More Bad News: Dawg Sports Is Not One of Trev Alberts's Favorite Blogs

by T Kyle King on Aug 14, 2008 3:30 PM EDT in Football Comment 8 comments

As reported by our SB Nation colleagues at Corn Nation (see? another Big 12 blog with "Nation" in the title! it’s like their corner of the blogosphere was carved up by Woodrow Wilson in a hotel room in Paris!), Trev Alberts recently counted down his top five college football weblogs. Take a look:

As has been noted in this space previously, Trev is a traditional media guy who "gets it" where the blogosphere is concerned. (Also, Trev totally carried that slacker Mark May!) His shout out to Sunday Morning Quarterback upon Matt Hinton’s departure for the professional ranks was a particularly nice touch.

Kudos to Trev and congratulations to Corn Nation, FanBlogs, Every Day Should Be Saturday, College Football Resource, and SMQ.

I guess now we know which blogs we need to have lose in order for Dawg Sports to climb back into the national championship hunt. In a related item, if anybody goes all Jeff Gillooly on the two index fingers with which Orson Swindle does all of his typing, well, MaconDawg and I were nowhere near there and we have a time-stamped picture of ourselves eating lunch together 50 miles away while holding up the front page of that day’s newspaper for the camera, so it wasn’t us. Really.

Is it football season yet?

Go ‘Dawgs!

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I think I'm OK . . .

with knowing that this isn’t one of Trev’s favorite blogs, so long as I don’t find out that it is one of Mark May and/or Kirk Herbistreit’s favorites. Because then we might have to seriously reorient the programming around here.

by MaconDawg on Aug 14, 2008 3:55 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Anyone want to road trip up to Bristol CT.....

So we can collectively beat the ever loving hell (can I say that here?) out of 90% of the ESPN so called “experts”?. I am driving home today listening to Sports Nation on XM when they have a segment on “Whose ranking is the shakyist of the Top 25?” ….the first THREE calls all said UGA (and I am sure that they were the ONLY three callers who had an opinion) because of our “schedule is too tough” and “we lost our starting LT”…..WHAT?? are you kidding me?? So who is #!1? Ohio State…maybe, they actually have the most compelling case other than the Dawgs. It sure isn’t USC….they lost their starting QB for the first part of the season and have some OL and DL questions themselves, Oklahoma….um how about no?, Gee maybe its Florida…cause you know that defense that couldn’t stop the pass last year was supposed to get “magically” better over the summer, and they have OMG TEBOW the Magnificient (no mention of the 5 ACL’s they have had this year)….I apologize if this rambles I just get this really bad feeling that if we lose we are going to get hammered in the polls and if it comes down to it and there are 3 one loss teams then UGA is going to be odd man out again.

by RocketDawg on Aug 14, 2008 8:50 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I agree with you

that ESPN and many others seem to be looking for a reason to call us overrated…and they also neglect to mention the question marks at the programs you mentioned

However, if we manage to get through the season with only one loss, I have no doubt that we will be playing in the MNC game. Thats the one upside of the brutal schedule.

by RedCrake on Aug 14, 2008 9:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yawn

I hate to be this way, but I am really getting tired of the who is #1 talk and the bashing of anyone that doesn’t think UGA is #1. To my knowledge, no one has played a game yet, so it is all speculation.

Since ESPN is a national network, so there are going to be fans from SoCal, Columbus, Norman, Baton-Rouge, Columbia (not SC) and Gainesville that aren’t buying into the Dawgs. I don’t see why all the Georgia fans get so upset when someone happens to think that another great squad might be as good or better than Georgia. As PWD stated, even if we start as #1, it will be almost impossible for us to go wire-to-wire as #1, since the winner of the tOSU & USC game will likely jump to #1.

The facts are that UGA has a really great squad and finished as one of the strongest teams last year. But we do have a difficult schedule and we have lost an important player to injury and we have a few others that will miss time because of injury or suspension.

We are going to be ranked high- maybe not #1, but as long as we take care of business on the field, things will sort themselves out.

by fotodog on Aug 14, 2008 10:18 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

You're right

The talk does get old and there will always be fans from various teams that have legit arguments for why their team should be #1. I would say all the teams you mentioned have an argument for why they could be ranked #1.

Nonetheless, USC, Ohio State, Oklahoma, LSU, Missouri, and Florida have all had their turn at being the media darling and getting the benefit of the doubt (less so in Missouri’s case because that was during the later parts of the season). Georgia fans are used to getting crapped on by ESPN. Mark May, Lou Holtz, Jesse Palmer, Kirk Herbstreit, etc. seem to go out of their way to look for the tiniest chink in Georgia’s armor while ignoring similar flaws with the other teams. The injury to Sturdivant vs. similar injuries at UF is a good example.

While it may seem amplified to the average Georgia fan since our team is the one being bashed, its hard to argue with the pattern of criticism evidenced by these individuals. I don’t know that I’ve ever heard May, Holtz, or Palmer say anything positive. Herbstreit was the same way prior to his “OMG Stafford’s body is booming!” comments. I couldn’t believe my ears.

My guess is that the average Georgia fan is really excited by this year’s prospects and has ample reason to get defensive when the media begins to chip away at the program’s first pre-season #1 ranking. They may have their legit reasons for doing so, but based on ESPN’s history of criticism, its hard not to take the bashing with a grain of salt.

by RedCrake on Aug 14, 2008 10:37 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

one fan

We’ll always have Reece /heart flutters/
Joking aside, Reece seems to be pro-SEC and usually gives UGA it’s due.

by fotodog on Aug 15, 2008 12:18 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well, Reece is . . .

an Alabama grad. That probably explains some of it. Of course, unless you happen to be named Golic or Greenberg, the WWL apparently expects you to keep your rooting interests to yourself. Because of course the bias goes away if we just ignore it. At least that’s what Mark May told me after he got through picking Pittsburgh to win the Big East title in origami.

by MaconDawg on Aug 15, 2008 10:07 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs