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!
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UGA Dawgs
January 23rd, 2010
7:26 pm
Expect much more of this in the future, congrats Dawgs!
Scout Dawg
January 23rd, 2010
7:26 pm
How ’bout them DAWGS!
UGA Dawgs
January 23rd, 2010
7:27 pm
I love the player that Travis Leslie is growing up to be, he might be the most exciting player in the SEC.
LHardingDawg
January 23rd, 2010
7:28 pm
First the women, now the men. It might be a very good year for sports at UGA this year.
WestOfAthens
January 23rd, 2010
7:29 pm
This win was INEVITABLE. I bragged all week that UGA was going to break out, and UT was going to be the victim. This team is going places, CMF has evolved this team into a group that can play GREAT any giving day.
Next: Florida, and UF can NOT stop an inside oriented team. This next game should be a gimme for the Dawgs
HBTD!
PT
January 23rd, 2010
7:29 pm
Evans I think you picked a winner!
CollegeDude
January 23rd, 2010
7:30 pm
Great win for the Dawgs. Improving every game. Got some good quality wins and maybe will be getting some love now as a bubble team.
81Dawg
January 23rd, 2010
7:32 pm
I think we have us a pretty good coach now. Really close to being 4 & 0. Go Dawgs.
UGA
January 23rd, 2010
7:32 pm
Leslie played another outstanding game, his athleticism is unreal. Trey beating the Vols inside and outside. Price stepped in off the bench and played solid. Defense was the real story shutting down Wayne Chism and the Vols. Finally Georgia got that SEC victory after blown leads in their previous 3 games.
Fox in the Dawg House
January 23rd, 2010
7:33 pm
It’s amazing what some good coaching can do! The future looks bright for UGA basketball (and the present does not look as dim as most expected)!
Dawg in Grovetown
January 23rd, 2010
7:34 pm
Enjoyed watching that butt whooping tennessee just received! Go Dawgs! Georgia is moving in the right direction in basketball! Go Dawgs!
rogeriter
January 23rd, 2010
7:34 pm
I am so proud of the dogs. Even in their losses, they were great! But this…! Mark Fox was a superb pick as coach and the players know nothing but hustle. Congratulations guys!
atlanta dawg
January 23rd, 2010
7:34 pm
Loving that victory over the Vols!!! Go Dawgs!!!!
rpdawg
January 23rd, 2010
7:34 pm
what a difference a good coach makes. same players as last year totally different result and attitude . I just hope that top high school players will notice and come to UGA. Mark Fox will make good players great and will have them playing up to their utmost potential. GO DAWGS. Things will only get better. This team believes and UGA fans should start believing and supporting this program and its outstanding coach, we got lucky and got a good one.
MontyP
January 23rd, 2010
7:37 pm
Mr. King, too bad you couldn’t watch this entire game. Mark Fox is amazing! I haven’t missed a minute of any of their games this year thanks to TV and GXtra. Trey and Travis are the best tandem in College Basketball. I’m still handing on to Mark Fox’s words that it doesn’t take 2 or 3 years to rebuild, that it can be done faster than that. Mark Fox and the Georgia Bulldogs are in the midst of proving that. Georgia got killed my Missouri only to bounce back and beat the Jackets. They lost 3 straight games to UK, Miss St. and Ole Miss (all three heart breakers) and bounced back to dominate Tenn. I don’t recall watching any recent Dawg BB team that bounced back like this group. You could argue that the Dawgs should have won all of their SEC games. I could see the Dawgs putting together a few wins in a row here. Teams are just having a hard time dealing with the Dawgs inside game. What Mark Fox is doing this year should bring some better recruits to Georgia. Next season could be great. Heck, the last half of this season could be great. Go Dawgs!
Dawgs2010
January 23rd, 2010
7:38 pm
Too bad we couldn’t bring in Coach Fox 2-3 seasons ago and did away with Felton earlier. It is nice to have HOPE for the future!
DirtyDawg
January 23rd, 2010
7:38 pm
Don’t wish to toot my own horn…and I’m certainly not the only one…but I said we were gonna beat these guys and we did. This is a coach with a team that is way better than 9-8…and way better than 1-3 in the conference…and is only gonna get better.
