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The Georgia vs. Ole Miss game wasn't televised, and you wouldn't learn anything from reading the box score.
Georgia's offense started off pretty strong after a jittery first drive. We put up around 280 yards of offense in the first half, and landed 17 first half points. But the first half story was the defense. Georgia was gashed for 2 quarters and 9 minutes of the third quarter by the Ole Miss offense. (Image: Hipple)
In fairness, the Ole Miss offensive line is positively massive. For all the Rebels' problems (and there are many), beef and strength along the Oline isn't one of them. When the second half started with a nine minute, 18-play drive touchdown drive from the Rebels, things looked a bit troublesome. However, as the Rebels tied the game 17-17 on that lengthy drive, the entire Bulldog team woke up and brought out the whooping stick.
From that moment, Georgia outscored the Rebels 28-0. During the next quarter and a half, Georgia converted an onside kickoff, heavily pursued a punt block, showed flashes of domination along the left side of our offensive line, ran the ball for a country mile and completely shut down the Ole Miss offense.
Were the Dawgs flat initially? Well, the offense sure wasn't.
Other thoughts:
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-- Mikey Henderson made a shoe string tackle in the open field on a punt return attempt that was positively brilliant.
-- Thomas Friggin' Brown ran buck wild. You can read about that in any of the papers.
-- Booing Chandler: If you boo your own college football players, you're an asshole. There's no ifs, ands or butts. You are complete and total douche.
-- One theory on the onside kickoff came from ScenicCityDawg. He theorized that the two blocked kicks last year vs. Ole Miss really pissed Coach Fabris off. Fabris, a former Ole Miss player, dug deep into his bag of tricks for this one to settle the score after our special teams looked anything but special last year.
-- That said...our kickoff coverage still mostly blows. We regressed after tremendous progress in the Alabama game.
See Also:
-- DawgSports recap - Kyle King
-- A Sunburnt Saturday -- Get the Picture
-- Richt's Sunday Teleconference - Ching
-- Most Retarded Fan Moment in 7 Years - GSB from 2006
PWD
52 comments:
Booing your own players is never ok... It's unnecessary, unintelligent, unproductive, unacceptable, and probably a bunch of other un-words. It looks terrible for recruits at the game and reflects poorly on our fan base. When a player messes up, he knows it, the team knows it, and the coaches know it. They are the correct ones to take care of the situation, not a bunch of Saturday afternoon quarterbacks. I don't care how much football you played in high school, Uncle Rico, stop booing.
That's a lot of commas.
yeah, the booing was seriously bad. I was in the student section and when it happened, my friend and I just looked at each other completely shocked because it was overwhelmingly loud. I couldn't believe it.
I don't agree with the booing either, but I also don't agree with sanctimonious blogging/commenting about it either.
Herewith, a non-booing comment:
I am not too sure the defense came out flat. As CMR has rightly observed, "Ole Miss has run up yardage on everyone." UF included, specifically. My own $.02 about this is that Ole Miss is pretty good team, but they have no depth. We just wore them down. We had fresher legs in the second half than they did.
Booing happens. Everywhere.
I wasn't there, was there a specific player that was booed in this game. I know Tripp was in a earlier game, but was he in this game also? I know when he finally caught a ball, there was a loud round of applause (if not a sarcarstic one).
If you can praise a player for playing well, then you can boo him for playing poorly. Why has it come to the point that we have to stop chastising someone for doing wrong. Mistakes happen but that does not mean that we, as fans who are yelling and screaming praises for our team, have to prevent ourselves from saying anything when the mistakes occur.
You can't have it both ways. You can't reinforce a person positively after a good play and then not reinforce them in anyway after a bad one. The fact that we refer to them as good and bad has both positive and negative connotations.
Granted, the extent of booing, when it comes to those people who are screaming, "you suck. take him out...*explitive*, *explitive*" is ridiculous, can sometime get out of hand. However, regardless of it being negative reinforcement it is still reinforcement. People feed off that negativity and want to do better.
I have no problem with the booing as long as the praise is there for playing well.
I know you may disagree by saying well these are just kids and they are trying to play a game. If this is true then why do you, sports fan base, spend so much time and energy praising and obsessing about a game. The blog world spends countless hours writing about a game that is played by these "kids." We make fun of the opposing teams coaches and chastise the playing of team members after the fact in the blog world. While I appreciate the hard work of the blog world in giving me a heads up on the UGA football and other sports teams, there is a sliver of hypocracy which creeps in when I am chastised for booing a player or play-call or something along those lines.
