Georgia’s Columbus connections paying dividends for season opener
There is a very good chance recent Carver-Columbus grad Isaiah Crowell could end up starting on Saturday. (UGA photo by Steve Colquitt)
ATHENS – Georgia’s game against Boise State on Saturday will command attention from a lot of places, but none more than Columbus.
Five players from the southwest Georgia bordertown will represent the Bulldogs during Saturday’s game, four of them with Carver High connections. Three of those guys – tailback Isaiah Crowell, outside linebacker Jarvis Jones and tight end Bruce Figgins – could end up starting in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game on Saturday the Georgia Dome.
Freshman defensive back Quintavious Harrow and walkon quarterback Greg Bingham are also from Columbus.
Needless to say, the Bulldogs are a hot topic this week at Carver.
“The whole school’s excited, not just that they’re playing well but because they’re that doing well,” Carver High principal Christopher Lindsey said. “Especially considering the difficult backgrounds some of them they came from. Jarvis, if you look at his background, his path to success is truly amazing. The way he acts, the way he carries himself, you would never know what he has had to overcome. We’ve really enjoyed watching them come into their own at Georgia.”
Figgins and Jones are definite starters as of Tuesday. Figgins, a fifth-year senior, heads into the game as the No. 1 fullback after playing his first four seasons at tight end. He’s a Shaw graduate but his father, Bruce Figgins Sr., works at Carver as a math teacher. Jones, a sophomore transfer from Southern Cal, will start at “Sam, or strongside outside linebacker, where he has shined in preseason camp.
Crowell, a freshman and the No. 1-rated high school running back prospect in America last year, is currently listed as the No. 2 tailback. But head coach Mark Richt admitted Tuesday that Crowell could end up getting the nod since No. 1 tailback Richard Samuel has been sidelined with a quadriceps injury most of the last two weeks.
“He could,” Richt said of Crowell possibly starting. “The longer Richard doesn’t go. . . it may be that Isaiah gets the nod. Either him or Richard would. It’ll just depend on what Richard can do here in the next couple of days. I think if Richard doesn’t practice in the next day or two, it might be that Isaiah gets the chance to be the starter. So it could be that we have three kids starting from Columbus.”
Samuel practiced full speed and in a regular red jersey on Wednesday.
People from Columbus aren’t surprised that Crowell has made the decision tough on coaches.
“Everybody here knows what an outstanding player Isaiah is,” Lindsey said. “He’s a great athlete but it’s his competitive edge that makes him special. He expects to be great. I have no doubt he’ll do well.”
Re-establishing as a recruiting stronghold has been a priority for Georgia, which had seen a lot of good players from the area go elsewhere in recent years. The city is just a half-hour from Auburn and has sent a lot of players all over.
“There are a lot of talented players that have come from there and a lot more talented players that are going to come from there,” said running backs coach Bryan McClendon, who recruits Columbus for the Bulldogs. “Hopefully players from there will see that you can come to Georgia and succeed both on the field and off of it.”
Crowell, Figgins and Jones and helping spread that message.
“UGA history in regards to outstanding players coming out of Columbus is not all that great,” Lindsey said. “I think these guys are going to break that mold. I sincerely believe that just having dealt with both those young men. I’ve never seen them in any trouble.”
Well, Crowell did have one shortcoming.
“The only time I ever had to deal with Isaiah was being late to school,” Lindsey said with a laugh. “As long as he stays levelheaded, though, he’ll be fine.”
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Dawg Gone It
August 30th, 2011
6:36 pm
Come’on DAWGS. Go get em’
GATOR CHOMP
August 30th, 2011
6:41 pm
The mutts will lose by 3 touchdowns.”BOOK IT”
Sharkman
August 30th, 2011
6:47 pm
Hope Crowell is ontime in Athens!
Sharkman
August 30th, 2011
6:48 pm
Gator chomp, go chomp somewhere else. Oh, and by the way, Crowell is gonna run all over y’all on October 29th!
No so - Gator Chomp
August 30th, 2011
6:57 pm
The dawgs push thru the ponies at will. The defense shuts down most, not all, but most of BC. It is over by the second quarter. Book that.
dawgcrzy
August 30th, 2011
6:57 pm
Hey Chomp, jealousy leads to stupidity, hope ya’ll are still jealous in Oct.
Swingman912
August 30th, 2011
7:01 pm
Hey! Hater Chump….i mean Gator Chomp, the Tebow days are done, so I guess you’ve decided to talk about a good team instead of yours. FYI, haters are really secret lovers, so from UGA fans everywhere, ‘Preciate it! #SicEm
bigcalidawg
August 30th, 2011
7:01 pm
Do it for Carver Heights………do it for Boxwood
Athens Dawg
August 30th, 2011
7:02 pm
Oh my gosh, trolls can’t wait for a new report to pop up so they can comment on it. Your just making yourself look stupid. Half the time they’re not even a fan of the school they put on their username. They could be Georgia Tech fan for all we know. As a matter of fact, half of the trolls on here are GT fans. They can’t stand that they are 9-1 vs. UGA in the last 10 years and we had a 6-7 season last year yet they STILL couldn’t beat us. Damn. Get used to it.
