Dogs No. 10 in spring attendance … Barbara Dooley at Vols event … Chapas, Durham, Atkins graduate Saturday
Georgia ranked No. 10 in the nation in attendance for its spring football game, according to figures compiled by Sports Business Daily.
Alabama again had the largest spring-game crowd (91,312), followed by Nebraska (77,936), Ohio State (65,223), Auburn (63,217), Penn State (55,000), Florida (51,500), Florida State (51,000), Texas (44,000), Virginia Tech (41,000) and Georgia (38,472).
Also topping 30,000 in spring-game attendance: Tennessee, Michigan, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Arkansas and Michigan State.
A full chart of the attendance for BCS schools’ spring games (except for a few on which attendance was unavailable) can be found here.
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According to this report in the Knoxville News Sentinel, Barbara Dooley was in attendance — and in orange — at Wednesday night’s Atlanta stop of Tennessee’s Big Orange Caravan.
“There is no way I can come into this state without my mother finding me,” Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley told the audience. “I never knew how good she looked in orange. All these years she’s been wearing the wrong color.”
Dooley — Derek, not Barbara — also talked about the importance to the Vols of recruiting in Georgia, according to the News Sentinel report. “We started it on signing day,” he said, “and we’re going to keep pushing it to bleed orange right into this state for a long time.”
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Fullback Shaun Chapas and wide receiver Kris Durham will play their final football season at Georgia this fall with their college degrees already earned.
Chapas and Durham will graduate at Georgia’s spring commencement ceremonies in Sanford Stadium on Saturday evening.
Chapas is a marketing major and Durham a middle-school education major. They will take graduate courses while completing their football eligibility in the fall.
In addition to current players Chapas and Durham, 10 former UGA football players will get their degrees Saturday. Among them: defensive tackle Geno Atkins, a recent fourth-round draft pick of the Cincinnati Bengals.
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Reality
May 6th, 2010
10:28 pm
Way to go uga! Top 10 in attendence. Awesome record! So great! guess wins don’t matter any more…..
Phat Phil
May 6th, 2010
10:34 pm
LMAO……Barbara Dooley wearing the BIG ORANGE in Atlanta!!! Had Vince been there he would have worn the orange too. Face it Mutts…..your team is going down the drain. UT / Dooley will own you for years to come. Maybe if CMR stopped spending so much time in the tanning booth, UGA could do better. Also he could cut out doing all those Carpets of Dalton commercials. I just hope you have enough players out of jail or at least on probation to start the season! Rocky Top is coming to Athens in October and it won’t be pretty for UGA!!!
CrackDaddy
May 6th, 2010
10:43 pm
The Athen’s Ya’llMart must have been empty during UGa’s Spring game.
Me
May 6th, 2010
11:15 pm
Getting Paid…per your 6:20 post about he 3 guys signing. Problem was, they all signed with Florida! Just kidding of course. I was at that game and it was pretty much what you expected…90K screaming drunk Cajuns. I was just glad to get outta there alive. Those people sure aren’t too fond of orange and blue! But I’ll go again ’cause it’s what makes college football the incredible spectacle that it is.
BuLLdawg
May 6th, 2010
11:48 pm
italian_29
May 6th, 2010 3:08 pm
“Lisa, you might be correct on FL having our number for a LONG time”
Excuse me italian_29, what in the hell are you talking about MIGHT BE CORRECT FL having our number for LONG time ? We have LOST to Florida 3 of the last 4 games, LOST to the vols 3 of the last 4 games and LOST to Kentucky 2 of the last 4 games, along with a loss to South Carolina and Vanderbilt.
The SEC East has been kicking our butts the last 4 years, all of them.
And, Florida, Alabama and LSU have Won the Last 5 National Championships in a Row.
While we are 2-7 vs. Florida in the Coach Richt Era.
Lisa “MIGHT BE CORRECT” italian_29 ? italian_29, Lisa IS correct, not might be.
Right ?
Tide Rising
May 6th, 2010
11:51 pm
Me,
I’m a Bama fan but I went to the earthquake game in 88 with one of my best friends an AU fan. We hooked up with 2 LSU hotties at the beach and were going back to red stick to see them and also for the AU-LSU game. Had one of the best weekends of my life and yes the LSU fans love to party.
BuLLdawg
May 6th, 2010
11:55 pm
Pretty funny the Dooley’s wearing orange, after what Michael F. Adam$ did to them. This is the 1st coach in the history of Tennessee football, who was not a total friqin’ joke. Maybe now for the 1st time since 2001, the vols can actually be ranked AHEAD of UGA in the Final AP Poll. He just doesn’t fit in there with the yahoos in Tennessee, but I wish him the best of luck.
