BIG win for Mark Fox’s Dogs!
Stuck at work and I could only watch sporadically on TV, but what a great win for the Dogs at the Steg. Travis Leslie was unreal. And what has been evident in the two upsets and close games Georgia has played this season was driven home today: This is a very well-coached team. Once Mark Fox gets more talent in Athens, watch out!
Feel free to celebrate UGA’s multisport spanking of the Vols this weekend in the comments …
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Nerd Central @ North Ave
January 23rd, 2010
8:56 pm
Enjoy it while it lasts, dog fans. Your basketball program is and always will be irrelavent! GT is good at all sports, especially football, where Nesbitt and Company are going to destroy your beautiful hedges after the game. We will have our own hedge burning party on the streets of North Ave and we will sing all not long and revel in our victory! Watch out this spring for our baseball team!
jesse james
January 23rd, 2010
8:57 pm
When Coach Fox was hired alot of people were not sure what to think. When I saw he won a couple of games in the NCAA and highlights of the way the Nevada team carried themselves, I thought we may have something here. Kind of like all the noise made about hiring the right DC in football. I believe we got a good one but there are alot of DC out there that are mighty good but they don’t have the big name. But like I posted earlier, Damon Evans deserves alot of credit for him. I believe he will do a great job of recuiting.
Nerd Central @ North Ave
January 23rd, 2010
8:58 pm
GT = excellent basketball team, having recently beat Clemson, Duke, and NC!!!!!
UGA = a team that normally folds at the end of a game but got lucky this time.
Nerd Central @ North Ave
January 23rd, 2010
8:59 pm
UGA = school that can’t seem to get their athletics together, sans Women’s Gymnastics. UF and UA are the dominate schools in your conference. Face it, you are average and boring.
jesse james
January 23rd, 2010
9:00 pm
Nerd Central @ North Ave. -Heck we even beat you’ll in hockey in Savannah and we are going to get you in horsehoes too. Only thing burning on North Ave. will be the cars being torched after they were carjacked.
Nerd Central @ North Ave
January 23rd, 2010
9:00 pm
GT = Awesome school for academics AND athletics. (((((45 – 42))))) You know it still stings!!!!!!!!
jesse james
January 23rd, 2010
9:02 pm
Nerd Central @ North Ave. – You must have gotten your current cut back on!
Nerd Central @ North Ave
January 23rd, 2010
9:02 pm
You guys are actually happy about a 9-8 team. That’s hillarious!!! You guys aren’t even good enough for NIT.
jesse james
January 23rd, 2010
9:07 pm
Nerd Central @ North Ave. – Good enough to beat you! Matter of fact I hope the Jackets give us some competition in Baseball. Our basketball team is only going and get better and better. I hope Coach Hewitt does hang on at Tech. He is a good guy.
Nerd Central @ North Ave
January 23rd, 2010
9:08 pm
Chip Towers = Guy who can’t get a real job so sneaks around the athletic department and looks for stories.
Nerd Central @ North Ave
January 23rd, 2010
9:10 pm
Its easy for your basketball program to get better and better…….when you’re at the bottom, there is only one way to go!
Thanks for the nice words on Coach Hewitt.
Nerd Central @ North Ave
January 23rd, 2010
9:11 pm
Tony Barnhart = Fat guy who never blogs and is usually wrong on his Friday Forecast.
Nerd Central @ North Ave
January 23rd, 2010
9:11 pm
Lewis Grizzard = guy who everyone misses. Even Tech fans. No ajc writer can touch what that guy could do.
ga gator
January 23rd, 2010
9:23 pm
Once again UGA fans; an SEC east team wins agains a “top” ACC program (this time Tech in basketball) and they just don’t know when to shut up.
Legend of Len Barker
January 23rd, 2010
9:26 pm
If Fox had one more big man, this team would be darn good. It’s not a bad squad at all, but unfortunately Albert Jackson is starting. Jackson plays hard defensively, but I believe a hockey puck would be just as foreign in his hands as a basketball is for him. Barnes has never lived up to his potential and this is the best game I’ve ever seen Price have.
