The Vic Koenning case
Athens — One more name will be scratched from the list of rumored Georgia defensive coordinators if the University of Illinois’ press conference goes off as planned this afternoon.
And if it doesn’t go off as planned, then today will get really intriguing in Athens.
Illinois has called a 2 p.m. press conference to announce Vic Koenning as its new defensive coordinator.
At this late (early?) hour, that press conference is still scheduled.
Koenning also has talked with Georgia about its DC opening, and by some accounts Georgia’s interest in him went from tepid to torrid on Thursday.
Rumors were flying for a while Thursday night, intensifying with an 8:45 p.m. Twitter post by ESPN’s Joe Schad that Koenning “now close to deal to become Georgia’s DC, changing from Illinois” and seemingly fizzling with a 10:02 p.m. tweet by Schad that “ESPN.com reports Vic Koenning will land in Illinois after changing mind twice.”
What we know for sure at this point is that Illinois has a press conference scheduled for today -– and Georgia doesn’t.
Anyway, I should probably wrap up this post by answering the question some of you might be asking: Who’s Vic Koenning? He’s Kansas State’s co-defensive coordinator and formerly the defensive coordinator at Clemson and Troy, and before all of that he was head coach at Wyoming. His last name, by the way, is pronounced CONE-ing.
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DamnGoodDawg!
December 18th, 2009
10:07 am
Do it right, Mark. Your job depends on it. Evans, put some real money out there for a proven coach.
SAINT. DAWG
December 18th, 2009
10:10 am
C’mon Man…This is all a just CMR messing with our heads..!!CMR already has his DC and will be announsed just before bowl game or just after…got a friend in Hotlanta that says he heard it through grape vine…and that all are going to surpised VERY VREY surprised…so just calm down Dawg fans..CMR will hire a DC…
alldawgsgotohell
December 18th, 2009
10:13 am
who cares who your DC is?? He can’t save a program imploding on itself!!
Miami is always and will always be better than Shreveport!!!
11-2 is always and will always be better than 7-5!!
1-1 in the CPJ-CMR rivalry but we got the upper hand!!!
BCS bowl is always and will always be better than Independence bowl!!!
haywood jablomey
December 18th, 2009
10:14 am
if richt says it will be “announced after the bowl season”
then it has to be smart or muschamp.
period.
haywood jablomey
December 18th, 2009
10:15 am
or the alabama LB coach.
period. period.
UGAgrad71
December 18th, 2009
10:15 am
I see the bugs are out in force again. I hope you lose by 30 points to Iowa, several GT players rip up their knees, and their careers are finished.Maybe the managers and water boys can finish the game in the second half. Get a liofe you bunch of losers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
30 - 24
December 18th, 2009
10:15 am
B!TCHES!
45-42
December 18th, 2009
10:22 am
FRY COOKS!!
Link: Georgia comes up short again in hiring a defensive coordinator... - TideFans.com
December 18th, 2009
10:22 am
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Mike S
December 18th, 2009
10:23 am
And 30-24 is always and will always be better than 24-30.
As for Koenning, he is just playing the field for the best deal he can get. If he was approached by UGA and Illinois offered more money, than he would be a fool not to take that offer.
Frank Wren
December 18th, 2009
10:24 am
11-2 is always and will always be better than 7-5!!
Not when 11-2 is in the ACC. That equals about 6-6 in the SEC
Her Loyal Sons » Friday Roundup: The “Whatever Happened To These” Edition
December 18th, 2009
10:26 am
[...] Feel like the “search” for a new DC at Notre Dame is dragging on. Georgia fans are charter members of that club and welcome you and your dues. [...]
alldawgsgotohell
December 18th, 2009
10:27 am
Is that why we beat 2/3 SEC teams? Face it, your Southern Excrement Conference isn’t the strongest, you’re the weak sauce in the conference
The Grinch
December 18th, 2009
10:32 am
alldawgsgotohell
December 18th, 2009
10:27 am
Your two victories over SEC teams were against the only two teams not going to a bowl. Reeeeeeeal impressive. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Congrats “A She She” champs. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
JR
December 18th, 2009
10:33 am
It sure does look like Zorn is out in Washington, and they are already having discussions with Shanahan. Georgia should get on the phone with Greg Blache right away.
