Stokan denies Georgia-USC rumor
A hot rumor spread from the West Coast on Wednesday that the USC football team would come to Atlanta to play Georgia in the 2011 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game. (It spread the new-fashioned way, from Twitter to message boards.) But Gary Stokan, the game’s president, denied the rumor when I called to ask him about it Wednesday night.
He said there have been talks with USC about a possible appearance in the 2011 game — but not, he said, against Georgia.
“Georgia is not a possibility for 2011,” Stokan said.
He said UGA, through former athletic director Damon Evans, expressed interest in playing in the season-opening game in the Georgia Dome at some point in the future but indicated the next few years wouldn’t work schedule-wise.
Georgia is scheduled to open the 2011 season against Louisville in Athens.
As for USC, Stokan said Trojans coach Lane Kiffin sent him a text message in February to suggest a 2011 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game matchup against his former team, Tennessee. “It’d be a great storyline,” Stokan quoted Kiffin as telling him in a subsequent phone conversation. Stokan said new Tennessee coach Derek Dooley later told him he’d be willing to play USC in Atlanta — after he has three years or so to get his program established.
The bottom line, Stokan said, is that the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game still doesn’t have a 2011 matchup.
“We don’t have an opponent [for USC],” Stokan said. “We don’t have USC either.”
Stokan does have matchups for 2010 (LSU-North Carolina on Sept. 4) and 2012 (Tennessee-N.C. State).
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Speaking of scheduling: Georgia hasn’t finalized or announced its 2010-11 basketball schedule yet, but the Bulldogs will open the season at 7 p.m. on Nov. 12 in the new-look Stegeman Coliseum against Mississippi Valley State. That’s according to a schedule posted on the MVSU website.
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jacketbrave
July 30th, 2010
12:03 am
I hate negroes
Thumper
July 30th, 2010
12:05 am
Pound…..is jacketbrave your son? I didn’t think the government let retarded people procreate. Next time, please have carnal knowledge of a goat.
Still@theBAR
July 30th, 2010
12:06 am
I will never show my kids the pics & videos of their mom we did in college, but in my mind I’ll never forget even if I am holding FLAPPERS and FOLDS now.
jacketbrave
July 30th, 2010
12:06 am
hey thumper wasnt you that bunny on bambi? haha he likes children looking at what all he can do
jacketbrave
July 30th, 2010
12:07 am
wow UGA fans so childish changing names hahahaha
THE POUND
July 30th, 2010
12:09 am
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no you have failed thumper YOU HAVE FAILED AT LIFE use that brain of yours (if u have 1) to make better comebacks
12-2
July 30th, 2010
12:10 am
SO CAL FAN says “Auburn played a weak schedule 2004 and should stop crying.”
Who Auburn BEAT 2004 :
# 7 Final AP Poll in 2004 Georgia was 10-2 beat 9-3 LSU, beat 7-5 Florida, beat 7-5 Georgia tek, lost to 10-3 Tennessee vols and lost to 13-0 Auburn.
# 10 Final AP Poll in 2004 Virginia Tech were 10-3 lost to 13-0 Auburn in the Sugar Bowl, beat 9-3 Miami, beat 8-4 Virginia, beat 7-5 Georgia tek and beat 8-4 West Virginia.
# 13 Final AP Poll in 2004 Tennessee vols were 10-3 losing to 13-0 Auburn
# 13 Final AP Poll in 2004 Tennessee vols were 10-3 losing to 13-0 Auburn twice, but beat 10-2 Georgia.
# 16 Final AP Poll in 2004 LSU was 9-3 losing to 13-0 Auburn
Southern California in 2004 WAS ranked # 1 Final AP Poll and Auburn was ranked # 2 in the Final AP Poll.
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Auburn WON 5 games against Top 16 Final AP Poll teams in 2004.
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Who Southern California beat 2004 :
No one.
Still@theBAR
July 30th, 2010
12:11 am
MRS Evans I may not reach the bottom but I will wear the sides out better than damon ever though of.
thumper
July 30th, 2010
12:11 am
i change names hehehehehehehe mommy told me to go in the corner for doing such naughty things OH AND BY THE WAY THEY CAN LOOK AT MY EMAIL AT WHAT I SAID NO MATTER WHAT MY USERNAME IS AND TRACK ME DOWN AND PUT ME IN JAIL FOR BEING RACIST HAHAHA IM SSSSSSOOOOO SMART
Still@theBAR
July 30th, 2010
12:13 am
Aubrun couldn’t beat Ga Tech Home and away when Reggie Ball was the QB. Give it up Auburn. Auburn where the girls are drunk and safe but the sheep are sober and scared.
jacketbrave
July 30th, 2010
12:13 am
Eat me
thumper
July 30th, 2010
12:13 am
you wear my insides out too still@bar? i want someone to open my can wide open!
Still@theBAR
July 30th, 2010
12:15 am
Thumper you want me to open your can-o-beer? you must be a weak fuzzy bunny.
jacketbrave
July 30th, 2010
12:15 am
still@bar= hilarious and honest
Thumper
July 30th, 2010
12:16 am
Pound puppy……….when your testicles finally drop and you start growing some hair around your happy parts…..then maybe someone other than jerkboybrave might listen. Until then……go drink your juice and put your jameez on.
