October 13, 3:43 EST- Athens, GA
<name redacted> Former roommate at UGA: Man, we just needed a last second drive to beat Vandy. I dont see 2 more games out there to get us bowl eligible the way we are playing.
Chubb’s Wooden Hand: Dude, we are starting THREE 18 year old TRUE FRESHMEN on the offensive line. Chill. We’ll be ok.
December 2, 8:34 EST- Athens, GA (and Fantasyland, USA)
<name redacted> Former roommate at UGA: Man, fuck the BCS… we got so screwed, we should be playing for the national title!
Chubb’s Wooden Hand: Dude, we just made it to the Sugar Bowl starting THREE 18 year old TRUE FRESHMEN on the offensive line. Chill. We’ll be ok.
This is but a small example of several conversations I have had over the past few hours. So after seeing the Bama-esque outcry from many of my friends, former college buddies, and family in the wake of the recent BCS announcements, I felt the need to clarify a few things. So pay attention, all you readers in the Bulldog Nation and beyond.
The University of Georgia does not “deserve” to be in the national title game.
But its not for the reasons you might think. If I hear “you didnt win your own division, how can you play for the national title” one more time from the Pat Fordes and Lou Holtzs of the world, I am going to castrate them with a rusty cheese grater. If you think that line of logic is applicable to the current debate of who should have wound up in the BCS title game this year, here is my suggestion to you. Go outside and find a stick. Then sharpen that stick…. and shove it in your eye. Because you would be more rational with a chunk of wood protruding from your ocular cavity than you would be making that argument.
Three times since 2001, the NCAA/Bowl Coalition Committee has had one (of many) votes on their docket during their February winter meetings. “Should the Bowl Coalition adopt a rule that would prevent a nonconference champion from playing in the BCS National Championship game?” And three times, that vote has been a resounding “no.” So SHUT THE FUCK UP WITH THAT. If I were Mike Slive, I would 100% unequivocally vote for such a rule. I think its ludicrous that a team could not win its division and play for the national title (see, e.g., Nebraska 2001; see also Oklahoma 2004). But guess what? There is no such rule. So Mark May, get that stick ready- and I hope you look good in that jaunty new eye patch. Moving on….
This is not 200Richt any more than its 200Saban. In any year with an iota of salient college football play, a team with one loss forfeits its right to complain about being left out of the game for the whole ball of wax. If you lose, fuck you. Your destiny is out of your hands. If you lose twice??? Here is a double scoop of FUCK YOU. So this logic also applies to the Oklahomas, USCs, and Virginia Techs of the world. Would you like sprinkles on that?
Georgia was a young team in a rebuilding year and, as Rooster properly pointed out, was probably slightly overrated starting out the season. They took their lumps losing to a hot South Carolina team and getting their doors blown off by a white-hot Tennessee team that played the best half of football I have seen ANY team play this season outside of LSU’s first half annhialation of Virginia Tech. Then the freshmen grew up and the Bulldogs found an identity in excorsising 15 years worth of demons against Florida, then utterly obliterating an Auburn team that came in giving up just 16 points per game.
That said, UGA did not get screwed, hosed, fucked, or, my personal favorite from one of my friends back in Athens… “jobbed.” This is not 1995. UGA is not Arn Anderson and LSU is not “The Natureboy” Ric Flair. You are not in middle school anymore dude. No one got jobbed. 10-2 and a Sugar Bowl berth is fine by me in ANY year. Especially one dubbed by many of the talking heads as a “rebuilding” one.
So what is the the lesson to be learned in all of this? The rest of the SEC stares in utter contempt at Alabama and that haughty sense of entitlement they seem to swagger around with. Why? Because somewhere, many years ago in a galaxy far far away, a young coach named Paul Bryant began prowling the sidelines and started winning SEC championships. And believe it or not, the Alabama nation was humble. Then they were ”screwed” out of an undisputed national title and had to settle with an SEC and Sugar Bowl Championship. And then a new chapter was added to Genesis: On the 8th day, the Bear created Alabama football. And He saw what He created and it was good. And the fans rejoiced and demanded a top 5 preseason AP ranking every year.
Bulldog Nation… we are not the chosen people and Mark Richt is not Moses coming down from the mount. So lets not trod that same path toward the land of grandeur that starts in our delusions and ends in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
