The only football line where UGA rules in SEC: Bottom line
Georgia's defensive line and their offensive brethren got pushed around last season, the new strength coach acknowledges. (The State)
The Dogs’ offensive and defensive lines might have gotten pushed around pretty regularly this past season, but in the most recent financial figures available Georgia’s football program ruled the bottom line in the SEC, according to Forbes magazine.
UGA ranked No. 1 in the conference in football profitability in 2009-2010 according to U.S. Department of Education data, and it wasn’t even close. Georgia’s profit of $52.5 million was $8 more than second-place Florida netted. In fact, Georgia was the second most profitable football program in the country, behind only Texas.
In terms of overall revenue from gate receipts, broadcast revenues, appearance guarantees and options, concessions, and advertising, Alabama ranked tops in the SEC at $71.8 million, with Georgia second at $70.8 million.
But while Alabama was also the top spender in the SEC on grants-in-aid, salaries, travel, equipment, and supplies at $31.1 million, Georgia was only seventh in spending at $18.3 million. Thus, Georgia made more profit by spending less money on its football program than Bama, Auburn, LSU, Florida, South Carolina and even Arkansas!
Forbes notes that Georgia put just 25.8 percent of its football revenue back into the program. Meanwhile, the 2009 BCS champion, Alabama, was putting 43.3 percent back into its program, and the 2010 BCS winner, Auburn, invested 42.2 percent.
Asks Forbes: “Is there perhaps a correlation between this and results on the field? Georgia went 7-5 in 2009 and just 6-6 in 2010. … Take a look at the teams ahead of Georgia in terms of expenses. In 2010, Georgia lost to every team they played who spent more than them in 2009: Florida, Arkansas and South Carolina.”
Ouch.
It’s worth noting here that Georgia’s football program just moved into its plush new digs in the Butts-Mehre building, newly expanded to the tune of $39.5 million. That includes a fancy new weight room to replace the trailers Georgia’s weight program was operating out of the past year and a half.
Let’s hope we see some on-the-field dividends from that investment in the coming season — or UGA may be having to spend some money … to buy out the remainder of Mark Richt’s contract.
Speaking of the weight program, the Macon Telegraph had an interesting interview with new strength coach Joe Tereshinski, in which amid all the typical off-season rah-rah talk of getting tougher he acknowledged the Dogs had been dominated on the lines in recent years. “The film doesn’t lie,” he said. “I’m the video coordinator, I see every play. Yeah, we were not winning the line of scrimmage.”
In reviewing all that game film, Tereshinksi said, he saw “where we were getting beat. I do see where our weaknesses are. And so that’s what we are attacking. We are attacking where we’ve been weak.”
Tereshinski also noted the coming season “is a very critical year for the program, for the University of Georgia. … It is very critical for our coaching staff. We all wanna stay here, we love this, we want to do our job, we want to win, and we want to do right by our kids.”
What do you think? Besides the new facility, where else does UGA need to be spending some of those profits to keep up with the teams from the state to our immediate west?
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Phil
January 27th, 2011
10:45 am
Good article and FIRST
Uga Duck
January 27th, 2011
10:50 am
Coulda bought Cam with all that money!
JMar
January 27th, 2011
10:50 am
Glad you pointed out the difference between profit and expenditures. The GT trash-talkers don’t seem to think there’s a difference.
DogFan1992
January 27th, 2011
10:52 am
First!
DogFan1992
January 27th, 2011
10:53 am
Fail… I has a sad
social circle dawg
January 27th, 2011
10:54 am
Somebody had better light a fire if they don’t want to lose their jobs coaching at UGA.
Ryan
January 27th, 2011
10:54 am
Maybe we should pay our QB?
Flyin' Dawg
January 27th, 2011
10:56 am
I saw the photos of the new indoor practice facility (Notice I did not say field). Why don’t they invest in a new indoor practice field? Seems that would help. A 20 yard long field does not help much. WHat can you do? Run one of Bobo’s patented third and long HB Draws over and over?
bruce mac
January 27th, 2011
10:58 am
Joe T seems like the right guy for the job. Honest, recognizes the issues, and ready to fix it. I like it, Go Dawgs.
bdaamwag
January 27th, 2011
11:00 am
Is it a lack of spending money? Or a general lack of heart. You be the judge. Great things in 2011! (hopefully)
Dawg_Mike
January 27th, 2011
11:02 am
Saw the Butts Mehre renovation photos. Awesome. Good use of $$.
Now lets get back to work and GATA
Bill
January 27th, 2011
11:04 am
That was a very good article. Very informative and interesting.
george
January 27th, 2011
11:06 am
The only investment that would make a difference on the field is coaching…..
I would like to see them invest in a TV network,,,,,their current converge just stink compared to the Falcons.
SportsFanatic
January 27th, 2011
11:09 am
UGA reinvests only 25.8% of its revenue back into the program while AU and Bama pony up 42.2% and 43.3% respectively and both have winning records over the past two seasons. Hey McGarity, are you getting it now?
JMar
January 27th, 2011
11:16 am
George – I don’t believe the Dogs can do anything about the television coverage; that’s an SEC deal.
UGA Alumnus
January 27th, 2011
11:16 am
“Georgia’s profit of $52.5 million was $8 more than second-place Florida netted.”?
8 dollars isn’t a lot more money is it? When you’re talking about tens of millions I think an $8 difference is not really “more”.
So we sold one more hot dog and coke than Florida? Woohoo! At least we finally beat them at something!
UGA Alumnus
January 27th, 2011
11:17 am
We could pay for a drivers ed program for the football team.
CANTONDAWG
January 27th, 2011
11:19 am
The lack of spending is very obvious in the coaching staff. CMR make 2.8 million which ranked 5th behind NS, UM, BP, and LM. I’m sure Chizik will bump him down to 6th now. CTG makes 750,000 which is very good for a DC but the rest of the staff is underpaid. CSS just about doubled his salary to go to Texas. We are not paying the best for assistants so we are not getting the best assistants. How can a program that is the 2nd most profitable and 3rd most in revenue spend so little compared to the others. If we demand this program to compete for NC then we gotta put up the money
1eyedJack
January 27th, 2011
11:19 am
“Thus, Georgia made more profit by spending less money on its football program than Bama, Auburn, LSU, Florida, South Carolina and even Arkansas!”
Might I add that we also finished behind those guys in the standings. Maybe we need to spend some money.
CANTONDAWG
January 27th, 2011
11:21 am
I’m excited about Coach T taking over the weight training program. He’s tough and old school and will instill discipline into our team. His honesty is refreshing. I don’t really know what’s happened to our weight training program the last couple of years but it looks like it’s back on track
KeepDreaming
January 27th, 2011
11:21 am
Good Article Bill. I think it is also important to note, since UGA ranks dead last in putting money back into our football program, maybe its going to other sports, say Swimming & Diving, Gymnastics, Tennis!?!?! Is this why we have pretty much dominated those sports???
Old Dawg
January 27th, 2011
11:22 am
With this kind of money in the bank, it’s time to build the indoor practice facility!
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
11:24 am
Just saw the new recruiting rankings. Auburn jumped to number 4. Not sure where UGA was….didn’t really matter.
