You're (not) On Notice, Dawg! Week 10

by vineyarddawg on Oct 31, 2011 11:30 AM EDT in Georgia Bulldogs Football

Editor's Note: Sorry this week's article is about 18 hours late, Dawg fans. I was driving back from Jacksonville all Sunday, and if you think I was sober enough to write this Saturday night... (pause) (sound of hysterical laughter)

Yeah yeah, we have a lot of crap to gripe about vis-à-vis the Dawgs' performance on Saturday, and if anybody posts one word about any of it in the following thread, I'm going to personally come to your house/apartment/dorm room and slap you upside the head.

And I'm bringing this guy with me.

We just beat Florida, dammit! That's good enough for this week. Florida could have been 0-7 and we could have been 7-0, and it still would have been a major achievement to beat them given our recent history in Jacksonville.

In honor of the team's collective achievement (and the fact that we are playing one of the few teams in the country even worse than Kentucky this week), I'm turning this week's segment on its head. Nobody's on notice. Instead, I'm singling out the following people for commendation by letting them know that, for the following week, You're Not On Notice, Dawg!

1) Mark Richt - To all those who were loudly shouting for us to fire Coach Richt after the South Carolina game, I would like to say the following:

(Via)

2) Coach Todd Grantham - Two seasons ago, we were lamenting the fact that our defensive coordinator was apparently incapable of making halftime adjustments. This past Satuday, our new DC not only made halftime adjustments, it looked like he made first-quarter adjustments, because the Gators literally not almost nothing after their first two drives. It feels so good to once again have a fiery DC with whose defense we can entrust a 4-point lead for almost an entire quarter against Florida.

3) Richard the Intravenous - He's been incredibly impressive in exactly one quarter this entire year. But dang... he sure picked the right quarter!

4) Jarvis Jones - Hey, Little Orange Riding Hood? I'd like you to meet my friend, B.B. Wolf.

This is the only thing in my entire life for which I will ever thank Lane Kiffin. But thank you, Lane Kiffin!

5) Ben Jones - For giving us this picture, which illustrates my precise reaction when Aaron Murray downed the ball in the victory formation:

6) The entire Georgia Bulldog defense - Time after time, our special teams hung the defense out to dry with their crippling fear of tackling a ball-carrier. And time after time, our defense shut the Gators down like they were mid '90's-era Vanderbilt. In the first quarter, Florida got 226 yards total offense, but virtually all of that came in the first quarter. In the second half, Florida got just 32 yards of total offense and one first down. Also, for the game, Florida got minus-19 yards rushing. Minus-19 yards rushing, for the entire game.

Damn, guys. Just damn.

7) Aaron Murray - I know I've banged on AM a lot this year, and not without reason. And he was certainly far from perfect Saturday. But he ran good drives when he needed to, he generally made good decisions, and his one interception was in no way his fault.

And here's the other thing... his team just beat Florida. So there's that.

And he's not wearing a purse in this picture... so, there's that, too.

8) Coach Will Muschamp - Nicely done, you magnificent turncoat sonofabitch bastard. Very nicely done.

(Please note: In this week's article, the appropriately-named part of "Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Article" is being jointly played by Mike Bobo, Blair Walsh, and Michael Adams.)

We're playing a group of Aggies that are not from Texas this week in a paycheck game, so it's a gimmie, of course. I know that the players have to move on and prepare, anyway... but if you guys don't mind, I'm just gonna sit here and soak in this one for a few more days, ok?

Y'all be safe this week, make sure you show up for this Saturday's game ('cause now we really do have something to cheer about), and...

Go Dawgs!

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I wonder

if Kirby gets offered and takes the Ole Miss job after the season. I’d be curious to be inside his head these last few weeks. Does he look up at the scoreboard and say “crap, UGA won”. Or is he just too busy trying to avoid getting yelled at to notice anything but his own defense (not saying he deserves to be yelled at, but Saban would yell at George Washington).

by Mark Mandingo on Oct 31, 2011 11:37 AM EDT reply actions

I wouldn't take the Ole Miss job if I were him.

When’s the last time a coach has taken the Ole Miss job and has left the job in a better position? Tommy Tuberville?

by hailtogeorgia on Oct 31, 2011 11:53 AM EDT up reply actions

true

But I don’t know if a better sec job will be available anytime soon. Unless he’s waiting for the axe to fall on Richt next year. I think Dooley can make it at least 2 more years after this one, Miles isn’t going anywhere, Mushchamp will get at least 2 more years, so unless Saban’s whispering in his ear about retiring, he’d have to go outside the conference or wait a couple of more seasons.

by Mark Mandingo on Oct 31, 2011 12:03 PM EDT up reply actions

Nothing wrong with going outside of the conference...

