Athletic board buzzing about Georgia-Florida, too
Greensboro — As it does everywhere else in Bulldog Nation these days, the site of the Georgia-Florida game came up in Thursday’s meeting of the executive committee of the UGA Athletic Association board of directors at Lake Oconee.
UGA President Michael Adams and athletics director Damon Evans said, basically, that they are open-minded about what happens with the game after 2010 and that they’d like to make a decision by, say, late summer.
The best comment on the issue, though, came from board member Bob Bishop.
“I have very strong feelings about that, but the problem is I change my mind about once a week,” he said.
Adams indicated that comment crystallized a delicate decision.
“It’s not one of those [decisions] that is 90-10,” Adams said.
Another board member suggested Bulldog Nation might be divided 50-50 on the issue, to which Evans replied: “It changes a little bit [depending on] how we compete down there. The year in which we do well, I don’t hear as much about it. The year we lose, it’s, ‘We got to go.’”
While saying he has “no predisposition” one way or the other about where the game should be played after the current Jacksonville contract expires in 2010, Adams did reveal why, in years past, he has favored keeping it in Jax.
“The thing that has consistently driven me in that equation is all the folks in South Georgia who say this is their best chance to see a live game,” he said.
But Adams reiterated no decision has been made beyond 2010, and “we . . . are going to listen to folks on both sides of the equation.”
Since Georgia and Florida like to sign a new contract when existing deals get down to two games, Evans questioned whether a four-year contract — the typical length — is too short.
“It rolls around so fast,” he said. “I’d like to get to the point where this is it for a while.”
For those still wondering: No, the $40 million expansion of the football facilities at Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall — approved by the board Thursday — does not include the indoor practice facility (IPF) long sought by Mark Richt.
In fact, the Butts-Mehre project pushes the IPF onto the backburner, Adams said.
And yes, Richt was OK with that.
As much as he has advocated an IPF, he decided the massive expansion/renovation of Butts-Mehre was more important.
“Let me be clear about this,” Adams told the board. “The coach was given some options. This is what he chose. And a lot of things now move ahead of an indoor practice facility. With this $40 million expenditure in the near term for football, there are a bunch of other sports that are standing out there. . . . We’ve got to do some fan-serving facilities; we’ve got to make some basketball [improvements] and some other things that now move ahead of an indoor practice facility, given the decision to do this.”
Added Evans: “Everybody brings up indoor practice facility. We have done studies; we have traveled to other institutions. . . What it came down to for Mark was, what do the student-athletes touch every single day? This [Butt-Mehre] is where they are every day. An indoor practice facility is used [only] in inclement weather.”
The Butts-Mehre project, adding 53,000 square feet of new construction and renovating 23,000 square feet of existing space, will produce a massive new weight room, a new training room, new coaches’ offices, new meeting rooms and a large multi-purpose area that will be used for receptions and other functions and, on occasion, limited football drills. But that multi-purpose area, with synthetic floor, won’t be large enough or high-ceilinged enough to be an IPF, Evans said.
“What it will allow them to do is what they call walk-throughs,” he said. “Or they can go in there and do some other drill-type work.”
The Athletic Association board gets back together this morning at the Ritz-Carlton Lodge for a presentation by Mark Fox.
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JB
May 22nd, 2009
8:19 am
We need to take 5 mil of that money and hire the best defensive coach money can hire/buy and get serious about competing with Florida.
Sid
May 22nd, 2009
8:40 am
Home and home forever. Has nothing to do with the record in recent years.Get it on campus !!!This is college football !! Also, let Athens-Clarke County and Uga get some revenue at least once every other year.As for those poor folks in South GA, I’m disabled and,if I can get a ticket,will probably get there if in Athens much better than J’ville.What a stupid statement President Adams.Typical PR for you !!Going to run for Govenor or Senate next?
todd
May 22nd, 2009
8:42 am
So now your telling me we have athletic board members who want to hide under thier Ga gear and not own up to the fact that Jax, FL has nothing to do with the outcome of the game year in, year out.
Are they now talking that it is too hot in Jax. Poor ole, UGA has to go down and play in the Gator Bowl.
Raised in Jax, FL and a UGA grad in 1985, I fully remember Jax being no problem.
Now you can’t even get the Athl. Assoc. or MR to show up for a Bulldog meetng in Jax.
It really is embarassing and ashame it’s come to this, instead of simply just saying we’ve got to do a better job coaching and not playing tight
RedGADawg
May 22nd, 2009
8:48 am
Playing the game is South Georgia was a good reason, now if you are not a significant contributer you can not order tickets! So make it a four year rotation home and home then Jax and Atlanta. It would give UGA and FLA two years each when they could schedule major teams to play on a home and home basis. I am tired of paying big bucks for tixs, and have had tixs since 1975 to watch Tenn Tech, Coastal Carolina or ULA Lafayette. Waste of time and money!!!!! This type of rotation will make for better schedules, give South Georgia fans a great weekend in Big A, keep the JAX tradition alive and give us DAWG fans an opportunity to invade the swamp.
Mikey
May 22nd, 2009
9:06 am
Do not move the game. We just have to get our heads out of our ___ and stop being tight.
Moving the game is nothing short of surrendering to Gator Nation and I for one do not want to have the game moved and then listen to the BS for god knows how many years- “Dawgs had to move the game because you were chicken bleep to play us there”
We must simply man up and compete- no gimmicks- just compete!!!
UGASlobberknocker
May 22nd, 2009
9:06 am
I hope this thing never moves..but if it did..this rotation might work for everyone:
Jax/Athens/Jax/Gainesville/Jax, etc. forget the Ga Dome no one wants to come to Ga in Nov.
Instead Ga can play another regular season game there sometime ..
Then the city of Jax could then fill in the off years with an alternating FSU series (Miami would be a natural) Jax/Tallahassee/Jax/Miami.
I could live with that and Im diehard on the Jax site.
Saint Simons
May 22nd, 2009
9:26 am
45-42!!!!!!!!!! hahhahahahahahahahahahahahaahaha
Paul Hamilton
May 22nd, 2009
9:27 am
I really don’t care what they do with the game, but Florida does seem to have a small psychological edge and there is no denying it is basically a home game for them. Florida is very comfortable playing there as well. Georgia’s play on the field is to blame for each defeat, so changing the game will only make it a more level playing field for both teams on paper, and perhaps a bit in the head.
I honestly don’t understand the attraction with Jacksonville. Home and home series would be so much more meaningful and exciting for the fans.