UGA Alumnus
January 27th, 2011
11:24 am
@SportsFanatic
January 27th, 2011
11:09 am
I don’t know the numbers but I wonder how much of that is being reinvested into other programs? If you look at the rest of our athletic programs we have had a lot of success. We’ve won back to back national titles in Gymnastics and Equestrian competition, our baseball team over the past decade has been excellent, our tennis teams have dominated, etc.
And a side note:
It’s not until the past 2 season that our football team has been kinda bad.
But when you lose two of your star offensive players in the top 5 of the NFL draft, I think maybe 2 years isn’t much of a recovery time. (Assuming we can recover).
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
11:25 am
“What do you think? Besides the new facility, where else does UGA need to be spending some of those profits to keep up with the teams from the state to our immediate west?”
Well, it seems like a lot of money will go the the Clarke County jail.
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
11:26 am
“Georgia went 7-5 in 2009 and just 6-6 in 2010. … Take a look at the teams ahead of Georgia in terms of expenses. ”
Yeah, those other teams have what is known as “good coaching.”
BG
January 27th, 2011
11:26 am
We could have paid Cam 400k!!
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
11:26 am
“Might I add that we also finished behind those guys in the standings. ”
BEHIND????? UGA didn’t finish anywhere near the top 30!!!!!!!!!!
UGA Alumnus
January 27th, 2011
11:27 am
@Old Dawg
January 27th, 2011
11:22 am
I read an article about a past coach at Oregon requesting and receiving an indoor practice facility from Nike’s Phil Knight.
But I’ve never really understood how an indoor practice facility can improve a team.
How do you think it would help?
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
11:27 am
“We could have paid Cam 400k!!”
To use him as a wide receiver?
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kaput
January 27th, 2011
11:31 am
The numbers aren’t accurate and so the report is bogus. But heck, who cares about the truth anymore?
1eyedJack
January 27th, 2011
11:33 am
Nick Fairley don’t deserve to smell UGA VIII’s $#!t.
No, Nick...
January 27th, 2011
11:34 am
…as a tight end, per Richt’s recruiting evaluation…
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January 27th, 2011
11:35 am
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UGA Alumnus
January 27th, 2011
11:35 am
@Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
11:26 am
Some times teams go through slumps. Texas is the most profitable program in the country, and i’m pretty sure they invest a lot back into football. Just like UGA, they have good coaching. Yet they finished 5-7 for the season.
And just like UGA they recently lost their star QB.
It takes time to rebuild and regroup.
We will recover from losing Stafford and Moreno, but it’s only been two seasons.
Look at what happened to Florida after losing Tebow. We did better after losing Stafford, than Florida did after losing Tebow.
You don’t lose your star QB and not pay a price for a year or two. UGA, Florida, Texas, etc. are prime examples.
D A DoubleU G
January 27th, 2011
11:36 am
Dolla Dolla Bills Y’all!!!!
npgator
January 27th, 2011
11:36 am
Good thing the bottom line wasn’t based on performance.
chiefdawg
January 27th, 2011
11:36 am
maybe UGA could start doing some church work. AKA/Cam Newton. I hear Ray Drew is a preacher.
Actually, UGA Alumnus (oops), ...
January 27th, 2011
11:36 am
…that should be $8MILLION more than UF, not 8 DOLLARS more (per the original story in the AJC)…
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
11:36 am
“Nick Fairley don’t deserve to smell UGA VIII’s $#!t.”
Why would a number one draft prospect want to smell an ugly dog’s crap? Especially one that is from a really really bad football school.
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
11:40 am
“Some times teams go through slumps.”
Sometimes is one word, UGA Alum. Yes, and sometimes teams have really bad coaching.
“And just like UGA they recently lost their star QB. ”
What star did UGA lose?
“We will recover from losing Stafford and Moreno, but it’s only been two seasons. ”
Stafford left before UGA went 8-5 before the 2009 season. Not sure what that has to do with 2010.
“Look at what happened to Florida after losing Tebow. ”
They finished with a better record than UGA.
“You don’t lose your star QB and not pay a price for a year or two.”
The last time UGA won a title was in 1980. I guess UGA’s slump has been 31 years? Kind of a long slump if you ask me.
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
11:40 am
“maybe UGA could start doing some church work.”
Isn’t that what CMR does now?
Cohutta Dawgman
January 27th, 2011
11:42 am
With that much profit it looks like we could afford better players.
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sogadog
January 27th, 2011
11:44 am
Good stuff Mr. King. The best investment we could make would be in a weight room which it appears we have done and in hiring top notch assistant coaches which we have done by hiring Grantham and company. Whether these two investments pay off remains to be seen. We also need to invest in strength and conditioning coaches and baby sitters to keep the players out of trouble, academic and otherwise.
F. Sinkwich
January 27th, 2011
11:47 am
“But I’ve never really understood how an indoor practice facility can improve a team.”
Uh, recruiting?
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
11:47 am
“With that much profit it looks like we could afford better players.”
With that much profit it looks like we could afford better coaches. FYT
heady
January 27th, 2011
11:47 am
I’m sure the “Dream Team” (aka Titanic Jazz Band) will solve all UGA’s problems.
Mobile Dawg
January 27th, 2011
11:53 am
Did I read that right, one of the top six paid Head Coaches in the country, and he’s been asleep at the wheel? You “blind homers” keep right on supporting old “Coach Richt”. I woulda run his you know what out of town. He’s paid big bucks to oversee this program, he’s failed….
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
11:54 am
“Did I read that right, one of the top six paid Head Coaches in the country, and he’s been asleep at the wheel? ”
Guess being asleep is better than being drunk and getting arrested with red panties. WHOOPS!
Mobile Dawg
January 27th, 2011
11:55 am
Just to add, the staff has done a magnificent job of recruiting so far this year, another top ten class is coming. Makes you wonder what the coaches do when they’re not recruiting.
Nick Fairley has a losing Record Against UGA
January 27th, 2011
12:00 pm
Auburn fans are still bitter after winning a national championship. We know you are from Atlanta and didn’t have the grades to get into UGA. Why else would you care so much?
swarles _barkley
January 27th, 2011
12:01 pm
Honestly, no matter what happens to the football program, I can at least take pride in the fact that I don’t spend my free time trolling football blogs of rival schools. Getting satisfaction from pestering fans of other schools is like being the kid who walks around mimicking all of his classmates for a reaction. Grow up.
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
12:02 pm
“We know you are from Atlanta and didn’t have the grades to get into UGA.”
Why would anyone want to go to a university where most of the incoming freshman have to take remedial English?
“Why else would you care so much?”
Uh…..because it’s funny to make fun of dawg fans who predict national championships every year.
swarles _barkley
January 27th, 2011
12:02 pm
And in case you’re too stupid to understand…yes Nick Fairley, that was directed toward you.
ATL XMAN
January 27th, 2011
12:02 pm
about 50 percent of the 43 percent aub invested went to cam newton , dyer and farreley im sure.. uga and mark richt will be a force the next 5 or so years…
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
12:02 pm
“Auburn fans are still bitter after winning a national championship.”
Dumbest comment. Ever.
Fort Worth Dawg
January 27th, 2011
12:03 pm
Expand the stadium, and give more seats to the students.
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
12:04 pm
“about 50 percent of the 43 percent aub invested went to cam newton , dyer and farreley im sure”
If you’re so sure, where’s your proof? I really do hope you’re not a UGA law grad.