Your chances of success at a UNC, for isntance, are much greater than they would be taking a job like Ole Miss. The competition is night and day. Win enough at middle-of-the-road ACC/Big East school, and when one of the Big Six (or USC when Spurrier takes his golf career full-time or Arkansas when Petrino jumps to another job) will be yours when it opens up.

by FisheriesDawg on Oct 31, 2011 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions

that would be a way to do it

although I wouldn’t consider SC a better job than Ole Miss. But I get your point nonetheless.

by Mark Mandingo on Oct 31, 2011 12:09 PM EDT up reply actions

I take that back

I consider them equal in terms of resources, but I’d rather go to SC because the fans are better. They fill up a large stadium in horrible seasons and don’t form PAC’s to get coaches and ADs fired. I apologize SC.

by Mark Mandingo on Oct 31, 2011 12:17 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

To me, SC is a much better job than Ole Miss.

You share your state with a perennial underachieving ACC team, you have decent In-State talent, and you can pick up enough guys from Georgia in overflow to have a solid recruiting class on a fairly regular basis.

At Ole Miss, you compete with an In-State SEC team, as well as getting all of your top talent poached away by LSU and Alabama, not to mention some of the Northern Mississippians who are UT folks.

by hailtogeorgia on Oct 31, 2011 12:21 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

most of the same things are true for SC

except the in state sec rival thing. But I’d much rather go up against Stark Vegas in recruiting than Clemson. I’m sure that UGA and TN poach just as many SC high school kids as MS kids get poached. And just like SC bleeds the state of GA, Ole Miss can bleed of LA. I’d call that a wash probably.

by Mark Mandingo on Oct 31, 2011 12:39 PM EDT up reply actions

We have poached several good ones.

A.J. and Sugar Bowl MVP Marcus Howard are the latest that come to mind.

by hbtd on Oct 31, 2011 7:45 PM EDT up reply actions

What's the Mizzou coaching job look like?

You’re right, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Florida, and, barring a complete collapse, Georgia are not opening up anytime soon. Perhaps Carolina if Spurrier decides to hang it up. On the other side, you’re right, Ole Miss is about the only option, but man, that’s just not an option I’d want to take.

At this point in his career, the biggest mistake Kirby needs to avoid is settling for a mediocre SEC job that will kill his career. He’s got a kush spot at Bama and he’s making bank…all he has to do is bide his time and something will open up before too long.

Seriously, though, would Mizzou be an option? I don’t know what their coaching situation looks like.

by hailtogeorgia on Oct 31, 2011 12:09 PM EDT up reply actions

I gather from what I've read

that they’re satisfied with Pinkel and view him as taking the program a great distance from where it was.

by Mark Mandingo on Oct 31, 2011 12:11 PM EDT up reply actions

They're at 4-4 right now...

…with games left to go against Baylor, Texas Tech, Texas, and Kansas. They could very easily finish out at 5-7. I’m not saying they’d fire Pinkel, but if Kirby’s available and they could (presumably) now make the argument of being an SEC team, why not?

by hailtogeorgia on Oct 31, 2011 12:25 PM EDT up reply actions

It's just from the vibe I get

at Rock M Nation. Even before Saturday and they had lost to OKSt and KSU, nobody seemed to be lighting him on fire. I would rate Rock M Nation on par with DS as far as being a rational blog so my guess is they’d stick with Pinkel. He’s been their most successful coach since Dan Devine. They probably feel the same way that I do about Richt, I have my issues, but I have more issues with an unknown element.

by Mark Mandingo on Oct 31, 2011 12:43 PM EDT up reply actions

Dooley @ UT parallels Shula at Bama

What with Miss Barbara calling out radio shows and the random Flash deal with “Fear the Pants” young CDD might look forward to leaving Nashvegas. He won’t be hurting and some sports agent would be glad to welcome him aboard." Not bad …. not bad at all."

by AthensHomerDawg3 on Oct 31, 2011 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Knoxville, not Nashville.

Yes, I am that guy.

by hailtogeorgia on Oct 31, 2011 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions

Knox Diego

by Mark Mandingo on Oct 31, 2011 2:22 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

First time this is posted in VICTORY:

And, because I know Karma and how moody she is, it may be awhile before I post this pic again. I owe her that respect!

GO DAWGS!

