Dipping into the Bulldog ‘Wish Book’
Georgia Sports Communications
I got my hands on the new 2009 Georgia football media guide Tuesday, and it sort of reminded me of when we were kids and the Sears Christmas catalog, known as the “Wish Book,” would arrive. The three King boys would battle over who got to flip through its wondrous pages first.
Only this time I didn’t even have to fight off my son, since he’s now living in D.C. Tough luck, Bill, you can see it when you come home for the McCartney concert in August!
Although ostensibly aimed at the media who cover the Bulldogs, the guides have always been a fan favorite and in fact used to be sent free to all Bulldog Club/Hartman Fund contributors, before the athletic association cheaped out a few years ago.
You can still buy a copy, though, at various retail outlets in Athens and by mail or online. The athletic association says it’s available for $15 from the GShop of Georgiadogs.com and the UGA Book Store, though it hadn’t yet shown up on either’s Web site when I just checked. Copies also can be ordered by mail for $18 (which includes shipping) from the UGA Athletic Association, Sports Information Yearbook 2, P.O. Box 1472, Room 312, Athens, GA 30603. Make your check payable to the athletic association and allow three weeks for delivery. If you can wait that long.
The guide has 208 pages — which is the maximum that’s allowed since the NCAA decided that the giant volumes schools were producing as an extra recruiting tool earlier in this decade were getting out of hand. Ah, for the days of those 420-pagers like the 2004 guide, which had lots more photos from the past in the record book section. The current guide is more compact but still has a lot of information: biographies of players and coaches, stats, records, pictures, a rundown of the program’s traditions and history, and a rather dated season preview that doesn’t take into account incoming first-year players.
I’ve only given it a quick once-over, but here are some interesting factoids gleaned so far:
Defensive tackle Geno Atkins played on offense as a “wham” back against Auburn and Georgia Tech last season.
Those two interceptions returned for touchdowns in last year’s LSU game are linebacker Darryl Gamble’s only career interceptions so far.
Backup QB Logan Gray was named Biggest Surprise of the Spring on offense at the conclusion of spring drills.
Junior guard Chris Davis enters the 2009 season with the team’s longest streak of consecutive games started, with 26. On defense, Geno Atkins has started 18 consecutive games and 20 overall.
The 2009 senior class enters its final season with a 30-9 record. If they can win 40 or more games, they’ll become the seventh consecutive class to achieve that distinction.
And here’s one you probably don’t want to dwell on too much: Georgia returns players responsible for 51 percent of its receiving, 25 percent of its rushing and just 4 percent of its passing from last season.
Never mind, the media guide is here and practice starts Aug. 4!
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RAMBLE ON!!!
July 22nd, 2009
8:06 am
and you’re still going to lose to GT 56-18
RedandBlack
July 22nd, 2009
8:07 am
Here we go Georgia Bulldogs! The 2009 season starts in 45 days!! Go Dogs!!!
athensdawg
July 22nd, 2009
8:20 am
maybe geno should stay at wham back. if he wouldn’t have whammed the quarterback so many times last year, our record might have been a bit better.
i can’t wait for more roughing the passer penalties at crucial times in the game….
Hunting Dawg
July 22nd, 2009
8:28 am
Piss on M and St. Simons. Ramble On!!! is smoking that crack he bought on campus from the GT football team. He’ll be trying to rob an exchange student later to get another hit. Worthless Tech bloggers.
Go Dawgs!
lakerat
July 22nd, 2009
8:33 am
You still get the Media Guide for free as a Hartmann Fund contributor at the $1000 and up level of giving.
PBR=America in a can
July 22nd, 2009
8:38 am
athensdawg Geno was double teamed all last season, with Jeff Owens back this year he will have one on one and that bids well for us.
m
July 22nd, 2009
8:43 am
Bill…if you really have read this book…then you have read more books than most of the players and almost all of the fans.
45-42…glad it still hurts so bad.
