Georgia plans later G-Day game
Three items to start the day:
- To some, it has been a tough call: watching the third round of the Masters or attending G-Day. You won’t have to make that choice next April.
Plans are “being finalized” to move Georgia’s spring football game back a week to April 16, UGA athletic director Greg McGarity told me as we waited at Hartsfield-Jackson for a (delayed) flight to Memphis on Monday. The Masters will be played April 7-10.
The G-Day game has been played on Masters Saturday the past couple of years. McGarity figures G-Day will benefit in terms of attendance and media attention by not overlapping the Masters.
He said the shift worked best for the football program because UGA’s spring-semester classes will start later than a year ago – Jan. 10 instead of Jan. 7 — and added that eliminating the conflict with the Masters is a “byproduct” of the change.
“It allows us to make sure we get every bit of off-season conditioning that we can get in place [before spring practice],” McGarity said. “Allows us to take advantage of everything we can, the timing of it.”
- A bit of background on the UGA Athletic Association academic policy that Caleb King violated, resulting in his suspension from the Liberty Bowl:
Former athletic director Damon Evans instituted a strict class-attendance and academic-appointment policy in January 2007 in an effort to improve graduation rates among UGA athletes. The policy calls for a student-athlete in any sport to be suspended for 10 percent of the season (rounded down) if, in any semester, he or she has three unexcused absences from class or five missed appointments with an academic adviser, tutor or mentor. King violated the missed-appointments provision, UGA said.
- Looks like Georgia is on the hook for at least $50,000 worth of Liberty Bowl tickets it doesn’t need.
Georgia figures it can use close to 6,000 tickets, including sales (about 4,800 as of the latest accounting) and comps for players, staff and guests. But that leaves at least another 4,000 tickets in UGA’s 10,000-seat allotment. The SEC will cover the cost of up to 3,000 unsold tickets, leaving Georgia responsible for at least 1,000 more at $50 apiece.
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107 comments Add your comment
Joey
December 28th, 2010
10:41 am
UGAY?
Boy, if it ain’t in your mouth, it’s on your mind, huh?
Joey
December 28th, 2010
10:46 am
good point on tackling, dawgfan, but I think you are wrong on Durham. He was excellent, even when AJ was suspended.
Size, speed, smarts and good hands. He’ll be playing on Sundays next year.
nerds! nerds! nerds!
December 28th, 2010
10:51 am
Finally! I live in Augusta, therefore I am knee deep in the Masters festivities. There is nothing worth missing that… especially a football practice.
alwaysAdawg
December 28th, 2010
10:51 am
I’ve decided to go to Memphis! The Dawgs need us and I support UGA always! Four of us are going!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go Dawgs!!!!!!
Dog85
December 28th, 2010
10:53 am
Excited to be going to Memphis to see our Dawgs win!
Skitty Fritty
December 28th, 2010
10:53 am
Why can’t we have the Masters and the G Day game. I say good decision on McGarity’s part. Isn’t Georgia a great place to live.
Skitty Fritty
December 28th, 2010
10:54 am
Were there any robberies or assualts last night on Tech’s campus?
Isn’t Athens a great place to go to school!
Skitty Fritty
December 28th, 2010
10:55 am
I know there was one assualt on Tech in Shreveport last night!
Auburn Rules
December 28th, 2010
11:00 am
Moving dates,
Missing Appointments
Tickets unsold
Memphis in December
all spell one thing…
A program in trouble and a coach who is clueless.
nerds! nerds! nerds!
December 28th, 2010
11:10 am
Those hating on “golf” have obviously never experienced the Masters. Its not just a golf tournament, it’s The Masters. If you haven’t been yet, check it out.
D A Double U G
December 28th, 2010
11:13 am
Auburn Rules….
remember a SHORT SHORT time ago, like December of 2007, when Auburn was NOT in ANY bowl, and your fans greeted new coach Gene Chizik at the airport to Boo and Heckle him??
I would think you would know more than anybody, that a “program in trouble” and a “coach who is clueless” is only $180,000 and a Thug JUCO player away from the BCS Championship game??
Right??
UGA is 4-1 against Auburn the last 5 years.
D A Double U G
December 28th, 2010
11:13 am
or was it 2008??? even SHORTER time ago??
rural dawg
December 28th, 2010
11:14 am
@ auburn rules (yeah, right)…..”a program in trouble and a coach who is clueless.” you’re absolutely right about that…
a
December 28th, 2010
11:15 am
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swimdawg68
December 28th, 2010
11:15 am
What does it say about our defense when we give up 34 points to the “trade school” and they only score 7 against a service academy team made up of mostly D2 white boys? CMR needs to do some serious evaluating on the defensive side of the ball. I failed to see one AF defensive lineman the size of any of our guys and yet they shut Allen down. Could it be coaching? Could it be Garner? CMR needs to find some answers before next year, another season like the last 2 and he will be gone.