DawgGirl32
May 22nd, 2009
9:31 am
…..why are we still talking about this…
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MOVE
May 22nd, 2009
9:39 am
ITS NEVER A HOME GAME FOR GEORGIA PERIOD. WE TRAVEL WAY TO FAR AND florida DOES NOT TRAVEL BUT WHAT ….;.A FEW HOURS? IT’S IN THE STATE OF florida!!!!
Hello
May 22nd, 2009
9:41 am
I cannot believe alumni, students, and fans would even hesitate to have the Georgia Florida game on the UGA campus every other year. Tailgate on campus and walk to the game. Plus 25,000 additional seats!
AltamahaDawg
May 22nd, 2009
9:47 am
ITS NEVER going home/home. Both schools would lose over a million to do that and I havent seen too many ADs that think that is a good idea. Can we go ahead and get over that? The only option is rotating to Atlanta on occation.
And the statement that the entire state of Georgia gets very little financial benifit from the game being in J-ville, is just factually incorrect.
And Sid, I appreciate your take on it, but let’s be honest, you, me everyone else, all have selfish agendas on this topic. Dr. Adams didn’t try to disguise anything to say that the folks in South Georgia have a personally motivated desire to have One game a year closer to them. How is that a stupid comment on his part? Was he somehow mistaken?
DawgMan
May 22nd, 2009
9:48 am
Richt needs to get Evans to move the game to Athens in the UGA home game years. That will be the best chance for the Dawgs to win. Florida just has too many advantages in jacksonville and it’s not fair to play them 50 miles from their campus, when they take a 1 hour bus trip to the game, while Ga has to travel hours on planes and buses. I’m tired of losing that game almost every year, so get it done.
foxdog
May 22nd, 2009
10:07 am
The “I’ll take my ball and go home crowd” makes me want to puke!
The “travel” excuse is just lame as hell. You think high schools all over the state of Georgia don’t ride buses for hours on Friday afternoon and then play the same night? These are 19-23 year old men in top shape. A one hour bus trip, 1 1/2 hour flight, overnight in a top hotel, and then a bus trip of less than an hour the next day should have zero effect.
Just quit whining….
jim carroll
May 22nd, 2009
10:22 am
As far as South Georgia fans seeing a “live game” in Jax, thy have to have season tickets and a very high contribution level to see it live.
PTC DAWG
May 22nd, 2009
10:26 am
Home/home will NOT give UGA an additional home game. We don’t/can’t play 4 non BCS conference patsies at home every year like many of our SEC foes.
Jax is where the game belongs. Give that up, and it’s just another home SEC game.
PTC DAWG
May 22nd, 2009
10:27 am
2ndly, as far as travel, just take 3 planes out of Epps EVERY year just like did last year when we played at Baton Rouge. It’s very simple.
leslie22h
May 22nd, 2009
10:44 am
What the Home-Home crowd fails to acknowledge is that the game in Jacksonville provides South Georgia with a much-needed economical boost. While my counterpart in Athens may see a little uptick in sales revenue with an extra home game every other year, my much smaller company (not to mention the dozens of hotels, motels, restaurants, etc.) here in South GA would suffer a devastating blow from the lost revenue in an otherwise “dead” time of the year. I’m not talking about a gameday boost, I’m talking about an entire week that benefits scores of businesses in the area.
Anyone who thinks the Jacksonville site perpetuates a bias in favor of UF must not remember 1970 – 1989 when we kicked Gator butt fifteen out of twenty games. I’ve lost count of how many Georgia-Florida games I’ve attended since I was a kid, but one thing has never changed… the crowd has always been 50-50 in the stadium, regardless of how many Florida fans actually reside in Jacksonville.
Something happened when Dooley stepped down as Head Coach… the tide shifted in Florida’s favor and Georgia’s dominance over Florida ended. Who should we blame for this? Ray Goff? Jim Donnan? Michael Adams? How about Steve Spurrier? I blame him, because he was the first truly effective coach against us and he left a solid program in place for his successors. The same cannot be said for Coach Dooley.
UGA’s lack of success against Florida is psychological. Many times over the last 20 years has Georgia fielded a better team against Florida only to fold like a cheap suit. The Home-Home crowd need not blame the venue.
murfdawg
May 22nd, 2009
10:50 am
Now is the time for all good Dawgs to rally and take back Jax.I cannot imagine what grief the gators will give us once they run us out of Jax. Then they will chase us to Athens, and kick our butts. Then they will chase us to the Ga Dome, where they will kick our butts. Then we will have to go to an undisclosed, double secret location to play, and watch them kick our butts. Grow up people and stand up to the gators and beat them in Jax(like we used to)!!! We need some leaders with guts and who will attack the problem head on, instead of running from it. I cannot imagine George Patton whining about having to fight the Germans in Argonne because it was too cold and too far from home. Evans, Richt and Adams need to stop whining and take back Jax and make it fun for the next generation of Dawgs.
stoopid
May 22nd, 2009
10:56 am
i for one do not wanna move anything!! these are all great points that people are makin. and sure, its an advantage for the gaytors being an hour away and playin in the “gaytor bowl” but think about this… what happens when we do all this bitc*in and get the game moved and then proceed to get our a$s waxed in our home state?? what happens then?? i cant even imagine the comments that would spew outta the folks wearin the jorts!!!!
St. Bernard
May 22nd, 2009
11:06 am
I’m interested to hear what Fox says.
Huh?
May 22nd, 2009
11:52 am
You guys have got some wonderful ideas. Just try harder and “man up?” Brilliant. Richt will kick himself for weeks for not thinking of this. Once these fail proof strategies are implemented Florida may not win another game against us again.
Good grief.
Reebok
May 22nd, 2009
12:25 pm
Tech fan here. Leave the Georgia-Florida game in Jacksonville. As a real football fan, I appreciate what makes the game special and I think it’s a great spectacle. See you on The Flats in November…
Luisb
May 22nd, 2009
12:35 pm
hahahah you guys are so gay, when UGA was on a win streak did the Gators try to change venues? no! Was UGA interested in moving the game home? NO! this stuff is cyclical, recruit better, play harder, and just win baby! That stadium is split down the middle every year, and it gets national attention every year, which is good for both programs, moving the game would be a mistake….stop crying.
IveyLeaguer
May 22nd, 2009
12:39 pm
I think a rotation between neutral sites Jacksonville & Atlanta would be great. And it has nothing to do with the W/L of either team, that’s funny paper stuff. I’ve seen firsthand both schools with their foot on the other’s throat, and there’s always a stupid minority that think the location greatly impacts the outcome of games. The only qualification is Atlanta would have to do it up right.
And I think they would. Not only that, they would outperform Jacksonville. That Atlanta group knows what they are doing, except they err in going for once per 4 years, IMO. They should go for straight rotation. I have no doubt the competition between Atlanta and Jacksonville would be great for the game, both schools, and really great for the fans. Fans would end up with all kinds of perks they’ll never get otherwise, with Jax and Atlanta trying to outdo each other by the next contract date.
The only negative I see is 5 or 6 thousand people will lose tickets every other year, about 3K per school. But IMHO, it would put the already great series on a level by itself, unequaled in sports. Yes, there would be Jax traditions that are broken (my family had a longstanding tradition), but all that would still be there every other year. It wouldn’t take long at all for those things to settle down.
What worries me is the series returning to a Home & Home. I’m very much against that. I’m against Athens and Gainesville being involved in any way (there’s some discussion about a H & H + an annual rotation, which is nuts, IMO). It’s important to keep the game at a neutral site. The concern is, should Florida be closed to discussion of a rotation, things could come to an impasse, and negotiations could get locked up.
If that were to happen, the series would go H & H by default.
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mightyKC
May 22nd, 2009
12:41 pm
dawggirl32, we’re still talking about this because it’s all UGA talks about in the offseason: how can we finally beat FL? we can’t just focus on getting better players or coaches, let’s try to put ex-lax in their gatorade or make their bus get a flat tire. oh wait, let’s move where the game is played. yawn.
jimmy
May 22nd, 2009
12:51 pm
take adams back to athens and let the athletic director and coach handle the situation
mdbatl
May 22nd, 2009
1:00 pm
If we want to throw up the white flag, we can move the game to Atlanta or home and home. Admit it- that’s the only reason this is even on the table. When we won in 2007, no one complained about Jacksonville. I’m a student at Georgia, and as long as I’ve been alive, Florida has done nothing but whip our butts save for 4 exceptions. But, like anyone who has followed the team for a long time, I recognize the history and tradition of the game in Jacksonville. Granted, the Red River Shootout is less cyclical than the WLOCP, but I’ve never heard any whines from Oklahoma fans about moving the game because of Texas’s “unfair advantage.” Moving from Jacksonville would be a completely cowardly gesture that would give Florida leverage over us for years to come.
I love and respect Mark Richt, but his opinion on this reflects that of someone not very familiar with Georgia football. I understand he wants to beat Florida, but he should focus more putting a better game plan on the field than complaining about the venue.
I get the feeling that the vast majority of the Bulldog Nation opposes a move from Jacksonville, but those who want the game out of Florida are just much, much more vocal. I know, as a student, we love our 3-day weekend to Jacksonville or St. Simons. I know there are multitudes of alumni that, like Tony Barnhart said in his column a few days ago, circle this game and weekend on the calendar to catch up with old friends, tailgate, and reminisce. Giving away all of that because we’re scared of Urban Meyer would, for the first time, make me ashamed to be a Bulldog.
rtgator
May 22nd, 2009
1:05 pm
Leslie22h puts the issue into the clearest context. I am a gator, born and raised in Jax. and a UF grad ‘71. For twenty years the Dawgs waxed our behinds. And guess where they won those games. Yep, in Jax. One of my dearest friends played QB for Ga. in the 50’s and is sick of the the Dawg faithful and their whining. Next to The Red River Rivalry the Ga./Fla. game is Jax. is the greatest off campus rivalry in college football. The economic impact to N. Fla. and S. Ga. is beyond debate. Ga. just needs to man up and get competitive. By the way I believe the series went home and home during the refurbishment of the G. Bowl. Believe it was Spurrier’s “half a hundred” game in Athens. Pretty much the same in Gainesville. The Dawgs recruit as well as anyone. Just coach those kids up and get going.
Rick S
May 22nd, 2009
1:17 pm
I am proud and excited that the UGA Board voted to invest 40 million dollars to expand Butts-Mehre and believe this will be great for the players and a good recruiting tool, but here is my list of facility enhancement priorities:
1) New (not rennovated) Basketball Arena
2) New Baseball Stadium
3) Widen the concourses, add new restrooms and eating places, and enclose the end zone in front of the bridge at Sanford Stadium. (Tennessee has a massive multi-phase project underway to rennovate Neyland Stadium, LSU and Florida also have major construction projects underway to their Football Stadiums, so if Georgia is to remain competitive with not only the facilities but recruiting, it’s time to step-up and and at least lay out a plan for the future)!
4) Indoor Practice Facility for Football
AltamahaDawg
May 22nd, 2009
1:19 pm
Jim, you can’t be serious.
Leslie22h, that is a very valid wrinkle to finacial debate. No way would everyone still come into town and start spending money the week before the game, as they do now in the Golden Isles. Can’t agree on the “many times” upset losses though. It’s not psychological as much as it is physiological.
PTC, I have wondered that all year. Just fly direct out of Athens, now that it’s possible. I’d be willing to bet that the expence to do that is one of the things they force the City of J-ville to cover in the new contract. That should completely end any rational discussion of travel time.
Huh? Obviously it’s all about adjusting. Oh and not being unprepared. Wait. That first, then the adjusting thing.
Gators0086
May 22nd, 2009
1:26 pm
Having grown up in Jax and attended UF, there is one small but overlooked change the occurred in 1990 that most people do not even realize occurred but I beleive had a huge impact on why we have dominated the rivalry the last two decades. One of the first things Steve Spurrier did when he ws hired was he had the artifical turf removed from Florida Field and replaced with grass. For years the Gators were used to playing on turf in Gville while the Dawgs always played on grass in Athens. When we got to Jax, our speed advantage and the way our players cut and the angles they took to tackle were nuetralized (remember “Run Linsdey Run”). The Dawgs didn’t have the same problem. The Gators could never get accustomed to the difference between the two surfaces. Florida in the 70’s and 80’s had a dismal record of playing away games on grass and a pretty good record of playing away games on turf. I truely beleive this had a significant impact on the rivalry and I beleive the Ole Ball Coach new it as well.
Obama hates Cheney's bald head the most
May 22nd, 2009
1:30 pm
WE SHOULD JUST WATERBOARD THE GATORS SORRY ARSES AND THAT WOULD KEEP THEM FROM HANING 49 ON US NEXT YEAR; F WHERE WE PLAY, LEAVE IT IN JAX FOREVER!!!!!!
WWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!! Thats me slapping the pi$$ out of Cheney’s bald head.
Obama hates Cheney's bald head the most
May 22nd, 2009
1:32 pm
Oh and Rick S, closing the bridge at the staduim is a HORRIBLE idea and has no effect on recruiting. I don’t care about being like the other stadiums, i like ours; BAD IDEA.
gdawginkalamazoo
May 22nd, 2009
1:40 pm
Moving the game to the ATL or Athens does not give UGA the “best chance” to win. We have the “best chance” to win by putting the better team on the field, preparing them and coaching them up with a better game plan on offense, defense AND special teams. If we do that we can win ANYWHERE.
Lee Dawg
May 22nd, 2009
1:44 pm
I don’t think the game should be moved. It is a tradition! Georgia just needs to play better against the Gators! As far as tickets go, I live just north of Jax. and have not been able to get my hands on one of those suckers yet!
hop
May 22nd, 2009
1:50 pm
the time has come to make the move just as georgia did when it moved the auburn game from columbus back to a home and home.
georgia continues to have scheduling problems in having enough home games; you make the change and the problem is gone.
jacksonville makes a ton of money far more than south georgia and we need to have that money reinvested back into georgia.
jarchangeladidas
May 22nd, 2009
2:09 pm
I have a great idea…play the game in Athens EVERY year. I don’t want to hear any more excuses about nothing. When Dooley owned the GATORS there was no cring what so ever. Now all of a sudden its a home game for UF. Riiiight!!! Just move the game to Athens and get it over with. Because of that stunt CMR pulled in 07, Urban hates ur guts the same way Steve did. You garabedawgs do remember what Spurrier did in Athens don’t you? Go GATORS!!!
Ed
May 22nd, 2009
2:16 pm
Georgia needs to toughen up, in my opinion. I suggest hiring Dick Cheney as defensive coordinator. Or maybe hire his daughter, Liz. Them tell to get after the Gators the way they’ve gone after Obama and the liberal press lately.
mexdawg
May 22nd, 2009
2:22 pm
You move this game and you surrender recruiting of south Georgia to FSU and to some extent UF.I kid you not,this game IS THAT IMPORTANT.I for one do not want to take that chance.Coach move this game and it will cause you your job within 3 years.THINK ABOUT IT.Just go down to jax and take care of business.GATA.Your good enough to beat Myer anywhere.Hell Dooley did it all the time.Lets go and remember LET THE BIG DAWG EAT.
Huh?
May 22nd, 2009
2:24 pm
What’s the point. We’ll probably just lose to the Gators as usual again. I’m sick of it! Fire Willie Martinez! This is really starting to get to me. Losing to Florida and Tech in the same year is stupid. I’ve been over on the Tech boards given those nerds hell about it since November. They know what’s coming…they know what’s about to hit them. Cox is about to hit them right in the mouth. Wait…did that sound bad?
AltamahaDawg
May 22nd, 2009
2:39 pm
The other change that affected the game when they hired Steve Spurrier was the hiring of Steve Spurrier.
SoCal Dawg
May 22nd, 2009
2:45 pm
Not everyone that wants the game moved wants it because of a lack of fairness. There’s a large number of us that want it changed so we could try to fit in some power houses that we have no chance of playing other wise i.e. Texas, SoCal, Ohio St., and the list goes on. I want to move but this should be the ONLY reason we do it not because it’s too hot.
Cuz
May 22nd, 2009
2:49 pm
Altamaha, once again you amaze me with your profound profundity.
IveyLeaguer
May 22nd, 2009
2:49 pm
[This is a follow-up post to the one above.]
I want to emphasize and underscore the fact that these negotiations are not about how we can beat Florida, as I mentioned above.
Notwithstanding that fact, Florida does have an inherent location and logistics advantage that has the ability to translate itself into game performance. That wasn’t really true in the past and has just now, in the past few years, become a factor in college football.
That’s because top college teams are much more sophisticated than in the past. Technology has been the backbone and the catalyst behind these changes, and the effects are multi-dimensional. For example, game film can be broken down in a matter of a few hours (I’m guessing) and acquired in a matter of minutes even if you’re on an airplane, bus, or automobile (not guessing). Teams are managing and converting every quarter-hour of the week into production using sophisticated time-management techniques which translate into everything from coaches getting a head start on a game plan to the accumulative rest of players for the week. And these things are now becoming part of the competitive process.
I haven’t talked to him, but I think it’s pretty obvious this is where Coach Richt is coming from. It’s getting to the point where, added up, these things become a factor. Now I don’t think this advantage has had anything to do with the outcome of any Georgia-Florida game so far, and I’m pretty sure nobody in Butts-Mehre thinks that, either. But if technology has brought us to the point to where it is now possible for a game location to really matter, why would you give your #1 rival that advantage EVERY year, knowing sooner or later it will affect performance in a game and perhaps even the outcome of the game, regardless of whether or not you can quantify and qualify the result?
If you and I were dead even as tennis players and were to meet in a high-stakes tournament next week, and the rules gave me an extra 8-hour day to watch film and prepare for your tendencies, plus an entire extra day to rest-up mentally and physically, would you not feel I had some degree of unfair advantage?
Well that’s pretty much what happened at last year’s Georgia-Florida, the result of Georgia playing in Baton Rouge @ 3:30 (which was lucky because it wasn’t 7:00 or 7:45) and Florida playing a home game vs. Kentucky. There are even more little things that factor in. Now Georgia lost the game last year because it lacked heart, discipline, toughness and leadership, and because Florida had all that. And for no other reason. But because of technology, sooner or later a game(s) is going to come down to the little things. It’s only a matter of time. Who among us would doubt the advantage of the open-date in this series? Anyone who does should simply look at the record for the past 30 or more years. The baby-fresh logistical advantage will never have the impact of an open-date. But it is now a reality, and a factor, regardless of whether we accept it.
In today’s major college football, if you mismanage logistics, including time, you will soon find yourself falling behind. But in the SEC, you can only manage what you are given and there is precious little you can control. Why then, should Georgia give Florida a perpetual logistic advantage in the series when it has the power to do otherwise?
A Home & Home series would level the playing field but that’s a bad idea for a number of reasons. A Jacksonville game with a rotation in Atlanta every 4 years is better than nothing, but what is that? It should be a straight rotation. It’s another long post, but the Atlanta Sports Council needs to step up to the plate with an attractive proposal that will more than compete with Jacksonville. Everything is there for the game to be at least as attractive for the fans. The game would still be in Jacksonville every other year. No tradition has to be lost, only modified. And the opportunity to enhance or add to current traditions is there for all, especially for Florida people.
