The following appeared in my comments area. It's amazing. And very long. But worth the read. I only wish that the author had written their name! He starts in 1892 and ends in 2005! To his post, I only say:
Post is below.
You would be hard pressed to deny that These are The Good Ole Days now, PaulWesterDawg.
The 40-4-1 Recruiting Class of 1941 was truly the beginning of This BuLLdawg Football Program, and the 1983 Class that went 43-4-1 was even better, but our 26 Seniors on the Team last season went 44-9 and that certainly is better than the Senior Class the year before of David Pollack and David Greene that went 42-10.
Putting history into perspective, UGA has 6 National Championships in Football listed in the NCAA 1-A Official Football Records Book, and now with the 2 of the last 4 have 12 SEC Championships, one less than the vols for 2nd place.
Starting 1997, only Florida State and Georgia have been ranked in every Final AP Poll these 9 years and both have 87 Wins. Georgia's 87-27 starting 1997 also includes a strong run of sending players into the NFL that Rodney Garner is our Recruiting Coordinator for, and he also is an Auburn graduate. In fact, he was All-SEC there as Nose Guard for SEC Champions Auburn.
But, it is not just only Rodney Garner who signaled the return to Glory for The Bulldogs, for it is this little 8-Year $19.2 million dollar contract, with incentives, that continues this Coach Mark Richt Era for The BuLLdawg Nation. Never before in our history have the recruiting analysts stated that Georgia has averaged a ranking in the two Primary WebPages ranking recruiting averages that combined have made Georgia Bulldogs' Recruiting the # 5.8 Best Average in the Nation for these last 5 recruiting classes.
# 3 in 2002
# 6 in 2003
# 6 in 2004
# 10 in 2005
# 4 in 2006
We went 19 years of not winning the SEC Championship before the Coach Mark Richt Era ended it right there.
Of these 9 years of 87-27 starting 1997, Georgia has Won 7 of the 9 Bowl Games, have owned Tennessee and humiliated Georgia Tech as well.
Tennessee, in the meantime, has now gone half of the last half a dozen years, not even ranked in the Final AP Polls. That is 3 of the last 6 years not ranked for the vols.
And, Georgia Tech is on Probation in Football for the next complete entire two full years.
Florida, in the meantime, has had 5-Loss Years every season after Steve Superior bolted for the Washington Redskins after the 2001 season.
2002-2003 Crocodiles had 5 Losses
2003-2004 Crocodiles had 5 Losses
2004-2005 Crocodiles had 5 Losses
And, now last season, 2005-2006, Urban Cryer had 4 Losses.
And, while those are all great runs for UGA
42-10 Class Ending 2004
40-4-1 Class Interrupted by World War II of Charley Trippi
43-4-1 Class of 1983
44-9 is quite remarkable that this perspective shared with you here now by me is required to put this all into view.
Comparing these two programs of where Coach Richt accepted this gig from December 2000 and where he is now, who are the only two Football Programs in America who have been ranked every year starting 1997, is even more profound.
21 Losses since Coach Richt accepted this gig at FSU including two ACC Championships with 5-Loss Seasons both times because specifically FSU has "replaced" Coach Richt with Jeff Bowden and done nothing at the Quarterback Position. FSU has averaged a # 17 Ranking in the Recruiting 5 Years Available to Average at both Scout.com and Rivals to Coach Richt averaging # 5.8 over these 5 years of recruiting that make up FSU's team and Georgia team, with redshirts, this up-coming season. And, # 9 Average Finish in the Final AP Poll for Coach Richt Era at UGA to # 17 Average Finish in the Final AP Poll for Bobby Bowden without Coach Richt.
Two weeks ago, UGA had 16 Bulldogs on the NFL rosters of the Playoff teams competing to play for the NFL Championship Sunday last week. NFL Championship Sunday Bulldogs on the rosters of these 4 teams numbered 10. Now, we send 5 more to the Super Bowl next weekend.
