More buzz about Georgia-Florida and Jacksonville
While University of Florida president Bernie Machen apparently is ready to extend the contract to play the Georgia-Florida football game in Jacksonville, Georgia is not at that point, UGA athletics director Damon Evans said Tuesday.
Machen was quoted by the St. Petersburg Times as saying at Florida’s athletics board meeting Monday that he will meet soon with officials in Jacksonville and expects the game to remain there on an annual basis. Machen said he thinks Georgia is “leaning the same way we are” and the parties are “headed toward a meeting of the minds.”
Not so fast, Evans basically replied.
“We haven’t even sat down to have our internal meetings about that yet,” Evans said. “We will do that in the month of July.
“We have not made any decision. . . . It’s not a big surprise that they [Florida officials] want to keep the game there. I guess they were able to come to their decision a lot faster. I just want to look at it hard, and that’s what we’re going to do. And then come out with a decision and move forward.”
At Georgia’s athletics board meetings last month, UGA President Michael Adams said he had “no predisposition” about what to do with the game. But Adams also said: “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. . . . There are things we want yet out of the city of Jacksonville that can even the playing field a bit.” Then he said again: “There is no predisposition to doing anything.”
Evans said Tuesday that ”nothing has changed” on Georgia’s stance since his earlier comments that the school is open to all options — keeping the game in Jacksonville, moving it to the campuses or playing it occasionally in the Georgia Dome — after the current Jacksonville contract expires with the 2010 game. But Evans, like Adams, is on record as saying that moving the game from its traditional home in Jacksonville would not be a decision to be made lightly. The game has been played there for all but two years since 1933.
Machen was quoted this week as saying he wants to resolve some security issues with Jacksonville but “hopefully we will be able to sign an extension before the end of the summer.”
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Good Dawg
June 24th, 2009
2:48 am
I wonder what the things are that would “even the playing field a bit”.
Cuz
June 24th, 2009
4:57 am
Galen Hall will replace Urban Meyer on gameday.
LET THE BIG DAWG EAT
June 24th, 2009
6:35 am
HOME AND HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
georgiadawg 1970
June 24th, 2009
6:55 am
Good Dawg,
I guess Adams means we would swap coaches every two years.
Ramblin Rick
June 24th, 2009
7:03 am
of course UGAg doesnt wanna play there. They lose EVERY FREAKIN’ YEAR.
45-42
Good for UF...
June 24th, 2009
7:15 am
…so, play the game in Jax when it is their home game and in Athens when it is the Dawgs home game – this is not exactly rocket science.
UGADawg83
June 24th, 2009
7:15 am
Leave JAX alone……make Tech host its home game in the Georgia Dome!!
Actually, Ramblin Rick...
June 24th, 2009
7:17 am
… UGA only loses to UF about the same amount of time that GT loses to UGA, which is ALMOST EVERY FREAKIN’YEAR!
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June 24th, 2009
7:38 am
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UGASlobberknocker
June 24th, 2009
7:39 am
To mess with that tradition would be a huge mistake that would certainly backfire on Damon Evans. I hope he isnt overestimating his power and his perception of Ga fans apathy toward a move. …because if he changes this; he will be gone in 3 years as soon as people realize what we lost. He will be the scapegoat right or wrong.
athensdawg
June 24th, 2009
7:44 am
here’s a real radical thought….
i bet that we will know what they are going to do when they sign the contract…
gotta love these summer “stories.”
Gen Neyland
June 24th, 2009
7:49 am
Squeeze the turnip before you ink it, Mr. Evans…
tim
June 24th, 2009
7:54 am
they could play that game on the old Atlanta Cracker dirt field on Ponce and the puppies would still get the crap kicked out of them…..every year
Pago Flyer
June 24th, 2009
8:12 am
It’s real embarrassing to “run out of Jax”!!
AltamahaDawg
June 24th, 2009
8:19 am
Good Dawg, My guess is that since travel is really the only legitimate issue, it has to do with compensation for the cost to charter directly out of Athens.
SC Dawg
June 24th, 2009
8:20 am
If the game is going to continue in Jacksonville, then something is going to have to be done about the panhandlers. They are on the streets and wander around parking lots asking for handouts, especially around the Jacksonville Landing area. These days, you never know if any of them have a gun or not.
Festus
June 24th, 2009
8:28 am
SC DAWG……. Them thare aint panhandlers them thare Georgee fans. You oughts to be ashaimed!
T B Shirey
June 24th, 2009
8:34 am
How can it be the best chance for the people in South Georgia to see a “live” game when they have to buy season tickets and make a sizeable contribution to be able to purchase tickets to the Florida game? Why not play the game home and home and every other year, Georgia will have seven home games (with the home field advantage)?
richtfan
June 24th, 2009
8:37 am
this is NOT the only chance folks in south ga have to see a game. it’s the closest, but they have every home game to come to Athens (where UGA is anyway) and see any game they like. this pandering to folks in south Georgia is the wrong motivation for keeping any game in Jax. Just another asinine comment from idiot Adams.
Ramblin Rick
June 24th, 2009
8:53 am
Florida will never let the game leave Jacksonville. UGA is Florida’s beeeoootch.
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June 24th, 2009
8:58 am
[...] even sat down to have our internal meetings about that yet.”Further, Evans stated, “We have not made any decision. … It’s not a big surprise that they (Florida officials) want ot keep the game there. [...]
heyberto
June 24th, 2009
9:03 am
it’s just posturing… holding out for more money. I think the deal will get done.
6:09 or 51 to 7
June 24th, 2009
9:05 am
Ramblin Rick should know all about being owned like a little beeotch.
gomdawg
June 24th, 2009
9:06 am
Leave the game in Jax. Fl. This is a game that has been played there for years its not home field for Ga. or Fl. We get a good chance to recruitt better out of Fl. with this game in Jax.Tha Bulldawg club is big in Jax.
Gator Nation
June 24th, 2009
9:09 am
“There are things we want yet out of the city of Jacksonville that can even the playing field a bit”…………for example, more money.
Otto
June 24th, 2009
9:10 am
Leave the game in Jax changing the location will not change the series. Take a look at UF’s record against Tenn and LSU.
Derick Richards
June 24th, 2009
9:11 am
Damon, how many people have said to you that keeping the game in Jacksonville is their best chance for seeing a game? Ten? Five? Three? One big contributor? It’s not like people still have to travel gravel roads to come up to Athens. And certainly in the state, to coin a phrase, “All roads lead to Atlanta.” Traveling to Jacksonville might be some people’s best chance for a ticket, but if the tickets are alloted the same, then it will be just as easy for them to get a ticket in the Georgia Dome as in the old Gator Bowl. Hey, play the game in Atlanta, and maybe I can actually see it for a change. Traveling to Jacksonville is out of the question. In short, put this game back on truly equitable ground; after all playing the game each year in Jacksonville means playing the game in FLORIDA.
Cuz
June 24th, 2009
9:26 am
How about pandering to the fans who live in East Georgia?
Don't Tase Me Bro
June 24th, 2009
9:29 am
You Dawg fans are idiots, why give up a home game every other year just for tradition? Well the tradiition right now is that the Gators are kicking your tails every year. And you want to extend the deal? Hope the tradition (and money from Jax) is worth losing every year.
murfdawg
June 24th, 2009
9:31 am
Why do both of the GT fans care where we play fl? The atmosphere is like a championship game, a major bowl game and a big rival game all rolled into one weekend. Since GT dropped out of the conference and dropped from our most hated rival, the only thing they can do is whine and try to get some satisfaction from fl dominance over the dogs in recent years. The game in Jax is special.
Matt from Suwanee
June 24th, 2009
9:32 am
My God! I am so ready for this story to go away!
BLAZER
June 24th, 2009
9:36 am
49-10 VERY SPECIAL!!
Sanford Drive
June 24th, 2009
9:37 am
This again? Keep it in JAX. Next.
GetOverIt
June 24th, 2009
9:41 am
Just like the Dawg fans getting satisfaction from the LSU bowl win over Tech since the Dawgs couldnt get it done!
Voice of Reason
June 24th, 2009
9:41 am
what is all this about UGA getting beat every year by UF? I thought we won every now and then. Not too often, but not getting beat every year folks.
Voice of Reason
June 24th, 2009
9:42 am
doing better v. UF than Tech is doing v. UGA
BLAZER
June 24th, 2009
9:45 am
49-10 WAS SPECIAL!
MetroDawg
June 24th, 2009
9:47 am
UGA is still in the process of cleaning up a major scandal in the UGA ticket office that began many years ago. Many South Georgia fans were receiving prime seats for UGA home games, without making the required contribution. Forget about South Georgia. The game should be moved to a home state neutral site arrangement, with the Georgia Dome, and Jacksonville hosting alternating years.
Ramblin Rick
June 24th, 2009
9:50 am
6:09 or 51 to 7 ———– 45-42 You and your sissy friends have been owned.
PAUL JOHNSON owns ATHENS
Chopper
June 24th, 2009
9:50 am
When Florida is the home team, it should be played in Jacksonville. When Georgia is the home team, it should be played at the Georgia Dome. They can still divide the tickets equally among the Dawg fans and Gator fans. And it will still be played off campus at a “neutral” site.
45-42?
June 24th, 2009
9:55 am
UGA owns Tech. Everybody knows. That blind squirrel finds a nut every once in awhile.
Chopper
June 24th, 2009
9:58 am
How can you say Tech owns Athens? That is so stupid and lacks anything to back it up. So you won the last game by three points. Big freakin deal. I’m a Dawg fan and that would be like me saying Georgia owns Florida because we beat them in 07. Be a Tech fan if you must, but be realistic as well!
Larry
June 24th, 2009
9:59 am
A four rotation:
Jacksonville
Atlanta
Gainesville
Athens
This will satisfy everyone’s agenda at least in part, add uniqueness every year over four years, and this will completely end any argument of competitive imbalance.
The Truth
June 24th, 2009
10:03 am
Hey Blazer….so was the beat down we put on the gators two years ago…Tebow sacked 6 times ..him crying after the game.. the gaytor coaches crying after the game because we hurt their feelings for jumping in the endzone …what a bunch of pompous idiots. I heard on ESPN last night that the Florida fans were voted as the #1 most obnoxious fans in the nation….it all starts at the top and Meyer leads the way!
Maybe Next Year
June 24th, 2009
10:06 am
Leave the game in Jax. Dawg fans should be embarrased at the idea of running out of Jax. If UGA won 16 out of 19 there would be no cries to move the game. If the game move to home and home and UF wins in Athens what will the excuses be then and where will the game be moved to next?
