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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216 comments Add your comment
Lowcountry Bulldawg
March 18th, 2011
11:54 am
1st!
Ed (The Original)
March 18th, 2011
11:55 am
And to think that in the past, Georgia fans had to watch games against teams like Clemson. Who needs drama? Suckers…
Paul in RDU
March 18th, 2011
12:02 pm
Looks like a good move for both schools – USA gets a good paycheck and UGA gets a guaranteed home win in a year with 2 AQ OOC opponents.
Bryan G.
March 18th, 2011
12:02 pm
Can’t wait to renew my season tix that year for that sweet home schedule. Woo hoo
ut96
March 18th, 2011
12:04 pm
Is the same Joey Jones that played wide receiver at Bama. He was #4 I believe?
elvisaintdead
March 18th, 2011
12:04 pm
Well, this is certainly worth all the extra cost for those dandy seatback rentals
they keep spamming the season ticket holders.
UGA Haters!
March 18th, 2011
12:04 pm
The more you post the better we look! Moron Trolls!!!
Bradley G
March 18th, 2011
12:05 pm
Bryan G, can I get dibs on the South Alabama tickets?
D Dog
March 18th, 2011
12:07 pm
Looks like McGarity is giving up on his scheduling a top 5 team like Boise strategy.
Nightmare that won't end
March 18th, 2011
12:08 pm
I am sure all your 5 star dream team players are just dying to play the S Alabamas and the Charleston Southerns. So much to be proud of, so much to brag about. congrats
fambama
March 18th, 2011
12:10 pm
Yes. Joey Jones was an outstanding receiver at Bama and was a very good high school coach in the B’Ham area.
D A DoubleU G
March 18th, 2011
12:13 pm
Seriously people,
do not even bother trying to bash UGA for scheduling cupcakes like this.
Go look at EVERY other FBS team’s schedule, including your own, and tell me what the common denominator is…….
Great work Mr. McGarity. Look forward to spending a beautiful day in the Classic City with great friends and family doing what we love.
GLORY, GLORY!!!!!
Gdawg
March 18th, 2011
12:29 pm
Are we possibly saying Alabama doesnt play cupcakes? Really? come on bammers get a life and maybe a house without wheels!
BYRDDAWG
March 18th, 2011
12:29 pm
Might be tougher than the tech game! By then that high school offense won’t catch ANYONE by surprise…..
Dawg Man
March 18th, 2011
12:32 pm
S.Alabama will probably forfeit, because with all these superstars, we will be National Champs for the next 4 years and will run teams off the field!!!!!!!
Bobby C
March 18th, 2011
12:35 pm
There is only one team, that makes for a great home opener: the Chattanooga Mocs………
Tech Man
March 18th, 2011
12:35 pm
Boy, the DAWGS are really doing well in schedule strength. How about Mars Hill and Bethun-Cookman or even go up to Western Carolina.
1962 Dawg
March 18th, 2011
12:36 pm
Nothing wrong with playing S Alabama. Go back and look at the past 5 NC’s and see how many of these caliber of teams each team played.
Couple of years ago Alabama got spanked by one of these teams. So did Michigan.
Why go across the country and play Az St. when you can get an extra home game with a team like S. Ala??
gabeaux
March 18th, 2011
12:39 pm
The Sisters of the Poor have an opening in 2015, a couple hundred grand ought to lure them into Athens. The season ticket holders will really have something to look forward to. Then again, the way the program is going, these might be some tough opponents for Richt’s replacement.
vannie
March 18th, 2011
12:43 pm
This is how you save Richt’s job–add another cream-puff to the schedule. Whatta guy!
thwg
March 18th, 2011
12:45 pm
Beefing up that pansy schedule I see. South Alabama. I’m surprised UGA didn’t add Marist High school. Such a joke. I guess Richt needs to water down the schedule versus playing powerhouses like Colorado
Too Easy
March 18th, 2011
12:45 pm
I’ll take South Alabama and lay the three points.
guest
March 18th, 2011
12:47 pm
LOL. Guess UCF wasnt available? Oh wait, better not play them, they could beat us.
King Jet
March 18th, 2011
12:49 pm
What about Georgia State???
Skeezix
March 18th, 2011
12:55 pm
We Americans have a lousy sense of priorities. Around the country teachers/police/firemen are losing their jobs and Univ. of Ga. is paying $900K to a team to play them in a game.
INSIDER
March 18th, 2011
12:57 pm
Let’s go Jaguars…..we beat Georgia in basketball when Dominque Wilkins played in Athens (during the NIT) or at least I think we did….it’s been a long time….USA is 17-0 as a football program…by the time we roll into Athens, the team will be up to speed, take your 900K, and get ready for a BCS Bowl….that’s the way I see it going down.
RabidDawgFan
March 18th, 2011
1:03 pm
EVERY team in college football has cupcakes on their schedules! OMG I can’t believe the bashing on here because we do. I didn’t see anybody bashing Alabama for playing Georgia State, North Texas, Charleston Southern,etc. Nobody was bashing Florida for playing The Citadel, or Charleston Southern, or Florida Atlantic, or Furman! Get over yourselves and quit hating.
Steve
March 18th, 2011
1:04 pm
Skeezix, it is a very sad world, in which we live.
