On vacation until Memphis …
(Note: The UGA blog will be on hiatus while I take a week’s vacation before heading to Memphis for the Liberty Bowl.)
Georgia will be without its starting fullback in the Liberty Bowl.
Shaun Chapas, a senior who recently was named permanent captain of the 2010 team, won’t play against Central Florida on Dec. 31 because of ankle surgery, coach Mark Richt announced Saturday.
That means Chapas’ UGA career ended with the Nov. 27 victory over Georgia Tech.
After battling problems with his left ankle for most of the season, Chapas underwent surgery Friday.
Georgia has three other fullbacks who are getting work in practice as bowl preparations continue: senior Fred Munzenmaier, freshman Zander Ogletree and redshirt freshman Dustin Royston. In addition, backup tight end Bruce Figgins, a junior, is getting some practice time at fullback.
Figgins’ move is “not necessarily a full-time change,” Richt said in a news release, “but we are getting him some work there because of depth issues.”
Chapas received numerous honors at the Bulldogs’ recent awards gala. In addition to being named the team’s overall permanent captain, he received the David Jacobs Award, which goes to the player who best portrays “courage, spirit, character and determination,” and shared the Leon Farmer Award, which recognizes dedication to the strength and conditioning program. He also was one of four recipients of the Coaches’ Leadership Award.
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Coraline
December 20th, 2010
12:01 pm
In the 1986 Jan Kemp trial, O. Hale Almand Jr., a lawyer for UGA, offered a justification for the favorable treatment accorded the athletes, citing a hypothetical player. “We may not make a university student out of him,” he told the jury, “but if we can teach him to read and write, maybe he can work at the post office rather than as a garbageman when he gets through with his athletic career.”
That trial exposed UGA for the football factory that it was, and exposed Vince Dooley as a fraud and a sleazebag. It also derailed Dooley’s plans for a political career. That’s why we see the decrepit old fraud doing TV commercials even now.
Mark Richt is just the latest in a line of sleazy UGA coaches who coddle athletes and discard them after four years of football. He recruits illiterate morons he knows aren’t smart enough for college, but he doesn’t care, as long as they help him line his pockets with millions of dollars each year.
Saint Mark isn’t all he appears to be, is he?
DawginLex
December 20th, 2010
12:23 pm
Blaine,
I wonder if your family enjoys being around someone like you who doesn’t bathe regularly.
They are probably not looking forward to the holidays since you will be around more.
Then again, you probably don’t have a job so you will probably be around just as much as you usually are.
Loser.
DawginLex
December 20th, 2010
12:25 pm
red pantalones,
Anyone who refers to the University of Georgia as UGAy does so to mask their own sexual issues.
You have something you need to admit?
Counselors are available.
E-mail Jeff Schultz and he can probably help.
DawginLex
December 20th, 2010
12:26 pm
Coraline,
Go get some new material.
And go fix my dinner.
Coraline .....
December 20th, 2010
1:52 pm
Go Tech!!!!!!!
Red Pantalones
December 20th, 2010
1:52 pm
Tech is #1 baby!
Blaine
December 20th, 2010
1:58 pm
Tech should be playing in the National Championship this year. They are by far the best football team in the nation!
AltamahaDawg
December 20th, 2010
3:01 pm
I just hope you made that up, and your Mother didn’t actually name you Blaine.
Coraline
December 20th, 2010
4:43 pm
I’ve never understood how anyone – even an alumnus – could support and take pride in UGA’s football team. When you look at their history for the past forty years, how can anyone ignore Jan Kemp and the “remedial studies” scam, the Jim Harrick fiasco, the DUIs in the athletic office, the DUIs and other arrests of players, the #1 party school tag (i.e., the most drunk students), the suspensions and outright dismissals, the Fulmer Cup, and on and on?
As disgraceful and humiliating as it is, I don’t see many alums and fans demanding an end to this sordid activity. It sets UGA apart as the kind of school most people abhor, and it’s become an embarrassment to the whole state of Georgia.