Chopper
June 24th, 2009
10:07 am
The Truth is correct! I go to the Georgia Florida game every year and the best way I could describe the fans are: Georgia: Classy, Florida: Unclassy All you have to do is go to the game and walk around the stadium before the game for an hour or so and you cannot refute this!
G
June 24th, 2009
10:10 am
51-7. Well if Tech fans can dwell on a score in the past, why can’t we? Plus, I like the sound of a 44 point beatdown.
PTC DAWG
June 24th, 2009
10:12 am
I don’t think he’s actually talking about the real playing field. Probably something more on the lines of the way that Jax rips the UGA visitors on Hotels, etc. I love the game in Jax, but even I will admit that Jax rips UGA visitors a new one with the rates/lengths of stay clauses etc.
Larry
June 24th, 2009
10:12 am
Continued….
Jacksonville (Florida takes the bus, Georgia flies)
Atlanta (Georgia takes the buss, Florida flies)
Gainesville (Gator students reamin on campus)
Athens (Dogs students remain on campus)
Anyone who argues agsint this format has undeniable selfish motives–period!
Guys, please don't tell my mom I'm blogging and not studying for my Tech exam; she won't cut the crust off my sandwich
June 24th, 2009
10:17 am
HOME AND HOME BABY!!!!
AltamahaDawg
June 24th, 2009
10:25 am
TB, you do not have to be a big time contributor to attend the Ga/Fl game. Not even close.
The reason they can’t move it to home and home is the loss of over a million in revenue for both schools. And the myth of an extra game only works half the time and Nobody knows what might happen with that home schedule anyway. Might mean scheduling an even less attractive OOC game later on.
I just dont see how the pickup of one more home game every other year is a preferable to losing the national exposure of such a unique bowl type event every year.
As far as the home field advantage, are you so convinced that the Sanford advantage is worth the swamp disadvantage? Statistically, I’m not sure that a very good trade off.
Tim
June 24th, 2009
10:25 am
I bet many of the people clamoring for a change in location have never even been to the Jax game. Oklahoma certainly isn’t clamoring about the location of their annual rivalry with Texas and it being in Texas. UGA wasn’t doing anything about it before 1990 so I only see this as a ruse because they’ve hit a rough patch in the last 20 years. This is tradition people. No one’s up in arms about the Rose Bowl being where it is and USC being there year in and year out most years. Don’t mess up a good thing. Many people outside of the South love this game, especially those who have had the chance to come and enjoy the festivities.
Get over the fact that UGA has done poorly there the past few years. Temperature, Humidity, and drive/fly time SHOULD NOT have an effect on a well-coached team. A team shows up to play and play well despite ANY conditions even if there’s 1,000,000 to 1 Florida-Georgia fan ratio.
Chopper
June 24th, 2009
10:31 am
Again, I go to the game every year, and I would argue (as my brother in law who is a FL fan does), that the past couple of years there has actually been more Georgia fans at the game than Florida fans. I love the town of Jacksonville and love the tradition, but I think it would be a good change to alternate between Jacksonville and the Georgia Dome. That way, it is not completely removed from Jacksonville and disgruntled Georgia fans can be happy every other year.
Larry
June 24th, 2009
10:33 am
Tim,
Anyone for any reason who insists on the game ALWAYS played in Jacksonville has a selfish motive. Your argument of Georgia’s recent struggles and the other factors are quite correct and should not be used as excuses to move the venue. However, my argument is to remove the sentiment and debate by playing the game in Jacksonville every 4th season provides you your “experience” and provides others a different experience at different venues.
Me? I’d love to be able to hop down to the GA Dome every 4th year, schedule a trip to Jacksonville every 4th year, and either attend or watch the games in front of the home team’s college experience. Then, you have four unique and powerful experiences, not the same one year after year.
Cuz
June 24th, 2009
10:34 am
Is everybody enjoying the summer re-runs?
Even the playing field.
Urban Meyer has to call all plays in Pig Latin. Tebow is not allowed to lead the band at halftime. Florida has a fifteen second clock. No Gatorade allowed on the Florida sidelines, an obvious advantage Florida.
AltamahaDawg
June 24th, 2009
10:35 am
PTC, have you ever booked a room in Athens during the fall? And what do you think will be the deal on a room in Atlanta for that game.
And I realize this is only my personal experiences, but I have been to J-ville and Atlanta on many occations, any I haven’t seen a whole lot of differnces in hospitality. In fact, the Only sporting event that I have even been a victim of crime was standing outside of the SECCG.
(although I agree with you, Adams needs to leverage any notion that UGA gets the short end of the stick)
Johnny DangerDawg
June 24th, 2009
10:35 am
Larry,
Although I am an Atlanta native, I don’t like the idea of playing at the GA Dome because of the weak tailgating potential and number of seats. I propose this rotation:
Jacksonville
Athens
Jacksonville
Gainesville
Under your rotation or mine, I think they should just sign a 4-year contract, and then reassess their options at the end. They keep talking about not wanting to ruin tradition, but I think after 4 years of a new rotation, they can plan what to do next based on how the fans respond.
Ramblin Rick
June 24th, 2009
10:38 am
45- 42
Paul Johnson: undefeated in Athens
Stafford needs a haircut!
AltamahaDawg, you may not...
June 24th, 2009
10:41 am
…have to be a “big time contributor” to get tickets to the game, but you do have to have UGA season tickets to get tickets from UGA, and even then you have to have contributed at least $10K over the years (the cutoff for elegibility for tickets this year) to get tickets.
But, if you were talking about buying from scalpers or “ticket services”, then you are correct.
Chopper
June 24th, 2009
10:41 am
DangerDawg,
I think many fellow Dawg fans would think that rotation is worse than just staying in Jacksonville every year. I can already see the 3 out of 4 Florida home game arguments.
The main reason I would like the game to be played in the Dome every other year is that I live in South East Tennessee. There are huge numbers of Dawg fans in SE Tennessee. I could drive to Atlanta on the morning of the game and could cut out staying in a hotel every other year. But, again, I still love Jacksonville and will continue to journey down and support the Dawgs for however long the game remains there.
Got 12?
June 24th, 2009
10:42 am
The Georgia Dome is not an option. It seats 13K less than Jacksonville Stadium–71K v. 84K. There wouldn’t be 13K less corporate sponsors and big-time boosters. There would be 13K less students and regular fans.
Then there would actually be something to complain about.
HH
June 24th, 2009
10:44 am
Its going to take a basic change in Richt’s philosophy concerning hiring and firing assistant coaches to “even the playing field” in Jacksonville. More especially, giving the incompetent ones on his staff the boot. A step in the right direction would be to can Willie and to put Bozo on notice. Barring that, the only other thing that would do any good would be for Notre Dame to offer Urban a $10,000,000 contract.
Larry
June 24th, 2009
10:44 am
Johnny DangerDawg,
I could go for that as a compromise or close second choice; however, I’d hate for just the “tailgating” aspect to tilt the balance toward Florida (again, my four year rotation proposal that includes Atlanta has no competitive imbalance). I think some how, some way we could find a way or location to tailgate at near the Georgia Dome. Admittedly, the Dome has the worst tailgating possibilities, but as a Falcon Season Ticket holder the combination of “The Gulch” and the “Falcons Nest” areas could get us by for awhile until someone gets smart enough to find a better location with grassy fields and a retractable roof stadium!
Ramblin Rick
June 24th, 2009
10:45 am
Will the mutt nation black out Jacksonville this year ?
lakerat
June 24th, 2009
10:45 am
Mark Richt – undefeated at Grant Field!
Okefenokee Dawg
June 24th, 2009
10:59 am
Since the game is going to stay in Jacksonville – and everyone knows it – then I’m in favor of it staying in Jacksonville. Besides, if we move it out of Jacksonville now, we will look like a bunch of whinning cowards.
SOUTHSIDE DAWG
June 24th, 2009
10:59 am
Ramblin Rick
didnt cpj coach at GSU against UGA in Athens?
I think the Dawg nation will blackout Atlanta since that is like a second home to UGA just like Turner field is UGA’s second home in baseball
Paul Johnson...
June 24th, 2009
11:00 am
…is NOT undefeated in Athens – his GSU team lost to UGA!
Reality Check
June 24th, 2009
11:00 am
The actual location of the Georgia-Florida game is in the state of Florida. Enough said. However, a bigger factor over last 15 years has been the off week that UF has had every year just about in that time. The one year UGA had off week and UF played the week before in 2007. Check they stats this is a fact in SEC having off week is an advantage. Having the game in Atlanta would give a lot of us who can not take a week off and afford to travel to Jax a chance to watch the game. This does not have an effect on game, UF would beat us in Athens last year and this year too probably.
Larry
June 24th, 2009
11:02 am
Okefenokee Dawg,
Just curious–where do you live? It its near the Okefenokee then you too have a selfish motive–convenience.
Larry
June 24th, 2009
11:03 am
Reality Check,
Spot on!
King Gator
June 24th, 2009
11:06 am
Dawgs, Put your big boy underwear on, shut your pie holes and take your annual whipping like men. I think the game should alternate between Jax and Atl, would be exciting for both fan bases. Plus does anyone really think the Gators would not continue to dominate the pups in the Florida (oops, I mean Georgia) Dome! Go Gators! Back to back National Championships for sure! – King Gator Out
Salt Marsh Cracker
June 24th, 2009
11:09 am
Let half of the field be clay and the other half sand. That’ll even things up.
reservoirDAWG
June 24th, 2009
11:10 am
The WLOCP should remain in Jax indefinetly.
Larry
June 24th, 2009
11:11 am
Continued…
When Spurrier took over his stated primary mission was to defeat the Georgia Bulldogs. So, his first action was to eliminate the game before Georgia and have two weeks to prepare for the Bulldogs who, until the past couple of years, played the Saturday before the Florida game. And even though correct that Florida was clearly the better team on most occasions, anyone who doesn’t think that two weeks to rest and prepare for the biggest game of their season, along with having a bus pick you up at your dorm for the short drive to Jacksonville Florida, isn’t a competitive advantage is delusional!
