The Inaugural Georgia Bulldogs Hate Index (Part Two)
by T Kyle King on Apr 28, 2011 12:15 AM EDT
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PrintA week ago, The Inaugural Georgia Bulldogs Hate Index debuted in this space. (Easter having come and gone in the interim, I should add that sports hatreds are not hatreds in the strictest literal sense; I hate Auburn, vineyarddawg hates Florida, and NCT hates Georgia Tech, but none of us holds the Bulldogs’ most despised rivals in the same genuine contempt reserved for, say, totalitarianism or cancer or murder. I don’t want anyone thinking we revile our fellow man around here, particularly since certain fan bases tend to get a little touchy when you ask whether their head coach is lying or ask whether their head coach is telling the truth. If a fellow owns up publicly to being an Auburn fan, I will hate the sin and love the sinner, while earnestly hoping he will repent of his misguided ways, as the road to perdition and probation is paved with orange and blue.)
As of this writing, 298 votes have been cast regarding the initial list, with a whopping 43 per cent deeming Steve Detwiler least worthy of our contempt. Another 18 per cent would opt against including Tim Tebow, with 12 per cent favoring Michael Adams’s removal from the condemned. The remaining quintet, from most to least despised, consisted of Urban Meyer (2%), Florida (3%), Auburn (5%), Steve Spurrier (6%), and Georgia Tech (7%). Since I agree with NCT that it’s hard to be a Georgia fan without intensely disliking the rival that inspired a Bulldog fan to write a book called Clean Old-Fashioned Hate, I’m considering the three leading vote-getters out of the running and the five left over still among the contenders.
We will return to those prospects in a subsequent balloting, though. For now, since we have revulsion aplenty in Bulldog Nation, I offer a completely new (and conspicuously Gator-free!) list of possibilities:
While I don’t think any of these should require explanation, I didn’t think anyone would have forgotten Steve Detwiler and his magical thumb of doom, either, so, just to be on the safe side, here is the rundown:
- Offseason arrests: They’re maddening in every aspect, from the overzealousness of some law enforcement officials to the absurdity of some ticky-tacky charges to the stupidity of the players who get themselves into certain situations to the repugnance of actual wrongdoing. I got through college without getting arrested; so should football players.
- Pat Dye: Former Georgia player turned Auburn coach. He won, he cheated (pardon the redundancy; we are, after all, talking about the Plainsmen), he lost his pants. If I could revoke University of Georgia degrees, his would be the first one.
- Poor clock management: Ask RedCrake how he feels about squandering time outs on back-to-back plays early in the third quarter . . . then back up before he answers.
- Clemson: I don’t care what anyone says, they’re still a major rival. They’re orange-wearing Tigers who used to be coached by John Heisman, for crying out loud.
- "Green Notebook": Ask tankertoad how he feels about Mike Bobo’s play calling . . . then stand back before he drops a few f-bombs. (In this instance, "f-bomb" is short for "first and bomb," by the way.)
- Tennessee: Hey, I’m good with the Vols, but Mr. Sanchez says they’re a major rival, and you agree with him, so they’re on the list. If Holly Anderson pimp-slaps you up one side of the Twittersphere and down the other for making me include this one, it’s your own fault.
- Blog trolls: Has Georgia scored a touchdown in the last 67 quarters? LOL Disney Dawg probably not a real fan anyway (I did not just question whether you were a real fan) georgie (sic). That got a little Benjy Compson, didn’t it? Yeah, I don’t think that’s a coincidence.
- Steve Taneyhill: He was Stephen Garcia when Stephen Garcia wasn’t cool. Actually, I’d be interested to know where Steve Taneyhill was nine months before Stephen Garcia was born. Anyway, this mullet-headed South Carolina quarterback guided the Gamecocks into the SEC with a level of arrogance and obnoxiousness that continues to offend me, nearly two decades later.
Vote in the poll and lobby in the comments!
Go ‘Dawgs!
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How can you hate this man?
How?! I mean, look at him! That’s not a man deserving of hate. That’s a man deserving of ridicule and laughter! Sure he beat us once, but man. He makes Billy Ray Cyrus look classy by comparison. I can’t hate a guy like that. It would be like hating these guys:
I'll have to agree with 984
That is a great Mullet. And honestly we should than him for Stephen Garcia, who has been a thorn in Darth Visor’s side for about 5 years.
