MVP? Captain? Most improved? Here are Dogs’ award winners . . .
Rennie Curran, A.J. Green, Geno Atkins, Drew Butler and Blair Walsh received top honors at the Georgia football team’s annual Gala Saturday night in Athens.
Curran, the junior linebacker who leads the SEC in tackles, received the Vince Dooley Most Valuable Player of the Year award.
Green, the sophomore wide receiver whose superb year was derailed by two late-season injuries, was named the team’s Most Valuable Offensive Player.
Atkins, the senior defensive tackle who finished his UGA career strong, was named the Most Valuable Defensive Player.
And sophomore punter Butler and sophomore placekicker Walsh, both models of consistency all season, were named the Most Valuable Special Teams Players.
Other awards and honors:
– Senior quarterback Joe Cox was named the team’s permanent overall captain.
– Senior wide receiver Michael Moore was named the offensive captain, senior defensive tackle Jeff Owens and Curran the defensive co-captains and senior Prince Miller the special-teams captain.
– Owens, who returned from a knee injury that cost him the 2008 season, received the David Jacobs Award as “the player who by example portrays courage, spirit, character and determination.”
– Moore won the Leon Farmer Award for dedication to the strength and conditioning program.
– Most Improved Player awards went to sophomore tight end Aron White for the offense, junior safety Reshad Jones for the defense and sophomore cornerback Brandon Boykin for special teams.
– Newcomer of the Year awards went to redshirt freshman wide receiver Tavarres King and freshman tailback Washaun Ealey on offense; redshirt freshman safety Bacarri Rambo and freshman tackle Abry Jones on defense; and freshman defensive backs Branden Smith and Shawn Williams on special teams.
– Winners of the Outstanding Scout Team Awards were junior tight end Derek Rich and freshman center Ben Reynolds on offense; freshman end Reuben Faloughi and freshman tackle Kwame Geathers on defense; and freshman linebackers Cameron Allen and Jackson Griffeth on special teams.
Congratulations, all.
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Lame Penn
December 14th, 2009
12:09 am
Nothing is more lame than trolling your rival teams blog at midnite on Sunday trying to touch a nerve. Face it. Tech lost. Your frustrating attempts at raising dander are quite hilarious and pathetic. If tech had won, like you thought they would, then maybe your efforts would not be in vain. As usual, tech lost to UGA. I’m glad it bothers you so. Feel free to come back and shoot more blanks.
Lemuel Penn
December 14th, 2009
12:16 am
southside DAWG, you’ve got it backwards. Instead of being proud of turning out in big numbers to go to a dump like Shreveport, you should be ashamed. You’re being REWARDED for going 7-5?? That’s pretty lame. But bring me back a souvenir weedeater, please? You can send it to my resort hotel at Miami Beach.
But thanks again for more muttheaded thinking. You barely beat Tech when our QB was injured, and then you tell me how Tech sucks. You’re too dumb to even see the implication: that you struggled to beat a team that allegedly sucks, so therefore your team sucks. Get the syllogism? Now you know why you’re headed to Shreveport.
Lemuel Penn
December 14th, 2009
12:19 am
Hi, Lame Penn. I suppose you, however, were trolling the boards for a good cause. “Hey, any of you dawgies wanna talk about that hobnail boot game? Wheee: We wuz sumpin’, wasn’t we?”
You want pathos? Your fans have been supplying it for years. Dawgnation, my ass. It extends about as far as the Clark County line.
Lame Penn
December 14th, 2009
12:23 am
I am a UGA fan on a UGA blog, therefore, not a troll. Please try to keep up. We are not proud of our season but we won and you lost. Deal with it. Your anger and obsession with everything UGA is quite amusing.
southside DAWG
December 14th, 2009
12:28 am
Barely winning is better than barely losing with 2 weeks to get ready to play a team going to weedeater bowl. Lets see no AJ the best player for either team. Tech got hit in the mouth and did not know what to do. How many Tech players got hurt in the game. Can you post a picture of the baseball field Tech played a bowl game on I bet that was fun. How about the Blue turf. How did UGA struggle in the game? UGA was ahead the whole game.
BuLLdawg
December 14th, 2009
1:03 am
Say it loud, say it proud…SHREVEPORT!
