tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post5070788877030490551..comments2024-03-26T09:25:02.198-04:00Comments on Hey Jenny Slater.: The 25 Biggest Plays of the Mark Richt Era, #4:A national-title shot slips through Terrence Edwards's fingers.Astronaut Mike Dexterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498197770701096363noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post-59157934290566102402007-12-31T09:56:00.000-05:002007-12-31T09:56:00.000-05:00During the Independence Bowl, after a DJ Hall catc...During the Independence Bowl, after a DJ Hall catch, they flashed a stat of the "All time SEC leading receivers" (in yards), and there's Terrence Edwards atop the list. <BR/><BR/>So the Dawgs have the conference's top all-time receiver and rusher (Herschel tops that list). And David Greene has the most wins from a QB all-time. Nice group of records.LDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08416468186977171781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post-88324234438244530132007-12-29T22:51:00.000-05:002007-12-29T22:51:00.000-05:00Georgia would have gotten in ahead of OSU if they ...Georgia would have gotten in ahead of OSU if they had won this game (sidenote: in my memory, it was Fred Gibson who dropped that pass. Maybe he just haunts my memory from all the times he dominated my team in the NCAA Football video game). However people feel about the Big Ten in general or OSU in particular, the media <B>hated</B> that 2002 OSU team. The whole country would have preferred anyone else in the title game if they had the opportunity -- remember that going into the Fiesta Bowl Trev Alberts predicted a final score of something like 48-7, while Mark May went with the more charitable "Miami will win this game by 5 touchdowns." I am 100.002% certain that if Edwards had caught that ball and Georgia hung on, they would have been in the title game.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post-50938273791853946832007-12-29T17:05:00.000-05:002007-12-29T17:05:00.000-05:00I'm pretty confident a 13-0 Georgia team would've ...I'm pretty confident a 13-0 Georgia team would've gotten invited to the Fiesta Bowl that year, and here's why: At the time of the Florida game, we were ranked #5 and Ohio State was #6 in the AP poll; it was tOSU #4, Georgia #5 in the coaches'. From there, we would've beaten #20 Florida, bowl-bound Ole Miss, #24 Auburn, bowl-bound Georgia Tech, and #22 Arkansas. tOSU would go on to beat #23 Minnesota, squeak past bowl-bound Purdue, squeak past 5-7 Illinois, and beat #14 Michigan. Granted, ESPN's BIG T(elev)EN ROOLZ!11!1!!! contingent would've been an obstacle, but I think our higher ranking, combined with a more impressive resume down the stretch, would've gotten us to Tempe.<BR/><BR/>(All information courtesy of the <I>ESPN College Football Encyclopedia,</I> which is the single greatest book ever written. And no, I don't want to hear any of that "But what about the Bible" crap.)Astronaut Mike Dexterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01498197770701096363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post-36167322491036076912007-12-29T16:32:00.000-05:002007-12-29T16:32:00.000-05:00I'm glad to see you didn't pin this whole thing on...I'm glad to see you didn't pin this whole thing on Terrence. He gets a lot of grief about this, and I find myself defending him frequently because I remember a lot of other miscues that would have made this play never necessary had we played ball (0-13 on 3rd downs? Give me a break). One call in that game that I still have nightmares about is what I think was a false start down on about the three yard line or something, and then the Dawgs screwed up that opportunity.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for this great list.Ben Rockwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07196135992618442364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post-36459415465483286512007-12-29T15:56:00.000-05:002007-12-29T15:56:00.000-05:00Yep.You know, it's interesting to remember all of ...Yep.<BR/><BR/>You know, it's interesting to remember all of the red zone Keystone Koppery those great Georgia teams went through, and compare it to now. Somewhere along the way, we finally (and somewhat quietly) learned how to just stick it in the friggin endzone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post-42031283389701667742007-12-29T14:49:00.000-05:002007-12-29T14:49:00.000-05:00I think it is a myth that the UF loss cost us a sh...I think it is a myth that the UF loss cost us a shot at the MNC because I don't think we would have made it even if we had gone undefeated. Ohio State and Miami both went undefeated, and I recall Tony Barnhart saying before the Florida game that even if we won it would not be enough to pass Miami and OSU because the voters (and computers) were going to keep us behind those two teams.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post-80637071939536390052007-12-29T14:03:00.000-05:002007-12-29T14:03:00.000-05:00I was convinced this should be #1, but also convin...I was convinced this should be #1, but also convinced that it shouldn't be. Glad you went with my second "convinced." Convincingly.<BR/><BR/>"Con-vince." That's a funny sounding word. "CON-vince." "Con-VINCE." "Convince."<BR/><BR/>I think I hit my head in yesterday's wreck, by the way.Josh M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04054764121030646400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post-49396527263190797212007-12-29T12:30:00.000-05:002007-12-29T12:30:00.000-05:00Nah, we go undefeated and we'd still see the ESPN-...Nah, we go undefeated and we'd still see the ESPN-must-kill-Georgia routine we got this year. Mark May murders Trev Alberts on air and says the BCS pollsters will get the same treatment if they don't put tOSU at #2. And there you go.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post-69526678234811257962007-12-29T10:54:00.000-05:002007-12-29T10:54:00.000-05:00Great series of posts about the 25 Biggest plays. ...Great series of posts about the 25 Biggest plays. It's agonizing to play the "what if" game about the 2002 and 2003 seasons, but none of that excuses the embarrassing treatment 8 received from so-called fans following the drop. Still, it was great to hear that a Damn Good Dawg is doing well up North. Thanks for the posts and the update!Shanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02912061891010047846noreply@blogger.com