ScoutDawg
May 7th, 2010
12:09 am
The funniest thing ever is gt51 talking about UGA students getting robbed. Because that never hapens on the nerd campus. Well yeah it does, even back in 51 when you were a young NERD.
DDDAWG
May 7th, 2010
12:12 am
Derek Dooley is dead to me………..
BuLLdawg
May 7th, 2010
12:16 am
Georgia tek fans posting in this UGA blog make the exact same kind of posts here that UGA fans here do to Florida fans, for which I call them out for it, every time. Like this one :
italian_29
May 6th, 2010 3:08 pm
“Lisa, you might be correct on FL having our number for a LONG time”
When will the next 1 be Arrested / Suspended ?
I am betting on June 1.
BuLLdawg
May 7th, 2010
12:18 am
I like Derek Dooley.
I also like Barbara Dooley.
And, while we are on the topic, I like Vince.
Old Dawg
May 7th, 2010
2:15 am
I know UT leads the series and I know UT won big last year in Knoxville, but I simply can’t respect a program that doesn’t get the majority of its players from its home state. There are many things the help get top level talent to UT. At the same time, a program that hasn’t had a starting QB from its own state since 1986 says a lot about the program and the state in general.
Sofa King We Todd It
May 7th, 2010
7:41 am
Sure, there is plenty to do in Bama… Like your cousin… The spring games are nothing more than a nice day at the stadium. First of all, who cares how many people show up to the SPRING SCRIMMAGE. I was at UGA’s, but don’t see attendance for these things as any kind of barometer for anything. Don’t think golf had anything to do with anything, that is what a DVR is for.
To “The most interesting man alive”, no one was dissappointed in Murray’s performance. Any one that knows anything about what they are talking about anyways. Murray had a dropped pass by Charles, that if he caught he would still be running. There was a miscommunication with Green on a deep ball, but the ball thrown was a laser. He also led the offense down the field in the 2 minute offense, where in a game situation they would have kicked a field goal, but went for it on 4th down. But I guess for those of us who just sit and look at numbers instead of body of work, his performance could have appeared sub par. As far as decision making and leadership ability, Murray is 1000 times better than Mettenberger or Gray ever will be. He is more accurate than either of the other 2, and has just as strong a arm as Mettenberger. And in case you missed it, he was also recognized as having the second best Elite 11 QB Camp performance in the history of the camp, behind Stafford. Sure he may only be 6′ tall, but look at who just won the Superbowl.
Tide Roll
May 7th, 2010
8:15 am
Things you’ll never see at UGA. Kiante Tripp at left tackle. Cordy Glenn at left guard, chris Burnette at center, bean anderson at right guard and josh Davis at right tackle. this is how you beat fla., and win a national title. This is also what you’ll never see in athens and therefore the reason you’ll never beat fla. or win a national title. Also thanks again for james carpenter and chance warmack. Chance came from westlake High in atlanta, Kiante Tripp’s old school.
Yep
May 7th, 2010
8:22 am
Your not going to Close the Comments on this story??? It seems like this is the first one in a while that anyone has been able to comment on.
Long Gator
May 7th, 2010
8:26 am
UGA is only important in the Peach State. Us Gators are the
real deal in the East. You puppies are hardly an afterthought
to us. By the way Herschel is gone and you can take off the 1980
Bumper sticker now.
Pathetic
those games meant everything to tech
May 7th, 2010
8:40 am
saw the comment on this blog by the tech frat (flag boy) making fun of Georgia fans for going to a spring game when tech can even sell out a fall game….your baton twirlers look decent over at Grant Stadium…well the female baton twirlers do…the male ones they probably start on the masculine GT B squad in the spring game..No?…..tell ole alligator jowls Johnson’s Paul to wear a helmet for the annual beating you nerds take…His four disrespectful quotes about Georgia are well remembered…see ya in Athens flagboy Nation…should be fun!
wballs
May 7th, 2010
8:57 am
Would have been cool if that article went a bit deeper and explored the relation between spring football game attendance and, well…anything relevant. Bama fans go in droves because they are slaves to the game and put everything else in their life second. Is that something to be proud of ? You tell me.
The most interesting man alive
May 7th, 2010
9:25 am
wballs, bama fans go in droves because Saban talked Walmart into closing all their stores on A day. What an evil man.
