Herschel Walker statue ‘not a priority right now’ for UGA
Rob Saye (L) started the 'Herschel Walker Statue Project' on Facebook and created quite a stir. (Photo by Rob Saye)
ATHENS — What about Frank Sinkwich? What about Charley Trippi? What about outstanding individual athletes in Georgia’s 14 sports other than football.
That’s the problem Greg McGarity has with the “Herschel Walker Statue Project.”
Is the Heisman Trophy winner and star player on the Bulldogs’ 1980 national championship team deserving of a statue? Absolutely, McGarity says.
But are not those aforementioned individuals also?
“You have to look at the program as a whole, with all sports,” McGarity said Friday. “Once you make a decision to single out certain individuals for accomplishments, then what is the domino effect? We have 14 other sports here that have had some tremendous accomplishments from certain individuals. There are just so many moving pieces that it just has to be an institutional decision. Right now there has been no discussion about that.”
Rob Saye, a freelance photographer, UGA alumnus and Bulldogs fan extraordinaire, decided earlier this week to create a Facebook Page – aptly named “Herschel Walker Statue Project” — calling on Georgia fans to get behind the idea of erecting a statue of the 1982 Heisman Trophy winner somewhere on campus. The reaction, as might be expected, has been passionate.
Loading ...McGarity has listened politely, but it doesn’t sound as if it’s something that is going to happen any time soon.
“What I’ve told people is we’ll consider it at the right time, but the right time is not right now,” McGarity said. “You basically have to have an institutional philosophy on something like that for every sport and how the university handles such things in general.”
Generally, UGA hasn’t been big on statues. Just last fall it erected a statue of Abraham Baldwin, the university’s founding father, on North Campus. There’s a life-size bronze sculpture of benefactor Bernard Ramsey sitting on a bench, also on North Campus. As for athletics, a statue of former coach and athletic director Vince Dooley was unveiled on the corner of South Campus in 2008. And that came only after considerable public debate and private fundraising.
Otherwise, there are only busts of Dr. Steadman Sanford, Dan Magill and Frank Foley in front of the respective athletics facilities bearing their names.
“Very rarely has there been individual recognition on this campus or in our facilities,” McGarity said. “That’s something you have to be very careful about how you approach it. Once you start you better have a plan to be inclusive.”
Saye appears to have gotten the message. He and his cohort Jimmy Taylor softened their “call to revolution” approach when they updated the status of the Facebook page late Thursday night.
“Thanks so much for everyone’s support of this idea! We have definitely gotten a lot people’s attention!
“This effort has exceeded all of our expectations and is going strong. When we started on Saturday, we didn’t know what we didn’t know. Lots of things are now coming into view and becoming clear as we move forward.
“At this stage, we ask for your continued support and patience, as we navigate the proper channels within the various UGA organizations that we will need to partner with to bring this project to fruition. Please also keep in mind, as we have learned, that we are looking at at least a one-year timeline for the design and construction of the statue!
“The bottom-line is that we started this in good faith with the goal of honoring our greatest player with a permanent tribute and a charitable foundation that will continue to contribute positively to the community. We move forward with these goals still in place and the resolve to work within the system to achieve this mission.
“Thank you again for your support. More to come as we work the process!”
But what got Saye – and subsequently other Georgia fans – motivated about the starting the “Herschel Project” in the first place was seeing how many other football players at other schools had statues. There’s Doug Flutie at Boston College, Ricky Williams at Texas and Johnny Unitas at Louisville, just to name a few. Last April, Florida unveiled statues of Steve Spurrier, Danny Wuerffel and Tim Tebow, its three Heisman Trophy winners. And Auburn is building monuments to Bo Jackson, Pat Sullivan and Bo Jackson this year.
Even Walker seems to like the idea. Though he couldn’t be reached for comment, he sent out this tweet via Twitter on Thursday: “Hey UGA Fans.Thanks for your support on the ‘Herschel Walker Statue Project’ page on Facebook!! Totally honored!!”
But McGarity said that Georgia can’t be influenced by what others are doing.
“It’s more or less a philosophical approach that the athletic association and the institution must have and I’m not even aware of what the policies are,” McGarity said. “Is this something we would consider for the future? I don’t know. We haven’t really talked about it. I don’t want to be disrespectful but that’s not a priority for us right now and it just opens the door to so many other things.
“Right now it’s just not on our radar.”
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Snoop Dawg
March 16th, 2012
12:48 pm
McGarrity is so full of BS it’s coming out his ears. He’d rather give all the money from the fan base to a loser like Markt Wrecked. That, my friends, is the state of UGA athletics today. A bunch of losers lining their own pockets…
H. Walker
March 16th, 2012
12:48 pm
Make the statue a reality! We dont need to consider other sports. UGA is a football school and football pays the bills. McGarity is not enthused by the idea because he is not a true georgia fan at heart. Herschel is UGA football, the greatest to ever play at UGA. Make it a damn reality!
Snoop Dawg
March 16th, 2012
12:49 pm
Howdy Doody McCavity is now officially part of the problem… He shoulda stayed in Gainesville Florida with the other genetic mutants…
Jawja
March 16th, 2012
12:50 pm
Cam Newton was at Auburn for ONE SEMESTER. Think about it.
@DawgDayBlog
March 16th, 2012
12:52 pm
I think it’s a shame McGarity is taking the approach that he is. I feel Michael Adams wrote his response for him, and we all know Adams cannot stand the fact that his University is a football school.
I see absolutely ZERO negative spins anybody can make on erecting statue of Herschel somewhere around the stadium.
Herschel, as well as the football program, has made more than enough money for the university to allow a few thousand dollars delegated to appreciation.
Go Dawgs!!
Jawja
March 16th, 2012
12:57 pm
Yall are dumb. “McGarity isn’t a true georgia fan at heart…” Really, Einsteins? He grew up in Athens, graduated from UGA, played tennis under legendary coach Dan Magill, and left a “dream job” in Gainesville to return HOME. I’m pretty sure the guy bleeds red and black.
@DawgDayBlog
March 16th, 2012
1:01 pm
Further thinking,
If a funding for a Herschel statue were approved, and some other former swimmer, basketball player, gymnast, equestrian rider, etc., decided to raise their voice and say
“that’s not fair Herschel gets one but not me”……
That would be the quickest way to lose the love from the huge, undying fanbase of UGA.
NOBODY has done more for UGA athletics than Herschel, and NOBODY is more deserving of enshrinement in bronze than he. Enough with the “everybody deserves a ribbon if one person gets a ribbon” mentality, McGarity. You’re making it obvious who cried in school when they didn’t get a juice box in their lunch like the kid next to you.
The Goat
March 16th, 2012
1:02 pm
Herschel is one of the most famous Dawgs out there and is the original college football posterchild across the nation. The dude is a legend. I’m all for erecting statues of any of our legendary softball, equestrian, or women’s volleyball players as soon as they’re household names. Until then… put up a Herschel statue!
This is much less political than McGarity wants to make it, which is disheartening to me–I like the guy but this is a dumb statement.
ole dawg
March 16th, 2012
1:08 pm
Woooo lunatic fringe!!! Mcgarity has not said that Herschel will never get a statue. He simply says things have to go through proper chanels. He is running a big business and you do not make knee jerk decisions. The last time this country did that it netted us Obama!!!
DecDawg
March 16th, 2012
1:08 pm
At the moment McGarity in all honesty is making the right play. Why get into now. Until the fan base rallies enough support (squeaky wheel) there’s not enough to it to make this call. SO if you really care get off your rear ends and do something about it!
Harleydawg
March 16th, 2012
1:09 pm
I think McGarity is correct. Not only is Herschel worthy of the salute, but so is Larry Munson, Dominique Wilkins, Suzanne Yoculan, and Dan Magill. How about Erk, Theron Sapp, Sinkwich, and Trippi? I would truly love to see all of these legends honored with statues.
Atticus
March 16th, 2012
1:10 pm
McGarity is a Buldog and has accomplished much but he is so full of it here, what a politically correct load of crap. Nobody in the history of UGA has had even 5% the impact that Herschel had. Its the same problem over and over, its Mike Adams!
DecDawg
March 16th, 2012
1:11 pm
Having said that the policy for football should clearly be only for Heisman Trophy winners and national championship coaches. Similar policy in other sports to be erected in/near their facilities. This is a no brainer.
Top Row Dog
March 16th, 2012
1:14 pm
I would like to see a sidewalk with handprints and signatures of famous UGA players and alum, like at the Denny Chimes at Bama or the Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Make it an event every time someone honored. Best to hurry before some of our heroes pass.
Always liked that part of the Bama campus, seeing Bart Starr – Danny Ford – Joe Namath – Kenny Stabler – Ozzie Newsome.
We got enough to honor Butler Trippi Walker Pollock Hearst Wilkins, etc.
I think the qualifying factor at Bama is All Amercian status.
Perhaps a star walk of fame in downtown Athens like at Auburn.
@DawgDayBlog
March 16th, 2012
1:15 pm
What about delegating an acre or even two somewhere on the beautiful campus as a “monument grove” of some type. Start erecting statues for ALL the people some of the comments mention, which seems to be what McGarity has in mind.
This area would certainly be a must see for people when they visit Athens for a football game or other events.
There is plenty of room, and we all know there is plenty of $$$$.
Ball is in your court McGarity…….. play!!
@DawgDayBlog
March 16th, 2012
1:17 pm
I like that idea a lot, Top Row Dog.
Either downtown, or what about the sidewalk leading up to and crossing the Sanford Bridge??
Dap01
March 16th, 2012
1:19 pm
I am a huge UGA fan. I am a Herschel Walker fan. Who ever said that the statue is not important is an idiot.
Who do you want, Adams? Bobo for his play calling, CMR for his loyalty to bad employees?
mack
March 16th, 2012
1:24 pm
I do not understand why UGA has not asked him or hired him to be a part of the football staff. Among all his positive attributes he would bring to the team, character and discipline would be at the top of the list, something the team has been lacking in for years.
markie mark
March 16th, 2012
1:29 pm
so……..put it on the damn radar, willya?
Triple Lindy
March 16th, 2012
1:29 pm
If an individual donor wants to pay for it, sure, I’d be all for it. Part of me would love to see an Erk Russell statue, maybe head-butting a uniformed player.
UGA Insider
March 16th, 2012
1:30 pm
Mike Adams does not like to be told what to do….Especially with your money.
Dawg Fud
March 16th, 2012
1:35 pm
Rob Saye for President!
jasont
March 16th, 2012
1:35 pm
Mack what makes you so sure Herschel has not been approached? Matter of fact he has been approached and unfortunately has many business interest that keeps his time occupied.
Why?
March 16th, 2012
1:36 pm
Why does the UGA campus need a statue of Walker? How about a statue to some academic stars or how about rolling that money into some of the cancer research done at the university?
Burdell
March 16th, 2012
1:39 pm
They could put a few in the library as urinals…
Why?
March 16th, 2012
1:40 pm
These types of vanity projects don’t really help the university that much. With the cuts to faculty and research, the kind of money spent on a statue could go a long way to helping the, I dunno, university.
Chip Towers
March 16th, 2012
1:40 pm
Triple Lindy: A statue of Erk Russell is currently being created by Athens artist Stan Mullins to be erected at Georgia Southern.
DAWG COLONEL
March 16th, 2012
1:43 pm
There are ample sidewalks on campus that could be easily converted to a “Dawg Walk Of Fame” or something like that………..take Sanford Rd as an example.
Statues of prominent GA Athletes, Scholars, Alumni, and Nationally acomplished Citizens could be erected every 25 yards. All it takes is a little imagnation and some $$$……….both of which are readily available at UGA.
