Bulldog Bites: Christian LeMay, Cocktail Party, Tech-Georgia weekend
(University of Georgia)
Let’s head into the Memorial Day holiday weekend with some quick hits that you might want to discuss …
One more reason for Dogs fans to get stoked about Matthews, N.C., quarterback Christian LeMay saying he intends to enroll at UGA: In the first installment of the Sporting News Top 100 ranking for the football class of 2011, Lemay ranks a lofty No. 3. The other Georgia commitment making the list: defensive end Sterling Bailey of Gainesville at No. 95. …
When our Tim Tucker revealed that in the forthcoming new deal for the Georgia-Florida game in Jacksonville the two schools will have the right to sell the name of the game, a coworker wondered aloud what they’d do if a beverage company like Seagram’s or Budweiser offered a bundle — especially since the UGA and UF presidents have discouraged the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party nickname.
While it’s amusing to consider, chances are they’d say no. You don’t see any alcohol product names on college football bowl games, and I don’t think Georgia and Florida would go down that road. …
Bulldogs Blog’s David Hale reports that according to Georgia Tech’s Paul Hewitt, UGA’s Mark Fox is going to get his wish to have the two schools’ annual basketball game moved earlier in the season while students are still on campus. Likely date this year: Dec. 7.
Hale notes that some fans have raised the notion of playing the basketball game the Friday night before the Dogs and Jackets meet in football, but that weekend generally conflicts with tournament play and students would be on Thanksgiving break.
Some friends and I debated this idea back when Fox first announced he wanted an earlier date, and we liked the prospect of making the annual in-state grude match a two-sport affair in the same city so fans easily could attend both. I don’t think Thanksgiving break would be much of a problem, since the students manage to turn up en masse for the football game the next day.
The main problem would be that the football and basketball series currently rotate between Athens and Atlanta in opposing years. Last season, for example, the football game was at Tech and the basketball game was in Athens. In order to pair the two sports, that rotation would have to be disrupted, which would require someone play on the road two years in a row — not a likely prospect.
One possible solution: Let the school losing the home game be the “home” team (with more tickets) at a neutral site for a transitional year. UGA didn’t consider the Omni to be a neutral site and likely wouldn’t go for Philips Arena. But what about Gwinnett Arena? Then the next year the home-and-home could resume in lockstep with the football game.
Sounds like fun to me. What do you think about pairing up those games?
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108 comments Add your comment
johnny
May 29th, 2010
12:01 pm
first????
DAWGPOUND
May 29th, 2010
12:03 pm
Please forgive me for what I just did……I absolutely hate when people do that and I just did it…….DAWG NATION please forgive me. That was so stupid. Johnny and DAWGPOUND are the same people. What in the world does first prove anyway?
Roll Tide
May 29th, 2010
12:12 pm
Just watched ala. spring game. Who in the hell is evaluating offensive line talent at UGA?! James Carpenter and Chance warmack are two Geargia road graders playing for the crimson tide! uga goes into ala. and gets ben jones and jonathan owens and Ala. comes into gorgia and gets two all-sec calibre offensive lineman. Combine that with the loss of Jujuan James to UT, and Ed Christian to AU and no wonder Richt is on the hot seat. He should be!
Rich
May 29th, 2010
12:41 pm
Dawgpound, apology accepted. Following the crowd is the easy thing to do. Be your own man or Dawg as the case maybe.
Sorry....
May 29th, 2010
12:42 pm
Sorry, but you can say you did not consider the OMNI a neutral site but it was. You usually had as many or more fans at the game and it’s not like Tech played other games there (they didn’t) Ya’ll are great at excuses.
As far as an alcohol sponsor for the UGA/UF football game I would love to see that just to see the wonderful press you would receive and the negative image you would get. Ya’ll will do anything for $$$ including selling your soul. I highly doubt though that the NCAA would allow such a thing.
godawgs678
May 29th, 2010
12:43 pm
Roll Tide: if you don’t care anything about UGA why do you feel the need to spend your time on our blog? Go to a Bama blog. And for the record, Ben Jones is all SECOND caliber. Can’t sign all the players in georgia
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May 29th, 2010
12:46 pm
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james
May 29th, 2010
12:48 pm
Let’s dissect Roll Tide’s comment for a second. First Richt is not on the hot seat. That garbage is so dumb and played out. If he had kept Willie, yeah that would be accurate. Alabama has two All-sec quality lineman, shocker, so does GA. Ben Jones, a name you bring up is one of them. Clint Boling is another one and is being considered as a top OT by some for the NFL Draft coming next year. Next part, Ed Christian…not sure we even recruited. We have someone rated high higher coming in named Brent Benedict that we don’t even need to play because of the depth we have. Jujuan James, you know, the Tide decommit that is now at Tennessee, we did try to get twice but that is fine. Our OL recruiting has been fine and if you follow UGA recruiting you would know that it is going great for this year. So please, don’t worry about a strength of our team going into next year, we will be fine.