cantondawg
December 18th, 2009
10:35 am
I just don’t believe that we offered VK the job especially when CMR said that it might go on until January. I believe VK really wanted to come to UGA and Illinois made him a great offer. He called UGA to see if we would make him an offer. CMR told him the timeline in January. VK then mullled should he wait on a “maybe from UGA or do the sure thing. Like most wise people, he took the sure thing. No way would he choose Illinois over UGA if we offered him.
alldawgsgotohell
December 18th, 2009
10:41 am
How many of your 5 losses were to SEC teams?? You get dominated by everyone in the SEC, no wonder ACC wins are the only bright spots in your day!! You’re Shreveport bound and we’re Miami bound, no comparison!!
Shreveport Motel: $20/night gets you free breakfast and a bowl ticket!! BBBBBWAWAWWAWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The Grinch
December 18th, 2009
10:47 am
alldawgsgotohell
December 18th, 2009
10:41 am
That’s right. We had 5 losses, yet we still beat tech. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! 30 is ALWAYS greater than 24, and 8 is ALWAYS greater than 1, and so on. Enjoy your greatest season in 20 years, and your first EVER BCS bowl game….both in a year when you STILL lost to UGA. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
cullowheedawg
December 18th, 2009
10:49 am
Great he went where he wanted to be and maybe we should not beat up folks that decide not to be DAWGS, just cheer for the ones that join the litter. Cullowheedawg
alldawgsgotohell
December 18th, 2009
10:50 am
Who needs to beat the dogs when you’re going for a real title and not high school titles or “King of Shreveport”
Good luck against A&M, you’ll need it.
militaryDawgInDC
December 18th, 2009
10:52 am
30-24 and glad it stings…it’s only the beginning..i feel
another 7 yr streak in the works….
The Grinch
December 18th, 2009
10:55 am
alldawgsgotohell
December 18th, 2009
10:50 am
A real title? The “A She She”? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Yeah, that exciting title game was a pathetic rematch between twice beaten tech (one of which was to UGA in case you forgot) and 4 loss and unranked clemson. It was attended by a whopping 57,000 people. UGA has more fans when we played Tennessee Tech. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
A “real” title? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Mike S
December 18th, 2009
11:03 am
Attention IOWA HAWKEYE fans, plenty of good seats still available for the Orange Bowl. Contact Georgia Tech Athletic Department for information.
The Grinch
December 18th, 2009
11:07 am
Mike S
December 18th, 2009
11:03 am
Throw in a free coke and hot dog and you may get more tech fans to buy their allotment. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
30-24
December 18th, 2009
11:13 am
STINGS LIKE A BEE-AATCH DOESN’T IT???
Saint YellowUrine
December 18th, 2009
11:14 am
((((30-24))) hahahahahaha
ACC=High School Football hahahahhahahahah
Let us bow and PREY, YES P-R-E-Y
December 18th, 2009
11:21 am
ALL UGA fans want a D coordinator that PREYS on the opposing QB and handles the runs on the corners and one that PREYS on the passed ball with D back pics. We all want that. Does CMR???
I am afraid that whoever comes in must ALSO be a CMR “man of the cloth”, so to speak. NOTHING WRONG with that at all …………but I want a football man FIRST. CWM was one of the TOP MEN listed in Richt’s missionary work ………..fine…………..BUT We want A TOUGH MINDED D INSTRUCTOR WITH A PLAN TO P-R-E-Y ON THE OPPONENT’S OFFENSE AND ATTACK, ATTACK.
Now, let us pray for the right man. Amen.
Goooooooooooooo Dogs
to Saint Simons in Cowardly disguise
December 18th, 2009
11:26 am
UGA 30 Tech 24
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
and one more ha !!!
Saint Simons needs a lift
December 18th, 2009
11:29 am
Seriously ole SS…think about what you do….go around on a Ga. Board, trying to be a pain in the
a________to another team’s fans that you do not know….that can’t be much fun or if it is fun then you seriously need to evaluate yourself.
Alligator Farm and South Beach MPD Guided Tours
December 18th, 2009
11:30 am
Hey, if you buy ONE Orange Bowl ticket, you get a free Alligator Farm tour for family of 5 and a free tour of Southbeach ( w. MDPD) protection. Be cautious if person with a pistol approaches. He is not there for environmental reasons, or for the Big Game.
