UGA-FLA

About 9:45 p.m. my time and just finished watching College Football Today. Featuring UGA ans UF. One of the folks in that group said something that made a lot of sense to me. What Shawn Williams said in the presser about the defense could be the beginnings of some problems that go much deeper.

The last comment before I left the TV was this . . . . Never, ever have I heard the UGA described this way . . . . . "soft as Charmin' Toilet Tissue". This is the national media describing Mark Richt's football team. Another on the panel suggested that maybe UGA should buy a cheaper toilet tissue. Drives me crazy, and I know that those sitting in the seats of power are saying the same thing . . . . this too shall pass. Has for 11 1/2 years . . . . why would I doubt that.

Soft as Charmin' Toilet Tissue, damn. Give it up Mark Richt, it will soon get very ugly.

UGA players, play the Florida game like it will be your last. You young folks have been duped by someone that refuses to accept responsibility for his part in the continuing downfall of UGA football. He did it to us, and now he is continuing to do it to you. That somehow does not seem as classy as some of the Richt liberals would have us believe. Richt just leave, you of course know that you won't make the money in South America that you are making in Athens. Honorable, I guess.

Hate to say it . . . with Mark Richt as head coach and the players all soft and cuddly except with each other -

Florida 47 UGA 9

Notice who got offended? Michael Gilliard. I'm telling you, I heard him in a pregame interview before the Kentucky game saying that "losing is just a part of the game", and he credited Mark Richt with helping him "grow" to get to that point. I think Shawn Williams is on to something. Gilliard IS soft. He shies away from contact. I hope he's reading this right now.

I'M CALLING OUT THE ENTIRE DEFENSE - TODD GRANTHAM, YOU TOO!!! MAN UP OR GO HOME!!!! CHARMIN IS SQUEEZE-ABLY SOFT - NOT A UGA DEFENSE!!! IF YOU PLAY THAT GAME SOFT, THEN YOU ARE NOTHING BUT TOILET PAPER, AND YOU DESERVE A SIMILAR FATE!!!!!!!!!

UGA, don't you DARE lose to Florida, like I think you will.

thriller picked this piece up and it shed some light for me on the Shawn Williams comments. Appears to me that Williams knows of what he speaks. Shawn Williams plays on the same side of the ball that you do Mike, maybe he is aware of those that give 100% and those that don't.

SENIOR LINEBACKER MIKE GILLIARD:

On Williams’ remarks about Amarlo Herrera being the better linebacker . . .

“As a man, I wasn’t hurt at all. I felt disrespected. And, yes, I definitely took it personally. Today in the linebackers meeting, I stood up and told them, ‘no disrespect to Amarlo and Ogletree, but when I read that I felt disrespected and I’ll definitely taking it personally. But there’s no issue between me and Shawn Williams. All it is is fuel for the fire and basically its given me motivation to go out there and give 100 percent. And that’s what I did today. You can ask any of my teammates. I was upset today at practice today any time the ball came my way I tried to knock the [expletive] out of him.”


Think that was what Shawn Williams was commenting on Mike, giving 100%. If it takes a foot up your butt to reach new heights . . . . good on Shawn Williams.

Buc, you put the emphasis in bold print where it belongs! He is using this as "motivation to give 100"?!

So he's ADMITTING that he hasn't been doing that all along. How many others fall into the same category? My BET is the entire offensive line. Think about it. Those guys are among the biggest offensive line in ALL of football, not just college. And on 3rd and 2 we're PASSING it?! You've got 2 downs to go 2 yards, and you THROW?! That's because our O-Line is as uncompetitive as our defense.

Sounds like I'm blaming the players, right? Well I'm NOT. Everyone on this forum knows who gets the discredit for that, and it's not the players - at least not SOLELY the players. Everything starts and ends at the top.

If we lose this game, my heart won't be broken. Just my "give-a-you-know-what" factor. I'll ALWAYS be a DAWG, but if, as I suspect, this team is NOT made up entirely of "DAWGS", then they will lost my interest for the rest of the season. Afterall, what's to be interested IN, if they lose this game? The Georgia Southern game? The Tech game? Abuurn? Nah. Not unless we win one that COUNTS! Lose this one, and it's "wait until next year" again. <sigh>

So my view of the season comes to this. It is "put up or shut up" time. As posted before, beating UF goes a long way toward putting SC loss behind us and getting that awful taste out of our mouth. However, what does it really change? Don't see enough improvement over last year. Don't consider UGA a CLOSER. Team that can take care of their own business. We no longer "finish the drill". SW was right.

I hate living in past and believing we will lose to UF. It kills me. But history tells me things will not change. We win every couple of years when UF is down. No sustainable success. Since 2001 we are 3 - 8, being outscored 293 - 215. It gets worse if you go back to 1990. 3 - 18 and outscored whopping 685 - 380.

There are two games each year we MUST win - UF and GT. I will be in Jax pulling for Dawgs (like always) to somehow beat the gators. If UGA does surprise me with a win it will be a mixed blessing. Victory over gators is always good, but not at sake of maintaining status quo.

Go Dawgs. GATA!

thriller you are again on target. What I gathered from your post definitely fits into my way of thinking, or my thoughts are in line with yours.

Every year for too many years we have been on the same path. Richt is already talking trash about going back to school and learning how to instruct the kicking game. That in my opinion is on a grade level somewhere around freshman. What the hell has Richt thinking stupid things like this. He is simply laying the ground work for what is known as CYA. We know what that covers . . . . his.

The only thing that will turn this program around is bringing someone in that will clean house and build from a strong base of convictions.

When Mark Richt was hired, it was for many of the reasons that we are now suggesting he be removed. Mark Richt fell into the same trap. Got too comfortable with himself and now he is trying to make believe it is others, not himself as head coach that cause the problems. Loves to talk about film study, that is fine, but I would think at this point he has seen enough film to be able to assess most situations.

Now we play an opponent that not only is in the top 25, they are in the top ten, resting somewhere around number two. Question is, how did Florida rise so quickly to that lofty position? I heard Mark Richt make another excuse as to why . . . . he seems to think that a new coach rises quickly from the first year to the second. Richt could not bring himself to say that he has been passed by another coaching change in the SEC.

Players know what they can and can't get away with. These guys do not come from the church choir, most are street tough, or think that they are. Witnessing Bobby Bowden of FSU all over again. Mark Richt lost the players and the football supporters some time back, sad thing is, he feels he has at least four more years as the head coach. That truly would be sad.