My favorite Georgia football game of all time

I was on that field in the madness

Elizabeth was she hated it lol it took her 2 hours to find her boyfriend ??????

I wasn't there but remember it well. It was mayhem. We had not beat the Vols since 88 and before that 81. 2 wins in a 20 year span. It's crazy how we struggled against FL, AU, and TN from 84 up to 2017, but those programs were for the most part better. I think my favorite UGA game was Clemson-Ga 84 and Ga-Fl 87. Favorite game I attended was UGA-SC 85.

That was a weird game for me. I was AJ Suggs head coach/offensive coordinator during his middle school years at McEachern. He had played RB in lb ball at Due West and his dad wasn’t crazy about me moving him to QB in the 6th grade but it ended up being the right decision. Especially after he kept growing taller. His brother Andrew played QB for me a few years later.

I always joked around and told AJ I couldn’t wait to see him in the red & black but he chose UT. Really hated that because UT owned us at the time. But that night I was proud of AJ as you would expect from someone who had coached him for 3 years but also wanted the Dawgs to win. I still remember seeing him walking through the mob at the end of the game. Felt bad for him but happy we had broken the streak.

yeah that "55 years" comment in hindsight was probably not very smart. I remember Nate Hybl went on to have a fine career at OU but he left athens once it was obvious no one was going to unseat quincy.

I wouldn't say that comment contributed to his firing though. As you menitoend the tech games were likely the biggest hurdles that wouldn't be overcome. You simply can't lose 3 in a row to them, period. We routinely got whooped by UF and UT but 1) we'd done that under the previous regime too so it wasn't unique to donnan, and 2) they were whooping up on everyone in those days so it was a bit easier to swallow, I suppose. We also seemed to break even with AU, who was decent during those days but still not the kind of results you'd want. Zooming out and lookin big picture we did regress yearly. After the amazing 10-2 season of '97, we went 9-3 in '98, then 8-4 in '99, and 8-4 again in 2000. If you're regressing yearly, losing 3 in a row to your biggest rival, and not doing so hot against your other rivals either, what's the point of sticking around?

I will say he did greatly incrase our talent. Some of those early Ricth teams that had mega success don't come close to those accomplishments without the talent donnan left behind.

Also, I know donnan was known as an offensive guy so I'd lke to point out that we ran a play in that '99/00 outback bowl against purdue that I'd never seen run before. It was a funky backfield formation and we handed the fball off, almost like an RPO looking play that we gave to the RB. But from there it became an option play, and the RB that just received the handoff ended up pitching back to yet another RB who scored.

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I don’t know what you’re so upset about.’ ‘This game means absolutely nothing in the scheme of things as far as winning the SEC East.’

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Yikes.

Reminds me of the Ole Paul Johnson’s fish fry comment.

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Also, I know donnan was known as an offensive guy so I'd lke to point out that we ran a play in that '99/00 outback bowl against purdue that I'd never seen run before. It was a funky backfield formation and we handed the fball off, almost like an RPO looking play that we gave to the RB. But from there it became an option play, and the RB that just received the handoff ended up pitching back to yet another RB who scored

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This play was bugging me so I wanted to go find it, link below. Funky balanced bakcfield including a handoff to our #1 WR, who then pitches the option. Definitely not something we were used to seeing in 1999 lol

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Also. Jim Donnan still a DGD. As is all former coaches. RIcht, Goff, Dooley RIP. It’s a good thing they all still support the program. I’m not sure where Richt is now but I know he stayed In Athens for abot