I'm with dawgphan42 on this one.
What I've not heard from those who don't boo (or get mad at others who do), what is your response when you see something that is consistently not up to par on the field?
Do you say nothing? Do you cheer anyway?
From what I saw on Saturday, they booed the consistent drops by TC and then gave him a heartfelt cheer when he caught the next few. At first I thought it was sarcastic, but it was legit.
I'm not sure there is anything you can do to change people's reactions to what they see.
Go Dawgs!!
Go to a Falcons game and boo the millionaires all you want.
It is your right as an American to be a jerk, so of course you can boo college kids all you want. But you are a jerk.
And no, you don't have to cheer failure. You can yell "aarrgh" "c'mon, Chandler, catch the ball!" or whatever you want. A rumble of discontent will fill the stadium. Your frustration as a fan has been voiced. Just don't boo.
The idea of college football is that there is a bond between the players and fans, who, for the most part, attend or attended the same school. It is not the NFL, with gladiators who happen to be on "our" payroll this year. That's why you boo pros and not college kids.
There is no way in HELL that Booing EVER makes players "feed off that negativity and want to do better." What a complete, steaming pile of horse crap.
You don't think they realize they messed up? The negative ramifications of booing players GREATLY outweigh any minuscule benefit that may occur.
Booing is just emotional masturbation for the Boo-er. It's a complete and total selfish act.
I'm sure you praise your children when they do well at sporting events. Do you boo them as well when they screw up?
When they drop a pass or do something stupid, I groan. The Sanford Groan is plenty.
They have coaches to tell them when they're sucking hind teet.
If you want to boo, be a Falcons fan. You'll have plenty to boo about.
After his 1st drop of the game he should of been taken out. Its really getting old to watch him drop the ball every game. I think its in his head now and this will continue the entire season. I hope Ward or Figgins step up soon. And to complain about the booing is stupid. Its not the first time it has happened and it will happen again.
anon 9:29 - this idea of cheering and booing as positive & negative reinforcement is a load of crap! Who says it's your job to positively or negatively reinforce behavior in players? Who says cheering for a player is positive reinforcement?
As fans we cheer to say thanks and because we love seeing a great play. We're not psychologists damnit!
Let the coaches do their jobs and worry about how to coach the KIDS.
You just do your job as a FAN and support your team. This means you keep your booing to yourself, behave with a little class and intelligence, or don't come to Sanford at all!
"After his 1st drop of the game he should of been taken out."
No kidding.
"And to complain about the booing is stupid. Its not the first time it has happened and it will happen again."
By that same logic, you shouldn't boo. He'll drop another pass so why should you complain about it.
Don't boo the kids. MoMass had to go through it last year. It only makes a situation where a player already has drops in his head worse.
As far as benching Chandler goes-- there are other things a tight end has to do. The coaches are going to play who they believe gives them the best chance to win. Chandler made some good blocks on Saturday.
I was glad to see him make a couple of catches too. Hope he can get his confidence back.
Where's Mike Gundy when you need him!
In no situation should a home crowd boo it's team. These kids bust their butts 365 to play on Saturday between the hedges and they get booed for a couple of mistakes. How would like your co-workers booing your ass because you had a couple of mistakes on your weekly report or whatever.
I agree with PWD. What if Tripp was your son or brother. Would you boo him then?
I'm amazed we got a commitment this weekend albeit by a running back. Why would a TE or WR want to come play some where they are going to get booed for dropping a couple of passes.
Grumble, groan or bitch to your buddies about the dropped passes but have some class and refrain from booing our players.
If you can praise a player for playing well, then you can boo him for playing poorly. Why has it come to the point that we have to stop chastising someone for doing wrong.
It should be no surprise most of the commenters who believe it is ok to boo amateur athletes of a team you support post anonymously. Booing a Georgia player is pathetic--like somehow booing a kid who spends more time practicing than most people spend at their job is analogous to rearing a child.
Tripp Chandler drops too many passes. Whose fault is that? At this point it is mainly on the shoulders of the coach who keeps putting him in the game. Boo Coach Johnson. Or sit in stony silence when Tripp drops another first down. Whatever. But act like a grown ass man and don't boo a college kid who makes a mistake.
There were plenty of times I wanted to boo Dan Inman for his umpteenth false start and/or holding call. Suck it up. Douche bags boo their own team.
