The buzz begins about A.J. Green, Clint Boling and the 2011 draft
- NFL mock drafts for 2011 are already out there, and two Georgia players figure prominently. Wide receiver A.J. Green, widely expected to enter the draft after his junior season, is a consensus top-10 pick, and offensive tackle Clint Boling, who’ll be a senior in the fall, isn’t far behind Green in some 2011 mocks. In fact, one site, nepatriotsdraft.com, has Green going No. 2 overall and Boling No. 5. As ESPN’s coverage of the 2010 draft wound down Saturday afternoon, Mel Kiper Jr. rated Green the No. 4 prospect for 2011. Another ESPN analyst, Todd McShay, rated Green the eighth best prospect for ‘11.
- Back to the 2010 draft: The SEC sent word that it had more players selected (49) than in any previous seven-round NFL draft. The Big Ten was second with 34 selections, followed by the ACC with 31, the Big 12 with 30 and the Pac-10 with 29. All 12 SEC schools had at least one player picked.
- SEC picks by school: Florida 9, Alabama 7, LSU 6, Tennessee 6, Georgia 5, Ole Miss 4, Kentucky 3, Auburn 2, Mississippi State 2, South Carolina 2, Vanderbilt 2, Arkansas 1.
- Within an hour of being drafted in the third round by Tennessee, former Georgia linebacker Rennie Curran naturally was asked by Nashville reporters about the concerns about his height. Curran had an answer ready: “As far as height goes, I don’t play barefoot,” he said. “When I put my cleats on and my helmet on, I am about 6-1 or 6-2. And I am not weak, either. I may be a little shorter, but I am not weak at all, by any means.”
- And former Georgia defensive tackle Geno Atkins, a fourth-round pick by the Bengals, was asked by Cincinnati reporters why his statistics fell off from his sophomore season (team-leading 14.5 tackles for loss, including 7.5 sacks) to his junior and senior seasons. “I guess the sophomore year was a pretty extraordinary year for me,” Atkins said. “I tried to do a little something my senior year, but I guess I didn’t really get to those numbers. . . . I don’t think there was anything different. It was just, like, sometimes you’re able to make a play and sometimes you’re not. That’s how the game works, really.”
- If you missed it, three undrafted Dogs quickly agreed to sign with NFL teams as free agents: wide receiver Michael Moore with Detroit, cornerback Prince Miller with Baltimore and safety Bryan Evans with Cincinnati.
- And if you missed this one, Mark Richt said Aaron Murray, the Dogs’ new No. 1 quarterback, reminds him of former Florida State QB (and Heisman Trophy runnerup) Casey Weldon. That story is here.
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TUCK FECH
April 26th, 2010
3:58 pm
How yall Techies going to stop EALEY and King who put up 330 yards on that YELLOW DEE?
When IOWA exposes your High school offense..Game Over!
Amazing
April 26th, 2010
3:58 pm
It will be interesting to see how all of these “elite” teams do this year. No matter who you’re pulling for, it’s a new year, with new players and, in some cases, new coaches. At least this time of the year, everyone enters the season with the same record. Florida is losing Tebow. Tech is losing players. UGA, instead of losing Stafford and Moreno, is losing Martinez and Evans. Go Dawgs!
Dawgs > Bees
April 26th, 2010
3:58 pm
Murray is taller than everyone is saying. Be warned tech fans—murray and UGA will blow out tech next year in Athens—mark it down!
patrick
April 26th, 2010
3:59 pm
James T got aids from that green chick and its corrupted his brain
James T. Kirk
April 26th, 2010
4:01 pm
Sure. Murphy is as tall as a Vulcan. Yeah right!!!
SEC FANATIC
April 26th, 2010
4:05 pm
“Luck is probability taken personally”.
patrick
April 26th, 2010
4:08 pm
A 12-1 uga needed OSU to lose. Didn’t happen…unlucky
A 12-1 fla needed USC to lose. Did happen…lucky.
