UGA Athletic Board actions include $2 million gift to university (UPDATED)
(Updated 7 p.m.)
ST. SIMONS ISLAND — Georgia’s athletics department will finish this fiscal year with about $7 million more in revenue than expenses — and will donate $2 million of it to help the university through hard financial times.
The contribution will be in addition to the $6 million over three years pledged by the UGA Athletic Association to the university’s academic programs last year.
The latest gift, which will go toward funding professorships and scholarships, was unanimously approved by the Athletic Association’s board of directors Thursday after a recommendation from athletics director Damon Evans.
Evans said the contribution was appropriate given the university’s struggle with reduced state funding and the Athletic Association’s surplus. The association is a separate legal and financial entity from the rest of the university.
“I listen to what’s going on throughout our campus,” Evans said. “When you are operating like we are and have the resources … I just thought at this time if we can help out there, let’s do it.”
UGA President Michael Adams told the board that he’s grateful for the gift.
“I want to thank the association for its support to the university in what I think is the toughest 18 months the university has had financially since World War II,” Adams said.
“I think the relationship with those two sides of the house is as strong as it’s been in my 13 years here,” Adams added.
The Athletic Association board, meeting at the King and Prince Beach & Golf Resort, received an upbeat financial report. The association will bring in about $84.8 million in revenue for the 2010 fiscal year, which ends June 30. Even after the $2 million donation to the university, the association will have about $5 million left to add to its reserve funds. The association’s reserves will top $65 million at that point.
“This is really an amazing report in these economic times,” Adams said.
On one down note, Georgia reported that “Hartman Fund” donations, which determine football season-ticket priority, declined by about $500,000 this year, from $23.3 million in 2009 to $22.8 million. The donations reached a record $26.1 million in 2008.
“It’s a combination of the economy and how we performed as a team,” Evans said of the decline. “The support is still there, but I just think when people are excited and people have a little bit more expendable income, they’ll put more toward their ticket priority. Right now, with the economy and so forth, people are a little bit more hesitant. But we’ll still be sold out.”
About 2,000 season tickets were not renewed, up from 1,500 non-renewals last year, but all have been claimed by other donors.
The athletics board approved a budget of $84.75 million for fiscal year 2011, which starts July 1, roughly the same amount as this past year. As with other university employees, athletics department staffers — including coaches — generally are not getting raises unless they have multi-year contracts that call for increases.
In other action Thursday, the athletics board approved spending:
- $750,000 to install new chairback seats throughout the baseball stadium, Foley Field, which currently has a combination of chairback and bleacher-type seats.
- $500,000 to create an academic hall of fame that will honor athletes’ scholastic accomplishments.
- $200,000 to address erosion problems near Gate 9 of Sanford Stadium.
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88 comments Add your comment
Lance
May 27th, 2010
9:23 am
who cares — Win games!
dawgfan
May 27th, 2010
9:29 am
who care bout academics uga is a football school and mark richt will beat the gaytuds and the bugs and will the national chamipoinship becuas e the sec is the best cionference in the world and no conference is better not the acc not the big 10 not the nfl but we wont win the national chamipionship if were spending all the monmey on school i never went to college but i tunred out alright i have a job with no college and uga is a football school.
How much?!
May 27th, 2010
9:31 am
$750K for 3,291 seats at Foley Field? Talk about the cheap seats.
Wrecker
May 27th, 2010
9:33 am
As much as I like to poke fun at UGA as a rival fan, this is a very admirable action by the UGA athletic association.
learn something everyday
May 27th, 2010
9:34 am
dawgfan: I hope you were being funny. Otherwise you may well be the most pure definition of uneducated trash I have ever encountered. I can just imagine the missing teeth and yellow pit stains on your moth eaten wife beater now. Don’t get made and spill your natty light all over your keyboard, it is what it is.
Nasty Nate
May 27th, 2010
9:39 am
UGA is the second most profitable athletic association in the land behind only Texas. Only giving $2 million to ACADEMIA a year is a disgrace. Teachers are getting laid off and Football coaches are getting raises. If UGA is struggling with their huge money making athletic department i really feel bad for the little schools out there. Where does education fit in to this. Oh yeah, who cares. Win games!
Old Dawg
May 27th, 2010
9:40 am
This is a great way for the Athletic Association to prove it’s part of the overall university. I’m extremely proud of Damon Evans for his leadership and vision.
Congrats to everyone who supports this move!
TDR
May 27th, 2010
9:40 am
What’s wrong with Natty Light? I prefer Milwaukee’s Best, but still.
Concrete Pete
May 27th, 2010
9:41 am
Funny that Adams thanked Damon for doing something he was forced (by Adams) to do.
Russ, the Temporary Mascot
May 27th, 2010
9:43 am
Well, the sun doesn’t shine on every dog’s a$$ all the time. UGA just paid an assistant football coach $750,000 to come save the program and here we are with no mascot heading into the season. A little money for academics sounds reasonable to me. Maybe they can hire 10 teachers for what they pay an assistant coach. What kind of school paints a little dog’s a$$?
learn something everyday
May 27th, 2010
9:44 am
nothing wrong with the beast, but there is something wrong with natty
Go dawgs
May 27th, 2010
9:46 am
I feel sorry for you because you have not encountered much trash. It is a lot of fun visting walmarts in North Georgia and Tennessee. Something to be said about Social Darwinism.
Dawglasville
May 27th, 2010
9:47 am
Those who don’t care about academics are the ones who did not attend. A fan is a fan. The more the merrier. I’m just saying that is the most logical explanation for the division.
learn something everyday
May 27th, 2010
9:50 am
I have a brilliant idea for Anheuser-Busch, fortify Natty Light with Flouride! I’m gonna go pitch this idea immediately. Dentists won’t loose out, trash doesn’t go in to them even to get a tooth pulled anway, strings and door knobs work just fine.
And go dawgs, encountered plenty, just unusual to find one with an internet connection…. but always fun to razz em, something everyone can jump on board with.
Go dawgs
May 27th, 2010
9:51 am
Athletic association owes it to the school. They do not owe the school anything. Should they donate money? Of course. The football program already gives back to the school in so many ways. One being, free marketing and pub.
TurkDawg
May 27th, 2010
9:52 am
Classy move by Evans, While most Universities in the country are sending money to athletics its nice to see some money move the other way around. UGA is suffering now and every cent will help
Brad
May 27th, 2010
9:53 am
hey Nate..the next time 90,000 people show up to see students take a math test let me know.
PTC DAWG
May 27th, 2010
9:54 am
Good move by Evans…it’s easy to spot the rival fans on this blog…you guys keep the humor rolling…
dawgfan
May 27th, 2010
9:55 am
no go dawgs your wrong without the football teams there would be no universiti of georgia and thats a fact that you cant argue with becuase its an aboslute fact academics are not important i don’t see thousands of people or uga classrooms on the tv but i sure do see the football games with the full stadium.
Go dawgs
May 27th, 2010
9:55 am
Go and donate Christmas gifts to the poor, wait, the less fortunate. I saw nicer Televisions then I own. Yet,to Have seen a trailer without a dish on the top.
David Polelock
May 27th, 2010
9:55 am
Learn something everyday, Today, learn the difference between loose and lose!
Damon
May 27th, 2010
9:57 am
I have to pay back that raise somehow! $2 million is a nice start!
Staring Captain Willie Martinez in 20,000 Arm Tackles Between The Hedges
May 27th, 2010
9:59 am
$500,000 for an academic hall of fame
and we wonder why the academic program is going through tough financial times
Seriously how about allow 5,000 to 10,000 more students in for more revenue because I know plenty of parents kids who cant get in
Oh, cut out the wasteful spending on things like an academic hall of fame
Go dawgs
May 27th, 2010
9:59 am
There would be a uga without the football team. Would it be as popular? Heck no. It would be a Georgia state or a Kenn. state. But wait, those schools have either added football or will because of the positives it will bring to the school.
Dawghater
May 27th, 2010
10:00 am
What Academics! He might want to make his athletes take real degrees. “Hey, I grad u at ed from UGA with a Recreational & Housing Degree. I know how to rec re ate and house myself, but I played ball at UGA!”
Reality Bites
May 27th, 2010
10:01 am
Georgia Tech is the only school from the state of Georgia to be punished by the NCAA for academic fraud! YES! Georgia Tech was guilty of academic fraud in athletics!!! Georgia Tech just recently finished serving an NCAA probation for changing 19 athletes grades in order to keep them eligible to Eleven of the athletes were 1st string football players!
Georgia Tech: When it comes to academics and sports has a history of cheating. That is a fact!
