UGA adds Charleston Southern, Georgia Southern to future football schedules
Georgia has added Charleston Southern to its home football schedule for 2014 and Georgia Southern for 2016, UGA associate athletic director Arthur Johnson said this morning.
The Nov. 22, 2014, game will be Georgia’s first ever against Charleston Southern, while the Nov. 19, 2016, game will continue the Bulldogs’ trend of playing Georgia Southern once every four years.
Georgia will pay Charleston Southern $450,000 and Georgia Southern $525,000 for making the trips to Athens.
Both schools are Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) members. FCS teams command payouts considerably smaller than Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) teams. The going rate for getting a FBS team to play in your stadium without demanding a return trip is close to $1 million.
Georgia typically plays one FCS opponent per season.
Charleston Southern played at Florida last season and lost to the Gators 62-3. Georgia is 4-0 against Georgia Southern; the teams played in 1992, 2000, 2004 and 2008 and also are scheduled to play in 2012.
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Texas Pete
September 30th, 2010
9:37 am
I am disappointed that we haven’t struck a deal to play Georgia State yet. They are still trying to put together future schedules so they’ve got to be open. Drop Charleston Southern for Georgia State!
McGarity Blows
September 30th, 2010
9:37 am
Can’t wait to spend $100-plus for the likes of Charleston Southern and Ga. Southern. Let me call the Hotel Indigo now and book my room before the place sells-out.
I had a hard time enough time giving away the Louisiana-Lafayette and Idaho State tickets.
Who gives a rat’s ass what Florida does with its schedule. They have the “extra” home game every year with the UGA/Fla game being in-state.
If McGarity wants to have the extra home game help the Athens economy why not make the Florida game rotate?…Gainesville, Athens, Jacksonville, Atlanta.
McGarity seems to be afraid of the Chick Fil A kickoff game.
Another idea would be to schedule Ga. State every year. The game in Atlanta would be essentially another home game.
I guess these ideas make too much sense.
Can’t wait to see what other powerhouses the new AD will be lining-up next. Louisiana-Monroe? Savannah State? Hey wait Kennesaw State will be starting a program soon.
I hear Coastal Carolina is looking for an opponent in ‘16…or was that Coast Guard?
UGASlobberknocker
September 30th, 2010
9:37 am
The only thing I hate is someone posting comments with my name..now shut up and go downstairs and see if Mom has breakfast ready you moron.
Convenient
September 30th, 2010
9:38 am
UGASlobberknocker – And Washington, Kansas State, and Fresno State aren’t pathetic? Why list them and not Louisville. You are trying to prove your point but it doesn’t hold any water my friend.
Go Dawgs!
September 30th, 2010
9:38 am
Alabama: / Penn State , Michigan
Tennessee/ Oregon, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Ohio State, NC State
LSU/ Oregon, Washington, TCU, Arizona State
Auburn/ Clemson, Kansas St
Arkansas/ Tex AM annually, Texas
Ole Miss/ Boise State, Fresno St, Texas
Again UGA plays GT EVERY YEAR, UF plays FSU EVERY YEAR, SC plays Clemson EVERY YEAR.
All of the schools listed above have their natural rival within the conference (except Arkansas who does play one of the Texas schools as that continues tradition from SWC days).
If you want UGA to play all of these different schools then we should drop GT. None of those schools play TWO BCS schools in the same year regularly, so quit touting them like they’re doing something special because they’re not!
Gary
September 30th, 2010
9:39 am
If Boise State can be considered in the title race with their schedule, Georgia should schedule anyone they want OOC.
Brilliant comment...
September 30th, 2010
9:39 am
…that “ticket prices will go up if a 7th home game is added” Well, DUH!!!
reebok
September 30th, 2010
9:40 am
Wasted games
And, didn't the inglorius ...
September 30th, 2010
9:40 am
…University of FLORIDA play Charleston Southern back in 2008 or 2009?
1eyedJack
September 30th, 2010
9:41 am
If you need to recruit on a national basis then I say schedule those tough OOC games in far flung places. If you basically recruit your own state and surrounding states, then why bother?
Good job ...
September 30th, 2010
9:41 am
…Go Dawgs!
JB
September 30th, 2010
9:43 am
Please refer to Fla Gator schedule of late…….McGarity learned from Foley…..Loaded up on 2-3 pre season warm ups and put some air in your top 25 rating.
