Time to revise your vote for UGA’s greatest receiver?
A.J. Green makes a leaping catch for a first down in the 2009 game against South Carolina in Athens. (Brant Sanderlin / AJC)
Amid speculation A.J. Green might be the top pick in this year’s NFL draft, our enterprising Web folks put up a photo gallery looking at candidates for the honor of best receiver in UGA history.
That’s a subject we’ve dealt with here before. Just before Christmas, I wrote that A.J. is, hands down, the best receiver I’ve ever seen play for Georgia, thanks to those circus catches, his running after the catch and, most importantly, his ability to go up high in double or triple coverage and still snag the ball in a clutch situation.
A couple of years ago, I raised the question of who was the Dogs’ all-time best receiver and threw out quite a few names, including Jimmy Orr from the Wally Butts era, Pat Hodgson, Charlie Whittemore and Lindsay Scott from the Vince Dooley years, Andre Hastings and Brice Hunter from Ray Goff’s tenure, Hines Ward from the Jim Donnan years, Terrence Edwards under Donnan and Mark Richt, and Reggie Brown, Mohamed Massaquoi and Green from the Richt era.
Do Blawg readers still think Hines Ward is UGA's all-time best? (Associated Press)
At the time, I said if I had to narrow that list down, I’d have Orr, Hastings, Ward, Edwards (even with that infamous drop against Florida), Scott (for the most important reception in Bulldog history) and Massaquoi, and based on just his freshman year at the time I said I thought Green probably would top the list before his career was done.
In a poll at that time, 46 percent of Junkyard Blawg readers voted Ward the all-time best receiver, followed by Scott (13 percent), Edwards (11 percent), Hastings (10 percent), young A.J. (10 percent), Orr (7 percent) and Massaquoi (3 percent).
Loading ...Vote in the poll and also feel free to sound off in the comments on Green’s place among the Dogs’ all-time greats.
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5150 UOAD
February 19th, 2011
2:46 pm
HOW bad are the TV guys pulling against UGA and for the Vols today in the B-Ball game. I ain’t no dawg fan but Bill Is way way up Pearl’s and the Vols butt.
barbour Dawg
February 19th, 2011
2:47 pm
Re Lindsay Scott. He would be at o nearthe top of the list even with out the GA-FL game.
He was a very talented and productive WR for UGA and would have had a great NFL career IMO had he not had off field problems.
AJ is the most Talented WR IMO and the best WR to have played for UGA but Lindsay was the most valuable WR to play for UGA handds down. I wish AJ had played on a team w the dedication that LS played for, but unfortunalty, AJ, like several other great talents we have had in recent years were just that: “Great Talents on talented underr achieving teams”. AJ, to his credit was able to rise above the relative mediocrity that has been ouur progam since 1 or 2 (max) since BVG left
5150 UOAD
February 19th, 2011
2:50 pm
nice EVAL barbour Dawg.
DANICA PATRIC looks in DAYTONA today.
shane#1
February 19th, 2011
3:05 pm
I voted for AJ because he is the best pure WR I have seen in college football. He has it all, great hands, size, and speed. With that being said, Hines Ward was the better football player. Ward was and is more physical and still has a knack for getting open that you see very rarely. Hines has bailed out so many QBs in his career both in college and the pros and he is still the go to guy when Big Ben is in trouble. Let’s not forget the year that Hines had to play WR, RB, and QB at various times because of injuries. Talk about carrying the team! If I had to start a team now AJ might be my first pick but I would surely love to have Ward on my team.
AJ blocked a field goal.
February 19th, 2011
3:06 pm
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5150 UOAD
February 19th, 2011
3:06 pm
69-63 win the the ORANGE hell nice wins Dawgs.
Dumb dawgs
February 19th, 2011
3:11 pm
“AJ because he is the best pure WR I have seen in college football. ‘
Yet he did absolutely nothing significant.
5150 UOAD
February 19th, 2011
3:12 pm
Shane#1
Did you just HATE on Calvin Johnson or what. CJ makes AJ look like a lil League player. Like Fatt Matt Calvin got stuck in Detroit. AJ ain’t got crap on Calvin. Do you really think AJ GREEN is in the same league with Crabtree too? HAHAHAHHA. Go cry and love on the newest DEAD Uga. AJ Green would make a nice set of bones for the Voodoo princess after he crosses the middle in the NFL.
