A third Georgia basketball player transferring
Georgia basketball player Ebuka Anyaorah has requested and received a release from his scholarship, the school said Wednesday.
He becomes the third player since the end of the season to leave the Georgia program. Like the first two, Anyaorah said he intends to transfer elsewhere in hopes of more playing time.
A 6-foot-4 guard from Suwanee, Anyaorah averaged 10.5 minutes per game as a redshirt freshman this past season, scoring 2.7 points per game. He sat out his true freshman season after surgery to repair a stress fracture in his right tibia.
The other two players to depart the program since the season have found new schools. Forward Drazen Zlovaric signed with Tennessee-Chattanooga and guard Demario Mayfield with UNC-Charlotte.
Anyaorah, Zlovaric and Mayfield were recruited to Georgia by former coach Dennis Felton.
The rest of today’s UGA news:
Hot seat? Or not? Taking the temperature of Richt’s job security.
“We’ll be fine. Russ will do his job.”
UGA’s Adams advises caution about SEC expansion (and other notes from SEC meetings).
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Great!!!
June 3rd, 2010
8:06 am
It looks like all the untalented riff-raff recruited by Felton can see the writing on the wall and have transferred to lower division schools more commensurate with their abilities. Coach Fox is already proving to be an excellent recruiter and can use these new scholarships to acquire players with talent to match his excellent coaching abilities! Go Dawgs!
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June 3rd, 2010
8:08 am
[...] Georgia basketball player Ebuka Anyaorah has requested and received a release from his scholarship, reports Tim Tucker of the AJC. Anyaorah is the third player since the end of the season to leave the program. [...]
TRUTH
June 3rd, 2010
8:08 am
73-66!!!!!
73-66!!!!!
73-66!!!!!
The Georgia Bulldogs are the reigning state champions in basketball (eat your heart out Techies!)
Mark Fox is clearly a much better coach than Paul Hewitt!!!!!
Go Dawgs!!!!
Jeckyll Island
June 3rd, 2010
8:14 am
30-24!!!
30-24!!!
30-24!!!
30-24!!!
30-24!!!
30-24!!!
UGA as usual owned the termites in the termites tiny little Bobby Dodd Stadium!!!
UGA state champs in football and GT is NOT! (but GT was champs of a lower tier conference)
Mark Richt is 8 out of 9 against the buzzy little insects!
73-66!!!
73-66!!!
73-66!!!
73-66!!!
73-66!!!
73-66!!!
Mark Fox proved he could beat GT’s most talented basketball players in the nation (but way overrated as a team!)
UGA state champs in basketball (not OVERRATED GT!)
JJ
June 3rd, 2010
8:16 am
I don’t believe some of these kids leave voluntarily, but under a strong suggestion. So quit blaming them and calling them traitors. Keep in mind they were recriuted by a desparate loser.
SEC links: Tennessee legend Haywood Harris dies « MrSEC.com
June 3rd, 2010
8:20 am
[...] Georgia basketball player Ebuka Anyaorah has requested and received a release from his scholarship, reports Tim Tucker of the AJC. Anyaorah is the third player since the end of the season to leave the program. [...]
Dawglasville
June 3rd, 2010
8:30 am
I’m in my office, listening to the birds outside, reading this blog and am very surprised that it has been rather civilized. (It got a little crazy at the end). This may be the dawn of a new day. Keep hope alive.
Irma in Tallapoosa
June 3rd, 2010
8:44 am
Keep in mind that in the third major sport, baseball, Georgia Tech ran the table on UGAy this year in one of the most humiliating beatdowns in history.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. Responsible parents don’t send their kids to a party school like UGA.
As a public service, I offer the 2010 score for the big game in Jacksonville:
Florida 45
UGAy 13
Geez Louise
June 3rd, 2010
8:44 am
A numbskull wrote: “have to make things work with inherited players.”
I think most coaches would love to inherit Thompkins and Leslie. Yes?
Beat downs Galore
June 3rd, 2010
8:45 am
Any players arrested over the holiday weekend? Somebody had to be doing something wrong at 2:00 am……..
Geez Louise
June 3rd, 2010
8:47 am
Edited in the name of detente
A fine, but perhaps slightly confused person wrote: “have to make things work with inherited players.”
I think most coaches would love to inherit Thompkins and Leslie. Yes?
The Georgia coast
June 3rd, 2010
8:48 am
There ain’t no “c” in Jekyll.
