Take a look at UGA athletes’ spring semester grades, team by team
ST. SIMONS ISLAND – Georgia’s Athletic Board receives reports not just about the Bulldogs’ on-field and financial performances, but also about their academic performance.
Contained in the information provided to board members at this week’s meetings here was the spring semester grade point average of every UGA sports team.
The men’s and women’s teams with the highest GPAs? Swimming, in both cases.
The men’s and women’s teams with the lowest GPAs? Basketball, in both cases.
Overall, Georgia athletes had a 2.98 GPA for spring semester (2.82 for the men and 3.14 for the women). Football came in at 2.76.
Here’s the team-by-team breakdown for spring semester 2010, with teams listed in order of GPA:
MEN’S SPORTS
Sport # of students Semester GPA
Swimming 24 3.21
Cross-country 15 3.05
Golf 11 2.89
Track 48 2.86
Baseball 39 2.77
Football 121 2.76
Tennis 9 2.71
Basketball 15 2.54
Total 267* 2.82
WOMEN’S SPORTS
Sport # of students Semester GPA
Swimming 27 3.40
Tennis 8 3.364
Gymnastics 15 3.362
Volleyball 10 3.23
Cross-country 20 3.22
Soccer 27 3.21
Equestrian 58 3.14
Track 49 3.04
Golf 10 3.03
Softball 22 2.99
Basketball 12 2.73
Total 238* 3.14
ALL SPORTS SUMMARY (men and women)
Sport # of students Semester GPA
Total 505* 2.98
* – Cross-country athletes are also counted in track but not counted twice in the total # or total GPA.
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91 comments Add your comment
Dawg Fan 10000
May 28th, 2010
9:51 pm
Chicks are smarter than the guys. Only in the books.
sponsorAMutt
May 28th, 2010
9:59 pm
how does one amass such preposterously low GPAs even at U[sic]GA.. think about it: athletes get unparalleled favoritism from U[sic]GA faculty since academics are nonexistent, you can take classes like history of nascar and banjo science, and mostly your competing against fellow dolts. factor in these caveats and it would be approaching the zero bound at most real schools. maybe they got extra credit for every jail hour served?
UGA Faithful
May 28th, 2010
10:00 pm
2.98 is a respectable GPA (nearly a B) especially since not all of these atheletes take “cake” classes (since ive had quite a few in my upper level courses).
XL Dawg
May 28th, 2010
10:00 pm
Second, Seems that if the overall GPA is higher than the school average its pretty good.
UGA Faithful
May 28th, 2010
10:00 pm
where do you attend sponsorAMutt?
Jim
May 28th, 2010
10:03 pm
How many “atheletes” are in your spelling class, Faithful?
UGA Faithful
May 28th, 2010
10:08 pm
you mean in my business classes in Terry, one of the most well respected public business schools. most of you criticize these “athletes” without ever seeing them in the classroom…very cool of you.
Reality
May 28th, 2010
10:10 pm
I’d like to see the course that they took. Also, I’d like to see ‘core subject’ gpa – like science, math, english, social studies. Who cares about PE, recreation classes, etc.?
sponsorAMutt
May 28th, 2010
10:12 pm
i go to U[sic]GA, too faithful. i don’t see how it’s possible for anyone to amass a GPA under 3.8, particularly for athletes for the reasons mentioned above (not to mention grade inflation). biz school is a joke as you get a better education reading The Economist, and Terry which is supposedly the flagship department of this “school” is not even in the top 25.
Doc Lucky
May 28th, 2010
10:12 pm
hahahaha…2.98 for: How many points do you get for a three point basket? Outside the Vet school at UGA no one takes them seriously, and why should they?
70 Dawg
May 28th, 2010
10:14 pm
Of course are going to criticize these averages. From his slanted criticism and total predictability, I would guess that Sponsor…is from that hallowed institution on North Ave. Of course he was an aeronautical engineer, probably retiring from NASA. We are totally underwhelmed. Bet he can’t throw a football 10 yards and is so jealous of our athletic programs that he spends all his time pouting about UGA’s dominance.
70 Dawg
May 28th, 2010
10:15 pm
should read “Of course the haters….
David Polelock
May 28th, 2010
10:16 pm
You can make fun of our courses if you want but Turf management is hard. You have to no when to plant and how many seeds and how deep they go and other things to but I forgot them.
harely
May 28th, 2010
10:16 pm
Mr. Mutt
Congratulations. You have won ass hole of the year. I have a best friend whose son plays on the football team. He has a 3.9 GPA and is majoring in biomedical engineering. I’m sure that is greek to you. Where did you and your illigitamate kids attend college. By the way, if you ever get bored, come to North Georgia for a good old fashioned butt whipping….I f you can get someone to show you the way,
UGA Faithful
May 28th, 2010
10:18 pm
so i guess i must be an idiot for having a 3.34 GPA. http://www.terry.uga.edu/about/ while not all of the programs are in the top 25, 5 out of 7 undergraduate are and 4 out of 7 graduate programs are. this GPA they are reporting is an average, it doesnt take into account range. i will give you that there are some athletes are in the low 2s but there are also ones in the high 3s.
Amazing
May 28th, 2010
10:23 pm
Can we conclude from this that swimming is smarter than basketball?
Barkin'Dog
May 28th, 2010
10:30 pm
sponsorAMutt –
Please take another look at YOUR writing and tell us why you’re commenting on scholastics at the COLLEGE level. (Notice, I wrote ‘you’re,’ as in ‘you are’)
Redd
May 28th, 2010
10:34 pm
@UGAFaithful
Please dont entertain these idiots on this site. They are miserable and do nothing all day but talk bad about people who they dont know to try and make themselves feel important. The fact of the matter is not all athletes are dumb. Some do take their education seriously. UGA probably doesnt have many Myron Rolle’s but they dont have many Maurice Clarett’s either. Please people grow up.
Tired Of It
May 28th, 2010
10:36 pm
Amazing@10:23pm…, what we can conclude from this, is that all the traveling during midweek, really has an effect on basketball players gpa. all of these other sports, except for baseball/softball, have their games played on the weekends. which probably gives them more time in the classroom. i would also say that the basketball teams have less time for homework with all the flying around the conference they do during midweek. but, that just my opinion.
sponsorAMutt
May 28th, 2010
10:38 pm
I oh et awl 2 hoeked onn fahnecks
amazing
May 28th, 2010
10:44 pm
Tired of It,. I actually like your answer. I really don’t think the average person realizes how much time an athlete puts into the sport side of his/her responsibilities. It is like having a hard, stressful job, in addition to the classroom and studies.
PalmBeacher
May 28th, 2010
11:00 pm
They’d all be headed home after 1 semester on North Avenue.
PalmBeacher
May 28th, 2010
11:02 pm
I worked with a guy that played football at UGA in the 80’s and he said academically he didn’t have to show up for sh!t…as long as he showed up for practice…..
BuLLdawg
May 28th, 2010
11:04 pm
Timmy Tebow
Urban Meyer stepson.
Greek tebowiós, meaning the “Anointed One”
Hebrew-derived “Messiah”.
Jorts – a pair of jeans cut off at the knee to imitate shorts – are a staple of modern collegiate football for Florida Crocodiles’ fans.
The Georgia Bulldogs beat the Florida Crocodiles MORE in football WITH Timmy Tebow than we did before him in the Coach Richt Era.
1-4 UGA over Florida without Timmy Tebow Coach Richt Era
1-3 UGA over Florida with Timmy Tebow Coach Richt Era.
Florida # 2 All-Time Standings Fulmer Cup
Alabama # 4 All-Time Standings Fulmer Cup
Georgia # 5 All-Time Standings Fulmer Cup
Tennessee is only # 13 All-Time Standings Fulmer Cup
Hey, we are Top 5 in the Nation in football at something May 28, 2010.
Fulmer Cup Started 2006.
We actually are better this year; we are # 6 Fulmer Cup Standings 2010 Season.
(to-date)
Stay tuned.
Nearest SEC competitor to # 1 SEC UGA is drum roll now Florida Crocodiles in 16th place 2010 Season to-date tied with the infamous Tennessee vols.
9th place finish for Georgia 2006 (regular season did not count)
9th place finish for Georgia 2007 (regular season did not count)
7th place finish for Georgia 2008 (regular season did not count)
Top 10 not only 3 years in a row, but # 4 All-Time Fulmer Cup.
Way to go Coach Richt.
We are actually slightly ahead of our usual standards in the Coach Richt Era getting Arrested / Suspended this being May 28, 2010 with UGA already # 6 for this 2010 Season (to-date.)
And, of course, we lead The SEC.
While we are # 9 in The SEC in Graduation Rates football 2010 NCAA study.
I do appreciate you asking for URL Links, available upon request.
Especially I like when you say I made it up and cite exactly specifically what you state it is that I did make up.
Since The Good Lord knows, I cannot make up NOTHING. (I would say something else.) I have no imagination.
40 Arrests / Suspensions since February 2007, last 3 years
I loved that one with 2 of you saying I made that up.
Have fun with that URL Link ?
And, then there was RED DOG 77 who stated this morning at 2 am May 28, 2010 that Coach Richt’s 9-Year Era here at UGA is the MOST SUCCESSFUL EVER IN THE HISTORY OF UGA FOOTBALL
When BOTH Wally Butts and Vince Dooley had BETTER 9-Year Stretches themselves.
They NEITHER were # 9 in the SEC in NCAA Graduation Rates either.
Nor, # 4 All-Time in Fulmer Cup.
And, you said I could not provide you PROOF that UGA Football is one of the worst in the nation at Arrests / Suspensions.
I have provided with Fulmer Cup now, twice URL Links proving that since the 1st proof was the article in the Orlando newspapers with UGA the dead last worst listed, which included such schools notorious in this blog for Arrests / Suspensions such as Florida Crocodiles, Tennessee vols, and Florida State Creminoles. By the way, UGA was WORSE than ALL of them.
WE ARE FLYING SO HIGH
Dear faithful
May 28th, 2010
11:09 pm
please put down the UGA kool-aid. Terry is a middle-tier program. US News has you at 59th
http://www.terry.uga.edu/news/rankings/
As a former D-II baseball player, I can tell you that the baseball team is missing a ton of classes this summer. The makeup tests, extra credit assignments, and free tutoring (which other students don’t get) are built to keep these guys in school. Not necessarily to teach them anything.
Salty Dawg
May 28th, 2010
11:10 pm
Let’s face it – most student athletes lean more toward the athlete than the student. I’m not saying that they don’t take real classes because I believe most programs, knowing how diligent the NCAA is about monitoring such things, actually make their players take real classes. But these aren’t always the most intellectual kids in the student body. Nobody expects them to be. And on top of that, they have play their respective sports, practice, work out, study playbooks, etc. I don’t know if any of the critics here ever played a college level sport, but these young men and women typically work their asses off. And on top of that, they have to study and go to class and try to live some kind of life. Let’s not forget that these are kids, most of them 18 to 21 years old. Regardless of what school/team you are a fan of or which one you hate, try to keep that in mind. You are spending you spare time on a blog slandering kids. Nice work! What were you doing when you were that age? Could you even come close to managing the responsibilities that these kids have? As someone mentioned, an average is just that. It means that as a whole, they carry about a B average. Some are A students, some are C students. Some are engineering or pre-med majors, some are journalism majors. And by the way, that is considered to be good or above average (a C is generally considered average, an A excellent, a D below average, an F poor). I don’t care what school you look at, you will find the same scenario. Some of the kids playing sports could have gotten in on their academic merits and some probably couldn’t have. Some are average or better when compared to the rest of the student body and some are worse. It’s the same at Tech. It’s the same at Harvard.