ATL Dawg
July 22nd, 2009
8:43 am
Rmable On when UGA kicks the ever living crap out of Tech this year at the joke by coke please do me just ONE favor…….come on this blog and let everyone know what a FOOL you have been talking smack after just one victory!
Denver Dog
July 22nd, 2009
8:44 am
What kind of life does a Tech fool have getting on the UGA blogs everyday. At least it is not running from the gangs down at the concrete campus. Expect some injuries, but I’d say we are set at every position right now!
m
July 22nd, 2009
8:45 am
ATl dawg…if that happens…he would have to admit that he was as big a fool as you were last year for thinking your pitiful pups could beat TECH at sanford and son stadium.
45-42…glad is still hurts so bad.
RanterX1
July 22nd, 2009
8:47 am
I wish for better leadership and team play at QB. Dawg knows we got very little of that last year.
m
July 22nd, 2009
9:23 am
Hey Ramble…..if you like jacketbackers, then you would love my rusty trombones.
Actually I took one from yellow fuzz last night
m
July 22nd, 2009
9:24 am
I wish i could get laid
Dawg'94
July 22nd, 2009
9:24 am
The Dawgs are prime for a GREAT season. m comes on this blog to give his self a break from “Band Boys Gone Wild” taped at the Yech campus.
yellow fuzz
July 22nd, 2009
9:24 am
yeah you like my rusty trombones don’t you m?
….glad it still hurts
m
July 22nd, 2009
9:26 am
Actually Dawg94, that is pencil geeks gone wild that we tape. We just did a segment on our July 4th tool tickle pile at CPJs. Going to be a great seller with the remaining gay club…..uh I mean glee club at Tech.
Dog Town Bulldog
July 22nd, 2009
9:27 am
M
Of course it hurts so bad, mainly because it’ so RARE! O line improved, D line improved, Tech eagerly awaiting our arrival at Grant Field at Bobby Dodd Stadium at the George O’Leary School of Graduate Degree Fabrication. Why, you ask? So they can look forward to their biennial sell-out.
AltamahaDawg
July 22nd, 2009
9:29 am
Forget about score predictions, how embarrassing is it to be a grown man starting every day of your life sitting in front of a computer waiting to be the first person to comment on your rival’s football team?
harry dawg 73
July 22nd, 2009
9:50 am
Hey so called techers ….. here are some college memories:
Eddie Lee Ivory – Rape and served prison time in Wisconsin.
Frosh recruit of two years ago- rape charges by APD
Joey Hamilton- Drug arrest
Reuben Houston- Drug arrest
Jim Lavin, Mike Mooney and Kevin Salisbury asaulted a girl with their fists and issue settled out of court and HUGE med bills paid by Tech. Players were part of Bobby Ross’ The Right Stuff crowd. Girl went toe to toe with them before they held her while one tackle sumg widly at her. APD cop was witness.
Reggie Ball still learning to count to 4 ……..like in 4th down and throwing the ball out of bounds with David Pollack about to nail him 40 yds behind line of scrimmage. I am still laughing.
Harry Dawg 73
BruffDawg
July 22nd, 2009
9:51 am
Do we know the numbers of the incoming freshman? Ealey, Brown, Charles (7), Smith (1), or any others? that would be awesome.
Joe
July 22nd, 2009
9:52 am
Ramble On…..51-7……1-7…….own the series…….UGA “gives” you a win and now all of a sudden the slime from the Trade Scool surfaces till about three weeks into their “We are back” year. heard the same thing from the trade school sooooooooo many times before.
Huh?
July 22nd, 2009
9:58 am
I think I may have met my match in putting the miserable Techies in their rightful place. Well done harry dawg 73. Excellent stuff. Nothing but class down their on the Flats…
"down their on the Flats"...
July 22nd, 2009
10:00 am
…obviously you failed to go to English class very often!
m
July 22nd, 2009
10:09 am
Look, honestly I’m at work bored like the rest of you. It’s all in good fun though. I respect UGA as the national powerhouse that they are, but I hope Tech can keep the series hot. Hopefully Tech will be averaging close to 10 wins a season one day, as UGA is now.
