The Goat Pen

Chizik was awful but still won a title. The following year he lost all his SEC games and got fired. Guz was hired and proceeded to win a SEC title and played for it all...

AA makes a good point, but this is what sticks in my craw:

BCS Era:

AU - 3 SEC Titles and 1 MNC
LSU - 3 SEC Titles and 2 MNC
UA - 3 SEC Titles and 3 MNC
UGA - 2 SEC Titles
UF - 3 SEC Titles and 2 MNC
UT - 1 SEC Title and 1 MNC

See the problem? Everyone of the traditional SEC powers have championships and crystal footballs. UGA has come up empty and it is always because of a big game collapse somewhere in September or October. 2012 was the only legitimate shot at a title and I have no complaints with how Richt lost that one. I am disappointed with the performance in Columbia that year, but as a whole he had that team ready to play and was toe for toe with Bama despite lacking substantial depth on defense. 2012 reignited Richt and the program, but now it is 2014 and we shit the bed (miss ya Shiny) in Columbia.

I am not "All In" - I am wait and see and expect to be disappointed. It sucks.

That's how I feel about IB's posts...

It's hard to say...Jimbo was called "Four Loss Fisher" by UM and UF fans until last year...then he got the right QB and the right personality mesh on the team and we won it all. Richt can recruit and that's about 75% of the game these days, but the SEC is a harder road than the ACC.

Frankly he was a couple of plays away from a MNC two years ago, and if he'd had Pruitt then instead of Grantham, he probably would have won it.

Don't diminish my frustration with logic and reason. I prefer knee jerk reactions that I will inevitably back track upon the second we win the next big game and South Carolina loses another SEC game!

Gurley suspended indefinitely...possible NCAA violations

http://espn.go.com/college-football/sto ... definitely

lol. stoopid dawg!

Meltdown in three, two, one...

Somehow ESPN will blame Auburn.

does anyone want the Heisman this year?

If Gurley was signing memorabilia for cash, he should have done it at Tom's T-Town Menswear.

I thought Manzel did the same thing, he didn't get in trouble or miss games...

Same thing may happen to Gurley. He may have to sit out the first snap against Georgia Southern.

Georgia got burned by the NCAA playing ball with them when this happened to AJ. Manziel and Newton both had their schools lawyer up and tell the NCAA to fuck off. The inept and widely unpopular NCAA with its hypocritical policy doesn't have the clout anymore to go after Georgia without an admitted violation. The school should tell the NCAA to close its investigation for a negotiated one-two games or they are playing Gurley and will fight them every step of the way. The O'Bannon case and the coming sea change regarding paying players gives Georgia a disctint advantage in court against the NCAA. The fact he broke this rule can be made only a single factual issue once you take the entire issue of the rule to court. Georgia needs to step up and have backbone here and not roll over.

The good news is ESPN and public opinion want Gurley to play, so hopefully for Georgia and college football in general, he gets back on the field by the UF game.

34 years on counting...

Dudes gotta eat.

Auburn did not lawyer up and tell the NCAA to F off. The NCAA gave Auburn a digital rectal exam after the Cam allegations and found nothing.

Come on down to Auburn sometime for a visit. I'll show you our NC trophy.

The NCAA granted Auburn a loophole. A loophole they did not have to grant and have a history of not granting such things.

Why did they grant AU this? Either fear of lawsuit, incompetence, or becoming a kinder, gentler org. Pick any or all. The Newtons' being clean is not it...

I love all the moral outrage and demands from ESPN that the NCAA forgive Gurley. I don't remember any support at all for Pryor when he did basically the same thing 4 years ago...hell, the NFL suspended him 5 games on top of it for 'draft manipulation' or some such bullshit.

I agree. The NCAA is a masterpiece of inconsistency when it comes to this sort of thing.

Cecil Newton and a couple of MSU boosters being clean is not it...

FYP

Cecil shopped his son. He changed schools abruptly to Auburn. The NCAA has never demanded proof or a smoking gun. Ever. 'No receipts, no confession, no problem' was their motto. When schools would say, "Wait a minute, you've got no proof" the NCAA would quickly remind schools that they were not a court of law and such evidentiary standards were not necessary. Then, along came the Newtons and the NCAA changed their ways. It was a paradigm shift from how they did business. In the old world, Cam would be ineligible and Auburn AND MissState on probation.

That said, I hate the NCAA. When it comes down to me supporting AU or the NCAA, I am on the Tigers' side. One of my greatest joys in sports is that I have lived long enough to see the NCAA kowtowed and reviled. I used to rail against their hypocrisy and people thought it was solely because of the draconian nature of the Langham sanctions when it was obvious that they needed to be completely reworked.