Smith expected to play in opener

Whew!

"Cream or sugar with that crotch kick Mr. Sheridan?"

Had the pleasure of seeing Paul Finebaum and Danny Sheridan blabber on about nothing on ESPNs "Outside the Lines" yesterday. Basically all that Bob Ley managed to get out of them is that they are Bama alumni and that has nothing to do with the reason they are at the forefront of of the witchhunt fact finding mission...whatever this is.


A short while later, saw this:

Danny Sheridan continues to make vague, unsubstantiated claims without backing them up with proof. Contrary to his claims of having an inside source with details on the Auburn investigation, the NCAA has not provided information to Sheridan or anyone else.  As a matter of due diligence, the NCAA spoke with Sheridan this week to determine if he had any facts pertaining to the investigation. Sheridan, however, did not provide any information to the enforcement staff and certainly did not provide a name. Instead, he unsuccessfully attempted to gather information for his own use.

This might be the clumsiest game of chess I've ever seen. But Danny Boy...I believe it's your move.

"Our field is blue"

I don't know why I find videos like this amusing. I guess it's the computerized voices that cuss and say crap Idohoans would say. 


Like, "We are proven"....and "Our field is cute."

NSFW

Let's be clear

This is just plain news, not actual sports news.

A former NBA player and Georgia Tech standout has been charged with shooting a 23-year-old woman to death, Atlanta police said Friday night.

Javaris Crittenton faces a homicide charge in the death Jullian Jones, according to Carlos Campos, APD spokesman.

Let's all cut the AJC some slack. It's not like a UGA player emerged from an alley, or a recruiting assistant left the program.

Trivial Update - Just SMUrfy

#ThursdaysRTrivial ep 71 coming up right after this PSA: despite nat'l opinion, it has been confirmed that BSU broncos are just bucking idiots.


#ThursdaysRTrivial ep 71 "Go you Red Britches!" Welcome to the Twitter Twivia Show that is never stylish, but always trendsetting. REPLY back your answer for a chance at an "actual prize" this week. (Wahoo!) In '87 UGA and Clempson squared off in an "alternative" pants game, Dawgs in red and tigers in orange. In that game senior Mark Vincent grabbed his first INT as a Dawg. Where did Vincent play his first three years of college?


Is this week's episode more proof that history is destined to repeat itself? According to many 40+ year old men with fashion degrees and a DVR full of Project Runway, the Dawgs and horsies are in a clothing crisis. In news with more of a national flair, Miami has tiptoed the Death Penalty line. So what does a top notch blogger do? Tie the two together WITH a season from 24 years ago.


Folks, you just don't get this kind of crap out in Boise.


Nice read over at Garbin's spot about the history of red pants in Georgia football. In 1987 the fallout from the SMU death penalty was as real as a $.90 gallon of gas. Georgia reaped the rewards of getting Vincent. And nearly a quarter century later a blogger would use him in a trivia contest.


Only in America folks.


The stakes were high in this one as this is the first of three episodes that Skelly has agreed to provide the swag. Google was friendly to each contestant, but Matt was just a little faster with the fingers and takes home some tunes for his tailgate season. On the other hand Mike, Sean, Nama and Shan can't go home empty-handed...so they get some Eric Dickerson hair gel, circa 1982. Hey! At least it's not a mirror from Craig James' bathroom.


Thanks for playing y'all. The rest of you...Follow me! And tune in next week when things get really Smurftastic!

Not deep, but wide

Georgia's offensive line may not be the deepest, but they might be most talented unit on the team.

Georgia has had several defections/injuries to its offensive line since last season and may be short on depth, but according to the ESPN Scouts Inc. staff, the Bulldogs enter the 2011 season with two of the highest-rated NFL draft eligible offensive linemen in college football.

The Scouts Inc. guys have Ben Jones as the top-rated center in the 2012 draft and Cordy Glenn as the top-rated guard in the 2012 draft. Glenn will play left tackle for the Bulldogs this season. 

Prez Adams is growing on me?

Really? I mean, maybe. Bear with me here.


As I read more about the aftershocks down in Coral Gables...

As a result, the depth chart for Week 1 is still anyone's guess.

"We'll make sure we practice enough guys because we really don't know what the future brings," Miami coach Al Golden said. "Hopefully we'll find out pretty quickly here in the near future if there are any penalties or suspensions, and we'll adjust accordingly."

Golden said the depth chart may take until Tuesday to complete. He also said that in accordance with Atlantic Coast Conference policy, the Hurricanes will divulge their plans to the Terrapins before releasing anything publicly.

"Any projections or anything like that, all it is is speculation," Golden said.

Spence and Harris are among two of the biggest names wrapped up in the scandal -- Spence is considered by many to be Miami's best defensive player and one of the top linebackers in the ACC. Harris has played 36 games at quarterback for the Hurricanes in his first three seasons, and he's far-and-away the ACC leader among active players in passing touchdowns, yards and wins.

...the more I cringe at the thought at something similar happening in Athens. It terrifies me. Shakes me to my core. 


Setting aside sympathies for Coach Golden (which admittedly run pretty deep), it's true that most coaches are still adjusting depth charts and making starting the season opener decisions. But there's a big difference between what Miami coaches are dealing with 11 days before they play Maryland and what say, Coach Richt's staff is dealing with 9 days before the opening of the season.


Back to the beginning of this post...this just wouldn't happen under Adams. I understood his decision relating to North Campus tailgating. Didn't agree with all of the rules that hurt the rest of us, but you gotta protect one of the University's greatest attributes. And now I appreciate Adams' hands on approach to adminstration.


Now I'm sure he has aspirations of his own he's protecting as well as UGA's best interests. And he's an awkward dude to be closely aligned with to say the least. But when you get right down to it, which picture would you prefer your Alma Mater's president to pose for:

THIS...or...

THIS?!?

Head butting, with words

Whether he was pointing a finger or just protecting his own guys, your heart just has to skip a beat when Coach Grantham speaks like this:

“Not on defense,” Grantham said. “It ain’t happened on defense. When you look at the Central Florida game, I thought the guys on defense were busting their tail. Now we didn’t finish the game the way that we wanted to, but to say that those guys outworked us, that ain’t right. That didn’t happen.”

Richt's coaching staff staff as a whole hasn't been a well oiled unit in several years. Some years you can get away with that. We. Just. Haven't.


I hope the animosity is gone amongst the staff. More directly, I hope the coddling of certain members never returns. Because we do need to shed the memory of that UCF loss in Memphis. And to fully do that we're going to need coaches that are willing to not let their players take credit/blame that is undue. Whether it is because they did poorly, or because they did well. 


In the end (at least I hope) Grantham is not as much calling out a fellow coach as much as he is protecting his players who did their job.


In my mind the latter is much more important on the actual field.

Channeling their inner Battle

Yesterday's scrimmage became so wrought with turnovers, the coaches had to keep pulling mulligans out of the bag.

“It got to be interception mania for a minute,” Richt said.

Two pick sixes by Boykin. Both 1st team safeties, Williams and Commings had a pick. We haven't seen that kind of performance since Brandon Cox was slinging bullets on the plains.

When it's time to call the Dawgs

Local artist and Damn Good Dawg Scott "Skelly" Kelly has been gracious enough to share a couple tunes with us here. You may have heard them last season. If not, I'm sure you'll want to add them to your tailgate for this season. 

Take a listen:

Call the Dawgs

How Sweet it is 

Now...you can purchase them through Skelly's Facebook page where he also has two more of his originals.

Go Dawgs!