Monthly Archives: October 2011
Turnaround Complete
Han Vance for The Georgia Playbook, an all-UGA sports monthly online publication: http://www.thegeorgiaplaybook.com At 0-2 following an uncharacteristically poor 6-7 campaign, Mark Richt was on the proverbial hot seat early in his 11th season as football head coach. Although the first two games were played against a tough Boise State team that had gone 38-2 […]
How Deep the River
To my lady’s chagrin, Justin and I were in bowl mode at the Righteous Room in the Poncey-Highlands section of the ATL hours before kickoff. My brother and nephew and his grandfather had made the long drive north and west to Memphis. The Dawg Nation was ready to put a pleasant 2011 stamp on an […]
Swamp People: 10 Scary Gators
These ten Gators have more in common with the beasts on the TV show Swamp People than being killed by Cajuns. They pose a real threat to Georgia losing to our biggest rival for the 19th time in 22 annual meetings. For this season to be any type of a success for either program, this […]
Richt’s Biggest Problem
Playing in his home state for the first time in college, Aaron Murray came out remarkably flat early in last year’s rendition of the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party. He finally turned it on nearing halftime, and Georgia put up enough total points to push a motivated and well-prepared Urban Meyer coached Gators team coming […]
Georgia-Florida Week
It’s bye week in Athens. Hugs and pats on the back for beating both SEC Tennessee schools and both SEC Mississippi schools and surviving a half football season tied for first place in the SEC East and still mostly in one piece. But as of Saturday morning, it’s Florida Week! Mark Richt has fared well […]
Outcoached, Outclassed, Unblemished
Georgia has not lost in the Music City in twenty years outside of a thusly named bowl in Mark Richt’s first season as a head coach, when his historically poor clock management cost us a close loss to overmatched little Boston College, after it had cost us a tough loss to Auburn earlier that year […]
Dawgs-Commodores in Nashville
GEORGIA is tied for first with S. Carolina in the SEC East. Carolina playing at Mississippi State, while UGA travels to Vandy for another 7 p.m. Tennessee tilt. Team-leading receiver Malcolm Mitchell is unable to play this week but will hopefully return for the Georgia-Florida game a week after the bye, and top runner Isaiah […]
Young Pups Have Dawgs A-Dreamin’
Speedy sophomore linebacker Jarvis Jones, a one-time USC Trojan and top high school player in the state of Georgia, finished the hated Vols between the checkerboards with a sack, in front of 102,000 fans and a national television audience. The top high school cornerback recruit in the nation last year, UGA wideout Malcolm Mitchell was […]
Dreams of Divisional Realignment
Though Missouri did receive a majority of votes to be accepted to the world’s greatest football conference, SEC reps did not unanimously vote to approve Mizzou as they did Texas A&M. A key component of whom the 14th SEC member will be is how they are to fit into the footprint of the SEC geographic […]
Georgia Coaching Legacies
Waiting for the start of the Red River Rivalry at noon, a diversion to waste part of the long day that ends with Rocky Top. All Tennessee games end with the singing of that old song. I hope to hear it very few times this evening, although the game does look like it could be […]
Big Hairy Blawg 