Green named Georgia’s MVP at banquet (plus: other awards and Team of Decade)
Wide receiver A.J. Green received the “Vince Dooley Most Valuable Player of the Year” award at Georgia’s annual football gala Saturday night in Athens.
Many other awards and honors also were handed out:
- Most Valuable Offensive Player: Quarterback Aaron Murray.
- Most Valuable Defensive Player: Outside linebacker Justin Houston.
- Most Valuable Special Teams Players: Placekicker Blair Walsh and punter Drew Butler.
- Overall permanent captain: Fullback Shaun Chapas.
- Offensive captain: Lineman Clint Boling.
- Defensive captain: Linebacker Akeem Dent.
- Special teams captain: Butler.
- David Jacobs Award (for player who portrays courage, spirit, character and determination): Chapas.
- Leon Farmer Award (for dedication to the strength and conditioning program): Chapas and Boling.
- Most Improved Players: Wide receiver Marlon Brown (offense); linebacker Darryl Gamble and safety Bacarri Rambo (defense); safety Shawn Williams and cornerback Sanders Commings (special teams).
- Newcomers of the Year: Murray (offense), safety Alec Ogletree (defense) and Blake Sailors (special teams).
- Coaches’ Leadership Awards: Center Ben Jones (offense); Dent and end Demarcus Dobbs (defense); Chapas (special teams).
- Outstanding Scout Team Awards: defensive end Jeremy Longo, offensive lineman Hugh Williams, receiver Michael Erdman, tailback Wes Van Dyke and safety Lucas Redd.
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Also at the gala, Georgia’s Team of the Decade, covering the 2001-2010 seasons, was announced. The all-decade team was chosen through online voting, with more than 37,000 ballots cast at the georgiadogs.com website. The team includes:
DEFENSE
DE: Charles Grant and David Pollack
DT: Jeff Owens and Geno Atkins
OLB: Rennie Curran and Boss Bailey
ILB: Dannell Ellerbe and Odell Thurman
CB: Tim Jennings and Asher Allen
FS: Thomas Davis
SS: Greg Blue
OFFENSE
C: Ben Jones
OG: Fermando Velasco and Max Jean-Gilles
OT: Jon Stinchcomb and Clint Boling
TE: Ben Watson
WR: Mohamed Massaquoi and A.J. Green
FB: Brannan Southerland
TB: Knowshon Moreno
QB: David Greene
SPECIAL TEAMS
P: Drew Butler
PK: Blair Walsh
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158 comments Add your comment
UGAdawg
December 12th, 2010
7:56 am
Uga fans have never respected Terrence and what he did for us. And that’s a shame
Time for a Change
December 12th, 2010
8:04 am
Murray should have been MVP. If it wasn’t for him, the DAWGS wouldn’t have won the 6 games. AJ missed a 1/4 of the season and gets MVP? I don’t know who did the voting for this, but they need to have their A$$’s kicked. The fact that Rambo was mentioned for anything is absurd! Most Improved Player?!?! Are you kidding me??? He has no clue what to do back there and was constantly getting burned for big play after big play!!! What a joke!!
Paddy
December 12th, 2010
8:09 am
steeldog125….I must disagree, if Houston and Green are going to be NFL first round draft choices, they need to pick up the check. They would be crazy to turn down a chance to be set for life for 1 more year with the Dawgs.
Buckeye
December 12th, 2010
8:17 am
So many awards, so few wins…….
(28 degree in Memphis)
dawgfan
December 12th, 2010
8:32 am
Defensively, look at the guys on that all decade list and look at the guys we have now. There should be no mystery as to why we are 6-6. Most of our starters now wouldn’t have cracked the two deep roster during the ‘02-’05 era.
Dawg '94
December 12th, 2010
9:04 am
I do not understand how Green gets an award. Well…..maybe The Player Who Let His Team Mates Down The Most Award. He OWES it to Georgia to come back his senior year! BUT I will say that I don’t understand that if his parents had tried to “sell” him, he would not have missed a game.