DOO DOO LEE
September 30th, 2010
9:43 am
playing CHARLESTON SOUTHERN IS a DISGRACE just like FL playing them. WHAT A JOKE. UGA is better off having Damon Evans back. What a gutless decision. The only reason Charleston Southern’s football program is Div I AA is because NCAA rules state the football and basketball program have to be in the same class otherwise the football team would have stayed in DIv III. Has anyone at all seen their football stadium? It is similar to junior high school. Yes that is right, junior high school. The power house high schools would not be seen at the place. What in the name of God are you recruiting 5 stars to play these schools? Are you so down on yourselves this is the best you can do? MAN UP fans and tell the clown(AD) that is ludicrous. WHAT A BUNCH OF COWARDS, but I guess that is the SEC way. Bama playing Ga State. GOD help all of you.
Convenient
September 30th, 2010
9:44 am
UGASlobberknocker – I am not defending the future schedules. I am just pointing out that your earlier post was very misleading and that UGA’s schedule isn’t as bad as you believe it is. I mean you had time to look up every other schools future schedule but you somehow left off forgot to mention Clemson when talking about “your” teams schedule. I mean really?
dawgs downhill
September 30th, 2010
9:44 am
0 and 3 in the SEC next we will be losing to Football Championship Subdivision teams come on UGA at least make the games interesting Clemson, Southern Cal or even Big Ten team even if they are close to FCS teams
Doga Smell
September 30th, 2010
9:44 am
UGASlobberknocker– Not even close ! Ga goes no where you couldnt drive to in a few hours. I see why you would say close as you were close in your last 3 games right?
go away
September 30th, 2010
9:44 am
Some of you so called Georgia fans are embarrassing your institution moreso than any coach or player.
Georgia’s poor performance extends into the stands as well this season. Bunch of turncoats. Idiots. Sure there are on the field problems. You idiot fans are making it worse. The players and coaches hate you.
Greg McGarity
September 30th, 2010
9:45 am
2015 – Camden High School….also offering Florida 2 million to let us win
funny...
September 30th, 2010
9:46 am
The lack of college football intelligence posted in these blogs is astounding.
SECWasteManagement
September 30th, 2010
9:48 am
I don’t want to see UGA travel across the globe to get bent over if they’re having a bad year and fully agree with taking Oregon off the schedule. I can’t speak for Charleston Southern, but I’m an Athens native and Georgia Southern graduate, and you can always expect GSU to put up a great fight vs. larger schools (past ones being UGA and UNC) and this year, Navy (whom we nearly beat). I will continue to go to games no matter who they play because that’s what real fans do and I can’t wait for the GSU/UGA game in 2012. As for fans of other conferences, keep assuming the position when you play SEC schools and then you can laugh all the way back to the bus when it starts getting warmed up before halftime.
Hobnailbooty
September 30th, 2010
9:48 am
Mike Bobo 17 INT. I’m not bragging I’m just saying. i would much rather play all big boys and no cupcakes but if every body else is doing it then why shouldn’t we and Oh by the way with 3 cupcakes last year I don’t remember FLa in the BCS champ game but hey you did win the east!!
Convenient
September 30th, 2010
9:48 am
dawgs downhill – Clemson is on the schedule for 2013 and 2014. All you have to do is look at the future schedule. Might want to do that next time before posting on here.
Tech Man
September 30th, 2010
9:49 am
UGASlobberknocker
I can appreciate your frustration over your donations for seats and feeling like you are not getting a good value in scheduling an FCS opponent.
I cannot make a case for Charleston Southern, however, the Georgia Southern game I am sure will be a good experience. They play competitive football. Discussions with their alumni, etc will hopefully make it worth it.
cursive
September 30th, 2010
9:49 am
UGA plays in the toughest division of the toughest conference in college football! Bring on the cupcakes! Give our boys the advantage that UF, Alabama, Texas, USC, all of the perennial winners have!
ViningsDawg
September 30th, 2010
9:49 am
Greg suggests we need to play these games to win championships. I guess he forgets that Auburn palyed the Citadel in 2004 and was criticized. I believe everyone in the SEC can do better than scheduling these.
PMC
September 30th, 2010
9:50 am
Wow. Way to stick it to your fans for cash.
I guess this is the way of the world until these games are banned.
Booking wins. It’s the Florida way.
This just makes the in stadium experience at Sanford that much duller.
One of the worst in stadium experiences in the SEC. Nothing like those
12AM starts to make the geriatric alumni happy.
PMC
September 30th, 2010
9:51 am
I totally understand the logic. It’s just bad for college football as a whole.
Matchups are what people really want to see. If you actually pay money to go to these games you’re crazy.
