Juggling topics with A.J. Green, from NCAA to NFL to unicycles
ATHENS — Since word got out last month that the NCAA’s investigation of possible improper dealings between players and agents had reached Georgia, A.J. Green has declined comment on the matter except to say he has never been to Miami, scene of an agent-affiliated party that triggered the probe at several schools.
After practice Friday, Green said he looks forward to saying more.
“I hope it’s coming up soon,” he said. “It should be sometime next week, or whenever. I don’t know.”
He said the issue has “not at all” been a distraction.
On another topic, Georgia’s star wide receiver said he is focused on making the most of his junior season, not on the widespread expectation that he’ll enter next year’s NFL draft.
“You just can’t get caught up in the hype and that kind of stuff,” Green said. “You’re still in college; you’ve still got another year. There’s nothing like college. When you get in that real world, it’s nothing but business. Around here . . . you can have fun hanging around with your friends. I’m just going to take it day-by-day and game-by-game and get better each day.”
Now, something you might not know about Green: He revealed that he was on his elementary school’s “juggling team.”
“I guess,” he said, “that helped with my hand-eye coordination a lot.”
Green said he picked up the skill in second grade.
“I can juggle, like, four balls,” he said. “I can juggle everything –- pens, bowling pins, whatever.”
Green also revealed that he started riding a unicycle in fourth grade.
So now you know.
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A few more things:
- Georgia coach Mark Richt said Friday’s practice was “a whole lot better” than Thursday’s, which he said in retrospect “stunk.”
- Richt expects offensive guard Cordy Glenn, sidelined with mononucleosis, to return to practice by the week of the opening game, “if not sooner.”
- Georgia’s Blair Walsh was named Friday to the preseason watch list for the Lou Groza Award, which goes to college football’s top placekicker.
- UGA’s annual Fans’ Picture Day is Saturday in Sanford Stadium. Interim mascot “Russ” will be available for photos from 1-3 p.m., while players and coaches will be available for photos and autographs from 3-5 p.m.
- And finally, quarterback Aaron Murray laughed when asked if he’ll lobby Green to stick around for his senior season in 2011. “You never know, there might be a [NFL] lockout or something,” Murray said. “I won’t complain too much if he stays for that. I’m like, ‘Lockout! Lockout!’”
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RxDawg
August 21st, 2010
8:47 pm
It’s hard not to like AJ. I don’t care who you are or what colors you wear.
'94 UGA Alumni
August 21st, 2010
9:47 pm
Hey GT BABY,
We aren’t going to need any excuses. And here are some numbers for you to mull over…
(((((((((((((((((30-24)))))))))))))))))
(((((((((((((((((73-66)))))))))))))))))
(((((((((((((((((8 out of 9))))))))))))…..soon to be 9 out of 10!
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2010
9:50 pm
What’s this recent fascination with Jan Kemp from 20 yrs ago. Is she the popular new CosPlay choice or something?
Aside from the fact that you routinely butchers the facts and wouldn’t have a clue who she was if you couldn’t keep looking her up, nobody in this modern day gives a damn, least not UGA fans. The sad thing is this is what you guys puts your heads together and came up just confirms the stereotype of nerdy tech fans.
college is forever
August 21st, 2010
10:06 pm
http://www.collegelunchboxes.com The UGA classic tin lunchbox would be ideal for A.J. to carry his juggling items arouond. Except for the bowling ball (no kidding). Go Dawgs!!!.
Spike
August 22nd, 2010
8:33 am
If you stupe dogs would just rad your own blogs FOR ONCE!
You would see Schultz’s latest blog on all dog fans views of their infatuation with Coach Paul Johnsons anatomy and their desire to place their festered lips on said anatomy. Keep on sucking dogs……………
tell me again
August 22nd, 2010
8:45 am
Calvin Johnson? Oh HIM – the greatest Tech receiver ever who caught a total of 14 yards in passes in his career against UGA ? BRUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
tell me again
August 22nd, 2010
8:50 am
The facts are – Tech will probably do OK again in the ACC (ANYBODY CARE CONFERENCE) conference and UGA will probably be better this year in the toughest conference in America – anybody want to argue with 4 national championships in a row and the almost routine embarassment of the perenially favorite Buckeyes at the hands of the SEC opponent? But in the end, UGA will stomp Tech and give the human Boob another camera op to tell the world the UGA game doesn’t really matter – that he has bigger fish to fry. How did that big fish taste in the bowl game there, Boob Man?
footlong Dawg
August 22nd, 2010
8:56 am
Classy comments from Techies as usual…. if they are such brilliant, intelligent, highly paid engineers they would be too busy inventing new age high tech equip. or if they played sports so well… or even had a job ???? they would be way too busy to be on here all night ???
NCAA Death Penalty: UGLY MUTTS, 2010
August 22nd, 2010
10:05 am
I will dance on the UGA Football program’s grave before the year is out!
Zeke Bratkowski
August 22nd, 2010
10:15 am
Anybody remember me? Mopped up and helped guide the greatest football dynasty in history!
Joey
August 22nd, 2010
11:59 am
At least UGA’s academic problems took place in the ’80’s. How embarrasing is it for the State of Georgia for that Tech had that scandalous NCAA Probation just 5 short years ago?
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ATLANTA — The NCAA placed Georgia Tech on two years of probation Thursday for using 17 academically ineligible athletes in four sports, including 11 in football.
“Many of these student-athletes were prominent members of the team, including multiple-year starters who had received conference and national recognition for their athletic performances,” Marsh said.
“Many of these student-athletes were prominent members of the team, including multiple-year starters who had received conference and national recognition for their athletic performances,” Marsh said.
Also, the NCAA vacated Tech’s records in the sports between the 1998-99 and 2004-05 academic years and issued a public reprimand and censure.
