Georgia will revise ‘7-6′ record on senior plaques
Georgia distributed plaques to its senior football players at its annual awards gala last month with 7-6 inscribed as the team’s record, even though the Bulldogs were 6-6 at the time.
Central Florida heard about that and naturally took umbrage, considering it a sign that Georgia was taking the Knights lightly and presuming a Liberty Bowl victory.
Not so, according to Georgia, which says it routinely includes a bowl victory in the record on the senior plaques and then makes a revision in the event of a loss.
“Did not have anything to do with taking UCF lightly,” Georgia associate athletic director Claude Felton said in an e-mail today. “Every year we present the senior plaques at our football Gala, which is always held before the bowl game. One line on the plate is the season record, and we always list it with a win in the upcoming bowl game.
“If we lose the game, we replace the plate. We’ve done that 14 straight years and only had to replace the plate three times.”
Central Florida, of course, beat Georgia 10-6 in the Liberty Bowl — Georgia’s first loss in its past five bowl appearances and third in its past 14, dating to 1997. So Georgia’s 23 seniors will be getting new plates bearing the 2010 team’s accurate record: 6-7.
Estimated cost of the revision is $200.
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wxwax
January 4th, 2011
2:56 pm
The fact is that Georgia’s players took their opponent lightly and didn’t play hard.
The plate is symbolic of that and therefore takes on greater significance than it otherwise might have.
Cowboy
January 4th, 2011
2:56 pm
Being in this program is like walking in a cow pasture in total darkness. We are always stepping in something.
icedawg
January 4th, 2011
2:56 pm
two positive changes UGA football can make this year is no arrests and 7 big wins
Warden
January 4th, 2011
2:58 pm
No, POSITIVE changes would be only 12 arrests and 7 wins.
BigTimeTECHFan
January 4th, 2011
3:00 pm
Bet the players had fun at the “GALA”.
Megan
January 4th, 2011
3:00 pm
Seriously? is this all you can come up with? The “12th”off field incident that had long since been resolved earlier and now this???? AJC, just say you hate the Georgia Bulldogs and be done with it! Everybody else, the Athens Banner-Herald is quite a good, objective newspaper and Im sure they would love to increase their circulation! http://www.onlineathens.com Yuck Fou AJC!
AltamahaDawg
January 4th, 2011
3:04 pm
Felton, should have said….”of cource, we should have considered that we had the worst O-line in 14 years before we inscribed those”.
BG
January 4th, 2011
3:04 pm
Who cares AJC?? Why would this be front page news on the website?????????????????
Mike Bobo 17 INT
January 4th, 2011
3:05 pm
Arrogance, plain and simple and the reason this program receives no respect. The abundance of arrogance and stupidity is the reason this program is in the sh##tter. Keep up the great work!
Mike Bobo 17 INT
January 4th, 2011
3:06 pm
What is the arrest news for Athens today? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?
Change your name to Thuga, it is more appropriate.
Just The Facts
January 4th, 2011
3:08 pm
Goooo Megan!!!! For everyone else can we can the piling on?
Tired of being schlebrocked !
January 4th, 2011
3:08 pm
i’ve said it for 4yrs now CMR great OFF CORD terrible
HEAD COACH… hate to see someone lose a job, but the
preformance against UCF PATHETIC and PRICELESS…
calm winds blowing in from across the sea……
1/4 full Sanford Stadium PRICELESS..just sayin
THE CATHOLIC HAMMER
January 4th, 2011
3:09 pm
It’s raining car parts!!!
tide man
January 4th, 2011
3:10 pm
I am not a UGA fan but my gosh… why are all of these people who ARE UGA fans so hot and bothered about what happened with these plaques? it is a minor detail!
Tired of being schlebrocked !