Success is never final. --Winston Churchill

by Inteljumper on Oct 31, 2011 12:11 PM EDT reply actions 5 recs

As both an Eagles fan and Georgia alum...

I can safely say this was the best weekend of football watching for me in about a decade. Can’t pry the smile off my face this morning.

by PhanofPhilly on Oct 31, 2011 12:13 PM EDT reply actions

Same here!

And we got to watch Stafford and the Lions crush Tebow. This was the best rivalry weekend ever!

Fly Eagles Fly, on the road to Vicktory!

by KeepSwinging on Oct 31, 2011 2:43 PM EDT up reply actions

Vineyarddawg...

I love this! The intravenous part rocked!

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by DavetheDawg on Oct 31, 2011 12:28 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

I laughed at Richard the Intravenous.

BUT NOTHING ELSE. NOTHING ELSE, YOU HEAR ME. (Congrats.)

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by Andy Hutchins on Oct 31, 2011 1:37 PM EDT reply actions

Thanks, Andy.

I appreciate your class.

(Not that it makes me hate Florida less. But still.)

by vineyarddawg on Oct 31, 2011 2:03 PM EDT up reply actions

I "heart" Ben Jones

I’m not sure a picture has ever been taken that truly shows the feelings of all Bulldawg Nation better than this one. Two of my favorite post game picture are now of MR. Ben Jones. This one along with the one from Tech two years ago with the turf in his mouth. He is truly a DGD!!!

by Gregdog on Oct 31, 2011 1:39 PM EDT reply actions

Well there is this one

Absolutely one of my favorites… just seconds after Caleb King goes 76 for yummy a TD.

Taste the tears!

"Uvarum, Uvarum Fit, Uvarum.... double Fit..."
- Augustus "Gus" McCrae

by Munson's_Marbles on Oct 31, 2011 6:15 PM EDT up reply actions

* a yummy TD

good lord I am slippn’!!

"Uvarum, Uvarum Fit, Uvarum.... double Fit..."
- Augustus "Gus" McCrae

by Munson's_Marbles on Oct 31, 2011 6:15 PM EDT up reply actions

Wow oh Wow. A reminder to not take things too far.

Someone posted a link to this site on the AJC blog: http://firepauljohnson.blogspot.com/

From the language and everything that goes on it is clear that this is a fan of a rival school. I won’t go so far to say it’s a Georgia fan, but it certainly seems that way after looking at some of the people the 2 twitter feeds follow. They go so far as to contact GT recruits to try and get them to not go to Tech. When you reach this point, it is a sick obsession. I am embarrassed that someone from the same institution I graduated from would do this. I can only hope it’s a sick fan and not a former student from UGA. Dude(s) who wrote that entire site needs a girlfriend and or a pet.

When you own another school for almost 2 decades, why take the time to put up a site like that? Is there any doubt year in and year out who wins UGA v GT?

by Jason Marcus on Oct 31, 2011 3:52 PM EDT reply actions

I assume then you'll

do a special write up on fan obsession since you felt like deleting my post? :)

by Jason Marcus on Oct 31, 2011 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm a little confused by your remarks about post deletion, but

It appears to me that the site you linked at 3:52 PM EDT was almost certainly run by GT fans who were unhappy with their head coach. As far as I can tell, the site has not been updated since February, so it hardly seems worth any comment at all.

by NCT on Oct 31, 2011 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Except

for the same twisted individual reached out to various players a mere 8 days ago (twitter feed at bottom). Sick and twisted. Anyone who is that obsessed needs to be committed. Yes – NCT – I am sure a GT fan contacted potential 4 star recruits to try and get them to not come to their school. Sounds right to me. I just brought it up because I read it on the feed on Schult’s ajc blog.

by Jason Marcus on Oct 31, 2011 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions

OK, calm down

no one deleted your post. As a mod, we have ways of knowing, and nothing of yours has been deleted. Not a single thing.

http://sportsandgrits.com/

by Mr. Sanchez on Oct 31, 2011 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions

A lot of the Tech fans

assume it’s one of our fans regardless, which doesn’t make our fan base (or our University) look good. It just takes one person to make everyone else look bad. That’s the point I was making. I try to act with class, which can be hard sometimes especially when beer is involved. Just thought I would mention it like I said since it was on Schultz’s blog, and some others on the AJC. Not cool no matter where they went to school.

by Jason Marcus on Oct 31, 2011 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions

I maintain that site was and the Twitter accounts are run by Tech fans.

Do not underestimate the madness that is possible. By the way, I don’t see the direct contacts to recruits you describe in either Twitter account, but to be honest, I’m not going to spend a lot of time digging through their Tweets.