“uga and mark richt will be a force the next 5 or so years…”
And there we have it, folks! A UGA prediction that won’t come true!
swarles _barkley
January 27th, 2011
12:04 pm
He’s spot on. Somehow, after your school wins a National Championship you wind up on a UGA football blog in a bad mood. I would call that bitter. And pathetic.
Knowshot Morono
January 27th, 2011
12:06 pm
“I would call that bitter. And pathetic.”
I would call it funny and funny.
Hey, whatever happened to Matt Stafford?
swarles _barkley
January 27th, 2011
12:07 pm
He’s in the NFL
Typical UGA fan
January 27th, 2011
12:07 pm
WOOF WOOF HUNKER DOWN DAWGS!!!!!!! WE’Z GONE WIND US DA CHAMPIONSHIP DIS YEAR. DA CHAMPIONSHIP GOES THROUGH ATHENS LIKE ALWAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOF WOOF WOOF LET’S GIT SOME BEER!!!!!!!!!
Knowshot Morono
January 27th, 2011
12:08 pm
“He’s in the NFL”
And? OHHHHHHHHHHHH, that’s right, he’s made of plastic and breaks easy.
HanDAWG
January 27th, 2011
12:11 pm
This is such old news. This story broke before this past football season started, and I commented on how the top two teams in this list had poor seasons at the end of this football season at http://www.bighairyblawg.com. Very unoriginal and untimely article.
swarles _barkley
January 27th, 2011
12:11 pm
So the only shot you can take at the guy is injury? Besides being a classless jab at someone who has had more success than you ever will, it’s irrelevant to this article.
LawDawg
January 27th, 2011
12:12 pm
Nick Fairey,
Your dumb school’s slump was WAY longer than 30 years!!!!
I bet just typing “red panties” gave you a stiffy.
ceph
January 27th, 2011
12:13 pm
I love Richts interview with Tereshinski for the S&C coach, “Hey Joe do you want to be the S&G Coach?” Great interview huh? Instead of sitting down with him and other candidates and asking them what did they think UGA needed to do he says “Hey Joe” he must stole that line from Jimmie Hendrix (the Singer) He couldn’t stand to get out of the good ole boy circle. Richt has got to be the most inept head coach in the country, no I take that back he IS the most inept coach in the country!!!!!!
is
Bear Knows
January 27th, 2011
12:14 pm
“I think the most important thing of all for any team is a winning attitude. The coaches must have it. The players must have it. The student body must have it. If you have dedicated players who believe in themselves, you don’t need a lot of talent.” – Paul Bear Bryant
swarles _barkley
January 27th, 2011
12:14 pm
Ceph. I suppose you want to be coach?
LawDawg
January 27th, 2011
12:16 pm
“Ceph?”….Sounds like an ailment to me. Wouldn’t want to be you.
UGA Alumnus
January 27th, 2011
12:19 pm
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
11:40 am
I’m not sure why I’m responding to this but… The two stars UGA lost were Stafford and Moreno. Stafford, you might remember, was the NFL first draft pick? And I think Moreno went 5th?
He’s only been gone two years. Tebow’s been gone one. We actually went 8-5 after he left. Florida also went 8-5 after Tebow left.
My point is, it takes time to rebuild. UGA started a freshman QB this year.
We’ve actually won 5 titles including the 1980 title. And we’ve won two in this decade we just finished.
But I’m sure facts don’t faze you.
Dirk
January 27th, 2011
12:22 pm
Yet another reason why McGarity is the WORST AD in the SEC. He doesn’t understand that his SALARIES/CONTRACT LENGTH/STAFF SIZE, ain’t BIG ENOUGH, to let Richt COMPETE FAIRLY.
Just lost Searels to Texas because they offered him $200,000 MORE.
Mark’s made the program a TON of money/profit, he has earned the right to share in SOME OF THE LOOT.
I really don’t think McGarity will be at Georgia long, might get ousted mid-deason if Richt goes 1-4 again. He simple didn’t do 1 single thing to help Mark Richt in 2010.
1eyedJack
January 27th, 2011
12:22 pm
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
It seems the only way a Tech troll can feel relevant is to pose as an Awbun troll….and it appears that the intelligent twin spontaneously aborted himself….wise choice.
UGA Alumnus
January 27th, 2011
12:23 pm
@Fort Worth Dawg
January 27th, 2011
12:03 pm
I think you might be on to something. Tennessee gives tickets to EVERY student that wants one. UGA does not. If you’re a freshman or sophomore, more than likely you aren’t getting into the game on a student ticket.
Students should get priority. After all, it’s their school and their time as the UGA student body.
Dirk
January 27th, 2011
12:24 pm
Mos tof the SEC coahces have 5 or mroe year on their contract. Richt has 3. That doesn’t allow Georgia to compete fairly for top recruits and coaches. How Richt continues to attract highest wquality recruits and coaches is a testament ONLY to Mark Richt, McGarity has done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to help.
DMR
January 27th, 2011
12:24 pm
Georgia is the second most profitable athletic department in the Nation; behind Texas. The addition of Mark Fox and his commitment to basketball is only going to help in growing that number in the next few years. Georgia will not hire a long term fix at the O-line coaching position until the results are in from 2011. Mark Richt is on a very short leash. However, the recipe for Richt to stay at Georgia from the School’s perspective seems to be: 1) land a top tier recruiting class w/ a top DE, top DL, and top RB in the class. 2.) There can be ZERO off-field problems! If there are, Richt will have to come down with a heavy hand. NO EXCEPTIONS! 3.) Win 9 games or more and find a way to beat Florida. JMO. But from Richt’s vantage point, he may get fed up with all the nonsense and take leave on his own accord. Hoping for the best and GO DAWGS!
UGA Alumnus
January 27th, 2011
12:26 pm
@F. Sinkwich
January 27th, 2011
11:47 am
why would a recruit care about an indoor practice field? Seriously.
Because it’s hot out? Or it’s wet out? Don’t we want tough players who can get their conditioning up to the elements?
DumbDawg
January 27th, 2011
12:27 pm
More suckers….
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
12:40 pm
I wish I had a job, but I am too pathetic to be hired by anyone. Oh well, I guess I will spend all my free time on UGA blogs because I am sad and pathetic and this somehow makes me feel better even though I never played at Auburn, so there successes and triumphs are not mine.
*bursts out of the room in tears*
LawDawg
January 27th, 2011
12:40 pm
Why is someone posting under my name?
DawginLex
January 27th, 2011
12:41 pm
Yeah that stafford is a real loser.
Won 31 games in 3 years in college
Led UGA to #2 national ranking in 2007
Signed richest contract for the NFL
Is set to lead a rejuvenated Detroit team next year and beyond
Is getting more trim than all of you losers are combined
Richer than Fort Freaking Knox
Despite his injuries, he is a hero in Detroit for throwing a TD pass in his rookie season with a dislocated shoulder.
Yeah, he is a real loser…………..
Dixie Redcoat Band
January 27th, 2011
12:44 pm
With this nice return on money….this will be a good excuse to….raise the tkt prices!
At least 3 or 4 MAC schools have regulation indoor practice fields..interesting….