And while I’m here, to hell with Larry Conley. This guy hasn’t given Georgia any respect for fifty years – since he came to Atlanta with his high-school team, Ashland, KY, and beat Sylvan and Campbell in back-to-back games. Well this time no matter how much he wanted Bruce ‘Alimony’ Pearle to win it wasn’t gonna happen.
Congrats to the Georgia kids…congrats to the Georgia coach…and, particularly, congrats to the Georgia fans. They filled the place up and stayed into it for the full forty minutes. One thing though. When you’re beating the Number 8 team in the country, it doesn’t do your team any good to chant ‘OVER-RATED’…I’d much rather hear you chant – ‘Go to hell Rocky Top, go to hell’
WestOfAthens
January 23rd, 2010
7:41 pm
It’s great to be a Georgia Bulldog!
Congrats UGA BB!
MontyP
January 23rd, 2010
7:42 pm
Fans were great. Would have loved to see them bring the house down over the last 5 – 10 minutes of the game. Fox wants fans in the stands and the fans finally showed up today. Passionate fans at the games will help bring in the best recruits. Seems that a little excitement about Georgia Basketball is starting to brew??? Go Dawgs!
GatorNation
January 23rd, 2010
7:42 pm
That was impressive. For some reason, I’m still hating Tenn like Kiffin is still there. Guess it’s gonna take a little time…
VinceVanGo
January 23rd, 2010
7:43 pm
Mark Fox is a winner! In a very short period he’s put together a great coaching staff, got the players to play unselfish team basketball, and brought excitement back to Georgia basketball. When he and his staff convince 3 or 4 above average home grown young men to stay in state and come to Georgia for four years then we can fly to the moon(NCAA Sweet 16 and beyond.) AD Evans made a great hire. Let’s hope that when Coach Fox gets Georgia to the top of the SEC he’ll be appropriately compensated and stay around to enjoy the fruits of his labor. Good luck BBall Dogs. By the way, I call the style of play that Georgia has adopted as the “Fox Trot.”
dvj
January 23rd, 2010
7:43 pm
as loud as i have heard that arena!
http://dawgsvsjackets.blogspot.com/
Russ the mascot at it again
January 23rd, 2010
7:44 pm
I hear Russ the Temporary Mascot just painted Bruce Pearl’s @ss white.
RW
January 23rd, 2010
7:44 pm
How bout them dawgs!!!!! We got ourselves a good coach.Players are improving game to game.We just have to support them. NO sec team wants to see us come tournament time.Go dawgs!!!
Ginger
January 23rd, 2010
7:47 pm
Yeah !!! Great win for the Dogs !!!!
FL Dawg
January 23rd, 2010
7:48 pm
I guess everyone has now forgotten about the lousy job Damon did and the pathetic job the search firm did to find Coach Fox.
Give Fox and his hounds sometime and we will be very good. Give Grantham and his coaches some time and we will also be very good. Patience is the key.
Jax Jacket
January 23rd, 2010
7:50 pm
Beautiful job by Coach Fox and his Dawgs! What a performance! Ya gotta love seeing the big boys go tumblin’!
jesse james
January 23rd, 2010
8:03 pm
Damon Evans deserves alot of credit. Great hire! Sure beats the one our President hired Jim (the Crook) Harrick. Plus our team looks like a team on the floor and not like abunch of streetball kids.
jesse james
January 23rd, 2010
8:03 pm
Man I just watched Florida beat S.C. on a last second shot. Did anybody see it and think the clock started late the last time Fla. brought it in. It stayed on 5.1 for a good while.
ringthebell
January 23rd, 2010
8:04 pm
bubble team?NIT would be amazing for this team,more practice time with more wins.NCCA tourny would be one and done 8 losses.LOVE WHAT FOX IS DOING!GO DAWGS! give him a couple yrs. keep trey in school and watch out!
ga gator
January 23rd, 2010
8:05 pm
Congrats Dawgs!! anyone that beats Tennessee in anything is ok in my book!