If you boo your own players, that's a pretty good sign that your fanaticism is reaching an inappropriate level. UGA football, the tailgating, supporting the team and university, etc. should always be about fun and the reunion with family and friends who are fellow Dawgs. Winning is always great. But it's not the be all, end all of anything really important.
At the end of the day if someone drops a pass or misses a tackle, it's not going to effect my mortgage. It's not going to effect the safety and welfare of those I love. And it's not going to change national and world events. You know, the really important stuff.
Grumble if you must. But keep it to yourself, because you don't know who you might be sitting near. And whatever you do, don't boo. If you just can't help yourself, it's probably time to find a new hobby.
I love how everyone who thinks booing is okay won't use their name. Saturday's crowd was reminescent of last year's Vandy game. It's not often that Georgia "fans" annoy me (being one myself), but this week was one of those special weeks. A couple of guys behind me were talking before the game about how Richt is "predictable" on offense (they must not have heard that Bobo calls the plays now), and how we haven't had a good running back since Hearst. I rolled my eyes and continued watching the pregame. After one possession (a quick 3-and-out), with 50-plus minutes left in the game), they pipe up again with naysayings about how we "...cain't do nuthin'". These clowns were the only ones booing when Tripp dropped that easy pass, and never bothered to cheer when he came up big in the second half. I refused to acknowledge their begging people to give them a high-five when we'd score or make a big play and rolled my eyes again when they talked about how good the seats were and that they were going to "call the school" to see if they could "buy these seats for next year". Don't misunderstand me, I think every Georgia fan should have an opportunity to go to some games, but please act like you've been somewhere, and wear some red for Pete's sake. Booing your own player at a college sporting event is the equivalent of booing at the Olympic athletes who don't win. It's unnessecary and classless.
Sorry to complain.
Just so I get it clear, we can boo the opposing team and their players but not our own.
We can grumble because of missed assignments and poor play-calling but not boo.
We can complain to our friends and fellow UGA compatriots about the poor execution of a player but not boo.
We can gripe and curse and beg for people to be taken out or fired from their jobs but not boo.
We can want to boo, have some emotional build up, but refuse to let it out. In other words keep our emotional juices to ourselves.
We can support our team by praising them and support them by communicate negative messages about their lack of effort or play-calling ability just as long as we boo.
I am glad I understand because I was unable to see the fine line between socially acceptable behavior and socially unacceptable behavior.
I can do anything just as long as I don't boo, well anything within reason.
It may be a fine line but it is a line.
THE FANS AREN'T BOOING CHANDLER.
THE FANS ARE BOOING COACH RICHT AND CHANDLER'S POSITION COACH FOR PUTTING CHANDLER IN THE GAME.
THERE'S A BIG DAM DIFFERENCE.
So how good are Boling and Sturdivant going to be? Wow.
Oh and FWIW, I have no problem with booing so long as it isn't supplemented with personal attacks.
Hey Anon @ 10/01/2007 12:01 PM: If people were booing the coaches for putting Chandler in the game, why didn't people boo at the beginning of the play when the offense broke the huddle with Chandler in the game?
Sure you don't believe all those fans who booed Chandler were merely riffing on the more subtle message of personnel selection, immediately after Chandler dropped another catch.
Pinhead.
I am glad I understand because I was unable to see the fine line between socially acceptable behavior and socially unacceptable behavior.
You are mischaracterizing the argument. It's not that it's socially unacceptable... In fact, it's quite the opposite, apparently. But it is completely and utterly pointless.
What positive result comes from booing a UGA player?
It definitely does some negative things for the team.
As a reminder -- It's one thing to use mild basic profanity on this site.
But under no circumstances am I intentionally leaving MF, GD or the C word on this site in the comments section.
My parents read this thing.
PWD
I am absolutely opposed to booing.
I think the Sanford Groan will suffice in every circumstance.
Anon 11:44 Your amazement, feigned or genuine, that one might feel emotions, even frustration, and that that not every way of instantly acting out in response to these emotions is the way grown men should behave in public tells anyone all they need to know about the emotional maturity of the people who boo.
Obviously for many people football Sturdays are an excuse to return to their younger days, not college but more like preschool. Grow up, sonny.
Paul,
I sincerely apologize. It was wrong and will never happen again. Suffice it to say that I support your argument that booing is never acceptable.