No other difference….. PER89#
patrick
April 26th, 2010
4:09 pm
‘Period’
quake
April 26th, 2010
4:11 pm
SEC FANATIC,
WHO IS YOUR TEAM OF CHOICE?
patrick
April 26th, 2010
4:11 pm
Fla didn’t have any control over USC losing…… luck not merit
Kincade
April 26th, 2010
4:12 pm
bow to me!!!! bow to me you stupid southerners!!!!
patrick
April 26th, 2010
4:14 pm
Enter your comments here
SEC FANATIC
April 26th, 2010
4:17 pm
Are you lucky that you didn’t get hit by a car today. Or are you extra vigilant and do the little things when you are crossing a busy street. Most of the time, it’s not about luck at all. Was Pete Carroll just lucky at USC? Was Urban Meyer just lucky at Bowling Green, Utah and now at Florida? Saban at Michigan State, LSU or Bama? Has Mark Richt just been unlucky at Georgia for 9 years? I’m not buying it. Yes, you can get lucky or unlucky at times of your life. But the cream always rises to the top.
fields
April 26th, 2010
4:20 pm
what titles did Meyer ever win at Bowling Green or Utah? Or Saban at Michigan St.??
SEC FANATIC
April 26th, 2010
4:21 pm
BTW…my example of using “statistics” to support any arguement was not intended to make any political point, for or against. I simply used the Stimulus Plan as a prime example of an arguement where you could use accurate and credible numbers to represent either side of the arguement, just like the politicians like to do. Sorry you couldn’t understand that…
Stinger
April 26th, 2010
4:28 pm
does the state of Georgia allow same sex marriage? I need to know for a research paper
patrick
April 26th, 2010
4:31 pm
fla had no control over USC no matter how viligant they were had USC won they would not have gone to the NC. Has nothing to do wikth it
SEC FANATIC
April 26th, 2010
4:33 pm
“fields”, was talking about a pattern of success at each stop that led to the ultimate success that each Saban and Meyer have had. In another words, they didn’t just show up at LSU or Bama, or Florida and start “getting lucky”. You know, speaking of lucky, whatever…don’t think I’ve ever heard half-way azz respectable coach ever say, “you know, we just weren’t lucky enough today, it rained on our side of the field, it was hot and we happened to wearing our dark jerseys and the ball bounced real funny off that guys helmet and that’s why we lost”. LOSER!! Hummm…wonder how long before HE became one of those unemployed statistics?!
patrick
April 26th, 2010
4:34 pm
12 – 1……both had same record……both needed something out of their control to happen…..one was lucky it did….one was not…..luck no matter how u spin it.
dd
April 26th, 2010
4:34 pm
I’m hearing there are a lot of ugly women at tech and florida.
Is this true?
patrick
April 26th, 2010
4:40 pm
if u NEED something to happen that u have no control over and it does….is that some how being viligant?…no…its luck PERIOD
pall
April 26th, 2010
4:45 pm
Every title won during a NON-undefeated season requires luck.
patrick
April 26th, 2010
4:47 pm
I must have missed the story about Fla players going to UCLA and viligantly trading unis with UCLA and controlling their invite to the NC
Delbert D.
April 26th, 2010
4:48 pm
patrick – A whole lot of your “fact” points are not facts. They are opinions based on the way you would like to have seen things happen.
Retired and Happy
April 26th, 2010
4:50 pm
Funny on the subject of luck, I used to have a regional manager that used to ask a specific question if he was trying to decide between two equally qualified sales or promotional candidates. He would always ask them if they considered themselves a “lucky” or an “unlucky” person? That didn’t sound like a very specific defining or even professional question to me for a very high level manager at Burroughs Corp to be basing that kind of decision on, but it was his contention that if a person considered themselves “lucky” that they usually were and had more success and if they didn’t, they in fact were “unlucky” and less successful and had a built-in excuse. And by golly to my amazement, if the guy wasn’t almost 100% right!
SEC FANATIC
April 26th, 2010
4:57 pm
Since it’s all really boils down to luck, might as well have Alfred E Neuman as the coach. Funny, though, how a certain group of coaches seem to have all the luck year after year. Must be total coincidence. Or just dumb luck.
Delbert D.