Go dawgs
May 27th, 2010
10:02 am
add more online courses and degrees
Casey
May 27th, 2010
10:04 am
I am not enrolled at Georgia, but always wanted to go, but I think it’s a great thing to add back to the academics side of things, cause without that, we wouldn’t have college football or college sports, just NFL overpaid egos. Like I read earlier, Georgia is the second most revenue productive institution in the country, so $2 million isn’t anything to them, and I believe more should be done like this. Especially considering you have to make the grades to remain on the teams. I think three quarters of a million for seats at Foley Field is a little much, but if their making the money, they have the right to spend it.
PMC
May 27th, 2010
10:11 am
and this is just another reason that strong athletic departments help academic institutions…..
Go dawgs
May 27th, 2010
10:12 am
Welfare school. It is great the athletic association is giving money, but it doesn’t matter if it “isn’t anything”. It was a great gift, end of story. Should more be done during “good” times? Maybe better planning would have helped.
catlady
May 27th, 2010
10:21 am
That merit award is funny. You see, almost every single “Presidential Scholar” gets HOPE to pay tuition, and comes from the very highest quartile of parental income!
One, two, free, fo, fi, them der Gator don't take no jive!
May 27th, 2010
10:24 am
I think it’s GREAT that the AA is in a position to be able to help the university. Anyone who says otherwise is just an idiot. That is what the alumni and boosters would want done, I’m sure. The AA is in a postion to be able to do this because they have been able to put a quality product on the field and generate donations. Damon just needs to remember that. Mediocre teams year after year and the donations will start fading fast!
he's like a Fox
May 27th, 2010
10:25 am
reality bites…..how many points is a three point shot worth? shut up! you redneck dummy
Emily
May 27th, 2010
10:26 am
@Nasty Nate: I’m with you, friend. The university was chartered in 1785, and the Dawgs joined the SEC about 150 years later. I think they’ve hacked it without a football team. I will never forgive the AA at Georgia for busting students for parking in the parking lots they pay for. Many times did I put myself in danger, parking my car across campus on Game weekends to avoid getting it towed.
You do not know fear until you are a 18-year-old girl walking across a college campus alone at night after getting off work, getting propositioned by mobs of good old boys sitting on tailgates drinking 40s with their friends – all because your school rented out your safe, well-lit parking spot to the highest bidder. A university is an institution of education and should making student safety a priority – but oh no, not on Game Day. Just Win.
Go Jackets
May 27th, 2010
10:27 am
UGA’s operations should be consolidated with GSU and the entirety of the school should be located in Atlanta. It would save the State a considerable amount of money to not continue to operate two schools that are functionally no different. The football games can be moved to the Georgia Dome. In the interest of satisfying fans from both schools, the “G” logo can be kept, but the uniforms should be primarily purple (GSU colors). UGA the dog can be replaced on the sidelines with a live panther. This shouldn’t be a big deal because the dog is dead anyway.
You Ain't-Know Gaily Whacker
May 27th, 2010
10:29 am
That’s a lot of Coppertone for Richt, and bail money for the athletes with a DUI.
Dawg Fan
May 27th, 2010
10:34 am
The earlier post from “dawgfan” is a jealous bug (probably Saint Simons).
Timmy Dog
May 27th, 2010
10:48 am
Reality Bites, do you have to be reminded of all the trouble we got in for academic fraud for hiding athletes in Remedial Studies under Vince Dooley? Stop embarrassing Dog fans. And as for this being a noble effort by Evans, he was forced to do it by Adams. This is not that big of a deal and we should be giving more to the school with what we make. Go Dogs! Bring home the title from Hoover!
Staring Captain Willie Martinez in 20,000 Arm Tackles Between The Hedges
May 27th, 2010
10:53 am
Attention season ticket holders
The University of Georgia would like to announce that donations will be raised for the 2011 season and thereafter.
Due to the missuse of funds from the academic side of the institution the athletic association has been called upon to lend a hand to spend more of your hard earned money on things like an academic hall of fame and a large salary for President Adams who wasted time trying to oust Dooley instead worrying about the funding of the academic side of his school.
An additional $1500 per season ticket will be asked for. And though we cant get our act together and learn to beat FL, $500 of the $1500 will be spent on motivational uniforms in the hopes that there will be 1 game in this decade we will pull out a win against them.
Sincerely
Athletic Director Evans
Gary
May 27th, 2010
10:54 am
Got to love the bees on here. UGA AA does something good for the university as a whole and all the bugs can do is show their true colors.
