re: Are Dawg Fans Becoming Apathetic?

You should wait and see how he does next year before talking about firing him after a season that hasn't even started. He may go 0-12 or he may go 12-0.

The point is we don't know yet. How about letting things play out before playing hypotheticals two seasons in advance.

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2012 seccg

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Ever since that game I don't feel feelings anymore.

When you think about the 2012 SECCG, the 2013 Auburn game, this year's TN game, top it off with the Vandy game and Sat, has this been the most difficult decade for Dawg fans? This shite hurts.

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NOBODY predicted 7-5 at the start of the year.

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*cough*

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re: 2016 Season Predictions . . . .Posted on 7/23/16 at 8:14 pm to Jefferson Dawg

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7-5

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I am....I chalk it up to getting older but the fact that we haven't looked good in a significant game in so long I can't remember it has a lot to do with it (I know someone will come along with a game we looked good in but they are fewer and further between).

I just don't care anymore....I managed to miss the entire UK game (I did record it and watch it later with no idea what the score was) and didn't see but about 30 minutes of the Auburn game this year.....and except for the South Carolina game in 2007 when I was in intensive care (I watched the game but I don't remember doing it) this is the first season since I was 7 years old (44 years ago) that I didn't spend at least 5 hours or so a week watching, reading or talking about UGA football....and to be honest it is kind of liberating....It just doesn't seem to matter as much.

I can remember us losing to LSU one season (Dooley was still coach) and my being physically ill for 3 days afterward.....now we lose to Georgia Tech with time running out and it has become so common that I don't even try to listen to a post game show or get online...I go tinker in my shop like it was not even football season.

I know a lot of this has to do with getting older...although my Dad is pushing 80 and he couldn't wait to get me on the phone Sunday and dissect the game LOL....but I personally just don't care as much as I once did....

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I don't think the attitude of our administrators or fan-base has changed much over the years.

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We are what we are and have always been....a second tier SEC team....fighting like mad to drop into the bottom of the conference. Had Herschell not signed with UGA I don't think Sanford Stadium would need more than 70,000 seats. We won a lot of SEC championships back in the day when there were 2 or 3 teams claiming that title....we have never been that good. Even lowly Georgia Tech was a true national power at one time....we have always been just a medicore program with medicore talent. The difference between the Dooley years and the rest of our history is Dooley's team won occasionally when they shouldn't have.

Our fanbase is also a problem....I have been to the Texas / Texas Tech game two years running (don't ask....I would have bet money against it but it happened). Texas Tech has never won a damn thing in college football...they don't even pretend to play defense...and there fans never sit down and never shut up during the game no matter how badly it is going (I have been to a couple of other games in Lubbock as well...again, don't ask...). I have also been to lots of SEC road games....other than Missourri and Texas AM there is not a SEC stadium I haven't been in....and the same is true there...but for some reason most of our fans are more interested in talking about the doings back in Hahira and Blue Ridge than what is going on on the field....we are LOUSY as a fan base...when Texas Tech fans are more involved in a game where they might as well not even put a defense on the field than we are in a close game with a heated rivalry you know you have issues.


I also know for a fact that if you have been to more than a few games in Sanford Stadium you have heard someone tell someone else (or you possibly) to sit down and be quite....I have seen it so often it doesn't even register anymore.....you always have a bunch of folks who have bought or were given tickets sitting in amongst season ticket holders...and the people who are there for 1 or 2 games a year are there to be part of the crowd...and the season ticket holders around them are there because they got nothing else or nowhere else to be...and would prefer everyone sit down and behave....you don't see this as prevalent in the rest of college football....it is this attitude that allows UGA to stay mired in mediocrity when it is the flagship university in a state as talent rich as any in the nation....

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I had us at 8 which is still doable if we win the bowl game.

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re: Any revised season predictions?Posted on 9/10/16 at 5:30 pm to Lucius Clay

I think most of us on here expect at least 3-4 L's this year.

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Some on here seem incapable of leveling any form of criticism, even when it is blatantly obvious.

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Do you really think that will still be the case if we still suck after 3 years?

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Do you really think that will still be the case if we still suck after 3 years?

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No, I don't. Would you honestly believe we have people incapable of leveling any kind of criticism at the coaching staff after 5 losses. Losses that in many cases can be traced directly back to the coaching staff?

Hey...if you've been paying attention, you should have noticed that I have praised the coaching staff on many occassions, particularly the past 3-4 weeks. The team showed improvement those weeks.

The pass play against GT, though? And coming out of a time out? that was horrible and cost us the game, probably.