Bulldog Arch
March 18th, 2011
1:04 pm
This year—Alabama—-KENT STATE,NORTH TEXAS Arkansas—-MISSOURI STATE,NEW MEXICO Auburn—-UTAH STATE,FLORIDA ATLANTIC,SAMFORD L.s.u.—-NORTHWESTERN STATE Florida—-FLORIDA ATLANTIC,FURMAN Tennessee—-BUFFALO,NORTH TEXAS Ga Tech—-WESTERN CAROLINA,MIDDLE TENNESSEE OH YEAH TECH MAN MAYBE YA’LL CAN SCHEDULE GARDNER WEBB AGAIN,I HEAR THEY’VE ADDED A VARSITY SQUAD SINCE YOUR LAST CLOSE CALL WITH THEIR JV
BYRDDAWG
March 18th, 2011
1:08 pm
LOL.. tech plays that powerhouse kennesaw st in hoops and gets beat! Bama plays kent st, n texas AND ga southern this yr in football but you clowns wanna bash UGA for playing S Alabama!!!! GET REAL…
BYRDDAWG
March 18th, 2011
1:08 pm
ARCH you stole my thunder DAWG!!
KANG here!
March 18th, 2011
1:11 pm
Techman:
Yeah, because Tech NEVER schedules cupcakes! Gardner-Webb, Western Carolina, Duke, MTSU, SC State, Jacksonville State, Samford, etc. All NCAA POWERHOUSES you got there!
Everybody does it, you boob.
Bulldog Arch
March 18th, 2011
1:12 pm
Byrd—They can hate all they want but they can’t change the facts
really ?
March 18th, 2011
1:20 pm
Really strength of schedule gouging from a tech fan , now thats funny S Alabama would finish top three in the ACC .
Blue
March 18th, 2011
1:20 pm
wow…impressive. Way to step up.
JB
March 18th, 2011
1:20 pm
I know Tech is miffed they missed this. Any word on any tickets left for Tech/Western Carolina opening day? That’s a barn burner.
Pulpwud Smiff
March 18th, 2011
1:22 pm
I’ve never understood how anyone – even an alumnus – could support and take pride in UGA’s football team. When you look at their history for the past forty years, how can anyone ignore Jan Kemp and the “remedial studies” scam, the Jim Harrick fiasco, the DUIs in the athletic office, the DUIs and other arrests of players, the #1 party school tag (i.e., the most drunk students), the suspensions and outright dismissals, the Fulmer Cup, and on and on?
As disgraceful and humiliating as it is, I don’t see many alums and fans demanding an end to this sordid activity. It sets UGA apart as the kind of school most people abhor, and it’s become an embarrassment to the whole state of Georgia.
Will it never end? Apparently not while Mark Richt is at UGA. Richt is perhaps the biggest hypocrite in the United States. But even with all the cheating and lawlessness that he ignores, he still can’t win the SEC.
So you’re paying him to be BCS champions, but he can’t even win his SEC division. So why do you pay him millions of dollars a year?
Just asking.
JB
March 18th, 2011
1:23 pm
Go back and look at Florida’s schedule the last NC year they had. Four or five cupcakes on there.
JB
March 18th, 2011
1:24 pm
Nice try pulp….. Go back to your India culture sensitivity training class.
Vance Duuley
March 18th, 2011
1:25 pm
I wonder if any of the books about UGA football include the perspective of someone speaking for the late Jan Kemp? The perspective that “student” athletes like Lindsay Scott were playing years without taking college level courses? That the proudest moment of the football program was earned by players who never earned a single college credit?
Dawgtards love to return to 1980, but their memories are really short when it comes to remembering an earthshaking event that happened a few years later that showed the world what a joke UGA athletes were and what a scam artist their beloved Vince Dooley was (and is). So for all those dawgtards with short memories or who think their athletes are actually taking real courses and trying to graduate, here’s the quote that broke the trial wide open and showed what a slimeball Dooley is:
O. Hale Almand Jr., a lawyer for the defense, offered a justification for the favorable treatment accorded the athletes, citing a hypothetical player. “We may not make a university student out of him,” he told the jury, “but if we can teach him to read and write, maybe he can work at the post office rather than as a garbageman when he gets through with his athletic career.”
Nothing has changed at UGA, they just do a slightly better job of keeping things quiet, but that’s hard to do when 44 of your player-thugs have been arrested, isn’t it?
UGA: WINNER OF THE FULMER CUP AND THE CESSPOOL OF THE SOUTH.
JB
March 18th, 2011
1:26 pm
At the end of the day, still 9 of the last 10, two against the greatest football coach on earth…LOL
GTBob
March 18th, 2011
1:30 pm
Every team schedules like this, there is really no reason to blame UGA for this. It probably is one of the dumbest parts of college football though. Every year instead of watching 12 good games we get at most 10 reasonable games with two practice games that their 4th string wouldn’t lose in.
zgoldatl
March 18th, 2011
1:31 pm
Uga should play Georgia state in the dome. That would be fun for ATL dawg fans, and us Georgia state fans. Go panthers, see y’all at the concrete jungle
swhite
March 18th, 2011
1:32 pm
Hmmmm – in 2011 Alabama will be playing powerhouses like Kent State, North Texas State, and Georgia Southern. Florida gets the always tough Florida-Atlantic, Alabama Birmingham, and Furman. National Champs Auburn also plays the mighty Florida Atlantic, along with Utah State and Samford! Meanwhile, East Division champs South Carolina will take on arch-rival East Carolina, plus Navy and The Citadel. Yeah, it’s a good thing Georgia is the only school that schedules cream puffs.
ozzfest
March 18th, 2011
1:33 pm
To the clown, 1962 DAWG, who wrote “Why go across the country and play Az St. when you can get an extra home game with a team like S. Ala??
