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.”
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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.
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Also: A sixth UGA coach reached 500 career victories Sunday. Can you name them?
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redneck DAWG
March 15th, 2010
6:29 pm
STINGER COME AND GET IT CHUMP.Turn on your gps and find your way to Lumpkin St.get out and wave your nerd flag.
redneck DAWG
March 15th, 2010
6:39 pm
Bring your momma so i will recognize you.
Fox Rules
March 15th, 2010
6:49 pm
Fox is a recruiting machine! He’ll have UGA’s roster stocked with 5 star studs in 2-3 years, and UGA will be making bigtime noise in the NCAAs every year—bank on it! Fox will beat ga tech every year like a rented mule!
jackhammer
March 15th, 2010
7:04 pm
Louie,
You must be runnin’ scared again. Can’t find you anywhere. Have you read the stuff some of the pup fans are putting up? Got some real walking’ cartoons in their fan base.
Taylor
March 15th, 2010
7:06 pm
jackhammer, you are a moron. You post the same thing every time, ” Louie where are you” blah blah blah, shut up
NC Dawg
March 15th, 2010
7:12 pm
Just hope he wasn’t interviewing with another school.
AltamahaDawg
March 15th, 2010
7:54 pm
gator fan reading every word of a Georgia Bulldogs blog would NOT be a newsflash.
BuLLdawg
March 15th, 2010
7:57 pm
Academics
Georgia cornerback Paul Oliver
Oliver was one of only three returning starters on the Georgia defense, and he was considered a potential all-conference performer. The Bulldogs were left scrambling at cornerback after Oliver was declared academically ineligible. He was selected in the fourth round of June’s NFL supplemental draft.
http://collegefootball.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=697748
This is NOT AJ-C. It is Rivals, and you sir are a LIAR.
by
AlphaDawg
March 15th, 2010 8:58 am
“Paul Oliver wasn’t kicked out of school, he left early for the supplmental draft…his scholarship was still there for him if he wanted to use it.”
mike
March 15th, 2010
8:09 pm
There are some great prospects out of Calif. If we can just convince them the South isn’t so backwards maybe we can one or two.
BuLLdawg
March 15th, 2010
8:12 pm
AFDawg, have you and those running your WebPages for you been continuing to edit posts on your WebPages and re-posting them as if they were posted by the person whose name is left on the posts on your WebPages, materially changing the posts to suit only your view of what is to be presented ?
When you get through with all your excuses for that and get through with all your excuses for the 89 arrests / suspensions that we have suffered here at UGA in the Coach Richt Era, what you are left with is in year 10 now of the Coach Richt Era we have a very poor Offensive Coaching Staff still, are getting bad press every day across the nation, are 1-3 vs. Florida the last 4 years, 1-3 vs the vols the last 4 years and 10-10 vs just The SEC East with 14 losses the last 4 years while compiling 21 fumbles a year the last 4 years, 14 interceptions a year the last 4 years, averaging # 96 in the NCAA in penalties against us the last 4 years, have compiled a 3-8 record against the Top 10 Final AP Poll teams we have played in the 9 years of the Coach Richt Era and once again this season have no quarterback ready.
Everyone who is satisfied with that, is not a great Bulldog fan and everyone who is disappointed in the Decline of the UGA Football Program over the last 4 years, including losing to all 5 SEC East Opponents in a Row consecutively is not less a Bulldogs’ Fan.
BuLLdawg
March 15th, 2010
8:15 pm
You shall not censor what is the view of those who hold a different view of the state of this football program over the last 4 years, especially on Offense – as best indicated by the fact that NO ONE in this state of Georgia would join this Offensive Coaching Staff in recruiting. We got none of them in this state of Georgia, and there were a ton of great offensive players in this state.
he's gone like a Fox
March 15th, 2010
8:27 pm
He is out of stinky Athens Ga. Headed to Sunny SoCal. He said UGA is for losers.
