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
4:07 pm
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
3:58 pm
hahaha so where was all that winning in 2010??? you are a clown
TDF
February 15th, 2012
4:08 pm
GTBob
February 15th, 2012
4:05 pm
Actually next year we will be better than bama
SSIgator
February 15th, 2012
4:17 pm
TDF -
Isn’t your shift at Tire Kingdom just about over for today? You better run along. You don’t want to be late for your remedial English class at night school. Remember, your GED is dependent upon successful completion of the class. Not to mention the fifty cents per hour raise your boss will give you when you graduate.
clint_atl
February 15th, 2012
4:21 pm
TDF,
Just curious but who are those 4 recruits that UGA got that were the best in their respective state?
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
4:24 pm
hahaha so where was all that winning in 2010??? you are a clown
Great…Now Georgia wants to compare winning with Bama…2010 huh? Lets do a larger view and look over the last thirty years and compare wins and Championships? Dude, you should be laughing at yourself pulling 2010 0ut…I think wew won BCS Crystals inbetween those years…Hello
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
4:26 pm
Actually next year we will be better than bama
Ahhh the Georgia War Cry…”Next Year we will be better” You have fans that are actually dying waiting on that to happen….
TDF
February 15th, 2012
4:27 pm
clint_atl
February 15th, 2012
4:21 pm
JHC- GA
Theus- Florida
Marshall- NC
Dawson- Tenn
And then Pyke was a top 10 player in Maryland as well
TDF
February 15th, 2012
4:28 pm
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
4:26 pm
Actually thats just based off the fact you barely had an offense this past year and now the biggest contributor of that crappy offense is gone. You also lost some of your best defenders. Bama will slide back down to second tier his year just like 2010. Enjoy it!!
SSIgator
February 15th, 2012
4:29 pm
TDF -
Also, please stop using the word “handel” in your posts. Every time I see that word it rminds me of the “Hallelujah” chorus from Handel’s “Messiah”. Good thing you do not use any reference to Beethoven or else everyone would be hearing his Fifth Symphony playing in their heads.
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
4:30 pm
TDF
Total Dumb f_ck
TDF
February 15th, 2012
4:31 pm
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
4:24 pm
You mean you won one and claim another?????
hahaha typical though to change the subject when you know you look like an idiot. Good try, but bama will be back to 2010 form this year. And it will be a rollercoaster ride as long as you continue to get crappy QBs (Lost your best one to GT hahahahaha) and only have a RB.
TDF
February 15th, 2012
4:32 pm
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
4:30 pm
ahahahahah thanks for admitting defeat try again later dbag!
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
4:34 pm
Actually thats just based off the fact you barely had an offense this past year and now the biggest contributor of that crappy offense is gone. You also lost some of your best defenders. Bama will slide back down to second tier his year just like 2010. Enjoy it!!
Sorry offense? I will take that “sorry” again all the way to the BCS Championship…I know I know…Next year you guys are going to be great…You will still lose a game or two that you shouldn’t and it will cost you…That my friend isThe Richt way
DawginSewer
February 15th, 2012
4:35 pm
Cupakekses ises goodes. Wes onllies gets krispys kreims heress in the sweres unders Sanfordsse Stasdium. Choaks wants brings usese anies cupcakes. BAds choaks. We ates Russes lastes night. Goodest Dwag.
TDF
February 15th, 2012
4:37 pm
SSIgator
February 15th, 2012
4:29 pm
If you havent gotten it yet I dont care what you have to say. you know very little about football, now move along. But keep wasting time commenting to me. GtBob is more of a challenge than you are, thats just pathetic.
O yea thought JHC was a lock to FLorida????? hahahahaha moron
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
4:38 pm
You mean you won one and claim another?????
Idiot, We won both BCS Championship games and we crowned undisputed Champs by BCS and AP in both polls …Go check it out for yourself…Your a college football fan?
TDF
February 15th, 2012
4:38 pm
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
4:34 pm
ahahahha man you are dumb. the point is that crappy offense just got even worse, and you will finish 3rd in the west bc of it.
try reading and thinking then commenting DA!
