Fox trumps Richt, makes SportsCenter “Top 10″ with trick shot
(Updated 10 a.m. Monday)
You might recall the basketball trick shot that Mark Richt made last month, garnering more than 36,000 views on YouTube. It was a nifty enough shot: a one-handed, no-look, backward free throw.
Now, Mark Fox has topped that effort, making ESPN SportsCenter’s “Top 10″ plays-of-the-day Saturday with a trick shot of his own.
Here’s the back story. Connor Nolte, a Georgia basketball walk-on who is sitting out this season after transferring from Furman, has a blog called passersremorse.com. He records trick shots and posts one on his blog on the day of each game. Richt’s was featured last month.
Saturday’s featured shot was Fox making what Nolte called “quite possibly the hardest game day trick shot yet”: Shooting from the stands behind the basket at Stegeman Coliseum, Georgia’s basketball coach bounced the ball off the top of the shot clock and through the net.
He made the shot twice. “Back-to-back jack,” he said.
The folks at ESPN got word of this, contacted Nolte on Saturday night and got his permission to air the video on the 1 a.m. SportsCenter. Fox’s shot led off ESPN’s countdown of the plays of the day at No. 10.
UPDATE: Upon further review, ESPN apparently decided Fox’s feat was even more impressive. Monday morning’s edition of SportsCenter moved the trick shot up to No. 4 on the Top 10 plays of the weekend. The real significance here, of course, is more national exposure for the Georgia basketball program.
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G-Day time, TV: UGA announced that the G-Day intra-squad football game on April 10 will start at 2 p.m. and be televised on CSS. Georgia’s home baseball game vs. Ole Miss on that day will be moved to 4 p.m. to accommodate fans who want to attend both events.
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Speaking of Mark Fox, here’s his latest Twitter post from this morning:
“My 9yr old was asked if he had 2 go 2 college @ Florida or GaTech where would he go. His answer: ‘I’d become a fireman & not go to college’”
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Home-court advantage, indeed: To revisit a theme I wrote about last week . . . Georgia’s men’s basketball team has won its past five Saturday home games, beating Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Alabama and, yesterday, Florida.
The Bulldogs are 4-0 this season against SEC East opponents at home, compared with 0-5 against them on the road. The Dogs will go for a home sweep of the East on Wednesday when Kentucky comes to Athens.
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dawgs were lucky
February 28th, 2010
11:45 am
first
Señora Weeb
February 28th, 2010
12:00 pm
So??? How many of Richt and Fox’s players ever graduate AND stay out of jail?
Dawg Tired
February 28th, 2010
12:16 pm
Senora Webb – Actually a lot of ‘em, just in case you really care about such things, which I doubt.
Big time basketball? Definitely not!
February 28th, 2010
12:32 pm
UGA has a basketball team??
tenn.DAWG
February 28th, 2010
12:36 pm
Gotta love a guy that practices what he preaches.
Justin Janssen
February 28th, 2010
12:38 pm
Nice shot!
Taylor
February 28th, 2010
12:55 pm
Get a life trolls, yes that means you @ 12:32 and high noon
The Guy nailing Randy Bettis' wife. Also, Avid Addiction is the worse band ever.
February 28th, 2010
1:14 pm
It is nice to see the Bulldogs basketball team playing so hard under Coach Fox. Maybe in a couple of years he will have this team back in the NCAA’S. Still, I bet no SEC team wants to play them in the conference tourney.
Greg
February 28th, 2010
1:26 pm
With almost everyone back, including two projected first round picks in 2011 in Leslie and Thompkins, and the addition of an explosive scoring guard in Gerald Robinson, UGA will easily make the NCAA tourney next year and could challenge for the conference title. Laugh now haters….we’ll see who is laughing at this time next year.
Porty
February 28th, 2010
1:35 pm
Thompkins is GONE.
Debose
February 28th, 2010
1:39 pm
Is that Mark “2-7″ Richt you are talking about?
bruce mac
February 28th, 2010
1:57 pm
No, it is 90-27, 4 time SEC East Champion, 2 time SEC Champion and 7 time bowl champion Richt.
war eagle
February 28th, 2010
2:06 pm
How is the 0 and 2 CUM enjoying his retirement?
Urban's Doing Great!