Kirby Smart
March 15th, 2010
8:30 pm
I heard he has an offer from UCLA.
bruce mac
March 15th, 2010
8:36 pm
Bulldawg, you have selected only the most negative slant possible to make your case. Why don’t you try to balance your facts with 90 wins in ten years, seven bowl wins, 2 SEC Championships, 4 SEC East titles, 20 plus players in the NFL, etc. It doesn’t make you less of a Dawg to want a new coach but when you post over and over the list of the negatives (and there are some for sure) you are not being fair and it is not credible evidence. Do you not think there is a similar list of players under Saban and Meyer with acedemic and minor/semi major legal issues. CMR is our coach and I wonder how long you have been following the Dawgs if you think this is the pits, it is not.
BuLLdawg
March 15th, 2010
8:58 pm
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Taylor
March 15th, 2010 6:28 pm
2002 George Foster OL raping FL player during game
“I can’t recall someone being raped during that game,odd.”
Where were you ? It was a horrible incident, one of the worst incidents in the history of Georgia – Florida.
Athens Banner Herald Nov. 6, 2002
George Foster confessed Wednesday that he wasn’t provoked into the personal foul that cost Georgia 15 yards and an easy field goal attempt against Florida last week. Foster was whistled for bouncing up and down (humping) on the Gators’ Bam Hardmon after an unsuccessful third down. On the next play, Billy Bennett barely missed a 50-yard field goal.
”To be honest I wasn’t provoked,” Foster said. ”I usually like to really finish a guy off once I get him on the ground. I like to pound him. It was a little much though. Plus, it was right in front of the official.
”You want to dominate your opponent every time you come in contact with them. I just got carried away that time.”
Foster had to run at 5:45 a.m. twice this week as punishment. He also felt a backlash from angry fans.
”It’s past me, it’s past the coaches and I know it’s past my teammates,” he said. ”You kind of wonder about the Georgia fans though. They’re fickle. I don’t think anybody else gets as much flak as we do.”
He said he did get one very supportive e-mail that boosted his spirit.
”I was really surprised to see that because most of the things you get from Georgia fans are negative,” he said.
Note that also is NOT from the AJ-C.
Coach Richt didn’t appreciate it, did he ?
“I don’t remember George Foster leg-humping jumping up and down on the Florida player in the 2002 game costing us a personal foul and giving them one of their 2 field goals they beat us by, when David Greene went 0-13 on 3rd down conversions.”
We got as much bad press from that play as we have any play. Where were you Taylor ?
BuLLdawg
March 15th, 2010
9:06 pm
bruce mac
I’ll leave that to YOU since ALL you want to do is try to tell me I am NOT a Bulldog fan or not as good a one as you, because I dare to want MORE than what we have presented, especially on offense the last 4 years.
How about 14 losses the last 4 years, when we fired Jim Donnan for having 13 losses his last 4 years here.
I don’t want a new Coach G.D. it. Keep up. I want the entire Offensive Coaching Staff FIRED instantaneously. I am fed up with the posters to this blog saying I cannot want MORE than what we have provided the last 4 years.
FU.
I am the other opinion that we must spend $750,000 on Defensive Coordinator with 11 years NFL experience and more than that on his assistants and have on the Offensive side of the staff, NOTHING.
As for if there is a team with MORE NEGATIVE PRESS across the nation, not AJ-C, than UGA gets, name the team.
What about the post by west coast dawg last night ?
richtreignisover
March 15th, 2010
9:07 pm
Interviewing for the the Oregon job. Leaving the mutts high and dry just like Tubby.
Stinger
March 15th, 2010
9:15 pm
I qualify to coach UGA in basketball once Fox leaves: How many points does a 3 pointer count?
bruce mac
March 15th, 2010
9:17 pm
Very well. I don’t understand how the offensive coaches are responsible for all of that list you love to post but if you think they are so be it.
