thank you

If you are referring to Tom Osborne, he was a Congressman from the most rural district of Nebraska and then failed to beat the current Governor in the Republican primary, so not many folks in this exceedingly Red State really tried to get the man elected as Governor.
If you win a GOP primary here you are basically declared winner of the General Election before it even takes place, old Tom got tarnished for being Pro-Immigration before it was even a hot button issue here and that cost him the primary.

The UGA/ARK game is so big for so many reasons right now.

I seriously think that if the Dawgs don't pull it off there could be a seismic shift among attitudes towards current leadership. It will be subtle but it will be there.

well, I'm glad that I didn't have a chance to watch the Bearcats game...

It's already there. Enough pussyfooting and Tecmo Bowl offense. We need championship caliber play out of our players every down of every game and Richt has never been able to get that out of his immensely talented players. He can't even keep these kids out of trouble, and that's supposed to be his specialty.

All that being said... GO DAWGS!

A seismic shift and a subtle shift are two totally different things, Ben, but I think the wheels come off the Richt era without a win tomorrow -- unless we lose and fire Bobo at the post game press conference, then send a roving band of thugs from The Iron Triangle to burn his house down.

Told y'all GARtinez wasn't the only thing we needed to fix.

Yeah but I guess I mean that I think no one will legitimately be talking about Richt's job but all benefit of the doubt/cache/credibility whatever you want to call that was built up in his first 5 years will be completely gone. Think of it like a supertanker in open water. It takes time to stop it. It will have stopped and started to gain momentum in all the wrong ways. (Since the 2005 SEC Champ season, we're 10-11 against the SEC East, think about THAT.......*shudder*)

Then again, a win can go a long way towards stopping all that talk.

I'd like to see Justin Houston get 3 bone breaking sacks today.

Georgia is a middle of the pack SEC team and a borderline rogue program at this point. What I can't figure out is if a change at the top would do anything to change that. Like, would hiring a Kirby Smart or some other hot assistant really improve our fortunes? Because no current head coach bigger than Mark Richt is coming to Georgia.

Y'all need one of them big-ass outdoor HD screens like they got at Miss State.

Shit man, I'm tailgating right now out here and the tailgate next to me has a 42 inch HD going right now.

You've BEEN to Athens, right? You remember the reprehensible behavior you displayed there? Well, multiply your sense of entitlement by 1.2 million, jack yourself up on the currently-untraceable version of dianabol they're using, take away the influence of your mom and dad and replace it with Tupac, Jay-Z and Wocka Flocka Flame and Soulja Boy, and throw in a 100 white chicks who would happily commit foul acts not legal since the 14 century for your sexually depraved enjoyment, and voila, you have the 2010 Freshman Class.

I understand all of this, but there is a perception and it troubles both the fanbase and the people who give money to the program. My dad is apoplectic about the whole situation.

The arrest and sudden resignation of Damon "Nasty" Evans doesnt help.

Personally, if it's gonna be like this, Coach Richt should wear platinum framed shooting glasses day and night, grow mutton chop sideburns and insist that everyone call him "Boca". Maybe bring in Jim Donnan as OC and start running the old Oklahoma Wishbone.

And I understand that the redneck power base and contributors aren't quite happy with the current off-field problems - but that they WOULD countenance a scenario like the one you describe above, so long as it produced a National Championship or 3.

But what I am saying is that while Tuscalooser, or Gainesville might have the same caliber of gang member/T.I. contemporaries/players, they don't have an entire culture of their down built around whiskey and blow, and nor do they have 60+ bars within 4 blocks of their campuses.

I say bring in a Glanville-style gunslinger and a Defensive coordinator who is the Georgia equivalent of Avon Barksdale - a cocaine kingpin with a mean right hook who would recruit dudes he could put in the game specifically to end careers.

If only Randy Shannon would get fired from the U, he'd be the perfect person for that role if only Richt would unearth his "Boca" personality from his days at the U.

Because those guys did more shit in the back of Luther Campbell's El Dorado than these new fangled pretend thugs, who got rescued out of the hood and sent to private Christian academies when they showed the first inkling of athletic prowess, could even imagine in their Playstation 3 pea brains.

As for the game today, nice attempted comeback, Murray has a cannon, the defense still can't tackle and, I'll say it, AJ Green has now cost us two SEC wins because of his bullshit behavior. Which NFL team is gonna draft Mallett next year?

Huskies looking awesome so far.

Sure, it was the Terps but WVU is looking great. Noel Devine and Geno Smith were incredible today.

Man, I hate to complain about the Huskers performance, especially after they completely destroyed Jake Locker's NFL stock today, but whoever made the final call to allow Cody Green to play before the first half ended needs to pull his head out of his ass.
The Huskers streak of holding opponents below 20pts ended because of that nonsense. Other than that, It was a thing of beauty to watch, when Shawn Watson realized Nebraska didn't really need to do anything but run the ball to win the game handily.

I'm afraid that when Green comes back we will attempt to "open up" the offense, and that will result in 4 wides running fly patterns, and designed QB draws for Murray.

The kid can run, and with a little better play calling, and better line play, could be a power house as a freshman, much less next year or in two years.

I really don't know what the answer is, though. I think a Nick Saban coach team goes into a game thinking "there's no fucking way these pussies can beat us." I think a Mark Richt Coach team goes into a game thinking "If things go our way, and we get a few lucky bounces, we could beat these guys."

If they can't change that with a new coach, there's no reason to change the head coach.

NU looked very good today. My cake walk prediction held true. Damn, you're tough, though. I wouldn't be complaining about your team giving up 21 points on the road. Cut 'em some slack.

And as far as Locker, he's a stellar guy---off and on the field. He would've been a top 1st round draft pick last season, and may still salvage that, but today's performance put a big hurt on him. He deserves success if he can earn it. I still think he has NFL talent, maybe just not at QB.

Good luck to the Huskers. I don't see them losing many games.

It wasn't actually giving up 21pts that bothered me, it was the fact they were cruising 21-7 when they decided to randomly switch QB's and handed the Huskies an easy score with the fumble inside our own 20. The Blackshirts do an excellent job of making their opponents earn every point they get, and it just sucked that a bonehead coaching move essentially cost them what may have been a record streak for holding the opposition under 20pts.
They can't make those sort of mistakes in conference games and shouldn't be doing that sort of shit on the road when they haven't went unscathed through the non-conference slate of games for a few years now.
They could have easily gave the back-up quarterbacks playing time late in the 3rd quarter at the pace they were going in the first half without that costly error added into the mix..

Dude. They fumbled 8 times last week.

I would think that one fumble this week and a 5 TD victory margin vs. a Pac 10 team on the road would suffice. You're tough to please.

Never thought I'd long for Donnan but remember when we'd get a great month of being undefeated before being exposed by UT? At least he gave us great Septembers.

Oh shit, what a call on that fake.

While that is true, I would argue that a September loss (the SC game where Quincy threw 12 INT's yet was kept in the game) was when I realized that JD was not just done but well done.

Also, with Coach Donnan there was never a perception that he could control what was most definitely an out of control team off the field. With Richt, people still hold the false belief that he somehow can.

That game is exactly what this year is reminding me of