Should UGA season ticket holders be satisfied with a diet of cupcakes?
If you’re a Georgia football season ticket holder and you haven’t made your annual contribution to the Hartman Fund, better get down to the post office, go online or get on the horn to the Georgia Bulldog Club offices in Athens, because today’s the deadline. You can find out all the details here.
Contributions sent via snail mail must be postmarked no later than Feb. 15.
Even if you’re not going for season tickets, a minimum $100 contribution to the Hartman Fund will get you a 2012 football ticket application and will make you eligible to request single-game tickets to five of the seven home games. With the Dawgs looking to open the season as possibly a Top 5 team, some folks might want to scramble aboard the bandwagon.
Then again, whether you can find five home games on Georgia’s 2012 schedule that you consider worth the cost of the ticket plus a contribution is another question.
Along those lines, I had a note from reader SavannahDawg, who was going ahead and making his contribution but was grumbling about the 2012 home schedule, which admittedly isn’t that exciting: Buffalo, Florida Atlantic, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Georgia Southern and Georgia Tech.
He complained that “the cupcake portion of that schedule is particularly lame. If sticking to an eight-game conference schedule in the expanded SEC means we have to give up playing Auburn every year just so we can keep the likes of the Florida Atlantic Owls coming to Athens for a paycheck, I’m going to be seriously rethinking my commitment to buying season tickets every year. Better to make a smaller donation and get single games, or even cherry-pick the best games on StubHub. Even paying scalper’s prices for those games, it’ll end up costing me less than season tickets when you factor in the Hartman Fund.”
SavanahDawg makes a valid point and I’m wondering if the SEC athletic directors’ aversion to adding a ninth conference game might not end up costing them financially down the road in terms of getting fans in the stands.
What do you think? Would a schedule that kept the cupcakes and lost Auburn as an annual opponent make you any less likely to buy tickets to games at Sanford Stadium?
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TDF
February 15th, 2012
2:23 pm
ripped off dawg
February 15th, 2012
2:18 pm
Good more room for real fans
TDF
February 15th, 2012
2:24 pm
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
2:19 pm
ahahhahaha coming from a team that played just as easy of a schedue as us ahhahahaha laughable
BulldogBen
February 15th, 2012
2:25 pm
It’s so painfully obvious to the fans that a 9 game schedule is the answer to all of this.
I’d say even the idiots running CFB will be able to see that but I think i’d be insulting idiots.
TDF
February 15th, 2012
2:26 pm
GTBob
February 15th, 2012
2:21 pm
ahhahaha you always go and pick the opposite end of the spectrum to try and discredit my posts, thats all you can do????
Too bad everyone knows the teams I am refering too.
Vandy- UGA and Arky
Kentucky- UGA (but thats no surprise, they play us tough every year just like Vandy does)
TDF
February 15th, 2012
2:27 pm
BulldogBen
February 15th, 2012
2:25 pm
Well its not the answer so try again
GTBob
February 15th, 2012
2:29 pm
Vandy- UGA and Arky
Kentucky- UGA (but thats no surprise, they play us tough every year just like Vandy does)
So all the bad teams are considered good because they played UGA close? You may want to reevaluate UGA instead of assuming every other team is awesome.
Tarlie Chrippi
February 15th, 2012
2:31 pm
TDF —
GTBob is obviously blinded by the greatness coming from the opposition the bees faced this year (i.e., 8-5 Virginia team they lost to, 6-6 Miami team they lost to, 7-5 Utah team they lost to)
TDF
February 15th, 2012
2:33 pm
GTBob
February 15th, 2012
2:29 pm
ahahahahahahahahaha or maybe just maybe they do play us tough every year no matter how good we are or bad they are. Same with SCjr. These 3 are 9 out of 10 times close games.
Sorry but pretty much every SEC team is better than tech and thats the point. But keep trying to spin and change it aorund. Its fun to watch you squirm.
TDF
February 15th, 2012
2:33 pm
Tarlie Chrippi
February 15th, 2012
2:31 pm
He is the worst tech fan out there. He doesnt care about them, and doesnt care if they lose
GTBob
February 15th, 2012
2:33 pm
GTBob is obviously blinded by the greatness coming from the opposition the bees faced this year
I never said that GT was any good this year. We were actually pretty awful. Just not as awful as some of the SEC bottom dwellers.
THE REAL PHIL
February 15th, 2012
2:33 pm
If the season ticket holders want to have any chance of a championship of ANY kind they had better like it. This is the formula that Florida has used for years. Even with this schedule it doesn’t compare with the ANY other conference schedule. Most of the big teams like Ohio State, MI, Oregon, USC, Texas, OK Play a bunch of practice games, a couple rivalry games and thats it. Just because they play teams in their conference doesn’t mean they are any good. It’s difficult to get BCS teams to play you without a home and home agreement. And as to the money, playing some team like? Maryland? at home would fill the stands, but then the next year that there would be one less home game. You net more money on two home games with half full stadiums than you do having a full stadium one year and travel plus an empty stadium the next. The SEC is so much more difficult than the other conferences,even with the cupcakes it’s tougher than anything Ohio State will ever play.