BigDawg
September 30th, 2010
9:51 am
Notice that Richt’s won/loss record is mostly against patsies just like these two. Whenever he plays a top 50 program during the football season he usually loses with one exception…GT. But I really could care less about those wins. Most were against their old coach Gailey and we all know Richt was the better coach. We can’t say that anymore. He is at best 3rd or 4th from the bottom in the SEC coaches and likely in the bottom two. Luckily our talent compensates on most weekends. Why can’t we go out and get a coach worthy of our talent? Bama did! Florida did! Shoot even Miss. St. did even though they’ll will never have the talent to compete in the SEC…they have the better coach!
Dawg Trainer
September 30th, 2010
9:51 am
Here’s the bottom line. I thought Georgia did things the Georgia way. Now the new AD comes in and immediately says “We can’t win the Georgia way, I gotta copy Florida.”
That would stick in my craw if I was a Dawg fan.
BigDawg
September 30th, 2010
9:53 am
BTW I am a Tech Fan!
PMC
September 30th, 2010
9:54 am
FCS scheduling should be completely banned. If you want to go to a bowl game at the end you should have to play BCS games ONLY.
Patsy Schedule
September 30th, 2010
9:54 am
Looks like Patsy Schedule lives again ! The old Vince Dooley method of scheduling is back. Did it ever leave ? If it did, it didn’t for long enough. This is a tried and true way of assuring W’s but it also will assure that people will lose interest in a program that doesn’t need to give their fans any more reasons to get their entertainment elsewhere. If you don’t think you can beat the better teams, petition to move the program to a lower level. Then you can play all the Charleston Southerns you want.
BigDawg
September 30th, 2010
9:55 am
I mean Richt just forgot how to coach. It happens all the time. A coach can average 10 wins a season for almost a decade and then he just forgets how to coach. Oh wait! That doesn’t make sense. I am an idiot!
Dog hater since 1993
September 30th, 2010
9:56 am
Play somebody like Michigan, Ohio State, Texas, So. Cal. Somebody other than a I-AA school. Putting them for the 1st week is fine. NOT FOR HOMECOMING…..I know you guys are scared of going 15 miles outside of Athens, but until you CONSISTANTLY play somebody like the previous mentioned……shut UP
Sam Robards, Dawg Fan
September 30th, 2010
9:56 am
McGarity is clearly trying to implement the Florida model of “don’t play anyone competitive out of your conference except for your ACC rival” at UGA, and I honestly don’t care for it. Florida hasn’t left the state to play a regular season out of conference game in THREE DECADES, and that’s shameful. I don’t want to be like that, guaranteed wins or not.
Yeah, the SEC is hard, and you don’t wanna overload your schedule, but these big out of conference games (UGA/Azzie State, OK State, etc) are really fun and give the fans a chance to see different kinds of matchups that we normally wouldn’t see outside of bowl season. How many cupcake games do you expect us to go see? Heck, it seems like we barely sold out the LALA game this year, and that was our first game of the year. How’s that going to help ticket sales when we start with three straight cupcakes down the line?
Though, to be fair, I understand the GA Southern game. It’s becoming somewhat of a four-year tradition, and there are a lot of fans that like to see (and pay to see) that matchup. So that makes sense.
Back to the broad picture, though. I would also argue that big non-conference games are more valuable than cupcakes. “How so,” you ask? Well, if you win a cupcake, it’s a given. If you win a touch nonconference matchup, it’s an accomplishment and weighs heavily in your strength of schedule ranking. If you lose a tough matchup, you get a little slack from pollsters (unless you get blown out). If you lose to a cupcake, you’re embarrassed totally, and it’s impossible to come back in the rankings. Remember Appie State against Michigan? Jacksonville State against Ole Miss? James Madison against Virginia Tech?
And don’t say you can’t win if you schedule these big games. ‘Bama has done pretty dang well and they’ve played Penn State, Virginia Tech and Clemson the last three years. LSU played (a depleted, granted) North Carolina team to start this year, and they’re still undefeated, last time I checked, though they may not be for much longer (their offense is almost as bad as ours!).
Of course, if it were up to me, I’d make us play Clemson every year or at least every other year. I loved that matchup/rivalry.
Go Dawgs!
September 30th, 2010
9:56 am
Some Dawg fans just aren’t happy unless they’re complaining about SOMETHING!
I’m willing to bet the same folks criticizing McGarity are the very folks who were begging the administration to hire him in the first place.
Look the definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over expecting a different result. The “tough schedule” experiment failed, get over it. Tennessee HAS to schedule these games because they have a low talent pool in Tenn and have to recruit nationwide.
UGA simply needs to keep homegrown talent at home PERIOD! Much like UF.