WE ARE . . SHREVE – PORT! . .
WE ARE . . SHREVE – PORT! . .
WE ARE . . SHREVE – PORT! . .
WE ARE . . 7 and 5! . .
WE ARE . . 7 and 5! . .
OH YEAH, SHREEEEEEVE-A-STINKIN-PORT!
BuLLdawg
December 14th, 2009
3:09 am
30-24
BuLLdawg
December 14th, 2009
3:15 am
Tech’s SoS is Number 51 in the nation.
Orange Bowl is the worst rated dump every year, and Miami reminds us all of the Tech campus riddled with CRIME.
Your male asian student body is larger than your women student body percentage.
Your APR is worse than UGA in football.
You LOST 30-24.
And, you spend your days in here trying to tell us, we cannot say this in reply to your B.S. of how great Tech is.
Your retort to Tech’s Official NCAA Strength of Schedule of Number 51 is that Jeff Sagarin says Tech played a more reasonable SoS; but the truth is that you played 6 games against teams not even in a bowl game.
6.
And, that Jeff Sagarin says that the 1 team all season long that is a ranked team that Tech beat is RANKED AHEAD OF TECH in the Jeff Sagarin BCS Poll, Virginia Tech.
Tech, you LOST to an unranked 7-5 team at your house, 24-30.
BuLLdawg
December 14th, 2009
3:18 am
You also GAVE UP on your high school offense, and to end the game, threw 4 consecutive passes.
All incomplete.
By a “QB” who in 34 games has thrown a grand total of 12 TD to 11 interceptions.
BuLLdawg
December 14th, 2009
5:52 am
If this game were about Award Winners, UGA would be great with only 3 others having more players in the NFL than UGA.
But, it is not about Award Winners.
So, how are we actually doing ?
Afraid to ask ?
Lie to yourself about the answer ?
The Coach Richt Era ?
Has it been Boom ?
Is it Bust ?
How do you personally put up with the arrests and suspensions during the entire Coach Richt Era ?
Is Brian VanGorder a Great Falcons Defensive Coordinator, or not ?
Is Joe Cox really all we have at QB ?
How is that we have to yank the Redshirt off Washaun Ealey in the third quarter of the 5th game ?
Why was Knowshon Moreno Redshirted ?
Did we really not know how good Knowshon is ?
4 parts to college football.
How would you rate UGA’s Coaching and I’m not talking Defense.
How would you rate UGA’s Offense under Coach Richt and now Mike Bobo ?
How would you rate UGA’s Special Teams Kick-offs, Punt Returns and Kick-Off Returns ?
How would you rate the Recruiting of UGA’s Defensive Players ?
Let’s look at just how good we really are, and have been, shall we ?
In a season when we are in fact the
NCAA Number 78 Passing Offense
NCAA Number 73 Total Offense
NCAA Number 41 in Punt Returns
NCAA Number 76 in Kick-Off Returns
NCAA Number 119 in Turnover Margin
NCAA Number 117 in Penalties
We just FIRED THE ENTIRE DEFENSIVE COACHING STAFF, except for the Recruiting Coordinator.
We do not have and have not had an Offense, and this is nothing new this year.
We are a sorry lot on Special Teams, outside our Kickers.
We are an Undisciplined Group of Players on and off the field with 9 years now of Arrests and Suspensions. You can belittle this and say oh it’s only driving a scooter without a license, etc. but the facts remain our players are ARRESTED and SUSPENDED for what you write off as insignificant.
And, we do the same on the field as we do off the field.
It is a Culture.
3-17 last 20 against Florida. Do you concede that we cannot get out of our own Division of our own Conference ? Do you concede this ?
Do you know how we have faired against what actually were Final AP Poll Top 25 teams in the Coach Richt Era ?
Do you ?
18-20, in case you want the breakdown.
And, another 6 LOSSES to teams NOT RANKED IN THE FINAL AP POLL TOP 25.
We are not an Elite Football Program.
We should be.
We are The University of a State, only 3 others of which actually send more high school football players to the NFL than we do. California, Florida and Texas send more to the NFL than the State of Georgia does; that’s it.