Rob Saye - The Herschel Walker Statue Project
March 16th, 2012
1:46 pm
Wow! This is really overwhelming! One thing that is getting lost in the shuffle here is the charitable foundation that we want to build in conjunction with the statue. That is the part that Herschel really got excited about when we hooked up with him earlier this week. The permanent tribute in bronze is awesome, but the possibilities of a philanthropic effort in his honor has lasting potential to help people who are less fortunate for many years to come!
Superzoro
March 16th, 2012
1:46 pm
With all due respect to every player every to wear silver britches, there is only one player from UGA voted the “best college football player of all time”. Herschel Walker deserves his own wing at Butts-Mehre.
AltamahaDawg
March 16th, 2012
1:47 pm
Really, Dr. Adams doesn’t let blogers tell him what to do with the University finances? No kidding.
ozzfest
March 16th, 2012
1:47 pm
…of course this is not a priority….Greg McGarity is busy looking up the phone numbers for
Bethune-Cookman, Howard University, Davidson, and UMass….
…after all, we have a non-conference football schedule to fill.
RevDawg
March 16th, 2012
1:49 pm
I’m all for a Herschel tribute, but we need to have something unique to UGA. I see people mention Bama, Auburn, etc. Heck, the idea originally came from seeing other statues made at other schools. We need to do something original, something unique! Maybe a walk showcasing the bronzed versions of our All-Americans’ jerseys where the Dawg Walk is…
NCDawgs Fan
March 16th, 2012
1:53 pm
It is nice to know that idiots like “Snoop Dawg” are in the minority when it comes to the feelings of Bulldog supporters. Put a statue of Uncle Vince and Herschel side by side. Let each venue have a statue, placque or bust of the most significant people of that sport. Funding will always be an issue. There is no timetable for completion…just the desire to see it completed.
Cuz
March 16th, 2012
1:53 pm
Next a statue of Courtney Kupets in front of Stegeman.
Really, I am not for anymore statues.
@DawgDayBlog
March 16th, 2012
1:54 pm
Rob Saye,
You are absolutely right about the philanthropic aspect many are overlooking. Unfortunately it sounds McGarity is among those over-lookers.
Whether it be a scholarship fund, an annual contribution to the Athens community, or recognition of outstanding contributors to the “Georgia Way”, as Mark Richt has coined, this aspect is vital to the project.
Whatever the philanthropic effort be, award trophy size versions of the statue to deserving recipients.
Tell us more about what you and your team had in mind in this area if you could…….
dayshift
March 16th, 2012
1:57 pm
ozzfest is right on, keep playing those Sisters of the Pitiful and all uga’s coaches and players will have statues going up in lieu of such athleticism to defeat these remarkable teams…just keep making sure bama and lsu are not on the schedule as well like you are currently doing..good job
kreedham
March 16th, 2012
1:57 pm
While Herschel is the greatest HarleyDawg is right……if you follow the Auburn route you at least have to include Sinkwich!
PrimeTimeJr
March 16th, 2012
1:57 pm
As usual, McGarity out of touch with what 80%+ of fans feel.
Guy needs to be fired.
Amen Ole Dawg!
March 16th, 2012
2:02 pm
Bullseye comment!
Kevin Weakley
March 16th, 2012
2:03 pm
# 34 is arguably the best College Football player to ever play the game. He has done a lot for UGA.. From what I have read this is more than just a statue and it makes good sense.. If they were to place a statue of Herschel at Sanford Stadium you would have to wait in line to get your picture made.. Great Job idea Mr Saye to bad some one that works for UGA did not think of it ..
Pago Pago DAWG
March 16th, 2012
2:03 pm
Can the DAWGS at least win a major bowl game first.!!!! This is sad…
Herschel Talker
March 16th, 2012
2:04 pm
There should be a statue outside Sanford Stadium for both Herschel Walker and Herschel Talker, the two greatest Bulldawgs ever.
RxDawg
March 16th, 2012
2:05 pm
Hmm… McGarity actually brings up a good point. I’m not so sure that pointint out certain individuals and “snubing” others is a great idea. At first glace this seems like a no brainer, but after hearing the other side I think I agree. I think it would be best to keep all of our student atheletes and their accomplishments on an equal footing.
And yeh, I know what other schools do, but they’re not Georgia. We are prestigous. We are royalty. We are Georgia.
PrimeTimeJr
March 16th, 2012
2:10 pm
Having a top 10 football or basketball team hasn’t been a priority for mcGarity either.
What are his priorities, besides collecting a big paycheck?
PrimeTimeJr
March 16th, 2012
2:12 pm
What 80% of fans want is not on McGarity’s radar?
Are fans not on his radar? Are fans not a priority?
Says it all. G McGarity, how in the world did he get the job and what has he accomplished yet?
KINGDAWG
March 16th, 2012
2:12 pm
Alright all you entitlement thinkers …..Once we start giving out statues then everyone will have to have one….even little Johnny who can’t even run up and down the field now gets a trophy today. Next thing you know we’ll have a statue for everyone including a walk-on.
PrimeTimeJr
March 16th, 2012
2:15 pm
Holy Cow!
Somebody needs to eduacate the Gator McGarity on Georgia history.
Herschel Walker is in his own league, and was voted the #1 college football athlete of all time by ESPN, Trippi didn’t make the list.
No statue for the #1 college player in college football history?
Really?
AltamahaDawg
March 16th, 2012
2:16 pm
For all of the feigned indignation in here, it seems most didn’t even take the time to understand the topic. Mr. Saye himself said the part he cared most about what the charitable foundation. That has nothing to do with Mcgarity or the UGAA. And it sounds like he was satisfied that perhaps statues are a bit more complicated than previously considered.
RxDawg
March 16th, 2012
2:18 pm
I nominate UGA resurecting a statue of me. They put it on every corner of every intersection throughout Athens. It shall show my accomplisments (won 3 games in flag football rec league). It shall bestow my academic awards (left school early to play pro flag football). There will be quotes from my many AJC comments that inspired other people to greatness. And there shall be armed gaurds 24/7 round the clock at each statue, and people will come by and make faces at them but the gaurds shall never break…NEVER BREAK.
Yes, I deserve that.
PrimeTimeJr
March 16th, 2012
2:19 pm
if statues are so “complicated”, why are so many other schools doing them?
DDPO
March 16th, 2012
2:19 pm
PrimeTimeJr:
McGarity graduated from the University of Georgia in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism. He was a letterman on the 1973 Bulldog tennis team and following graduation began his professional career at UGA. After serving as a student assistant from 1973-77, he held positions as assistant sports information director and head women’s tennis coach (1977-82), administrative assistant (1982-88), and assistant athletic director for facilities and event management (1988-92).
I think he’s a lot more invested in his alma mater than you could even possible dream of…
Jerk
Superzoro
March 16th, 2012
2:21 pm
Exactly, “THE GREATEST COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYER OF ALL TIME”
PrimeTimeJr
March 16th, 2012
2:22 pm
rEWARDING A GREAT PERFORMER, AND TEAM CHAMPION LIKE wALKER, IS “NOT A PRIORITY”, NOT ON “HIS RADAR”.
BUT REWARDING MARK RICHT WITH A 5 YEAR CONTRACT, WITHOUT A CHAMPIONSHIP IN A LONG, LONG TIME, AND WITHOUT BEATING A TOP 20 TEAM IN A LONG LONG TIME, IS MCGARITY’S PRIORITY.
EXPLAINS A LOT.
IGNORE SPUERIOR PERFORMANCE (WALKER IS #1 COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYER IN HISTORY), AND TEAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS LIKE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS.
REWARD MEDIOCRE PERFORMANCE.
FOOTBALL BRINGS IN THE MONEY, NOT GYM OR EQUESTRIAN.
Rob Saye - The Herschel Walker Statue Project
March 16th, 2012
2:23 pm
I would like to add that The Herschel Walker Statue Project absolutely respects the position that Mr. McGarity is taking on this issue at this time. As I said in the above statement, we are committed to work within the parameters and processes of the University of Georgia. Not against them!
It was not our intent to polarize the Bulldawg Nation. It was our intent to gauge the desire of the fan base to honor Herschel with a statue and a charitable foundation. In my eyes, the charitable foundation being the more important honor.
I ask that people please respect Mr. McGarity in your comments. I am sure that Herschel would express the same sentiments. We are all on the same team here folks!
Thanks, Rob
AltamahaDawg
March 16th, 2012
2:25 pm
Prime time, was Vince Dooley out of touch or needed to be fired? he was AD a lot longer than GM< and also didnt put up statues of anyone.
PrimeTimeJr
March 16th, 2012
2:26 pm
mcGarity isn’t on the same page with 80% of fans and sportswriters, who think Walker’s the best. to ever lace them up.
Guy is really out of touch.
John Whitley
March 16th, 2012
2:30 pm
Yet another school that is copying Alabama by doing statues. Bama started it years ago but now UGA and Auburn are jumping on the bandwagon. Bama has statues of all the coaches that have won a national championship at Bama but since UGA and Auburn only win one NC every 75 years it would be silly to do statues of coaches. At least Auburn has three Heisman winners. UGA has one and won’t have any more for a long time and they definetly won’t have a NC.
From Abraham Baldwin to Herschel Walker | Get The Picture
March 16th, 2012
2:40 pm
[...] If I’m doing the math correctly, we can expect the University to erect a statue honoring its greatest football player around 2208. [...]
12-0 idolatry
March 16th, 2012
2:42 pm
another graven image …
… “just runnin over people” …
Biff Pacaroba Fan Club
March 16th, 2012
2:45 pm
Who cares about statues. They are just chunks of rock chipped away and placed on campus. Get real people.
Focus on something important like why does Richt get top 10 recruiting classes every year but still is overmatched by Alabama, Auburn, LSU, South Carolina, and Arkansas?
AltamahaDawg
March 16th, 2012
2:47 pm
I guess the tatoo of Herschel’s cleat on Bill Bates chest is not enough?
12-0 idolatry
March 16th, 2012
2:50 pm
That ERK RUSSELL defense
deserves a little credit.
AltamahaDawg
March 16th, 2012
2:53 pm
On a lighter and related note: Freelance Photographer sounds like a pretty good gig.
SS Dog
March 16th, 2012
2:54 pm
Florida can put is a Tebow statue because it doubles as a fountain….the crying little boy….
Ted Striker
March 16th, 2012
2:57 pm
Do it. Make it happen. As a Clarke County resident I know how much (tax free) property UGA possesses.
If someone is willing to pay for the statue, bring it to fruition. I’ll pay 99%. Someone else kick in 1% and we’re there.
PrimeTimeJr
March 16th, 2012
3:18 pm
Something tells me McGarity is spending WAY too much time on other sports than Football and Basketbll to try and win a National Championship.
His priorities should be:
1) Finish top 10 football team every year with this much talent
2)see above
PrimeTimeJr
March 16th, 2012
3:20 pm
Other top priority:
wow the fans. give them what they want.
or get fired.
No One
March 16th, 2012
3:37 pm
I’d like to see statues of some of our more distinguished faculty members and alumnus erected as well. Folks like Hugh Kenner, Charles Beckworth, Cynthia Kenyon among countless others.
Go Dawgs!
The Nerve
March 16th, 2012
3:40 pm
He brought the only NC in school history. Georgia needs to get its priorities straight. They wouldn’t have had one without him..
In case you forgot…
Hershel to the right.
Hershel to the left.
Hershel up the middle.
Repeat
rivercard
March 16th, 2012
3:52 pm
Simple- any other sports that have more than 50,000 people show up for a game get to join the statue program.
McG is a typical tennis twit. Although dawg fans have to love his out of conference Pop Warner scheduling philosophy.
SEC Fans for Richt
March 16th, 2012
3:57 pm
Which Herschel would they use ?
gdawginkalamazoo
March 16th, 2012
4:20 pm
I though we had one in 1942 with Frank Sinkwich picking up the Heisman that year but I could be wrong.
I do think Mr Saye needs to focus on a Mike Adams statue on our Costa Rica campus first. He would probably be amazed at how the easy the Herschel statue would be. Honor thy University President first!
Jiggy Smaha
March 16th, 2012
4:22 pm
There is NO player in ANY sport at the University of Georgia who APPROACHES the contribution of Herschel Junior Walker. It would be awful to actually recognize someone for his contribution. We wouldn’t want to wind up like Alabama who has statutes of National Championship coaches all over their stadium’s plaza. We’d much rather wallow in mediocrity and pretend that gymnastics is just as relevent as football.
jvillebil
March 16th, 2012
4:28 pm
So do you think if they would have errected a statue of Herschel without asking the fans, there would have been an uproar? Yeah right like some true Dawg supporter and fan is going to say, “What did he do to deserve that?” Does anyone know how many #34 jersey’s were sold that benefited UGA? Greatest college running back ever, if he would have played his senior year he would have been untouchable as the greatest football player to ever play the game.
For the guy that made the smart comment about Tebow, well he is to UF as to what Herschel was/is to UGA. He’s a class act, did more things behind the scenes than people will ever know.
We have a kid in our church that was in the hospital battling luekemia. Tim’s senior year he never said a word to anyone, but went to the hospital and sat in the boys room 3 hours, even stated there while he slept. When the boys parents walked in they about fell out, didn’t know he was coming. Yet not one word was ever mentioned about it, he slipped out as quietly as he came, late on a Friday night.
jvillebil
March 16th, 2012
4:31 pm
gdawginkalamazoo your are correct, he did win it in 1942
Jiggy Smaha
March 16th, 2012
4:32 pm
SEC Fans for Richt
Which Herschel would they use ?
The one that was 32-1 over three regular seasons and gained more than 500 yards against Florida, 500 yards against Tech and 500 yards against Auburn.
beanster
March 16th, 2012
4:34 pm
“We are all on the same team here folks!”
Man I wish more Dawg fans would recognize this fact.
Johnny DangerDawg
March 16th, 2012
4:42 pm
I see McGarity’s point about the domino effect. UGA has had plenty of great players and coaches in other sports, and fans are always going to to complain that someone who deserves recognition is being left out.
But let’s not wait 100 years to put up the Herschel statue. Let’s get that statue erected while Herschel is alive and well and able to come to the dedication ceremony. Unlike some other people who deserve a statue, Herschel is so popular that funds for his statue could be raised privately in a single day.
SEC Fans for Richt
March 16th, 2012
4:52 pm
Thanks for the clarification. I thought it might have been the one that cries during Lifetime Network movies.
Delbert D.
March 16th, 2012
5:01 pm
A restored Trans Am would be nice. Cheaper, too.
Dap01
March 16th, 2012
6:20 pm
If Bobo was OC when Herschel played he would not have run him but 6 or seven times instead he would have run Connie Norris up the middle instead.
Doggoneit
March 16th, 2012
6:26 pm
McGarity is secretlly still a Florida fan! Enough said!
RedandBlackDAWG
March 16th, 2012
6:30 pm
There’s room on the campus. Build a sports hall of fame and include all of the greats, regardless of the sport they were in. They all represented the UGA, and honored it with their athletic prowess. I may not watch some or most of the minor sports, but the top athletes, no matter the sport, should be remembered and honored at UGA.
GO DAWGS and GATA
Coastal Dog SSI
March 16th, 2012
7:58 pm
If no Herschel, then no Dooley statue.
Matt
March 16th, 2012
8:06 pm
Herschel’s statue would benefit the school, charitable causes and the fans.
I understand there have been many great athletes at UGA and someday maybe they will get a statue, but you can’t use the excuse they should all get statues or none should get statues. Lets get one great statue that benefits many people and then work towards the next statue.
Disgusted
March 16th, 2012
8:22 pm
Those idiots would rather have a statute for the dam sorry dog Micheal Adams than Herschel.
Why Adams is around is beyone belief, he has done nothing for this university. A POS.
It will be a great day in UGA history once Adams is gone.
MJD
March 16th, 2012
8:33 pm
Okay McGarity…how many athletes did Howard Cosell come to Athens to interview??? How many UGA athletes graced the cover of Sports Illustrated?….. How many athletes are universally regarded as the best of all time?…How many athletes are recognized by their first name and everyone knows who they are? …How many UGA athletes made the Olympics ..in multiple sports??….. How many UGA athletes are still competing in a sport at the age of 51 and winning??….and McGarity..it’s about time you showed your loyalty is truly with UGA versus the evil empire in Gainesville …..
LakeDawg
March 16th, 2012
8:37 pm
I can understand the institutional angle McGarity mentions and that its something that needs to be discussed to arrive at an institutional philosophy. However, McGarity isn’t even going to do that. He’s basically saying “blow it out of your rear.” Its not going to be considered.The only statue that has a chance is one of Adams. He has to be the top dog. Hell, Adams did all he could do to prevent Dooly’s statue.
Disgusted
March 16th, 2012
8:42 pm
Mc Garity and Adams are arrogant schmucks who could care less about the people of Georgia or this football program.
Almost no one cares about geek sports like Tennis and gymnastics.
ugalee
March 16th, 2012
9:01 pm
I think we should hire a chinese sculptor to make a statue of herschel in white granite. Lets make sure he depicts him w folded arms and an arrogant scowl on his face. Oh and dont forget to inscribe a quote that makes him look like an a-hole! Then, when all the people who demanded the statue are up in arms over the result, those of us who thought the whole thing was a waste of time in the first place can giggle hysterically
MJD
March 16th, 2012
9:07 pm
ugalee = tech fan with
Really???
March 16th, 2012
9:30 pm
Okay folks, somebody please tell me names of UGA athletes from other sports who deserve a statue as much as Herschel. Let me think about this for a second…….um, I can’t think of any, but if I do I’ll let y’all know. In the meantime, build the dadgum statue! Geez.
bobwhite
March 16th, 2012
9:43 pm
Ugalee, that is hilarious. Hardest ive laughed in forever. Some great satire.
Hap Hines
March 16th, 2012
9:45 pm
Did the man GRADUATE from Georgia? I sorta remember something about the New Jersey Generals and alot of money. Come on people.
bitter dawgs fan
March 16th, 2012
10:00 pm
to all moonpies go to youtube and watch hershal run——————-greatest ever!!!!!
———————————————-UGA’S #34—————there goes hershall
——————-50 years old and still runs a 4.4/40——-enough said
bitter dawgs fan
March 16th, 2012
10:06 pm
@ugalee——troll do you have a small pe_nis=========trailer trash
coachx
March 16th, 2012
10:09 pm
McGarity needs to give up on the politically correct BS.
The 14 other sports don’t bring in any money at all. Football is the money makers that allows all the other sports ot be funded.
Why not make a statue for Trippi, Walker, and Sinkwich ? The football teams brings in more then enough money for that.
coachx
March 16th, 2012
10:10 pm
McGarity is losing for face for the 1sst time among UGA supporters.
You don’t tread on Herschel buddy !
Swamp Dawg (JEG)
March 16th, 2012
10:28 pm
What is the big deal with statues? If the other sports want to erect statues to honor athletes from their respective sports at their venues, I say bravo! Go out raise the $$$ privately and get to it. If the football faithful from the Bulldog Nation want to honor Herschel, Sinkwich, Tarkenton, Tripi, etc. If baseball wants to erect one for Chris Carpenter, cool, DO IT! Tennis wants to erect one of John Isner, more power to them, DO IT! If the groups can put the funding together then BADABING, DO IT! AND when they do, the admninistration at UGA should find a nice plot of ground at THE VENUE to let them, not push it off to a seemimgly unrelated area like was done with Coach Dooley (His should have been at the stadium, period). Herschel IS THE most recognized running back in college football, THAT is why he should be first, period.
And when the funds are raised privately, the ground is identified, the statue created, and made ready for the unveiling ceremony, THEN the administration should stay in their respective offices and stay completely away from the ceremony because all they have done is found a small piece of ground. Each and every sport should have the opportunity to recognize their honored athletes and THAT my beloved dawg friends should be the University of Georgia’s Policy on Statues at sporting venues. Now, when they (the administration of UGA – Adams, McGarity, et al.) finally decide it makes good public policy to attend to the wishes of the students and alumni of UGA, the fans of ALL UGA athletic pursuits, and the citizens of Georgia whose tax money goes to the budget of UGA; then they can find away to do a bit more than just find a small plot of ground on which for the BULLDOG Faithful to erect deserving monuments to these athletes who have so greatly honored the beloved University of Georgia. AND while we are at it lets not forget those non-athletic personalities like Lewis Grizzard (a UGA Alumnus) and Larry Munson (while not a UGA Alumnus, THE VOICE of the Bulldogs). WOOF, WOOF, Woof!!!!!!
modicum
March 16th, 2012
10:32 pm
walker is the greatest player in ga history—the university needs to build a statue for him asap, no matter what the cost–they have plenty of money to pay for it. mcgarity needs to get it done or hit the road!
Captain
March 16th, 2012
11:56 pm
Not to question AD Greg McGarity but don’t we have the “Ring of Honor” which inducts athletes from all sports? Honestly, it shouldn’t be difficult. Limit it to Heisman Winners, erect the statues along the area inside Sanford where the Olympics wall is. That’s two statues.
Stevefor UGA
March 17th, 2012
12:07 am
Herschel Walker is not just an icon for Georgia football but is probably the greatest player in College Football history. Not just Georgia history. ESPN ranked him as the number one running back in history. Georgia is a football school. If anybody of another sport has a complaint about putting up a statue for the greatest player in football history, then it’s time to quit being politically correct and just tell them “tough”. That’s what Alabama, Auburn, Florida, and others did. McGarity, you need to quit worrying about being politically correct and do what is right.
Hammerhead
March 17th, 2012
12:50 am
Idolatry.
Billy Bob
March 17th, 2012
1:12 am
Come On, Dawgs!!! Get that statue up so all us hero worshipers can keep living in 1980!!!
Thomas Brown,"trust me i’m not satisfied”
March 17th, 2012
2:06 am
Greg McGarity was a Tennis Player, and not a good one at that – so, what did you expect him to say about the Football School The University of Georgia and our hero ?
Named repeatedly as the # 1 Football Player All-Time in College Football, we have to consider Tennis Players and who gets a Statue ?
Erk Russell gets a Statue at Georgia Southern University and deservedly so.
Maybe if we included Mark Richt, some of the vocal MINORITY with 50 posters posting OTHERWISE that Mark Richt is NOT GREAT on the last blog by Chip Towers, would wake up and see just how Georgia has done against
-ranked teams at time of game
-ranked teams at end of season
at sites such as CBS SPORTS
and sites such as COLLEGE FOOTBALL
where records are kept both
-by where opponent ranked End of Season
-by where opponent ranked Time of Game
Mark Richt Statue would have NO HOPE.
There are certainly others, Charley Trippi obviously not only for his Life in Football here representing us, but also for his Life in Baseball here representing us.
Aaron Murray, even now that he has CLOSED HIS TWITTER ACCOUNT, would have NO HOPE.
Isaiah Crowell would have NO HOPE.
So, Greg McGarity does not want to allow all these people on Facebook who have already funded Herschel Walker a Statue to do so. That should not surprise anyone, given that all of December, January, February and now March he cannot get
MARK RICHT TO SIGN his NEW CONTRACT with all the clauses about how much LESS Mark Richt would be paid if Greg McGarity FIRES him and how much MORE the buyout would be if Mark Richt left to the only job offered to him so far Texas A and M.