If you don’t think getting a buy week is helpful, just wait and see how this impacts the Falcons upcoming season when they have to play a team coming off their buy week four times! Two weeks is a BIG DEAL in November!
mcdawg
June 24th, 2009
11:13 am
i think the game in JAX helps UGA’s recruiting in FL-leave it be //last time the game was in Athens we got our a%&es handed to us
thank God for Tommy G. & D. Justice or the weekend would have been a total loss
Frozen_Gator
June 24th, 2009
11:13 am
Give me a large break, the last time I looked you have a huge lead in the series. Richard Applebee and Lindsey Scott have probably shortened my life.uga’s largest puppy club is in Jax. I live in North Al and don’t mind the drive. Why don’t you just “HUNKER DOWN” and play some @#$%^&***((FOOTBALL.
ahud
June 24th, 2009
11:15 am
Having watched/attended Georgia games for 20 years, the desire to move the game to a home and home for a perceived home field advantage strikes me as weak. I love the atmosphere of Athens, but never have I heard of Athens as a tough place to play for opposing teams (like the swamp or LSU’s death valley). I just don’t recall other than a couple of times (Clemson in the early 90’s and Auburn blackout) where it felt like we got some extra juice by playing at home. What I more clearly remember are the potentially great home games that we fell flat.
I’m sure we have a solid home record, but it’s nothing impressive, especially when you think of the key losses during the past years, and how the majority have been at home (Alabama and teck in 2008 ring a bell?). It’s Richt’s road record that always gets mentioned and what conjures of memories of great wins – Tennessee hobnail boot, Auburn “the catch”, Alabama in ‘07. I just don’t understand the thinking how going home and home “evens” the playing field. All it does is take away a great tradition and unique atmosphere and affirmto others that our solution to fixing what ails our recent record against Florida is simply location and not execution.
Valdosta Dawg
June 24th, 2009
11:16 am
Us country bumpkins down here in Mayberry need Jacksonville so “we can take in a live game” just about as much as the world needs another Yech grad. I thoroughly enjoy my season tickets in Athens, as do quite a few of my South Ga friends. Adams – Another quality quote from a quality guy.
Athens — love it. Jacksonville — ditto. Keep it the same, home/home, whatever. Just make sure we get the most money possible from the Floridians.
Ramblinwreck1378
June 24th, 2009
11:17 am
Reality Check: The off-week definitely helped y’all last year against Georgia Tech, didn’t it? They only put up 45 points on your defense. Not a big deal. Good preparation. Good luck stopping a team that runs an offense very similar to that of the jackets, off week or not.
SOUTHSIDE DAWG
June 24th, 2009
11:19 am
The SEC makes up the schedule for the SEC games. Each school picks its out of conference schedule. My question is why does the SEC always pick for uf to be off before UGA? Just something to think about.
King Gator
June 24th, 2009
11:21 am
How many more days til college football season? I love this $hit!
Native Atlantan
June 24th, 2009
11:29 am
Please…no Georgia Dome for this game. The old Gator Bowl has served its purpose, but now it’s time to move on and have the games on the campuses since both facilities seat far more than the Gator Bowl.
Tom
June 24th, 2009
11:36 am
“Georgia fans are passionate, but let’s face it – they’re not the brightest fans. Passionate, but not bright.” – Eric Zeier, Novemeber 21, 2001
sj
June 24th, 2009
11:40 am
I completely agree with Larry….The only Georgia fans that want to leave the game in Florida have selfish or hidden agendas…or both..They own condos there, meet gf or bf there, spend 3 days in anonymous intoxicated haze to ‘relive’ undergrad days, rent property to visitors at huge rates (similar to Masters in Augusta), etc…maybe the fans with the agendas can fill in everybody on their particulars.
uga grad
June 24th, 2009
11:44 am
ware do et mater wear we play gayters, they allwys wen.
Denver Dog
June 24th, 2009
11:45 am
You have to love when the bumbling bees fans get on a blog about a real game. How would they like to play Gardner Webb every year in nearby Shelby High School stadium. It would feel just like a home game for the bees as it is really small and they would have 15000 or so fans at the game.
This Jax thing is a tough deal. The fair being there is a problem as most of the parking goes away. It is a road game for UGA as they do travel 300 or so miles to get there, and it is quite a show once you are there. I say stay, or go home and home. I don’t think that any of the other ideas are viable. Well one exception, maybe if we played it in Tampa, or Orlando. The problem there is that those are SEC bowl sites. Since the Gator bowl takes ACC vs someone else now, it is a good venue.
I say stay in Jax or go Home and Home. Hey everyone Beware of the Dogs
Paddy
June 24th, 2009
11:46 am
Try this;
Year 1 play in Gainsville
Year 2 play in Jacksonville
Year 3 play in Athens
Year 4 play in Atlanta
Then start all over again.
Ramblin Rick
June 24th, 2009
11:48 am
Do any of you mutt fans have tattoos?
MB
June 24th, 2009
11:52 am
You can’t win in Jax and you want to play in The Swamp??
Denver Dog
June 24th, 2009
11:52 am
It also help our recruiting as we took 3 of the top players out of Fla this year. So let the powers to be figure it out, and then we can go to the game. If you have ever been to a game at Fla, it is like going to one at Clemson, except the girls a prettier, and there is not as much tobacco spit laying on the ground and seats.
If it is all about money, why don’t we take it to NYC and do it up right.
DC from Conyers
June 24th, 2009
11:52 am
It’s easy to me have the game in Jax on FLA. home games and in the Dome for Ga home games. What I don’t understand is why Techies care about one way or the other. Why are you even comenting on the DAWG/GATOR game. Is there a little envy there. I don’t go on and slam GT. I don’t care where they play their games.Enjoy posting the score from last year, enjoy it because it’s like Haley’s Comet, it don’t come around to often.
Reality Check
June 24th, 2009
11:53 am
“Reality Check: The off-week definitely helped y’all last year against Georgia Tech, didn’t it? They only put up 45 points on your defense. Not a big deal. Good preparation. Good luck stopping a team that runs an offense very similar to that of the jackets, off week or not”.
Ramblin Wreck 1378, apparantly they forgot to teach you to read the who post that I wrote where I stated that last year we could have played in Athens or whatever and Florida would have won. The numbers don’t lie, the majority of games with like talented opponents in the SEC when one team only is coming off the bye week is significantly tilted towards the team with the bye. With our defense last year 5 weeks off would not have mattered against GT. The stats don’t lie over 400 yards rushing given up against Jackets. Take an aberration for what it is, an aberration and you can worry about the Duke, Wake Forrest or other meaningless ACC games you play in.
Ramblin Rick
June 24th, 2009
11:54 am
I have a big “G” on the back window of my truck… I am the man!
GATOR MEL FROM PLANTATION
June 24th, 2009
11:55 am
gators win easily anywhere so who cares…CHOMP CHOMP
Reality Check
June 24th, 2009
11:58 am
Ramblin Rick I would rather have a “G” on the back of my truck than any GT or other Tech sign from Terrorist Supported School.
FLDAWG
June 24th, 2009
12:00 pm
This is all about money and generating revenue. I love the game in Jax, but it might be a good move for both schools to make it a home and home. The city of JAX and state of FL have been getting rich off this game for years so of course they will sign up for another 20 years. Georgia is sitting back and trying to find the best angle to help our State and University. Hope it stays in JAX, but if not I will still go. GO DAWGS!!!
shards
June 24th, 2009
12:00 pm
To Ramblin Rick
How many times since say 1966 ( Dodd’s last year ) has tech defeated UGA? Is it 7 or is it 9, 10 maybe?? How many Sugar Bowls, Cotton Bowls, Fiesta Bowls, Outback and Citrus Bowls AND Orange Bowls ( 2? ) has Tech gone to??
How many times has tech been slaughtered in the mighty blue turf bowl in 12 degrees in chilly Boise???? How about the micron Emerald computer nerd bowl in San Fran? tech left more than their collective hearts in San Fran, if you know what I mean. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
Wishbon dies this year and PJ moves on to Notre Dame and tech is on the 35th coach since Dodd left.
go DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWGS!!!
gatordan
June 24th, 2009
12:01 pm
georgia only plays for about half a quarter so who cares where they play…this game is so one-sided the affiliates west of the mississippi show byu-utah instead…….GATORS RULE
Atlanta Gator
June 24th, 2009
12:03 pm
I haven’t put in a guest appearance on the UGA blog, so I’m probably due. I have several comments—-
Tim Tucker—-Way to milk a non-story for the fan crazies. There is absolutely zero news revealed. Nothing has changed in the last two months. Florida favors keeping the game in Jacksonville, Georgia hasn’t completed its review. Nothing here, move along, folks.
Tim Tucker
June 24th, 2009
12:03 pm
FYI: Georgia’s Sept. 19 football game at Arkansas will be televised by ESPN or ESPN2 and kick off at 7:45 p.m., UGA said today. That means two of the Bulldogs’ first three games will be played at night. As previously reported, the Sept. 12 home opener against South Carolina will start at 7 p.m. on ESPN2 and the Sept. 5 season opener at Oklahoma State at 3:30 p.m. on ABC. The SEC’s new television deal with ESPN means more night games than in the past.
mexdawg
June 24th, 2009
12:07 pm
When will you people finally get it.WE NEED THIS GAME IN JAX FOR RECRUITING IN SOUTH GEORGIA AND NORTH FLA.we just signed a guy out of Boles High School in Jax.Would we have gotten him if it were not for the exposer from this game.Do not lose south Georgia to FSU and FLA.There is also the national exposer generated by this game.It is like a bowl game during the season.Tex v Okl is the only thing that comes close.For all you who want to move the game to the dome maybe we can set up big screens and you can go there and watch it on tv,we don’t need you in Jax.WE will sell out our allotment with or without you.I say keep the TRADITION and the GAME in JAX.
Sanford Drive
June 24th, 2009
12:13 pm
KEEP THE GAME IN JAX
Ramblinwreck1378
June 24th, 2009
12:14 pm
Shards: But when it really comes down to it, how many national championships have both teams won since Dodd’s era ended in ‘66? Each of us have 1. So I guess by that standard, counting what really matters, we’re even since ‘66, correct? But if we really want to get gutsy, and look at the overall national cahmpionships, I think we have 4.. How many do y’all have?
Oh, and to stay on topic, keep the game in Jacksonville. That’s where it’s always been, and what makes you think that a change of scenery is going to help the beloved dawgs scrape up a few more W’s? 2 out of your 3 losses last year came at home. If anything, I’d be lobbying to play away from home.
Native Atlantan
June 24th, 2009
12:17 pm
I think the Tech people may want to be concerned with their own team instead of someone else. The ass whipping you took from LSU (who UGA beat at their place by two TD’s) in your home town by 5 TD’s should be a nice “REALITY CHECK” for you. Scoring 5 TD’s on a Willie Martinez D is no big deal…he’s not very good.
