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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GTBob
February 15th, 2012
3:22 pm
Coming from a Tech fan…priceless!! LOL
I’m not even talking about his football commentary. I’m talking about how he can’t write a sentence without adding something completely unrelated and usually offensive to the end of it.
G-Dawg
February 15th, 2012
3:22 pm
You win some, you lose some!! Theres your 30 yrs!!
G-Dawg
February 15th, 2012
3:23 pm
Well, I agree…on that part!! LOL
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:24 pm
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.
You do know that we had the #1 rated recruiting class right?..I could care less where it comes from as long as it is #1….Wow…You are reaching
TDF
February 15th, 2012
3:24 pm
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:13 pm
Really so we havent been there 4 times with 2 victories????
TDE
February 15th, 2012
3:25 pm
My commodore 64 just started smoking from all the posts I’ve put up today. Gotta go get my carpal tunnel looked at. Later y’all!
TDF
February 15th, 2012
3:25 pm
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:24 pm
ahahahahha yea you did according to rivals. Too bad the bottom of your class was a joke. You lost one of your best recruits to tech too hahahahahaha.
Reaching??? you constantly pound your chest about running the state of GA in recruiting. that you can get who ever you want. yet I easily disproved that today moron
Still@theKool-aidBAR
February 15th, 2012
3:26 pm
TBSF…Tech beat a top 10 Auburn twice (h-n-h) with Reggie Ball and 1 of those Auburn teams beat UGa. We beat Vandy twice and Miss St twice. yes Old Miss Backed out of the game again you don’t know what you speak of. yes UGa and Oregon had a h-n-h scheduled and the contract was dropped so UGa picked up Boise St in the dome to replace one of the lost Oregon games.
UGa didn’t really EARN the right to represent the SEC Least last year. You didn’t beat EVERY lEAsT team but USCe did.
G-Dawg
February 15th, 2012
3:26 pm
BamaBoy…#1 in the #2 business!!
TDF
February 15th, 2012
3:27 pm
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:16 pm
Yea too bad you didnt deserve to be there and every real fan places an asterisk next to this championship. Keep pounding that chest though, when you finish 3rd in the west htis season it will make it that much better!
G-Dawg
February 15th, 2012
3:28 pm
Koolaid…pick a team…any team..and stick with it.
G-Dawg
February 15th, 2012
3:29 pm
UGa didn’t really EARN the right to represent the SEC Least last year. You didn’t beat EVERY lEAsT team but USCe did.
And this is any different than Bama??
TDF
February 15th, 2012
3:30 pm
GTBob
February 15th, 2012
3:17 pm
when you stop acting like a retard, Ill stop calling you it.
thanks for your concern.
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:30 pm
Yea too bad you didnt deserve to be there and every real fan places an asterisk next to this championship. Keep pounding that chest though, when you finish 3rd in the west htis season it will make it that much better!
Yeah, the only ones that KNOW we won it on the field are the only ones that really count….We could care less what real losers think…We won the BCS Championship and you lost your last two games….In the end, We win and you continue to pull defeat out of victory
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:33 pm
UGa didn’t really EARN the right to represent the SEC Least last year. You didn’t beat EVERY lEAsT team but USCe did.
And this is any different than Bama??
The difference is that when it counted we Dominated…WE won the Crystal…That is the biggest difference between our programs…We win the big games that count…No matter how you spin it we just win Big games…period
kybodawg
February 15th, 2012
3:35 pm
dont worry about the cupcake games. as long as bobo is calling the shots we will quit trying to score after halftime so the other team will at least have a chance to make it a game.
G-Dawg
February 15th, 2012
3:35 pm
So the previous LSU/BAMA matchup didnt count?? That wasnt considered a Big Game??
Still@theKool-aidBAR
February 15th, 2012
3:35 pm
bamaguy…G-Stiing..Crickets on that UGA football history…..Here it is………..
The board of regents of the University System of Georgia issued a report in April 1986 implicating Dr. Fred C. Davison and the Georgia athletic department, headed by Vince Dooley, who was also the football coach, in a pattern of academic abuse in the admission and advancement of student-athletes over the previous four years.
