Was it something I said? I write a simple little column entitled “Hey Mark Richt! Your nose is growing” and you would think Pearl Harbor got bombed the way the Poodle nation responded. Funny, but they seem to think they’re in the heads of every Florida Gator. I’ll let you judge for yourself but it seems to me they’re just a bunch of legends in their own minds.
Here is the best of what I shall call “Love Letters from Georgia.”
nice to see that the Dawgs are in the gator’s heads! what a great coach! pretends to accept Richt’s apology (I guess he lied to Richt), then writes a book 9 months later about how classless Richt is. Way to settle disputes like a man, Urban.
you, Francis, seem to be a bitter old man that can’t handle it that the Dawgs put a solid butt whoopin’ on your gators. Its funny that the only people that call Richt classless are gators, y’all don’t seem to be able to recognize irony. I seem to remember a Florida coach who promised to recruit the top 1% of the top 1% and then proceeded to recruit just like everyone else, I see a Florida team that chooses when to suspend its dope smoking players by which games they need them to play in, I see a Florida team that jumped up and down on the Tiger’s eye in death valley, I see a Coach who leaves his Heisman hopeful in the game just to run up the score on a weakened USC, on UT after the game is well out of hand, and on any little guy he can beat up on (because as we saw, he couldn’t do it against any real teams last year… Tebow’s got a losing record vs. ranked teams, Stafford, on the other hand is doing pretty well!).
truth is, the gators are coming off to the rest of the SEC and the nation as just childish. Y’all just can’t handle that you got manhandled by the Dawgs.
See you in Jacksonville,
Trey Adams
Gee Trey, nothing like giving me something to work with here! Thanks for the lovely letter.
Where to begin? Okay, let’s start with this. Let the Big Dog Spell. Georgia is an institution of higher learning, supposedly a beacon of light in a state long known for backwoods, uneducated rednecks and here you are spelling it d-a-w-g and you have your cheerleaders wear it proudly across their chests. Do you have any idea how the rest of the SEC and the country laughs at you? Do you have any idea how you Georgia fans perpetuate the image of toothless, backwoods, undeducated rednecks? I could go on and on about this.
According to Richt he left the apology on Urban’s voice mail, so not exactly like he accepted the apology. Guess you struck out there, Bucko. Oh, and by the way, all the info in the book “Urban’s Way” (authorized biography, written by Gator Country’s own Buddy Martin and available at a bookstore near you on September 2) was compiled prior to mid-January of 2008, so it’s not like there is a nine-month delay. Oops again, Poodle Boy. Maybe they never taught you folks up there in Georgia about book publishing but you compile all your information months before publishing. I know it’s a very difficult subject to comprehend.
But let me get back to your ever so juicy letter!
Trey, last time I checked, Florida is 15 of the last 18 against your beloved Poodles. When you’ve won TWO in a row or maybe go for the trifecta of THREE give us a call. Maybe then you can say you’re starting to get in the Gators’ heads. Right now, the only thing you’re doing is making yourselves legends in your own minds.
The top one percent of one percent … Florida’s team GPA is almost 3.0 and the Gators have more All-SEC academics than anyone but Vandy and the gap between Florida and Vandy is pretty darn small. Meanwhile, what do you have up there in Athens? A still behind the dorms? Never saw so many drunk athletes in one year than you have up there. Football. Basketball. Next thing you know we’ll hear that your tennis players and gymnasts are tanked.
Tebow won the Heisman. Did Stafford even get a top 100 vote? And by the way Bucko, Tebow was in his first year as a starter. First year he got to back up Chris Leak, the winner of the 2006 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP … and how long has it been since the Poodles won one?
Last year Tebow won a Heisman as a sophomore and in his FIRST year as a starting quarterback. Seems to me that Stafford, also a sophomore but in his SECOND year as a starter, should have done much better. Anyone who thinks logically would think that.
And yes, we shall see you in Jacksonville where the Gators have won 15 of the last 18. Let me see. Stevie Wonder was 11-1 against you. Ron Zook (believe it or not) was 2-1. Urban is 2-1. I expect it will be 3-1 for Urban after this year.
Ta Ta!
What a complete joke this guy is that he may consider himself a journalist. I personally believe he needs to be taken behind a woodshed and have the Gator poop beaten out of him.
What a joke
Snydes 10
Well thanks for the kind words Snydee but the joke is on the Poodles (the bulldog is a noble animal … nothing noble about Georgia or its fans, so you’re the Poodles whether you like it or not … ask anyone in the SEC). You’ve lost 15 of the last 18 games to the Gators and your coach admits he was desperate to simply beat the team that annually humiliates you, your fan base and all the alums of the University of Georgia. Think about that one Snydee …. your coach was desperate to beat the Gators. And he won a game. Big deal. This is a new year. Seems to me the ones getting the “gator poop” beaten out of them are you Poodles. As for me, I can live with winning 15 out of every 18. I have a rather good feeling that it’s going to be 16 out of 19 this year. See you in Jacksonville … that is if you can actually afford tickets.
