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December 2, 2007

Richt's Case

From last night:


Quinton

26 comments:

Anonymous said...

It won't matter. It's over. Favoritism and showmanship won over quality and consistency. Let's Geaux Tigers. =(

Anonymous said...

Thought Richt did a great job. But it was to no avail - coaches poll just came out and has us 4th, getting jumped by both LSU (2nd) and Oklahoma (3rd). What a joke.

Anonymous said...

wow. we're even #4 in the ESPN U fan poll or whatever that is. Wow.

Anonymous said...

That ESPN fan poll is a big steaming pile. I've never seen it stray from at least 1 of the published rankings.

JasonC said...

Aside from the whole bowl picture, in my opinion the top 3 teams in the nation (not in order) are OU, USC & UGA.

Anonymous said...

Common folks. While I am disappointed in what has traspired, UGA getting into a BCS Bowl is a big accomplishment. When has the Sugar Bowl become such bad spot to end up? Considering this was a rebuilding year, the prospect of finishing in top 3 or 4 is exciting. As far as playing Hawaii, just ask Oklahoma what it's like playing a WAC team in a BCS Bowl. Let's not take the Rainbows for granted...

Anonymous said...

Comment i tried to sent to ESPN and it didn't post so i thoug i would share it with ya'll.

I think it is unreal that espn and all these other idiots keep saying that the BCS is unbias and the best thing we have....we would be in better shape if we gave a two year old a picture book and which ever two teams he pointed to goes to the Championship game. How do you trust the AP? They are the most bias people in this world. Oklahoma was in the middle of the pack before kickoff and they beat a team that would have been beat by the "Bad News Bears!" Or maybe even the "Chicago Bears"...who knows and you put them at Number Three?? Georgia has won six games in a row and beat every team they played by 10 points or more. They beat the Media's favoite, Florida, by a land slide. They held a team to 13 points that beat LSU...in overtime...i guess that don't count because they didn't beat LSU in regulation. And they Blacked out Auburn. You can say what you want, they are the best and most consistant team in the nation now.
I would love to play for Ohio State. You play the 12 worst teams in the nations and barley beat them and espn and HERBY thinks you are GOD"S gift to football. Tell me one quality team they beat this year. LSU has been in and out all year even when they get beat by they lower teams of the SEC. They better send a thank you letter to Ainge for the two forth quarter int's or they would be in the cotton bowl in Jan.
Can we vote to have other Commentators jump Herby and the boys for game day? I didn't think so.

Will said...

Herbie is likely still smarting from what UGA did to him back in the early 90s.

C. Todd Davis said...

I just looked at the just released polls for heading into the BCS unveiling. We know that seemingly every year, someone gets screwed, but the system seems to stay together in some form because we typically have 1 to 2 dominant teams (and at least 1 ends up in the Championship game). Thus, the recipe seems to work even if the ingredients are not exactally the same from year to year, which is sort of liking figuring out a family's long, lost recipe for stuffing, sweet potato souffle, pumpkin pie, etc. Yet, at least one team (or person in the family) ends up miffed because of the way things turnout, and they always have a case.

Welcome to 2007 college football, which, from the Appalachain State's week 1 upset of Michigan in the Big House, has not been like any other college football season that we have seen in anyone's memory. Therefore, why would we have a BCS situation that wound up like any of the previous BCS years?

When we watch football games, or any sporting event for that matter, the one thing we want is consistancy in the form of officiating. If you call it one way in the 1st quarter, you call it the same way in the waining and critical moments of the 4th. I think you see where I am going with this. We can swap officials, calls, and quarters for pollsters / BCS, ranking means, and weeks to get the concept that...

Since we as college football fans (and typically the fans of 1 specific team at season's end) are going to be screwed by a flawed system, then we as fans deserve to be screwed by pollsters (and a system) that rank teams in week 2 (it's week 2 in October) in the SAME manner that they rank teams in week 14. The situation in which we find ourselves is reminiscent of life when we were KIDS for crying out loud. Pollsters, BCS people, and fans all hated that kid growing up who SUDDENLY and UNKNOWINGLY changed the rules in his favor when that kid's winning situation looked bleak in order to make sure that he won...or at least could make the loss close before he finally took the ball and went home while everyone else got pissed.

I really feel like we are in that situation...yes as a Georgia fan...as a college football fan, too. The pollsters have simply changed the way they vote for what ever reason they have...maybe to ensure that the national champion is also a conference champion, which does not have to be the case as AGREED upon by EVERYONE invovled the BCS system. Nothing is stated about conference champion in BCS 101 (rules) - http://www.collegefootballpoll.com/bcs_explained.html - so why does that argument suddenly come out now when the system is showing more flaws. Maybe to ensure that their preseason # 2 gets a shot at the title. Maybe because LSU vs OSU is sexier than UGA vs OSU. Mabye as additional repayment for the government's total botch of Katrina. Maybe the pollsters are really Cajuns. Maybe this is all about Les Miles giving ESPN great ratings for his impromptu press conference. My guess is that like all things inexplicable about the system that always screws somebody, we have we will never know...and they will decide to tweak the rules again to try to get that family recipe exactally almost right without a playoff...

