Several former Bulldogs still doing good work for the SEC in Atlanta
Former Georgia quarterback D.J. Shockley, star of the Bulldogs' 2005 SEC Championship victory, does volunteer work in the CHRIS Kids Facility in East Atlanta on Thursday. (Special photo)
Long after their Georgia football careers ended, a group of former Bulldogs are still doing good works for the SEC.
Brothers Matt and Jon Stinchcomb, both All-American offensive linemen while at UGA, teamed up with former quarterbacks David Greene and D.J. Shockley, defensive lineman Quentin Moses and defensive back Kelin Johnson to represent Georgia as part of the third annual Allstate SEC Good Works Day in Atlanta on Thursday. They joined representatives from other SEC schools to help out with several community service projects in East Atlanta.
Working in conjunction with the SEC and Hands on Atlanta, the initiative benefited CHRIS Kids, a local organization that provides safe and stable living environments and offers mental health services for children and families. The Georgia players, along with several volunteers from the SEC and Allstate, wrapped holiday gifts, prepared lunches, painted murals and landscape the grounds at the CHRIS Kids facility on Fayetteville Road. SEC Commissioner Mike Slive himself was among volunteers.
“That’s one thing I’ve always enjoyed doing, being able to give back,” said Shockley, whose season with the Omaha Nighthawks of the AFL ended just two weeks ago. “I enjoy being able to meet people who wouldn’t normally be able to meet you. They see you on TV and all that but they don’t really know you. I always relish the fact they get to meet the person first and know what I’m about. So I enjoyed it. I was actually in the arts and crafts section so that was a little different for me. But I made the best of it.”
The Georgia football alumni share a unique bond in that all six players were selected to the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team during their college careers for their commitment to service and volunteerism. Since the national award began in 1992, no conference has had more student athletes named to the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team than the SEC.
The SEC and Allstate have partnered in community service projects around Atlanta leading up to the SEC Championship Game since 2009.
Former Bulldogs D.J. Shockley, Matt Stinchcomb, Jon Stinchcomb, Kelin Johnson, David Greene and Quentin Moses went to work for charity on Thursday. (Special photo)
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DGDs!
December 2nd, 2011
8:52 am
Great job ya’ll
Steve O.
December 2nd, 2011
8:55 am
Nice to see atheletes giving back……proud that they are all Dawgs!!!
crossdawg
December 2nd, 2011
8:57 am
Dam Good Dawgs!
Ronnie
December 2nd, 2011
8:57 am
Football goes way beyond the field. These men are champions in life.
OkieDawg
December 2nd, 2011
9:01 am
Way to represent…DGDs, all of ya!
TampaDawg
December 2nd, 2011
9:02 am
GOOOO Dawgs!!!
Dwayne
December 2nd, 2011
9:04 am
where are the GT players? probably learning how to police their unsafe campus
RxDawg
December 2nd, 2011
9:07 am
That’s awesome, just awesome.
WDE
December 2nd, 2011
9:18 am
Outstanding ! DGD’s
JAWJeRDAWG
December 2nd, 2011
9:25 am
It is always good to read that UGA sports athletes who represented our University well in their athletic endeavors continue to represent UGA so well in their service to the benefit of mankind in their life after football.
Well done, Dawgs! You continue to make UGA proud!
Nom Nom Nom Chucks Taylor, or Norris if he is avaliable
December 2nd, 2011
9:27 am
Funny, my wife was at a insurance seminar a couple of months ago and David Greene came in and sat right beside her. She talked with him a while, he told her he played at UGA, etc.
She came home and said “do you know a guy named David something that played at UGA?” He said he played QB and went to South Gwinnett.
Funny stuff. Unlike another celebrity sighting I had….Allen Iverson’s ghetto arse pulling his Maybach out of the handicapped space at the Costco at Cumberland Mall…..I kid you ZERO about that….If the kids weren’t in the car, I would have dragged his arse out by his sh*tlocks and beaten him handicapped.
Happy Friday and Go Dawgs.
AltamahaDawg
December 2nd, 2011
9:29 am
And on an unrelated note. Crowell was practising at full speed on Thursday.
DawginLex
December 2nd, 2011
9:34 am
altamaha
What is this rumor crap about Crowell?
Chip can hopefully get us some truth
Pat
December 2nd, 2011
9:37 am
Crowell won’t make it through next season. He’s a punk. Bring on Keith Marshall.
DAWG ONE
December 2nd, 2011
9:39 am
Guys, you truly do make us all proud. Thank you for what you do throughout the year.
TampaDawg
December 2nd, 2011
9:40 am
Nom Nom Nom Chucks Taylor, or Norris if he is avaliable … so you would have made an honest man out of Iverson???? Good stuff.
AltamahaDawg
December 2nd, 2011
9:40 am
I think you answered you own question, DiL.
TampaDawg
December 2nd, 2011
9:41 am
AltamahaDawg
December 2nd, 2011
9:29 am
And on an unrelated note. Crowell was practising at full speed on Thursday.
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Best news I have heard today Altamaha .. all week actually
DAWG ONE
December 2nd, 2011
9:43 am
You know, it is easy for someone to come on here and criticize a player and make is seem as though you are a Dawg. No true Dawg is going to criticize a young man that plays for UGA in such a negative manner. So PAT, why don’t you saunter on down to wherever you come from and find something useful to do. I am sure you must be a very accomplished individual.
timthebrave
December 2nd, 2011
9:46 am
Way to go dawgs!
robodawg
December 2nd, 2011
9:48 am
Great players, great memories, DGDs all.
AltamahaDawg
December 2nd, 2011
9:58 am
….according to Schlabach…….
Chip Towers
December 2nd, 2011
9:59 am
DawginLex: Nothing to it as far as I can tell.
Niceville Dawg
December 2nd, 2011
10:00 am
Nice job,guys…we need more stories like that
Nom Nom Nom Chucks Taylor, or Norris if he is avaliable
December 2nd, 2011
10:01 am
@TampaDawg…I would have tried…and failed more than likely.
I posted some of the rumors about Crowell from an email I received yesterday about him having a bad couple of practices yesterday. Maybe the players only meeting with him set him in his seat a little. Although, I am just not that optimistic about the kid anymore. Once, I can forgive, but this is running in pattern mode now.
Keith Marshall, are you there?
Nom Nom Nom Chucks Taylor, or Norris if he is avaliable
December 2nd, 2011
10:02 am
BTW, great story Chip.
BMDPD
December 2nd, 2011
10:07 am
Say what you want, but CMR did influence these men.
Al Beeski
December 2nd, 2011
10:09 am
Hey Chip, nice article tell them Crowell can come work with them next week as I’ve got inside info he will be ineligible for the bowl game
Old Dawg
December 2nd, 2011
10:13 am
Nice story, Chip. Regardless of the school, you have to be proud of alums who give back to their communities. It really doesn’t matter if they’re former athletes or not. The fact that they are former athletes is a great testimony to the impact coach CMR continues to have on their lives and the lives of current UGA players.
Like I’ve posted here many times in the past, there aren’t enough stories like this in newspapers or on TV.
Thanks for all you do, Chip.
DawginLex
December 2nd, 2011
10:14 am
Al Beeski
December 2nd, 2011
10:09 am
Hey Chip, nice article tell them Crowell can come work with them next week as I’ve got inside info he will be ineligible for the bowl game
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BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DawginLex
December 2nd, 2011
10:18 am
http://atlanta.sbnation.com/georgia-bulldogs/2011/12/1/2604784/sec-championship-2011-isaiah-crowell-injury-update
Al Beeski
December 2nd, 2011
10:19 am
DawginLex, I know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody who KNOWS SOMEBODY!!! But trust me it’s true, he’s a knucklehead who’s been pampered his whole life and catered to since he was a sophomore ate Carver. He doesn’t realize the opportunity given to him and will not play in the bowl game. Just say i told u so in a couple of weeks.
Al Beeski
December 2nd, 2011
10:19 am
DawginLex, I know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody who KNOWS SOMEBODY!!! But trust me it’s true, he’s a knucklehead who’s been pampered his whole life and catered to since he was a sophomore ate Carver. He doesn’t realize the opportunity given to him and will not play in the bowl game. Just say i told u so in a couple of weeks.
BG
December 2nd, 2011
10:29 am
Good work guys. GO DAWGS!!
JB
December 2nd, 2011
10:35 am
Good work by these guys. Makes you proud and the Tech people ( who cares) that degrade our players all the time, need to read and heed this. Good guys giving back
St Simons - sea level rising-trust me on this one
December 2nd, 2011
10:37 am
yes, and that fine upstanding Auburn alumnus Scam Newton,
he’s doin great work, too, raisin $200k and all. Now thats class
beebee
December 2nd, 2011
10:39 am
that was so unnecessary, Dwayne.
by the talk of some of you people, you’d think UGA players were the ONLY people in the world who do charity work.