Just remember George O’Leary lied on a resume to escape North Avenue to go to Notre Dame. Bobby Ross ran away from the Flats when he got the chance. Your own Bill Curry dumped you for Alabama. With the success of “unusual” offenses like UF and Utah, larger and better programs are much more likely to take chances on a coach like Johnson if he is successful.
But go ahead and stay preoccupied with UGA. It’s the perfect formula for Tech to remain a “stepping stone” program for coaches.
Ramblinwreck1378
June 24th, 2009
12:26 pm
Tech was a stepping stone for coaches like Heisman and Dodd, wasn’t it? And who wouldn’t take jobs at Notre Dame and Alabama? Those are two of the most storied programs in college football. Jim Donnan was a good coach though, I heard.
Native Atlantan
June 24th, 2009
12:36 pm
Actually, the Notre Dame and Bama programs were a little down at the time of those hirings. If Johnson is successful, good luck in keeping him. Yes, Dodd and Heisman were pretty good…having to go back a while for that one.
You may want to be concerned with the teams you have to play this year. The ACC is a pretty good league and there are several teams that are looking for a little “payback”. Tech has not been in that situation too often.
And no, Jim Donnan was not that good…guess that’s why he is still at ESPN, which probably isn’t that bad of a job.
Atlanta Gator
June 24th, 2009
12:37 pm
Larry—The rotation that you suggested eliminates 13,000 seats every time the game is played In Atlanta, meaning that 6,500 fewer UGA season ticket holders will get seats in Atlanta. Each school would get approximately 10,000 tickets for away games, or 32,000 fewer than when the game is played in Jacksonville. Of course, the home fans would get more tickets for the one game in four that is played in the school’s home stadium. Nevertheless the fact remains that two out of the remaining three years UGA fans would receive fewer tickets based on your proposed rotation.
Viewed purely from the perspective of possible game-day advantages, I have nothing against playing the game in Atlanta. It’s a neutral site for the Gator players and coaches (in fact, they play there more often than the Dawgs), but the Georgia Dome does offer limited tailgating potential and Atlanta does not present the same late-October amenities and activities that Jacksonville and the Georgia coast offer.
To each his own. I’m under the impression that the Gators will play the Dawgs anywhere UGA wants . . . every other year. Florida is likely to keep their home games in Jacksonville regardless of what UGA does, but the UGA ticket allocation in Jacksonville will not remain the same if UGA moves their home games to Athens.
SEC
June 24th, 2009
12:43 pm
good point native… Can GT handle the pressure that UGA faces every year. They are no longer the sleeper or goin to be taken lightly. But anyway, i say keep the game in jax. Its tradition and its a vacation at the same time. I do agree with the fact that we should play GT in the dome. The tailgating will be the same and plus the dome sits more people. And i’m not sure Ramblin has any clue what hes talking about. He has been proven wrong on almomst everything he says and then tries something else. Get facts Ramblin
rebeldawg
June 24th, 2009
12:43 pm
hong diddley dawg diddy georgia dome! wofwofwofwofwofwofwofwof!!!
Atlanta Gator
June 24th, 2009
12:44 pm
Realty Check, Southside Dawg & Larry—-The Florida-Georgia game will be played on October 31st this season. Florida plays Mississippi State in Starkville on October 24th. Georgia plays Vanderbilt in Nashville on October 17th, and then has a bye week.
Next question?
Atlanta Gator
June 24th, 2009
12:47 pm
“. . . and that’s all I’m gonna say bout that.” —- Forrest Gump, University of Alabama ‘66.
Mr. B in Jacksonville
June 24th, 2009
12:49 pm
well! who gains the most from playing the game in Jax, first Georgia has to travel for almost 6 hours and add to that travelling cost while Florida is 1.5 h ride, second the game generate huge economic boost to Florida while Georgia dont get any of that, on the contrary our fans get home with empty wallets (negative impact), third it is not a neutral site. if you are talking about tradition we can make new one. make it home and home series it is good for the people of Georgia and its the best for our team. I attended all GA-FL games for the last 15 years and I suggest it has to be a home and home series for the best interest of our state of Georgia and our team
mighty kc
June 24th, 2009
12:49 pm
gawd it’s a crying shame we don’t have cached message board posts from the 1980s (ie, the last decade UGA won an NC) and their feelings on the game in jax then.
to all you turds talking about “agendas”, any UGA fan that wants to move the game out of Jax is just looking to get a better chance to win out of every 2 yrs or 1 of every 4 (depending on which schedule to are pushing). nut up, losers. it’s just whiny. how about ‘tradition’ — where is the agenda there? i’d be embarassed to be a fan/UGA coach/admin during the time when this great tradition was thrown away because your team/coach can’t compete.
it’s such garbage because Dawg fans pump up Richt’s road record, where only 10% of the fans are pup fans (and oh by the way, UGA has a longer trip to those games than the home team!), yet they whine about a 50/50 stadium split because of travel time.
anyone (larry, reality check) that calls it anything other than complete BS whiny-ness is full of sh1t. man up. grow a sack. lane kiffin would do what spurrier did — same thing w/ saban and any other good coach…they’d man up, and say we have to play better. instead UGA fans/coaches make excuses. typical. THAT’S the reason you will continue to get your a$$es handed to you.
good day, mutts. woof woof.
Gatorzone
June 24th, 2009
12:54 pm
Does it really matter where it is played? Last time I checked UGA had the overal winning record against UF. Everything runs in cycles…
Isn’t that what all you Ga fans say? The last 20 have been good for UF, but you owned the Gators before that, and still have the overall record.
What is the problem?
Okefenokee Dawg
June 24th, 2009
12:58 pm
Larry – I do indeed live near the Okefenokee. I have been buying Georgia season tickets since 1970. I would be willing to guess that I have driven to Athens to see more games than 90% of the people who blog on here. If they do move the game from Jacksonville then I will go to Athens and Gainesville – or wherever they move it – to see the game. However that does no change my feeling that the game is going to stay in Jacksonville no matter what is blogged on here. That is not my “motive”, that is how I feel.
SEC
June 24th, 2009
12:59 pm
As a dog fan i have to agree with mighty kc, It would be embarassing to the DAWGS. Although me personally i would love not to have to make that drive every year but i really wouldnt wanna move it. We have owned JAX before why make excuses now. When you go down there its more DAWG fans anyway.
Tech= Dungons & Dragons Greatness
June 24th, 2009
1:01 pm
Rambling Rick you silly bear… i know you have a tattoo because ive got a matching one just like it. Don’t be ashamed about your tramp stamp tattoo that says “Chasing Waterfalls” you big silly dummy. Man i cant wait for our first game/tickle pile…mmmmm i love me some tickle piles. Rick are you the tickle pile cord???? Yeah go tech!!! we whipped yall by 3 points yeah! sprit sprinkles yeah!!! wheewww
Chris
June 24th, 2009
1:05 pm
Ramblin Rick…if you like to talk numbers here’s a few that are actual facts.
1-1 Paul Johnson’s actual record in Athens (He lost there in 2000 as the coach of GSU.)
14-4 That would be Georgia’s record against Tech over the last 18 years. It’s not about Chan Gailey you idiot. He was there for 6 years, not the past 18.
To sum it up, Georgia has had complete and udder domination over Tech for the past 18 years as Florida has had domination over us. You don’t see Georgia fans bragging over and over and over about one little win. Get over it, you won. A blind hog picks up an acorn every now and then. Paul Johnson’s 1 year success will be short lived.
Oh I forgot 45-42, 45-42, 45-42!! You need a life dude.
DAWGNUTZZZZ
June 24th, 2009
1:07 pm
WHAAAAAAAAAAA!!! WE ARE TUCKING OUR TAILS AND RUNNING FROM JAX. ITS NO FAIR WE HAVE TO FLY 1 HOUR TO JAX WHILE UF DRIVES 1.5 HOURS TO THE STADIUM!!! IT IS IN FLORIDA AFTER ALL! THEY GET ALL THE $$$!!
WHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
WE NEED TO PLAY IT IN GA!!!! I AM TAKING MY BALL AND GOING HOME!
Ramblinwreck1378
June 24th, 2009
1:08 pm
SEC: Just in case your comprehension level is too dull to infer my satirical tone in my latest post: I WAS BEING SARCASTIC. It doensn’t matter how down the Notre Dame and Alabama programs were at the time, the fact remains that they are NOTRE DAME and ALABAMA. Nick Saban, arguably one of the best coaches in America, didn’t seem to mind taking the Alabama job at a time of struggle, nor did Charlie Weis. And Saban indirectly left LSU for Alabama (taking a stint with the Dolphins inbetween), so are you saying that LSU is a stepping stone program? I have my facts straight, and SEC, get off your high horse. The dawgs haven’t won a national championship since ‘80 and with the competitiveness increasing in the SEC, it’s virtually impossible to dream of a perfect season. Oh, and tack on those “nerds” from North Ave at the end of the season. Based upon last season, they’re not too shabby either.
Reality Check
June 24th, 2009
1:12 pm
Atlanta Gator, Mighty KC, etc. I never said the game being in Jax had abything to do with the loss. I only said that It would be nice to have the game within a reasonable driving distance for the 90% of the population base in the state of Georgia to come to. Call it whining but I do not like the game being 60 miles from one campus and 600 miles from the other. There is no impact on the game, this is just fans perspective from a real Georgia fan.
Jax Dawg Fan
June 24th, 2009
1:14 pm
Jacksonville is great collegiate tradition that every major football program wishes they had. Oklahoma and Texas in Dallas is the only other big-time neutral rivalry.
W-H-I-N-I-N-G is painful to hear from our fan base. This neutral site is great for recruiting in South GA and North FL. Imagine moving it to Athens or Atlanta and then losing there. No excuse and it would kill recruiting as we would be sore losers that got what we deserved. Lets restore an old tradition in Jacksonville: W-I-N-N-I-N-G.
SEC
June 24th, 2009
1:15 pm
Again Ramblin i have no idea what you are talking about. I havent said anything about Alabama or Notre Dame soooo….. I also never said anything about a perfect season or a national championship. However, just reading through all the post it seems you really have no clue what you are talking about. That i did say. Do you feel better typing all that for no reason? So did you attend at GT sporting event last year?
gator fan
June 24th, 2009
1:24 pm
Just checked the records on this game. The record, between Florida and Georgia, has Georgia ahead overall. If the majority of these games were played in Jacksonville, then the conclusion must be drawn that the myth of an unfair advantage, due to location, is indeed false. The evidence doesn’t support it. Both teams have equal ticket allotments and the game is allways sold out. So, there is no crowd advantage. While you do lose a home game every other year, it equals out because two halves make a whole. Just because you aren’t as good in recent years don’t run out on tradition, especially a tradition in which you are winning overall.