45-42…glad is still hurts so bad.
augustadawg
July 22nd, 2009
10:10 am
GT will not score 56 points on UGA the next 3 years combined – that little piss ant high school bs offense they run will not make it major college football – couple of lucky plays last year hurt us but that was just a fluke
Ben
July 22nd, 2009
10:16 am
M,
Did you just make a classy post? I thought that was against the rules for Tech fans on this board.
DawginLex
July 22nd, 2009
10:19 am
must have been his impostor.
the real m is incapable of class
Huh?
July 22nd, 2009
10:23 am
He just got smacked silly on the Barnhart blog and is trying to save some face.
DawgFan
July 22nd, 2009
10:24 am
Excuse, m, but did you guys win a bowl game last season? Oh yeah, that’s right, you got ‘whupped’ 38-3 by a team that we scored 52 points on. So go ahead, celebrate that 3 point victory. You won’t get another one for a long time.
Saint Simons
July 22nd, 2009
10:24 am
Wish on this ((((( 45 42 ))))) hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
GoBigBlue
July 22nd, 2009
10:25 am
Is m still at it? Gosh, I wish you guys could go through the crap we Michigan fans have suffered lately. Then you’d understand just how nice even a .500 season is. I still hate Appalachian State.
alabamadawg
July 22nd, 2009
10:28 am
Glad to hear that about Logan Gray, I still think he’ll be the starter next year, and won’t disappoint my fellow dawg fans !!!With all the love people are showing Murray, I think it’ll push Gray even more…and he will respond.
BruffDawg
July 22nd, 2009
10:44 am
Sombody help me out with freshman jersy numbers!!! I’m stuck in SC and can’t find the info anywhere online!!!!!
RAMBLE ON!!!
July 22nd, 2009
11:25 am
I still like jacketbackers. I’m a Tech tool.
Very Concerned
July 22nd, 2009
12:27 pm
No that Larry’s gone, who will Loran spoon with on road trips?
SSI gator
July 22nd, 2009
2:26 pm
Bill -
Do the crayons come with the book or do you have to pay extra for them?
snot bubble
July 22nd, 2009
2:39 pm
This is the last time I’m going to tell you ……..LEAVE BILL ALONE !!!!!!!!!!! Did I do good cousin Bill? Did I? Now where’s my dollar? Please pass the spit cup………
DamnGoodDawg
July 22nd, 2009
3:43 pm
Ramble On, St Simons and M, I think I hear your ladies calling you….Baaaaahhhhhh! Quack, Quack
SuperB
July 22nd, 2009
4:26 pm
I don’t gamble, but I’d bet Ramble GT will not whip Georgia next year. By the way, don’t the yellerbugs have their own blog? I’ve never been on a GT blog– and don’t plan to! Buzz off ya’ drones.
phoenix falcon
July 22nd, 2009
5:47 pm
Coach bans Bulldogs staff from campus
http://sports.espn.go.com/highschool/rise/news/story?id=4348798&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines
what kind of coach would do this to a 17 year old kid?
i’m a huge bull dawg fan, but this is a little bit disturbing.
Kendawg
July 22nd, 2009
6:05 pm
My wish is for the Dawgs to avoid season-ending injuries like we had last year.
ghost dawg
July 22nd, 2009
8:04 pm
M it doesnt hurt. You won by 3 points over a team decimated by injuries then went out and got you ass kicked by a team Uga spanked. Does it hurt, is that all you got? ! out of 8 does it hurt?
BruffDawg
July 22nd, 2009
9:18 pm
Same coach did it to another school a few weeks ago. It is a publicity stunt when they are actually hurting the kids chances. This stuff happens and im sure CMR takes no pleasure in it. PJ did it this off season as well as many other coaches. It happens.
who is asher allen?
July 23rd, 2009
1:19 am
uga.5-7 in 2009
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