Mark Fox spotted in Los Angeles on day after SEC tourney loss
Georgia coach Mark Fox apparently took the long way home from the SEC tournament -– by way of Los Angeles.
At 3:53 a.m. EDT Sunday, I received an e-mail from a Georgia fan reporting a Fox spotting at Los Angeles International Airport.
Wrote Matt Little, a UGA alumnus and senior vice president of an insurance brokerage firm in Birmingham:
. . . I’m in the Los Angeles airport right now. It is 11:45 PM Pacific Time and I saw Mark Fox at the Delta gate waiting in line on the red-eye to Atlanta. I introduced myself (I happen to have a UGA t-shirt on). He said he was on stand by trying to get on the flight. He was visibly tired. I asked if he was recruiting and he said he was.
I just thought it might make a good story. The guy just finished the season basically 24 hours ago in Nashville and already flew to California to recruit and is now flying back home. Pretty dedicated if you asked me. As I am typing, Mark just walked on the plane, so he made it . . . .
Aren’t modern communications great?
Fox didn’t say who he was recruiting; that would violate NCAA rules. But if you want to hazard a guess, the Los Angeles Times reported that 6-foot-7 forward Dwayne Polee Jr., who made an official visit to Georgia last month, scored 22 points Saturday night as his Westchester team beat Long Beach Poly 67-53 in a Southern California Division I regional semifinal game. An earlier story in the Times said Polee, a crowd favorite for his dunks since his freshman season, “has matured and blossomed into a bona fide major college prospect.”
———————————–
Georgia sophomore forward Trey Thompkins, named to the coaches’ All-SEC first team last week, received the same honor Monday from the Associated Press.
Joining Thompkins on the AP’s All-SEC first team, chosen by media members: Kentucky’s John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins, South Carolina’s Devan Downey and Mississippi State’s Jarvis Varnado.
Wall, a freshman point guard, was voted the SEC player-of-the-year and John Calipari, in his first season at Kentucky, was voted coach-of-the-year by the AP panel.
———————————-
Also: A sixth UGA coach reached 500 career victories Sunday. Can you name them?
Tell us what you think about the site
Customer Care »
Vacation stops, manage subscriptions and more
AJC Services
Sections
Other Editions
Visitor Agreement | Privacy Statement
© 2013 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
149 comments Add your comment
Stinger
March 15th, 2010
2:14 pm
Reliable source has Fox leaving UGA. Stay tuned for update.
Richard Simmons
March 15th, 2010
2:15 pm
Dawghater, why are you on the board for our low-bar setting basketball team? Go back to the nerd herd, where the bar is soooo very high. It’ll be sweet seeing you guys lose in the first round of the NCAA’s with three McDonald’s All-Americans on the team!
59bulldawg
March 15th, 2010
2:16 pm
I guess the reason that we Dawgs are so impressed with Coach Fox is that he took a team with virtually no talent to darn near a .500 record. To appreciate that I guess you have to understand how little was left in the program after Felton’s departure. I think with the exception of maybe one or two games Georgia played well every time it took the floor this season and even beat much more talented squads from Tech, Vandy, Illinois, and Tennessee. Oh I don’t know . . . but me thinks if Fox can do what he did this season without much talent . . . then perhaps he might really be a force to reckoned with if he can recruit some exceptional players. Yes he’s got a lot to overcome in attracting top players to Athens, but this man . . .unlike the last man . . . can really coach. And unlike the man before that, I think he’ll do it the right way!
south
March 15th, 2010
2:18 pm
Dawghater – trust me, if all we had was a win over the pitiful, over-hyped GT team playing in the pitiful, over-hyped ACC, we wouldn’t be as excited.
TechKiller
March 15th, 2010
2:19 pm
Cannot wait til we play Tech this year in Athens. I hate going to that high school stadium in “dirty” downtown Atlanta. Bring it on nerds……Or are you man enough to bring your silly asses to our town ever again? I know were rude and thats because we HATE you
Barkin'Dog
March 15th, 2010
2:25 pm
6′7 Dwayne Polee is a skinny beast. He jumps higher than Lebron (with his head up over the rim – check his many highlight reels on YouTube). There will be a lot of teams recruiting him. If CMF can land this young man, the dawgs are in the dance next season. “Mark” it down!!
Mike Bobo 17 INT
March 15th, 2010
2:48 pm
Monticello Dawg
Do something, then you can come to talk. All this smack flying around with these redneck UGAY fans only confirms the fact that no one can respect any of these programs.
Getting beat by a bunch of candyass nerds should make you pack your program and call it a day….by the way, let’s throw in LSU, OSU, KY, UT, (total humiliation) FL (again total humiliation).
What UGAY has proved is that this program cannot open on the road against a D-1 team. They always have to open at home against Agnes Scott, or Georgia Perimeter College, which is the reason UGAY will never get any respect.
Your AD is configuring a schedule that makes them look good and does not have any guts.
You UGAY fans can shoot your mouths off all day long, but when the smoke clears, your football, baseball and basketball programs are the laughing stock of college sports, and a total embarassment to the state of Georgia.
Stinger
March 15th, 2010
2:51 pm
TechKiller- I know were rude. That makes a lot of sense you retard.
Stinger
March 15th, 2010
2:52 pm
Did Siena take it to your dawgs in baseball this weekend? What a friggin pathetic joke you are.
Mike Bobo 17 INT: What you're not telling
March 15th, 2010
2:57 pm
You’re not telling that on November 28, 2009 at “THE JOKE BY COKE” aka “THE LITTLE HOUSE”, that the jackets went down to the dogs yet again 30-24, even after Tech being called a 14 point favorite…You got to get over that, dude, and might I recommend a week of 8am and 8pm luke warm enemals to try to clean out that leftover residue from the Georgia loss….Pugnacious Paul got to chunkin’ it down the field and lost the game when he could have run the triple option down the field, run out the clock, and won the game….Ole BAYBAY did a dropsy, and that was that….ON THE TOPIC OF MIKE BOBO, I DO REMEMBER HIM THROWING A LAST PLAY TD PASS IN THAT LEFT HAND CORNER OF THE NORTH END ZONE AGAINST THE YELLOW JACKETS TO PIN YET ANOTHER LOSS ON THE GREEN (IT AIN’T GOLD) AND WHITE JACKETTES…My man Bobo has put some points up against you guys—30, 40 plus, so leave him alone or he might hang 50 this year between the hedges…..
Stinger sucks
March 15th, 2010
3:02 pm
As a matter of fact we did lose to Siena one out of three games this past wknd. We play your Nerds tomorrow night in Atlanta right? Get ready for yet another Tech loss to a Georgia team. Tech is a joke!
suwaneedawg
March 15th, 2010
3:06 pm
Bobo 17, you are a real class act and are the measuing stick for most tech fans. Keep up the good work and by the way, does your mom know you are using her computer?
dont worry mike bob
March 15th, 2010
3:06 pm
dont worry about mike bob 17 int. i am quite sure he will be going home to an empty house tonight to cook his little lean cuisine tv dinner and eat it while he cries b/c he knows gt’s best athletics team only has one more game this season
Hey jackass Tech fan
March 15th, 2010
3:07 pm
I mean were rude to fruits like yourself when you step foot on our campus because we despise you geeks and your awful fanbase. The only time Tech has a sellout is when UGA takes over your joke of a stadium. I hope you’re ready for another thrashing this year because I sure can’t wait! THWGT
suwaneedawg
March 15th, 2010
3:09 pm
You really think bobo 17 owns a home? I am thinking his mom owns the house and fixes his PBJ with crust cut off, of course. No grown man would spout the crap he is laying on this site today.