Columbus Dawg
January 27th, 2011
12:45 pm
Hey fellow Dawgs, there is no point arguing with these Auburn people. I have lived in Columbus Ga. all of my life. There are more D.A. Auburn fans here than anywhere in the nation, well except for maybe Opelika Alabama, which by the way has more mobile home dealerships per capita than any other area in the U.S. I know, and have known many of them in my 50 years on this planet. I would venture to say, that all but 3 or 4 of them are some of the biggest D.A. people I have ever known. They are the most jealous fan base in the nation, largely due to the fact that they have always had to play second fiddle to Bama.
Believe me guys, UGA has been in the Auburn people’s head more than just about anything for the last 5 years. Auburn has always been willing to do anything and everything to try to pull even with Alabama and Georgia for at least 60 years. They never learn from their mistakes, or punishment. The Auburn people were in denial in 1993 about their cheating program, just as they are now. Then all of a sudden they were playing recorded tapes between player and coach on receipt of money on the player’s part on 20/20 on prime time television, and even then they would not completely own up to anything. Auburn has now pulled ahead of every cheating P.O.S. program in the country as being THE #1 P.O.S. cheating program of all time. I cannot wait to hear their B.S., denial based comments when it all blows up this time. There is your “Bottom Line”.
RxDawg
January 27th, 2011
12:59 pm
Cool, maybe the US government should take note of how UGA runs things.
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
1:00 pm
“Stafford, you might remember, was the NFL first draft pick? And I think Moreno went 5th?”
And they’re doing what in the NFL?
“Florida also went 8-5 after Tebow left.”
And……they still beat UGA.
“We’ve actually won 5 titles including the 1980 title.”
UGA claims 3 titles. Not sure where the other two imaginary titles came from.
dawgfacedboy
January 27th, 2011
1:02 pm
Saban, Meyer, and Chizik also wipe their backsides with their left hands and Richt wipes with his right. I’m seeing a correlation here.
The bottom line is that the players are out of control, the preparation of the players is lacking, the gameday coaching stinks, talent is continually wasted, etc. None of which has anything to do with how much they spend.
1eyedJack
January 27th, 2011
1:02 pm
RxDawg, if Obama finds out we have that much cash we’re going to be in trouble.
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
1:02 pm
“Won 31 games in 3 years in college
Led UGA to #2 national ranking in 2007″
And ZERO national titles. Oh, and UGA lost 2 games in 2007.
“Richer than Fort Freaking Knox”
You’ve obviously never been to Michigan.
“Despite his injuries, he is a hero in Detroit for throwing a TD pass in his rookie season with a dislocated shoulder.”
Detroits ex-mayor who is in prison is a hero. Your point?
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
1:03 pm
“Why is someone posting under my name?”
Same reason someone is posting under mine.
YoungDawg
January 27th, 2011
1:03 pm
The percentage we spend on football has to go up! Football brings in the most revenue therefore most of the money needs to be spent on it! Hopefully McGarity gets that! All this revenue needs to translate into:
1. Championships! With our recruiting base we should be in contention for the SEC East every season! If we do that it will lead to NC title contention since we play in the best conference in the land! If Richt can’t lead us there I love the man but its time to bring in someone who can!
2. Improvements to Sanford like the ones that were just finished at Stegeman. Most of the SEC has passed us by in their area with NFL like amenities that needs to change ASAP!
3. A full field Indoor Practice Facility! I don’t care that Richt wants it to be part of a larger multiuse facility. Get something built ASAP then add on to it gradually. Sometimes the parent just gotta do what’s best for the kid! I’m sure if this happens once Richt has the IPF at his disposal he’ll understand it was the right thing to just get a full filed version built ASAP.
After those two facilities projects are done then Foley Filed needs to be torn down & replaced with Gwinnett Braves stadium being the model as far as the project planning goes. My point being that tearing Foley down & building a new baseball stadium can be done between baseball seasons. After that’s done then we can move on to expanding Sanford by wrapping the 3rd deck all the way around. Then when that’s done we’ll need to improve something else I’m sure. The point is we should always be moving forward with our facilities!
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
1:05 pm
“Your dumb school’s slump was WAY longer than 30 years!!!!
I bet just typing “red panties” gave you a stiffy.”
Auburn doesn’t lead the nation in students who have to take remedial English. Nuff said.
Oh, if you’re a lawyer, I’m a doctor.
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
1:06 pm
1eyedJack
So where’s your proof that I am a Tech fan?
7576DAWG
January 27th, 2011
1:09 pm
Bill
We spend approx. 25% and Auburn and Ala. spends 42%-43%. That is a very large difference. What is Ala. and Auburn spending money on or wasting money that we aren’t ? Many times when you have a lot to spend doesn’t mean you have to do it if you are going to improve the program or get a return on the investment.
1eyedJack
January 27th, 2011
1:12 pm
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
You’re not your average moron, but a total moron. Proof enough.
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
1:16 pm
“You’re not your average moron, but a total moron. Proof enough.”
You have the IQ of a carrot.
Ace
January 27th, 2011
1:16 pm
You UGA Fans are the biggest suckers in the SEC, they took the money from you and you are owned by the state of FL, UF and ha ha Central FL.
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
1:16 pm
“Proof enough.”
What proof? You’ve fallen off the short bus one too many times, turd.
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
1:21 pm
“You UGA Fans are the biggest suckers”
About as big as democrat voters. Both predict things that never come true.
Aubie go home
January 27th, 2011
1:26 pm
@Fairley’s lapdog,
The team you’re a fan of, through no effort of your own, won a national title. Congratulations to them. Remind me how long it had been since they previously won a NCG.
Oh, and what’s Auburn’s record against Georgia, say, the past 4 seasons? Think of those things and get over yourself. Enjoy the afterglow a few more months because with Newton and Fairley gone Auburn will be lucky to have the record UGA did this past season. Get yourself a hobby that doesn’t involve trolling newspaper articles that are already calling attention to problems. Typical Aubie troll, jumping into conversations in which you have no part.
mcdaviddawg
January 27th, 2011
1:27 pm
For the question by Flying Dawg, look it up, the reason we don’t have an indoor field is Richt. It was put to him, after much noise about needing the field, he had a choice of new offices or the field, he took the offices. Anybody surprised.
1eyedJack
January 27th, 2011
1:30 pm
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
“You’ve fallen off the short bus one too many times, turd.”
Well, that right there may be the reason you’ve had difficulty finding gainful employment. You see, in the mart of competitive commerce you shouldn’t put IGNORANT on your resume.
Ol' Dawg
January 27th, 2011
1:32 pm
Not understanding how an indoor practice facility would help only shows you don’t know much about football. Why don’t you post about something you have knowledge of?
As for you AU folks, you have beaten us once in the last five years, and you think you own us? Another ignorant poster.
Of course, there are always ignorant posters on here. Can’t imagine if most were intelligent, what this would be like.
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
1:38 pm
“Oh, and what’s Auburn’s record against Georgia, say, the past 4 seasons?”
Better question, who owns UGA all-time? Yep, Auburn.
“Auburn will be lucky to have the record UGA did this past season. ”
UGA fans who make predictions like that always amuse me.
“Get yourself a hobby that doesn’t involve trolling newspaper articles ”
Ma’am, this article mentions Auburn.
“Typical Aubie troll, jumping into conversations in which you have no part.”
