Beating Ole Miss Is Like Dating A Tech Cheerleader

A win is a win is a win. First and foremost, let's get that out of the way. I am glad we put up a W in the SEC win column, and got our record back to .500.

Now, even though it was an SEC win, I am not all that satisfied with what took place Saturday. I can't really put my finger on what exactly I think dissatisfied me, but I sort of equate it to the feeling of hooking up with a cheerleader from Georgia Tech.

I mean, on one hand, you are the man for scoring with a college cheerleader. But, then again, it is a TECH cheerleader, and aren't they all ugly?

We were supposed to beat Ole Miss, and we could have beaten the tar out of them, we just didn't. Winning by 4 touchdowns would have been a little closer to my goal back in college of dating a real cheerleader. A UGA cheerleader!

What Paul Johnson Needs At Tech

As I sat and watched the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets get embarrassed by a group of overachievers from the Air Force Academy last night, it reinforced to me what I already knew was going to happen when Tech hired Paul Johnson. Paul Johnson is without doubt a great football mind. I may even say that he is a great coach...at the RIGHT school.

Johnson is a niche coach who has an offensive scheme that is really hard to stop against equal competition. The problem is that Johnson, now in his third year, is consistently facing superior athletes. The guys that Johnson is able to recruit to play offense are never going to be top caliber stars. Josh Nesbitt, Jonathan Dwyer, and Bebe Thomas are guys that were already at Tech when Johnson got there, and I find it hard to believe that he is going to be able to recruit talent comparable to those guys in the future.

Why would a 4 or 5 star offensive recruit want to go to Ga Tech when he has aspirations of one day playing in the NFL? Dwyer is the prime example of a guy that thrived in Johnson's scheme at Tech, and then found out that the NFL doesn't want a guy that knows little about how to play in a pro offense.

The only way I see Johnson surviving at Tech is if he goes all out on defense. I think he should place 80% of his recruiting emphasis on getting the best recruits possible to play defense. Then, he can get the 3 star left overs that fit his style of offense. We all know what the formula of a stout running game mixed with a top notch defense can do. What do you guys think? Any Tech fans out there with comments, or are you all already done with Paul Johnson?

The UGA Facebook Diatribe

My wife is almost 4 months pregnant, and she made convinced me to stay at home and watch the UGA versus GaTech game on TV this past weekend. Instead of posting my rants on this blog as the game went on, Facebook felt the wrath of my anger and joy throughout the contest. Sunday, I found it extremely entertaining to go back and read my Facebook wall and the comments that were made by me and some of my friends. It was so interesting to re-hash my Facebook play-by-play that I thought you may enjoy a few of the quotes/comments as well.

Over half of my posts have been omitted:

Look at that white boy runnnnnnnnnnnnn! Woof Woof Woof!

Rambo bringin' the hamma!

When your QB is 7/8 for 158yds and 2 TDs...what should you do?

Wow, how do you get the ball spotted in the exact same place when you just gained 2 feet?

Shocking news Dawg fans: We throw the ball again and move it straight down the field! Murray is the MAN!

Mike Bobo, that may have been the best designed running play I have seen from UGA in 3 years!

Why do they even have instant replay in college football? What a JOKE!

If they give that fumble back to them, I am going to be LIVID!

Richt is going to get fired based on the shear fact that he is a "timeout MORON"! Someone tell him there is a whole quarter of football left in a TIGHT GAME!

Apparantly it is now legal to tackle someone by their facemask in PLAIN SIGHT!

God must have seen it too!

Conventional wisdom says to run the ball right now. REALITY says that they haven't stopped our passing game ALL DAY LONG!

Todd Grantham is NOT earning 1/12 of his $750,000 salary tonight!

Did he just miss that xtra point? YYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Sarah, if we lose this game, hide all of the sharp objects in the house!

Go for it, we can't stop them anyways!

To all of my neighbors, I am sorry for that barking incident that just occurred outside of my front door.

Is it just me, or does Josh Nesbitt look like he is 42 years old?

I could go on and on, but I do have a job to get to in the morning!

Dawgs, It's Time To Play With Your Hair On Fire

I fully expect the Dawgs to come out pissed off tonight, and handle the Yellow Jackets like we should. This year has been one of the more disappointing years in my few decades as a rabid Dawg fan.

Who even really cares about a bowl game at this point? It is my opinion that a team with 6 losses doesn't deserve to play in a bowl game anyways. Today, it's all about pride, and coming together as a Dawg team with twice, hell, THREE times that talent as the nerds!

I'm not big on making these bold predictions, mainly because of the jinx, but I say DAWGS 45 - NERDS 13!

Earn that paycheck tonight Grantham!

