No pep rally, but big Dawg Walk needed
Hairy leads the Dawg Walk. (AJC staff)
The “First Friday” pep rally that traditionally kicks off the football season the evening before the first home game won’t take place this year, the UGA promotions people say, mainly because the Dogs opened the season on the road.
But you still have a chance to get fired up, and help fire up the Dogs, on Saturday at the Dawg Walk in the Tate Center parking lot. The walk usually takes place two hours before the game, so it’ll be around 5 p.m. for the South Carolina game.
Mark Richt noted on the “Bulldog Hotline” radio show this week that a lot of recruits will be in town for the home opener, so the bigger the crowd at the Dawg Walk, the better impression it will make on them.
ESPN2 will televise the game nationally, with kickoff slated for 7:06 p.m.
Stadium radios offered
UGA is the latest school to start offering fans a chance to buy special radios that will allow them to listen to the Bulldogs’ radio coverage at home and on the road.
The Live Sports Radio set fits on either ear and features a low-power transmission of the game with no delay that can be picked up only in the stadium. The Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which already handles the sale of game programs, will be offering the radios for $20 each at Sanford Stadium.
The radio, which is good for the entire season, is automatically tuned to a special channel for the home broadcast and also has pre-programmed frequencies for the away games. (Those channels will only be good for this season.) It also can be switched to regular FM radio mode for use away from the stadium.
Dogs honor combat team
Georgia’s players will wear a helmet sticker on Saturday to honor the Georgia-based 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. The sticker will be a replica of the combat team’s shoulder sleeve insignia.
The 48th is comprised of approximately 3,000 Georgians and is currently deployed in Afghanistan with the mission of training and mentoring the Afghan army and police. The brigade, which is part of the Georgia National Guard, is headquartered in Macon, with subordinate battalions based in Calhoun, Forsyth, Griffin, Savannah, Statesboro and Winder.
The 48th has lost seven soldiers in the line of duty, and Richt had been contacted by Lt. John Gentry, a member of the unit, about the Bulldogs possibly wearing the 48th’s patch on their jerseys this season. The UGA staff decided instead to go with the helmet sticker for the opening home game.
Tailgate Cook-off
The UGA Alumni Association is putting on a Dawg Bowl Tailgate Cook-off starting at 5:30 p.m. Friday at the Wray-Nicholson House at 298 Hull Street in Athens.
Dishes can be entered in the appetizer, side, entree or dessert categories. Emcee will be WSB-TV meteorologist David Chandley, a UGA graduate.
The cost is $20 per food entry or $60 to enter a tailgate team. If you want to sample the dishes, that’ll cost $3. For more information, go here.
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Saint Simons
September 9th, 2009
1:53 pm
24 – 10 hahahahahahaha
Raise The Bar
September 9th, 2009
2:04 pm
Want to really fire up the team? Want to play for a NC? Want to beat FLA? Let’s get a new coaching staff! Let your voice be heard!
http://www.firemarkricht.net
Raise the bar!!!
UGAUGAUGA
September 9th, 2009
2:20 pm
No Raise the bar I dont. However, I would like you to quit being absurd on these blogs.
shankit
September 9th, 2009
2:27 pm
1960’s thru 1980’s – Dawgs win, Gators lose –
Florida hangs Ray Graves, Charley Pell, Galen Hall, Ron Zook in effigy.
1990’s thru present – Gators win, Dawgs los
Georgia hangs Ray Goff, Donnan and now Richt in effigy.
MY HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED
08fx4
September 9th, 2009
2:38 pm
Fire Mark Richt ? Get a life ….
Hate Saint Simons
September 9th, 2009
2:41 pm
Go away you d-bag.
Back to the Dawgs. Something has got to change with this team. I like CMR and all that he has brought to our university, but if his loyalty to coaches like Martinez and Fabris are causing our team to play poorly, then something needs to be done. He is the head coach, if he wants something changed, then the other coaches better darn well change it.
