A not-so-dirty secret about UGA football: It’s making the grade
"Yeah, baby! We aced that midterm!" (AP photo)
An oft-cited number regarding the Georgia Bulldogs: Seven losses (against six wins) in 2010. Another: Eleven players arrested in that same calendar year.
But here’s another number, a happier number: The Georgia football team had an Academic Progress Rate for the school year 2009-2010 of 976, which tied Florida for second-best in the SEC behind Vanderbilt, which is so committed to academics it no longer has an athletic department.
The Georgia football program, criticized in this and other spaces for not having its priorities in order, is clearly doing something right. This latest APR snapshot wasn’t a one-off, either: In 2007-2008, Georgia football ranked first in the SEC — yes, ahead of Vandy.
I know how it is. We sophisticates on the periphery wink when a college player is called a “student-athlete,” but what we sophisticates forget is this: Even if a college player’s only career ambition is to become a professional athlete, he still has to attend classes and pass enough of them to remain eligible.
I know, I know. You’re winking again. But hear me out.
Going to class isn’t always fun, and the temptation to skip a week’s worth is mighty. (Trust me on this.) If you’re an ordinary student, you might get away with that. If you’re a student-athlete, you can’t. You’ll have academic advisers and assistant coaches and even the head ball coach on you, and they won’t be whispering, “Please make a better effort to get out of bed.” They’ll have you up at 5 a.m. running the stadium steps.
A few of us sophisticated media types were waiting around after a Georgia Tech practice a couple of years ago, and all of a sudden the reigning ACC offensive player of the year came tearing past in full gear. Where was Jonathan Dwyer going in such a rush? He had an evening lab. It was a fleeting thing — Dwyer was running fast — but it resonated.
Some people complain that players who leave early for the pros show no loyalty to their school. Here’s the thing, though: Once you’re a pro, you don’t have to worry about evening labs, or about getting docked four games if you sell your jersey. You’re no longer a student-athlete; you’re a pro with a paying job. You’re free of the NCAA and its arcane restrictions. You’re free to go make big money, same as your head coach.
A college athlete is a big man on campus, but he’s still on campus. He gets a scholarship, yes, but he doesn’t get rich. (Here we pause for your Cecil Newton jokes.) Having been an ordinary college student, albeit in another century, I can attest that student-athletes work 10 times harder than I ever did. They have little time to themselves. (Insert Georgia arrest joke here.)
Go ahead. Make all the jokes you want. But somewhere amid the hilarity, spare a serious thought for the Georgia football program. Those players have been held up to the highest level of scrutiny — again, I’m guilty as charged — but academically they’re doing just fine. They’re ahead of the SEC curve. They’re ahead of Georgia Tech, which had an APR of 966. They have the second-highest APR among the nine Georgia men’s sports programs. (Only golf ranks ahead of football.)
We mention the APR today because, to be frank, it’s a number people forget when the games commence. In college athletics, the tail too often wags the proverbial dog. UConn just won the men’s basketball title, but it did so with a coach who will be suspended three games next season for NCAA violations and with a program that had an APR so low (826) that it cost the Huskies two scholarships. Does such a championship really qualify as “One Shining Moment”?
Consider this our chance to watch a proud dog wag its tail. Georgia football might have disappointed us in other ways, but it has held up its end on a fundamental level. Its guys are making their grades. That’s no joke.
By Mark Bradley
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rawdawg
May 25th, 2011
1:11 pm
firstish
Ryno
May 25th, 2011
1:14 pm
Reggie Ball was often seen dashing through Tech’s campus in an attempt to get to class. However, he never realized how much time he had left and often chose the wrong building.
Cmill
May 25th, 2011
1:17 pm
Good article, Mark… and great job UGA football players
Mark Bradley
May 25th, 2011
1:18 pm
Thanks, Cmill. Thanks, Spivedog.
You know how folks sometimes say, “Why don’t you report the good news?” Today I thought I should.
Mark Bradley
May 25th, 2011
1:19 pm
Rawdawg with comeback kudos.
Spivedog
May 25th, 2011
1:20 pm
Good article Mark!
Just Me
May 25th, 2011
1:20 pm
Still want to know the CLASSES and Degree Programs the players are making the grades in. Some of the degree fields are so easy many Jr.s in High School could pass the classes. I am sure the Golf team members are taking more difficult courses of study than most of the football players.
Give US a breakdown of the Degrees the UGA football players are making the grade in and maybe we will not be so surprised about the grades.
Bryan G.
May 25th, 2011
1:21 pm
As an alum I’m glad to see the players do what they’re supposed to in the classroom.
Now if only they were doing that well on the field….
Chi Town
May 25th, 2011
1:22 pm
Richt already putting his Lake Hartwell home up for sale.
how2fish
May 25th, 2011
1:23 pm
Great article Mark…indeed it is a Bull Dog point of pride..
remedial reading 101
May 25th, 2011
1:23 pm
Get serious –let’s take a look at the course load for the UGA football team as a whole. I’m certain it will not be that impressive.
Chuck
May 25th, 2011
1:28 pm
Nip all the whining in the bud.
We now have a big boy conditioning program that is going to pay immediate dividends. It has already run off some players who did not want to work hard. Those that are left are going to blow the doors off an SEC that had become too accustomed to dismissing us.
Payback is coming, and right soon.
danny
May 25th, 2011
1:28 pm
Finally some good news
Time
May 25th, 2011
1:28 pm
“They’re ahead of Georgia Tech, which had an APR of 966.”
Now, go supersize my order you annoying little insects.
LC Dawg
May 25th, 2011
1:29 pm
Ok Georgia Tech nerds……
Let’s look at how many of your yellow-itch players are actually taking Engineering courses, and how much tutoring they get to pass the simplest of classes.
UGA is a liberal arts school, which offers a vast array of degrees and majors, which is a big reason it is loved by so many.
I have bad news for you guys, that may hurt your ego. It is a proven fact that there are people out there with other interests than engineering. You chose to go to Tech to do what you love. Tech did not chose you.
Go to hell nerds. While you pump your chest and berate the UGA athletes for not taking Astrophysics, I will congratulate them for making their hard work and success.
And you wonder why nobody shows your fans or program any respect, when you make your entire rally cry into a pompous, belittling spew of anybody who is not you.
(((((976-966))))) hahahahahahaha!!!
Chuck
May 25th, 2011
1:31 pm
Funny, the Tech fans crapping one anyone’s curriculum while bragging on their “Engineers” that take every class they can at the Atlanta University Center.
The Tech program gets their band from Georgia State, their teachers from Clark Atlanta, and their dates from Agnes Scott.
Georgia Tech, waaaaaaaay ahead of the outsourcing curve. Kudos!
cantondawg
May 25th, 2011
1:32 pm
Mark,
Thanks for reminding all of us what is most important about college athletichs. The #1 priority is to get these kids an education that will last the rest of their lives. Sure, winning is important but not nearly as much as developing these kids into young men.
Hankie Aron
May 25th, 2011
1:34 pm
MB- Tough question, for you our humbe correspondent- Which is more important, the score on fall Saturdays or making the grades and succeeding in life?
Evansdawg
May 25th, 2011
1:34 pm
RR1, every football team at every school is filled with players that that have the ‘easy’ major. It doesn’t matter if they play at Harvard or FSU…its the way it is. The fact is that the UGA players are doing what is necessary to stay eligible. UGA is NOT an easy school. Perhaps it once was easi-er, but nowadays, academics have gotten to a different level. If you don’t excel at sports, or make straight As and over 1250 on the SAT…forget about it.
Richt`s Hammer
May 25th, 2011
1:37 pm
Boise State 666 Dawgs 6
4th and Reggie Ball
May 25th, 2011
1:39 pm
Do we count the “harder courses” at Georgia Tech as another MORAL VICTORY for the nerds on this one???
Hankie Aron
May 25th, 2011
1:42 pm
Richt’s hammer again shows he is a few nails short of a box
dap01
May 25th, 2011
1:44 pm
Could you imagine the headlines in this paper if UGA was below par like Tech? It would be headlines.
Hankie Aron
May 25th, 2011
1:46 pm
I say it depends on your vantage point
Hankie Aron
May 25th, 2011
1:46 pm
True dap, almost like why Schultz isn’t writing on the turmoil at Tech because they fell underneath the dawgs. I say both schools doing great with the APR, let’s be happy for that!
Mark Bradley
May 25th, 2011
1:47 pm
Hankie, I’d say life trumps sports. But I’m often wrong.
You cannot spell "Tech" without P-O-M-P-O-U-S
May 25th, 2011
1:49 pm
Another big misconception amongst Techies is that UGA is the school kids go to when they get declined from Tech.
They never stop to think that there are people out there who strive to do more than major in Janitorial Engineering
Hankie Aron
May 25th, 2011
1:50 pm
I would agree with you wholeheartedly but most fans even casual would disagree
Fisher
May 25th, 2011
1:51 pm
Western Carolina 91, TECH 6 (missed the extra point kick)
LC Dawg
May 25th, 2011
1:55 pm
Is the Blair Miss Project still kicking for Tech??
<——– WIDE LEFT <———-
Mark (another one)
May 25th, 2011
1:55 pm
Hankie: Any good head coach is going to tell you that winning games and making the grades are both important. It is not an either/or situation. That’s like asking is it offense of defense that wins games. That said, the NCAA and the University Presidents would like to see more emphasis on academics. Hence the APR report.
Failure in either will get you fired. Look at the (former) AD and Basketball HC at Kennesaw.
Hankie Aron
May 25th, 2011
1:57 pm
Folks pay big money for intercollegiate sports, not so much for anything else associated with the schools.
Hankie Aron
May 25th, 2011
1:58 pm
Mark (another one) I think you are right about the good head coaches. I am afraid though a lot of those coaches that are winning and fans alike disagree. They want to win regardless of anything else.
juvenal
May 25th, 2011
1:59 pm
a long way from pre- Jan & a 1980 team with a lot of illiterates(according to someone who was a tutor)…..congrats, whatever they are getting……
Todd Grantham
May 25th, 2011
2:00 pm
It’s amazing how good your grades are if you take remedial classes! Stay Classy Chaz
Jake
May 25th, 2011
2:01 pm
Good stuff, Mark. Well done.
fan
May 25th, 2011
2:02 pm
Enter your comments here
Glenn Goldstein
May 25th, 2011
2:02 pm
I’ve got an idea: Code the APR score levels (ie 975-1000 = A; 950-974 = B; etc.), and then make each team wear it’s APR score code on their jerseys. Then, as we watch a UConn win a National Championship we know what they did academically to achieve it. I’d also code their name in the weekly rankings and everywhere their name appears in print, too.
DirtyBird
May 25th, 2011
2:03 pm
Mark,
Going to a Physical Education class for a Parks & Rec. Mgnt. degree is not nearly the same as going to business classes. Even moron’s could stay eligible with such soft classes. As a Vandy alum…we do not have those types of majors to hide athletes in the way UF and UGA certainly do. Georgia Tech has much higher standards as well. I believe the softest major they offer besides business management is a history major of some sort. Many schools offer meaningless degrees that offer no real hope of post collegiate success…but hey at least they can field a good football teams! Even if the players have trouble reading the names on the back of their jerseys. Walmart (or Tyson Foods) awaits.
JDawg1785
May 25th, 2011
2:04 pm
Definitely a proud moment for these young men and women who represent UGA well both on the field of play and in the classroom. Keep it up, Dawgs!
