Damon Evans gets new five-year contract, big raise (UPDATED)
Athens — A new contract for athletics director Damon Evans. A facelift for Stegeman Coliseum. And a new plaza for Sanford Stadium.
Those will be the results of actions taken Wednesday by the board of directors of the University of Georgia Athletic Association.
The board, at its regular quarterly meeting, voted to give Evans a new five-year contract with a big boost in pay and to spend $21.3 million on new construction projects.
The details:
– In executive session with Evans out of the room, the board approved a new contract that will mean a $110,000 raise for Evans effective July 1 — from his current $440,000 salary to $550,000. The contract calls for Evans to receive additional $20,000 raises in each subsequent year, putting his salary at $630,000 in the final year of the deal. Also, he will receive a $250,000 longevity bonus if he remains in the job when the contract expires on July 1, 2015.
– The board voted to proceed with a project that will renovate and widen the concourses of Stegeman Coliseum, adding restrooms and concessions stands and giving the 46-year-old building a modern glass facade on two sides.
– And the board voted to create a 45,000-square-foot entry plaza in the Reed Alley area behind the north stands of Sanford Stadium — a project designed to add amenities on football game days and enhance that part of campus year-round.
While approving the $21.3-million expenditure on the two construction projects, the board did not decide how to pay for them. The board’s finance committee will weigh whether to pay for the projects from the Athletic Association’s cash reserves, which are projected to reach $60 million by the end of this fiscal year, or to seek financing at attractive interest rates.
“The great thing is, we can move forward because we know we have the money there, $60 million sitting in that reserve fund,” Evans said.
The action on a new contract for Evans came with 17 months remaining on his current deal.
“I’m touched deeply by it,” Evans told the board after it emerged from executive session.
The new contract will replace the final year of the old deal, which was to have raised Evans’ salary to $460,000 on July 1. On that date, he will receive a $100,000 longevity bonus due under the old contract.
Evans, who grew up in Gainesville and played football at Georgia, has been UGA’s athletics director since July 1, 2004.
“He’s already become a nationally recognized figure in athletics, and we are fortunate to have him,” UGA President Michael Adams said Wednesday.
“I think he’s done an extraordinary job. … And there’s not been a whiff of impropriety during that six-year period. If you’re the president of an institution, that means a whole lot.”
Adams said the average salary of athletics directors in the SEC last year was $532,000.
Evans, 40, exuded enthusiasm about the new contract.
“We’ve got a lot left to do,” he said. “I want to see us grow in so many different phases. … I want to see us recognized as the elite program, and I sincerely mean that.
“I’m fortunate,” Evans added. “Who wouldn’t want to be the athletic director at the University of Georgia? … An old country guy from Gainesville, Georgia — who would have ever thought? It is just a blessing.”
Evans also was pleased by the board’s vote on the construction projects, which he said are designed to enhance the fan experience at events. Neither will add seats.
University architects said the plaza will be completed by the start of the 2010 football season and the coliseum renovation by the start of the 2010-11 basketball and gymnastics seasons.
The coliseum will look significantly different on the north and south sides. The outer walls will be moved out as far as the roof overhangs the current structure, adding more than 10,000 square feet of concourse space. The glass-clad exterior “will have a dramatic effect,” UGA campus architect Danny Sniff said.
The Reed Alley plaza is designed to be part of Sanford Stadium on game days, adding restrooms and concessions stands, but also to be left open to campus on other days.
“It’s a combination,” Evans said, “of something that is good for the university throughout the entire year and for those six or seven Saturdays will give our patrons a better experience.”
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Starring Kam Fong as Chin Ho
February 3rd, 2010
5:46 pm
Good for him, I guess the economy isn’t that bad in Athens
JDW
February 3rd, 2010
5:57 pm
He is underpaid…only TX made more off sports last year.
I'm Not A Front Runner I'm a Winner
February 3rd, 2010
6:00 pm
Geez Damon is going make ALMOST as much as the new DC
Bremen Dawg
February 3rd, 2010
6:04 pm
What, how close is his pay compaired to other AD’s.
Peadawg
February 3rd, 2010
6:04 pm
WTF, I work there. Where the hell is my raise?
Evening Grab Bag | MrSEC.com
February 3rd, 2010
6:09 pm
[...] future holds.”12. UGA athletic director Damon Evans got a new five-year contract today that includes a yearly salary of $550,000.13. Kentucky got a boost from a pair of in-state signees today.14. Steve Spurrier says [...]
jdawg
February 3rd, 2010
6:15 pm
if we can afford the airplane to fly him around to game and SEC meetings…pretty good salary…having a company plane and tickets and expense account….
Circus Act
February 3rd, 2010
6:17 pm
Just another overpaid clown !
1970 Dawg
February 3rd, 2010
6:22 pm
Circus, You would know a lot about clowns I guess. Why don’t
you buzz on back to the hive before we find the Raid or a fly
swatter.
