The Mark Richt Victory Watch
by T Kyle King on Nov 28, 2010 1:17 AM EST
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PrintIn a somewhat sloppy seesaw battle pitting contrasting offensive styles on a chilly night in Sanford Stadium, the Georgia Bulldogs defeated the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets to claim the Red and Black’s ninth win over their in-state rival in their last ten tries.
Consequently, I have the pleasure of reporting that the Mark Richt Victory Watch now stands at 96. Coach Richt trails Vince Dooley’s all-time school record by 105 career victories.
With 129 games under his belt, Coach Richt sports a 96-33 ledger and a .744 winning percentage. At the same point in their respective careers, Coach Dooley was 84-40-5 (.671) and Wally Butts was 88-34-7 (.709). Coach Butts and Coach Dooley are the only two head football coaches in Georgia history to have guided the Bulldogs in more games than Coach Richt, or to have carded more career victories than Coach Richt. Coach Richt’s office is in a building named for one in an athletic complex named for the other.
Go ‘Dawgs!
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feels REALLY good to do that for the first time in 3 weeks.
I can bake like a demon.
by podunkdawg on Nov 28, 2010 1:23 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I know lots of people want to speculate and complain about Richt, Bobo, Grantham, Uga, the color of the sky...
But SCOREBOARD!
It was ugly. At times the players played like crap. At (many) times the coaches coached like crap.
But SCOREBOARD!
Regardless of what the game says about our situation with the football program, lets just take a moment to appreciate the fact that we don’t have to listen to Tech fans (and I don’t have to listen to my in-laws) talk trash for the next 365 days.
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't." - Lewis Grizzard
A W is a W, Period
A bowl is a bowl. Period.
Say all you’d like about the game/season, at least the team fulfilled their VERY bottom goal of getting to a bowl. We went 2-2 vs rivals.
You bunch of Nancies wanted a new DC, you got one. You didn’t ask for CMR’s head, you (WE) asked for CWM’s head, and got it. Give it another season before you brandish the pitchforks and torches. Next season, same/worse results and I’ll join the mob.
Today, and this bowling season, it’s GREAT to be a Georgia Bulldog!!!
by Just Some Dawg on Nov 28, 2010 2:03 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I Love Coach Mark Richt!
We Beat The North Avenue Trade School:
They Could Not Beat Us.
GO DAWGS!
"...maybe a couple bottle rockets/light the fuse/point it out the window and watch it/ okay, maybe not, nevermind/ let's be responsible/where's the moonshine?
We won a close hard fought game
which in the past, seemed to be a difficult task. Although the overall effort on D was poor, big plays were made when big plays were needed!
Go Dawgs! Lets go Bowling!
Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
I Corinthians 9:24
We got the W...
… and that’s saying something in a season like this.
To quote one of the best Dawgs of all time:
There ain’t nothing like being a Bulldog on Saturday night after a Georgia victory!
Go Dawgs!
This west coast dawg...
is confusing all these s. cally peoples…
GO DAWGS!!!!
wait a minute mister, i didn’t even kiss her/
don’t won’t no trouble with you
"...maybe a couple bottle rockets/light the fuse/point it out the window and watch it/ okay, maybe not, nevermind/ let's be responsible/where's the moonshine?
he turned and screamed at Linda Lou
and that’s the break I was lookin’ for
DAWGS WIN!!!
"...maybe a couple bottle rockets/light the fuse/point it out the window and watch it/ okay, maybe not, nevermind/ let's be responsible/where's the moonshine?
Always the Contrarian
We all know how much I love it when we beat Tech (well at least Kyle does); however, this caught my eye:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/acc/2010-11-27-randy-shannon-fired-miami_N.htm
Just sayin’…..
by Blogger who came in from the cold on Nov 28, 2010 7:48 AM EST reply actions
I'd have been disappointed if you hadn't pointed that out, BWCIFTC! :)
I, for one, am not worried about losing a bidding war to a private school with neither a stadium nor a fan base.