It seems to me that you are begging the question in this PaulWesterDawg Blog, are These the Glory Good Ole Days Today ?
I thought that I would clarify the perception for the fans of the nerds, criminoles, Crocodiles, and unqualified for a bowl vol fans of just where The Bulldog Nation is now today.
We have finished in the Top 10 of the Final AP Poll 4 years in a row.
We have a Head Coach in Football who left his previous employer, but not alma mater, is total disarray at Quarterback since.
And, for all the success of The Bulldogs' Football Program at # 11 All-Time in Wins, Coach Richt has certainly gotten a lot out of his Quarterbacks here as he has in his two entire decades teaching Quarterbacks. First, he took Jim Donnan's Quarterback David Greene and made him the All-Time Division 1-A Winningest Starting Quarterback. And, then he took his own recruit, DJ Shockley and taught DJ Shockley to set the All-Time Bulldogs' Record for every season of our Glorious 114-Year History with both 24 Passing Touchdowns and 28 Total Touchdowns responsible for with his 4 Rushing Touchdowns.
Indeed, these are the good times.
And, what do we face this up-coming season now ?
Doubts that Coach Richt can find a Quarterback; that is what we have as the perception of this football program on this day.
Coach Richt has Joe Tereshinski III who is certainly a # 20 Dual-Purpose Threat Quarterback he recruited, Blake Barnes a # 9 rated Quarterback, Joe Cox a # 3 rated Quarterback recruit and adds in for good measure Matthew Stafford generally considered the # 2 Best Quarterback in the Nation this season.
Oh, I think we can win 9 games next season.
9-4 is my prediction. If we could make it the SEC Championship, we could go 10-4.
We have a really good thing going on here at UGA in the Coach Richt Era.
These are the Glorious Good Ole Days for certain today, right now, at the moment, in the present day – not yesterday.
Now, a couple of Defensive Tackles who can tackle wouldn't hurt.
And, by the way, you left off that Georgia Won our 1st Football Game in 1892 over Mercer by 50 to Nothing with John Kimball and Park Howell stars for us when Georgia Tech instead LOST to Mercer and in fact, Tech lost every game in 1892, their 1st year too. Therefore, Tech hired said Park Howell and John Kimball in 1893 to beat Georgia. We stoned them in a Train where the barricaded themselves Wrecking near Lawrenceville and showing up in Atlanta AJC snapping a photograph of the Wrecked Train that rear-ended a freight train in its rush to get out of Athens and put a Caption that read Rambling Wreck Returns Home.
Nowadays, at On Probation Georgia Tech that is called a 1930 Automobile.
The Ramblin' Wreck is not an automobile but a Train.
The players during World War I at Tech were from every other school in the nation, as they stayed behind while UGA Football Coach Army General W.A. Cunningham, took our men to France and Won the War. So, this crap about World War II at Georgia Tech with their V-12 was nothing new for those cheaters. By the way, the Tech Coach in World War I who did this then too, was none other than John Heisman.
Today, they name their football stadium for a college dropout of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Bobby Dodd, who Vince Dooley never lost to, not once, and beat every game.
But, we were trying to Dump Dooley and make Erk Russell our Head Football Coach, but that is not to be confused with the fact that while 3 Yards and a Cloud of Dust was not always the most exciting play, certainly as our Football Coach and Athletics Director Vincent J. Dooley built Sanford Stadium himself. His 41 Years at UGA have clearly been defined as him being our Best Athletics Director.
3 of his Final 6 years as AD, UGA led the SEC in the Sears Directors' Cup as the Top Athletic Department in the # 1 Conference for the 22 Sports we compete in.
Vince neither wanted Jim Harrick and had narrowed the list down to the Coach at Notre Dame now, nor would go around the State Nepotism Law for Jimmy Harrick , Jr., nor would go around the Admissions Department at UGA for Tony Elasco Cole, when we already had a great Point Guard and didn't even need him.
