Staff changes at UGA
Georgia has promoted director of football operations Josh Brooks to assistant athletic director of internal operations.
In his new job, Brooks, 30, will assume many of the duties previously handled by Arthur Johnson, who recently resigned as associate athletic director/internal operations to take a job at Texas.
Brooks just completed his first year as football operations director after serving two years as the assistant director.
To replace Brooks as director of football operations, Georgia coach Mark Richt promoted Brad Hutcherson, who had been a graduate assistant.
Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity also amended the titles of a number of athletics department officials, although their duties remain largely the same as before.
Title changes include: Carla Williams from senior associate athletic director/senior women’s sports administrator to executive associate athletic director; Claude Felton from associate AD/sports communications to senior associate AD; Glada Horvat from assistant AD/academics and eligibility to senior associate AD; Eric Baumgartner from assistant AD/compliance to associate AD; Ted White from director of academic services to associate AD; Tim Cearley from ticket operations director to assistant AD; and Ron Courson from director of sports medicine to assistant AD.
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wins-by-a-link
January 21st, 2011
9:08 pm
The deadwood is being tossed out, McGarity is making changes, Look for improvement or look for more changes, There is a new sheriff in Athens and he ain’t taking prisoners.
Minnie Moose
January 21st, 2011
9:08 pm
AJC headline: Art project leads to arrest for UGA student
They could use the coaches instead of lab rats. They could use players, but their intelligence wouldn’t equal the rats’.
Bulldog Joe
January 21st, 2011
9:12 pm
Wins.
If the deadwood is being tossed out, then why so many bull$#!+ titles?
Gatormeat
January 21st, 2011
9:22 pm
The poor dogs can make all the staff changes they want, it will make no difference. Like the old saying goes, ” you can’t make chicken salad out of chicken#### “. This season will be a disaster for them, blowout losses to Boise, Florida, and Auburn, and certain losses to Tenn and S Car and you already have five. It is likely they will lose at least 2 of the other games, maybe three and you are looking at 5-7 or 4-8. Then it is goodbye richt and back to the drawing board. Again. See you in Jacksonville pups, Florida is going to wipe the field with you. Again
just wow man
January 21st, 2011
9:30 pm
Well there Richt goes again. Just promote a grad assist to a job at Georgia. Go to uga if you want on the job training in a coaching or director job. Cant we go out and get someone who has already done the job at a lower level school?
JRW7
January 21st, 2011
9:39 pm
CHANGES? Sounds like a bunch of B S titles to me!! Mr McGarity, that is not REAL CHANGE!! We need some attitude changes at UGA!!
dawggone
January 21st, 2011
10:38 pm
Same old BS!!!!!!!!
dawginduluth
January 21st, 2011
10:39 pm
Big mistake moving Tereshinski into the weight program. The weight program needs someone who knows modern, scientific methods used in the NFl. Ever wonder why UGA players go on to greater performance once they get to the NFL? One reason is that they get the best training. Especially, weight training.
dawggone
January 21st, 2011
10:43 pm
Seems we have alot of unhappy fans…..
BAMA FAN #2
January 21st, 2011
10:51 pm
Dawg and Bama fans save the hate for UT and $Auburn$ both big rivals of both schools!! Dawgs
fans can make fun of Saban over signing 4 and 5 star players and we can make fun of the thugs
or players having no respect for Richt!!! I like both programs so can we try to get a long or make
fun of each other fan bases. I will leave up to the trolls!! RTR
SEC Observer
January 21st, 2011
10:52 pm
The UGA athletic department looks like a beaurocracy.
messin with......
January 21st, 2011
11:22 pm
can’t wait for football season to begin. another NC coming up soon.
RxDawg
January 21st, 2011
11:48 pm
Congrats Brad!!!
DAWG555
January 22nd, 2011
12:24 am
I am sensing that the Bama and AU fans on here are a bit nervous. So much of football, like anything else, is attitude and mentality. Can’t be measured, but you know when it’s there. We haven’t had it in a while. But, I am sensing a change. And, so are they.
