Vanderbilt Falls Short Against Georgia, Loses 28-33 in a Thriller

Looks like I missed a good one. Is Rodgers the starter for good now? I think that if we can cut down on some of the mistakes, we can definitely beat UT and Wake and get to 7 wins.

And not just “heat of battle” hate, but “I have 0 respect for you, and wish you all the bad things in life” hate. When I came here I was still OK with Auburn and UGA. The Cam Newton and the late hit brigade cured me of being able to put with Auburn.

Tonight sure cured me on UGA.

1st off, how the hell did Geathers not get ejected. Do they just not eject people any more? And what were the calls on that? We couldn’t hear the ref, and I was on the wrong side to see his signals, but I assumed based on the fact that they actually marched it down and back, and gave us the 1st down that it was a penalty on us during the play (clipping?) and then the dead ball PF on them. Was the clipping call legit? It didn’t seem like there were any flags until the punch, then they get together and decide there was a penalty before too?

But seriously, how is punching a person on the ground who you are on top of from behind not enough to get you tossed.

I LOVE that not one, but 2 people went after Carey Spear and he didn’t back down (but he also didn’t lose his cool). I thought the refs were going to let it go until someone on our side retaliated. They watched those guys mess with Casey and us keep our cool for a while before they actually did anything.

Then the last bit. I love that our guys step right to, and do nothing. I love that we don’t back down but we also won’t step over the line. We’ve always been classy, but I love being classy AND tough. And their guys, taking cheap shots all game, starting crap all game, then after they get lucky to survive they stir up more stuff on the field then taunt the crowd. But our program is going the right direction and theirs is the same place it’s been for years so their time is coming.

I have to say though, I’ve always respected Richt. But if he is as classy as they say (and I think he is) it might say something about his leadership and his ability to mold the team if he can’t even get his coaches, much less his players, to play with any class.

No moral victory because we aren’t OK with what we got. The fans, the players all know we could have won, maybe should have won if we just didn’t make so many mistakes.

BUT, it’s very clear that we can be optimistic, and expect these coaches to continue to get everything from these guys.

Would have been amazing for the recruits there to see us pull that off, but I think the game did a lot to show them where we could be going and set up the coaches to say, “If we have you on the field tonight, YOU win us the game. We aren’t quite there yet, but we’re close, and YOU take us there.”

Jordan is clearly your starter, but good grief he has got to get better in the passing game, and the WR need to get the eff open. Everything people have been saying about him (plus, he ran as well as we’ve seen Larry, which I said wasn’t going to happen), except he didn’t have the zip on a lot of his throws. Maybe he got better later, but early, he was trying to get fit it into small seems, and he didn’t have the zip to get it in there. He also wasn’t accurate enough, but the windows his receivers gave him were inadequate too.

Still, the biggest thing this game meant to me was seeing if we can win these games that we “shouldn’t” win, but that are winnable or if we just can hope to beat the bad teams, and I think the resounding answer is that we can fight, and I think we will soon. And good grief watch out if we close the talent gap.

The most exciting, but frustrating thing, is that the reason we lost had little to do with pure talent. We just screwed up. We can eliminate these mistakes, and they should be plenty fixable, we’ll be in good shape.