Anyways, let’s get it this weekend Crowell, Figs, and Jones. You can do it. I have faith in you guys and I have faith in everybody on this team to get the job done.! GO DAWGS
andrew
August 30th, 2011
7:02 pm
go bucs
Athens Dawg
August 30th, 2011
7:04 pm
Do you think SC fans, Florida fans, Alabama, Auburn, etc fans would take time out of their day to constantly check up on the Dawgs. No; it’s Georgia Tech people. Get real. They’re on the same website as us so they constantly come over to the Dawgs board and see if we have any new material then they hop on it and comment and troll away while hiding behind a team’s name that they feel is “superior” to UGA since they know their school isn’t. Ha. I have it figured out.
JDawg1785
August 30th, 2011
7:06 pm
These young men from Columbus will shine for the Dawgs this year!
Pulpwud Smiff
August 30th, 2011
7:12 pm
Carver-Columbus has a history of sending lawless punks to UGA. I’ll give Crowell one year before he causes enough trouble that Richt sends him home to his mommy.
WtfWruthnkn
August 30th, 2011
7:13 pm
Is it Saturday yet?
Larry Bowie No. 15
August 30th, 2011
7:17 pm
Let’s hope we can score enough to keep up with the Broncos.
The bitter truth for dawgs to chew on
August 30th, 2011
7:20 pm
You Dawg fans who keep trashing Georgia Tech enjoy yourselves all you want. The thing is… Tech alumni and fans have lives that don’t depend entirely on what a bunch of kids does on Saturday afternoons. College sports are fun to follow, but the biggest reason for going to college is to get an education.
UGA fans don’t seem to care about anything but football, and they don’t care if their players are enrolled in silly majors that no parents who are paying the bills would send their kids to UGA for. The very few football and basketball players who graduate have no job opportunities and end up unemployed or working in menial jobs that hardly require a college degree.
Georgia Tech is a real school with serious academic standards, and that includes scholarshipped athletes. UGA has a long history of being a drunken party school, where parents send their kids for an easy degree, even if the degree itself is worthless.
Athens Dawg
August 30th, 2011
7:29 pm
TUCK FECH! And I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Seriously to the haters and trolls, what do you get by coming here and saying things like ” Georgia sucks!” and “Boise will win!”. WHO Cares what YOU think? Are you 12?
Mad Dog One
August 30th, 2011
7:37 pm
Bitter truth and why are you on this blog if you have such a great life away from football???????????
Why not be on the tach blog with your great frinds oh you don’t have any??????
bardawg
August 30th, 2011
7:41 pm
Chip,just for your info , 3 ,of the guys went to Carver, Crowell,Jones & Harrow. Bruce Figgins went to Shaw ,& Greg Bingham went to Columbus High. Just to set the record straight & not offend anyone .
jim
August 30th, 2011
7:42 pm
@ dawgs to chew on…seriously? that’s your perception of ALL UGA and ALL Tech. You did see one of your former hoopsters arrested for murder? UGA degree worthless? Funny.
We understand you Techsters don’t eat, breathe, and live college football. For one, you would all be seriously depressed. And two, it would cut into your Dungeons & Dragons time.
7576DAWG
August 30th, 2011
7:44 pm
bitter truth
What does any of what you say have to do with a SPORTS blog. Nobody is disputing you that Georgia Tech is a great , very hard, prestigious college. It’s like the Ivy League school of the south but the Ivy League schools don’t even give scholarships so all of their concentration is on academics.
Please realize that there are people that really like competitive sports. It’s obvious you are not one of them. I suggest that you go to a more supportive blog.
BirdDawg
August 30th, 2011
7:45 pm
Bitter truth…..spoken like a true nerd. You have probably never even played a competitive sport, so I wouldn’t expect you to understand how great athletics are. You were probably on the debate team and have a job crunching numbers, so you don’t have to interact with humans!! UGA fans and alumni do fine in life I’m sure. But I understand why you are so bitter, we wipe the floor with you nerds yearly so all you talk about is how great your school is academically….don’t waste out time with your pointless comments….there has to be a chess lobby you can go chat on!!!
Athens Dawg
August 30th, 2011
7:48 pm
The haters and trolls just can’t stand the fact that UGA has turned things around. No arrests, no bone headed decisions by players, etc. Last season our AD got fired, we had multiple suspensions and arrests, Green sold his jersey which was a distraction, etc. This season we don’t have any distractions that is taking away from what the team has set out to accomplish. The team seems pumped, locked, and ready to whip Boise but we’ll see how it plays out on the field. I heard that Boise isn’t looking good at all on offense, but we’ll see how they perform on Saturday night with a motivated, big, fast, tenacious defense gunning for them.
chilidawg
August 30th, 2011
7:59 pm
Please don’t mention Georgia, Columbus and paying in the same headline!