I am tired of these crappy directional kickoffs and good returns. My math may be a bit off, but starting at the 20 is better than starting at the 35 or 40. Start tackling, get your heads in the game. You play for the University of Georgia, be proud, play like you want it, not like you think you deserve it.
Raise The Bar
September 9th, 2009
2:42 pm
UGAUGAUGA
Don’t patronize me. Don’t sit there and try to make me look stupid. Go jump in the lake.
Raise The Bar
September 9th, 2009
2:43 pm
08fx4 -
You get a life. You make yourself useful. Loser.
shankit
September 9th, 2009
2:44 pm
Hate Saint Simons , What is your problem?
bigdawg01
September 9th, 2009
2:46 pm
This is a must win or it gets real ugly in A-town. All can agree that we are tired of being “close”. There is never a complete season. Sorry Joe, but if you dont hang 21 in the first half or a least 14, it is time for you to sit. Great story, great kid, but this game will really set the tone for the rest of the season.
McDawg
September 9th, 2009
2:52 pm
21 in the first half?-USC is going to be so dialed in that our heads will be spinning-OSU was not that good -our D will need to carry the day and lets hope kickoff coverage does not hurt us (although i don’t foresee a lot of opportunities there)
JB
September 9th, 2009
2:56 pm
lose this weekend or even win ugly, say 13-7, and the howls will get louder. not that this year was supposed to be THE YEAR, but we have some tough games coming up. I don’t think Richt can take a 24 point lose to LSU, a 30-40 point lose to Florida and lose to Tech again. He survives, but Gardner and Searles will be the only coach’s retained. The order will come from Adams to Evans, not from Mark.
bigdawg01
September 9th, 2009
2:57 pm
OSU was good. They were 24-10 good. They were 3 turnovers to our 0 good. They were batting down our passes at the end of the game, good. They got tough when they needed to. WE were not good. Bad calls aside…The team lost, the coaches failed the players and we lost.
Denver Dog
September 9th, 2009
3:07 pm
We need something, but I have to believe that when the lights come on, and the dogs take the field, this trash will stop for a while. What are they supposed to do? They need to act like they have some emotion and that they can and will kick some tail. It’s time to let the big dog eat.
Brogen's Hero
September 9th, 2009
3:08 pm
St Simons is such a loser his post never consist of anything but a score. Quit playing
with your pocket protector and think of something new.
Denver Dawg
September 9th, 2009
3:12 pm
Hey “Raise The Bar”… Fancy yourself some kind of “UGA leader”? Big rabble-rouser? Keeping your “ear to the pulse of the community”? Web page grand-poobah? Just refill my coke when I bring it to the counter…
DOGZILLA
September 9th, 2009
3:13 pm
Raise the Bar, let me get this right – You’d have fired Dooley after the 1970 season, after he went 5-5 (70) and 5-5-1 (69)? Of course you would. You’d have also fired Bryant the same year (he lost five games each year in ‘69 and ‘70). Dooley went on a four-year run in the 80s, including a NC, that were the best in UGA football. Bryant went on to win three more NCs. I think it’s laughable, if you kept your opinion to yourself, that you’d suggest firing a coach with the best winning percentage Georgia’s ever had. The fact you share that stupid opinion in public makes you a jackass.
Johnny Test
September 9th, 2009
3:13 pm
With SC’s defense we are going to have to throw the ball and so are they. Like the first game, turnovers will decide this game too.
Johnny Test
September 9th, 2009
3:14 pm
Raise the bar, did you ever play football? I didn’t think so.
BLOVE
September 9th, 2009
3:15 pm
WISH THE TEAM COULD COME TO AUGUSTA’S RIVERWALK ON FRIDAY FOR THE ANNUAL BORDER BASH. THAT PLACE IS THE NEXT BEST THING.
Carty Seay
September 9th, 2009
3:15 pm
Keep CMR, he’s the best the Dawgs will get and their not going to find anyone else that will recruit like him and consistently win 9-10 games a season.
Gator Nation!
Denver Dog
September 9th, 2009
3:17 pm
Whoever is masquerading as me that really is not funny.
