How long before the new Bronze Age gets going at UGA?
Even Nick Saban doesn't look too sure about his creepy-looking bronze self. (Associated Press)
It used to be that getting your own statue was almost as difficult as having your face on a U.S. postage stamp.
You might not have had to be dead 10 years like with the stamps, but unless you were a dictator putting up your own monuments, the idea generally was that some time for historic appreciation had to elapse between whatever it was you did that was noteworthy and having your visage erected in bronze.
That was pretty much the case even in the sports world, where the words “all-time” and “greatest” get thrown around with abandon. Bobby Bowden had been head coach at Florida State for 28 years before the school erected a statue of him, and Joe Paterno didn’t become a target for pigeons at Penn State until 19 years after winning his first national championship.
In this Twitterized age of instant gratification, however, the bar for bronze immortality has been lowered considerably.
The University of Florida didn't wait long to honor Tim Tebow with a statue. (Associated Press)
Consider Auburn University, which recently announced that in addition to previously planned statues of Heisman Trophy winners Pat Sullivan and Bo Jackson, who won their honors in 1971 and 1985, the school also will be putting up a statue of Cam Newton, who spent all of about a year as a Tiger but who delivered a third Heisman and a BCS championship this past season.
No matter that there’s still the possibility an NCAA investigation could lead to one or possibly even both of those honors going away (and that USC is, no doubt, glad it didn’t rush to put up a statue of Reggie Bush in 2005). Auburn is, as they say, “all in” on Newton.
The news of the Newton statue came right on the heels of the unveiling of a couple of other hastily erected statues at SEC football powers, with Florida’s Tim Tebow having gotten a bronze likeness (along with the Gators’ other two Heisman winners, Danny Wuerffel and Steve Spurrier), just a little over a season after leaving the school. And Alabama recently put up a rather creepy looking 9-foot-tall bronze Nick Saban, despite the fact he’s only in his fifth year coaching there. A trifle premature, maybe? After all, five years into his coaching career at UGA some folks thought Mark Richt should be declared the school’s greatest coach ever; you don’t hear that as much now. But say this for Saban, he did win that national title.
All this bronzing in the SEC prompted quite a bit of media commentary about our region’s football obsession, most notably from HBO “Real Sports” host Bryant Gumbel, who noted, “it seems Southerners in particular have gone bronze bonkers of late. … It used to be you had to serve a lifetime and die for your country or some noble cause to be immortalized. Now, it seems, all you have to do is generate some cheers and win a few football games for those who live and breathe for such things. If nothing else, you’d think they’d wait at least awhile to see how events play out. Recent sports history has taught us that yesterday’s hero might quickly become tomorrow’s outcast.”
Should Vince Dooley's statue in Athens be joined by other football monuments? (University of Georgia)
Knee-jerk assumptions about the South aside, it’s not just in our part of the country that football heroes get statues. Oklahoma put one up of Jason White four years after he won his Heisman, and the school has erected statues of three other Sooners, with another still to come. Oklahoma also plans statues of four of its coaches, including the current one, Bob Stoops. Notre Dame has statues of Knute Rockne and Lou Holtz (I wonder if they managed to capture the spittle in bronze). Syracuse has one of Ernie Davis, the first black Heisman winner, and Nebraska put up a statue of Tom Osborne (along with a player who died in a plane crash) in 2006.
There’s a lot to be said for statues. They honor achievement, celebrate a school’s past accomplishments and tradition, and make great backdrops for fan photos. And it’s hard to complain as long as public funding that could otherwise go for faculty or classrooms isn’t used to pay for them (most are either funded by private donations or athletic association money).
There’s the prestige factor, too. As Bama athletic director Mal Moore told the Wall Street Journal, “I’d just say that, right or wrong, the thing that brings a lot of immediate attention to a university is its athletic programs. It’s a way of recognizing that success.”
UGA has been rather slow about entering this new Bronze Age, with only the Vince Dooley statue on the South Campus athletic complex so far. But if putting up statues is going to become the latest weapon in the recruiting arms race along with fancy weight rooms and practice facilities, it probably won’t be long before someone’s talking about adding to the statuary in Athens.
As I wrote before on this subject, I recognize there are those who question whether a university campus perhaps ought to erect monuments to great scholars or distinguished alumni rather than athletes, and it’s worth noting that the UGA Alumni Association is raising funds now for a North Campus statue of Abraham Baldwin, the school’s illustrious founder.
But it seems almost inevitable that at the very least Heisman Trophy winners Frank Sinkwich and Herschel Walker will one day get bronzed on campus. And if that’s going to happen, I’d argue Maxwell Award winner and Heisman runner-up Charley Trippi ought to join them. Probably Wally Butts, too.
And how cool would it be to tell friends to meet you after the game at the Erk Russell statue?
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45ACP
April 23rd, 2011
11:24 am
Hey now!
7576DAWG
April 23rd, 2011
11:30 am
No more than one year
SSIgator
April 23rd, 2011
11:36 am
“How long before the new Bronze Age gets going at UGA?”
Bill -
It is already at UGA – It is called spray-on tan that Richt uses.
tide roll
April 23rd, 2011
11:41 am
SSlgator. That is classic! Just let Richt himself pose on a pedestal before and after games. Save a lot of money that way.
SSIgator
April 23rd, 2011
11:45 am
tide roll -
Let Richt pose? He already does that during the games.
D A DoubleU G
April 23rd, 2011
11:45 am
Reggie Ball deserves a statue.
Before too long, Paul Johnson should have one too.
Beast from the East
April 23rd, 2011
11:52 am
I’m ok wth schools putting up staues of Hesiman winners and NC coaches. If I were Auburn, I would wait a minute on putting up one of Newton. Maybe no more news ever comes out, but I would have a moment of pause nonetheless.
