Poll: What does SEC do to Richt/Georgia?

Personally, I'd have loved to have seen the fallout had the little ploy led to a benches-clearing brawl. Because it very easily could have.

 

When you lose 15 of 17 against one of your biggest rivals, that has a way of getting inside your head. Georgia's players have heard little the past two weeks aside from, "Georgia is Florida's bitch." This was Richt's way of telling players on both teams, "we're not going to roll over because of what has happened here the last 17 years."

While we're on the subject, these celebration penalties are fucking ridiculous. What, you're not supposed to be happy when you score a touchdown? Come now. We want athletes to have self control, but do we really want them to be robots?

 

I hate individual grandstanding and showboating cuz it's gotten out of hand. But now the pendulum has swung the other way and players can't do squat.

Michigan at Illinois recently. Illinois WR cathches a TD pass (first score of the game) and circles back out of the end zone to start celebrating with his teammates. The closest zebra literally sprints with the kid and is staring him down, step for step, waiting for him to do something.

Get the hell out of his face, asshole. Save your energy for live action so you'll be in position to make the correct call.

 

Sounds like there will be a new glory-glory moment at the next Dawgs home game.

 

Vanderbilt's not a crap team.

 

This has a pro wrestling whiff to it. I know the economics involved, even in the South, but it's just a football game in October between two Peach Bowl-level teams.

 

I thought it was a great move by Richt, even if he does get further punishment. Been a long time since I've seen a start to a game that so grabbed your attention and made you watch the whole thing. Also a great move for that rivalry that had become way too one-sided, it sent a message to the Gators that Georgia wouldn't be playing their patsy any longer.

 

Agreed that the zebras have gone way overboard with the celebration penalties this year. Seems like whenever there's a college football TD this year the zebras snap into Barney Fife mode looking for any reaction they can call. I'm wondering if that might've affected Richt's decision to do this, if they keep getting em called anyways might as well make it good one.

There's a difference between celebration and taunting, something the current college football rules fail to acknowledge. Way too much harmless natural celebration is being penalized this year.

 

I thought it was a great moment that'll be remembered for a very long time. A little over the top? Maybe. But that's what the 15-yard penalties (which were called) are for. Throw the flag, take your medicine and move on. I didn't see that part of the game, but did the two flags lead to a Florida score? If so, I'm sure Florida would've rather had that than a fine after the fact.

 

UF scored on the next drive, but after a Gator penalty on the KO return, the Gators had it at their own 32 (roughly). So, it really didn't make a difference.

I usually don't like crap like that (the Uga celebration), but I thought it was genius here. I also think it's funny when Urban Meyer costs his team with boneheaded calls.

 

spoken like a true ignorant yankee

 

AJC's Terence Moore was not impressed: http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/sportscolumns/entries/2007/10/27/dogs_could_have.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab