Wal-Mart: Because Auburn grads need jobs too.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Knowshon watch
Knowshon Moreno broke the 2,000 yards rushing mark Saturday with a relatively quiet (meaning he only hurdled one guy, and that guy wasn't standing up) 172 yards.
He's got 2,096 for his career now, putting him 9th in school history. He's ahead of Tim Worley (2,038) and behind Willie McClendon (2,228).
He has appeared in 20 games, giving him an average of 105 yards rushing per game.
If you use just this season, taking out last year when he split time with Thomas Brown (2,573, No. 6 all-time), Knowshon's average rises to 109 yards a game.
If you assume he stays for his junior year, doesn't get injured, keeps the 105 ypg average, and the Dawgs go to two more bowl games and 1 SEC title game, that projects to 4,196 yards for his career. That would be good for No. 2 on the list by a long shot.
Garrison Hearst has 3,232 and The Goal Line Stalker had 5,259.
I saw an old Garrison Hearst game on T.V. the other day. It reminded me: That guy was the man. But No. 2 on the list with a 1,000 yard advantage... that would pretty much end the argument about where Knowshon belongs in the rankings of great Georgia running backs.
He would also be above Garrison's career average of 97.9 yards a game. Herschel averaged 159.4. That is simply inhuman.
He's got 2,096 for his career now, putting him 9th in school history. He's ahead of Tim Worley (2,038) and behind Willie McClendon (2,228).
He has appeared in 20 games, giving him an average of 105 yards rushing per game.
If you use just this season, taking out last year when he split time with Thomas Brown (2,573, No. 6 all-time), Knowshon's average rises to 109 yards a game.
If you assume he stays for his junior year, doesn't get injured, keeps the 105 ypg average, and the Dawgs go to two more bowl games and 1 SEC title game, that projects to 4,196 yards for his career. That would be good for No. 2 on the list by a long shot.
Garrison Hearst has 3,232 and The Goal Line Stalker had 5,259.
I saw an old Garrison Hearst game on T.V. the other day. It reminded me: That guy was the man. But No. 2 on the list with a 1,000 yard advantage... that would pretty much end the argument about where Knowshon belongs in the rankings of great Georgia running backs.
He would also be above Garrison's career average of 97.9 yards a game. Herschel averaged 159.4. That is simply inhuman.
Vandy weekend thoughts
Dear Georgia Bulldogs: I don't think you can beat LSU or Florida. Please prove me wrong.
I think Vance Cuff's going to get his shot at starting cornerback next week. And don't think he'll be dropping any more balls that hit him in the chest.
Alright, alright. Alabama is legit.
Our safeties are not the stalking assassins I need them to be.
Florida's gonna kill that toss sweep.
Stafford's line: 13 of 23 for 194 yards, 2 TDs and 2 interceptions.
Colt McCoy's: 29 of 32 for 337 yards, 2 TDs and no interceptions.
Penn State's starting quarterback completed 18 passes for 171 yards and one touchdown. They won 46-17.
Due to my poor decision making skills, I spent a long time downtown after the game. Every time I went outside, I could hear the Bell ringing. It rang into the morning. The students these days have my respect.
Of course, I've heard enough bell ringing over the years that I can kind of conjure it up in my head.
UPDATE: C'mon! Really? C'mon!
I think Vance Cuff's going to get his shot at starting cornerback next week. And don't think he'll be dropping any more balls that hit him in the chest.
Alright, alright. Alabama is legit.
Our safeties are not the stalking assassins I need them to be.
Florida's gonna kill that toss sweep.
Stafford's line: 13 of 23 for 194 yards, 2 TDs and 2 interceptions.
Colt McCoy's: 29 of 32 for 337 yards, 2 TDs and no interceptions.
Penn State's starting quarterback completed 18 passes for 171 yards and one touchdown. They won 46-17.
Due to my poor decision making skills, I spent a long time downtown after the game. Every time I went outside, I could hear the Bell ringing. It rang into the morning. The students these days have my respect.
Of course, I've heard enough bell ringing over the years that I can kind of conjure it up in my head.
UPDATE: C'mon! Really? C'mon!
Friday, October 17, 2008
Ben Watson is a bad ...
He just crushes Champ Bailey like an awesome hustling truck.
"Damn. I ain't never seen that before."
"Damn. I ain't never seen that before."
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Lack of turnovers? It's the pass rush. And other unqualified claims.
That's my dumb opinion. From David Hale here at the paper:
That has nothing to do with a pass rush, obviously.
But to see it all come together just a little earlier in the season this year, and to have it happen without one big moment, one big celebration, if you will, would make sense.
But we'll see.
Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continue... AAY!
A year ago at this point in the season, Georgia's interception total wasn't any better than it is now. In fact, while the Bulldogs finished with an impressive tally, they had just two interceptions in their first eight games of the season. Then the light clicked on, the defensive backs began cashing in on their opportunities, and in the final five games of the year, Georgia picked off 13 passes.That paragraph is actually down at the bottom, but I kept waiting for it. We've been waiting for things to click this year, and I got the sense they started to (on offense) during that last drive of the Tennessee game.
That has nothing to do with a pass rush, obviously.
But to see it all come together just a little earlier in the season this year, and to have it happen without one big moment, one big celebration, if you will, would make sense.
But we'll see.
Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continue... AAY!
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Ranking college football teams
If you haven't checked it out yet, go look at Sen. Blutarsky's college football poll. It's handled differently - with voters choosing the top 5 teams, with no distinction between 1 and 5, and then the next 7, again with no distinction.
It takes away some of the ridiculous parsing between who's the No. 4 and No. 5 team, and he also waited until 6 weeks into the season to have a poll.
In fact, the only real criticisms I have of what seems to be a really strong system is that, one, he let me vote in it and, b., I don't like the name.
The Mumme Poll.
It takes away some of the ridiculous parsing between who's the No. 4 and No. 5 team, and he also waited until 6 weeks into the season to have a poll.
In fact, the only real criticisms I have of what seems to be a really strong system is that, one, he let me vote in it and, b., I don't like the name.
The Mumme Poll.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Vandy to start Adams on Saturday
Mr. Hale notes it at the bottom of his notebook: Vanderbilt announced Monday that quarterback Mackenzi Adams will start Saturday's game over Chris Nickson, who had started the team's first six games.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Quarterback play these days
Due to fact that I'm not really a College Football fan, but a Georgia fan, what I don't know could fill a warehouse. But does it seem like there is just a ton of fantastic quarterback play out there this year, or is it just something with the Big 12?
More informed people should discuss this.
Todd Reesing (Kansas), Tim Tebow (Milky Way Solar System), Zac Robinson (Okie State), Chase Daniel (Mizzou), Colt McCoy (Texas), Matt Stafford (Athens), Sam Bradford (Oklahoma), Graham Harrell (Texas Tech), Matt Sanchez (USC), Matt Sanchez's backup (I mean, presumably), David Johnson (Tulsa, No. 1 passer rating in the nation), Max Hall (BYU), Kellen Moore, Nate Davis and Josh Freeman (OK, now I'm just going off the stats), Daryll Clark (Penn State).
That doesn't even include Juice Williams at Illinois, former Heisman candidate turned "Who?" Pat White at West Virginia, pretty-damn-decent Matt Grothe at South Florida or the shockingly perhaps not ridiculously over-rated Jimmy Clausen at Notre Dame.
UPDATE: Begrudgingly, John Parker Wilson at Alabama. Then there's my personal favorite among injured PAC 10 quarterbacks who got screwed by over-zealous rule making, Jake Locker, Cullen "Big things used to be expected of me" Harper of Clemson, Rudy "Me, too, Cullen" Carpeneter at ASU, that supposed talent at Central Michigan and, holy hell, did you know The Pillsbury Throwboy's little brother started for UCONN before he got injured. By the way, UCONN's top athletic story right now is a TIE in WOMEN's HOCKEY.)
More informed people should discuss this.
Todd Reesing (Kansas), Tim Tebow (Milky Way Solar System), Zac Robinson (Okie State), Chase Daniel (Mizzou), Colt McCoy (Texas), Matt Stafford (Athens), Sam Bradford (Oklahoma), Graham Harrell (Texas Tech), Matt Sanchez (USC), Matt Sanchez's backup (I mean, presumably), David Johnson (Tulsa, No. 1 passer rating in the nation), Max Hall (BYU), Kellen Moore, Nate Davis and Josh Freeman (OK, now I'm just going off the stats), Daryll Clark (Penn State).