TDF
February 15th, 2012
3:35 pm
Still@theKool-aidBAR
February 15th, 2012
3:26 pm
hahahahahahaha good for you, I know all about the tech AU rivalry as my two best friends growing up were a techie and a Barner. We have beaten AU 5-6 times. not that big of an accomplishment. Congrats on beating Vandy and miss state. Love to see you play against rodgers and get owned by 35 points.
Keep telling yourself they backed out and that they were scared of the bumble bees ahhahaha
Never heard one word about a h and h with Oregon. Post a link.
Actually we did earn it by going 7-1 in the SEC and losing less games the SC jr. If you dont htink we were better than them you have no clue what you are talking about. We all know UGA had the SC game won.
Still not going to say your team little boy????
Fun blog, Bill
February 15th, 2012
3:36 pm
Next year, you dogs get the Mountaineers…..of Appy State!
Kyle
February 15th, 2012
3:36 pm
Savannah Dawg gets it. I a couple of years ago gave up the Hartman contribution and season tickets because of 1. lame schedule and 2. unable to get decent seats for the cost. Going on stub hub, I attended all the decent home games, Florida and Tech- great seats and saved a ton when you factor in Hartman fund…..
TDF
February 15th, 2012
3:37 pm
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:30 pm
won it on the field???? hahahahahahahah wonder if Okie state would have something to say about that.
How can you even say that when you lost to LSU at home in a night game??????? you have no point here you have lost sorry.
G-Dawg
February 15th, 2012
3:37 pm
Again, I see you’re not sticking to the topic!! Yeah…you’re winning..Charlie Sheen style!! Congrats lil guy!!
TDF
February 15th, 2012
3:39 pm
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:33 pm
Really then why did you lose the biggest game of the season against LSU at home?????
You know you didnt belong there stop making excuses
TDF
February 15th, 2012
3:39 pm
Still@theKool-aidBAR
February 15th, 2012
3:35 pm
Hey retard pick a team
G-Dawg
February 15th, 2012
3:40 pm
I never said no program is perfect…but some programs have exhibited a consistent pattern of behavior with violating the rules in order to achieve success on the field. And history has proved Bama to be one of those repeat offenders.
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:42 pm
won it on the field???? hahahahahahahah wonder if Okie state would have something to say about that.
I can say it because in the real world Bama was actually playing in the BCS Championship game and we Dominated…In your world, you want to ask Ok. State how they feel about it? Who cares? they were voted not good enough to be there by people who have no bias…We didn’t put ourselves in the game… the powers to be wanted to see the Best and they DID…
REGGIE
February 15th, 2012
3:42 pm
With that cupcake schedule I will wait on a week to week basis to monitor the ticket prices then you have the chance to purchase the tickets to the game that week instead of donating money to get on a list that depends on the amount of money you donate.
G-Dawg
February 15th, 2012
3:43 pm
“by people who have no bias”
Now you’re reaching!!
GTBob
February 15th, 2012
3:45 pm
when you stop acting like a retard, Ill stop calling you it.
thanks for your concern.
Nah, I enjoy getting you to write loser, or retard, or moron, or whatever else your mom taught you to the end of each post. Part of my goal is to show the worst in UGA fans and im doing a pretty good job with you. So please, continue.
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:46 pm
TDF You know you didnt belong there stop making excuses
Maybe We would make excuses if we lost…However, We won the BCS Crystal and we obviously deserved to be there or we would not have won the game..Like I said, cry all you want about us being there but we had to win it and we did…
G-Dawg
February 15th, 2012
3:47 pm
Bob, you know that game can go both ways….like BamaBoy does when he visits Midtown!! LOL
LHarding Dawg
February 15th, 2012
3:47 pm
Enter your comments here
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:47 pm
G-Dawg…“by people who have no bias”
Now you’re reaching!!
So all the voters from all over the country had a Bama bias?…We are way more powerful that I thought
G-Dawg
February 15th, 2012
3:50 pm
Exactly…and legend in your own mind!!
TDF
February 15th, 2012
3:51 pm
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:42 pm
Wow You really think this????
You said you won it on the field, I said to ask Okie state if you did, AKA if you beat them to earn a spot over them which you didnt. (How you didnt get that is beyond me, but shows your true stupidity)
no bias???? wow hahahahahaha anything to back your arguement apparently.