TrueGadog
April 23rd, 2011
11:57 am
tideroll and SSigator………..Bookend Fools !!!!
michael g.
April 23rd, 2011
12:03 pm
I’ll say it; Mark Richt IS the greatest coach in UGA history. Everyone wanting him gone simply wants change for change sake. Careful what you wish for. It could always be another Ray Goff, Jim Donnan, or a decade of 7-4 seasons brought to you at the end of Dooley’s tenure.
Earlycountydawg
April 23rd, 2011
12:08 pm
Tideroll At least Coach Richt doesnt look constipated like Saban always does.
dawgman
April 23rd, 2011
12:09 pm
Hey, what do ya know? SSIGayturd and Tide Roll, here on a UGA blog! You guys sure look pathetic EVERYDAY commenting on all things UGA. Losers! Both of you. Hey Tide Roll what do you think about UGA’s recruiting of offensive lineman? What a joke! You two should know more about UGA than your own teams considering how much time and energy you spend on keeping up with the Dawgs. Sounds like someone needs a girlfriend. Move on trolls.
bilbo
April 23rd, 2011
12:32 pm
Auburn and Alabama are embarrassments. Crummy schools, crummy state, great college football.
DawgBone
April 23rd, 2011
12:32 pm
Definitely ERK!
AltamahaDawg
April 23rd, 2011
12:38 pm
Talk about a couple of guys who need new material! geez
(go ahead. cut and paste that for your middle school jabs.)
tater tot
April 23rd, 2011
12:57 pm
Happy Easter and God Bless each of you. GO DAWGS !!!
Walter Sobchak
April 23rd, 2011
1:25 pm
So glad I broke the yoke of being a lemming to this non-sense. Wake up folks, you are all a bunch of suckers.
I'm a F-18 Baby
April 23rd, 2011
1:28 pm
Remember the conversation of retiring David Pollack and/or David Greene’s jersey? The debate that roared from that? I could not imagine trying to get UGA fans to figure out who deserves a statue and who does not!
RabidDawgFan
April 23rd, 2011
1:37 pm
They should put up a statue of David Pollack, David Green, Knowshon Moreno, Matthew Stafford, just to name a few. But the guy I think should be put up there is Mark Richt. Even though he’s had his ups and downs, this guy is a well-respected individual all around college football. He’s a good christian man and he’s part of the reason recruits want to play for Georgia. They know that they will be in good hands. Mark Richt is one of the greatest coaches to coach at UGA and he should get a statue.
UGA Alumnus
April 23rd, 2011
1:45 pm
It’s all about recruiting. It makes the kids feel like they’re coming into a special place and makes them believe that they too can have a statue erected in their own likeness.
GT is a 4th rate high school team
April 23rd, 2011
2:10 pm
The only setback I see with all these bronzing is it makes the whole thing look and sound “cheaper” than before.
a statue of stafford? doing what? hoisting a beer keg?
April 23rd, 2011
2:18 pm
wow.
i would vote for a double statue of quincy carter and stafford as a monument to wasted talent.
Nick
April 23rd, 2011
2:29 pm
Is the Tim Tebow statue of him crying like a baby or kissing his male roommates?
Cali Dawg
April 23rd, 2011
2:40 pm
Tim Tebow’s statue has him running the ball…perfect.
C Weiss
April 23rd, 2011
2:50 pm
Florida CB Janoris Jenkins arrested for possession of less than 20g of pot. It’s his third arrest — second involving pot — in 23 months..
C Weiss
April 23rd, 2011
2:51 pm
Hmmmm…am I detecting a pattern here
G8trs33
April 23rd, 2011
3:03 pm
Nick – I think the more fitting one would be of Tebow breaking Walker’s TD record in Jax. Couple of bewildered UGA defenders watching in awe in the background… Some how work in the black helmets and pants UGA broke out for the first time to celebrate the occasion.
Bawbie
April 23rd, 2011
3:17 pm
Lets go ahead and Bronze Richt so he can leave. Fire Dave Perno!
FB Fan
April 23rd, 2011
3:29 pm
Why not put up a statue of the county sheriff? He has more catches than any player in history!
Burma Shave
April 23rd, 2011
3:37 pm
A favorite character
Was the Fonze
But Richt will never
Be in bronze.
BURMA SHAVE
Jubilee
April 23rd, 2011
3:41 pm
RabidDawgFan really does have rabies.
It’s amazing how fast the disease spreads in rundown trailer parks.
King DAWG
April 23rd, 2011
3:46 pm
Crimson Tu#ds and Florida Gaytors are insanely jealous of our message boards. They don’t have them in Alabamee and Flordiee.
Big DAWG
April 23rd, 2011
3:50 pm
Attention: If you are a high school football player and smoke weed or use other drugs, you need to go to the University of Florida or the University of South Carolina. They won’t punish you in any way. They will just turn their heads and ignore it.
HARTDAWG
April 23rd, 2011
3:56 pm
Who cares about a bronze age lets try to find a winning age first.
HARTDAWG
April 23rd, 2011
3:59 pm
September just want get here fast enough.
Chris
April 23rd, 2011
4:17 pm
Well, we wont have to worry about Mark Richt having a receding hairline version of himself erected.
AltamahaDawg
April 23rd, 2011
5:12 pm
Say coach Will, you 420 freindly right?
Dawg 39
April 23rd, 2011
5:30 pm
“You don’t here It much now” ; But, this Old Dawg still believes thar Richt was, Is , & will continue to be the best HC My Dawgs have ever had.
Ol' Dawg
April 23rd, 2011
6:20 pm
Regardless of what everyone may think about Bama and Florida, these statues are indeed impressive to recruits. These kids are often so eaten up with themselves, they can visualize their likeness being on one of those marble pedestals one day.
As for UGA, maybe find another type like marble or granite if deciding to recognize players and coaches, just to be different.
