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What in the world is wrong with the Georgia Bulldogs' football team?
These days, just name it.
First and foremost, they may be facing the worse year in modern-day history - now winless with a record of 0-3 in conference play this season.
Their latest setback came last Saturday in Starkville, Miss. where they suffered a humiliating 24-12 loss at the hands of the Mississippi State Bulldogs. It marked the first time since 1951 that a Georgia football team has lost to a Mississippi State team.
The Bulldogs are off to their worse start since 1993.
The Georgia team's only touchdown of the game wasn't even scored until nearly the end of the game.
Those of us who have been longtime supporters of the Georgia Bulldogs need some answers. And we need them now from those overseeing the football program.
And no, I'm not thinking like some of the rumblings I've heard within the Bulldog Nation that maybe it's time to look for a new head coach.
I'm certainly not to that point.
I think Mark Richt is an exceptional college football coach. I feel he knows the ends and outs of the game as well as anyone coaching the game today in college circles.
I don't think he should be replaced.
I do think he needs to assess his football team and find out what is going on with them, because something is definitely wrong.
It's his job, as well as that of his coaching staff to find out exactly what the problems are and fix them.
Things like that simply come with the territory of being leaders.
Coach Richt also needs to tell each of his players that he will not tolerate the kinds of things that have been going on off the field either.
There has been way too much of that kind of stuff this year.
Demetre Baker is the latest casualty - not that I feel one ounce of sympathy for him.
He deserved exactly what coach Richt did to him in booting him off the team this past weekend.
The 19-year-old freshman linebacker, who was dismissed from the football team following his arrest over the weekend by Athens-Clarke County police on charges of driving under the influence, improper driving and underage possession of alcohol.
Baker became the 10th Georgia player this year to be arrested on various offenses.
The charges were so serious that it led to three other players being kicked off the team, too.
That kind of mess is a big embarrassment to the school and our football program.
It can't be tolerated and Mark deserves applause for the way he's handled such problems.
Let it be said once and for all that football players caught doing things that put the football team or the University of Georgia in bad light need to be dealt with severely and quickly.
Bad players don't deserve to wear the Georgia uniform. Period!