UGASlobberknocker
February 3rd, 2010
6:22 pm
Coach Dooley should get a commission since it was his management that created the current excellent financial condition of the program. I bet Coach never made over 200k as AD. Evans has done a good job but never forget he was handed a sweet situation.
Now if we coukld just get rid of Mikey Adams..pls NCAA.. hire the pompous a$$ and get him out of our town.
Dog Man 98
February 3rd, 2010
6:26 pm
What a joke.
OK, you may have to pay the coaches big money to produce…but, Evans? This is worse than AIG! What has he done. Can him and let the football, basketball and baseball programs have the money. They are the ones that produce the revenues.
Actually, I guess it is the football program produces the revenue. Give it all to Mark Richt…at least he EARNS his salary.
This is a disgrace!
Dawg Fan 74
February 3rd, 2010
6:28 pm
WHAT?!?!?!?!?!
This clown has done NOTHING!
What a joke!
Big L
February 3rd, 2010
6:32 pm
This has to be a misprint.
Surely Evans could not be paid that much.
How many other UGA employees did not get a raise this year?
How many Georgians did not get a raise?
What has Evans done?
Richt is still the man!… but, Evans can leave any time!
Ga Teacher
February 3rd, 2010
6:34 pm
Wow, I guess the state budget is just fine for AD’s, the rest of us are getting no raise and having to take furlough days (i.e., salary reductions – the work isn’t furloughed!)
DawgNation
February 3rd, 2010
6:37 pm
With all the teachers having to lose part of their salaries due to Sonny’s furloughs you would think that the state would have put this on hold till he did something to earn it. He is after all a State employee subject to the same insane pay cuts the Governor has imposed.
DawgNation
February 3rd, 2010
6:38 pm
I hear you Ga Teacher and understand your position fully.
Logic
February 3rd, 2010
6:39 pm
Actually, he is paid with private funds through the Athletic Department…from the sports revenue; nevertheless, this is a disgrace. He is already paid too much!
DawgNation
February 3rd, 2010
6:40 pm
I was wondering how can a signed contract agreed upon by both the State and the teachers could be broken on a whim and a fat check and lucrative contract for an AD that has done nothing as of yet can be presented?
Todd - Dacula
February 3rd, 2010
6:40 pm
Damon Evans is the CEO of the Program. A smart guy; UGA’s Sports Programs is in great hands with him at the helm.
I smell a hint… perhaps a few of you wish for someone who use sun tan lotion.
DawgNation
February 3rd, 2010
6:41 pm
Thanks Logic for the info. I say quit giving to the Athletic Department till these furloughs are done with.
dawgmom
February 3rd, 2010
6:41 pm
What a joke!! ‘Nuff said.
The Other St. Simons
February 3rd, 2010
6:41 pm
They took Da’Rick’s money and gave it to Evans.
Neutral Observer
February 3rd, 2010
6:43 pm
Just look at all the Damon Evans haters… go guzzle another PBR and slap your wives around while wearing your never-been-washed ‘G’ ballcaps. Y’all obviously know nothing about the business of college athletics. I wonder why you REALLY hate him so much? I bet putting Dooley’s ignorant old behind back in the position and pay him a couple million would make you much happier huh?
Asheville Dawg
February 3rd, 2010
6:44 pm
I feel your pain Ga Teacher. Did Evans have any furlough days this past year? Last I checked the men’s basketball program, while vastly improved, should be considered. And football was 8-5, that’s worth a 25% raise?
DawgNation
February 3rd, 2010
6:45 pm
Todd. It didn’t take long for someone to play that card. I could care less what color his skin is. I leave that up to people like you. Mr Evans has since the day he was announced the AD has my support but I don’t agree with a pay raise while teachers, which included the coaching staff, are given pay cuts when a signed contract was agreed on by both parties.
Logic
February 3rd, 2010
6:45 pm
I was wondering how long before someone injected race…and Todd did not disappoint.
If you disagree with the raise and the high salary you must be a racist.
Great logic.
Voice of Reason
February 3rd, 2010
6:47 pm
Some of you need to know of which you speak. First of all, he is an excellent administrator, groomed and mentored by Vince Dooley for the job. Next, he runs the most successful program financially in the SEC, and the second most successful in the country. His salary comes not from the University or State of Georgia per se, but from the athletic department income. This department contributes GREATLY to the general fund of the University and on occasion has enabled certain projects outside the athletic department to be helped financially.
Why don’t some of you jerks try and find out facts before you open you angry minds.
SuperB
February 3rd, 2010
6:48 pm
Still playing Florida in—FLORIDA! How stupid is this?
I am more interested in winning FB games, not in hobnobbing with a bunch of old drunks on a golf weekend every year. Apparently, Evans is not.
KINGDAWG
February 3rd, 2010
6:48 pm
Depending on the day, the UGA athletic department will claim they are a private organization on other days( if being sued) that they are a state entity. Which would you guess they are today??