This decision needs to be an administrative one, not a popularity contest. Georgia should do what it is in the best interest of its program. And other than the regrettable 3K lost seats every other year, the fans need not be affected. It will be different, but the enjoyment and excitement can be better than ever.
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Cuz
May 22nd, 2009
2:50 pm
When is it too hot on Halloween? Maybe in Australia.
ray
May 22nd, 2009
3:32 pm
Interesting rationalizing here. I can’t see UF agreeing to playing in Atlanta. Gator fans aren’t going to go to Atlanta in Nov., especially when odds are they’ll be back in another 5 weeks to play a more important game. Crowds in GA Dome would be least 65/35 in dawgs favor, so there is no incentive for Florida to not just play home and home.
As far as economic impact, I lived in Atlanta for over 30 years, went to Jax every year to the game. I only stayed in Jax one time. Too many drunk students barking and barfing all night. I always stayed in Savannah, Brunswick, even Valdosta, always in Georgia, though. The net loss to the state economy would be huge if it went home and home; far fewer hotel nights, lost gasoline and alcohol tax revenues, etc.
This game is special now, like a bowl game in mid-season. Home and home, it becomes Auburn, Tennessee, Alabama, LSU, just another big SEC game. Do you really want that?
CrimsonRedScarlett
May 22nd, 2009
3:43 pm
Has anyone bothered to find out how the students feel about this?
Cuz
May 22nd, 2009
4:04 pm
Students, what students?
TheItalianDawg
May 22nd, 2009
4:07 pm
I live in Jacksonville and I say the game is in no way neutral, it clearly gives Florida an advantage, and I suggest playing it in athens and gainsville or Atlanta and jax.
Dawgstephen
May 22nd, 2009
4:08 pm
JAX has NOTHING TO DO WITH WINS AND LOSSES!!!!
ITS THE WEEK OFF THE GATORS HAVE GOTTEN SINCE 1991!!!!
Cuz
May 22nd, 2009
4:20 pm
Well that and they seem to have a better team or gameplan.
Leon Trotsky
May 22nd, 2009
4:22 pm
Ivy Leaguer
Dang, that was like reading War and Peace
FloridaDawg
May 22nd, 2009
4:28 pm
After reading all of the comments from you UGA fans who think moving the game home and home would bring more wins…you make me “appreciate” Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie even more.
They fought to the bitter end and held on to the Alamo as long as the could breath.
You people who want to move the game would have surrendered when you heard the first command to start firing.
smyrna-dawg
May 22nd, 2009
4:36 pm
Unfortunately, it is very simple decision for the people involved (tradition be damned). It will be made based on guaranteed revenues for UGA and UF over the term of the contract. If there is more money to be made with a Jax/Atlanta rotation, that is what will happen.
Hugh Durham
May 22nd, 2009
4:37 pm
God forbid they move this to home and home and some people lose an opportunity to get drunk on a beach for a week. For the love of a week-long bender these “fans” are willing to give a home field advantage every other year away – simply idiots.
anotherdawg
May 22nd, 2009
4:44 pm
Thank you Dawgstephen! An off week does not guarantee a win, but it definately makes a big difference. If you go back to the Dooley years, you will find Vince was smart enough to recognize that and UGA usually took that week and won. For some reason, we have gotten away from that. But, you better believe Meyer has figured it out. Instead of us, Fla has been taking that week for extra prep and rest. Of course, UGA has got to get back to a pressure defense instead of that read and react thing that has failed miserably
KingGator
May 22nd, 2009
5:18 pm
One thing not yet offered that would solve this is- get rid of Mark Richt and bring back Vince Dooley!!
I grew up in G’ville, FL and have been going to this game since the ’70’s. Win or lose, I never once recall Dooley complaining about the location of this game
Saint Simons.
May 22nd, 2009
5:53 pm
This will be a nice addition to the GA facilities. It should help with recruiting as well.
Good luck to Dawg Nation…
braveswin
May 22nd, 2009
6:01 pm
The venue where the game is played doesn’t decide who wins, the players and coaches and sometimes ol’ Lady Luck are the determining factors. If the place sells out every year (and it does) it ain’t the venue that is the source of all this mention of moving the game. As a UGA grad and fan there is nothing sweeter than a win in Jax and I’m sure most Gator fans feel the same. Yes the series has turned toward Fla lately but I wouldn’t want the game moved because of that. Hats off to Fla for making the plays that beat us and pox on UGA if we can’t figure out how to turn this series back in our favor soon. The talent is there, I think it is the belief that we can win against Fla that is missing for now. But that too will come back around. Until then tip your cap to the hated Gators and keep supporting the Dawgs
john
May 22nd, 2009
6:05 pm
I’d like to see the game moved to home and home but it has nothing to do with the win/loss record between the teams. However, it’s never going to happen. This game is going to stay in FL and they will probably sign a 10 or 15yr deal.
As for beating FL, not while Martinez is at UGA, unless, of course, FL has some major injuries to their OL that Martinez can capitalize on.
Saint Simons
May 22nd, 2009
7:14 pm
hahaaahahahahaahaha 45-42!!!!!!
Saint Simons
May 22nd, 2009
7:16 pm
i guess uga will want to stop playing TECH in 3yrs!
Georgia hicks are crybabies
May 22nd, 2009
7:59 pm
boohoo move the game because uga can’t beat uf. uga didn’t complain when they were beating uf and neither did uf. keep crying mutt fans. richt said the weather was too hot in jax? boohoo richt never complained about the weather while at florida state. keep your dumb ass coach.
Ringleader
May 22nd, 2009
8:11 pm
Well, lets be fair and square about this. The only way you can compare would be to play at the Georgia Dome for the next 50 years ansee how it matches up to the past 50 years in Jacksonville. That is the only way to do a real comparison.
john '90
May 22nd, 2009
10:01 pm
Ivy Leaguer: Enjoyed both of your posts. Very insightful, researched and much “higher brow” than many of these submissions. However, to quote Vince Lombardi, “Winning Changes Everything.” Pertaining to this discussion, the “change” would be no more discussion of moving this game.
It is a classic, in the truest sense of the word. It shouldn’t be moved, but Dawg Nation, specifically the corps of 22 on the field must be MOVED to annihilate Florida.
The “thing” that is missing is the FIRE of the early ’80’s teams. Particularly a Junkyard Dawg D. Agreed on all Martinez posts. Who was the last opposing receiver, Gator or otherwise, who feared going across the middle…not since Greg Blue, Thomas Davis, Sean Jones or Terrel Bierra. Bones underneath that wretched florida blue is what needs to be MOVED!
Go Dawgs!!!!! Dawg Nation is behind you ALWAYS!
Ga Heel
May 22nd, 2009
10:57 pm
Saint Simons… hahahahahaha!!! 28-7, does this mean you want to stop playing the Heels in the next 3 years. Idiot
IveyLeaguer
May 22nd, 2009
11:55 pm
“Ivy Leaguer
Dang, that was like reading War and Peace”
LOL. Sorry, Trotsky, hope it was more interesting …
~~~
Bulldawg
May 23rd, 2009
1:46 am
Yes, we do need a new Basketball Gym, instead of that old cow palace built by and for the Agricultural School on their campus.
But, we also need an Indoor Practice Facility. It seems like it has rained every day this year.
The IPF will NEVER go on some damn back-burner. It will always remain FRONT and CENTER.
As for what some Florida grad has to say about the location of the choice of The University of Georgia for our Home Field every other year, I could care less. The real issue is that if the folks in South Georgia want us to continue to have the game at 1 Gator Bowl Boulevard so they can go to 1 game a year, or what it does for the Economy Down There, maybe we should just Move The University of Georgia and Sanford Stadium to South Georgia, if that would make them happy ?
2 Dawgs
May 23rd, 2009
4:17 am
Wife and I are both UGA grads, and we’ve never seen a Georgia/Florida game except on TV. Home-Home would be best like all the other SEC games.
Hunk Erdown
May 23rd, 2009
5:37 am
If the reason for changing the site is about being more competitive then forget the site and concentrate on making a bye week every year before the game.
I, personally, would prefer the game to be a home/home match. I think all conference games should be home/home, but the history and tradition outweigh what I want personally. If its truly about keeping the game available for S. Georgians to see a live game, then make a way for those people to buy a ticket for that game without having to mortgage the farm. I am also sympathetic to business owners and boosters who have invested in property to support the venue, and that is what will ultimately keep the game there anyway.
The last reason to change the venue is because we “might be” more competitive at home. That could backfire big time. The only change I would like to see is that we make it a permanent bye week to our schedule the week before. That is a great strategic time of the season to recoup, rest up, and heal up for the final push and I think history proves that out.
HH
May 23rd, 2009
7:45 am
They could move the game to Richt’s or Adam’s back yard and it would make no difference. Richt needs to get serious and hire some competent coordinators and quit worrying about whether Martinez will have a job when they, and I don’t mean Richt, can him at Georgia. Old Urban will continue to have Richt’s number until Richt gets serious about competing. Its up to Richt.
MikeyDaTigha
May 23rd, 2009
7:46 am
st simons 38-3..I bet it still hurts huh??
k
May 23rd, 2009
8:05 am
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Cuz
May 23rd, 2009
9:05 am
No.
bobby
May 23rd, 2009
10:00 am
I think the recruiting edge we hold over other schools other than Fla would change.These recruits watch the game in jax.on Sat and see it as a bowl game during the year.
AltamahaDawg
May 23rd, 2009
10:02 am
Speaking on behalf of South Georgia, we feel like Athens is the traditional location for the University of Georgia and would not like to see it moved. Also, we care about our brethren in North Georgia, and would not want their local economy to suffer such a setback as they rely on the boost from the many many games that are played in Athens. So sadly, but unselfishly, we must reject your generous and heartfelt offer.
Really?
May 23rd, 2009
10:29 am
Please tell me how this is a home game for UF? The stadium is filled 50/50 with UGA and UF fans. The Dawgs have an hour flight and the Gators have an hour drive. It does not matter that UF has an additional 50k fans outside of the stadium tailgating. Do you guys really think that if the game would have been in Athens last year we would have beat the Gators. Not a chance! It doesn’t matter where the game would have been played last year UF would have kicked are butts. The game is perfect in Jax.
Hoodrat
May 23rd, 2009
11:02 am
It is a home game when one team travels about 80 miles and the other travels about 370!
Boss Hogg
May 23rd, 2009
11:04 am
If Saint Richt would quit whining like a girl about Jax being a home game for UF (they drive, we fly, etc), then maybe UGA would have more success versus UF. BTW, the series went home & home when the Gator Bowl was being renovated. How did that go? Not too good. SOS hung half a hundred on Ray Goof in Athens. Vince Dooley NEVER complained about Jax. As far as the open date making a difference, it sure helped against Tech last year, didn’t it.
doyouremember
May 23rd, 2009
11:32 am
does anyone remember when spurrier put have a hundred up in athens? do you remember when gator fans left their seats and began grabbing pieces of the hedges to take home as souveniors?
how many games since 1990 did georgia have the better team?
honestly.
doyouremember
May 23rd, 2009
11:33 am
oops…..half a hundred
Hunk Erdown
May 23rd, 2009
1:34 pm
Well, its a done deal… Altamaha has spoken.
Honestly, if it were to ever change, I sure don’t want it in the dome. It would be an hour and a half closer for me, but I’d rather drive the extra distance just to be in Athens rather than fool with downtown Freaknik-ville. It would suit me just fine to never, ever have to park my vehicle inside 285 again. Everytime I do something gets stolen. If it wasn’t for a few of my old huntin’ and military buddies wanting to meet at the Pink Pony to throw a few back you wouldn’t ever see me in that crime pit again.
Hunk Erdown
May 23rd, 2009
1:39 pm
And by the way, as a resident, it made me proud to see lawyers on television yesterday saying “If you want to start a crime spree, don’t do it in Paulding County, those people don’t fool around.”
BG
May 23rd, 2009
3:55 pm
The GA Fl game is a home game for UF. The game needs to be played one year in Atlanta and one year in Jacksonville. This would make the game more fair.
gatordowneast
May 23rd, 2009
4:10 pm
Todd and several other Bulldog posters have it 100% correct. Its not the “site of the fight”, its the “fight in the dog.” Vince Dooley did not make excuses. Don’t know who the athletic director was then but he likely did not either.
As long as Damon and MR make excuses, it gives their guys an out. I read comments by both Buck Belue and John Lastinger. Both said they never felt FL had any advantages by playing the game in Jax and both were opposed to ever moving it. (and they both said they know of no player they played with or fans they’ve spoken to who want to move the game.
If UGA admin wants to play a game in the dome every year…just win the SEC east. I personally love watching the Gators play in the dome…in December not October or November!
SECGurl
May 23rd, 2009
6:54 pm
It needs to be home and home.
