How Bad Is It to be a Georgia Bulldogs Fan Right Now?

And as a football player, he is obviously under increased scrutiny.

But how many 18 year old college students drink underage? How many have a fake ID?

Again, not excusing the behavior at all, but it isn’t like he discharged a firearm in a nightclub parking lot.

and as a proud graduate of UGA, I’ll continue to root my guts out whatever it is. Sometimes there’s joy in that and other times (lately) not-so-much.

… I’ll have one, “It’s bad but holding steady,” with a side of, “It’s all been downhill since Erk Russell left,” please.

While it’s been a rough go for some of the programs, as T Kyle points out, we’ve continued to excel in a number of areas, while remaining competitive in many others. I’m afraid, if anything, that we may be coming across as whiners if we complain too much about recent frustrations. We’ve simply enjoyed so much more success over the years than the vast majority of schools and have an athletics program with plenty of funding to ensure we’ll always have an advantage over many programs.

This is the first reason to seriously question the young man’s decision-making ability.

as I was reading this post and asked, “What is the poll for?” since it’s about as long as a pole.

Now, as many of you know, she’s from England. She doesn’t quite get my obsession with Georgia football or college athletics in general (and I’ve really, really tried. Lord knows, I’ve tried…) So her opinions on the very things we discuss here are rare and, at times, refreshing.

After explaining the last couple of days which hasn’t been very bubbly and the crux of the post and after attempting to explain the general malaise of Kyle and Tankertoad contrasted with my and other’s general optimism, she just shrugged her shoulders and said: “At least the Red and Black go together. They can’t change that, can they?”

No, Honey, they cannot. Victory!

How Bad Is It to be a Georgia Bulldogs Fan Right Now? It’s gotten so bad, we’re talkin’ ’bout soccer. I jest.

Unfortunately, one thing that I think is also happening is the teams we regularly play or compete against are getting better.
Maybe Bama is replacing LSU, but neither Saban nor Bama recruited Georgia as hard as they seem to be doing now. And Tech has the opportunity to rise above the mediocrity that was their standard for a long time.
Other have pointed this out, but we had a huge window open with Tenn, Florida and Bama not at full strength during parts of the early to mid-naughts and we didn’t fully seize that opportunity. That window seems to have closed for the most part and now it will take twice as much effort on our part to reopen it.

I like the upward trend in men’s basketball, the Baton Rouge punch in the gut notwithstanding. And the ladies’ version of the hoop dogs has me a bit dismayed. The Gym Dogs’ recent showing against UCLA was inspiring.

But at last tally, we’re 49th in the Director’s Cup standings. (We finished 18th last year, and going back, our finishes were 10th, 12th, 9th, 7th, 5th — trend?). I’m not sure gymnastics, softball, tennis, golf, and swimming & diving have it in them to bail us out this year. Even with strong finishes by all of those outstanding programs, I don’t see the apparent trend reversing this year.

“If the average Bulldog fan can tell you the name of the head coach of that particular Georgia team, we’re probably not very good in that sport.”

Our men’s tennis team just won their 69th consecutive home match. They haven’t lost at home since 2005.

I’ll admit that I tend to be an optimistic guy— I just figure life is too dang short to dwell on the bad stuff that is inevitably going to happen— but it just boggles my mind that some people can get so down on the athletic programs, particularly with Football. Seriously, there isn’t a historical period of success for UGA that compares with what Coach Richt has accomplished. Yes, we took a step back last year, but personally, I saw it coming: you don’t lose 2 NFL first rounders on offense and just keep chugging along without a hitch.

In my mind Richt deserves every chance to reverse the trend. (Again, I must emphasize: the one year trend.) Until it is shown that he has peaked an isn’t going to be able to contend for the SEC crown again, he’s our coach in my mind.

There will always be players who make boneheaded decisions (although-stipulated-you’d rather it wasn’t a guy competing for the starting QB role). Losses and injuries are going to happen; sometimes the ball just doesn’t bounce your way (or the refs choose to make boneheaded penalty calls at the most inopportune times). All of these things actually encourage me, because – if you believe in a statistical norm- it should only be a matter of time before a lot of positive things happen to our Dawgs to balance the ledger out.