I hope LSU wipes the scoreboard with 60+ points on y’all!
Big Earl
December 2nd, 2011
10:46 am
On 680 yesterday, the Auburn Alum (Chuck) and the that other guy (Chernoff) were making fun of IC saying that he came to practice wearing the dreaded green jersey, and when some coach told him to go ride the stationary bike, IC basically told them NO. Has anyone heard anything about this? I don’t place a lot of stock in the 680 guys, unless it’s Buck saying it. If this is true, then what’s the solution? Kick him off the team?….get the seniors to beat the sh5#!t out of him? Sounds like if there ever was an “Energy Vampire” then IC is the poster child. Wait till Tereshinski gets him in the weight room, if he thinks practice is tough. Sounds like a BAD situation if it’s true!
Big Earl
December 2nd, 2011
10:48 am
Sorry Chip, meant to also say “really nice article today!”
jaxdawg
December 2nd, 2011
10:49 am
Chip: Isn’t DJ in the UFL?
TampaDawg
December 2nd, 2011
10:52 am
beebee, I think the point is that these Dawgs are doing this in Atlanta .. GT’s back yard. Where are the GT players at? And honestly, not too many posts on here create the notion that we think only UGA players do charity work. That’s just wishful thinking on your part that we would think that way.
As for your other wish, I guess it’s typical of a sore loser to hope the next team does to the Dawgs what they could have done to your bugs had they not let up off the gas. Murray could have had 8 TDs with that 8th grade level defense.
Onion Boy
December 2nd, 2011
11:01 am
Class act of guys !!! Nothing but respect for for the Stinchcombs and Greene with all they do for the kids and the university.
THE REAL PHIL
December 2nd, 2011
11:05 am
I heard from a guy who knows some guy who knows this cajun guy that aliens landed on the practice field in Baton Rouge. They gave all the LSU players some stuff to drink that makes them super human. That’s what turned the Honey Badgers hair yellow. Can anyone confirm this?
Geez.
Frank Lane
December 2nd, 2011
11:06 am
DAMN GOOD DAWGS. DAMN GOOD MEN.
Let the Big Dawg Eat!
December 2nd, 2011
11:13 am
Go Dawgs! Thanks for your good work.
McDawg
December 2nd, 2011
11:28 am
if a guy is hurt he is hurt i don’t see how running on a bad ankle benefits anyone
Larry and Erk
December 2nd, 2011
11:33 am
Anyone know the time of the dawg walk?
JDawg1785
December 2nd, 2011
11:39 am
Great to see some DGDs giving back to the community. Thanks for your service, y’all!
G. Nix
December 2nd, 2011
11:39 am
Are you the same Chip Towers….RHS class of 80
Big Banker Dawg
December 2nd, 2011
12:10 pm
I am a Dawg, so nice work by these Dawgs. To you guys who feel the need to bash Tech, GROW UP! This article and the service these DGD’s did was part of an SEC event related to the SEC Championship game being held in Atlanta. I am sure if it were an ACC day there would have been Tech folks there. Geez, you guys can’t just be happy with what our guys do. That or you just have no reading comprehension.
Spaceman Spiff
December 2nd, 2011
12:16 pm
Haven’t heard anything to the contrary about IC not playing. Did hear (and no, I don’t know someone who knows someone…) that Jarvis and Alec did a little more than a good “talking to”…
Mike
December 2nd, 2011
12:25 pm
they are what damn good dogs are!
Band parent
December 2nd, 2011
12:29 pm
@Larry and Erk – I’m not sure if there will be a Dawg Walk. On the band’s itinerary there is a pep rally inside the GWCC at 1:30 but no mention of the Dawg Walk. The band is supposed to be in their seats at 2:15. Wish I could be there. Go Dawgs!!
Cdpridg
December 2nd, 2011
2:18 pm
DGD’s right there!!!
LHarding Dawg
December 2nd, 2011
2:21 pm
These guys know that there is more to life than just football. Some of the bloggers would do good to immulate these fine young men.
Stingtalk's Daddy
December 2nd, 2011
2:57 pm
YELLOW!!!!!! JACKETS!!!! YELLOW!!!!! JACKETS!!!!!!!!!!
