What you might have missed over the weekend…
A quick recap of a busy (and good) weekend in Bulldog Nation:
Craig Gullickson
- Baseball: Georgia swept a three-game series from No. 24 Mississippi State at Foley Field, winning 4-1 on Friday, 4-3 on Saturday and 4-1 on Sunday. The Dogs (14-14, 6-3 SEC) are on a five-game SEC winning streak. They got strong starting pitching all weekend. Friday: Alex Wood allowed one run on three hits and struck out eight in seven innings. Saturday: Michael Palazzone went 8 2/3 innings, allowing three runs (two earned) on six hits. Sunday: Craig Gullickson permitted one run on six hits in 5 2/3 innings. (Gullickson is the son of former major-league pitcher Bill Gullickson and the brother of UGA tennis player Chelsey Gullickson, the defending NCAA women’s singles champion.)
- Gymnastics: The Gym Dogs are headed back to the NCAA Championships after a one-year absence. They finished second (behind UCLA) in the NCAA Southeast Regional in Stegeman Coliseum on Saturday to earn a spot in the 12-team field for the NCAA Championships April 15-17 in Cleveland. The Gym Dogs posted their second highest score of the season Saturday, 196.750. Kat Ding won the uneven bars with a 9.95.
- Softball: Georgia, ranked No. 2 nationally, swept a two-game series from Tennessee-Martin, winning 6-1 on Saturday and 6-0 on Sunday, to extend its home winning streak to 37 games, the longest in NCAA Division I. The Bulldogs are 32-4 this season.
- Tennis: Both the men’s and women’s teams extended their winning streaks to 12 matches and stayed unbeaten in the SEC by picking up victories over Ole Miss on Friday and Mississippi State on Sunday. The men’s team (17-3, 8-0 SEC) won by 4-3 scores in Oxford and Starkville, while the women’s team (14-1, 8-0 SEC) posted a pair of 6-1 victories in Athens.
- Women’s golf: Georgia’s Marta Silva Zamora shot a 5-under 67 on Sunday to win individual medalist honors at UGA’s 39th annual Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic. Alabama won the team title. Georgia tied for sixth.
- Football: The Bulldogs held their first scrimmage of the spring in Sanford Stadium on Saturday morning. Click here for a recap.
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Anteater
April 4th, 2011
9:36 am
Tim – any feedback on how Branden Smith is doing in Spring so far ?
riptude
April 4th, 2011
9:38 am
FIRST!
riptude
April 4th, 2011
9:38 am
jk
Tim Tucker
April 4th, 2011
9:43 am
Anteater: Sounds like Smith is having a fine spring. There’s a brief note about him on the end of this story from late last week: http://www.ajc.com/sports/georgia-notes-knee-injury-895088.html
DawginLex
April 4th, 2011
9:51 am
Is Christian Lemay participating in spring drills?
1eyedJack
April 4th, 2011
9:57 am
DawginLex, Lemay and Conley were early enrollees and are participating in Spring practice.
DAWG ONE
April 4th, 2011
9:58 am
This recap is great. As an alum, I am always interested to see how our “minor” sports teams do. As usual, the Dawgs do well in the non-revenue producing sports. It seems as though our baseball team is headed for a much better year this year than last.
Thank you for the article. It would be nice to always get this info through the AJC.
DawginLex
April 4th, 2011
9:59 am
Haven’t heard one word about Lemay. Just Murray and Mason. I was hoping he could get some reps and learn enough to play this fall so we have another option at QB in case of injury. Mason doesn’t excite me as a 2nd option.
Maybe we have 3 who can play???
Tim Tucker
April 4th, 2011
10:18 am
DawginLex: LeMay did get some snaps in Saturday’s scrimmage. Here’s what Mark Richt said about him afterward: “He threw one of the better fade routes today. He put it in play, and Michael Bennett made a very fine catch. He also stood in there and threw a short curl, about a 10-yard curl route, to Bennett. He had to hang in that pocket.”
DawginLex
April 4th, 2011
10:19 am
Thanks. Am I too hopeful that Lemay can help in 2011?
Am I wrong in not giving Mason a chance in my mind to ever be able to help?
GeoffDawg
April 4th, 2011
10:22 am
Why the disdain for Hutson Mason? He didn’t get a lot of snaps last year but lest we forget, he did throw a TD on his first ever play. Bodes well for the future if for no other reason, to give LeMay some quality competition.
TheXman
April 4th, 2011
10:25 am
i would like lemay to red shirt..mason has shown so far that he can handle being number 2. its always nice to red shirt qb if a team can help it.
DawginLex
April 4th, 2011
10:27 am
I thought Lemay could add another dimension to the offense like Shockley. I may be wrong about Mason and I hope I am. There are worse problems than having 3 QB’s who can play.
AltamahaDawg
April 4th, 2011
10:35 am
I don’t know if Jay Clark is doing a good job or a bad job, but he is stepping into an almost impossible situation behind the 4 peat NC.
I keep reading where his team put up best, or second best numbers, and still didn’t win. Seems like the rest of the country has caught up, and he needed to get his squad to step it UP yet another notch, not just maintain status quo. Does that even exist? Not sure if even S.Y. had many more notches.
sogadog
April 4th, 2011
10:53 am
The Diamond Dawgs looked sharp on Sunday. I highly recommend to any Dawg fan that they catch a baseball game in Athens this season. Sunday’s game was well worth a four hundred mile round trip drive.
DawginLex
April 4th, 2011
11:00 am
Perno saving his job. Hopefully Richt can do the same this fall.
Regarding Yoculan: She lives with a man who is married. That is a fact. You can spin it however you want to and moderate comments etc but truth is truth. It has been 10 years now so they probably are happy as is. Doesn’t make it right
AltamahaDawg
April 4th, 2011
11:25 am
My understanding is that it is the estranged wife that is happy as is. She is nothing more than a former employee now. Doesn’t really have any bearing now.
BBdawg
April 4th, 2011
11:30 am
Tim – Has Andy Landers overstayed his welcome? Yeah he gets 20+ wins a season but thats about it. When is the last time he got the #1 recruit in Georgia? I think the #1 Georgia girl this year is going to UConn like Maya Moore did 4 years ago. Could we get someone that can recruit better? Your thoughts?
The Original WDE
April 4th, 2011
11:52 am
LeMay should be good, just too bad he’s moving into one of your more solid positions.
Obviously, it’ll be a big deal for if Murray gets knocked out of games, but I’d put more eggs in the Crowell basket.
illinoisdawg
April 4th, 2011
12:09 pm
Mason did throw for 2 tds with no ints in the scrimmage this past Saturday.
GT is a 4th rate high school team
April 4th, 2011
12:11 pm
Dawgs winning in other sports may be be a good prelude for football in the fall. I am an unashamed OPTIMIST.
good grief
April 4th, 2011
12:12 pm
“Regarding Yoculan: She lives with a man who is married. That is a fact. You can spin it however you want to and moderate comments etc but truth is truth. It has been 10 years now so they probably are happy as is. Doesn’t make it right”
says who? get a life and keep your nose out of other peoples’ business.
Upstate Dawg
April 4th, 2011
12:14 pm
Any news on Kevin Ware? I guess a scholarship for him might depend on Thompkins and Leslie’s decisions. Any news there either? Congrats to the Diamond Dawgs for a nice sweep of the Maroons.
DawginLex
April 4th, 2011
12:17 pm
http://www.redandblack.com/2009/04/01/yoculan-book-beating-a-dead-horse/
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good grief,
I can say what I want to say, especially if it is already out there in print.
I have my right to my opinion just like you do.
UGA Is A Girl's School
April 4th, 2011
12:20 pm
Looks like the women’s programs are doing well. The men’s programs are… well, never mind.
Very Old Dawg
April 4th, 2011
12:21 pm
Ms Yoculan’s living arrangements are none of our business.
Black Bone
April 4th, 2011
12:22 pm
Lemay was never considered to have a running element like Shock did. He’s a pure drop back passer who is actually slower than Murray (well, coming out of HS, who knows once they get in college).
And by all accounts, Mason has done an excellent job.
DawginLex
April 4th, 2011
12:28 pm
Anybody else notice the depth chart at QB for LSU?