Chip Towers
August 30th, 2011
8:07 pm
bardawg: sorry. noted. figgins’ father works at Carver as a math teacher.
ChinaDawg
August 30th, 2011
8:12 pm
4 from Carver? Figgins went to Shaw. The QB CHS.
ChinaDawg
August 30th, 2011
8:16 pm
Sorry to repeat. Didn’t see bardawgs comment.
G
August 30th, 2011
8:23 pm
The point is they are from Columbus. Sorry Chip everyone is a little jumpy and ready to get after Boise!
G
August 30th, 2011
8:24 pm
I believe we are going to see some nasty dawgs on Saturday!
typical dawg fan
August 30th, 2011
8:30 pm
i sure wish we was playin somebody we know instead of somebody nobody ever heard of. why we don’t play georgia southern anymore. shoot, them was some good games. we should be playin more games aginst chattanoogy an furman. its them teams you don’t know can sneek up on you quick like. i remember my playin days up here in blue ridge for the middle school. shoot, we would whoop up on teams from ellijay and blairsville. me an my cousin lenard was the startin defensive tackles. we was like ole stroud an seymour was at georgia, sure was. lenard is a good guy, but he was mean as a snake on the football field. one of our little tricks was on the first play on defense. we would go on the field with a handful of vaseline an during the play would rub that salve on the centers bottom, so’s it would slicker up the ball when he hiked it to the quarterback! gosh almity that worked! think coach rickt outta try that little trick, he could call it the lenard special, since he thought of it. anyways, back to what i was a sayin about playin teams you ain’t never heard about. the school went an scheduled us a game up in murphy, north carolina again some private school. well we took that bus trip up there thinkin they was gonna be like playin jasper an turned out they was more like bama than jasper! son they put it on us good i tell you! so you gotta be careful who you schedule sometimes. maybe we could bring that team from up in michigan what morino jumped over a couple a years ago. they was easy. go dawgs!
Worm
August 30th, 2011
8:39 pm
It would be nice to control Columbus instead of those guys going to AwBarn.
SOWEGA
August 30th, 2011
8:41 pm
Hmmmm….why is it everybody in Atlanta thinks that anything south of Atlanta is considered South GA? Columbus is not a “southwest Georgia bordertown”. Fort Gaines. There’s a Southwest GA Bordertown.
Anywho, South GA or not, glad to see Columbus getting recognition for the talent that town produces. GO DAWGS!!!
Chico
August 30th, 2011
8:51 pm
Mack Strong of Columbus (Brookstone) was a hell of a player for the Dawgs and the Seahawks, and a great guy to boot. Wayne Johnson, Herman Archie, Darryl Jones, Dale Williams, Frank Watts…..
UGAKev
August 30th, 2011
8:53 pm
Columbus has more UGA fans than any other team…We are glad to see players finally starting to go there. GO DAWGS! 4 more days!
John
August 30th, 2011
8:56 pm
Carver recruits better than UGA!
G2Rhett
August 30th, 2011
9:09 pm
Rock and Roll…Go Dawgs Sic ‘Em!!! Boise isn’t gonna have a clue what the hell just happened to them after the 1st quarter. This is going to be a very long and I’m afraid extremely dangerous game for Kellen Moore…this will make what the Dogs did to Colt Brennan and his team in the Sugar Bowl look like a f#@cking cake walk. This is going to be an absolute beat down on national television. Georgia’s gonna make Boise pay dearly for stepping foot in our second home…the Georgia Dome!!! Spread the RED!!!
The Only Horses I Like Are Under My Hood
August 30th, 2011
9:11 pm
If UGA is such an easy school to attend, I do wonder as to why we are ranked as a top twenty institution of higher learning.
Georgia Tech students can build a mean robot though, and I hear that robot fights at Tech have better attendance than their football games do.
GATOR CHOMP
August 30th, 2011
9:13 pm
Hey losers,talk to me when your flead out mutts actually win something.The MIGHTY GATORS own you trailor trash hillbillies.GATORS OR DIE!!!!!!!!!!!
GATOR CHOMP
August 30th, 2011
9:16 pm
Crowell will be the biggest bust in the history of ugay football “BOOK IT”
The Only Horses I Like Are Under My Hood
August 30th, 2011
9:17 pm
If the Gators “own” UGA, why it is that UGA still owns the series against UF.
How many undefeated titles do the Gators have?
Furthermore, what year does everyone think that GATOR CHOMP graduated from UF?