Salty Dawg
May 28th, 2010
11:20 pm
By the way, people bitching about how athletes are allowed to miss class and make up exams must not realize that EVERY school has a policy that allows ANY student to miss class and make up missed work for ANY school approved activity. That means any student in any club or group, academic or otherwise, that makes arrangements with the school ahead of time is allowed to do the same thing. And beyond that, most professors don’t really care if you attend class as long as participation isn’t a critical element of the course. When I was in school I avoided professors who required attendance like the plague because I preferred to learn on my own and just show up for exams.
Bill Belichick
May 28th, 2010
11:28 pm
SponsorMUTT, u r such a tool. What a pleasure it would be to meet someone like u……. Webster is to dictionary, like tool is to you…Can’t wait to hear your eloquent response.
I graduated with a 2.5 now making $220k+. But please, keep getting caught up in academia while you rent your bachelor pad…
That guy
May 29th, 2010
12:28 am
A good friend of mine was on cross-country, graduated ‘09 with a Terry degree. Now works for one of the Big4 accounting firms. break the sterotype.
Also, they have “class checkers” to make sure the athletes go to class, whether they pay attention is another thing.
superDawg
May 29th, 2010
1:06 am
it are too.
Jim
May 29th, 2010
1:55 am
After reading all of these stupid comments it appears that virtually none of the responders ever went to UGA, ever contributed a dime to UGA for any reason, and most have never even been on campus at UGA.
DawgBoi
May 29th, 2010
2:24 am
The “student-athletes” also contributed to the rest of the “regular students” by playing the sports that generated the revenue for the athletics department and created the tremendous bottom line to that business. I hope all the bloggers here realize that college athletics are a serious and profitable business. So, we have one of the most profitable and most importantly generous athletic boards in the nation. Our “student-athletes” and the fan base that follows and spends the money on them just got $2,000,000 for UGA academics. You probably heard about how the UGA Athletics Board just donated $2mil to the University. UGA has a lot to be proud of. Our “regular students” earn academic awards and our student-athletes go out and kick ass and represent UGA to the fullest! Nice to have athletics offer more opportunity to everyone inside and outside its own department. Go DAWGS!
heeldawg
May 29th, 2010
6:09 am
SponsoraMutt, you’re no Georgia student. In fact, based on your shaky control of the English language, I doubt you’re a student at all–or at least not a very good one.
Let’s consider a few facts. First of all, the University of Georgia is the undergraduate school of choice for most of the state’s pharmacists and journalists, a large proportion of the state’s teachers, doctors and attorneys, and has the state’s only School of Veterinary Medicine. That Vet School, along with the Schools of Law, Forestry and Business, are all highly-reputed. The premed and prelaw programs are the best in the state. The 4.7 million volume library collection is the state’s largest, and ranks among the top third of libraries in the nation.
The University of Georgia was rated by Kiplinger’s as the Fourth Best Value in public education in the United States. It is rated as the 21st best public institution of higher learning in the U.S. The school has ~35,000 total students. Its ~4700 freshmen had an average Math/ Critical Reading SAT of 1263 and an average high school GPA of 3.8 in 2009. The 2350 Honors Program students (~600 freshmen) had an average Math/ Critical Reading SAT of 1463 and average high school GPA of 4.09. Approximately 55% of the applicants to U.Ga. are accepted for admission every year.
Georgia Tech is consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the U.S., and is the nation’s best at granting engineering degrees to minorities. With 19,400 students (~13,000 undergraduates), it is the largest engineering school in the South. The 2640 members of Tech’s freshman class have an average SAT of 1310 and an average high school GPA of 3.75. 60.1% of the applicants to Tech’s freshman class are accepted.
The University of Georgia has won 37 officially sanctioned NCAA sports titles (25 since 1999), not including the two football mythical national titles won. Georgia Tech has won one sanctioned NCAA title (in womens’ tennis, 2007) and four mythical football national titles. We won’t talk about the head-to-head football data, which are patently obvious to anyone who is a fan of either school. Suffice it to say that Georgia’s dominance over Tech has been substantial, particularly in the Mark Richt era (8 of 9),and Georgia has been by far the better football program over the last 45 years or so.
It seems to me that there may be a little athletic jealously driving your subjective, non-fact-based geyser of pseudo-academic drivel. The fact is, the state of Georgia is very fortunate to have both of these very highly-reputed institutions of higher learning within its borders. They have different missions, but both draw essentially the same level of student (plot the normal curve for the accepted Georgia students against the sheer number in the class relative to the class size and academic credentials of the Tech freshmen and you’ll see that Georgia actually admits more top-tier students than Tech does in terms of absolute numbers). A student-athlete who commits to a Division I sport expends an enormous investment in time and effort that the average student does not have to shoulder. To compete at a championship level, as these athletes do, requires a tremendous amount of discipline. To denigrate these kids and their accomplishments may serve to assuage whatever pain you have acquired in your blighted ego, but it serves no other useful purpose.
Get a life, jerk.
dd
May 29th, 2010
6:17 am
And a tech grad still calls an UGA grad “BOSS”
JB
May 29th, 2010
7:12 am
heeldawg, quality facts but you shouldn’t feel compelled to enlighten someone as ignorant as this Sponser fool. He’s a fool and it’s patently obvious.
BTW, not bad grades all in all. I am a tad surprised at the tennis team, though.
PS – can someone please out this BuLLdawg character out of his misery? He’s obviously also not a real Dawg fan.
HBTD!!!
There's more to life......
May 29th, 2010
7:25 am
Belichick, I’m with you. As a proud holder of a bachelor’s degree and a 2.5 GPA, I somehow became VP of a company, make in the upper $500K and own three homes. It’s about becoming smart about people…people. My clients could care less if I were on the honor role in college.
Lastly, I study my Bible more than I ever studied a book in college. Therein lies the real secret of success.