That doesn't even include Juice Williams at Illinois, former Heisman candidate turned "Who?" Pat White at West Virginia, pretty-damn-decent Matt Grothe at South Florida or the shockingly perhaps not ridiculously over-rated Jimmy Clausen at Notre Dame.
UPDATE: Begrudgingly, John Parker Wilson at Alabama. Then there's my personal favorite among injured PAC 10 quarterbacks who got screwed by over-zealous rule making, Jake Locker, Cullen "Big things used to be expected of me" Harper of Clemson, Rudy "Me, too, Cullen" Carpeneter at ASU, that supposed talent at Central Michigan and, holy hell, did you know The Pillsbury Throwboy's little brother started for UCONN before he got injured. By the way, UCONN's top athletic story right now is a TIE in WOMEN's HOCKEY.)
Palmer: "I think Georgia, big time under-rated right now."
Proving that Florida people aren't ridiculous 24/7 (well, excluding the hair), former contributor to the undeserving bane of our existence and current until-now-inexplicable part of ESPN's college football coverage Jesse Palmer notes that, despite what the polls say, Georgia could beat BYU and Texas Tech.
Don't have a link for you, I'm watching College Football Live on ESPN.
Don't have a link for you, I'm watching College Football Live on ESPN.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Beating Tennessee - way better than losing to Arkansas
I'm just saying.
Great game by Massaquoi, which is great to see. Anytime you give up 1 rushing yard, that's alright, baby. For a supposed-to-be-flat crowd, and all the tickets on the street, the stadium was crowded. I actually sat near my seats today. Being near the title flags in a breeze... that's something beautiful.
And is it just me, or did we learn how to block there in the 4th quarter?
Beat Vandy.
---
Florida is whipping up on LSU. But did I miss something? Has anyone associated with the University of Florida ever founded a fortune 500 country, written anything approaching a great American novel, cured cancer, visited Mars or achieved anything of note outside of the mullet and gold chain?
You're a joke you've never even noticed.
Great game by Massaquoi, which is great to see. Anytime you give up 1 rushing yard, that's alright, baby. For a supposed-to-be-flat crowd, and all the tickets on the street, the stadium was crowded. I actually sat near my seats today. Being near the title flags in a breeze... that's something beautiful.
And is it just me, or did we learn how to block there in the 4th quarter?
Beat Vandy.
---
Florida is whipping up on LSU. But did I miss something? Has anyone associated with the University of Florida ever founded a fortune 500 country, written anything approaching a great American novel, cured cancer, visited Mars or achieved anything of note outside of the mullet and gold chain?
You're a joke you've never even noticed.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
The Tennessee game has no feel
I don't think there's any doubt the fans come out flat on Saturday.
And I know the phrase on my lips will be simple: Show me something.
Show me something, Bulldogs. We deserve it, you deserve it, Georgia deserves it.
GATA.
And I know the phrase on my lips will be simple: Show me something.
Show me something, Bulldogs. We deserve it, you deserve it, Georgia deserves it.
GATA.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Today's Lucid Idiocy
I'm reading Slash's autobiography right now. And this story about Axl Rose, from back before Guns n' Roses hit it big, is fantastic.
Apparently Axl was staying with Slash, who lived with his mother and grandmother. And the grandmother comes into the living room to watch T.V., but Axl is sleeping on the couch. She asks him to get up and sleep in Slash's room, and he does, but he also tells her to "---- off."
So later on Slash is driving them both to band practice, and he asks Axl to apologize to his grandmother. Writes Slash:
In unrelated news, I have no idea where this little magazine came from, but it showed up in the office today:
Wonder what the next issue will be about.
Apparently Axl was staying with Slash, who lived with his mother and grandmother. And the grandmother comes into the living room to watch T.V., but Axl is sleeping on the couch. She asks him to get up and sleep in Slash's room, and he does, but he also tells her to "---- off."
So later on Slash is driving them both to band practice, and he asks Axl to apologize to his grandmother. Writes Slash:
Axl stared out the window as I spoke, then he started rocking back and forth in the passenger seat. We were driving down Santa Monica Boulevard, doing about forty miles an hour, when suddenly, he opened the car door and jumped out without a word. He stumbled, kind of hopped, and made it onto the sidewalk without falling. he steadied himself, then took off down a side street without looking back.I'm pretty sure it gets way more ridiculous from there. I recommend it.
