Georgia Football: Accountability the Difference between Failure and Success

One of the most heartbreaking feelings for any fan of any program is knowing that your football team is better than their record shows, but they just can’t seem to prove it.

Watching the team you cheer for each and every Saturday come so close to victory, yet suffer another head-scratching defeat. Breaking a few objects in your house because players who are known to be reliable all of a sudden get butterfingers and turn the ball over for another gut-twisting, agonizing defeat.

Yes, the Georgia Bulldogs have a 1-4 record and it’s no secret that times are turbulent all across Bulldog nation, but there is one thing that is keeping this season from being that "dark horse" SEC contending season we all hoped for and the Bulldogs possibly being 5-0.

Accountability: Webster’s defines accountability as the obligation or willingness to accept responsibility, or to account for one’s actions.

We could stop the article there since that definition sums up everything that Georgia is not.

Accountability is realizing that one individual decision cost not only you, but the entire football team as well. Accountability is not letting a teammate borrow a car of yours just because he is your teammate without checking to make sure his license was legit.

Essentially being held accountable for one’s actions is making those choices that don’t please you or your buddies; it’s making those choices that are for the good of the team’s success. It will take that one player who refuses to let the Bulldogs just have fun while they wade in the water of mediocrity.

A team that is held accountable will make the unpopular choices so the team and not the individuals will benefit. Who will get in their teammates' face after a blown coverage or a fumble? Who will be the leader that steps up and makes sure everyone from the bench-rider to the starter is held accountable for the team's play?

Well, so far no one this year, and if the Bulldogs are going to change their fortunes on the field from failure to success they need to find someone...NOW!