Michael F. Adam$ gave Tony Cole the Presidential Admit, insisted that Vince hire Jim Harrick because they both worked at Pepperdine together where Adam$ was NOT the president of the 1,700 students there, and it was Adam$ who went around the Admissions Department for Tony Cole.
Have a fine day, and don't miss how Coach Richt Era continues with the recruiting Signees tomorrow morning.
How 'Bout Them Dawgs ?
9 comments:
Nice post but some of it didnt make any sense. For example, how is DJ the single season holder for TD's in our 114 year history?
I also want to point out that you can thank JDonnan for getting the Ga program to the point it was when CMR got there. Out of those last 9 years you kept talking about, Donnan had 4 and was doing a fine job considering during his 5 years at Ga 2 teams within our own division of our conference had won MNC's (UT in '98 and UF in '96) Not to mention he had SOS to deal with and when it comes to fans and recruits UF is not laughing matter, CMR has found this out the hard was as well because he cant beat UF with Zook or Meyer.
I'll repost my original comment to the Anonymous poster who left this screed earlier:
Damn Anon! You should have posted your name so you could get the props you have coming to you. Any commenter who can start in 1892, end in 2005, hit all the high points, dispense with Tech, and kick that sleazy sonofabitch Mike Adam$ in the ass as a finishing move deserves serious praise. Just damn.
how is DJ the single season holder for TD's in our 114 year history?
Oh, nevermind, total. Dont forget his passer rating, td/att, and td/int ratio is pretty d@mn good; especially considering the talent he had at reciever compared to Zeier, Greene, Carter, and Bobo.
Well i must say that yes the recruiting classes have been incredible although, i must say what are they doing with all these recruits? i mean in the past 5 years usc, texas, oklahoma have had the same recruiting and their winning championships, not losing 2 and 3 games a year!!!!! good ole' Mark has had some great teams and i'm sorry, he's just not getting the job done on a national scale. u can give me stats all day, i want championships! and not sec championships which obviously mean nothing considering we get smoked by WV and auburn was by far the best in the sec once again!!!
I love how time after time our fans forget anything between 1983 and 2001. Let's not remember that in 2002 when we won the SEC Championship you might as well have killed all of the Dawg fans on the planet and they wouldn't have known the difference because EVERYONE was in heaven on that day.
I hate to break it to you Anon (the one that wants all the Nat'l title trophies), but you aren't going to win them all every season. We didn't even have a superstar on this team and we ended up winning the conference. I'll agree that I think from top to bottom Auburn was the best team in the SEC but they didn't meet us in the dome did they? I guess that means they stumbled too...
Hmmmm.
I mean let's take a look at Mack Brown and the program he's built at Texas. They finally won a National Title but how long did we have to hear about how Mack can't beat Oklahoma and listen to the whole Burnt Orange Nation calling for his head? Now he's won a Nat'l Title and back in the good graces. Well ain't that convenient?
CMR has his offensive problems which keep us from putting lots of points on the board, which also keeps us from intimidating our opponents (see: Spurrier), which I believe keeps us from winning the truly big games (I.E. Florida), but our program is as lively as it ever has been. Now that we're FINALLY listed in the conversations about contenders like Texas, USC, and LSU I believe the titles will come. We need to gain some confidence and swagger (sp?). You can't always win those intangibles...but winning helps.
Back off and lighten up your expectations a little. If you're going to be pissed about a season where we didn't win a Nat'l Title, point to 2002 or 2003. Be proud of our boys who proved everyone wrong this year and be proud of D.J. who had to listen to guys like yourself blasting his ability and talking about how "he should be a WR anyway."
We came out flat against WV and I don't think there's a soul out there that doesn't agree, but so we lost a bowl game? Think about how many times you've got to brag for 7 months because the won the last game of the year. Now we lose one and you're upset?
We 'preciate your stay on the wagon. We'll see you next year when we're 7-0.
In regards to Mark Richt "not getting the job done on a national scale"...Are you serious?
