Sure, we played sloppy, but Vandy played hard and stayed scrappy. At home. We won. What the hell do you want? The New England Patriots? Get real, friend.

I’m not 100% on board with the performance of this game, or this year, or even CTG’s reaction. However, I like it…I love the fight in them. They did not roll over after 2 losses, one where we got owned. I’m getting a little sick of the band-wagon mentality some Dawg fans are exhibiting.

should have never gotten to the point where we were in jeopardy of losing, but it did. I finally viewed some of the game last night and saw a team that regressed in the 2nd half. Vandy and Franklin got into their heads a bit. Plus, I believe that Georgia did what Georgia typically tends to do during this part of the season: They start looking ahead to Florida week before the final second ticks off the clock in the game in which they are presently engaged.

We moved the ball well from what I could tell. We just continue to gaak up scoring chances against weaker opponents via penalties or poor execution. I’m still more concerned with special teams than anything else at this point. We shouldn’t even be talking about this, but we are.

BTW, some of Georgia’s best teams have struggled against Vandy. They are a perennial trap game, IMO. Next year, I think we’ll light ’em up.

1) lose games in the current year
2) envision how things will get better in the next year
3) conclude that next year will be better

However here:

1) win games in the current year
2) envision how things will get worse next year
3) conclude that things will get worse

That’s like meta pessimism.

Larry Munson would be proud well done sir.

I will take CMR.

and it looked like it worked like a charm. I guess Grantham is McManus.

Mentally and psychologically prepared for a loss?

(sigh)… I gotta admit… yeah.

I absolutely agree, WindyCityDawg. Mark Richt, Todd Grantham, and Ray Drew have different roles, and I approve of how each of those three men handled his individual role, and of how the three roles meshed together. Well said.

the dirty play of his players. A man can only take so much. Vandy was annoyed by Wiliams talking trash? I’m sure Geathers was annoyed by some punk trying to end his career.

Franklin caused this incident. And Vandy praises him. There should be no discussion at midfield unless these coaches are already friends or something.

“Good game Coach” Shake hands – leave. He came off the sidelines read to roll. And then did a “woe is me” in the media. CMR tried to talk the dude down.

TKK has repeatedly pointed out that Franklin came out first pointing and jawing. Repeated commenters have stated a camera angle showing his angry face should go along with CTG’s angry face. IF you hang CTG, make sure to hang Franklin as well is all I am saying.

Coach Franklin didn’t “get his team’s back” or “stand up” or “show fire” nor was this some planned strategy or tactic. He came out like an immature, just lost a game, emotional idiot and he deserves at least as much equal bad press as UGA.

Everything a Georgia player or coach did was a reaction in retaliation to an action taken by a Vanderbilt player or coach. That doesn’t justify it in every instance, but Kwame Geathers committed a personal foul in response to the dirty play of the Commodores. That doesn’t mean Geathers shouldn’t have been penalized—-he should have been, and he was—-but it does mean the dirty play came from the other side, not from our side.

Had James Franklin walked out to midfield, silently shaken Mark Richt’s hand, and kept his pie-hole shut, Todd Grantham would have remained completely calm. When Coach Grantham saw and heard Coach Franklin displaying the unmitigated hypocritical gall to call out a Georgia player after the way Coach Franklin and his team had been instigating the chippiness all night, Coach Grantham said something, though he didn’t go completely ape until the security guard shoved him. (Once again, the laying on of hands came from the other side, not from ours.)

Do I fault James Franklin for anything? I fault James Franklin for everything. Without his actions, there’d have been no reactions. Had Bobby Johnson or Robbie Caldwell been coaching Vanderbilt in this game, there would have been no problem whatsoever.

and letting Mark Richt handle his own kids. If he had a problem, tell Richt. Don’t go after the kid, or if you are, go after your own for their dirty play.

That made me laugh. Of course, I’m sick, so making me laugh also made me cough, but, still, I appreciate the thought. Rec’d.

… he was the kind of kid who went and tattled to the Kindergarten teacher because one of the other students was making fun of him because his cubby-hole was on the bottom row.

. . . where Dan said in an interview that he favored the legalization of marijuana, and the network suits got uptight about it, so Isaac ordered him to apologize. “To whom? For what?” Dan asked. Isaac replied, “Who cares?”

Sometimes in life, we are called upon to do things that look like apologizing, to avoid appearing insensitive to the hypersensitive. In this case, the only apology Todd Grantham needed to issue was, “I’m sorry James Franklin insists on dishing it out, if he can’t take it.”