Should Dogs battle Army?
The Athens Banner-Herald reports UGA has held preliminary discussions with Army about a home-and-home football series, but it hasn’t gone very far because Army’s trying to schedule 10 years out and Georgia can’t do that yet without the conference schedules.
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Army, which dropped out of Conference USA five years ago to play as an independent, is trying to schedule games against major programs around the country. They recently signed a deal for a home-and-home with Oklahoma to begin in 2018. Army athletics director Kevin Anderson told The Middletown (N.Y.) Times-Herald-Record, “It would be good for us to have a home-and-home with Georgia. There are several Army bases down there and we have said we want to go play where our troops are.”
I hope it happens, whether the road part involves the Dogs traveling to West Point or perhaps meeting the Black Knights in one of the games they’re starting to schedule at the new Yankee Stadium in New York City.
Loading ...Plus Army, a national football power a few decades back, still has a certain emotional hold on much of the nation thanks to the number of folks who’ve served in the ranks. I know that as a kid I always rooted for the Knights in the annual nationally televised game with Navy just because my Dad served in the Army. And I don’t believe Georgia and Army have ever met in football.
Even if it happens, it’s a long time away. But what do you think? Wouldn’t the Dogs at Yankee Stadium be cool? Feel free to comment, vote in the poll or do both.
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Saint Simons
August 11th, 2009
2:02 pm
((((( 45 42 ))))) hahahahahaha
UGAfans=lozers
August 11th, 2009
2:06 pm
Why would Army want a Redneck series?
True Gator
August 11th, 2009
2:08 pm
You kidding? Please have some class, Army! Trust me, you don’t want to be in that cesspool known as Sanford Stadium.
god and greyhound
August 11th, 2009
2:09 pm
Next up: A blog on the merits of a 2 for 1 with Louisiana-Monroe
GeoffDawg
August 11th, 2009
2:10 pm
I see the usual nincompoops are still jumping on every new blog.
L-Dawg
August 11th, 2009
2:10 pm
GLORY GLORY TO OLE’ GEORGIA!!!!
GREAT TO BE A FAN AND NOT A HATER!!!
GO DAWGS!!!!!!
25 DAYS!!!!!
My heterosexuality a fluke!
August 11th, 2009
2:12 pm
Mike T.
Ha...
August 11th, 2009
2:13 pm
Article posted at 2:00. Saint Simons posted at 2:02. It makes me laugh at how much of a life this person doesn’t have. Continue on loser…as this is the highlight of your pathetic, lonely life…and entertainment for all of the Bulldog Nation.
GeoffDawg
August 11th, 2009
2:13 pm
Personally, I think it’d be cool to have a home and home with Army. Like you alluded to Bill, you wouldn’t want that with some other programs of comparable talent, i.e. New Mexico State or Baylor, but a chance to play a team with the history and panache of West Point would be fun indeed.
god and greyhound
August 11th, 2009
2:15 pm
ARMY pulled out of a home game against Tech last year because they were afraid of the physical beating they were going to receive. A bush league outfit like the pups though is right up their alley.
superDawg
August 11th, 2009
2:15 pm
UGA should put guality teams on their schedule and man up and play.It would help in recruting,also increase their power ranking.This years schedule is a good example.GO DAWGS
Lincolnton Georgia
August 11th, 2009
2:15 pm
I do not like the Yankees at all, nor their mafia funded $1 Billion dollar stadium up in trashy Zoo York. So yes, Play Army up there, and get said exposure, and when we beat the crap out of Army, drop a gentleman’s sized duece on the 50 yard line/Center field.
superDawg
August 11th, 2009
2:18 pm
G&G YOUR DADDY SHOULD HAVE PULLED OUT.
god and greyhound
August 11th, 2009
2:18 pm
Tell me, will the doggies hop all over the ARMY logo at midfield after they beat them by a field goal? Could turn into a nice rivalry!
superDawg
August 11th, 2009
2:19 pm
SS you are a test tube nerd.
Herschel Talker
August 11th, 2009
2:19 pm
True Gator likes men. Especially those with mullets and jorts.