The Truth Hurts
May 29th, 2010
7:27 am
A GPA average in the 2’s is bad enough, but when it is at UGA it indicates that UGA athletes are not much more evolved than retarded monkeys. My dog could get at least a 3.0 at UGA, and he is not much smarter than the UGA mascot
TheNumber34
May 29th, 2010
7:33 am
The Truth Hurts…so tell us about your achievements in life.
heeldawg
May 29th, 2010
7:34 am
Hey, “Truth”–my facts (above your post) refute your subjective garbage. Come up with some reasonable commentary that actually supports your contention or go someplace else.
Oh, and if your dog could get a 3.0 at Georgia, he’s smarter than you. So who is the master in that relationship?
The Truth Hurts
May 29th, 2010
7:45 am
My biggest achievement in life is that I don’t have to carry the stigma of being a UGA graduate. I’d rather be a leper than be known as a bulldawg (twang)
BIG JIM
May 29th, 2010
7:48 am
Out of 121 players, maybe half of them don’t play.They are there to bring up the GPA, not to mention the guys who’s families contribute to the program. Guys that are recruited by Jawja are not student athletes, but athletes while on campus. Lastly, MAKING MONEY IS LESS ABOUT WHAT YOU KNOW, BUT RATHER WHO YOU KNOW.
TheNumber34
May 29th, 2010
7:50 am
TTH……that’s about what I thought. I sincerely hope you and other angry people like you will at some point find the time to study….study the word of God. Life gets so much better when you do….I promise.
Strung in
May 29th, 2010
7:59 am
Please “Harely”, it’s the “A.H.O.Y.” award! You’re right, however, Butt (or was it Mutt?) won the 2010 Award hand’s down.
Bammer 4 Life
May 29th, 2010
8:03 am
Lets take a look at UGA athletes’ arrest records.
Morrus
May 29th, 2010
8:07 am
Curiously, in a supposed anti-incumbent year, most of the departing are not retiring but seeking higher office. We may recycle more than we replace. The bad news is that a frustrating 114 seats still have but one contestant. Two of them aren’t even incumbents, meaning they will affect state policy without being vetted by voters. And I have to think that we’d be better off if many had run instead for the Legislature — and cut down on the number running unopposed. Georgia’s problems are numerous. They aren’t going away. There’s too much stale thinking at the Capitol, on both sides of the aisle. New voices would be welcome.
Will
May 29th, 2010
8:07 am
The report is somewhat misleading.
For example, if you take away the basketball “walk ons”, players who rarely play and are mostly used for practice, the men’s basketball GPA would be just below 2.0.
The same would occur for football but the affect would not be as dramatic.
82Dawg
May 29th, 2010
8:09 am
To all of you that are slamming these grades, I would like to see what you could do. It is easy to talk a big game, but to play it is something else. My bet is 99% of you didn’t go to college.
BuLLdawg
May 29th, 2010
8:21 am
RED DOG 77
May 28th, 2010 1:54 am
“! anyone can take statistics and spin them to look as good or bad as they want to…………..Bottom line is this, UGA has consistantly done better with Coach Mark Richt over a nine year period than with any other coach in the history of University of Georgia football.”
76 % Winning Percentage Coach Richt 2001-2009 nine years
77 % Winning Percentage Coach Wally Butts 1940-1948 nine years
78 % Winning Percentage Coach Vince Dooley 1980-1988 nine years
.
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“Bottom line is this, UGA has consistantly done better with Coach Mark Richt over a nine year period than with any other coach in the history of University of Georgia football.”
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THAT is a LIE
RED DOG 77
Both Wally Butts College Football Hall of Fame who WON NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 1940 & 1946, whom we named the Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall for did BETTER than Coach Richt for 9 years, so that is LIE RED DOG 77.
And, Vince Dooley College Football Hall of Fame who WON NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS in 1968 and 1980, did BETTER than Coach Richt for 9 years, so that is LIE too RED DOG 77.
One, two, free, fo, fi, them der Gator don't take no jive!
May 29th, 2010
9:11 am
Hard to believe that Men’s Tennis would have a lower GPA than both football and track isn’t it? I never would have guessed it.
Hmmmmmmm
May 29th, 2010
9:19 am
Bill B,
If you do indeed make that much money, I would bet that your daddy had something to do with it…..
TommyP
May 29th, 2010
9:19 am
Bulldawg: You’re such a loser. Tell me more about the 1968 National Championship. LOL
BuLLdawg
May 29th, 2010
9:34 am
Arrests / Suspensions since 2006
Fulmer Cup All-Time Standings – Started 2006
# 5 UGA Bulldogs
# 4 Alabama
# 2 Florida Crocodiles
We are the Number 5 WORST in the nation All-Time in Fulmer Cup Standings
David Hale listed 39 UGA Football Player Arrests / Suspensions on his blog this morning May 29, 2010 since February 2007.
The Orlando newspaper did an evaluation of Florida Crocodiles, Florida State Criminoles, Tennessee (whom the Fulmer Cup was named for) and The Georgia Bulldogs. UGA is DEAD LAST WORST at Arrests / Suspensions.
We are # 9 in The SEC in Football Graduation Rates.
Since February 2007, there have been 160 UGA Football Players and we have 39 Arrests / Suspensions and VIOLENT CRIMES we are on our football team over this period 10 times WORSE than the Athens Clarke County total population.
Just since Spring Practice, we kicked off 3 players off the team, 2 of those had MULTIPLE GUILTY ARRESTS CHARGES / SUSPENSIONS KICKED OFF TEAM for what they did to little girls. 1 slammed a UGA coed into a dumpster, then he attacked her car in a parking lot, then he picked her up and slammed her to the at McWhorter Hall, then he picked her up and threw her repeatedly into the floor of McWhorter Hall. The other plead GUILTY to 2 Sex Charges to yet another coed in Remerton whom he accosted. These are not non-scholarship football players. The 1 still in jail for repeatedly picking up and slamming a girl on our campus into the McWhorter Hall floor is a Top 10 at his position recruit and he was the # 1 football player in his state Indiana for all positions. By all accounts, the other is a Top 10 QB in the nation destined to be in the NFL were it not for his treatment of women. The facts are he could have Quarterbacked for UGA last season.