Dawg Pound
September 9th, 2009
3:18 pm
Everybody relax! Geez, if we’re a good team we’re about to go on a big winnin streak. Whinnin does not do anything! Richt is not going anywhere so nothin you can do about it. So cheer for the Dawgs or go cry in a bucket bunch of babies!
Raise The Bar
September 9th, 2009
3:19 pm
Since you morons know NOTHING about football, I’m not even going to listen further. Facts are facts. I presented facts to you through the link. Get informed. This isn’t the national healthcare debate. Get it right you num-nuts!
Ron Zook
September 9th, 2009
3:20 pm
Yeah, you rabble rousers!
People, whatever you do, DO NOT go to http://www.firemarkricht.net!
Thanks!
Ron Zook
(This has been a paid announcement from Denver Dog LLC & CMR LLC)
bigdawg01
September 9th, 2009
3:20 pm
It does not get easier for us, it only gets harder. Remember after this weekend we go to ARK. They have a bye week this week, so they will be ready to go. Then ASU then LSU…it only gets tougher.
How many times we sack Zac Robinson? It ryhmes with HERO. Garcia is not a good QB, but we made Beecher look like Tom Brady last year. Hopefully we can beat him down. Mallett, however is better than Garcia and a better passer than Robinson. Without pressure, it could be very bad.
Take a good look at that schedule. If we lose to SC, the wheels will start to come off. A victory against ASU, but a probable loss to LSU. that is a 1-4 start before we get TN, FL etc.
JokeJackets
September 9th, 2009
3:31 pm
Denver Dog:
“Whoever is masquerading as me that really is not funny”
C’mon guys stop it now!! Cut it out!! Guys!! WAAAAAWAAAAAWAAA!!
Joe C III
September 9th, 2009
3:32 pm
People who’ve never had their picture taken wearing football pants with no cup?…..I could care less what they think.
Tired of Raise the Bar
September 9th, 2009
3:36 pm
Raise the Bar…… absolutely an idiot. Get out of your moms basement and quit playing on the internet….get a job and remember even idiots can recover with proper diet and counseling.
Absolutely and idiot. Go be a tech fan cause certainly not a UGA fan.
Burdell
September 9th, 2009
3:36 pm
Wow Brogen’s Hero, that was an original, witty response to SS’s useless drivel! Never heard that one before! Are you equating pocket protectors to nerds?
Speaking of pocket protection, you guys are going to need some come Saturday.
Go Jackets!
Drew-G-A
September 9th, 2009
3:40 pm
We will all find out in a few days. THIS GAME IS HUGE. After last week if we don’t have a convinving win, then there is no way we can hang with any of the big boys for the rest of the year. And I’m all for letting Cox get in to a rythym and get used to the whole starting thing. But if he looks like last week than it is time to start Logan.
Personally I actually thought Logan looked the best of all the quarterbacks in the G-Day Game. I just had faith in Mark Richt’s Judgement to start Joe Cox, I’m losing that faith. Especially when I look back at history for a little lesson. Joe T., CMR had faith in Joe T. to be the starter when it was obvious that Bulldawg nation did not and that Stafford was the better quarterback. CMR messed up that decision back then, and he might be messing up this one now.
After really thinking about what has been said on all the boards today as well as what I remember about last weekend’s game. I don’t feel that Bobo is incompetent or should go. I think the play calling was fairly sound. It was the execution of it. How many open recievers did we have that dropped the ball, the ball was thrown too high or too low to, or the ball was held too long by Cox without throwing it. I hate to hate on Cox so much, but if you look at those plays they were sound calls, they were just poorly executed by our quarterback play. However, I will say that Bobo should have stuck more to the run after it was obvious that Cox couldn’t deliver, but at that point we were already down and needed some big plays to get some points on the board quick.
I also Liked Samuel. Yes, he could have gotten a few more yards on some of those plays after contact. But, if we had given him the ball more times then I’m sure he could have racked up 120-150 yards and maybe won us the game.
