We know how Coach Mark Richt handles players who "wanna talk to Samson". He suspends them in sequential order of schedule...in other words, if you're AJ Green and you screw up before the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, you don't play at the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party.
Let's see how much sack the 40-year-old-man is willing to put on the chopping block when it comes to dealing with the high expectations of his team. Beating Georgia would set the tone for the rest of their season, losing to Georgia during a so called "rebuilding year" would pigeon-hole them as still being a mediocre Big XII team. Certainly benching his starting TE wouldn't help the winning cause, but as the Good Senator brings to light, waiting for Rice, Houston, or Grambling isn't off the table.
I'm sure I'd be enough of a gentleman to not bring that up when I'm on my 2nd flask of Rebel Yell stumbling through the streets of Stillwater during the pregame tailgate.
Who can tell me what's wrong with the premise of this video?
...if you guessed, bragging about your new Defense coaches then show clips of how good your old coach's defense was...then YOU WIN!
Now take a crack at this one....
...yep, you got it! Showing clips from your player's highschool highlight reel goes a loooooong way against scaring your SEC counterparts.
Now don't get me wrong, LSU is a very talented program. For the most part, you can always count on LSU to be in the running for the SEC West. They pull talent like Michael Jackson pulled Huggies...yep....went there.
But just like these videos show, you can't rationalize anything with their fanbase. Don't try to have a civilized conversation about SEC football with these people, it ain't happening. 9 times out of 10 it'll end with the words "Whup 'dat azz", "Tigah' Bait!", or "Justin Wilson coulda kicked Alton Brown's azz!".
To say LSU will be more of a challenge than last year would be an understatement. I doubt we'll see Jared Lee tossing pick 6's to our defense now that Jordan Jefferson has taken over as QB. Watching them dismantle Tech at the Peach Bowl last year was a thing of beauty (hopefully our staff was taking notes on how to defend "the perfect option").
To be perfectly honest, this preview is going to be relatively speculative. I'm not going into a ton of depth when it comes to how I view LSU's roster because I view our two camps as being in the same position. If anything, personnel-wise, I give the Dawgs a slight advantage especially due to QB experience and strength of our linemen. We both have superstar WRs (Brandon LaFell/AJ Green) split, LSU has advantage in the Runningback dept. with senior RB Charles Scott, and I'll give Georgia the advantage in our kicking game (LSU will be breaking in a new place kicker and punter).
Schedule-wise the Dawgs will continue their role as Sisyphus (how's that for some culture, bitches?)
and picking up where Arkansas left off, the Bayou Bengles will be performing the part of Elle Woods carrying around her pink-clad chihuahua.
Going into the 2009 football season with all guns blazing against Pac-10 powerhouse...Washington? Then they host Vandy, UL Lafayette, and make a treacherous trip over to Starkville to play the Bulldogs of the West. Please note the Mississippi State trip will be treacherous, not the game...Starkville blows.
As if you didn't know already we've faced Okie State, South Cackalacky, Arkansas, and Arizona State in the same time-frame. Also, as you are aware I predict UGA to fall prey to the Razorbacks and come into the LSU homegame with a 3-1 record. This is why you might be surprised I pick Georgia to knock off LSU on October 3rd.
WHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAA??!?!?!
That's right, I think we'll drop the Arkansas game because we'll be tired and get caught with our pants down trying to moonwalk through Fayetteville. But it's the same frustrating situation where we underestimate the opponent and don't play with the fire we need to win. However, LSU is a name we know to take seriously. We have them at home, this will be Jordan Jefferson's first start in a loud SEC opponent's stadium, and we'll have nothing to lose. LSU will still be undefeated and riding a media wave of monstrous victories over mediocre opponents.
Rennie Curran dreams about two things: -peace in Liberia -running QBs attempting a passing game
Jordan Jefferson gets a bitter-dose of reality on his first trip to Athens as the LSU Tigers fall to our Dawgs in a shootout, 20-17 UGA.
Next we take a trip to visit The Kiffer in Knoxville. I think the only thing more difficult than writing the preview for this game would be avoiding the easy cliches that run rampant like 13 year olds with football scholarships in Knoxvegas.
On this day, in the year of our Lord 2008, the way the world viewed UGA sports changed forever.
A young man quit posting anonymously amongst the multitude of bloggers and came to realize the penis mightier.
This young man set out with nothing but his wit and a free Blogger account to sodomize the minds of UGA sports junkies.
One year, 43K+ views, and 3 sponsorships later, Blogging Pantsless is still going strong.