JB
May 25th, 2011
2:04 pm
I’m proud of Mark and Schultz……….Since January, I’ve only seen 4 Mark Richt survival blogs…..But it’s early. I’m sure they will crank up when summer camp opens.
Chuck
May 25th, 2011
2:06 pm
“a long way from pre- Jan & a 1980 team with a lot of illiterates(according to someone who was a tutor)…..congrats, whatever they are getting…”
Horrible, right? Now imagine a kid who could not stay eligible in such an environment that graduated from another program – how corrupt must THAT place have been, right?
Todd Grantham
May 25th, 2011
2:06 pm
If you want an education go to Vandy or Tech if you want to go 6-7 and almost beat south Fl or central fl or se central fl come be a DAWG!
JB
May 25th, 2011
2:09 pm
If you want to live humorless,soul-less,womanless,and dullness………….Go to Tech
Mark (another one)
May 25th, 2011
2:10 pm
The issue I have with the APR is the insitution pays the price after the fact. I can’t think of a better solution but a player dropping out is not always the University’s/Coach’s fault. UConn was fine last year but now they lose two scholarships. That impacts their future, not their past.
Just Me
May 25th, 2011
2:11 pm
CHUCK
What classes do TECH people take at Clark? Where is your PROOF?
JB
May 25th, 2011
2:14 pm
Boy the Liberal press is at it again. Lot’s of positive stories about Herman Cain and Michelle Bachmann. The reason…..They would love for Obama to run against either one of them. A shoe in.
They hand picked McCain. Avoid whoever the main stream press is promoting!
DeerlyBeloved
May 25th, 2011
2:17 pm
Team went 6 & 7.
I’d take 12th in APR and 14-0 anyday.
This ain’t Harvard.
Ted M
May 25th, 2011
2:21 pm
Thats good but it seems like it should be higher for all sports and teams because only tiny fraction go on to the Pro’s.
JayD
May 25th, 2011
2:21 pm
Just Me – It is just you! JB – take it somewhere else!
Ted M
May 25th, 2011
2:23 pm
Uggla is 0fer 3 w/2 K’s swinging. Holy crap take some pitches dude.
Just Me
May 25th, 2011
2:23 pm
Computer Sci. 1
Pre-Business MKT 1
Pre-Business MGT 12
Pre-Business FIN 1
International Affairs 1
Anthropology 1
Consumer Econ 2
Exercise & Sports Sci 4
Telecommunication Arts 1
Economics 1
Arts & Sciences 9
Speech Communications 3
Education 8
Management 2
Finance 3
Risk MGT & Insurance 1
Biomedical Eng 1
Agricultural Eng 1
Housing 6
Biology 5
Sports MGT 8
History 1
Health & PE 2 (Ben Jones)
Pre-Journalism 1
Social Studies Education 1
Sociology 1
Psychology 1 (A Murray)
Math Education 1
Forestry & Natural Resources 1
Criminal Justice 1
Those are all the fields of study by UGA players that actually have it on their player profile.
Not a huge list of GREAT degrees. Many of the harder (Biology) the players are scout team players.
I love that Ben Jones is working to be a PE coach and teacher. That is just what a high school needs. Maybe can teach kids how to get abused and thane play dirty when Nick Fairley beats your butt all day.
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2:32 pm
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Terry
May 25th, 2011
2:39 pm
The fact is that UGA is the flag ship College of Georgia, Georgia Tech is a break off of UGA, that is why Tech will always be the Little Brother looking up at Big Brother. Nothing against Tech they just wasn’t first, one other thing of note, most Tech Fans go into hiding when their team is not winning, if your going to be a Fan of your team, why not support them at all times? Even if you’re not winning you’re a Hell of an Engineer right?
404
May 25th, 2011
2:46 pm
Oops. Sorry about that previous post.
I vomitted all over my keyboard while reading this article.
Bradley…what a tool.
First of all, the APR is a…..TOTAL…..FREAKIN…..JOKE !!!!!
To “cheerlead” an academic fraud is pathetic. But again we’re talkng about UGA’s joke APR score.
So, UGA has an APR second only to Vandy in the SEC ??!!!
If you know nothing more than that, then you have all the proof
you need to know the APR is a joke,.
As for those UGA idiots that consider it “a source of bulldog pride”
I just ask: how friggin low are your standards ?? Passing “REMEDIAL” reading & writing courses…in college…is a disgrace, not a source of uneducated pride.
But hey, maybe to UGA folks it is.
What UGA’s APR score REALLY MEANS is that UGA has so completely and thoroughly dumbed-down the coursework for student athletes that UGA has “INVENTED”" such idiot-proof majors like Housing, Recreation & Leisure Studies, all manner of useless and valueless coursework.
Not all players and students go to GT for Engineering. And, for those that think GT’s Management program is some kind of cakewalk, try this fact:
GT’s Undergrad B-School is ranked by USNEWS and The PRINCETON COLLEGIATE REVIEW as the #26 B-School in the country. Emory is ranked #22. UGA’s B-School: Ranked #57.
And, of course, UGA is ranked #1 party school.
To compare UGA’s APR to Vandy’s or GT’s APR is like comparing the
Class Valedictorian at Westminster to the Class Valedictorian at West Clarke County High School.
YEs, both are Valedictorians, but not even close in comparison.
Keep livin’ the DELUSION dog fans.
Ted Striker
May 25th, 2011
2:53 pm
Least dedicated student athlete I ever had class with was Mikael Pernfors. Most dedicated student athlete was Kim Stephens.
I give props to all of them though — it’s not easy to do what they do.
Just Me
May 25th, 2011
2:53 pm
Exercise and Sport Science – B.S.Ed.
COLLEGE NAME: College of Education
DESCRIPTION: The undergraduate major in Exercise and Sport Science is designed to provide students an in-depth exposure to the scientific basis of physical activity, exercise and sport. Knowledge and skills related to exercise and sport biomechanics, physiology, psychology, epidemiology, physical fitness and conditioning, measurement theory, and other associated areas are obtained through prescribed and elective course work, independent study, and laboratory and field experience. The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has endorsed the curricula for the University of Georgia’s Exercise and Sport Science undergraduate program. This curriculum covers the knowledge, skills, and abilities expected of an ACSM Health/Fitness Instructor. All majors take 60 semester hours of liberal arts education (University Core), including science, mathematics, social science, and humanities, and 34 semester hours of exercise science courses (EXRS Core), including exercise physiology, scientific principles of conditioning and fitness, biomechanics, exercise and sport psychology, measurement, and exercise epidemiology. An additional 19 semester hours of elective course work and practical experiences are selected based on the students academic interests and career goals. Recommendations for elective course work are available for the following six program options: Fitness Specialist, Pre-Physical Therapy, Pre-Graduate Study in Occupational Therapy, Pre-Graduate Study in Biomechanics, Pre-Graduate Study in Exercise Physiology, and Pre-Medicine or Physician’s Assistant, Pre-Graduate Study in Exercise and Sport Psychology, and Pre-Graduate Study in Measurement.
Housing – B.S.F.C.S.
COLLEGE NAME: College of Family and Consumer Sciences
DEPARTMENT NAME: Housing and Consumer Economics
DESCRIPTION: The Housing major focuses on the socio-economic aspects of housing. Special emphasis is given to housing needs and the manner in which the family, the private sector, and government policy respond to those needs. The program features an in-depth study of housing finance and the range of housing alternatives. The program may also be used as preparation for graduate study or as a pre-professional degree. Students may choose an emphasis in Residential Property Management which prepares students to work with diverse groups in property management. Coursework includes sales (leasing), accounting, development, human resources, technology services, legal issues, training, and management.
Sport Management – B.S.Ed.
COLLEGE NAME: College of Education
DEPARTMENT NAME: Kinesiology
DESCRIPTION: Students in this program investigate the social, economic, and legal factors affecting the management and administration of sport organizations. The application of business principles to the sport industry distinguishes this program, which is designed to create a foundation in economics, business, and management so that students can then apply these general principles to the sport industry.
Now there is not a Specific Degree called Arts & Sciences or Education which are the other most listed Degrees for football players. I am sure some of the player are going to be Math, Science, History, or English teachers. They just didn’t list the field same with the Arts degrees.
SSIgator
May 25th, 2011
2:54 pm
Mark -
“A not-so-dirty secret about UGA football: It’s making the grade”
Does this mean that UGA will soon get rid of its Athletic Department like Vanderbilt? They might as well since UGA has fallen into the abyss in most sports.
how2fish
May 25th, 2011
2:55 pm
404 if Bugville was ranked higher than UGA you would be talking about how important it is…now go away the adults are talking.
WDE
May 25th, 2011
2:56 pm
SSIgator any update on how many wins that new HC of yours has? The abyss took your bunch to O.T last year…with CUM at the helm.
puppykiller
May 25th, 2011
3:05 pm
Football, volleyball and basketweaving….the key to a football program’s academic success!!!!
Coach Grohbo
May 25th, 2011
3:07 pm
The APR is a joke and is easily maniplated by the universities.
As recently as 2006, the Auburn football team “outperformed” the Vanderbilt football team.
Just Me
May 25th, 2011
3:09 pm
Any new word on KING and his grades?
A week or so ago there was a lot of chatter that he did not pass his classes. Has that rumor now officially dead or are people still think he will not be eligible this coming season?
404
May 25th, 2011
3:13 pm
@ how2fish:
APR is a TOTAL FREAKIN JOKE…for EVERYONE.
Its a totally BS and meaningless score.
I go back to my example:
Class Valedictorian at Westminster compared to the
Class Valedictorian at West Clarke County High School.
There is simply NO COMPARISON between the two.
Westminster = hard as hell. West CC High School = eh, not so much.
Getting an “B” in Calculus o Chemsitry is one helluva a lot harder
than getting a “B” in English, Social Studies, or Basketweaving.
ADULTS understand that reality. Apparently you cant.
The fact reamains: NOTHING has chnaged at UGA since Jan Kemp showed the world the depth of the academic fraud & corruption that was STANDARD POLICY in Athens.
Instead of outright faking grades, UGA has simply just chosen to “invent” several degrees that even this state’s most illiterate high-school graduates can pass.
Its not a sign of progrees. Its a sign of the academic “depravity” that UGA will sink to.
Ghost of Jan Kemp
May 25th, 2011
3:13 pm
The only grade UGA Football players can make *WITHOUT* administrative assistance would be an “F,” as in Florida.
I should know.
techbandmember
May 25th, 2011
3:15 pm
Chuck,
Ga State had a marching band last year and Tech’s didn’t disappear, because they are Tech students. I understand the athletic rivarly but please respect the students who committ time and energy to support their school’s atheltic teams, whether Tech, States, or even uga.
Paul in RDU
May 25th, 2011
3:20 pm
It really gets tiresome reading the posts comparing academics and APR at GT and UGA – it’s completely apples to oranges – different types of school, available majors, number of students, yadda yadda yadda.
Scholarship athletes at any school have great time demands and the UGA football players should be proud over their high APR and the fact that they have maintained it over a long period.
LakeDawg
May 25th, 2011
3:22 pm
Great article Mark and very well written.
Coach Grohbo
May 25th, 2011
3:23 pm
“A not-so-dirty secret about UGA football: It’s making the grade.”
The dirty secret about UGA football: The players don’t go to class.
Real Dawg Fan
May 25th, 2011
3:24 pm
I love how all you LAME Tech fans always want to discredit the Dawgs anyway possible, since you’ve only won 1 game in the past 10 yrs you bring up academics, now that we are winning that too, you say we dont have “higher” degree programs as you. Be proud of young men doing something positive and not robbing ya’ll!!!
GO DAWGS and whatever other school is doing positive things!
BOSS GATOR
May 25th, 2011
3:25 pm
YO RED PANTIES….Jacksonville….Oct. 29, 2011……The world’s largest annual outdoor ass kicking….Come on down….We got your education in how to play football ready….We’re waiting…..Your BOSS
Coach Grohbo
May 25th, 2011
3:25 pm
“How many halves are in a basketball game?”
Uhh, two?
Congratulations Bubba, you just made an “A”!
And that’s another Bulldog point of pride!
LakeDawg
May 25th, 2011
3:28 pm
Hey BOSS GATOR, UGA is gonna lift that tail and do it to you Dawg-style this year.
ugafaculty
May 25th, 2011
3:28 pm
Mark,
I suspect that a little investigative reporting will show that DirtyBird is correct. I teach in a science major at UGA and we see few football players in our major. I suspect that most football players are directed toward soft majors. There are some exceptions such as Ben Reynolds, a non-starting center, who is a Foundation Fellow.
Old Dawg
May 25th, 2011
3:32 pm
I agree with you on this one, Mark. Life trumps sports. Just ask the hundreds of thousands of folks who knew they had a pro career lined up and don’t have a degree to compete in the job market.
Mutt Fan
May 25th, 2011
3:35 pm
Looks like the Mutts need to be hitting the field a little more and the books a little less. Congrats though.
Mutt Fan
May 25th, 2011
3:36 pm
Saint Mark will be pleased, at least he is successful at something.
Coach Grohbo
May 25th, 2011
3:37 pm
The only thing the UGA players excel in is their knowledge of the criminal justice system.
Mutt Fan
May 25th, 2011
3:40 pm
Can’t wait till Sept 3 when UGA gets embarrassed by BSU.. thanks for making the SEC look weak.
Just Me
May 25th, 2011
3:42 pm
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MGT 3300 MARKETING MANAGEMENT I 3
MGT 3660 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS 3
MANAGEMENT CONCENTRATION ELECTIVE 3
SOCIAL SCIENCE ELECTIVE 3
15
FOURTH YEAR-FALL HRS
MANAGEMENT CONCENTRATION ELECTIVE 12
NON MANAGEMENT ELECTIVE 3
15
FOURTH YEAR-SPRING HRS
MGT 4195 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT 3
MANAGEMENT CONCENTRATION ELECTIVE 3
FREE ELECTIVES 10
Look at just the Math & Science classes even the EZ Football Degree requires.
Ted M
May 25th, 2011
3:46 pm
Uggla is 0fer 5 w/3 K’s swinging now…Dude take some pitches
Please
May 25th, 2011
3:49 pm
Hey, DirtyBird, I might not have gone to Vandy like you (wink, wink), but I can spell “morons.” I guess those Vandy classes aren’t as tough as I thought.
Veritas
May 25th, 2011
3:52 pm
Is Washaun Ealey really transfering to Harvard and the Ivy League?
Just Me
May 25th, 2011
3:53 pm
@Please
I am sure a person from Vandy doesn’t have to deal with many morons, but UGA fans and Grads can’t even spell DOG. To think UGA turns out most of the public school teachers in the state. Now we know why the State is so bad in Edumacation.
Mutt Fan
May 25th, 2011
3:53 pm
Is UGA really the most under achieving SEC program?
Coach Grohbo
May 25th, 2011
3:57 pm
Looks like all that extra study time in the Clarke County jail is paying off.
redryder
May 25th, 2011
3:58 pm
Ask Jake Scott. Life is about life, not just football. Still 14-0 would be good!!
Foursquare
May 25th, 2011
4:01 pm
90% of UGA players have crap majors that no parents who are paying the bills would ever send their kids to school for.
UGA is a freaking joke, especially with the #1 party school title.
Every UGA grad is just another moocher drawing unemployment and welfare.
Frances
May 25th, 2011
4:04 pm
“To think UGA turns out most of the public school teachers in the state.”
An excellent point. That’s why we have the blind leading the blind.
Coach Grohbo
May 25th, 2011
4:13 pm
UGA also turns out the most criminal football players in the nation.
BiggdawgK
May 25th, 2011
4:24 pm
Great article Mark. I hope I will not get banned on your blog for supporting the Bulldogs like I did on ledbetters blog and in the definition of irony on chip tower’s blog as well.
BiggdawgK
May 25th, 2011
4:31 pm
The reason Georgia is a state that is not at the top in education is because peolpe like Frances, Grohbo, Foursquare and Just Me are allowed to have children. If their moronic spawn are as full of hate and jealousy as they are, my heart goes out to the poor teachers.
BiggdawgK
May 25th, 2011
4:33 pm
people not peolpe
richard cranium
May 25th, 2011
5:00 pm
Yea, It’s hard NOT TO PASS UGA’s tough curriculum.
Under water basket weaving, Paint by Numbers degree that most of the 74% of the special admits on the football team…
vadawg
May 25th, 2011
5:23 pm
r u kidding me. i love the dawgs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 i love the dawgs but schools across the country during the football season have post game interviews and i can not not understand a word they r saying…. i mean like who r u kidding. how do ALL these so called atheletics graduate when the entrance score on the sat is about1250 at UGA. my son was rejected with a 1150. he is presently a finanical analyalist in atlanta!!!!!! come on give me a break….. what was Cam Newton’s degree in????????????????? there is something wrong with this picture!!!!????!!!!
vadawg
May 25th, 2011
5:25 pm
come on bloggers lets hear from u!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
shane#1
May 25th, 2011
5:33 pm
More good news about UGA football players. Twenty five UGA football players made the SEC Honor Roll last year. Their Majors included everything from Middle School Education[Kris Durham] to Agricultural Eng[Orson Charles]. Durham wants to be a Middle School teacher and coach. God bless him! As for Charles, I don’t know why either!
PhD Dawg
May 25th, 2011
5:53 pm
Just Me must not have a life to take the time to find out all that information. You should probably change your screen name to the 40 year old virgin, because I’m sure with your personality or lack thereof you just ooze sex appeal to women.
First of all, any curriculum at ANY college can be easy. Just because you go to Tech doesn’t make you smarter than a UGA student. Just because you got a college education doesn’t make you any better or any smarter than the cashier at Wal-Mart. Some of y’all need to change your elitist attitude. And for a matter a fact, how many of y’all Tech fans actually went to Tech? Did you major in engineering? Well who cares? I sure as hell don’t and nobody else does either
Just Me
May 25th, 2011
6:03 pm
BiggdawgK
Sorry I don’t have children. That is a Choice we made. What is the excuse for your MORON kids? I know ALL your kids graduated from UGA. They have Masters or PhD.s too. They all run Huge corporations and make Millions a year, drive fancy cars and don’t have car loans or mortgage payments because they pay cash for everything.
Actually one sister is finishing her Doctorate at Emory. The other has a great job and 3 children. My niece is like her dad and a bulldog fan, but the rest of this Tech family works on her. She is an All Star Volleyball player and Honors Student. My sisters kids don’t attend Government schools either. Private schools are so much better than the CRAP liberal Govt. School teachers spew out as Fact and an Education.
Chuck
May 25th, 2011
6:04 pm
Nice list Just Me – pretty well illustrates the diversity of studies expected from a large state university.
The UGA football program certainly features a wide variety of students. Kudos.
And by the way – to the “normals” most of those majors are useful. Maybe secluded weirdos don’t see the need for a liberal arts education – but that list is pretty much a cross-section of what well-adjusted people think of as a college education.
showmedog
May 25th, 2011
6:09 pm
How do you lose SEVEN games at UGA in one season? It can’t be the coaching! With Mark Richt, a really good person, something else must be wrong. The players are really smart. Maybe it is the coaching.
lake hartwell realtor
May 25th, 2011
6:19 pm
I love how all the dawgies love this… wait 90% of yall did not even go to ugag! hahah biggest redneck bandwagon fanbase in the south… well 2nd biggest but hey at least bama wins!
Just Me
May 25th, 2011
6:23 pm
Chuck
That list is great. There are so many WORTHLESS degrees it isn’t even funny. America waste education so damn much. The people that are needed to GROW America don’t study the maths and sciences. Students choose to take easier classes so they can get what is really important. UGA the #1 PARTY School reputation. That is what means so much more than working hard in difficult classes. UGA, the town with more bars than the people of legal age can support. You do the MATH and tell me UNDERAGE DRINKING maybe the answer. Thank GOD Leeburn keeps all the Liquor flowing in Athens.
Return to Glory
May 25th, 2011
6:43 pm
No wonder we got our but kicked last year ..lol
The Original WDE
May 25th, 2011
6:44 pm
The GT envy is staggering in these comments.
Let me say that when I was interviewing for big-time ATL finance jobs, it was us and Emory kids at the final rounds.
BG
May 25th, 2011
6:47 pm
Wow, I’m in shock that the AJC did a positive article on the University Of Georgia football team. I’m impressed Mr. Bradley.
KJ
May 25th, 2011
6:52 pm
“when I was interviewing for big-time ATL finance jobs”
Sorry, but assistant manager at the Money Store doesn’t count as “big-time”.
dawg4u
May 25th, 2011
7:04 pm
I have to take issue with you Mark on one fact. Vandy does so have an athletic department. It is in an off campus house basement. Just to set the record straight.
Indian Dawg
May 25th, 2011
7:19 pm
The College of Education at the University of Georgia is consistently ranked within the Top 25 in the nation, and is 3rd among public schools in the South. In addition, half of the specialty programs within the College are ranked in the Top 5 in the nation. Do some research before you decide to bash a school that actually produces something worthwhile in this society. The reason for the lack of education in the high schools of this state isn’t the teachers. It’s the students, and the sorry excuses of parents that don’t hold them accountable.
Feel free to keep hating though, Techies, Bammers, and Reptilian Scum.
Dennis Berdanis
May 25th, 2011
7:30 pm
Well done Bradley. See you can write positive articles about the local teams and not come off as a homer. Well done.
Delbert D.
May 25th, 2011
7:38 pm
Clemson posted the top football APR among public institutions in the ACC with 977. Florida and Georgia tied at 976 among public institutions in the SEC. LSU was next at 966. Georgia Tech was 2nd among public institutions in the ACC, also at 966.
KSUAlum
May 25th, 2011
7:39 pm
Let’s hope our new basketball coach at Kennesaw can do the same with our “student athletes.” We’ve already lost some 3 or 4 scholarships because of our pi$$-poor APR under Tony Ingle.
protectivefixat
May 25th, 2011
7:43 pm
I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, http://BidsWork.com
Delbert D.
May 25th, 2011
7:46 pm
Were those items formerly owned by Cam Newton?
Just Me
May 25th, 2011
8:00 pm
Indian Dawg where did you get your Rankings?
US News Rankings in a few fields:
All colleges I just picked those in the south to counter #3 in the South Ranking.
9 Duke, 17 Vandy, 20 Emory, 25 UVa, 25 Wake, 30 UNC, 31 William & mary, 35 Tech, 47 Miami, 51 Tulane, 53 Florida, 56 UGA
South Public Colleges
2 UVa, 5 UNC, 6 William & Mary, 7 Tech, 17 Florida, 18 UGA & Maryland.
South Business Schools
5 UVa, 7 UNC
Insurance
2 UGA
Accounting
10 UNC
Entrepreneurship
10 UNC
Finance
7 UVa, 8 UNC
Marketing
5 UNC, 8 UVa
Supply Chain Management
8 Maryland, 9 Tennessee
International
#1 South Carolina
Management
3UNC, 6 UVa, 10 Maryland
Management Information Systems
6 Maryland, 7 Ga State, 10 Tech
Indian Dawg I see a lot of schools in the south but not UGA and mostly ACC schools not SEC schools. Being #1 is the SEC is looking like being the Smartest kid on the Short Bus.
George
May 25th, 2011
8:09 pm
If UGA’s football coaches were as good as UGA’s tutors, you wouldn’t go 6 & 7.
Hats off to the tutors, no credit to Mark Richt.
housing majors?
May 25th, 2011
8:19 pm
so many UGA football players in the housing major. must be all of the employment opportunities in the housing market I guess?
I'm just saying
May 25th, 2011
8:29 pm
I forget…how much is a three point basket worth? How many ugump football players were special admittance SAs? ugump players making the grades….BFD. Your school is still second tier…live with it.
claytondawg
May 25th, 2011
8:31 pm
Indian Dawg may not have gotten his rankings totally correct; however, he DID get the following correct: “The reason for the lack of education in the high schools {elementary and middle) of this state isn’t the teachers. It’s the students, and the sorry excuses of parents that don’t hold them accountable.” Being a high-school teacher for 34 years, I have seen what is really happening to the classroom…pompous, arrogant, bratty kids whose parents think they (students AND parents alike) are entitled to an education. No one is “entitled.” You should have the responsibility to EARN IT.
Dirty Dawg
May 25th, 2011
9:03 pm
Thanks Mark, that was a nice piece. By the way, in response to ’showmedog’s’ question about how you lose seven games in a season…one play per game that went against us – most of ‘em, not all but most, the luck of the bounce – turn those plays around and we’re undefeated and winning the National Championship. Point is, as bad as we all felt about last season, we were a ‘nat’s s$$’ away from winning ‘em all…that’s why I’m more optimistic about the coming season than a 5-7 record would dictate.
Pepper Rodgers
May 25th, 2011
9:20 pm
These Tech people just never cease to amaze me. Take a look at Reggie Ball et al and listen to them speak a bit (can’t speak the King’s English) and you’ll quickly realize that they’re not any different from the kids that play at all ACC and SEC schools. The thought that Tech’s brothers are, generally speaking, actually somehow more intellectually able and gifted than kids at these other schools is truly comical. Keep drinking the Kool Aid.
SAL
May 25th, 2011
9:24 pm
Does this include the Ebonics classes??
Mark S.
May 25th, 2011
9:50 pm
Thanks for being professional enough to point out that unlike Tech we don’t just talk academics, we back it up with Data.
gt4ever
May 25th, 2011
9:56 pm
I can’t even believe this article…… L C Dawg, are you that big of a MORON! UGA football players skate through easy crap and they still don’t graduate more than 50 percent of all their football players… I really wish we would just let the academics part DIE….. There are exceptions to the rule, but for the most part UGA and GT football players are there to play football, PERIOD…. An article like this just makes me PUKE. The HYPOCRISY of this subject is too much to swallow…. Big time football is just BIG time football…..
Double Dawg
May 25th, 2011
10:21 pm
Trouble “404,” “Just Me,” etc.: I went to UGA undergraduate and law school. There is on GT alum where I work. He’s the guy we call when a printer won’t print or something like that. He makes 25% of what my fellow UGA grads make. When I asked him for a memo on our firm’s technology needs, what I got displayed writing ability that would have concerned me if my son (rising 8th grader) had written it. Once you leave your dismal island on North Avenue, you’ll see that your inability to attract the affections of a woman isn’t your only shortcoming.
DEAR DOUBLE DAWG
May 25th, 2011
10:25 pm
next time you see space shuttle coverage, think of the numerous GT grads who put that baby into space, and pilot and staff the damn thing. Congrats on your own success, i’m sure chasing ambulances is a fulfilling career.
BobDawg
May 25th, 2011
10:50 pm
UGA has become the “Chapel Hill” of the SEC… Kudos Dawgs!!!!
I'm just saying
May 25th, 2011
10:56 pm
Double Dawg…..well hell yes you make a she-it load more money than the GT grad…I hear that defending law breaking football players is quite lucrative? With ugump’s football players propensity towards lawlessness I am guessing that it wont be long before you can retire…I hear saint Richt has a place for sale…hell a busy lawyer such as yourself can buy that with the wad in your pocket…Good luck defending the Fulmer cup this year dawgs…DD needs the business.
Alabama Jack
May 25th, 2011
11:12 pm
You can teach a new dawg old tricks – just can’t teach them to win – the least of the east.
Just Me
May 25th, 2011
11:20 pm
Players by Degree:……Football…Basketball….Golf….Baseball
Computer Sci. 1….0….0…0
Pre-Business MKT 1…1…5…0
Pre-Business MGT 12…0…0…14
Pre-Business FIN 1…0…0…0
International Affairs 1…0…0…0
Anthropology 1…0…0…0
Consumer Econ 2…0…0…0
Exercise & Sports Sci 4…0…0…2
Telecommunication Arts 1…0…0
Economics 1…0…0…2
Arts & Sciences 9…0…1
Speech Communications 3…1…0…3
Education 8…0…0…0
Management 2…0..2…0
Finance 3…1…1…1
Risk MGT & Insurance 1…0…0…0
Biomedical Eng 1…0…0…1
Agricultural Eng 1…0…0…0
Housing 6…2…1…0
Biology 5…0…0…1
Sports MGT 8…2…0…7
History 1…0…0…0
Health & PE 2…1…0…0
Pre-Journalism 1…0…0…0
Social Studies Education 1…0…0…0
Sociology 1…0…0…0
Psychology 1…0…0…0
Math Education 1…0…0…0
Forestry & Natural Resources 1…0…0…0
Criminal Justice 1…0…0…0
Political Science 0…0…0…1
Environmental Engineering 0…0…0…1
Environmental Health 0…0…0…1
Accounting 0…0…0…1
Pre-Med 0…0…0…1
Indian Dawg
May 25th, 2011
11:31 pm
Just Me, I got my stats here:
http://www.uga.edu/news/artman/publish/printer_090422USNWR_grad_schools.shtml
If you look at the bottom of the page, I believe UGA got they’re rankings from usnews.com
I don’t think an institution would post such a thing if it wasn’t true, as it’s easy to call out and make a scene out of. I just realized this was based on 2009, however I don’t think academic rankings would change as much as BCS rankings within a 1.5 year span. lol.
Claytondawg, having graduated from Douglas County High School 3 years ago, and being the only one from my class to go to UGA or any respectable college, I whole-heartedly agree with you. It’s not just the bratty, spoiled, meth-using rich kids from down the block, its the ridiculous, pant-sagging, thug wannabees as well. In my house, any grade less than an A meant a verbal beat down and double chores. Entitlement was never an issue for me, but it’s so sad to see kids literally throwing their futures away. 34 years? I don’t know how you do it, sir.
Indian Dawg
May 25th, 2011
11:44 pm
Just Me, I got my rankings from here:
http://www.uga.edu/news/artman/publish/printer_090422USNWR_grad_schools.shtml
I just realized this was based on data from 2009, however I doubt academic rankings change as fluidly as BCS rankings.lol
Claytondawg, I agree with you wholeheartedly. I graduated from Douglas County 4 years ago, and I thought it was extremely sad that I and about 2 other kids were the only ones who went to a respectable institution afterwards. In my house, anything less than an A meant a verbal beat down and double chores. Polar opposite from the meth-using rich kids from down the block and the gang-sign-throwing thug wannabees. It all starts at the home. 34 years? I don’t know how you do it, sir.
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Concerned!
May 26th, 2011
12:25 am
Come on Mark Bradley what have you been smoking. Most UGA football players are taking the major HOUSING. Compare that to what many are taking for majors at Vandy.
Come again on making a defense for PLAYERS who are joking the system.
HOUSING has replaced the majors from the past like Physical Ed. and Recreation. We are a little bit better as now the type is cleaner and less glaring. So we get a high rating which is really not indicative of true students. I am not impressed, as possible you want to be able to go to Athens without looking over your shoulder.
Just Me
May 26th, 2011
12:32 am
I have noticed in the NCAA commercial that none of the Student Athletes shown are ” Going Pro” in P.E. or Turf Management. I guess no UGA football players are in that Advertising Campaign.
2smartjones
May 26th, 2011
1:17 am
Bradley – More importantly is the “Grandma Bandit” in touch with UGA’s Development staff and giving back (in Robinhood style) to these fine Georgia student athletes?
Whether she is or not, she represents your state well on film with every heist in that UGA hat!
Buzz 2010
May 26th, 2011
2:00 am
Dawgs are loaded and in it for a solid five win campaign this fall..Hey man, it’s a dream team
and they believe they can.. So hunker it down!!
It Ain't Rocket Science
May 26th, 2011
4:02 am
Good article Mr. Bradley. And for all of you high horse people that will still cut down these kids and the studies they chose, I say get a life people. They are taking advantage of what God gave them, and still trying to uphold, what to them is a rigorous schedule. They are providing entertainment to you negative posters and all you have to do, is try and downgrade them. Envy is a terrible thing, when it controls your life.
Sissy Dawg
May 26th, 2011
6:36 am
A great academic institution like Georgia can be proud. I understand that Elmer Fudd should get most of the credit. Since he became Academic Dean, the player have really responded well. Overall they have now moved into the top twelve in academics in the SEC.
bill
May 26th, 2011
7:56 am
i am a Georgia hater but this and the Richt sale for charity’s sake should be recognized for their good news. It is not bad to give credit where it is due. I am sure given time the players will be in the news again for bad behavior. Mark Richt appears to be genuinely good man. I hope he goes 0-11 this season but its not personal.
Moof,Moof---TheHairLipDog
May 26th, 2011
8:04 am
But the question still needs to be answered. Are they smarter than a 5th grader?
GT
May 26th, 2011
8:18 am
Georgia can’t control police locking their guys up,or losing football games, there is a third independent party all about the truth. What they can control is players grades. Not unlike the other public owned educational facility, the Atlanta Public School system. This is like an ugly woman winning a beauty contest. You can’t help be suspicious unless you are the AJC. One day you are brain dead the next you are above Vanderbilt. Lets have a public forum. Lets bring the Vandy starting 22 players and let them have some academic contest with Georgia’s 22. I got a feeling the Athens police and the Georgia State Patrol would like to ask some of these guys a few questions too. You don’t find a lot of “real” student with rap sheets.
JDM
May 26th, 2011
8:26 am
Congratulations to Georgia. If you know the US News and World Report national university reputation ratings then this is no surprise. Their ratings are: (1) Vanderbilt (2) Florida and (3) Georgia. The rest of the SEC is in the hinterlands somewhere. Mark Richt is a great coach and Georgia would be crazy to ever consider letting him go.
BG
May 26th, 2011
8:40 am
Just me are you alone in the basement?? GT sucks at everything!!!
ga gator
May 26th, 2011
8:46 am
BobDawg
May 25th, 2011
10:50 pm
UGA has become the “Chapel Hill” of the SEC… Kudos Dawgs!!!!
Don’t jump to those conclusions Bob before you check out your facts. UGA is certainly a very fine institution but there are only 2 schools in the SEC who are members of the prestigious Association of American Universities (Vandy and UF). UGA has not received a membership invite and GT has only recently received one. I would also rate Virginia, Wake Forest and Duke ahead of UNC in that category.
Tech Calculus
May 26th, 2011
9:02 am
Can you count to 4 Mr. Ball?
1, 2, 3, 3, 4
Very good Mr Ball, you get an A.
Always makes me laugh to hear GT fans bashing UGA when their QB could not even count to 4.
athdog
May 26th, 2011
9:03 am
Yep, that construction degree, or the nice ‘technology and culture’ degree at Yech sounds pretty tough. It’d probably take some of the guys at north avenue four years to learn how to drive a nail. Face it, Yechsters, you’re a nice engineering school, if you want to be a doctor, veterinarian, pharmacist, geneticist, chemist, US Senator or Governor of the state, you’re going to need to come to Athens
Just Me
May 26th, 2011
9:18 am
athdog
UGA doesn’t have a medical school yet. Doctor = Emory or MCG. A vet? You can’t keep Ugas alive try Auburn. Pharmacists or Chemists? Yes, that is what ALL UGA student practice to be on the weekends. How do you think UGA gets to be the #1 Party School? Geneticist? Practicing spreading your Genes on Passed out chicks in the Dorms ain’t a Genetics Degree. Senator or Governor? Yes, all the practice at drinking, lying, cheating, and sex out of wedlock is helping UGA produce so many of our great politicians.
GT93
May 26th, 2011
9:35 am
Congrats to the UGA Football players … well done.
Whisky Breath
May 26th, 2011
9:36 am
Sounds like to me Mark you are trying to find something positive to say about the dogs. Hey, do you include that long list of kids in the last year that got ran out of school? How about the ones that committed crimes? Schlulz taught you this move, didn’t he? You are better than this Mark.
You don’t have to tell the fans what they want to hear.
DawginLex
May 26th, 2011
9:49 am
Interesting stuff. Found out that Kentucky keeps high APR scores by having the one and dones transfer out of school. Doesn’t hurt APR that way.
Regardless of what the UGA kids are majoring in, they apparently are going to class and doing the work. Compare this to when I was in school and well, there is no comparison. Jan Kemp, God rest her soul, was right about a lot of stuff but it appears that UGA has come a long way since then.
All you can say to that is good job.
And one more thing Mark, I have been banned by Chip towers again for troll fighting. An appeal of any sort would be appreciated………………
Heels Rock and Rule
May 26th, 2011
9:56 am
When I walk across the UGa campus at night, I always hear some UGa fb players cursing and singing “WITFITL”? While the words are rather mundane, It’s still a catchy tune, that “Where in the ******is the library”.
DrNick
May 26th, 2011
9:59 am
All these people talking up Vandy’s academics . . . . I remember that a few years ago that UGA had a higher incoming freshman SAT than Vandy. I know a number of people that have not gotten in to UGA and did get into Vandy.
ga gator
May 26th, 2011
10:00 am
DawginLex, transfering one and dones is certainly a very interesting concept. Hope you are having a good off-season; next year will be interesting for both of us.
DawginLex
May 26th, 2011
10:08 am
I really think Grantham is going to have to carry us for the entire season. The offensive line must stay healthy or we are in big trouble.
I have hope in the fact that when Richt has a returning QB, he has never won less than 10 games.
1eyedJack
May 26th, 2011
10:36 am
DawginLex, save your breath. Not sure what criteria they use to ban folks, IP address or MAC address. MAC would be more permanent. You’d be better served by changing your network card in your computer, your ISP, or possibly using a proxy.
Big Al
May 26th, 2011
10:55 am
So the players are doing their job—about time.
It Ain't Rocket Science
May 26th, 2011
10:57 am
Big deal about Calculus. I took it for my degree and guess what, never used it again and it was a science degree, that half of these techies could not even pass I would bet. I would rather see a person, thrive in what ever course work they take than see a basketball, football or softball player struggle to get that math credit, for a management degree. Not to mention, common sense is not taught at some universities and judging from the way a lot of these folks that are so negative on these blogs are, I would say that would serve them better in life, than calculus.
GO DAWGS
Joey
May 26th, 2011
11:03 am
Gotta love those nerds!
Hayseed Dixie
May 26th, 2011
11:23 am
@It Aint’ Rocket Science
The man who posts, using his computer with billions of transistors on the f-ing INTERNET, dismissing calculus.
You practically define ignorance.
lawzoo
May 26th, 2011
11:38 am
It’s a shame A.J. Green didn’t get his degree. What was he majoring in….Marketing?
RobbyD
May 26th, 2011
11:43 am
This is a big deal. I want the Dogs to win and win big. I also want being a Georgia Bulldog to mean something outside the lines, too. Period. Coach Dooley often spoke of creating doctors, lawyers, and businessmen who played championship football. I heard that message as a kid and it stuck. It was impressive to me then and still resonates. The vast majority of our belvoved Bulldogs will never play a down of pro football. I want them to stand proudly next me as a fellow alumnus of the University of Georgia. A proud place with a proud tradition. A place that gets in your blood and stays there forever.
what of it?
May 26th, 2011
11:57 am
so you’re criticizing the “arcane restrictions” of NCAA while applauding the “student-athletes” for following them. You’re also not criticizing the “student-athletes” who leave early for a pro career, and trying to argue their high grades are somehow important. Great column.
Also, have you ever witnessed a class for Georgia football players? and they are specifically for football players b/c they require the absolute minimum amount of effort.
Here we go again with ...........
May 26th, 2011
12:07 pm
I retired voluntarily a few years back in my mid to late 50s with my UGA History undergrad diploma, earned in 71. I have been all over the world in business and in every major city in the USA. I was frankly, a MAD MAN ( Madison Ave in NYC) in the fashion business………… thanks to my abilities honed at UGA’s Franklin College of Arts & Sciences, as an undergrad. It was lovely there ………..simply lovely.
My liberal Arts undergrad degree helped me immensely in BUSINESS.
What is not to like??? Golf, boating, reading watching politics and more golf are what I do now, all due to my UGA education. Fore !!!
Not everyone wants to be an engineer. My Dad and Granddad were and they enjoyed what they chose to do and I did enjoy my field. To argue what path is better is immature and dumb.
goooooooooooooo Dogs. Sic em!!
BurningRedBleedingBlack
May 26th, 2011
12:22 pm
Haha i love the tech fans hating on us, we still beat you guys every year!!!!!!!!!
JJ
May 26th, 2011
12:22 pm
Good job UGA, I will put this article next to my 5 year olds drawing on the fridge. Goood Boy UGA!!!! Im soooo proud of you.
Real Degree
May 26th, 2011
12:28 pm
What load of bunk. Try being a double major in something like Chemistry and Music with all the labs and rehearsals. Then try working at the same time to pay for it all. Then try doing it on your own without a whole army of people to track you down and make sure you get to class, provide special tutors, provide all your meals, make arrangements for missing classes and exams and other perks the athletes get. Cry me a river. From my perspective, the football players still have it easier than most.
Waushaun Ealey
May 26th, 2011
12:36 pm
UGA done finelly tide Flarida in something!!! YAY
Darts
May 26th, 2011
12:39 pm
Richt’s APR score of 976 also has his record in those 3 numbers from last season 6-7.
Something tells me the 6-7 number is 976x more important than 976.
59bulldawg
May 26th, 2011
12:49 pm
LC Dawg @ 1:29 on May 25th. LOL! Sic em boy!
DawginLex
May 26th, 2011
12:53 pm
Washaun
How is Valdosta?
Enjoy playing in front of 700 fans.
Tide Rising
May 26th, 2011
1:07 pm
Mark,
APR doesn’t mean that much if all or nearly all of the players are steered into the easiest majors. Why is there little said or done about the college practice of steering so many players into the easiest, most worthless degrees in college. Ark is the worst offender in the west and in the east there is an upper tier program which is also a terrible offender- nearly 70% of their players are all grouped under one dept and have sociology or poly sci majors. At AU most of the top football players are family and child development majors- one of the most notoriously easy majors on campus.
One thing I’ve always been proud of about Alabama is that on our football team the majors are spread throughout- the players aren’t steered into the easiest majors just to keep them eligible with a worthless degree that they will never use.
Just Me
May 26th, 2011
1:23 pm
DILex
see I had to go different too.
Hope your Girl did well this Sem in her classes. Is she coming home for the summer or staying at school. I just posted the degrees the Football, Baseball, Basketball, and Golf player had on their Profiles. It is more in fun just to stir the pot you know 51 is just that way. LOL
The TROLL FIGHTING will get you every time. We get TOO FIRED UP and say the wrong thing and BONG we are banned. We need to not post so much until it is GAME Time and just go at each other during the season. The WRITERS can’t ban us all then because they need the posts to sell advertising more. LOL
DawginLex
May 26th, 2011
1:38 pm
Just me,
Dean’s list
Yeah, getting banned blows, especially from the UGA blog. I have sent chip an e-mail but to no avail. Guess he likes the trolls better than real alumni and fans who want to talk football.
59bulldawg
May 26th, 2011
1:40 pm
Mark, any chance we could get a breakdown on majors and the number of athletes (specifically football)in each of them? If you can it might provide a more realistic picture of this accomplishment. I always hear detractors saying unflattering things about the level of difficulty of majors on the team but would like to know just for the sake of knowing. I also would like to think that what Tide Rising says about Arkansas and Auburn doesn’t apply at UGA.
Herschel Talker
May 26th, 2011
1:49 pm
MB:
It amazes me that your biggest concern is with UGA in the classroom. This is a team that Mark Richt can’t beat Central Florida with but somehow it is a moral victory to you that the athletes pass their classes. Is it too much to ask for them to win games and pass classes? You make it seem like if they pass classes, you can let getting beat by Florida and UCF and USC not matter.
Mark Richt needs to be fired. I am still waiting for the day you realize this and write an article stating such. Maybe after a loss to Boise or South Carolina? I am sure you won’t care what classes the players pass then.
HT
DawginLex = whiner
May 26th, 2011
1:53 pm
Enter your comments here
Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!
May 26th, 2011
1:53 pm
Just like your engineering major was not for me, My Finance degree might not be for you. The definition of success is waking up in the morning and loving what you’re doing for a living.
Don’t let school get in the way of your education. Which is why Nerds are so socially awkward. Ever listen to a Tech conversation. Very boring and very awkward. Don’t even get me started if there is a woman or a star trek convention nearby.
Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!
May 26th, 2011
2:06 pm
HT
We get it buddy. You don’t like Richt. Will you ever add anything interesting to these blogs?
Since you are such a true fan (yeah right!), let me ask you which scenario you would rather have:
1. Georgia wins in 2011 and Richt gets an extension?
or
2. Georgia loses 5 games and Richt is fired?
One or the other WILL HAPPEN. Which is it big boy?
Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!
May 26th, 2011
2:10 pm
Still waiting….
DawginLex = still whining
May 26th, 2011
2:12 pm
Enter your comments here
DawginLex
May 26th, 2011
2:13 pm
You are wasting time talking to HT. He just posts the same thing over and over. He says fire Richt but has agreed with me that doing so would be stupid, especially as the season gets closer. It is just frustration with no real answers or logic. Just spewing.
Kinda like my admirer above who calls me a whiner. He gets to do that hiding behind a computer where he doesn’t have to tell us anything about himself. We probably should be thankful for that, right?
Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!
May 26th, 2011
2:16 pm
DawginLex
Herschel Talker IS NOT A UGA FAN!!! It’s funny how he vanishes every time I confront him with those two scenarios… Sad, actually.
Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!
May 26th, 2011
2:18 pm
still waiting…
Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!
May 26th, 2011
2:20 pm
If you ever want to get rid of Herschel Talker, just ask him about those two scenarios. He runs away like a Techie girl.
DawginLex
May 26th, 2011
2:22 pm
Personal attacks on a blog??
Whoda thunk it???
Tell me Mr “Whiner”, at work every day do you routinely say
“Ready on Bay 1″ or
“Whadda ya have, whadda ya have” or
“Would you like to upsize that sir”
?????
Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!
May 26th, 2011
2:33 pm
still waiting………………………………. Herschel…… Where are youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu?
Just Me
May 26th, 2011
2:39 pm
59Bulldog
Go back to my few LONG POSTS. I give the Degrees the Football, Baseball. Basketball, and Golf team members are taking.
Go back to page 3 and you will have all the numbers you are asking for. I guess you don’t read all the posts. Well, I gave you that INFO.
DawginLex
May 26th, 2011
2:41 pm
I cant help it if I’m a certified whiner
Just Me
May 26th, 2011
2:47 pm
DILex
Don’t play into his hand.
Yes, You WHINE. I Do, Mark does, NERDS!! does, and every blogger does. I just think they need to make us have 1 poster ID and no banning allowed unless it is a continual Racists or Foul language postings. as 5150 I had too many people cry and try to block my posts. If you don’t like what I say then don’t read and respond.
Congrats to Your Girl on the Grades. Can she mix me up some bathtub Oxicotn(?) I have had some bad back pains the last few weeks. LOL
Beast from the East
May 26th, 2011
2:49 pm
DawginLex,
Tell the truth. You got banned on purpose so you wouldn’t have to type that blog handle you’re dreading after the season didn’t ya? LOL!
59bulldawg
May 26th, 2011
2:56 pm
Just Me @ 2:39. No not always! I try to read them all but don’t always have the time to camp in front of the computer. Thanks!
juvenal
May 26th, 2011
3:07 pm
Lex, chip’s initial crowell hat post was to say it was really a Braves hat-i hit it first, pointed out the dif in the “A”-he pulled the whole post & redid it…..
Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!
May 26th, 2011
3:08 pm
Beast from the East
You thought that was funny? Why would you LOL that? Did you snort too? Slap your jorts?
Beast from the East
May 26th, 2011
3:19 pm
Nerd,
It’s an inside joke about a friendly wager between DawginLex and myself. And yes, it was a real “jort” slapper. Or in your case a real “red panty” slapper.
D Bag Trolls!
May 26th, 2011
3:22 pm
Funny how so many are worried about the core of study. Probably the same person that did not attend and complete a degree. In addition if you looked at all of the degrees for athletes they would be similar in nature. 95% of the student body could not do what an athlete is required to do. You trolls are like scraping teeth against concrete and you smell weird.
Great News for Dawgs fans!
Yep
May 26th, 2011
3:25 pm
Let’s not forget the curriculum differential between Georgia and Georgia Tech..
DawginLex
May 26th, 2011
3:28 pm
DawginLex
May 26th, 2011
2:41 pm
I cant help it if I’m a certified whiner
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Nice try. Not me. Your creativity is really lacking.
The Russian judge gave it a 5.5
DawginLex
May 26th, 2011
3:32 pm
nerds nerds nerds
Beast and I have a bet on the team that will have a better record this season between UF and UGA
Loser has to change blog handles
BeastofTheEastEatenByDawg
or
DawginLexEatenByGator
I’m gonna win.
Beast from the East
May 26th, 2011
3:34 pm
“I’m gonna win.”
NOT!
juvenal
May 26th, 2011
3:58 pm
thought beast was uconn(their basketball apr worse than Tech’s-i’m sure they care)….
Derek Lowe
May 26th, 2011
4:36 pm
If you ever get caught racing a car through Buckhead while drunk and want to get off scot free—take your butt and checkbook downtown to see this law firm:
Finkle, Shein, Weiners and Coxs.
Snoop Dawg
May 26th, 2011
4:43 pm
Doesnt matter what these athletics study!! I matters they are applying themselves in life and classroom. Plenty more out there waiting for handouts and entitlements for the lack of personal growth. How many people end up working in the same career field their entire life?? Very few!!
Dexter Terry
May 26th, 2011
4:45 pm
Yeah, I guess it is ‘making the grade’. That doesn’t really excite me though… Side note: I just found that new CoachWatcher website and it is legit. http://www.CoachWatcher.com
Snoop Dawg
May 26th, 2011
4:48 pm
Valdosta is a great university…and town!! Go Blazers. Go Dawgs!!
Jaydawg
May 26th, 2011
5:31 pm
Well….I guess this will give us something to focus on when we are driving back from Jacksonville here in a few months.(For the 19th time in 22 years.)
Truther
May 26th, 2011
7:24 pm
Haha i love the tech fans hating on us, we still beat you guys every year!!!!!!!!!
No, Georgia Tech can’t compete with UGA’s thugs and morons, but Tech players don’t end up pushing shopping carts or riding the back of garbage trucks like UGA players after Mark Richt dumps them when their eligibility is up.
That’s just one of those inconvenient truths for dawgtards.
It Ain't Rocket Science
May 26th, 2011
8:01 pm
Hayseed,
I practically define ignorance, LOL. Darn, I thought I did a better job in describing you. Please tell me how I can expound more fully on your attributes then. Lord, some people just leave themselves open so easily.
Doggie Doo
May 26th, 2011
9:46 pm
Academic excellence at uga? That’s like bragging that your 15 year old is earning straight A’s in 3rd grade. You can get a degree at uga doing virtually nothing. The school is a joke.
I'm just saying
May 26th, 2011
10:16 pm
Hey Bark Madly…you failed to mention the number of “special admittance SAs ugump has on the football team…SAs that on most other campuses would never actually be accepted…Are we to believe that all of the these academic question marks suddenly get it? More than likely they the “academic rigors” at ugump were adjusted. BTW Bark have you been able to correctly answer the question on that test at ugump…how much is a three point basket worth?…academic excellence my arse
whats a three point shot worth ?
May 26th, 2011
10:19 pm
I wonder how hard the classes and test are there at UGA?
Just Me
May 26th, 2011
10:39 pm
Class:
RS Freshman
Hometown:
Tampa, Fla.
High School:
Plant
Height / Weight:
6-1 / 209
Position:
Quarterback
Birthdate:
11/10/1990
Career Highs: 21 completions vs. UCF in 2010
*41 pass attempts at Miss. St. in 2010
*313 passing yards vs. Florida in 2010
*Long pass completion of 63 yards vs. Florida in 2010
*4 total TDs (2 passing, 2 rushing) vs. Tenn. in 2010
*3 passing TDs (5x), last vs. Ga. Tech in 2010
*Long TD completion of 66 yards vs. Ga. Tech in 2010
*3 interceptions vs. Florida in 2010
*14 carries vs. No. 12 Arkansas in 2010
*42 rushing yards vs. Louisiana in 2010
*Long rush of 35 yards vs. Tenn. in 2010
*2 Rushing TDs, vs. Tenn. in 2010
*Long rushing TD of 35 yards vs. Tenn. in 2010
*1 two-point conversion rush vs. Florida in 2010
2010: Named Freshman All-America by Sporting News, CollegeFootballNews.com and Rivals.com and selected to Phil Steele’s All-Freshman First Team.
*Selected to SEC Coaches All-SEC Freshman Team.
*Earned team awards as Most Valuable Offensive Player and Newcomer of the Year Award for offense.
*Started all 13 games completing 209-of-342 passes for a UGA freshman record 3,049 yards (second in SEC history by a freshman) and 24 TDs with eight INTs; Also rushed 87 times for 167 yards and four TDs.
*Ranked 1st in UGA history for a freshman with 3,216 total offensive yards, which also ranked second in SEC history.
*Ranked tied 1st in UGA history for TD responsibility (D.J. Shockley, 2005) in a season with 28 (24 passing, 4 rushing); 24 TD passes ranked tied 2nd in UGA history for a single season.
*Passing efficiency of 154.48 ranked 14th nationally and fourth in the SEC; also held SEC rankings of third in passing avg. per game (234.5), and fourth in total offense (247.4).
*Completed 15-of-19 passes for 271 yards and three TDs vs. Ga. Tech.
*At No. 2 Auburn, went 15-for-28 passing for 273 yards and three TDs
*Completed 19-of-27 passes for 228 yards and three TDs vs. ISU.
*Threw for 313 yards and three TDs on 18-of-37 passing with three interceptions and rushed for 16 yards on eight carries vs. Florida.
*Named SEC Freshman of the Week following game vs. Vanderbilt, where he completed 15-of-24 passes for 287 yards and two TDs and rushed six times for 36 yards.
*Named SEC Freshman of the Week and earned CollegeFootballPerformance.com Honorable Mention QB of the Week recognition following his performance against Tenn., where he tallied four TDs with two passing TDs on 17-of-25 passing attempts for 266 yards and two rushing TDs on seven carries for 41 yards.
*Completed 16-of-27 passes for 221 yards and three TDs at Colorado.
*At Miss. St., completed 18-of-31 passes for 274 yards and a TD and rushed seven times for 32 yards.
*Completed 15-of-27 passes for 253 yards and a TD while also rushing for a TD vs. No. 12 Arkansas.
*Threw for 192 yards on 14-of-21 pass attempts at South Carolina.
*Completed 17-of-26 passes for 160 yards and three TDs with one interception vs. Louisiana while also rushing four times four 42 yards and a TD.
*Recipient of the Dr. & Mrs. Howard Williams III Football Scholarship.
*Earned Athletic Director’s Honor Roll distinction for summer semester.
*Completed 10-of-22 passes for 96 yards in spring G-Day game.
2009: Member of the scout team.
*Completed 3-of-5 passes for 62 yards in spring G-Day game.
*Named to Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for summer semester.
*Enrolled at UGA in January after graduating high school early.
*Recipient of Dr. & Mrs. Howard Willams, III, Football Scholarship.
High School: Plant, coached by Robert Weiner…Parade Magazine All-America…U.S. Army All-American…SuperPrep All-America and All-Dixie teams…PrepStar Top 100 Dream Team…MVP at EA Sports Elite 11 Camp…ESPN.com No. 13 ESPNU 150 list…Scout.com No. 3 quarterback in the nation, #4 prospect in Florida, #8 in the South, #21 in the nation…Rivals #3 QB in the nation, #7 overall prospect in Florida, #46 overall nationally, #6 Florida Preseason Top 100…Atlanta Journal-Constitution Super Southern 100…Suffered a broken fibula early in the 2008 season, but finished wih 1,927 yards passing with 33 touchdowns and four interceptions and rushed for 257 yards and two touchdowns…Returned to record 344 yards passing and three touchdowns while leading his team to the 2008 Class AAAA state championship (Plant’s second state title in three years)…passed for 4,013 yards and 51 touchdowns with seven interceptions as a junior while also rushing for 932 yards and 12 touchdowns…Mr. Football Award winner as a junior and First Team All-State…Set a Hillsborough County record for most passing touchdowns in a career (84).
Personal: AARON MURRAY… Brother of current Bulldog safety Josh Murray; Born: Nov. 10, 1990; Major: Psychology.
Passing
Year
G/GS
Comp.
Att.
Pct.
Yds.
INT
TD
Eff.
LG
2010
13/13
209
342
61.1
3,049
8
24
154.48
66 GT
Total
13/13
209
342
61.1
3,049
8
24
154.48
66 GT
Rushing
Year
G/GS
Att.