Aron White defended the Top 10 QB in the nation at his position. Aron White also drops a lot more passes than Orson Charles who is bigger and faster than Aron White.
Aron White got into it in the Red & Black about our Top 10 QB defending him and making excuses.
There are NO excuses.
No one seems to make any excuses for the other Top 10 Football Recruit at his position.
These are criminal attacks of little girls, students at college in this state by Top 10 at their position RECRUITS.
And, we have all noted how the NFL Draft has gone in these last 5 years of the Coach Richt Era compared to the first 5 years of the Coach Richt Era when we had Jim Donnan Recruits being drafted.
And, we are # 9 in The SEC in football graduation rates, latest 2010 NCAA study Coach Richt Era.
25 percent Arrests / Suspensions of all the players here at UGA since February 2007.
We cannot make excuses for that.
It has to be addressed off the field as it is also indicated on the field with # 96 in Penalties Average NCAA Rank the last 4 years too.
With 21 fumbles a year last 4 years and with 14 interceptions a year last 4 years
# 19 at 38-14 the last 4 years.
Damon Evans said he HAD TO SAY IT IN PUBLIC, that we are NOT DOING WELL and that HE MUST SAY IT in PUBLIC that it is NOT ACCEPTABLE.
Then, we come in here and a vocal few say that the vast majority of us alumni, me included, are not Bulldogs for daring to point it out what in fact EVERYONE in the United States of America is saying about this IN DECLINE UGA FOOTBALL PROGRAM.
82Dawg
May 29th, 2010
10:02 am
BuLLdawg …Simple question who would you like to be head coach and A.D. at UGA ? Since you think Richt and Evans are so bad.
Rico Suave...Big Cat Style!
May 29th, 2010
10:10 am
It’s true. Even my abs have seen a decline in UGA football over the past few seasons.
Bill Belichick
May 29th, 2010
10:21 am
Nope, just hard work and creativity. And my point was not to throw out $’s – just to make the point that college is a brief stop a long the way. Too many love to say they went to Duke, Vandy or Stanford and that’s what they live their lives by with the crest on their chest. I don’t really give a sh__t – but they love to think we do.
JB
May 29th, 2010
10:32 am
It is obvious that many don’t realize that UGA is one of the better public institutions in the country, whether they like it or not. We so hate that for ‘em.
“Bulldawg” can you tell me how many coaches have a better record than UGA, over the last 9 years???
HBTD!!!
Yohan
May 29th, 2010
10:36 am
And yet the fall semester football has the NCAA max limit for football players and a lower overall GPA …allowing “walkons” in the spring is a nice way to game that system to meet minimum GPA requirements. No wonder everyone does it.
SickandTired
May 29th, 2010
10:37 am
BuLLdawg gets it right time after time. He never attacks Mark Richt and says he is a bad man. Most of the apologists for him think that’s what it’s about. It’s not. What it is about is results. Clearly we don’t get the results in Athens that over $3 million recession dollars should get. It falls to the head guy. The head guy is Mark Richt. Stipulation: Mark Richt is a good man. Not a perfect man. Mark Richt is not a great head football coach that deserves over $3 million dollars a year. He is not a leader of young men. Oh some of you say he leads by example. Well if that’s the case how come the arrests don’t reflect an arrest rate of let’s see, The United States Naval Academy, or Air Force or West Point. Good Man, bad leader and therefore incapable of being a top tier head coach. I feel sorry for him and the pain and suffering he will go through as he’s run off in the near future. Hopefully he has invested well. Maybe Tim Tebow’s dad can give him a job in the Philippines as a missionary. That would be great and I think he could find more peace there than he will in Athens as he continues to ride the Georgia Football program into the ground.
Georgia: The Wisconsin of the SEC
Georgia deserves better.
Kali
May 29th, 2010
10:38 am
At least for the football and basketball teams, the grades are a freaking joke. What they’re not showing you are the ludicrous degrees and course descriptions. The courses are a joke, and the degrees are so worthless that no parents who are paying the bills would let their kids enroll in these degrees. The only ones enrolled in many of the degrees offered at UGA are scholarship football/basketball players, a sure sign that the degrees are worthless. Of course, few of them graduate anyway.
Jan Kemp exposed this kind of crap at UGA almost three decades ago, but the only thing that’s changed is that the arrest rate has gone up.
What a joke and an embarrassment UGA has become.
Monticello Dawg
May 29th, 2010
10:42 am
Great post, heeldog. I would add that those national championships have been won in 8 different sports. Add in 132 SEC titles, a great college town, good academics, and it is easy to see why there are jealous posters on here, running down the Dogs out of envy.
Connie in Loganville
May 29th, 2010
10:55 am
UGA: student-athlete = illiterate moron-athlete.
And then there are the outright felons.
At least business is booming for bail bondsmen and parole officers.
Dagny
May 29th, 2010
10:58 am
Monticello Dawg mentioned “good academics.”
In Athens? You’re trying to be funny, right?
1eyedJack
May 29th, 2010
11:01 am
“Football 121 2.76″
Hate to say it Dawg fans, but looking at this from a teacher’s perspective, this is NOT good.
Bear with me.
If I am understanding the report correctly that number includes about 35 walkons who had to make at least 3.0 to maintain HOPE. That kind of skews the curve, leaving quite a few scholarship players hovering closer to 2.0.
But these are student/ATHLETES, not just students, and have more on their plates than most. How much film study is required in Swimming? How much time in the weight room is required in Golf?
DawginOH
May 29th, 2010
11:03 am
Agreed, Monticello Dawg. These numbers are not too bad especially given the amount of time that is expected of these student athletes outside of the classroom. Like it or not, haters, UGA is among the best public institutions in the country. Do any of y’all have high school-aged children or younger siblings? Just ask them about admissions standards these days.