“Stats are only kept for Time of Game rankings; they are not kept for how Mark Richt has done against teams at End of Season.” Really what is this then ?
http://www.cfbstats.com/2011/team/257/index.html
Thomas Brown,"trust me i’m not satisfied”
March 17th, 2012
2:07 am
And, what is this one too then ?
http://www.cfbtrivia.com/cfbt_detail.php?teamname=Georgia&fry=2011&thy=2011&spl=on&cres=3&jpl=on&sortby=Year
0-4 vs ranked teams at BOTH of these sites, for example.
Thomas Brown,"trust me i’m not satisfied”
March 17th, 2012
2:34 am
7576DAWG March 16th, 2012 2:40 pm
“I think all McGarity was looking for was in 2011 was Georgia to show improvement in our players and coaching Yes we lost 4 games and should have won at least two of those games Georgia did not lose any games that we were suppose to win like a lot of teams did and we were in all the games we lost . All McGarity wants is for us to show improvement and for us to do that in 2012 not only will we be expected to win the games that we are suppose to win but THIS year we will be expected to win the hard games that we are not favored to win. Also if we win the East the only way we can improve from last year is to beat all the teams ourselves and not back into the championship. Of course all of us want Georgia to win but the question will be how did we stack up against other teams to finish with the record we got at the end of the season and how did we look getting to that record.”
How did we improve losing all 4 games against teams ranked in any published poll for 2011 ? We lost every one of those games in 2010 too. 0-4 in 2011 and 0-5 in 2010. Improvement ?
First you say, we lost 4 games and should have won some of those games.
Then, very next sentence you say, we did not lose any games that we were supposed to have won.
?
Which is it
7576DAWG ?
Make up your mind already, sir.
“BACK INTO THE SEC EAST CHAMPIONSHIP”
That’s not a NEGATIVE POST ?
It sure as heck is.
Then, your final statement today is that the real
QUESTION is how did we stack up with the other teams with the same record as us at the end of the season. Again, this is a NEGATIVE COMMENT too 7576DAWG. Obviously, you are referencing the fact that we ended up 10-4 in 2011 and that there were Twenty-Seven (27) other teams with 10-Win Seasons 2011 as well. How did we stack up with the other 27 teams with 10-Win Seasons 2011 ? We beat none of the 27 teams with 10-Win Seasons. We beat none of the 36 teams with 9-Win Seasons. We beat 2 of the 48 teams with 8-Win Seasons. Of the 27 teams with 10-Win Seasons, we had the VERY WORST NUMBER OF LOSSES WITH FOUR (4) including all 4 of the teams who ended the season ranked.
7576DAWG, how is it that you authored a post to this blog here today for the 1st time in your lifetime, NOT CRITICIZING AARON MURRAY ? Would you support building Aaron Murray at STATUE ?
Thomas Brown,"trust me i’m not satisfied”
March 17th, 2012
3:02 am
WDE March 16th, 2012 3:12 pm
“@SC Fan Sorry I was sure we were SEC East Champs this year…looking up at who again?”
_____________________________________________________
Looking up at Whom Again ?
42-45 at our Home USCe Won
Only Published Polls for 2011 Season :
# 9 South Carolina
# 19 Mark Richt
Uh, we looked UP to South Carolina 2011 WDE, sorry to be the bearer of the Truth to you on that, sir. In fact, Mark Richt ended up # 5 in every single solitary poll for 2011 of just SEC teams, so not only do we look up to South Carolina Again in 2011, but in fact, we are only the # 5 team in The SEC.
Surely, you didn’t really need us to explain to this to you, did you
WDE
?
Thomas Brown,"trust me i’m not satisfied”
March 17th, 2012
3:08 am
PT March 16th, 2012 4:28 pm
“I just don’t see why a contract extention was needed until after the end of the season.”
______________________________________________________
That is an EXCELLENT POINT, PT. Why do we need a new contract NOW 17 March 2012, until the season is OVER and we can see if the 1st time since 2009 if we can beat a team who ENDS the season a ranked team, like COLLEGE FOOTBALL and CBS SPORTS keeps records of, for example ?
________________
DING DING DING DING – POST OF THE DAY AWARD : PT
Dawgx2
March 17th, 2012
3:32 am
McGarity is a complete idiot. I have talked with him and he has no vision and is not qualified to run a high school athletic department. Does being assistant ticket manager qualify you for being athletic director. UGA’s athletic department is run horribly, lots of easy money makes a lot of problems go away. It does not mean it’s well run. If it was well run we would have national championships in football and basketball, and we would spend the money to make our facilities the best in the nation and add sports that will add prestige to the university (like lacrosse). In short, he’s and idiot and this is just one more example.
CaliDawg
March 17th, 2012
4:39 am
Gotta support the statue. Herschel left early, but came back and graduated from UGA – that has to be a condition for any former UGA student-athlete’s statue.
ManoDog
March 17th, 2012
5:48 am
mcgarity doesn’t have a clue about running the ath dept–he needs to go back to florida. Get someone good and build the statue right away!
Thomas Brown,"trust me i’m not satisfied”
March 17th, 2012
6:39 am
8-14 is Mark Richt’s record
TIME OF GAME
vs ranked teams time of game after 2007
8-14 is supposed to be what, exactly ?
2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 :
8-14 vs opponent ranked top 25 time of game
By the way, Mark Richt is 19-30 vs teams who are top 25
End of Season
19-30 all 11 years Mark Richt
It doesn’t matter how you calculate it, Mark Richt is
MEDIOCRE vs the top teams
Mark Richt 2008 2009 2010 and 2011 vs End Season Ranked top 25 :
2-15 vs opponents top 25 end of season after 2007
Either way you figure it,
MARK RICHT CANNOT BEAT THE TOP TEAMS
can he ?
http://www.cfbtrivia.com/cfbt_detail.php?teamname=Georgia&fry=2009&thy=2009&spl=on&cres=3&jpl=on&sortby=Year
You can replace any year 2001 through 2011 in this URL Link, have to change year twice each URL Link and see it for every year 2001 through 2011, and you see it for
BOTH
TIME OF GAME
END OF SEASON
ranked top 25.
I thought you said it was ONLY kept TIME OF GAME ?
PROVIDES BOTH.
smyrnabob
March 17th, 2012
6:52 am
Why would the A.D. want to remind fans of a time when UGA won multiple SEC and a National Championship? The bar so much lower and easier now.
onegadawg
March 17th, 2012
7:39 am
everyone is a winner….everyone should make the team….let’s not give F’s because no student is a failure….some are just more fortunate and lucky than other’s…..GIVE ME A BREAK
McGarity, This is UGA! This is Herschel Walker! This is not little league baseball! Whose feelings are you afraid of hurting and who cares? Grow some @#$% man! Football pays your and their salary!
andy harrison
March 17th, 2012
7:49 am
.Thanks to Rob for getting this idea going . I think the idea of a statue is great but done in the right time and the class that UGA has. SOme of the people that have statues at other schools have not been the type of quality person that Hershel has been. True he is the icon of UGA football history, but lets take the time and do it right. I am sure Mr. McGarity will see to that, by the way he is also a UGA alum for those who forgot
SuperB
March 17th, 2012
7:51 am
“Jawja” is 100% correct: Greg McGarity IS Georgia athletics. I worked with him for Coach Magill. He is from Athens, earned a letter in tennis, and is red and black through and through. There is NO ONE who is more “Georgia” than Coach Magill’s prodigy. We all love the Dawgs– and no one more than Greg! With that I say: Build the statues.
Old Dawg
March 17th, 2012
8:06 am
Chip. it’s interesting about a second statue for Erk in Statesboro. There’s already a bronze bust of the “Bald Eagle” a the stadium and players rub his head as they run onto the field, much like Howard’s Rock and Clemson.
That said, if any former UGA athlete deserve a stature, it’s Herschel.
Drew
March 17th, 2012
8:15 am
Yeh but it’s Herschel walker… Greatest college running back ever.
Jborodawg
March 17th, 2012
8:28 am
Frank Sinkwich won the Heisman first, so shouldn’t he should get a statue first? And, as Rob Saye has pointed out a couple times, the Herschel thing is more than just a statue, it also involves a charitable foundation.
All these negative comments about McGarity just because he didn’t immediately start building a statue is ludicrous. As is bringing up CMR’s record against winning teams for the umpteenth time in a totally unrelated blog.
Instead of bad-mouthing McGarity, send in your $34.
Beast from the East
March 17th, 2012
8:42 am
I’d be willing to get that over half of the morons blasting McGarity have never even stepped foot on campus or entered the stadium. Why don’t you just carve your own Hershel statue out of that dead pine tree in front of your trailer.
G. Tanner
March 17th, 2012
8:45 am
Are the two Bo Jackson statues one for football and one for baseball?
GT
March 17th, 2012
8:51 am
Georgia seems to try hard to escape the Dooley years like it was something horrible. They didn’t want to build a statue for Vince a few years ago and now they don’t want to honor the greatest college football player I’ve ever seen. People forget even Herschel Walkers if you don’t remind them. There will be a day that a recruit tours the UGA campus unaware that they were anything above an also run in the SEC conference. Maybe that is what McGarity wants so he doesn’t have the pressure of the past to compete with. As far as other athletes, what other athletes from other sports? Hershel Walker probably sold enough tickets at Tech, playing in Grant Field, to pay for a statue, more less Georgia. The man made the school more money that any athlete before or since, so forget about Frank Sinkwich and Charley Trippi, Walker and Dooley built the place . I am sure part of McGarity paycheck this very day is a contribution of the Walker legacy. He and Dooley and Erk Russel put the place on the map, and as a college football lover it was a pleasure to see the sport played right. Everything else coming out of McGarity’s mouth about other athletes is a insult. No school anywhere has a better athlete than Herschel Walker and this is from a Yellow Jackets so take it to the bank. I think they should name the school Walker University because a huge amount of it was paid for, from the good clean attention this man bought it.
Bull Meacham
March 17th, 2012
9:11 am
Yes, every day that goes by McGarity looks worse. How many national championships did we win before Herschel? He is in a league by himself and deserves a statue. Nobody else.
bingdon
March 17th, 2012
9:21 am
Hershal Walker has been for the most part invisible since the day he left campus, at least publicly.
Why in the world would you waste money building something like that. He doesn’t deserve it. I was there when he was and he was great, but this idea is something cooked in a jockstrap which in my opinion stinks.
flo-ri-duh
March 17th, 2012
9:48 am
UGA is proud of Herschel Walker’s accomplishments and it is an attention getter when recruits visit the campus. Why do we always have to be PC and give statues to every minor sports star on a campus? This is basically a recruiting tool showing the tradition and success of the school. I do think a school should wait until the player or coach is retired or no longer on campus. Placing a statue of a current player or coach appears to b an ego trip.
flo-ri-duh
March 17th, 2012
9:51 am
Pee Wee Pete – I was at UGA when Herschel had his Trans Am. I don’t know who financed it but it definitely wasn’t new – about 6 years old as I recall.
Why is Bo Jackson getting two statues at Auburn?
March 17th, 2012
9:53 am
“Auburn is building monuments to Bo Jackson, Pat Sullivan and Bo Jackson this year.” But, this is typical of Chip’s attention to detail…
Reality Check
March 17th, 2012
10:50 am
This is an ABSOLUTE JOKE. Seriously? Georgia football IS Herschel Walker. This is such politically correct nonsense it defies explanation. It’s okay to say that this is something that doesn’t happen overnight. But don’t act like there needs to be an equality between a statue for Herschel and statues for other “greats” or other sports.
Gimme a break.
Thomas Brown,"trust me i’m not satisfied”
March 17th, 2012
10:56 am
SuperB,
Greg McGarity was no good as a tennis player for us. Not one of our top tennis players, not even when he was playing, was he even one of the top tennis players for us any of those years.