Keep up the good work.
GD really? I can see the other two, but GD is pretty bland.
No offense. But you run your web site your way. I'll run mine my way.
I curse WAY too much in real life. Even I don't say GD
God has better things to do.
I will admit, I was one of many on Saturday who did not boo, but rather screamed in a furious rage whenever I saw Chandler in the lineup. First off, I never boo, because when I'm angry, I find it hard to make this sound similar to cows rather than just yell.
Secondly, it is entirely plausible people were not just booing the player, but the coaches as well, considering that was what my problem was. Why was this problem player from last week back to haunt again? And why were so many passing plays set up to make him a receiver when we know this is a problem lately?
I thought we probably could have scored on our first drive if that one potential first-down pass had been completed to Chandler. Instead, the terrible drop, and we were in a 7 point hole to start off.
I agree that booing doesn't really do anyone any good, but I wouldn't go as far as saying anyone who does it is an expletive here or there. I can perfectly understand peoples' frustration.
On a second note, I remembered seeing a quote from Chandler (I think it may have been an AJC story), and his response to hearing the crowd boo him was basically that it wasn't cool, and he said, ""I guess that's why if you asked the guys on the team, they'd tell you we don't play for the fans, we play for each other. We're the ones working hard every day."
In my opinion, this isn't a good response to criticism for poor play. I can understand QB Matt Stafford's support of Chandler, because that was a genuine teammate's support and defending a friend. But for Chandler to basically say, "Hey, you have no right to boo because I'm out here working hard" (even though he's getting his school paid for not to mention all the other benefits of being a college player), this was a bad move, and not respectable in my opinion. I recall Joe Tereshinski last year, when he played poorly and was replaced, he was quoted as telling Mark Richt that he wanted to help the team in any way he could, and he understood his demotion and replacement. Too bad Chandler couldn't just realize that he's bringing the team down, maybe let our other TE's have a shot at it. And Richt has much confidence in his experienced players, but sometimes I think that confidence no-turning-back attitude can bring the team down.
Nevertheless, I'm glad Chandler ended up catching a couple of balls in the end, and luckily his earlier foibles didn't hurt the team much.
The people that boo are one's that have never played a sport in their lives. You've got to be a real classless jerk to sit up in the stands and boo a college kid that makes a mistake.
If anything, booing makes the situation worse for the player. If they are dropping passes, they know they need to do better. Booing them is just going to make them think about it even more and it will increase the likelihood of it happening again.
This is college football, if you want to boo, go watch pro, or Notre Dame.
Am I wrong to assume that the reason Chandler is playing is because he is the best at that position that we have?
Why put another player in who is not as good as Chandler?
If shitty is all you have then shittier does not help the situation does it?
Duly Noted
Let me get this out in the open. I booed. I even wrote the anonymous quote on 9:29 am. It was anonymous because I was at a public computer and did not want to log on with personal and password information.
Booing is a situation where one wants to express his disappointment over a certain event. Let me explain. Would I boo Chandler for simply dropping a pass? No. But over the course of the season his dropped passes has been the cause of much frustration. I boo because I want to let him know that he needs to get his act together. I am not there on the sidelines to "get in his face" and express my dissatisfaction with his performance. Neither am I able to get CMR or CWM in a private room and let them know exactly what makes me disappointed.
So, I boo. I also yell, scream and praise when the situations call for it. I am one of the few who stands throughout the game "making noise" trying to cause Sanford stadium to be a place where no one wants to come and play.
I was a two year letterman in football and one year in wrestling in high school. I played rugby for 4 years while at the United States Military Academy. I have served my country when it needed it the most. My soldiers knew that I get in their face when they make mistakes but they also know that I am more than willing to be there to praise them when they need it the most.
The argument about booing was two fold in that it focused on a general mindset as well as a specific one. The general mindset is that it is a fact of life that we have to learn that our mistakes not only affect our lives but the lives of our team and the community to which we belong. The specific mindset should be that because of repeated and seemingly unadjusted bad behavior on the part of community member booing should at the very least be expected.
There is no reason to simply split hairs over some peoples "emotional masterbation." Lets remember that we all have said that we bleed red and black. Even though people boo does not mean they have a categorically bad attitude toward players in general. Life is hard and people boo you all the time. It is about time we learn that we can teach people how to deal with the booing in life or let them grow up sheltered and be shocked the first time they hear it.
