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Missouri does not enter the SEC shyly. Quite the opposite, based on comments by one player.
According to an article in the Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune on Sunday, Missouri defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson was asked after the Tigers 62-10 victory over Southeastern Lousiana Saturday night if he watched the Georgia-Buffalo game on television earlier in the day.
I watched the game. I turned it off, too, Richardson was quoted as saying. Its like watching Big Ten football. Its old-man football.
Then this: If we execute, nobody in this league [the SEC] can touch us. Period.
Missouri, which officially became an SEC member on July 1, opens play in its new league by hosting Georgia at 7:45 p.m. Saturday in sold-out Memorial Stadium.
Georgia coach Mark Richt laughed when informed, on his weekly teleconference with reporters Sunday evening, of Richardsons comment.
Old-man football? Well, I dont know what he meant by that, Richt said. But bottom line is, we got to get after it and do what we do well, and theyll be trying to stop everything were trying to get accomplished.
The game provides multiple challenges for Georgia, not the least of which will be the emotion associated with Missouris much-anticipated SEC debut.
Its a huge game for them, no doubt, Richt said. Its a huge game for us, too, though, because weve got our goals. Shoot, to me, its the biggest game of the year, no doubt. Its a monster game.
‘Old-man football,’ Missouri player says of UGA | UGA sports blog
I guess Saturday, we'll give these nikkas a nice southerly welcome