Jim n Buckhead
March 15th, 2010
3:11 pm
Look GT fans no one cares that you backed into the NCAA tourney by beating NCSt…wow that was one of worst basketball games I ever watched. Then the to get spanked by Duke again…..a 10 seed is not exactly a ringing endorsement of a program with what 3 McD’s AA….
Paul Johnson
March 15th, 2010
3:15 pm
I am scared to death of this years Georgia team and not to mention how horrible were going to be after losing our whole defense and best running back. They might hang 50 on us again like they did a few years ago.
Paul Johnson
March 15th, 2010
3:22 pm
I quit! I can’t keep coaching these geeks and running this 1950’s offense that everyone including a slow and very average Iowa team figured out and stomped us in the ground. Will you take me back GSU?
Stinger
March 15th, 2010
3:22 pm
“I mean were rude”. You just don’t get it idiot. Take some spelling lessons. You are definately not as smart as a 5th grader. Can you spell we are or we’re? Do you understand now? I’ll punch you guys in the face at Fred Sanford Stadium in Nov.
Mike Bobo 17 INT
March 15th, 2010
3:27 pm
Yea and our home schedule includes the follwoing: South Carolina State (really, that is a college), then on to NC State, Virginia and then the mighty Middle Tennessee State Tigers, then Miami (don’t know how they slipped in there) and finally Duke. Now there is a D1 home schedule for you. You Dawgs don’t play anybody tough like we do.
Stinger
March 15th, 2010
3:36 pm
Thanks for the spelling lesson…..If you’re really thinking about punching any Dawg fan in Athens ever you might wind up a dead yellow jacket my friend
Stinger
March 15th, 2010
3:37 pm
Iam shaking my freind. You really scare me. I have punched many dawg fans and you could be the next.
Stinger is a douche
March 15th, 2010
3:40 pm
Im sure you are one intimidating geek my friend.
Stinger
March 15th, 2010
3:42 pm
Looks like I have an imposter. But seriously, I really am shaking. I have never backed down to a dawg fan and never lost a fight to one. Be careful who you threaten to kill.
Stinger
March 15th, 2010
3:46 pm
Now that I have you little girls with your panties in a wad, I will leave you alone for a while. Enjoy our baseball team stomping your team tomorrow and our basketball team going to the Elite Eight.
Stinger is a douche
March 15th, 2010
3:50 pm
Im sure you have beat up some really big 13 year old kids tossing the football out in the parking lot or tripped up a cheerleader or two big man.
Stinger is a douche
March 15th, 2010
3:52 pm
Elite Eight my ass…..Tech will get smoked by Okie State and Hewitt will remain your awful coach for yet another disappointing season
CatsFly
March 15th, 2010
4:05 pm
Oh my God! Somebody saw Fox recruiting in LA. Hurry, I want to buy some of that stock. Or, come to think of it, everybody has to be somewhere.
CatsFly
March 15th, 2010
4:08 pm
While I am a UNC grad, there is no greater Duke fan than me anywhere. I particularly liked him in Hondo.
Floundering Fox Hounds Batman!
March 15th, 2010
4:14 pm
Looks like the Fox is already sick of the cow stench at the stegosaurus and understands that they’ll never get the smell out. Looking for a new job so quickly huh….I bet ole lane kitten told him to come west……
bruce mac
March 15th, 2010
4:20 pm
Yea, we really struggled against Coach Grant, not. I assume you have been to been to Coleman Coliseum. The Steg is Rupp Arena compared to that empty dump.
matt r
March 15th, 2010
4:22 pm
Interview alert!
Eat and Tweet
March 15th, 2010
4:27 pm
@ 4:25 pm….Here at Aunt Jemimah’s pancake house in Myrtle Beach and saw coach Fox filling out some papers! Looked over his shoulder saw an application.
BigTimeTECHFan
March 15th, 2010
4:28 pm
interviewing for UCLA job?
Actual I’m tech fan and very impressed with Fox as coach, thought it was good hire, still do.