Old Blind Dawg
April 23rd, 2011
6:37 pm
G8trs33 give Walker 4 years like Tebow and the TD totals wouldn’t be close. How about the yards per carry?
Let’s wait and see how The Bow does in the pros……………….
mcgdawg
April 23rd, 2011
7:25 pm
Saban’s statue only confirms his LITTLE MAN SYNDROME. The guy has been shorter than every female reporter who interviews him. 9 feet tall…geez, cut me a break!
Burma Shave
April 23rd, 2011
7:39 pm
Georgia’s statues
Are monuments of FAIL
You can visit them
at the Clarke County Jail
BURMA SHAVE
Bama Fan#2
April 23rd, 2011
8:22 pm
Nick Saban deserves a statue at Alabama and want makes the statue even better it has the
football players name from the 2009 NC’S on it. Saban made a big deal about having the
players name on the statue. Mark Richt has a long way to get a statue but he would get
my volte for Father of the Year award and be a great salesman for a tanning salon place
instead of a carpet barn in Dalton. RTR
Dawg
April 23rd, 2011
8:25 pm
Hell fire, I thought you had to be deceased!
Lectric Shaaaaave
April 23rd, 2011
8:30 pm
Mark Richt’s face is smooth as a baby’s patootie!
G8trs33
April 23rd, 2011
8:54 pm
Old blind – Tebow only started 3 years and he was a QB. Who cares what his YPC were….
He was also part of 2 national titles and won the heisman, nothing he ever does in the pros will ever take that away…
HW should have a statue in athens. Guy was incredible and a class act. But you can’t put one up of Polack and Green. Give me a break… The 3 at florida are heisman winners. Not even emmit smith, jack youngblood or wilbur marshall will get statues. The 3 are the icons of florida football. Nobody knows who david greene is outside the south. Statue of saban is a little premature…
UGADawg83
April 23rd, 2011
9:19 pm
The folks over at Auburn can use the new Cam statue to throw toilet paper over since their trees are dying.
BirdDog
April 23rd, 2011
9:22 pm
OK gator fans, if Jenkins doesn’t get kicked off the team then you never have a right to say anything about UGA’s off the field issues.
atltiger15
April 23rd, 2011
9:33 pm
UGADawg83
April 23rd, 2011
9:19 pm
The folks over at Auburn can use the new Cam statue to throw toilet paper over since their trees are dying.
With the Newton statue being 1.5 times life size, (16ft) u might be able to throw tp on it.
atltiger15
April 23rd, 2011
9:39 pm
meant almost 10 ft
dawgfan
April 23rd, 2011
9:57 pm
Everytime Bryant Gumbel talks I want to make a farting noise with my hands like in that How I Met Your Mother episode. That guy is a massive freaking toolbag.
That is all. Thanks.
GOB BLEUTH
April 23rd, 2011
11:06 pm
Bill
Cam Newton didn’t spend a year at Auburn. The guy spent ONE SEMESTER there. ONE SEMESTER! I would love to know what courses he took in the fall.
RED DOG 77
April 24th, 2011
12:58 am
@Michael G………Great post my fine BULLDOG friend ! Don’t worry though, it is mostly fringe types that want coach Mark Richt’s head on a stick. Most of these fools who trool around these blogs and spew venom, or wet their beds because we haven’t been”up” for 11 years straight don’t know a damn thing about college football in the first place. Yea, Yea, Yea, so we have been down a few years, but I would challenge anyone who has any thoughtful insite into college football to take a close look at coach Richt’s “body of work” and tell me with all honesty that coach Richt isn’t the greatest coach The University of Georgia has ever had. PERIOD!!!!!……….Michael, son, you are indeed a Damn Good DOG!!!………Regards, RED
Fire Mark Richt
April 24th, 2011
1:03 am
Richt will be tarred and feathered maybe, but I don’t see bronze in his future.
RED DOG 77
April 24th, 2011
1:06 am
@ Bill King…………Yet another doozie of a story “ol boy……..try a little harder Bill you know you can do better………Regards, RED
RED DOG 77
April 24th, 2011
1:11 am
@ “Fire Mark Richt”………You son……….nah…..you’re not worth my time, or stupid is as stupid does………x’ o’ ………hugs and kisses………RED
Dawg48
April 24th, 2011
1:12 am
What will cost auburn more money? A statue of cam newton or paying him to okay their?
Dawg48
April 24th, 2011
1:13 am
Play thier
Dawg48
April 24th, 2011
1:29 am
Sorry bam a fans you can’t poison a statue!
Sugar Hill Dawg
April 24th, 2011
8:01 am
Any Erk statue would have to be life sized so I could butt heads with him.
Dawg4life
April 24th, 2011
8:51 am
How about we actually do something that constitutes a statue first?
CrackDaddy
April 24th, 2011
8:55 am
I thought Bama would have surely “bronzed” Forrest Gump. (Did UGa really recruit him only to lose out to Bama?)
FanSince59
April 24th, 2011
9:44 am
I think those individuals responsible for erecting bronze statues at UGA better wait until after this season before casting Richt in bronze. Also, if Dooley got bronzed, then Herschel’s likness should be rendered out of solid gold, because it was Herschel, and not Dooley, who won UGA’s national championship. I was there.
Buckeye
April 24th, 2011
10:00 am
Herschel only though I’d also put in a vote for Schmeckdawg and Still at the Bar. D A Double and DawginLex can buy honorary bricks at Herschel Plaza.
tide roll
April 24th, 2011
10:12 am
has anyone seen my cousin/wife anywhere? I cant find her..so who is going to clean the trailer and cook up the possum now? Not me, Im too busy shooting rabbits and poisoning trees. I love that woman though..she gave me my two wonderful daughters, Sabanisha and Bryantina. And my two sons Bear and his other brother Bear.