A. I appreciate your service to our country. And I mean that.
B. I find it interesting that you don't appreciate personal attacks on a message board or blog aimed at someone whom I don't know. Yet, you're willing to stand at a distance and boo a player.
I find that really interesting.
Rhymerdawg,
You wrote, "I boo because I want to let him know that he needs to get his act together."
You have got to be kidding. That rationalization suggests that Chandler and the coaches didn't know Chandler was underperforming until you were so gracious to let them know that you found the drops unacceptable.
No offense intended, but neither Chandler nor the coaches need some internet font or some anonymous ticketholder to approve or disapprove of the performance.
The kid is more displeased with teh drops than you are. He is the one who put up with mat drills and two a day practices in summer heat in order to get on the field. He is the one hoping to impress NFL scouts so he can move to the next level. You booing to "let him know that he needs to get his act together" contributes nothing to improve his level of desire or his awareness of the consequences of dropping passes.
If you intended to show Richt and Coach Johnson that "[H]e needs to get his act together," then you have really passed from the realm of fandom into fantasy.
Richt and Johnson saw the damn drops. They had to coach around the damn drops. Richt makes what, 2 million a year? It is his ass on the line if the team doesn't succeed, not yours. Even more so as to Coach Johnson. Richt could probably resign tomorrow and never have to work again. Coach Johnson is still trying to build his career. He caoches Chandler's position, and if the TEs do not perform it affects his ability to move up the ladder. Why in the name of all that is good do Richt and Johnson not fully understand the significance of the drops without you booing? Your boos do not create insight on Richt and Johnson's part that would not have existed had you kept your mouth shut.
You reference that you are a USMA grad and your men know that you praise them when they need it and criticize when they don't. Guess what? These players are not your men, you are not leading them and you are not mentoring them. Instead, you booing is more like me standing watching you lead your men and booing because "I want to let [you] know that [you] need[] to get [your] act together." If I did that you would rightly challenge me.
I felt that your boos did not help you iota. Did your boos hurt? Could be. I don't know if you play golf, but ever have the "yips" when putting? The worst thing you could do when addressing a putt is to think, "I'd better not screw up." The worst your partner in the nassau could do is say, "Rhymerdawg, we are playing for money and you have not putted worth a damn. I demand that you need to get your act together."
Sometimes a player has to stop pressing and trust the skills that got him on the first string of an SEC team.
"I want to let him know that he needs to get his act together." I can't believe the ego in that suggestion that without you booing Richt, Johnson and Chandler would be satified with drips.
The military analogy would be having a pacifist standing on the sidelines of the war in Iraq telling your men how to fight the insurgents...in person...while they are getting shot at.
Some arm chair general has no business doing that.
As for the military / this isn't war / please don't be over dramatic aspect of this. He brought his military background into this. Not me.
And I too am glad he fought for our country.
Despite my my rather assholish comments on this board, I would like to credit pwd and his article last year on MoMass (Most Retarded Fan Moment Ever) with converting me from booing asshole to just a regular old asshole.
Maybe if I ran my website your way people would actually read it.
I certainly appreciate your comments. I have decided that yes I am a hypocrite and an a**hole.
I certainly apprecite the time you have taken to address my argument one by one and show me that my analogy was incongruent.
I had reasoned my behavior to be acceptable simply because I was selfcentered.
You are correct I am the spectator. I need to realize that my actions in no way affect anything that happens on the field of play, well, besides "making some noise" when the dawgs are on defense.
It can be refreshing sometimes to see the pinnacle of one's mistakes.
Thank you so much for your desire not to "boo" me but correct me in the proper fashion.
I've got to wonder if one of the pro-booing anonymi above was also the anonymous who left repeated rants on David Ching's blog last season insisting that Joe Tereshinski should be booed, heckled, and insulted at every available opportunity because it would make Stafford the starter that much faster.
One would have to be completely delusional to think that booing has one iota of influence on what Richt or Bobo do on the sideline. The jump from "Booing will make the team better" to "E-mailing Terrence Edwards a death threat after the '02 Florida game will convince him to shape up and keep his eye on the damn ball" is not as far as you think.
Good Point Doug. Having grown up with Robert & Terrence in Tennille, I got to know their parents pretty well. Siting right behind them in Jacksonville that night was a scene I won't soon forget. Mrs. Edwards got so upset about the things people were yelling at Terrence that she dang near had a heart attack in the stands as the game was finishing. We had to get medical personnel in there stat to get her out.