GeoffDawg
August 11th, 2009
2:20 pm
g&g – It’s pretty low to say that the brave men and women of our military would be scared of anybody, let alone some pasty faced trade school losers.
Thom
August 11th, 2009
2:22 pm
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god and greyhound
August 11th, 2009
2:24 pm
GeoffDawg – I just call em like I see em. Army was shaky in the knees thinking about having to play Tech again so they dropped the game at the last second. Now they’re weaseling back into the state to pick a fight with the lesser team in Georgia. It all makes sense if you look at the FACTS.
GW
August 11th, 2009
2:25 pm
By 3:00 it will be statewide gospel that UGA will be playing in Yankee Stadium….next year. Can’t believe that everyone has not caught on that Saint Simons is Bill King. First post on EVERY King blog and no other UGA blog. Come on.
superDawg
August 11th, 2009
2:25 pm
tek knows nothing about the military,just check 1943,1944,1945,seasons.
Nick
August 11th, 2009
2:26 pm
When did Charleston Southern start its football program? I bet it was after Army did. Shut up, you Gaytors. Get outta here. I don’t go into your websites. Why? Because I couldn’t care less about your team or your thug players. Urban Crier can blow me!
Pi$$onaDawg
August 11th, 2009
2:27 pm
What a pile of crap. Army backed out of the game with TECH last year because too may players were getting hurt and affecting their Army Futures. Now, they want to start getting more hard teams? Dad and I really want to go to New York last year and Army pulled out. What a F..ing Joke. I guess ARMY was just afraid to face Paul Johnson again.
1-888-TECH-TIX
August 11th, 2009
2:27 pm
Only 30,000 seats left for the opener vs. MIGHTY Jacksonville State September 5th!! Call now for a copy of the Paul Johnson playbook, containing 3 plays.
GeoffDawg
August 11th, 2009
2:29 pm
Then, I guess it’s the Bobby Ross effect.
Pi$$onaDawg
August 11th, 2009
2:29 pm
HERschel you really have this gay hang-up don’t you.
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August 11th, 2009
2:29 pm
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August 11th, 2009
2:30 pm
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Jeff
August 11th, 2009
2:30 pm
I think IT’s a GREAT idea!!! Great exposure ….up NORTH. Moreno came from Jersey…we could pull another plum. Army has a LONG history….I would rather play them instead of some of the “B” teams we play.
chemdawg
August 11th, 2009
2:31 pm
Bill, let me give you one suggestion that I hope you follow up on… “Saint Simons” is a tech nerd using the RSS feed of your blog to generate automatic posts (45-42 haha, etc.) using a type of spam bot script. This is the explanation for why he manages to post minutes after every blog is posted. Your guys at the ajc might try to rectify this hijacking of the sports blogs by blocking his IP address or changing the format of the blog posts or RSS feeds.
juvenal
August 11th, 2009
2:35 pm
during WWII, uga kud only get 4-fs, that’s why they demoted the daugs to a club team ex post facto, & deny those 2 losses-i wish a reporter wud find one of those guys & ask them how that felt!
Really, Army?
August 11th, 2009
2:36 pm
For all the talk on this blog about how UGA was intent on improving its OOC schedule, and now this? Army? Come on.. The focus on improving must be all talk and no walk. Again, I don’t think anybody projected Oklahoma State to be any good when you booked them years ago.. I don’t think Damon Evans wants a good OOC schedule. Granted, the SEC is stacked but please spare us the crap about wanting to improve the OOC schedule.
DawgFan
August 11th, 2009
2:38 pm
Okay, Tech, we get it. You went 9-4 last year. You beat Georgia by 3 whole points. Army didn’t back out of a home and home because of fear of losing, they backed out because it wouldn’t be enough media exposure. Let’s face it, who would most people in the nation rather see, Army vs. Tech, or Army vs. Georgia?
By the way, the Dawgs went 10-3 last season. And yeah, we may have lost to you by three, but we beat LSU by 14, you lost to LSU by 35.
Have a nice season, you yellow flying pests.
Class of '98
August 11th, 2009
2:41 pm
The Athletic Department accountant cares about the number of home games. I don’t.
Schedule it. I’d love to see my dawgs playing in Yankee Stadium.