No matter how you look at them, losses are losses...in regulation or overtime. Deal with it. Timing is (or used to be) everything with a loss. Now the pollsters will save those they want to save. Are the Dawgs better than LSU this year? We will never know, but the Dawgs have just as much right as ANYONE else to play for the national title. I have enjoyed what Mark Richt has stated, but you have to read between the lines to understand what he is really saying...

Richt - "When you lose a game, you are at the mercy of the BCS system."
What Richt meant - "When you lose a game, your team, your university, and your fans better be FULLY PREPARED to get totally %$*@#^! SCREWED when it really matters."

No matter how big or small the screwed helping your team gets, hopefully you can stomach your portion of another BCS helping of Mush.

Holla said...

I can't go so far as to say we're getting 'screwed.' There is an argument to be made for almost everyone. When things are this messy, it is what it is.

I think it's absurd to exclude UGA simply for not winning their conference. But I don't think it is absurd to put somebody else in. I do agree, though, that this shoots in the foot the 'standard' wisdom that you move up if people ahead of you lose. A lot of people are changing their normal voting methodology today b/c they don't 'like' what they though was going to happen. But there's no rule requiring consistency from voters, either. In the end, if you determine your champ game with a POLL, you're going to get humans doing their thing like humans do.

We need to end the Hawaii bandwagon swiftly and without mercy, though.

Anonymous said...

I just think it's funny that tOSU doesn't play and they move up in the BCS. We don't play and we stay where we are at. How does that make sense?

Anonymous said...

Wanna see how Tuberville voted:

Tommy Tuberville, Auburn

1. LSU

2. Oklahoma

3. Ohio State

4. Hawaii

5. Georgia

Jacksass

Anonymous said...

We are just real lucky that we didn't move up. Just not that good this year. Heck, if we didn't have our own officials we would have lost the GT game, and they suck. Hopefully we will get a bowl game with a team we can beat. At least we won't get embarassed in a NCG against OSU, LSU or OU.

Anonymous said...

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Have I made myself clear? And it'll be worse next year.

Anonymous said...

they aren't even talking about UGA at the beginning of this selection show. awesome.

Paige said...

They just need to get on with it. I don't care about all this crap. Just give me the selections.

Anonymous said...

I'm rooting against LSU in the national title game.

Go Ohio State.

Smitty said...

This selection show blows. Dumbo Tuberville is an ass. Wonder where he put his 8-4 team?

Anonymous said...

This Fox selection show is a freaking joke! 20 minutes and we learn that Hawaii is in the Sugar Bowl? WTF? I'm switching to basketball.

Anonymous said...

BCS based on whats been on the stupid selection show

#1 Ohio State
#2 LSU or UGA (In my wildest dreams)
#3 Oklahoma
#4 VT
#5 UGA or LSU (Never gonna happen)

So not only did we get jumped by 3 teams....but we actually lost a place in the standings for essentially no reason.

I honestly don't have a problem with OU or VT jumping because they did beat highly ranked teams fairly soundly yesterday. But LSU needed their game handed to them on a silver platter by that filthy Erik Ainge.

I hate the BCS.

Let's hang 50 on Hawaii. Go Dawgs!

Anonymous said...

Oh and another thing. Les Miles is a tool. But we knew that already.

Anonymous said...

#5. Vs. Hawaii. SIUG@DHBEHVFHBNCVUHC*U#(RU#$&HVUH*(^TGH#$IY)IF()&Y#IMTIGFU&VHE!!!!!!

blackertai said...

God, we got stuck with the boobie prize. Go to the Sugar Bowl, in a game nobody will watch, and play Hawai'i. We're suppose to win, already. If we don't, well, Georgia just isn't any good, and didn't deserve a shot at the title. If we win, well, we should have, and it was against a weak opponent. Damnit, we're getting fucked royally by the system this year.

Anonymous said...

Garbage System. No Rose. We got stuck in the Sugar against the boys from the island. The worst part is that we have more to lose than gain in this one.

Garbage!

Anonymous said...

Playing Hawaii is lose/lose. You win, great you beat Hawaii like you should. You lose, you embarras the conference. This sucks hard. Someone please explain why tOSU went from #3 to #1and we went from #4 to #5, when neither team played last weekend?

Anonymous said...

Not fair. Just not fair. *Uncontrollable sobbing* Those stupid bastards wouldn't even let us play a REAL team from the mainland.

 
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