‘What was it Coach Dooley used to say about a Saturday in Athens?’ Mark Fox asks
Athens – For three consecutive Saturdays, Georgia’s men’s basketball team has celebrated notable victories in Stegeman Coliseum — a 72-58 upset of nationally ranked Vanderbilt on Feb. 6, a come-from-behind 66-61 win over South Carolina on Feb.13 and a come-from-even-farther-behind 76-70 victory over Alabama yesterday.
“What was it Coach Dooley used to say about a Saturday in Athens?” coach Mark Fox asked after the latest win.
What Vince Dooley often said in the locker room after Georgia football victories at Sanford Stadium, longtime sports information director Claude Felton recalled, was: ”It’s great to be a Bulldog on Saturday night.”
(The same sentiment was contained in a letter that Dooley’s defensive coordinator, the late great Erk Russell, reportedly wrote to his players before the 1980 season. “There ain’t nothing like being a Bulldog on Saturday night –- after winning a football game,” Russell wrote.)
Anyway, Saturdays have been kind to Fox’s team this year.
Yesterday’s win over Alabama came after trailing by 13 points with 11:39 to play. The previous Saturday’s win over South Carolina came after trailing by 10 with 9:12 left. The Feb. 6 victory over Vanderbilt came after trailing by eight with 15 minutes to play.
Go back two weeks before the victory over Vandy, and Georgia had another special Saturday in Stegeman, routing then-No. 8 Tennessee 78-63.
So the Dogs have won all four games they have played in Stegeman on Saturdays this season.
“We’ve had good Saturdays,” Fox said.
By the way, Georgia has another home game next Saturday — vs. Florida.
Here’s the full story on the rally against Alabama.
Here’s the story, if you missed it, on the new face that will be put on Stegeman Coliseum for next season.
And for those who asked to see an artist’s rendering of what the renovated Stegeman will look like, you’ll find one here.
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Joe
February 21st, 2010
2:19 pm
Yeah but how did Georgia play this past Wednesday? I believe they got drilled by Tennessee. Let’s pretend that never happened. I’ve never seen fanbase so happy to have a 4-8 record in the terrible SEC.
patty cakes
February 21st, 2010
2:51 pm
I guess the blogger “Why?” hasn’t been to North Campus on a football Saturday in Athens. There’s almost as much trash on the ground as there is in the stands.
The younger Coach Dooley will love kicking that tail every other year in Athens. With his father cheering for him… You know, the only coach to ever lead UGA to a national title. Thanks again to the good folks at Minish Pontiac. Herschel and Buck in their TA’s.
BobbyPutnam
February 21st, 2010
3:38 pm
first?
Big D Dawg
February 21st, 2010
3:58 pm
hey little louie, we did beat an “acc” team but I’m not sure who it was? the itty bitty bees from n ave come to mind. and wait, the jackets haven’t won a bb game in athens in what??? 30 years
Señora Weeb
February 21st, 2010
4:29 pm
I think – think, mind you – that UGA has completed a full week without a single thug-athlete being arrested. Amazing, I guess truth really is stranger than fiction!
Señora Weeb
February 21st, 2010
4:33 pm
Is even one of UGA’s starting BB players enrolled in a legitimate degree program? Not that that many of UGA’s degrees are worth the sheepskin they’re printed on.
FranktheFalcon
February 21st, 2010
5:26 pm
LOUIE IS GAY!
Rabun Dawg
February 21st, 2010
5:33 pm
Hey Joe, UGA led UT at the half, and did lose by 9 points. I hardly called that getting drilled. And to all of you Bees on here slandering UGA, your total lack of class is really becoming. And most of you will probably have a son or daughter going to Athens some day. And that old saying, “He who lives in glass houses”, well you know the rest. Wasn’t it your team that had all that academic trouble a while back? Seems to me I detect a bit of jealousy somewhere or you would not be hurling all of these insults.
GT
February 21st, 2010
6:06 pm
There lies the problem for SEC basketball with exceptions being Kentucky, the week day game is a pure no thrills trip to Athens or Auburn, none of the circus atmosphere that a weekend can provide in a village atmosphere. Going to these places on a week day is like going to a vacation town on the beach in the winter time.
david
February 21st, 2010
6:06 pm
Thanks Rabun–you summed it up. Senora, get me another beer and a reuben—- biatch.
d_costa
February 21st, 2010
6:21 pm
I know it’s still early in his UGA career and the Hoop Dawgs still are not playing .500 basketball but you have give Coach Fox a TON of credit for being able to make this squad challenging, let alone win any actual games. If he can recruit in GA, he will be a very good coach for years to come. He doesn’t necessarily have to recruit well nationally, GA produces bluechippers at seemingly every position every year, so if he can convince some of the homegrown talent to stay here, I think UGA will be challenging for an SEC REGULAR SEASON Championship within a couple of seasons.