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hammerhead
May 29th, 2010
12:58 pm
*Roll Tide* – please give it a rest… Besides Ben Jones and Clint Boling (whom James points out above), I’ll take Cordy Glenn over anyone in the conference at guard. Just please stop with the idiocy. Good for Bama coming into Georgia and picking off a couple nice OL prospects. We’re doing just fine without them – OL is far from our biggest issue. If Sturdivant comes back healthy, we’re going to be very good up front.
yeah c'mone
May 29th, 2010
1:01 pm
First of all, roll tard fans are, for the most part, very envious people. They come from the state of alabamer, and that in itself, is a reason to hate life. They are not as athletic as Georgians or Floridians, thus have to beg and pay for recruits to go there. Must I have to go on?
Dawg 39
May 29th, 2010
1:07 pm
I think our # 4 RB, D. Jackson is capable of running behind our OL for 100 yds. against any team we play. What does that say about our top 3 RBs? The OL has depth & is solid for at least the next 3 years.
Gator4Life
May 29th, 2010
1:11 pm
There is no possible way Mark Richt cannot be in the hotseat. He has great recruiting classes every year and still is average in a league where averaqe is just not good enough. Mark Richt is probably one of the great coaches in college football but needs better supporting cast. If UGA does not win atleast the east within the next two years he leaves UGA. As far as the name of the game who really cares?
Mook
May 29th, 2010
1:21 pm
GA-FLA Department of Corrections Bowl
GeezusDawg
May 29th, 2010
1:21 pm
Yeah, sure, have it in the Omni …. lol
Roy D. Mercer
May 29th, 2010
1:23 pm
Mook – You can call alot of programs that!
Mook
May 29th, 2010
1:24 pm
First Combined Team SAT Score to 1000 Wins Bowl
Mook
May 29th, 2010
1:26 pm
Roy
Truly spoken
Love College Athletics
Hate College Athletes
Mook
May 29th, 2010
1:27 pm
SAT Bowl
Goes into Quintuple Overtime!!
cantondawg
May 29th, 2010
1:39 pm
I’ve said this before but Roll Tide has confirmed this..Alabama fans are by far the most obnoxious, rude and just plain irritating fans ever. They are 10 times worse than the worst Florida fans. Hopefully, they will have a bad year so we won’t have to be annoyed with them any longer.
aj
May 29th, 2010
1:43 pm
Tech is a neutral site
godawgs678
May 29th, 2010
1:45 pm
Amen canton dawg. Bama has more “sidewalk fans” than any other team in the country. Meaning that these people are Bama fans but have never had any affiliation with the school
Big time?? Not
May 29th, 2010
2:01 pm
Four tickets, four hot dogs, four cokes
CONFEDERATE DAWG
May 29th, 2010
2:22 pm
IM A SIDEWALK DAWG FAN BUT DAMN I SURE DO HOPE THEY WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OH AND ONE TIME I WAS FIRST AND JUST WROTE MY POINT AND NOT FIRST
Mook
May 29th, 2010
2:32 pm
Verne Lundquist “Tebow Tebow Tebow Tebow Tebow” Brand Vomit Cleaner Bowl
Will
May 29th, 2010
2:51 pm
I would like to see UGA and tech play basketball twice a year – rotating one of the games on the school’s home court and playing the other game annually on a neutral site.
Besides playing our rival twice a season, this one also provide another nonconference game against a major college opponent without having to play a return game at the opponent’s ballyard. It would also be more cost effective than playing a home and home with another major opponent.
I am old enough to remember when UGA and tech played three times a year.
I have seen UGA play tech in basketball 54 times and the triple overtime game in the Omni (can’t remember the year)the most exciting game ever between the two.
georgiadawg70
May 29th, 2010
2:59 pm
CMR’s seat is hot. The powers that be in Athens have lost confidence in him.
georgiadawg70
May 29th, 2010
3:03 pm
Cantondawg Florida fans are yankees foreighners and half breeds. No other Southern state can hold a light to them. Auburn fans are worse than
Alabama’s.
70 Dawg
May 29th, 2010
3:06 pm
Don’t know if it is possible to be 10 times more obnoxious than GAYtor fans but Bammers are in the same pathetic category. They know a lot about putting coaches on the hotseat. They change coaches almost as frequently as they are sanctioned by the NCAA. BTW what is their record for the last 10 years?
70 Dawg
May 29th, 2010
3:09 pm
CMR will be at UGA as long as he chooses. Those so-called “powers that be” are ill-informed.
Can you dig it?
May 29th, 2010
3:37 pm
Roll Tide…guess you haven’t been reading the national reviews of Georgias offensive line this coming season. They are far and away the best offensive line in the SEC this year…and they’ll prove why everyone is so high on them once the season kicks off.Chance and Warmack weren’t recruited hard by Georgia because their grades coming out of high school were terrible….you see Georgia has standards when it comes to admitting student athletes….Bama doesn’t …its pretty easy to get into Alabama. Thats why there are so many Georgia students going to school there….they couldn’t get in Georgia.When you consistantly put football before education you get people like you who couldn’t spell cat if we spotted you the C & T. ….Alabama never has been ranked very high as far as education is concerned and never will…..Can You Dig It!