Hey Go Jackets – maybe the state needs to consolidate Tech and GSU together – since you are so close in proximity – and let you merge your athletic departments as well. Maybe then you can fill up that 55,000 seat joke of a stadium you have.
dawgfan
May 27th, 2010
10:57 am
hahaha thats a good one gary those bugs cant even fill up that stadium i thought they were enginers why did they build a stadium there its so close to the highway and theres no parking lot.
Fair and Balanced
May 27th, 2010
11:01 am
Teachers used to be paid poorly I’m told. According to the distribution of this AD gift – they get paid pretty dog gone good! Of course, so do the coaches at UGA.
Blackberry Cobbler
May 27th, 2010
11:18 am
99.9% of students, faculty, and staff have not benefited one penny from this $2 million or the $6 million already pledged.
The money goes toward pet projects that benefit very few. Meanwhile tuition goes up and faculty and staff have not had pay raises in 3 years.
Go dawgs
May 27th, 2010
11:25 am
Coaches are paid free market without tenure and freedom to teach what they want. If they do teach something that their plays fail on sat. then the coaches get fired.
Go dawgs
May 27th, 2010
11:29 am
Imagine money given that does not benefit everyone. That does not ever happen.
sturn
May 27th, 2010
11:31 am
Nasty Nate, Speaking of academics, can you read? 2 million on top of the 6 million already pledged.
jack
May 27th, 2010
11:32 am
Why is timmy tebags photo still up on the homepage? Can someone at AJC please take that off?
damngooddawg!
May 27th, 2010
11:33 am
Blackberry Cobbler, where do you get your inside info? Are you Jan Kemp risen from the dead or something?
Go Jackets, The University of Georgia was a well established university in Athens when the north avenue campus location was a …. well there was probably nothing there but a few hogs, cows and fleas and bugs…come to think of it, nothing’s really changed.
jesse james
May 27th, 2010
11:36 am
Old Nate – It is like the late Coach Erk Russell said, “He never saw a pep rally to build a library”. I agree if you don’t have students you have no college athletics and I agree academics should come first and it is great to see athletics team up with academics. Sounds like a winning combination.
Apple Pie
May 27th, 2010
11:40 am
Blackberry Cobbler makes a great point
So does Captain Willie Martinez
UGA uses money to want to build an Academic Hall of Fame. No one even goes to the sports hall of fame in Macon and they have been considering to close it. You would think that would be considered before wanting to build an Academic Hall of Fame
And Adams wastes time ousting Dooley
Thats two examples of pet projects as Blackberry states is why the academics department needs money
Time for Adams to leave
jesse james
May 27th, 2010
11:45 am
Blackberry Cobbler – How did you get that name? I don’t care if even .1% benefited that is .1% that did. Once again you are someone that I believe really don’t know what percentage has had any benefit from this. You are attacking the wrong ones. You need to go after the govenor, the lottery organization, the group that approves all these new schools being built when you can’t pay teachers to teach in them.
jesse james
May 27th, 2010
11:46 am
Apple Pie – Darn you’ll are making me hungry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blackberry Cobbler
May 27th, 2010
11:47 am
$1 million dollars will be used to endow 4 professorships. $250K is the minimum needed to endow a professorship– that’s not salary, that’s $250K set aside to draw interest from which maybe $10K per year can be used.
The other $1 million will be used on scholarships that will benefit only a few of the 32,000 students on campus.
This same money could be used to give faculty and staff a one-time pay raise and/or give students a tuition break……………….. but, no, it’s going to go to the pet projects to benefit a very select few.
With this $2 million and the $6 million already given, 99.9% of the University has not seen one red cent of it and never will.
Go dawgs
May 27th, 2010
11:49 am
Who cares if they build a Academic Hall of Fame. Nobody seems to mind when buildings are built on campus for diffrent groups. Will not name any but plenty of money has been spent on building for all different groups. I think it is great that the AA gave money I believe at 0% interest. They are giving away free money with no strings attached. If it is too expensive to go to UGA then do not go or wait to you can afford it.
Apple Pie
May 27th, 2010
11:59 am
Jesse James
Your last sentence speaks volumes.
Great point
I would like to add that beg the government who want these new schools built and other new and wastefull crap is the problem too.
jesse james
May 27th, 2010
12:03 pm
Apple Pie – I agree with you. There is so much wasted out there it is unreal. Hey, I can’t take it anymore, I got go get something to eat.