BuLLdawg
March 15th, 2010
9:29 pm
Here is the URL Link
Taylor
asked for saying he cannot remember the George Foster play that the whole world but him remembers only too well.
http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/110702/dog_20021107110.shtml
Note it is NOT AJ-C. 2nd section called HONEST ANSWER that George Foster was NOT PROVOKED.
BuLLdawg
March 15th, 2010
9:32 pm
bruce mac
The Offensive Coaches is where this all started.
Then, Altamaha Dawg claims that some other poster, not I, cannot name 14 suspended or something like that.
Pretty easy stuff.
With RED DOG 77 and Altamaha Dawg claiming to be BETTER DAWG FANS than I because they are satisfied.
My point remains that we are NOT a very good football team and have not been most because of the offense the last 4 years.
I am FED UP that Coach Richt says he is not going to replace ANY of the Offensive Coaching Staff.
B.S.
If he is NOT, he can leave with them.
mgdawg
March 15th, 2010
9:33 pm
I guess UGA is feeling the economic recession now to, a head coach flying standby?
BuLLdawg
March 15th, 2010
9:35 pm
Vince Dooley and Wally Butts BOTH had BETTER 9-year runs than Coach Richt.
BuLLdawg
March 15th, 2010
9:36 pm
06 28 2008 Michael Lemon DE felony battery look at his woman dismiss
07 03 2008 Michael Lemon Georgia Football Player Charged with Felony
06 29 2008 Michael Lemon arrested underage alcohol
07 14 2008 Bulldogs have had 7 arrests 1st seven months of 2008
08 01 2008 Bruce Figgins TE suspended opening game 2008 rules
08 03 2008 Donavan Baldwin injured in bar fight got beat up dismissed
08 03 2008 Marcus Dowtin injured in bar fight got beat up
08 04 2008 Darius Dewberry LB hospital vandalism arrest suspended 2 games
BuLLdawg
March 15th, 2010
9:38 pm
You cannot be that stupid.
What is my point ?
Duh.
I am
FED UP WITH IT.
Of A Superior Bloodline = UGA Alumni
March 15th, 2010
10:00 pm
All the Tech fans on here claiming that Fox is jumping ship are hilarious. I knew Tech couldn’t play football, your students couldn’t pick up women, and you can’t join a frat at Tech unless your a Dungeons and Dragons master but I at least thought you guys could read! GT really should look at improving upon its english department, especially since most of your students come from abroad.
harold
March 15th, 2010
10:01 pm
ALL OUR PLAYERS ARE LEAVING THE STATE TO PLAY FOR SCHOOLS LIKE TENNESSEE AND KENTUCKY IS WHY HE IS IN CALIFORNIA. ANYONE THAT WANTS TO PLAY FOR THE LAST TEAM IN THE SEC WELCOME ABOARD!
One and Done
March 15th, 2010
10:05 pm
Attention UGA fans …..Coach Mark Fox has left the building ! Sunny California here he comes!
Of A Superior Bloodline = UGA Alumni
March 15th, 2010
10:11 pm
One and Done you my friend are the winner of tonights biggest loser contest! Please read above comments!
BuLLdawg
March 15th, 2010
10:47 pm
I admit – I have a personal vendetta against UGA and in particular CMR…but don’t let that get in the way of facts…the # 2 finish in 2007 was a fluke as were the 2 SEC titles in 2002 & 2005 and the 90 wins in last 9 years
but CPJ…now there’s a coach
icedawg
March 15th, 2010
11:31 pm
Go where you gotta go to get the talent. The kind of talent that would consider the DAWGS will be players that are comfortable with a bit of a risk, since the UGA basketball program has not exactly been consistently in the NC hunt. Players that are a bit on the creative side and want the opportunity to start or play a lot from the get go. Those kinds of players may be all over the place.
Taylor
March 15th, 2010
11:33 pm
Bulldawg is an obsessed freak, holy crap
AltamahaDawg
March 16th, 2010
12:19 am
Still pretending that you do not not know EXACTLY what I said huh? That’s rich. So its name 14 now huh, not 4. At least be consistant when you play dumb. That is a miserable attempt to pick a fight. Go look back at your archives, get your crap together, take another run at it.