ESPN talking heads put you in the game plain and simple. Everyone knows it. Its how things work. ESPN spins things to make things playout like they want them too, they didnt want UGA in the NC in 07 like we should have been so we werent. They wanted bama in even though its the same situation of not winning the conf or division.
You are clearly retarded
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:52 pm
G-Dawg…Bob, you know that game can go both ways….like BamaBoy does when he visits Midtown!! LOL
Except a game with Georgia in it….They will always lose the big ones in the end…You can actually bet on it…I have
G-Dawg
February 15th, 2012
3:52 pm
Human bias will always be part of any voting system. Playoff is the only way to determine deserves a real shot at the title!!
DawginLex
February 15th, 2012
3:52 pm
8,000 people at basketball practice
Showing it on ESPN3 too
More than the crowd at the Steg for a home game
this place is hoops crazy
http://www.ukathletics.com/allaccess/?media=301928
TDF
February 15th, 2012
3:53 pm
GTBob
February 15th, 2012
3:45 pm
the worst??? ahahhahahahahaha this is me playing nicely. FYI if you havent notcied I couldnt care less how others view me as a fan. And most fans I know dont care either. We like being hated, makes it more fun to rub it in your face.
G-Dawg
February 15th, 2012
3:54 pm
BamaBoy…you’re not staying on topic again!!
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:55 pm
ESPN talking heads put you in the game plain and simple. Everyone knows it. Its how things work. ESPN spins things to make things playout like they want them too, they didnt want UGA in the NC in 07 like we should have been so we werent. They wanted bama in even though its the same situation of not winning the conf or division.
Dude, they didn’t want Georgia in it because you NEVER win a big game…No matter what names you call us just call us Winners because in the end that is all we have done…You seem to still be suffering from that lost to that powerhouse Michigan State team? We played them too…Want to know how that ended up…We won it..
So know we own ESPN too…Saban is far reaching but not as far as these Georgia excuses…
GTBob
February 15th, 2012
3:57 pm
FYI if you havent notcied I couldnt care less how others view me as a fan. And most fans I know dont care either.
Believe me. If there is one thing I have noticed in my years, it’s that UGA fans do not care about how others view them so I will agree with you there.
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:58 pm
February 15th, 2012
3:54 pm
BamaBoy…you’re not staying on topic again!!
Just like Bama, I dictate…I don’t follow a loser’s lead…When you win you can do it like that but then again the Dawgs never win the Big ones…They just like to hold them in their mouths until they soften…
Still@theKool-aidBAR
February 15th, 2012
3:58 pm
you heard it here first….
February 15th, 2012
3:52 pm
coach ralph friedgen has been hired by gt to coach qb’s
TDF
February 15th, 2012
4:00 pm
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:46 pm
never should have been there. LSU is the real champs and should have never had to play you twice. At best you have a split title that you never should have had a shot at
TDF
February 15th, 2012
4:02 pm
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:52 pm
Richt 3-1 vs bama you clown. so that means yall werent good for 3 years?????
GTBob
February 15th, 2012
4:05 pm
Is TDF really trying to pretend that UGA is in the same league as Bama now? Good grief.
@Bob
February 15th, 2012
4:06 pm
Bob, tech was pretty low, 5 of their wins vs teams that only had 10 wins between them, and barely beating a 2-10 Maryland team. tech was at best the #7 team in the ACC in 6th ranked conference.
And PJ recruiting bringing them little help.If PJ stays another 2 years tech headed toward bill lewis type seasons.It will take the next tech coach years to rebuild what pJ has done to tech roster
TDF
February 15th, 2012
4:06 pm
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:55 pm
ahahahahahahaha you really have no clue what you are talking baout. thanks for clearing that up for everyone.
Did I say you owned ESPN??? Or that they cried hard fro you to get a second shot???? Bama retards are so self absorbed.
Have fun finishing 3rd in the west.
FYI what happend with Lousiana Lafayette a few years ago??????? hmmm……
You beat a diff Mich state team moron. Two diff years 2 diff teams.
Seriously how little do you really know??