If I was a Vol fan, I’d be plenty worried. Not just about the arrests, but that Pearl’s kid is getting so much playing time.
It’s nights like this that make you proud of the Steg. In everyone else’s modern gymnasium, the sound would be more muffled. In our crackerbox, it’s deafening. I just wish the pep band waited until Tennessee was on the court before the struck up “Smooth Criminal.”
Floundering Fox Hounds Batman!
January 23rd, 2010
9:27 pm
If you UGa fans wanna see a good basketball game tune in now to the Duke – Clemson game. Clemson has a really loud venue that makes UGA wish in their dreams . Their football stadium is the same loud enviroment every game. Its called intimidation something UGA doesnt know anything about right now.
PHIL
January 23rd, 2010
9:47 pm
My apologies to Damon Evans. Can you believe the difference in this team from the first of the year until now??? Incredible. But Bill I bet you’d agree you were wrong in saying previously that we have only one real player.
Eric
January 23rd, 2010
9:48 pm
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bhumpdawg
January 23rd, 2010
9:58 pm
Travis Leslie is a monster player, We are on our way up, get used to it dog haters….
Gator Nation
January 23rd, 2010
10:02 pm
Wednesday night will be just like football!
jesse james
January 23rd, 2010
10:04 pm
Does anyone here think Mark Fox is as cute as Mark Richt? I say no, but it is close.
Dawg2012
January 23rd, 2010
10:08 pm
I remember on this very site, a lot of u were like who is mark fox? why would we hire him? so many of you were questioning the AD. i go to univ of ga now, but in middle school and freshman yr of h.s lived in reno, before i moved to atlanta/ so i was familiar w/ nevadas basketball program, and how he produced NBA stars in ramon sessions , nick fazekas, and kirk snyder. and took nevada to the tourney countless times and even beat texas one year in the tournament when texas was a top team. I knew it was gonna be a great hire, didnt know theyd be performing this well- so soon. UGA is like4 -6 minutes away from being 4-0 in the SEC. Props! wait til we start getting the top players in GA. there are a lot of players in GA that are ranked in the top 100 in the country, and none of them are staying in state except one to GT. Jordan Mcrae ( ranked 36 in the country) is goin to tennessee, ryan harrow ( ranked 37 in country, attends walton h.s) is goin to nc state, jelan kendrick ( ranked 43, and attends wheeler h.s)…will be attending memphis in the fall, jamail jones ranked #53 will be goin to marquette. ( marquette is a good bball school but really marquette?!), jason james ranked #63 in the country will be goin to them nerds .. in the streets. so once we start getting you know at least one of these players, with this coach..the sky is the limit!
ga gator
January 23rd, 2010
10:11 pm
If Fox could just keep 5 of the top 25 players from this state, you might dominate.
Cliff
January 23rd, 2010
10:25 pm
Wonder how long before Mark Fox leaves Georgia to coach Kentucky. Folks, we’ve been here before.
jesse james
January 23rd, 2010
10:31 pm
Post at 10:04 was by an imposter. There is only one Jesse James and you couldn’t carry my jock strap.
Gen Neyland
January 23rd, 2010
10:45 pm
Earlier this week, I posted on another blog I expected UGA to bring it’s best effort against Tennessee at your house. Fox has your guys playing darn good and have missed winning more by very thin margins. My congrats to UGA and it’s BB program tonight, Men and Women’s…See ya’ll in Knoxville…
jesse james
January 23rd, 2010
10:45 pm
I would love for Mark Richt to carry my jock strap though. He is so cute with that fake tan, wry smile and adorable little smirk.
Barkin'Dog
January 23rd, 2010
10:47 pm
Dawg2012 — well said. You seem to know your stuff about the Dawgs and their coach. I hate to admit it, but I bet on Nevada several times (when I was last betting round ball years ago), and they covered easily many times. That’s why I was so fond of Fox. He wins and covers (expectations and the line). Heck, the dawgs has covered the last 4 or 5 I think, including tonight (6.5 pt. dogs). I’m not endorsing betting at all, just the coach UGA was lucky to get.
And HOW ‘BOUT ALL THEM DUNKS TONIGHT??!! I love the way CMF lets them play.