The posting has lightened up (mostly due the paying job getting in the way) but the glamour hasn't faded. I still remember it like it was yesterday, a young boy approached me at a UGA game and said...
"Hey mister, aren't you Mackie the guy who writes about Georgia football???"
"I sure am, little boy." I replied. "Why are you giving away free candy and baseball cards from the back of this van?" "...are your parents around?" "HEY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING WEIRDO!?" his father yelled as he approached.
I slammed the back doors and peeled out of the parking lot, but I'll never forget the first time I was recognized in public by a fan of my work.
All thanks to you bums who keep coming back to read my thoughts and ramblings. Here's to another year!
If I can make it out of this week alive we might get my LSU predictions in the books...but seriously I've got my back against the wall to meet Thursday deadlines. Keep reading folks, if I'm gonna do this full-time I need the hits.
It's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between Okie State fans and anyone from Knoxville...
The Pokes are going to stomp Georgia. I mean, run them out of BPS type beatdown.
I just have to say it. There are so many scared gooner fans saying we just simply don't have a chance, that I can no longer stomach the garbage.
OSU is preseason top 10, Young is a great new addition, and our talent level is possibly the best it has ever been at OSU. This is going to be a great year and it starts with a Beat Down of the Bulldogs!
These kids are freakin good. You should be scared gooner fans.
...just a little cannon fodder from the Okie State message boards. It hasn't reached the level of insult-hurling SEC trash-talk, but the Cowboy faithful are definitely drinking the Kool-Aid. Several Dawgs have signed up and counterpointed the debate, feel free to join us. This is gonna be a fun game, see you in Stillwater, boys.
I'm headed down to Savannah for my buddy, Hurston's bachelor party. Guaranteed to involve all the things that make life worth living for.
As for the death of Michael Jackson, I'm of the opinion that anything worth mourning in Michael Jackson's career had already died before the Berlin Wall was torn down. Even though food poisoning is a horrible way to go, that's what you get for eating a 9 year old wiener.
9.26.2009 Arizona State (Home) Walt Disney in a Onesie
So if the season pans out like I've got so far, our Dawgs return to Athens with a 2-1 record. The ASU Sun Devils come to town and to be perfectly honest with you, I'm not expecting a huge challenge from this one.
Though we're coming off a tough 3 game stretch, ASU is yet another opponent who will have already taken a bye week in the first 3 weeks (Arkansas). After opening against Idaho State, the Sun Devils take a week off then play UL Monroe before traveling to the Classic City.
I'm expecting our Dawgs to take out some aggression on ASU. Just like us, the Sun Devils will be breaking in a new starting QB, Danny Sullivan, who has played second fiddle to Rudy Carpenter the last few years. I'm assuming Danny won't have the mouth on him that Rudy did, which will make moments like this slightly less enjoyable.
However I'm looking for our defense to terrorize Dennis Erikson's offense. Last year their Offense placed 100th overall in total production. Most of this was due to having a piss-poor excuse for an offensive line which was more than happy to let the other guys rub Rudy's face in the dirt. As I've said before I'm expecting Coach Martinez's defense to be much more improved from last year which doesn't bode well for anyone in Maroon and Gold trying to move the ball.
On Defense the Sun Devil's return a flop that rivaled "Land of the Lost" in Omar Bolden. Omar's freshman year was exciting and he earned himself a spot on the Freshman All-American roster. His sophomore year was a different story. He got fat and lazy which makes me believe he'd been hanging out with Andruw Jones during baseball season...HEY-Oooooo! He'd get burned by receivers and played with the consistency of the Braves Bullpen...ZING-A-ROOSKY!
If Omar Bolden gets his act together, paired with Senior DE Dexter Davis who is the best pass-rusher on the team, the Sun Devil's defense could be something special. Unfortunately if their biggest question mark deals with being able to stop our passing game, advantage UGA. My prediction involves an irate bunch of Georgia boys taking a much lesser Pac-10 school out to the woodshed in a 42-20 SHELLACKING!
This will be our rallying cry before the Tigers from Cajun Country come to town. It's the landmark game that will set the mood for the remainder of the season. We got our stupid loss out of the way, Joe Cox and Co. will be fired up and ready to make some heads roll. AJ Green, the SEC's best WR (regardless of what anyone from Alabama says) will have a 3 touchdown day and Arizona State will not be able to stop our passing game.
Just a note of warning to my fellow Dawgs making the trip to Stillwater. DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT serve potato chips at your tailgate. I know once we leave the South for football games we run into some strange cultural differences, but this takes the cake.