Todd - Dacula
February 3rd, 2010
6:48 pm
DawgNation:
I am just playing it face up, not hiding behind the hidden comments. Thats what he makes, PERIOD. HE’s running the department and appears to be doing a great job. The next time you are give a raise, lets see if you turn it down; think not. The Athletic Board gave the raise, Damon did not see them at the liguor store and hold them up for the raise.
I smell you…. Dawg!
Billy
February 3rd, 2010
6:50 pm
Just because the Athletic Dept. is making money doesn’t mean they need to spend it all on salaries. University System of Georgia employees are seeing their salaries drop through mandated furloughs and UGA sees fit to overspend for a DC and give the AD a 30% pay raise. USG employees are going on their second year of salary freeze in addition to furloughs. How about paying a reasonably high salary to your DC, like 500K, and recongnize that we all have to sacrifice right now. I know it’s heresy to the rabid dawg (sic) fans out there, but you don’t have to overspend in desperation while the rest of the university struggles.
Neutral Observer
February 3rd, 2010
6:50 pm
President Adam’s said it… under Evans’ watch: 1. Winning in every program but hoops 2. Excellent graduation rates 3. No NCAA investigations
This is a BUSINESS folks and there is a reason that the SEC signed a multi-BILLION dollar deal to start televising ALL SEC sports (not just football). Want the whole nation watching UGA athletics that are losing and have a bunch of NCAA mud all over them every year?
Big Dog 88
February 3rd, 2010
6:56 pm
Dear Voice of Reason,
Did the taxpayers or the Athletic Department build the stadium?
Does the taxpayers or the Athletic Department pay for all of the extra security needed during football games?
Does the taxpayers or the Athletic Department provide for a University, professors, classrooms etc. that make the University?
Just because of SEC teams do likewise does not make it right.
Give me a list of the top 10 things Evans has done…
It is obviously the coaches and players that produce the revenue…not Evans.
UGA Alumn
February 3rd, 2010
6:57 pm
I am disgusted by the racial comments. I have meet Damon Evans and he is a great man of integrity and a UGA Alumn. He has done an excellent job. UGA has many other sports than just football and we have won many championships during his tenure and our graduation rates are #1 in the SEC. You racists rednecks are an embarrasment to the true Bulldawg Nation!
Dawg Fan 74
February 3rd, 2010
7:01 pm
Dear UGA Alumn,
Apparently UGA did not teach you to read. Where are the racist comments?
Someone disagrees with a raise and you ASSUME it is because of his race. You are obviously not very bright.
george
February 3rd, 2010
7:04 pm
is there a penalty for leaving early or just an incentive for staying? just a longevity incentive seems rather one sided. as some schools are struggling to raise the revenue to subsidize all those non-revenue sports, georgia fans and boosters-and great work by the sec on tv contracts-have made georgia one of the very top programs in the country. he is paid on a par with his peers as are teachers. he does not have guaranteed lifetime employment, excellent benefits and defined benefit retirement. he also is not taking taxpayer or shareholder money to run institutions into the ground like wachovia’s and other bank “robbers” did. wachovia paid the guy who killed then bank 25 million as shareholders, including many retirees, saw their holdings all value.
UGA Alumn
February 3rd, 2010
7:06 pm
Dawg Fan 74: My entire comment wasn’t based on the couple racial comments. Its disgusting that it was even brought up in the first place but I do assume that it is the motive behind a few and if the shoe doesn’t fit then don’t wear it!
PWL
February 3rd, 2010
7:07 pm
Does every blog on the AJC have to be reduced to race?
Can we just stick to the facts!
UGA Alumn
February 3rd, 2010
7:10 pm
PWL: Your absolutely right! The Hoop Dawgs are on, gotta go!
Dawg Fan 74
February 3rd, 2010
7:10 pm
Todd was the first to mention race.
He indicated that people that oppose the raise did so based solely on Evans race.
Hairy's Balls
February 3rd, 2010
7:12 pm
Evans should make more than anyone in the Athletic Dept. He should get a “cut” of the profits from the Dept., netting him millions per year. And we should also give the athletes a minimum pay of $100,000/year to play at UGA. Instead, this money pays for women’s sports (and others) that noone gives a damn about. Season ticket holders should get a “kickback” too, as “shareholders,” depending on profits!
Your 6-Figure Athletic Director Mr. Evans
February 3rd, 2010
7:14 pm
This is a friendly reminder to be sure and pay your required amounts for the privilege of having the opportunity to buy UGA football tickets.
Do pay up in a prompt manner.
Embarrassment
February 3rd, 2010
7:20 pm
Surely this must be the most embarrassing of days for UGA fans.
tenn.DAWG
February 3rd, 2010
7:24 pm
The puppet master is rewarding his yes man.
Todd - Dacula
February 3rd, 2010
7:37 pm
Dawg Fan 74, I smelt it a mile away. I just exposedn the underlying comments. Damon Evans did nothing for have a raise bestowed upon him.