April 26th, 2010
4:57 pm
patrick – I looked up “viligant,” since you used it and “viligantly” in a couple of posts. Here’s what I found from the Urban Dictionary online:
Terrist:
Mispronounced form of Terrorist. Listen to George W. Bush speak, and you’ll hear him say it.
“We must be strong and viligant, and unite ourselves against these terrists.”
Don’t know whether the UD folks or W did the “viligant” misspelling or mispronunciation. The “Terrist” thing is pretty funny. Like Jimmy Carter and “nuculer” instead of “nuclear.”
SEC FANATIC
April 26th, 2010
4:57 pm
Or more like…just dumb.
stinger
April 26th, 2010
5:00 pm
hello?
patrick
April 26th, 2010
5:00 pm
My spelling or misspelling a word destroys my entire argument….how foolish of me
SEC FANATIC
April 26th, 2010
5:05 pm
Yes, PLEASE get your spelling AND your “facts” straight from now on…or you could always use statistics.
fez
April 26th, 2010
5:06 pm
SEC FAN,
Why do you refuse to tell us who your team is?
Dawgs > Bees
April 26th, 2010
5:07 pm
The gators got lucky with all 3 of their national titles—one loss in each year and needed some miracle to make it to the title game, which they got. Then, against ohio state, OSU’s best player went down on the opening kickoff from a celebration after a TD, handing fla the game.
patrick
April 26th, 2010
5:07 pm
Soooooo. Fla was NOT lucky USC lost. Oh ok I get it now. How stupid of me.
SEC FANATIC
April 26th, 2010
5:08 pm
You said it…I didn’t!
Delbert D.
April 26th, 2010
5:12 pm
I’m trying to figure out “Non-undefeated.” I guess Florida had a “defeated” season. Somehow that doesn’t sound right. Maybe they had a “feated” season. My head hurts.
17 of 20
April 26th, 2010
5:13 pm
patrick
Does Georgia have the 1942 AP trophy? yes or no.
patrick
April 26th, 2010
5:22 pm
Soooo Fla plairerrs sneekeedd intwo UCLA looker ruum an changed intwo UCLA unioforms an hat a derit result inde otcum?
patrick
April 26th, 2010
5:23 pm
Dem sneeeky tricksy gaytors
Debose
April 26th, 2010
5:25 pm
Hey certain Dawg fans, how about you look to the future and quit talking about how Florida got in a game or how many losses you guys had compared to them in a different year. The real fact is……..Florida was the 1996, 2006, and 2008 National Champion….period.
SEC FANATIC
April 26th, 2010
5:27 pm
Don’t or didn’t they used to call themselves the Fighting Gators? Need to change that name to the Lucky Lizards! HAHA.
17 of 20
April 26th, 2010
5:30 pm
It is better to be lucky than good. Don’t you know that?
Reptiles Rule
April 26th, 2010
5:32 pm
But what if you’re both??
Coach Lombardi
April 26th, 2010
5:53 pm
That patrick character wouldn’t make it one day on my team with that luck crap.
heeldawg
April 26th, 2010
5:53 pm
For James Tiberius Kirk, whose schizophrenia is showing…..
…I must admit, you have a real gift for hyperbole. Nesbitt will win the Heisman when I do–and I’m almost 50. Fact is, Nesbitt will not even be a first round draft pick, certainly not at QB. He may be a fourth rounder as a defensive back. Or he might transfer to Georgia, where he could be Aaron Murray’s backup. Then at least he could say he was the backup to a Heisman trophy QB–if Nesbitt could even get into Georgia, that is, which isn’t entirely certain. We don’t have Recreational Pot Smoking as a major (wasn’t that Reuben Houston’s course of study? Or was that Joe Hamilton–no, wait, Calvin Johnson!), so that could be an impediment to credit transfer to the state’s capstone institution.