And don’t put freaking word in my mouth. Liar. Quote me saying I was satisfied or not, or compared my fandom. But since you brought it up: Such a great fan because you are “fed up.” and so? what’s going to happen? what are you going to do about it? Nothing! not a damn thing. All that steam, and ZERO action. Zip. FAR worse to so convicted as to sit up at nights ranting yet do NOTHING, than to be the worst of the homer. When it comes to walking the walk , you and I are identical in our “satisfaction”. So pull up a chair good buddy.
You’re Fed up….. whoe whoooo! now somethings going to give. Yea.
Of A Superior Bloodline = UGA Alumni
March 16th, 2010
12:25 am
AltamahaDawg: BuLLDawg is fed up with UGA becuase his life long desire was to attend UGA however he did not take the necassary steps or have the drive to achieve his dream so now he sits alone in a dark room with nothing but his keyboard and a bowl of sour grapes.
col fot
March 16th, 2010
12:31 am
Mark Fox will cost Hewitt his job next year, you can count on that! Those blow flys can’t stand the fact that they cannot beat GEORGIA. I just wish UGA could have gotten their hands on duke this year. This guy Fox is a winner and is going to be a nightmare for a lot of coaches.
AltamahaDawg
March 16th, 2010
7:26 am
I’m not sure which is worse, pretend to be a Georgia fan, or actually BE a Georgia fan and Nobody can believe it. Something tells me that football is simply a line item in a very very long list of things that keep him up at night.
Dawg Fud
March 16th, 2010
9:58 am
i find it very ironic that those of us calling others “idiots” on here insist on writing “your an idiot.”
“your” would be the possessive tense
i’m just saying….
AltamahaDawg
March 16th, 2010
12:44 pm
Fud, surely you could find a lot more irony in here than that. Some would say, like you making several gramatical errors to correct one. I wouldn’t of cource.
YELLOW FUZZ
March 16th, 2010
2:09 pm
anyone seen Paul’s Johnson?
YELLOW FUZZ
March 16th, 2010
2:11 pm
Dawg Fud, You’re an idiot. Just because you beat us 9 out of 10 does not mean YOU’RE better. I think?
salad tosser
March 16th, 2010
2:13 pm
ONE AND DONE. thats like tec in the big dance
superDawg
March 16th, 2010
3:15 pm
yellowfuzz yes it does.
Stinger
March 16th, 2010
4:58 pm
Get ready for your beatdown @ 7pm, Russ Chandler Stadium (Home of the Mighty Jackets). OHHHHHHH, it’s gonna be ugly. Our bats and pitching staff will rock you so hard, you won’t know what hit you. It will be very similar to me punching redneck dawg in the face.
AltamahaDawg
March 16th, 2010
11:17 pm
If by “beatdown” you mean BALL 4, then yes.
Tech Engineer
March 17th, 2010
7:27 am
Convince some stud from LA to come play in that dump in athens, before sparse crowds? Good luck with that. Fox better stick to recruiting from atlanta high schools—the big programs will get all the national talent.
AceDawg
March 17th, 2010
10:26 am
Looks like Polee is signed with USC. Oh well. UGA DOES still need another recruit. I hope Fox can surprise us with a big name somehow, despite most being claimed already.
AceDawg
March 17th, 2010
10:34 am
And for all who praise Fox – he deserves it so far. I thought UGA looked super well coached. They pass the ball around and run offensive plays with a lot of thought and effectiveness. STILL, it is only going to pay dividends if UGA can recruit better. Fox will not be around for very long if UGA fails to recruit well. They won’t be a tourney team next year unless new faces contribute signinficantly next year. Lalanne and Robinson, Jr. might be key, but one more scorer needs to be found. If UGA looks like a tourney team at the start of next season, they will probably have the momentum needed to sign some top tier talent in Georgia high schools and the surrounding region.
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