Calvin Ruff Ruff
February 3rd, 2010
7:42 pm
Very sad that race has to be brought into folks, but that is a current reality. Some people (on both sides) see race before anything else. That being said, I don’t think this was the best time for a raise, but with the current contract running out UGA Athletics obviously felt it was time to re-up. He will be paid comparable to his peeers in this line of work. For those who think the guy hasn’t done ANYTHING, I beg to differ. College level ADs have some very huge duties and responsibilities to shoulder. When you are a program of this financial magnitude, the money is there. I just wish they would continue to improve the facilities, get more student athletes to graduate, and keep our quality athletes in state. I agree that the athletes are the real generators of the cash but the NCAA system is flawed in this respect. Damon’s salary is just a drop in the bucket for a program of our financial means. And while the security, state troopers, and other Athens/Clarke services are not paid for out of the Athletic budget, do you realize how much money/tax revenue the Bulldogs generate on any given Saturday? (Let’s don’t abandon the trickle down philosophy) I know I drop plenty of green on eating establishments, parking, tips, gasoline, and bottled water or other beverages that are handsomely taxed. Plain and simple, if most of you people were honest, I don’t think many of you would turn down a raise if your employer offered you one. If you don’t like this latest move, I suggest you true DAWG fans voice things where it counts. Don’t renew your season tickets, stop attending the games, don’t watch the networks for the games, don’t by any bulldog merchandise, go back to a normal car tag, and choose some other institution of higher learning to send your young ones to. I’ve already mailed in my Hartman Fund Donation so I guess I’m stuck for at least another year.
Todd - Dacula
February 3rd, 2010
7:45 pm
If we are going to stick to facts, the very 1st comment should not have been made. Damon Evan’s superiors deceided to grant him a raise. Yet Damon was attacked. Why not blame Adams and the Atheletic Board; obviously, according to a few of you, they are a bad judge of success for their employee.
If Adams and the Board errored, blame them, not Damon Evans.
I am on these blogs a lot and most tones are that of underlying racism when it comes to minorities. I am a defender of racism. It’s 2010 and things are obviously no better that when many carried the shotgun and the rebel flag in their ‘pick-me-up truck’/
GT Metrosexual
February 3rd, 2010
7:52 pm
I just finished flushing my toilet, and I thought of Louie. Where is the little sugar truck tonight, anyway?
HOG EATER
February 3rd, 2010
7:54 pm
disgusting! There are world class professors at UGA who will never make that kind of Money. I am a dawg fan but college athletics has become nothing but a NFL farm team. I say NO more Football scholarships. Some of the “student athletes” cant hardly speak english.
Louie
February 3rd, 2010
7:55 pm
Well, where do I start.
Makes sense ( in mutt world).
Run a program in reverse, get rewarded.
Ol’ Damon might be ridding on the Von richt express as it leaves Cow town, probably won’t be long.
Hope he sticks around, so does the GT nation.
adams should have watched the crash and burn this morning before throwing nickels around like man hole covers.
WHAT DID I TELL YOU LAST NIGHT, YOU WOULD CRASH AND BURN TODAY, DID I NOT?
muttsters are the laughing stock of the SEC today.
YES… STILL L M F A O
Courtney
February 3rd, 2010
7:55 pm
Why is this happening? Why would anyone deserve this kind of raise? It is artificial? Is some other school coming after him, NO! Would he leave if his salary stayed the same, NO! The nation’s CEOs get richer and the average Joe gets poorer.
Buckhead Bulldog
February 3rd, 2010
7:56 pm
UGASlobberknocker
February 3rd, 2010
6:22 pm
I agree with EVERYTHING you wrote 100%. Right on the money, bro’!
Billy O
February 3rd, 2010
8:00 pm
Enter your comments here
Old Dawg
February 3rd, 2010
8:01 pm
I’m glad that my educator wife is taking her furlough days to help provide Damon with his raise. And, the closest he’s ever been to a “Country Guy” is buying a can of mixed veggies at the grocery store. I wonder what Adams will do for him when he becomes the head of the Board of Regents.
Billy O
February 3rd, 2010
8:02 pm
Congrats to Damon Evans for a job well done! Go Dawgs…..
GoDOGS
February 3rd, 2010
8:06 pm
Louie- What are you talking about? Just a lot of hate filled ramblings that make zero sense. You are mad and jealous of UGA. We get it…..please get over it. Your bumbling blather reflects the GT freshman tool you truly are, lil’ boy.
Wonderdog
February 3rd, 2010
8:08 pm
Great faculty and staff have to take furlough and class sizes are bigger than Eva(ns).
Tom
February 3rd, 2010
8:16 pm
Shouldn’t Damon be the DC? He’s making almost the same. This makes me sick
Tom
February 3rd, 2010
8:17 pm
So does Evans or Adams have to take furlough days?
.
February 3rd, 2010
8:23 pm
Hog Eater,Wonderdog, Courtney, and Old Dog, etc.,
So are you all saying the Athletic Dept. should funnel money over to University for academics? You do realize the Athletic Dept. is a self funding department of the University, right?
cookieman
February 3rd, 2010
8:25 pm
Evans has done a great job. This raise puts him on average with rest of the sec AD’s. I can’t believe some of the stupid comments.