Sanford Drive
June 24th, 2009
1:30 pm
Agree with gator fan. Keep it in Jacksonville. Who wants to watch football in Atlanta? Nobody. Just ask Tech fans.
EverGator
June 24th, 2009
1:35 pm
This is all smoke and mirrors by Evans….level playing field is pure BS and UGAly will wind up deciding to keep it in Jax .No way they move it anywhere, because UF will not go for it.You want to move the game/Fine, then.You play with yourselves in the Dome and forfeit the game.
EverGator
June 24th, 2009
1:36 pm
Whereve you play, there you lose…
Sanford Drive
June 24th, 2009
1:38 pm
EverGator,
Your writing is so profound.
Mikey
June 24th, 2009
1:39 pm
This is about the 3rd or 4th blog on this same tired old topic.
Next !!!!!!
gg
June 24th, 2009
1:42 pm
Dogs should alternate Ga-Fla between Jacksonville and Atlanta, and on those years the game is in Atlanta, schedule another top opponent, like FSU, or Miami, or Auburn, or S.C. in Jacksonville. That way Ga-Fla levels up for the Dogs, and south Georgia fans still get a game in Jacksonville every year.
Bewildered
June 24th, 2009
1:44 pm
Let’s see……Tailgating in JAX vs no tailgating at the Dome. FL beaches vs Centennial Olympic Park. The Landing vs Underground Atlanta. All the while destroying a nearly century old tradition. Why is there any discussion even going on? It’s a no brainer to leave it in JAX. UGA doesn’t FLY down the morning of the game, so they get plenty of sleep / rest before the short bus ride to the game. Travel is not the problem, and the crowd is always split in half. All of the traditions in this country are fading away because of dumb decisions like potentially moving this game. UGA just needs to play better, ride out this cycle, and they’ll start winning again when the cycle changes. Then this won’t be an issue anymore. FL has never tried to tuck tail and run when they lost the majority of the time, so why is UGA trying to do it now? Man up UGA!
SOUTHSIDE DAWG
June 24th, 2009
1:49 pm
Atlanta gator
Why does the SEC give uf the week off before the UGA all the time. The ole ball coach always had it off. Just look it up. One other question for u why idint the ole ball coach ever play miami during the regular season and why doesnt uf play them EVERY year?
Ramblin Rick
June 24th, 2009
1:50 pm
hi Chris. are all UGAg fans as cool as you? dudette!
Marlon
June 24th, 2009
1:53 pm
http://loserswithsocks.com/2009/06/24/marlon-brown-just-played-you-whitey-2/#comments
Season Ticket Holder
June 24th, 2009
1:54 pm
I would like to see it in Jacksonville once every four years, alternating between both campuses and the Dome. As a season ticket holder, I feel like I get screwed out of a big home game every year by having it in Jacksonville.
Tech= Dungons & Dragons Greatness
June 24th, 2009
1:56 pm
Rick you ready to chase some waterfalls???? Ive got a Paul Johnson Tickle Pile mat that mom made for this football season!! Do you want to come over a christen it with me? We can listen to some robot music and dry hump..mmmm mom isnt home til 5 so we have some time to tickle each other!!!!
From Chris, at 1:05pm...
June 24th, 2009
1:57 pm
…”To sum it up, Georgia has had complete and udder domination over Tech” – would you like some cereal with your “udder”s? Or are you just pointing out that you “suck”? Just another UGA fan showing off that UGA education, or the lack thereof!
Ramblinwreck1378
June 24th, 2009
1:57 pm
SEC, my response regarding Notre Dame and Alabama was in response to Native Atlantan. I’m sorry if you got confused. But yes, I actually have been to many Georgia Tech events this past year. I’m actually a student there, and I bet if I trace just a little bit, I can find someone I know that’s your boss, if you even have a job. Get a real education, douche.
newborn gator
June 24th, 2009
2:14 pm
i have been a dog fan since the 70s i am ashamed of our coward ad who was a crappy wr under dooley and is the same as an ad,get a life keep playing in jacksonville,thw way we are playing they will beat us in jacksonville,athens or that sorry ga dome rickt cannot win the big games so may be we have a weak coach
Bubba J Feepshucker
June 24th, 2009
2:14 pm
GO DWAGS!! WOFF!! WOFF!!
Zoomie
June 24th, 2009
2:16 pm
If you’ve just got to change the venue, go home-and-home. Keep the Georgia Dome out of it.
reservoirDAWG
June 24th, 2009
2:19 pm
Has anyone been assualted and robbed on the Tech campus today?
The Truth
June 24th, 2009
2:19 pm
Hey Tom…I hear that the same thing can be said about your wife…Passionate..but not bright! I know most of the guys that dated her at Tech feel that way!
Army Vet
June 24th, 2009
2:23 pm
Who freakin cares? Most of the people on these blogs need to get a life! Your entire life revolves around UGA football. How pathetic. As a UGA graduate (Class of 81) and someone who tells it like it is, It doesn’t matter where the game is played……Florida will own UGA. UGA will be lucky to win 7 games this year.
Ohio State fan
June 24th, 2009
2:24 pm
There are a lot of whiners in the Georgia fan base.
If you were winning that game at the same rate that Florida was, you’d be ecstatic and never even consider moving it. Florida beats everyone at about that rate . . .
Leave it Jax, it’s a national treasure. Don’t mess with success.
reservoirDAWG
June 24th, 2009
2:36 pm
I agree OSU fan.
SEC
June 24th, 2009
2:42 pm
hahah ahh the backup Tech comment. Actually my boss is a graduate of Vandy and then got his masters at UGA.
Gridiron Gator
June 24th, 2009
3:00 pm
Hey UGA…If it will make you feel better, we’ll play you at SIX FLAGS! It don’t matter! We would love to play you in the Atlanta Gator Dome! Great preparation for when we play in the SECCG! And Athens?? BRING IT!!!
Eric Zeier
June 24th, 2009
3:14 pm
I wish you guys would quit proving me right.
SEC
June 24th, 2009
3:15 pm
your saying bring it but its UF that doesnt want it to move at all
Denver Dog
June 24th, 2009
3:19 pm
It looks like the Techie Terrorists have nothing to talk about again, so they are blogging about a Ga/Fla game. They must be planning to leave some IED’s around the area. There is absolutely no reason other than that for them to be on here. An then there is the Ohio State fan talking about whining. That is real good, maybe they would like to play another SEC team! They don’t have a very good record there now do they? Techies either. But both seem to be great at beating divison 2 schools in squeakers. Beware of the Dogs, the bulldog bite is back.
Denver Dog
June 24th, 2009
3:24 pm
Hey Ohio State fan, using your logic, I guess you better quit playing bowl games, or anyone outside the Big 10 or whatever it is now
Hey Gridorn Gator you have not won that many SEC championships, so quit talking like you have. You do have alot to crow about with the 2 recent MNC.
Beware it is our kind of year
Atlanta Gator
June 24th, 2009
3:34 pm
Southside Dawg—-It was a miracle of scheduling. I have never heard how Spurrier and/or the UF Athletic Association arranged for bye weeks for something like 10 out of 12 seasons Spurrier was coach. I don’t know the answer, and I’ve never heard a remotely reasonable explanation.
Bottom line: For the 2009 season, UGA gets the bye week, and Florida plays an SEC game on the road the weekend before the Florida-Georgia game. No excuses.
Like you, I would like to see Florida play Miami every year during the regular season. The original logic for dropping the annual home-and-home series was the expansion of the SEC schedule to 8 games in 1992. Florida needed 6 home games to pay for the athletic department’s budget, and would have been several million dollars short in the years when the game was played in Miami. With the expansion to a 12-game regular season, I see no reason why the Gators’ athletic budget could not survive with 7 home games in years when the Miami game was played in Gainesville, and 6 home games for seasons when the UM game was played in Dolphin Stadium. But, what do I know? I’m just an alumnus who enjoys good football . . . .
BTW, Spurrier and Jeremy Foley tried to revive the UF-UM series as a neutral site game in the late 1990s, when the Gators were riding high and the Hurricanes weren’t, and the UM athletic department wanted no part of it. That was somewhat ironic, because the Canes beat the Gators in two bowl games in the early 2000s. In any event, the series should be revived. If the Gators add an annual match-up with UM to their 8-game SEC schedule and their annual rivalry game with FSU, you can expect the remaining two games to be played at home against the likes of FIU, FAU, UCF and Charleston Southern.
WTF???
June 24th, 2009
3:43 pm
Leave it in Jacksonville, that’s where it belongs.
Can someone please find Ramblin Rick’s caretaker & let them know he hasn’t been taking his medications?
That dude is a douche.
jimmy carter
June 24th, 2009
3:54 pm
i have had season tickets for thirty years and my friends in
savannah,brunswick, sea island,st.simons,waycross,jacksonville.
we all have season tickets and once a year we get the short trip.
there’s nothing in college football like ga./fla. in jax.
keep it in jax!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dawgstephen
June 24th, 2009
4:13 pm
LOCATION has NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!!!!!
I want home and home, but here is a number you need to think about. The gators since 1991 have had 16 out of 19 games with GA after a BYE week….Im not a fool. That number sounds familiar.
16 out of 19….HMMMMMMM.
Oh and GA has a bye week before the gators this year. Doesnt guarantee a win…but hey, it dont hurt either. Go dawgs.
Larry
June 24th, 2009
4:45 pm
Atlanta Gator,
I think the obvious question here is why would Florida NOT favor the game be continued in Jacksonville? Think about it!
Ohio State fan
June 24th, 2009
4:51 pm
Denver Dog,
I’m not complaining that the location of the bowl is what cost us the games we’ve lost. We got beat by better teams, location didn’t have think to do with the losses.
Atlanta Gator
June 24th, 2009
5:20 pm
Larry—-No question, no need to think about it. The Gator fanbase clearly prefers that the game stays in Jacksonville. We like the neutral site tradition, and the national attention that it brings to the game. It makes it something special, not just another SEC game. The Gators have won 16 of the last 19 games, the game has a 76-year history in Jacksonville, and the Jacksonville beaches and Georgia coast provide a welcome final weekend before it’s too cold to enjoy the water. You’re right—-why would we want to move the game? (Other than the fact that our home stadium seats 6,000 to 7,000 more fans for home games, depending on the game-day configuration of the stadiums, that is.)