Yds.
Per/Att.
Per/Gm.
TD
LG
2010
13/13
87
167
1.9
12.8
4
35 UT
Total
13/13
87
167
1.9
12.8
4
35 UT
Murry is majoring in PSYCHOLOGY? Is that so he can analyze himself when he is a Nobody do nothing in the NFL and just can’t figure out how Studying under BOZO and Mark Christ didn’t make a Football God like STAFFORD.
Just Me
May 26th, 2011
10:42 pm
I LOVE IT!!!!! MURRAY was born a few days before the Georgia Tech National Championship game against Nebraska on Dec. 31, 1990. His daddy was still working him up/out in the shower when UGA last won a National Championship.
Dawg 1
May 26th, 2011
11:44 pm
Not even going to bother to read the garbage from the haters. Fact is that UGA has worked very hard to improve their athletes academics. We have seen the pay off for about the last three years. We should all be just as proud of this effort as we are on ‘anything’ going on – on the field…
Just Me
May 27th, 2011
12:04 am
Dawg 1
The last 3 years UGA’s football team has continued to lose more games than the year before. Your players are not getting GREAT degrees and Killing the Job market with HOUSING degrees.
BE PROUD. Roy Barnes, Sonny Perdue, & Nathan Deal are the PRIDE of UGA “Running This State”. HAHAHAHAH that says it all don’t it?
whatever
May 27th, 2011
12:48 am
Oh yea, when you have super easy majors like Housing (which about a third of the UGA football player are in – which isn’t housing construction by the way) and Sports Mgmt, or “General Studies” (yes, that is a major at UGA) – it’s easy to see how players can “make the grade”. Not to mention all the individual “free” tutors that the players have. As a UGA student – it made me sick to see how much the players were babied and coddled.
and they said
May 27th, 2011
12:53 am
For those who keep talking about the Housing Major that many (about 1/3 of the UGA football team) of the players are a majoring in – this has NOTHING to do with construction or real estate, or even mortgages – it is about how to manage public housing. Can you imagine such a trumped-up major?? What idiots UGA is producing. A Public Housing Major – WOW!! Way to go UGA!!!
It Ain't Rocket Science
May 27th, 2011
6:14 am
How many of you negative people on here have even played football for a major college, or for that fact, even high school? How many of you on here, have raised a family, had a full time job and went to college as well, and obtained a degree? How many of you on here have grown up disadvantaged, without a lot of parental support, and gotten a chance to better your life, because you have superior athletic abilities? How many of you have a degree at all from a college? How many of you are satisfied with your life and therefore feel that you have the right to criticize these kids for at least trying to maintain their class schedules, practice long hours during and after the season, and still remain eligible to play? I would love to see a survey come out with just these questions and see how many of you would be honest enough to even answer honestly. Quit trying to find fault with everything concerning UGA. UGA fans should be happy that no matter what the major, UGA is at least trying to stress academics. How many of you folks have an advanced degree in a science or a field that really was tough and kept the same schedule these kids do?
It Ain't Rocket Science
May 27th, 2011
6:30 am
How many of you on here, have ever played college football at a big institution, and gotten a degree while doing it? How many of you on here, have come from a disadvantaged family surrounding, with very little parental support, and had superior athletic ability, and gotten a college degree? How many of you have payed your own way through college? How many of you on here have a college degree? How many of you on here have a degree in a difficult discipline of any sort? How many of you on here have tried to juggle studies, long practices, with ability to get part time job and make a few bucks for yourself? How many on here could do any better than the kids that are trying to do a major sport and satisfy the academics? How many of you on here are satisfied with your own lives, and been perfect?
I know I have not faced the challenges most of the kids playing a major sport at UGA have. Gotten my college degree and at my age, am satisfied with my life, but have not had to struggle through life like some of the folks have. From the comments from a great deal of you on this blog, I am assuming you have.
Simple Logic or Math
May 27th, 2011
7:43 am
It really simple….Easier Courses = Higher APR.
It Ain't Rocket Science
May 27th, 2011
8:33 am
The problem with educating these high school kids comes from a variety of reasons. Probably the foremost reason is the high school education requirements and the quality of these schools. The requirements for graduation in Georgia’s high schools are not very high. That is probably why a lot of parents are in favor of the voucher program, so that they can send their kids to private schools and get a better education. We have ranked way too low as compared to the national average, for too many years. I am not sure if it is all just the teachers, as some would point out either. It would appear to me to be the curriculum offered. The kids are not being challenged to succeed and a lot of the parents are just satisfied that the kid is graduating. It is up to the school boards and leaders to insist on a better result. Not every kid is an athlete and we need to up the standards.
Poverty, and lack of proper environment also plays a role in the education they receive. They need role models and have to be taught to understand that, they can be the generation that breaks out of the mold and succeeds in life. I believe if the standards were higher in high school, that had to be met, in order to play sports, there might be a change in academics for the best. I am sure that some of the students would not try any harder, but in time, I think the tide could change. The problems in Georgia’s education system will not be solved over night, but they can be changed over time. It is sad though when you see school boards in the state , losing certification,with what appears to me, to be largely a series of disputes between board members.
When the athlete does get into a college, and enrolls in a course that allows him to first, compete on the field and secondary to that, complete his studies, he is often not able to do the second thing.
We have professional sports to thank for that problem also as these kids, think sports first, academics second, so I can leave early for the pros. Sadly, very few make it in the pros. We wonder why so much cheating goes on in college sports today, but it is fairly easy to figure out. We give our sports coaches millions of dollars a year to produce a winner, at all cost. A truly honest coach like CMR is at an instant disadvantage if he doesn’t cheat, since the alumni, fans and administrators expect winning, and most turn their eyes on how the coach does it.
Heels Rock and Rule
May 27th, 2011
8:43 am
I be smart – that be debateable; I be rich – that be a fact.
RightAllTheTime
May 27th, 2011
8:49 am
Immigrants have an excuse for not being able to speak English; BullDawgs don’t. Now ain’t that right?
gt4ever
May 27th, 2011
9:02 am
Rocket Science,,
Man, you have me misting up……. Will you just quite it about the tough life some of these players….
It Ain't Rocket Science
May 27th, 2011
9:09 am
GT4evr,
Are you one of those kind of people that thinks if you ignore a problem in society, it will go away? Hope not, but I think so. And you contribution to society is?
THE OBGYN
May 27th, 2011
9:38 am
Todd Grantham
I once met a witty tech grad. We all know it wasn’t you. Go crunch some numbers and quit trying to play with your betters.
THE OBGYN
May 27th, 2011
9:51 am
Simpleton Logic Nothing to do with Math,
Until someone comes through with the degree programs for each teams players your just speaking out of your better smelling half. A business degree from Tech and UGA are pretty much the same thing. You don’t even begin to see seperation between the two schools until you start looking at late 2nd and 3rd year degrees for engineering and the “higher” sciences.
FYI, Average entering SAT at tech is about 1950 vs UGA’s 1885. Average entering GPA is 3.89 at tech while UGA is 3.8.
When you enter a crowded bathroom do you make sure to look down and the the left and right to make sure you can feel better about yourself?
DawginLex
May 27th, 2011
10:11 am
Doggie Doo
May 26th, 2011
9:46 pm
Academic excellence at uga? That’s like bragging that your 15 year old is earning straight A’s in 3rd grade. You can get a degree at uga doing virtually nothing. The school is a joke.
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I call BS on your comment. You know nothing about UGA other than to get on a blog and spew stupidity which comes naturally from an idiot like yourself.
Simple Logic or Math
May 27th, 2011
10:30 am
Baby Doctor…..Spout (or make up) any statistics that make you feel better about UGA’s academics. If it wasn’t for the Hope Scholarship, UGA wouldn’t be nearly as attractive to in-state students.
Morgan Fairchild
May 27th, 2011
1:21 pm
Not only do we beat Tech on the field, but apparently we’re doing it in the classroom as well.
PS – Richt is NOT on the hot streak and UGA will bounce back this year, thank you very much indeed.
I'm Just Saying
May 27th, 2011
1:41 pm
Morgan…bless your heart…most ugump players would be non-qualifiers at Tech…making good grades at underwater basket weaving may see like an accomplishment for dumb blonde actresses, but it is no BFD for the educated.
Grim Reaper
May 27th, 2011
5:44 pm
How hard is it to color inside the lines, go to remedial reading, amd weave a basket anyway?
Coach Grohbo
May 27th, 2011
8:33 pm
Weaving a basket is not easy.
It Ain't Rocket Science
May 27th, 2011
8:37 pm
Grim Reaper,
I am assuming that you are a graduate of some college with a 4.0 to show for it. You must be at least a CEO of a fortune 500 company. Otherwise, why would you think that you have the right to make such childish remarks about somebody else? I bet you are a techie.
GO DAWGS
Who are we kidding?
May 27th, 2011
9:05 pm
I had a class with a notable football player who went on to play in the NFL and make the probowl several times. 3 weeks into this particular class he sat next to me and asked what class it was. He proceded to ask a series of ridiculous questions, proving he had no idea what was going on in class. We had a test a day or so later…I did ok–but this clown, who did not know what class it was 3 days earlier, scored a 95 on the test. He laughed at me for not scoring higher. Turns out his tutor was also the TA in the class. So either that tutor helped him learn 3 weeks of Anthropology in 3 days or that player knew exactly what was on the test.
I am not making accusations this long after the fact…but would I have liked to have known exactly what was on the test? Of course I would have…especially considering the how stringent the academic progress team was that reviewed my records!
The football team’s academic progress and graduation rate is a complete farce. There are individuals on the football team that earn their degree…but I believe that the vast majority of them that receive degrees get them as payment for their time on the team–they do not earn them in the classroom.
Just Me
May 27th, 2011
9:33 pm
It Ain’t Rocket Science
That name says it all. No, it ain’t Rocket Science it is P.E., Pre-Business, and Housing. Congrats on those get job opportunities in your futures Dawg Players.
It Ain't Rocket Science
May 27th, 2011
10:42 pm
Just Me,
If that is their post in life so be it. Maybe, if they had not gone to UGA they wouldn’t have a chance at anything at all. Talking crap about young kids when you don’t even know them and feeling some sense of superiority shows me that you probably will never do anything other than make money in life. Try thinking about others, not as fortunate as yourself. I suppose that any of those so called failures to you, might look down at you if they make it in a professional sport, and their ill gotten talents make them wage earners 50 times over, what you will make in life. Envy, is a disease for some people.
UGA Grad
May 28th, 2011
2:51 am
The arrogance of Tech students and alumni is astounding. According to some of you, degree tracks that are related to teaching and/or the arts are little more than a waste of time and money.
I know that many of you feel like you have to rationalize your career choice by bragging about your income, and that’s fine. However, you DO NOT need to bash what others have chosen to do with their lives.
Personally, I’d rather beg for change than live a miserable existence where my only joys in life are flaunting my salary and constantly bashing anything and everything that has to do with UGA. You tell Georgia fans to get a life because they are passionate about their favorite collegiate sports teams. I would argue that you are just as passionate in your hatred for UGA.
Perhaps you should take your own advice and get a life. Either that, or piss off.
And one last thing:
Pompous comments do nothing to alleviate the absolutely embarrassing record GT has against UGA as of late. You can act like it doesn’t bother you, but if it didn’t you wouldn’t be reading a freaking column about UGA.
Go Dawgs.