.
February 3rd, 2010
8:29 pm
The University of Georgia Athletics Board = gave Damon a raise.
http://www.georgiadogs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=8800&ATCLID=325251
The Georgia Board of Regents or President Adams = did NOT give Damon a raise.
Got it?
charles
February 3rd, 2010
8:29 pm
I have no problem in paying our AD big bucks,but I want him to demand excellence. Giving Andy Landers a new 3 year contract wasn’t a good sign and I fear he won’t demand enough from Richt. We need a great coach and Richt isn’t it.
Small Johnson
February 3rd, 2010
8:30 pm
Since I have to continue to anty up $2000 every year to keep my tickets and watch a $4million a year coaching staff continue to lose to FL every year……………….
I would like to make a request for new toilets
Sometimes the moment hits and a clean toilet is nowhere to be found to drop my friends off
I thought since all this hard earned money by us fans are being spent I thought it wouldn’t hurt
Anyone out there with a request
Louie
February 3rd, 2010
8:32 pm
TO: godog(gies)
No hate, oh little one, just stating the obvious.
Hurts, huh son. Go tell Damon you feel great to be a joja bullmutt today.
People like you make me LAUGH.
STILL L M F A O
Denver Dog
February 3rd, 2010
8:39 pm
The dawgs rated 7th best in the sec in recruiting this year by rivals.com and Evans gets 500K+
nice.
Go Dawgs
February 3rd, 2010
8:42 pm
6th best in the sec pal
PROSPECT COMMITMENTS
School TOTAL
Commits
Commits
Commits Avg Stars
Points
1 Florida 28 4 18 5 3.89 2,938
2 Auburn 32 3 13 13 3.50 2,485
3 Alabama 26 1 15 9 3.62 2,308
4 LSU 29 1 15 13 3.59 2,255
5 Tennessee 25 1 12 9 3.44 2,048
6 Georgia 19 0 9 9 3.42 1,581
7 Ole Miss 25 0 8 16 3.28 1,554
8 South Carolina 23 1 5 11 3.04 1,342
9 Mississippi State 26 0 5 14 2.92 1,032
10 Arkansas 25 0 3 18 2.96 766
11 Kentucky 26 0 1 18 2.77 742
12 Vanderbilt 24 0 1 17 2.79 469
Old Dawg
February 3rd, 2010
8:46 pm
…and Adams doesn’t control the athletic board! You’re brilliant.
GoDOGS
February 3rd, 2010
8:47 pm
Really Louie? You are the one coming to the UGA blogs nightly to spread your venom of UGA. I think you look like a true fool, so, no, it doesn’t “hurt” in the least. You are a little loser, who when/if you graduate from Tech will find out that envy and jealousy are not good hiring qualities, punk! Little flamers like you make me gag.
whatever
February 3rd, 2010
8:49 pm
just thought i would add fuel to the fire….he drives a pimpin BMW around athens. has a hot wife to…… folks get over it and stop being jealous
whatever
February 3rd, 2010
8:51 pm
and to people that don’t like M Adams. Get over the fact that he kicked dooley to the curb, the UNIVERSITY is consistently getting more national attention for ACADEMICS since he took over. Magna Cum Laude B.B.A class of 2009
GaDawg
February 3rd, 2010
8:52 pm
I really do not think many of you realize the sacrifices it takes to be in a position of leadership. It is not an 8 to 5 job. I am a CEO of a small company and I do get paid well, not quite that well, but! We don’t get off a 5 and go to the kids soccer matches, movies, etc. We miss meals with family and family events. We work evenings, weekends, and sometimes holidays. But we chose to be in these positions. It is not as glamorous as you may think. How many of you would want the responsibility of the well being of the employees athletic association and the student-athletes? I would say not too many.
Damon has done a good job. Yes he was hand picked, but there are many companies and colleges that are hand picking their successors. Nothing wrong with that.
So, keep in mind when you are at the kids soccer game, having dinner with your spouse or significant other, that the CEO of your company, or the AD or HC at your favorite college is still working to make sure that you have a job to go to the next day.
GaDawg
February 3rd, 2010
8:56 pm
charles – Any suggestions on who a great coach would be? Seems Richt’s 4th best winning percentage among active coaches isn’t good enough. I’m sure Damon and Adams would be open to suggestions. Maybe you should apply.
Louie
February 3rd, 2010
9:04 pm
I think go dog(gie) blew a gasket, my god what a moron.
And, yes my little neck, I WILL graduate, see you at the drive thru at Burger King.
Bet they let you stand on a milk crate so you can see your customers.
You just FLAMMED OUT punk.
Get a life, don’t get so worked up.
I know today has been rough on you.
And quit gagging, go ahead and swallow…
Like you always do.