One comment ……………if you rent a car south of Orlando, you are in danger of being car jacked and pistol whipped. Whoops …………techers are already used to this stuff with the thugs loitering around BDS @ HGF.
30-24, 1-8 and 4-14 and the Tech beat downs will continue. Remember 08 would never of happened had UGA simply not laid dwon in the 3rd qtr. that day in Athens. HAHAHAHAHAHA
There goes Caleb. Whooooooooosh!! There goes Waushuan Wooooooooooosh!
CPJ screamed “hit them in the face you silly little bees. Smack em”. Wooooooooosh was that sound of cleats on BDS @ HGF
UGA ……………go Dogs!!!
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December 18th, 2009
11:47 am
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#3
December 18th, 2009
11:48 am
alldawgsgotohell: “You get dominated by everyone in the SEC, no wonder ACC wins are the only bright spots in your day!!”
So what does that really say about the ACC if UGA beat the only ACC team they played??
Irish Eyes
December 18th, 2009
11:48 am
I got no dog in this fight. My team has hit bottom. I am ashamed of the attitude of most ND fans. They are still living in the past. Only one other group of fans are living even further in the past. Let’s face it, both ND and UGA have become irrevilent. Both schools recruit the best athletes available. It seems that a very low percent of those recruits excell as they progress thru their college career. What is to blame? Got to be coaching. We just cut our losses. Richt just fired three coaches. Will that solve the problem in Athens?
SadDawg
December 18th, 2009
11:55 am
Tim Tucker sucks.
LAKE OCONEE DAWG
December 18th, 2009
11:56 am
TO: GT Rules your face AND alldawgsgotohell:
Might need that luck against Texas A&M but we didn’t need it versus Georgia Tech…You boys may go to Miami, but you got to tote that 30-24 A$$ WHIPPING all the way to Miami and back, then the remainder of the 330 days or so until that STATE CHAMPIONSHIP game rolls around again…Glad you finally won 1 out of 9, now I guess we can still call it a rivalry….Only BCS Bowl ever and Iowa is gonna have to sell your tickets….Forgot, the Orange Bowl is a little bigger that “The Joke by Coke”…And if Iowa beats you like LSU did last year, it will turn into the game that really didn’t matter, because there are bigger fish to fry……When the 4 NFL prospects leave, we will find out what kind of Coach Pugnacious Paul really is….Coach Gailey left him with all this talent, let’s see if some of his recruits like the backup QB can get you all to the promised land…..
atl-xmen
December 18th, 2009
12:02 pm
haha..irish eyes..dont even compare the state ND program is in right now with uga…nd has been out of it for years now and will continue to do so as the 80s are never coming back..uga is not out of anything..they still recruit great players and avg about 10 wins a season and with a little luck will be playing for a NC in about 2 years..ND is no where near that playing the schedule they play and still losing 7 or so games a year..
mason
December 18th, 2009
12:03 pm
(( Alldawgsgotohell is Chicken Little yellow Fuzz in drag )))
hahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
(( 30-24 ))
hahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
CFB Fan
December 18th, 2009
12:03 pm
All dawgs go to hell…
Enough of your senseless CRAP!
Look at the bowl comparison for the last 5 years and shut your mouth.
The Orange Bowl has been ranked the 23rd best bowl this year and Independence Bowl ranked #9.
Shut your mouth and look at the true FACTS:
GT Bugs
2005 Emerald Bowl GT 10 Utah 38
2006 Gator Bowl GT 35 WV 38
2007 Humanitarian Bowl GT 28 Fresno State 40
2008 Peach Bowl GT 3 LSU 38
UGA
UGA record over same period: 3-1 w/ 2 BCS bowls.
2005 Sugar Bowl UGA 35 WV 38
2006 Peach Bowl UGA 31 VT 24
2007 Sugar Bowl UGA 41 HW 10
2008 Capital One bowl UGA 24 Mich. ST. 12
atl-xmen
December 18th, 2009
12:05 pm
uga finished number 3 in the country 2 years ago..ND hasnt finished 15 or better in years..please..
alldawgsgotohell
December 18th, 2009
12:36 pm
UGA fans can only live in the past!! The present belongs to Tech!! Don’t you get it, YOU’RE IRRELEVANT. When was the last time your name was mentioned on national television? People barely remember your “coach”s name!! What do they remember? A GT team with a winning coach, 11-2 record, ACC championship, and BCS bowl berth!!!
