UGA adds South Alabama to football schedule for $900,000 payout
Georgia has added South Alabama to its 2014 home football schedule, UGA athletic director Greg McGarity confirmed Friday.
Georgia will pay the Mobile, Ala., school $900,000, McGarity said, to make the trip to Sanford Stadium for the Nov. 8, 2014, game.
South Alabama’s 2-year-old football program has lined up multiple games against SEC teams. In addition to Georgia in 2014, the Jaguars will play Mississippi State in 2012, 2014 and 2016, Tennessee in 2013, LSU in 2016 and Ole Miss in 2017.
South Alabama begins a two-year transition period to the NCAA’s FBS (formerly Division I-A) level in the 2011 season. Beginning in 2013, the Jaguars will be eligible for the Sun Belt Conference championship and a bowl berth.
The South Alabama game completes Georgia’s 2014 non-conference schedule, which also includes games against Clemson, Charleston Southern and Georgia Tech.
“Georgia has obviously built a great tradition throughout the years; they’ve won national championships and had hundreds of players play in the NFL,” South Alabama head coach Joey Jones said in a statement Friday. “It’s going to be a tremendous venue for us to go up and play in; we’re excited about that.”
The $900,000 payout is not the most Georgia has agreed to pay for a non-conference home game. Florida Atlantic will receive $1 million for a 2012 game in Sanford Stadium, while Buffalo and North Texas will be paid $975,000 apiece for games in 2012 and 2013, respectively.
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Tide Rising
March 18th, 2011
1:59 pm
Bulldog arch,
You mention 2 pansies that Alabama plays in Kent State and North Texas. Curiously you left out that we play at Penn State. Georgia also plays 2 easy cupcakes- matter of fact we all play at least 2 and sometimes 3 pansy teams and some programs even load up with 4 noncon pansies. 2-3 is usually the norm for an sec team.
Russ, the Temporary Mascot
March 18th, 2011
2:05 pm
Good ol’ South Alabama. A real rival that should fill the stands and bring us an exciting game. Can’t wait for this one. Do they have a mascot? Permanent or Temporary?
Russ, the Temporary Mascot
March 18th, 2011
2:07 pm
South Alabama . . . God’s Country. I hear the girl bulldogs down there are pure white and require no painting.
WIN WITH RICHT
March 18th, 2011
2:11 pm
Tide Rising
Why doesn’t Bama schedule Louisiana-Monroe anymore?
dawgfan
March 18th, 2011
2:14 pm
Since Techies are obviously in the mood to run their big fat mouths about OOC schedules, let’s take a look at Tech’s first 3 oppnnents for the 2011 season, shall we?
D-1aa Western Carolina: 2-9 in 2010.
Middle Tennessee State: 6-7 in the Sun Belt in 2010.
Kansas: 3-9 in 2010. Lost to North Dakota State. Would any Techie with a big fat mouth like to tell us what they did the following week? Didn’t think so big mouths.
So there you have it folks. Georgia Tech football fans are clearly some of the dumbest people on the planet.
Thanks.
Truth
March 18th, 2011
2:15 pm
Great game to schedule. S. Alabama along with Georgia Tech, two wins and a break in the traditionally tough conference schedule.
Monkey Barf
March 18th, 2011
2:17 pm
Monkey Barf asks, is there a Bulldawg blog where a UGA fan enjoy intelligent posts regarding football at UGA without all the insect and reptile fans bashing the efforts of an outstanding football program? I really grow weary of the likes of pulpwood smiff and vance duuley…Come on guys..what jerks! You don’t have to keep proving it with every post.
WIN WITH RICHT
March 18th, 2011
2:17 pm
Russ
South Alabama’s mascot is the Jaguars.
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March 18th, 2011
2:20 pm
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Paddy
March 18th, 2011
2:23 pm
Skeezic……..UGA is just doing what our country is supposed to do. Promote capitalism. Why do some folks always bash our founding fathers and their great ideals? With attitudes like yours, it is no wonder our country is in such deep sh-t. WOW
TrojanDog
March 18th, 2011
2:24 pm
Way to to Dogs! These local games are very good for all programs. Notice Auburn nor Bama will schedule to play an in-state team for fear of getting embarrassed. Troy has played every SEC team now except for those two, and I can honestly call them both chicken for that!