Roy D. Mercer
May 29th, 2010
3:49 pm
Even on one of our worst years, Tech still can’t beat us.
bruce mac
May 29th, 2010
3:51 pm
Is everybody in Alabama and Florida stupid or just the ones that post on Bulldawg Blogs. Average is not 10 wins a year and 7-2 bowl record and winning record against every team in SEC but one. It is also not winning the East 4 out of 9 times and winning SEC twice unless you are an idiot.
CONFEDERATE DAWG
May 29th, 2010
4:30 pm
BOY IM IN SOFLA AND THESE YANKEE GAYTORS SURE DO JUMP ON AND OFF QUICK
Iceman
May 29th, 2010
4:39 pm
UGA and FL’s prez and admins all shudder if anyone calls it the Cocktail Party, so no way would alcohol be a sponsor.
CMR is NOT on the hot seat. Anyone who thinks so is a dummy.
UGA Student
May 29th, 2010
5:00 pm
The problem with making the game on Thanksgiving break is that the dorms are still closed. The dorms open the night of the Tech game at UGA so the students have a place to stay, but if they made the game that Friday, all the Freshmen and others who live in dorms at UGA would be forced to find a place to stay with a friend off campus. Its a terrible idea.
The Ghost of Wally Butts
May 29th, 2010
5:04 pm
So, the UGA and UF Game is for sale.
Mark my words, before the NCAA is finished, the uniforms worn by college football players will look like NASCAR outfits. Think not? Then explain way the Nike swipe – it’s already started.
Logos painted on the field.
1st Down brought to you by Midas Mufflers
2nd Down brought to you by Nationwide – on your side.
Etc. Etc.
The Almighty Dollar rules all souls.
pcsjax1
May 29th, 2010
5:04 pm
Can you dig it?
“If a Head Coach has confidence in his offensive line, he will act like it!”
Mark Right comments are tempered with caution and reservations.
Please ! No more about Trinton Sturdivant. Coach Richt has been using him as a “crying towel” for two years. The Dawg Nation wants Trinton Sturdivant to step up and perform and earn recognition. This O-line has had the same players for two years, they are experienced, yet have underperformed with mediocre running stats and results for two years. The Dawg Nation wants “Championships Plural” like Alabama, LSU and Florida. This requires an offensive line and running backs that are posting rushing stats at the top of the SEC. This Offensive line has rushed poorly against SEC opponents
I say buy out the contract. He apparently has been “Emeritus”, retired but on staff for four years. Hire Muschamp or Smart. Bring someone new in that is not looking to retire and soaking up $2.8 million per year plus endorsements and bonuses while he waits!
The Cynical White Boy
May 29th, 2010
5:10 pm
Hell, since y’all are selling the naming rights…may as well have some fun while you are making money.
Have the announcers of the game in JAX place CMR on the “Rolaids” Hot Seat.
Have them honor Urbane Crier’s “I quit, no wait, I need a break” attitude with the “you deserve a break today” McDonalds logo.
Name the actual game after Hooters, or some strong liquor or beer.
Halftime entertainment: Instead of giving a fan a million bucks for throwing a football through a hole, place Michael Adams in a dunking booth give some lucky fan 3 balls.
cgatlanta
May 29th, 2010
5:14 pm
Why does the main page link for this site reference a UF/UGA sponsor when the page does not back up the headline?
The most interesting man in the world
May 29th, 2010
5:40 pm
I might not watch college football , but when I do it’s Georgia Bulldogs. Stay thirsty my friends
Coach Small Johnson
May 29th, 2010
5:49 pm
I will be stoked if we can find some players and coaches who want to beat FL for a change!
Buddawg
May 29th, 2010
6:12 pm
PCSJax1- where the hell did you learn to write? You are the kind of idiot that writes in sign language.
As for the other posters, namely Bama and FL and a few nerds, grow up. Bama fans are in for a surprise this year. Not another NC anywhere in sight. Same with you Gators.
The one big advantage the DAWGS have is that we can only go up. We will.
Hmmmmmmm!
May 29th, 2010
6:23 pm
Dawgpound…..reminds me of my 2 dogs (not to be confused with Dawgs). When let out in the backyard 2 do their thing, one goes and the other waits to go over the top of the other. When it comes to being a Dawg, it just comes natural, no such thing as being your own man (I mean Dawg).
Dawg 39
May 29th, 2010
6:24 pm
To the powers to be: CMR is not going anywhere until he chooses to do so.
The Most Interesting Man in the World...2
May 29th, 2010
6:28 pm
The contents of CMR’s tacos refuse to fall off…Stay thirsty my friends. Go Dawgs.
Rocket Rod
May 29th, 2010
6:59 pm
So is Urbune Crier’s new nickname going to be Mickey C?
904DAWG
May 29th, 2010
7:12 pm
pretty nice article on the front of SCOUT.COM about Rennie.
GO DAWGS!!!!
