ButlerGSU
August 16th, 2008, 01:22 PM
Ask the second-year coach if he's concerned about Georgia. Go right ahead.
"To be honest with you, I haven't watched them yet," says Hatcher.
Um ... really? Yes, really.
"It gives you a little something different to prepare for," he says. "Our goal each week is to play the best we can play. Even when we played Appalachian State last year, we didn't really talk about Appalachian State. We just talked about playing the best we could play. That's the same thing with the Georgia game: Let's hope our best is better than their best."
This is not a nonchalant answer. It is a factual one. Georgia Southern is not a stranger to success; in fact, if you want to have that conversation, Southern has six I-AA national titles to Georgia's two I-A national titles. Southern has more I-AA titles than even current Southern Conference overlords Appalachian State, whom you may have heard of in passing.
The fact is that for Georgia, Hatcher's Georgia Southern team will be a tune-up game before a dive into the SEC schedule. For Georgia Southern, the game's incentives are exposure, cash and a chance to test young players in a particularly intense fire before launching into its conference schedule. This game will not make or break Georgia as a program, but the same applies to Georgia Southern, too.
http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=445753
"To be honest with you, I haven't watched them yet," says Hatcher.
Um ... really? Yes, really.
"It gives you a little something different to prepare for," he says. "Our goal each week is to play the best we can play. Even when we played Appalachian State last year, we didn't really talk about Appalachian State. We just talked about playing the best we could play. That's the same thing with the Georgia game: Let's hope our best is better than their best."
This is not a nonchalant answer. It is a factual one. Georgia Southern is not a stranger to success; in fact, if you want to have that conversation, Southern has six I-AA national titles to Georgia's two I-A national titles. Southern has more I-AA titles than even current Southern Conference overlords Appalachian State, whom you may have heard of in passing.
The fact is that for Georgia, Hatcher's Georgia Southern team will be a tune-up game before a dive into the SEC schedule. For Georgia Southern, the game's incentives are exposure, cash and a chance to test young players in a particularly intense fire before launching into its conference schedule. This game will not make or break Georgia as a program, but the same applies to Georgia Southern, too.
http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=445753