DawgNation
September 9th, 2009
3:40 pm
I think we should all just stop and wait until we find out the REAL info: WHAT DOES TED STRIKER THINK?
08fx4
September 9th, 2009
3:45 pm
Raise the Bar ….
Unless you consider living on the internet trolling around forums a “life”, I DO think you need to get a “life”.
I do more “useful” in my sleep than you have done on your entire site.
uuugh...
September 9th, 2009
3:48 pm
Maybe the reason they were flat all day in Oklahoma is because they didn’t have a Pep-Rally to start the season…and didn’t have the Dawg Walk. Who cares how many people show up at the damned Dawg Walk!? Go out and play lights out football and recruits will want to sign.
Maybe that is the problem, we don’t have any ball buster coaches that get the players up for the game and expect nothing but the best effort from each player. Saban and Meyers teams always show up to play. Our team doesn’t. How does that not hurt our recruiting efforts!? I guess we owe a big thank you to the boosters.
I love the dawgs but if my son was good enough at football to possibly play pro, I’d want him to go someplace that would maximize his potential…and lately, that ain’t UGA. We are soft and getting softer.
shards1967
September 9th, 2009
3:52 pm
I just viewed the OSU game again. On Saturday, we were at family cook out gig and I payed less attention to it than if alone. I know now that we blew that game due to a lack of crisp execution and the fact that with about 3:45 left in the first half, our D backs were so involved with laying out Dex Bryant the OSU all american receiver, that he got open on them and scored. Our d backs were 100% engrosed in laying the wood to him, rather than playing smart Terry Hogue or Jake Scott or Scott Woener type of play. The thug in them prevented them from having a crisp focus. There is a fine line in laying the wood to the receivers and playing dumb, wreckless play. Dumb play and they let him get wide open. Twice!!
Also, Cox needs to set up quickly and hum it or hum it out of bounds. He cannot find his secondary receivers and looks only at his primary man AJ Green.
The OSU D grew their intensity and UGA lost theirs in the latter part of qtr # 2 and we never recovered, according to what I saw today. I am disgusted with them all. The coaches also have viiewed the films and they know that we collectively blew this game due to a lack of crisp execution.
UGA class of 73
As for the lack of execution. We have one running play designed for F back SUan Chapas to pancake the cornner or line backer and then, our running back ( once Brandon Smith and later Samuels ) sroint around that wall that Chaps creates. Well, on one attempt Smith climbed up Cahpas’ backside and we got 1 yd. On the other, Samuels ( with about 6 min in the first half ) had it wide open on the corner and slipped down !!! The ABC announcer called it the turf monster. What a poor running style that guy is. He fricking slipped! On what??
Ted Striker
September 9th, 2009
3:53 pm
Excuse me doc, I got a plane to land.
DOGZILLA
September 9th, 2009
3:53 pm
Uuugh – I bet Stafford and Moreno are really crying over their millions that we don’t produce top NFL talent.
Drew-G-A
September 9th, 2009
3:53 pm
Can we stop with all the fire Mark Richt crap.
I think we can all agree to fire Jon Fabris.
knoxdawg
September 9th, 2009
3:54 pm
What is lacking is a get in your face coach that lets you know he isn’t happy with how you are playing. Georgia plays in spurts, good one qtr suck the next. Play one half look like **** the next. There has been no consistency in their play last year or the one game this year. This tendency actually goes back to the 2007 season. Before we started playing like champions in 07 we just got by and it cost us in Knoxville and against SC. It goes back to coaching. If we have the season I think we will have this year then Coach Richt will have to address his staff. If he refuses to he may find out he doesn’t have a choice. Defense played better this game but still lacked a big play presence. Gotta get a pash rush going. Gotta get some turnovers, fumbles or interceptions. Gotta make plays when it counts. In the past we all had faith in the Dawgs to make a big defensive stand or drive the 80 yards to score. Last years time had super stars but they didn’t rise up to the occasion when needed. This years team lacks super stars but I feel it has players that will make the plays when needed. Every game will have a pivotal play in it. Last week it was a punt return that was nullified by penalty. We sagged after that and it was over. Something will happen Saturday night that will either spark us to victory or down us to defeat. Time for the Dawgs to step up and make something happen.