5 others have higher attendance.
3 others have more in the NFL than we.
So, why are we 18-20 against Final AP Poll Top 25 teams in 9 years with another 6 Losses to teams not even ranked in the Final AP Poll Top 25 ?
Because of the Defensive Coaches fired by Coach Richt 3 weeks ago now ?
While we see all These Bulldogs on All These Other Program’s Coaching Staffs, what coach on Coach Richt Coaching Staff has anyone seeking him ? Go ahead, you can say it. Coach Richt, CEO, has NEVER had a good coach on his entire staff, ever coaching any position.
How many coaches on this “coaching staff” of Coach Richt today, have ever coached 1 day in the NFL ?
Answer is -0-.
We cannot evaluate talent, even when handed it.
We cannot teach discipline, to save our souls.
We cannot coach any aspect of the game.
We do not make good decisions.
We are not Elite. We averaged Number 14 in the Final AP Poll the previous dozen years, starting 1997; is that Elite ? Hardly, now we have our 1st Team since 1996 that is NOT RANKED in the Final AP Poll.
Tell me the 1 Big Bowl Game, just 1 mind you, that UGA got to play on the National Stage in 9 years now ?
5-Loss Florida State ? That was a Big Bowl Game for Elite Georgia ?
2005 Sugar after we Lost to Florida and Auburn, beat LSU and coached poorly to lose to West Virginia ?
2006 in the Peach Bowl against Number 19 Virginia Tech ?
2007 when we actually beat Florida & Auburn (Lost to vols) ? Number 19 again, Hawaii, this time. That’s an Elite Team in a Bowl Game we showed our stuff against ? Number 19 Hawaii ?
2008 last year after we Lost to Alabama, Florida and Georgia Tech ? Michigan State is an Elite Team in a Bowl Game we got to show our stuff against ?
Who are you trying to fool ?
This year, we had -0 offense against Oklahoma State and Lost, Lost LSU on Special Teams Kick-Off Return, destroyed by Florida when we yanked our Starting QB, Beat Tech and Lost to the vols. 6-6 Texas A&M is an Elite Team we are going to show our stuff against ?
We need to do a lot more than get rid of 3 defensive coaches.
Right ?
Topp Dogg
December 14th, 2009
6:15 am
We need Ellis J ohnson not S mart.
Sugar Bowl has been great and the Cotton too
December 14th, 2009
8:20 am
The clown that writes about the Orange pay out for Tech… Congrats. Tech is finally in a major bowl. I am over 60 and so the last fricking time that Tech was in a major bowl was my senior year in high school, like 67. SO, the second major for tech in 42 years is something to crow about? LOL
UGA has so enjoyed the Sugar and Cotton and Cap One for years and years. Heck, even the Outback has been a blast and in fact, when we played a Wisconsin or a Purdue in Tampa, we actually played in front of fans that PAID to get in and they were sell outs, unlike the laughing stock game called the ACC Champ game. HAHAHAHAHA 3-24 and 1-8 baby and 4-14 baby.
Besides, we all know that the Waffle House exec board buys the tickets so the local teen thugs and homeless and unemplyed ship’s mariners can get in free. What? How many were there? 27,000. LOL.
Goooooooooooooooooooo Dawgs !!! Woof, woof, woof.
dap01
December 14th, 2009
8:29 am
You are what you are: You are a loser on another team’s blog. Now that is sad.
We don’t need you to restate stats! We don’t need you to restate history (leave that to Obama).
Go buy a ticket at Tech. They are plenty available at each game. Be careful to not get mugged. Get out of your mother’s basement.
Go to your own blog, you sicko!
robodawg
December 14th, 2009
9:22 am
Kirby Smart will probably sit tight until he gets hired as a head coach in a year or two. His star is rising too fast. If he had a 4 or 5 year timetable for head coaching, a move back home would be more likely.
Under present circumstances, I don’t think Garner will get the position. If the previous DC had left voluntarily (like Van Gorder’s departure), it would be a different story, but right now the need is for somebody fresh to come in. There are a lot of good coaches out there, and I imagine a lot who would like to work for Richt. Maybe if we do get a temporary guy this time who moves on to the NFL or something in a couple years, Garner would be next.
red helmets please!