I-DOG
August 11th, 2009
2:43 pm
I’m not in favor of playing Army, let alone twice. There are plenty of other schools that will schedule them, but UGA doesn’t need the “exposure” and we really have nothing to gain by playing them. Teams like Notre Dame look so weak when they play all three service academies on a regular basis.
I’d rather see us schedule Syracuse, if we want to play a team from the New York area or Rutgers.
I like the fact that we are playing solid teams from major conferences, like Colorado, ASU, and OK State. I’d rather see that kind of thing continue. Among those I think UGA would most benefit from are;
Texas A&M, UCLA, Purdue, Michigan State,
GT
August 11th, 2009
2:53 pm
They played Ga.Tech two years ago and then pulled out of the next game scheduled, took a fine for violating the contract, because they were trying to lighten their schedule. I understand now.
CatsFly
August 11th, 2009
2:54 pm
Please don’t let UGa fans go to West Point, the South already has enough credibility issues.
Tuck Feck
August 11th, 2009
2:54 pm
Try filling your high school stadium and staying off the UGA boards. We have more than ONE game to worry about in the SEC! Try actually winning a ACC (All Coast Clear) title! Yall are way to obsessed with GEORGIA that you can’t even SUPPORT your own team. Buying Gold Rings for winning ONE game and now yall can’t afford to fly to off games. How F%cking Pathetic.
38-3 BEAT DOWN in Atlanta BACK TO NORMAL!!!!!
utfaninga
August 11th, 2009
2:54 pm
One more reason to hate the BCS…teams like UGA go play sisters of the poor to pad their record…..yawn.
Jeff
August 11th, 2009
2:55 pm
I DOG,
We don’t NEED exposure??? What rock did you CRAWL out?? Check out who we play THIS year.Where is MEDIA MECA……NEW YORK!!! I like playing QUALITY teams…..but WE PLAY IN THE SEC!!! We NEED a BREAK!! Check out FLA schedule this year….nothing different from any other SEC team.
CKDawg65
August 11th, 2009
2:55 pm
As an Army grad and Bulldawg by birth, I would love to see it. Please do not play it in Yankee stadium, though. Michie Stadium in the fall is one of the great theaters in all of college football. Somehow I don’t think the same would be said of the Bronx. Football-wise, it would be a joke, though. I am pulling hard for the new regime at Army, but they are REALLY bad right now.
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August 11th, 2009
2:55 pm
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TigerMike
August 11th, 2009
2:56 pm
It’s all how you end the season.
38-3!!
Geaux Tigers!!
Luke
August 11th, 2009
3:01 pm
It would be awesome to see the Dawgs in the Big Apple. I’d be willing to bet 30,000 plus Georgia fans would go to that game.
OZZFEST
August 11th, 2009
3:01 pm
(I AM A SEASON TICKET HOLDER.)Please God, do not let dufus Authur Johnson do this….DO NOT SCHEDULE THIS PIECE OF CRAP GAME. What part of Texas, Michigan or USC do you not get. We already have incredibly sub-par home & home series scheduled with Louisville and Clemson (yet again, I might add.) in the near future. JUST SAY NO TO ARMY…WE HAVE NOTHING TO GAIN FROM PLAYING THIS GAME.
FDawg
August 11th, 2009
3:02 pm
Hey god and greyhound…I’d take a game against Army before I would Jacksonville State….please.
filtar21
August 11th, 2009
3:02 pm
i think it would be cool. would we like to see a bigger opposition yes but int eh stadium and it would help with nationwide exposure.
Pi$$onaDawg
August 11th, 2009
3:02 pm
dogfan are you kidding? Paul Johnson with a new team. The coach that had been beating the crap out of Army when he was at Navy. I think there would have been some media exposure. Army was just scared. It would be nice to see all the rednecks in New York. That would be freaking funny for sure.
EW
August 11th, 2009
3:02 pm
Yeah Army sucks but to see the Dawgs in Yankee Stadium. That would be pretty cool. Sign me up if they decide to do it.
OZZFEST
August 11th, 2009
3:03 pm
By the way, their stadium seats a total of 40,000.
Georgia should not be in the business of playing in high school venues.