"u can give me stats all day, i want championships!"
- Your literacy implies that you are mentally handicapped, so I won't castigate you too much. However, your logic is simply flawed. You want "championships," but SEC titles aren't enough. And now it seems SEC titles "mean nothing" because we lost the Sugar Bowl? That is simply absurd.
If you want to replace Richt, who do you want?
In regards to Donnan's assistance...Donnan was an underacheiver at UGA. He was able to recruit, but his lack of control over the program led to its demise. Go back to the 2000 team. Read down the roster. It reads like a top-caliber program, but we only won 8 games that year. While Donnan brought UGA back to relevance, he wasn't able to take the next step and take UGA to prominence. Richt accomplished that in his second year.
In regards to Donnan's assistance...Donnan was an underacheiver at UGA. He was able to recruit, but his lack of control over the program led to its demise. Go back to the 2000 team. Read down the roster. It reads like a top-caliber program, but we only won 8 games that year. While Donnan brought UGA back to relevance, he wasn't able to take the next step and take UGA to prominence. Richt accomplished that in his second year.
I don’t know if Donnan was an underachiever; that can be argued. But what he did do is take a program that was around the .500 mark for about 4-5 years and starting winning 8 games a year. He did this in a 5 year span that saw 2 of our division rivals win MNC's. His 2000 roster wasn’t only a top caliber program, but the D could have very well been a competitive NFL D. But that can only be a tribute to his recruiting, the play however was on the shoulders of the coaches cause Donnan was in control of the O, which was the problem and that roster my friend DID NOT read like a top caliber program. Yes Donnan could NOT control his guys, he didn’t have a firm grip on them like CMR does, but say what you want about him, he was instrumental in bringing the program back from where Dooley let Goff take it and I was only giving him a mention cause the Anon poster listed The Dawgs from 1997-present and left out half that coaching credit, Jim Donnan and staff (which was pretty good too for the most part!) Do I want him back? No. Do I want Dawg fans to just throw him under the bus? HeII no!
Other than totally botching the history of the Ramblin Wreck (there's a reason it's a car, and not a train dumbass), skipping all the low points in UGa's history and avoiding the fact that the 'Dawgs only have 2 MNC's that anyone even remotely recognizes it was a good post.
There's drinking the Kool-Aid, and then there's chugging the whole jug. This one was chugging the whole jug.
What do you want my name for ?
Isn't it enough that The BuLLdawgs are today one of 2 teams that have been ranked each of the last 9 years in the Final AP Poll, that we have 12 SEC Championships, that DJ Shockley yes set the season record for The BuLLdawgs at both 24 passing touchdowns (2 better than Eric Zeier both of his years) and 28 touchdowns total (with his 4 rushing touchdowns too.), that both David Greene and DJ Shockley graduated cum laude as did I from our alma mater shared (1977 BBA), that we are 87-27 (actually 87-24 with 3 nerd "wins" vacated), that the vols ended the season not ranked for the 3rd time of the last 6 years of Phfat Fil, that Florida has lost 18 games to half that number, 9, for The BuLLdawgs since Steve Spurrier quit that gig, that FSU has lost 21 games while UGA only has lost 13 since Coach Richt accepted this gig December 20th at 2 a.m. offered by Vincent J. Dooley, that Online Athens doesn't want me to post there (some Gonzaga fan sent me an e-mail he had me removed), that DJ Shockley threw 56 mph and ran 4.56 with 37 and a half inch Vertical Jump http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/9269912 at the combines yesterday, that we have such talent as is demonstrated by our # 15 Strength of Schedule last season that found our Opponents Won 77 Division 1-A games to Auburn's only winning 64, that Tech is On Probation in Football for the next entire two years, that Tech calls an Automobile from 1930 Ramblin' Wreck when it actually is a train, that we are 5th in attendance, that yes we lost to # 5 AP West Virginia falling behind as I sat down next to all those raucous West Virginia fans all of us booing Michael F. Adam$ until we were hoarse, that we beat Tech and LSU whom Auburn lost to by twice their score and by 3 touchdowns, that we have 2 of the last 4 SEC Championships, that we have averaged # 5.8 in the Rivals and Scout.com Rankings in recruiting for the 5 years' worth available at both sites generally considered the Authorities on Recruiting, that we indeed every season play a tough schedule and this up-coming season no different with even College Football News stating that we play too tough a schedule to contend while Southern Cal played last season by comparison 13 games averaging against the # 81 Total Defense (Texas 13 games vs. average # 56 Total Defense and UGA averaging against the # 27 Total Defense), that we are expected to have problems this season because Coach Richt has no QB with what he has for two entire decades gotten out of his QBs including especially David Greene and now this last season DJ Shockley, that the year before all we could talk about was David Greene (David Pollack played all 52 games too) winning 42 and losing 10 without discussing that this past season these seniors were in fact 44-9, that we have on our roster all 4 of these QBs that give Coach Richt more than any Coach in America at QB this season, that I gave credit to ClassOf52 for him being the one who said "These are the Good Ole Days now" ?