Stinger
May 29th, 2010
11:20 am
The UGA girls are the best athletes and the best students. All men’s teams are a bunch of dumb azzes.
AltamahaDawg
May 29th, 2010
11:25 am
The irony in mentioning Coach Dooley’s Championship is that by today’s standard he would have never lasted at Georgia long enough to accomplish that. Now way a coach survives the kind of record he had during the decade of the 70’s now. Imagine the fun somebody would have had back then breaking down those stats if they had the ability to put on thier costume and rant at 2 AM on a anonymous sports blog during that fine period.
But back then, protential and goodwill built during the better years factored in. I think most folks are glad that Coach Dooley survived his tough times. I mean we ever have folks who want to rename a stadium after a coach who lost 5 and 6 games quite a few times. Must be something more to that than just a list of statistical information.
(personally I think “The University of Tennessee Coach’s Dad Stadium” sounds stupid)
HeelDawg's data
May 29th, 2010
11:41 am
HeelDawg, way to cherry pick data on GT. How about some corrections.
In the last decade GT has been in the TOP TEN public schools in the nation (#7) and is the only technological university in that group.
Terry College is ranked lower by leading publications than GT’s College of Management (was surpassed in 2006 and the gap grows annually…especially the MBA program)
Tech is now above 20k in student enrollment (for what that’s worth)
Most of Tech’s engineering programs (which you correctly site as being #1 or #2 among blacks and other minorities consistently) are also consistently in the Top 5 in their field (too many to list…check Wikipedia and GT’s website). Industrial Engineering (a highly business-related field, by the way) is #1 in the nation at both undergrad and graduate levels.
Not going to draw any conclusions from this, but we must be fair and pick similar data for both schools. I think you kind of cherry picked some GT stats that were convenient for your “comparison.”
No argument on the athletic side of things.
70 Dawg
May 29th, 2010
11:41 am
After reading the GT criticisms of every UGA article for a while now, I have decided that the yellow jackazzes are either so drunk on the GT kool-aid that they can’t be argued with or they are too stupid to understand logical info. If they were just ignorant we could enlighten them but they appear to be way beyond that. The other possibility is that they enjoy firing up the Dawg nation by making BS comments and it seems to work. BTW, I totally agree with DawginOhio
HeelDawg's data
May 29th, 2010
11:42 am
70 Dawg, and as we know you Georgia fans ALWAYS listen to your rivals. Yall are especially NEVER closed-minded in regards to Georgia Tech and their fans, right? And what about Gators? Always a fair discussion…
jesse james
May 29th, 2010
1:29 pm
Even though this information doesn’t have the individuals grades posted I do not believe this should be published publicly. Report it to the NCAA and the school can address it in house if you need improvements or not.
Just saying
May 29th, 2010
1:45 pm
UGA Football 8-5 (4-4) Shreveport Bowl
UGA Basketball 14-17 (5-11)
UGA Baseball 16-37 (5-23)
Go Dawgs!!
The ABCs of it
May 29th, 2010
1:45 pm
A students work in government, teach or work for think tanks or in some college as an administrator.
B students work for A students
C students run the world. See Winston Churchill or George W Bush or Ronald Reagan or yes, even that clown Barry O.
Here is another fabulous UGA testimonial
May 29th, 2010
1:57 pm
UGA grads are usually very successful in whatever they decide to do as a career. Here are a couple of facts having to do with relatives:
One family member …………….UGA BBA undergrad in Business Adm. MBA London School of Economics, now senior partner with international firm.
Another family member- BA Liberal Arts Philosophy …………DUKE MBA now VP of Marketing in NJ with major pharmaceutical firm.
Another family member- UGA BBA, just graduated from Emory MB school where we saw Arnold S. the Governator speak.
My self- UGA BA 71 and retired Senior VP, Sales and Marketing North America, w/ Japanese firm
My sister- BA Home Economics, retired senior exec. w/ Delta
Wife- BA Liberal Arts- retired senior exec w/ Delta, now big time Atlanta realtor.
Folks …………say what you will if you HATE UGA, but we gotta like it because it has been good to my family.
Hard to argue with success. Gooooooooooooooooo Dawgs !!! Woof, woof, woof.
To post UGA hate here is to illustrate your lack of any education or have any future. Now go out and apply to UGA and hope that you get in, study hard, then embark on a fabulous career.
Dawg
May 29th, 2010
2:01 pm
Players with below a 3.0 shouldn’t be allowed to play football! Richt should know this and make this policy if he cares about his players.
The Sham
May 29th, 2010
2:40 pm
@ Tim Tucker:
Would you mind sharing what the overall GPA averages are of the REST of the student body? Broke down my genders as well.
My guess is that they’d be closer to the student’s averages than the MOB may suspect…
Terry
May 29th, 2010
2:54 pm
BuLLdawg are those your percentages or RED DOG 77 because they do not add up with what the records show for the first nine years.
RED DOG 77
May 28th, 2010 1:54 am
“! anyone can take statistics and spin them to look as good or bad as they want to…………..Bottom line is this, UGA has consistantly done better with Coach Mark Richt over a nine year period than with any other coach in the history of University of Georgia football.”
76 % Winning Percentage Coach Richt 2001-2009 nine years
77 % Winning Percentage Coach Wally Butts 1940-1948 nine years
78 % Winning Percentage Coach Vince Dooley 1980-1988 nine years
“Bottom line is this, UGA has consistantly done better with Coach Mark Richt over a nine year period than with any other coach in the history of University of Georgia football.”
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THAT is a LIE
RED DOG 77
Both Wally Butts College Football Hall of Fame who WON NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 1940 & 1946, whom we named the Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall for did BETTER than Coach Richt for 9 years, so that is LIE RED DOG 77.
And, Vince Dooley College Football Hall of Fame who WON NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS in 1968 and 1980, did BETTER than Coach Richt for 9 years, so that is LIE too RED DOG 77.
