Writer: Oregon should hire Mark Fox (PLUS: Time again for Dogs-Jackets)
- You knew it was just a matter of time before someone would suggest that someone should hire Mark Fox away from Georgia. FoxSports.com senior college basketball writer Jeff Goodman does so, opining in a column that Oregon should hire Fox for its vacant coaching job. Important distinction: Goodman does not list Fox as a “candidate” for the Oregon job -– he lists four others in that category -– but as his “pick” for the job. Goodman on Fox: “He went to a trio of NCAA tournaments in five years at the helm at Nevada and has West Coast ties. The guy can coach, as further proven by taking a pitiful Georgia team to a 14-17 record this past season, and can also evaluate. . . . “
- It’ll be Georgia vs. Georgia Tech on Wednesday night at Foley Field. It’s a baseball game both sides of the rivalry would love to win, of course, but it’s still secondary to conference games. So, mindful of the upcoming weekend series at Arkansas, Georgia will start a pitcher, Eric Swegman, who has worked only 5 1/3 innings in four appearances this season and didn’t retire a batter in his last start. The top three starters, of course, are being saved for conference games, as always. Beyond that, Georgia coach David Perno’s hope is to minimize the use of left-handed relievers Justin Earls and Alex McRee vs. Tech. “We know we’re going to need Earls and McRee this weekend because the two biggest boppers in Arkansas’ lineup are left-handed,” Perno said at Tuesday’s practice. “We’re just trying not to have to overuse either one of those guys tomorrow so we can keep their pitch counts down. And so we’re trying to pitch as many guys before we get to Earls and McRee on the back end.” Perno said he’ll have nine pitchers ready to work against the Jackets. “I hope we don’t use nine.”
- For many fans, of course, a game against Tech is bigger than a series against Arkansas. “Oh yeah, some people only come to those three games every year,” said Georgia right fielder Peter Verdin, referring to the annual games against the Yellow Jackets at Tech, at UGA and at Turner Field.
- For more on Georgia baseball, click here for my story in Wednesday’s paper.
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GT Fan
April 14th, 2010
2:01 pm
UGA has a great Coach in Fox. Hope he don’t leave, he’s brought excitement and new life to there program. Damn Hewitt PLEASE LEAVE!!!
David
April 14th, 2010
2:03 pm
After just one season, there are many reasons Mark Fox will stay at UGA. First, he is not anything like Lane Kiffin who I believe is not a good coach period. Second, a coach like to start with a program to coach players into his system; eventhough, there recond was not great, they got a lot of respect around the league. That is something he does not want to end!!! Third, he is young and like Coach Richt in football, Athens is a nice town to settle down for a while. Finally; the UGA family from top to bottom is one of the best in the nation, and the talent level in Georgia is very good than anything I ever saw in the State of Oregon!!!!
UGAAlumnus
April 14th, 2010
2:10 pm
Coach Perno is a good coach. If you do a little research you’ll see why this season has been horrible so far. We lost a huge amount of players to MLB, and had pretty much the entire infield hurt for the first half of the season.
Not to mention a potential star got hit by a car and paralyzed before the season started. Who knows what effect that has had on the team.
Dawgfan
April 14th, 2010
3:02 pm
i didnt even graduate college and make over 100k a year. Unless you choose your profession wisely, college can be a waste of time and money. oh yeah 30-24 all yaer. i do knows some math though.
South Georgia UGA Hick
April 14th, 2010
3:26 pm
Boycott Nike. Tiger, Oregon
ugaaccountant
April 14th, 2010
3:35 pm
“Jax Dawg
April 14th, 2010
12:08 pm
How are all these UGA alumni able to purchase season tickets with a 35-40K a year salary at twice the rate of all the 150K a year Tech alumni? Stats are for losers and 76.4% of statistics are made up.”
The most recent studies show that it’s only 73.8% of stats being made up on the spot.
South Georgia UGA Hick
April 14th, 2010
3:35 pm
Dawgfan – Congratulations on your making 100K a year
without a college education. I assume you punch a clock,
and have to answer to a boss that did graduate.
kb
April 14th, 2010
3:50 pm
Hey guys, enough of this silly back and forth UGA/GA Tech hate rhetoric. Why don’t you direct all of that energy toward teams deserving of such scrutiny, namely, floriduh and south carolina.
wiley
April 14th, 2010
9:48 pm
I guessed right!
Good Grief
April 15th, 2010
2:05 am
It never ceases to amaze me how so many “educated” people actually think US News and World Report’s rankings are gospel and some kind of reliable measurement. “Our school is ranked 35th and your school is 58th so clearly I’m so much smarter than you.” LMAO…..idiots. GIT is a fine school and so is UGA it depends on what you want to study as to which is better….niether one are Stanford or Vanderbilt. Everything is relative…get a life idiots.
ugay dogpoos
April 16th, 2010
7:11 am
25-6 inbreds, yeah you own gt, hhahahahahhahahahahaahahhahha
Zach Mett
April 18th, 2010
5:27 pm
i took one drink for every run Tech scored. 25 drinks is a lot.
Ouch !
April 19th, 2010
6:28 pm
25-6 ?!?!
Maybe they should install a mercy rule when one team is that badly outmanned.