We aren’t giving up!!!! There is always next year!
LSU is going to annihilate the dawgs!!! Oh yes it is going to be a beautiful sight!
GT
December 2nd, 2011
2:59 pm
Enter your comments here
GT Girl
December 2nd, 2011
3:00 pm
David Greene also helps several United Ways in Georgia.
DawginLex
December 2nd, 2011
3:10 pm
Stingtalk’s Daddy
December 2nd, 2011
2:57 pm
YELLOW!!!!!! JACKETS!!!! YELLOW!!!!! JACKETS!!!!!!!!!!
We aren’t giving up!!!! There is always next year!
LSU is going to annihilate the dawgs!!! Oh yes it is going to be a beautiful sight!
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Always pulling for someone else to do the job because you can’t do it yourself.
you must love Obama
TampaDawg
December 2nd, 2011
3:14 pm
Stingtalk’s Daddy
December 2nd, 2011
2:57 pm
YELLOW!!!!!! JACKETS!!!! YELLOW!!!!! JACKETS!!!!!!!!!!
We aren’t giving up!!!! There is always next year!
LSU is going to annihilate the dawgs!!! Oh yes it is going to be a beautiful sight!
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Way to lose with class and keep your character .. (all sarcasm here is intentional and pointed). Being UGAs whipping boys must hurt pretty bad to come on here for a positive story and make that kind of post.
DAWG07
December 2nd, 2011
3:15 pm
Thanks! For the excellent work you are doing.
2 SEC Championships
December 2nd, 2011
3:15 pm
2002 there only was 1 other SEC team ranked in the Coaches’ Poll Top 25 – a 4-Loss Auburn.
2005 Mark Richt (DJ Shockley) won The SEC Championship Game vs LSU who ended up # 6 in the nation and Alabama ended up # 8 and Georgia Mark Richt ended up # 10 in the nation. Therefore, UGA in 2005 ended up the # 3 best team in The SEC in EVERY POLL for 2005 season.
11th year now, and there is not a legitimate SEC Championship YET. If he beat LSU, he would end up maybe # 12 if he wins the bowl game, maybe # 11. LSU would drop no more than 0 spaces and still be # 1. Alabama would still be # 2. And, Arkansas would still be # 6. The problem is we have this discussion for Chip Towers TODAY – BEFORE The SEC Championship – BECAUSE AFTER THE SEC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME UGA will STILL BE RIGHT WHERE WE ARE NOW,
also BEHIND South Carolina in EVERY POLL.
We are the # 5 team in The SEC.
For that Chip Towers states for you that Georgia will give him a big raise from his annual total compensation of three and a half million
$ 3,500,000.00
And, a long-term contract – which is ALREADY FOR TWO (2) MORE YEARS.
For being # 5 in his conference, when of course, he tells YOU he is the # 4 best coach in All of America.
At # 15 in the nation BEFORE HE GETS HIS HAT HANDED TO HIM TOMORROW AFTERNOON ?
Now, go tell me I am a Georgia tek fan. It’s all you got you BIBLE THUMPERS who care not 1 iota about this football program. Just Mark Richt.
He would fit right in at Penn State.
They haven’t done a thing in my lifetime.
SkyDawg
December 2nd, 2011
3:17 pm
StinkTalk’s just remembering that beating LSU put on Tech in the Chick-Fil A Bowl a few years ago. So sad and confused.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
December 2nd, 2011
3:23 pm
Penn State hasnt done anything in your lifetime? So that puts you under 20. Thus making any points you have concerning the state of CMR tenure at UGA completly irrelevant.
Don’t immolate if you cannot imitate.
December 2nd, 2011
3:23 pm
Teams who get 10-Win Season this season alone :
1-LSU
2-ALABAMA
3-OKLAHOMA STATE
4-STANFORD
5-VIRGINIA TECH
6-ARKANSAS
7-STANFORD
8-OREGON
9-SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
10-HOUSTON
11-BOISE STATE
12-SOUTH CAROLINA
13-WISCONSIN
14-MICHIGAN STATE
15-MICHIGAN
16-KANSAS STATE
17-OKLAHOMA
18-TCU
19-NEBRASKA
20-WEST VIRGINIA
21-CINCINNATI
22-SOUTHERN MISS
23-ARKANSAS STATE
24-CLIMPSUM FARMERS
25-PENN STATE
Now,which of these has Mark Richt beat ?
Don’t imitate if you cannot emulate.