Rogeriter
May 29th, 2010
7:28 pm
For those of you who think Mark Richt should be fired because, despite one of the top won-loss records in college football, he hasn’t won a National Championship, I submit the following:
Teams in NCAA (div 1)– 241 teams
Teams since the year 2000 that have won the National Championship– 8
That leaves 233 teams that have not won a National Championship during the Richt era. Should all 233 of those coaches be fired?
Roll Tide
May 29th, 2010
8:12 pm
listen guys if you can’t see the difference between bean anderson and chris davis everyone is right after all, uga fans are delusional1
CrackDaddy
May 29th, 2010
8:56 pm
For what its worth, SEC baseball tourney attendance pales in comparison to attendance at UVa Duke lacrosse tourney game. SEC missing the boat on lacrosse. But then again, the culture is not right in the SEC, saving for Vandy.
Me
May 29th, 2010
9:34 pm
CrackDaddy, Florida now has an awesome womens lacrosse program and an beautiful new stadium and facility. Don’t be surprised if it doesn’t start catching on in the conference.
Truth
May 29th, 2010
9:35 pm
@Rogeriter – You entirely miss the point. Richt has had tremendous talent recruited to Athens in each of the last many years. However, that rich talent has not equated to results on the field. No one is asking him to make something out of nothing. The fact is that he STARTS with amazing talent out of high school. And, his lack of equitable results in Athens is WHY folks are mad.
YELLOW HAMMER
May 30th, 2010
12:39 am
roll tide ,georgia fans have no idea what bama will have this year ,we know what they dont have though! 13 nc 22 sec. can u dig it , please dont talk education with georgia’s history of un-education, and high school accreditation issues, yes i can dig it .
I don't think that you understand that
May 30th, 2010
12:52 am
when you say “everything will be just fine, or we will be just fine”, it is an indication that things are not just fine. It is an overused phrase that generally means problems, as in “Joe Cox will do just fine.”
Jim
May 30th, 2010
1:04 am
Idiots, all idiots! Get a life.
Rogeriter
May 30th, 2010
1:15 am
So averaging 10 wins a season isn’t good enough? fantastic talent (which he recruited) is not always enough–no matter how good the coach! It takes a bit of luck also. I don’t think you remember that Vince Dooley also had great talenr, but one only one NC in his career(over thirty years). If talent and good coaching were enough, USC would have won more than one. So would Texas, Auburn and many others. You don’t remember the years that 8-5 would have been darn good! Any coach that can win an average of 10 wins a season in the SEC is a darmn fine coach!
Amsterdam Sam
May 30th, 2010
2:05 am
Rogeriter – the most sane, logical and accurate entry on this blog. Anyone who demeans any coach who has averaged 10 wins per year for a decade in the SEC is not quite sane or is delusional at the very least. Coach Richt has the third most wins of any active coaches and he, unlike the two above him, garnered all of his wins in the mighty SEC. Had LSU not jumped over us due to ESPN’s influence a couple of years ago afte the final; regular season poll, we would have been national champions that year (we finished number 2). Yes, indeed, luck, who the media likes (Notre Dame, USC, Ohio State, etc.), and, sometimes, politics have much to say about who is mythically crowned national champ and will continue to do so until a playoff system is implimemted. Until then, no one will really know who the best team (ergo National Champion) is.
Bulldog
May 30th, 2010
2:08 am
No, 10 wins a year isn’t good enough. Because that means three losses a year.
How about 0 losses and 1 NC?
Some Guy
May 30th, 2010
5:25 am
Everyone knows Tuscaloosa is a beer drinking town with a football problem.
pcsjax1
May 30th, 2010
8:45 am
These guys haven’t signed yet! Remember Da’rick Rogers. He and others commited to Georgia and bolted after Georgia went 8-5. Whose going to be held responsible if Bailey, Scott-Massey and Lemay bolt? The Spin Monkeys?
bammer's_suck
May 30th, 2010
8:59 am
Where’s Fat Phil when you need him? All Bammers get off the UGA blog, your boys are living off yesteryear and will fall. There will be no repeat. Repeat, there will be no repeat! Now I’ve got some grilling to do and beverages to consume B!atches.