February 28th, 2010
2:27 pm
He’s 4-1 and loving it, except having to move from hotel room in Hawaii to avoid any large waves. He’ll be back for 5-1 this season, but with a REAL tan…
t
February 28th, 2010
2:27 pm
Coach Fox and Richt are AWESOME! Well-rounded leaders of young men. GOD BLESS! http://www.wedgeorgia.com
Another perspective
February 28th, 2010
2:32 pm
That poster @12:32 who wandered if UGA has a basketball team must have just been uninformed dude and not a usual sarcastic critic since we have beaten Tech, Fla , Tenn and Ala in BB this year. Read the papers man or watch ESPN. Coach Fox has produced a pretty good team, way above expectations and his 9 year old is smarter than most of the gators and techies on these blogs.
Hawaii Dawg
February 28th, 2010
2:33 pm
Mark Fox is a winner.
Voice of Reason
February 28th, 2010
2:53 pm
No two ways about it, Mark Fox is the real deal. A record of success, and to have these guys playing the way they are, what an improvement over (no slight intended) Dennis Felton. Fox has all the makings of an NCAA champion coach. The next two years should bring UGA to the point of being a real contender, because Coach Fox loves to recruit.
Yep, the future looks bright! Congratulations to all the DAWGS and to the coaching staff.
UGA Grad
February 28th, 2010
3:18 pm
Senora [D]weeb, how many of GT’s graduate students own Samurai Swords, or how many Undergrads are exchange students from the middle east? Big time basketball, we were big enough to lay the smack down on GT!
CatsFly
February 28th, 2010
3:35 pm
I’m not surprised that Fox is better than his players. After all, UGa is the worst team in the SEC, which is the worst BB league in the NCAA.
Decory Bryant
February 28th, 2010
3:39 pm
Gotta like anyone who practices what they preach,,, I just wish CMR could say the same. He told me and my parents that he would look after me, like a son.
He looked out for himself first… I’m a great reference for all future recruits.
Actions speak louder than words.
Slick Willard
February 28th, 2010
3:46 pm
Coach Richt is only 3 time SEC East Champion. One year he had to share the championship with uF and UT, I believe. Of course, UGA lost to UF that year.
grandpa peckinpah
February 28th, 2010
3:51 pm
I wonder if Mark Fox would suit up for the Dawgs? Also if the bball team keeps improving at this rate there may be another raise for AD Damon Evans in the future.
Diggity Dawg
February 28th, 2010
4:02 pm
“UGa is the worst team in the SEC”
Hmmmm… I guess ‘Bama and LSU dropped out of the league?
Diggity Dawg
February 28th, 2010
4:03 pm
And Auburn AND S. Carolina, who have the same conference records.
Keith
February 28th, 2010
4:07 pm
Does Tech still have a football team?
BCS Title Club
February 28th, 2010
4:12 pm
War Eagle – How is that 0 BCS Titles to our 2 BCS Titles working out for you? Good luck joining our club with Bama and LSU in your division.
“Coach Richt is only 3 time SEC East Champion.”
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
http://imgsrv.wcbs880.com/image/DbGraphic/200901/1145908.jpg?1245799748
ASHVILLE DAWG
February 28th, 2010
4:23 pm
Coach Fox, you’ve taught your son well & politically correct.
Louie
February 28th, 2010
4:58 pm
Well, where do I start.
jackhammer, patience running low. Get your arse in here TODAY.
The mutt basketball team is something else!!
How many games have they WON on the road??
Yes they beat GT, I know that. May have a chance to play us again.
Won’t be a trap game this time, you can bet on that.
NOBODY AND I MEAN NOBODY cares about mutt bb.
The novelty wore off YEARS AGO.
Tubby Smith totally took your money and RAN.
Herrick TOTALLY made you a national joke. Kinda like the Kemp saga.
So when you can make national headlines (on a positive note) instead of a FREAK shot, I’ll listen.
STILL… jackhammer, what gives,son?
DirtyDawg
February 28th, 2010
5:02 pm
As I understand it, we need these remaining games to, at least be eligible for the NIT…then win, at least one in the SEC tourney. Of course if we ‘run the table’ in Nashville….
Got say it was nice hearing whichever of the talking – ex-coaches – heads on ESPN yesterday, saying Georgia may, indeed, deserve to be in the NCAA field…that they had more ‘quality wins’ than most of the bubble teams. Regardless, this has been a way-positive season and if Thompkins decides to return for one more, next year shapes up to something truly special. Thank you Mark Fox for making Georgia basketball relevant and something to truly be proud of.
Really?
February 28th, 2010
5:20 pm
Hey Louie–Nobody cares about UGA basketball? 4 sellouts this year. We’re a game under .500. Let that sink in for a minute.
Oh, and how is that 27 year contract for Hewitt working out? Ga Tech is one of the most irrelevant basketball programs in the ACC.