1.)Jefferson
2.)Lee
3.)Mettenberger
So much for the predictions that Mett was going to lead LSU to the national title after he “transferred” according to the idiot that posts on here every day under a different blog handle.
tide roll
April 4th, 2011
12:39 pm
Uga should be concerned about their lack of depth on the offensive line. Last year they lost Boling, Chris Davis and Josh Davis. Also, three players listed on last years post spring depth chartas 2nd unit offensive lineman, Kevin Perez, Jonathan Owens, and Tanner Strickland, have left the program. In addition, Rivals has rated your incoming offensive line class as 9th in the conference. Reason for concern?
DawginLex
April 4th, 2011
12:42 pm
saban should be concerned that he lost 3 games last year
saban should be concerned that his QB’s have zero experience
saban should be concerned that he blew a 24 point lead to his archrival at home
saban should be looking for his next place to coach if he underachieves again
Isn’t he supposed to be the world’s greatest coach?
How does he lose 3 games and blow a 24 point lead at home to “little brother”?
Mettenberger could start at Bama right now but is 3rd string at LSU.
doesn’t look too good for Bama in 2011
JB
April 4th, 2011
12:43 pm
We’re concerned about a lot of things at UGA, but the Alabama Tide is not one of them. We’ll worry about our 85 players, ya’ll worry about your 105.
Better Dawgs!
April 4th, 2011
1:15 pm
Dawgs will have a top O-line this season. No worries! Go blog on your own sites “tide roll”. You are a closet dawg fan. BTW, the best coach in the history of mankind will leave you at the alter very soon. Your team has plenty of unknown positions to fill this year, you might need to reflect on the direction on your own program. It comes and goes. Saban is loosing control by the minute.
ClinchCountyDawg
April 4th, 2011
1:18 pm
Tide Roll Don’t worry about UGA. We Have some great linemen like Ben Jones, Brent Benedict, Trinton Sturdivant, Austin Long, Cordy Glenn, Chris Burnette, etc. I believe that all of these O Linemen were offered or highly cobeted by Bama.
Bubbatavious
April 4th, 2011
1:33 pm
If our offensive line is getting bigger then it just means the midget will have more problems seeing over them this year. Better go ahead and give Lemay a ton of reps.
fan
April 4th, 2011
1:42 pm
TIDE ROLL, what is your obsession with UGA’s O-line? Everytime you get on here you post something about UGA’s O line. Well its still spring and nothing is set in stone right now. Are you happy?
DawginLex
April 4th, 2011
1:48 pm
Yeah and bubbatavious thought Mett would start at LSU this year.
He is 3rd string behind Jefferson and Jarrett “Interception” Lee
LOL at your football knowledge
DawginLex
April 4th, 2011
1:49 pm
fan
tide roll doesn’t think white boys can play OL
That’s his agenda
ClinchCountyDawg
April 4th, 2011
2:23 pm
I’ll bet that Tide Roll’s obsession with big ugly offensive linemen is related to his taste in women. His wife is probably built like an SEC center. 5′3′ and 350 lbs. a face like a dumptruck, and more body year than Chewbacca.
From Buck Belue's Blog
April 4th, 2011
2:44 pm
680 The Fan & Georgia Bulldogs to “Hunker Down”
Apr 01, 2011 — 8:59pm
This is good. I’ve been waiting for this, during my 11-year career at 680 The Fan. Oh, yeah. Sounds good to me. And what took so long?
680 The Fan is now the “Official Sports Talk Station of the Georgia Bulldogs.” Hear it’s a 5-year partnership. And this is a good deal for both sides. The ‘Dogs get the word out in Atlanta, on a daily basis. 680 The Fan gets access. Live coverage of Richt press conferences, during the season. Weekly programming on Bulldog football. In-depth, expanded coverage. Sure hope they saved me a spot! Coach Perno’s loving this…Georgia baseball live on 680 The Fan 2, AM 1230. Won’t many of those excellent high school players here in metro Atlanta be listening? Other sports will feel the spotlight of “Atlanta’s Sports Station” too.
