Three UGA players undergo surgery (updated)
Athens – For starters, a quick medical report:
Three Georgia football players have undergone surgery in the past week.
Offensive lineman Justin Anderson and fullback Fred Munzenmaier both underwent shoulder surgeries. They will be limited in spring practice but full speed by pre-season camp in August, UGA said.
Defensive end Jeremy Longo had knee surgery. He will miss all of spring practice but is expected to be fine by August, UGA said.
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I’m working today on a story about how Georgia’s defensive players are dealing with their uncertain “new world” — the new 3-4 scheme, the new coaches, etc. (UPDATE: The full story is posted here.)
The players haven’t yet met the newly hired coaches -– defensive coordinator Todd Grantham and defensive-backs coach Scott Lakatos -– but are looking forward to doing so at a defensive-team meeting on Friday.
“I think it’s a little bit of both . . . excitement and nerves,” Abry Jones said. “Players are excited that we finally got a new coach and a new scheme. We’re also a little nervous because we’ve never run it before.”
Jones said players have been talking among themselves “about where we could play and stuff like that” in the new scheme. “We’re just waiting to see.” Jones, who said his weight is up to 299, was a defensive tackle in the old 4-3 defense, but if given his choice in the 3-4 he said he’d prefer to play defensive end rather than nose tackle. “I played [D-end] in high school. It wouldn’t be much of a jump,” he said.
Meanwhile, safety Bacarri Rambo is fired up about the 3-4, hoping it will result in more pressure on the opposing quarterback and thus more chances for interceptions by the defensive backs. Rambo loved Grantham’s description of his defense to the media last week as an aggressive, attacking style.
“If he said ‘aggressive,’ I’m ready to see how this season will turn out because I think that’s what we’ve been missing. Aggressive,” Rambo said. “Just go out there and make plays.”
Rambo’s new position coach, Lakatos, was the secondary coach at Connecticut this past season. Rambo said he happened to watch UConn’s victory over South Carolina in the PapaJohn’s.com Bowl and was impressed with how the Huskies’ secondary played.
The full story will have comments from additional players as well.
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BuLLdawg
January 21st, 2010
10:35 pm
15 times Andy Landers has beat Pat Summitt. No coach has done better against Pat Summitt than Andy Landers.
18 times the 2 teams have met with both teams ranked in the Top 10 in the Nation. The vols beat Andy Landers for the National Championship Game in 1996.
53-50, as Andy Landers teaches Defense.
Vincent J. Dooley, as UGA Athletics Director, hired Andy Landers as UGA Lady Bulldogs’ Head Women’s Basketball Coach April 1979.
26 NCAA Tournaments for UGA’s Andy Landers is 2nd Best in The Nation, including 5 Final 4 for Andy Landers.
25 Wins a season and this is the 29th Season at UGA for Andy Landers, who is now over 800 Wins in his Career and already named to the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.
He Graduates ALL of his Players. All.
19 of his former players have played in the WNBA.
429 weeks Andy Landers has been Ranked in the AP Poll, which is 3rd Best in the Nation.
And, tonight Andy Landers beat Pat Summitt for the 15th time head-to-head.
Runner-Up in 1985 and 1996, the 5 Final 4s, 10 Elite 8s, and 16 Sweet 16s, Andy Landers has been ultra successful as a motivator and as a recruiter, along with his main prowess of teaching Defense.
Only 3 teams have done better since 1979 than Andy Landers’ teams, taking the Final AP Poll Rankings and comparing them across all teams.
11 SEC Championships or SEC Tournament Championships for Andy Landers at UGA, and that is 2nd Best in The SEC, the Nation’s Premier Women’s Basketball Conference forever – like Football.
Janet Harris, 4-Time Consensus All-America.
Teresa Edwards won her 1st Gold Medal in 1984, and is the 1st Woman or Man to compete in 5 Olympics in Basketball. Teresa Edwards Won her 4th Gold Medal in 2000.
Katrina McClain competed in 3 Olympics with Teresa Edwards winning the Gold Medal in 1988 and 1996 together as the Backbone of the U.S. Olympics Team.
Recently the vols have had Superior Basketball Teams under Pat Summitt, but the games were not decided until the final basket really ever in the history between Andy Landers and Pat Summitt.
National Coach of the Year 4 times, Andy Landers is a lot of fun to watch coach.
31 All-America UGA Players Andy Landers recruited here.
57 All-SEC Academic Honor Roll, Andy Landers’ Student-Athletes are much better than Georgia tek’s in the classroom, and always have been. These 57 All-SEC Academic Honor Roll players for Andy Landers are in fact his 57 Best Players.
They all Graduate.
Andy Landers so far this year has beat Georgia tek again (he’s Never Lost them in Athens), Oklahoma, Rutgers, Virginia, Kentucky and Pat Summitt’s Tennessee Lady vols, and all 6 of them are Top 25 teams.
He will play another 10 Top 25 teams before the end of the season, and 4 of those are coming up now against 4 Ranked SEC Teams.
We don’t have the typical Andy Landers’ Guards this season, but they are a terror on Defense and push the ball underneath very well to The Bigs. They just can’t hit the broad side of a barn.
His inside players however, have been stellar. Ask the vols, who had lost only 1 game all season long and were Ranked Number 3. Andy Landers was Number 8. Those 2 will change places after tonight.
When Jasmine James makes a basket or Ashley Houts, Andy Landers will have a team like his teams of the past and we shall make a run through The NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament yet again this season.
Porsa Phillips and Angel Robinson make a great duo underneath for Andy Landers. Meredith Mitchell is a complete player. They all 5 play Defense as well as any Andy Landers has ever taught. It is really all he teaches. They get it. Tonight, for example, we forced the vols into 23 turnovers, none more crucial than their last.
53-50.
Andy Landers’ Lady Bulldogs and Pat Summitt’s Lady vols are The Class of The SEC.
The Win tonight was in HDTV on ESPN2, the host of the NCAA Women’s Tournament. The SEC Tournament this year is at Gwinnett Arena in Duluth Georgia.
Tennessee and Georgia both could be Number 1 Seeds.
The SEC expects at this point to put 7 SEC Teams in The NCAA Tournament, with only 5 SEC teams not making the Big Dance while the Big East expects to have 8 who will not make the Big Dance.
Notre Dame, you should note, does Consider Itself in the Big East Conference. The BCS gives them a bye playing their soft lousy easy schedules in football, but has changed the rules to favor Notre Dame alone.
It would mean so much to The Lady Dawgs if we would get off our butts and build a replacement for The Stegosaurus.
Playing at Stegeman tonight, Andy Landers on the season, is now 18-1.
RED DOG 77
January 21st, 2010
10:50 pm
Josh…..My suggestion, check out a guy goes by”I Know Georgia Football’ Pretty stout stuff. Dude knows his college football…..I think you will find it more rewarding than bickering with a …..well bickering…you can check him out @ 4:10pm 1/20……4:38pm 1/20…..or 11:23 1/21 on this story……..And Josh…I knew more than most of these guys when I was 16 as well….Keep gettin after it young man….you are doing great! RED DOG