Monday Morning Dawg Bites, Halloween Edition

Is their denial and cockiness, even in defeat.

But you’re changing the subject again. The point is that Andrew showed his bitterness. He was in awe of South Carolina’s defense for holding Tennessee on drives that started inside SC territory. South Carolina scored 14 whole points against the mighty Vol defense. On that data a Florida blogger raised South Carolina two places. Compare Georgia’s performance against Florida, especially the defense, but somehow the same Florida blogger dropped Georgia 3 places. Not to mention our offense gained 384 yards.

Nobody’s free from subjectivity, but when you win a rare one against a bitter foe, the drama is too tasty to leave alone.

skigator I have respect for you as one of the most rational UF fans I have ever seen post here and on other blogs that I read. That being said I don’t anyone apologizing or rationlizing the victories over pathetic UGA teams of the 90’s. I also don’t want to hear the “our QB was hurt” line either. Does anyone think we lose the ‘05 game with a healthy DJ Shockley? Couple that with the ’04 win and who know’s how the worm might have turned earlier in this series.

I will grant you that this is not a UGA team without warts, but they find a way to win and that is markedly different from years past.

then I guess you can credit McGarity. Hindsight is 20/20, but my take is we should never have scheduled Boise, at least not in the season opener. I feel like a pansy for saying that because an SEC team should never shy away from a MWC or WAC team, but I would much rather the Dawgs start the season with a tune-up game rather than a litmus test like Boise. We should have learned our lesson from the trip to Stillwater. We are always rusty to start the year and inevitably have off-season suspensions to serve in the first game. Even with no arrests this offseason, Rambo was out for Boise because of a “team rule violation.” Ol’ Panty Sniffer had set us up with a season opener against a BCS conference opponent that we were very likely to win (Louisville). There was no shame in having that game on our schedule, but Greggie Mac got dollar signs in his eyes and canceled the Louisville home-and-home in order for the Boise game to happen. Now we have an OOC loss against a non-BCS conference opponent. If we had played Louisville and were sitting at 7-1 right now with just the close loss to SC, we’d still need the Cocks to stumble, along with some additional help in other conferences, but we’d actually still have a very slim but real chance at playing our way into to the BCSCG — this year! — where, per chance, we might have met up with Boise. I like a late-season Georgia’s chances against Boise much better than first-game Georgia’s.

I’m not saying this Georgia team would ever be good enough to play for or win the MNC, regardless of schedule. My point is that so many stars need to align for a National Championship run. The years Richt won the conference, he had the same reg-season record as LSU had in the years Miles won the MNC. It was just dumb luck that the chips fell in favor of Miles those years. The job of the AD is to set up a schedule that gives us the best chance. Being a 1-loss SEC champion is typically enough to get you there, even with a West slate as weak as ours was this year. There is no reason to run the risk of elimination from the MNC hunt by scheduling a tough game in week one.