UGASlobberknocker
April 24th, 2011
10:13 am
Im thinking one for Herschel and one for blogger Bubbatavious
UGASlobberknocker
April 24th, 2011
10:18 am
I also would go for a bronze statue of Dr Adams,,but only if ,rather than using a model, Adams himself was simply dipped into the bronze. Then place it under power lines that have a lot of pigeons roosting on them..
It Ain't Rocket Science
April 24th, 2011
10:21 am
I bet that statute of Cam Newton, will not cost as much money as the school has spent on his defense for lawyers and such. He should help out a little when he signs a pro. contract. Say, a flat donation of $180,000 or so.
Math question
April 24th, 2011
10:27 am
Im wondering what is the higher number? the amount of wins last season for Auburn, or the number of credit hours earned by Cam Newton in his one semester career.? I would bet a couple of oak trees that the 14 wins exceed his total credit hours. I dont know how Auburn people can celebrate what is such an obviously tainted championship.If I were an Auburn fan I would be ashamed to even talk about it. Bama fans are morons, but at least their championship in 2009 was legit.
Is it just me?
April 24th, 2011
10:35 am
I get it that Bill is a loyal Dawg fan, and that this blog is supposed to be from the fan’s standpoint ..but still, am I the only one who thinks that more often than not the topics on this blog are irrelevant to the main focus..Bulldog Sports?. Too many times the subject matter is almost “high school-ish” journalism in form and subject matter.
This blog could be so much better. It looks especially lame when compared to the much better UGA blog with Tucker and now Towers.
Dixie Redcoat Band
April 24th, 2011
10:42 am
ohio state claims 45,000 yesterday at $15.00 each. That’ll go to the head coaches defense fund and tattoo shop.
It Ain't Rocket Science
April 24th, 2011
10:58 am
I didn’t think that most colleges charges for a spring practice game. I sure hope they provide more than just the game, in order to justify that charge. Do Bama and Auburn, or most any other SEC team charge for their spring game? I am ok with donating to a charitable cause at a spring game, but not if the money is going to the athletic dept. Fans already get robbed enough on the price of regular season ticket prices.
UGASlobberknocker
April 24th, 2011
11:08 am
There is no charge for the spring game at UGA. But then the UGA finances and profitability are annually among the best in college sports.. Auburn and some other schools not so flush with cash prob have to do it for budgetary reasons.
Schools let people in for free if
a/ they dont need the relatively small amt of cash brought in or
b/if they charged, no one would come (like at Tech).
UGASlobberknocker
April 24th, 2011
11:12 am
Here is a link to an article talking about how Ohio State finances are tight..so that prob explains their $15 charge
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2009/02/03/OSU_athletics.ART_ART_02-03-09_B1_95CPC9A.html
1eyedJack
April 24th, 2011
11:27 am
Did they give away free cokes and hotdogs at the T-day game yesterday?
Bubbatavious
April 24th, 2011
11:47 am
UGA Slobberknocker…… Thanks for the mentioning of being bronzed. But I have to admit I ain’t quite there yet just like Richt and our football team.
FB Fan
April 24th, 2011
11:54 am
How about a statue of Ga. wide receiver and AD, Damon Evans?
Maybe clutching a football in one hand and a pair of red panties in the other!
UGASlobberknocker
April 24th, 2011
12:09 pm
Bubba you get a statue just for the best blog name
Carlton
April 24th, 2011
12:11 pm
Hines Ward, Champ Bailey, David Pollack would all be good choices Bill, this isn’t 1980 anymore-we can look at players after the Vince Dooley era you know.
cantondawg
April 24th, 2011
1:54 pm
WOW. Tide Roll actually posted something besides the OL from Georgia leaving to play for Alabama. I’m sure he had to get someone else to “think up” something else for you
CrackDaddy
April 24th, 2011
2:00 pm
UGaAlum, you are the stereoptypical Narcissistic UGa alum!
Senator Blutarsky
April 24th, 2011
4:31 pm
Bronze Aaron Murray!!!!!
He’s the greatest QB in the history of planet earth!!!!
Scored 24 td’s as a FROSH!!!!!
Jimmie
April 24th, 2011
4:33 pm
Slow down there Senator hyperbole.
19 of your hero’s 24 td’s came against teams with LOSING records.
Let’s hold off on the bronze for Murray until he at least beats 1 team with a winning record, okey dokey Senator Hot Airsky?
Senator Blutarsky
April 24th, 2011
4:44 pm
But Murray beat Idaho State, Vanderbilt, and Louisiana Lafayette.
Bronze him!!!!!
Did you see Aaron Murray play against LA lAFFY? At my prestigious law firm we call that incredible.
Jimmie
April 24th, 2011
4:45 pm
Senator Hotairsky, those teams wern’t good.
You don’t give a QB a bronze statue for beating Idaho State, comprehende?
longdog
April 24th, 2011
4:59 pm
They ought to put a bust of my butt in sanford stadium so every time tech comes over they can kiss it
Bronze race and keeping up with the Joneses
April 24th, 2011
5:01 pm
Seems like just another trend started by Saban envy.
First it started with the spring game when 92,000 showed up for Saban’s inaugural spring game. Then it just became all the rage in college football to see how many folks you could get to come to your spring game and get it televised by ESPN.
Then it was the stadium expansion up to 102,000. Then everybody wants to start renovating or looking at ways to possibly expand their stadium to keep up with Bama.
Now its all about the bronze statues that started once again with Alabama. When Alabama expanded and renovated Bryant Denny several years ago they decided to put up bronze statues to honor the 4 coaches who had won national championships at Bama and they ominously erected a plot for the coach who would become the 5th. Once Saban won it he became eligible and deserving of the statue. That’s what you get the statue for and there is no point in waiting for the award. If the statues were solely for overall lifetime achievement I could see a reason for waiting. But they are not. They are an immediate reward for an accomplishment. Nothing wrong with that and we can’t help it if all the followers just want to try and keep up with us.