BTW- Hats off to AD Felton for finding Coach Fox. It wasn’t the sexiest pick when it was announced, but it looks like once again it shows why Felton is considered one of the best AD’s in the nation. The man did his homework and it’s paying early dividends.
Louie Jr.
February 21st, 2010
6:27 pm
FranktheFalcon
February 21st, 2010
5:26 pm
Duh on Louie……hello!
jwritz
February 21st, 2010
6:32 pm
This man can coach!!! I hope he stays around to build this program…
jackhammer
February 21st, 2010
7:10 pm
Louie, I’m here. Been ‘out of pocket’ for the weekend. Sure I didn’t miss anything intelligent, when you’re writing. Leave the puppies alone. We have enough worries at Tech with Nesbitt trying to read defenses. Couldn’t even pass against the pups. Really worries me.
Louie
February 21st, 2010
7:34 pm
Where do I start.
See jackhammer getting in here, good job!
Also see a$$hat Louie Jr./ Frankthe Falcon come off his drunk.
Heard he sucked down his pacifier and almost choked to death.
STILL L M F A O
LATER
Yellow Fuzz
February 21st, 2010
7:47 pm
What?
February 21st, 2010
12:09 pm
Hey Yellow Fuzz, is there a decade you would like to live in as a Jackette fan? You may need to just go with 1 year…or maybe just a game or two.
Most definately. I am betting on Paul Johnson’s first decade at Tech (2008-2018). He’s off to a very good start.
2008 (first year)
45-42 second half bitch slapping in the Stanfort Septic Tank (spelling?)
2009 (second year)
ACC Conference Champions
BCS Orange Bowl
13th in the nation (2009)
Yellow Fuzz
February 21st, 2010
7:51 pm
Compared to georgia…..
2008
45-42 second half bitch slapping in the Stanfort Septic Tank (spelling?)
2009
SEC # 8
Shreveport Bowl (passed over for Auburn and Kentucky for better bowls)
41st in the nation (thankls to Bobby Bowden’s lone vote)
worst recruiting year since 1980
mdawg
February 21st, 2010
8:28 pm
hey yellow fuzz. are you still living in the past? tech has not beat uga in anything this year…. we took 9 out of 10 from you in football and 3 of the past 6 in basketball. uga went to the world series in baseball 2 years ago while you were sitting at home crying like the sissy that you are
Junior Samples
February 21st, 2010
8:29 pm
those comments were more like yellow fizz; didn’t bring your A-game I guess
THE YELLOW SWARM
February 21st, 2010
8:33 pm
Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Yellow Fuzz Buzzzzzzzzzzzz St. Simons Buzzzzzzzzzzzzz ”M” Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Louie Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Buzzy as a Bee Buzzzzzzzzzzzz Me Buzzzzzzzzzz Joe Alston Speed Buzzzzzzzzzzzzz Andy McCollum Buzzzzzzzzzzzz Al Groh Buzzzzzzzzzz CPJ Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ———————— The Flingers of the Stingers !!
Bruuuhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah !!
mdawg
February 21st, 2010
8:36 pm
cpj= another idiot… the WAC is a better confer. than the acc. tech would finish behind boise and latech in there standings.. so you better thank gawd that you play in the sissified acc
Justin
February 21st, 2010
8:40 pm
The great thing about all of this is the youth of our team. Trey T. (So.), Travis L. (So.) Dustin W. (So.). Vincent Williams is a freshman along with Ebuka Anyaroah so it’s looking great for us. Albert Jackson gets out of our way next year. And we have another year of Barnes and Price. Incoming freshman Cady Lalanee (spellcheck) should help with depth he also has an outside game ala Trey T. We have 2 more schlorships and we lose McPhee but Coach Fox tweeted that 6 foot 7 junior college transfer Connor Nolte has just a good a stroke as him. Also Gerald Robinson Jr. will be able to play and he averaged 19 points a game in JC so you can at least count on 8-10 taking over for Mcphee in the starting lineup. If CMF can get an athletic 6′10 or 6′11 center this team will give the sec hell next year and that not so competitive acc team we beat this year cant remember who that was though.
mdawg
February 21st, 2010
8:58 pm
if we are ‘loooozers’, then how does it feel to be beaten by ‘loooozers’?
