Two candidates to be UGA’s AD: McGarity and Williams
Carla Williams (right) could well be Georgia's next AD. (AJC photo by Curtis Compton)
Georgia is again in the market for an athletics director, and it’s safe to assume Vincent J. Dooley won’t be riding to the rescue. (Michael F. Adams would rather eat a charbroiled rat than turn to Dooley.) There seem two logical candidates. Both are Georgia natives and UGA, and one of them a UGA employee. The two:
Greg McGarity: He’s from Athens. He played tennis under Dan Magill at UGA. He worked his way up the athletics department chain of command under Dooley. He left in 1992 to become an assistant AD at Florida, and he’s now Jeremy Foley’s chief aide. He’s wildly popular among Georgia fans, and his background of having worked under two of the best in the business — Dooley and Foley — would make him the odds-on favorite. Except for this:
Adams is still Georgia’s president. McGarity was viewed as a likely successor to Dooley back in 2004 but wasn’t hired. The thinking then was that he was viewed by Adams as a Dooley loyalist.
It’s possible that, six years later, the president has softened his anti-Dooley stance. It’s also possible he hasn’t. In which case, the leading candidate would be …
Carla Williams: She’s from LaGrange. She played basketball (as Carla Green) at Georgia under Andy Landers. She has a PhD from Florida State. She has worked as an assistant AD at Vanderbilt. She has worked at UGA as assistant AD since 2004 and has been regarded as a rising star in the nation’s second-most profitable athletics department.
It was Adams who, with Damon Evans in 2004, appointed the first African-American AD in SEC history. Williams would be the first female athletics director the conference has seen and would surely meet with in-house approval.
My guess: Carla Williams.
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pat
July 4th, 2010
5:53 pm
Carla will be an outstanding AD. She is very professional and super hard working. She has really been a worker behind the scenes and she deserves this postion. UGA should be honored to have her serve this university as their AD.
todd grantham
July 4th, 2010
5:54 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqBsf0pKORM
Mark Bradley
July 4th, 2010
5:57 pm
I believe it is a hoax, Coach Grantham.
Dave
July 4th, 2010
5:57 pm
Claude Felton for AD!!!
TDone
July 4th, 2010
5:57 pm
What about Terence Moore?
todd grantham
July 4th, 2010
6:00 pm
sure sounded like Vince, but I think he’s classy and smart enough not to make any statements prior to something official coming out of Athens.
He would bring back instant credibility to an athletic department that could use it at the moment.
Maybe this is the beginning of the end for Dr Adams as well.
Clean House
July 4th, 2010
6:00 pm
Its time to hire someone on the outside and clean up the mess at UGA. UGA needs to get back on the front page of the sports page with Championships. Money is great but its time to get competent people in control to win championships and recruit players with character and quit recruiting thugs. Get back to playing college football at Sanford Stadium instead of vulgar hip hop rap concerts.
tulevol
July 4th, 2010
6:00 pm
Wow, I bet the Dawgs see alot of red panties at games this fall, stupid AD Evans and his selfishness. I have friends who are Dawg fans, and I really feel for them, for all Dawg fans. Hang tough Dawg fans, there has to be a positive to this somewhere.
DAWGSrBest
July 4th, 2010
6:01 pm
SP, Great thought to get a someone from withing the Dawg pedigree who has made us all proud — I get to see him every Saturday during football season on ESPN-U SEC Football
studio host Matt Stinchcomb — Yes, agree UGA needs a person like him!!!
Chris
July 4th, 2010
6:02 pm
UGA needs to hire an AD outside of the program. Too much inbreeding is part of UGA’s problem. Like when Alabama has hung up on hiring only head coaches that played or coached on the Bear.
BigFish
July 4th, 2010
6:03 pm
I’m betting on Carla Williams. Adams is all about political correctness and what would be more politically correct than a black female. You can book it.
GT man
July 4th, 2010
6:04 pm
Get Dave Braine, he messed up GT so bad with these long term contracts with Hewitt and Gailey, we’re still paying. If he came to UGA, he’d give long time contracts to the water boy.
Chris
July 4th, 2010
6:04 pm
UGA needs to hire an AD outside of the program. Too much inbreeding is part of UGA’s problem. Like when Alabama has hung up on hiring only head coaches that played or coached under the Bear.
todd grantham
July 4th, 2010
6:05 pm
it’s just amazing that a man seemingly capable of running an athletic department at a major university could also be capable of such bad judgement.
“paint the town red” and “hairy dog” have whole new connotations now.
Mr. Cox is an idiot
July 4th, 2010
6:05 pm
It’s brainless twerps like “Mr. Cox” that provide proof that there are still simpleminded, dimwitted racists running around among the enlightened.
The fact that one would think that Evans was an “affirmative action” selection, simply because he is black, is in itself racist. Evans, even with all of his character flaws that have now surfaced, EARNED the job as UGA’s AD. He made the transition from student/athlete to administrative executive in impressive fashion and was doing a pretty good job before last week.
I don’t know if Williams would be a better choice than McGarity, or vise versa. Folks much smarter — and more well paid — than me will make that call. But to think that if Williams is selected it would simply be an “affirmative action” pick, is shortsighted at best, ignorant at worst.
Mr. Cox, and those who think like him, should think about coming out from their mothers’ basements.
Jim Doanan as in Doans Pills
July 4th, 2010
6:06 pm
That you tube sure sounded like Vince !!!!! Could it not be a hoax ??????/
Big Dawg A
July 4th, 2010
6:08 pm
Let’s make the right choice and get McGarity!!!! We already reached with Evans and you see where it got us! Maybe Adams needs to go if he can’t see that! Afterall, why is he not being held responsible for hiring Evans? Not to mention his fingerprints on some of the other bad hires!