It’s a win-win. David Dickey and Alan Thomas have worked on this deal for years. And it’s a done deal. I love it. Georgia fans should love it too.
Bama Mike
April 4th, 2011
2:49 pm
JB you guys can sign 105 if you want. We have been doing it since the early days of Bryant. I dont understand what the issue is now. When we were 3-8 and 7-6 we had about 140 and no one seemed to care.
JB
April 4th, 2011
2:53 pm
Bama Mike…..last time I checked, And maybe I’m wrong and We live in a cave over here, but the NCAA allows 85 AT ONE TIME to be on scholarship at a Div 1 school. Maybe I’m wrong .
Mikey
April 4th, 2011
2:53 pm
680 The Fan now the talk radio for Georgia Football. Great, now we will get to hear all 3,817 callers who claimed to have played on the 1981 team on the radio.
Destin Dawg
April 4th, 2011
2:59 pm
beat Boise and S. C….. in tough close games… it’ll be a great year !!! take Butler and 3 points tonight
Bama Mike
April 4th, 2011
2:59 pm
JB true. It is a rolling 85 number over a twelve month calender. Its just fuzzy math. Academics, gray shirts, medical hardships and reinsurance coverage impacts the numbers in what actually qualifies. But we dont call it math it is refered to a ciphering so you have to quantify the numbers LOL.
From our Saturday scrimmage we may need 105 more. Tackling in our secondary according to Saban lacking and anytime you have your two inexperienced qbs throwing for 400 yards you have some defensive concerns.
Diamond Master
April 4th, 2011
3:00 pm
Dawgs swept a baseball series? Nice.
By the way, how has the UGA baseball team done against Georgia Tech the last two seasons?
JB
April 4th, 2011
3:05 pm
Bama Mike…..I can deduct a lot of things off my taxes that are “fuzzy” and ‘gray”, but it doesn’t mean it’s legal……………Unless I’m NEVER called on it.
Harry the Hat
April 4th, 2011
3:06 pm
“Dawgs will have a top O-line this season. No worries!”
That’s exactly the same kind of crap that dawgtards were saying this time last year.
It’s kind of sad to see all the Dawg fans getting so excited this year (just like the year before, the year before that, etc.). How long is it going to take for UGA fans to realize that UGA is simply no longer relevant in the SEC? In the national picture, UGA isn’t even a blip on the radar, and hasn’t been since the preseason #1 ranking two years ago.
Sit back and be grateful for the six or seven wins you’ll get every year. Coaching genius Mark Richt may take you to 8-4 or even 9-3 occasionally, but Florida will still win the SEC, meaning no BCS bowls and no top 10 final ranking. Most years, UGA will be very lucky to finish in the top 50, and only after a big bowl win over a nobody opponent.
It’s a different world now, and Dawg fans need to adjust their expectations downward to reflect reality.
Unfortunately nothing is going to change until UGA changes its mediocre coaching. That’s where the difference is, and that’s why everyone outside Dawgtard Nation just laughs at Dawg fans getting so excited year after year about what a great recruiting class UGA gets. It doesn’t matter how many blue chip high school players go to UGA, they simply don’t get the coaching they would get at Florida or Alabama, to name two schools whose programs are far ahead of UGA. And that’s not going to change as long as Mark Richt is in Athens.
Get your heads out of the sand and face reality. And mediocrity and irrelevance.
JB
April 4th, 2011
3:10 pm
Harry the Hat is probably a Techie. The hate/envy is so bad, they write that much. Bama,UF/AU etc hit us with a line or two. The 1000 hate essay gives them away. With that said, Johnson is toast. 7-8 wins a year, tops. He reloaded with some pretty average talent. Better hope he can ” coach’um up”.
Bama Mike
April 4th, 2011
3:16 pm
Good call JB. We must get more deductions than you guys as according to Saban as of right now we only have 68 on scholarship.
JB
April 4th, 2011
3:27 pm
You mean 68 in this freshman class?
Mrs Harry the Hat
April 4th, 2011
3:35 pm
Harry, get off the computer.
Go find a job.
We can’t live with my momma forever
Go outside and walk, run, do anything and lose some weight
Go back to school and get your GED why don’t ya?
