On average the dogs run one (maybe two) misdirection plays a game, and every one of them has worked (except 2 the past three years). In 2010 Bob ran six against Ga. Tech, 5 of which worked well, and that helped us win that close game. But the dogs mustered only 6, 12 and 6 points against South Caroline, Mississippi State and U of Central Florida that same year.

Now ask me how I know this. Here’s how. I lecture on college campuses around the south to the parents whose kids play for Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Florida and they tell me that it is common knowledge among Georgia’s opponents that all you have to do is read the red shirt surge to clog where the ball is going. Since I was first told this in 2007, I’ve kept watch and they are correct, Bobo refuses to run misdirection and instead prefers to follow blockers. Bobo’s conservative play call losses the element of surprise and the effectiveness of GA’s running game. It is easy to look at UGA’s overall offensive numbers (padded with Coastal Carolina and New Mexico State opponents) and conclude that they achieve decent numbers, but given their top talent I’d say that UGA achieves decent stats despite Bobo’s un-imaginative play call, not because of it.

Urban Meter typically runs about 17 misdirection plays a game against UGA, which keep the GA D guessing, off balance and running their butts off. When Mark Richt called the plays, he was more likely to run on obvious passing plays and pass on obvious running plays – and that was what Mark Richt brought to Athens.

The good news is that Bobo excels at every other facet of the game. He is an effective coach, a good game manager, a good clock manager (far better than Richt), a good motivator, a good technician, etc. However his refusal to embrace 5 to 8 misdirection plays a game has lost GA games and perhaps championship opportunities.

Darn, it’s sure fun to be an arm chair head coach!

We’ve lost 9 games in a row to SEC teams who made a winning season the year we played them, starting with the Kentucky game in 2007.

We’ve lost 9 games in a row to any team any conference who made any top 25 poll the year we played them, back to the Georgia tek game in 2009.

We’ve lost 7 games in a row to any team any conference who made any top 10 poll the year we played them, dating all the way back to the Auburn # 9 team in 2006.

We play 1 team this entire 12-game regular season who made any top 25 poll, South Carolina – who is going after its 3rd win in a row over us.

That is the salient point about why we start the season # 6 in the nation. We have a soft, easy schedule. We don’t beat the top teams, and don’t fool yourselves that # 48 in the nation Auburn or # 48 in the nation Georgia tek are either one of them, top teams – not, when neither made any top 25 poll and both ended up 8-5.

Mizzou is an 8-5 team. And, they lost their entire team except for their running backs and James Franklin quarterback – who, unlike our own QB – is a dual-threat QB notwithstanding his shoulder surgery. Mizzou doesn’t pass the football, and while our front 7 are great, we cannot stop any team who can complete the forward pass. Our secondary, including 9 attrition for 2012 who are among the 31 attrition for 2012, all 9 and all 31 of whom Mark Richt gave a Scholarship to to play 2012 against Mizzou and none of the 31 attrition from our team, nor the 9 attrition on the secondary will play 2012 against Mizzou.

27 teams made 10-win seasons in 2011, and we not only beat none of the 27 who made 10-win seasons in 2011, we beat none of the 36 teams 2011 who made 9-win seasons, either.

We beat no SEC team who made a winning season, and although Mizzou figures to lose to Florida, lose to Alabama in a blow-out, lose to South Carolina and probably lose to UGA Bulldogs in addition with no defense at Mizzou, who never has had a defense, Mizzou has a very easy schedule. It’s just that UGA’s schedule 2012, as it was in 2011, is even softer than Mizzou’s schedule.

South Carolina played 1 more game against a top team than UGA in 2011 ? You mean like Arkansas 2011, while we played no Arkansas, no LSU and Alabama – wait, we did back in to The SEC Championship Game and got our clocks cleaned 10-42 by LSU.

We started the 2011 campaign with losses to lightweight Boise State when our secondary was picked apart by their QB, and our schedule is as easy as their schedule is. Then, South Carolina beat us for the 2nd consecutive season with their QB also head-to-head far better on the field than ours. We couldn’t stop South Carolina, while their defense threw Aaron Murray around like a Rag Doll. Then, we ended the season blown out in the embarrassing loss to LSU when their quarterbacks, as well, blew the doors off our QB in that game and then, our defense couldn’t stop Michigan State, and we all watched as they just drove the field on our defense to beat us, prompting Mark Richt all off-season to state that “we must get stops of Defense with the game on the line.”

We beat lightweights. We lost to every team who made any top 25 poll.

Our Home Schedule for my seasons’ tickets is a total abject joke 2012. There is not a game in the entire home schedule. It’s a crying shame such a schedule has to be forced onto my seasons’ tickets with the monies I spend following this team.

Every off-season, the DISNEYdawgs.com run into every blog and say oh let’s censor posts that only say that we are winning a national championship with Mark Richt and none of all of this is the fault of the head coach, Mark Richt.

Then, we play a few good teams, and get our fannies kicked, again.

While bragging how Aaron Murray threw 5 Touchdown Passes against Louisiana Lafayette.