BuLLdawg
May 30th, 2010
9:31 am
1-4 vs SEC East 2006 Vandie * lone win UGA
1-4 vs SEC East 2007 Vandie
2-3 vs SEC East 2008 Vandie
0-5 vs SEC East 2009 Vandie
4-16 vs SEC East Vandie last 4 years
2-3 vs SEC East 2006 Kentucky * besides UGA beat Vandie
1-4 vs SEC East 2007 Kentucky
0-5 vs SEC East 2008 Kentucky
2-3 vs SEC East 2009 Kentucky * besides UGA beat Vandie
5-15 vs SEC East Kentucky last 4 years
2-3 vs SEC East 2006 South Carolina
2-3 vs SEC East 2007 South Carolina * besides UGA beat KY
2-3 vs SEC East 2008 South Carolina
2-3 vs SEC East 2009 South Carolina
8-12 vs SEC East South Carolina last 4 years
1-4 vs SEC East 2006 Georgia * lost last 4 in row
3-2 vs SEC East 2007 Georgia * lost first 2 in a row 6 total
4-1 vs SEC East 2008 Georgia
2-3 vs SEC East 2009 Georgia * half last 4 yrs losing record
10-10 vs SEC East Georgia last 4 years not winning record
4-1 vs SEC East 2006 Tennessee
4-1 vs SEC East 2007 Tennessee
2-3 vs SEC East 2008 Tennessee
4-1 vs SEC East 2009 Tennessee
14-6 vs SEC East Tennessee last 4 years
5-0 vs SEC East 2006 Florida
4-1 vs SEC East 2007 Florida
5-0 vs SEC East 2008 Florida
5-0 vs SEC East 2009 Florida
19-1 vs SEC East Florida last 4 years
LOSSES by UGA last 4 years vs SEC East :
vols 2006 Final AP Poll Top 25 team # 25
crocodiles 2006 Final AP Poll Top 10 team # 1
*1 Vandie 2006 not ranked 4-8 Final AP Poll Top 25
*2 Kentucky 2006 not ranked 8-5 Final AP Poll Top 25
vols 2007 Final AP Poll Top 25 team # 12 lost 4 games
*3 South Carolina 2007 not ranked 6-6 no bowl Final AP Poll Top 25
crocodiles 2008 Final AP Poll Top 10 team # 1
crocodiles 2009 Final AP Poll Top 10 team # 3
*4 vols 2009 not ranked 7-6 Final AP Poll Top 25
*5 Kentucky 2009 not ranked 7-6 Final AP Poll Top 25
*Combined Record 32-31 of 5 not Top 25 Final AP Poll SEC East teams who beat UGA the last 4 years.
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LOSSES vs Final AP Poll Top 25 SEC East teams last 4 years :
2006 lost to Florida only Top 25 Final AP Poll team # 1
2007 lost to vols 4-Loss only Top 25 Final AP Poll team # 12
2008 lost to Florida only Top 25 Final AP Poll team # 1
2009 lost to Florida only Top 25 Final AP Poll team # 3
Lost to only 1 ranked Final AP Poll Top 25 SEC East team each of last 4 years.
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WINS over Final AP Poll Top 25 SEC East teams last 4 years :
2006 NONE
**2007 only beat 4-Loss Florida as only ranked SEC East team beat
2008 NONE
2009 NONE
**In the last 4 years, the ONLY SEC East Win by UGA over a ranked Final AP Poll Top 25 team was 4-Loss Florida we beat in 2007, just after we had LOST 6 SEC East games in a ROW, consecutively to end 2006 and begin 2007.
1-4 vs SEC East Ranked Top 25 teams last 4 years Coach Richt Era.
Out of 20 possibly SEC East Opponents, only 5 have been ranked in the Final AP Poll Top 25, and against those only 5, we have lost 4.
The SEC East has been absolutely horrible for good Opponents for UGA the last 4 years, yet we are a miserable 10-10 vs SEC East teams the last 4 years including 5 of the 10 losses to unranked non-Top 25 Final AP Poll teams with only 1 win the last 4 years against a Final AP Poll Top 25 SEC East opponent.
We have not been very good the last 4 years. We are not viewed as having been any good the last 4 years, we are # 19 in the nation at 38-14 the last 4 years and we have played against sorry opponents in The SEC East the last 4 years.
Gillislee
May 30th, 2010
10:08 am
Stafford was ranked #6 on Rivals…the #1 QB, he was #5 on the ESPN150..the #1 QB, and Scout had him as the #2 QB in the Country. Now in the end everything worked out for Matt as he was the #1 pick in the NFL draft but how did things turn out for the Dawgs on his watch? Not good, 0 SEC Championship Game Appearances.
Roy D. Mercer
May 30th, 2010
11:08 am
I can’t wait till BuLLdawg becomes Head Coach. Our problems will be solved. There will be no bashing. Heck I don’t even know if I will go to the games because I know we will blow everybody out by 30 or more. Man that is going to be boring. Heck I hope we go Independent so we can play each conference champion in the regular season. Dang I don’t know if we will be able to afford Bulldawg. We will beat the Gators so much they will want to play home and away. Shoot I don’t even know if I will renew my season tickets. Darn win, win, win, win,win, win, boring!
AltamahaDawg
May 30th, 2010
12:13 pm
Actually “others,” I believe there were 2, bolted because the coaches that recruited them were let go. Those boys were still on board after the 8-5 record was well in the books. Richt has an excellent history of getting early nods and hanging on to them.
And who the heck do you think are “held responsible” for recruiting results? My guess is the same guys it always is, the ones with the job.
Krogunner
May 30th, 2010
12:33 pm
georgiadawg70 is an idiot and does not speak for the rest of us.
Murray County Mystic
May 30th, 2010
1:14 pm
great analysis, BuLLdog. I always look for your insight on this otherwise mind-numbingly boring blog. Cantondawg, you couldn’t be more wrong about your Bama fans being the most obnoxious SEC fans. As an LSU fan, I am asking you to look in the mirror. There is NO school in the country that has a more obnoxious fan base the UGA. I’ve lived several places in the SE USA, been around Bama, Auburn, UTENN, Arkansas fans, and let me tell you, the UGA fans take the cake. You have won no games of any consequence since 1980…1980!!! The UGA program isn’t mentioned anywhere the top 15 programs except here. Know your role and shut your mouth….