Gator fans who live in Florida don’t understand what Dawg fans’ travel time questions are all about. Gator fans from Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Naples, Key West and Pensacola already travel the same or greater distance as Atlanta and north Georgia Dawg fans to get to Jacksonville (or Gainesville, for that matter). If you look at the major population centers of Florida and Georgia, Jacksonville is about as close to the geographic population center as you can get. If the University of Florida were in Tampa or Miami, and the UF campus weren’t 75 miles from Jacksonville, we wouldn’t be having this discussion in the context of “home field advantage.”
If you’ve ever driven from Gainesville to downtown Jacksonville, along US 301 through the small-town speed-traps of Waldo, Starke and Lawtey, you would know that it’s more like a 2-hour drive (not a 1-hour drive, as others have suggested), and even longer on a game-day Saturday when student and fan traffic overwhelm these roads.
Personally, I think the Gators’ alleged home field advantage in Jacksonville is dramatically over-stated, and that’s why most Gator fans would not object to playing the game in Atlanta on some form of rotating basis. Why not? After all, it’s not Jacksonville itself that makes the game special; it’s the neutral site tradition. Most Gator fans have good memories of the SEC championship games and NCAA regionals played in the Dome. But playing UGA’s home games in Atlanta would be UGA’s choice, not ours, however. As I wrote earlier, UGA can play its Florida-Georgia home games anywhere it wants. If the schools can’t agree on a neutral site, the game defaults to a standard home-and-home series with no 50-50 seating arrangements, etc. In the absence of a contract to the contrary, UGA can play its home games in Athens or anywhere else it wants.
Gators0086
June 24th, 2009
5:33 pm
I was born and raised in Neptune Beach on the coast from Jax. As a Gator fan and eventually an alumnus, I had to live through the 70’s and 80’s of us getting our tails whipped almost every year by Coach Dooley and Coach Russell. I never heard them or any Georgia fan talk about moving the game back then. You guys loved coming down, beating our behind, and then partying it up. It wasn’t until Coach Spurrier was hired, installed grass at Florida Field so that our players got used to playing on that surface (thus evening the playing field since Sanford Stadium always had grass), and convincing our players to believe we could beat UGA every year that the series has changed momentum. Stop the whining and crying, all the excuses about how costly the trip is and man up. Get rid of the Bobby Bowden trained wuss of a coach and go out and get someone who knows what it means to be a Junkyard Dawg. If you decide to run out on tradition you’ll have to ask South Carolina permission to use the female equivalent of their mascot. You chickens!!!
Larry
June 24th, 2009
5:39 pm
Atlanta Gator,
You make a compelling argument for Jacksonville, and this has been the argument for over 75 years. However, times have certainly changed as Jacksonville is no longer a nice mid size town at the GA/FL border and is indeed a major city in the state of FLORIDA and any way you slice it this must have at least some psychological advantage to Floridians plus the convenience issues. Try telling an 18-19 year old Georgia player would has to board the plane at Hartsfield for a flight to Jacksonville, Florida to just forget about where you’re going! Yes, if the University was in Tampa or Miami the distance would be less and the convenience factor not as much as issue, but still UF is your state university as UGA is Georgia’s state university.
On another note, I’m sure many, many Floridans would enjoy the experience of the fall leaf season of the north Georgia rolling hills and could incorporate a visit to Stone Mountain, Lake Lanier Islands or maybe take in a Falcons Game! Again, my argument of a four year rotation of Jacksonville, Atlanta, Gainesville and Athens gives everyone a little something of what they want and clearly removes any debate of a competitive imbalance. Plus, perhaps its past time for all off us to consider the college students in this relationship and allow them to enjoy the experience, at least once per year, of watching this great rivalry in their stadium and not having to abandon their campuses to do so! As a parent I’d sure like this!
Larry
Larry
June 24th, 2009
5:46 pm
Correction in the next to last sentence: at least once every FOUR years!
weston
June 24th, 2009
6:15 pm
This game will not be moved from Jacksonville. UGA and FL will sign a longterm contract. The AJC writers always dig up this corpse of a story because they know it’ll capture them 100s of website hits and 100s of posts.
WHY DO MUTTS BARK? CAUSE BEES STING
June 24th, 2009
7:10 pm
YEP IT LOOKS LIKE THEM GATORS ARE ABOUT TO RUN THEM MUTTS RIGHT OUTTA TOWN?
LET US BUMBLE BEES PLAY IN JAX WE WILL WIN EVERY YEAR,REMEMBER MUTT FANS WE BEAT 2 FLORIDA TEAMS LAST YEAR PLUS YOU MUTTS.
P.S.YOU MUTTS CANT BEAT 1 FLORIDA SCHOOL WHEN THE BUMBLE BEES BEAT 2 FLORIDA SCHOOLS,MIAMI AND FSU! WHAT WAS THAT NOISE? A MUTT BARKING BECAUSE HE WAS STUNG BY A BEE!
WHY DO MUTTS BARK? CAUSE BEES STING
June 24th, 2009
7:17 pm
HOW CAN YOU MUTT FANS TALK WHEN THE BUMBLE BEES WON THE LAST NATIONAL TITLE IN 1990,AND NOT YOU MUTTS WHO LAST WON IN 1980,YOU MUTT FANS KILL ME.
WHY DO MUTTS BARK? CAUSE BEES STING
June 24th, 2009
7:24 pm
VINCE DOOLEY WASNT TALKING ABOUT MOVING THE GAME WHEN HE WAS WHIPPIN FLORIDA EVERY YEAR IN FLORIDA,SO YOU NEW SCHOOL MUTT FANS STOP CRYING AND TUCKING TAIL!
gatorman
June 24th, 2009
7:31 pm
gotta go with gatordan[no relation]….WHY IS EVERYONE GETTING SO EXCITED ABOUT A GAME GEORGIA PLAYS FOR ABOUT HALF A QUARTER?…they lucked out when tebow injured/what is it 15 out of 17…no wonder utah-byu is being shown on the left coast….GATORS RULE!!!!
southgadawg88
June 24th, 2009
7:51 pm
Playing in JAX is good for both programs.As far as UGA doing better on the field…Evans should schedule a bye week every year before the game…Fla imo puts more emphasis on the game than UGA…they normally have a bye before this game.It’s starting too look like UGA is stubbornly trying not to admit that is a factor in the match up.
dawgstephen
June 24th, 2009
9:55 pm
the bye week is not A factor…ITS THE FACTOR….
16 out of 19 times since Spurrier came have they had a week off, and i think thats 16 out of 19 wins…
ITS NOT LOCATION!!! ITS THE BYE WEEK.
Atlanta Gator
June 24th, 2009
10:04 pm
southgadawg88—-Under Spurrier, the Gators DID put more emphasis on the game because Spurrier believed that the road to an SEC championship passed through Jacksonville. And you know what, he was right.
It’s not about beating the Dawgs for the sake of beating the Dawgs. Since 1992, in those seasons the Gators have beaten both Tennessee and Georgia, they have won the SEC East 8 of 9 times, thus earning nine bids to the SEC Championship Game. At the end of the season, that’s all that matters.
Here’s the secret formula for “winning it all”:
[Win over UT] + [Win over UGA] = [SEC East Championship]
81% certainty
[SEC East Championship] + [Win over SEC West Champion] = [SEC Championship]
100% certainty
[SEC Championship] = [BCS Bowl Bid]
100% Certainty
[SEC Championship] + [11 Regular Season Wins] = [BCS Championship Game Bid]
80% Certainty
It’s simple, really. = )
Atlanta Gator
June 24th, 2009
10:27 pm
southgadawg88 & dawgstephen—–Clearly, it’s better to have a bye week before a big game than not. However, the statistics in the Florida-Georgia series are not overwhelming. UGA has three wins (1997, 2004, 2007) in the last 19 games in the series.
In 1997, Florida had a bye week before the game; Georgia did not. UGA won.
In 2004, neither Florida nor Georgia had a bye week before the game. UGA won.
In 2007, Georgia had a bye week; Florida did not. UGA won.
In Florida’s 16 wins, the Gators had bye weeks before 12 of them. Four of the wins came after playing another SEC team the week before.
Also worth noting: the Evil Genius’ first three wins over UGA (1990, 1991, 1992) did NOT follow bye weeks, nor did Meyer’s win over UGA during the Gators’ 2008 championship season.
So, it’s a bit more of mixed bag than many of you may selectively remember.
Denver Dog
June 24th, 2009
10:44 pm
Atlanta Gator, I am not sure that UF has played in 8 SEC championhip games. UGA has played in 4. UT in a couple, the math doesn’t work out. Nonetheless, your percentages and odds are right on, mainly becuase you can’t lose to those two teams and have the best record in the east.
You guys have done a good job, and Sprurrier’s goals were a little differnt, he only beat UGA once, and UGA handed his rear to him his senior year and cost him a chance at the MNC. Back then they called it before the bowls, so he had a great shot if he goes undefeated.
The thing about Darth Visor is that he set goals, and then accomplished them. When he didn’t doesn’t, he is not a happy camper. My father, whom has since passed away, and a great UGA fan said “he doesn’t do anything right except beat you”. That he did. Sooner or later he will slip in a great team at SC, but it is hard to do, he can’t get the players, and they don’t want to come there. Columbia is not like Athens, Gainesville, or Knoxville for that matter.
Gators need to bask in the glory, as the great Roman Conqurerors would return with the spoils of victory for far a way conquests, and parade through the streets of Rome, all around were cheering except the servant whispering in the ear of the Conqureror “all glory is fleeting”.
Denver Dog
June 24th, 2009
10:47 pm
Reference my last post, I was speaking of Sprurier as a player for his motives as a coach.
Atlanta Gator
June 24th, 2009
11:13 pm
Denver Dawg—-Actually, the Gators have played in 9 SEC Championship Games (1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2006, 2008), and won 7 of them (lost to Bama in 1992 & 1999). Spurrier also won an SEC championship in 1991 before the SEC Game was instituted. That’s a total of 8 SEC titles in 19 years. Not bad for a bunch of losers with no history before 1990.
BTW, the Latin expression is “sic transit gloria mundi,” literally, “thus passes worldly glory.” It was mistranslated in George C. Scott’s voiceover at the end of the movie “Patton” as “all glory is fleeting,” which is arguably more poetic in English.
Bet you didn’t know Gator fans are also Latin scholars. = )
Moo
June 24th, 2009
11:20 pm
Why don’t they just play that game at Charkey Hi Skools Tommy Baker Field? It has grass that the cow hasn’t eated yet. Flarder would have a long drive up their in a skool bus.