Lakedawg
April 24th, 2011
5:01 pm
The secret to a bronze statue is being 5″ 6″ tall. Holtz and Saban. Check both of those esteemed coaches record vs the Dawgs.
heeldawg
April 24th, 2011
5:04 pm
Newton statue at Auburn? Too soon. This story ain’t over yet. If Auburn loses its SACS accreditation and gets kicked out of the SEC as a result of all of the Camgate crap (a real risk, as they were already on SACS probation due to other academic/athletic “irregularities,” i.e. pay-for-play and the Bobby Louder/ Bobby Petrino debacle, and loss of accreditation mandates a boot from the SEC, according to the league by-laws), they’ll be tearing that statue down like it was Saddam Hussein’s.
Not fair to make fun of the trees dying at Toomer’s Corner, though. That was a bush league stunt that guy pulled.
I’m no seer, but here’s a hunch: 2011-2012 will mark the renaissance of Coach Mark Richt. He’s a quality individual who wins ball games. A 10-win season and New Year’s Day Bowl game this year will be followed by an SEC title and a shot at the BCS title next season. And when he’s at 113 or so wins after 11 seasons, with three SEC titles and a possible national title under his belt, would anyone bet that he won’t get a statue in Athens eventually? People compare him unfavorably to Nick Saban and Jim Tressel, two slimeballs who win. But let me ask you something: if Richt does what I think he can do in the next few years and finally wins that MNC, who do you want representing your school? Who would you want your kid to play for? A guy like Saban, who runs kids off whenever he thinks they won’t be contributors to the program–and who will get away with anything he can in recruiting as long as he doesn’t get caught? A guy like Tressel, who breaks the rules and lies about them? Or a guy like Richt, who tries to do the right thing by his players?
I know what my answer is to this question. And if you’re a true Dawg fan, you do, too.
Georgia statues?
April 24th, 2011
5:08 pm
No need. There would only be 1-2 so it would be kinda weak and would be counter productive because it would only highlight Georgia’s overall lack of success on the national stage.
If you honored coaches it would look weird to have only 1 coach who ever won a national title and hence one single statue wouldn’t work for UGA. You aint Alabama folks.
And if you honored Heisman trophy winners you would only have .2 statues and that would look kinda weird also- kinda barren.
AU and Florida it works for both because each has 3 Heismans- at that point it begins to make sense for statues if you have at least 3. But 1 or 2 would only highlight Georgia’s ineptitude.
At Alabama they have 5 coaches who won national titles so it definitely makes sense to have trophies.
King Saban
April 24th, 2011
5:13 pm
Lakedawg,
In terms of overall achievement both Holtz and Saban are far more accomplished than anyone at Georgia. Both have national titles and Saban has 2. Saban is 1-1 against UGA while at Bama and is probably 1-2 at worst or 2-2 against Georgia while at LSU. Frankly Georgia is just plain lucky that they don’t have to play Bama every year and very lucky that they got Saban in his first year at Bama when he was in the first year of rebuilding. But if Georgia can somehow back into the seccg in a watered down east then you in all likelihood would face a powerful and loaded Alabama team. And you don’t want none of that. Blackout anyone?
King Saban
April 24th, 2011
5:25 pm
heeldawg,
Saban a slimeball? Man are you funny. Saban is the one who has had one player arrested in the past 2 years. I believe you have him confused with that thug Richt who had 12 players arrested just last year and something like 20 in the past 2 years. What a thug program- Fulmer cup champions also.
King Saban
April 24th, 2011
5:26 pm
heeldawg,
Here’s the SEC bcs championship club- Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Florida, and Tennessee. Who is missing heeldawg??? Now shut up boy.
No more thugs at UGA
April 24th, 2011
5:46 pm
I believe you have him confused with that thug Richt who had 12 players arrested just last year and something like 20 in the past 2 years. What a thug program.
Yes, UGA is indeed a thug program. Make it 45 arrests in the past 3 years.
Sickening, isn’t it.
Always the panties... :-)
April 24th, 2011
6:07 pm
A few salient comments:
1. Four different SEC teams have won the last five BCS championships.
2. UGA was not one of those teams.
3. During that period, UGA did not win the SEC championship.
4. During that period, UGA did not even win its SEC division.
5. Red panties. Always the red panties, the new symbol of UGA.
In other words, UGA has sunk into total irrelevancy both regionally and nationally.
So why is UGA paying Saint Richt millions of dollars a year?
1eyedJack
April 24th, 2011
6:19 pm
Just wanted to check in and wish everybody a happy holiday. But I would like to address the Techies general attitude of hopeless negativism. Sounds to me like they’re harboring a hateful grudge against the Bulldawgs on account of their rough and rowdy past. Appears to me they don’t like losing after Thanksgiving every year neither. Kinda makes the turkey sandwich taste a bit blander on the third day, and sit upon one’s stomach, bloated, like a pass out of bounds on 4th down.
Speaking of third days, let us Dawg fans take the opportunity to pray for those who are overseas fighting for our country, and for our many blessings, before our president redistributes them. And you might then slip in a request to deliver us from all fumbles, and interceptions…..and poor play calling on third and twelve and for the strength to stop our opponents on third down.
I’m a forgive-and-forgettin’ guy, and I say, if their rambunctiousness, and misdemeanoring is behind them and their hearts are pure, and they’ve stuck to their diets and training regimens, the Great Bulldawg could cast a loving eye upon them and favor them with a championship. All our neighbors have one since our last one and we cannot allow a championship gap!! Why even the snotgobblers to the west can claim half a one, though the august organization who bestowed that honor upon them is now defunct.
