Two-minute drill: Dogs’ recruiting class best in SEC?
ESPN.com’s Chris Low declares Georgia is “burning up the recruiting trail.” He says, “The Bulldogs are making a strong bid to have the best recruiting class in the SEC, and that’s saying something when you look at whom Alabama, Florida and LSU have committed. … The Bulldogs now have 12 ESPNU 150 Watch List prospects (the most in the SEC) among the 18 players they have committed.” …
David Hale of the Bulldogs Blog identifies five Dogs who remain question marks and need to step up this season and, no, none of them is a tailback. His five: defensive ends Justin Houston and Demarcus Dobbs, punter Drew Butler, safety Reshad Jones and tight end Aron White. …
Loran Smith writes in the Athens Banner-Herald that the flap over Steve Spurrier initially not voting for Tim Tebow on the coaches’ preseason All-SEC team is much ado about nothing. Coaches should coach while someone else does the picking and ranking, he says. Smith also notes that coaches often have been known to let their prejudices influence their voting: “In 1990, there was a split vote on the national champion. Colorado, which beat Notre Dame 10-9 in a thrilling game in the Orange Bowl, was voted No. 1 by the Associated Press. The United Press International poll, whose voters were a panel of college head coaches, chose Georgia Tech. … Tech’s Bobby Ross was highly regarded in the coaching profession, but I can name you a number of coaches who did not like Bill McCartney of Colorado, a man who wore his religion on his sleeve. Several coaches voted against McCartney and Colorado because they thought McCartney to be a hypocrite.” …
Sports Illustrated’s Stewart Mandel on Georgia QB Joe Cox: “While I don’t necessarily see an SEC title in Cox’s future — that would require knocking off Florida — I would not be surprised at all if Cox and Georgia surprise some people this fall. For one thing, Mark Richt’s past two BCS bowl teams (2005 and ’07) both started the season outside the top 10, and it appears this Georgia squad will do so, too. That’s good news, because the Dawgs don’t seem to fare as well when expectations are high (see last year). Secondly, the last time we saw Cox in meaningful action as a redshirt freshman in ’06, he came in and led an impressive comeback against Colorado, throwing two touchdown passes. And finally, he’ll have a good supporting cast — no Knowshon Moreno, but an experienced offensive line, star receiver A.J. Green and the underrated Michael Moore (not the filmmaker; the guy who had six catches for 97 yards in the Capital One Bowl). I think we can say with reasonable certainty the SEC will place two teams in the BCS, and that one of those teams will be Florida. But your guess is as good as mine as to which of four teams — Alabama, Ole Miss, LSU or Georgia — will be the other.”
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123 comments Add your comment
oldbrave
July 30th, 2009
11:49 pm
are any of you idoits on here over 12 it seems all anyone wants to do is talk bs bet 90% of you never walked on a football field in a set of pads and cleats in your lifes this in madden football
oldbrave
July 30th, 2009
11:49 pm
inst madden football, sorry
weak SEC sisters club
July 30th, 2009
11:59 pm
Auburn is in! Now can UGA put away Vandy , South Carolina and Kentucky for the upcomimg season? Afraid not!
Larry Munson
July 31st, 2009
12:01 am
“They’re running through us like we’re a Vandy or a Wake Forest! “
CHARLOTTE DAWG
July 31st, 2009
12:03 am
An origal thought/post by the infamous SS! Looks like you got under his skin Georgia Tech fan.
Good Post. It takes a very sick individual(SS) to have such a devotion to a third party to post the same message on every message board, every day, sometimes even very early in the morning when most people haven’t had coffee yet.
If Georgia beats Tech this year I’ll be dishing out some good payback for a while on these message boards but that will get boring after a while. Perhaps the Bulldog nation will tone it down around Christmas in spirit of the season. Or maybe not. But SS seems to be bat$hit insane.
Okiehomie Joe
July 31st, 2009
12:09 am
You boys over in the deep south are comical….. too bad you wont think it will be too funny when the cowboys put a beatdown on you at T. Boones in Stillwater. Our coach is a MAN! Your coach sprays on tans and has manicures!
CHARLOTTE DAWG
July 31st, 2009
12:15 am
“I’m a man! I’m 40!”
john '90
July 31st, 2009
12:22 am
Native Atlantan: Great Post!
Loran, Whatayagot?
