Comments on: Jacksonville - officially in our heads

By: jim

jim — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:17:17 +0000

When it comes to Florida it should not matter where we play. In fact playing in Jacksonville should give us more reason to whip them bad in their backyard. So what are we going to say if we move the game to Atlanta and they come here and kick us around like a stray pup? Whenwe get the Vince Young attitude that says “we will not lose” life will be sweet.

By: RedPantsDawg

RedPantsDawg — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:34:58 +0000

It is 100% mental in my opinion. UF is the one game the coaches get conservative, the kickers can’t kick, the receivers and TEs drop passes and the RB’s fumble. It is like the Dawgs see the Gator helmets and wet themselves. Because the game is late in the year we have to win. Look at the 2002 & 2005 teams; great years until Jacksonville. Just once I’d like to see an agressive game plan and execution.

Sometimes a change is good. I’d like to see what would happen in Atlanta.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:19:40 +0000

Sorry to you folks that live there but Atlanta is a toilet. It is bad enough that we have to go there for the SEC Championship every other year or so and every other year for Tech. Football is an outdoor sport and besides there ain’t no beach in Atlanta(Lake Lanier doesn’t count) and I haven’t seen many boat slips near the Dome either. The fact that we argue this makes us look like a bunch of little sissies. The DAWGS need to just sack up and win the damn game.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:20:11 +0000

I know the point of the article was the Jacksonville neutrality/non-neutrality issues, but the big pink elephant in the room is the UF bi-week of prior to playing UGA almost every year. I’d be less worried about the site and more worried about that week off frankly. I also like having a QB that is not from the SE. Stafford knows the importance of this game, but not having watched it every weekend growing up like we have, it isn’t ‘in his head’. I’m hoping that with us having the week off and him being the QB that we can turn the tide this year. Next year will be an all out brawl. It will determine if we are a MNC team or not.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:13:55 +0000

Admitting that Jacksonville isn’t a neutral site beyond the 50/50 seating at the game is simply stating the obvious. If he wants to do something about it based on the current state of affairs or even if we were winning our share of the games, it’s a completely logical line of thinking and doesn’t mean the neutrality of the field is in the players heads. The last 15 years of getting beat consistently is what’s in their heads(players and coaches), not where the game is played. That said, the fair and logical solution is to play the game at Alltel Stadium in Jacksonville and at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta on an alternating basis. Or maybe even home and home along with Jacksonville and Atlanta on a 4 year alternating basis.

I’ve been going to Jacksonville for 25 years and really enjoy the trip, but I don’t see that breaking the tradition is that big of a deal. Changing venues every year will be exciting and Jacksonville doesn’t really need the game any longer now that they’ve got the Jaguars. Jax seems to be making contingency plans for the eventual loss of UGA-UF by scheduling games like Bama-FSU this year. As for the Gators, they can move one of their home games to Jax if they want to keep a game there every singe year. What they think about the situation is irrelevant since any objective 3rd party would agree that having the game in Jax is an advantage for UF’s players, coaches and fans. We need that advantage at least half the time now that Spurrier put them on the map and they’ve developed into a consistently strong SEC title contender.

By: thegamedaydchef

thegamedaydchef — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:26:56 +0000

I have a lot of thoughts on the neutral site of the GA-FLA game. First of all, I am a huge dawg fan and I believe it is a great tradition in college football. One of the best in all of college football, as a matter of fact. I do not wish to see it removed from J-ville, regardless of the recent trend. As Reed Hall Dawg said, we dominated them during (the dooley era). In fact, despite the recent UF streak, we still own the series by 11 games. I don’t wish to retreat from the current battle site. If we want to go to a neutral site in GA, currently the ATL is the only option, but I hate the idea of having the game there. I have many thoughts on this rivalry, and where to host the game, but I will post those on dawgbone.net soon. As for now, keep the cocktail party where it has always been. Where it was when Dooley dominated, where it was when Hershchel was undefeated, where it was when Donnan and Goff won their sole game in the series, where the dawgs won the national (and several) SEC title, where the tradition exists, where the fun, the guiness record, and everything else exists. I for one am not afraid and refuse to retreat. If we can’t beat the gators there, what makes us think we can beat them in gainesville, or worse, Athens. That’s not to say we can’t do either of things, but I would rather go with J-ville and keep a great NCAA tradition than go home and home and lose it. That’s just my brief thoughts,
Thegamedaychef.

By: Bulldawgy

Bulldawgy — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:30:45 +0000

Reed Hall Dawg’s joke, while crude, could easily be turned around on us. Yet we would find that over the last 1 years, we have only won 2 games. That is a far cry from Florida’s success rate from 66 to 90 - and we all know that college football is not the same as it was “back in the day”.

I say move the liquor party to Atlanta, and see how the Gators like that. Richt is dead on stepping off the plane thinking the site is not neutral and there is only one thing keeping the game in Jville - $$$$.

By: Reed Hall Dawg

Reed Hall Dawg — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:58:17 +0000

I totally agree. Although, I haven’t been to Jacksonville since 1985,I’m from the late 60’s, 70’s and 80’s when the Gators always took a butt whipping. From 66 (my freshman year) until 1990, the Dawgs were 17-6-1 at the Gator Bowl. In fact, after the 1983 game and six straight wins by UGA, the answer to the question “How to you keep a gator from masturbating?” was “Paint his genitals Red and Black and he can’t beat them for six years.” Always appreciate your insight. Keep up the good work.