The blind are reputed to possess sensitivities compensating for their lack of sight, even to the point of developing paranormal psychic powers. Now, clearly seeing into the future would fall neatly into that category. It’s not so surprising then that an organism deprived of half of its earthly vision could make a half attempt at prognostication and say that the Dawgs will earn 14 victories this season and win the elusive grail…..assuming of course that the Mayans had it all wrong and their calendar is simply incomplete.
Why not us?
Sir Barks A Lot
April 24th, 2011
6:20 pm
1. If UGA were to go of the route of statues – then by all means – the first three should be:
– Frank Sinkwich
– Charlie Trippi
– Hershall Walker
2. How other schools honor their best stars – that’s up to them – I do not have a problem with it. If Alabama places statues of National Title winning coaches – then Saban should have a statue – the guy is the best coach in the SEC at the moment – and I think Alabama is in much much better position to win another National Title before UGA.
3. If Auburn puts up Cam Newton – good for them – won a Heisman, and QB of National Title team.
Hope 2011 is a resurgence of the Richt era – but just not convinced until it happens.
Looking at SEC EAST schedule – it’s wide open:
UCSe and Florida are the biggest hurdles.
Tennessee shoudl be better – but very very young
KY is rebuild mode – after losing their stars from the last few years.
Vandy – well, they are starting over
SEC West:
Auburn – lost 23 seniors and major starters – but great staff – you just never know – but UGA should be favored
Ole Miss – Nutts teams atre Jekyll Hyde – UGA should win
Mississippi State – real DANGER game = 50/50 at best
OOC:
Boise State – this excellent team and giant killer has risen above the competition in their easy conference – so they seek teams like Va Tech and UGA.
This is a game that UGA could easily lose – but the could win this game as well.
Most Boise fans think this is a win – ans why not????
Did you see UGA play against Colorado, OK State, AZ State, – UGA has slid to 6-7 for a reason – the record reflects who they are.
6-7 teams get beat and outplayed in the 4th Q (See UGA vs Mississippi St, South Carolina, Auburn, Florida, UCF, Colorado, Arkansas)
6-7 teams turn the ball over during critical drives (See South Carolina, Mississippi, Colorado)
6-7 teams have head coaches that drive the length of the field – and on 4th and 6″ on the opponents 3 yard line – kicks a field goal. (see UCF)
I would say if Richt does not win at least 9 regular season games – let some other young stud have his chance. Jim Donnan gaves us 8 win seasons – UGA should be better.
Lakedawg
April 24th, 2011
7:16 pm
King Saban–My Auburn friends tell me that you are supposed to address you as messiah, at least thats what bammer fans tell them. You are still 5′ 6″ and have a losing record to the Dawgs and that will only increase this year in SEC champioship (if you make it) or the following year in 2 bit Tuscalooser.
Burma Shave
April 24th, 2011
8:50 pm
Gather up the children
The uncles and aunties
Come up and see THUGA
They’re bronzing the panties
BURMA SHAVE
Burma Shave
April 24th, 2011
8:55 pm
The beatdowns, arrests, and violations
They gave it a name
Come re-live it all at
The Bu++ Smear Hall Of Shame
BURMA SHAVE
Burma Shave
April 24th, 2011
9:05 pm
Go out and get arrested
You get a week off
The discipline now
Is worse than with Goff
BURMA SHAVE
Burma Shave
April 24th, 2011
9:15 pm
It’s third and its one
But you have a weak line
The best you can do
Is to flash the choke sign
BURMA SHAVE
Burma Shave
April 24th, 2011
9:30 pm
Georgia wants to have statues
Like all of their peers
But then they’re reminded
They haven’t won in years
BURMA SHAVE
trupert
April 24th, 2011
10:07 pm
I thought and still feel like both Alabama and Auburn may well regret their latest statues, erected and planned. I feel like the Saban statue came way to early and the Newton thing at Auburn just makes them look desperate.
Saban is only one to two years from being on the hot seat because if he dosent get a SECC this year his seat will begin to heat up and if he fails for three years running, he will be in more trouble than Richt is now.
The timing of the Newton statue may get very intersting because within a year of it being erected Auburn will be on probation but don’t be suprized if they keep it up even if Newton is found guilty because they have a strange way of honoring successful cheaters even after they have been caught, as in Jordon stadium and Pat Dye field.
Tech fan 76
April 25th, 2011
1:33 am
UGA still will not beat UF and SCAR. UGA several years away from climbing out of SEC bottom.
Dawg Gone
April 25th, 2011
8:22 am
Tech fan 76really hanging your hopes on other programs now are we? Remember Bug the bottom of the SEC beats up on the class of the ACC…surely you remember that?
BG
April 25th, 2011
8:32 am
UF should make a statue of Janoris Jenkins smoking a blunt! LMAO!!!!
BURMASHAVESUCKS
April 25th, 2011
8:36 am
BURMA SHAVE’S WILL
SHED BIG TEARS
WHENEVER HE SEES A
BIG MAN NEAR
BURMASHAVESUCKS
BURMASHAVESUCKS
April 25th, 2011
8:38 am
BURMA SHAVE
WHAT A TOOL
HE REMOVES ALL DOUBT
HE IS A FOOL
BURMASHAVESUCKS
DawginLex
April 25th, 2011
8:45 am
well we won’t be putting up any Burma Shave statues that’s for sure.
Herschel has gotta get one.
Erk too.
Dawg Gone
April 25th, 2011
8:55 am
DawginLex agree on the statue for Herschel….hell if the Gators had of gotten Crowell they would have had one waiting on him when he enrolls.
PMC
April 25th, 2011
9:22 am
Good thing Bryant Gumbel has that job at Real Sports, this way we don’t have to worry about his PXP career.
Seriously, for a guy who has so much to say, he knows very little when you put him on the spot.