Garrett
December 12th, 2010
9:14 am
How did we leave Terrace Edawrds out of the all-decade team? I love MoMass but come one, Edwards was awesome. And how did Rambo win the most improved player award? I didn’t see any improvement all season with him! He just stayed the same and in some areas degressed!
salinsa
December 12th, 2010
9:15 am
Sean Jones should have made the team over Blue. Not only was Sean the most complete safety of the Richt era, he was one of the better players period. In 2002, the famous Greene to Michael Johnson game at Auburn, we would have gotten blown out by Auburn if Sean Jones. Due to his 2 1st half ints and several long punt returns throughout the game to keep us in the game, we were only down 14-3 at the half. He kept us in that game. We are not winning the SEC that year without Sean Jones
Blue was a great tackler but was a HUGE liability in the pass coverage. Actually T Davis was not good in coverage either. BVG knew that so that’s why on many 3rd downs Davis pretty much lined up at DE and rushed the passer. As opposed to Jones who was sound in both the running and passing game. Plus he could return punts. Jones should have made it at FS and Thomas Davis at SS
doggoneit
December 12th, 2010
9:17 am
Muschamp is a great D coordinator, but may not be a good HC. The Gators won’t give the old Dawg a very long leash to win the sec and an national championship, and with all the players they are losing this year, odds are Muschamp well be gone after three years. Richt has UGA back on track and the dawgs fire Grantham and hire Muschamp as DC. Muschamp has a score to settle with the Gators, and all is well for the foreseeable future!!!
bossdawg
December 12th, 2010
9:24 am
doggoneit,are you still drunk from last night?CMR will retire within the next 2 years and the dawgs will hire an ex gator like Mullen or Strong. Hows that for the foreseeable future?
Spurrier
December 12th, 2010
9:33 am
Winning an award at UGA is like being the tallest midget. If you thought this year was bad you are in for a real treat next season. Now you will get smacked around by Muschamp, a former UGA player. Rev. Richt will again fail to develop any talent, and 4-8 is a distinct possibility. Ha ha ha uga 5th in the east next season.
MJ
December 12th, 2010
9:48 am
MoMass over Terence Edwards is a disgrace.
Whiny Dan Magill
December 12th, 2010
9:57 am
Wow. Army’s losing streak to Navy is now longer than The Drought.
I’m writing a letter to the Superintendent up at West Point and tell him he can start pretending some of the losses don’t count, since Navy has apparently had officer trainees on their rosters.
Mr. Red
December 12th, 2010
10:03 am
So Greed does pay in the state of Georgia. Only in foggy bottom could a kid who sold his jersey for a thousand bucks to have spending money while on spring break could win an award in Georgia. No matter that by getting suspended for 4 games and possibly causing his team at least one, maybe two losses in that time, he still gets an award.
You people are sick!
Mr. Red
December 12th, 2010
10:05 am
And congrats to Scam Newton and his father. Scam and Daddy have proven that the NCAA is as corrupt as any college sports program that has been under investigation and punished by said august organization in the last 30 years!
Pago Pago Dawg
December 12th, 2010
10:22 am
dawgster…..PLZ get somebody to teach you what a “paragraph” is!Gessh.
Joey
December 12th, 2010
11:06 am
Yeah, Mo Mas is terrible. Dufus, he is so far the better of the the three high picks (incl Stafford and knowshon) in the NFL.
ECDawg
December 12th, 2010
11:14 am
Somehow, someway, Sean Jones has got to be a member of the team of the decade….
Seriously
December 12th, 2010
11:23 am
Sean Jones is a must.
Others to consider-
ben watson, thomas brown, tony gilbert (easily better than ellerbe, had a much better lb coach though..), tim wansley for sure, jermaine phillips, johnathan sullivan (helped to create pollack and the other ends of that time)
PS- boweevil is tard. ignore him please.
Seriously
December 12th, 2010
11:26 am
sorry didnt see that watson made it.
Curt McGill at center was a beast. In fact, the entire line of the 2002 season could be mentioned. If yall recall musa only ever got the yardage they gave him, he had no wiggle at all. What a team that was. would be national champs if the bcs wasnt retarded.
BoWeevil
December 12th, 2010
11:41 am
All Decade Team, us with 20 LOSSES the last 5 years, averaging 4-LOSS season each of the last 5 years
What a freaking joke,
Just like our Awards.
How can there be 27 Awards to a team
6-6
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How to inflate a recruiting class and STILL lose
December 12th, 2010
11:55 am
If a school signs two all world 4 or 5 star wide outs and a all world safety and a 4 or 5 star LB, maybe one well known HS back, …………… then chances are that your class rating will be very high. Without the really good linemen EVERY year ………………..every year, year in and year out, every year, good to great linemen are needed in the SEC. Richt uses the old 90s formula of Bobby Bowdon with highly skilled, fast skill players BUT with very average AND WEAK linemen. THIS is one of his biggest issues. Our BIG guys are simply too weak to compete in this league. See Joe T’s comments.
