h/t Mac
If you ask me, the stat that encapsulates the horrendous tragedy that was Saturday night the best is the average yards per pass attempt. Sure the rushing game never got started and wasn't able to have the impact we were expecting/hoping. But we only averaged 3.5 yards per attempt, one week after lighting up Tennessee's defense to the tune of 11.0 ypa. It explains how we were never able to slow down the Gamecock pass rush and were never able to stretch the field through the air. And most importantly, our coaches never really attempted to adjust to anything that was transpiring on the field.
In short, our dynamic and high powered offense was reduced to a blundering mess. Our defense continued its descent into a regression towards 2009. Our special teams yet again affected the game in a not so special way.
Now the truly hard part. There's no easy way to say this. At the end of the massacre I tried to say it Saturday night, but perhaps the point was lost. There's truth to the argument that Sanford Stadium can get loud, rowdy and boisterous. Auburn last season is a recent example of an electrified Bulldog crowd fully engaged and doing everything they can from their seat.
But folks, Sanford ain't got what Williams-Brice has going on. Sure, their stadium is a mess of metal closer to a fairground than the campus. Their new video board is crap. But their fans are fully engaged and participate at a level Sanford can only dream about. The Gamecock team played with a hunger that their fans fully embraced and put on display for over three hours.
To call for a coach's head takes less than one breath. To egg a house takes only an elementary education and some drunken aim. To boo your own team takes even less. Whether you watch the game on television or from a seat in Sanford...whether you love the coach or wish he was gone...are you doing everything you can to support the team? Are you leading by example, or just following the miserable masses?
Maybe that sounds as if I'm calling out my own people. But I won't you to understand that I'm starting with me when I ask all of us to answer one question: How committed to the G are we?
In short, our dynamic and high powered offense was reduced to a blundering mess. Our defense continued its descent into a regression towards 2009. Our special teams yet again affected the game in a not so special way.
Now the truly hard part. There's no easy way to say this. At the end of the massacre I tried to say it Saturday night, but perhaps the point was lost. There's truth to the argument that Sanford Stadium can get loud, rowdy and boisterous. Auburn last season is a recent example of an electrified Bulldog crowd fully engaged and doing everything they can from their seat.
But folks, Sanford ain't got what Williams-Brice has going on. Sure, their stadium is a mess of metal closer to a fairground than the campus. Their new video board is crap. But their fans are fully engaged and participate at a level Sanford can only dream about. The Gamecock team played with a hunger that their fans fully embraced and put on display for over three hours.
To call for a coach's head takes less than one breath. To egg a house takes only an elementary education and some drunken aim. To boo your own team takes even less. Whether you watch the game on television or from a seat in Sanford...whether you love the coach or wish he was gone...are you doing everything you can to support the team? Are you leading by example, or just following the miserable masses?
Maybe that sounds as if I'm calling out my own people. But I won't you to understand that I'm starting with me when I ask all of us to answer one question: How committed to the G are we?
7 comments:
The actual truth is that regardless of how the team did in one game, we are still very much alive in the SEC. Even if SC beats LSU this week, they still must beat Florida and Tennessee. Further, I can see a 3-way tie happening this year, and then the busted BCS would pick the SEC East. Florida over SC, and Georgia over Florida, with no other losses, then who goes to the dance? It depends on momentum. Undoubtedly, the huge loss to SC would keep pollsters from putting us on top of SC. So Geaux Tigers.
Good try, my man, but so many people think that just being a Dawg fan somehow ENTITLED to something, just for buying a couple of red shirts, a fifth of bourbon, and a tailgating tent with a G on it. That's not how it works. We can dig up Bear Bryant, but if he has to coach under the same rules and conditions that CMR does and guys like Spurrier and Saban can pretty much run things like little fifedoms (Just think how long Spurrier's last QB would've lasted at UGA and yet that kid never missed a game because of any of it), then they won't get any further. A lot of folks just want blood. I get it. I was sick Saturday, but probably not as sick as I was Sunday seeing the story about the eggs and TP and how some folks reacted.
It's hard to get behind a mediocre product, that's all. With our resources, fertile recruiting grounds, etc. we should be on the level of the elite SEC programs but instead we find ourselves the third best team in the East. Once again we are victims to the failures of our program, same old thing year after year under Richt. I am "committed to the G" as much as anyone but I am not going to blindly support mediocrity like so many Georgia fans do these days. Hell, SC might win a National Title this year. That's head coaching, nothing else.
My questions is. How stupid are we? We have young men like Christian Robinson and Aaron Murray who are committed to the G and have given their heart to this program. They are both class acts and people respond to them with eggs and TP. That is heartless. Sure some players have been in trouble but these 2 as far as I know have never been in trouble at UGA. Rules at UGA are stricter than they are at other schools and I wouldn't want it any other way. The players who were suspended would have not missed a game at schools like SC. You probably wouldn't have known it even happened. It happens everywhere but you don't hear about it because it's not "against the rules" there. I'm just as sick as anyone else on the fact we got our butt's kicked but i'm more sick at how we responded. As for the stadium environment though I wasn't at the game I could feel it at home. There are way too many fans who haven't contributed one dime to the athletic department who think they run the program.
"There are way too many fans who haven't contributed one dime to the athletic department who think they run the program."
Preach it, brother.
The actual truth is that regardless of how the team did in one game, we are still very much alive in the SEC. Even if SC beats LSU this week, they still must beat Florida and Tennessee. Further, I can see a 3-way tie happening this year, and then the busted BCS would pick the SEC East. Florida over SC, and Georgia over Florida, with no other losses, then who goes to the dance? It depends on momentum. Undoubtedly, the huge loss to SC would keep pollsters from putting us on top of SC. So Geaux Tigers.
Well said all of you.....Losses are hard to swallow but for fans to take it out on the players is horrible. How many of the those fans really analyzed our team or just bought into the media hype? We have a green O line, a D that lost to 4 top ten teams last year and 2 freshman tailbacks. We got exposed, let's move on, learn and beat UF, AU and GT. Who knows a berth in the sec champ game is still possible, so move on.
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