You didn’t read the article did you. If you had, you’d have read where Auburn was mentioned several times.
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
1:39 pm
1eyedJack
You’re about as smart as Al Gore’s dung. Keep on commenting though, I’m enjoying laughing and mocking you.
Remote Dog
January 27th, 2011
1:39 pm
A similar article was posted in December on ESPN but local media didn’t pick it up. We’re clearly under investing in football; this is why the blame has to start with President Adams. He’s the one that have made it harder to support the team by diminishing investment in the team, cutting off tailgating, and creating an anti-football bias within the administration. Why has he under invested in football? Where is the accountability? Here’s that ESPN article: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls10/news/story?id=5970794
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
1:40 pm
“As for you AU folks, you have beaten us once in the last five years, and you think you own us? ”
We own UGA all-time.
“Of course, there are always ignorant posters on here.”
You, for instance.
Auburn AD
January 27th, 2011
1:40 pm
Dear McGarity UGA AD:
We would like to barrow $500,000 from your cash reserves. Yes, we owe Cam another $200k for the Nation Championship. and we are looking hard for his replacement. Please send cash to Auburn banker and my boss Mr. Bobby Lowder.
1eyedJack
January 27th, 2011
1:41 pm
Just like a Techie to think he’s winning when he’s getting his head handed to him.
Athens Prison System
January 27th, 2011
1:41 pm
Dear CMR,
We are really tired of having to arrest your football team every week. Please come down and bail
out your players.
Thanks-Sheriff Cletus
VIningsFAN
January 27th, 2011
1:42 pm
LOSERS COMPLAIN THAT WINNERS CHEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WINNERS LIKE AUBURN REINVEST IN THE PROGRAM. BUILD STATE OF THE ART FACILITIES, AUBURN IS BUILDING AN INDOOR PRACTICE FACILITY (A FULL FOOTBALL FIELD PLUS ANOTHER 30 YARDS FOR ADDITIONAL WORK AREA). NEW PRACTICE FIELDS.
THE DIFFERENCE IN UGA AND AUBURN RIGHT NOW IS AUBURN IS TRENDING UPWARD AND IS THE HOT NAME NOW. FOCUS OF THE UNDER ARMOUR MARKETING PROGRAM. UGA IS TRENDING DOWNWARD.
AUBURN DOESN;T THINK THEY OWN UGA, THEY CAN RECOGNIZE WHEN PROGRAMS ARE MOVING IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.
ALSO ANOTHER GREAT UGA RECRUITING CLASS, PROBLEM IS YOU HAVE TO COACH THEM.
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
1:42 pm
“Just like a Techie to think he’s winning when he’s getting his head handed to him.”
Just like a UGA fan(not grad) to suggest that other people are Tech fans when they have absolutely no proof of their claim.
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
1:44 pm
What’s the difference between Auburn fans and UGA fans?
Auburn fans actually graduated from Auburn. UGA fans are still working on their GED’s.
Dragon
January 27th, 2011
1:57 pm
You rednecks get less bang for your buck than any human beings alive….at least the AD had the presence to get the panties off his head and down into his lap!
UGA Alumnus
January 27th, 2011
2:40 pm
@Nick Fairley Owns UGA
My family is from Auburn, and I grew up a huge Auburn fan. We always had season tickets and went to a lot of away games too. Specifically in Sanford Stadium.
I have duel citizenship when it comes to UGA and Auburn. I pull for both, and love both. But I grew up in Georgia and am a graduate of the University of Georgia, and I love my Dawgs.
I believe in my Dawgs and in Auburn.
All that said, I think you give Auburn fans a bad name. I question if a true Auburn fan would even use that moniker, “Nick Fairley Owns UGA”. I don’t think one would, honestly.
You don’t talk like an Auburn fan.
UGA Alumnus
January 27th, 2011
2:42 pm
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
1:44 pm
Sorry, buddy, but that just isn’t true. I have family who graduated from Auburn, and PLENTY of family who didn’t but still pull for Auburn.
Tom
January 27th, 2011
2:44 pm
Fire CMR.
Mean Machine
January 27th, 2011
2:49 pm
Based on those figures, the UGA athletic department is not as committed to winning as Alabama and other SEC schools. That should not be the case. #2 in profits, #7 in spending, that’s a disgrace! That’s one more reason why UGA hasn’t won a national championship in 30 years. If UGA is going to be about winning championships, then they better spend the money where they can. Richt has been crying for an indoor practice facility since he has been here. Where is it? With as much money as UGA is making, there is no excuse for lacking in anything. SPEND THE MONEY YOU CHEAP B******S!
JRW7
January 27th, 2011
2:53 pm
BILL
Can’t you keep these yoyo’s off your blog? So we can have this blog for intelligent discussions about college football etc.!!!!
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
2:58 pm
UGA Alumnus
Of course I know that’s not true. I just put it up there to irritate rabid dawg fans who like to post things about Auburn being a “dumb” school.
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
3:00 pm
“You don’t talk like an Auburn fan.”
So what do UGA fans talk like?
Nick Fairley Owns UGA
January 27th, 2011
3:03 pm
Oh BTW I am a Tech fan. Go Tech!!!!!!!!
WarEagle Jax
January 27th, 2011
3:05 pm
As an Auburn fan I have to say that you are embarrassing our school. Please stop posting on here.
Joe
January 27th, 2011
3:11 pm
“Just saw the new recruiting rankings. Auburn jumped to number 4. Not sure where UGA was….didn’t really matter.”
We’ll be ranked ahead of Auburn when it’s all said and done, and we’ll do it without cheating and without paying our players.
Joe
January 27th, 2011
3:12 pm
Then again, Auburn needs to invest in their third rate University. Their academics are a joke. A degree from Auburn doesn’t mean squat, except for maybe a Vet degree.
Ralph
January 27th, 2011
3:29 pm
Dangerous for thUGA fans to post about the values of degrees when you look at the list of majors and classes the athletes are enrolled.
Ralph
January 27th, 2011
3:30 pm
Go TECH!!!!!!!!!
Joe
January 27th, 2011
3:37 pm
I r graduatad from UGA and I r smart. Aubarn is not smart. I ar.
Joe
January 27th, 2011
3:39 pm
Go Tech!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mike
January 27th, 2011
3:40 pm
Where do we rank in $ posted for bail in 2010?
Ralph
January 27th, 2011
3:40 pm
Different “Ralph” who posted the “Go TECH”, but I don’t have a problem with that. At least they don’t recruit thugs, and require real students to take real classes under real majors who actually represent their school instead of embarrass it.
Mr. Obvious
January 27th, 2011
3:44 pm
“At least they don’t recruit thugs’
No, instead GT recruits Al Quaeda terrorists.
virginia dog
January 27th, 2011
3:55 pm
Bill
This is the most eye opening thing i have read about UGA in years. I hope our new AD understands football is the golden goose and if you want that goose to keep laying those golden eggs you got to feed it.
man … i just can’t believe we are being out spent by South Carolina.
Time to step up and get control Mr AD.
News Flash
January 27th, 2011
3:58 pm
This just in…CMR is relieved of even more duties so that he can study where to make improvements on spending money(ies) to improve the program. Hopefully, he’ll still allow himself the time he freed up to study the new things about football that he has been missing because of all of his other duties and responsibilities.