Quit watching the high school girls get off the school bus.
Quit fiddling with your britches while you watch TV
DawginLex
April 4th, 2011
3:37 pm
Destin,
Awful quiet in Catland up here. Devastated is the correct word.
Held UCONN to 56 points and lost.
Shelvin Mack is from Lexington so a lot of Cat fans are pulling for Butler.
Pago Pago Dawg
April 4th, 2011
4:01 pm
Come to think of it…..just how did Bama blow a 24 point lead to auburn. Wasn’t the great Saban the Bama coach? Pretty funny….
Just Got to Say It!
April 4th, 2011
4:03 pm
If any UGA fan wants to see how you stack up in recruiting nation wide, please click on the link and just look at some of your SEC brothers and the number of times other schools show up in the lates Scout rankings as ” interested” and compare it to UGA and how local the recruits are. The state of Georgia is stacked in talent but in order to compete at the highest level in the country this staff is going to need to expand its travel budget and buy some of those cheap tickets on AirTran and Southwest and go elsewhere to add some recruits.
http://recruiting.scout.com/a.z?s=73&p=9&c=4&pid=88&yr=2012
Just Got to Say It!
April 4th, 2011
4:04 pm
The better question is how did UGA lose to UCF in a bowl game? Or how did UGA lose to Colorado?
WIN WITH RICHT
April 4th, 2011
4:41 pm
Just Got to Say It!
Richt has recruited well nationally. Matt Stafford, Knowshon Moreno, Aron White, Arthur Lynch are justa few great Dawgs from out of the southeast.
BAMA PRIDE
April 4th, 2011
4:51 pm
Many Bama fans like this site because it’s talking football – and a great forum.
Also – because the focus is a tradional SEC powerhouse program – UGA – we feel compelled to talk UGA football as well.
This site is not only for UGA fans – but all fans.
From my perspective – I hope Richt will have a good enough season to stay at UGA – he is a class act and I hope he has learned some lessons in being a HC.
As for the football team – there are so many open questions about the DAWGS that we could debate from now until season kickoff. If you have that many questions – then what does that say about the state of your program???? College football is great as there is nothing static – classes graduate – players come and go – and every year is a new year.
UGA football 2011:
The good!
– your QB
– your T/E’s
– Your LB’s seem very athletic
The questions for 2011:
– your O-Line (face it – a liability the last 2 years)
– your RBs (bad O-Line makes decent backs look bad – but King and Ealey created a lot of problems with their personal issues)
– your WR’s – I think UGA will be good at WR – even with Green gone.
– your D-Line – should improve this year – the NG you picked up will help – and it all starts there.
– your coaching / player development – has this been missing or what???? We will find out
What to think?
– I do not know – UGA could go 6-7 again or could go 10-3!!!!
Schedule:
Wins – Coastal Carolina, Ole Miss, Vandy, Kentucky, NM STATE
Probable Wins – GT, Tennessee
Probable Losses: Boise State, South Carolina, Mississippi State, Florida and Auburn
This puts UGA at 7-5 – but games are unpredictable.
If UGA beats Boise State – then S. Carolina – this team could make thinks really exciting in Athens.
I do hope UGA beats Florida, Auburn – and of course – Tennessee.
Best of luck in 2011.
Just Got to Say It!
April 4th, 2011
4:55 pm
With With Richt….
In the past Richt has recruited a little outside his comfort zone, but recently he has fallen flat.
The three best players on offense in the past 5 years all came from outside the state of Georgia.
Stafford, Moreno and Green.
WIN WITH RICHT
April 4th, 2011
4:56 pm
BAMA PRIDE
I hope it is Dawgs vs Tide in SEC Title game. Then UGA spanks Bama for the title.
WIN WITH RICHT
April 4th, 2011
5:04 pm
Just Got to Say It!
With quality of high school players in Georgia, Richt rarely needs to recruit out of state talent. Just lock up the top in talent players and cherry pick great out of state players like Orson Charles, Aaron Murray, John Theus, and Keith Marshall.
Just Got to Say It!
April 4th, 2011
7:06 pm
Win with Richt….yeah and the last three years he has taken it on the chin and the bulldawg nation is tumbling down the respected and feared list….keep cherry picking and you will continue to lose game after game and not being a factor is what UGA will be known for.