December 14th, 2009
10:08 am
My Christmas wish is to have a DC and some assistants to go along with the DC. Congrats players on the awards. We love our dawgs. Merry Christmas to all. Players keep your noses clean.
dawgfacedboy
December 14th, 2009
10:17 am
Don’t want Smart. He’ll be in line for HC job in the next couple of years and we’ll be doing this all over again. Why not give it Garner???? He’s a helluva recruiter, loyal to Richt, helluva recruiter, wants to be a DC, helluva recruiter, why not?
bb
December 14th, 2009
11:22 am
If it isn’t Rodney Gardner, he mail leave. And, if he leaves, there goes a good portion of recruit ability. Which is more important, recruiting or coaching D? What’s Richt going to do?
Georgia Tech Awards
December 14th, 2009
11:39 am
Running back who wet his pants the most trying to run through the UGA defensive line: Jonathan Dwyer
Quarter back who threw the most incomplete passes to end any chance of a Tech comeback against UGA: Josh Nesbitt
Most devestating dropped pass by a Wide Receiver: B. Thomas
Defensive End who was squashed the most by a UGA OT: Derrick Morgan
Biggest Crybaby sore loser coach in the country: Paul Johnson
Fanbase in the biggest state of denial: Ga Tech Fanbase
The most STEAMROLLED defense lineman: Tie between all of them
Most overrated player: Tie between Dywer, Nesbitt and Morgan Burnett
Most underrated player: No one won…they are all overrated
Player that got TRUCKED by a UGA running back the most: Tie between the whole Ga Tech defensive
Most pathetic excuse for a conference champion in CFB history: The entire Tech team.
Alabama Dog
December 14th, 2009
11:54 am
Hey Techies: Y’all would glady trade your “14 million dollar bowl game AND your ACC Chumpionship” for the GEORGIA game! C’mon, you can admit it to us, it’s not like we don’t know that already!!!!!! Although Florida and Alabama might be carrying us right now, if you guys are representative of the ACC’s best, y’all have a LONG WAY to go to catch up with the SEC!!!! 30-24!
Gratefuldawghead
December 14th, 2009
12:18 pm
BUD FOSTER from VT to be DAWGS DEE CORD?????? Anybody hearing this?
alldawgsgotohell
December 14th, 2009
12:22 pm
7-5???? LMFAO
11-2 and conference champs!!! Say hi to shreveport for me…
Gratefuldawghead
December 14th, 2009
12:25 pm
Dawgs been to 3 BCS bowls before Tech could even smell one!
TECH is HELL
30-24 Nerds stop Obsessing over the GEORGIA blogs!
murfdawg
December 14th, 2009
12:45 pm
I love the GT fan who keeps blogging about the $14 million bowl they are going to. Does he think that GT is getting all that? Evidently, he is over 60 years old, because he remembers Bobby Dodd’s master plan when he got out of the SEC. Dodd wanted GT to be the ND of the South and keep all the money for himself. We(at least the Dawg fans) know how that turned out!!!
Just for the sake of this discussion, let’s look at the bowl games GT has been to in the last 10 years.
‘00—Peach(L)
‘01—Seattle(W)
‘02—Silicon Valley(L)
‘03—Humanitarian(W)
‘04—Champs(W)
‘05—Emerald Nut(L)
‘06—Gator(L)
‘07—Humanitarian(L) (Can’t get enough of that blue turf)
‘08—Chick Fil-A (L) (Lost to another 7-5 SEC team)
‘09—Orange—Congratulations to ACC Champs!!
I would be willing to bet that the pay out for the 9 bowl games before this year did not add up to $14 million. But when you beat the Dawgs once in EIGHT years this is really exciting to go to a big bowl once in 42 years. Enjoy and have fun in Miami.
Gratefuldawghead
December 14th, 2009
1:12 pm
murfdawg… they can’t even sell out thier high school stadium!
Alabama Dog
December 14th, 2009
1:12 pm
alldawgsgotohell: 11-2 and conference champs might mean something if you guys had only won the one game that matters most to y’all. Say what you want, but the Dawgs aren’t obssessed with beating Tech; in fact it’s usually not who’s going to win, but by how much! Better luck next year-SUCKERS!!!!!!
alldawgsgotohell
December 14th, 2009
1:17 pm
dawgs aren’t obsessed with beating Tech? Ha!! Check out the posts on high points of the year-how many don’t list Tech?