Again, the man comes from a successful program and was born and raised in Athens so I know he cares about UGA, so until he proves otherwise I’ll trust his judgement. It’s not like the same philosophy hasn’t worked at UF.
No wonder our fans are a laughing stock. NEVER SATISFIED with anything anyone decides and have all the answers. Most here probably think they could tell Eskimos how to better build igloos!
McGarity Blows
September 30th, 2010
9:57 am
This will also be the end of night games …this will be McGarity’s next move. Just wait and see.
Dooley was against scheduling them….said that he wanted to make sure the elderly So. Ga. alums made it home in time to get a good night’s sleep before church on Sunday.
I am sure McGarity will follow suit. After all this is how Florida does it.
Dog hater since 1993
September 30th, 2010
9:57 am
I mean it isn’t like you went to Arizona State a couple years ago and are going to Boulder this weekend to play Colorado.
Red & Black
September 30th, 2010
9:58 am
Rumor has it that Richt and the new AD are pushing the Athletic Association to allow us to play in Conference USA or the MEAC. They want to leave the SEC so that UGA has the potential to win more championships. The Out of Conference games would be with Valdosta State, West Georgia and Mars Hill. Richt was overheard telling the AD and his current team, “Well if we can’t beat’em we’ll simply leave’m”.
SECWasteManagement
September 30th, 2010
9:59 am
Frank Solich when he was at Nebraska is a perfect example of coach with an excellent record who got canned for not winning “the big ones.” Richt has been going down that hill for a few years and this year is when his brakes give out I’m afraid.
Greg McGarity
September 30th, 2010
10:00 am
We will be playing in Southern Conference as long as Appalacian State moves out
Hobnailbooty
September 30th, 2010
10:01 am
And Oh BTW for those wondering why WE cancelled the Oregon games read on particularly the second sentence:
Georgia’s athletic director, McGarity canceled a series that would have had the Bulldogs play Oregon in 2015 and 2016 — the first game in Eugene, the second in Athens. Oregon’s new athletic director also wanted out of that cross-country series..
If we cancelled and they didn’t want to then we would have paid $$$$$ an there was no payout so it was mutual morons.
Red & Black
September 30th, 2010
10:01 am
I just made that up! I am bored and have nothing else to do.
jarvis
September 30th, 2010
10:02 am
Yay!
I get to pay $240 for these two games.
Thanks for nothing.
GeorgiaDuck
September 30th, 2010
10:04 am
Charleston Southern? Looks like McGarity has brought the Gators schedule to Athens.
Nothing to gain by playing Oregon? Are you trying to say that UGA fans would rather see a school like Charleston Southern than Oregon? Tennessee seems to be the only school in the almighty SEC that will play anybody. I have lost all respect for Georgia.
San Francisco Dawg
September 30th, 2010
10:04 am
What a complete joke! Cancelling Oregon to play Georgia Southern?…we have become the joke of the SEC and a mediocre school in the eyes of every other program…what kind of Athletic Director did we hire? Why don’t we schedule a game with a Georgia high school…
Absolute joke!
Greg McGarity
September 30th, 2010
10:04 am
We will be offereing free breakfast at the East Commons for all 11:00 kickoff games with teams with Coastal in their name…
not inspired
September 30th, 2010
10:05 am
I absolutely hate the fact that we dropped Oregon and added these cupcake teams. Since I no longer live in Atlanta I am not able to go home and watch games as often as I like, but I am willing to go see games against schools we don’t normally play like ASU, Colorado and Oregon. I am not willing to spend my money on coming home to watch us play these little cupcake teams (no offense to them), and sure it may toughen our schedule and we may lose a game or two, but atleast we are on the field and playing football, not patty-cake. I think McGarity is a great hire, but we are not Florida, don’t treat us like Florida, we don’t want to pad our schedule. I would rather go 3-9 playing tough teams, then 9-3 playing cupcakes!
Dog hater since 1993
September 30th, 2010
10:05 am
I’ll be the 1st to tell you Georgia has ALWAYS been a joke program. The ONLY reason you won in 1980 was because of Herschel. Ever since then, people go on and on and on and on and on……..and on. The nation doesn’t care. Do you ESPN giving cuodo’s? No. Nobody cares about your constant trips to Shreveport, Memphis, Nashville. When you go to BCS games as constantly as FLORIDA, I’ll be impressed. You can’t back your crap up and you’re finally paying for the bragging. Hate to see Coach Richt get run off, he doesn’t deserve it.
like2win
September 30th, 2010
10:06 am
what a chicken sh&t move no guts no glory