Will it never end? Apparently not while Mark Richt is at UGA. Richt is perhaps the biggest hypocrite in the United States. But even with all the cheating and lawlessness that he ignores, he still can’t win the SEC.
So you’re paying him to be BCS champions, but he can’t even win his SEC division. So why do you pay him millions of dollars a year?
Just asking.
Mama is calling.....
December 20th, 2010
5:19 pm
These UGA fans are so wrapped up in a program that has won 1 National Title in 30 years and still live in the days of Hershel Walker, get whipped annually by Florida, and of late by USC, Alabama, Mississippi St, Tennessee and a few others not to mention a team that fired their coach in Colorado with AJ Green in the lineup.
Ranking the Schools in order of talent, coaching, overall program and ability to compete for a national title year in and year out:
Alabama
Florida
LSU
USC
Auburn
Arkansas
Miss. St
Georgia/Tennessee
Ole Miss
Kentucky
Vandy
The once pretty decent at UGA now ranks in the lower half of the conference with the 5th best prep talent in COUNTRY available year in and year out. Is that coaching? Leadership? You tell me.
There is absolutely no reason for UGA ever to be out of the top 15 in the country, they have a boat load of talent available to them, play in a conference with the most money, the most watched conference on television in the country, and the most written about conference in the country.
Where do the 7-5 and 6-6 records come from?
Mama is calling.....
December 20th, 2010
5:20 pm
ALL FACTS, JUST LIVE WITH IT AND KEEP TAKING YOUR LUMPS AND ABUSE OR CHANGE THE LEADERSHIP IN PLACE…
AltamahaDawg
December 20th, 2010
5:35 pm
Maybe it’s because they don’t have that awesome indoor facility like UF.
Coraline
December 20th, 2010
5:37 pm
Tech is #1!
Mama is calling.....
December 20th, 2010
5:38 pm
Go Georgia Tech!
Mama is calling.....
December 20th, 2010
5:39 pm
At least UGA is playing in a bowl unlike Texas!
AltamahaDawg
December 20th, 2010
5:58 pm
I just wish I could think of the name of that place….I know the baseball player use it too…..when the football team isn’t running full scrimmage drills in there…………oh shoot what’s it called. …..anyone?
Reality Stinks
December 20th, 2010
6:00 pm
Mama is calling
And Tech gets by uga who loses to those teams you mentioned above
Mama is calling.....
December 20th, 2010
6:28 pm
Keep Losing to Everyone and UGA will be Vandy Jr.
Georgia is a school for illiterate/drunk/warranted athletes
December 20th, 2010
6:31 pm
And how many student athletes have been arrested at UGA the past 12 months? Not to mention the AD?
FSU is taking any player we want from UGA and we let a legend go and got better.
Gator Mike
December 20th, 2010
6:34 pm
A-Dawg, why do you keep dragging my Gators into your debates? We hired an UGA grad, we have our facilties including an all use building be erected, not as nice as some but it is being built and we have no fight in this discussion. Give us a break, we have to hire a coaching staff and it likes our DC may also be a UGA graduate, who turned down UGA last year.
Longhorn in Georgia
December 20th, 2010
7:04 pm
As a LongHorn Fan visiting here in Georgia for the Holidays, I am not privy to all the Bulldog talk, but after reading some of the talk on several of this papers blogs, it sounds to me the Georgia program is in as bad of shape as we are at 40 Acres. I thought we were imploding, but wow you Georgia fans are just as full of yourselves as most of our Texas Forever Fanbase is. We all thought we would just reload and stay a BCS contender year after year, but losing a great WR, QB, pass rushers and some OL we found ourselves wishing for better times. I am going to really catch myself watching the Bowl game involving UGA to see what many of the posters are commenting on here.