UGA degree
January 27th, 2011
4:01 pm
@Ralph
January 27th, 2011
3:29 pm
“Dangerous for thUGA fans to post about the values of degrees when you look at the list of majors and classes the athletes are enrolled.”
What are talking about, the athletes can’t wait to get their degrees so that they can put them on the dash and park in handicap zones.
Ross Perot
January 27th, 2011
4:06 pm
Larry, this is not rocket science. Let us raise the hood and get up under there and fiddle around. Well, um, Joe T IS a great technician. He knows that it AIN’T rocket science.
The UGA linemen lack the physicality to play at the SEC requisite level. We are twirps in other words. My wife ( UGA 73 ) said all during this last year, that “We are getting shoved around …… our big guys are weaklings”. She really noticed it in the SC and Colorado and MSU and GT game and the UCF game. AU was anybody’s game till we blew the second half kick off. We got outcoached on that play. Fairley was alsoa beast. Gone now.
Florida? Yeah, but Murray choked and blew that game.
We shall see. Unleash some of the money when a new staff comes in. These current UGA guys have let it go to waste, it appears.
Whoever comes in will have some excellent talent and all he will have to do is infill with blue chip linemen for a couple of years. UGA could go get one more quality back in 2012 and then, all linemen.
Anyone even remotely interested in college football knows that UGA’s LOSING issues are on both sides of the ball. Easy, easy to correct and we will go back to 10-2 type of years. Look for 2012 and 2013 to be excellent and by then, several SEC coaches will have come and gone. Saban, Spurrier and Miles and Chizk and Petrino and Nutt and even Dooley might all be gone in two more years.
Go Dogs
robodawg
January 27th, 2011
4:07 pm
Like alot what Joe T. had to say. You could’ve led the article with that.
Hey ralph
January 27th, 2011
4:18 pm
Name one diploma earned by the NFL GT departures of 2009 and this past year. I do think that one of the 6 or 7 NFl bound earned a diploma from GT ( Claytor?) and I’ll bet that it was in the phony Park Management program created about 10 years ago. He is projected to be a free agent anyway. He is no good according to NFL scouts.
I am close to tons of late 1960s and early 70s GT grads and they do sheepishly admit that GT does now offer a much broader curriculum, so stop with that chatter about GT players graduating. Look at YOUR OWN graduation stats within the ACC ……………….DEAD LAST.
Again …………. this type of nonscensical chatter from GT folks proves that they are just herds, all living in a bubble with NO WOMEN in their lives. None, except mama.
Besides, engineers of all stripes are being fired all over corporate America, unless you reside in India or China.
woebegong
January 27th, 2011
4:24 pm
That fairley jerk can’t really be from Auburn. He wouldn’t have a computer to type on since CAM would have already aquired it and sold it long before now. Most likely a kid, as his childish attempt at sounding even half smart falls way short of reaching the goal.
I hear your mommy calling you for your nap, idiot.
T-DOG
January 27th, 2011
4:29 pm
“Nick Fugly owns UGA”
Dude you must be a pretty big “winner” in the real world. How many hours now have you been on a sports blog of an “crappy” football team posting insults. You must have an exiting life!
T-DOG
January 27th, 2011
4:31 pm
Guys let the litte punks get there kicks while they can. They no the DAWGS will end up KICKING A$$ before long.
T-DOG
January 27th, 2011
4:35 pm
By the way Nick Fugly the overall series UGA 51 games Auburn 54. I wouldn’t exactly say the barners own the dogs, nice try “lil” guy.
Joe
January 27th, 2011
4:40 pm
I hear Ralph Friedgen to be new UGA OC Bobo to coach QB
Time for a Change!
January 27th, 2011
4:51 pm
I think there is a direct correlation to the lack of funding the football program and the crappy seasons!!
Scott
January 27th, 2011
5:05 pm
Cam somEbody just go ahead and fire McGarity right now for not INVESTING in the football program so Georgia can RECRUIT, TRAIN, ATTRACT/RETAIN BEST ATHLETES & COACHES?
I don’t want to go 6-7 again, one year with McGarity is all Richt needs. Let’s get back to WINNING AD’s, not BANKER AD’S.
If Richt goes 6-7 or worse, Richt won’t be the only guy getting fired at UGA, McGarity will be gone too.
Mr. Obvious
January 27th, 2011
5:07 pm
“the overall series UGA 51 games Auburn 54. I wouldn’t exactly say the barners own the dogs, nice try “lil” guy.”
Auburn owns the all-time series over UGA. That means Auburn owns UGA.
Dogs Smell
January 27th, 2011
5:12 pm
Just goes to show you $$$ cant buy a championship !
Dogs Smell
January 27th, 2011
5:14 pm
T-DOG , Apparently you pull for a college team but never saw the inside of a classroom. Know what I mean?
Dogs Smell
January 27th, 2011
5:16 pm
woebegong – Do you think he would have gotten more $$ for a computer than AJ did for a jersey?
Scott
January 27th, 2011
5:25 pm
If Richt finishes up with the #1 recruiting class, and he will, in a situation where his own AD won’t extend his contract, and McGarity won’t, Richt will be a HOT COMMODITY to other schools and the pricetag will be enormous to McGarity for delaying to extend Richt.
Yet another DUMB LAME move by AD McGarity.
Scott
January 27th, 2011
5:27 pm
richt will be able to write his own ticket in 2011 if he and Georgia part ways.
wow, land the #1 recruiting class in a year where everyone says you’re on a hotseat?
amazing feat if Richt pulls it off, he can write his own check in 2011.
woebegong
January 27th, 2011
5:29 pm
I tried to find a decent Auburn blog, to see if a bunch of UGA fans went on it and posted stupid comments like the Auburn fans do on here. Guess what, I am still trying to find one. Does anybody have a web address for one, they can post on here so I can do the research.
While we are on the subject of how great Auburn is in football, it seems necessary to point out that Cam Newton is a native of Georgia, so if we want to be technical, Auburn had to recruit from Georgia just to get the BCS Championship. Kind of glad you all got em though. I think I would rather not have the problems he might have cost you in the future. Time will tell.
BJohnDawg
January 27th, 2011
5:33 pm
UGA Alumnus
January 27th, 2011
11:17 am
We could pay for a drivers ed program for the football team
LOL
Good one!
woebegong
January 27th, 2011
5:36 pm
Dogs Smell,
He probably did but the difference is significant when you consider that Newton took something that was not his. How many you figure he would have sold, had he not been caught throwing the one out the window?
A J Greene paid the price for selling his own jersey, but Cam got away with it, through some kind of plea deal, correct? All he lost was a scholarship from Florida, and that did not seem to bother your athletic Dept. since they offered him one.
NoRichtFan
January 27th, 2011
5:41 pm
The old saying goes: “You got to spend money to maske money.” In UGA’s case, “UGA’s got to spend money to win.” A side note: If Richt does indeed sign whom he wants, then it will be interesting to see what he does with them this comming season. As I recall, he sat Moreno on the bench his freshman year. I wonder if he’s gotten smarter?
Dogs Smell
January 27th, 2011
5:42 pm
woebegong- Typical of a dawg fan-excuses excuses and excuses. Georgia does plenty wrong , just look at the list of arrest year after year. Fact is concerning this blog , Georgia can have the top recruiting class year after year and other SEC programs will still beat them on and off the field.
