Now he is separating himself from the incident, even writing about it in a book, in the 3rd person….

Talk all you want about endzone celebrations. But I think we’d all agree that Meyer is a whiny bitch. And at the end of the day, the team is a reflection of its coach. by the way, I am 40 and I am a man!

My recollection is that Richt said before the game that if they went down and scored he’d “be disappointed if we don’t get a celebration penalty.” Some of the players after the game said that they interpreted that to mean that everyone should celebrate, including the guys on the bench. To my knowledge (and if you can find me a contradictory link, I’ll certainly retract this), no player ever said “Coach Richt told us to run out on the field.”

But whatever. You believe what you believe, and I will defend your right to believe it. You have to admit though, if Knowshon had simply handed the ball back to the ref you’d be looking forward to next year’s game a lot less. So it wasn’t all bad.

so…Holly… I think you should demand a payment from the general population *the ones asking to see more than your rack* if TN wins a certain game this season *take your choice*

I for one would love to admire embarassing photos of EDSBS fans after an unexpected loss this season

and frankly you are due m’dear

Also, w/r/t Richt’s culpability, ’tis true that I have no direct evidence, but circumstantially speaking, I’m not sure I believe that 80 scholarship athletes run onto the field in a critical conference/rivalry game to intentionally commit what turned out to be an historically severely penalized personal foul without some assurance that the man in charge of the scholarships was on board with the idea. But you may be right; could’ve just been a mutiny.

F-it, when’s kickoff?

Funniest thing I’ve seen all week ZZ – but I have to say that would be pretty badass. You and Biggus should start the marketing train tomorrow.

So we’re looking at maybe averaging 21 passes a game this year instead of 16; this is some kind of West Coast Offense all of a sudden?

What they’re trying to do is keep PW from being knocked out of three games like he was last year. I think that’s a good thing.

Sort of like when the Gators laid down on Miami back in the 70’s? Mouth, let me introduce you to foot. You girls are unbelievable.

See Pushjerk, this is one phenomenon that has really baffled me about this whole thing. He’s denied telling anyone to leave the bench, repeatedly. You don’t have any evidence to support your disbelief of those statements, any more than I have evidence that he didn’t order people to leave the bench. Your vilification is 100% the result of the fact that you didn’t like the outcome. There’s not even any circumstantial evidence that he told people to leave the bench. I’m willing to bet that had the shoe been on the other foot, Urban Meyer would get the benefit of the doubt from you. Feel free to deny that if you’d like.

And if someone can explain to me how Richt’s intentional penalty was somehow more pernicious than a) Bielema having his kickoff team jump offsides repeatedly to run down the clock on JoePa in 2006, or b) every coach who’s ever ordered some scrub to go out and pretend he’s hurt to get an injury timeout, or c) Auburn’s recurrent habit of blocking engaged players below the knee, you’d be the first. And that doesn’t even begin to catch every football coach who’s told his linemen that it’s not holding if you don’t get caught. Again, if you can explain to me how this intentional penalty was qualitatively different from the others, I’ll call Joe Paterno to pull a quarter out from behind your ear.

Finally, as Orson himself acknowledged aftre the game on this very site:

WAAAAAHHH! “Class” is what people like to talk about after getting their asses handed to them. As a Georgia fan who lived through the Spurrier era, believe me, I know from moral victories. You have discovered that some college football fans are blowhards and hyprocrits. Congratulations, sir. I’ll spot you that point.

/ Georgia fan who, channeling Rich Brooks, thinks that whining about classiness nine months later is bullshit.

I think I hear what you are saying, I just don’t understand… Even if it was choreographed, intentional, premeditated, or whatever, it was football players dancing on the field. It wasn’t them mauling Albert or the fans. It was dancing. It’s not that offensive.

And for what it’s worth, them Dawgs would likely be worked into a tizzy over this had Florida pulled it off. That doesn’t make it a sensible reaction.

And now that’s not the case.

Congratulations: You have learned the Secret of the Celebration.

You are now OT III and can pick up your lapel pin and tote bag at the front desk.

You have to understand, from the time just before I got to GNV until, well, until that game, Georgia was cute. It was funny. I _rooted_ for Georgia against Tennessee, even. Georgia was not a rivalry. It was a rivalry to my parents and their friends but not to me. It was a mid-season W to be penciled in now and enjoyed later.