After a 7-5 season, Georgia has fired three assistant coaches. After being ranked No. 1 prior to the 2008 season, Georgia is headed to Shreveport. The Bulldog Nation is a little nervous about the future
THWG!!!!!11-2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Division and Conference Champs!!!!!!! BCS Bowl!!!!!!! Winning season!!!!!! NFL draft picks!!!!!!
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murfdawg
December 14th, 2009
1:36 pm
Gt could only score 24 points off of three defensive coaches who were getting fired the next week. That’s impressive!!!!
AltamahaDawg
December 14th, 2009
2:01 pm
There is NO WAY that Richt is going to go into the end of Bowl season not knowing who his DC is. We might not know. Weeks before recruiting, and “hoping” to get somebody that was in a BCS bowl? (although that’s a pretty shallow criteria) Hoping he is isnt scrambling, to settle for whomever is left? I doubt that. Might as well have just gone with what he had and tweeked a few things.
Not to mention they are going to need to give thier old boss as much time as possible to replace him. Now, all the position coaches might not fall into place till later, but you can bet Richt knows without a doubt who it is long before the Final bowlgame is played. That would be a terribly negative statement on his program to not have that settled, in “hopes” of somebody.
I believe we all all too focused on the “name”. We should be looking at who brings a new style. And specualte who that would be. Obviously he isn’t going to stick with the hard-core 4-3, cover 2 zone. My guess is that he has come to the conclusion that if you dont have a star at DE, which appearantly is not a given, it’s too vulnerable, and is looking to change up the system. Meet the new guy, same as the old guy, lets see if he can “motivate” better……..nahh.
Of cource, KS is both, a Name, and runs a different scheme too. Just saying.
AltamahaDawg
December 14th, 2009
2:15 pm
tech lost thier last 4 Bowl games? interesting.
BTW, you do realize that they combine the bowl payouts and split it between the conference teams right? I’m pretty sure UGA has a huge credit balance in that ledger for years to come.
AltamahaDawg
December 14th, 2009
2:17 pm
although I am sure the fannie packs and Ipods are much nicer for the Orange Bowl.
1-800-TECH-TIX
December 14th, 2009
2:18 pm
Free Taliban membership with everyone sold!!!!
Alabama Dog
December 14th, 2009
2:18 pm
alldawgsgotohell: Congratulations! All you did just now is VERIFY everything I said. Enjoy your BCS bowl. Maybe you’ll live long enough to see them play in another one, that is if you live to be 100!!!! On the subject of coaches, in my lifetime, UGA has only had 5 head football coaches. You’d blow up your little calculator counting all of yours!
1-800-TECH-TIX
December 14th, 2009
2:19 pm
70,000 good seats still available!!!!
Going really SLOW!!!!
1-800-TECH-TIX
December 14th, 2009
2:20 pm
(30-24) Rings for everyone!!!
Alabama Dog
December 14th, 2009
3:29 pm
1-800-TECH-TIX: Right on! I’m sure there’s gonna be PLENTY of tickets available for Techies to their bowl. To my knowledge, Georgia has NEVER taken out full page ads in the AJC attempting to sell tickets to their games like Tech does. Maybe it’s because WE don’t have to! I’m sure even though this season didn’t turn out the way we all hoped it would, Georgia fans will still show up for the Independence Bowl anyway.
subpar GA team
December 14th, 2009
3:33 pm
but at least we beat our rivals!!! Now I have a reason to keep supporting a school for no reason other than the fact that I understand what most of the majors there are about
The CIA
December 14th, 2009
7:45 pm
We’ll have an easier chance of finding Bin Laden at the Orange Bowl among 20,000 nerds than in the hills of Afghanistan.
The Historian
December 14th, 2009
8:38 pm
I am a Georgia grad and I have seen the Dawgs beat GIT so many times since 1964 that I cannot count them, so I have submitted my application as DC. I will work for one dollar a year. You’re welcome.