Hook Em Horns…hopefully better in 11′
FAT DRUNK AND STUPID UGA Football Players
December 20th, 2010
7:08 pm
This is a link to Dr. Adams addressing the football players at UGA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yroKIGCtcwY
Shaun Chapas
December 20th, 2010
7:11 pm
If I am fortunate to graduate from The University of Georgia I have come to a harsh reality that I will be working for a Georgia Tech Graduate in my future. We have classes on campus that prepare us to work for Tech Graduates as it is a way of life.
Thank you and Sic em dawgs…ruff ruff
AJ Green
December 20th, 2010
7:17 pm
If anyone of you Fans of mines thinks I am going to stay at Georgia and not get my payday, you have lost your mind. The NCAA police are riding me like I am 25 cent pony in front of the Walmarts.
I am getting paid for my skills, and I may have to sits while the Strike or works stoppage is goings on but I will not be getting hit, kicked, punched, or eyes poked out by florida players or any other team that plays dirty like auburn does. I will not have to monitor my spending habits as the NCAA has all my personal bank records and I can be the next T.Owens the superstar. I am predicted to be the Number 3 overall pick in the drafts and baby that is the money train. Wesley Snipes in jail and he robbed the money train and I am getting paid. That is what I am talking about.
I leaves Athens and the Po Po behind and the team a little less offs without me, and if CK don’t get his grades up he will be playing in the Arena league next year instead of between the hedges.
The real answer
December 20th, 2010
7:33 pm
Who or what is UGA ?….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2oZWpqtNi4
Oconee Dawg
December 20th, 2010
7:57 pm
Chapus you are a true “DAWG” THANKS. Figgins we need help and you can do “it”.
AltamahaDawg
December 20th, 2010
8:28 pm
Mike, here is the problem when you interject into a blog that has nothing to do with you. You don’t know what’s going on with previous conversations. Trust me, it’s not about the gators.
Gator Mike
December 20th, 2010
9:02 pm
Altamaha Dawg, I just read what you wrote sbout our football and baseball facilities and did not get why you were being such a smarta$$ when we are putting up new assets. Sounds like envy.
Georgia Fans Make Excuses
December 21st, 2010
12:46 am
Lets see how this goes:
Georgia fans just hate it when the facts line up against them.
This past summer the trash talk from all of these UGA fans was over the top in confidence. Talk of winning the SEC East and competing for the SEC Title was so sure in the minds of the Georgia trash talking fans it made everyone else around the league vomit in their own mouths.
Arrest after arrest, AD Evans gets a DUI, while with a woman who was not his wife with red panties between his legs. Multiple players arrested for driving violations and missing court dates.
UGA’s best player suspended 4 games while for 2 plus weeks UGA fans argued he had done nothing wrong and would be starting the first game of the season only to be proven wrong after admitting selling a Jersey to a know agents runner for 1K.
Losing to USC to start off the SEC season, Losing to Arkansas at home, losing to a lowly Colorado team, then a couple of cupcakes, then the season falls into darkness with Miss. St., Florida and Auburn spanking on that bulldog hide. Having to win a home game in the finale against a GT team that was probably the 7th best team in the ACC.
For mulitple years the UGA recruiting ranked in the top 7 in the country only to never make the big game with multiple NFL first rounders topping their roster. Slowly like a CROCK POT this team has cooked up more ways to lose games that stunk than any other previous team in the conference. We have seen Tennessee implode, Florida have a coach quit then come back then quit again but still beats a UGA team.
Please give me your latest excuses on why this program is losing and give me your philosphy that holds water why the 2011 version has any other opportunity to do any better.
Conference USA Champions
December 21st, 2010
3:55 am
Hope the Dawgs can avoid
coming home from Memphis with a pitiful 6-7 record.