Are you like 92 years old? See, they make these little tubes with wings…called airplanes…and they take you to interesting places, beyond the very geographically-boring state of GA. I doubt you attend many away games, but there were a very large number of BULLDOGS at the three out of region games the last three years.
I loved the trips to Tempe, Stillwater, and Boulder…I even saw the baseball team play at UCLA last Friday.
WIN WITH RICHT
March 18th, 2011
1:33 pm
Pulpwud Smiff
Why don’t you got to Awbarn? I hear they have some trees at Toomer’s Corner that need the chainsaw put to them. Be careful, I hear Auburn’s Hole in The Head gang is out on bond. Be sure to lock up you singlewide.
JB
March 18th, 2011
1:34 pm
Classy post by GTBob…… He gets it…..
Whit
March 18th, 2011
1:36 pm
I hear South Alabama is already a 4 point favorite.
jackson
March 18th, 2011
1:38 pm
At least it’s in October–the best month for football in Athens–as opposed to this year when we have none
BYRDDAWG
March 18th, 2011
1:42 pm
nit-whit???
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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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.
Notso Fast
March 18th, 2011
6:38 pm
To be the best you have to beat the best but if you just want a winning record then you have to pay to play weak teams. Just not much faith in the Dream Team.
Captain
March 18th, 2011
6:45 pm
You GT supporters are clowns. You love to spout off about academics as if your athletes are somehow brilliant and thosecat Georgia are inferior. Let’s not let the “facts” get in the way of your argument. You go back and cite Jan Kemp, fine. One of those who couldn’t exit remedial studies, so academically challenged he was unable to obtain one of those “free” grades was Tyrone . Its an amazing thing, Tyrone was granted admission to GT after flunking out at Georgia. While at GT he made the Dean’s List and graduated, playing for Bill Curry. Oh it’s true. Maybe you guys could tell us about Sammy Drummer or Brooke Steppe both highly skilled students, Drummer a degree in Maintenance Engineering (janitor). More recently Fish Fry signed a player who didn’t qualify academically out of high school so he couldn’t enroll at Auburn last Fall. GT has one of the lowest graduation rates in the ACC, worse than Georgia by several percentage points. You boys might want to worry about your academic problems. After all it is apparently an institutional problem, you received probation and forfeited games for playing academically ineligible players, did you forget that FACT????
IL Jacket
March 18th, 2011
6:45 pm
The issue is not who schedules the easier out of conference schedule-the truth of the matter is all of the major programs do it. It has been a good payday for the FBC subdivision schools and some have started using their leverage to up the ante. No the real issue is the disregard for the season ticket holder evidenced by bundling an inferior product and forcing the loyal fan to pay for it. Sure you may get 7 home games, but does anyone really enjoy a blowout. The stated rationale of the NCAA when going to the 12th game was to enable quality nonconference matchups against opponents from other regions. Well it has not worked out that way and for my money if no one is going to use the game the way it was intended, just go back to 11 games where each game is important and the season is less demanding of our student-athletes. Just because some is good, more is not better. Are you listening NFL.
BYRDDAWG
March 18th, 2011
6:49 pm
What up IL Jacket?
IL Jacket
March 18th, 2011
6:53 pm
Got tired of crying over my busted bracket, so I thought I’d talk some football. Hope you don’t mind me joining your blog.
BYRDDAWG
March 18th, 2011
6:59 pm
I went 12-4 yesterday but my ship is sinking today! How’s your weather in the Windy City ? We hit 80 today!
patrick Sulley
March 18th, 2011
7:02 pm
Pulpwud Smiff
March 18th, 2011
1:22 pm
I’ve never understood how anyone – even an alumnus – could support and take pride in UGA’s football team.
……………………………..
Hey stupid..what does the football team have to do with UGA being the number 1 party school?
IL Jacket
March 18th, 2011
7:09 pm
You know it’s bad when the wife is beating you. Her secret method. Pick the higher seed. I think she has only missed 4 so far, while I drank the Louisville kool-aid. 50 when I left today. Am in the sylvan glen of Oxford, Ohio for spring parent’s weekend. Apparently another opportunity to separate the adults from their money.
MCDAVIDASTRO
March 18th, 2011
7:16 pm
one more game where we,re expected to smile about a game that nobody wants to go to. As the money rises from the fans the quality goes down. This is not going to work forever. Given poor coaching and poor opponents, it won’t be long until TV will be the better choice.
BadDawgBad
March 18th, 2011
7:19 pm
Buy those WINS Baby!!!!
BadDawgBad
March 18th, 2011
7:20 pm
Can we buy the remaining 11 to get to the SEC Championship game???
BadDawgBad
March 18th, 2011
7:20 pm
I’d be happier to see that we paid Florida off for a win or two.
IL Jacket
March 18th, 2011
7:21 pm
You’re right, McDavid. It used to be pleasurable going to games, but the games have become so interminably long. I hate those TV timeouts-no need for a 3:45 hour game.
Alan Chadwick
March 18th, 2011
7:28 pm
Dear twhg,
My boys would love to test our Wishbone against the vaunted GT triple option. You couldn’t beat UGA with a totally undisciplined Defense. Well…ours is very young but disciplined. Name your payout, time, and place and the War Eagles will embarass you.
Thanks for mentioning us though!
slippery slope
March 18th, 2011
8:06 pm
No powerful Idaho State games anymore ?
Do away with games like this in major college football.
sports
March 18th, 2011
8:13 pm
so what!