How exactly was the UGA/Ga Tech game a trap?
We beat you. Enjoy the NIT, as you will lose your last two of the year. We may even see you there.
renegade#1
February 28th, 2010
5:33 pm
Georgia basketball! Whats not to like? Continuious improvement, hardnosed play and a coach who knows how to coach. A couple of good recruits and these guys are going to be a force.
bruce mac
February 28th, 2010
5:38 pm
Slick, a tie for Championship is a tie, duh. UGA beat Florida that year but tied with TN. Still SEC East Champion. Sorry, you don’t understand how it works but you facts are fact.
Big Bad BEE-lieve
February 28th, 2010
5:52 pm
NOVEMBER
WE ARRIVE
45-42
OH HELL
Y
E
S
Danny Ford
February 28th, 2010
5:57 pm
Is that the same bru-mac I think he is? That youngster needs to chill.
jellybeandawg
February 28th, 2010
6:00 pm
I am extremely excited about the future of the hoop Dawgs under Mark Fox. I wish I could feel the same about the Football program under that Jackass Richt but his time head will roll sooner or later. Fox really has the team playing far above expectation and is only a few missing pieces from blowing the lid off the program. UGA will soon be more highly regarded for its Bball program then Football..
jackhammer
February 28th, 2010
6:05 pm
Louie,
I’m in; where are you? I been kinda reflective today; dad’s 3rd aniversary. I know he’s at peace and so am I.
Danny Ford
February 28th, 2010
6:05 pm
I think they otta bring old Vince back and let that youngster coach again. He would be proud if Derick beat him. I used to beat him you know. Hershel never ventured in our end zone and that’s a fact. Ask bru-mac.
AltamahaDawg
February 28th, 2010
6:09 pm
Weeb, jail? every single post? really? Folk might start getting the idea that you arent a very bright person, if you can’t start bringing a tad more than that to the table?
and Louie, didnt they just beat a highly ranked Florida tem?
JADEN
February 28th, 2010
6:10 pm
You need to take that s— out in the woods and smoke it !!!
Louie
February 28th, 2010
6:13 pm
Well I’m Back.
jackhammer, glad you found the RIGHT PAGE tonight. Good job ,son.
POWERS NOT SOMETHING YOU GIVE, POWERS SOMETHING YOU TAKE!!
Pete VanWIEREN
February 28th, 2010
6:15 pm
theres the squeeeeze!
Louie
February 28th, 2010
6:51 pm
jackhammer, you still there?
Louie
February 28th, 2010
7:10 pm
Catch you tomorrow night around 7-7:30 jackhammer.
later……..
NewnanDawg
February 28th, 2010
7:25 pm
Each new week makes me thank Damon Evans more for the hire of Mark Fox. It was a great game to be at yesterday and I look forward to every new step this team takes. I am confidant that Trey and Travis will be back next year to enjoy what they are working so hard for now.
Go Dawgs!
laughin larry
February 28th, 2010
7:59 pm
I like Coach Richt’s trick shot better.
Here’s Coach Richt’s basketball trick shot if you missed it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n1q9H2hBtM
Urban loves his paycheck, um, I mean players
February 28th, 2010
8:06 pm
Anybody know how many traffic citations the Florida football players got this past week. I was just wondering if they added to their record 251 traffic citations. If any happened, the Florida DA probably threw them out since he is a Gator booster.
BO BO Da' BABY MAKER 8=====> ~~~~~~(I)
February 28th, 2010
9:27 pm
Is this G I Joe or Scruffy ????? >>>> http://www.georgiadogs.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?&db_oem_id=8800&id=694810&ATCLPID=&ATCLID=204862819&DB_MENU_ID=&SPSID=40673&SPID=3571&IN_SUBSCRIBER_CONTENT=&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=8800
Since Vince
February 28th, 2010
9:41 pm
Dang …..Looks like G. I. BoBo may develope a horshoe head or a Chrome Dome this year if he doesnt get it going. Getting a little thin on top shall I say. BOBO looks like a person on the Athens jail blotter with that beard he’s sporting too.
Since Vince
February 28th, 2010
9:43 pm
oops ….”horseshoe” head
jw
February 28th, 2010
10:30 pm
hey cats fly your comment is very ignorant.i’d have to guess you doon’t actually watch bball
AltamahaDawg
February 28th, 2010
10:42 pm
Can’t believe nobody took that “highly ranked Florida team” bait…oh well.