The Truth
May 28th, 2011
7:39 am
Just me…
I dont what particular classes but I did have a cousin that took half of his classes at morehouse
Just Me
May 28th, 2011
10:48 am
The Truth
Prove it! You are full of crap. Your cousin was not taking classes at Morehouse while enrolled at TECH and getting credit for then at Tech. BS BS BS
Snoop Dawg
May 28th, 2011
11:02 am
With Waushaun Ealey quitting, this should put us above Florida next year, at least in this silly category. The purpose of football is GATA, and the Dogs are owned by the Gators and will be until we get a better coaching staff than they have. As long as the fan base continues to drink da Preacha Man’s sweet Koolaid every Sunday, that will not be in our lifetimes.
Buckeye
May 28th, 2011
11:31 am
We’re not all tatted thugs………
4 year APR of 985.
Chuck
May 28th, 2011
11:52 am
“Oh yea, when you have super easy majors like Housing (which about a third of the UGA football player are in – which isn’t housing construction by the way)”
Lol – do Tech fans really think a few players = one third of the team? No wonder the Olympic village is sinking – they are terrible at math.
Chuck
May 28th, 2011
11:57 am
And stop using the Princeton Review as a reference – it is subjective BS that has repeatedly been taken to task for using miniscule sample sizes to make sweeping generalizations.
And it has nothing to do with Princeton University. They needed a hook to leech some credibility.
Ron Hyatt
May 28th, 2011
1:41 pm
UGA. Blockhead morons who make Georgia the inbred morass it is.
It Ain't Rocket Science
May 28th, 2011
2:36 pm
Got your PHD do you Hyatt?
Effie's of Athens Boarding House
May 28th, 2011
2:36 pm
. . . . . . gotta beat Boise State . . . . . .
Magnolia, Tx Dawg
May 28th, 2011
3:57 pm
Congrats, UGA. Academics is more important than football. Call them stupid all you want. The proof is in the pudding.
Producer
May 28th, 2011
7:37 pm
Who cares if the “student athletes” are doing well in basket weaving? Give me a break! We watch them to give us wins on the gridiron and could really give a crap about anything else! And Richt is paid to give us wins on the football field and should have been fired two seasons ago for being incompetent.
dino man
May 28th, 2011
8:17 pm
what about winning some football games —-isnt that the idea of the whole deal? Every year we get the usual talk and BS————–then the losing comes.
I cut the cheese Uh Huh Uh Huh
May 28th, 2011
9:50 pm
They will still loose.
HOUDAWG
May 28th, 2011
10:16 pm
Interesting article ….. & simply validates the continued standards set @ UGA and the follow-up by Coach Richt and so many others out of the spotlight. Will say this to the Techies that always choose to demean ….. 1st, you don’t have a clue you arrogant little pricks, … 2nd , in my career I’ve seen numerous cases of folks out-working ( & out-thinking ) those ” degreed ” Techies ……. ten-fold. Get over yourselves …….
HOUDAWG
May 28th, 2011
10:24 pm
PS to Magnolia, Tx Dawg ….. I’m in Cypress …….
Rev. Dr. Wallace H. Richardson, Sr.
May 28th, 2011
10:42 pm
Mr Bradley, interesting article and I pray that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit abide in all individuals;parents,students,administration, faculty and staff, coaches, players, medical personnel, volunteers, and so many wonderful people who have chosen to become a family member of the. University of Georgia. My main reason I wanted to send this email to let my son, Wally Richardson know we are blessed as Wally’s parents to have him as one of our three sons.Wally has been a model for many young people, and some old people too. God Bless You Son.
Rev Dr. Wallace H. Richardson, Sr.
A.Bishop
May 29th, 2011
2:03 am
Grow up people and show some decency. If all you can do is get on here and hate and cut down one another then you are all more immature than my 4 year old nephew. Wow…this rivalries are not fun anymore.
mike
May 29th, 2011
7:09 am
they are in SCHOOL , so should they not be good students , oh thats right they should be paid.
paco gomez
May 29th, 2011
9:07 am
Finishing 2nd behind Vandy in the SEC is like being the most honest man on your prison cell block.
Autoslug
May 29th, 2011
10:59 am
Seriously hope classes Georgia Football Players are doing so well in will help them in later life when they no longer have football to fall back on. A college degree is a great accomplishment as long as it is tied to a meaningful career. We all know most of these players will not have an NFL career and payday–PREPARE FOR A LIFELONG SUCESSFUL CAREER PLEASE GENTLEMEN.
Hairy Dawg
May 29th, 2011
11:40 am
This just showing how Dawgs is always better than Tech busg in all things. The pointy head techmites cant even keeps up in classroom without getting smoked by Dawgs. Dawgs just better with dominants from running ownership of state and then we more Christian which helps in displaying talents.
wreckmaniac
May 29th, 2011
12:02 pm
Go nerds ! When you’re not competitive in football, you need to be able to do something.
An Inconvenient Truth for Dawgtards
May 29th, 2011
2:42 pm
You Dawg fans who keep repeating tech-Georgia scores like a mantra enjoy yourselves all you want. The thing is… Tech alumni and fans have lives that don’t depend entirely on what a bunch of kids does on Saturday afternoons. College sports are fun to follow, but the biggest reason for going to college is to get an education.
UGA fans don’t seem to care about anything but football, and they don’t care if their players are enrolled in silly majors that no parents who are paying the bills would send their kids to UGA for. The very few football and basketball players who graduate have no job opportunities and end up unemployed or working in menial jobs that hardly require a college degree.
Georgia Tech is a real school with serious academic standards, and that includes scholarshipped athletes. UGA has a long history of being a party school, where parents send their kids for an easy degree, even if the degree itself is practically worthless.
Jan Kemp exposed the crap going on at UGA with athletes being enrolled in courses a ten-year-old kid could pass. That was almost three decades ago, and nothing has changed. If anything, the abuses are more blatant today. Way too many illiterate morons are being recruited, and the very high arrest rate shows clearly that Richt does not care if his players have any morals or self-discipline.
The bottom line is that most Tech fans have very good jobs and productive lives that don’t depend on Tech’s football record for their happiness in life. It would be great to beat UGA more often, but when you put scholar-athletes up against dummy-athletes, it’s usually no contest.
It’s pretty pathetic to see UGA fans who typically have never been within miles of a college classroom and who live or die with UGA’s weekly results on the football field.
So keep on posting scores all you want, especially since you’re home with plenty of time on your hands. I wish you well, maybe you’ll get lucky and get your old job back at the Waffle House before your unemployment checks stop coming.
Saint Jan the Beloved
May 29th, 2011
2:46 pm
Attention, everyone, especially dawgtards. We will now observe a moment of silence in memory of our beloved Saint Jan Kemp, who exposed the shameful practices at UGA that were initiated and carried out by slimeball Vince Dooley. Dooley’s image as a coach and a nice guy were forever shattered during the trial, not to mention the one million dollars that dawgtards had to pay Saint Jan. These practices of recruiting morons and coddling them for four years, them tossing them out like garbage, are still going on, but at least the world knows what’s happening in Athens now.
And now, the moment of silence…
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Thank you, you may resume your normal activities now.
Bagwell
May 29th, 2011
4:46 pm
How many astronauts went to UGA?
Tutor
May 29th, 2011
7:00 pm
@ Dirty Bird, I tutor at GA Tech and they do indeed have soft majors. Take a look at hotel management. Exam question: You are having a banquet for 100 guests. How many baked potatoes do you need.
Just Me
May 29th, 2011
11:47 pm
From the getting schooled blog on Sunday May 29th.
I hope A Murray goes pro because his is the only UGA player with a psychology major.
“We found a [yearly] range from a high earnings capacity of $120,000 in petroleum engineering to a low in earnings of $29,000 in counseling psychology,” said Carnevale.
“That is a difference of more than 300 percent. Over a lifetime, we are talking about almost $5 million in earnings for the petroleum engineer to something that looks like $2 million for the people who become counselors and who don’t go on to graduate school,” he said.
In good news for Georgia Tech students, Carnevale said, “The engineering degree will be dominant at every level. You will beat out even people with graduate degrees in education.”
Just Me
May 29th, 2011
11:57 pm
Tutor
May 29th, 2011
7:00 pm
Well don’t keep us waiting. What is the answer? I am guessing it will depend on the menu being served. I am sure not everybody will get Steak and Baked Potato. Also I wouldn’t think the Hotel Manager would have to worry about the Menu at a Banquet. That should be the Chef’s problem.
tell me again
May 30th, 2011
8:31 am
I have worked with and aroound Tech people all of my life / I have been to Yale for a seminar and mingled with their kids and profs as well for a time……….Tech does not have anything going on that UGA doesn’t as far as producing smart, educated people who are prepared for life. If you want SMART and REEEEALLY educated – check out Yale – now THAT is an academic institution to brag about. But UGA ain’t bad
Bottom line is – all of this chest thumping about colleges is irrelevant – no matter what college you go to you can come out educated and ready to lead a life of continual study and discovery or you can get a degree with a prestigious name on it to which you can really make no claim. Leonardo Da Vinci never made it to Tech, UGA, Yale, Princeton or Harvard…but, I think he did quite well If you want to talk smack about ANY schools this year – check out the mighty Buckeyes! Seems like they (and Auburn) are having students come out of the woodwork to talk about all of their little NCAA violations. There is an INBRED CULTURE at those schools which promotes bad and illegal behavior. Is that what you want at UGA??? I don’t think so.
Braves 2011
May 30th, 2011
8:38 am
Mark, get a new column. I am tired of seeing this one everyday and i am a UGA fan. Come on?
RWBRebel
May 30th, 2011
10:52 am
If Tech restricted its students to Chem E, EE, or computer sciences, then the total student population would be around 250. Why do you think all these trash majors exist at Tech and UGA? Because fools will pay the same money for them as for a worthwhile degree.
NOBODYYOUKNOW
May 30th, 2011
11:20 am
Bla. Bla, Bla, Yadda, Yadda, Yadda, That makes as much sense as most of the crap on here.
Mike Bobo 17 INT
May 31st, 2011
9:15 am
Well UGA should be making the grade and graduating their players, you only have to color inside the lines to pass.
We Lost
May 31st, 2011
1:18 pm
Who cares? We need more thugs and less scholars. Until Richt is gone, I will no longer support this pathetic football program.
From the 2010 Fact Book
May 31st, 2011
2:31 pm
Management is the second most common major at Georgia Tech, with roughly 10 percent of the undergraduate student body. With 1,325 students enrolled, it is second only to Mechanical Engineering which has 1,597 students.
http://www.irp.gatech.edu/sites/www.irp.gatech.edu/files/2010_MiniFB.pdf
Pages 10-11
shankit
May 31st, 2011
2:59 pm
FYI, Mark Richt’s name is now in the pot amongst the Alumni in Columbus.
Bro Rogan
June 1st, 2011
11:51 am
“Don’t get me wrong, I love the idea of killing unwanted babies, it’s just that the idea of letting women make a decision doesn’t sit well with me.” – Matthew Stafford on abortion.
Yeah me
June 1st, 2011
1:35 pm
Lets see every schools classes of the players and their grades. It does not matter if they get help or not, I still need help sometings too. Lay it all on the table and see what blows away.
TAM
June 1st, 2011
3:43 pm
I’m pretty sure that you could trian a monkey to pass classes at uga, so if they weren’t making the grade, heads would have to roll… just saying.
TAM
June 1st, 2011
3:48 pm
*train… see. I read an article about uga and i forget how to spell
Remarkable
June 1st, 2011
4:11 pm
Mark, get a new article, PLEASE!!!!!