Stephen Hill hasn’t quite recovered from the hit he took in the Georgia game last season. His ears are still ringing, he pees blood from time to time, and he’ll probably cringe when dogs bark for the rest of his life. I suspect, however, that he will be able to catch at least one pass on fourth down at some point this coming year–which is more than BeBe Thomas could do on that bonehead call from your “genius” head football coach in the Georgia game. Thomas was certainly big in the clutch in that game–kinda like the Tech defense. I think you guys could have slowed our running game better with wadded up tissue paper. At least that would have stuck to Ealey’s and King’s shoes and slowed them down a little bit. The Jacket D didn’t impede their progress at all. Heck, my son tackled Washaun when he was a senior in high school more times than the entire Tech defense did collectively last year.
And the incredible football genius you hired as DC? You mean the guy whose corpse they had to re-animate in order to get him to sign his contract? Sorry, but I’ll take a Todd Grantham over Al Groh any day of the week. Groh has to take a pill just to remember to take his Alzheimer’s medicine every day. I’m sure that he will be out there firing up his players, getting them motivated between bouts of angina (just as they are all “firing up” other things, in the true Georgia Tech weed tradition).
Ah, I gave you too much credit. My gift for hyperbole is much better than yours–and personally, I think that Spock would have kicked your a$$. Heck, the tribbles dang near did that, and they were just glorified earmuffs.
Get back on your ship, captain. There’s a Vulcan woman waiting in a hot tub somewhere in the twilight recesses of your dreams. We’ve got a little football to play here on earth, and your delusions are getting in the way of reality.
Or maybe you’re really Captain Pike?
17 of 20
April 26th, 2010
6:24 pm
I take it that the bulldogs havw one NC. Auburn has two of them.
patrick
April 26th, 2010
6:25 pm
Alrighty then… I am off the .Droid.
The GA-FL game is obviously always huge.
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This year it will be even more so – especially as it relates to the perception of the UGA program under Richt.
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Tebow is gone.
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Mullen and Strong are gone.
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A ton of talent has left early.
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Both teams are fairly young, starting untested QBs, and integrating important new pieces to the coaching staff.
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Win and the GA faithful will, even if it’s part of a 7-8 win season, feel as if the program is moving in the right direction and capable of recapturing or exceeding Richt’s best work to date.
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Lose and it will, even if part of a 9-10 win season, feel as if the “next level”, as achieved by LSU, UF, and AL in the last decade, will always be just beyond our reach.
UGA has the resources – money and talent. Lets now see if UGA has the coach.
patrick
April 26th, 2010
6:31 pm
17 of 20……. Let me illustrate something for your rather simple mind.
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All NCs are opinion based and therefore not even recognized by the NCAA. Those AP NCs you claim are lised as :National POLL championships” not “National Championships” in the NCAA data base. I hope you are bright enuff to se the difference.
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So if you base your NC on an opinion poll you are obligated to list ALL recognized opinion polls in your equation. Not just the ones you pick and chose to support an argument. Now the Nationalchamps.net does it quite succinctly for you.
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so of RECOGNIZED poll champions UGA (according to nationalchamps.net) has 6.
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below are the years and records. Sorry this does not support you but thats life.
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1927 – Record: 9-1
Boand System
Poling System
1942 – Record: 11-1
Berryman
DeVold
Houlgate System
Litkenhous
Poling System
Williamson System
1946 – Record: 11-0
Williamson System
1966 – Record: 10-1
Massey Ratings
1968 – Record: 8-1-2
Litkenhous
and we all know about 1980.
patrick
April 26th, 2010
6:36 pm
Now for a more in depth explanation of UGAs POLL championships go to this site….I will quote a few paragraphs for you.
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http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1994
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As of the 2005 season the University of Georgia (UGA) football program has won five national championships, played in eighteen different bowl games (more than any other program in the country), won eleven Southeastern Conference (SEC) titles, and produced two Heisman Trophy winners. (Its now 12 SEC titles)
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In 1927 Georgia started the season 9-0 before losing in Athens to the Georgia Institute of Technology, UGA’s archrival. Despite the loss, the Bulldogs were voted national champions in two recognized polls.
patrick
April 26th, 2010
6:36 pm
cont.
The 1942 squad, led by Heisman Trophy–winner Sinkwich and all-American end George Poschner, is heralded as the best in the first half-century of Georgia football. The team won eleven games and defeated the University of California at Los Angeles in the Rose Bowl to win the national title.