Rainey Thoughts

Lucky for me, I got to be at the game today to witness all the excitement! Any time you get to watch a game from Sanford Stadium, even one against a nobody team when most of the students have gone home for Thanksgiving, the atmosphere is indescribable.  Electric, really. At one point I even stopped (Not in the middle of the sidewalk, though. I hate when people do that.) and thought about how proud I am to cheer for such a great team.  Not just this year's team, but teams from every other year that I've been around. Great players, great leadership, great traditions.  And while many people still find reasons to complain (or look reaaallly hard to find reasons to complain), I guess I just have a different set of qualifications for what makes a team great.  The teams that come through UGA do things the right way.  They play with heart, and they continue to make me proud to be a fan. Win or lose. Observations of the day: Our offense is virtually unstoppa...

I'm baaaack! It's been a long time since my last post.  I didn't do a Kentucky recap because I was on a hiking trip and had to watch the game in bits and pieces.  So at kickoff, this was my view.  Can't really complain too much. Quick thoughts on Kentucky before we move on: I'm still a little shocked at how easy we handled that game.  I thought we'd have to give a little more effort to get the win. Kentucky, meet Lorenzo Carter. And now for this week.  I'll be honest, I'm still not 100% sure I believe the game really happened that way, so my observations are probably a bit scattered and not as thorough as usual.  But here goes nothing: Hutson Mason looked good.   Even as a huge Hutson Mason critic, I love being able to give him credit when he deserves it.  He made some great passes Saturday, and his excellent stats would have been even better were it not for some great defensive plays by Auburn's secondary.  Lots of pas...

Well, that was a disaster.  I can't say I expected to win (I didn't.  I even turned down 4 tickets because of my now-justified pessimism), but I definitely didn't expect to look so bad losing.  This team looked incredibly sloppy and unenthusiastic the entire game.  Even when they were ahead, they didn't seem to be playing with much fire.  When they FINALLY started to look even slightly motivated, it was too late.  The damage was already done. My observations are going to be brief-ish tonight, because I just want to move on from this one and not think about it anymore: We can win without Gurley, but apparently we can't win without David Andrews. That guy is the brains of our offense (now that Murray is gone), and after his injury things went south. When he was in the game, he couldn't effectively do the physical aspect of his job (heck, he could barely walk...), but when he was out of the game, it was clear how important to the offense he actually was. ...