Piss on Georgia Tech

I happened to run across another case of the famous Pissing Uga's in my attic while digging out Christmas decorations. The Uga Statue's that I have are pictured below, except for one big difference: all I have left are in RED JERSEYS (black jersey upon request)! I will try to get some new pictures and post them with the red jersey asap. Just send an email or comment on this thread if you are interested. These things make great Christmas gifts for any Dawg fan. I have pictures somewhere of the statue peeing on a Yellow Jacket, Gator, etc.

GO DAWGS, beat the NERDS!

Coleman's Coins (Week 2)

I hope you didn't follow my advice too much last week! I played 12 coins and came away in the red. I start week 2 of the college football season at -6 coins.

Each coin = $

$
LSU
Vanderbilt
LSU -10
The Tigers looked weak last week, but Vandy is bad!

$
Georgia
SCarolina
Georgia +3
Yes, I am a homer, but the Dawgs take this one!

$$$$
GaTech
Kansas
GaTech -13.5
Really? Tech by a BUNCH!

$
FloridaSt
Oklahoma
FloridaSt +8
Sooners looked bad, Seminoles looked lights out!

$$
Auburn
MississippiSt
Auburn -2
Auburn is my sleeper in the SEC.

Is Having GaTech On The Schedule A Bad Thing?

"Is having Georgia Tech on the schedule bad?" If someone walked up to me and randomly asked me that question, I would respond with an immediate HELL NO! I look forward to that football game every year with as much anticipation as probably any game on the schedule. Granted, I am probably considered a new age Dawg fan, and I hate the Gators the most! Never-the-less, I am a card carrying member of the "Clean Old Fashioned Hate" club.

Now, when I step back and take an objective look at the question, I have a few thoughts that come to mind. Since Paul Johnson has taken over and successfully installed his triple-option offense, he brings quite a bit of chaos to the match-up. What I mean by that is how it impacts their opponents game plan. Defensive coordinators get heartburn when they think about defending against an attack like Tech throws at you, and when you have the athletes they had the past few years (Dwyer, Nesbit, Thomas, & Co.) the gut ache is made even worse.

You would be a fool to think that Grantham has not already had a thought or 100 about how he is going to use the 3-4 to stop Johnson's offense. So, the question I posed at the beginning can be answered differently when looked at it from this perspective. I think that having today's Tech team on the schedule does hurt a little bit because coaches and players are required to spend so much practice time scheming against an offense they are only going to see once during the year.

Do I want to stop playing the Nerds? HELL NO! I relish in the joy of beating them, especially in years like 2009 when the whole world thought they would dominate the Dawgs. What happened in reality is that an SEC defense proved once again that the high school offense doesn't work when the big boys are prepared for it, even when Willie Martinez is your defensive coordinator!

A Few GaTech Jokes :)

GT confirms that they have no Hostess program. Must be hard to put one together with so few women on campus.

What do you call a pretty girl on Georgia Tech's campus? A visitor.

What do tech students use for Birth Control? Their personalities.

What do you call a half-full Sanford Stadium? Georgia Tech.

A Tech student confirms that a true romance is brewing when they introduce 'that special person' to their study group at the library.

The only thing more empty than Bobby Dodd Stadium during a Tech home game is Obama's promises.

Two guys were walking down the street and one says, "Hey, I just heard a great Georgia Tech joke."
"Hold on," says the other fellow, "I went to Georgia Tech."
"Oh. Well, in that case, I''ll tell it very slowly."

Would You Rather...

...have Lane Kiffin or Steve Spurrier as your coach?
I am chastised by my close Dawgfan friends quite often when the name Spurrier comes up. I happen to like the guy (as a coach) because he is/was such an offensive genius. Sure, he can be a jackass, but the guy knows how to put up points. When he was in his prime at Florida, some of his schemes were virtually unstoppable. This is a no-brainer for me, I choose the Evil Visored Genius.

...beat Georgia Tech or Florida?
This question seems to be one that comes with varying answers, and it seems to be a generational thing. People around my age, 29, are almost 100% going to go with Florida when asked this. If you go back a generation or two, the hate towards those trade school nerds is much more deep rooted. This is most likely due to the fact that we have owned Tech over the past few decades and been owned by Florida during that same span. Either way, we all know that UGA is better!

...have Willie Martinez or Willie Wonka as your defensive coordinator?
Due to the fact that our defense played pretty well without a coordinator the last time out, I'm actually going to have to go with the Chocolate Factory Wiz Kid on this one.

...hang out with the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders or those TCU girls?
Man, this might be the toughest "Would you rather" of the day. Just because the images of this year's Fiesta Bowl are still fresh in my head, I am going to go with those beautiful Horned Frog Hunnies!

...win 10 games every year, or a National Championship every 30?
Another tough one, so I'll ride the fence on this issue. I mean, it's actually a mute point from here on since it is the Decade of the Dawg. Dawg fans are going to be able to have their cake and eat it too because both are going to be happening several times over the next decade!