GTBob
February 15th, 2012
2:36 pm
Vanderbilt this year:
Against ranked teams: 0-5
Against winning teams: 0-6
That’s a quality football team.
GTBob
February 15th, 2012
2:38 pm
Sorry but pretty much every SEC team is better than tech and thats the point.
Every SEC fan thinks that the 14 teams in the SEC are the 14 best teams in the country. Regardless of any evidence otherwise.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
February 15th, 2012
2:39 pm
TBSF….Tech has beat every SEC team it has played since 2000 except LSU. Tech has beat UGA but only once, Vandy, Auburn, Miss St. Ole Miss ed backed out of the game a few years back.
BulldogBen
February 15th, 2012
2:39 pm
TDF, please enlighten me to what the answer is then. How exactly would you keep traditional permanent rivalries and keep the 2 team West rotation going without going to a 9 game schedule?
I’m all ears. Wasn’t a problem for the (old) PAC 10 and the ACC seems to think it’s okay.
Old Dawg
February 15th, 2012
2:40 pm
I wouldn’t bash UGA’s home schedule too much, Bill. Like many other folks have stated, other SEC schools have equal servings of cupcakes on their schedules:
Bama: Western Kentucky, Florida Atlanta and Western Carolina
UT Vowels: Georgia State, Akron and Troy
Arkansas: Jacksonville, Louisiana Monroe, Tulsa
LSU: North Texas, Idaho and Towson University
Auburn: Louisiana Monroe, New Mexico and Alabama A&M
Florida: Bowling Green, Jacksonville State and Louisiana Ragin’ Cajun
It’s obvious SEC teams are racking up on wins with these folks so they can be more prepared for conference games. Conference schedules do fluctuate on their difficulty, and back in the 90s playing SEC East Teams like UT and Florida was always a chore.
These weak non-conference games also allow coaches to play underclassmen so they are more prepared when their time comes.
I don’t necessarily like what’s happening, but it’s obvious the trend is set.
KB
February 15th, 2012
2:40 pm
Yeah, they played Tennessee and Cincinnati pretty tough. Do you consider those to be good teams?
better than tech and most of the ACC
Still@theKool-aidBAR
February 15th, 2012
2:46 pm
TBSF… is too smart for all you people to argue with. He is a Magna Cum-Laude UGa grad with a degree in Financial Planning. He makes millions every week managing peoples money. You need to let him manage your money and i bet you could retire rich by 2014.
TDF
February 15th, 2012
2:47 pm
GTBob
February 15th, 2012
2:38 pm
No actually I just think they are better than teck like my comment stated. but good try
what of it?
February 15th, 2012
2:48 pm
Top 5… that is rich.
Thanks McGarity, and keep hoping for a weaker field that we might one day sneak in a NC.
GTBob
February 15th, 2012
2:48 pm
better than tech and most of the ACC
Just so I know for sure. Do you think GT was the worst team in college football this past season?
TDF
February 15th, 2012
2:48 pm
Still@theKool-aidBAR
February 15th, 2012
2:39 pm
ahahahahahahahha you mean you have beaten every SEC team played ONCE, big difference in doing it once and on a consistent basis
Greg
February 15th, 2012
2:49 pm
After sharing season tickets and many great games with my two cousins (we refer to each other as Dawg Bro ) for almost 30 years we dropped our 7 seats (4 on row one in the club level, 3 in section 129) and railroad lot parking. With the advent of Stubhub we found that we can attend all of the games that we want to see and still get good seats and a parking pass and still save money. Since Adams ran Vince off the decrease in the value and quality of having season tickets has been unabated. The movers and shakers had better wake up!
TDF
February 15th, 2012
2:49 pm
Still@theKool-aidBAR
February 15th, 2012
2:39 pm
ahahahahaha no one backs out of a game against tech not even an fCS school would give up an easy win like that
TDF
February 15th, 2012
2:50 pm
what of it?
February 15th, 2012
2:48 pm
Not a UGA fan move along
GTBob
February 15th, 2012
2:56 pm
ahahahahaha no one backs out of a game against tech not even an fCS school would give up an easy win like that
You think Ole Miss would consider GT an easy win?
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:00 pm
ahahhahaha coming from a team that played just as easy of a schedue as us ahhahahaha laughable
Difference being, we win big games…Dawgs do not
TDF
February 15th, 2012
3:00 pm
GTBob
February 15th, 2012
2:56 pm
you try so hard dont you??? Yet never get anywhere, and get owned by every other poster. Your own fans hate you too!!
Ole Miss in an up year would easily consider tech an easy win.
