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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Hector
January 4th, 2011
5:32 pm
We expect this in PEE WEE football. But the University of GA. Come on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brutus Buckeye
January 4th, 2011
5:35 pm
Enter your comments here
Steve
January 4th, 2011
5:35 pm
A plaque saluting uga’s first losing season since ‘96. Priceless.
Thank you CMR and staff and a tip of the hat to the 2010 Fulmer Cup Award winners.
dave
January 4th, 2011
5:37 pm
They are ok with that, as long as they still rule the state. The state with two 6-7 teams. Why am I reminded of “King Nothing” by Metallica.
Brutus Buckeye
January 4th, 2011
5:38 pm
@DAWGMAN-Hey your redneck is showing you racist loser
dawgman
January 4th, 2011
5:46 pm
Brutus Buckeye does not mind talking smack about Odell Thurman serving burgers at Mc Donalds but thinks my post is racist. Little slope himself, perhaps
Mark Richt's Tan
January 4th, 2011
5:50 pm
Katherine, say seven and six. Now say six and seven. Now say Go dawgs. Now say go get a job because my buyout runs out in two years.
dawgman
January 4th, 2011
5:51 pm
I love gay porn and children’s birthday parties!!! Yay!!!!
Snake Doc
January 4th, 2011
5:54 pm
Boneheads!!!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Snake Doc
January 4th, 2011
5:56 pm
Dawgman – No one cares about a brutus beefcake buckeye! don’t let his racism or his cheatin team worry you none!
Dawg 1
January 4th, 2011
5:57 pm
There was no interest in this game from the ‘get go’. Georgia should have politely stepped back from the bowl process acknowleging that a .500 team was not a UGA level team and did not warrant a bowl game.
Realize that one of the reason that the bowl was taken was for the additional opportuntiy to practice and evaluate players coming back, etc. In this case, the QB coming in from N.C. was able to start practicing; but the honorable thing to do would have been to decline.
UGA was disinterested and the play calling unimaginative. Bowls should be fun and creative; especially when they mean absolutely ‘nothing’. Get kids on the field that haven’t seen the field. Try different looks, trick plays – make it creative. And tell everyone up front your going to do it – win/lose or draw. Bobby Bowden built an entire program from scratch with this philosophy.
Brutus Buckeye
January 4th, 2011
5:57 pm
@dawgman-McDonalds isn’t racist. If I’d said fried chicken then you’d have a point
Einsteindawg
January 4th, 2011
6:00 pm
Now, now boys…be nice. Richt will be gone by Friday and we’ll all be better off. Overpaid, ordinary coach who has lost the passion, but still wants the money.
Hector
January 4th, 2011
6:01 pm
Let’s all hold hands and just PUKE!!!!!
Old Fashioned
January 4th, 2011
6:03 pm
A psychiatrist could have a lot of fun with these UGA fans. What a lack of self esteem! (and deservedly so.) Their only answer to the many.many things wrong with their university is to bad-mouth GT athletics,which obviously has the fan-base/financial deck stacked against it. I guess they don’t have a clue that constantly putting someone else down does nothing to elevate themselves. And I doubt they will even have an inkling what I’m pointing out.
melanienougafan
January 4th, 2011
6:12 pm
They are pathetic!! Are they that embarrassed about their team this year? I mean really…a plaque with a 7-6 record…can they not count? Oh, forgot, they are Georgia, there fore they cannot spell, write or add!!!
Bippity Boppity Boo Boo
January 4th, 2011
6:12 pm
Hire Rich Rod as OC. He was just fired for a 7 – 6 record at the Big House.
Mark Richt
January 4th, 2011
6:26 pm
What’s the big deal? We always talk about our record as Losses and Wins. So, the plaques are correct: 7 Losses, 6 Wins.
With that settled, does anyone have any dirt on Jimbo Fisher? I need a gig after this one ends next year and it might as well be FSU.
HeHateGator
January 4th, 2011
6:43 pm
And they wonder why the players expect entitlement?…need a big time culture shock to this program….
Tommy
January 4th, 2011
6:44 pm
good thing ole AJ Green is not a senior, he would sell his.
UGA is a big loud joke.
46-40
January 4th, 2011
6:45 pm
RomeDawg, that’d make too much sense..
HeHateGator
January 4th, 2011
6:46 pm
A VERY distinct lack of class in this episode….makes me wanna vomit…
Mike Bobo 17 INT
January 4th, 2011
6:46 pm
Tired of being schlebrocked !
Totally agree with our comment on this page. Quite frankly it took too long for anyone to critcize this program, and another part of your program is that CMR cannot fire Mike Bobo, because of his close ties with the Dooley’s.
Mike Bobo 17 INT
January 4th, 2011
6:48 pm
Look, the bottom line is I wish UGA could win 10 national titles and give this state some decent respect, but quality football programs begin with the AD, and your previous AD’s were too busy either growing their gardens or drunk and chasing hookers. Clean house, top down, and Michael Adams has nothing to do with the football program that sucks.
It is your AD!!!
It is your AD!!!
It is your AD!!!
It is your AD!!!
It is your AD!!!
It is your AD!!!
It is your AD!!!
It is your AD!!!
Mike Bobo 17 INT
January 4th, 2011
6:49 pm
I grew up in the midwest and Nebraska and Oklahoma ruled, and they did not give a rats ass about who was in church on sunday, just wins and national titles.
NOBODYYOUKNOW
January 4th, 2011
6:54 pm
Sounds like a bunch of immature kids. When my son played little league ball the coach and some parents voted to give them tropheys. Even though they had only won 1 game. I thought it set a bad example. But they gave em out anyway. And UGA fans laughed at Tech for giving rings because they had beaten Ga. for the 1st time in 10 years. Who’s laughing NOW?
Old Fashioned
January 4th, 2011
7:00 pm
There’s much more involved as to Georgia’s “respect” than a game played by a bunch of illiterate criminals. Come on,folks ,look at the big picture here! But if you don’t have any knowledge of science,philosophy,literature,history,economics,etc. I suppose you’re stuck with getting your jollies from a game played by juvenile delinquents. And you’ll probably refer to the players as “heroes,” a true insult to real heroes who daily risk their lives for us!
Texas Wreck
January 4th, 2011
7:00 pm
Tech and UGA fans- 6 wins 7 losses each. That sucks, pure and simple. Both sides need to disappear until it gets better. I sure miss old BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I guess he has moved into the UGA VII doghouse to hide. Likewise, Techies have nothing to discuss either. The new season starts in September. See you then.
Jon Bites
January 4th, 2011
7:01 pm
Note the 2nd blog post here. It says first. The only person who is a bigger loser than one who loves to be the first poster and all they say is first, is the one who does it and isn’t even first.
Scooter
January 4th, 2011
7:05 pm
You shouldn’t get a plaque at all for a 6-7 season. No, wait, isn’t that what they do in Little League Baseball and Pee Wee Football for the kids? That way, no one feels bad becauseuse, as long as everyone has fun, it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose. Doesn’t look like much changes when you get to be a big boy and play for UGA.
Ray Goff
January 4th, 2011
7:09 pm
What’s the big deal? We gave our Senior’s plaques that read 7-4 in 1990.
D Fence
January 4th, 2011
7:12 pm
What a joke we have become. For anyone in the UGA AD to allow this to happen in a joke. Give them the darn plaques AFTER they have finished the season. MAYBE it will serve as a motivating factor since we could ever FINISH A DRILL anymore. Richt has become a complete pushover.
N
January 4th, 2011
7:15 pm
I’m all for having that confidence prior to a bowl game or any game for that matter, but at least play with the same confidence to back it up.
Winfield J. Abbe
January 4th, 2011
7:16 pm
I graduated in physics from the University of California at Berkeley 1961. We did not receive the diplomas at the graduation ceremony because too many students flunked out the last semester.
Since these diplomas had to be printed on special paper with special print, the preparation cost for them was high. They did not want to waste money destroying diplomas which were not used and also did not want to give out diplomas to anyone who had not earned them. They won few football games because, unlike UGA, none of the professors in the various departments would lower standards for football players.
What is needed at UGA, is for the legislature to force this professional football entertainment business off the campus forever. What do they want to be on campus for anyway? They could begin by charging them rent of about $ 1 million per month for use of state owned facilities on campus. This might get their attention. Double the rent every year until they get out. Is there some shortage of football entertainment or something? Why it shouldn’t even be called sports anyway. Look at how they paid Idaho to travel across the country to lose to them.
Isn’t there something illegal or at least very wrong with all this nonsense? What does football entertainment have to do with “higher education” anyway? There are thousands of other human activities more significant and important than football entertainment.
ZingerKing
January 4th, 2011
7:19 pm
This is just not a story. Why did anyone spend any time on this.
Jessica
January 4th, 2011
7:34 pm
Wow. That’s more than a little arrogant on UGA’s part to ASSUME they’re going to win the bowl just because they’ve only lost 3 times (now 4) in the past 14 years. Why not wait until AFTER the bowl game to present the senior plaques and get it right the first time? It’s not that hard, and I’m sure you can work something out with those seniors who graduate in December. It also saves the money of the reprinting/re-engraving when they have to replace it, and what are they supposed to do with the old, incorrect ones? It’s wasteful..
Boobie Bowden
January 4th, 2011
7:35 pm
Just like there are lies, damn lies, and statistics,
there is dumb, damn dumb, and dawg dumb.
DDT
January 4th, 2011
7:36 pm
I’m sure the UGA players are going to do the same thing with the plaques that Russ the mascot did with his, take a big dump on it and use it to start a campfire. It wont smell any worse than the smell thats coming out of UGA right now. Oh, the shame will never end.
Ditt Ship
January 4th, 2011
7:45 pm
Hey, let’s build a National Championship Trophy and have a big celebration and present to ourselves before the season begins and then change it to Champions of Clarke County halfway thru the season. And then hope that stands up.
6 and 7
January 4th, 2011
7:45 pm
The Athletic department at Georgia also gave embroidered red panties with 7 and 6 on them at the banquet. The team wore them during the game and after they lost they took them off and put them on backwards so that the 6 and 7 record could be worn with pride.
Wee Nerr
January 4th, 2011
7:48 pm
UGA is a freakin joke! What a bunch of dumasses.
Dad Burnit
January 4th, 2011
7:51 pm
Illiterate thugs! Bwaaahhahhahha!
truedawg
January 4th, 2011
7:52 pm
i would hang it over my crapper
MCDAVIDASTRO
January 4th, 2011
7:59 pm
ONE MORE SIGN OF WHAT AN IDIOT PROGRAM GEORGIA HAS BECOME. FIRE RICHT111
6 and 7
January 4th, 2011
8:01 pm
My name used to be 7 and 6 (NOT REALLY….Only THUGA is that Stupid!)
We steal ruin this state
January 4th, 2011
8:01 pm
Why not have the plaques read ” 13-0 BCS national Champ”
truedawg
January 4th, 2011
8:02 pm
Better yet CMR should hang it in his bedroom so every day it reminds him of the changes we need at Georgia.FIRE BOBO get the instate talent.Everybody should be very worried if the correct changes are not made.Props to Murray and Houston
6 and 7
January 4th, 2011
8:04 pm
Was the SEC record of Thuga listed on the plaque as 5 and 3?
Was the signature “Idaho State” win listed on the plaque? That was the game of the year for the Thuga Nation.
6 and 7
January 4th, 2011
8:05 pm
6 and 7 Plaques are for sale at Walmart. And Pay J Green’s Liberty Bowl Jersey is going for 67 cents on Ebay.
6 and 7
January 4th, 2011
8:06 pm
6 points was a real display of offensive power in the bowl game. Ole Bobo knows his stuff.