Al Ciraldo
February 3rd, 2010
9:10 pm
TELL EM LIKE IT IS LOUIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Circus Act
February 3rd, 2010
9:17 pm
Another Damon blunder…. hiring of Mark Fox…. Dawgs blew another game tonite against ARKY
Sid
February 3rd, 2010
9:22 pm
winning percentages??? what good are winning percentages when you haven’t won any NC’s. When one of your big time sports, football, is just above mediocrity and your other one, basketball, is non-existent and going nowhere you really deserve a hefty raise. He’ll make a good Congressman one day.
Al Ciraldo
February 3rd, 2010
9:24 pm
KUDOS , SID
GaDawg
February 3rd, 2010
9:30 pm
How many NC’s did Bowden win? Spurrier? Tuberville? Look at the great Charlie Weiss, how many NC’s did Notre Dame win under his watch? UGA should have been in the BCS in 2008. They destroyed the Cinderella Hawaii. The BCS is political, but that is about to come to a crashing end very soon. ESPN won’t be able to control it like they have in the past.
UGA has been a consistent top ten program for the last 9 years. One year does not make a failure.
walmart Dawg
February 3rd, 2010
9:36 pm
Hey Gadawg….. Sounds like you have a tough life with your call girls, money and boozing glamorous lifestyle. Maybe you need to get out to the soccer games and spend time with your family and pay all of your earnings in high gas prices to get your children to school and yourself to work each day.Oh but you need to ride in your expensive automobile with a hefty expense account while all the while you dont have a clue what a average Joe goes through day in and day out. Just like an out of touch politician you just dont get it. Damon Evans should refuse the raise if he was a real guy.
mason
February 3rd, 2010
10:07 pm
(( 30-24 ))
hahahahahaha
Glad it still hurts soooo bad techmites.
Dawg Fud
February 3rd, 2010
10:12 pm
QUESTION: when is Richt getting his indoor practice facility?
Dawg Fud
February 3rd, 2010
10:14 pm
Circus Act,
you are a total moron if you think Mark Fox cannot coach. if you watched any of the games or knew anything about the team youi would see it is not a coaching issue — we have no depth.
GaDawg
February 3rd, 2010
10:26 pm
walmart Dawg proves the point. You have no clue. I wished I had an expensive car. I drive an F150 truck. I pay the same high gas prices that you do and shop at Walmart also. When I said small company I meant it. I go unpaid at times so that my employees and vendors can get paid. You have no idea the taxes that I pay to the IRS so that you get handouts. I pay double the taxes that you do, personal and business. I would love to go to a soccer game and spend more time with the family, but if I did who would make the decisions required to run a business that keeps your butt off unemployment? There are more of us, CEO’s of small companies that sacrifice to keep people employed, than there are CEO’s on Wall Street. So next time you attack me and make accusations, keep in mind it CEO’s of small companies keeping you off unemployment. Next time your boss offers you a raise I bet you do not turn it down.
Indoor Dawg
February 3rd, 2010
10:33 pm
With all of this money, is it too much to ask for an indoor football facility?? It is embarrassing, I think we are the only SEC team without one!!
DawgSinceBirth
February 3rd, 2010
10:47 pm
Foley Field BETTER BE NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sucka
February 3rd, 2010
11:08 pm
HE DIDN’T ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING BIG YET…….THIS IS NOT RIGHT !!!
Tree
February 3rd, 2010
11:09 pm
I think he got the raise because he convinced CMR to fire CWM. But who is going to convince him to fire CMR. CMR just cannot recruit in this state. He will get some leftovers from the state of Florida. He can’t secure the border. There are just too many good talents leaving the state every year.
UGA student
February 4th, 2010
12:16 am
Just FYI – The Board for the Athletic Association is made up of:Faculty: President Michael F. Adams – Chairman, Mr. Timothy P. Burgess – Treasurer, Professor Jere Morehead – Secretary Faculty Athletics Representative, Professor Wyatt W. Anderson, Mr. Rodney Bennett, Professor Anne L. Sweaney, Professor Jace Weaver, Professor Scott Weinberg, Professor David Shipley. Alumni: Mr. William C. Archer III, Mr. Robert D. Bishop, Mr. Mack H. Guest III, Dr. Thomas W. Lawhorne, Jr., Mr. Donald M. Leeburn III, Mr. Patrick S. Pittard, Ms. Swann Seiler. Students: Ms. Brittany Lee, Mr. Hunter Lainhart, Ms. Grace Taylor
So Dr. Adams did play a part in the giving of a raise to Damon Evans.
Whether people seem to realize or not – alot of students base their college attendance decisions on the popularity of the athletic teams of the schools in which they want to attend. These athletic programs that people fuss about bring revenue to the local economy as well – think of all the people on game day that come to Athens, stay in the hotels, spend their money at the restaraunts and grocery stores to buy tailgating supplies.
The Athletic Association is totally self supporting, they receive NO state funding. And they do give back to the university – I believe that they gave $3 million a year for the next 3 years to the academic side of the university.
I wish everyone would realize that these student athletes work hard to earn and keep their scholarships. Not only do they have to take 12-15 hours of classes and maintain their grades, but they have hours of practice and/or workouts every day, they have mandatory study hall and tutoring sessions that they are required to attend. These students work hard to earn their education. The hours that are put in both on and off the field – are way more than any full time job that most people hold.