I was shocked; I did a U-turn and drove around in vain, looking for him for an hour. He didn't show up back at my hosue that night and he didn't come to rehearsal for four days. On the fifth day he appeared at the studio as if nothing had happened.
In unrelated news, I have no idea where this little magazine came from, but it showed up in the office today:
Wonder what the next issue will be about.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Herschel in NYC, selling cupcakes
There's something that's just so right about calling the NYC chapter of the Georgia Alumni Association to get pictures of The Goal Line Stalker selling cupcakes on 46th Street, and having them arrive within the hour.
Many thanks to Association President Sara Simmons and NYC Bulldog Kerri Waggoner. All images provided by Ms. Waggoner. And thanks to Georgia Sports Blog for the heads up.
That's 100 kinds of awesome. Note the reflection of "Broadway" in the bus window.
The cupcakes in question. Unconfirmed reports have them "slightly overcooked, but worth it for charity (and Herschel)."
Ivanka Trump: Clearly in love. And possibly thinking "Georgia really could have used you at linebacker against Alabama."
Many thanks to Association President Sara Simmons and NYC Bulldog Kerri Waggoner. All images provided by Ms. Waggoner. And thanks to Georgia Sports Blog for the heads up.
That's 100 kinds of awesome. Note the reflection of "Broadway" in the bus window.
The cupcakes in question. Unconfirmed reports have them "slightly overcooked, but worth it for charity (and Herschel)."
Ivanka Trump: Clearly in love. And possibly thinking "Georgia really could have used you at linebacker against Alabama."
Monday, October 6, 2008
“I’ve been giving away gator meat left and right"
I know it's Tennessee week. And we've got a ways to go before the first week in November. But, Florida, I haven't forgotten you.
Record alligator taken from the Flint River.
Image: The Cordele Dispatch.
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources' rules for alligator hunting are pretty interesting. From The Dispatch:
"Hey boys," he said, or something like that. "Take a look in the back."
"That's what we gon' do to those gators," he said.
Record alligator taken from the Flint River.
Image: The Cordele Dispatch.
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources' rules for alligator hunting are pretty interesting. From The Dispatch:
Regulations allow hunters to take only one alligator a season, and the reptiles must be at least 48 inches long and can be hunted only with hand-held ropes or snares, snatch hooks, harpoons, gigs or arrows with a restraining line attached. Legal alligators must be dispatched immediately upon capture by using a handgun or bangstick, or by severing the spinal cord with a sharp implement, according to information provided by the DNR.As Joe and I were headed down to Jacksonville last year, we stopped at a gas station near the state line. And we had our Georgia stuff on, so this guy calls us over to his truck.
"Hey boys," he said, or something like that. "Take a look in the back."
"That's what we gon' do to those gators," he said.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Tennessee
My buddy Dan on the Tennessee game:
You gotta realize these guys have manhandled our lines 3 out of the last 4 years.Remember the good old days, when you just couldn't imagine Tennessee even keeping it close against this team, coming off a bye week?
And Fulmer doesn't want to get fired, I guarantee you.
Friday, October 3, 2008
What's his middle name, "Ain't?"
Can you find the irony here?
Also, something I just told a police officer: "I'm not trying to be difficult, it's just in my nature."
Also, something I just told a police officer: "I'm not trying to be difficult, it's just in my nature."
Thursday, October 2, 2008
I'm finally ready for news about the Dawgs again
From Hale:
Penn State, though, scores several points ahead of us in the "having guys arrested" category.
Figgins said he has no doubt he will play against the Volunteers.
Richt said former Bulldog Randall Godfrey addressed the team on Monday and provided just the right amount of motivation following the loss to Alabama.
"Everything's good, everything's fine, there's no worries," Moreno said. "I'll be there (against Tennessee), I'll be ready to go."
In a recent column for ESPN.com, Forde ranked this week's AP top 25 in order of each team's APR, which tracks academic progress for their players. The Bulldogs ranked No. 1 with a score of 965, one point ahead of Wake Forest and Penn State.
Penn State, though, scores several points ahead of us in the "having guys arrested" category.
Chain email wisdom
One of my aunts sent me this today:
Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.
Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.
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