First Nine Years
Mark Richt – 8-4, 13-1, 11-3, 10-2, 10-3, 9-4, 11-2, 10-3, 8-5 = 90-27 77% In 117 games.
Vince Dooley – 7-3-1, 6-4, 10-1, 7-4, 8-1-2, 5-5-1, 5-5, 11-1, 7-4 = 66-28-4 67% In 98 games. If Vince Dooley wins the ties his percentage moves up to 71%.
Wally Butts – 5-6, 5-4-1, 9-1-1, 11-1, 6-4, 7-3, 9-2, 11-0, 7-4-1 = 70-25-3 71% In 98 games. If Wally Butts wins the ties his percentage moves up to 75%.
Testimonials aren't normative
May 29th, 2010
3:01 pm
Testimonial, “To post UGA hate here is to illustrate your lack of any education or have any future.”
Non Sequitor.
Quite to the contrary, as a GT alumnus (and a member of a particularly well connected Greek organization) I have had the blessing and privelege of an excellent career and happen to personally know several world-changing individuals that either run or direct the product development for some of the most presitigious multinational firms in the world.
If I or, say, the design director for Ferrari (a fellow Tech grad), for example, said we hate the Bulldogs does it in any way diminish who we are or what we’ve accomplished? I wouldn’t ever say that UGA is a bad school, but it’s absurd to think anyone who hates it or its alumni is uneducated or unsuccessful. There are thousands of universities in the U.S. and GT and UGA are priveleged to be reaching the heights among them. But please accept that Yellow Jackets will continue to hate Bulldogs and vise-versa.
Coach Small Johnson
May 29th, 2010
3:38 pm
What is Tech babbling about
Their football team has two engineer graduates and its just for civil and agriculture.
The rest of the team is a bunch of business majors wow tough academics for the Tech football team
Testimonials
May 29th, 2010
3:40 pm
I will accept your argument. My dad and his dad were Yellow Jackets and they too enjoyed life, as enterpreneurs in the home building field,etc. I just do not brag on them.
Greek life in Athens was good, as well.
go Dogs.
jesse james
May 29th, 2010
3:47 pm
On Senior Day at Tech they recoginize the Senior football players, but do not call out their majors and when the band seniors are regognized at half time they do call out their majors, just wondering why the difference.
Coach Small Johnson
May 29th, 2010
4:09 pm
Reality is the difference Jesse James
If Tech fielded a bunch of Engineers for its athletic program they would have to drop to Div III because they couldnt get any good ball players to play there.
They just want everyone to think the football team is a bunch of engineers but they are not thats why I have always called them Janitorial or Plant Engineers
Its what I call the “The Build Up My Self Esteem Approach”
jesse james
May 29th, 2010
4:37 pm
I’m sorry I mispelled recognized above. My spelling teacher let me down, not my fault.
AltamahaDawg
May 29th, 2010
5:43 pm
Not sure why anybody would point out how many games previous coaches won. This forum seems more focused on the few losses more so that the majority of games when a coach is a winner. Would be more to the point if you looked at 9 yr spans and how many games Dooley and Butts lost. Butts particularly had several 6 and 7 loss seasons. Dooley had a few. IF Richt ever had ONE, they would be burning him in effigy.
A lesson would be that those coaches both had tremendous seasons mixed in there too, and followed up some of thier worst with championships.
But OH if the internet existed on 10/23/79……..
And what kind of arrest headlines would Dooleys team have if the drinking age was 21 back then, or the Athens police were as strict, or the information about a player’s trouble wasn’t completely controled?
Anybody want to start a conversation about what kinds of GPA football player had back in Dooley’s day?
Rico Suave
May 29th, 2010
9:00 pm
I think the tennis players party and chase skirt too much. Woo hoo….rock on!
Fanny
May 29th, 2010
11:14 pm
Now that we’re officially in the off-season, wouldn’t this be the perfect time to take an in-depth look at UGA and have a free-ranging discussion about the problems at UGA and why the arrest rate of players is the highest in the country? it’s common knowledge that UGA is a party school, but have any football players every actually graduated with a real degree? Jan Kemp exposed the school and the coaches almost three decades ago, but there is no sign that anything has improved; if anything, the arrest rate shows that things are getting more outrageous every year while Mark Richt – a decent fellow with no coaching skills – has no clue what to do.
UGA has become a major embarrassment to all Georgians, and we want some answers starting now.
Teddie
May 29th, 2010
11:19 pm
42. That’s the answer to the big question.
heeldawg
May 29th, 2010
11:21 pm
To the “Heeldawg’s data” guy:
I concede your points on Tech’s rankings, having confirmed your info from data on the Tech website. This was not an attempt at misinformation; I simply didn’t have that degree of detail before.
BTW, I have no argument that Georgia Tech’s a great engineering school. I did not comment on the Terry/Tech B-School business comparison; I simply wanted to point out that subjective arguments are trumped by data every time. Your data on Tech were more specific than my own.
To those who cite the U.Ga. student arrest records, that’s mostly the fault of the Athens/CC police, who view ticketing of students as a major source of departmental revenue. Most of the athlete arrests involve things like underage possession of alcohol and driving a moped without a license. The athletes are not only not exempt from this; they are, in fact, targeted. It’s a lot easier to hide from the law in a city of 4 million.
And Truth, you are a leper. So you got your wish. Enjoy having your appendages fall off, Unclean One.
boots
May 30th, 2010
1:46 am
Some of you have commented on how the athletes get “favored treatment.” First, there are fewer institutions in the nation that have more safeguards against athletes getting academic passes than UGA. It is just not happening in Athens, and it will not happen in Athens. Thanks to Jan Kemp or whatever you want to cite, but those days are long gone. Secondly, I am pretty sure that the women’s volleyball players and swimmers are not high profile athletes, and the athletes that are show lower grades. The logic is just not there to justify some critique like that.