TDF
February 15th, 2012
4:43 pm
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
4:38 pm
Im glad thats what it says. To every real fan its at best a split title with LSU, the team that had already beaten you. And in reality Okie State could have a claim to it bc they should have been in the NC game not bama.
Why do you think we will get a playoff now?? Not bc they are sick of SEC teams winning (playoffs will allow more SEC teams to play. Majority htinks you shouldnt have been there so now we get a playoff. About the only good thing to come out of the least watched NC game in history. I didnt even watch one second ofthe game.
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
4:45 pm
ahahahha man you are dumb. the point is that crappy offense just got even worse, and you will finish 3rd in the west bc of it.
You do know that the crappy offense your talking about actually won the BCS Trophy and was voted #1 in the AP poll right? You must be a Georgia Bulldog fan because you have to be deluisional to believe in the Dawgs future or what you just said about Bama being crap during the year we won it all…
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
4:47 pm
Why do you think we will get a playoff now?? Not bc they are sick of SEC teams winning (playoffs will allow more SEC teams to play. Majority htinks you shouldnt have been there so now we get a playoff. About the only good thing to come out of the least watched NC game in history. I didnt even watch one second ofthe game.
You didn’t watch it because it was past your bedtime and you dad needed company….
Still@theKool-aidBAR
February 15th, 2012
4:49 pm
TbsF……here…
Georgia-Boise State game set; UGA cancels two games vs …
Nov 19, 2010 … The Bulldogs and Broncos will play on Sept. … The three previous Chick-fil-A Kickoff games matched an SEC team vs. an ACC team: Alabama vs. ….. Hundreds of thousands of dollars passed around to reschedule for prime television and the … I wish we could keep that Oregon series on the schedule.
http://blogs.ajc.com
MCDAVIDDAWG
February 15th, 2012
4:51 pm
I came within an eyelash of not renewing my 8 season tickets this year. It was a big decision not made until Dec 31. It may be the next year I stop but it’s coming soon if the situation doesn’t get better. Watching a disinterested coach play Buffalo is not worth even a fraction of the cost. Our c team is likely more competition. We now have a athletic director that thinks this is great. Not impressed with this guy.
TDF
February 15th, 2012
4:51 pm
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
4:45 pm
you have no offense. You run one that a middle schooler could play QB for you. Its 3 step drop slant pass. Bama babies their QBs bc they have no talent. So yes besides TR you had nothing on offense.
And now that tR is gone you will be even worse on offense and unfortunately for you it will result in around 3 losses this season and finsihing 3rd in the west.
FYI I didnt watch it like most of America bc no one wants to watch a game they already had seen. BCS screwed the pooch on this one and could cost them their contract if NCAA decides to let someone else run the playoffs!
TDF
February 15th, 2012
4:52 pm
Still@theKool-aidBAR
February 15th, 2012
4:49 pm
wow you … all the parts that were supposed to prove it??? and post a link that goes to no article????
TDF
February 15th, 2012
4:53 pm
MCDAVIDDAWG
February 15th, 2012
4:51 pm
thanks more seats for the real fans!
TDF
February 15th, 2012
4:54 pm
im out better luck tomorrow
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
4:57 pm
TDF you have no offense. You run one that a middle schooler could play QB for you. Its 3 step drop slant pass. Bama babies their QBs bc they have no talent. So yes besides TR you had nothing on offense.
And now that tR is gone you will be even worse on offense and unfortunately for you it will result in around 3 losses this season and finsihing 3rd in the west.
FYI I didnt watch it like most of America bc no one wants to watch a game they already had seen. BCS screwed the pooch on this one and could cost them their contract if NCAA decides to let someone else run the playoffs!
That same offense that won it all……great arguement…Let it go because in the end we won and you Dawgs fan can cry all you want about this or that but winners win and losers cry about how other teams should of been there…sniff..sniff
Your teams sucks so bad that you are fighting for Ok.State…sniff…sniff
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
4:59 pm
TDF…Just so you know…We are LOADED at RB…..LOADED everywhere thanks to five years of Saban recruiting…Check out the rankings for yourself…
BamaGuy
February 15th, 2012
5:01 pm
TDF….im out better luck tomorrow
You were OUTmatched before you started..Don’t let our Crystals get in the way of you pointing out how sorry our team has been at Bama..