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And you Techies continue to bring up the Jan Kemp situation from the 80’s? Better clean up your own stinking house . . .
NCAA Death Penalty: UGLY MUTTS, 2010
August 22nd, 2010
12:29 pm
I’ll be dancing a jig on the grave of UGAG football!!!! He he ha ha
PowerDawg
August 22nd, 2010
12:50 pm
These tech-school knuckleheads are so friggin’ jealous of us, even when we have a down year, that it is just “plain insane”.
Man, they should be counting their blessings. They should be thankful AJ didn’t participate in that backyard smackdown last November. The way we were running up and down the field on those hapless clowns, AJ might have hauled in 200 plus. Know what that means? Yes, North Avenue Intelligentsia… it would have meant adding another 20 points to the already embarassing result of our victory. That, clueless jacket “fans”, is just the way it is. Get used to the taste. You’ll be receiving another large portion come November. We expect you to eat everything on your plate. We want your tummies full when you make that annual trek out to Boise! Go Jerkets!
Attention Attention
August 22nd, 2010
12:55 pm
Attention :AltamahaDawg and other uninformed UGAG fans:
What Jan Kemp proved was that UGAG had an established process of Admitting & Playing
student athletes that were known to be illiterate in several cases, or other players who no ability to do ANY college level work. But, UGAG fans have NEVER been about academic integrity and student-athlete deevelopment. UGAG has ALWAYS been about winning, no matter how much cheating was necessary.
The process was so entrenched and corrupt that even former UGAG President Fred Davison was forced to resign, rather than be the one & only UGAG President to ever be fired by the State Goverment of Georgia.
Jan Kemp was awarded over $1Miilion by a federal judge after having proven in court, with no denial by UGAG, that UGAG had essentially been guilty of instituionally-sanctioned academic fraud on an unprecedented level.
UGAG is sports program that masquerades as a university.
History and FACTS have proven it over and over and over and over and over…
bigcalidawg
August 22nd, 2010
1:31 pm
If you are NOT a DAWG fan and you post here it might be an opportune moment to begin a new hobby. Consider gardening, or growing a few trees on your property.
Once again, I have never made a post on a Tech blog. Why are y’all so infatuated with us?
I think I hear your mamma callin’
PowerDawg
August 22nd, 2010
2:00 pm
Jan Kemp and 2008. That’s all the gnat-gnuts have to hang on to. Like drowning men after a ship wreck, anything that will float, they’ll grab hold of.
It’s very sad, actually.
LHardingDawg
August 22nd, 2010
2:54 pm
Attention – You are an idiot living in the past. Get a life!
AltamahaDawg
August 22nd, 2010
3:07 pm
Attention: repeating the same old worn out banality still does not make incorrect information factual. …….and it made you sound like a first class punk.
AltamahaDawg
August 22nd, 2010
3:11 pm
…nor does capitalizing the word FACTS magically transform your opinion into them.
and tech signed who?
August 22nd, 2010
5:14 pm
Pj has recruited 1 or 2 that have been drafted., UGA, QB’s from UGA drafted in the last 10 years
Carter, Greene, Shockley, Stafford.
912 Dawg
August 22nd, 2010
5:20 pm
Welcome to Dawg Nation, Chris Mayes! Go Dawgs!!!!!
An Inconvenient Truth
August 22nd, 2010
6:54 pm
UGA folks can brag all you want to about beating Tech in football most years, and that’s perfectly fair. What’s also fair is to point out that with a history of Jan Kemp (Vince Dooley exposed as a slimy fraud), Jim Harrick, and now Damon Evans, UGA is truly “The Cesspool of the South,” and is richly deserving of that title. No one outside of Georgia has any respect for UGA or its athletic department, and that is a fact. It has been said many times: “Tech people are proud of their school, Georgia people are proud of their team.” What a really crappy legacy for dawgtards to be proud of!
UGA fans can now return to your delapidated mobile homes and resume waiting for your unemployment checks.
And watching those red panties falling from the sky, always a good time-killer for thUGA dawgtards. :-) :-) :-)
and tech signed who?
August 22nd, 2010
7:10 pm
An Inconvenient Truth , Lets not fail to mention the most recent “institute” that was placed on NCAA probation, perhaps that’s too inconvenient. Please explain the coincidence of Flunkgate and Morris Browns losing accreditation.
Sami
August 22nd, 2010
9:40 pm
At least UGA’s academic problems took place in the ’80’s. How embarrasing is it for the State of Georgia for that Tech had that scandalous NCAA Probation just 5 short years ago?
The Tech problem was clearly a one-time inadvertant mistake. The slimy situation that Jan Kemp exposed had been going on for years, and still goes on. When she threatened to expose the crappy things that were going on at UGA, Vince Dooley had her fired. She sued, and UGA had to pay her more than a million dollars. At least the trial revealed Vince Dooley as a supreme slimeball, and it ruined his chances for the political career that he dreamed of.
Many years later, Jim Harrick showed that nothing has changed. UGA is still a party school with a bunch of drunks and a bunch of illiterate athletes who seldom finish school and end up living in a rundown single-wide and working in the most menial jobs if they have a job at all. And yes, there are those unfortunate 42 arrests in three years.
So get your facts right, dawgturd. And go suck on some red panties.
jack
August 23rd, 2010
12:57 am
Hmmm…just looked at the Parade list online. GT #4, UGA #13 of Large State Schools.
Mike Smith Hiram GA
August 25th, 2010
12:37 am
You know I just hate the fact that he has to leave in four, and I will admit I will likely cry like a three year old girl when he leaves. No shame in it…. Hopefully every team we play this season will cry after playing him. But thats just my wishful thinking.