AdMan
March 18th, 2011
8:36 pm
All those Bama fans spewing negative comments sure do have short memories….last time I checked Bama played Ga State last season….real tough game for the Tide…of course if you ask the Bama fans they’ll tell you they were good because Bill Curry coached them….yah right and I’ve got some swamp land I’ll sell you.
Steve Smith
March 18th, 2011
8:54 pm
That is just pathetic. As a long time season ticket holder, we pay way too much for that win.
ugared
March 18th, 2011
9:04 pm
Dawgs schedule starting to resemble UF’s
Nachos the barn burner
March 18th, 2011
9:10 pm
Can’t wait to see the DAWWWGS car flags flying the day after they win….
alex
March 18th, 2011
9:30 pm
this is normal operating procedures for SEC home games. The larger stadiums that hold at least 85K can and will usually pay about $1M to these schools, and for many of these schools, that money is their sports budget funds for the year. These SEC coaches usually bring coaches they have worked before and do them this favor….been going on for many many years…
Big Dawg Cobb
March 18th, 2011
9:35 pm
I wonder if Bama is going to schedule GSU again this year? Better not risk it as they are now in their second year.
bob bo
March 18th, 2011
9:37 pm
Hey, Bulldogs jump back on Troy again!!
BAMA BILL
March 18th, 2011
9:41 pm
adman, why don’t you just crawl your sorry @ss into the swamp.
Athens Ga Dawg Fan
March 18th, 2011
10:40 pm
Coach Richt is acting like Ray Goff, play a bunch of pansie teams. I think he may end up like Goff, nice guys finish last in football. Let’s play a shedule that if we do win, we would be considered for a national championship. Chickens, pansies, pussies, that what Richt’s teams are.
bamma ramma
March 18th, 2011
11:01 pm
Georgia’s getting desperate paying a million to play some creampuff to get an easy blowout win. They better start playing better teams or they’ll stay mediocre.
Will
March 18th, 2011
11:13 pm
Dont be surprised if USA wins that game or at least gives them a go. . They are getting alot of transfers from the University of Alabama and Auburn because they didnt have to sit out. This will be USA ’s first full season as NCAA Div I. Keep in mind USA has never lost a football game. They are UNDEFEATED in 2 seasons.
bridgekid09
March 19th, 2011
12:10 am
@Will Yeah USA has received alot of transfers including a Georgia transfer also, 4 Star player. Received transfers from Bama, Auburn, Georgia, Virginia Tech plus the recruits in the area.
Nick Fairley, Jamarcus Russel lol, Julio Jones, Sen’Derrick Marks, Willie Anderson, Chris Samuels are all from Mobile Area, now there is a school within the area that is set to play at a national level.
'42 Champs?
March 19th, 2011
12:55 am
@jacket51’s dad Did you really say this? “… 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.” You do know that the US entered WWII after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Right? And that was Dec. 7, 1941. And if all of your men were off fighting in the war, how did you field a team in ‘42? And why does UGA not count two Tech victories in ‘43 & ‘44? Again, if all of your men were off fighting in the war, how did you field a team? So, you fielded a team, got beat, didn’t like it, TWICE, and you are going to pretend the games didn’t take place?
Georgia Fans Eats Idiots Sandwiches
March 19th, 2011
1:28 am
UGA Sucks at every thing. gotta “buy” a win from a Alabama high school team. That’s tough UGA FOOTBALL!
6 and 7
March 19th, 2011
4:48 am
McGarity is about to announce that Agnes Scott has asked Thuga to be Anges’ homecoming opponent in 2012 and he was thrilled to accept.
Down South Dawg
March 19th, 2011
5:02 am
Glass Houses and Rocks!— Go Dawgs!
Gsoutherngrad
March 19th, 2011
6:46 am
Why not Georgia Southern? Go
Gsoutherngrad
March 19th, 2011
6:47 am
Go Eagles
Paddy
March 19th, 2011
7:10 am
ugared…McGuarity is just doing what he said he would do when hired. He wanted to follow the Florida scheduling pattern. He is doing that and for some unknown reason fans are waiting 10 mons later to become upset. You knew this was coming folks, he told you so!!!!!!!!!!! Now is not the time to voice an opinion. When he had his news conference and told us the patsy’s were coming was the time to be upset. Elvis left the building many days ago.
DAWGMAN
March 19th, 2011
7:28 am
Who negotiated that contract?
DawgNation
March 19th, 2011
7:38 am
Well Tim I guess your car payment was due so you needed a blog to generate hits. Congratulation you brought all the trolls out of the woodwork with this one and you made sure you started a thread that would start another idiotic back and forth battle of wits. Do us all a favor. When you post something lock out comments.
Beast from the East
March 19th, 2011
7:55 am
“Go back and look at Florida’s schedule the last NC year they had. Four or five cupcakes on there.”
JB,
Our only patsies were the Citadel, Hawaii (ya’lls greatest win the past decade) and UGA! The other 2 OOC games were Miami and FSU. Sorry, just couldn’t help myself.
Joe Kemp
March 19th, 2011
8:02 am
Jan Kemp is DEAD…. Leave the woman alone and out of your blog
UGASlobberknocker
March 19th, 2011
8:05 am
It doesnt make me feel any better that other teams schedule cupcakes. That doesnt make it right.
That said, Athens ga dawg fan has it wrong..first of all, the head coach doesnt get involved in scheduling..Goff didnt schedule anyone and neither has Richt. And I support Goff because he was a good Dawg in his playing days..anyone who has known him personally or knows someone who has(including me) will tell you..He is NOT a nice guy..Maybe he has softened up some but he used be an A #1 A hole. When he was asst coach before he became head coach the players gave him a T shirt that was a take off on the old TEAM/ me concept, His T shirt read ME/team.When he was coach he liked to act as if he was Vince Lombardi that needed no help. he was wrong obviously.