JB
March 18th, 2011
2:26 pm
Gonna take more than free cokes and Hot dogs to fill grant Field with that schedule. Throw in Duke and you’ve got yourself some clamor for tickets…LOL………The usual answer you get at the Tech ticket office when you call to ask what time the game starts…..and the girl say’s, ” what time can ya’ll be here?”……Ba boom……………..Never gets old……..
WIN WITH RICHT
March 18th, 2011
2:28 pm
JB
Good Post!!
jacket51
March 18th, 2011
2:29 pm
…”Georgia has obviously built a great tradition throughout the years; they’ve won national championships and had hundreds of players play in the NFL,”…….
Really? National Championship(S), actually only just one, 1980. But the dawgs sure as hell do act like they have won a bunch of national championships….let me guess dawg fans….Next year is the big year huh? The year when y’all win it all right? Just like every year. Freakin losers
WIN WITH RICHT
March 18th, 2011
2:33 pm
jacket51
UGA has won Georgia State Championship 9 out of the las 10 years.
WIN WITH RICHT
March 18th, 2011
2:38 pm
JB
As a promotion for the Duke-Tech game, they will give away free pocket protectors. And at halftime they plan a group tickle pile on the fifty yard line.
icallbs
March 18th, 2011
2:39 pm
Steve, Skeezix: Name a fairer system than capitalism going back to the beginning of recorded time. What are the requirements for teaching/firemen/police? As soon as the need for the positions exceeds the demand salaries will go up. No one is required to become a teacher/fireman/policeman and if it pays an unfair wage they are free to go find someone that wants to pay them more for their talents. It is not such a sad world when you exercise your right to be responsible for yourself. Try it.
jacket51
March 18th, 2011
2:39 pm
@WIN WITH RICHT….
Win your conference, better yet, win your side of the conference first. And next thing, try to crack the top 10 with all your top 10 talent recruits. No other team in the country gets the consistent talent that UGA gets and sucks as bad as y’all do. Something must be wrong with the water up there in Athens cuz all of your 5 stars end up with no stars by the time all is said and done.
Georgia Tech recruiting classes rank 30-40 every year on average and we still scare the s h i t out of y’all every year when we play you. You should crush us every year, but you don’t, you constantly squeak out bull s h i t wins. Y’all are the biggest underachieving bunch of thugs/rednecks that this nation has to offer, I hope your proud of it.
Tide Rising
March 18th, 2011
2:39 pm
Win with Richt,
Why don’t we schedule LA-Monroe anymore? Easy. They don’t want to play us for awhile.
Come to think of it how come you dodged UCF for so long until you had to play them in a bowl game? Could it be because the previous time you played UCF they were in position to kick a chipshot field goal. And then that bogus out of bounds offensive pass interference penalty backed them up 15 yds and basically stole the game from them in the last few seconds.
Anyway enjoy getting all the mileage you can from that La-Monroe game from 4 years ago. I’ll just keep laughing about that loss to UCF a few short months ago.
jacket51
March 18th, 2011
2:45 pm
Thank You ‘Tide Rising’….
Where was your ‘dream team’ and all of your 5 star recruits when you couldn’t even put up a touchdown against a no name Conference USA opponent UCF….Like I said, UGA is the biggest underachieving program in the history of college football. 1/4 of your team got arrested last year, your AD was caught messing with a crack head stripper…. You retards are embarrassing to the state of Georgia and give the whole south east a bad rap.
sogadog
March 18th, 2011
2:48 pm
If South Alabama and Georgia State can field FBS or Division 1 teams, why can’t Georgia Southern do the same? Ten years ago, I thought Ga. Southern would have become a division 1 school and on its way to joining a conference such as the ACC. Southern seems to have fizzled out.
Tide Rising
March 18th, 2011
2:51 pm
jacket51,
What you say? Are you saying the dogs couldn’t even dent the end zone against the powerful UCF defense? I assumed they scored a td and missed the extra point. Are you sure?
