From Athens - Friday Thoughts - Off Season Week 1

Dfd....... about our lovely coeds...... Living in Athens. spring brings the blooming flowers that live in the sorority

Houses on Millledge Ave....... oh yes there are some awesome dogwoods and redbuds to view also.....

Ogredawg. Spot on .....with your observation...... thanks


Note...... while UF and Tech. Toss in USC. The taste left by those games have been woven into the fabric of all our young

Pups who played in those clusters ....... sometimes bad experiences can lead to good. Time will tell

Go Dawgs

Thanks yd1....enlightning....maybe sometimes we have "tunnel vision"???

Most that post here are competitors to the fullest....that's why we bark.

No game this week, you still have a cool one in the frig for the SECCG.

Enjoy the weekend everyone.

Back again, like to read posts/threads more than once. Sometimes not quite sure that I understand what is being said. Age . . . .?

Selected from yd1's thread.

So long as CMR stays above the watermark he has very little chance to being fired. No problem if the goose is still making golden eggs.

Takes me to this again.

If our head coach would do what he does best, his time remaining as head coach would be easier for "me" to "accept" if he would do what has been suggested often.

Has been said often by others and myself. Make the living room visits, I believe that he cares. I also believe this, hear me out. The game has passed him by, maybe not totally, but if you don't think I am on the right track, would simply ask anyone reading this to answer, without taking offense to what I am going to say, again.

Head coach made a very bad call against Vanderbilt when Franklin was there and we lost the game.

I watched the Special Team kickoff return group botch short pooch kicks, prior to our last game with Tech.

Folks were all over Quayvon Hicks for his efforts prior to the Tech game (myself included).

Tech game, first pooch kick was not fielded by the up man, did not turn or backup to catch the football. He was taught, if the football is over your head, leave the pooch alone. How did that turn out?

Like this. Tech pooch-kicked to prevent a long return but no one from Georgia took the initiative to field the ball and Tech picked it up off the bounce.

What has happened is this. We are "still" living by the model that our head coach has set up for us over a period of 14 years. Our head coach does not and has not agreed to fix the Special Teams on any front. How is that decision classified? Stubborn or stoopid? Take your choice or maybe select both. Pooch kicks by Tech effect the outcome of the game?

Don't really need to comment on the decision that was made to "pooch kick" to Tech with a short time left on the clock, do I?

If we choose to blame the players, must be explained to me why we still have "serious problems" understanding a coach that runs that part of our football team. I say that because he has said that.

For those that read this post and disagree, I will present this. I have played and coached in the "arena", and I have said this before . . . . why should I accept coaching at this level in Athens when I look at the talent that comes on board, year after year.

I take this statement from something that ogredawg said today, and has said once or twice before that I am aware of . . . . "just tired". Today ogredawg posted a chart of UGA being #1 in the recruiting area for 2015. I know of a few players that will change that, but . . . . need I say too much more?

Head coach, please leave the coaching to the coaches. I simply do not believe that you are capable of coaching a D1 team like the Red and Black from top to bottom. Allow the coaches that you have hired to do their job. If you do that, you and I will come to an understanding. Your roots in Athens go back 14 years. My roots in Athens go back to the 1940's. Truth.

Edit: One question. How do you folks feel deep inside watching Alabama/Missouri playing in the SECCG tomorrow?

yankeedawg1, again not trying to do anything more than wanting to see our team move forward.

Am I worried about the recent hiring at Florida, yes.

McElwain has made the necessary steps to take on a job like the one he just signed on to. Wet behind the ears he is not.

Soon I will probably have nightmares about going through some of the same things that meyer put us through. Recently have not heard many on this board and others worrying about the gators. I am worried about the gators, they now have a head coach that has everything needed to put them back out front. Would not be surprised to see the gators step up in 2015.

Some seem to think that turning a program around cannot be done in one or two years. I say look at what Gus Malzahn did at Auburn. Look what happened in Tuscaloosa soon after Nick Saban took charge.

Something that disgusts me is the talking heads referring to Fullmer being released by Tennessee and what happened after that.

What happened was this. Lane Kiffin rode up and had the attention of every SEC school. Got caught up in his "glory" and returned to the West Coast.

Then Derek Dooley because of his last name was presented the head coaching job.

Interim coach Jim Chaney took over while Tennessee looked for a "real head coach".

Now they have Butch Jones and he is going to be a problem, same as Jim McElwein. Anyone taking notice of where Tennessee's efforts are in the recruiting arena?

Amazing the "stoopid" stuff that comes out of the mouth of folks like Barnhart. Another of those that does not understand that a program can be turned around in a short time, as has been done as noted above.

SEC East is going to change. Not sure that everyone in the SEC East understands what the "others" are up to. Will see soon enough.

All good stuff Buc and valid points made.....I have posted here several times about respect

And not Fear of teams we play.... Muschimp was a boy wonder from Texas..... Hogs coach

Learning what it is to coach in the SEC...Butch let the Mizzou game slip away at home

TAM and MSU learned it is a long season filled with pitfalls..... much the same way we did



New broom always sweeps clean lets see how much glitter is showing come November

Go Dawgs

Buc wrote: yankeedawg1, again not trying to do anything more than wanting to see our team move forward.

Am I worried about the recent hiring at Florida, yes.

McElwain has made the necessary steps to take on a job like the one he just signed on to. Wet behind the ears he is not.

Soon I will probably have nightmares about going through some of the same things that meyer put us through. Recently have not heard many on this board and others worrying about the gators. I am worried about the gators, they now have a head coach that has everything needed to put them back out front. Would not be surprised to see the gators step up in 2015.

Some seem to think that turning a program around cannot be done in one or two years. I say look at what Gus Malzahn did at Auburn. Look what happened in Tuscaloosa soon after Nick Saban took charge.

Something that disgusts me is the talking heads referring to Fullmer being released by Tennessee and what happened after that.

What happened was this. Lane Kiffin rode up and had the attention of every SEC school. Got caught up in his "glory" and returned to the West Coast.

Then Derek Dooley because of his last name was presented the head coaching job.

Interim coach Jim Chaney took over while Tennessee looked for a "real head coach".

Now they have Butch Jones and he is going to be a problem, same as Jim McElwein. Anyone taking notice of where Tennessee's efforts are in the recruiting arena?

Amazing the "stoopid" stuff that comes out of the mouth of folks like Barnhart. Another of those that does not understand that a program can be turned around in a short time, as has been done as noted above.

SEC East is going to change. Not sure that everyone in the SEC East understands what the "others" are up to. Will see soon enough.

I was worried about the Gators THIS year. You could look it up....