UGASlobberknocker
March 19th, 2011
8:06 am
Paddy I was upset then and I still am. Nothing new
phillip
March 19th, 2011
8:40 am
South Alabama is going to have a good team. This will be the next Southern Miss. Don’t doubt for a second this won’t be a good game.
J.C. from N GA
March 19th, 2011
9:21 am
….and all you bulldog fans think this will make y’all national champions? LOSERS!!!!
Mudcatjoe
March 19th, 2011
9:29 am
Trying to buy another easy win! Toughen up and start playing real schools wimps!!!
Pago Pago DAWG
March 19th, 2011
9:31 am
We’re on Orange Beach right now, the MOB paper did not report the $$$$ that UGA will pay for the win. It seems that USA not to scared about going to Athens…..
Charles
March 19th, 2011
9:51 am
Georgia will never be more than a regional team scheduling these types of games. Say what you will about Evans he understood that to ever be considered a national power house you got to schedule some division one teams like Oklahoma State, Colorado, Oregon. I know the argument is all the teams do it. To which I say I rest my case.
Nachos the barn burner
March 19th, 2011
9:51 am
This would be a good game to have another BLACKOUT. they MIGHT win (unlike ALABAMA back in 2008). what a -ick running that was.
Don KeyLargo
March 19th, 2011
9:52 am
Look at every teams early schedule! The Yellow Jackets open up 2012 against S.E.Louisiana. Waiting in line for that ticket.
Paddy
March 19th, 2011
10:27 am
UGA Slobberknocker……If you complained then, you have every right to complain now! The “after the fact” crowd does not!
Richt's Time Is Up
March 19th, 2011
10:41 am
My alma mater is sinking to new lows. Everyone understands the “hire a cupcake for home games” concept, but when will they see the big picture? UGA will never be considered an elite, top-tier program while they conitnue to schedule teams like South Alabama.
When GT fans rag on UGA about their schedule
March 19th, 2011
10:42 am
I am so amused when GT fans rag on UGA about some non conference opponent. GT acts like they ARE in the same compnay as UGA and all of their former SEC brethren, when they make such lame accusations.
GT IS one of the very schools that UGA or any SEC school has on their schedule at homecoming, like Vandy or Tulane or Rice or Furman or App State or Southern Alabama or Millsaps or Davidson.
Richt's Time Is Up
March 19th, 2011
10:44 am
If we’re going to play patsies, at least keep it in-state and play Ga. Southern or Ga. State. While this is more McGarity than CMR, CMR is rapidly becoming the Paul Hewitt of SEC football: the most overpaid (per result) coach in the league.
Delta Stewardess
March 19th, 2011
10:47 am
And you want me to pay how much for season tickets? I could careless if we lose, but damn lets play a team worth playing. The economy isn’t good and you want big bucks for this crapfest of home games? Sorry I will keep my money and watch more games on TV. We are not going to win a BCS Championship anytime soon so play good teams.
Fly Me
March 19th, 2011
10:55 am
Amen, sister. Playing nobodies impresses nobody. I’d rather be playing other good schools where the victory and even defeat actually mean something.
Fly Me
March 19th, 2011
10:58 am
Taking a day off, filling the RV with gas, steaks, ribs, and beer, and driving to Athens to see a scrimmage against SOUTH Alabama? Now you’re asking too much, McGarity and Richt. CMR is skating on thin ice, and scheduling patsies isn’t going to help him stay on top of it.
D Dog
March 19th, 2011
10:59 am
Georgia should win this one. Richt was 6-1 against unranled teams last year.
It’s the ranked teams that Richt loses to, 0-6 last season.
Ouch!
Delta Stewardess
March 19th, 2011
11:12 am
I heard the North Gwinnet coach say he would play the Dawgs for on $300K. They don’t have a big travel expense.
USAMobTown
March 19th, 2011
11:19 am
This game is four seasons away. Who’s knows what’s in store for either team. UGA could have a new coach and coming off of an SEC championship year; or coming off of a terrible year with Richt. South Alabama is an up and coming program and will be looking forward to the challenge of playing another SEC school for the experience. Or, this could be a totaly differnt Country and World and football is a distant memory.
USAMobTown
March 19th, 2011
11:23 am
One day an actual team named the Sisters of the Poor will show up to play somewhere against a Alabama or Georgia type team and beat them silly. Then everyone will say: “Who knew?”
Tell the truth
March 19th, 2011
11:24 am
gotta love buying those W’s
USAMobTown
March 19th, 2011
11:30 am
@Fly Me: Playing a “Nobody” (although they are somebody to me) impresses sombody. It impresses the fans of that somebody. I will gas up my RV, feel it with steaks, ribs, and drive up to Athens to watch my Jaguars play in a great game against a great SEC team. And all of my fellow USA fans and Alum from around the Southeast and Nation will be there too.
Kelley
March 19th, 2011
11:41 am
That money is obscene.
Kids need money for education.
People all over the world and in this country are going hungry.
And UGA pours out millions for a game?
That’s a disgrace.
sandman053
March 19th, 2011
12:00 pm
Actually that game was only $900K.
