The compliance linebacker is not only hilarious, but well put together. Great scoop on this one.

I think that Mark Richt did cross the line. I read reports that said Richt threatened to run his whole team at 5:45 a.m. the next morning if they did not celebrate to the extent of getting penalized. I can understand him trying to get emotion out of his team after a slow start, but is forcing them to celebrate really going to help? Now they see their coach being criticized all over the place and that is just going to make his players question his tactics even more.

I think Richt crossed the line in making his players celebrate only because it was the first touchdown of what ended up being a very high scoring contest, not to mention that it was in the first quarter of the game. If it would have been overtime, or a last-second play, I see the want for a celebration, but when you're playing the defending champions, I think you need to have a little more respect for them than parading around like you just won the game. I also think they're lucky they won the game, or else Coach Richt would look pretty stupid right now.

As a Tennessee fan pulling for Georgia (or against Florida, at least) I think it did cross the line too, but only a little. You have to understand that not only is UF the defending FBS champion, but in the last 15 years, Georgia has beaten Florida only twice. After the beat-down Tennessee put on Georgia earlier this year, Richt wanted to fire his guys up and tell Florida "we're not afraid of you." It obviously worked.

Where I think he stepped over the line is all the players rushing to the end zone. I'm surprised a fight didn't break out....11 Florida defensive guys seeing 85 Bulldogs running at them. To their credit, nobody left the Gator sideline. I think the same effect could have been accomplished a little closer to the Bulldogs' own sideline, and still been excessive celebration: refs throw flags on any celebration these days. I saw a linebacker in a different game last week make a sack, and then make the "shh" sign with his index finger on his facemask to the home (opposing) crowd, and it drew a flag.

I think you???re looking at the whole situation all wrong. As an athlete I look at this from two sides.

First as a Georgia player, you???re playing against the defending national champs, in a huge rivalry game, on national TV, with the SEC title game on the line. Your defense makes a great fumble recovery and return. Your offense comes on the field to finish the job and you???re up 7-0. Why not celebrate, it brings the team together, gets the fans fired up, and look at the result of the game. I would trade 15 yards, (in this case they got 2 penalties) so 30 yards on the kickoff for everything I just said above.

Now looking at it from the Florida side, I have to give those kids that were on the field at the time props for not going crazy. I know when I am on the ice and a team scores a goal, I get pissed when the 5 players on the ice celebrate, let alone if the whole team were to come on the ice. Watching this game live, I was concerned that a brawl might break out. All it would have taken was one swing and things could have got ugly. Thankfully that wasn't the case. Actually that fired the Florida fans and players up too. After the PAT was kicked, they showed the Florida sideline, Tim Tebow, Gators star QB, was actually jumping up and down waving his arms trying to get the crowd fired up.

I don't think Georgia went over the line. If anything, the riduculous anti-celebration rule is over the line. I am a Gator fan and was not offended by the celebration.

I hear you, Joe, but don't you think it's too much for a coach to orchestrate that type of celebration? The whole team left the bench for the opening touchdown on the coach's orders. That's a bit over the top, no?

Josh, according to your posting, Richt said he only wanted the players on the field to celebrate. Now you are stating that the whole team left the bench on the coach's orders? Which is it?

The team and coach knew the penalty for this, and accepted it. Kudos to Florida for not responding I suppose, but if this was used as motivation, it appears to have worked.

I do feel that Coach Mark Richt did cross a line. Since this occurred during the first quarter it was a little over the top. If this occurred later in the game it would not have been as big of deal since it would have been a key play late in the game.

Georgia's celebration after scoring a touchdown and having the whole team run on to the field for a celebration showed very little sportsmanship for not only the football program but the university. It is one thing to be all excited and to have your team fired up playing the national champions on ESPN and scoring the game???s first touchdown, but it should have been a celebration that showed sportsmanship. Mark Richt should have let his team celebrate, but in a respectful way. Running onto the field I feel crossed the line.

These guys crossed the line. In football your job is to score. If you are celebrating the fact that you did your job then you are crazy. Score the touchdown, let the players celebrate a little and then move on.

I don't totally agree with Mark Richt. But I wouldn't go as far to say that he crossed the line. There are coaches these days who cross the line by violating NCAA regulations on a consistent basis. This was just an emotional thing in which there was a team, Georgia, who has been getting beaten by Florida over the last few years. I think Coach Richt was tired of getting pushed around by Florida and this was his statement. Although I don't agree with the team running onto the field after the first touchdown in the first quarter, I believe Mark Richt wanted just the players who were on the field to over celebrate to let Florida know they were getting tired of being pushed around.