January 4th, 2011
3:10 pm
Michigan just fired rich rod so why is CMR safe?
dawgrific
January 4th, 2011
3:11 pm
stupid, but a non-story, and the sad tech ring thing was still pathetic
Georgia | MrSEC.com
January 4th, 2011
3:12 pm
[...] act and used it as motivation in last week’s 10-6 win over the Dawgs.But UGA officials say there was nothing out of the ordinary with this year’s plaques. “Every year we present the senior plaques at our football gala, which is always held before [...]
wdm
January 4th, 2011
3:12 pm
All you crybabies deserves the two idiots Schultz and Bradley. Did anyone stop to look and see what Auburn’s conference record was last year? 3-5 in SEC play. This year they are playing for the national championship. I just hope all you whiners remember all this stupidity flowing through your keyboards next season when UGA is kicking butt and taking names.
gbal
January 4th, 2011
3:12 pm
Tucker – Go to heII – Getting just like MB and JS with negative reporting. UGA explained that this is the normal practice for the banquet. FU
gbal
January 4th, 2011
3:15 pm
I hope one of CMR’s changes will be to never give any AJC reporter any news. I would bann them from pressconfrences and practices. One of the biggest problems with recruiting is the negative press that our home state paper continues to spew and twist for blog hits. I would really welcome a new way of handling AJC press.
Pago Pago Dawg
January 4th, 2011
3:16 pm
Instead of awarding plaques, they should make the seniors watch 2010 season tapes. Sad.
Can you spell b-u-l-l-s-h-*-t
January 4th, 2011
3:16 pm
“Did not have anything to do with taking UCF lightly,” Georgia associate athletic director Claude Felton said in an e-mail today. “Every year we present the senior plaques at our football Gala, which is always held before the bowl game. One line on the plate is the season record, and we always list it with a win in the upcoming bowl game.
What bullsh*t. Just another excuse for UGA stupidity.
Stinger2
January 4th, 2011
3:17 pm
As a GT fan I am surprised that this made front page headlines on the AJC online edition if the explaination given by the Atheletic Department is true. However, the practice of assuming a bowl win does seem highly presumtious (sp) especially after a 6-6 season.
Dawg gone it
January 4th, 2011
3:18 pm
Hey Big Spender- Tech is not supposed to be a sports powerhouse – UGAG is. Do you understand these words? LMAO
Simple Jack
January 4th, 2011
3:19 pm
How typical. Another half-a$$ed effort. How many proof-readers did that get by? Did Richt approve it? This is getting utterly embarrassing….and if Dowtin is not gone by Friday, that’s just another signal that things are not going to change at all.
Roy from Hahira
January 4th, 2011
3:20 pm
They are also reissuing the Fulmer Award plaques that read “11 arrests” to 12
NewnanDawg
January 4th, 2011
3:22 pm
My kid’s muppet soccer league is the same way. Everybody gets a trophy. You’re all “winners”.
T. Hawthorne
January 4th, 2011
3:25 pm
Enter your comments here WGAF?
Big Dawg
January 4th, 2011
3:26 pm
Here’s a plaque that they can go work on now, set in stone, and give out next December:
Coach Mark Richt was fired today. It only took an act of Congress though because he’s such a nice guy.
Mike Bobo 17 INT
January 4th, 2011
3:27 pm
Tired of being schlebrocked !
Michigan has the guts to fire who they need to fire, unfortunately, UGA has no clue how to run a championship program. UGA has Dooley’s head so far up their boosters a#$ they cannot see daylight.
This entire season has been a total slap in the face starting with a losing records, loss to UCF, then Muschamp and other UGA staffers going to your worst nightmare….Florida. Nothing better than watching a former UGA player thump on his former team….Yeal Baby!!!
KZGuy
January 4th, 2011
3:29 pm
When you have money to burn what’s the big deal. After all look at what they are paying the coaches.
JE
January 4th, 2011
3:31 pm
If they played UCF 10 times they would probably lose 9 times. Why is everyone so upset? I’m sure most of you never watch much more than your “home” team.