D A Double U G
December 28th, 2010
11:16 am
The Masters is a MAJOR deal, and this move was a very good thing.
I know MANY UGA alumni who styglle with the decision to attend which event in April.
April is a beautiful, and great time in the state of Georgia. Just thinking about the dogwoods blooming and the temps hitting the low 70’s gives me chills. Whether you are in Augusta or Athens, the events are amazingly nostalgic. Now that we have the opportunity to attend both, make me look even more forward to April.
GO DAWGS!!!
Callaway XJ
December 28th, 2010
11:16 am
Get the best golf clubs here at Callaway XJ!
nerds! nerds! nerds!
December 28th, 2010
11:17 am
Auburn Rules include:
1. Hire a coach with a losing record to look the other way.
2. Pay $180,000 to a stereotypical corrupt minister to aquire his son’s services.
3. When caught, plead ignorance.
Alabama | MrSEC.com
December 28th, 2010
11:23 am
[...] seniors aren’t going out the way they had hoped.6. The Bulldogs will move its spring game in order to avoid a conflict with the third round of The Masters.7. The UGA basketball team is closing out its non-conference slate this week.8. Kentucky faces [...]
George Patton
December 28th, 2010
11:31 am
Bernard Montgomery – remember when I kicked your a** in Sicily? This time, I just sent the Air Force.
Mark (another one)
December 28th, 2010
11:50 am
Moving the game is a great idea, and overdue. I don’t know how the previous decision was made, but I for one would like to attend both, and I don’t see a reason to create a conflict.
As for the team, I will miss the seniors but players graduate every year, and new stars emerge. Anderson and Gathers will compete for time at Nose, and with a year under their belts they may surprise some of you. Remember that Gathers is just a freshman.
Aubry Jones has also shown potential and has good size at DE. So has Derrick Lott. Both are freshman with large upsides. Look at LB and DB and you see similar situations. I really want to see Samuel play LB. Morant, Stripling and Faloughi all have good size and speed to play outside in the 3-4.
As for Friday, work intervenes. I will be rooting for the Dawgs but I will have to watch it on TV. Thankfully I will be able to see it live instead of using the DVR.
As for Jan Kemp, I moved here in 1985 and barely remember the case. However, the charges weren’t isolated to UGA. I remember one UCLA LB who, after being arrested, reportedly signed the court documents with an X, explaining he never learned to sign his name. He could only print it. Look back and see how many Ga Tech players were actually Morehouse students with dual enrollement.
The 80’s are over.
Cuz
December 28th, 2010
11:53 am
Finally I will be able to attend a G day game. Masters is right busy around here.
bulldawgbill
December 28th, 2010
11:53 am
Caleb King has shown that he is not a responsible adult. He has missed a court date and appointments with his academic tutors. Either buy him a calendar and get him a baby sitter or kick his lazy butt off the team. If Richt is sincere about striving for excellence, he can start right here and clear space for a scholarship for a young man who care enough to tend to his business.
I think Richt is not tough enough on his players. This was Vince Dooley’s main concern when he hired him and it looks like Dooley was right. I have met Coach Dooley and I know he is not the most likeable man in town, but he is the best football coach UGA has ever had.
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UGAlumfromMemphis
December 28th, 2010
12:08 pm
@Georgia97 and Fred,
If you want to be an a-hole about Memphis, let’s talk about all the nice places in Georgia. Buckhead, Sea Island, and Athens. That’s about it, bud. Outside of Buckhead and maybe Virginia highlands, the rest of the Atlanta metro is either ghetto fabulous or a cookie-cutter 4 hour traffic jam. Other than that, there are no other cities of consequence in the entire state. Columbus is a freaking joke and Augusta is just as ghetto as Memphis and about 1/8th the size.
Have a nice day.
Dagny
December 28th, 2010
12:42 pm
It’s kind of sad to see all the Dawg fans getting so excited about next year (just like the year before, the year before that, etc.). How long is it going to take for UGA fans to realize that UGA is simply no longer relevant in the SEC? In the national picture, UGA isn’t even a blip on the radar, and hasn’t been since the preseason #1 ranking two years ago.
Sit back and be grateful for the six or seven wins you’ll get every year. Coaching genius Mark Richt may take you to 7-5 or even 9-3 occasionally, but another team will still win the SEC, meaning no BCS bowls and no top 10 final ranking. Most years, UGA will be very lucky to finish in the top 25, and only after a big bowl win over a nobody opponent.
