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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Matthews Dawg
March 15th, 2010
12:16 pm
first
Matthews Dawg
March 15th, 2010
12:17 pm
Sweet…. I really was first!! This must be my lucky day!! I hope he can get a good one from the left coast! We need ball players!! Go Dawgs
JimDog
March 15th, 2010
12:17 pm
First – Dawgs are everywhere!
JD
March 15th, 2010
12:19 pm
DAWGS are bad to the bone. Hewitt was seen buying a new suit.
JimDog
March 15th, 2010
12:20 pm
Oh well, third. Go Mark Fox! I agree with you though, time to end the season, the team has nothing else to prove. Now is the time to recruit us a couple of more good players including a point guard and a center.
Blind Dawg
March 15th, 2010
12:24 pm
Doesn’t ATL have plenty of players? Why go to the left coast? Seems like that never works out for us – at least for football. Oh – and – first??!!??
Stockdog
March 15th, 2010
12:26 pm
6th, Yeah! Mark Fox is a hard and tireless worker. I think that he has the program moving in the right direction.
Stockdog
March 15th, 2010
12:26 pm
rats 7th
bruce mac
March 15th, 2010
12:35 pm
Yeah Blind Dawg, I suspect CMF knows little about the type players he wants in his program. Why don’t you call him and ask him why he is wasting his time in LA? Good grief man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JB
March 15th, 2010
12:35 pm
I blogged on here a couple of weeks ago that you would see a West Coast guy or two in Athens based on his recruiting in California and contacts he made while recruiting for Nevada those few years. He will sell the SEC to them and we will get a stud or two from there.
DirtyDawg
March 15th, 2010
12:43 pm
Thought for a minute there our B’ham alum was going to tell us he had given his seat to Coach Fox…then it occurred to me that the guy probably wasn’t on that flight at all. Either way, Fox needs to recruit whoever he thinks can help us. He’ll get the Georgia players – the current team is full of ‘em – including the better ones, soon enough, meanwhile I think I’ll trust him to know what he’s doing.
Bryan G.
March 15th, 2010
12:44 pm
Good for Fox. I hope he can get us some more horses so that we can get above .500 next year and maybe even compete for an NCAA bid
Mike Bobo 17 INT
March 15th, 2010
12:46 pm
UGAY could recruit Bill Walton, Grant Hill, and Michael Jordan and nothing would change with this tanked program. All UGAY can think about is Buck Belue and Lindsay Scott in that other failure program.
Basketball is not a priority in Athens, and never will be. It is all about football and that is questionable, since the football team only has 1 national title in 117 years.
Dog fans are not everywhere, and matter of fact, most Dog fans are embarassed to wear their colors, because they are embarassed abour CMR and the failed program.
CW
March 15th, 2010
12:47 pm
12TH!
Go get em coach. Good first year. Keep it up
ASHVILLE DAWG
March 15th, 2010
12:47 pm
National recruiting for UGA basketball=cool.
Mike Bobo 17 INT
March 15th, 2010
12:48 pm
When you let Tubby Smith out the door, Athens proved there was not commitment to basketball. Build a new arena, go ahead, but no one will fill it.
Hewitt is buying a new suit, he needs one for the big dance.
Mike Bobo 17 INT
March 15th, 2010
12:52 pm
Yes, I am hopelessly a nerd.
Falcon66
March 15th, 2010
12:54 pm
I agree with JB. Most of Fox’s career has been out there. It only stands to reason that he has a lot of contacts there. Go after ‘em!
Mike Bobo 17 INT
March 15th, 2010
1:00 pm
I will get to wear my new suit one time in the tourney and then I can wear it to the bank where I can make another Multi Million Dollar deposit. These Jackets are so gullible, I love working here it is easy money?
ATL XMAN
March 15th, 2010
1:00 pm
bobo 17..your too funny..=) you watched your jackets get beat yet again by duke and are still pissed..uga basketball is going up while techs is going down the drain and your football program is following close behind now that pj players are going to have to play.
and tubby left..uga didnt get rid of him
Voice of Reason
March 15th, 2010
1:05 pm
Stop and consider the impact this visit had on Polee if he is a quality young man – “CMF leaves Nashville after playing until almost eleven Central, and flies here to see me! Impressive.”
As for Hewitt buying a new suit for the big dance – how about for job interviews since he has outlived his usefulness. However, as a DAWG, I hope Tech keeps him.
dawgdawgdawg
March 15th, 2010
1:06 pm
Mike Bobo 17 INT:
kinda funny…i recall our “tanked” program beating your nerds in Athens this year
BigDawg'09
March 15th, 2010
1:08 pm
I love Coach Fox!! We need to start finding more gems from other regions of the country!! Polee looks exciting!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9kmd3VinBE
baddog
March 15th, 2010
1:12 pm
Just hope he isn’t talking to the Clippers! ha ha
English
March 15th, 2010
1:12 pm
Coach Fox is the real deal. He knows his work isn’t done even if the season is. UGA will improve under Coach Fox so just sit back watch how good of a recruiter he is and he’ll change the image of your program.
Go Georgia State!
Dannyboy
March 15th, 2010
1:17 pm
Mark Fox will be an outstanding coach for UGA. This is coming from a GT guy.
mike on lake hartwell
March 15th, 2010
1:19 pm
tubby smith left uga for kentucky. he said that he was very
satisfied at uga and that uk was the only job for which he would even
consider leaving.