I would much rather go back to an 11 game season and go to a true playoff system instead of this BCS crap
Paddy
March 19th, 2011
12:09 pm
Kelley …. the money is not obscene at all. It is what we all should do in this great country of ours. Live the capitalist dream! It is what this country was founded on and has made it strong. Give your own money to help but leave UGA out of it. Most of us are proud the way we live and still trust our founding faters for their great insight. Tell your congressman to feed the poor but leave the private sector alone, it works just fine!
IL Jacket
March 19th, 2011
12:15 pm
Sandman, your idea makes too much sense, so it will not be adopted. With 11 games leading to a playoff, you would free up the season, so University Presidents would not complain about the season being too long, you would stop rewarding mediocrity and instead reward excellence. Only the best teams should move forward. This BCS and 56 bowls is ruining what is fundamentally a great sport. Every coach I have ever heard says we learn more from defeat than a victory, so why do all of these teams schedule cupcakes-my own team included.
Bulldog Bob
March 19th, 2011
12:42 pm
Enter your comments here
ugadogsfan_365
March 19th, 2011
12:42 pm
will we ever see a day when people dont b^&ch and moan about everything. i havent read one article where some a@@hole didnt turn the entre article into something negative GROW UP people. Its amazing how everybody claim to know so much about college football yet you cry about something that happens at EVERY school every year. all of you so called “season ticket holders” if you dont want to go the game then sell your tickets and stop crying believe it or not the show will go on with or without you. thank God for paysites the ajc is for women and children.
Bulldog Bob
March 19th, 2011
12:48 pm
Hey Too Easy, get-a-brain. Other
SEC teams have schduled S. ASA. Where have you been camping–down at the 14th Street Trade School? GET A LIFE SMARTIE/DUMMY! I’m sure that GT is afraid to take-on SA!
Bulldog Bob
March 19th, 2011
12:57 pm
TO THE ‘DISGRACEFUL’ $900,TO A TEAM WHO WILL RECRUITE PLAYERS WHO NEED AND AN EDUCATION, LIKE ANY OTHER TEAM AND WHO WILL GIVE THEIR CHILDREN A GOOD LIFE AND A WINNING EDUCATION. ‘WAKE UP YOU’ALL AND SMELL THE DOGS! RAH! RAH! RAH! bumble bee!!!!!!
Stinger
March 19th, 2011
2:17 pm
Why don’t you play the real Alabama? Next thing you know it will be SE College of middle Alabama.
WIN WITH RICHT
March 19th, 2011
2:33 pm
I don’t consider playing 8 SEC teams and Tech every year to be a pansy schedule. Let’s face it, that is tough for everyone.
01HAWK
March 19th, 2011
2:48 pm
South Alabama will not be a push over game. They are used to winning. 17-0 since the program was started.
Joey Jones is getting alot of transfers such as Demetre Baker from UGA.
Telling story will be when they play at North Carolina State on 9-17-11.
UGA just maybe calling South Alabama to cancel this game for 2014. CMR may not be there by then
Delbert D.
March 19th, 2011
3:07 pm
These games are like a stimulus package for new football programs. I don’t see anything wrong with it.
Brian H.
March 19th, 2011
3:10 pm
As a Charleston Southern alum, I know I can say we all appreciate the opportunity to play the UGA Bulldogs. It will be an honor for our student athletes and coaches to go between the hedges to face the Bulldogs. It is a recruiting tool for our coaches. They can take our team and allow our student athletes to have the opportunity to face SEC talent even though many of them were not recruited on the SEC level. It will be a dream come true for many of them. As has been said, it is not the first time we have played an SEC team. We played Florida with Tebow. Last year we played Kentucky. We have also played at Hawaii twice and will play Florida State this year. We have a plan to upgrade our facilities and these games will help us make that plan a reality which will help us improve our program. Thank you, UGA!!!
Bulldog Bob
March 19th, 2011
3:19 pm
gt bob gets it, he just wants to skip over the bb’s games that are push overss
WIN WITH RICHT
March 19th, 2011
3:26 pm
Would you rather see UGA play Ohio State the week before Florida or play USC the week before Auburn?
Bulldog Bob
March 19th, 2011
3:32 pm
Hey bees, Mercr U is beginning to play FB again. Maybe they will schedule you; if you and yours are up to it. Oh yes, Kennesaw State also. Good Luck!
Bulldog Bobi
March 19th, 2011
3:39 pm
gt bob, the big fat liar! but WE love him as long as he stays at the trade school, the one that can’t say anything good about Georgia Heck!
Bulldog Bobi
March 19th, 2011
3:45 pm
Whit,a nit whit and no wit at all!
Delta Stewardess
March 19th, 2011
3:54 pm
After last year I would think UGA would have to pay a lot more money to buy a few wins and keep Richt, Grantham, and Bobo’s jobs safe.
W.C.D.
March 19th, 2011
4:35 pm
I have read all of the negative comments about Georgia playing South Alabama, But yall must remember that USA will be ready and never scared of the of what Georgia has to bring. I’m a die hard SEC fan, but Georgia is not the king on the SEC hill. Be careful when they play South Alabama.
Clem and Son
March 19th, 2011
5:12 pm
This will cancel out the loss to the mighty Tigers.
Einsteindawg
March 19th, 2011
5:38 pm
Greg McGarity…is this $900,000 you’re paying the money saved by not including a return envelope with our season ticket checks? Two weeks late getting out the order forms and no envelope…sorry if I seem petty, but watching this scrimage will make up for it.
Money Talks
March 19th, 2011
5:51 pm
Ga buys another easy win over a creampuff for $900,000—great way to spend taxpayer money!