Nothing Could Be Finer
February 15th, 2012
3:01 pm
South Carolina likes to schedule in-state schools like Wofford and the Citadel and regional teams like East Carolina for their cupcakes to keep things a little more interesting.
It is silly for Ga to schedule teams like Buffalo, New Mexico St, Idaho St becuase nobody really cares.
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:02 pm
Dawgs have a history of shatting in their bed…It will not matter though, just like last year you will have to play the WEST winner and we all know how that ends…
Bob
February 15th, 2012
3:02 pm
YES
DawginLex
February 15th, 2012
3:04 pm
GTBob conveniently ignores Vandy having Arkansas whipped this past season until the kicker couldn’t make a chip shot.
The same Arkansas that only lost 2 games-to LSU and Bama and beat K-State in the Cotton Bowl
Vandy was much improved in 2011 and had a ton of seniors. They would have given Tech a fit. not anything resembling the Vandy team Tech beat in the past.
G-Dawg
February 15th, 2012
3:05 pm
Wofford, Citadel keep things interesting? Obviously somone is up in smoke!!
GTBob
February 15th, 2012
3:05 pm
you try so hard dont you??? Yet never get anywhere, and get owned by every other poster. Your own fans hate you too!!
lol. You are such a drama queen.
TDF
February 15th, 2012
3:06 pm
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:00 pm
ahahahahahaha o really what happened in the first matchup vs LSU….. o thats right you lost. (Then ESPN placed you into the title game, a place you didnt earn the right to be at) Hence why bama yet again has an asterisk next to “another title” ahahahahhahaha
Bama fans are funny….. how many MNCs is it now 458??? with 451 that have an * hahahahahahahaha
GTBob
February 15th, 2012
3:07 pm
GTBob conveniently ignores Vandy having Arkansas whipped this past season until the kicker couldn’t make a chip shot.
Ole Miss and Texas A&M also had Arkansas whipped this season until they choked at the end. It doesn’t make them good teams.
TDF
February 15th, 2012
3:08 pm
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:02 pm
Since when does one game make a trend you idiot????
G-Dawg
February 15th, 2012
3:08 pm
And Bama has a history of NCAA probations, I’m sure ya’ll are due for another one any day now!!
TDF
February 15th, 2012
3:09 pm
GTBob
February 15th, 2012
3:05 pm
hahahahah since when does pointing out your stupid and that everyone owns you a dram queen???
keep reaching little guy!
TDF
February 15th, 2012
3:10 pm
G-Dawg
February 15th, 2012
3:08 pm
Free suits should be coming down soon. Hopefully another 4 year ban for bama! and SCjrs hearing is this weekend. They could lose 30-40 scholarships for 3 major violations!!
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:12 pm
Bama fans are funny….. how many MNCs is it now 458??? with 451 that have an * hahahahahahahaha
Whatever you think the number of Bama’s Championships really are would still be 10 times what the Dawgs have won….You have a history of losing and losing big games…In the end, you have to play the WEST and that will wrap up your season except for the terrible bowl loss like last year…The real Bad part is that the SEC actually puts the game in the Georgia Dome and you still lose…Well, I guess Athens isn’t much better…
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:13 pm
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:02 pm
Since when does one game make a trend you idiot????
When it is the ONLY one you have made….
G-Dawg
February 15th, 2012
3:15 pm
BamaBoy…you’re all over the place again!! Keep up!!
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:16 pm
And Bama has a history of NCAA probations, I’m sure ya’ll are due for another one any day now!!
Actually, We have a history of Winning Championships….Two out of the last three to be correct and that would be recent History…Georgia’s Football History?
GTBob
February 15th, 2012
3:17 pm
hahahahah since when does pointing out your stupid and that everyone owns you a dram queen???
You are obviously running out of comebacks so you go back to your 5th grade talking and over sensationalizing everything. I will expect some great response ending in retard, moron, or something else you say 100 times a day. Or maybe you will “own” me again. lol.
G-Dawg
February 15th, 2012
3:19 pm
“over sensationalizing everything”
Coming from a Tech fan…priceless!! LOL
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:19 pm
G-String….Georgia’s Football History? Recent or thirty years ago….Please tell us?
G-Dawg
February 15th, 2012
3:20 pm
And yet, still lack class!!
TDF
February 15th, 2012
3:21 pm
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:12 pm
ahahahahahaha 10 times more so you think there is 20??? hahahahahahaha if you are going to try and insult me at least make it logical you clown.
In the end Bama finishes 3rd in the west htis year.
Dont see you pounding your chest about running this state in recruiting naymore. My earlier post must have hit you hard. ahahahhahahahaha FSU has stolen more top talent than bama and they only got 6 in 7 years hahahaha.
Losing to a top 15 team in 2OT is a bad loss??? wow you def are a bama fan arent you (Meaning you are a moron)!!!
We have been there and won it more times than Satan but thanks!
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:21 pm
G-Sting…Crickets on that Georgia Football History?