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
by Southern Dawg on Apr 28, 2011 4:05 PM EDT up reply actions
I voted for Tennessee.
Georgia has many opponents that we consider “rivals,” but no rivalry involving the Dawgs been more artificially contrived than that with Tennessee. I mean, we barely even played the Volunteers in the 100 years of Bulldog football prior to the SEC splitting into divisions in 1992.
I mean, sure, I want to beat Tennessee… but I want to beat Kentucky and Vanderbilt, too. And if Kentucky had won something like 10 straight games against us, I imagine I’d want to beat them pretty badly, too. (And we’ve played both the Wildcats and the Commodores far more times than we’ve played the orange checkerboard lot.)
Kick the Vols off the list. And while we’re at it, someone who definitely does not deserve a vote is the mullet king of South Carolina. I remember Steve Tanneyhill standing at roughly the 50-yard-line of Sanford Stadium and celebrating a touchdown pass of his with his trademark “home run swing” gesture towards the crowd. Now that was classy.
I remember that, too.
For the record, it was South Carolina’s first touchdown against Georgia in four years.
Go 'Dawgs!
Yeah, but Brandon Bennett over the top really sticks in my craw.
And the fact that both Tanneyhill and the team he led were such a joke is the very reason that losing to them at home was so hard to to swallow.
I like this list better than the first.
As a 1982 grad and a South Carolinian, Clemson will always be at the top of my list.
. . . . . . But then the list goes current with the green notebook and clock management ,which are killers.
Not sure which to vote for, but overall this list has more of the things I hate than the other.
Yeah I was at that game too...
….then had the pleasure of attending the game the next year in Columbia where if memory serves Taneyhill threw an interception on the last drive sealing the Poultry’s doom in that game.
The following year in Athens, Taneyhill was knocked out of the game by a vicious hit then wondered why the UGA fans cheered his injury. I don’t cheer injuries for the opposing players and didn’t that day. Payback was a b**** though wasn’t it Steve? What goes around comes around…sometimes anyway.
In any event, I’m ready for some new memories this year….of the positive kind I mean.
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by Vietnam Dog on Apr 28, 2011 11:13 AM EDT up reply actions
Tennessee, while not the most often played rival
still brought this moment, which is perhaps the biggest in UGA history.
For, had Tennessee not taken that 15-0 lead on that night in Knoxville, then Carney Norris and Dynamite Mitchell might have stayed the prodominant runners for UGA that season…
Well, maybe not. But man, was that a loud introduction of that kid out of Johnson County single A ball, or what?
Still my favorite radio call of all time. Defeinitely MUCH better than that Linsday Scott nonsense!
Keen observation.
That moment certainly ranks among the top. (I’d submit that the Tennessee rivalry also accounts for another.)
But as for that TD in the 1980 Tennessee game, the importance of it has little or nothing to do with Tennessee. It just happened to be one of those rare seasons when the Vols appeared on our schedule.
And, by the way, what Lindsay Scott nonsense? Are you talking about his 99-yard kick-off return in Baton Rouge in 1978? That was awesome. I saw it from the LSU student section.
Had UGA opened against a lesser team that year, Herschel maybe doesn’t play until week 4. Maybe he even redshirts? If I recall, he didn’t come in until the second half with UGA down 15-0 and then ran the ball about 14 straight plays (or so it seemed to UT tacklers).
That Lindsay sure could run. Does anyone remember Chuck Jones? He was a flanker and wore #1 for the 1980 team. He was my “tech tools” (a/k/a typing on an early model Apple computer) teacher in 8th grade.
This one was not difficult at all.
I cast my vote for the Green Notebook. It’s definitely a clever reference, and I appreciate the sentiment. Calls often have been puzzling, but we’ve been scoring a lot of points in the last few years. It’s the getting scored on part that’s needed work.
The Green notebook isn't about CMB play calling as a whole...
Just a few head scratching play-calls.
My personal favorite is 165 lbs soaking wet Carlton Thomas up the middle on 3rd and 7.
I’m sure tankertoad and others can provide their favorites from the “Green Notebook”
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
by Southern Dawg on Apr 28, 2011 4:32 PM EDT up reply actions
Probably includes the general strategy of forcing balance upon our offense
When either pure rushing or pure passing has been shredding the opposing D with no signs of being stopped
Fair enough. I'm not saying it's unworthy of hate.
