Dawgaholics Anonymous

I've always been against anonymous commenting. Usually it leads to people shooting out inflammatory remarks and open ended statements that fail to make a solid point. In my opinion, anonymous commenters are what Bob Costas (and Buck Belue) should consider "goons with a keyboard" rather than solid, detailed bloggers who make more valid points than either of those ever could.

Anyway, I'm dedicating an entire post to this one anonymous commenter who left a message on my latest Brent Benedict post. Not because it was ridiculously stupid like some of them tend to be, but because it's by far the BEST anonymous comment I've ever received. Read about it in its entirety after the jump.

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The comment is as follows:

Yes. That is fine. I mean it is what it is, isn't it ? We have been dropping like flies all Summer long - one and then another; and, well it is 10 off the team in the last year now.

And, more yet to come, quite obviously.

What we are left with is a depth chart issue on the OL.

And, the RB.

And, the FB.

And, the WR.

And, the Secondary.

And, someone anyone who will tackle the opposing QB.

It is quite extensive.

I would like to point out that we have our softest schedule of all-time, this season.

The SEC East is down. Way down.

The SEC West has 3 of the top football programs in the nation in Alabama, Arkansas and LSU.

We play none of them.

If we do, it is The SEC Championship Game and we have no hope against their teams - who are not with all these holes we clearly have.

Las Vegas is laying odds we lose to Florida, lose to South Carolina and lose to Boise State.

Missy State and Auburn are the type games we manage to lose one of every year too.

All I ask is that, please God forget all the Excuses, Kool-Aid, Apologies, etc. and can we please all be in agreement that we need to have this coaching staff assembled by Mark Richt and the players remaining to GATA ?

I am so disappointed with the 3-9 vs the teams finishing in the AP Poll Top 10 all 10 years and another 10 Losses vs teams who did not even finish in the AP Poll Top 25 all 10 years to-boot.

I don't want to hear what a nice guy our coach is. I want to beat the truly great teams and to not lose to the truly horrid teams.

And, don't tell me how great we are going to be, or were.

2007 we beat no one who finished in the AP Poll Top 10. And, we lost to 2 really lousy teams, in addition.

2005 we did beat # 6 LSU for The SEC Championship, but this coaching staff told us how great Joe Tereshinski III would be for us and we ended up with 3 Losses. LSU beat 2 teams who finished in the AP Poll Top 10 in 2007.

2002 we beat no one who finished in the AP Poll Top 10 and we lost to a team who finished not in the Top 25 of the Coaches' Poll - in fact, only Auburn ended in the Top 25 Coaches' Poll 2002 from all The SEC teams.

2003 was not a great year either; we certainly beat no team who finished in the AP Poll Top 10.

So, what are we left with ?

That this is all we are capable of over the last 40 years ? I think we can do much more than this. I would like to think we are not settling for what has been rather mediocre teams playing soft schedules and losing to 1 of those every year, too. And, losing to all the truly great teams in addition.

I frankly am more than a little tired of it.

I want the coaches and the players and the fans to quit telling me how great we are or were and actually do something such as beat the great teams and not lose to the bad teams.

Seems we should be unanimous on that.

That we tell them it is unacceptable.

And, dream that it might actually be something we all wanted to do.

Instead of telling me we have already done it.

We haven't. You know that. 

That is a solid gold comment. Why? Because whoever left it is exactly right. There's nothing but truth in that entire statement and it's nice to hear.

None of us are sitting back saying that it's all peaches and cream with this UGA team. Our depth is super scary at some pretty dang important positions. Running back is out of control thin. So is the secondary, outside linebackers and offensive line. While we're solid gold at tight end, which should help the WR corps, you can't expect tight ends to give you big gains. Not unless you get creative with the offense, and well, I'll let you draw your own conclusions there.

I think the majority of what you see nowadays from bloggers like myself is that we're just flat tired of beating this horse. It's not dead, but it's not Secretariat, either. We're in this "calm before the storm" period where all we want to do is stop hearing about how bad or good things are and just tee it off.

You're going to have a tough time finding a person who thinks that Richt's job is safe unless he shows some "significant improvement" this year. I hate to say it because I think Mark Richt is great for Georgia, but regardless of how good of a man he is, he has to win football games to keep his job. That's what he was hired to do. All the other stuff is a very nice bonus in a sport where coaches are as crooked as they come. I do want a coach that treats his players right, puts an emphasis on getting their degree and becoming better men. Before college football became a drug for amateur sports junkies, it was a sport taught by tough coaches who turned young men into true men. Tough, disciplined, true men who looked at their coaches like father figures. If you don't know what I'm talking about, spend some time talking to a player who played under Erk Russel. You'll know then.

But the point of me responding to the comment in this manner is because we all need to read it. Things aren't perfect. In certain areas, they're not even good. However, there have been times in the history of this program where we overcome the struggles and go on to great things. 1979 to 1980, 2001 to 2002, 2006 to 2007. It's happened before and it could happen again. If it doesn't, then we're all getting a regime change. Until then, I'm just going to be as optimistic, and as realistic, as I can possibly be.

Truthfully, I just don't know any other way to exist.


Until next time kids.

Be safe.