Gen Neyland
January 23rd, 2010
11:04 pm
Home wins over ranked teams are attention getters but road wins over ranked teams impress the NCAA Selection Committee. The Vols didn’t hurt Kansas when we thumped them in Knoxville. It’s the road games that people notice big. The Dawgs played UK very good up there and I’m sure they’ve been noticed. Gotta get over the hump and tonight was a beginning but not the end all. For UGA to be playing well is great for our conference, especially the East Division which to me is by far, better than the West. Pearl isn’t allowing Tennessee to run with the same zeal he did before the idiots pulled the New Years Day screw up. He seems to be content with a slower half court game which I think he’ll loosen the reins on within the next few weeeks…Again, Congrats Dawgs.
Your Six-Figure Athletic Director Damon Evans
January 23rd, 2010
11:23 pm
I’m not drinking the kool-aid yet. Last time we had a winning program, we had a coach giving test questions like “Name the official mascot of UGA”.
uga and basketball = oil and water
January 23rd, 2010
11:29 pm
who really cares that uga beat a top 10 team. they only team in the sec worth an ncaa tournament bid right now is Kentucky (oh and have you seen how good they are at football? oh wait a minute, they beat uga in athens this past fall)
uga basketball can celebrate a win in bb every now and then but this program is doa for many years to come as is the sec. enjoy your moment.
wow, you actually beat tenn at something. congrats!
MontyP
January 23rd, 2010
11:32 pm
If the Dawgs go 8-8 in the SEC they get in the tournament. The Dawgs have even caught the eye of of Dick Vitale. Dicky V and the Clemson/Duke announcers talked about the Georgia win and what a great job Fox has done with this team. Leslie seems to make to make the ESPN’s Top 10 Plays every time Georgia plays and that is bringing a lot of attention towards Georgia Basketball. Trey Thompkins is considered by a lot of coaches as one of the best players in the country. This team has already been noticed by the people that will pick the 65 teams that go to the tournament. I haven’t had this much watching Georgia basketball in a while. Go Dawgs!
DawgVoiceofReason
January 23rd, 2010
11:36 pm
Gen Neyland,
Just to rub it in a little bit (you are being gracious in losing), but our women’s swim team rolled over UT and our men’s swim team pulled out a nail biter over the Vols in the Ramsey center pool today. I was there for all three victories over the Vols and it was sweet. I must admit that although I thought the Dawgs would play your team close in basketball, I didn’t think we would win. Instead we dominated from opening tipoff to closing buzzer. It was a great day to be a Bulldog!!!
Can’t wait for the rematch in football this year. Good luck in the rest of your games/meets.
Jim Mora
January 23rd, 2010
11:38 pm
NCAA Tourney? NCAA Tourney? Are you kidding me, NCAA Tourney? Aren’t you like 8-8 and 1-3 in the SEC. Let’s not get carried away here boys. Wednesday night will bring you back to Earth and remind you a lot of Halloween.
Ben
January 23rd, 2010
11:44 pm
We’ll see Jim Mora. We’ll see.
Barkin'Dog
January 24th, 2010
12:38 am
Gen Neyland – Glad to see ya!
Very well said, my man. It finally feels good to shout about the Dawgs these days… and I appreciate your classy “grats.” I’ve also enjoyed watching the Vols play winning BB the past 2 seasons. Now we both have a coach and a team that plays with a passion, and purpose. It’ll be fun to watch these two teams go at it in the seasons ahead… maybe meeting 3 or 4 times a year, with the tourneys.
Now, going to bed. Gotta get rested for some championship professional sports tomorrow.
Hairless Dawg
January 24th, 2010
1:53 am
There are two major sports at Athens Finishing School: Football and Spring Football. What else is there to say? . That is all.
Boses
January 24th, 2010
6:02 am
BIG win for Mark Fox’s Dogs! Yes it was.
jc_dawgs
January 24th, 2010
6:23 am
Congrats to the basketball Dawgs! Great job and a great game! As for FL this Wednesday…unless they shoot well from the perimeter and successfully pressure us on defense…Ga will beat those people.
