Being Able to See the Forest for the Trees.......
by RocketDawg on Oct 7, 2009 5:19 PM EDT
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PrintI regularly spend entirely too much of my time each day surfing the various Dawg Blogs and message boards (I should seriously get another hobby) and I find some of the comments disturbing to say the least. Not to beat the proverbial dead horse but I do think that CMR's past performance has earned him the right to have a down season every once in awhile (having said that I honestly believe that we will end up 9-3 or 8-4 if you consider that a down year). We as fans have unrealistic expectations for our teams that need to be tempered with a bit of rationality. Last year we were hyped as preseason #1 and were supposed to roll all the way to Miami.
Well that didn't happen for a plethora of reasons that have been debated ad nauseum here and on every other Dawg site on the interwebs. Couple that with what has so far been a disappointing 2009 and I completely understand how we all can get upset and miss what is right in front of us. We have an enormous amount of talent on this team that are mostly underclassmen. David Hale wrote something to this effect a few weeks ago, but it bears repeating now when the wailing and teeth gnashing have reached a fever pitch.
Projected Line up Offense 2010
QB-Logan Gray (RJr) or Aaron Murray (RFr) or Zach Mettenberger (RFr)
RB-Waushan Ealey (So.), Caleb King (RJr), Richard Samuel (Jr)
FB- Shaun Chapas (Sr), Fred Munzenmeir (Sr)
WR- AJ Green (Jr), Tavarres King (RSo), Marlon Brown (So), Rantavious Wooten (So)
TE-Aron White (Jr), Orson Charles (So), Arthur Lynch (So), Bruce Figgins (RJr)
LT-Trinton Sturdivant (RJr), Cordy Glenn (Jr)
LG-Chris Davis (Sr)
C-Ben Jones (Jr)
RG- Justin Anderson (RJr)
RT-Clint Boling (Sr)
9 Returning Starters (IF you count Mike Moore as a starter which technically he isn't)
Defense
DE-Justin Houston (RJr)
DT-DeAngelo Tyson (Jr)
DT-Abry Jones (So)
DE-Demarcus Dobbs (Sr) or Cornelius Washington (RSo)
WLB-Rennie Curran (assuming he doesn't go pro) (Sr)
MLB-Marcus Dowtin (Jr)
SLB-Darryl Gamble (Sr)
CB-Brandon Boykin (Jr) Vance Cuff (Jr)
CB-Sanders Commings (RSo) or Branden Smith (So) Both in the Nickel
SS-Baccari Rambo (RSo)
FS-Makiri Pugh (RSo)
This is assuming Reshad Jones goes pro and Rennie stays-8 Returning Starters
This doesn't include Ogletree (Safety) or Rodgers (6'2 204 WR) who will probably see some time next year. How awesome will it be to have 3 WR's over 6'2 on the field at the same time?
The schedule backs off a bit next year so you have to think that 2010, 2011 and even 2012 could be a great run for the program. This is a young team that makes mistakes and will hopefully learn and get better as a result of them as the year goes on.
Even if we go 7-5 this year and play in Shreveport I'll take it over being a Jorts wearing Mullet lover from Florida.
Go Dawgs!
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One of the strangest things...
…is how many pundits (and fans) who said we would go 8-4 or 9-3, many of them including losses to—wait for it—OSU and LSU, are now saying that we’re having a disappointing season. Now I’ll admit that I’ve been disappointed so far, but then again, I was one of the kool-aid-loving fools who thought we’d be kicking tail all year. But if you thought we were going to have a down year (and how many other programs wish they could consider 9-3 a down year?), how can you be disappointed when we are simply meeting your original expectations?
Will
Like fans of most major programs...
UGA fans are extreme. If you would have won the LSU game (which very easily could have happened), you’d be sitting at 4-1 (3-0 in SEC) right now and thinking, why can’t the Dawgs win the SEC?!?! But since you dropped a nailbiter, you now look back and say, “we could just as easily be 0-5 right now….we’re lucky to be 3-2!!!!”
I also think if you take care of business in Knox this weekend (and please do so for UGA and for the other 10 teams in the SEC not wearing creamsicle orange!!), that UGA fans will swing back to optimism and realize “we’re 3-1 in the SEC and we control our own destiny…..if we can come together and beat the Gators – we could be playing in Atlanta!!!”
There is still a lot of football to play in ’09.
No truer words have been spoken
That’s my sentiment on the season. I’m not so down on the record at this point, but it’s the way they’ve gotten there is what bugs me. I feel like the talent on the field is good enough to win 9-10 games, but it is being sabotaged by questionable coaching decisions that never seem to get corrected from game to game. Obviously, we would all rather win the game, but I bet if we lost a game where it wasn’t some boneheaded coaching decision (i.e. trying a funky directional kicking formation after taking the lead against a top 5 team with 70 seconds to go at home), we’d feel a lot better about the state of the program.
I find it weird to think that this team could 9-3/10-2 this season and I would feel worse than if it went 8-4/7-5 with solid coaching.
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wow
I didn’ t see that game coming….how did Crompton morph into a Heisman candidate?! I thought Rocket was acting a little like Chicken Little, but I apologize, as he was being prophetic.
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