BuLLdawg
May 30th, 2010
10:04 am
I like Coach Richt and want him for our Head Coach. I do not like any of his coaching staff any of the 9 years here. We have played in a sorry SEC East division. We have played VERY POORLY vs SEC East teams.
1-4 vs SEC East 2006 Vandie * lone win UGA
1-4 vs SEC East 2007 Vandie
2-3 vs SEC East 2008 Vandie
0-5 vs SEC East 2009 Vandie
4-16 vs SEC East Vandie last 4 years
2-3 vs SEC East 2006 Kentucky * besides UGA beat Vandie
1-4 vs SEC East 2007 Kentucky
0-5 vs SEC East 2008 Kentucky
2-3 vs SEC East 2009 Kentucky * besides UGA beat Vandie
5-15 vs SEC East Kentucky last 4 years
2-3 vs SEC East 2006 South Carolina
2-3 vs SEC East 2007 South Carolina * besides UGA beat KY
2-3 vs SEC East 2008 South Carolina
2-3 vs SEC East 2009 South Carolina
8-12 vs SEC East South Carolina last 4 years
1-4 vs SEC East 2006 Georgia * lost last 4 in row
3-2 vs SEC East 2007 Georgia * lost first 2 in a row 6 total
4-1 vs SEC East 2008 Georgia
2-3 vs SEC East 2009 Georgia * half last 4 yrs losing record
10-10 vs SEC East Georgia last 4 years not winning record
4-1 vs SEC East 2006 Tennessee
4-1 vs SEC East 2007 Tennessee
2-3 vs SEC East 2008 Tennessee
4-1 vs SEC East 2009 Tennessee
14-6 vs SEC East Tennessee last 4 years
5-0 vs SEC East 2006 Florida
4-1 vs SEC East 2007 Florida
5-0 vs SEC East 2008 Florida
5-0 vs SEC East 2009 Florida
19-1 vs SEC East Florida last 4 years
LOSSES by UGA last 4 years vs SEC East :
vols 2006 Final AP Poll Top 25 team # 25
crocodiles 2006 Final AP Poll Top 10 team # 1
*1 Vandie 2006 not ranked 4-8 Final AP Poll Top 25
*2 Kentucky 2006 not ranked 8-5 Final AP Poll Top 25
vols 2007 Final AP Poll Top 25 team # 12 lost 4 games
*3 South Carolina 2007 not ranked 6-6 no bowl Final AP Poll Top 25
crocodiles 2008 Final AP Poll Top 10 team # 1
crocodiles 2009 Final AP Poll Top 10 team # 3
*4 vols 2009 not ranked 7-6 Final AP Poll Top 25
*5 Kentucky 2009 not ranked 7-6 Final AP Poll Top 25
*Combined Record 32-31 of 5 not Top 25 Final AP Poll SEC East teams who beat UGA the last 4 years.
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LOSSES vs Final AP Poll Top 25 SEC East teams last 4 years :
2006 lost to Florida Top 25 Final AP Poll team # 1 vols # 25
2007 lost to vols 4-Loss only Top 25 Final AP Poll team # 12
2008 lost to Florida only Top 25 Final AP Poll team # 1
2009 lost to Florida only Top 25 Final AP Poll team # 3
Lost to 5 ranked Final AP Poll Top 25 SEC East teams last 4 years.
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WINS over Final AP Poll Top 25 SEC East teams last 4 years :
2006 NONE
**2007 only beat 4-Loss Florida as only ranked SEC East team beat
2008 NONE
2009 NONE
**In the last 4 years, the ONLY SEC East Win by UGA over a ranked Final AP Poll Top 25 team was 4-Loss Florida we beat in 2007, just after we had LOST 6 SEC East games in a ROW, 4 consecutively to end 2006 and 2 more in succession to begin 2007.
1-5 vs SEC East Ranked Top 25 teams last 4 years Coach Richt Era.
Out of 20 possibly SEC East Opponents, only 6 have been ranked in the Final AP Poll Top 25, and against those only 6, we have lost 5.
14 of the 20 SEC East Opponents for UGA the last 4 years have NOT been ranked in the Final AP Poll Top 25.
The SEC East has been absolutely horrible for good Opponents for UGA the last 4 years, yet we are a miserable 10-10 vs SEC East teams the last 4 years including 5 of the 10 losses to unranked non-Top 25 Final AP Poll teams with only 1 win the last 4 years against a Final AP Poll Top 25 SEC East opponent.
We have not been very good the last 4 years. We are not viewed as having been any good the last 4 years, we are # 19 in the nation at 38-14 the last 4 years and we have played against sorry opponents in The SEC East the last 4 years.
Coach Small Johnson
May 30th, 2010
11:34 am
Bulldawg
I like Richt too as a person as I have said in the past. But this 10 win crap I could care less.
10 win seasons doesnt do the program any good as you have shown above by the East record we have had.
The program will not ever be what it should be and could be if this continues.
Again I like Richt but to pay someone 3million + a year to consistantly lose to FL, have the SEC EAST record we have not fire coaches like Fabris and Martinez as long as he did merits his butt being on the hot seat.
Willie Martinez should have been fired after the FL game for allowing Tebow to break Herschel’s record against us but Richt did not and I can tell you he probably wasnt until Kentucky came in and beat us
Hopefully he has had a wake up call with boosters and fans and the staff he has hired will turn things around because I can tell you if we continue to lose to FL our top 10 recruiting class will be a thing of the past. No good prospect is going to go somewhere that they dont have a chance to play a title
AuntEdith
June 2nd, 2010
9:15 am
THE GOOD NEWS IS: With the awful economy, more top-rated academic students are staying in Georgia! My nephew, who just graduated from a private school in Atlanta and was third in his class, was WAIT-LISTED for the Honors program at UGA! He got into Notre Dame but can’t afford it. He eventually got into the Honors Program and will be attending UGA in the fall. My other nephew will be attending Tech. He turned down Duke for Tech! How lucky both schools and the State of Georgia are that super-talented kids like this will be staying in Georgia! GOOD NEWS!