Pi$$onaDAWG
May 27th, 2010
12:04 pm
RICH UGA FOOTBALL gives a Dime to Education! What a Joke! If the school didn’t exist then there would be no Football. UGA the perfect example of why Education in this state is a JOKE. Smart enough to tote the rock but to stupid to tote the BOOK.
Apple Pie
May 27th, 2010
12:07 pm
Blackberry Cobbler
Thats another good point as well.
I would like to add if our government learned to spend the high tax rate that we are being taxed at everyone could have healthcare provided by the government and other things
I do not endorse government healthcare because it doesnt work Im just giving an example that somewhere along the lines we need smart leaders in business and government who need to learn how to spend wisely and not wastefully.
UGA has to much money going through it to be talking about needing money. Adams obviously doesnt know how to run an organization
He has been too busy wanting be NCAA commisioner and getting rid of Dooly
Go dawgs
May 27th, 2010
12:14 pm
If there was no football at UGA, then those players would play somewhere else. UGA giving millions of free money is the perfect example of why education is a joke. Really? That is your perfect example? People expect handouts and to tell you how much to handout.
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May 27th, 2010
12:14 pm
[...] the University of Georgia Athletic Association’s board of directors unanimously approved an immediate $2 million gift to be given to the University.That money is in addition to $6 million over three years that AD Damon Evans pledged to the school [...]
Joke U
May 27th, 2010
12:15 pm
Maybe they will use some of those funds to hire classroom auditors to ensure the professors actually teach and give tests that are rigorous instead of the Jim Harrick, Jr. model.
Bobbie
May 27th, 2010
12:21 pm
Awesome move by the athletic association! I’m not a DAWGS fan but this surely speaks highly of the total program at UGA.
Gary
May 27th, 2010
12:29 pm
Maybe if we made kids pay for school in Georgia rather than getting HOPE money for tuition and used the HOPE money to pay teachers and build better science and research facilities we would see better benefits to the state. Giving someone a free ride never helps them. Making someone work for what they want and need prepares them for life. They HOPE should be used for buiding the best academic institutions in the South, not overcrowding state institutions with a bunch of highschool kids with a B average. Last I heard, we do not have an enrollment problem at any of the top schools so why are we subsidizing so many students to go to schools that cannot support the growth. Let the kids and their parents pay for school just like your parents did when they went to school. You can always have acedmic scholarships for children who trully need the money to go to school. But I am tired of parents driving brand new cars living in big houses traveling all over the place having the lottery fund their kids education when they probably don’t even by lottery tickets. Meanwhile, the Janitor at the local highschool just bought 10 scratch and loose tickets to put the upper middle class kids through college. It is ironic. The rich subsidise public education with their property taxes while sending kids to private school and in return the poor and lower middle class pay for the private school kids college tuition with lottery tickets.
dawgfan
May 27th, 2010
12:36 pm
gary thats right the lottery should go to pay for georgia football if we did not half to pay for those scholarship with could hire bill belecheck to be the offensive cordinator and we could hire nick saban to eb the defensive cordinator because everyone wnats to come to georgia but we would half to pay them which we could use lottery mioney.
Kiffin is my Hero
May 27th, 2010
12:38 pm
The university should not let more students in and the fact that you know many parents whose children could not qualify means that they should have pushed little suzy a little harder. If you don’t make it into UGA then go to Southern or Auburn.
GT BIGfab
May 27th, 2010
12:43 pm
dawg fan yuo are loca. belechik would note leeve thee patriots for no UGA. we gote the besstest coach in the world in PJ. HE is my hero and wil bring us a natioal championchip and ten I wil show you.GO BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dawgfan
May 27th, 2010
12:45 pm
gt bigfab you are wrong any coach would jump on the opportunity to coach the dawgs because the dawgs are the best team in the world no team can beat the dawgs thats why the dawgs have beat the bugs every year for the last 100 year the bugs shouldn’t even show up becuase their going to lose and paul johnson is hitler and eats babies.
Billy O
May 27th, 2010
12:59 pm
I believe the kids have to earn the Hope money……it’s not just given to them. It has already been proven in this state that giving teachers more money only does one thing…..gives teachers more money.
1eyedJack
May 27th, 2010
1:09 pm
Will this finally shut up $750K?
Terry
May 27th, 2010
1:20 pm
Eligibility
To receive HOPE Scholarship funding, students must:
1.Meet one of the following academic requirements:
■Graduate from a HOPE-eligible high school with a 3.0 grade point average for college preparatory diploma or a 3.2 grade point average for other diploma types. For more details, click here.