Are you telling me that with AJ Green and Ealey and Charles and that great O-line that the dawgs couldn’t break the white end zone stripe in 3 hours of football? Say it aint so!
jacket51's dad
March 18th, 2011
2:51 pm
Son, pull your head out and look at the facts occasionally. UGA lays official claim to two football national championships (42 & 80). However, if the university were insecure and counted “titles” using the same criteria as GT, the Bulldogs could claim six. Also, it wouldn’t have to include “championships” for any years when the rest of the country’s college men were fighting for freedom overseas and unavailable for intercollegiate sports. Let’s assume for a moment your term “freakin losers” is applicable. That means GT consistently loses to “freakin losers” 75% of the time over multiple generations. Tech fans always seem so proud of taking calculus… what they really need is remedial statistics.
WIN WITH RICHT
March 18th, 2011
2:57 pm
Jackets51
The fact that Tech’s football program can’t compete against a fine upstanding school like UGA for recruits shows how far it has sunk. 42-34!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!!
jacket51
March 18th, 2011
3:02 pm
If UGA lays claim to two national championships then GT lays claim to 4…..I don’t even like counting anything pre-1950 but if you want to go there we can.
And by the way, we won our last one in 1990, you won your last one in 1980, it has been 31 YEARS and you morons are still on top of the world and worship Herschel Walker like you just won the damn thing yesterday.
ClinchCountyDawg
March 18th, 2011
3:02 pm
jacket51
It looks as if you have a serious inferiority complex when it comes to Georgia’s Flagship University. What happened, did your application at UGA get rejected.
ClinchCountyDawg
March 18th, 2011
3:05 pm
Tide Rising
Do you live in the same trailer park with Harvey Updyke?
jacket51
March 18th, 2011
3:06 pm
All I’m saying is if the Dawgs were truly as great as Dawg nation wants everyone to believe, and if they are truly this “football powerhouse”…..wouldn’t they have won another national championship in the past 31 years? IT HAS BEEN 31 YEARS, do I need to say it again, you mutts still worship buck belue and herschel walker and talk about 1980 every day of your lives like that s h i t just happened. It really is comical and it makes you look so damn ignorant. UGA fans need to take a step back, realize that they have a good program, but an enormously underachieving program. And lastly, UGA fans need to learn to shut the hell up until you AT LEAST win an SEC championship…AT LEAST.
jacket51
March 18th, 2011
3:08 pm
@ClinchCountyDawg…..
Actually I played football at Georgia Tech on scholarship, I never have liked UGA. And when I got out of college I landed a great job, and guess who I beat out for my position……two UGA grads!! Who has the last laugh now retard LMAO! Your funny
Dawg1
March 18th, 2011
3:09 pm
Realize that this is part of the ‘foot print’ that Florida used to win NCS’S – but personally would prefer playing quality teams from other regions. Yes, BYU has been added and if memory serves – Michigan; but would be great to see more quality games verses running over teams that would have trouble beating the scout team.
ClinchCountyDawg
March 18th, 2011
3:09 pm
jacket51
Your post brought back a lot of fond memories. You forgot to mention Lindsay Scott. DAWGS RULE!!!!!
Paddy
March 18th, 2011
3:24 pm
icallbs…….Thanks, you said it so much more graceful than I did! I just got a little hot there for a moment.
Paul N Destin
March 18th, 2011
3:55 pm
I wouldn’t laugh to loud about South Alabama folks. Many of you don’t know just how much talent there is in the Mobile area for bigtime football players. South will be the 3rd best football team in Alabama in the next 3-4 years replacing both UAB and Troy because they have much more to offer to the kids. Joey Jones has a great young staff.
Tim Tucker
March 18th, 2011
4:00 pm
ut96: Yes, the South Alabama coach, Joey Jones, is the former Alabama WR.
Troll Power Ratings
March 18th, 2011
4:02 pm
The blog award for bitter Techie of the thread goes to jacket51. Slice, dice, whine and complain; Tech will never consistently beat UGA or be as relevant in-state or nationally. Great engineering school, though. Congrats.