BuLLdawg
March 1st, 2010
12:27 am
I am a long-time UGA season ticket holder and UGA graduate, born into UGA football. I try to support Coach Richt, but honestly, he has hired since December 20, 2000 the worst set of coaches on his staff of any coach in America. It is said that Brian VanGorder is a great coach, and honestly how can that be looking at the Falcons’ Defense ? The entire rest of the staff has been a failure.
It is my place to determine if posters to this blog, daily, are blindly trying to say that 1-3 vs the vols who have been horrible the last 4 years and 1-3 vs Florida the last 4 years too, along with 2-2 vs Kentucky and a loss to every other SEC East team the last 4 years, constitutes the best coach in The SEC.
Auburn Coach Richt has beat 4 years in a row. All that means is that Auburn has lost 4 more games than we have over the last 4 years. And, we’ve lost 14.
You have the right to say that Coach Richt is the best coach in The SEC all you want.
I also have the right to say that that does not begin to be the truth. He’s the 4th highest paid coach because the other 3 ahead of him in salary, are ahead of him in the Standings.
We’ve not been very good for 4 years now.
Our problems on Offense have been penalties, interceptions and fumbles. Showing Loyalty to his Offensive Coaching Staff, all coaching positions which they did not play themselves, Coach Richt stood pat with his Offensive Coaching Staff when it was obvious that he could get away with just replacing his college roommate on Defense. And, now we feature 3 freshmen quarterbacks.
I desire to see a change in some way shape or form on Offense. We have squandered tremendous talent on Offense, not recognizing who they are even looking at. They play favorites. They have lost to 8 teams who were not ranked in the Top 25 Final AP Poll in the Coach Richt 9 Year Era. They have not beat 1 single solitary Top 10 Final AP Poll team in a bowl game.
We have beat 3 Top 10 Final AP Poll teams in the Coach Richt Era. We have 3 wins in 11 such games against actual Top 10 Final AP Poll teams in the Coach Richt Era.
That hardly qualifies as the Best Coaching Staff in The SEC. We are not that in the Coach Richt Era. Maybe we wish we were. Running in here to blog that Coach Richt is better than Florida in the Coach Richt Era is total bullcrap in every imaginable measurement.
Paul Hewitt who has a 4-6 record vs UGA, is 21 games under .500 in his conference, and has his men’s basketball team at Georgia tek on NCAA Probation with an Academic Progress Rate of 914, limited to only 11 scholarships, is a failure in his 10 Year Career. Coach Richt is not a failure, but neither is he the Best, even the second best, in just his Conference in the same 10 Year Career either. Florida and LSU have better won/loss records than Coach Richt in the Coach Richt Era, and frankly now Alabama in the last 4 years has passed Coach Richt too. We are indeed the 4th best in our own conference.
10-10 the last 4 years in your own Division of your own conference will do that to you.
I am excited that we will clearly field our best Defense in 30 years this coming season and feature the 2 best kickers on 1 team in America as well. I will maintain the vigil that we must have a far better Offensive Coaching Staff than we have demonstrated. I believe that is supporting this program I have poured so many dollars into for so long, and I firmly believe too that you are not supporting our UGA Bulldogs’ Football Program to state that we are the Best in The SEC in the Coach Richt Era.
You are satisfied with this performance and think it better to lie about the state of the program, than to stand up and say you are not satisfied. We fired Jim Donnan for losing 13 games his last 4 years saying we wanted more. Coach Richt in his last 4 years has lost 14. This is not where I expected to be in the 10th year of the Coach Richt Era. It’s not. You are not being a good fan of the program to say that we in fact are the greatest in The Conference. It’s a total lie. 4th say that, and I will leave you alone, not before. I now return you to your lies from those who think that their lies are supporting, or worse yet, are true. Just as they say to you that I am not an UGA Bulldogs’ Football Fan; they’ve got a lot of damn gall.
Coach Richt Era of 10 years now this season :
36 Top 25 Final AP Poll teams we’ve played & won 17.
11 Top 10 Final AP Poll teams we’ve played & won 3.
12 games vs 3 teams in The SEC East the last 4 years & won 4.
that game meant nothing to tech or Johnson
March 1st, 2010
8:22 am
“what has Georgia done since 1980 Coach Richt?” a direct quote from Paul Johnson
that game meant nothing to tech or Johnson
March 1st, 2010
8:23 am
“that other school in Georgia” a direct quote from Coach Paul Johnson
that game meant nothing to tech or Johnson
March 1st, 2010
8:23 am
“if a georgia fan gives you a hard time , you punch them in the mouth” a direct quote from Paul Johnson
that game meant nothing to tech or Johnson
March 1st, 2010
8:24 am
keep the quotes coming firefly flagboy coach…we got alot of locker room material for the players in 2010
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bruce mac
March 1st, 2010
9:07 am
Bulldawg, how old are you man? You just stated that we have not been very good for four years. So number 2 in the country is not very good. What do you consider pretty good? We had one bad year man, Paul Bear Bryant had much worse records and much worse stretches. Saban, Myer, and all the rest have had bad stretches. Everything gonna be alright, “Bob Marley”.