Go Dawgs
OldDawgNeedsNewTrick
January 22nd, 2011
12:47 am
Am I crazy to think that we should be going after Norm Chow as OC. He has a nack for effectively getting skill people the ball. Seems like we always have too many 5star recruits that get maybe 5 touches a year.
KB
January 22nd, 2011
12:54 am
The ship is sinking, quick, rearrange the deck furniture!!!
Coach Grohbo
January 22nd, 2011
1:21 am
I don’t think even Norm Chow can get the ball to Georgia’s skill people when they are home enjoying the day off, I mean serving another suspension from the head coach.
Coach Grohbo
January 22nd, 2011
1:24 am
Or maybe Norm Chow can throw them a beach ball when they are at the pool, instead of practice.
Coach Grohbo
January 22nd, 2011
1:29 am
Or maybe Norm Chow can throw them a kiss when they are behind bars on another Saturday night?
Coach Grohbo
January 22nd, 2011
1:36 am
KB,
The ship has already sunk. They are just looting it now.
StatesBurr
January 22nd, 2011
1:37 am
Gatormeat: Florida just had 2 weak years and you just lost your best Coach ever and hired 2 guys for their body of work. Note: They haven’t done JACK yet, so if I were you I would be very concerned.
DawginDuluth: There are no NEW “modern, scientific methods” in the weight room. It is about intensity and desire.. The methods are taught the same in every weight room “bigger , faster, stronger” It is the instructor and his team who make the diffrence.
Have you ever been in a controlled weight room environment? No I don’t mean Golds Gym…
Coach Grohbo
January 22nd, 2011
1:39 am
SEC Observer,
In Athens, bureaucracy is just another word for protecting friends and family.
Coach Grohbo
January 22nd, 2011
1:50 am
All these wonderful promotions and still no one assigned to check the driver’s licenses of the players.
Coach Grohbo
January 22nd, 2011
1:55 am
States,
The only controlled weight room environment the Georgia players have seen is the one at the Athens-Clarke County prison.
Coach Grohbo
January 22nd, 2011
2:05 am
McGarity:
“We’ve had such a great year, let’s reward them all with promotions!”.
Coach Grohbo
January 22nd, 2011
2:07 am
Richt:
“That’s awesome. Let’s kinda have a pool party.”
Coach Grohbo
January 22nd, 2011
2:10 am
Now the only remaining question is, which grad assistant defensive backs coach will fill the open offensive line coaching position?
Coach Grohbo
January 22nd, 2011
2:20 am
The rest of the SEC oversigns players. Georgia oversigns paper pushers.
Tim Dawg
January 22nd, 2011
4:00 am
Blah,Blah,Blah !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Logan Booker
January 22nd, 2011
5:12 am
Yeah, that’s real change… keep the people but give them different titles. That will change everything, right?
The expertise doesn’t change and therefore neither will the performance. Is this what we brought McGarity in to do? He’s taken a page out of the Obama plan for “change.” Let’s hope he doesn’t have similar results.
where were bama fans 1993-2008?
January 22nd, 2011
7:19 am
Under a rock , thats where. There was no sign of the mostly trailer park fan base from Stallings to Saban. Now these frontrunners are everywhere. I dont pull for Auburn or Alabama any more than the other, but I have to admit, I really enjoy how you Bama fans are having a hard time adjusting to the fact that you are all of a sudden yesterday’s news. How does it feel to be #2 in the state of Alabama? Which really isnt anything new..was it 6 or 7 times in a row Auburn beat Bama this decade?
Really??
January 22nd, 2011
7:47 am
Is RTR the new St. Simons?? Dude — get a life.