It’s a different world now, and Dawg fans need to adjust their expectations downward to reflect reality.
Unfortunately nothing is going to change until UGA changes its mediocre coaching. That’s where the difference is, and that’s why everyone outside Dawgtard Nation just laughs at Dawg fans getting so excited year after year about what a great recruiting class UGA gets. It doesn’t matter how many blue chip high school players go to UGA, they simply don’t get the coaching they would get at Florida or Alabama, to name two schools whose programs are far ahead of UGA. And that’s not going to change as long as Mark Richt is in Athens.
Get your heads out of the sand and face reality. And mediocrity and irrelevance.
And by the way, if Mark Richt spent as much time coaching as he does making those stupid TV commercials, UGA might finish better than 6-6.
how2fish
December 28th, 2010
1:02 pm
Dagny still smarting from the butt kicking Air Force laid on you I see…notice that close fought contest ended just like the Tech/UGA game this year..the genius calling sure fire to be intercepted pass plays…outstanding !
Dawg Tired
December 28th, 2010
1:19 pm
We need to hire Air Force’s DC.
how2fish
December 28th, 2010
1:22 pm
Dawg Tired even he can’t ensure that the Bugs just keep dropping and fumbling the ball. Not that he has a bad D plan laid out but just as you can’t fix stupid, you can’t make a team self destruct that they have to do that themselves..
carverheights
December 28th, 2010
1:37 pm
“Canceling Oregon, declining to comment on Nick Fairley’s hits on Murray, scheduling very weak “cupcake” teams (”talking” about scheduling Notre Dame and Ohio State is not the same as having the contract signed). This is a season…coupled with 2009…where we should have declined any bowl invitation. Instead the most attention we get out of this bowl is the Caleb King story.”
Actually, we’re gonna make money from that Chick-fil-A kickoff game. We don’t need to fly everybody out and put ‘em up, like with a bowl game, but still get the payout……kind of a good deal. That game is against Boise. Last I checked, they are better than us. That will be a stiff test. Don’t think they are a one-year-wonder, because they are just now signing 4 and 5 star recruits, whereas before, they couldn’t get those kids.
I think we switched-up the schedule to allow us to lose that opening game, but recover later on in the schedule.
Shame though……I would have gone up to Eugene to catch that one.
As far as not accepting a bowl invite……dang that’s just an uneducated remark. We need the practice time. This years shirts, freshmen, and sophmores gain invaluable practice time. We even got LeMay out on the field.
So we play a game that is “beneath us”. Well, we just gotta lay in that bed, even if we lose $$$ on tix, that’s what we earned and that’s where we should play
Sad. But we have to deal with it and move on. To not go and play would be accepting our record and not try and improve ourselves.
Kirby
December 28th, 2010
1:39 pm
There is NOTHING more beautiful than Augusta National AND the UGA campus in April.
LOVE that we get to enjoy both to their fullest extent this year!!
Auburn Rules
December 28th, 2010
1:48 pm
UGA is the 7th rated school in the SEC in football, 8th in basketball, 7th in baseball, and no.1 in arrest. WoooHooo….WE’RE NO.1 is the chant heard all around campus.
Time for UGA fans to just face the facts that you have been bypassed by MISS. ST. and South Carollina and look out Arkansas is about to knock you to down one more spot.
UGA= University of Getting Arrested.
Auburn Rules
December 28th, 2010
1:50 pm
Hand Warmers and Foot Warmers are all sold out in the Athens Walmart. They have been bought by the UGA coaches, players and fans attending the COOOOOOLLLLLLLLDDDDD….Liberty Bowl in Memphis…….Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Auburn Rules
December 28th, 2010
1:57 pm
DawgFan SUCKS,,,
ryan is a retard
Kirby has never left the state
carver heights is a true believer and has drank the Kool Aide
Dawg Tired still believes in Santa AND Rudolph
how2fish believes beating TECH is an accomplishment, when the loss by took last night just took UGA down more in the Computer Polls, beat someone that counts before running that pie hole
rural dawg ..is that tractor you drive to work street legal?. We won you lost and lost 6 more than we did…
Auburn Rules and just eat it..War Cam Eagle and look out Fairley just sacked Murray again..
how2fish
December 28th, 2010
2:08 pm
Auburn Rules don’t let the facts hit you in that gaping hole where most folks keep their brain..your 1-5 in the last 6 years vs UGA and yes nancy we take more pride in beating the Bugs than we do you wareagles/tigers/plainsmen etc
WhyCan'tCPJWinaBowlGame
December 28th, 2010
2:18 pm
I am a Jacket Backer all the way but cannot for the life of me determine why we can’t compete in a bowl game. Six losses in a row punches us right where it hurts, in the crawl.