Jacket99
February 15th, 2012
5:02 pm
Thomas Brown was working with Mark Richt to expand educational opportunities for student-athletes at UGA. That is, he tried to encourage players to think of a potential career after football and not just choose the easiest major. The Augusta newspaper had a very nice article about it. I would tell this on the appropriate blog, but Chip Towers has banned me.
UTC, even though it is a public university (UT system), it has a private school endowment. They are like the McEachern High School of small universities and have invested much in their facilities.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
February 15th, 2012
5:03 pm
TbsF….if gives you the date and the fact it is the AJC bogs. Now go to the blogs and search it up yourself. You have nothing better to do at work.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
February 15th, 2012
5:07 pm
Jacket99
Richt didn’t want TB confusing the Brilliant 73% special admits on the football team by telling them to try to study for a hard class.
funny
February 15th, 2012
5:18 pm
TDF,
Bama’s offense will actually be better than this past year even with the loss of TR. I think any Bama fan will agree with that statement. You can dispute that all you want but trust me when I say the numbers will back it up. Oh and losing the QB to tech, believe me when I say he would have never played QB for us. He is much better off at tech where he might actually play.
Pope UGA XXIII
February 15th, 2012
5:27 pm
If I’m not mistaken, the Buffalo game is a replacement for the
Louisville home & home, cancelled to play Boise State. Florida
Atlantic is definitely a joke, but the Georgia Southern game is a 4
year committment that I’m very pleased with. In 2008, there were
around 120,000 requests for tickets and they scored more points
on Alabama than anyone in 2011. That team can compete at the
BCS level, beleive me.
Beast from the East
February 15th, 2012
5:29 pm
Here’s the deal:
Nuetral site game in Jax (UF/UGA) every year means you have one less home game every other year.
In-state rivalry game (UF/FSU and UGA/GT) that is an OOC game means one less home game every other year.
Those are the reasons you have to schedule “cupcakes”. You won’t get any major program to come to Athens or Gainesville without a return trip and the schools won’t give up the revunue of even one home game. It’s just way too much money. No other SEC schools have to face these 2 issues other than UF and UGA.
The only way to solve this on a permanent basis is to either move the UF/UGA from Jax and play it as a home and home or to cancel the annual UF/FSU and UGA/GT games. It’s just that simple. Which do you prefer….lose some serious traditional rivalries/venues or keep it the way it is?
Ducktown, GA
February 15th, 2012
5:31 pm
I think something should be done. It’s pathetic to have all those cupcake games. We already get 2-3 a year from the SEC with KY, Vandy, Ole Miss, etc. I don’t mind one or two, but it’s pathetic we pay that kind of money as contributors for these games.
As for the guy that wants to know if we want Boise St back. Heck yeah, if it’s in ATHENS or a home/home deal. Going to the Dome was a joke. Way to alienate UGA donors by letting me sit a mile away at the dome while I have good seats in Athens for Boise St.
The ONLY good think about cupcake games is that they are typically at 1PM and it’s a great game to “miss” or bring young kids to. You can bring them to the game to see a show by UGA and be back home in time for dinner. That is a plus.
I think UGA should maybe change the ticket prices for the individual home games based on demand. You can still charge the aggregate of ($40/ticket for 7 games ($280 per season ticket), but make the Vandy games $20 and the Auburn & Tech, etc. more than $40, etc.).
t
February 15th, 2012
5:40 pm
TDF…thanks for the update on GA recruiting. Here is an update on BCS nat’l championships over the last 7 years…..0 for the dawgs. keep up the stellar recruiting.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
February 15th, 2012
6:10 pm
Ducktown…..good points. UGa needs to stop making So Ga fans happy with the game in JAX and go H-n-H, let the SEC go to 9 conference games, drop the FCS team paid for win.