We shall see, however.
Go 'Dawgs!
There's no doubt in my mind that if we got rid of Mark Richt today, he would have a job tomorrow.
But I doubt he’ll just quit and go to Miami.
by mbrd71 on Nov 28, 2010 9:45 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Hooray CMR! Hooray Dawgs! Allegiance established!
I’ll enjoy this victory, but I’ll also recognize something isn’t right. I’ll congratulate CMR, CMB, and CTG, but I’ll strongly advise them all to lose more sleep than usual contemplating recruiting, conditioning, and coaching against gravity. I’ll gladly support the UGA football team, but I’ll damn sure expect significant improvement or significant change next season.
GO DAWGS!!!
The Pillar of Pessimism, the Narrator of Negativity, and the Dictator of Doubt is here to rain on your Utopian Parade.
Thanks TK.
It’s hard to sum up my feelings about this team and the current state of affairs. I know that I want this coaching staff to succeed and I know that I want UGA football to succeed. Here’s to hoping both outcomes can be achieved.
The Pillar of Pessimism, the Narrator of Negativity, and the Dictator of Doubt is here to rain on your Utopian Parade.
A win is a win,
but “somewhat sloppy” is the understatement of the season. I literally did a facepalm when they let Ealy score the last time.
It was fun to watch though. It’ll be interesting to see how all the bowl projectors revise themselves after this weekends madness.
Fair enough, but . . .
. . . I’m never going to criticize a Georgia running back for scoring a touchdown when afforded the opportunity to do so.
Paul Johnson made an unorthodox yet sensible strategic decision there, but the choice to let the opposition score in the hope of getting the ball back, scoring a touchdown (with an offense that is not designed to play from behind or to score quickly), and getting a two-point conversion in order to force overtime on the road was an act of desperation, analogous to an eleventh-hour onside kick attempt.
Go 'Dawgs!
Query
Is there anything that would have prevented Ealey from running to the one and standing there until someone tackled him or the clock ran down some more? Would that somehow have been a penalty (unfairly)?
I want to say there's a penalty for delay of game when basically just standing around doing nothing after a snap
Don’t quote me on that though
I think you're probably right, The984, and, given our ball security issues, . . .
. . . it would have been foolish for Washaun Ealey to have stood around inside the five yard line waiting for a defense that had been trying to strip the ball to arrive. That’s tempting fate to the nth degree.
The smartest move would have been to have run just past the first down marker and knelt, but, again, I’m not going to fault a guy for scoring when given the opportunity to do so.
Go 'Dawgs!
More than anything...
…I’m relieved. The season is over and we beat Tech.
But I am (and I suspect many of you are) feeling no joy this morning. I guess it’s because we are at a crossroads and do not truly know if we will improve next year. If I had to guess right now, based on who we have returning for certain, I’d say we’ll be somewhat better, mainly because of a favorable schedule. But who knows? My biggest concern is that we continually handicap ourselves. We did it again in the 2nd half last night.
The belief among many, including that windbag Bob Davie, that we would have won 2 or 3 more games had A.J. Green not been suspended doesn’t really float with me. Why? Because, despite some inspired playcalling in the first half of the game, we once again went into an inexplicable shell in the 2nd half in a game that, from the onset, was going to be a touchdown-for-touchdown race to the end. And this philosophy has not changed. Murray was unstoppable in the first half. Probably would have been in the 2nd half. Tech didn’t need to stop him. We did it ourselves.
I’m not calling for Bobo’s head. I think Mike Bobo has great value. He’s an awesome quarterbacks coach, and would like to see him focused on this task. But there isn’t some magical “Offensive Coordinators University” out there he can attend. I don’t know the answer.
We’ve scored 31 points or more in 6 straight games now, but I’m thinking with a little more aggression and trust in a great quarterback, we should be averaging 41 or more. Why do we get away from what not only works, but is unstoppable? We did it against Auburn 2 weeks ago.