De' truth
January 23rd, 2010
8:06 pm
Maybe Fox can coach attitude and conditioning for the football dawgs.
ga gator
January 23rd, 2010
8:06 pm
jesse james watched also, it started when they thru the ball in. No conspiracy theories please.
MontyP
January 23rd, 2010
8:08 pm
Go ahead and give Fox a raise now. Why wait? Lock him in for the long run. Georgia’s strength of schedule rank is 11. So close to being 4-0 in the SEC after playing the 4 best teams in the SEC. Go Dawgs!
Bulldog38
January 23rd, 2010
8:08 pm
Wow! That is what you call coaching up your players! This team is improving so rapidly under Mark Fox with Ware, McPhee, Thompkins, and especially Leslie starting to come into their own. Great play off the bench from Price & Barnes, as well. The future of the UGA hoop Dawgs looks really bright!
The sleeping Giant is starting to wake up. I have said for years that if Georgia could ever get another legit Coach, who could get a few of the great high school basketball players in this state to stay close to home & play in state, that the UGA hoops program would explode. Well, Dawg Nation, let’s get behind this team because we have ourselves a basketball coach!! Go Dawgs!!!
MontyP
January 23rd, 2010
8:09 pm
Hightlights about to be on ESPN! I’m sure we will see plenty of Mr. Leslie!
Barkin'Dog
January 23rd, 2010
8:09 pm
I don’t understand all of the talk about getting better when they get better players. I am not that knowledgeable about basketball talent, but I like what I see now. I touted CMF when he was hired in these blogs (remembering how he beat the Dawgs in the Steg a few years back). In fact, I predicted a good run in the SEC Tourney and a trip to the dance, as this season’s surprise team (I got dissed for that one, too). Barring any significant injuries, I don’t see why they can’t finish like this. What a game!
Congratulations Coach Fox and all of Your players. Now get after the gators!! Woof-woof!
jesse james
January 23rd, 2010
8:17 pm
ga gator – just looked like to me it stayed on 5.1 for a while. Not trying to start conspiracy, just felt for the S.C. kids, but what a big clutch shot for the gators. Don’t get your hair all ruffled up!
Bulldog38
January 23rd, 2010
8:24 pm
Barkin Dog: I agree with you. If this team plays the rest of the season the way that they did today, they are going to make the Big Dance this year…They just played the top four teams in the SEC and more than held their own. They should be 4-0 in the conference. They were leading late in the previous three games and are starting to learn how to finish games.
The reason everyone is talking about him recruiting better players is, the best players in this state go elsewhere every year. They rarely come to UGA. Just imagine having 3 or 4 other players on this team as talented as Thompkins and Leslie. With Mark Fox’s coaching, that would truly be a team that nobody would want to play.
Dennis G. Berdanis
January 23rd, 2010
8:29 pm
I didn’t give Fox much of a chance when his hiring was announced. Can already see what he’s capable of. I apologize Mark. You have the team on the right track. Now just get some of that great Atlanta talent to play for the Dawgs and there is no limit to how high you can take this team! Great win!
Winderdawg
January 23rd, 2010
8:29 pm
LHardingDawg, I agree with you. Things just FEEL brighter right now. Just like grantham said about keeping the talent here; If Fox can sign just 2 of the top 6 players in Ga each year, then go out and sign 2 more players who fit a certain role, we can be Top 15 every year, sweet 16 or so.
"Chef" Tim Dix
January 23rd, 2010
8:30 pm
Broke one off in ‘em, no other way to describe it.
BTW, only way to dance is to kick in the door via the SEC Tourney.
TallaDawg
January 23rd, 2010
8:35 pm
There is that hob-nailed boot again!
hate to tell you
January 23rd, 2010
8:42 pm
uga basketball is as irrelevant as their football program
Barkin'Dog
January 23rd, 2010
8:45 pm
Bulldog38 — Just imagine having 3 or 4 other players on this team as talented as Thompkins and Leslie. With Mark Fox’s coaching, that would truly be a team that nobody would want to play.
That sounds like music doesn’t it. Sounds a lot like what new Coach Grantham said, recently. “After they get done playin’ us, they won’t want to again.”