UGA has 16 different sports that fall under the Athletic Association Umbrella – so Damon is the manager of all of these teams. To say that he does nothing – is not true.
With all this being said – I would like to see the Athletic Association step up and realize that the UGA Baseball program is just as deserving of facility upgrades and improvements than the football & basketball programs!
MESSENGER
February 4th, 2010
12:22 am
Nearly 3 and a half MILLION dollars for an Athletics Director who stands idly by allowing our Offensive Coaching Staff to remain intact, sorry as they most assuredly are; and, who does nothing for the Stegosaurus but waste yet MORE MONEY in this horribly down economy where none of the rest of us are prospering when we all know we must have a new gym not waste money like this on the old one.
Nice football season Damon Evans. Congratulations. 8-5 and a Shreveport bowl game against an opponent who has a LOSING RECORD losing again to Florida, losing again to LSU, losing again to the 7-6 vols too, losing to Okie State who even Houston beat but not us, and losing to 7-6 Kentucky – and in this economy for now this recruiting class barely ranked at all and certainly VOID of Offensive Impact Recruits obviously, Damon Evans gets 3 and a half MILLION DOLLARS.
B.S. Someone write President Obama; I’m sure he would not say kind words about this performance and now 3 and a half million dollars in this belt-tightening 3 year long DEPRESSION.
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walmart Dawg
February 4th, 2010
8:38 am
HEY UGA Student…. you sound like one of those who gets a free education that thinks he or she is entitled to get a top paying job once they receive their degree. Let me clue you in on life , there aint no guarantees! When you get or receive a scholarship then of course you are expected and required to do certain requirements at that institution. So when you get out into the real world without mommy and daddy’s help maybe you will really understand what life is all about .So please cut the student athlete hard luck story crap. Damon Evan may deserve a raise but what he got is absurd .Please dont try to make everyone feel bad on his job responsibilities because HE made the choice to pursue the position of AD.
Snoop Dawg
February 4th, 2010
11:33 am
The news just gets worse in Athens. You’d think Athens was Washington the way these overpaid nincompoops demonstrate such arrogant incompetence every day. If you want to see how Evans is doing, plot how many championships UGA won each year the past five years and put them on a graph. You will be going down a hill. As far as raising money, even Barak Obama could make windfall profits with these Koolaid Drinking UGA Bulldog Red/Black zombies that put absolutely zero pressure on Da Preacha Man to coach championship football. Unfortunately, I just put $800 in the mail to them the other day for season tickets. Wonder if I could cancel the check?
…but as I’m thinking about it, I guess that Demon Evans is a bargain @ $500K/year versus Preacha Man Markt Wrecked’s $3M/year.
Keep drinking dat Koolaid Bulldog Nation…
Jona
February 4th, 2010
12:03 pm
Snoop Dawg
Please ask for your money back. I’d hate to think I might be sitting beside your negative @ss at the games.
Gdawg
February 4th, 2010
12:13 pm
Mr. Evans,
What are we going to do about an indoor practice facility for the football team? The football team brings in the vast majority of sports revenues for the university, but you allow UGA to fall behind other comparable facilities in the SEC. If you truly meant what you said (“We’ve got a lot left to do,” he said. “I want to see us grow in so many different phases. … I want to see us recognized as the elite program, and I sincerely mean that”.), then you should immediately begin to propose an indoor football practice facility, and renovate and expand Sanford stadium by 10K seats. Facilities are one of the most effective selling points to a high school senior that is considering our school. However, I would like to thank you for the long over due Stegman Coliseum project. I just hope this renovation is not a bandaid over a shotgun wound. Give CMR and CMF the facilities and these guys will win year in and year out. Don’t procrastinate, these issues should be addressed immediately.
Regards,
Gdawg
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February 4th, 2010
12:15 pm
We should be building during the recession…and you guys are right…shame on our Association for stockpiling and managing the money well so that they have reserves to pay for new buildings. There will be improvements all over campus, BUT FOLEY NEEDS HELP!!! If we don’t want Evans, then who? And good luck trying to pay less…there are only 2 paid less in the SEC, welcome to the market people. And maybe you should quit your job and go into athletics is you are jealous of the gold standard of salaries.
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February 4th, 2010
12:16 pm
And by the way, EVERY EMPLOYEE of the UGAAA had to take furlough days. And, your arguments stack up that no one in the state should get a raise since the teachers didn’t (even private companies)
Jona
February 4th, 2010
1:21 pm
Am I missing something? Mark Richt is always talking how bad the football team needs an indoor facility. Why facelifts before needed additions?