Athens Dawg
August 30th, 2011
9:18 pm
Spread the Red on Saturday night. It’s going to be so overwhelming for Boise to see a huge sea of red of nothing but Dawg fans. And it’s not the same as VT, Oregon, Oregon State, or anybody else they’ve faced. SEC fans are the best fans in the nation. They are relentless as our football team. They know when to get EXTREMELY loud and they know when to get very quiet. Boise State is in for a long, long night. Boise better not let UGA score first and let them get the momentum on defense. Oh hell, it’s on then. Say if we get up 7-0, or 10-0 or even 14-0, the defense will be licking their chops to finish this game off, defensive style!
Athens Dawg
August 30th, 2011
9:23 pm
Jarvis Jones will be salivating when he sees Kellen Moore. Brandon Boykin will be salivating when he lines up across from Shoemaker or whatever his name is. Big Geathers and Big Bad John will be licking their chops when they line up across from Thomas Byrd (center from Boise). Our O-line will be salivating when they see Boise’s D-line and knowing they have a chance to make a statement and give out punishment. All that frustration can be taken out. You can actually hit them as hard as you want legally in the game. Hit them, time and time again and there’s nothing anybody can do about it. Wrestle them, hit them, push them, whatever you gotta do O-line to get the job done. Do it to the best of your ability. This game is all on the lines.
Athens Dawg
August 30th, 2011
9:26 pm
If I’m Geathers or Jenkins, I’m so excited to get on the field and just dominate the line of scrimmage. I would take my big arms and just get them inside of Byrd’s pads and thrust my entire body strength and power into his chest and drive him backwards into his own running back. I expect that to happen a lot Saturday.
JB
August 30th, 2011
9:27 pm
“Georgia Tech alum and fans have lives”………? Really…..How is being arrested for alleged murder having a life? Maybe serving life?
Vince Doodly
August 30th, 2011
9:29 pm
Dawgies lose by 7.
Crimedog
August 30th, 2011
9:30 pm
Um, didn’t members of Crowell’s posse rip off the Georgia locker room?
JB
August 30th, 2011
9:30 pm
Lot of “book it’s” from Gator chomp tonight. I remember him telling us how much better Brantley was than Murray….on their way to losing 5 games last year….and Meyer really quitting at the half season mark. Yea, that “book it”……LOL
Athens Dawg
August 30th, 2011
9:33 pm
Believe it or not we played well on defense at times last season. We had some lapses but that comes with not having experience in a new system. The 3-4 is a very technical defense and very hard to learn. It was our first season in the 3-4 and NOBODY on our team had experience in it. That played a huge role in us going 6-7. Also bad moments on offense too, but look for those mistakes to be cleaned up this season. Here’s a link: Watch it…. http://youtu.be/ieipPOkcidQ
GATOR CHOMP
August 30th, 2011
9:33 pm
Athens Dawg,please wake up and stop dreaming son.Meth is bad for your health.
Athens Dawg
August 30th, 2011
9:36 pm
http://youtu.be/6cjimTtqv70
That’s to all the Murray haters! Suck on that!
LakeDawg57
August 30th, 2011
9:36 pm
Chip,
I’m hearing Nick has been at RB this week. You know anything on that? This kid has to much talent to sit down a yr.If nothing but special teams.He’s might be gone in three anyway.from what I’ve seen of him he will make it to field and be one of the best on the team.I think this is one of the best teams we have fielded in yrs the talent is there.We will see sat night if they put it togeather. Look out SEC if we have. Go Dawgs !!!!
GATOR CHOMP
August 30th, 2011
9:38 pm
JB I’ve never said that Brantley is a better quaterback than Murray so get your facts straight.
Athens Dawg
August 30th, 2011
9:41 pm
Hater Rump, you should actually want us to beat Boise. It has nothing to do with the race in the SEC, and we’re representing the SEC. You should want UGA to win. Dumbarse.
AltamahaDawg
August 30th, 2011
9:41 pm
Tech alumni and fans have lives that don’t depend entirely on what a bunch of kids does on Saturday afternoons but they do have lives that really seem to revolves around what Georgia fans are discussing about what a bunch of kids does on Saturday. I guess that only applied if the kids are wearing your own colors. What is this, the 9th time you have posted that same thing. Convinced yourself yet?
Chip Towers
August 30th, 2011
9:55 pm
LakeDawg57: If I had to guess I’d say Nick is playing RB for the scout team emulating Boise State for the varsity defense. But that’s just a guess.
Alphare
August 30th, 2011
9:55 pm
It’s not the connection, it’s UGA paying Crowell’s friend $180K in the name of a schollarship. That $180K bribe is paying dividend in the football field.
DILLIGAF
August 30th, 2011
10:01 pm
Richt has to start Samuel in this game and should even be named a captain because he is a true team player and he has sacrificed for his team without question and is true example of what it means to be a “Damn Good Dawg”.
A good kid and a person that has stepped up to lead his team and wants to win no matter.
GATA!
UGA/85′
DawgsAreHere
August 30th, 2011
10:05 pm
The momentum has been building all offseason for UGA. Now its time to see if all the hype can play out on the field. Boise will give us a great game but our defense will win the battle in the trenches. Boise will put up some points but our D will wear them down by the fourth quarter. Interested to see Crowell finally suit up for the Dawgs.
@AthensDawg: Ignore Gator Chomp’s ignorance – can’t talk sense into trolls. BTW if you have haters you must be doing something right!
Athens Dawge
August 30th, 2011
10:20 pm
The truth is we don’t have a chance against a top ten program like Boise. Lets just hope we don’t get any of our players hurt on that hard Georgia Dome Field. We are going to need everybody healthy for that SEC opener against SC. Lattimore has to be the best back since George Rogers. The hard truth is what we really need is Mettenburger. That kid is going to be a stud (poor choice of words) for LSU. Our QB is AT BEST a long shot. The word in the Classic City is the wheels are about to come off this scooter.
bitter vince dooly
August 30th, 2011
10:29 pm
bamma trolls stink——————-dawgs42——boise st—-38
——————just saying—–theres no stoping kellen moore folks——————-just have to out score
GA Sandlapper
August 30th, 2011
10:32 pm
UGA 58 Boise St 57…12 OTs! I hope!!
7576DAWG
August 30th, 2011
10:37 pm
Athens Dawge
Enough about Mettenburger . CMR had no choice but to encourage Mettenburger to leave. This young waitress he assaulted must like money. If he had done that to one of my daughters no amount of money or remorse would have been enough. I would have demanded and received jail time.I’m sure he regrets what he did but he is not the good. nice, wholesome guy you want him to be.
Athens Dawg
August 30th, 2011
11:04 pm
Boise will get rolled. 41-17 UGA
Hairy Dawg
August 30th, 2011
11:10 pm
PLEASE!!! It’s opening week. Let’s get some news about the team and quit the Columbus Connection and Boise State playcaller stories.
Talk about the line on the game, “expert’s” opinions about the outcome, B. Smith or other injury updates, or the pregame, but leave recruiting until later.
Go Dawgs!
FlaDawg
August 30th, 2011
11:26 pm
Went to Carver, went to UGA, looking forward to revising the history between the two. Feeling very good about these young men, they will do us proud!
WWDD?
August 30th, 2011
11:34 pm
Are the players in their Nike clown costumes and red panties ready for the Broncos?
CyberDome
August 30th, 2011
11:41 pm
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Key: Echo Victory
Brewmaster
August 30th, 2011
11:46 pm
@Athens Dawg: Boise will get rolled. 41-17 UGA
Knock off the drugs and get some sleep. Or have another cheapo brew while you watch roller derby in Tuscany or Marietta, wherever the swallows gulp in Capistrano. The
Athens Dawg
August 31st, 2011
12:07 am
Stop basking on what happened last season. It’s over. We made crucial mistakes at crucial times and didn’t finish. We weren’t a bad football team, we just didn’t make the plays when we needed to. This season we’ve gotten more disciplined, and we are more focused as a group. Boise could very well get blown out. Then the haters and trolls will be looking dumb. Like always.
Athens Dawg
August 31st, 2011
12:08 am
2011, we out of here! Let’s go!
Okiedawg
August 31st, 2011
12:19 am
Chip, get out a map. Columbus is not in “southwest Georgia” Albany is in southwest Georgia, Thomasville is in southwest Georgia. Columbus is on the fall line, the dividing line between north georgia and south georgia. Columbus is in west central Georgia
just the truth
August 31st, 2011
12:27 am
If I may since this is a public university, what were the GPA and SAT scores from these Columbus players. Seems everyone knows there football ability but we’re talking college now. What are they majoring in?
Preston
August 31st, 2011
12:46 am
Gator Chump needs to stop hating on a fellow SEC program and focus on his/her own problems. The gayters are gonna suck this year, but true SEC fans will pull for them in non-SEC match-ups….because that’s the way true Southerners behave. Grow up chump!
Preston
August 31st, 2011
12:55 am
just the truth…..the truth is that many of UGA’s players are majoring in the same programs as most other star players at other major FBS schools. Money is the driving force in our beautiful Republic and college football is a beautiful example of that. I get the feeling that you’re belittling players for taking classes that many would consider laughable, but look at the alternative. Would you rather see them denied a chance to get a college degree or even a chance to make the NFL dream a reality? Please tell me why you would ask such a thing and where the moral in that question lies in the first place.
HardTruth Soldier
August 31st, 2011
1:45 am
UF= Undeniable Failure as A NFL Quarterback. GT=Great Tragedy in this state, and all the rest of you Dawg hating punks can go straight to well… Miami, or LSU, or USC, or UNC, with the rest of the losers.
hop
August 31st, 2011
4:19 am
I think the dawgs will roll with a commitment to play ball contron l with a huge weight advantage with the o/line 0ver boise state smaller d/line.