It’s a great time to be a Bulldawg Fan!! Woof-woof!
Bulldog38
January 23rd, 2010
8:48 pm
Hey Chef Tim, have you looked at their schedule? Their next two games are @ Florida and @ South Carolina. Two winnable games. A split would be fine, though. Because their schedule gets a whole lot easier the rest of the way. They play 16 conference games. After this two game road trip, they will either be 3-3 or 2-4 in the conference. I see them finishing with a 10-6 or 9-7 record in conference. With 2 wins in the the SEC Tourney, they get in with either a 20-11 or 19-12 record.
You have to remember, they already have three signature wins. They beat Illinois at the Gwinnett Arena, and have upset two ranked teams in GA Tech and Tennessee.
Barkin'Dog
January 23rd, 2010
8:49 pm
hate to tell you — uga basketball is as irrelevant as their football program
I hate to tell you, but you’re barkin’ up the wrong tree. They may be off the radar up to now, but after a few more games like this, with highlights on ESPN, they will be feared at tourney time… and for a long time to come. Say what you will, but, they will be relevant very soon… and they’re coming to get after your team… whatever that is.
Bert Bozeman
January 23rd, 2010
8:51 pm
Great Win.Great crowd.Great Coach.What I love about Mark Fox?How he diverts attention from himself to his players.Old fasshoned but sure is classy.
Bulldog38
January 23rd, 2010
8:55 pm
Hey Barkin’ Dog — I hear ya brother. Things are lookin up with the football and basketball teams at this state’s flagship university!!
Hey “hate to tell you”, keep living in the past there, Scooter. Just like ignorance, denial is bliss, huh?
Go Dawgs!!
Dr M
January 23rd, 2010
8:55 pm
How about our balanced scoring and all around team play? McPhee, Ware, and Price and contributed, we hit our 3’s, and defended for 40 minutes. We’ve finally got our coach.
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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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.
Preston
January 24th, 2010
1:25 pm
I’ll be the first one to tell you that I’m a fair weather fan when it comes to basketball… but right now it’s fun as hell to watch the Dawgs and the Hawks.
Krogunner
January 24th, 2010
3:50 pm
Am I missing something? Wasn’t yesterday the 1st conference win and isn’t their overall record like 8-8? I guess we don’t have very high expectations on the hard wood.
Gdawg
January 24th, 2010
4:04 pm
Mr. Evans, great hire!!!! I liked him before he ever coached his first game, but now I love this guy! Mr. Evans, go ahead and lock this guy down for a long time, and he will bring championships to Athens. Here are UGA’s most critical needs in basketball and football.
Football – Indoor practice facility – We have got to keep up wtih the Jones if we are going to continue to recruit in the top ten every year.
Basketball – State of the art arena (I believe Stegman will be renovated by the beginning of next year, but don’t stop there; find other ways to improve) – We have got to keep up with the Jones if we are going to get top players to come to UGA. Also, fan support is a must.
We finally have a credible DC for our football team, now all we need to do is finish this recruiting year on a strong note. We need a couple of hogs on both sides of the ball, and we need to keep Da’Rick.
I love what is going on in Athens. Great job by Mr. Evans, CMR, and CMF. Lastly, let’s not forget that our baseball team is going to make a lot of noise this spring. Coach Perno is fantastic!!!! Go Dawgs!!!!
Billy Jack could fight
January 24th, 2010
4:27 pm
it’s amazing what a good coach can do….mark my words…Fox will reveal Felton as a horrific coach…..the dawgs have clue now…they can play with ANYBODY….
DTC
January 24th, 2010
4:56 pm
Why did you people not realize at the time of the hire that Mark Fox was a good hire? It seems that the problem that these kids have had is the lack of coaching prior to his hire. Yes, we need to keep some of these in state GA BB players, and they need to go to UGA. I am curious about how the recruiting class will be this year. The guy knows HOW to coach. Let’s get some higher rated guys in here and UGA BB will definitely be in the main stream of College BB.
jesse james
January 24th, 2010
5:19 pm
Jesse James – Why don’t you give your true identity. Oh yea I would be emabarrassed too. Everybody knows who the real Jesse is.