December 2nd, 2011
3:24 pm
Nick Saban Les Miles etc.
DawginLex
December 2nd, 2011
3:26 pm
bulldawg is back under his 123rd and 124 blog handle
Lowcountry Bulldawg
December 2nd, 2011
3:32 pm
Yep, he gets called out so often that he is forced to do so.
TampaDawg
December 2nd, 2011
3:35 pm
Yeah Thomas Brown, I guess you’re under 17 actually. Penn State went undefeated in 1994 and finished number 2 in the polls winning the Rose Bowl that year. You have voided all your credibility to speak. And again, with the Bible Thumpers thing, it’s one thing to talk about a person’s coaching ability or a fan’s knowledge of the game, but a desparaging remark about a person’s Faith is WAY over the line. So quit being a little brat and stick to football.
TampaDawg
December 2nd, 2011
3:37 pm
Yet, he is HARDLY a bulldawg. NoBODY who is any real fan can be that critical. NO ONE!
Lowcountry Bulldawg
December 2nd, 2011
3:38 pm
Becareful Tampa he will repost comments over the past 4 months attempting some spin campaign against you that only backfires on him. He is a vengeful troll.
DawginLex
December 2nd, 2011
3:41 pm
He has stopped copying and pasting my stuff since i told him I was gonna whip his arse.
Maybe he does comprehend some things………………
Lowcountry Bulldawg
December 2nd, 2011
3:44 pm
The ones he reposts of mine actually show how little intelligence he has. If he would actually read and understand the context they where written under he would see how stupid his attempts are. Unfortunately he lacks higher cognitive skills.
Don’t imitate if you cannot emulate.
December 2nd, 2011
3:47 pm
1994 ?
That’s about all you guys remember around here, 1994 and going back to Ray Goff coaching years.
I have friends who were born in 1994. Penn State was good in 1994 ? Really ?
Are you sure ?
1994.
Great Scott.
You’re kidding right ?
I can tell you this, having studied Penn State for some time now. They have SUCKED forever.
DawginLex
December 2nd, 2011
3:51 pm
Yeah that’s why they beat our 1982 team which was arguably better than the 1980 team but just faced a better team in the sugar Bowl
And it took a heroic goal line stand from bama to keep them from winning another national title in 1979
Yeah they have always been horrible
Try 1986 Silver Anniversary - 25 YEARS AGO Penn State
December 2nd, 2011
3:52 pm
1986 yes.
1994 what I see is Nebraska both 1994 and 1995.
In fact, that was the last time Nebraska was any good too.
Since 1995 Nebraska has just played cupcakes.
1986 twenty-five years ago.
What are you trying to build up Penn State now so we all what ?
Run and give Mark Richt 4 million a year for 15 years for coming in 5th place in The SEC beating 0 teams who end up in ANY POLL ?
TampaDawg
December 2nd, 2011
3:54 pm
Oh, I know Lowcountry, he has been doing that to me for a while already. Taking a question I made when I forgot the 2005 Sugar Bowl was played in the Georgia Dome because of Katrina and reposting it. He tried again yesterday with something different but I had to teach him the difference between legal and illegal.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
December 2nd, 2011
3:56 pm
Tampa, if that question was on Jeopardy I would have gotten that one wrong. At the end of the day is it that big of a deal? Only to him….
TampaDawg
December 2nd, 2011
3:59 pm
It really isn’t, but we have called him out on probably 100 stupid posts or more and he calls us out on one or two. Four thousand character posts with mindless, poorly spun dribble and weak stats seem to make him “the man” in his book. Obviously from the Penn State post, he is still just a little boy.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
December 2nd, 2011
4:04 pm
Yep! To cap it off he changes his name routinely. That really is the beauty of it.
Dawg4
December 3rd, 2011
6:20 am
If Scam is an Auburn Alumnus, I am an airplane….
albanydog
December 3rd, 2011
6:51 am
NOM NOM NOM CHUCKS TAYLOR COME ON MAN IVERSON WOULD HAVE BEAT THE BRAKE OFF YOUR ARSE NEXT TIME YOU SEE JUST TRY HIM, HOPE YOU HAVE SOME GOOD INSURANCE. GO DAWG
HABDAWG
December 3rd, 2011
2:47 pm
Proud to be a dawg fan. Keep up the good work guys. Great story. DAWGS 21 TIGERS 17!!!!!!
GOOOOOODAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!