Snoop Dawg
February 4th, 2010
4:45 pm
Jona, yes you are missing something. I’ll make sure I’m not sitting next to you at the games. You should be easy to spot, drinking that Koolaid…
Carnac
February 4th, 2010
5:14 pm
Hey Gdawg
do you have a clue as to what type of facilites are being built for Athletics right now? There is a 40 million dollar state of the art expansion going over at Butts-mehre right now. what do you think that is for? do you not think it may be to attract high school seniors? Did you know it had a state of the art rehab facility in it like not other in the state of Georgia? did you know it had a small inddor practice area in it? It’s small, but it’s something. Richt was given the choice of Indoor faciluty or Butts-mehre expansion. he took Butts mehre expansion. it has a new 12,000 sq.ft. weight room. it has everything that can be used a lot more effectively than an indoor facility.
And as far as you people complaining about money being spent, why don’t you go and ask the hundreds of local workers over there that now have a guarenteed job for the next 2 years how they feel about the millions of dollars being spent. Everyone wants to complain about the economy and how they are having to sacrifice becasue of their job cuts but yet when your brother or neighbor is getting a job becasue of the athletic associateion you want to complain about that too. Go learn how to dig a ditch, weld a pipe or lay a brick if you are jealous of the money being spent. Do you think that those workers go out and buy lunch or buy gas in Athens, or Madison, or Watkinsville, or Comer? YES. Do you think that those contractors are buying local goods and services? YES.
UGA is actually SAVING, yes I said saving, millions of dollars becasue they are doing this work in a tight economy. To anyone that went out and bought a new car in the last year because they were on sell or refinanced a home due to a down economy, you are a hypocite. you did the same thing UGA is doing.
People just like to complain sometimes.
........
February 4th, 2010
5:20 pm
wow.
Can't beat the Gators, but get a big raise...
February 4th, 2010
6:44 pm
Just saying
Steve
February 4th, 2010
8:51 pm
Do like the gov. if you have it spend and if you don’t have it spend it anyway. Heck it’s just money and everyone has plenty. Raise the price of tickets and do the right thing spend and borrow from China and Japan to pay no body is looking.
Money talks and BS walks
February 5th, 2010
10:43 am
For all of you bloggers on this and any sports site that bad mouth UGA, you now have a good reason. JEALOUSY. UGA is a RICH PROGRAM and Money Talks and BS Walks. See? Even in Obama’s recession, the University is dropping some major $$$ cash on our alma mater.
The GRADS drive this excitement. Win, lose or draw, WE feel that UGA is THE PLACE. So do tons and tons and tons of students with big time SAT scores, that are trying to get in the University from all over the USA. A college is MORE than football. You dig??? It is about tradition. Sports is only secondary, even though we still drop major money on our beloved ala mater at 8-5 or not. See???
Money Talks and BS Walks.
We ( GRADS ) love the University and this is only more good news about our fabulous University and at UGA, it keeps on keeping on.
Flo-Ri-Duh!
February 5th, 2010
12:06 pm
Circus Act- Evans is probably over paid but you are the clown.
UGA student
February 5th, 2010
12:17 pm
Thanks for you insight into what it will be like in the real world without the help of my parents. Since I am a non-traditional student, single parent and have put myself through school. I am quite aware of what is expected of students who earn scholarships. And I am more than well aware of what the “real world” is like – since I am employed full time and I also know that there are no guarantees – I have worked both a full time and am enrolled as a full time student and have no complaints about being both. I don’t expect anything – I work hard to achieve what I am getting – if I get a better paying job after I have earned my degree – it will be because I have busted my tail to EARN it – nothing to do with entitlement! Trust me I know first hand what life is all about. I also know what every student goes through and has to face while trying to get through school.
As far as “trying to make everyone feel bad” on Damon’s job responsibilities – that wasn’t my intention – my intention was to inform people that there is more to being an AD than the football program. Believe or like it or not – Damon Evans is one of the biggest reasons that we have one of the most profitable Athletic Associations in the country.
hardworking
February 5th, 2010
3:18 pm
the athletic dept does give to UGA but to a academic fund controlled by Adams, with the huge profits and revenue they make they should be made to give much more and also give to the general fund. whatever the circumstances adams and the athletic board have delivered a serious slap in the face to all hardworking faculty and staff. its disgusting to hear about all the money athletics has got to throw around and to know none of it can ever be used for raises for the real hardworking folks…
Kutngo
February 9th, 2010
5:25 am
How does another person’s salary affect you? It doesn’t, so let it go. By the way, if D was here in DC, his salary would be doubled….. It’s done, get on with YOUR lives…
KUTNGO
GaScholar
February 17th, 2010
5:41 pm
Man of integrity…NOT!!! Tell Evans stop cheating on his wife….
Smith
February 26th, 2010
1:07 pm
WOW! If I was a white boy you no one would have much to say. Go Damon!
hellraiser
July 1st, 2010
11:44 am
What is going to happen to his job now he has a DUI?????????????? He is now a criminal…… What? Do they think they are above the law? DON’T DRINK AND DRIVE…Stupid!!!
hellraiser
July 1st, 2010
11:47 am
Ohhhh, and what about the girlfriend in the car with him???? Soooo. Let me get this straight… UGA Atheletic dept. Hires drunks and cheaters… Sounds like a great program for our boys!!!
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