I am embarrassed that the Prefect Option could not score a single point in the second half!
We have bigger fish to fry than worrying about a 6-7 season however.
Auburn Rules
December 28th, 2010
2:30 pm
how 2 fishy
6-6 and 7-5 …next year 5-7 for your loser doggies……Muschamp and Smart would not walk back on the UGA campus…now that is funny and says alot.
GEORGIA97
December 28th, 2010
2:32 pm
UGAlumfromMemphis: Sounds like someone needs a hug.
how2fish
December 28th, 2010
3:01 pm
Auburn Rules we will have a better record that the Barners next year little fella that’s the problem with hiring Juco guns if they are any good they are one and done…see ya in Athens next year prepare yourself for a return to mediocrity..oh but good luck against the Ducks.
Auburn Rules
December 28th, 2010
5:35 pm
JUCO’s got it done, we beat UGA didn’t we.
Auburn Rules
December 28th, 2010
5:37 pm
Howtofishy….. KEEP BEING PROUD OF BEATING A 8TH PLACE ACC TEAM…..LOL…
“WE OWN THIS STATE” Nice MONIKER…..BE PROUD OF IT…YOU EARNED IT….BE GLAD YOU DO NOT LIVE IN ALABAMA…YOU COULD NOT HANDLE WHAT WE DISH UP OVER HERE.
Bigdsel
December 28th, 2010
6:49 pm
Auburn rules, U might have one this year, but UGA will win next year, I dont see Scam Newton coming back, nor do I see Unfairley coming back either. Auburn will lose plenty next year, Count on it, I bet I wont see you on any post this time next year either.
DawgsOnline » Now you’ll have to find another excuse to skip G-Day
December 28th, 2010
7:12 pm
[...] in having a schedule conflict if it can be avoided, so I’ll join the chorus of approval for moving G-Day a week after Masters weekend. At the very least, maybe we’ll miss the early April cold snaps that have been brutal the [...]
Auburn Rules
December 28th, 2010
8:52 pm
Bigdsel…but I am here now…you losers at UGA are a joke.
how2fish
December 28th, 2010
9:37 pm
Auburn Rules write “Toast” on a piece of paper and stand in front of Jordan Hare…its a picture of the very near future..
CaliDawg
December 29th, 2010
12:29 am
Bernard-
Wow…it must really, really suck to be a Yellow Jacket fan. There’s a thin line between love and hate. You guys hate UGA. UGA’s in your mind, heart, thoughts, 24-7-365. UGA could care less about GT except about 4 hours, one day a year…just sad.
WonderDawg
December 29th, 2010
12:34 am
Just wondering…what does Tech’s “2 minute offense” practice look like? Other than the defense intercepting a pass…
Jborodawg
December 29th, 2010
9:20 am
Insider…we’ve got plenty of “bodies”; we have a full allotment of players, maybe one or two short of full. Just check the full roster. Many, if not most, of last year’s recruits got fairly significant playing time this year. Yes, not every position has great depth; it goes in cycles. EG with the 3-4 D we’re needing a dominant nose; hopefully we’ll land one that’s ready to contribute. I remember a fair amount of foaming at the month on these blogs when we recruited and landed Caleb and Washaun and Wooten et al.
Some “fans” only have negative comments; always bringing up the negative. There’s plenty positive about the program. But you (you know who you are) have negative comments about recruiting, coaching, players, the AD, scheduling; even finding something negative about A. White’s graduation speech; or two players helping the crashed bus driver; the players giving up part of their bowl money to charity; a leading graduation rate….ad nausea. UGA is damn good school with outstanding academics and overall outstanding athletics. Athens is a great town. And you don’t have to be a “homer” to bring up the positives. Why is one a Bulldog fan in the first place?
AltamahaDawg
December 29th, 2010
10:12 am
59, I’m going to go out on that limb with you and agree that if UGA has another 6-6 season and gets invited to the least level Bowl they can, this lack of ticket sales to this one is really going to bite us in the ass.
AltamahaDawg
December 29th, 2010
10:31 am
Joey, it’s not that Durham was excellent “EVEN WHEN” AJ was suspended, it’s that he was excellent BECAUSE AJ was suspended. He was standing in AJ’s spot getting AJ’s plays, plays that obviously had been the focus for months, and month. Durham would have had a fraction of the year that he ended up having, had AJ been able to be in the picture. Not to take anything away from him, but you really seemed amazed as his great ability and it was really just that of a gutsy, good hands, big ol boy that most team have from time to time.(and the kind of guy I really wish we always had on the team). But it was obvious that he was simply nowhere near the WR Aj was/is. AJ would have scored on at least 3 of those deep passes early in the season that Durham had to sell out to make an awkward catch.