Mike Bobo 17 INT
January 4th, 2011
3:34 pm
Defensive coordinators make or break head coaches, but apparently UGA did not give enough value to Van Gorder who is now enjoying his success with the Falcons.
Everyone in Athens is in love with Dooley and CMR, thus there will never be any change until this house is cleaned and sanitized.
O L E A R Y
January 4th, 2011
3:37 pm
hahahahahaha, and once again the hypocrite morons giving GT a hard time for giving out rings in 08 for tying for Coastal Division champs, all your people are shameful morons LOSERS and the laughingstock of this country and ESPN radio just talked about this about an hour ago, IDIOTS
Jonny
January 4th, 2011
3:38 pm
Jonny is a frustrated GT fan, not a UGA troll. Jonny can spell quite well. Not every John or Johnathan is spelled with an H before the N.
No Swagger
January 4th, 2011
3:39 pm
This is exactly what is wrong with Richt, this man has absolutely no control over his program even something as simple as Seniors plaques. After you get guys to give you 4 yrs out of their lives, the coach should always make sure anything involving seniors is taken care of. I know everyone loves his christian attitude, but even at church they they manage to get awards & plaques correct at their functions!
Tired of being schlebrocked !
January 4th, 2011
3:41 pm
hire rich rod as off cord see what his WV squad did to us in
the Sugar Bowl.
big deal
January 4th, 2011
3:41 pm
This started during the Donnan era. Don’t reckon I’d do it this way but this is a nothing story.
Sick & Tired Of Being Sick & Tired
January 4th, 2011
3:42 pm
I agree with those who have stated that this is A NON-STORY…..let’s move on…….There’s got to be something more meaningful to write about the DAWGS football program at this time than this?????
Cam
January 4th, 2011
3:42 pm
Plaques for a 6-7 season? What dumbasses
tide roll
January 4th, 2011
3:43 pm
Rich Rod NOW!!!
Tired of being schlebrocked !
January 4th, 2011
3:45 pm
did anyone hear how the Oregon players imposed a 10:00 pm
curfew on themselves, the players not the Coaches now that
is truely a TEAM CONCEPT and a Complete TEAM!
No Swagger
January 4th, 2011
3:47 pm
As a man of faith, I must say this, growing up in a family that revolved around our faith it is clear that order must maintained in one’s home. It is very clear that Mark Richt is considered the head of this program, but this man is not providing the leadership & guidance that trickles down from top to bottom in a family. If UGA’s football program was an actual family it would be totally dysfunctional.
shankit
January 4th, 2011
3:48 pm
Bought a Florida Gator Rose Bowl Victor figurine
in Wal Mart several years back in December. The Gators didn’t
make it to the Rose Bowl, and I just bought it to
give to one of my obnoxious best Gator friends.
timbo
January 4th, 2011
3:48 pm
What does it matter? They will end up on E-bay anyway.
tide roll
January 4th, 2011
3:48 pm
While you’re at it, go ahead and have them do a 3-8 for 2011.
Brutus Buckeye
January 4th, 2011
3:49 pm
Attention UGA fans why should we even bother to play you losers? What is worse playing in a terrible bowl game or losing it? Just wondering
Hello...
January 4th, 2011
3:50 pm
Why hasn’t Mark Richt dismissed Marcus Dowtin for his felonious assault last spring. He not only beat up an innocent bystander, he never reported his arrest to Richt.
Hypocritical Saint Richt really sucks.
Paul in RDU
January 4th, 2011
3:51 pm
BEWARE – If anyone tries to sell an AJ Green plaque on E-Bay it will be a forgery. The plaques were given to the UGA SRs.
Claude Felton claims that putting the record with a bowl win and changing later as necessary is the standard practice at UGA. I can’t remember anything like this after the loss to WV but that was quite a while ago and before the “blogosphere” really took off.
Jeff
January 4th, 2011
3:52 pm
Who Cares!! 7-6 or a 6-6 it stll sucks