Funny and Stupid
January 27th, 2011
5:48 pm
Does anyone here listen to the Paul Finebaum Show? He’s been going off on UGA football for a while. He usually goes off on Auburn but he’s switched to UGA today. Anyway, some moron called in and admitted to dumping poison on the Toomers corner tree. He was trying to be funny but the funny thing is is that an Auburn attorney called in and said that the tree was found partially dead today and that there was poison found. He also stated that the guy is going to be prosecuted.
My advice to people is if you do something as stupid as that, don’t call into a radio show and admit to doing it.
Funny and Stupid
January 27th, 2011
5:49 pm
woebegong
Kind of a reach there, buddy. No athlete in any state has any obligation to go to a state school. Period.
OK I'm stupid...
January 27th, 2011
6:31 pm
So Bama puts a ton of money back into it’s football program…can someone tell me what they spend the money on? Doesn’t UGA have some of the best facilities in the SEC? What are you going to do buy customized golf carts to drive the coaches and other dignitaries to the field? It appears that somewhere along the line UGA spent a heck of a lot of money to get the program and its top notch facilities. What do you want the team get a new uniform specifically for each team they play? Really, how much is enough? I certainily hope that they’re putting this “surplus” to good use elsewhere!
OldFan
January 27th, 2011
6:42 pm
This just confims what many of us have repeatedly said this sorry year about the administration’s motives to make a change. All the “expert” commentary, armchair coaching, upset bubbas, and checkbook fans have nothing to do with how this program is managed. It’s managed to the bottomline. And congratulations to the Dawgs! We won the SEC Championship and finished No 2 in the country. Now tell me why we fire CMR?
Dogs Smell
January 27th, 2011
6:50 pm
No actually UGA doesnt have the best facilities in the SEC. UT im pretty sure ranks #1 followed by UF.
Too Easy
January 27th, 2011
7:06 pm
DSmell: Seriously, how do you measure ‘best facilities’? It’s just an opinion, and yours smells.
Livin in da past
January 27th, 2011
7:10 pm
“We won the SEC Championship and finished No 2 in the country. ”
That was in 2007 and UGA had two losses. 2007 was a VERY down year in college football.
Livin in da past
January 27th, 2011
7:11 pm
“Georgia can have the top recruiting class year after year and other SEC programs will still beat them on and off the field.”
Bingo! It all comes down to coaching.
Delbert D.
January 27th, 2011
7:31 pm
There is no crystal football trophy for best perceived recruiting class.
Dogs Smell
January 27th, 2011
7:43 pm
Too Easy , All opinion’s smell if they dont praise your pups. That is typical of dog fans
1962 Dawg
January 27th, 2011
8:05 pm
Bill
Get off the CMR going anywhere blog.
Coach Mark Richt has coached for 10 seasons at UGA.
During that 10 seasons he has won 96 games.
Only 1 other coach that’s alive that’s won that many games in a 10 year span at the same school.
Bob Stoops at Oklahoma. Not bad company at all.
Coach Mark Richt is a fine coach and hasn’t forgotten how to coach. Stop with the bashing, your starting to resemble Mark Bradley.
Armydawg
January 27th, 2011
8:15 pm
71 million will not change an attitude of kicking a field goal when it is 4 th and inches on their 2 yard line. You can not buy courage!
Dawg1
January 27th, 2011
8:21 pm
Nick Fairley Owns UGA…You Poser! Fairley is a THUG…Hits late and is encouraged to do so by his coaches, or they would have stopped it! Are you a War Turkey or a Tigerrrr? Confused, I know…Duh?
mgdawg
January 27th, 2011
8:26 pm
Did UGA really spend less then the other schools? They made a good bit more, is that why the percentage they put back into the school was so much lower?
Georgia Saturdays Built FOR LOSERS
January 27th, 2011
8:29 pm
Georgia Sucks and that is the Bottom Line because Stone Cold Said SO!!!
SouthGADawg
January 27th, 2011
8:35 pm
UGA needs to buy a Jet.
Dawg1
January 27th, 2011
8:40 pm
Bama and Auburnt have no blogs…they have to get their talent out of GA. to be good…OK, so, we have the auburn war eagles or are they the tigers? and the bama elephants or the roll tides? who are they anyway…dumb and dumber! DUH!
Ed (The Original)
January 27th, 2011
9:16 pm
“UGA may be having to spend some money … to buy out the remainder of Mark Richt’s contract.”
One can only hope…
td
January 27th, 2011
9:17 pm
OldFan
January 27th, 2011
6:42 pm
I agree with you. I have been saying for two years that CMR is not the problem at UGA. The real problem is Adams and it does not matter what we do in coaching, there will be no real change until Adams is no longer President.
Livin in da past
January 27th, 2011
9:42 pm
“Bama and Auburnt have no blogs…they have to get their talent out of GA.”
Track em Tigers
Roll Bama Roll
Livin in da past
January 27th, 2011
9:43 pm
Dawg1
Nick Fairley was never arrested. Half of your current 6-7 football team was.
We don’t call it THUGA for nothing! HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA
Bring Tubby back !
January 27th, 2011
9:49 pm
Is it true UGA is trying to hire ole Ralpie for its OL coach ?
Bring Tubby back !
January 27th, 2011
9:51 pm
Ralphie the Fridge
IRISH DAWG
January 27th, 2011
10:04 pm
AUBURN FANS, GEORGIA HAS WON MORE BOWL VICTORY RANKED 4TH ALL TIME. AUBURN NOT RANKED IN THE TOP 15. GEORGIA HAS WON 12 SEC TITLES TO AUBURN’S 7.GEORGIA HAS WON 5 NATIONAL COLLEGE FOOTBALL TITLES 1927,1942,1946, 1968& 1980 TO AUBURN’S 1 UNDER THE NAME AUBURN. 1957 WAS CALL ALABAMA POLYTECHNICAL SCHOOL. WAS NOT CALL AUBURN. SO AUBURN WHO HAS THE BEST FOOTBALL HISTORY?
Dawg For Life
January 27th, 2011
10:14 pm
Auburn football is a criminal enterprise, a fact that will eventually become clear once the FBI completes its investigation of Bobby Lowder’s Colonial Bank failure and leans hard enough on one of his trusted lieutenant’s to get them to flip on him. why do you think Chizik was the only guy in America Lowder could get to take the job? The coaching fraternity all know what’s going on there. You Auburn fans (who really need to stick to your own blog) seem to be living in a reality distortion field. Ask USC how that worked out for them and Reggie Bush.
Gen Neyland
January 27th, 2011
10:45 pm
Dang it UGA fans, quit spending your guv’ment entitlements on these items. Your babies need cheese puffs and chocolate milk and we all know the trailer needs a few broken panes replaced… And don’t get mad, I’m jus’ having fun at your expense like you have at mine. Really, I love y’all like you were my own red-headed stepchildren…Check out the History Channel on 08FEB. Larry the Cable Guy is starting a new, short series and episode 1 features my county here in Georgia. A little moonshining history…
Coach Grohbo
January 27th, 2011
10:46 pm
Well Georgia supporters,
Who is stealing all your money?
You are in the bottom half of the SEC in spending in football and are last in basketball and baseball spending.