Thomas Brown,"trust me i’m not satisfied”
March 17th, 2012
11:06 am
When he is
19-30 vs top 25 teams end-of-season all 11 years
no wonder you don’t want to talk about it.
http://www.cfbtrivia.com/cfbt_detail.php?teamname=Georgia&fry=2004&thy=2004&spl=on&cres=3&jpl=on&sortby=Year
Thomas Brown,"trust me i’m not satisfied”
March 17th, 2012
11:17 am
7-15 vs top 25 teams thru end 2007
2-15 vs top 25 teams since
9-30 vs top 25 teams entire 11 years
Mark Richt vs top 25 teams end of season
http://www.cfbtrivia.com/cfbt_detail.php?teamname=Georgia&fry=2009&thy=2009&spl=on&cres=3&jpl=on&sortby=Year
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 17th, 2012
11:38 am
Here is another site showing Mark Richt
19-30 vs top 25 end season all 11 years
http://www.cfbstats.com/2009/team/257/index.html
Paul in NH
March 17th, 2012
11:40 am
UGA should put up a statue of this guy
http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/statues/longstatue.htm
ga gator
March 17th, 2012
11:40 am
Did not read but just a few comments, but here is my take; Hershel Walker in my eyes is the greatest RB to ever play College Football and is in a tie with Tim Tebow as being the greatest College FB player in History. UGA has plenty of money to pay a designer and sculptor to have a statue of Hershel built. Don’t put it at Butts-Mehre with Vince, put it near the bridge overlooking the Stadium.
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 17th, 2012
11:41 am
And this site doesn’t even show what the teams were ranked at game time.
I mean what does it matter ?
2010 we were a ranked team.
We ended up 6-7 requiring us Dawg fans to go all the back to 1953, fifty-eight years back to find a team who lost more games than we did in 2010.
Should a team get a victory over a ranked team 2010 for beating us ?
http://www.cfbstats.com/2010/team/257/index.html
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 17th, 2012
11:43 am
Tim Tebow was the GPOE
Not the # 1 college football player of all-time.
The # 1 college football player of all-time is Herschel Walker.
Let’s put up a statue for Mark Richt
ga gator
March 17th, 2012
11:46 am
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012, I disagree; he and Hershel would tie as the greatest of all time.
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 17th, 2012
11:51 am
Tim Tebow was not the # 1 Quarterback in college football all-time
like Herschel Walker was at his position.
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 17th, 2012
11:54 am
Tim Tebow isn’t even going to be the quarterback for Denver Broncos
not if John Elway has his way, he won’t.
Which is why John Elway was at Duke University last night watching
Peyton Manning will be according to John Elway
and, according to
David Cutcliffe
I have grown tired of all this crapola about the GPOE
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 17th, 2012
11:55 am
Tim Tebow would not even make the list of the top 25 college quarterbacks all-time and he absolutely isn’t one of the top 25 NFL Quarterbacks even today
Stephen A.Dawg: Herschel=Greatness
March 17th, 2012
12:16 pm
If it were not for the Greatness of #34 Herschel Walker, I would have abandoned UGA as a fan in 2001 when Georgia soldout to bring in 90s FSU wanna-be OC guru, Mark Richt.
Signal Mtn Dawg
March 17th, 2012
12:24 pm
McGarity is all DAWG! Soneone has to put everything in a proper perspective.
With that said, I think Herschel’s statue should have been in place years ago.
Same with Sinwich, Trippi and Jake Scott.
Football is a different animal than golf or tennis. I think even the golfers would agree to that.
Stephen A.Dawg: Herschel=Greatness
March 17th, 2012
12:37 pm
Look I said it in 2009 concerning the NFL FB/TE posing as a QB Tim Tebow, he should have been originally drafted by the Jaguars. Because all he had to do was run left, run right, then up the middle as he did mainly at UF. Only in the insidious Gator-strongholds like Jacksonville is Tebow the current greatest passing QB other than the legendary Peyton Manning. Look at all the money J-ville lost because the league was too dumb to mandate Tebow to the Jags. The apathetic GatorNation would have swapped all the losing in the Swamp to relive Tebow glory in Jacksonville. Now that Peyton has purged Denver of Tebowmania, the only place left is to ship him to the Jacksonville, drop the Jaguar handle and rename the team the Tebowmanics. LOL. That would set off another chapter of lunacy and hysteria from Skip Bayless, executive president and LeBron James, executive vice-president of the National Tebow cheerleader fan club. It’s all a bunch of B.S. !!
liberalefty
March 17th, 2012
12:48 pm
i guess HERSHEL NEEDS HIS EGO FED…LOL with a giant statue..,
Stephen A.Dawg: Herschel=Greatness
March 17th, 2012
1:08 pm
The idiots that made Tebow a first rounder draft choice have been ran out of Denver, and rightfully so. Former All-Pro and Super Bowl MVP, John Elway has silenced and the Bayless-led Tebow hoopla and is pursuing a real NFL QB for the Broncos. I hope Tebow lands safely in Jacksonville, so the Jags will inherit the shrinking Gator fanbase from the Swamp. Then former Dog, Muschamp will get the Ron Zook treatment and be ran off by UF AD, Jeremy Foley, due to all the empty Swamp seats. LOL. I love it !! The same legendary Swamp QB, Tebow, will drain the facility which houses his likeness in the form of a memorial statute and switch the Saturday Gainesville crowd to a Sunday Jacksonville crowd . LOL ! Go Dogs !
59bulldawg
March 17th, 2012
1:14 pm
All the university has to do is decide where it should go. Fans will raise the money!
tj wise
March 17th, 2012
1:31 pm
I don’t see why y’all ant done it by now I mean everyone has great player and they got them y don’t Georgia ones a dawgs always a dawgs
build the statue
March 17th, 2012
2:16 pm
just jack up ticket / booster fees to pay for the statue—get it built asap!
coddyhawk1
March 17th, 2012
3:28 pm
Perhaps more fitting of that era ofGeorgia football would be a statue of Jan Kemp.
Beast from the East
March 17th, 2012
4:05 pm
Stepen A. Dawg,
Penis envy is not an admirable quality in a man.
Will
March 17th, 2012
4:08 pm
the statue include his Trans Am? Will Jan Kemp have a statue close by?
Vince Doodly
March 17th, 2012
4:48 pm
Why is this even McGarritys decision? Pay for it with private funds (which would take about 10 minutes to raise.)
Gene
March 17th, 2012
5:09 pm
Mike Adams may not like football, but he loves money, and most of his comes from football revenue. That’s a good point about Sinkwich and Trippi, so let’s split the difference and just have a statue of Adams stuffing his wallet.
bigreddawglover
March 17th, 2012
5:26 pm
Whether or not there exists other great UGA athletes from the past, there is only one all-time #1 collegiate football player ever who is univerally recognized as such. He happens to have graced the UGA campus for his collegiate career to the exclusion of all other institutions. Not only are his feats on the gridiron unsurpassed by all who have played this great game before and after him, no matter where they may have played, his accomplishments never outweighed his humility. His personna exemplified
the true meaning of ” Glory, glory…..to Georgia and this truly American game that dominates the spirit and envigorates us all.
Mr. McGarity, you, more than anyone should support this effort, rather than
list all the reasons why this is not the time nor the place for this undertaking.
Additionally, how often does a “Hershel” come along in a lifetime. I can only count one. Stand back and let the movement to commemorate this most outstanding example of a man as a competitor be honored with a statue
that will depict Hershel as the icon that he has become in the minds and memories of those who love all college sports for what they are supposed to represent.
230gr Full Metal Jacket
March 17th, 2012
5:34 pm
I’ve got to agree with Will. If you are going to build a statue of the illiterate buffoon, it should be of him in his black Trans-Am, wearing his Mister-T starter set (ALL paid for illegally by Alumni), or perhaps even better one of him accepting an envelope of cash from Vince!!!! But they HAVE to go right beside a statue of Jan Kemp — who did more for UGA athletics than every athlete who has ever worn red and black combined!!! Or why not one statue to honor ALL of the “great” athletes? You can have them all leaning over the back/hood of a City of Athens Patrol car in handcuffs with a pile of empty PBR cans around their feet!!
And you can tell most of these bloggers are kids by the fact that they don’t even recognize what TRUE greats like Sinkwich and Trippi did for the program. Herschel isn’t worthy of carrying their gear for them!
dawg4u
March 17th, 2012
5:49 pm
Why not play ‘Let’s make a deal.’ The statue of Herschel is approved after UGA wins their next SEC Championship in football.
Disgusted
March 17th, 2012
7:59 pm
Why does this once proud football university have to be held hostage by that POS Micheal Adams.
He is the worst thing that has ever happened to the entire state of Georgia.
When will it be that he will be outta here. Bad hire of a bad human being.
And tennis geek Mc Garrity needs to be gone too.
The only hold up is
March 17th, 2012
9:49 pm
I think the only thing really holding up a Herchel Walker statue at UGA is what color play-dough to use and what Athens Dollar General will have enough of that color in stock to build it.
True DAWG
March 17th, 2012
9:50 pm
Screw Mcgarity and Adams- we need a statue of herchel!!! They dont take football at UGA serious enough- please people of power put pressure on Adams to start taking football serious with starts with a statue of the best college hb of all time!
The Idiot Police
March 17th, 2012
10:09 pm
Thanks for the blog AJC. We have been looking for 230gr Full Metal Jacket.
Humpmaster
March 17th, 2012
10:23 pm
Stephen A.Dawg: Herschel=Greatness, Tebow certainly owned your sorry butts didn’t U G A Y boy.
Humpmaster
March 17th, 2012
10:28 pm
Stephen A.Dawg: Herschel=Greatness Tebow will win about as many championships in the NFL as did Hershel and 1 more NC than Hershel + he broke Hershels rushing TD records as a QB, how many TD passes did Mr. Multi Personality have?
ga gator
March 17th, 2012
10:28 pm
Build it and quit arguing.
Fred Flintstone
March 17th, 2012
11:29 pm
What about Deborah Norville?
beanster
March 18th, 2012
12:50 am
“Penis envy is not an admirable quality in a man.”
LOL @ Beast. However, not sure anyone would ever envy Tebow’s penis. Isn’t he still a virgin?
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 18th, 2012
12:57 am
Dating Taylor Swift, but losing his QB gig.
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 18th, 2012
1:13 am
Jborodawg March 17th, 2012 8:28 am
“As is bringing up CMR’s record against winning teams for the umpteenth time in a totally unrelated blog.”
________________________________________________________
What everyone has said is that Herschel Walker should have had his Statue for those who remember that it was not Herschel left, right, up the middle; that Greg McGarity is as poor an Athletics’ Director as any in the nation; that Mike Adam$ wants a Statue of him lining his pockets with cash; and that Mark Richt will never have a Statue of him because out of 39 games in his 11 years as our Head Coach, he has won exactly 9 games against teams who end season were top 25, including none after Georgia tek # 13 in 2009.
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 18th, 2012
2:16 am
7576DAWG March 17th, 2012 3:50 pm
“Aaron Murray has been very disappointing because all the coaches rave about him but all of his turnovers are from the same mistakes. Bobo set Aaron up to fail by turning a roll out Quarterback into a pocket passer. Murray gained 1000 yard his senior year of high school ball if I remember correctly.”
http://www.maxpreps.com/athletes/W2hZ4HK0lUiYlKk6jeI5TA/football-fall-08/stats-aaron-murray.htm
257 yards rushing his senior season at Plant. Aaron Murray is NOT a dual-threat quarterback as we all know by now. His inability to run with his 4.81 speed in the 40-yard dash has prevents him from finding a lane where with his small stature he could throw the football over the DL who are all faster than he in The SEC, thus his poor showing at 0-9 vs teams who season end are top 25, running his coach’s record to 19-30 all 11 years vs teams who season end are top 25 here at UGA. The bigger faster DL in The SEC have, once they caught the slow puny Quarterback, thrown him around like a rag doll. He is tough and gets right up, but his pass completion percentage at 59 Percent 2011 when he ran up his stats vs 10 cupcakes is good enough for # 72 in the nation for quarterbacks Pass Completion Percentage. As you say, his 23 fumbles in 27 games, 11 lost, 22 interceptions in 27 games, 56 sacks in 27 games, and his 1 yard per carry with 6.44 carries per game all 27 games proves he cannot run the football.