Others’ mileage may vary, so I won’t make a moral judgment case out of it. It’s just that compared to the other candidates, the head-scratching play calls are momentarily infuriating, but only irksome to me in the long-term — and hate is on a long-term scale.
Thanks Southern Dawg
The green notebook reference is certainly a legacy on this blog. But what I found fascinating is non dawg folks going games and seeing the same patterns – same obvious or horrible play calling. I think what it gets down to is Bobo has been schooled to be a play action guy – but if it’s broke, you cant keep doing it. Play action worked with David Green because, well, it was set up and worked. If it aint working – stop already. Just throw it to AJ. But we didnt. It’s like we HAD to follow the green notebook. Period.
FWIW – I am a huge fan of what CMR wants to do and why he wants to do it with the play action. But Auburn won an NC bus Gus through the notebook in the trash and said “give it to Cam”. Just like Dooley did with Herschel. Sometimes – you have to do what works, not what you want.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
You and I are cut from the same cloth, tanker
But Auburn won an NC bus Gus through the notebook in the trash and said "give it to Cam". Just like Dooley did with Herschel. Sometimes – you have to do what works, not what you want.
I think this is what drives me insane about Bobo. The Senator said it best at his site last year after the Auburn game that there are two Mike Bobos. There’s the one that’s done his homework and has gameplanned for what is successful against an opponent. That Bobo showed up in the first quarter against Auburn and the first half against Tech.
Then, for whatever reason, there is the dogmatic Bobo that all of a sudden realizes his offense isn’t balanced and needs to throw some plays in there to make sure that he’s getting to his 50/50 split. I wish the first Bobo would show up more and just take what the defense is giving him rather than have this view of the world that you can’t be successful without a balanced offense. As you said, what you want to do isn’t necessarily what you need to do to win.
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apologies for my editing. My laptop is nice - but I do better in the office.
And I hear you. I am still so dismayed from the AU game last year. Does anyone even remember we went way up in the first half on that team? And we did it because we opened it up and “aint skeered”. Then we stopped about half way through the second quarter. I still dont get it. I don’t mean this has hate – I honestly, sincerely, dont get it. We were winning against the NC and doing it because we went all out. Then we stopped.
CMR is right IMHO to follow a play action model. However, these are kids, you don’t know when the next herschel comes around – and sometimes you have to adjust. The reason we saw Carton Thomas up the middle on 3rd and 7 was, as best as I can guess, not b/c of our workout regiment, our bad coaching, our lack of ability, but because of that damn green notebook.
It doesn’t help that Bobo has a green notebook in his office
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
Pretty much agree with you here
My only quibble is that I think at times last year the playcalling didn’t help the defense that much. Particularly in the Auburn game when it was clear that Auburn’s secondary couldn’t cover my grandmother and their offense wasn’t going to be stopped in that game, Bobo allowed them to break serve by calling that ridiculous Wild Dawg play that stopped a drive while up 21-7 and allowed them to get back in it.
This logic could also be applied to the Tech game when it was abundantly obvious that we weren’t going to stop the dive play that night and Murray was having the game of his life throwing the ball down the field in the first half. For reasons that are only known to Mike Bob and God, he decided to stop throwing down the field in the 2nd half and allowed Tech to make a game of it.
I definitely agree with you that we have been scoring a lot of points and the defense definitely has been the main culprit, but when you realize the defense isn’t going to stop anybody and you’re gonna need 40+ to win, what good does it do to say that you scored at least 30?
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by AuditDawg on Apr 28, 2011 6:16 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Re: Tennessee
If Holly Anderson pimp-slaps you up one side of the Twittersphere and down the other
/Reviews photo of Ms. Anderson
//Uncertain whether to object
I miss Phillip Fulmer. He was fun to hate. Tennessee in general is sort of like the bad guy in a Disney movie. They’re too brightly colored and charicatured for me to bare much serious ill will. I feel like Phillip Fulmer could start out kidnapping a courageous animated dog in an opening scene only to learn some sort of valuable lesson in the end and celebrate with donuts for everyone.
I don’t hate poor clock management as much as I hate falling for the “draw them offsides hardcount” when no play is called. Conversely, I love it when that works.
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