AltamahaDawg
May 30th, 2010
1:59 pm
….speaking of mind-numbing boring.
Mad Dawg
May 30th, 2010
4:39 pm
I believe Mark Richt is a class act and will continue to post excellent records along the lines of those he’s had his first 9 years at UGA. However, I also think he will never put UGA in a national championship game, especially as long as Meyer and Sabin are coaching in the SEC. If GA fans are satisfied or happy with 9-3, 8-4, 10-2, etc, seasons for the next 9+ years with no national championship opportunities, then Richt is the perfect coach. Obviously that was not good enough for FL and AL fans who apparently have much higher expectations. Richt is good, but he is not in the same league as Sabin and Meyer when it comes to competing for national championships.
AltamahaDawg
May 30th, 2010
4:56 pm
Wow, who knew it was all so simple.
“FL and AL fans who apparently have much higher expectations”.
They have the ability to control the action of not only thier team but other as well, with thier expectations. We need to learn that.
Although obviously the FL did NOT have higher expectations than the AL fans last year.
And I suppose its clear to you that a HC’s future is set in stone based on his first nine years. Ask any coach and the will tell you that. Like Saban for example.
Bill Campbell
May 30th, 2010
5:22 pm
Sources say that Saban will be at Michigan next year and Meyer will retire for emotional problems!!
UGAKEV
May 30th, 2010
6:44 pm
Mad Dawg that was just a stupid comment Richt has already proven he can beat both meyer and saban… those that post that recent crap about mark richt’s record against the sec east and all should also point out the fact at how pathetic our defense has been during those times. The past 4-5 years was not the True junkyard dawg defense that we will once see again. Teams better pray to The college football gods that uga does not catch on quick to Granthams 3-4 DEFENSE this season. Mark Richt has been snake bit, its as simple as that. A wide open dropped pass in 2002 causes Georgia a chance to play for the national championship and would of won. And 2005 DJ Shockley plays for a national championship if our fullback does not fumble the game to auburn and Shockley plays against Florida. And in 2007 Georgia finishes number 2 without a doubt knowing it was the best team in the nation.
Delbert D.
May 30th, 2010
7:01 pm
Phillips Arena would be a neutral site if either Tech or Georgia played Connecticut or Kentucky there.
WHAT???
May 30th, 2010
8:48 pm
BuLLdawg,
Once again you are wrong. You say in 2009 we were 0-5 in the SEC East. If you really were a dawg fan you would know that Richt has never gone less than .500 in SEC play. He was 4-4 last season and 4-4 in 2006. The only way he could be 0-5 in the SEC East is if his final conference record was 3-5 which has NEVER HAPPENED! I would love to find out who you really are so they can ban you from Sanford Stadium and block your cable or satelite system from viewing UGA games. You have no business associating anything Georgia or Bulldawgs with yourself. You sir are not a Dawg fan! You are a disgrace!
Roy D. Mercer
May 30th, 2010
8:48 pm
I hope Mark Richt is at UGA as long as he wants to be. He is loyal to the school. His loyalty to his staff probably hurt him. This is a guy that goes to visit a baseball player that is injured because he cares not only about the football program, but he cares about people. I hope he stays until he retires.
BuLLdawg
May 30th, 2010
9:36 pm
1-4 vs SEC East 2006 Georgia * lost last 4 in row
3-2 vs SEC East 2007 Georgia * lost first 2 in a row 6 total
4-1 vs SEC East 2008 Georgia
2-3 vs SEC East 2009 Georgia * half last 4 yrs losing record
10-10 vs SEC East Georgia last 4 years not winning record
Now, where does that say that we were 0-5 vs SEC East in 2009 D.A. ?
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LOSSES vs Final AP Poll Top 25 SEC East teams last 4 years :
2006 lost to Florida Top 25 Final AP Poll team # 1 vols # 25
2007 lost to vols 4-Loss only Top 25 Final AP Poll team # 12
2008 lost to Florida only Top 25 Final AP Poll team # 1
2009 lost to Florida only Top 25 Final AP Poll team # 3
Lost to 5 ranked Final AP Poll Top 25 SEC East teams last 4 years.
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WINS over Final AP Poll Top 25 SEC East teams last 4 years :
2006 NONE
**2007 only beat 4-Loss Florida as only ranked SEC East team beat
2008 NONE
2009 NONE
1-5 vs SEC East Ranked Top 25 teams last 4 years Coach Richt Era.
Darah
May 30th, 2010
9:48 pm
It’s kind of sad to see all the Dawg fans getting so excited this year (just like the year before, the year before that, etc.). How long is it going to take for UGA fans to realize that UGA is simply no longer relevant in the SEC? In the national picture, UGA isn’t even a blip on the radar, and hasn’t
been since the preseason #1 ranking two years ago.