Buckhead Bulldog
February 21st, 2010
9:12 pm
Some serious talent there, Yellow Fuzz. Are you Chinese or just buzzzzzed, again? You seem to like to write vertically? I have a hard enough time with horizontal. Blah ha!
FL Dawg
February 21st, 2010
10:39 pm
I don’t know what the talent pool of the ‘bama BBall team is, but it appears we hired the right coach.
AltamahaDawg
February 21st, 2010
11:11 pm
patty, come on now! tech had their own problems with litter on game day till they brought out that third trash can. Then again, who would notice?
Hoops Dawg
February 21st, 2010
11:29 pm
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Hoops Dawg
February 21st, 2010
11:41 pm
Responses to UGA basketball blogs in the AJC never cease to amaze me. Aside from the many irrelevant and blatantly adolescent commentary from Techies and gators, UGA fans (some at least) keep rapping the team for having no talent. Thomkins, Ware, Leslie, and Price were all highly rated recruits. We may lack depth but those who say we have little or no talent are full of stinky smelling stuff.
AS for recruiting–yeah, sustained success will necessarily require CMF to snag top GA recruits with some regularity. But I, for one, don’t care if Fox has to go to Uranus to get what he needs to turn this program around with the kind of successes that will make recruiting Blue chip Georgians a lot easier.
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Tater Tot
February 22nd, 2010
3:06 am
As an airplane is about to crash, a female passenger jumps up frantically and announces, “If I’m going to die, I want to die feeling like a woman.”
She removes all her clothing and asks, “Is there someone on this plane who is man enough to make me feel like a woman?”
A man stands up, removes his shirt and says, “Here, iron this!”.
Bulldog59
February 22nd, 2010
6:39 am
Face it Yellow Fuzz, UGA still thinks and performs at a different level than GT. You have Paul Hewitt who has won what for GT? Right! UGA goes and get Mark Fox, no contest. UGA needs a DC, they get Todd Grantham. GT needs a DC, they get a recycled (fired) HC who should retire. Al Groh will be 66 before he coaches his first game at GT. I wouldn’t expect him to be there for the long haul and build anything. By the way, Yellow Fuzz sounds like a 15 year-old who stuck his face in the snow at a dog park. We don’t have to be told at UGA, don’t eat yellow snow!
Bob
February 22nd, 2010
7:26 am
Vince would say “Herschel stay away from that Tebow girl, she will keep it”
Señora Weeb
February 22nd, 2010
8:25 am
Fox is clueless.
Dawgs=Joke
February 22nd, 2010
8:28 am
Paul Hewitt @ 4:11- The simple answer to your question is Yes. Mark Richt. Loser.
Dawgs=Joke
February 22nd, 2010
8:34 am
mdawg @ 8:58 “if we are ‘loooozers’, then how does it feel to be beaten by ‘loooozers’?” Yet when Tennessee fans were arguing back and forth with you Georgia idiots last week about the Rogers kid and which school was better you UGA DAs kept saying it didn’t matter that UT thumped the puppies. You can’t have it both ways or maybe you Athes folks like it both ways. Either it matters who wins head-to-head or it doesn’t.
Brandon Spikes
February 22nd, 2010
8:42 am
I wish I could play in Jax another year; I love those Gawja runnin backs.
Urban loves his paycheck, um, I mean players
February 22nd, 2010
8:55 am
Everybody knows that college football was invented in 1990.
Joe
February 22nd, 2010
8:57 am
From a huge Tech fan- I caught the end of the UGA Alabama game. It sure seemed that there was a lot of excitement at the gym. Envious that Fox ran such a great end bound play at the end that finished with a dunk. Looks like Fox is a good pick up and I hope it is a catalyst for Tech to make a similar change- congrats
Brandon Spikes
February 22nd, 2010
9:03 am
I thougt college football ended in 1980.
Brandon Spikes
February 22nd, 2010
9:07 am
Bulldog59 you forget that Grantham was fired also; by the great CLEVELAND BROWNS.
