthew Stafford, an NFL #1 draft pick. I think I read we were #3 in the
nation as far as putting players in the NFL and everyone in the top 5 in that category
are perennial top 3-4 teams in the nation. We've had all American LB's.. we've got
studs like Rambo in our defensive secondary. We've had players like AJ Green, the top
NFL receiver pick in the nation.

Now here we sit with the best QB in the SEC who set all sorts of records as a freshman
last year. We've got a beast of a TE. Heck, we've got two beast TE's if you ask me.
We've got one of the best young WR's in the nation. We've got a top notch RB, admittedly freshman, but still.. Almost 800lbs of beef to clog up the middle in
the 3-4 scheme. The best kicker tandem in the nation. Electrifying players like
Boykin, etc etc

Yet we not only lose... we lose to teams like freaking UCF. We don't go down fighting,
instead we look clueless as often the score makes the game seem closer than it
really was. 35-21 doesn't sound nearly as bad as the way that game looked in person.
Boise is great, but no way in the world should a UGA team with that much athletic
talent on it should have looked as pitiful as we did last weekend. Plus if it was
a one game aberration we might not be saying this, but we all know it's not.

Anyone looking at this situation and not calling us one of the most underachieving
teams in the nation needs to decrease their intake of opiates. Anyone who can't
see the constant in this sorry equation is the true knucklehead.

I coach baseball, but I can not go on the field and throw one pitch or swing the
bat once. My job as a coach is to put the players in the best position to win,
and to try and draw the very best out of them. That's what coaching is. Does
anyone not under the spell of purple kool-aid think this staff is putting players
in the proper position to win and/or getting the best out of them?

BulldogShannon wrote:

Saw Buck Belue's blog this morning. Please, try not to laugh when you read this quote:

Isaiah is a scat back type. Mike is trying to get him the ball in space, where he can be explosive. And again, his skill set includes this: Isaiah is an excellent receiver.

Is belue watching the same play calls that I am??? How do I know that Bobo tried to get the ball to IC in space? The only runs I remember were the deep handoffs straight into the line.

Brother..............

I tried really, really hard not to laugh reading that.

I was an epic failure at this monumental task.

I mean you can't even remotely take a person who would say something like that
seriously.

We have all heard of "beer" goggles that occurs after you have been drinking and a less than attractive woman becomes "hot" because you are not seeing correctly.

I wonder what you call the "goggles" that Richt, Bobo and Belue have on?
because they evidently don't see the same games we see.

As for Belue, one short pass to Lindsey Scott and handing off to Herschel is the only reason anyone remembers his name. So take what he says with a grain of salt.


Either Richt changes or UGA changes coaches period !

This post really hits home, there are quotes from different posters, all saying what we have all discussed this week. Like yankeedawg said, who in the world would have ever thought we would be an underdog to USC, much less feel like we have no chance in hell to win.

I for one used to never worry about losing to USC, Vandy, KY ect, but now over the past 2 years, we field teams that have no spunk, no engery, and frankly, they are boring. I am so tired of seeing 305 to 340 players get pushed around by smaller men. Our players have no desire to get in shape, you could tell that in the BS game. These players for some reason, just want to go out perform or do what ever it is they call them selfs doing and go on to the next game. I have seen quotes from players so understand other don't at the fans disappointment. As I stated on another thread, it was these same players that stated all spring and summer, that they were doing what ever it took to win the 4th quarter. Was this just all talk with no true results, well apparently so.
Did these players think that when they were gassed in the 3rd and 4th quarters, that they would not get questioned on their actions.

I know some of you older members can remember when it did not matter who we played, we always showed up and if we lost, it was close, we played with fire, we hit some body, teams used to be scared to play UGA. Now teams like NEW Mexico, Coastal Car, they can't wait for they might be able to upset a great SEC power. As sstated before, I know we have had losing seasons before, but losing because of poor coaching and lazy players just do not cut it for me.


Oh by the way, I wish every player on our team would read my post, for yes I am calling them lazy and non caring, this is UGA and its not all about them. Sure we have 3 or 4 players that want to win and be leaders, but they have no others that want to follow in my opinion. I wish our old junkyard defence would show up tomorrow and put Garcia on his back 7 times and hold ML to 30 years. I just have to face reality, that dreams don't come true. Still stick by my score USC 56 UGA 3.

Dan Mullen.

McGarity already knows him.
He knows the recruits in the region.
He will run the ball and stop the run.
he is passionate.
He'll fire Bobo.