Sit back and be grateful for the seven or eight wins you’ll get every year. Coaching genius Mark Richt may take you to 10-2 or even 11-1 occasionally, but Florida will still win the SEC, meaning no BCS bowls and no top 15 final ranking. Most years, UGA will be very lucky to finish in the top 25, and only after a big bowl win over a nobody opponent.
It’s a different world now, and Dawg fans, like FSU and Ole Miss fans, need to adjust their expectations downward to reflect reality.
Unfortunately nothing is going to change until UGA changes its mediocre coaching. That’s where the difference is, and that’s why everyone outside Bulldog Nation just laughs at Dawg fans getting so excited year after year about what a great recruiting class UGA gets. It doesn’t matter how many
blue chip high school plays go to UGA, they simply don’t get the coaching they would get at Florida or Alabama, to name two schools whose programs are far ahead of UGA. And that’s not going to change as long as Mark Richt is in Athens.
Get your heads out of the sand and face reality. And mediocrity and irrelevance.
Tina in Sparta
May 30th, 2010
9:52 pm
BuLLdawg is so accurate that I suspect he is with the UGA athletic office.
Keep on posting, BuLLdawg, we love you.
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woofn
May 31st, 2010
7:00 am
Roll Tide…offensive line and MR are/were not the dawgs problem. Check the facts, our O isn’t why we’ve lost games during the time you’ve had 2 good ones from the state of Ga.
Wholetthedawgsout?
May 31st, 2010
8:25 am
Darah
May 30th, 2010
9:48 pm
Tina in Sparta
May 30th, 2010
9:52 pm
Hey guys, my take on these two: a pair of TechnURDS exercising their alter egos!
As for the the football / basketball combination package, sounds like a great idea.
Gen Neyland
May 31st, 2010
8:47 am
CMR to team, opening day of summer practice, 2010 :
” Men. It has been brought to my attention that a blogger in the ajc’s Junkyard Blawg has been unhappy with Georgia football over the last 4 years. A challenge has been laid upon our doorstep. Our newest Mission Statement reads we must beat all conference teams that may or may not be ranked in this and/or any season’s AP final poll from now till the end of time. Our goal is simply to never lose another game. Never ever. Stay loose, men.”
Me
May 31st, 2010
9:23 am
Gators Rule! Now…Ban That!!
BILLY JACK
May 31st, 2010
10:12 am
Hey Roll Tide -Georgia has the best OL in the SEC this year and Boling will be a 1st round draft choice.Go to the Bama blogs because we dont care what you think.Davis-Boling-B jones-Sturdivent-Glenn-Strickland-J Davis and the best group of TE’S in the country.
AltamahaDawg
May 31st, 2010
10:18 am
Yea because only the Athletic Dept. would own that top secret information.
Long Dong
May 31st, 2010
10:22 am
Have they moved the BCS trophy to the Huntsville K-Mart or is it still at the Tuscaloosa Wal-Mart? We live in Dothan and my wife(also my sister) would like to go into town for a visit…..hold on……Little Billy Bob!, please take your pickle out of the dog!!!……Sorry, now what was I talking about again?
RxDawg
May 31st, 2010
10:33 am
Go Dawgs!
All you haters just keep on thinking the Dawgs are worthless. Go ahead and sleep on us. We are just another notch on the belt for you. No need for your incredible unstopable force of a football team to even work up a sweat for the Dawgs. I don’t know why they even bother to schedule the games. Congrats on your SEC championship next year.
bruce mac
May 31st, 2010
11:00 am
Darah, why do you change your name on every blog and make the same rambling nonsense everyday? Get
tony purvis
May 31st, 2010
11:10 am
Krogunner you’re the idiot; how dare you attempt to speak for me!
tony purvis
May 31st, 2010
11:31 am
Krogunner, georgiadawg70 happens to be absolutely right about the folks in Florida. I know, ’cause I’ve got family living there; however, he is wrong about Alabama fans. I know ’cause I am a “War Tiger”, and there is no more a sorrier bunch of fans anywhere than in Tuscaloosa!!!!
Roy D. Mercer
May 31st, 2010
11:42 am
Ijust heard that Coach Mark Richt was relieved of his duties and BuLLdawg will be named Head Coach at 2:30 today. I am donating my season tickets to charity because it will be so boring going. Everything will be perfect, no bashing, 7 or 8 National Championships. We may lose one because BuLLdawg I assume is human and can make a mistake. He won’t admit it and blame it on someone else.
Jimmy
May 31st, 2010
5:59 pm
UGA fans need to settle down and learn a new word. It’s called perspective. You could be fans of Tech, afterall. Think about it.
Gordon
May 31st, 2010
7:01 pm
I think Tech and UGA should play twice each year in basketball like they used to. One could be the Friday night before the football game in that town, and the other could be in early January in the other town.
Need to be a grad, before y'all post up
May 31st, 2010
8:17 pm
All of the nay sayers here are for the most part, non grads. I do not disrespect you, but if you did not graduate from Tech or Auburn or Florida or UT or Yes, even UGA, then your opinion is worth …..nada.
I have some low level opinions about Illinois and Iowa ( they pistol whipped tech in the Urange ) but they matter not to the grads of those two universities. Fair is fair. My opinion about those universities, matters not.