Lenny in Ludowici
May 23rd, 2009
8:38 pm
Okay, I’ve got the solution to the whole problem. Spurrier’s about fed up with the whole South Click scene. Players think they’re first round picks, go early in the draft, and don’t even get drafted. Constant discipline problems. Etc.
Hire Spurrier. After all, he’s the one that got this whole losing in Jacksonville thing started.
Jax Dawg Fan
May 24th, 2009
9:04 am
As a Ggeogia fan and a Jacksonville resident, I can not imagine the Georgia-Florida game anywhere but Jacksonville. This game is neutral, literally fans are divided by the middle of the end zones. The major reason that Georgia is considering a change to alternating in Atlanta or Home & Home or any possible change, it will be to break the Steve Spurrier curse. He turned this series around for Florida. Steve Spurrier out-coached Georgia during his entire coaching career at Florida. But not just on the football field. He also focused on winning this game as much as possible off the football field. He convinced the Florida schedule-makers to take a bye week before the Georgia game giving his team extra time to heal and plan. During this painful stretch for our Bulldogs we were primarily out-coached and out-played. But remember these numbers:
• From 1990-1993 Steve Spurrier vs Ray Goff, enough said. Florida went 4-0
• Since the 1994 season Florida has had these 2 weeks to prepare in 1994-2003 and Florida went 9-1.
• Since 2004 Georgia has had 2 weeks to prepare twice (in 2004 & 2007) and went 2-0. When Florida had 2 weeks to prepare, they went 2-0. Florida was 1-0 with 1 week to prepare last season.
How does Mark Richt turn this around? “Coach ‘em up” as the ole ball coach use to say. Outplay them on the field first and foremost. That is the main thing. And take a play from Steve Spurrier’s playbook and work your schedule to Georgia’s advantage with the week off before Jacksonville as often as you can. It sure has not hurt Florida with this current strategy of scheduling.
The Georgia-Florida game is a mid-season bowl game that makes the whole country green with envy. It helps recruiting nationally because of the additional coverage. Georgia and Florida fans love the tradition and plan vacations around this special event.
Now is the time to take it to the next level with Jacksonville. Every third year in the Spring should be a Georgia-Florida weekend with other sports. A great sports weekend could include:
• Friday: Women’s Tennis @ 10:00 (Ponte Vedra) and Men’s Tennis @ 2:00 (Ponte Vedra)
• Friday: Baseball @ 6:00 (Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville)
• Saturday: Baseball @ 6:00 (Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville)
• Sunday: Baseball @ 1:00 (Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville)
Wouldn’t it be nice to do this every 3 years! Another feather in the cap for recruiting for both teams and for the leadership at both universities to make this happen. Talk about taking the Georgia-Florida tradition a step further. A definite win-win-win for Georgia, Florida and Jacksonville. What is stopping us? Take a play from Vince Dooley’s playbook and get everything you can from Jacksonville when the contract is up for renewal. It is not about the money. It is about tradition. The end result should be to add to this legendary game, not take away from it.
Moving the game to Atlanta could make this game a nightmare for the ages…imagine losing to Florida in Atlanta or Athens. What will our excuse be then?
dawgfan197046
May 24th, 2009
10:10 am
If the folkes in Hayhira and Willacoochee can’t afford to go Athens then play the game in Tallahasee when FSU is on the road. That will get Urba’s panties in a wad. Then he will know what a “nuetral” field feels like.
AltamahaDawg
May 24th, 2009
10:49 am
HunkerDown, how can you say that about such a wonderful experience as football in Downtown Atlanta? Although in 25 plus years I have yet to see it, I keep hearing about those rude J-ville police everywhere. You damn sure dont have to worry about that in Atlanta do you?
WHY DO MUTTS BARK? CAUSE BEES STING
May 24th, 2009
2:17 pm
FIRST OF ALL YOU MUTT FANS,YOU NEED FOR THE SOUTH GEORGIA ATHLETES TO STOP GOING TO FLORIDA AND FLORIDA ST THAT`S WHY UGAY CAN`T WIN IN JAXVILLE
DawgSlash
May 24th, 2009
4:06 pm
Georgia should move the game, so they can win more. In Jacksonville, they don’t play well, but will play a lot better in Athens with a big crowd behind them.
Jimmy
May 24th, 2009
7:14 pm
If we want to beat Florida, forget home and home. How about we just trade players? ha!
BUZZ
May 24th, 2009
7:19 pm
Class versus Crass
This just in: Georgia Tech will host yet another NCAA Baseball Regional and the University of Georgia will NOT.
Other regional sites: Arizona State, UC Irvine, Cal State Fullerton, Clemson, East Carolina, Florida, Florida State, LSU, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rice, Texas, and TCU.
Another 45-42 in my opinion.
Jim morrison
May 24th, 2009
8:47 pm
Funny that Ga will not win again this year in Jax.
3 NC Ships.
LOL
GO GATORS!
Army Vet
May 24th, 2009
9:12 pm
I don’t think it really matters where the UGA/UF game is played…the results will be the same. UF will beat UGA as bad as it wants to.
WHY DO MUTTS BARK? CAUSE BEES STING
May 25th, 2009
9:29 am
THE REASON WHY UGAY CANT BEAT FLORIDA IS BECAUSE ONCE THE UGAY RECRUITS GET TO GEORGIA THEY TURN INTO A SISSY CRYBABY LIKE COACH RICHT,WHY WAS`NT HE COMPLAINING ABOUT THE HEAT WHEN HE WAS A QUARTERBACK FOR U OF MIAMI,OR THE O.C. AT FLORIDA ST. YOU MUTT FANS WILL NEVER CATCH THE BUMBLE NATIONAL TITLES TOTAL OF 5 REMEMBER US NERDS HAVE 4 MORE NATIONAL TITLES IN FOOTBALL THAN YOU MUTTS DO.
NorthAveEngineer
May 25th, 2009
10:54 am
The City of Jacksonville should have special rules that will allow UGA to play the game in Jacksonville only when they have a good chance of winning, such as when the Florida quarterback is hurt or the week after the Florida coach has been fired. That way, the fans will be happy and want to come back in other “winnable” years. In other years, Ga should get to play the game wherever they want, including Athens, Atlanta or even Clarke Central High School! Don’t worry though—Damon Evans is a master negotiator and will get the best possible deal for the Dawgs!