BoWeevil
December 21st, 2010
4:37 am
Caleb King has legal woes again, and has failed 3 of his 4 courses this semester – along with posting 430 yards rushing this entire season and 8 yards receiving this entire season for a Grand Total of 2 Touchdowns – which matches his Arrest Record for Mark Richt with 2 as well. Mark Richt made a huge big deal about it when Caleb King barely Qualified for college; instead, he is Mark Richt’s number 11 football player Arrested in 2010 and now brings MORE BAD NEWS for Bulldogs’ Fans with BAD PRESS on-going about Caleb King being declared ineligible to play in the bowl game. He can now try to get his eligibility back by the Fall next season, or Declare for the NFL Draft and be undrafted but given a chance by some team for -0- dollars. Hailed as better than Knowshon Moreno when Mark Richt recruited him and nationally at one point named by several publications as the Top Tailback in the Nation, he had to leave Parkview because of Grades which Caleb lied about at the time, the became the top football player in the state of Georgia 2006 and now 5 years later, a total BUST.
Washaun Ealey also has had academic issues and our Savior Crowell said he is concerned about the history of ruining running backs here at Georgia in our pass-happy offense, which only runs the ball when we are killing the other team with passing.
AltamahaDawg
December 21st, 2010
6:44 am
Go on and tell us all Mike about the envy and being a smartass, while trolling in some other man’s sports blog. Any of this concerns you how?
Gator Mike
December 21st, 2010
9:09 am
Altamaha Dawg, I had no idea that you OWNED this blog? If you have stock in Cox then you must be suffering.
AltamahaDawg
December 21st, 2010
9:19 am
nope, just can’t understand a gator fan so concerned about what happens on page 4 of the comment section on a web site that has a giant G plastered on the top.
But just to make you feel better. I think UF is probably building an appropriate facility. As is UGA. Huge indoor practise field for strickly football is a collosal waste of resources. I assume your admin toured everybody else’s, as did ours, and concluded that. I WAS making fun of the punk tech fan who seemed to think he is the expert on UF and every other SEC school (as tech fans often do). You should have appreciated that. Again, as if you had any reason to be keeping up with that conversation in the first place.
Gator Mike
December 21st, 2010
11:18 am
Altamaha Dawg. I have no fight with you, however the logical thinking on many of these web blogs is that UGA is a premium school in the conference, we just view things differently from an outside perspective just as you and UGA fans view us and other schools differently.
Dog Lover
December 21st, 2010
12:15 pm
According to a report by Chris Low on ESPN SEC BLOGS:
The University of Georgia leads everyone with 5 Pro Ready Prospects at their positions, SR, JR, Redshirt Sophomores draft eligible. TELL me, please why if we have so much talent is 7-5 and 6 and 6 our past two seasons records?
Talent was apparently here, we have 41 players in the NFL, and we finish 6-6. I have sat back and have been abused by all these other schools who use us like their post hole diggers and keep pounding us in the ground lick after lick after lick.
We are headed to Memphis to freeze our short tails off in a bowl game that no one will watch but UCF and UGA fans. We are all sitting here just begging recruits to come to Athens to save us when we should be like every other dominant program that has to turn away players every year.
This is a joke and it is time to stand up and keep your wallets, credit cards,and donations in our on pockets and purses. Money always gets their attention. But I am not too foolish to think that we have rabid, blind fans who gospelly give and give and give.
Besides a good kid not playing his final game as he should, this article is a summation of another poor poor season by our dawgs. This book is getting harder and harder to read under the guidance of CMR. We are the laughing stock of the league and some of us are just tired of the same old excuses, same old disciplinary issues, same old offense, same old defense and same old penalties game after game after game.
I will tune in to the game, not travel to Memphis, as I have been to the Chick-fila bowl, The Sugar Bowl, Outback Bowl, and to Shreveport. Just cannot swallow the Memphis BLUES this year.
Dog Lover
December 21st, 2010
12:18 pm
Oh yeah another player who has already been in trouble this year now being ineligible to play in the bowl game due to grades.
Icing on the cake.
Red and Black Forever
December 21st, 2010
12:31 pm
Dog Lover,
I agree. These crap people who stand by and make excuses for our program just do not get it. We are absolutey the joke of the league. We run on the field to celebrate a touchdown in JVILLE, we black out Alabama and we get two black eyes in the first half, we have player after player arrested and have leadership who picks up women in Atlanta.