July 31st, 2009
2:37 am
What are you Techies gonna say when you quickly return to mediocrity as you certainly will soon? You can’t even fill your little tea cup of a stadium. You’d generate more revenue if you’d simulcast the UGA games on your big screen TV and play your games at Piedmont Park so all the midtown fans could come watch the QB put his hands under the center’s behind.
guy
July 31st, 2009
3:01 am
Children will play and write childish words!
m
July 31st, 2009
3:40 am
please kill me
Loran Smiff
July 31st, 2009
4:13 am
LMAO…looks like ol’ Loran still has GT’s 1990 NATIONAL TITLE stuck in his craw. Smoke this Loran… in 1980 Ugag beat 11 regular season opponents that won a grand total of 43 games between them that year. And then they beat a Notre Dame team that was TIED 3-3 by a 1-9-1 Tech team. Pittsburgh would have mopped the floor with Ugay that year.
TechBuzz
July 31st, 2009
5:44 am
The last UGA title—Jimmy Carter was still president! LOL!!! Years of mediocrity and chokes in big games! Look for another Tech beatdown over UGA this year, but it will be worse!!!
ceph
July 31st, 2009
7:00 am
Bill, when you were talking about McCartney,I thought you would follow it up with the same thing about Richt. He for sure wears his religion on his whole body and if there was ever a hypocrite it’s RICHT!!!! Why does everyone talk about Cox against Colorado, don’t they remember how badly he looked agains Mississippi????? Also Cox is not a veteran QB he is just the guy who has been there the longest! It’s funny how Richt has made such a production about the competition being wide open for the backup QB position, why didn’t he just say the competition is wide open for the QB position period. Pete Carroll named a starter for the spring game but reiterated that when the fall started the competition would be wide open again and the best player would start. So why has Richt not left this door open for the QB position starting the fall practice. He just loves fifth year guys whether they are worth a crap or not (ala Tereshinski)
UF'd
July 31st, 2009
8:12 am
45-42 or 49-10…sounds like the IQ ranges of most UF and GT fans.
JT
July 31st, 2009
8:19 am
Georgia is recruting well, that said a great recruiting class does not necessarily translate into wins. Just ask the Miami Hurricanes that the last 5 years have had a top 5 class.
LoelGator
July 31st, 2009
8:31 am
Does saint Simons have a permanent brain freeze?????
dwayne
July 31st, 2009
9:06 am
poor UGA fans, another top 5 recruting class, another beat down by Fla., by the way, I HATE FLA!!!! but a fact is a fact.
Big Bob
July 31st, 2009
9:28 am
I feel sorry for Saint Simons. He lives such a pitiful life. He is still so excited over a 3 point win (A gift from UGA). I guess I would be excited too over a squeak by win if my team lost all the time.
S.C. DAWGS
July 31st, 2009
9:34 am
HEY SAINT SIMON YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO YOUR GT FAN LET IT GO NEW YEAR IS HERE AND MAY THE BETTER TEAM WIN ENOUGH SAID.
Mutts-R-Stupid-especially-journalism-majors
July 31st, 2009
9:45 am
According to the Urinal Constitution, UGAY has won a dozen National Recruiting Championships, but unfortunately only one National Football Championship. Perhaps if UGAY recruited players with an IQ over 90, they just might win another championship. Ga Tech never wins recruiting championships, but they have won FOUR national football championships. Ah, but they recruit players with IQ’s well over 100. Ah hear your pretty boy former quarterback could not cut it in the NFL because he could not understand the system or remember the plays. So now he is an insurance salesman. Just when AllState is eliminating all its salesmen, and going with the internet instead to sell its products. He He Ha Ha…Mutts.
WTF???
July 31st, 2009
9:57 am
LOL!!!! What was Reggie Ball’s IQ? I am suspecting somewhere in the upper 30’s….
Junkyard MethHouse
July 31st, 2009
5:28 pm
How can you tell when The Junkyard Blawger has been into some bad Meth? When he claims that GT’’s 1990 National Championship was due to bias. Yes Junkyard Dummy, Colorado winning a game on a 5th down, sneaking by ND on a phantom clipping call on Rocket Ishmael’s kick return and the loss to Illinois had nothing to do with anyone voting against Colorado. It was all the pro-GT bias and everyone picking on poor Bill McCartney because he was a religious man. Lay off the meth, redneck.