AltamahaDawg
January 24th, 2010
5:28 pm
Krogunner, are you saying that they didnt win the game, which was the point of the article? Maybe you did miss something.
Billy Jack could fight
January 24th, 2010
6:06 pm
DTC…you aint talking to me…..I knew our boys could play…our front line are beasts..MEN amongst boys……and when Leslie and McPhee are on their game…LOOK OUT..!!!
NV Dawg
January 24th, 2010
6:12 pm
Great win. As a dawg living in Reno I watched Coach Fox consistently do great things with the Wolfpack (UNR) out here and knew he’d be a great hire for the Dawgs. The Dawgs usually have some talent but not near the level of some of our SEC competition. We needed a coach that could get the most out of the talent he has and that’s exactly what Coach Fox is all about.
hind tit
January 24th, 2010
11:56 pm
for uga to be a force in the sec coach fox will have to make a statement to fact that he’s going no where and he’s not interested in going to another school period and he’s here to make uga a basketball power.uga officials have to give him reason not to leave. give him what he needs to make this happen. good kids will come to uga only if they know the program is dedicated. uga has the coach now it’s up to the school.
AltamahaDawg
January 25th, 2010
7:24 am
Look at it this way, they started the SEC schedule against the 4 ranked teams, and did much better than anyone would have expected. Improving every week, and schedule gets more favorable going forward.
UGA89
January 25th, 2010
9:11 am
It’s Final Four or bust now –although I hope we’re not next season’s pre-season #1, we all remember how that turned out for the football program –I don’t think we’ll ever recover from it either.
F-105 Thunderchief
January 25th, 2010
10:14 am
This season is essentially a recruiting tool. Hopefully, the results pay off in some of the bigger talents picking UGA.
PMC
January 25th, 2010
10:39 am
He hasn’t had a full season yet and he’s already a million times better than Dennis Felton.
Evansdawg
January 25th, 2010
10:39 am
I was disappointed that the students refrained from chanting “Who’s Your Daddy?” as the hillbilly fans left the game early. They missed a golden opportunity.
MudcatJoe
January 26th, 2010
1:09 am
It’s not North Carolina or Duke, but a decent win I guess.
Gen Neyland
January 26th, 2010
8:30 am
The Men Dawgs are the type of team that bother the bigger fish in the SEC. By that I mean they get up for the Big Ones but can’t muster the same ‘high’ for the rest. That just won’t do. Play UK good, beat UT but lose to bottom tier programs. It boils down to every Dawg does have it’s day…In the Lady’s game, the rage was beating the Lady Vols on your floor but little to zip on the following game that resulted in a loss on your court. The Lady Vols in turn went to LSU and won. One game, one win here and there isn’t front page news. It’s Dawg food for the masses. Continuity is what makes champions. Fox has the ability to get ‘em up but to sustain that drive means personnel. I think he gets that rolling eventually but not this season, at least not yet…
Evansdawg
January 26th, 2010
10:49 am
Hey, Gen Neyland, did you figure that out all by yourself? Fox gets three to four good recruits this year, and you guys just may find yourselves struggling to keep up with us. As long as you guys keep that AD you have, look for the continuation of UT’s current misfortunes. By the way….whose your daddy?
gdawginkalamazoo
January 26th, 2010
11:27 am
Congrats to the roundball dawgs. Well done. We didn’t expect much from this season and literally every single victory is a bonus. I didn’t know who Mark Fox was when he was hired but as a reasonble fan I said give him a chance. We will have to see how the season finishes out but so far great job working with what Felton left him. Kudos to the kids buying in and playing hard this year. A lot of them could have walked but instead manned up. Keep up the good work.
Gen Neyland
January 26th, 2010
11:51 am
EvansDawg : We talking one basketball game out of 2 or more this season or a one shot deal in football or 8 straight over the Lady’s before Athens with at least one more to play Atop Rocky..? I’m your Daddy…LOL
joe taxpayer
January 27th, 2010
7:34 am
pay the man pay the man pay the man pay the man