There is much work to do that a few extra bowl-game practices are not going to begin to fix.
With or without A.J. next season, we’ve got enough talent and firepower to put up huge numbers next season…if we’ll commit to this idea.
Congrats to the team and the coaches on this victory. I hope this is the start of a turnaround, but some deep introspection must take place from the top on down.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
by DavetheDawg on Nov 28, 2010 10:22 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
That was a rant
I feel better now.
GO DAWGS!
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
by DavetheDawg on Nov 28, 2010 11:02 AM EST up reply actions
I wouldn't call that a rant, Dave.
I think that was actually pretty measured, and I have difficulty disagreeing with any of it.
Go 'Dawgs!
Agreed.
Bobo needs a demotion to QB coach, or a firing. He cannot and will not ever be a top flight OC.
Agreed.
My preference would be for Mike Bobo to coach quarterbacks and Mark Richt to call plays.
Go 'Dawgs!
Defense...
We have to get better on defense. Giving up points to Auburn isn’t anything to hang our heads down about, but the points we gave up to tech and Florida is embarrassing. While I think the coaching is better I’m not convinced about our talent anymore.
by mdhenshaw on Nov 28, 2010 10:57 AM EST via mobile reply actions
We're definitely putting some square pegs in some round holes, personnel-wise.
We have some needs that must be filled defensively, particularly at nose tackle, but there were distinct moments last night at which defenders clearly were having issues with their assignments. It’s too late in the season for unfamiliarity with the system any longer to be an excuse. I like the way the defensive staff has given more playing time to younger players who appear to have “gotten it,” but we need to get more guys who fit the system, and they need to know that system better.
Go 'Dawgs!
Kudos to the defense (sounds crazy huh)..........
but they came up huge when needed and they did it after being on the field for what seemed like days. I’m sold on TG and see much better days ahead when he gets a few players needed to make the 3 4 work.
Bobo – what can be said – he shows signs of brilliance only to FAIL miserably at key times. CMR didn’t look very confident and called timeout when we were down on the goal line getting ready to run a Bobo. I suspect he is either gone or will move back to QB coach with a fancy title.
All the talk about how many points we score with Bobo in charge sounds much like what the techies say about their offense – “we are the best running team in the history of the world”. Bobo has put our defense at risk in nearly every game for the last two years with his 3 and outs.
The win last night was ugly but it was a much needed one.
Ealey's Touchdown was huge gaffe.
TKK, I love your analysis, but you’re way off here. Get a first down, kneel, and the game is over, period. The only way for tech to win the game was to get the ball back – so in that sense it was an act of desperation, but the way tech was playing, the odds of tech scoring a touchdown in a 1:30 were a lot better than the odds of recovering an onside kick. Tech had the big mo in the second half and giving them the ball was the worst thing to do. I know its easy to be a monday morning quarterback, but coaches should know these. it’s their job. i love richt, but he screwed up and hopefully he’ll learn from this.
Not sure I'm buying this "huge gaffe" meme.
I agree that the smartest thing to do is kneel at the 1 and then knee out the game. Absolutely. But this isn’t a “huge gaffe” against a triple option team. GT wasn’t breaking off huge runs, so they were going to have to pass their way down the field. This is precisely what they did — with their freshman, triple-option QB who had started 3 whole games — and we intercepted the ball to close out the game. GT has the second worst passing game in the country. No chance in hell that they move the ball down the field in 1:30 (without any timeouts) and then get the 2 point conversion to tie it up.
I agree that it was a mistake, but it was a minor one in this particular game.
I completely agree with Spears.
It was a gaffe, dawgfan97, but not a huge one, and I see no basis for blaming this one on Mark Richt. How was he supposed to get Washaun Ealey to kneel mid-play?
I agree that Ealey ought to have known better, just as I credit Justin Houston for kneeling after a short return of the interception, rather than risking what happened in the Michigan State-Penn State game when the Spartan defender stupidly ran out an interception in the end zone.