Paddy
March 19th, 2011
6:56 pm
Money Talks….UGA spending tax payers money??????????? What planet do you live on? Do a little reading of history and how this whole capitalism things work. You sir, are lost!
Ed (The Original)
March 19th, 2011
7:11 pm
We should drop Tech and replace them with Valdosta State. Why ever take a risk with a nonconference game again? That way after going 4-4 in the conference Richt can pat himself on the back for his 8-4 record and his supporters can brag that he has a higher winning percentage than Dooley, who to my knowledge only coached against 1-A teams.
Why do fans pay for this garbage?
MS Bully
March 19th, 2011
7:19 pm
This type of schedule will get you in the Top 50 in the Nation. Why don’t you schedule Georgia State? Cream puffs are us should sponser UGA football games.
DawgVoiceofReason
March 19th, 2011
7:39 pm
Pulp and Vance (one and the same?),
I never understood how anyone could obsess about something, admittedly bad, that happened at another school, over 25 years ago. Did you ever make it out of your “mommie’s” basement? What a pathetic loser you are! I mean, if I had to, I could look up all of the bad things that ever happened at your beloved institute, but that would be a complete waste of time. You obviously have NOTHING postive to talk about regarding your own situation or you would say it instead of reposting the same worn out tripe.
DawgVoiceofReason
March 19th, 2011
7:45 pm
Delta Stewardess,
With an attitude like you have, “We are not going to win a BCS Championship anytime soon” and I quote, please don’t come to any games at Sanford Stadium. Staying home is the right decision. You would just be wasting a perfectly good seat that a real fan could use. You don’t even understand how scheduling works and you think anyone would miss your ignorant voice?
Bama fan
March 19th, 2011
7:57 pm
Hey, all you tech fans, all I can say is you look like losers, to post something negative on this silly article shows how sad you all are.I am not a dawg fan, but look at all tech posts here and it kills me how jealous you are, south Alabama will likely be a better game than GT will be, what is richt like 11-0 against tech, do you have any wins vs Georgia the last decade. Get a life guys, and bb coach for that matter, thought you were a bb school? Guess not. Pathetic.
DawgVoiceofReason
March 19th, 2011
8:09 pm
Ed (The Original),
The garbage you refer to is just part of the formula for winning. No team can play every game against top flight opponents, as much as the fans might want to. And certainly, no national champion has at least in the last 20 years (if ever) played a complete schedule against even all top 25 opponents. But, referring to UGA, it was just two or three years ago that we played a schedule that included, I think, 8 games against teams with coaches who had won national championships. The trick is finding a balance between playing a challenging schedule but not one that is so difficult that you significantly reduce your chances of winning a championship by over doing it.
DawgVoiceofReason
March 19th, 2011
8:14 pm
Ed (the orginal),
And another thing, your comparison to Dooley was a bad one. As you know, he had more than one losing season and took 16 years to win his national championship. Did you not see the recruiting class that Mark Richt just brought in? He will win with these guys. And if he doesn’t eventually, nobody is going to be bragging about 8-4 seasons then. His record is excellent, despite the recent down turn and he has done it in the best conference in the nation.
Nachos the barn burner
March 19th, 2011
10:03 pm
I hope they use white helmets and red pants this game. So excited
Pope UGA XXIII
March 19th, 2011
10:34 pm
Let’s go ahead and put South Atlanta High on the schedule too !
Want to make sure that I get the best games possible on my season
ticket order.
Delta Stewardess
March 19th, 2011
11:21 pm
Bama Fan thanks for taking up for us, but I am guessing USA will give us a better game than Bama will. Not like Bama has done so well against the Dawgs in the last few game we have played the Toilet Paper and Wash Powder crowd.
Boobie Bowden
March 19th, 2011
11:54 pm
Now we will really need to coach them down. Dawgs remain the least of the east.
GR82BAG8R
March 20th, 2011
7:49 am
All major programs schedule cupcakes. Period. This is part of the business of college football. Given the rigor of the SEC (perennial winner of the BCS NC trophy) schedule, this is needed to provide a break in the competition. It is also a win-win for both the major program and the wannabe – - even if that wannabe is another locational Southern state (vice a directional Michigan).
The question for Georgia fans is: What is the minimum number of wins this year for you to be happy with Richt? You have perennial top-10 recruiting classes, yet Auburn won as many games last season as you totaled over the last two. If Richt only wins 8 this year, will you be happy?
Tennessee, LSU (twice), Florida (thrice), Alabama, and Auburn have all celebrated NCs since 1980. When will Georgia get its next one? Is Richt the coach to deliver it?
Excited
March 20th, 2011
9:24 am
I have a woody just thinking about this game. Looks like we are aiming for a national title for the 34th season in a row. Way to go guys, $1M bucks buys us a win but we loose further respect by not taking any risk.
Has everybody at UGA lost their mind these days? Looks like AJ Green lost his while at UGA…. the NFL evaluator called him a “Dumb receiver” ….
http://www.profootballweekly.com/2011/03/17/low-wonderlic-scores-ding-elite-nfl-prospects
D Dog
March 20th, 2011
9:32 am
ESPN saying Logan Gray to Colorado, his little borther is there already.
Jborodawg
March 20th, 2011
10:26 am
Yep, Pulwud and VanceD are obviously the same, pathetic “person”. Amen to DawgVoice.
Delta, FlyMe, Pope, and Ed …you just don’t seem to get it when it comes to scheduling. How many times do you have to read, “…ALL major programs do it…”?
