Georgia-Florida: Meyer Gags Tebow, entire team

Still in their heads

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/sports_bianchi/2008/10/winner-of-flori.html

Why are Florida fans, players and coaches so mad at Georgia coach Mark Richt for telling his players to excessively celebrate after the Bulldogs scored their first touchdown in last year's 42-30 victory over the Gators?

Florida's players are clearly still upset about Georgia's players swarming the field and getting an unsportsmanlinke conduct penalty following the Bulldogs' first touchdown in the first quarter last year. Why else would they refuse to talk about it after the victory over Kentucky Saturday. And although Florida coach Urban Meyer says now that the situation is "old news", he made his real feelings known in his recently released book -- Urban's Way -- written with one of my sportswriting friends Buddy Martin.

"That wasn't right," Meyer said in the book. "It was a bad deal. It will forever be in the mind of Urban Meyer and in the mind of our football team. We'll handle it and it's going to be a big deal."

And this is exactly why Gator Nation should be grateful to Richt just like I am: Because he's managed to make this game a big deal again.

Richt has since apologized for the move, but I don't think he has anything to be sorry about. I've said it once and I'll say it again: It was a brilliant coaching move that not only turned around Georgia's season, but may have rejuvenated Richt's entire coaching tenure at Georgia.

It also put some much-needed juice back into a once-raucous rivalry that had grown stale and mundane.

For that and that alone, I'd like to thank Mark Richt.

And so should Georgia AND Florida fans.

This is going to be a very, very interesting game. Both teams playing really well right now.

Gooooooo GATORS

Bush League

No Fun When Dogs, Gators Refuse to Talk

From Mark Bradley of the AJC:

Georgia?s celebration, which didn?t go according to Richt?s script and for which it was penalized twice and for which he keeps apologizing, is the single smartest thing he has done as a coach. It changed the dynamics of a series that, from the Bulldog perspective, was past due for a change. It served its purpose leading into last season?s game, turning his team?s focus from the usual Jacksonville gloom and doom to something brighter ? how are we going to celebrate? ? and it has become the gift that keeps on giving.

Not quite complying with his coach?s gag order, the famous Tim Tebow admitted to the Orlando Sentinel that the Gators have a photo of the dancing Dogs in their locker room. Think about that: A team that won the 2006 BCS title is concerned with the team that, until 2007, was its personal doormat. And the run-up to this year?s game will be dominated by one line of discussion:


How will the Gators respond? Have they planned something themselves? What if Georgia springs a new ?spontaneous? display? Does Urban Meyer have a counter-counter-celebration in his famous playbook? And will Tebow and Co. be so bent on vengeance that they forget to execute those famous plays?

Ya know why the St. Johns river flows north?????? Cuz Georgia SUCKS!:yikes:😀:wave:

Ya know why the St. Johns river flows north?????? Cuz Georgia SUCKS!:yikes:😀:wave:

ouch.:floor:

Look, he's got a TAIL! (Maybe JORTS aren't so bad after all...)

It's Tim Gaybo!!!

The Gators prepare for the Dawgs...

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I think Georgia should do another celebration when they finally score!!. so that they will have at least one thing positive from this game to talk about .

seriously glad they did it lov a good Rivalry

I'm honestly not banking on a Georgia win, too much has to go right for the Dawgs to win. Florida is THAT good. UGA almost played that perfect game last week, but still had 5 or 6 penalties, 2 of which could have been very damaging.

But I do love GA-FL week, and the farks that folks make up keep getting better!

Yeah it's going to be a good game. I think it will just come down to who executes better with the least amount of penalties. but just for good measures i think ill try to bribe the refs with some good old gator tail steaks

It's Halloween and I'm invoking the ghosts of Herschel Walkerand Larry Munson to rise up and inspire the hounds, if UGA can play penalty free the Gators might be in trouble. It would help if the ghost of Erk rose up and gave the defense some inspiration also! If you don't know Knowshon, you don"t know s***. Hunker down boys, should be fun!!!!!!

Go Dawgs.....gators wear jean shorts!

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/orl-bianchi3108oct31,0,5694696.column

From Mike Bianchi at the Orlando Sentinel:

This year's Florida-Georgia game epitomizes the mania and melodrama that make college football more of a passion play than an organized sport. It is being called the biggest game in the history of the rivalry because both teams need a victory to stay in contention for a national championship and the Southeastern Conference title.

But college football rivalries are about so much more than the ramifications on the field; they are about the emotion and commotion off it. From the way fans, coaches, players and, yes, media are reacting to this game, you'd think Florida-Georgia was more important to the future of the world than McCain-Obama.

Go Dawgs!

McCain-Obama who??

Go Dawgs!!!