Rex
June 3rd, 2010
8:49 am
It’s kind of sad to see all the Dawg fans getting so excited this year (just like the year before, the year before that, etc.). How long is it going to take for UGA fans to realize that UGA is simply no longer relevant in the SEC? In the national picture, UGA isn’t even a blip on the radar, and hasn’t
been since the preseason #1 ranking two years ago.
Sit back and be grateful for the seven or eight wins you’ll get every year. Coaching genius Mark Richt may take you to 10-2 or even 11-1 occasionally, but Florida will still win the SEC, meaning no BCS bowls and no top 15 final ranking. Most years, UGA will be very lucky to finish in the top 25, and only after a big bowl win over a nobody opponent.
It’s a different world now, andDawg fans, like FSU and Ole Miss fans, need to adjust their expectations dward to reflect reality.
Unfortunately nothing is going to change until UGA changes its mediocre coaching. That’s where the difference is, and that’s why everyone outside Bulldog Nation just laughs at Dawg fans getting so excited year after year about what a great recruiting class UGA gets. It doesn’t matter how many
blue chip high school plays go to UGA, they simply don’t get the coaching they would get at Florida or Alabama, to name two schools whose programs are far ahead of UGA. And that’s not going to change as long as Mark Richt is in Athens.
Get your heads out of the sand and face reality. And mediocrity and irrelevance.
82Dawg
June 3rd, 2010
8:53 am
@Beat downs Galore …..I guess you need to call Coach Meyer and check and see if anyone feel asleep at the wheel while stop at a red light.Or if any computers are missing…..
rocky topper
June 3rd, 2010
9:12 am
If he transfers, at least he will be on a better team! He knows this!
Dawglasville
June 3rd, 2010
9:15 am
Rex – Thanks. I’m glad that there are so many out there who are quick to point out how delusional Georgia fans are. If you don’t mind, I would like to return the favor by pointing out that Georgia fans find you quite delusional to think that your opinion actually means jack squat.
Old Tech
June 3rd, 2010
9:28 am
Is Fox cleaning house to clear up more scholarships?
Chucky
June 3rd, 2010
9:35 am
How many of you have actually watched UGA’s basketball team play in the past five years and how many of you are simply basing the Dennis Felton era on what you’ve read and only got remotely interested in UGA basketball last season? Let’s just be honest…
Another UGA BBaller To Transfer « MrSEC.com
June 3rd, 2010
10:06 am
[...] Anyaorah has been granted a release from the Georgia basketball program and will transfer to a new school in hopes of finding more playing time.Anyaorah is the third player to transfer from Athens since the end of the season. He averaged 10.5 [...]
The Greatness Ever
June 3rd, 2010
10:17 am
To unGreat!!! and the rest the haters. I guarantee u… He ends up better than most players on that roster. Fox didnt clean house. I sure he wouldnt want a proven player of the bench to leave. If given more pt earlier in the season, he could have easily avg- 7-8 pt/game. 9 against FLORIDA.. 7 against TENN. The kid can play and will only get better.
And if he goes pro, i wonder what the FEW stupid uga fans will say then. Stop the hating and watch what happens in 2-3 yrs. Maybe he is getting off a sinking ship.
Be serious UGA is not a basketball school and when the finger pointing begins…… remember i told u so. Smart move by him
GO GT-should have came here from the beginning. I told him too
T.C
June 3rd, 2010
10:19 am
See thats why the state of ga have the worst fans in all of sports,they kick you when your down back stab you when your gone and don’t care about your well doing.
lazydawg
June 3rd, 2010
10:35 am
Coach Fox is doing a great job in Athens,he put’s the best players on the court. The best of luck to these young men and wish them all the best.
Tech"em"
June 3rd, 2010
11:03 am
Good day for Tech. Uga stinks. Get ready for our rematch. I smell a blow out. ha ha
BuzzGT
June 3rd, 2010
3:17 pm
I don’t think that 10.5 minutes per game is that bad for a Freshman. Transferring is not the easiest way to get more playing time. The easiest way is to play good defense, rebound the ball, and in general hussle (scoring some points doesn’t hurt either).
Bill
June 3rd, 2010
5:54 pm
Players leaving UGA getting off a sinking ship? Oh, some of you are going to be eating a lot of crow soon. UGA could be a Final Four team this coming season. I know that may sound crazy, but look at how many close loses we had last year. While I believed Ebuka would be a good role player, G. Robinson should shine, as well as the transfer guard–loads more points from our guards. Thompkins, Leslie, Price, Ware, and Barnes should all be improved–with 4 of these playing their last year at UGA. Crowds will increase 30-40%, with an upgraded Stegman helping a little.
james T. Kirk
June 4th, 2010
8:39 am
And the Fox implosion continues!!