I'm just glad Robert wasn't there, because he'd probably be in jail for murder for killing a few of those jerks with his bare hands. We almost got in 3 fights ourselves with the morons who were spouting off at the mouth. Lot of artificial courage in the stands that night. Worst part was, when Terrence came out of the locker room to check on her, those morons were trying to talk to him like he was their buddy.
So try to remember this - you can groan all you want and even boo a little if you think you have to (I disagree)- but you never know who you are sitting around & how it will affect them. Those guys in Jacksonville have (had) no idea how lucky they were that night to get out of there with nothing broken.
Doug,
According to Ching, Chandler has received some threats in emails from several idiots. I would assume that the threats are empty, but they are still moronic.
Ching also reports that several MySpace pages have been created to pile on Chandler. That is unbelievable.
We all need to pick Chandler up because I guarantee you we will need him if we are going to make a run for the East. His blocking is superb and he has the ability to make plays catching the ball. I hope the worst is behind him now.
Mo Mass saved us in the Tech game last year. Now he has been automatic this year. Not because of the booing, in spite of it. Here is to hoping Chandler does the same.
Go Dawgs!
PWD - the booing gets more and more embarrassing every year. This is not a NY Giants game. I hear it is part of society today, but I am not so sure that is true. Do Nebraska fans boo their players? Do Penn St fans boo their players?
I think most boo out of ingnorance. They see other fools doing it so they follow. They don't realize how foolish they look. I remember booing playcalling when I was younger and later realized how ignorant I was.
....now booing a player? If these folks would have themselves filmed while doing it, and realized what those around them said about them, they would probably stop.....but it didn't stop me from yaw, yaw, yawing my way through the 4th qtr...lol.
Scenic
Who "Boos" people? The whole booing process reminds me of Bob Knight making fun of the phrase "Put your game face on." What the hell is a "game face" and what the hell is a "boo"? Do you people realize how retarded you look and sound?
I get as frustrated as anyone about stupid plays and mistakes. And I was at home yelling at the TV, "Why do they keep throwing to him? Playing him? etc." But I realize that if you have a blocking TE and a receiving TE, you tip your hand and lose the X-factor that the TE position has.
But as was noted a while back, there are recruits in the stands and the last thing they need to hear is a booing fanbase.
When I am playing team sports my policy is to be hard on myself and encourage and praise others.
Leaving booing for the Falcons & Mets fans.
How bout that Dodge Co. Indian, Calvin Daniels?
That's a Dawg that deserves some praise.
As for the booing--I hoped all those jerks had jumped off the bandwagon after the UK game last year. Guess not.
this blogger says it best
http://kitkitchens.blogspot.com/2007/10/list.html
At the western carolina game i moved from the student section to my friend's family seats to say hello to his parents. It was late in the fourth quarter when (we did not even know who he was at the time) Kalvin Daniels entered the game when Cox came in to QB. Little did we know but in the row directly in front of us was his mother, aunt, and one of their family friends to see him play in Sanford for the first time as a walk on. When my friend and I asked who that was they introduced themselves. Kalvin rattled off a few nice runs to end the game.
I am definitely not someone who boos but after reading a previous post about someone who knew the Edwards family and going to games with them I can't believe what that must be like had I started to boo if he did something bad.
Now of course I vent my verbal dissatisfaction if I see something I don't like (ANYONE dropping good passes, bad tackling, fundamental basic stuff, etc.) but I don't boo. I don't think it looks good especially if we are trying to recruit.
I think if Chandler was not as good of a player that he is it might be a bit more warranted (but still no booing) but he blocks and pancakes opposing teams LBs all day (watch the replays of our games on CSS, he's a beast)
In the end, I am absolutely opposed to booing. And as someone said earlier, "I think the Sanford Groan will suffice in every circumstance"
Not to pile on the post but my own personal opinion has nothing to do with crap like paid vs. pro players or the feelings of those involved.
Don't boo players. As fans, there's very little we can do to affect the outcome of the game. Our only real ability to directly affect the game is to make the stadium as inhospitable as possible to opposing teams. On the one hand, Georgia fans are complaining about our home record but on the other we're booing our own players and half the stadium sits the entire game. We can't make Chandler catch the ball but we can make the stadium quite a bit more intimidating. And booing players sends a message to the other team that we're not so intimidating if we're acting the same way towards one of our own as we would with them.
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