Sandman…great idea, going back to an 11 game sked. But, Brian from Chas Southern also makes a good point: these “little” schools love scheduling these games. Money and recognition…not to mention competing against the best, maybe even trying to show the big boys that they were worthy of being recruited.
Let’s back up just a little. What if the headline had read, “UGA Adds Clemson to 2014 Schedule”? Then it’d be a whole different discussion. Actually, adding Clempsum should have been the headline. That’s a good ol’ rivalry. Nearly every game came down to a last minute field goal or TD. But we dropped em when the SEC mandated an eight game sked. I’m looking forward to that game.
UriseeMomoNer
March 20th, 2011
12:16 pm
Куплю дорого европоддоны ( поддоны европаллеты палеты ) деревянные в Челябинской области, размером 1200*800 и 1200*1000, а так же покупаем Лом европоддонов. Возможен самовывоз, Расчет на месте наличными. Адрес приемного пункта поддонов деревянных находится: г. Челябинск, ул. Рылеева 18. тел. +7(351) 233-07-14. Компания “УралСклад” Работаем по Уралу.( поддоны европаллеты палеты ) деревянные в Челябинской области, размером 1200*800 и 1200*1000, а так же покупаем Лом европоддонов. Возможен самовывоз, Расчет на месте наличными. Адрес приемного пункта поддонов деревянных находится: г. Челябинск, ул. Рылеева 18. тел. +7(351) 233-07-14. Компания “УралСклад” Работаем по Уралу.
Beast from the East
March 20th, 2011
12:52 pm
UriseeMomoNer,
WTF?
Paddy
March 20th, 2011
2:00 pm
uriseeMomoNer,
I have never read such a lame explanation. Where did you do your research, Uzbeckistan?
USAMobTown
March 20th, 2011
4:28 pm
Hey Uri, My Russian is rusty. HA, Rusty Russian. Can you translate.
Black Out
March 20th, 2011
4:51 pm
To get the players really fired up to play south alabama, will richt order a blackout or endzone taunting dance? It could do the trick.
Harmon Wagers
March 20th, 2011
5:16 pm
2011 O.O.C. –
Auburn – Utah State, FLA Atlantic, Clemson, Samford
Alabama – Kent St, Penn St, N. Texas, GA Southern
UF – FLA Atlantic, UAB, Furman, FLA State
LSU – Oregon, NW State, W Va, Western KY
GA Tech – Western Carolina, Middle Tenn St, Kansas, UGA
Ohio St – Akron, Toledo, Miami (FLA), Colorado\
UGA – Boise St, Coastal Carolina, New Mexico St, GA Tech
Dawgs Ahoy
March 20th, 2011
5:24 pm
Boise State 77, Dawgturds 13.
Buh bye, dawgturds.
NOBODYYOUKNOW
March 20th, 2011
5:46 pm
Yea, thats S. Alabama school for the blind. They beat Tech a few years back. Look out dogs. Those guys are hell with those plays written in braille.
harold
March 20th, 2011
6:07 pm
SHOULD BE A GREAT GAME! WOW!
V- Dudley
March 20th, 2011
6:13 pm
Mr Dudley, why are you so down on Coach Dooley. I’ve met the man a couple of times. He’s a nice guy to all fans. Very approachable. And I’m no die-hard dog fan, but my friend you are way over the top. UGA is no worse than many others. And not as bad as alot of others. Hate is bad for your health. Go see a therapist.
THE CATHOLIC HAMMER
March 20th, 2011
6:37 pm
Well, not *every* team in *every* conference schedules “cupcakes”.
For example, Southern Cal has never, ever played an FCS school. Their out-of-conference games next year are against Minnesota, Syracuse, and Notre Dame.
BAMA FAN #2
March 20th, 2011
8:07 pm
If Saban retires before the 2014 season we Alabama fans may be calling Joey Jones
to come back home and be the head coach in Tuscaloosa!! RTR
south
March 20th, 2011
8:19 pm
Alabama’s Mark Barron arrestedEmail Print Comments255 Associated Press
MOBILE, Ala. — University of Alabama safety Mark Barron has been arrested on charges of hindering prosecution, a misdemeanor charge.
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The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday on its website that Barron was booked on the charge. His bond was listed at $500.
No additional details were available, and it could not immediately be determined if Barron had an attorney.
The arrest comes as the football team is set to begin spring practice Monday.
Barron led the team with 75 tackles last season. He has been rehabilitating from a torn pectoral muscle he suffered in November.
suwanee dawg
March 20th, 2011
9:51 pm
Two quick points – as always i find it interesting other teams fans activity on a UGA exclusive story. As to the complainers about the patsy on the schedule, I hear ya, would much rather have Ho Ho State, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Miami, etc. – would be great for the program to play those even if we lose, BUT…. don’t complain about no NCs, which are hard to obtain anyway and getting through the SEC schedule undefeated plus playing out of conference powerhouses is very rare.
Dawg bone
March 21st, 2011
3:22 am
Ga will beat s alabama by 50+—-it’s worth $900,000 for a blowout win. Ga has millions in their ath dept bank account—this is chump change.
Delta Stewardess
March 21st, 2011
5:58 pm
Jborodawg
And if lil Timmy jumped in a pile of S…T you would do it to? I hear the UGA Alum and Fans SCREAM HOW GOOD WE ARE, but then feel good about playing JOKES? I will not spend GOOD MONEY to get season tickets to see this type of CRAP game. I would rather lose to the TEXAS LONG HORNS (in Athens or Austin) by 20 than beat USA by 50 in Athens at the price of the ticket.