UGA comes in dead last
February 19th, 2011
3:12 pm
The final grades for the 2010 season are in for all 12 SEC teams, and here’s a quick review:
* Alabama: B-
* Arkansas: B+
* Auburn: A+
* Florida: C-
* Georgia: D-
* Kentucky: C-
* LSU: B+
* Mississippi State: B+
* Ole Miss: D
* South Carolina: B+
* Tennessee: C+
* Vanderbilt: D
http://espn.go.com/blog/sec/post/_/id/20156/grading-the-sec
WDE
February 19th, 2011
3:13 pm
5150 UOAD
Dude, you need to calm down. You sound like Updyke.
Trey
February 19th, 2011
3:14 pm
AJ’s teams only won 12 games last 2 season, 7-5, 6-6. big deal.
WDE
February 19th, 2011
3:14 pm
UGA has had some fantastic receivers over the years but my favorite was Hines Ward even though that was not his primary position. He could play almost any position. QB, WR, RB, CB etc. Plus, he could block and return punts.
How did he NOT win the Heisman?
5150 UOAD
February 19th, 2011
3:16 pm
Dumb Dawgs
AJ won the LSU game! Well, until he got a BAD flag for celebrating and cost his kickoff team field Poisson. AJ Green made all the difference in the Colorado and UCF games? Right?
WDE
February 19th, 2011
3:25 pm
“AJ won the LSU game! ‘
And when did that happen?
WDE
February 19th, 2011
3:26 pm
“Are you going to sell War Eagle Feathers as toilet paper”
Considering harming an eagle is a felony, no ma’am, I will not.
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February 19th, 2011
3:27 pm
“AHHAHA is that like Margret Cho being the Korean version of Rossie O’Donnel?”
That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
AUBURN MAN
February 19th, 2011
3:31 pm
Hey WDE, your’e my best friend.
Ziggy
February 19th, 2011
3:32 pm
NICE WIN IN UT DAWGS!
shane#1
February 19th, 2011
3:34 pm
Why do I hate on Calvin Johnson? I have posted many times on these blogs and I don’t remember saying any critical of Johnson. I was not aware the topic was GT WRs. I think Calvin Johnson is an excellent athlete but the only times I watched him play was against UGA and he didn’t take over those games. As a matter of fact Paul Oliver pretty much shut him down. I think that was as much due to the fact that Tech did not have the QB to get him the ball and UGA’s pass rush as anything. I abhor trashing the players that bust their butts on the field Sir, and I do not attack kids, no matter what colors they wear.
AUBURN MAN
February 19th, 2011
3:35 pm
I love my rebel flag undies YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DAWG MAN
February 19th, 2011
3:36 pm
I LOVE BAILING MY FOOTBALL TEAM OUT OF PRISON!
WOOOOOOOO DOGS BAIL EMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AUBURN MAN
February 19th, 2011
3:36 pm
You know why Calvin Johnson sucked, because he didn’t play for the TIGERS! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5150 UOAD
February 19th, 2011
3:37 pm
Are all the DAWG and TECH fans watching Colorado V Kansas in basketball?
AUBURN MAN
February 19th, 2011
3:39 pm
WDE! Were are you man, let’s open up a can on these boys! CAAAAAAAM POWWWWWWEERR!
DAWG MAN
February 19th, 2011
3:40 pm
“Are all the DAWG and TECH fans watching Colorado V Kansas in basketball?”
Dawg fans are too busy upgrading their double wides.
Tech fans are too busy trying to contact Al Quaida.
5150 UOAD
February 19th, 2011
3:41 pm
Shane#1
Nice post and you are being respectful of both teams and players. Calvin did have R Ball for a few years. AHHAHA
wldawg
February 19th, 2011
3:41 pm
Did Hines Ward get suspended four games in his final season? No.
He’s also won a few Superbowls and a Superbowl MVP. No contest, but who knows what Green can do at the next level.
AUBURN MAN
February 19th, 2011
3:41 pm
COME ON WDE LET’S SPELL CHECK THESE BOYS! THESE DAWGS FANS IS DUMMER THAN DIRT!
AUBURN MAN
February 19th, 2011
3:45 pm
DAWG MAN YOU MUST BE ON OUR TEAM, YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HEY DAWG MAN YOU REMENBER WHEN BO AND LIKE DUKE USED TO JUMP OVER ALL THEM CARS! THEY WUD SAY YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAN I USED TO GET SO EXITED I WOULD SHART MYSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DAWG MAN
February 19th, 2011
3:48 pm
“Margret Cho is like AUBURN and BAMA is like Rossie O’Donnel.”
