Big time encouraged by the Defense...

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I know it's GSU, but the talent on def. really showed IMO.

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I know that there has to be a silver lining somewhere and the defense has looked good but Georgia Southern is a rent-a-win for UGA. When this game was scheduled no one in Statesboro was looking for anything other than a paycheck and some in state exposure for recruits not quite good enough to play in the SEC. We tied them....in a regulation game we are as good as Ga Southern.


I also think that our offense looks so horrible that the defense looks like an NFL defense in comparison. At least they aren't completely incapable of doing what they do. And finally our defense has not faced a decent offense all season.....I know that GUS is a FBS program now and all of that shite but they play in a much less competitive conference and against a very low level of competition...they got smoked by West Virginia and played us to a tie......

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I also think that our offense looks so horrible that the defense looks like an NFL defense in comparison.

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If anything, our offense being as awful as they are means the defense is even better than the stats/scores show. They are put in horrible situations over and over and are left on the field while the offense goes 3 and out repeatedly and, for the most part, they still hold up their end of the deal.

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they got smoked by West Virginia and played us to a tie

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Not making excuses for the shitshow that was yesterday (and most of the season for that matter) but I'm pretty sure GSU's starting QB was suspended for the WVU game.

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Was supposed to be a rent-a-win. GSU obviously didn't get the memo.

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You are right...GSU was a rent-a-tie instead of a rent-a-win. Before CFB decided to do away with ties and play 60% of the game until someone wins we would now have a tie against Ga Southern as part of our programs history....while not as bad as Florida having a loss to them or Michigan having a loss to App State it is still pretty dam low....

Why do you keep saying that it would have been considered a tie years ago? What does that have to do with anything at all?

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Why do you keep saying that it would have been considered a tie years ago? What does that have to do with anything at all?

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Because a win in OT isn't exactly the same as a win in regulation. It counts the same but it shouldn't...it should go in the "tie" column OR in a 4th and 5th column as a an OT win or an OT loss.

The reason I say this is because years from now when we are waxing nostalgic for the Richt years those memories are going to be drastically different with an OT win against GUS than they would have been with a 60 minute tie. Many of our brethren will forget by August of next year that for 60 minutes in November of 2015 UGA was at a lower level than Georgia State in regards to football....if the game had been in Statesboro I doubt that anyone would argue now that we don't lose to GSU in regulation. IN few years most of the Dawg nation will only remember that we won.....they won't care that this is the first time in 89 years that we have failed to beat an in state school other than GT in regulation. The depths that the program has sunk to will be far less deep in years to come because of the OT win. The OT win is the best of the other two scenarions where we don't win in regulations but only by a small amount....

The fact is that for 60 minutes of the entire game...including clock management, a 100 yard field and much more important special teams play GSU was as good on the field in Sanford Stadium as the Dawgs were. That should never be forgotten, especially when weighing the success and failings of the Richt era....


We can say what we will BUT neither Vince Dooley nor Wallace Butts Team's played an instate school other than Tech to a 60 minute tie...nor did Ray Goff or Jim Donnan's...Mark Richt's did....

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Why do you keep saying that it would have been considered a tie years ago? What does that have to do with anything at all?

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Nothing. That irrlevant broken record needs to be thrown in the trash somewhere in Europe.