atl-xmen
March 1st, 2010
9:22 am
i will say that you are not a fan by all these negative post that you leave. if you were a real fan of the bulldawgs you would at least state all the positive things that richt and his coaching staff have done these past 9 years. like with all the wins he has and all the players he has helped prepare and put in the nfl. where are those stats? to compare donnan to richt shows you are no way a fan of uga either.well at least a smart fan anyways. richts team..a very young team at that lost 5 games this year and really should have only lost at least 3. that lsu game and ky game come to mind. so please go back to your auburn fan page and tear down their coaching staff who hasnt done a thing in the sec.
California Tannin' (on such a winter's day)
March 1st, 2010
9:37 am
“My 9yr old was asked if he had 2 go 2 college @ Florida or GaTech where would he go. His answer: ‘I’d become a fireman & not go to college’”
Fits right in with the UGA fanbase…
Iceman
March 1st, 2010
9:40 am
What do Georgia fans and Tech fans have in common?
They’re both obsessed with the Bulldogs.
Slipping further
March 1st, 2010
9:46 am
So we will be televised locally on CSS while the Bammers spring game will be televised nationally on ESPN. What further evidence do we need that we are surely slipping relative to the other powers in the SEC?
bruce mac
March 1st, 2010
9:56 am
Slippin, they won the Mythical NC, why wouldn’t they be on ESPN? Why would you have unrated UGA on ESPN? It ain’t news to point out UGA had a bad year. I think we all know that.
DawgGirl32
March 1st, 2010
10:02 am
Slippen- I believe that it was just one year ago that UGA’s spring game was aired nationally on ESPN, too.
big south mike
March 1st, 2010
10:28 am
Look, Richt’s shot was a blind shot, he couldn’t even see the backboard.
I say Richt’s shot was better.
AceDawg
March 1st, 2010
10:30 am
Good stuff. Now the UGA alumni needs to show up to the games the way students are. Why fill up a 92,000 + stadium but fall short of 11,000 for bball? If tickets are available at game time, I’d give each seat away to students for free. Also, if UGA isn’t going to sell out a game, it should make sure the TV viewable side of the court is full, not the one you can’t see, which seems to be the case.
J.J.M.
March 1st, 2010
11:31 am
Owens benched 225 44 times. and ran a 5 flat. His stock is going up
Cheaters
March 1st, 2010
11:37 am
The Guy nailing Randy Bettis’ wife. Watch out for the cameras when you leave that Knights Inn in Jonesboro.
gdawginkalamazoo
March 1st, 2010
11:41 am
Great trick shots for both of them. Fox has done an outstanding job with what Felton recruits. And the kids have really stepped up for the new coach. Congrats to the bulldogs on a good season. A few quality losses, a few quality wins. If they can just takes Stegman mojo on the road with them it will be all good. They aren’t going to remove the mojo with the renovations next year are they?
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I Run This State
March 1st, 2010
12:05 pm
UGA basketball blog – http://hoopdawg.wordpress.com
Mighty Dawg
March 1st, 2010
3:13 pm
Ok, ESPN starting to notice UGA. Yu got to give them credit. May the trend continue.
SOUTHGADAWG88
March 1st, 2010
3:51 pm
Tim I’m hearing Justin Anderson is moving over to NT?Sounds crazy to me I thought maybe Harmon but not Bean.Got anything on that?
gmoney
March 2nd, 2010
6:29 pm
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gmoney
March 2nd, 2010
6:31 pm
thaat trickshot was fake.. i saw it on the top 10 and rewound it in slow motion and you can see the ball go into the lights and for a split second, the ball drops behind the shot clock and then a new ball appears above the hoop and goes into the basket.. seriously.. check it out.. that georgia coach is a FRAUD.. he doesnt deserve to be in the same highlight as those other dudes.
Connor
March 2nd, 2010
7:40 pm
Glad everybody liked the trick shot. GMoney, its legit. ESPN seriously cropped the video and made it look awful on their top ten. Check it out at at the blog http://www.passersremorse.com or search for it on youtube and check out the real version.
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