Drew-G-A
September 9th, 2009
3:56 pm
Also, am i the only one that thought the game last week was pretty boring to watch?
I think that has to do with the whole intnesity thing.
DOGZILLA
September 9th, 2009
3:57 pm
Drew – GA – My complaint about Bobo (and again, it’s hard to argue with this staff’s winning percentage) is we don’t stick to the ground game. Samuels was doing fine. First drive should’ve been replicated throughout, with short passing game on play-action breaking the monotony. I didn’t understand why we went to a spread formation.
big dawg 89
September 9th, 2009
3:59 pm
fire CMR??? come on people…y’all be so crazy…y’all need be chillin….he do need to take back the play calling tho.. if that’s the bestest that coach dumb-dumb, uh i mean bobo can do…yeah,come on!!!!!
DOGZILLA
September 9th, 2009
3:59 pm
Shards- Of course their defense got more intense, they weren’t on the field as long as ours. Other than lack of pass rush from the DEs, I thought our defense looked phenomenal. You can’t give the ball to a good or even half-ass team three times inside your own 30 and expect to shut ‘em down. This loss is totally on special teams and the offense.
Drew-G-A
September 9th, 2009
4:01 pm
big dawg 89 shutup with that kind of talk. speak english.
uuugh...
September 9th, 2009
4:03 pm
Dogzilla…they are special talents true and probably deserve the money. However, they would have gotten paid no matter where they went. If Moreno goes to Oklahoma and plays behind their O-line last year, he would have been top 5 if not top 1. Our crappy line probably hurt his draft status. Stafford has an Elway type arm…NFL scouts like that. Both of them were going to be that good regardless. Do you think Moreno got better year after year? No…he was in worse condition his 2nd year playing than his first. Plus I don’t think he ran as hard because he didn’t want to get hurt. UGA didn’t produce that talent, we just got to ride it for a few years.
DOGZILLA
September 9th, 2009
4:22 pm
Uuugh – No disrespect, but Moreno didn’t show the speed to be a #1. Great vision (I hope Samels develops it), but not the speed. (Of course, Emmit Smith wasn’t a burner, either). And Moreno probably didn’t look better year-to-year because of the hospital ward that was our OL last year. If I’m not mistaken, we’ve put as many players in the NFL over the past decade as any team in the nation. Part of our problem may be that all these 5 and 4 star recruits aren’t as good as advertised when they reach college. I doubt Pollock was a 5-star, and he’s the best college d-lineman I’ve ever seen.
uuugh...
September 9th, 2009
4:33 pm
Yep…and he played with a level of desire that hasn’t been matched since. Van Gorder helped with that. We have Curran now that plays similarly…but I think he plays like that anyway. See what I am saying? He has heart and makes up for his lack of size and “measurables” by playing harder than anyone on the field. R. Jones has all the measurables but doesn’t seem to have “it.” The coach’s job is to take the players with the “measuables” and make them play like Rennie Curran. They aren’t getting it done. Maybe we need to get some more 3 star recruits that just want to be at Georgia and will play their hearts out. Instead we are getting 5 star recruits that are biding their time to go pro.
uuugh...
September 9th, 2009
4:36 pm
…and to tie it back to where we started, the coaches aren’t making the players any better. If they have enough to go pro, they don’t lose it at UGA but we usually don’t see a marked improvement either.
Weak Sisters of the SEC
September 9th, 2009
4:50 pm
We welcome the recruits to the game of the weak!
chiefdawg
September 9th, 2009
5:17 pm
i don’t understand this idea of having to fire the team up. The fans were at their very best for the UA game last year and see what the team did. The same was true for the GT game. It is time for the coaches and players to show up for the fans and perform on the field. UGA is the greatest team for getting the fans all excited, only to let them down. You get all up and expect big things, then they take a knife and stick it in your gut.