DawgBite
February 22nd, 2010
10:08 am
To bad Dooley is gone from the current school! The basketball team isn’t half bad even though we seem to only win at home. Unfortunately the football team does not seem to win on Saturday nights unless it is against inferior opponents rather than someone more of our own caliber. Will be GREAT to be a GEORGIA BULLDAWG when Richt is moved on to greener pastures. Anyone really have the warm fuzzies that this team and the new members of the staff will do anything but duplicate the past? Sure we likely win 9 or 10 this year but against whom? What a joke of a schedule. Where is the quality out of conference games? Only the GT game is anywhere close to our caliber. And the SEC EAST will be the weakest it has been in over a decade.
Gsuga
February 22nd, 2010
10:17 am
OK! Do not go thinking just because we are winning at home on every Saturday Night means all we have to do is show up on Saturday…. That thought will get you in trouble….. Go Dawgs!!!!!! Beat the Lizards!!!!!!!!!
Yellow Fuzz
February 22nd, 2010
10:48 am
Bulldog59
You got that right! “UGA thinks and performs at a different level than GT”.
UGA has always lacked in mental aptitude compared to Tech but been able to retain its self esteem due to an edge on the football field. But now that even that has been taken away from you, you dog nation AH’s have REALLY gotten louder and prouder (here) and become the biggest cry babies in the south (and possibly the entire NCAA). You have grown accustomed to being abused by Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and LSU and now that Tech and Kentucky are getting in on the act and starting to bitch slap you sideways and send you to the likes of Shreveport, you just can’t handle it. I mean, you try but just can’t. And that’s why, little man, that you see so many other schools rip you here. You guys have more enemies that Notre Dame and actually play quite like them too. Get a life and get on the gymnastics blogs will you?
J Dawg
February 22nd, 2010
11:19 am
Stephon Marberry is a real “brainiac” you techies are right it is so hard to get into your school
Scoreboard Reminders
February 22nd, 2010
12:59 pm
1. 73-66
2. 30-24
3. BWWWWWAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAA
Scoreboard Reminders
February 22nd, 2010
1:00 pm
4. 55,000 (BBWWWAAHHHAAA) unfilled seats
5. 60-39-5
6. Free Hotdogs and Cokes – >>>>you win in the free food to attend category<<<<
Scoreboard Reminders
February 22nd, 2010
1:01 pm
Keep talking trash you trek douches.
I laugh at your pain
BBBWWWWWAAAAAHHHHHHHHAAAAAAA
GT where you'll learn how to run...for your life!!
February 22nd, 2010
1:55 pm
WOW GT must be fool of idiots!!! You guys loose to a 7-5 georgia team, get beat worse by iowa on national tv and let them take the orange bowl….not that you guys will be makin git back to the orange bowl anytime soon, YOU HAVE WON ONE GAME OUT OF NINE PLEAE GET A LIFE AND TAKE THAT TRASH SOMEWHERE ELSE NTIL YOU CAN BACK IT UP!!! UGA runs this state. If you can’t remember why just look at the footage of us running all over your perfect team that finished 13th in the country with back to back games were you lost. Oh by the way ACC champion’s?? i wouldnt brag about being the champs of the worst confernece in the country lol wow losers 30-24. Welcome to reality!!!!!!!!! 30-24
BurningRedBleedingBlack
February 22nd, 2010
2:00 pm
Thats so funny i remember beating gt this year??? How can you come on here with that noise? You can’t talk crap when you loose to us at home, and loose in the orange bowl. I see why all your top players are leaving to the NFL now. Its going to be real tough on the flats. Especially in Athens, when your do for your wake up calls on how to play real football. Triple Options hah please!!!!!! 30-24
Loose vs lose
February 22nd, 2010
4:05 pm
lose /luz/ Show Spelled [looz] Show IPA verb,lost, los·ing.
–verb (used with object)
1.to come to be without (something in one’s possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or noprospect of recovery: I’m sure I’ve merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
2.to fail inadvertently to retain (something) in such a way that it cannot be immediately recovered: I just lost a dime under this sofa.
3.to suffer the deprivation of: to lose one’s job; to lose one’s life.
4.to be bereaved of by death: to lose a sister.
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loose /lus/ Show Spelled [loos] Show IPA adjective,loos·er, loos·est, adverb, verbloosed, loos·ing.
–adjective
1.free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
2.free from anything that binds or restrains; unfettered: loose cats prowling around in alleyways at night.
3.uncombined, as a chemical element.
4.not bound together: to wear one’s hair loose