My advice to you is to stay away from comments to AJC articles and columns. They are not accurate representations of the fans of either Tech or Georgia, and the serious fans of both schools all understand that fact.

by NCT on Oct 31, 2011 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Fair enough

Tech fans or not, it is a wonderful example of when to reel it in (so to speak) when it comes to disliking something about a team. Never would have seen this if not posted on Schultz’s section of the blog and seeing us accused of doing it.

by Jason Marcus on Oct 31, 2011 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions

Does it surprise you

that Schultz would blame UGA fans for the site. I’m surprised he didn’t make it Mark Richt’s fault.

by Swarles_Barkley on Oct 31, 2011 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions

Let's all just pretend my post above used correct punctuation. Thanks.

by Swarles_Barkley on Oct 31, 2011 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions

Hard to read Mark Bradley

Wouldn’t surprise me if he’s something of an Idaho Vandals fan lol

by Jason Marcus on Oct 31, 2011 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions

Schultz I mean.

by Jason Marcus on Oct 31, 2011 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions

Not sure what team he might be a fan of, but it's not Georgia

I don’t expect a reporter in Atlanta to be a Georgia fan, especially when it’s supposed to be a non-biased source. But he is always the first person to either tweet or write an article about anything negative concerning Georgia, yet he is strangely absent following the win over Florida. If I’m not mistaken he is the only writer not to even mention the Georgia win since Saturday. He predicted that Florida would win but won’t follow up the story since Georgia won.

by Swarles_Barkley on Oct 31, 2011 4:46 PM EDT up reply actions

that would be the only writer on the AJC sports writing staff

by Swarles_Barkley on Oct 31, 2011 4:47 PM EDT up reply actions

Maybe Charlie Weiss

is his cousin?

by Jason Marcus on Oct 31, 2011 4:49 PM EDT up reply actions

Schultz has gotten drastically worse since

Richt called him out several years back. Wish I could find that incident, but Richt got confrontational with him and the hacks have said little positive since.

http://sportsandgrits.com/

by Mr. Sanchez on Oct 31, 2011 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions

Ahhh

I must have missed that. Explains a lot.

by Swarles_Barkley on Oct 31, 2011 5:24 PM EDT up reply actions

It was the 2004 LSU game

The week leading up to it, the Dawgs were ranked #3 and 3-0 but their O had struggled (fell behind Carolina 16-0 and then won 20-16 by nursing that tiny lead the entire 4th quarter hmmmmmmmm, and only beat Marshall like 13-3 or something). Schultz was asking Richt every press conference the same question about how he felt about the offense not performing up to snuff. Richt gave him something like “Really? I haven’t answered that to your satisfaction yet? Okay here we go again: it’s frustrating.” Then, after we destroyed LSU, Richt apologized to Schultz.

It was vintage Richt non-outrageousness, and vintage journalistic self-importance to refuse to get over it.

by Xon on Oct 31, 2011 9:21 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Guess it's not pertinent to discuss

UGA fan obsession on a UGA site?

When did they start teaching Stalking 101 at the Univ of GA? It must have been sometime after I graduated with my graduate degree in ’98. The person(s) who started that site are sickos and probably read this board. Hell one of you may be them for all we know.

www.firepauljohnson.blogspot.com

Sick. The UGA fans that had the time to put up this site are sick, twisted individuals who enjoy getting handys in the bathroom of rest stops.

by Jason Marcus on Oct 31, 2011 4:10 PM EDT reply actions

So I guess they ARE on notice?

by dawgfan will on Oct 31, 2011 4:37 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

There's not a problem with discussing Georgia fan obsession on a Georgia site, . . .

. . . but the problem is in the accusatory nature of it. I tend to agree with NCT’s assessment, above, but the point is that no evidence has been cited for the proposition that Georgia fans are responsible. Moreover, it was quite over the top to level the accusation that the individuals “who started that site are sickos and probably read this board. Hell one of you may be them for all we know.” Frankly, that sort of thing doesn’t sound like us at all, and, before anyone levels such a broad generalization against the community members here, he needs to have something more than supposition to back up what he is saying. Finally, the rest stop comment was a bit much.

We understand. You saw the site, you were offended by it. Everything past that point was unfounded, unfairly accusatory, and/or crass. You’ve made some good contributions, Jason, but this one has troubled you to a disproportionate degree, causing you to strain the strictures of good taste, and good judgment. That’s not a warning; it’s just an observation.

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by T Kyle King on Oct 31, 2011 8:03 PM EDT up reply actions