Erk Russell
May 25th, 2009
11:23 am
EXCUSES, EXCUSES! Georgia has become a bunch of whiny babies. It was not an issue for 60 years. Then when Georgia decided to replace Coach Dooley with Goofball, instead of me, the program started declining. Where is Goff and Donnan coaching now. And yeah, Richt is a good coach, but not a great one. He has to resort to tricks to motivate his players.
Leave the game in Jacksonville and bring in a coach that will build men into football players, bot boys making excuses. Florida knows they are going to win, because that is the mindset the coaches have built down there.
Ozzfest
May 25th, 2009
2:01 pm
Since I go to SSI & JAX just about every year for the game, it is hard for me to image that very many of the fans who ACTUALLY ATTEND the game have much to complain about. It is a killer scene. Period.
The Truth
May 25th, 2009
2:25 pm
How about the game be played in the Ga dome EVERY year?? How many Florida fans would accept that? Whats that…. no one!? Ok so why are so many people so willing to give FL homefield advantage every year??
Supporting the game in Jax every year is just as dumb as supporting the BCS.
But i guess thats why college football remains the JOKE that it is…. really really dumb fans who can never come together to do anything meaningful like protest against all the POINTLESS bowl games by not showing up!
Fools Gold
May 25th, 2009
6:23 pm
Seems that UGA needs to start recruiting good players for their sport programs instead of spending the money foolishly. I mean the football team is getting blown out by the Big Boys of the SEC . The basketball program is a complete embarrassment and the baseball team is now the laughing stock of the SEC. LSU with that 16 – 0 beat-down was just total annihilation. Keep that bus warm in the Tallahassee baseball regionals mutts cause its gonna be a quick exit!
Saint Simons.
May 25th, 2009
7:18 pm
my parents caught me on the computer after hours (8pm). I guess I’m due for my spanking…
Go Dawgs!
Edith
May 25th, 2009
9:05 pm
It is good for Georgia’s recruiting that we play this game in Jax. We are starting to get really good prospect from Florida. All this talk is really to get a better deal from Jax for the game. It will stay in Jax don’t worry.
Alfred Neuman IV,Summa Cum Laude,UGA'90
May 25th, 2009
10:33 pm
The game should alternate sites between Quito & the North Pole. That way, no one could complain about the temperature disadvantage & we might be able to hold UF to less than 50 on the years we play at the North Pole.
Bulldawg
May 26th, 2009
5:49 am
If the ACC is such a great Baseball Conference, why are there MORE teams from The SEC in the NCAA Baseball Tournament than there are from the ACC ?
It is because there are 5 ACC baseball teams, one less than half the league, who cannot play their way out of a wet paper bag.
JaxDawg
May 26th, 2009
10:37 am
It’s not the travel or Florida having a “home field” advantage or even the coaching that’s been the major change in this series. Florida’s advantage comes from the schedule.
From 1993-2003 Florida has had a bye week before playing UGA
By contrast UGA had not one bye week before FL in the same span.
In 1997- UGA wins – FL had a bye week before the game, UGA did not.
In 2004- UGA wins- neither team had a bye week before the game
In 2007- UGA wins- UGA had a bye week before the game, FL did not
If you look back at the late 70’s-80’s when UGA was last dominating the series, neither team had a bye week most years. To consistently have a bye week before playing one of your biggest rivals is HUGE.
Last year was the first time since 2004 neither team had a bye week before the game and prior to 2004 you have to go back to 1992 for the last time neither team had a bye.
If Richt and Damon want to complain about something it’s this. I’m not trying to make an excuse here, but let’s be real if you have two equally talented teams that are rivals and one team consistently gets an extra week of rest and preperation, it has to be considered a significant advantage, regardless of where the game is played.
Just something to think about.
GO DAWGS!
Mort Merkel
May 26th, 2009
11:30 am
Here’s how adamant this south Georgia native-alum is about Georgia-Florida staying in Jacksonville. I would rather lose Mark Richt than see that tradition lost.
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May 26th, 2009
11:44 am
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jH
May 26th, 2009
12:12 pm
Rainy day, dream away, let the sun take a holiday. Flowers bathe and uh, see the children play, lay back and groove on a rainey day. Well, I can see a bunch of wet preacherrs, look at them on the run. The carnival traffic noise, it sinks into the splashy hum. Even the ducks can groove, rain burdened in a park side pool, and I am leaning out my window sill, digging everything and uh, you too.
athensdawg
May 26th, 2009
1:26 pm
I will say this….
championship football coaches and championship programs don’t care who they play and when or where they play them…….we could play them on friggen mars and still get beat.
it’s all a bunch of excuses. we have not been as good as florida over the last what…20 years?!!! know what that boils down to? coaching…coaching….coaching……
the day mark richt decides to throw his beloved gameplan in the trashcan…that is when we will start turning the corner.
as they say of all the good coaches – they can beat you with their players and then switch sides and beat you again.
Charles Hill
May 26th, 2009
1:34 pm
I am from NC now so Jax is not closer but my SG roots say keep it there. I joined the jas BD club to get better parking but guess what, Adams bought out some of the parking and we were severely limited. Guess 60 years fo going to games is not enough. Don’t worry though, I will be ther with good parking. May bring in a boat. Cullowheedawg
NBA draft fan
May 26th, 2009
7:37 pm
What a bulge!
superDawg
May 26th, 2009
9:04 pm
stay in jax party hard,pull for the dawgs and have a good time.UGA will eventually take back control of the gayturs and the earth wabble will correct itself.NUFF SAID.
superDawg
May 26th, 2009
9:06 pm
UGA MAN UP PLAY AGGRESSIVE AND POUND THEM LIZARDS.
UGA_2001
May 30th, 2009
3:22 pm
I don’t understand how the Ga/Fla game can give SoGa people the best chance to see a live game.
You have to be a season ticket holder to even qualify for tickets. Most people that get them have had season tickets for years.
You cannot tell me that these SoGa people only go to one game a year.
Nashville Dawg
June 1st, 2009
7:22 pm
It’s not fair that the Dawgs have to play the game right down the road from Gainesville every year. They should rotate the game each year between jacksonville and Athens, but UGA should still get half the tickets in Jax because of all the money they spend down there. In Athens, UF should only get 10,000 tickets! Damon Evans needs to do something quick to give UGA a better chance to win this game!!
jdawg
September 23rd, 2009
2:06 pm
If this meeting is really held at the Ritz Carlton Lodge….really, do we need to meet in that nice of a facility….I know, I know it is no tax dollars, but it is my dollar that they are using to meet. the Ga Ctr should be just about it…..I would be glad to serve and reduce my expense…jdawg