Mr Charlie
July 4th, 2010
6:08 pm
I prefer McGarity, he seems like he has a record of success. ButCarla Williams seems qualified. She is an athlete, she has a PHD, and worked at Vandy. I like them both.
RAWDAWG
July 4th, 2010
6:08 pm
This UGA! need someone who has been assistant AD, or AD at one of the other BIG time sports schools, “In House” was done before need a fesh pair of eyes!
Mr. Fox
July 4th, 2010
6:08 pm
I recommend Dennis Felton as the new A D at UGA !
Ed Tolley
July 4th, 2010
6:09 pm
Mr. Compton,
in future, please let me know when you are going to take my photograph.
Since Vince
July 4th, 2010
6:10 pm
No need to worry Dawg Fans I am in control here as stated in the constitution.
The Evil Genius
July 4th, 2010
6:10 pm
Michael Adams, you are no Vince Dooley! Live with it!! The most reviled person at UGA since Jan Kemp!!!
Shoot I thought that was me after I hung 50 on the poodles in Athens.
AltamahaDawg
July 4th, 2010
6:11 pm
I would only be disapointed if the hire does not come from a complete search of all possible candidates, including the 80% of names that aren’t the ones (all both of them) mentioned here.
Pi$$onaDawg
July 4th, 2010
6:14 pm
This just keeps getting better. A black woman for a black man. I think it will be ok. Will the fanbase really go for it?
Since Vince
July 4th, 2010
6:15 pm
Mr. Bradley…. I will instruct you to create a fan poll on who should be UGA ’s next AD so we can have the results on Michael Adams Desk in the morning… Hop to it !
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leland
July 4th, 2010
6:18 pm
Kinda touchy there ain’t you, Marky?
Michael Adams
July 4th, 2010
6:18 pm
At last! the last major vestige of the Dooley era is gone from my athletic department!
Pi$$onaDawg
July 4th, 2010
6:19 pm
The Ribs are almost ready lets eat and worry about this stuff Tomarrow.
Best candidate
July 4th, 2010
6:19 pm
Hopefully, UGA hires another African-American for the AD job to promote diversity on campus and provide a role model for all the African-American athletes on campus.
ryan
July 4th, 2010
6:19 pm
Its going to be McGarity he is from Athens and he has always wanted that job more than anybody.
BigFish
July 4th, 2010
6:19 pm
Mr.Cox is an idiot,,,,if you think Evans would have gotten the job if he wasn’t black, you’re only kidding yourself.
He was hired because it made UGA look progressive. That’s why the next AD will be the black female.
It’s all about appearance now in Athens. Ability to get the job done has nothing to do with it..
todd grantham
July 4th, 2010
6:19 pm
Mark, do you consider yourself a possible candidate for the AD position?
todd grantham
July 4th, 2010
6:20 pm
Best, er, i think that’s what they had in mind with Damon.
Mark Bradley
July 4th, 2010
6:21 pm
If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve.
Dangerous
July 4th, 2010
6:22 pm
TREV ALBERTS
RAWDAWG
July 4th, 2010
6:22 pm
Mark, some say (wrongly) you got him fired, you have the POWER, write a few articles on WHO should be the next AD and why, please anybody but the GATOR and the INHOUSE hire!
AltamahaDawg
July 4th, 2010
6:23 pm
Howie says Damon made a bad deal.
Buckhead Bulldog
July 4th, 2010
6:23 pm
For why Dooley dislikes Adams and his cronies, just read this book if you can find it in the bookstores. Rich Whitt- “Behind the Hedges: Big Money and Power Politics at the University of Georgia’’. I have a feeling Dr. Adams has his soldiers to buy up the books from the metro ATL/ Athens area so no one can read it.
The link below is a little preview:
http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/articles/2010/03/28/ncaa_should_use_a_presidential_veto_here/
todd grantham
July 4th, 2010
6:25 pm
aha, a quote from William T Sherman
gcs
July 4th, 2010
6:25 pm
Too bad Derek Dooley already has a job…
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philomath
July 4th, 2010
6:25 pm
mb is a pos.
kwc
July 4th, 2010
6:25 pm
went on our site and looked at the responsibilities and experience of Dr. Williams and was very impressed. Actually, on paper she is more qualified than Damon was when he got the job. Then went on their website and looked at McGarity’s background and experience. They don’t print nearly the bio on their people, but the short paragraph indicates his job scope is very encompassing in all kinds of directions. Does anyone have any insight on their intangables…and connections…and coach selecting abilities?
Miffed
July 4th, 2010
6:26 pm
I really could not care less at this point in time………….
todd grantham
July 4th, 2010
6:27 pm
i think damon may need to look up a quote or 2 from richard nixon on the subject of resignations
UGAFan
July 4th, 2010
6:27 pm
DAWGSrBest – Yes, Matt Stinchcomb would be a great canidate…Wonderful suggestion!
todd grantham
July 4th, 2010
6:28 pm
Mark, i must agree with you that if it had been general knowlege the contents of the arrest report uga would never have allowed damon to hold that news conference.
his lack of candor sealed his fate.
Reptiles Rule
July 4th, 2010
6:29 pm
I say hire McGarity since he will then be reporting to Foley…err, I mean Adams…directly.
DIZZY DOG
July 4th, 2010
6:30 pm
IS IT TRUE THAT DENNIS RODMAN IS BEING CONSIDERED FOR A.D.? I DON’T KNOW. I KIND OF LIKE IT I GUESS. HE WILL HELP RESTORE CREDIBILITY TO THE PROGRAM. HE HAS THAT POWER…