Evansdawg
April 25th, 2011
9:32 am
Bama erected that Saban statue in haste so he won’t defect for another pay check somewhere else. His history of ‘allegiance’ is definitley tarnished considerably. Bama’s gesture was more of a ‘please stay’ statement than anything else.
Beast from the East
April 25th, 2011
9:42 am
Down in Gainesville, we’re putting up another statue. It’s Bob Marley, in honor of all our guys arrested for smoking reefer. Seriously, are they selling it at the local convenience store or what?
DawginLex
April 25th, 2011
9:56 am
Is Jenkins going to survive this?
Dawg Gone
April 25th, 2011
9:58 am
Beast from the East your guys smoke pot, our guys can’t remember to keep their licenses up todate cause if they did they would have a way to remember when they are drinking underage. But at Awburn they have “team building” exercises that include knocking off local trailer parks.And at Bama..well no one knows what goes on at Bama as local news media outlets are as tightly controlled as North Korea’s.
Beast from the East
April 25th, 2011
10:02 am
DawginLex,
I hope they boot him. They did a poll on GatorsSports.com and about 75% voted for dismissal. Enough is enough. Also had an article that 2 more were arrested in Jauary for the same thing.
For your reading pleasure: http://www.gatorsports.com/article/20110424/ARTICLES/110429725/1136?Title=Report-Two-UF-football-players-arrested-for-pot-in-January
RxDawg
April 25th, 2011
10:24 am
It just seems so lame to me… almost erroneous. It feels like these new statues just aren’t permanent dispite what the schools say. Like they are celebrating your “immortality” today, but are ready to yank em down tomorrow. What if (stop Bama fans and read, I said IF) Saban has a few bad seasons in a row and has to be fired? Or even worse he does decide to coach somewhere because of w/e reason?
I duno, I guess it just seems to fast because Gumble is right. Today’s hero can become tomrrows villian in an instant. I really hope UGA doesn’t follow suit with some of our SEC brethren. But if we actually start losing recruits because of something silly like that (and yeh I think it’s possible) then I guess you gota do what you gotta do.
AltamahaDawg
April 25th, 2011
10:30 am
Hope? Poll? How is that not a given? I am almost certain that the Univesity would have a one semester mandatory suspension for any student arrested more than once on alchohol or drug charges.
AltamahaDawg
April 25th, 2011
10:35 am
I think GG was right that the timing is a factor. Saban most definetely could find his way into the doghouse, any coach can. What then? I do disagree that status have to symbolize some grand or noble sacrifice. You know who has a lot of statues…….Universal and Disney. Its basically a piece of art.
SickandTired
April 25th, 2011
10:48 am
Put up a statue of Mark Richt reviewing an arrest report with a Bible on his desk. That would be appropriate. But do not, make the pose with anything to do with football.
Dink
April 25th, 2011
11:40 am
I’d like to see Herschel and Stanfill.
Go Dawgs!
chiefdawg
April 25th, 2011
12:10 pm
it won’t ever happen at UGA because the Dawgs can’t beat UF, much less win a Nat. Championship.
Santor Blutarsky
April 25th, 2011
12:33 pm
I love Burma Shave. Most intelligent poster ever. Almost as smart as me at my presitigious law firm.
Santor Blutarsky
April 25th, 2011
12:41 pm
Brone Richt, he beat Idaho State last year, and the offense had a record year!!!!
Senator Blutarsky
April 25th, 2011
12:42 pm
Aaron Murray is the most amazing football player to ever live!!!!!!
At my very large law firm we have a bronze statue of him.
Snoop Dawg
April 25th, 2011
1:07 pm
Let”s put up a bronze statue of Mark Richt in a Ford F150 pickup truck with the bed stacked high from all his three million dollar annual salaries. Then, on the door, let’s show a graph of how many wins he won every year since he has been in town. It will be a small price to pay to help educate the Bulldog Nature on this Football Marjoe, and show them all that he is leading the dogs to the SEC cellar.
little dog
April 25th, 2011
1:09 pm
WWWHHOOO CCCCAAAARRREEESSS………
Snoop Dawg
April 25th, 2011
1:09 pm
Here’s another good idea: If we bronze Mark Richt and Bobo, they won’t be able to talk anymore and we can just keep them in the end zone for eternity, hiring some new ball coaches like in the other state universities that surround us. We are the laughing stock of the entire SEC.
WDE
April 25th, 2011
1:20 pm
Snoop Dawg the very idea that you could create a chart or graph made me LOL…very funny !
Snoop Dawg
April 25th, 2011
1:35 pm
WDE, glad to give you a little fun. I know it gets boring picking up garbage along the Interstate 8-5 Monday through Friday in an orange Tennessee vest every week. I’m also happy that someone like you without even a high school diploma can adopt the UGA football team to pull for. I bet you’ve got a big G on the tail end of your Kia.
ROFL..
WDE
April 25th, 2011
2:06 pm
WDE what I have or don’t must pale beside a boy who has nothing better to do than constantly troll another school’s blog you bring nothing to the table except venom and envy. Troll on little fella troll on..
truedawg
April 25th, 2011
2:23 pm
Let other schools do the statues. If UGA does add some, fine. Just the men that won the “stiff arm” and Erk. Dooley was a great coach, but only half of the coin. Erk was the heart and soul Dooley was the brains. Look at 64 and the years prior…and then look after 81. ERK!!
