I’m going into hibernation, but first I wanted to say thanks
Another New Year's resolution, sure to be broken.
I have a problem. (Many problems, but let’s stick to one.) I’m terrible at taking time off. I never use my entire vacation allotment, and the past two years I’ve hit December having taken exactly one week off in the calendar year.
So I wind up trying to play catch-up ball. Or catch-up rest. I took a week off earlier this month, and I’m sitting out until Jan. 3, 2011. (Which means I’ll miss the Chick-fil-A Bowl, which I’m sure is fine with the folks who run the thing. They hate me.) But I wanted to take this final opportunity to say thanks.
This dumb little blog keeps growing: From 1.976 million page views in 2008 to to 6.8 million last year to 8.954 million so far in 2010. Every time I think we’ve topped out, y’all prove me wrong. And for that I’m hugely grateful to one and all, even the 8.953 million of you who’ve called me an idiot.
Because I pretty much am an idiot. But my New Year’s resolution is to be a rested idiot, so I won’t be posting again until Monday. I’m going into hibernation for a few days. But I plan to return, sillier than ever, and I hope you’ll look me up in Twenty Eleven.
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162 comments Add your comment
Dan Dawg
January 2nd, 2011
9:49 am
I have a question for all Dawg fans. Do you find Scott Howard to be a terrible play by play announcer? I understand it is hard to follow a legend, but this guy has no clue as to how to announce a football game. Before telling the listeners the number of yards gained or lost, he first must tell you who made the blocks for the offense, who filled the hole for the defense, who made or missed the tackle. Finally, after about thirty seconds, he will tell the audience how much yardage was gained or lost. He gets mixed up on the downs. He calls first downs when, in reality, the Dawgs were 2 or 3 yards short. And, after a screw up like that, he does not even correct his mistake. I cannot listen to the guy. He is pathetic.
GT
January 2nd, 2011
10:21 am
Mark you may need that rest. 2011 will be a very trying time for reporters. You can’t mail it in like in years passed. Look at the predictions of 2010. See where Mississippi State or Auburn or South Carolina fit into it. Look how very long it took the press to pick up on the cream, not wanting to let go of the old tried and true SEC powers. Throw in emerging South Florida and UCF, a TCU that very well may be one of the top two schools in the country after beating a powerhouse Big 10 that was kind of like Georgia more hat than cattle. FSU is starting to stir a little in the ACC as I think you will see Va.Tech doing the same. The Big Ten and the Big East are weaker conferences than the ACC and will continue to recover as North Carolina showed some life after AJ Green times 8 type probations. Remember that team gave a LSU team all they could handle in the first game of the season.
Nope if I were the AJC I would make a point of getting Richt fired. Good football in Athens sells papers. You and your cronies have pulled the wool over our eyes too many times about Georgia. It won’t work next year. You may actually have to go to Athens and report on what you see instead of what you are told by its athletic department. When the number one running back in the state stinks you should be the first ones to tell us not pretending to be when you are the last. When the school has an athletic director that is a lush, you should be the first to notice it and equate the failure of the program to the character in charge. You should have notice a Cam Newton long before the middle of the season, in fact it would have been nice to have noticed him before he had gone to Auburn. The joke of someone wanting to pay this guy 200,000 dollars to play football and the AJC not even having him on their radar when he is from College Park tells me hibernation may be your natural state. Throw in the lack of respect for Spurrier who really runs a program like Georgia should and you can see very much like Georgia, Mark you have you work cut out for you next year. I am pulling for you to improve. Happy New Year.
Yellow Fuzz
January 2nd, 2011
10:33 am
Sure would like to hear from some of my AH friends right about now. The dog nation NEEDS to hear some positive news even if it’s not true. Heard your headed to another top 5 recruiting class and a final 4 in bball.
OneEyeJacked
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WTF?!?!
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70 TONS OF TRASH
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Big Dawg
January 2nd, 2011
6:44 pm
Hope you had a good vacation Mark! You’re the best! Ready to see your take on a lot of things, especially the Georgia situation. Here’s a little something to get you started:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/559537-dog-gone-why-mark-richt-needs-his-walking-papers-at-georgia
Welcome back!!
Paul Lentz
January 2nd, 2011
7:39 pm
I’m only one behind, tied for 6th place, in Jeff Schultz’s college football contest. All of you who hate on me……can KMA!
Adopted Techfan
January 2nd, 2011
8:47 pm
Happy New Year, Mark! Anxiious to read your opinion on Tech’s loss at home to Charlotte as a twelve point favorite. Makes me sad.
ww
January 2nd, 2011
10:41 pm
Rest up Mark. Just don’t forget us here in Internet world.
mobebetter
January 2nd, 2011
11:58 pm
Mark, I just saw you on Sports Zone and you looked like a Zoombie, maybe you should take off all of 2011 as well…you will not be missed in my book!
Bulldog Coach
January 3rd, 2011
10:03 am
Does anyone really think CMR is going to somehow turn this ship in a year.
The next Bulldog Coach is a current Bulldog Coach – just with different colors and a change from Starkville to Athens. Mark it down.
That is, if McGarity knows who he is – wait … Mullen was the Florida’s OC for the most productive Florida teams … I think McGarity knows who he is.
High energy, excited alumni, program on the rise – could be UGA in two years.
JASon
January 3rd, 2011
11:24 am
Mark, don’t sweat the criticism, that’s what people do on the internet. You deserve some credit for not becoming discouraged by it and continuing to have these blogs. Nobody is right all the time. (Especially not you, ha ha). Have a good vacation.
MrTemecula
January 3rd, 2011
8:18 pm
I’m a fan from Los Angeles. I enjoy your columns and let me tell all Atlantans (?), you are lucky to have good local writers. I’m stuck with Plaschke and Simmers of the LA Times. Angelenos have been getting either naked appeal to emotionalism or unoriginal sarcasm. We used to have Murray and Ostler. Writers whose whit was as sharp as a razor. Now, just a desert of original thought.
Prof
January 5th, 2011
1:02 pm
Why couldn’t you stay in hibernation?
We don’t want you here anyway.