Dawg in Lex…
Shouldn’t UGA fans be worried about Boise St, USC, Mississippi St, Florida, Ole Miss on the road.?
After losing to UCF, and Colorada UGA fans have alot more to fear than Alabama losing to OPEN week opponents ( whom all played in major bowl games, played for Titles) unlike UGA who lost to teams who most considered also rans with the exception of South Carolina.
Let Alabama fans worry about the scholarships, you UGA fans just try to keep up with all the secondary violations that keep piling up in Athens, and the embarrasssment of your President on HBO last week, what a blow hard idiot he sounded like and it was good to hear the panel call him out on his bs.
Just Got to Say It!
April 4th, 2011
7:10 pm
BAMA PRIDE….
I have to disagree with on one of those games for UGA that you have listed as a “loss”…that game being the Auburn game. Auburn is going to be a shell of what it was, it will be more like the final 5 games of the year in 2009. Auburn is in a total state of chaos, and there are players pointing fingers at one another asking the question” How much did you get paid?” That black cloud hanging over Auburn is not a weather storm, it is a black cloud of doubt and it is not moving.
Antwoine
April 4th, 2011
8:09 pm
“Just lock up the top in talent players and cherry pick great out of state players like Orson Charles, Aaron Murray, John Theus, and Keith Marshall.”
Not one of these bozos would start for any of the top teams in the SEC.
sports
April 4th, 2011
8:18 pm
“techie tucker , you sure there is no misfortune at UGA this past weekend. It doesn’t sound right to read good things out of UGA.
King Gators
April 4th, 2011
10:15 pm
This just in UGA still as average as grits! Go Gators!
dawg48
April 4th, 2011
11:45 pm
kinggaytor are you mad you did not get your shipment of viagra today did your delivery boy get busted things are not looking up in gainsvill huh
Coach Grohbo
April 5th, 2011
12:25 am
Plenty of misfortune on the football practice field. Defense got trucked all day by a 5-foot-6, 167-pound walk-on tailback and a there are lot of UGA players hurt already.
The S&C and nutrition programs don’t seem to be working.
Uh oh.
dawgforlife
April 5th, 2011
12:25 am
Antwoine…do you know who those players are?…Charles= 1st or 2nd round draft pic next year…Murray = everyone’s all SEC quarterback this year…Theus = 5 star offensive line recruit literally everyone is recruiting…and Marshall = the top running back in the country for 2012…fans you because you’ve obiviously gotten overwrought
Coach Grohbo
April 5th, 2011
12:31 am
Say it…
Auburn is addressing some issues now and may struggle to win their games against the west, but they have more than enough to sweep the east this year.
AltamahaDawg
April 5th, 2011
7:48 am
No, he does not know who they are.
AltamahaDawg
April 5th, 2011
7:54 am
More than enough money.
gdawginkalamazoo
April 5th, 2011
8:46 am
dawg48, now that was funny!
AltamahaDawg
April 5th, 2011
9:38 am
Isn’t Auburn playing SC, UF, and UGA this year? Replacing something like 15 starters, 4 of thier O-line, and most notable the 2 most critical pieces if thier success last year gives you that much confidence?
It Ain't Rocket Science
April 5th, 2011
11:48 am
Just Got To Say It,
Look at the Scouts.com top 300 and you will see that UGA has offered 50 of the top 300 in the country. Georgia only has 21 of the top 300, so I would say that UGA is offering a lot of kids from other states. They offered 14 out of the 21 Georgia players on the list and that means they offered 36 outside of the state. Sounds like they are trying to recruit out of state to me.
FDawg
April 5th, 2011
2:25 pm
Tim…love the info on your UGA weekend recap. Thanks
It Ain't Rocket Science
April 5th, 2011
6:29 pm
If anybody is interested, the sports.com top 300 for the class is out now. There are a total of 21 Georgians in the list, and UGA has offered 14 of them. UGA has also offered 50 of the three hundred. That means that UGA has offered 36 people outside of the state of Georgia. Sounds like to me, they are going for kids out of state.