As an old school player under Coach Dooley we had our problems but we also stayed out of trouble, maybe alot of that had to do with we all live in the athletic dorm and were monitored, but we got an education, worked out, worked hard and got a butts kicked if we crossed over to the bad side. We respected our coaches, our school and our fans. It was not all about “ME” like these kids are today.
We have coaches who are unhirable anywhere elese, who have proven they are not leaders and have an administration who is either new to the program or meddles into anything and everything.
Our Alumni Association is controlled by a small group of people who should be kicked to the curb and replaced with people who understand that winning , education, and perception go a long long way. Not getting recognition for raising money and having your name put on a building or a plague.
We have had too much talent on the campus the past 5 years to be in the position we are in now. We are losing our best 5 players and just in case you have not been to any practices there is not a whole lot of guys who are ready to step up. Maybe they grow up over the summer and come back ready to play. But for those of us fortunate to see things on weekly or biweekly at various practices or functions we understand we are in the former positions of reloading, we have to retool and rebuild from the ground up. We have some good players coming back but we do not currently have that go to back, go to reciever, defensive stopper, or playmake. We have great kicker,punters and as it has been going we are going to need them more than ever in 2011.
Hoping for the best, see you in Memphis, but this is going a hard trip to make and live through. What happened to a NEW YEARS DAY BOWL in Florida or a BCS bowl that brought positive attention to our program?
Where oh Where did all the brash UGA fans go?
December 21st, 2010
12:41 pm
From spring practice to Early season we had to tolerate on every article written by every reporter on the AJC post made by JAWJA Fans who talked trash, ran their pie holes, spouted off how great they are and what they were going to do and beat everyone, how Green was not guilty, how Green was a victim, how UGA is being made a scapegoat, how other schools got treated compared to Georgia.
Now you find yourself in the Libety Bowl, freezing your dog bones off. Shrinkage, Shrinkage, Shrinkage.
What a group of fans, talk trash, make excuses and cry after every loss, every police report, every AJC negative article, We all know you Georgia fans are victims.
See you in Arizona baby. War Eagle, War Cam, and 2010-2011 BCS National Champions. You can thank us again for bringing the BCS TITLE BACK TO THE SEC,, too bad UGA is getting left out year after year ..LMAO…..
Red and Black Forever
December 21st, 2010
12:43 pm
go to hades Auburn fans and see you in federal court…..
Where oh Where did all the brash UGA fans go?
December 21st, 2010
12:45 pm
Looks like Altamaha Dog is another UGA loser making excuses and pointing his finger at everyother program in our championship conference.
Cam Newton- the newest disciple
December 21st, 2010
12:47 pm
Hey Brash..please do not get these UGA fans redneck fans riled up. We need everyone pulling for us to win. Dawgs have long memories.
A Redneck Georgia DAWG!
December 21st, 2010
12:48 pm
Auburn cheats!
Cam Newotn-the newest disciple
December 21st, 2010
12:50 pm
See they already started, uga has enough problems without us egging them on.
Stinger
December 21st, 2010
1:00 pm
You paid $630,000 for Grantham and we still ran for 411 yds and 512 total offense against your weak defense.
boiler up
December 21st, 2010
1:01 pm
To all the educated Georgia fans I say good luck to you in the Liberty Bowl. To the other Georgia fans.. Well, if you can read this, you keep people like myself from rooting for the consistently. I know.. My team is not in a bowl. Boiler Up!!!
George O'Leary
December 21st, 2010
1:24 pm
I own UGA. You thought when I left Tech you would never have to face me again, but now I will humiliate you even more with my new team Central Florida. You will find out quickly, this AIN’T Central Michigan.
Stinger
December 21st, 2010
2:04 pm
However we got beat by UGA again like we do every year.!
George O'Leary
December 21st, 2010
2:05 pm
BTW, I am a Tech fan acting like a UCF fan.
sirluciouscp
December 21st, 2010
2:44 pm
Where is the moron Chip with the 10 at ten. Get on ur job dude.