This wasn’t like last year’s game, in which Georgia Tech had a distinct shot at notching the go-ahead score in the closing minutes of a six-point ballgame. The Yellow Jackets had to drive the field in 90 seconds, score the touchdown, and make the two-point conversion just to keep the game going. Ealey’s mistake took the probability of Georgia losing from 0% to about 2%.
Go 'Dawgs!
Aaron Murray
Just in case y’all haven’t seen this tidbit from Blutarsky (in a post about Bobo’s strengths and weaknesses):
Murray finished last night with an otherworldly passer rating of 250.86. He didn’t throw an interception in his last three regular season games. Barring injury, when all is said and done in 2010, he’s likely to surpass 3,000 passing yards and has a legitimate shot at setting a new season passing TD record at Georgia.
Nationally, his accomplishments are dazzling for a redshirt freshman: ninth in passer rating, top thirty in passing yards per game, top thirty-five in total offense per game and top thirty in points per game. He accomplished all that despite ranking only sixty-seventh in the country in passing completions per game.
I suspect it’s not easy to hurl a football a mere two weeks after a 300-pound lineman repeatedly drove his shoulder into the middle of your chest to the point where said shoulder was injured. The only thing that kept Murray’s sternum from meeting his spine two weeks ago was the kind of rare and special heart that should make us all exceedingly proud.
by NCT on Nov 28, 2010 12:58 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Blutarsky's article is excellent...
…and his analysis is spot-on as always. As a fanbase, we are very lucky to have this blog as well as GTP.
Here’s the money paragraph that I could only concoct in my dreams:
I believe Bobo has it in him to be an excellent offensive coordinator, I really do. But he’s not going to get there unless he comes to realize that balance in and of itself doesn’t win football games. Balance is nothing but a means to an end. Last night, just like two weeks ago, Georgia’s defense desperately needed the offense to keep its foot on the gas. There’s no reason that couldn’t have happened except for the caution of the driver.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
by DavetheDawg on Nov 28, 2010 1:22 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
You have won the Internet
“…rare and special heart…”
Got something in my eye…
by BigMuddyDawg on Nov 28, 2010 1:55 PM EST up reply actions
Randy Shannon? Paul Johnson? lol...
Who in their right mind would take this job? We just need you to beat UT, UF, UGA, and USC. You can warm up with Kentucky.
The Pillar of Pessimism, the Narrator of Negativity, and the Dictator of Doubt is here to rain on your Utopian Parade.
I don't know if you were joking or not, Lakepoets...
… but Tony Barnhart tweeted that Irvin Jasper, who is the OC at Navy, would be getting the job.
by vineyarddawg on Nov 28, 2010 7:28 PM EST up reply actions
Aaron Murray is special.
There’s no doubt about it. After the Florida loss, I saw him sitting on the sideline in agony. He wanted a win over UF more than anyone. He’ll get us to the promised land if Moses can get the rest of the flock on the same page.
The Pillar of Pessimism, the Narrator of Negativity, and the Dictator of Doubt is here to rain on your Utopian Parade.
by VDawg on Nov 28, 2010 2:17 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
If Moses comes in the form of a 350 lb. nose tackle
I tend to agree with you…
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
Thanks for noticing.
I was a little proud of that one.
The Pillar of Pessimism, the Narrator of Negativity, and the Dictator of Doubt is here to rain on your Utopian Parade.
You always get credit for Old Testament references.
Points also are awarded for allusions to William Faulkner, the War Between the States, and the Drive-By Truckers. I apologize if that is redundant.
Go 'Dawgs!
Re: "Sloppy" and "Chilly"
I would be more apt to describe last night as “ugly” and “cold” – but I would gladly sit and freeze my rear off again if we could have gotten six more ugly wins this season. And, I just want to say to that old knuckle-dragging armchair coach who sits behind me, when they show highlights of Knowshon Moreno on the jumbo-tron, please don’t cheer for Herschel Walker. Idiot.
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