DEN DAT MUST MEEN UGA IS HELEN THOMAS!!!!!!! SHE UGLY AS SHEEEEAAAAAAT AND HATES EVERYWUN!!!!!!
AUBURN MAN
February 19th, 2011
3:48 pm
WDE/Auburn Fan,
Where you guys I can’t fight these boys alone! Hey man guess what!, Georgia SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS! Red Panties, Dead mascot, UHHHHHHHH, did I say red panties?
DAWG MAN
February 19th, 2011
3:49 pm
“Both are Fat UGLY lady lickers ‘
DAT SOUNDS LIKE DEM DAWG SOFTBALL PLAYERS I’Z SAWED AT DA ATHENS MALL LAST WEEK!!!!! DA BULLDYKES IS WUT DAY CALLED DEMSELVES!!!!!!
Teardrops
February 19th, 2011
3:49 pm
All of the names mentioned during the Saint Mark Richt era were two-bit illiterate punks.
UGA, perrenial winner of the Fulmer Cup and Home of the Red Panties.
George
February 19th, 2011
3:50 pm
chances of a whole bunch of real Auburn fans showing up on a post about Georgia’s best WR?
O.
AUBURN MAN
February 19th, 2011
3:50 pm
WDE, I mean DAWG MAN, Wink, Wink- You told them boys off man, You is the pride of Auburn man! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!
George
February 19th, 2011
3:51 pm
aUBURN mAN,
BREAK DOWN THIS YEAR WR’S AT AUBURN, QUICK, NO INTERNET RESEARCH ALLOWED SINCE YOU’RE A TRUE FAN.
MINUTES ARE TICKING AWAY….
DAWG MAN
February 19th, 2011
3:52 pm
George
DATS WUT I’Z TINKIN! DEEZE AUBARN FANZ IS NUTIN BUT UGA FANZ ACTIN ALL DUM.
GO DAWGS SIC EM WOOF WOOF!!!!!!
Whoopee
February 19th, 2011
3:52 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 three years ago.
Sit back and be grateful for the six or seven wins you’ll get every year. Coaching genius Mark Richt may take you to 8-4 or even 9-3 occasionally, but Florida will still win the SEC, meaning no BCS bowls and no top 25 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 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 Dawgtard 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 players 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.
AUBURN MAN
February 19th, 2011
3:52 pm
WDE, I mean Dawg man, yeah uuuhhhhhhh. Oh yeah what was that about mall anf athens? Hey can I use that man?
DAWG MAN
February 19th, 2011
3:54 pm
“they simply don’t get the coaching they would get at Florida or Alabama’
NO BUT WE’Z GITS DA THE FULMER CUP!!!!!!! AND WE’Z BEATS TEH BEEZ EVERY YEAR!
UGA NUMBER ONE IN DA STATE OF GA!!!!!!!! WOOF WOOF
AUBURN MAN
February 19th, 2011
3:56 pm
Hey WDE, Don’t listen to all these punks that say you have no life because you hang out on Bill Kings blog all day. It’s perfectly normal for a grown man to sit in front of a computer for hours and hours and hour and hours and hours talkin’ smack to these stupid Dawg fans!
AUBURN MAN
February 19th, 2011
3:58 pm
TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSS will rise again!
AUBURN MAN
February 19th, 2011
4:00 pm
All rite boys times for me and my cousin to go on a date, we goin to WALLY WORLD!
DAWG
February 19th, 2011
4:01 pm
Auburn man, are you for real sir?
DAWG
February 19th, 2011
4:02 pm
How bout them basketball dawgs!
DAWG
February 19th, 2011
4:06 pm
Nice to see us not blow a huge lead again.
DAWG MAN
February 19th, 2011
4:07 pm
“Auburn man, are you for real sir?
NO WAY DUD! HE’Z REALLY 5150 UOAD PRETENDING TO BE A AUBARN FAN!
Dawg 39
February 19th, 2011
5:18 pm
Different Topic: RECRUITING: Who are the 2 players Grantham went to visit in Jenkins County ? Is that Jenkins County in Georgia?
al.com
February 19th, 2011
5:29 pm
Look what those bama boys are doing to you!!! http://auburn.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=423&tid=142534909&mid=142534909&sid=884&style=2
DAWG MAN
February 19th, 2011
5:58 pm
“Look what those bama boys are doing to you!!”
There’s nothing there.