Memento Mori
June 24th, 2009
11:35 pm
Clever Alligator. I think I liked you better as a pair of boots.
Sic semper tyrannis
June 24th, 2009
11:40 pm
Time to take the Gators down!
Toates
June 25th, 2009
3:10 am
Ummmm… dumasticuses, to say UGA has not done well does not bode well by showing one’s intelligence. But if anythng, one should broaden that time frame to make it more accurate as the Dawgs have won 2 out of 5, which is better than what it was prior to these last five years. Obviously I cannot argue the record overall, since this streak by UF started, but recent history doesn’t support the statement that UGA loses all the time. I mean, heaven forbid, UGA wins this year and make sit 3-3 and sends Timmy out a loser to the Dawgs, but only time will answer that possibility.
Only Tech fans can come out of the woodwork and make such an obnoxious noise. Once every eight years, not unlike the cicadas. Maybe Tech should change their mascot to the cicada, because you only hear from them, once every seventeen years, just like the cicada that is called Brood X. I like it, the Georgia Tech Cicadas. Here today and gone tomorrow. So sad that they have to live off another teams record against Georgia as theirs certainly is awful and embarrassing to talk about. Since you all like to quote the record of Florida over UGA these past 19 years, let’s see how UGA/GT pans out over the same time period.
Hmmmm…. lookie here, UGA 14 wins GT 5. I would STHU if I were you, Cicadas.
Oh, and by the way, this is simply a move for a little more cash. Duh! Damn Techies.
Bamafan
June 25th, 2009
5:13 am
Keep the game in Jacksonville and everybody has a good time partying. My dad used to go to the game back in the 70’s and 80’s. and enjoyed the games very much!! GO DAWGS!!
Alligator mississippiensis
June 25th, 2009
5:24 am
Res ipsa loquitur—-victoriae: XVI; clades: III.
Ave Nike! Ave Victoria!
Too Easy
June 25th, 2009
8:53 am
Latin is a dead language,
As dead as it can be.
It killed the poor old Romans,
And now it’s killing me.
mighty kc
June 25th, 2009
9:04 am
ARE YOU GUYS FOR REAL? SERIOUSLY Dawgstephen?
“ITS NOT LOCATION!!! ITS THE BYE WEEK.”
really?
ok, let’s look at some stats, genius:
Games after bye week, UGA
1995: lost to Auburn (Auburn had no bye)
1996: lost to S.Carolina (SC had no bye)
1997: beat S. Carolin (but only because SC had no bye)
1998: beat LSU (but only because LSU had no bye)
1999: lost to Aub
2000: lost to Aub
2001: lost to Aub
2002: beat Ga Tech
2003: beat Auburn (but only because Auburn had no bye)
2004: beat LSU (but only because LSU had no bye)
2005: lost to Auburn (who did NOT have a bye)
2006: beat GaTech (but only because they had no bye)
2007: beat UF (but only because UF had no bye)
2008: lost to Tech
UGa’s result after bye weeks…7-7. and when they won, the opposing team almost never had a bye week along w/ UGA.
So basically: you only can win when the other team has no bye, and, even when you have a bye and the other team does NOT, you still lose half the time.
So what else do you WHINY jagoffs have? i’m still waiting for some humidity data. seriously, don’t you get sick of all the excuses? it’s comical. some of you mutt fans with brains and hearts and courage, start telling these guys what bad names they give your fanbase.
NUT UP and stop trying to MOVE THE GAME because you CAN’T WIN!
mightyKC
June 25th, 2009
9:04 am
ARE YOU GUYS FOR REAL? SERIOUSLY Dawgstephen?
“ITS NOT LOCATION!!! ITS THE BYE WEEK.”
really?
ok, let’s look at some stats, genius:
Games after bye week, UGA
1995: lost to Auburn (Auburn had no bye)
1996: lost to S.Carolina (SC had no bye)
1997: beat S. Carolin (but only because SC had no bye)
1998: beat LSU (but only because LSU had no bye)
1999: lost to Aub
2000: lost to Aub
2001: lost to Aub
2002: beat Ga Tech
2003: beat Auburn (but only because Auburn had no bye)
2004: beat LSU (but only because LSU had no bye)
2005: lost to Auburn (who did NOT have a bye)
2006: beat GaTech (but only because they had no bye)
2007: beat UF (but only because UF had no bye)
2008: lost to Tech
UGa’s result after bye weeks…7-7. and when they won, the opposing team almost never had a bye week along w/ UGA.
So basically: you only can win when the other team has no bye, and, even when you have a bye and the other team does NOT, you still lose half the time.
So what else do you WHINY jagoffs have? i’m still waiting for some humidity data. seriously, don’t you get sick of all the excuses? it’s comical. some of you mutt fans with brains and hearts and courage, start telling these guys what bad names they give your fanbase.
NUT UP and stop trying to MOVE THE GAME because you CAN’T WIN!
mightyKC
June 25th, 2009
9:08 am
and to the whiner way back that said the distances are 600 and 60 miles, try 360 and 70. but whatever helps support your weak whiny arguments.
they don’t write books about UGA/Auburn, or even UF/UT…the Border War is a great neutral site game in the history of college ball…i would be embarrassed if it got moved on my watch. so to you fans/coaches/admin of UGA, think seriously about the long term repercussions about throwing history away…instead try to get better as a team and as coaches. UF never wanted to move the game in the 80s. we just brought in a coach you said “enough excuses, let’s just get out there and win the game”, and everyone believed him. he never whined about the distance or the subpar bus mode of travel, or the fact that the Gators wouldn’t be ready for the cooler weather than jax brought.
PTC DAWG
June 25th, 2009
10:22 am
I’m still impressed at how much the GT folks care about UGA.
Kendawg
June 25th, 2009
10:51 am
A fair way to distibute the games with Florida has already been posted on this blog. Jacksonville, Atlanta, Gainesville, Athens. That would be a fair way to distribute the games. Forget tradition.
Ty Cobb
June 25th, 2009
11:59 am
UGA cant beat Florida! Tebow owns the mutts
COBB IS BASEBALL!
bb
June 25th, 2009
12:46 pm
VOR,
Actually Tech has been more successful in the last 10 years against UGA (3-7) than UGA has been against Fla (2-8).
In the last 20 years? GT-UGA (6-14) UGA-FLA (4-16).
In the last 1 year? GT-UGA (1-0), UGA-Fla (0-1).
Anyway you slice it UGA has performed worst against Fla than GT has against UGA. In both cases, 6-14 or 4-16 is nothing to brag about.
gatorsrule
June 25th, 2009
12:54 pm
admit it…georgia is afraid of florida and folds in first half every year…does not really matter where they play…accept the fact the talent is less than in gainesville….only going to get more so over time as recruits realize on the big stage while georgia praying for big east championship…………………CHOMP CHOMP
mexdawg
June 25th, 2009
1:12 pm
You guys are still missing the main point.RECUITING.That’s why this game MUST remain in Jax.I bleed red and black and I love the tradition of the game.I enjoy going down to ST.Simons on Thursday before the game, seeing old friends,playing golf and going out to eat at some great seafood resturaunts.But I know that this game means more than that.It allows us to recruit in south Ga and north Fl.Kids want to play in this game with all the national exposure.So I ask you to put aside your personal prefrence and do what is best for the TEAM and that is to keep the game in JAX where it belongs.I would love to hear from any fellow bloggers about the recruiting angle of this game.
AltamahaDawg
June 25th, 2009
1:41 pm
argumentum ad nauseam
jumbeauxtiger
June 25th, 2009
1:43 pm
The UGA-UF is a classic that needs to stay in Jax. I’d love to experience that atmosphere.
There is practically no tailgating at the Ga Dome so I think it would be a huge mistake to ever play that game there.
Geaux Tigers!!
Dawg Man
June 25th, 2009
2:31 pm
Georgia needs to move the game if they want to have a realistic chance of winning more than just once every few years. Florida has all the advantages playing in Jacksonville, only a short bus ride from campus, while UGA has to travel hours to get there. Plus, Ga fans get hosed every year by hotels jacking up their rates for the game! Move the game to Athens or Atlanta, and the dawgs will dominate the series!!!!
Spanky
June 25th, 2009
2:36 pm
Hmmm,..all this talk about “owning”, but if you wanna talk about who owns the record……(crickets)…ain’t that right, gators?
Ramblin Rick
June 25th, 2009
2:48 pm
Georgia aint ever been nothin and aint ever gonna be nothin
UGA Senior
June 25th, 2009
2:53 pm
Adams isn’t one to think about the students but he needs to consider their opinion on this. The students love the game in Jax. I made my reservations for a house in St. Simons months ago for this years game and the Friday beach party is truly a spectacle. It would be a shame to put it in Atlanta, which has less tailgating than in Athens, much less the 3 day party when it’s in Jax.
jeremy
June 25th, 2009
2:54 pm
45-42
ugay sux
paul johnson 1-0 against UGAg
GwinnettDawg
June 25th, 2009
3:18 pm
Tell us all, techie, what’s your record against the Dawgs and Noles?
TechBuzz
June 25th, 2009
4:19 pm
Dawg fans whining about moving the game now after getting beat almost every year, but they didn’t cry back in the 70s and 80s when they beat florida more. Very typical of the low intellect Ga fans who think moving the game to another field will make them play better! LOL!!! Go back to your trailers, watch Judge Judy and quit complaining! By the way, look for another beat down this year in Atlanta when you play the Jackets baby!!! Paul Johnson’s building a machine, and after a few more losses to Tech and Florida, richt will be heading back to Tallahassee to see if he can get a job there.
Sugar Hill Dawg
June 25th, 2009
5:55 pm
My wife and I take off Wednesday after work, drive down to Daytona Beach, have an almost empty beach/resturants/hotels, etc. without the Duval County ripoff factored in. We drive up I – 95 to Jax the morning of the game, tailgate with UF and UGA fans, have an absolute blast before, during, and after the game (more fun after a UGA win), hit I – 95 to Savannah after the game, stay at the downtown Hyatt, then head back to north Gwinnett County, driveing through the small towns between Savannah and Athens along the way (I – 16 is too borning to drive). I think it would be a major error to move the game from Jacksonville – our fall revolves around that trip!