LakeDawg
February 15th, 2012
6:14 pm
Ironically, in their chase for dollars, the SEC is killing the goose that laid the golden egg. If they kill traditional rivalries, they will kill what made the conference special and engendered their success.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
February 15th, 2012
6:24 pm
LakeDawg you would think they could figure it out. MLB plays too many games. NFL makes season ticket buyers to pay for preseason games. College Bball barely anybody cares until the Tournament. Too much can be too much
Texas Dawg
February 15th, 2012
6:39 pm
Haven’t been to a UGA game in years as I live in Texas but…….I watched most of UGA games (high profile games) Boise, SC, Tenn, FLA..ect on TV……………the cupcake games are not usually televised……..I guess with this years cup cake schedule I won’t get to see as many games…..wonder how that works for the tv revenue? Seems like a nationally televised game say verses Arizona St would bring in alot more money than Buffalo?
I love UGA football but I can’t see myself getting real excited over the cupcakes…..the pre-game cook-out just isn’t the same when we play a team like Buffalo vs a Boise St.
Contractor
February 15th, 2012
6:57 pm
TDF,
You are one delusional person that gives the rest of our fan base a horrible name. People like you that keep talking like you do can not back up your remarks. I can’t believe I am even having this discussion with another fan of the same team, but your argument is pathetic and as off base as one could be. We could sign the best player in our state for the next 100 years, but if the results don’t eventually bring a title, and another school comes in and recruits Georgia and wins National Titles, then they are getting the better players and evaluating better. Run your yapper and post as many times as you want, but clearly you need an education in football, recruiting, and need to get a life, because facts are facts. All of these Top 10 classes haven’t produced near as much as the other SEC schools that have in the same time period, so once again your lame opinion is flat.
Wet Willie...keep on smiling
February 15th, 2012
7:00 pm
UGA can’t beat anybody worth a sheet and it’s documented. How do you think the rest of the sports teams other than BB get paid for each year? Those 4 home games are needed to balance the checkbook but I understand you’re from UGA thus the stupid part is to be overlooked. Leave Alabama out of your weak azz schedule argument. At least we played Clemson, Va Tech,Penn State and Mitchegun in 2012. Besides you don’t even play the good teams in the SEC and if you did you would have never made it this last year. Hell , you need the Hogs to beat USCe just to get in in 2011. Pitiful is UGA.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
February 15th, 2012
7:01 pm
Contractor..I am from the other side. True Dawg Fan is flat crazy most of the time. He likes to spend his work day on the blogs instead of working. He wants to make people mad and call them names.
Contractor
February 15th, 2012
7:09 pm
Still@theKool-aidBAR,
It’s sad when you get into arguments with members of your own fan base, but all of this chest thumping over results we never achieved are uncalled for and make all of us sound like idiots. When he says “we’ll play a tougher schedule when the rest of the SEC does”, it just shows he’s weak and wants to win against sub .500 teams and back our way in instead of earning it. We will get jumped every time in the final week with this kind of schedule. No recruit wants a schedule filled with Buffalo, Southern university, and Florida Atlantic where we have to upgrade to the Deluxe cable package and be ready at 12 every week. They want CBS 3:30 and ABC/ESPN 8:00 PM against Oregon, USC, Clemson, etc.
Pulpwud Smiff
February 15th, 2012
7:13 pm
So Commings gets suspended for two games against cupcakes. That sends a real message, doesn’t it. Phony Saint Mark once again shows that he is indeed the Sleazemeister of the South.
More business as usual at the cesspool in Athens, where illiterate trailer park trash are given uniforms and called a football team.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
February 15th, 2012
7:35 pm
Contractor the on that makes me mad is Tech has been trying to get the VOLS in a H-n-H for years and they want do it. Ole Miss backed out a few years back, but Miss St. Vandy, Auburn like the match=up every few years. I love those games. We had Bama for like 13-14 and now it is moved to like 18-19.
FLA DAWG
February 15th, 2012
7:46 pm
Win at home for the old timers and get funding.
Lose on the road to real teams and get nowhere.
Adams / Richt philosophy.
Vince Dooley must be sick over what his beloved Dawgs have become.
We need to clean house (well, except for Grantham perhaps).
FLA DAWG
Class of ‘79
Bryan
February 15th, 2012
8:06 pm
SEC fans will fill the seats no matter who is on the schedule.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
February 15th, 2012
8:16 pm
Bryan and that is the problem.