■Complete a HOPE eligible home study program with a 3.0 grade point average. For more details, click here.
■For all Georgia high school graduates who begin their high school careers during or after the 2008-2009 school year must graduate with a 3.0 grade point average. For more details, click here.
■Graduate from an ineligible high school, complete an ineligible home study program, or earn a GED, and score in the national composite 85th percentile or higher on the SAT or ACT tests. For more details, click here.
■Graduate from an ineligible high school or complete an ineligible home study program, and then earn a 3.0 grade point average on 30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours of college degree-level coursework. This option allows for payment of the first 30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours after they are taken. For more details, click here.
■Earn a 3.0 grade point average at the college level on degree coursework after attempting 30, 60, or 90 semesters hours or 45, 90, or 135 quarter hours, regardless of high school graduation status. For more details, click here.
2.Be enrolled as a degree-seeking student at an eligible public or private college or university or technical college in Georgia. View a list of HOPE eligible colleges and universities .
3.Meet HOPE’s Georgia residency requirements.
4.Meet HOPE’s U.S. citizenship or eligible non-citizen requirements.
5.Be in compliance with Selective Service registration requirements.
6.Be in compliance with the Georgia Drug-Free Postsecondary Education Act of 1990. A student may be ineligible for HOPE payment if he or she has been convicted for committing certain felony offenses involving marijuana, controlled substances, or dangerous drugs.
7.Not be in default or owe a refund on a student financial aid program.
8.Maintain satisfactory academic progress as defined by the college.
Pi$$onaDAWG
May 27th, 2010
1:39 pm
Students EARN HOPE? Some maybe. You have seen the test scores that the Ga. teachers fixed right? Many are given grades that don’t prove how smart they really are. Why are there only 2679(09-10 enrollment) African American students at UGA with all that HOPE money flowing? Wait they can’t play a sport so Black students need not apply unless you can play a sport.
Old Dawg
May 27th, 2010
2:08 pm
Go Jackets: If you want to merge two schools, why not Tech and GSU? Since no one attends games at Tech and, based on horrible attendance GSU sporting events, there probably won’t be any fans at Panther football games, so two nothings might actually add up to a little something.
As for academics, GSU and UGA do have similar programs but their missions are entirely different. GSU is primarily a commuter school for folks in the metro Atlanta area. UGA is the landmark university of the state and one of the oldest state universities in the country. It has dorms etc, representing an on-campus setting many folks still enjoy and revere.
Add Liberal Arts, Business and similar programs to Tech and it would attract a larger percentage of students, even if they have to wear body armor around campus to avoid muggings, rapes, shootings etc.
Combining purple, old gold and black for teams colors would make fans puke, which they usually do when Tech loses to UGA, Iowa and just about everyone else, or don’t see anyone in the stands, which would save a lot of money on pepto bismal etc.
You know what I’m saying.
Pi$$onaDAWG
May 27th, 2010
2:14 pm
Old dawg: LANDMARK school that doesn’t have the same % of Black students that live in the state. LANDMARK where the fans leave their trash after they get trashed & pay to watch the few Black students TOET the ROC. HAHAHAH landmark for sure. Landmark for the Old White Boy Attitude. A bunch of fake blonde Bimbos and drunk white boys painting a DAWGS butt white. HAHHAHA that says it all.
Go dawgs
May 27th, 2010
2:34 pm
What are some state flagship schools in the South that do have the same black % students as the state population. I believe UGA has done a great job in football of surpassing the state % of blacks. Please give UGA credit for that! I guess maybe we need to include Hispanics. I guess you will be slamming UGA for not having same % of hispanic students. I guess you would say Hispanics good enough to cut UGA grass but not go to school. That was attempt at your humor.
jesse james
May 27th, 2010
2:39 pm
Enter your comments here
MB
May 27th, 2010
2:47 pm
Classy move Damon….
Reality Bites…..Jan Kemp, Jim Harrick Jr, etc. Shut your worthless piehole.
Pi$$onaDAWG
May 27th, 2010
3:28 pm
dawgfan UGA has an Agri department and YES UGA has COTTON to be picked & raised. You know just like that COW college called AUBURN. I have Bee Hives(funny cause i am a Tech fan) and UGA is the Best Info for Bee Keepers. Kenith S. Delaplane is a wealth of knowledge and an asset to UGA and the Beekeepers of Georgia. I don’t don’t hate uga I dislike many of their football fans and the fact that the school doesn’t help the TOTAL population of Georgia get a cahnce to attend.