I do not think this will be a high scoring game,and it will remind us all of the teams in the early 80’s where we will pound the ball with a very effective ground game.
7576DAWG
August 31st, 2011
4:50 am
The ideal situation is if we can establish a running game that will not bog down at the 20 yard line of Boise State. Keeping the ball away from Moore would be my top priority.
Paddy
August 31st, 2011
6:36 am
Is Jenkins back at practice full speed now? Groin injuries or hamstrings are tough injuries for those big linemen to bounce back quickly.
RedandBlackDAWG
August 31st, 2011
6:51 am
Bitter truth,
So let me get this straight. You tech. fans don’t concentrate on football that much and you have lives. Wow, that is truely amazing. So as a bitter tech. fan you are on a blog concerning UGA football and spouting all this amazing negative crap about a sport you don’t care about and a school you hate. Does your terrific school teach you how to spell hypocrite and jealous, because those are two words they definitly describe you.
GO DAWGS and GATA
Destin Dawg
August 31st, 2011
6:52 am
I’ve been expecting to hear more about Boo Malcome…. what’s up ??
Destin Dawg
August 31st, 2011
6:55 am
nothing wrong with these kids getting degrees in Phys. Ed., sports mang’t, business , criminology, etc… not all of us are nerds !!!
RedandBlackDAWG
August 31st, 2011
6:59 am
Anthens dawge,
You are surely a tech. fan. Why aren’t you on a tech. blog since they have that big opener against the terror of the south, “Western Carolina”? If you were playing Boise State you would be in the game in the same position as your oponent tonight. Getting a free paycheck, and a tune up for a good team. You need to show some maturity, which you obviously lack.
GO DAWGS and GATA
P.S. Does your mommy know you are on the compuiter and not eating your breakfast before going to classes?
Shieldy
August 31st, 2011
7:01 am
90% of my GT friends caught the “M Train” & are fun people who party as well as the Dawgs! It’s the idiots that didn’t go to either school that act like ‘necks or geeks. Dawgs will win big, then nip SC. After that, we’ll lay an egg against someone like the Vols or Techies. It’s football & they all get drunk 3 nights a week in Athens.
RedandBlackDAWG
August 31st, 2011
7:02 am
How is Mr. Jenkins doing with his leg injury? We will most assuredly need him to be ready to go, so if nothing else, he can spell Geathers and at best, have them both out there at the same time, to show Boise, where the beef is.
GO DAWGS and GATA
Shieldy
August 31st, 2011
7:02 am
Oh & where’s Jasper this monin’??
Columbus4UGA
August 31st, 2011
7:34 am
When did Columbus become Southwest Georgia??? Columbus is West Georgia. Albany is SW GA…. Anyways, glad to see all of the talent coming out of the city. Go Dawgs!
beachside bulldawg
August 31st, 2011
7:34 am
Hey bitter truth…Do you mean like Critterton?
BG
August 31st, 2011
8:23 am
The Columbus newspaper did it’s best to hurt Jarvis Jones. As we all know Jones was cleared by the SEC and NCAA.
Whiskey Breath
August 31st, 2011
8:30 am
Funny Chip. ” There is a good chance Crowell will be starting.” Of course there is a good chance, Richt told him that while he was being recruited. However, he had to run off King and Ealey before he could live up to it. Yea, he is a Christian man all right. So let me get this straight, King can’t do his classwork after 5 years? Right. Ealey has a bad attitude so is a cancer to the team. The joke is going to be on Richt, because Ealey really was that good. Reality will soon kick in.
Whiskey Breath
August 31st, 2011
8:36 am
In Tech’s defense, they are not the ones that hate Ga. I hate Tech and Ga. I have forever. Mainly because of the big talkers that can not back it up. Fools. Ga will brag about beating the crap out of Vanderbilt for years. Something is wrong about that. Tech does not have any fans. Plain and simple.
How Ga could brag about beating Tech is a real mystery. Tech doesn’t care.
The BLUE meanie from BS
August 31st, 2011
8:39 am
To “Redandblackdawge”, We make computers here at GEORGIA TECH (er Boise) you numb nuts, we don’t ask mom for permission. More likely the average UGA student has to ask how to log in at the STUDENT RESOURCE CENTER!! There is nothing like getting under the skin of a dog, ,excuse me DAWG.
DawginLex
August 31st, 2011
8:51 am
NEVER GRADUATE BOYS
NEVER
DAWGS PLAYING SATURDAY NIGHT
CLEAR THE HOUSE CAUSE I AM BARKING!
GONNA BE A LOT OF HORSE CRAP TO CLEAN UP ON THE CARPET SATURDAY NIGHT
NEVER GRADUATE
NEVER
RedandBlackDAWG
August 31st, 2011
9:05 am
Blue Meanie,
You make a lot of spuds also, but not everyone likes them. You should come onto another teams blog and at least show some respect for that team and yourself. This I now note, is not one of your better character traits.