Gatorherb
January 24th, 2010
8:01 am
jesse james the buzzer beater Parsons shot just made up for the missed foul shots he had last year in the final seconds. Great week of basketball for the Men and Lady Dawgs. Sorry about your luck Vols but I love it!!!!
Dawgtime
January 24th, 2010
8:42 am
The UT coach looked like a mixture of Miami Vice and a delusional obese person.
JTUGA
January 24th, 2010
8:47 am
Great win for a team a lot of experts predicted would go winless in conference play.
Brian F.
January 24th, 2010
9:06 am
I am already in can’t miss a game mode. This team is fun to watch. We look AWESOME BABY !!!!!!!
wiley
January 24th, 2010
9:22 am
lol a bubble team?? your 9-8 with loses to wofford, and UAB. You would have to win every single game for the rest of the year to even be mentioned as a bubble team. I think fox will have them in the tourney within a year or two though. Can we trade coaches?
Harry Hamlin
January 24th, 2010
9:35 am
Fox’s biggest job will be to convince Leslie and Thompkins to stay next year. Get those two back, and UGA has a real shot at the SEC East in 2010-11.
TED DOVE
January 24th, 2010
9:42 am
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TED DOVE
January 24th, 2010
10:12 am
ATTENTION!!! All High School basketball stars! Stay in your home state. Put the “G” on your chest. Dominate the NCAA wearing the RED and BLACK and SILVER. GEORGIANS CAN TAKE ANYONE TO THE WOODSHED IN ANY SPORT!! WE PROVE IT ALL THE TIME! IT IS THE REASON GEORGIA DAWGS ARE MOST HATED TEAM IN THE COUNTRY! WHEN YOU CONTINUALLY CARVE THE “G” IN OTHERS REARS AS WE DO, YEAH HATE IS THE RESULT! Come play for Coach FOX. I CALL COACH FOX – ZORRO! ZORRO OUTSMARTS THE OTHER COACHES AND CARVES THE “G” IN THEM SO THEY DON’T FORGET!! THE BULLDAWG NATION EXCELLS, OVERACHIEVES, AND RULES IN ALL SPORTS. WE ARE CHAMPIONS IN GYMNASTICS, TENNIS MENS AND WOMENS, SWIMMING MENS AND WOMENS, BASEBALL, VOLLEYBALL, SOFTBALL, EQUESTRIAN, AND FOOTBALL, ETC.,ETC.,ETC. COME BE A PART OF THE GREAT BULLDAWG NATION! COME BE RESPECTED BY ALL THE HATERS. COME AND HAVE FUN, WIN, DEVELOP INTO TRUE LEADERS, COME AND BUILD OUR MENS BASKETBALL PROGRAM INTO THE #1 PROGRAM IN THE NCAA. IT IS GREAT TO BE A GEORGIA BULLDAWG! COME JOIN ZORRO! ZORRO!ZORRO! OUT OF THE NIGHT WHEN THE FULL MOON IS BRIGHT COMES A BASKETBALL COACH THE DAWG NATION CALLS ZORRO! GREATNESS IS HAPPENING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. WELCOME COACH TODD GRANTHAM AND COACH SCOTT LAKATOS! WOOF!WOOF!WOOF! GATA! ALL YOU GREAT HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYERS BETTER JUMP ON BOARD THE BULLDAWG NATION TRAIN TOO! IT IS GOING TO BE A VICTORIOUS RIDE ON COACH RICHT’S RIGHTEOUS DAWGS TRAIN BABY! GO DAWGS SIC’EM BIG LARGE BITES! WE ARE GEORGIA!
Bleu_Bayou42
January 24th, 2010
11:17 am
I think the talent is already there. These guys are only get better on offense as the season goes along. Coach Fox’s triangle offense requires a lot of anticipation and reads. The more they play together the more they will recognize. It’s obvious the kids have bought in. It’s obvious that Coach Fox is committed to the development of these young men by how many guys he rotates in out of a game. Wow.
jesse james
January 24th, 2010
12:47 pm
I just can’t stop thinking about Mark Fox and how cute he is. One of these days we will move out of last place in the East.