What more do you want from me ?
I tried some site called, let me look it up, probably it was DawgRun, and that there they said I had to get along with the folks in this blog here that think that DJ Shockley did not set the All-Time Season Record for UGA Quarterbacks and needed to, one of the 25 sysops there, write in html, which I then went and learned only to have them too remove me ?
I tried DawgTreasure but when his Mom passed that weekend, some nimrod from Duluth removed me – but, not before he had edited my posts and then took umbrage with them ?
I roam the Internet at places such as National Champs dot net http://www.inside99.net/cgi-bin/webbbs_config.pl?read=176266 .
At places such as Auburn's student newspaper site, The Plainsman, http://www.theplainsman.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=90630&page=0&vc=&PHPSESSID=#Post90630 blogs of Paul WesterDawg that I love, and the AJC dot com where folks adore my posts
And, you insist on knowing who I am ?
I am you.
I am BuLLdawg.
Like you.
And, these are indeed the Good Ole Days, as ClassOf51 said on OnlineAthens.com before the wusses there prefer to read garbage of HuskerNONdawg and a race car driver who can dish it out but not take it both putting down UGA and Coach Richt specifically and DJ Shockley with all their heart while they as those on this page, tell us that Georgia ain't doing well.
Excuse me ?
http://web1.ncaa.org/d1mfb/Internet/toughest%20schedule/ia_9games_past.pdf
I am you.
We are one. What else is there to really know Mr. Paul Westerdawg, except that I thought that you should have taken exception to the guy yesterday who writes blogs you responded to first about how Jim Donnan is Jimmy he called him in his good review of him with the bad news coming now today maybe – haven't been back there – don't care for negative crap on my alma mater.
Unless we deserve it.
42 NFL BuLLdawgs.
Excuse me, if Florida is a factory for the NFL, why do we have more ?
If vols NFL football factory, why do we have more ?
We play tough schedules # 15 last season was the worst ranking we have had in the last many years of # 10 or # 9 or # 11...
We are on TV every week.
Our SEC Championship Game appearance I was at that cold rainy day this season, and the Sugar Bowl at the Dome in Atlanta again I was at (And, quickly became friendly with all the West Virginia fans – what was I to do down 28-0?) to lose 35-38.
We were 10-3, and that about exactly what I said we would be, wasn't it, Mr. Bluto ?
But, thank you for the applause Paul WesterDawg; that humbles me.
Have a great day Dawgs as we count down but 6 days to Spring Practice before we go 9-4 or 10-4 if we make it the SEC Championship Game for the 4th time of the last 5 seasons in this Coach Richt Era - for THESE are the Good Ole Days.
credit ClassOf51
Anonymous - yeah, right I am Anonymous to any BuLLdawg fan ever on the Internet anywhere.
I am known for my research.
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