Richt has a failed national shot gun approach to recruiting where the top players, regardless of where they live, like Texas or NJ or Florida or SC go up on the UGA recruiting board ………………… then they deploy after them. This formula totally abandons the 3 and 4 star LOCAL kids that are UGA fans anyway. No Show Moreno probably was more excited with the results of the Temple vs Syracuse game or the Pitt vs Iowa game than UGA games. It showed too. Same with that punk Stafford who did nothing for UGA. Nothing. This IS the main problem at UGA. Thes kids lack UGA connectivity.
Mark R. has overlooked getting really good, competitive ( did I say smart? ) kids from metro Atlanta who have grown up with park pee wee ball and great metro Atl HS coaching …. like David Green and David Pollack and Sean Jones and the Stinchcomb boys. ALL metro Atlanta kids. See??? Eric Zeir is another great example of this and Andre Hastings ……………LOCAL Atlanta kids.
Richt will be fired this time next year or he will resign, proving my point that UGA should have fired him after 2009.
polskidawg
December 12th, 2010
12:12 pm
Where’s Sean Jones on the Team of the Decade? He’s the best all-around safety since Jake Scott.
Wansley or Oliver were better college dawgs than Asher, though he was a fine player.
ole ball coach
December 12th, 2010
1:00 pm
Now Spurrier, that is some HILARIOUS stuff, I almost fell to the ground!!! The “ole ball coach” is impressed!!
Pago Pago Dawg
December 12th, 2010
1:32 pm
So how many schools looking for head coaches even consider looking at UGA coaches…think about it…..
Haha
December 12th, 2010
1:53 pm
A guy who broke rules, only played for 2/3 of the season is the mvp? Only the idiots at ga would do that. Murray was the mvp hands down.
Does it hurt when Muschamp calls florida a dream job come true? You bet!
18/21 losers.
Dooley
December 12th, 2010
1:58 pm
two ex dog connections now coaching at rivals and will be better teams in 2011.
you lose almost all of your receiving offense. good luck with that. poor aaron.
i see losses next year to–
boise–blowout
sc-close
fla-2 td loss
tenn-close
aub-close
miss st or miss-close
gt-close
6-6 all over again and with 5 cupcakes.
Cletus
December 12th, 2010
2:00 pm
I think loganville high is looking at Bobo Pago and snellville medical school wants grantham to show how you check if your neck glands are swollen.
jimmymack
December 12th, 2010
2:30 pm
DID ANYONE COMMIT?
7576DAWG
December 12th, 2010
2:46 pm
Pago Pago Dawg
UGA has a young group of coaches at least when it comes to tenure in their current positions. Head coaches at major 1-A colleges would have to have a good track record as coordinators. Even Bobo only has a few years , to be fair . My problem with Bobo is allowing Bobo to learn to be a coordinator , on the job. You need to have 5 to 10 years as a successful coordinator to be considered as a head coach to a major college.
If you look at successful head coaches most of the time you will find they had great coordinator with them when their teams did great. The reason Myers was so successful at Florida was because Strong and Mullens were great coordinators. That’s also why CMR is having limited success at UGA . What made CMR was his success at FSU as an offensive coordinator. That doesn’t mean he is going to be a great head coach. The jury is still out on CMR as a head coach but until he get’s great coordinators he will have an up and down career with only limited success. We will know a lot more about Grantham next year and especially in 2012. I don’t think Bobo will ever be considered for a big time head coach job because he has limitations when making changes during the game and he changes to things that ends up not working from things that was working. Bobo seems very unsure of his decisions and confused during the game, not having confidence in his decisions.
Teri post, said it all in her criticism of Bobo and the offense and I agree with most everything she said.. Just because we scored 30 plus point’s in a lot of our games doesn’t mean the offense did a good job this year.
Dawgsbark
December 12th, 2010
2:46 pm
Love it “Muschamp to Fla…maybe I will become a Gator…
still a dawg fan
December 12th, 2010
2:46 pm
How could Terrace Edwards be left off of the all decade? What a shame. Fred Gibson or Reggie Brown would have been a better choice then Mo Mass.
CHAD
December 12th, 2010
4:53 pm
WHERE IS SEAN JONES AT….HANDS DOWN THE BEST SAFETY THE PAST DECADE
CHAD
December 12th, 2010
4:55 pm
No Mo Mass was better and mor consistent than Gibson and Brown…in reality Brown only had one good season. Edwards you can make the case for him but certainly not fred gibson
Dawg_Mike
December 12th, 2010
5:07 pm
Muschamp ?