Why a guy who was at college with me in Athens, attended classes with me, went to the games with me since, comes in here and says Aaron Murray should roll out, when he cannot find the lanes, gets sacked, cannot see over the line, and cannot complete his passes with them instead over-thrown over the heads of his receivers, or behind them when only Malcolm Mitchell did anything with his 403 pass attempts in 2011 alone and now leaves us with just Chris Conley, him filling in for 7 defensive backs kicked off the team or just transferred whom Mark Richt gave a Scholarship to for 2012 plus 2 more suspended for Mizzou, when our Secondary has been no good whatsoever for many years and certainly has no top player there such as Alec Ogletree moved to LB where we are already loaded.
Bobo is no good as OC.
I am the 1st poster to these blogs to call for his Extension which by the way he has NOT SIGNED.
I will remain steadfast, however, that we are NOT FINE. That we’ve not been doing fine vs teams who end season top 25 at 19-30 over the 11 years of Mark Richt and that the problem areas are specifically : offense not running the ball, bragging about wins over cupcakes and running up stats vs same, poor coaching of Quarterbacks the entire 11 years, special teams full of nothing but walk-ons, and defense not having anyone manning what Erk Russell called Rover – along with all the myriad of 140 arrested / suspended kicked-off including # 6 all-time in Fulmer Cup points for Mark Richt – perhaps you forgot what got Fulmer fired ?
2012 is more of the same with at most 1 team all 12 regular season games against a team who will be season end top 25. When are we going to beat the top teams at 19-30 all 11 years of Mark Richt vs just season end top 25 teams.
7576DAWG, sir, when you in every single solitary post for all these years to this blog you devote your time and energy talking with fellow Bulldog fans such as I and there are 61 posters who agree with your criticisms of the decision-making at UGA all 11 years to-date and specifically this very moment in time 2012 in this latest Chip Towers’ blog all 61 agreeing with you 7576DAWG, you cannot separate the points you make with
CRITICISM of Mark Richt.
If Mark Richt has an OC who cannot teach his QB nor figure out how to run especially with all the RB on our roster 2012 when we should exclusively run the ball given Aaron Murray’s melt-downs vs every team season end top 25 – all 9 of those QB better that day than he…
If Mark Richt shows such favoritism toward Aaron Murray with 5 Quarterbacks on his roster of such acclaim with his latest commitment last month and another who was a great high school Quarterback playing another position, that you have to spend your days of your hobby like mine in here discussing it…
Then,
7576 DAWG you, sir, are
CRITICIZING MARK RICHT.
Now, if this even remotely resembles me saying I am saying
FIRE MARK RICHT
then Brainiac ain’t anything but a misnomer.
We will be made or break again 2012, by beating the lone top 25 season end team we face.
Even RED DOG 77 wants something done about Aaron Murray and agrees with you
7576DAWG.
What ? Does RED DOG 77 want
MARK RICHT FIRED
I find Mark Richt trying – very trying at 19-30 vs teams end season top 25 all 11 of his years to-date. I like Mark Richt. I will not come in here and lie for Mark Richt, and don’t care for posters whose only retort to the facts is a personal FLAME when it has been since beating # 13 Georgia tek in 2009 that Mark Richt has beat a team season end top 25, forget the lies that stats are not kept that way when I have shown URL Link after URL Link that it is how stats are kept, forget that he is
8-14 vs top 25 time of game after 2007.
What ? That is supposed to be great ? Good heavens.
money train
March 18th, 2012
5:33 am
did herschel ever go to a class at georgia? if so, maybe they can have him holding a book when they do the statue, to make him look intellectual.
Joe
March 18th, 2012
6:07 am
Let Donald Trump pay for a statue and let him put it in th Generals’s Football Museum.
North Georgia Dawg.
March 18th, 2012
7:03 am
How bought a statue for these Dawgs . Terry Hoage , a genetics major. Academic All- American in the class room and on the field or David Pollack a 3x All- American.
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 18th, 2012
7:10 am
AltamahaDawg March 15th, 2012 3:21 pm
“Everybody wants the same thing, everybody wants to win.”
________________________________________________
19-30 all 11 years vs end season top 25, and you stand there daily telling us we are great. Uh, no. Some of us have higher expectations for our football program # 11 all-time in wins.
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 18th, 2012
7:41 am
30 Losses in 11 years vs end season top 25
means 8 Losses 11 years vs not top 25
-teams such as 4-8 Vandie 2006
-teams such as 6-6 South Carolina 2007
-teams such as 5-7 Colorado 2010
-teams such as 7-6 Kentucky 2009
-teams such as 7-6 vols 2009
-teams such as Auburn 2001
-teams such as Kentucky 2006
-teams such as Florida 2002
It is this combination of losing to teams we should beat, having our recruits heaped great praise upon Mark Richt for bringing here 26 of them for 2012 who will not play 2012 because they are arrested / kicked-off / suspended / not given fair shot at playing time because of Favoritism, and Losing 30 of 49 games vs teams end season top 25.
Some try to make up lame excuses for all of it.
Others are dog-tired of the excuses that don’t hold water any way, such as hey look at his record vs ranked teams at game time such as 6-6 South Carolina 2007 which he lost anyway along with this 8-14 at game time after 2007 vs ranked teams at game time.
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 18th, 2012
7:46 am
8-14 vs ranked teams at game time after 2007
is supposed to be what ? Great ?
Isn’t that what you told me, now that I’ve looked it up ?
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 18th, 2012
8:06 am
1st you told me rank game time all that matters
2nd I look that up 8-14 after 2007
3rd you tell me don’t talk about it
4th you told me game time all that is tracked
5th I give you URL links where that isn’t true
6th you tell me don’t talk about that, either
7th so I tell you Richt can’t beat top teams
8th so you tell me I’m a Georgia tek fan
9th everyone tells you that isn’t true either
10th Chip Towers’ latest blog 61 say not fine
11th you run in here saying 61 all Ga tek fans
12th the list of 61 includes way more Bulldogs saying Mark Richt is not doing fine, we’re not fine, we can’t beat the top teams, we continue to have our players arrested/suspended/kicked-off than the vocal minority who say somehow unexplained that 8-14 after 2007 vs teams ranked at game time is great.
OldSchoolDawg
March 18th, 2012
8:09 am
Being a Dawg means that you are a believer in deep long standing Southern traditions. That does not include a statue of Herschel. I’ll give you a bobble head doll in the gift store but that’s it.
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 18th, 2012
8:16 am
We can make a Deity of Mark Richt.
gt4ever
March 18th, 2012
8:21 am
How about a statue where Vince and Hershal are reenacting the money exchange that got him to UGA…..Just sayin….
RedandBlackDAWG
March 18th, 2012
9:03 am
I am sure that a private fund could be started and the donations alone, would get the required money to erect a statute of Herschel walker. It is hard though to just think about Herschel walker alone though, when UGA has had so many great football players. Perhaps something along the lines of a ring of fame, inside the stadium like the Dallas Cowboys have might be just as well.
Gt4ever, I am sure they could find room for one at tech. as well. The only problem is, that you have on an average, about 1 out of every 15 years when you have a really good player. It would be easier in techs. case to have a ring of shame, coaches included.
dill
March 18th, 2012
9:30 am
How ’bout a Jan Kemp statue?
Coastal Dog SSI
March 18th, 2012
9:34 am
I thought I’d made this perfectly clear before: Other than Herschel, who is the best player to ever play at UGA?
The
March 18th, 2012
9:56 am
best player in Georgia history is Crowell. Go back and read the post from last year. He needs a statue ASAP!
fred
March 18th, 2012
9:56 am
greg talley
Thomas Brown = Mr Negativity = 13-1 East (blogger) = Techie
March 18th, 2012
9:56 am
Hey 13-1 blogger…….we all know you are a Techie and trying to pull-down the BullDawg nation. P.S. Your psychological profile gives you away. We all know you are a psycho and your other persona is Thomas Brown. You are one and the same……please take your meds!!!!
Thomas Brown = Mr Negativity = 13-1 East (blogger) = Techie
March 18th, 2012
10:03 am
@gt4ever
Don’t recall anyone ever mentioning $$$ for Walker, but I do remember the big GT cover-up and lying to the NCAA investigators. That should have cost GT at least a conference championship…..oh yea, it did!!!!
Mr. Negativity
March 18th, 2012
10:11 am
UGA’s NCAA compliance staff handles all player payments. That way they don’t worry about being caught. The funds come from the “Hart”.
Gator
March 18th, 2012
11:09 am
13-1, Thomas brown, You are the same person. Not that his senior year rushing stats matter, but Murray missed most of his senior season with a broken leg, 2ndly he wasn’t recruited as a dual threat QB, he was a highly recruited pro style QB who was an Elite 11 winning If you dislike UGA so much , find another team and do everyone a favor.
Torching a Blunt with Crowell
March 18th, 2012
11:47 am
I can just see it now. Herschel in the Heisman pose with his right arm clutching a bag of hash browns.
Neutral observer
March 18th, 2012
12:19 pm
I think everyone needs to quit following Alabama as the trendsetter. They have 5 statues for the various coaches that won national championships and after that a statue arms race broke out with AU and then Florida and now everybody else wants to build statues. I don’t think there is anything wrong with a statue to commemorate specific achievements. Bama has them for coaches that won national titles, AU and UF for their 3 Heisman winners each.
Georgia doesn’t have enough Heisman winners or national title trophies to really warrant statues because having a heisman trophy for all of 2 Heisman winners looks kinda goofy. Same with one national championship statue. It just looks like it would have the exact opposite and instead emphasize the lack of national achievement for the Georgia program with only 2 trophies.
jawga boy
March 18th, 2012
12:47 pm
Lots of sentiments and passions here. I’m way late weighing in. An alumni, and a loyal dawg. Lots of things surround Herschel…..lots. What if he’d stayed his last year? What if he’d gone to NFL vs WFL, donald Trump?.I say this, read his book…… and then you decide. I don’t think a statue is in order at all. Maybe a proclamation read at a ballgame would be appropriate. He’s only human.
jawga boy
March 18th, 2012
12:51 pm
Coastal Dog……the list is long. Jake Scott, Fran Tarkenton, Bill Stanfill, Hines Ward, Stafford #1?….and don’t forget Pulpwood Smith !
gt4ever
March 18th, 2012
12:53 pm
@Thomas Brown …..
Vince Dooley was the MOST corrupt football coach at UGA… He has the NCAA infractions to prove it….. The truth may hurt but, well that’s the way the cookie crumbles… Your NCAA history is a shame and embarrassment to the state of Georgia…
Fats OKelly
March 18th, 2012
2:21 pm
Quit kissing this Walker’s HIney for crying out loud. He is just another man that was a great football player,that UGA promoted like nobody’s business. Walker’s ego does not need this. Quit the idol worship of Mr.Walker. That’s all
evil empire
March 18th, 2012
7:06 pm
how about a group statue of some generic uga playas dancin’ to some stupid rap song while a couple more are smokin a blunt on the sidelines…kinda in a half-circle with real hedges ringing the outside…maybe include the team bail bondsman to add an even more realistic look…
alpharetta alice
March 18th, 2012
7:10 pm
I’m tired of this “once in a lifetime” talk about Walker…he wasn’t near the back Marcus Dupree was.