Yet, you are the second largest institution in your league by a wide margin.
You are getting screwed to the tune of $11.7 million per year but you are too stupid to ask questions. Did you know your athletic board has over $65M in reserve cash and “investments”?
Enjoy paying your money and losing, while M. F. Adams and your athletic board laugh at you all the way to the bank.
Leroy
January 27th, 2011
10:52 pm
BILL KING Why do you think that is necessary to insert that they may have to buy out Coach Richt’s contract. This is not what you expect from a UGA SUPPORTER close to signing day. You dissapoint me with this rhetoric and this is not the first time. If you can’t pull for the program then please don’t pull against it while weaaring a Dawg hat on your head. Let’s show a little team spirit among us Dawgs.
Dawg Gone
January 27th, 2011
11:04 pm
It is about time!!! Somebody has FINALLY said we have have been whipped up front! We can recruit all the skill players in the world but without winning the battle upfront you are dead! OB can’t throw, runners can’t run… the scheme is to block somebody off the ball. IF this can be accomplished, LOOKOUT!!!! We have had the best skilled athletes in the SEC for years but we have been getting ruled on both sides of the ball. I am excited to hear those comments! Best article yet this post season! Boys and girls, hide the woman and the children because the boat might just be about to pull out!!!!! GO DAWGS!!
Big D Dawg
January 27th, 2011
11:16 pm
nick fairley owns ga….. nick you don’t own anyone…. you can’t even remember the last time au won. 1957 and this one may not hold.. don’t forget to look at when au goes undefeated they usually get probation. i.e. 93?? and then the ad tries to run his own coach out of town in 03. you guys have your problems and will be coming down again. just wait barner.
Based on this Comments
January 28th, 2011
6:39 am
We all know how Au puts its money.
Nick fairy thinks he owns UGA
January 28th, 2011
7:27 am
Auburn beat UGA for first time in 3 years they won their first NC since 1957 and you want to come on our page and talk trash! Auburn will probably have to return the Trophy in 2-3 years ala R Bush. Enyoy while you can because the ncaa will come a calling in a few years!
buckeyedawg
January 28th, 2011
8:27 am
Coach T sees the problem, he and coach Brown should make these dawgs some of the strongest players in the sec. We all know football is won on the line of scrimage.
Bodda Getta
January 28th, 2011
8:42 am
Bill,
Have you asked where this bottom line goes? It sure doesn’t go to making your athletic teams better.
If you dig enough, you will find that UGA runs the most crooked athletic program in the SEC.
Bodda Getta
January 28th, 2011
8:48 am
Butthurt Georgia fans,
Still enjoying your fairy tales about Auburn. The SEC and NCAA have long ago ruled on this and it’s over.
But keep hope alive! Keep hope alive!
It’s all you have.
AltamahaDawg
January 28th, 2011
8:52 am
Sorry, but you don’t spend your way into having a good running game.
Bodda Getta
January 28th, 2011
8:57 am
Like more spending couldn’t have solved the problem of taking away half of your weight equipment and moving the weight program into a trailer for two years.
Livin in da past
January 28th, 2011
8:57 am
Dawg fans,
What’s worse? Knowing that your football program sucks or Auburn being cleared by the NCAA?
Oh, Auburn will also finish with another top 5 recruiting class.
WOOF WOOF
AltamahaDawg
January 28th, 2011
9:01 am
Mobile, so we take it that you will not be pulling for the UGA football team to do well in 2011? Because if you are pulling for them in 2011, you are by definition supporting Ol’ Coach Richt, like it or not. That is a completely different issue that having an opinion that UGA would fair better to hire a different coach the next year.
It would be kind of nice for the rest of us on your same team, if you would stop insulting our intelligence for simply realizing this very basic fact. We just don’t enjoy losing every game in our mind, every day for the next 8 months if that’s ok with you. Rather talk about the game and what might actually happen, not what “shoulda/coulda didn’t happen.
Mr. Phelps
January 28th, 2011
9:09 am
Penny wise, pound foolish.
SB
January 28th, 2011
9:13 am
Trailers for the weight room? telling. So a recruit that’s big into working out and lifting would probably be turned off by a visit to Georgia, while a kid that could care less about working out woudln’t notice or care about the trailer facility. I think we’ve been landing the flashy, undisciplined types, but not the tough, hard workers… and it has shown. Shows in that we are now a finesse team now and not a power/physical football team. That will be Richt’s legacy — turning a traditional blue collar defense and power running team into a finesse, undisciplined team– unless something magical happens here in his 11th hour. Low odds unless we get lucky on a once in a lifetime recruit.
AltamahaDawg
January 28th, 2011
9:27 am
Actually, wouldn’t a hard working, serious, blue collar player be less likely to care about where the weights are? And a flashy, let somebody else do the heavy lifting kid be the one that was more impressed with a fancy building?
No matter, I’m sure the trailers are just while they are doing the massive renovations underway.
AFDawg
January 28th, 2011
4:59 pm
It’s simple — Auburn and Alabama’s expenditures are a lot higher because of the “benefits” they pay out to their players (i.e. Cam Newton, etc.). If I was the NCAA or FBI, I think I would be curious as to why their expenditures are that high. Money laundering is a crime.
gtfanfrom1951
January 29th, 2011
9:22 am
Question everone
Does anybody keep track of how recruiting class turn out?
Lady Dawg
January 29th, 2011
9:59 am
Gee, there are a lot of Dawg haters here. What interests you so about our blogs? Do you not have a life? Easy to guess where most of you are from. Remember this….. what goes up must come down and what goes around comes around.
BlonDawg
January 29th, 2011
11:15 am
$52,500,000.00 profit. We sink 25.8% back in. That’s $13,545,000.00. If we sank 43.3% in (like Bama) we’d be at $22,732,500.00–a difference of $9,187,500.00. If we sank 42.2% in (like Auburn) we’d be at $22,155,000.00–a difference of $8,610,000.00. To my mind, this could pay for a new coach or two…
Steve
January 29th, 2011
12:44 pm
I am not sure who controls the spending. I know the board and AD have final say over what the coaches request, but is it possible that Richt’s humble nature is causing him not to request more money?
I love the profitability, but here is a thought. If we do not continue to put a top football team on the field, revenue will decrease and that means the profit does as well. Less profit from football means less money available for everything that footballl basically pays for. I don’t think we should ’spend, spend, spend’ on football, but if we need to spend to maintain and better are ability to put a perennial SEC title contender on the field then lets get crackin.
Snoop Dawg
January 30th, 2011
9:56 pm
Snoop Dawg says ya get what ya pay for. Unfortunately, UGA doesn’t even get that. Do you think we get three million dollars a year of coaching, motivation, or leadership from Mark Richt? If you do, you need to go back to school and study harder.
Folks, coaching costs money. If you buy a Dodge, don’t expect a Corvette or a Ferrari. We need to get a new car at UGA. Let’s trade in Richt for a real quality coach who has proven that he knows what he’s doing. Then let’s get out some of that profit that the administrators have been hoarding or giving themselves raises with and hire the very best coaching staff in the NCAA. We would still be the most profitable program in the SEC cause revenues will skyrocket if we can return to Glory.
You folks with your heads in the sand about Richt do not help the program or the university.