JE
January 22nd, 2011
8:27 am
Well, if Thomas Brown was number 7 on the debth chart when he came to UGA, then we are in trouble not having but three rb’s, moving a TE to FB and hopeing Crowell comes to UGA. There is truth about competition of numbers. We need OLmen and RB’s. We have an over abundance of WR’s, TE’s and QB’s. Not a good mix of talent with need. We have competition in the WR’s and TE’s but no competition with QB nor OL.
legionaire
January 22nd, 2011
8:50 am
McGarity is to be commended for not firing career employees the way Evans did on his 1st day. Who knows what the different titles mean other than the effected employees. I think that McGarity is in the process designing a dept. that will not be a laughing stock of the SEC they way it has since Jan Kemp to Red Panties Evans. You clean up your own shop first and then go after other problems that crop up.
Dawg_Central
January 22nd, 2011
9:01 am
Police Blotter……..where did you get your facts????? Or are you just guessing, cause you are wrong ….Bama has had players arrested…..wow….some people just run their pie hole because they got one.
MCDAVIDASTRO
January 22nd, 2011
9:02 am
A lot of changes, but not the one that needs to be made, FIRE RICHT!
StatesBurr
January 22nd, 2011
9:07 am
Police Blotter: Do you seriously believe that they would arrest an Alabama Football player in ALABAMA – “The Corrupt Center of the Deep South”
Thats why you have “zero” reported arrests….and thats a fact.
Dawg_Central
January 22nd, 2011
9:13 am
I don’t believe UGA should fire Mark Richt at all……at least this guy stays the course….he is not a quitter like Nick Satan or Urban Cryer…….Richt is the best coach UGA has ever had and is more of a man than Satan or Cryer…..so all the cry babies who like what Bamas, Auburn or the Gators programs look like, im sure you can get some season tickets…..i say Go Dawgs!!!…..It’s all about players and how they perform…..hell, Spurrier is one of the best college coaches ever and can’t even win a title at South Carolina…..because their players suck!!
Dawg_Central
January 22nd, 2011
9:18 am
The last 10 years UGA has owned Bama and Auburn…..but their fans are too ignorant to realize that…..their memory is as short as their family tree……LOL……Go Dawgs!!!
Paul N Destin
January 22nd, 2011
9:46 am
The UGA fans talk a good game but your trophy case says you don’t play so well. As far as recruting goes I think if you check Rivals today you will find Alabama at the top…that is #1 for you UGA fans that have have never been to the top. You guys need to do something and then comeback and talk about the results! Until then the UGA=KY.
Coach Grohbo
January 22nd, 2011
10:13 am
@just wow man,
It is because in football terms, there are no more lower level schools left.
yogi2
January 22nd, 2011
10:20 am
any Alabama cop that arrests an Alabama football player would be tared and feathered and ran out of alabama
Central Knight
January 22nd, 2011
10:20 am
Despite all the deck shuffling, it is still 5:50 in Athens.
Coach Grohbo
January 22nd, 2011
10:25 am
All this money for executive associate director promotions and still no pitching coach for Perno.
Bow Wow
January 22nd, 2011
10:28 am
No question that these “staff changes” will lead to a conference championship next fall.
Coach Grohbo
January 22nd, 2011
10:34 am
Woof!
Barack Obama
January 22nd, 2011
10:48 am
Now this is change you can believe in.
10 to 6
January 22nd, 2011
11:11 am
Hope UGA can change that score next year.
Jeff
January 22nd, 2011
11:30 am
All the bad press directed to CMR over the last couple of years has been earned. I’ve been very critical of CMR and staff for the coaching and off-field problems and was in agreement with the statements made by Fran Tarkenton recently. I am curious though why all the oversigning that is going on especially within the SEC with some of the current hot programs does not rate more attention from the AJC. What some of these programs are doing is down right dishonest to the young men being recruited and the AJC should bring to light how these programs have so much quality depth. Hold those coaches feet to the fire just as you hold CMR accountable.
Dawghater
January 22nd, 2011
11:50 am
UGA bloggers. Keep up the GOOD work. The recruits love your comments!