The most interesting man alive
May 7th, 2010
9:31 am
Sofa King We Todd It, in case you didnt watch the 09 AND the 2010 G day game. Murray played worse this year than last and Mett and Gray improved. And by the way, please on the comparing him to Drew Breese. Murray could carry his jock. Didnt look at numbers (although they were bad), he was uncomfortable, nervouse and had difficulty seeing over the line. With his injury history, and Richt being in love with him no matter how he plays, you had better hope Gray doesn’t transfer, because the new boy Mason, sucked in the Championship game.
Edumacated
May 7th, 2010
9:32 am
Hey to those folks who don’t understand why the Masters affected the spring game attendance, it’s because most Augusta area residents are out of town for that week. All schools and colleges hold their spring break, and everyone rents out their house. That’s thousands of Dawg fans who would otherwise be around to make the short drive to Athens and are instead in Disneyland or something.
Sven Ottke
May 7th, 2010
9:59 am
Hal, you are a buffoon. Tech has about 1/5 of the alumni that UGa has but has about 20 times the fund raising and donations. Go check the endowment numbers you idiot. And congrats, you drew a bunch of people to the Spring Game. That’s right, you guys determine your birthright according to Preseason polls and stadium sizes. Get over yourself. You are irrelevant on the national scene.
Joey
May 7th, 2010
10:39 am
Do high schools in Tenn have football teams?
trey
May 7th, 2010
11:08 am
Why are there more Techmites on this blog than UGA fans? Your wittle school didn’t even make the top 50. ROTFLMAO
The taliban really should change their school colors to GREEN and white. Green = jealousy.
Bama always has good Spring game numbers. They are excited about their program because Saban has them at the championship level. If Richt had UGA there, there would be the same Spring game excitement and anticipation. You can blame the Masters, but that’s an excuse. Even with the change of guard at UGA on the defense side this year, it didn’t impact the Spring game because until the team puts up championship results in the Fall, there won’t be any excitement to carry over into the Spring game.
Navigator
May 7th, 2010
11:31 am
I tried to make sense out of attendance on a controlled scrimmage with itself. We know that Alabama folks need jobs and something to do, so 90,000+ is not unexpected. 30,000-40,000 is what you would expect from most large schools that have large following during regular season. Actually, UGA being 10th was impressive that they were the norm and not a bunch crazies.
Rabun Dawg
May 7th, 2010
12:10 pm
POAD, you are correct in that Vince and Barb are Auburn grads who wore orange at one time. However, red and black bought them the “good life”, and if they choose to wear orange again because of Derek, then do it in private. Flaunting around the orange garb amongst the UGA faithful is in poor taste IMHO. Root for your Son for sure, but leave the orange stuff for the house! And, your comment about a coach who was true “red and black”, well that venture did not pan out very good.(see Ray Goff).
blazer
May 7th, 2010
12:58 pm
ms dooley is stepping up in the social graces
radar
May 7th, 2010
2:15 pm
4 ACC Coastal Division teams ranked in SI’s top 25 and only 1 in the SEC East. Your division, Mutts, is what stinks with a capital “S.”
Fan of Tech
May 7th, 2010
2:15 pm
Hey you guys! We sold out our spring game at the YMCA fields.
raleigh
May 9th, 2010
9:22 am
screw derek dooley. traitor. go back to the law firm you overrated snob.
RED DOG 77
May 10th, 2010
12:26 am
Big Dawg……..stupid is as stupid says……..and you says some pretty stupid stuff………that is, you and your bff ” BuLLdawg “
Dawg Trainer
May 10th, 2010
1:07 pm
“screw derek dooley. traitor. go back to the law firm you overrated snob.”
Poor dawgie. When we come down to Athens and train you Dawgs properly AGAIN…bow down to DD. And start getting used to your annual re-training.
ArrowJ
May 15th, 2010
12:12 am
The name calling is grammer school at best. Grow up Puppies. Learn to converse on the next level with adults. One, Georgia will not get passed Florida and the Dawgs will not be in the SEC title game. Alabama my slip a game due to the fact 6 SEC opponets have open dates before BAMA. Everyone is gunning for the Tide. Until GA finds a QB Mark Richt and the Dawgs will be second fiddle.
ArrowJ
May 15th, 2010
12:32 am
Since 1961 Alabama has won 8 National Titles 17 SEC Titles. Overall Alabama has 13 National titles and 22 SEC Titles. No other SEC team is even close. Tennessee is a distant second. If any other team in the Nation can claim an average of 88 thousand a year since 2007 left them step forward. Love it when others say Alabama has nothing else better to do but their school does. The students at all schools get out and ask others to show up for the spring games. Auburn is a violator of the truth, au brags of the 63,000 but the year before claimed it did not matter. Yep keep lying to us and yourselves. ROLL TIDE ROLL and my the truth be with you. LMAO!!!