Well, Let's Talk About It - The Celebration

Let's have our formal discussion regarding the Celebration.  Richt needed to do something to fire the team up.  Apparently other ways weren't working.  We did it; we took the penalties.  It could've looked really stupid if we got trounced.  Scoreboard. 

Here's the reasonable Gator view on the subject from www.EDSBS.com (Every Day Should Be Saturday) which is really a good site for college football if you don't mind crude humor and photoshopped pictures:

Georgia wanted a psychological edge, and they got it–Richt made the call, thus confirming our suspicions that Evil Richt was coaching this game for the Bulldogs. (The goatee should have tipped everyone off to this fact.) Terence Moore, wrong as Terence Moore always is, rolled out a crapulent column about how stupid this was, and other, far more intelligent people complained, as well.

A better story is to write about Knowshon Moreno, and how Richt’s bizarre and persistent insistence on juggling three running backs was defeated by injuries, forcing him to use one badass the whole game who got in a rhythm and didn’t stop dancing until he had racked up 188 yards and 3 tds. Or you could comment on Florida’s youth and yet another extreme result of that youth: arm-tackling, abhorrent pass coverage, and a complete lack of pass rush. Or you could say nice game, mister, pack up your shit, and go home and figure out how you’re going to make freshman corners and wrongheaded safeties cover for the next game.

The word class means nothing–it’s unquantifiable, it’s fuzzy, and it’s all too often cited by the team picking their teeth up off the turf following a game. Rules govern behavior on the field, and if you’re willing to flaunt them and still pay the price, it’s less a matter of “class,” and more one of cost/benefit and gamesmanship. There’s time on the clock, try to score; if you’re willing to take a 30 yard penalty, go ahead and go out there and send the mob. Whatever.

We could care less as a fan. In fact, we laughed when the mob came out–it was exuberant, silly, and barnstorming theater from a team that came ready to lose it all in one fight rather than take yet another beating from Florida. Losers complain about officiating and “lack of class.” You know who else complains about lack of class? The aristocrat with his head in the guillotine just before his execution.

Well, there you go.  Richt's got culture coming out his ass - desperate times call for desperate measures. 

Comments

[Russ H]

I just have one question... why was Fla not penalized when Meyer gathered his team together and orchestrated their response to the GA celebration? Screw Fla, they have 3 losses and they just don't know how to handle it. It reminds me of Miami and FSU a few years beck when they began to lose their grip on the football world. Miami still thinks they are the old "U" from years past - still taunting teams at the beginning of games like they are intimidating anyone. Richt is a genius and jnew exactly how to get 50+ 18-21 year olds motivated. Just like when Romeo cured Tin Cup of the shanks right before the US Open.