GO DAWGS and GATA
a MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
August 31st, 2011
9:09 am
To “Dawginlex” as a MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL I believe you are very ill. Illusions of grandeur, ALL CAPS. Try a glass of wine before bed time. It that don’t work try Larry munsons shrink. The folks in SC can’t wait to get ahold of the Dogs!!! By the way which flag is more imortant to you, your “rebel” or your “bulldog”?
Joey
August 31st, 2011
9:26 am
He’s not from Columbus, but it’s good to read this about Jenkins, after his mostly-injured camp.
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Backup nose guard John Jenkins drew praise from defensive coordinator Todd Grantham after Tuesday’s practice in shoulder pads and shorts. “John had his best practice today,” Grantham said. “I thought he was really dominant out there.”
DawginLex
August 31st, 2011
9:31 am
a MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL=QUACK
I’m fine. Just a Dawg excited about the start of football season.
DawginLex
August 31st, 2011
9:35 am
So Whiskey Breath, since you are obviously Nick Saban II, tells us what Ealey did in 2010 that was so special that you label him as great?
Outside of running through the soft butter defense of UK, explain to us why we should miss him so much?
I remember this about him:
Multiple fumbles at key times in big games
Missing blocking assignments
Refusing to go to S&C sessions with his teammates
Hit and run in a parking deck
Suspended license
I’d rather watch Samuel, Crowell, Malcome and Harton than to have Ealey playing for us.
He had his chance and blew it. Talent, potential and ability are nothing without discipline and motivation. He had none.
Good riddance I say.
Bama in Atlanta
August 31st, 2011
9:37 am
First, just to clarify, I am SEC all the way and will be pulling for the Dawgs on Saturday. That being said, here are my “feel goods” and “concerns” regarding UGA going into the game:
Feel Good About:
1) Lack of distractions – no finalist for the Fulmer Cup; no hit and runs; no shoebox full of outstanding parking tickets; no AD and mistress playing “show me yours and I’ll show you mine”
2) Strength & Conditioning program that actually includes strength and conditioning drills – hands on knees sucking wind in the 2nd quarter is not a good omen….looks like this has been remedied
3) 3-4 D – An attack defense rather than a reaction defense allows you to control the play….hit ‘em long, hard, deep and continuous and the game is yours by the 3rd quarter
4) Murray – plays smart, wants to win, has the respect and trust of his fellow players
5) Special Teams – An understatement to say strongest in college football….never underestimate the power to kick long field goals and pin the opponent inside their 5-yard line
Concerns:
1) Turnovers – IC and Samuel had limited practice time due to injuries and timing is critical for handoffs between QB and RB. If there’s any hesitation or wrong step then risk of fumbles skyrockets
2) Poor Blitz Execution – Not disguising your blitzes or being too slow to get in the backfield is not something you want to do against a guy who’s going to end up being the winningest QB in college football history
3) Underestimating BSU – They have a small D-Line……they play in a weak conference….they lost their two best WRs…..yeah, so did Appalachian State a few years ago before they played Michigan
4) Mike Bobo – do I really need to elaborate
Bottom line prediction is that each team will reach the end zone a few times but the edge goes to the team that can hit more field goals (hint: see #5 above).
Looking for Herman Archie
August 31st, 2011
10:01 am
Way back in the late late 70s or very early 80s, UGA had Columbus native Herman Archie playing split end at 6′5″ and about 220. He supposedly was going to change passing game as we knew it back then. He was way ahead of the now common place wide outs of today that are tall. He caught maybe 5 passes in those Dooley era years.
Where is Herman Archie now??? Man, was he highly, highly recruited out of Columbus.
Gooooooooooooooooooo Dogs.
"GT"
August 31st, 2011
10:03 am
G un T oters.
Tech Sucks
August 31st, 2011
10:07 am
Gator Chomp. Get ready cause the Dawgs are gonna destroy UF this year.
Greg
August 31st, 2011
10:17 am
I only read the comments to any AJC articles when I want to laugh at all of the pathetic losers who have nothing better to do with their time than troll these articles and criticize. How miserable of a life must you have to want to do that?
Reba
August 31st, 2011
10:30 am
Get ready cause the Dawgs are gonna destroy UF this year.
All that Kool-Aid’s really not good for you, you know. Florida owns UGA, and that’s not going to change while The bumbling Mark Richt is the coach.
Dawg in Milton
August 31st, 2011
10:40 am
It’s about time we used the Leebern ‘Mafia” to our advantage…..Honestly, we have recruited very good in Columbus the last 5-6 years, AU, really hasn’t gotten any of the studs they used to get all the time..Who was the last Columbus stud that went to AU? Pretty amazing, that that they are only 30 minutes away…
Big Albany Dawg
August 31st, 2011
10:48 am
START HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Danah
August 31st, 2011
10:53 am
Crowell will leave when Richt is fired.