Cool it with the vitriole and the UGA or SEC or ACC hatred. Cheer for you local HS, or if you attended a JC somewhere, pull for them ………………..y’all are unqualified to be bad mouthing any SEC or ACC schoo,l if you did NOT attend one. It is based on j-e-a-l-o-u-s-y and there is no rooom for that girlishness here.
Go Dooooooooooooooooooogs.
Bama Ramma
May 31st, 2010
9:42 pm
Bama wins the SEC easily and plays Ohio State for the title. Bama wins title #14–take it to the bank! Georgia’s heading to another minor bowl.
BuLLdawg
June 1st, 2010
6:39 am
Last 4 years :
48 wins Florida
40 wins LSU
39 wins Alabama
38 wins Georgia Bulldogs
In the last 4 years, 14 losses by Coach Richt.
9 points 2001 vs South Carolina
10 points 2001 vs Florida
17 points 2001 vs Auburn
16 points 2001 vs Boston College
13 points 2002 vs South Carolina
18 points 2002 vs Tennessee
13 points 2002 vs FL 0-13 3rd down
10 points 2003 vs LSU
16 points 2003 vs UAB
13 points 2003 vs Florida
13 points 2003 vs LSU
20 points 2004 vs South Carolina
13 points 2004 vs Marshall
14 points 2004 vs Tennessee
20 points 2004 vs Arkansas
6 points 2004 vs Auburn
19 points 2004 vs Georgia tek
17 points 2005 vs South Carolina
10 points 2005 vs Florida
14 points 2005 vs Georgia tek
18 points 2006 vs South Carolina
14 points 2006 vs Colorado
14 points 2006 vs Ole Miss
14 points 2006 vs Florida
20 points 2006 vs Kentucky
15 points 2006 vs Georgia tek
12 points 2007 vs South Carolina
14 points 2007 vs Tennessee
20 points 2007 vs Vandie
14 points 2008 vs South Carolina
10 points 2008 vs Florida
17 points 2008 vs Auburn
10 points 2009 vs Okie State
20 points 2009 vs Arizona State
13 points 2009 vs LSU
19 points 2009 vs Tennessee
17 points 2009 vs Florida
GaDawg
June 1st, 2010
7:18 am
Enter your comments here
tony purvis
June 1st, 2010
7:46 am
Need to be a grad, before y’all post up
May 31st, 2010
8:17 pm
You Sir, need a crash coarse in arrogance management! Loosen your tie; sit back and relax. If you can’t do that, then I suggest that you find yourself a more sophisticated website on which to post your haughty opinions. I’m not disrespecting you; I’m offering you alternatives.
Can You Dig It
June 1st, 2010
11:19 am
Hey BuLLdawg…Go away little boy…do really think anyone gives a crap about what you think?..you must live a pitiful existence to have to get up and post at 6:30am…how old are you? Your posts are like something a little boy does. But your most likely a Ga. Tech nerd with nothing better to do….please go hang out on the Tech blog…we don’t need you smelling up this one…… Can You Dig It!
Phil Steele says Bulldawgs are hilarious
June 1st, 2010
3:12 pm
What Phil Steele really predicts. I guess running the table and #19 is the same to a dog fan.
Pat Forde has leaked Phil Steele’s Preseason Top 25 via his Twitter account:
1. Oklahoma
2. Ohio State
3. Alabama
4. TCU
5. Nebraska
6. Boise State
7. Florida
8. USC
9. Miami
10. Oregon
11. Texas
12. North Carolina
13. Virginia Tech
14. Iowa
15. Auburn
16. Notre Dame
17. Arkansas
18. Penn State
19. Georgia
20. Florida State
21. South Carolina
22. West Virginia
23. Wisconsin
24. Houston
25. Arizona
DawginLex
June 1st, 2010
5:05 pm
bulldawg, when the dawgs win this year, can we count on you not being found anywhere near these blogs?
Don’t claim to be one of us, because you aren’t.
Just leave
longtimesecfan
June 1st, 2010
6:52 pm
pups’ possible QB commit Lemay no. 65 in Rivals top 100 ‘11
class. Gators’ Driskel QB commit no. 31 on same list.
So-depends on which list you want to believe.
PMC
June 2nd, 2010
10:11 am
Until Lemay signs on the line which is dotted it doesn’t amount to much to be excited about.
Oh My
June 2nd, 2010
10:51 am
To follow up on :
longtimesecfan
June 1st, 2010
6:52 pm
The Gators Driskel is the # 1 rated QB on Rivals and Lemay is # 5,
as a matter of fact, I remember reading Lemay was very interested in Florida until
the Gators got Driskel. Sounds like some competitor.
Driskel chose the Gators on 4/19, Lemay the dawgfs on 4/30.
Greensboro, Georgia
June 2nd, 2010
3:22 pm
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NESBITT for HEISMAN
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James T. Kirk
June 4th, 2010
8:36 am
Just another win for us Thanksgiving weekend against the puppies!!!! You clowns should be used to that by now!!