The Ginger Ninja
March 18th, 2011
4:03 pm
Doggies quit whining for the love of god!!! The reason everyone is giving you guys flack for this is because the “dawg nation” is the first ones on everyone elses blog chirping about the cupcakes tech schedules or uf playing FIU or bama against app. st. Truth is every d-1 team does it because its all about the money. Thicken up that skin pups if you are gonna dish it out be prepared to take a little.
jacket51
March 18th, 2011
4:09 pm
I’m not bitter, I’m not whining or complaining….I am giving you ignorant dawgtards a little piece of reality and something to think about. Maybe you can reflect on your actions and say to yourself, “ya know, maybe jacket51 is right, maybe I should shut the hell up about UGA football until we win SOMETHING. Gee golly that techie may just be rite”…..I am bringing enlightenment to a fan base over populated by ignorance.
JRHD
March 18th, 2011
4:23 pm
Hey jack@ss51, I hear your mom calling you from upstairs. She said to come out of the basement, take that Star Trek outfit off and get away from the computer. You know how getting all worked up on the blogosphere makes your asthma flare up. And last but not least…42-34, 9 out of 10 and the only girls on the Tech campus are lost looking for IKEA.
Stinger2
March 18th, 2011
4:24 pm
The practice of adding two or three easy win home games to the major college schedules is certainly nothing new.
The new part is the huge payouts that are given to the small schools. Along with coaches salaries, and what is paid to get home games with the cupcake opponents is
being funded by the fans due to unrealistic ticket prices,concessions food and parking cost.
TR
March 18th, 2011
4:30 pm
UGA, perennial pre-season national champions for the last thirty years. Go Ifs!
jacket51
March 18th, 2011
4:31 pm
JRHD, I want to personally thank you for proving my point exactly right. You just helped support my argument. Preciate it mane
wildbill
March 18th, 2011
4:35 pm
WOW, I am all a twitter over this one. I am relieved that we passed over such “power houses” as Warner Robbins High School and Marist. Looks like a winner all the way around, just one concern, who will pay to watch such a game?
JRHD
March 18th, 2011
4:43 pm
no problem, not that you needed any help proving to everyone on this blog that you are an insufferable @$$.
showmedog
March 18th, 2011
4:46 pm
South Alabama is better than us in the Head Coach category. They have a good chance to beat us- reference Vandy, Kentucky, Colorado, Central Florida, and others.
Fire the inept CMR today.
Tide Rising
March 18th, 2011
5:20 pm
ClinchCountyDawg
March 18th, 2011
3:09 pm
jacket51
“Your post brought back a lot of fond memories. You forgot to mention Lindsay Scott. DAWGS RULE!!!!!” clinch county dog
ClinchCountyDawg,
Too bad you have to go back 31 years in your time machine to celebrate something. BTW- when you’re done polishing AU’s bcs trophy come on over to my house and polish mine. Its only been a little over a year and its getting some dust on it. I figure since you’ve had plenty of practice polishing everyone else’s bcs trophy you should be quite adept at putting a right nice shine on it.
Tide Rising
March 18th, 2011
5:22 pm
clinch county dawg,
Speaking of trailer’s and such. Who was your prior AD holding the red panties for? Your trailer living sis?
UGASlobberknocker
March 18th, 2011
6:04 pm
pathetic . Nobody wants to go see crappy teams like this..just another dead game in front of a dead crowd ar 1230 since no TV will carry it. This is,pathetic, embarrassing..pitiful. And we wonder why the students dont show up and everyone leaves early…this is why. Nobody wants to see this crap ..the season ticket package is down to 2 or 3 decent games a yr. absolutely awful.
UGASlobberknocker
March 18th, 2011
6:05 pm
Hey Tide Rising I dont have to go back 31 years..Ga is 3-1 against Bama in the past 10 seasons.
UGASlobberknocker
March 18th, 2011
6:12 pm
Paul n Destin. Im not laughing. Im crying because we continue to schedule cupcakes..and you are right, one day one of them will bite us and it might be s Ala. Central Fla beat uys last yr and almost did in the regular season a few yrs ago.We have nothing to gain by scheduling teams like this.
I would rather take the Tenn scheduling philosophy..schedule top non conf games . if you win, great, if you lose, it isnt as bad as losing to somebody like S Ala.. And the crowd actually has a compelling game to watch.
trey
March 18th, 2011
6:37 pm
South Alabama or Yellow Maggots, there’s no difference in pansy level.
The maggots have ELON on their 2013 schedule and Wofford for 2014. lmao. HAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I can’t stop laffing.