Columbus Dawg
August 31st, 2011
10:54 am
The last Columbus “stud” as you call them to go to Auburn was Gabriel Wright Class of 2011. Carver High School.
Dawg in Milton
August 31st, 2011
11:00 am
Columbus Dawg, we didn’t even want Gabriel Wright, correct? I thought only UT and AU really wanted him..
a MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
August 31st, 2011
11:04 am
Dawginlex, it’s so, so, clear, you are in DENIAL, take two “bout dem dawgs’ and get some rest. Once Georgia tennis season starts you’ll be OK.
UGA Alumnus
August 31st, 2011
12:34 pm
@The bitter truth for dawgs to chew on
August 30th, 2011
7:20 pm
The things you’re saying are just untrue. UGA is listed as a Public Ivey League school.
We also graduate a large percentage of our student-athletes. The majority of football players who don’t graduate leave early because they have a job waiting for them in the NFL that pays them millions of dollars.
Numbers came out recently that has UGA student-athletes at the top of SEC schools in grades.
Do a little research before you level false accusations about the University of Georgia. It’s an excellent school and I’m a proud graduate.
JunkyardDawg34
August 31st, 2011
4:19 pm
Columbus is not a southwest Georgia border town. West Georgia, yes. Southwest border town, try Ft. Gaines or Donalsonville.
Brandon
August 31st, 2011
8:40 pm
All the players from Columbus will shine, good seeing Columbus being put out their as having talent… Proud Carver grad… GO DAWGS!!
Gator Hater
August 31st, 2011
11:33 pm
Please ban anybody thats not a UGA fan from this blog especially MR GATORCHOMP ? I’ll book your bet big dog but Im willing to BET that you are somewhat scared….really?
oracle of marietta
September 1st, 2011
6:15 am
Jasper Sanks was from Columbus too. Same high school, same amount of hype. Let’s keep our heads on straight before we anoint IC as the Athens messiah.
DawginLex = Lonely Tech troll
September 1st, 2011
6:33 am
He is no Dawg, just a lonely Tech fan. Look at all his post on the Tech blogs. He post 5-1 more often over there and is more than happy to insult and rip UGA and the fan base.
GATOR CHOMP
September 1st, 2011
8:02 am
Gator Hater,you got a big mouth son,put your money where your mouth is.I’m sick and tired of you losers bragging on a bunch of convicts that should be playing for the Clarke County Jail.Get ready for another long season in your trailer park.You clowns are about to get smoked bigtime.”BOOK IT”
GATOR CHOMP
September 1st, 2011
8:04 am
Tech sucks,put up or shut up.
RedandBlackDAWG
September 1st, 2011
9:31 am
Lets see. A former player from tech. is alleged to have killed a woman on the streets. Using the same criteria as some of you use in rating a school, I guess that means that Tech. graduates and students are all bad people and should be compared to this one man.
How about another example. Hitler was of Polish descent and therefore all people of polish descent are all mass murders and should be eliminated from society. Comparing apples and oranges is easy if you are allowed to group all people into the same background and group based on where they graduated from high school, or the place they lived. Isn’t the inverse also true then. To use a bad example, is to say, Obama became president and he is from Illinois and therefore all people from Illinois should become president. Remember I said a bad example but it does apply, using the reasoning some of you are using.
GO DAWGS and GATA
Toe meets leather
September 1st, 2011
10:22 am
First, that GT = gun toters IS a great line. I wish I had came up with it. After several FUN days of getting under the skin of many dawg fans, dawgfromlex, Redblacknblu, and MANY MORE, how bout this: GO DOGS, kick those potato growing farm boys all the way back to Idaho.
Just let you know I’m really me – You know the old saying – what does a UGA grad call a Tech Grad about 5 years after graduation, that would be BOSS!!
Milton806
September 1st, 2011
2:21 pm
Gator Chump and you Tech fans; please get off your mothers computer. Turn from the sports section and personal ads, to the jobs section. Find a job, stop the hate, get out of the house and TRY to get laid… To attack teenagers and young men who are trying there best to perform for us amazes me. You have a pathetic life my friends. I’ll keep you in my prayers. BTW, the Gators & Tech suck! See no personal attacks on the kids…. Go Dawgs!
Toe meets leather
September 1st, 2011
2:34 pm
Milton806 – what a PRICK, you talk “prayer”, then “suck”. While your praying I hope your neighbors don’t catch you walking out of the Cheetah Club. What a piece of work you are. As far as getting laid, have you talked to your wife lately?
RedandBlackDAWG
September 2nd, 2011
9:46 am
Toe meets leather, should change his handle to “Mouth does not meet brain”, I think. Your only purpose in coming on to a blog about UGA is to insult fans of UGA and try to illicit a response to your poor, childish comments.
GO DAWGS and GATA
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