I will say this about CMR he doesn’t want a statue. He wants a title, and another and another…he’s hungry. He has always been a humble man and not looked to single himself out for recognition. Nor his players for that matter. Everyone looks to the dance at the UF game, but look after the loss to Vandy, the players were celebrating and CMR “barked” get back to the side lines you did what you were supposed to do!! Winning games is what the Dawgs are SUPPOSED to do…Go beyond your expectaions and others dreams and then let us be amazed. Too many statues too early,..UF did it right, just Heisman winners..Bama jumped the gun with Saban. Your Supposed to win NC at Bama? right? just ask a fan..;) 2 more years like last and they’ll be yelling to fire CNS like they are at Athens with CMR
Closing, nothing against the coaches, but look at what the other statues in the SEC schools are saying..Is Saban really in the same class and Bryant? Is CMR in the same class and Dooley and Russell? Dooley made UGA a top Powerhouse from nothing(again look prior to 64) Bowden took FSU from nothing, as a player and a coach, Spurrier took UF from nothing to something…
A statue turns a coach or player to an immortal. Let them do it first on there own.
DawginLex
April 25th, 2011
4:24 pm
If Burma shave
played for Erk,
he would have cried
like a little jerk.
Burma shave is an idiot
DawginLex
April 25th, 2011
4:25 pm
If Burma shave
had played for Dooley,
Vince would have said
“you hit like a Julie.”
Burma shave is an idiot
DawginLex
April 25th, 2011
4:28 pm
Burma Shave
he wears a wig
belly of blubber
arms like twigs
DawginLex
April 25th, 2011
4:30 pm
Burma shave
never walked the UGA halls.
Never played football
didn’t have the balls.
Burma shave is an idiot.
DawginLex
April 25th, 2011
4:31 pm
Burma shave
male leader of cheer.
Cut from the squad
belly of beer.
Burma shave is an idiot.
sav'h dawg
April 25th, 2011
5:09 pm
I hear Florida is making a statue to honor Jenoris Jenkins. It is going to be made from hemp
Proud-Dawg
April 25th, 2011
5:13 pm
@Burma Shave…….You have way too much time on your hands. I have an idea GA fans, let’s start a fundraiser, $1, to get this guy an eHarmony account. The dude obviously needs a lady
Sharkman
April 25th, 2011
7:10 pm
Herschel needs one. So does Sinkwich. Erk would be cool, so would Trippi, however, I’m not exactly sure about that. Screw it! Give them one too!!! Heck, while we’re at it, give one to Lindsay Scott as well! “Run Lindsay!!!”
Dirty Dawg
April 25th, 2011
7:45 pm
Bill, I got a question for you…or at least a suggestion…over the past couple of weeks we’ve been bombarded by our ‘friends’ over in Tuscaloosa with their braggin’ about ninety-umpteen-thousand attending their Spring game. OK, fine, plenty of folks that make this ‘walk-through’ a priority for their Saturday afternoon, I get it. But what I don’t get is that today I picked up a Sports Illustrated – the one with the QBs on the cover – and in it there was a picture of a pass-play at the UA Spring game with a shot of the lower deck of whatever side of the stadium it was, that was, at least, two-thirds empty. My question is just how many folks can get into that stadium, cause if those stands were an indication you could get another 180,000, at least…and these were good seats – between the 30’s…my suggestion, Bill, is to check it out for yourself, and be wary cause somebody’s trying to ‘big-dog’ us, and we don’t stand for that…we do the ‘big-doggin’ around here.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
April 25th, 2011
8:09 pm
How about a bronze statue if we beat FL for a change
King Gator
April 25th, 2011
8:30 pm
Bronzed AD thong? Go Gators!
Benjamin
April 25th, 2011
9:10 pm
A few salient comments:
1. Four different SEC teams have won the last five BCS championships.
2. UGA was not one of those teams.
3. During that period, UGA did not win the SEC championship.
4. During that period, UGA did not even win its SEC division.
5. Red panties. Always the red panties. Forever.
In other words, UGA has sunk into total irrelevancy both regionally and nationally.
So why is UGA paying Mark Richt millions of dollars a year?
Delbert D.
April 25th, 2011
10:09 pm
The Stone Age comes first.
It Ain't Rocket Science
April 25th, 2011
10:18 pm
Still trying to figure out how this is even a sports story. Statues really should be reserved for something more important than college football anyway. I love the game, but can’t really attached legend status to any coach of any sport. Their reward should be the big paycheck they gert, at least in todays society. How about some statues for those kids fighting in the middle east? If we are honest, why have all the statues for politicians, since it is mighty hard to find an honest one of them.
Me
April 26th, 2011
1:23 am
Old Blind Dawg
April 23rd, 2011
6:37 pm,
What did Herschel Walker ever do in the pros???
59bulldawg
April 26th, 2011
8:04 am
If we gotta do it, then I say MOST DEFINITELY Erk and Herschel!
Fred Sanford
April 26th, 2011
8:04 am
How cool would it be to meet girls at the Red Panty statue?
DawginLex
April 26th, 2011
8:41 am
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WalkHe00.htm
13,000 yards from scrimmage in 13 years.
That’s what he did.
doesn’t even count USFL stats
crossdawg
April 26th, 2011
9:03 am
I’d give a few bucks for the Erk stature. RIP DGD.
ugaclassof2004
April 26th, 2011
9:48 am
Am I the only one who thinks the statues are a bit tacky? Images of Bud Kilmer from Varsity Blues comes to mind
” Tonight we play Baineville. Tonight we beat Baineville!”
dawgfacedboy
April 26th, 2011
12:06 pm
I don’t think it’s a bad idea necessarily but it does look weird when Bowden and Paterno took so long to be immortalized but Saban is already there. I think you need to be considered truly great before this takes place. Tebow will always be remembered as probably the greatest Gator ever. I can see putting a stature up of him. Herschel, Trippi, Russel, Sincwich, Butts, and Pollack should be as well. These men are considered legends at UGA. Legendary status for your university should constitute a statue. Saban and Newton are not even close to legendary for their respective schools. If Saban is there 10,15,20 more years and adds some more titles then ok but Bama will look pretty stupid if he leaves in 2-3 years for another opportunity.