Sven Ottke
May 27th, 2010
4:03 pm
Academic Hall of Fame for UGA athletes?????????????????????????? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. That will be a spacious building. Kesler, Hoage, Stinchcomb and that’s it. Is that some kind of bad joke and waste of funds? You have to be kidding me!!!
pcsjax1
May 27th, 2010
5:59 pm
Well Mark, “How would you like your job today?” Can we get you more assistant coaches and a “Powerchair” to ride around the sports complex like Bowden? You just name it and we will do it. Hey don’t worry if you average 9 or 10 wins and don’t win any championships like LSU, Florida and Alabama, it’s all good! Can we bend over and pucker up? You could ride around on the Powerchair, speak “God” and talk “jesus” and pocket the money like Bowden.No wait a minute, that would be more like Jim and Tammie Bakker and the PTL Club, Jerry Fallwell and Jimmy Swaggert wouldn’t it? Ok, well how would like your job today?
Damon is powerhungry?
May 28th, 2010
7:45 am
Damon is positioning himself for leverage here in the hierarchy. He just bought Adams support if he needs to make a change. He better show Richt respect, the future at UGA Football looks strong with current staff, current players, new facilities and recruiting class. All largely in thanks to Coach Richt.
james T. Kirk
May 28th, 2010
8:07 am
How else are the puppies going to pay for all the new Hummers and Esclades for their athletes?
I'm now convinced some of you can't read
May 28th, 2010
8:46 am
Will Captain Willie and the others please re-read the ENTIRE posting. In it, you’ll see that the Athletic Association is the one building an academic hall of fame, to “honor athletes’ scholastic accomplishments.”
The $2 million is going to help keep professors employed and fund scholarships… not for Michael Adams’ pet-projects. With the number of teachers let go, or about to be let go, its going to be impossible for students to get the classes they need in order to graduate. So, saving some of their jobs is certainly welcome on the student end.
I honestly hope that you morons didn’t graduate from UGA… I’d have to go out back and burn my hard-earned diploma.
I'm now convinced some of you can't read
May 28th, 2010
8:54 am
Academics should always come first. UGA would still exist without the Dawgs… but the Dawgs sure wouldn’t exist without UGA.
No, we should not allow 5,000 to 10,000 more students in. There are already too many students as is. Class sizes are increasing and its near impossible to take the classes you need to take in order to graduate.
If anything, raise the admission standards and vault Georgia ahead of Florida in terms of academics. Even if they’re not students, the blonde bimbos and fratheads from Gwinnett and Cobb will still drive daddy’s Land Rover down for the games on Saturdays.
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May 28th, 2010
11:20 pm
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Barack Dawg
May 29th, 2010
12:39 pm
To much damn whining…Blackberry Cobbler – you should have chosen a different profession if you don’t like the situation or how much you get paid. You should have started out young and developed skills to play sports if you wanted to make what they make. Sorry – Teaching does not pay as well. The Athletic Association raises money to cover sports and the costs that go with it.
The same is true in high school. My son plays football for his high school team, yet the parents and booster club foot the bill for everything. The school contributes nothing to the program but takes all the ticket sales from home games. The difference in colleges like UGA is they are on a bigger scale. When I was in college, I had plenty of professors who were not worth the money I had to pay in tuition. I still had to pay. Why should a professor who is interested in 2 things – tenure and publishing get paid more when he is not interested in teaching. I buy my season tickets and contribute my money to the athletic association. That has nothing to do with the school, they don’t pay the coaches salaries, so you and the crew should shut the hell up with your whining.
This conversation is really old and really pointless. The Athletic Association performed a nice gesture. They could have just provided a hand gesture.
Barack Dawg
May 29th, 2010
12:41 pm
James T Kirk – must suck being an insect fan. You guys don’t sell enough tickets in off years when you play in Athens to pay your players anything, hence your recruiting. It would not do any good to pay them anyway because it would only be stolen by other players and students on the North Avenue Trade School campus.
hellraiser
July 1st, 2010
11:59 am
Will UGA have to give some of it back to pay for a top lawyer regarding his recent DUI????????? Just sayin…..
JaydenWI
August 21st, 2010
8:30 pm
I’ve just found this site get-a-blackberry.com, can I really get a blackberry for free?.
Jayden