Geez……why do I bother……..it’s like playin cards with my brother’s kids
thumper
July 30th, 2010
12:16 am
for a strong man like you i am!
THE POUND
July 30th, 2010
12:17 am
and talkin to you is like talkin to a prostitute gettin f*cked
jacketbrave
July 30th, 2010
12:18 am
Humper, try to make better nicknames k?
Still@theBAR
July 30th, 2010
12:19 am
I have almost had enought to get the wheelbarrow out and take a Arkiesaw HOG home. Give me a second to pay my bill and see if her AZZ fits. I might be too drunk to push her to the car, but she was so ugly 12 shots ago she just might walk to the truck on her own.
jacketbrave
July 30th, 2010
12:20 am
hahahahahahaha
Still@theBAR
July 30th, 2010
12:21 am
Thumper I never needed hair around my happy parts to enjoy them or let the lil ladies play doctor with them either.
Thumper
July 30th, 2010
12:22 am
So pound……..do you think the new “cap and trade” will have any affect on college sports? What entity is responsible for creating about 80% of jobs in this country? Just curious
Still@theBAR
July 30th, 2010
12:23 am
Damn she paid the TIP and is carring me over her shoulder to the truck. Damn the weekend started early fo me.
THE POUND
July 30th, 2010
12:24 am
once again… prostitute … always talkin about that money and will not just enjoy what your takin in
Still@theBAR
July 30th, 2010
12:24 am
Thumper after I cap It I nwill trade it to you for a used tire and a toilet brush. Can we call that even?
jacketbrave
July 30th, 2010
12:25 am
humper, dont start no crap wont be no crap
Still@theBAR
July 30th, 2010
12:26 am
MOMMA said Knock it OUT!! Back IT out!! And pour Proxide on it too!
jacketbrave
July 30th, 2010
12:26 am
hahahahahahahaha
Thumper
July 30th, 2010
12:27 am
Pound……..that’s what I thought you’d say. I am truly dumber for having a conversation with you.
THE POUND
July 30th, 2010
12:28 am
yeah your right cause you know you dont stand a chance!
Still@theBAR
July 30th, 2010
12:30 am
Does anybody know what Rattle. Rattle. Here comes the Cattle means? The door to a big house just opened and there are a lot of fat chicks in Undies cheering as this chick is carring me to the door.
Still@theBAR
July 30th, 2010
12:32 am
I will twitter later if I can hang a snorkle from her butt to breathe.
jacketbrave
July 30th, 2010
12:32 am
hahahaha
Thumper
July 30th, 2010
12:33 am
Pound………..I will personally have a fundraiser for you if you promise never to have children……..ever…..
thumper
July 30th, 2010
12:34 am
i need someone to come tuck me in. some one with a lot of muscles
THE POUND
July 30th, 2010
12:36 am
ill get a fundraiser for you goin because you will be in the hospital
Still@theBAR
July 30th, 2010
12:37 am
These farm girls keep saying something about an electric shock to the ass area will make me give up the honey. HELP ME! HELP ME! I am a prisoner to horney fat chicks with bad intentions.
THE POUND
July 30th, 2010
12:38 am
im not a bad person ..people like you make me a bad person …peoplle that always have something to say about some1 else so take that into consideration
Still@theBAR
July 30th, 2010
12:39 am
DUDES this ain’t funny! This is girls gone WILD in a bad way! HELP ME!
Thumper
July 30th, 2010
12:39 am
Pound…….you really are an idiot aren’t you? If you ever break your leg…….call me. I’ll take you to the vet and watch them put you down.
jacketbrave
July 30th, 2010
12:41 am
i agree pound… im a perfectly nice person and doesnt even curse until a loser like you starts talkin… and still@ bar continues!
col fot
July 30th, 2010
12:42 am
USC doesn’t want anything to with the bulldogs
THE POUND
July 30th, 2010
12:42 am
im an idiot? your the one thats an idiot IM JACKETBRAVE and what did that have to do with anything? once again IDIOT
Still@theBAR
July 30th, 2010
12:43 am
Thumper has big feet, a fuzzy butt, and buck teeth. Thumper go stomp on a hollow log and a carrot.
jacketbrave
July 30th, 2010
12:44 am
HAHAHAHAHA
Thumper
July 30th, 2010
12:48 am
Ok pound…or jacketbrave…or neverbeentoabar….I offer my apologies. I just realized you really ARE young people and not just posing. I’m sorry if I offended you and I’m gonna leave you alone before the FCC shows up at my door. Ya’ll behave
jacketbrave
July 30th, 2010
12:50 am
haha ok and i wouldnt do that! haha im going to bed good night america
Still@theBAR
July 30th, 2010
12:53 am
Why would USC want to play the dawgs? The dawgs back out of every hard OOC game ever presented to them. After the OSU game last year the dawgs will never try that again. When UGA made that deal OSU was a joke. W Buffet changed that and beat the coxFULL Defenseless Dawgs. UGA wants to play say an OOC team on the lines of VANDY in the Chic-fil-a kickoff game. If you can get Washington State to play hell the dawgs are all over that game.
jacketbrave
July 30th, 2010
1:05 am
haha yeah .. but even vandy beat UGA a couple of years ago! and usually put up a really good game!
Vince Dooley
July 30th, 2010
1:40 am
You spell America with a capital A, boy.
Semper fi.