So long puppies!!!! Eat our dust!!
THWG!!!!!!
shannon
December 18th, 2009
12:44 pm
alldawgsgotohell……….aka saint simons or m! Stupid techmites
FudgePackingDogs
December 18th, 2009
12:47 pm
I love me sum o’ them dawgss. WOOOF WOOF. I is so smart, thats I can count to 7. Too bad we cant beat that 8 win streak the yella jackoffs had(haha thatsa so Funny, see i made thems words differnt then theysa sposed to be). A SHE SHE…. hHAHAHAHA
alldawgsgotohell
December 18th, 2009
12:48 pm
Who is the St Simons? Who is this M? I am alldawgsgotohell and you will learn to fear my name!!!!
AltamahaDawg
December 18th, 2009
1:06 pm
“And 30-24 is always and will always be better than 24-30.”
TOUCHE’
“Miami is always better than Shreveport”…thought of that all by yourself, eh poindexter?
I would agree except that in comparing tech gobbers being in town VS The Georgia Fans being there, geography has no relevance.
alldawgsgotohell
December 18th, 2009
1:13 pm
Just kidding. The three of us live together, and yes I mean we ARE together. We share a king-sized bed and we get under the covers and talk about that hot Paul Johnson, and anything else that pops up…..
AltamahaDawg
December 18th, 2009
1:16 pm
Irish, I dont know if ND is irrelavent. They still carry clout as a program, and half the nation loves em, the other half hate em just because the first half love em.. Thats a good thing. Shouldn’t be a long trip back to relevantland.
But let’s be honest, they havent played good football in a long time. This decade. This is the first year in a long time UGA hasnt. UGA is disappointed to go to the bowl that ND would have taken in past several years.
Trying to maintain the nation’s longest streak of 8 wins seasons, and upset it’s not 10, is a far cry to figuring out how to have winning seasons.
jrmdvm1
December 18th, 2009
1:18 pm
To those who are “tired of” “bend but don’t break”, remember that Erk was fond of that philosophy as well. The trouble with it today is that most offenses have many more weapons to attack a defense near the goal line, especially with the fact that receivers ( including tight ends ) tend to be a few inches taller than your average DB. I totally agree that the new DC will have talent and experience available, and should have a “better” defense next year ( and would have improved even if CWM hadn’t been released ). But, there is merit in the argument that the offense needs to protect the football and control the clock. Wasn’t it CTT ( Auburn ) that made the comment that CMR would have to “learn to run the ball” to have SEC success? A modern “bend but don’t break” defense cannot play what becomes a “prevent” defense. Play must be aggressive over the whole field, and when the opponent reaches the red zone, the “shortened” field can aid an aggressive defense. Yes, that type of play can allow a big play, but if done correctly, the “timing” of the offense is affected and big defensive plays ( like take-aways ) will happen. I just hope the new DC understands how the “game” has changed.
alldawgsgotohell
December 18th, 2009
1:26 pm
Here’s your new fight song!!
SING IT WITH ME!! OOO, TO SHREVEPORT WE GO!! TO SHREVEPORT WE GO!!! HI HO A CRAPPY BOWL TO SHREVEPORT WE GO!!!!
Just a little Independence Bowl spirit!!!
BBBBBBBWAWAWAWAWAWHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
Mark Haskins
December 18th, 2009
3:32 pm
alldawgsgotohell is your username?!? Really? What an incrredible douche bag you are!!! Good luck being a huge loser.
Dawg Fan
December 19th, 2009
10:57 am
Who are these GT fans bashing UGA? Forget athletics where UGA smokes GT, check the records. UGA is consistently in the top 25 national rankings and top 10 for some others, for top public universities (above GT in every one.) Last year rated the #1 public university for return on investment! Buzz on that for a while!
By the way, do you really think CMR lost out to Illinois? If he wanted Koenning, he’d have gotten him. We already have our DC, we just can’t announce it yet!