3d
March 18th, 2012
7:19 pm
McGarity sounds like what he is.
A CEO sitting in an ivory tower. Out of touch and laughing all the way to the bank.
Nothing and I mean nothing is going to change in Athens until big money gets involved and starts telling Adams what to do. We’re waiting Georgia Crown.
Maybe after some more second half meltdowns next year and another fine 9 & 5 season on the football field.
What will be the propaganda in 2013 after that? More our problems are correctable crap from CMR.
More we need stability in our program crap?
In your heart, you know it's the right thing to do
March 18th, 2012
7:20 pm
I think most decent people agree that the first statue should be for Saint Jan Kemp, the courageous young lady who risked everything to expose the corruption and sleazes created by Vince Cooley and continued even today by Mark Richt.
Gator
March 18th, 2012
7:36 pm
@In your heart, you know it’s the right thing to do, and your program is on Ncaa probation for the 2nd time in 8 years, LOL Jans dead and it was 30 years a go.@34 who was 9-5 ?
ken
March 18th, 2012
7:53 pm
walker….is the best ever to play at any school….give it to him. read his stats..unbelieveable!!!!
GO DAWGS…
Mako
March 18th, 2012
8:09 pm
In your heart, you know it’s the right thing to do…hey sleaze, check out your school…they’re on Probation …Again
Thomas Brown = Mr Negativity = 13-1 East (blogger) = Techie
March 18th, 2012
8:39 pm
GT4ever
You have got to be kidding me. Dooley was the head of the NCAA Ethics Committee for more than a decade. Quit throwing stones in glass houses. GT is currently recognized as one of the most corrupt programs in college football. How many teams in modern history have been stripped of their conference championship?
contractor
March 18th, 2012
9:59 pm
McGarity is an idiot. Yes others are deserving, but one at a time you get it done and a collection around campus can grow. Alabama didn’t build all of their coaches at once, so one at a time is not a big deal. Walker gave and still gives so much to Georgia that he should be immortalized in bronze or whatever the material is. People name their dogs after the guy, kids, still buy his jersey, pay a premium for his autograph. A statue is well deserved I say, and should be a priority of some sort.
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 19th, 2012
5:23 am
0-4 for 2011
0-5 for 2010
1-3 for 2009
1-3 for 2008
3-1 for 2007
2-2 for 2006
1-3 for 2005
3-2 for 2004
3-3 for 2003
3-1 for 2002
2-3 for 2001
19-30 for 11 years vs end season top 25
http://www.cfbtrivia.com/cfbt_detail.php?teamname=Georgia&fry=2009&thy=2009&spl=on&cres=3&jpl=on&sortby=Year
You can replace any year 2001 through 2011 in this URL Link, have to change year twice each URL Link and see it for every year 2001 through 2011, and you see it for
BOTH
TIME OF GAME
END OF SEASON
ranked top 25.
I thought you said it was ONLY kept TIME OF GAME ?
PROVIDES BOTH.
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 19th, 2012
5:38 am
If I am Mr. Negative, what pray tell are all of these other Bulldogs who know that we are # 11 all-time in wins as a football program ?
A Father March 18th, 2012 9:51 am
I’ve never really March 14th, 2012 10:29 am
mike addington March 14th, 2012 10:42 am
SEC Fans for Richt March 14th, 2012 11:04 am
Santos March 14th, 2012 11:09 am
richt will never win March 14th, 2012 11:11 am
slydog March 14th, 2012 11:11 am
Ingleside March 14th, 2012 11:13 am
what of it? March 14th, 2012 11:28 am
UGA Insider March 14th, 2012 11:33 am
Frank March 14th, 2012 11:55 am
CreekWolf March 14th, 2012 12:07 pm
Reality March 14th, 2012 12:42 pm
Breaking News Mediocrity March 14th, 2012 1:27 pm
Pago Pago DAWG March 14th, 2012 2:22 pm
Albert March 14th, 2012 2:53 pm
6-18 vs Ranked since ‘05 March 14th, 2012 4:17 pm
sprouse27 March 14th, 2012 4:20 pm
Joey March 14th, 2012 4:44 pm
Atldawg March 14th, 2012 4:57 pm
01HAWK March 14th, 2012 5:39 pm
SugarHillDawg March 14th, 2012 7:11 pm
Snoop Dawg March 14th, 2012 7:41 pm
DAWGMAN March 14th, 2012 7:57 pm
Preston March 14th, 2012 7:59 pm
The Bear March 14th, 2012 8:05 pm
bane of our existence March 14th, 2012 8:28 pm
WUZZADAWG March 14th, 2012 9:13 pm
JB March 14th, 2012 9:42 pm
jeff March 15th, 2012 4:38 am
Dear Greg March 15th, 2012 8:28 am
VADAWG March 15th, 2012 8:59 am
fire MR March 15th, 2012 9:25 am
Todd G March 15th, 2012 9:32 am
Bobo isn’t Problem Mar15th, 2012 10:42 am
globeflyer March 15th, 2012 11:26 am
Top Dawg March 15th, 2012 12:19 pm
Five more loong years! Mar 15th, 12 6:15 pm
Kamloops Phil March 15th, 2012 6:17 pm
modicum March 15th, 2012 6:25 pm
Richt more money? March 15th, 2012 8:04 pm
Merry Marr March 16th, 2012 9:13 am
ugab March 16th, 2012 9:24 am
DublDawg March 16th, 2012 2:30 pm
Spike 80DF March 16th, 2012 2:36 pm
TN Dawg March 16th, 2012 2:47 pm
BonkersDog March 16th, 2012 2:55 pm
vadawg March 16th, 2012 2:58 pm
SC Fan March 16th, 2012 3:06 pm
mdr March 16th, 2012 3:55 pm
PT March 16th, 2012 4:28 pm
harold March 16th, 2012 4:34 pm
FLA DAWG March 16th, 2012 5:57 pm
Dawg Bite March 16th, 2012 6:05 pm
LagDawg March 16th, 2012 6:10 pm
dawgfan2003 March 16th, 2012 8:14 pm
guy March 16th, 2012 9:06 pm
realist March 16th, 2012 11:33 pm
RHall55 March 18th, 2012 8:54 am
Dap01 March 18th, 2012 9:09 am
3d March 18th, 2012 7:19 pm
62
http://blogs.ajc.com/junkyard-blawg/2012/03/16/early-projection-for-season-sees-dawgs-standing-pat/?cp=all
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 19th, 2012
6:01 am
I did not put up any 9-5, not with the soft schedule we have – especially for my seasons’ tickets – where we have only 1 team who ended 2011 in the top 25, and at most 1 team who will end 2012 in the top 25 of all 12 regular season games.
Posting that I am a Georgia tek fans means NOTHING to the 61 who have posted in the last couple days just how Mark Richt, your Deity, cannot beat the top teams.
As for your precious time of game stats, you asked me for, here they are :
2-4 for 2011
0-4 for 2010
2-3 for 2009
4-3 for 2008
8-14 for Current 4-Year Period
with maybe 1 all 12 regular season games coming up
So, I asked you what is so special about Mark Richt at time of game ?
8-14 is great ?
http://www.cfbtrivia.com/cfbt_detail.php?teamname=Georgia&fry=2008&thy=2008&spl=on&cres=3&jpl=on&sortby=Year
Look, you change your handle to my handle all you want and call me Mr. Negative; but, given the 62 handles who clearly are UGA Fans, what we are left with is :
You told me stats are only kept for time of game
I looked it up.
I put up both time of game, lousy
8-14 Current 4-Year Period time of game
2-15 Current 4-Year Period end season
If you would like to talk about
7-6 Vandie 2008 who was ranked # 22 and # 23 when we played them in 2008, the week after 4-8 Missy State beat Vandie, I have done so.
This is not negative about Georgia Bulldogs’ Football Program which I have deep ties to all my life; however, it does hold YOU accountable for YOUR statements to this blog of how great Mark Richt is. I came out in support of Mark Richt getting his extension far before YOU. I like the guy. He has failed to make good decisions on his coaching staff, and it has cost US. You and I. It has cost us. It costs us right now. The reason why you keep changing your handles is because I have repeatedly put up all the NEGATIVE POSTS BY YOU to this blog under your other handles, each time you have done so.
NONE of us our happy with our program the CURRENT 4-YEAR PERIOD. This up-coming season soft schedule has maybe at most 1 team on the entire regular season schedule. This is because of Greg McGarity, the same guy who won’t do anything about any of the issues facing UGA Athletics’ Department at this time : Gym not considered 1 of the top 75 and not hosted a post-season basketball tournament in over 41 years all the way back to 1971. Indoor Practice Facility with a full field, yet we are the 2nd most profitable Athletics’ Department and were before Greg McGarity got here. The on-going arrested suspended kicked-off and transferred out list of 26 Scholarships Mark Richt gave out to 26 mostly 4-Star recruits you credited him for getting here in the 1st place, and his specific history of kicking off lesser back-ups while for worse offenses, Starters are given lesser punishment.
What the real issue is is we cannot beat the top teams.
We are 3-13 vs teams finishing top 10 all 11 years.
This is not about Georgia tek and you look pretty bad on that harping on that, especially in view of the 61 distinct handles who have replied to you daily for the last couple of days telling YOU that THEY are not satisfied with where our program is, either.
I am so happy for you that you are satisfied.
Mark Richt is no Deity.
Morning Reads for Monday, March 19th — Peach Pundit
March 19th, 2012
6:14 am
[...] few that I like… – Don’t expect the Herschel Walker statue to be put up at UGA anytime soon. – James Madison’s notes from the Constitutional Convention are now available online. – [...]
Thomas Brown = Mr Negativity = 13-1 East (blogger) = Techie
March 19th, 2012
6:57 am
@13-1
Please, please take your meds!!! You are waaaaay over the top and scary negative. There is a difference in making negative comments vs what you do. You write paragraph after paragraph 24/7 making the same points over and over. You are a UGa hater……not a disgruntled fan.
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 19th, 2012
7:26 am
You are not a Bulldogs Football Program fan. You are sitting there looking at 62 names and pick on me, when all 62 have said the same to YOU in the last couple days. Get over yourself with your handle using my handle name. Talk about obsessed.
I did what you TOLD ME TO DO, look up his time of game stats.
You just don’t like his 8-14 the current 4-year period at your stats.
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 19th, 2012
7:28 am
What point do you make ?
That I am a Georgia tek fan, over and over – same thing.
There is NO ONE who thinks I am a Georgia tek fan. No one.
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 19th, 2012
7:59 am
Then only other point you make is that you say Mark Richt is great with his 19-30 record all 11 years vs end season top 25 teams.
62 distinct Bulldog fans disagrees with you on that, too, in just the last couple days.
Mark Richt ISN’T great, but he is my coach and I supported him getting his EXTENSION which he has refused to sign December, January, February, and now March too.
Coppoletti
March 19th, 2012
8:32 am
Put full sized statues of Herschel & Sinkwich on that concrete plaza above the new concession stands in Reed Alley. That is all wasted space, and needs to be filled. Finance them by selling bricks (like the Olympic Bricks) to pave that area. Put up smaller busts or plaques to honor others like Trippi, Butler, Jake Scott, Pollack, Erk, etc. on a brick wall erected around the plaza. It would be a nice Monument Plaza for Dawg fans to see before & after games.
dogSTILE
March 19th, 2012
8:46 am
The word going around “the UGA internet dirt sheets” is the Saye, a rabid UGA fan has a some financial dealings with Walker and is hoping for increased visibility with this statue sham. He got nowhere when he approached McGarity with this Hershel idea. As others have stated, what about Sinkwich?, Trippi? The list of people to be honored BEFORE Walker (no question a DGD) is quite long. Want to get blown away? What about a statue to The UGA Mens Tennis team, Dan Magill / Manny Diaz? Check the records. The only thing the football team leads in is HYPE, and thats no SNIPE!!