AltamahaDawg
March 15th, 2010
4:33 pm
Maybe he is hoping to land an NBA job for 3 hours.
Smoker
March 15th, 2010
4:34 pm
Wow its just a bunch of retards running their mouths back and forth on here. Yes playing on the computer and saying curse words to people who will never know who you are may be fun but then you turn 11 and you get a LIFE. Anyway, Georgia had a sub par year and so did Tech. There, now will you all STFU. And I am a Georgia fan. When you become a grown up you put childish things and actions behind you, so think about what you are writing, its a sports teams blog, so maybe talk about some sports you bunch of asinine morons.
Monticello Dawg
March 15th, 2010
4:38 pm
I think Fox realizes how good this job can be. The athletic department has decided to get behind the basketball program, and has shown that by building a practice facility second to none. Spending a few million to update the Steg’s appearance also. UGA is located in the Classic City, one of the great college towns in this country. The university is the flagship for the state. Abundance of talent within 90 minutes of the school. Fox is primed to begin landing some of the state’s best talent (which means some of the nation’s best) in the 2011 class. Check out who we sign in November.
That is why in an earlier post, I mentioned annual invites to the dance. Its going to be a fun ride, so buckle up Dog fans.
If not asking too much, those disagreeing deal with the points raised, rather than resorting to ad hominem attacks.
UGA SUCKS AT EVERYTHING
March 15th, 2010
4:38 pm
HAHA Fox is jumping ship! HAHA
Eat and Tweet
March 15th, 2010
4:46 pm
@4:43pm …..here at Conway SC and ran into coach Dave Perno at Jack N Box hamburgers.. How fitting since his teams are always up n down.
Sly Dawg
March 15th, 2010
4:52 pm
That ole Sly Fox must have learned from CMR on how to get a raise. Being interviewed can get you a raise. Put it Mr Damon or you will lose!!!
Sly Dawg
March 15th, 2010
4:53 pm
Put it up Mr Damon!
War Eagle!!
March 15th, 2010
4:56 pm
Fox is interviewing at USC and was spotted on campus at the AD’s office earlier. Don’t be surprised if a major announcement on a coaching change comes out soon.
Fox may be pulling a Kiffin!
Otto
March 15th, 2010
4:58 pm
It is funny hearing GT fans call out Fox for not winning anything when, CPJ is the greatest but is 1-1 against UGA and has not won a bowl game. Let us know when he wins something other than a craptastic ACC.
Gator On The Loose
March 15th, 2010
5:01 pm
News Flash !!!! News Flash !!!!
Georgia coach is on a recruiting trip. This guy Fox is unbelievable. I’ll bet no uga coach has ever done this before. I wonder if other b-ball coachs go on recruiting trips. Looks like they got the right guy there.
I hope he gets back to Athens in time for NIT practice. Oops, you have to be .500 to qualify for that dance.
chris o bomb
March 15th, 2010
5:15 pm
uga got a llucky one in fox. been watching him for years, and he really develops his players. he’ll be gone soon.
Waka Flocka Flame
March 15th, 2010
5:16 pm
Gator On The Loose,
Yes other “coachs” go on recruting trips. Any other questions you need help with?
UGA Titles
March 15th, 2010
5:34 pm
Thompkins is NBA ready!!! How long since we have had a sophomore first team SEC player???? Shoot when was the last time we had a first team SEC player period???
Bolt
March 15th, 2010
5:47 pm
Fox was in California for a job interview. He is bolting from UGA.
college is forever
March 15th, 2010
6:25 pm
http://www.collegelunchboxes.com The UGA classic tin lunchbox the perfect way to show off your Irish side on Wed. Didn’t you know that Red and Black is the new green. Check it out.
Go Dawgs!!
Taylor
March 15th, 2010
6:26 pm
When will we ever got a moderator on here? So much garbage on both sides that it’s impossible to have a real conversation without a pissing contest.