AltamahaDawg
March 15th, 2010
1:20 pm
blind, I don’t think it takes a lot of pondering to figure out that Fox was recruiting for a “west” team just a year ago. I’m sure this kid has been on his radar for a while.
Like ATL is some kind of purebreed. Wouldn’t there be about as good of a chance of recruiting somebody NOT from Georgia in either place?
if our programs are tanked what are yours?
March 15th, 2010
1:22 pm
wow mike bobo. if you think our programs are tanked, what about yours? 30-24 and 73-66 losses to two tanked programs. you should really check your record sheet before you start running your mouth on a page about a team that has dominated you for the last decade. seriously, do the math…i KNOW you’re good at math. and i suspect you are probably a virgin too…
AltamahaDawg
March 15th, 2010
1:25 pm
BTW, for our pals wearing jorts, glad to see the gators finally back in the tourney again. Those 3 hours of NBA coaching experience are really starting to pay off.
ugaaccountant
March 15th, 2010
1:25 pm
“Mike Bobo 17 INT
It is all about football and that is questionable, since the football team only has 1 national title in 117 years.”
It’s one thing to say we only have 1 title, if you’re referring to modern history. But you’re not, because you went out of your way to say 117 years. We have another consensus title and several split titles as well. If Ga Tech can claim 1990, we can claim 5 national titles.
Frank Lane
March 15th, 2010
1:27 pm
Maybe he was interviewing, not recruiting.
Reality Check
March 15th, 2010
1:27 pm
Blind dog – If you followed basketball recruiting, and it appears you are just a football hoomer, then you would know that the early signing period has already happened and there arent many uncommitted prospects left. Polee is one of the few guys we are still after and he has already visted UGA. Its down to us and 2 other schools.
The Sham
March 15th, 2010
1:29 pm
I don’t care where you get the ponies from, just so long as they can run! Go get’em Fox!
To the nerds… it says something that on the day after you get a ticket to the dance, all you can do is bash teh DAWGS. Inferiority complex perhaps??? I guess I would if I got housed by both “lesser” teams this year in my state… Now go clean your room before you mommy gets home from work!
fan
March 15th, 2010
1:30 pm
to the moron tech fan, mike bobo went 4-0 against tech. god your an idiot
The Sham
March 15th, 2010
1:30 pm
errr.. the Dawgs… your mommy…
59bulldawg
March 15th, 2010
1:35 pm
Yeah Hewitt was also planning on buying that suit before his team’s run in the ACC Tourney . . . only then he planned to wear it to his next job interview after Tech fired him. That little run saved his butt this year but it’s only a matter of time before he’s gone. If Georgia had Tech’s talent, Fox would have probably won the SEC. Dawgs may not be able to match Tech in it’s storied basketball history but mark my word . . . if Fox stays in Athens . . . that worm will turn.
gern
March 15th, 2010
1:36 pm
Are we sure he was recruiting? I mean it is possible that he could have been meeting with representatives from Oregon about their Head coaching vacancy, right?
bozydeco
March 15th, 2010
1:48 pm
As a former Coach at Nevada, I’m sure he still has plenty of contacts for recuits from Cali. Just makes sense to still use them.
south
March 15th, 2010
1:49 pm
you’re right gern….or he could be making a guest appearance on “The Hills”….you idiot
IhateTechmorethantheTaliban
March 15th, 2010
1:50 pm
Hey Tech geek: We own you in everything including football, basketball, better looking women etc.Why don’t you go build another bridge and jump off of it? You wouldn’t be missed…..Trust me. Get ready for T.G’s 3-4 to dominate your joke of a football team for another 7 years and maybe you will get lucky and find a gross oriental co-ed on your warzone campus if you don’t get mugged first. To hell with Tech always and forever!
south
March 15th, 2010
1:52 pm
I also here on the way back from Los Angeles, his plane will travel over Alabama….so does this mean he has interest in the Auburn job…good grief.
athenian
March 15th, 2010
1:52 pm
If Fox is smart he is out there interviewing for a better job. I don’t know why uga fans are so impressed with a bad record in a bad conference. You should wait until Fox wins something before proclaiming him a “great coach”.
bruce mac
March 15th, 2010
1:56 pm
Anything is possible germ, we can only hope not. If that was true we would probably be hearing about it by now. Nothing is kept quiet very long where the Dawgs are concerned. Also, why would he be in such a hurry to go there, normally the AD travels to the prospect on the first official contact.
bruce mac
March 15th, 2010
2:00 pm
Althenian, he already has Dawgs in Top 100 with two players. Thanks for the advise, but we will keep him and pay him and give him a raise if he wants it. Dawgs in NCAA next year, want to bet?
Monticello Dawg
March 15th, 2010
2:07 pm
Some of you rival fans hope Fox is interviewing for another job. I think he is settling in for a long stay in the Classic City. If Thompkins and Leslie stay put, next year the Dogs will be dancing, first of many trips under the sly Fox.
Richard Simmons
March 15th, 2010
2:08 pm
Athenian has to be a nerd. Any true Dawg that witnessed the Felton era knows that Fox will do great things here.
Dawghater
March 15th, 2010
2:12 pm
We know. UGA sets the B’ball bar pretty low! So we all know you had a great year.
AltamahaDawg
March 15th, 2010
2:13 pm
SEC is a bad conference?
south
March 15th, 2010
2:14 pm
athenian- nobody has proclaimed Fox a great coach yet, but he has had some great moments- Illinois, GT, TN,Vandy,FLA – I think all anyone has ever claimed is he has things going in the right direction- not an easy task in 1 year considering what he walked into.
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.
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
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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.
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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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