Dear Mr. Beard:
Your seemed to let the truth get in the way of a good story with your rehashing of an event from 8 months back. I thought your “story” took journalism back in time, perhaps as far as 40 years back when propaganda was the norm. It’s not surprising given the nature of your employment and your subscription base, but I thought you could benefit from another run through the facts by an impartial professional. Please take the time to read the following and perhaps even forward it to your friend, the head coach, who enjoys referring to himself in the 3rd person.
Georgia will have its No. 1; now, about holding it …
July 24, 2008
By Dennis Dodd
CBSSports.com Senior Writer
CS Baker
Facts? We have no facts here, CS. None, dude. You have your coach on his third version of the story at SEC Media Days. It was far different than the story he told immediately after the game and the one he admitted to in the letter he sent to Mike Slive. He lied. He can give whatever version he wants, but he’s lied and he doesn’t have the nads to stand up to 850 journalists and admit it. He even admits that he took a chance of starting a brawl and believe me, if one had broken out, Miami-FIU would have looked like romper room. You folks are praising a coach that put your entire football program in serious jeopardy and the best he can do is lie his way out of it? What you ought to be doing is asking yourself “why have we stooped this low … that we have a coach that has to resort to stunts like this just to beat Florida for the third time in 18 years?”
I love the reference about the third person. Only a Poodle would notice that. Maybe the third or fourth time Urban has referred to himself in the third person in the four years I’ve been covering him. I’ve made all but perhaps four press conferences, too.
Is that the best you can do, CS?
First you called our team in 1943 draft dodgers and now you call our coach a liar. What next?
Chip A. (Atlanta)
Okay Chipster, first things first. Let the Big Dog READ.
I never once called the Georgia team of 1943 a bunch of draft dodgers. I said that Wally Butts had them all enrolled in the ROTC program at Georgia and as a result, Georgia had an unbeatable team that featured Flatfoot Frankie Sinkwich (Heisman Trophy winner) and a whole bunch of bigger, stronger, faster players. Florida didn’t have an ROTC program nearly that good. Almost all of Florida’s football team was already in Europe or in the Pacific fighting away when Georgia won 75-0. I did correctly state, however, that Wally Butts ran up the score on a team that was haplessly, hopelessly outmanned. Florida fans should never forget that and Florida coaches should take every single opportunity to run the score up every single chance they get as a result.
Now, on to Part Deux (that’s French … I know, that’s unfair … you are a Poodle). Yes, I did call Mark Richt a liar. I think he is. Most of the writers, radio and television people there at SEC Media Days also think he is a liar. Otherwise, why has his story changed three times (and counting)?
I also think he’s going to pay dearly for both the stunt and lying about it afterward. Seems to me that he could have done a whole lot of goodwill both for Georgia and himself by simply admitting the truth. He staged the whole thing. Ask yourself this question, Poodle Boy … knowing that a fight could have broken out (he admitted that) and that he could have lost most of his team the next game or two, don’t you think Richt and his assistants would have been doing everything in their power to keep the players on the sidelines? And if you say they were too stunned, then I will counter with this — if that is the way they react when there is a difficult or pressure situation, then Richt and his entire crew of assistants are dumber than any ten boxes of rocks.
Oh, and what next? I don’t know. Give me time. I’ll think of something.
(BLEEPITY BLEEPITY BLEEPITY) Franz Beard:
The Dawgz rule! We whupped your (BLEEPITY) ass! The Dawgz own you! When I see you in Jacksonville I’ll open your mouth and (BLEEPITY) down your throat! We in your head (BLEEPITY)! We in your head! The Dawgz going to win the NCAA championship.
Dawgzrulz80
Another opportunity here: Let the BIG DOG SPELL. What do they teach you in the Peach State? Can’t your teachers spell? Why do you insist on bringing attention to the fact that you sound like a bunch of classless, ignorant rednecks?
No, the Dogs (I can spell) do not own me and they certainly don’t own the Gators. And by the way … there is NO SUCH THING as an NCAA championship in football. You can win the national championship but the NCAA doesn’t sanction a national championship in Division I football. By the way, how long has it been since Georgia won one? What was it … 1980? Were you even alive then?
I’ll be in Jacksonville. Let’s see how brave you are if the Gators take care of business and make it 16 out of 19. It seems to me the Gators are still in your head and quite frankly, I think they’re going to be there a long, long time. My suggestion. Get professional help. You need it.