I really don’t give a rats arse.
David Greene?!!?
December 12th, 2010
5:44 pm
David Greene??? DAVID GREENE?!?!?! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That guy is lamer than David Pollack’s neck!
Covers Dixie like the Dew
December 12th, 2010
6:22 pm
The Dawgs are 6-6 and headed to Memphis.
DOGGIE IN NC
December 12th, 2010
6:35 pm
Good Grief! This blog is made up of so many GT buttwipes posing as DAWGS that it is sickening. Get a life people! DAWGS will be fine next year; we have top redshirt talent that will start and should snag some top freshmen that will start also, to go along with some very good players that will remain. Do you fools really think BS will beat us in our house next year – not going to happen. GO DOGGIES1
BoWeevil
December 12th, 2010
8:37 pm
AJ Green
MVP
hogwash
ALMA
December 12th, 2010
8:55 pm
So ironical — Max Jean-Gilles is now an offensive starter on the Eagles, who is on TV “as I type!” I love seeing the names of the players my daughter and her family (of course) enjoyed while she was a UGA student in the early 2000’s.
WAR DAMN EAGLE!!!
December 12th, 2010
9:55 pm
(((((49-31))))) hahahahahha
Soglad it hurts you doggies so bad!!!!
Berzerk8dawg
December 12th, 2010
10:34 pm
WAR DAMN EAGLE- it doesn’t your probably not even a Auburn fan? Mabye a Tech fan in disguise?
Anyway all your points are invalid. How does it feel to be a joke?
Mike Bobo 17 INT
December 12th, 2010
10:47 pm
First, nobody really cares about UGA football awards for a team that finishes 6-6, but go ahead and pass them out if it makes you feel good.
Second, how about an Award to Will Muschamp for having the integrity to turn down UGA, then accept the head coaching offer from Florida. It is going to hurt like hell when Muschamp continues to the Florida domination over Georgia for the next 10-12 years, and getting beat by your own man.
Keep up the great government work in Athens.
Mike Bobo 17 INT
December 12th, 2010
10:48 pm
6-6 and off to Memphis….yeal baby!!! 6-6 and off to Memphis….yeal baby!!!6-6 and off to Memphis….yeal baby!!!6-6 and off to Memphis….yeal baby!!!6-6 and off to Memphis….yeal baby!!!6-6 and off to Memphis….yeal baby!!!6-6 and off to Memphis….yeal baby!!!6-6 and off to Memphis….yeal baby!!!6-6 and off to Memphis….yeal baby!!!6-6 and off to Memphis….yeal baby!!!6-6 and off to Memphis….yeal baby!!!6-6 and off to Memphis….yeal baby!!!6-6 and off to Memphis….yeal baby!!!6-6 and off to Memphis….yeal baby!!!
AJ Greene will be gone 2011
December 12th, 2010
10:49 pm
Will that still make him a “true” dawg as you rednecks say?
Mike Bobo 17 INT
December 12th, 2010
10:51 pm
Famous Athens quotes:
1. Always next year, year, after year, after year, after year….
2. We love CMR
3. If anyone criticizes CMR or UGA football, we will crucify them
4. What do you mean we are the dumbest fans in D-1?
5. We fell how many ranks in the first 2 weeks of 2008?
6. We dominate the Big 12, except for OSU
WDE
December 12th, 2010
10:53 pm
I think the fact that AJ Green, after missing 1/3 of the season due to NCAA violations, got MVP honors over Aaron Murray speaks volumes about UGA’s recent, current, and proximate decline.
BoWeevil
December 12th, 2010
11:37 pm
BOWL GAME PREDICTIONS :
7-3 SEC in Bowl Games
6-2 Big XII
4-4 ACC
3-2 BIG EAST
3-1 MAC
3-2 CUSA
2-2 MWC
2-4 BIG TEN
1-2 SUNBELT
1-2 WAC
0-5 PAC-10
Stingless
December 13th, 2010
12:43 am
This list is incomplete without Reggie Ball as QB
7576DAWG
December 13th, 2010
12:49 am
The most pathetic part of Bobo’s offensive leadership is we had the best field goal kicker in America and not once did he try to win a game or even lose a game in the last two minutes.
Other coaches celebrate when we don’t get rid of Bobo.