FLA DAWG
June 25th, 2009
7:17 pm
The Game will not be moved from Jax – though clearly there is an advantage for The Gators every year. Alternating between Jax & The Ga Dome would be great. UF will stomp us (and everyone else) this year anyway.
country boy
June 25th, 2009
7:35 pm
As I south Ga. Dawg fan I say leave the game in Jax. The biggest factor in Ga. struggling vs. Fla is NOT Jax. but the open dates prior to the game. Almost every year in this tough streak gators have an open date to prepare and heal while Dawgs have to play a game. Dumb Evans and dumber Adams need to be working on scheduling rather than running out of Jax.
4 jacks
June 25th, 2009
8:20 pm
It’s funny. Never heard the bulldog’s whine and complain when Dooley’s dogs pretty much owned the Gators. What are they going to complain and whine about when Urban keeps whipping them in Athen’s. The excuses should be amusing to say the least.
FL DAWG
June 25th, 2009
8:35 pm
Damon Evans is positioning himself for the negotiations. Evans should try to turn disadvantages into advantages. His first priority in the negotiations should be to have UF play the week prior to the game (go out on a limb and start with UF playing LSU the week prior), 2) in addition to UF playing the prior week, he should get the UGA schedule to have an off week prior to the game. 3) more money for UGA to offset travel expenses. 4) Night games, this would do lots of things for both UGA and UF. Not to mention the fans would like it a lot more if they are able to remember it. 5) Provide facilities for UGA to use earlier in the week to accelimate to the warmer weather. Evans should have a list a mile long. He may not get all of them, but negotiate hard and get all you can.
BurningRedBleedingBlack
June 26th, 2009
9:49 am
BUILD A STADIUM IN BRUNSWICK PLAY IT THERE, THATS HALF AND HALF FOR ME GIVE THEM LIZARDS A TASTE OF SOUTH GA
Michael Adams Sucks
June 26th, 2009
10:53 am
Why does Damon and MIchael Adams always want to screw up something thats not broken? If we were to play home and home, I bet Adams would get the game at 1:00 and not allow people to tailgate until 9;00. Who the hell wants to tailgate in downtown Atl? Atl sucks unless your a pimp, rapper, criminal, or a GT fan (few and far between). Leave the dang Ga Fla game alone and focus on how many more parking spots you can charge $2000 a season for. Or maybe you can get with the Watkinsville chamber of commerce and see ief the RV lot can be moved there. Michael Adams and Damon suck.
Michael Adams Sucks and so does Paul Johnson
June 26th, 2009
11:06 am
Kendawg how can you say forget tradition? Are you one of those oldtimers who wont stand up and yell for UGA and complain when others do? Without tradition we would be like GT. Wait, they have a tradition now, make a ring when they beat UGA. Talk about pathetic. Unfortunately, GT did beat UGA and honestly who couldnt have beaten UGA when they were tackling like a bunch amputees, but rest assured GT will be back to normal next season. Thats their other tradition, a coach comes in and wins a few games then jumps to another schcool only to suk there.
VOR
June 26th, 2009
12:16 pm
As far as the FANS…Some of you with the Atlanta-Jacksonville duo for neutral site games are hilarious. You do realize most Gator fans in Jacksonville don’t live anywhere near Gainesville?
Jacksonville is a border town that’s 20 minutes from the state of Georgia…the average Gator fan coming to the game is probably coming from SOUTH of Orlando…the commute time is probably about the same for UGA and UF fans. There are plenty of UGA fans that live within 4 or at most 5 hours of Jacksonville…the commute for south Florida UF fans is more than for Dawgs in Atlanta.
If the game got moved to Atlanta, besides the horrifically stale atmosphere, fewer seats, and crappy tailgating, There would be a commute of less than an hour or two. For the average Gator fan, you’re looking at 7 hours or more…
Right now, for the fans, it’s probably a 55-45 advantage in accessibility for UF…and Atlanta would be 95-5 for UGA. That’s absurd. Life isn’t perfect…suck it up and take it like a man…it never bothered the fans when UGA was winning all those years.
And the commute? For the UGA staff and team? Weak. Very weak. They get there two days before and make 4 longer trips every year. Why does UGA have the best ROAD record in the SEC over the past 7 or 8 years if travel is just so debilitating to the Dawgs?
The problem is UF is the better program. For now.
Work to get the bye weeks even/fair on a year in, year out basis. Make sure the state of Georgia gets its fair share of revenue from the game…fine. But this competitive advantage stuff is so, SO lame.
VOR
June 26th, 2009
12:19 pm
And everyone realizes that UF does NOT have a bye week before the UGA game in 2007, 2008 or 2009?
JaxDawg
June 26th, 2009
12:46 pm
Everyone needs to relax. Damon is using the THREAT of moving the game to strengthen his negotiating position with the City of Jax. Jacksonville cannot afford to lose the game, and Damon knows this.
Trust me the game WILL remain in Jax.
Dawgs On Top
June 26th, 2009
9:29 pm
Just move the game in the Ga home game years, and keep it in Jax during the Florida years! That way, at least Ga has a better chance of winning every other year. Also, Damon evans needs to tell the SEC that Ga wants an open date every year before that game, or he will order it moved for good! I’m tired of florida having all the advantages and ga losing almost every year and having to deal with all those drunken, obnoxious florida fans before and after the game!
Thunder Dawg
June 28th, 2009
10:00 pm
We went to the swamp the one time it was held there—Most miserable experience of our lives—The Ga-Dome also sucks—No tailgate–uncomfortable—overpriced hotels—The Atlanta Crowd-Metro-Dawg—is money hungry—they don’t give a damn about tradition—self serving
“Change-Freaks”—Dawgs have worked for years to build a relationship
in Jax and almost all of us “Traditional Dawgs” appreciate what the “rivalry” meant to us and our predesors—the Jax venue does need
tweaking—The Fair needs rescheduling—Damon needs to assert more influence on the bye-week issue—Dooley did and that made a heck of a difference—The tradition continues—Stay in Jax !
boston dawg
June 29th, 2009
2:45 pm
are you kidding me? why wouldn’t dawg fans want this game played in the dome at least once every 3 or 4 years if not every other? it’s a great tradition, sure, but i think it’s about time the uga athletic association shakes things up a bit. why not? it can only help our chances.
Daisy Mae
June 29th, 2009
8:00 pm
They will never move this game, so quit whinning. I didn’t hear a word from you dog fans in the 80’s when you were winning all the time. Your time is here to loose. Me and my husband the Vol Fan Darren John from Catersville Ga will be swimming once again in the ST. Johns
JenniferGO Dawgs
June 30th, 2009
11:27 am
Play it in Alabama or one year in the DOME and one year in JAX – VERY SIMPLE!!!!!!
JenniferGO Dawgs
June 30th, 2009
11:29 am
Our time is not here to LOSE, use your spell check! We are letting them catch up in the series, which WE still OWN! GO DOGS!!!!!!!
Dawg Man
June 30th, 2009
9:20 pm
Don’t move the game to the miserable georgia dome, with all the derelicts and crime in downtown atlanta. It’s too dangerous to walk around there before and after the game and the atlanta cops are the worst in the country. Keep the game either in Jax or move it home and home. Atlanta sucks big time—the worst “big” city I’ve ever been to.
JenniferGO Dawgs
July 1st, 2009
12:24 pm
If you are trying to keep it neutral I say ALABAMA. WHY? They both hate us. So who would they pull for and we would BOTH have to travel, OR, go back to home games.
But it obvious, Jacksonville, Hello, is in Florida and the travel time is not neutral nor is the state. I’m just saying……..
DawgManiac
July 1st, 2009
4:29 pm
Move the game from jacksonville ASAP! Florida has all the advantages there, Georgia none! Move the game to Athens every other year, and give florida only about 5,000 seats! That’s the only way UGA will start winning big in this series. In the other years, Georgia should still get half the seats, due to their drawing power and money! Damon evans needs to get this changed right away!
Shards is a moron
July 2nd, 2009
8:11 am
And how many National Championships does UGA have Shards? Thats right, 1. Compared to GT’s 4. Tech has more history and tradition than you Rednecks can shake a stick from those hedges at. Don’t get me started. For you to hate Tech so much you sure do know your history. It’s not Dodd’s fault he couldn’t find a good replacement lol.The wishbone will not die, if anything it has been resurrected.GET A LIFE SON! It will take more than PJ to help Notre Dame, they need divine intervention!
fat gator
July 2nd, 2009
3:05 pm
they could play the game on the moon and it would be 0-0 b/c you cant play football there
DawgManiac
July 3rd, 2009
10:01 am
I’m tired of losing to florida every year. Georgia needs to move the game to Athens one year and Atlanta the next year. If florida doesn’t like it, too bad! Damon evans can threaten to cancel the series entirely if Florida doesn’t do what georgia wants!
chris o bomb
July 4th, 2009
2:05 pm
uga is as smart as the uga. they will continue to lose there, and will not even try to make a two out of six years at the dome. and the outcome will be, yes you can still get dumber over the years. nevertheless… watch out for c. king this year with green getting the attention on the field. king and b. smith will have a great year. twhg!
StuDawg
July 7th, 2009
10:57 am
F Jacksonville! I am sick and tired of losing to Florida! The only fair thing to do if some people want to keep it there is to have it in the GDome every other year! I just dont get why Dawg fans want to go down to Jville and see us get our a$$ beat year in and year out! Do you care at all who wins these games or do you just want to go party? That place is filthy anyway, never seen so much white trash in all my life. I for one am boycotting all future games in Jacksonville, at least until we start having the game in the State of Georgia every now and then for GODS sake!
Island Dawg
July 8th, 2009
6:12 pm
So this is a work-related concern, Richie? BTW, how much do you contribute annually to GEEF (Google it)? Sorry, just a misinformed fan who can recognize tradition and knows location has nada to do with UF’s recent domination
Island Dawg
July 8th, 2009
6:13 pm
Play it in Alabama? LOFL!
DC Dawg
July 24th, 2009
3:23 pm
Let’s not forget that these are public institutions. Why does a FL city get to reap financial rewards every year when a GA school is also involved? It wouldn’t hurt the GA economy to host this game every other year.
LoelGator
July 27th, 2009
5:04 pm
Spurrier himself called it a home game for Florida. Just get over the tradition and play it like another rival does. In this case, Jacksonville one year and Georgia Dome the next.. It is absolutely not a level playing field with the Jacksonville set up.
Daversion
August 2nd, 2009
10:05 am
Just for the record – what is the overall record ga/fla in jax? I doubt the location has a real effect on the outcome. What is the fla record vs ga when they have the prior week off? what is the record when they don’t? Of 3 factors, who has the best team, who has the week off to get ready, and where it’s played, I’m sure the location is the least important.