Morning Reads for Monday, March 19th
March 19th, 2012
8:46 am
[...] few that I like… – Don’t expect the Herschel Walker statue to be put up at UGA anytime soon. – James Madison’s notes from the Constitutional Convention are now available online. – They’re [...]
norcrossdawg
March 19th, 2012
8:55 am
KINGDAWG
March 16th, 2012
2:12 pm
Alright all you entitlement thinkers …..Once we start giving out statues then everyone will have to have one….even little Johnny who can’t even run up and down the field now gets a trophy today. Next thing you know we’ll have a statue for everyone including a walk-on TRUE,I VOTE FOR WALK-ON LON BUCKLER. HELL, HE ALSO WON THE GA LOTTERY !
Dawg Fud
March 19th, 2012
9:06 am
Put the Sinkwich statue in front of the Pike House.
ISHOULDknow
March 19th, 2012
9:25 am
Rob Saye looks like the next guy to get caught in an internet porn sting.
Newnandawg
March 19th, 2012
9:33 am
Melt the Vince Dooley statue down and cast Herschel’s from it.
ugab
March 19th, 2012
9:43 am
Walker’s statue should of been done a long time ago.! Heisman winner, NC winner, played in another NC. There will never be another football player like Walker..Why should this even be debated???
flo-ri-duh
March 19th, 2012
9:44 am
Statues tell the history of the school. Herschel Walker is the greatest modern day player in UGA’s history. We are talking about putting up a statue for just anyone. This is Herschel Walker.
ugab
March 19th, 2012
9:45 am
Who does everyone want for a statue?? CMR?? LMAO.. MR will never be a legend at Uga.
flo-ri-duh
March 19th, 2012
9:45 am
Herschel Walker made Vince Dooley.
ugab
March 19th, 2012
9:47 am
Football brings in the Money?? Tennis?? Cmon..
ugab
March 19th, 2012
9:48 am
We can all agree that Walker Made Dooley// Dooley held Uga down for yrs as the AD..
Teck Sucks
March 19th, 2012
9:48 am
Herschel Walker was the greatest athlete UGA has ever or will ever see in any sport. All of the others mentioned in the article were great, but no one compares to Herschel. I think every UGA letterman will understand why Herschel gets a statue and they don’t. It’s overdue.
Reality
March 19th, 2012
9:56 am
A statue of H. W. Please, Yes he was a very good player but a statue? There are alot of people in the past that came out of U.G.A. and accomplished more than winning a football game. This just shows how silly people get about FOOTBALL!
Without Hershel Walker, UGA would be Vandy without the quality education
March 19th, 2012
10:27 am
Put the dudes statue up NOW!
Fats OKelly
March 19th, 2012
10:32 am
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
Get to your point and quit dominating the column comments. Brevity is an asset
ugab
March 19th, 2012
10:51 am
I would love to see a statue of H Walker out in front of the Stadium..
Jeff
March 19th, 2012
10:51 am
I think the whole statue fad at all the universities is getting soo out of control and stupid. I’m glad McGarity is putting his foot down on this one.
ugab
March 19th, 2012
10:53 am
Surely recognize the Tennis and gymnastics etc. in some kind of way, but not with a statue…Walker needs a statue. ABSOLUTELY
ugab
March 19th, 2012
10:55 am
CMR NEEDS A STATUE.LMAO. NOT!!!
dawg fan
March 19th, 2012
11:09 am
I agree with McGarity but for different reasons. Herschel was no doubt a great player and has done many things with /for UGA since. However, I think it is poor taste to erect statues for living people. Wait until they are gone for a few years, then erect it to preserve their legend. Herschel comes to games, shows up for events, and is still a part of UGA, lets celebrate that and not make a memorial for him just yet.
I would support a statue of Munson on the Pavilion greeting fans as they walk in though. That would be nice to see.
Gulf Shores Dawg
March 19th, 2012
11:22 am
I remember as a kid seeing the statue of Hank Aaron a a Braves game, WHAT an impression that made on me…we need a statue of Herschel and the other Heisman winners around the stadium NOW…Susan Yoculan needs a staue also by Stegman…Put the statues of our great coaches and players, All Americans etc. at the field they played on…Just Do It!!!!
WRIGHTSVILLE DAWG
March 19th, 2012
11:52 am
Ok. Build the statue. If UGA don’t want it, ship it to Wrightsville and that will look good at Herschel Walker Field on Friday Nights in Wrightsville.
Dawg fans in Wrightsville wins!
WRIGHTSVILLE DAWG
March 19th, 2012
11:53 am
Who needs statues: Herschel, Frank, Larry for football. Suzzane for gym, Magill for tennis… Maybe ‘Nique for basketball… EVERYONE WINS
Kyle
March 19th, 2012
12:01 pm
Please tell me why at UGA it’s always drama……I am a long Dawg fan but honestly am geting sick and tired of all the drama- other programs move…we piddle paddle……
Ryan
March 19th, 2012
1:39 pm
As a UGA grad and passionate fan of UGA and ALL sports, it’s definitely embarrassing to see some Dawg fans argue like this and make bone-headed comments on these message boards.
I’m going to assume that most people who “support UGA” only support/watch football, which is fine since that’s what we’re known for and get a LARGE majority of our $ from. I do think Herschel deserves a statue, he has done more than any individual athlete for UGA as far as recognition for the university. However, I believe that other major contributors in other sports deserve some statues/plaques/commemoratives (whatever you want to give them). Each has given something to our great university and tradition.
Either way, we don’t know the situation with money and how these things are determined by the university and athletics association, so it’s silly to criticize.
RightDog
March 19th, 2012
3:17 pm
if mcgarity doesn’t get a statue approved and built in the next year, adams needs to move him out and get someone who knows what is going on.
AltamahaDawg
March 19th, 2012
3:59 pm
Still waiting for any rational explanation of how this is Mcgarity’s fault, when this was the UGA stance on statues of athletic figures long before his hire here. You know, going way back to that guy who used to be AD here for so long. I believe he was a pretty big fan of Herschel Walker.
Bob Shoecraft
March 19th, 2012
4:51 pm
So Bo Jackson is getting two statues?
LawDawg
March 19th, 2012
4:59 pm
Really? We are not going to have a statute because it would be unfair to Charley Trippi? Really? Is Florida going to avoid honoring Tebow because they would also have to honor Chris Leak and wheredoyoudrawtheline?!?!?
LawDawg
March 19th, 2012
5:01 pm
RightDog: Um…And if the CEO of Goldman Sachs does not ensure that the carpet in the offices on the second floor is a deep burgundy, he should be out on his a$$. Sure, the company may be profitable, but executives should only be judged on the least important things.
Analogy!
Really?
March 19th, 2012
5:02 pm
Let me know if any wineing and dineing is required to make this happen. I’m an expert and can help expedite the process and proceeds.
LawDawg
March 19th, 2012
5:03 pm
Ryan : You are the only person who considers the accomplishments of the swimming and equestrian teams equal to those of football players. Sorry.
SEC Football Morning Coffee | SEC Football
March 19th, 2012
5:12 pm
[...] – Chip Towers of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that a statue for 1980 Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker isn’t a priority for Georgia. [...]
Capstone Crimson
March 19th, 2012
5:24 pm
tUGA plantation is really dropping the ball on this one, Herschel is one of the best if not the most complete player to ever don cleats.
The PR from Georgia on this is laughable, heck just tell folks you are working on it, take quotes on getting it done and tie the approved design it up in a committee somewhere until you get the schools policy worked out. Sad sad sad,,,,, Right now the school looks like a racist plantation by its position in the press like it or not, that is the picture the AD is painting.
Mark Ingram will probably get a statue first.
UGASlobberknocker
March 19th, 2012
5:44 pm
Whats is the surprise here? It is the exact same policy that they have had for years on retired numbers..and it is a good one.
SEC Football Morning Coffee | DSPN News
March 19th, 2012
5:56 pm
[...] – Chip Towers of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that a statue for 1980 Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker isn’t a priority for Georgia. [...]
62-39-5
March 19th, 2012
6:32 pm
Dont forget to vote for Herschel Walker on facebook for the cover of ea sports college football 13
BiggDawgK
March 19th, 2012
7:52 pm
Georgia Athletics has one of the largest funds in the NCAA. We don’t have a full sized indoor facility for football. We have one of the oldest basketball facilities. We are not spending money on anything that the AD considers frivolous like statues. We have the worlds most honorable Coach so no slush fund or payoff money or cash spent on buying recruits. That accounts for 50% of the budget at alabama.
My burning question is “where the heck is all my donation cash going?” I thought McGarrity had some cajones so I hope he’s not letting michael adams push him around.
Thomas Brown = Mr Negativity = 13-1 East (blogger) = Techie
March 19th, 2012
7:58 pm
I vote to have a statue for every Dawg who wins the Heisman….not just HW even though I love the guy!!!
Kenny
March 19th, 2012
8:14 pm
I’d say statues all around!
phil
March 19th, 2012
8:22 pm
It’s time for Landers to go.
18 straight tourneys and nowhere near a title.
Get rid of this guy, please.
Fire CAL!!
phil
March 19th, 2012
8:23 pm
Herschel is the reason we never move forward.
Forget him and get some players for NOW!
same ole same ole
March 19th, 2012
8:46 pm
fired coach Landers.
same ole same ole
March 19th, 2012
8:50 pm
Its time for a change with the women basketball program. MANY MANY YEARS AND NOT ONE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP AND ONLY ONE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME APPEARANCE.
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 19th, 2012
10:11 pm
“13-1 SEC East Champions 2012, Dawgs will go 10-3, 9-4.”
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How do you figure that ? Only 1 team on the entire regular season schedule ended up ranked last season in any top 25 poll published for the season. Name the 4 teams we are going to lose to ? We start the season # 6 in all the polls.
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Let me make sure I get this. The men’s basketball coach is saddled with the same gym not considered 1 of the top 75 even. The men’s basketball coach didn’t even make it to the NCAA Tourney. The women’s coach got beat by South Carolina to knock us out of The SEC Tourney and they are doing quite well and obviously to me have a great team, continuing still with another win in the NCAA Tourney. Now, we lost in the 1st round of the NCAA. And, Andy Landers has to go ? He has to go because he hasn’t won a National Championship, having won everything else, but Mark Richt is a Saint and he hasn’t won a national championship either. But, off you go Andy Landers.
13-1 SEC East Champions 2012
March 19th, 2012
11:05 pm
I thought this blog was about Tim Tebow and how, uneven play at Quarterback and John Elway wanting to not continue to change Denver’s Offense to suit a guy who at best is an unorthodox drop back passer, following his 10-45 loss to end the season against a less than spectacular New England team.
I said March 7 in here that he would land at Denver.
I mean if Mark Richt is so great because he is a Christian, and Tim Tebow too despite the fact that Tim Tebow is nowhere to be found on a list of the greatest college football quarterbacks of all-time, for the same very reason, why is Tim Tebow having to find another position or another team to stay in the NFL ? JAX ? Really ? They want the fans to show up and watch his quarterback play, uneven as it is ? I doubt that. Denver has a great defense and if a QB like Tim Tebow in that easy Division and easy conference can make it to the play-offs with an uneven play quarterback, just think what Peyton Manning thinks his chances would be with Denver ?
They interviewed a Denver Bronco linebacker today who said it seemed to begin with that he was behind Tim Tebow, and quickly the guy brought him to reality, what if your Offense could hand your Defense 21 points to work with ?
Ding Ding Ding…
Tim Tebow, uneven quarterback play offense designed around him when John Elway wanted Peyton Manning as I said all along.
Ten@10: UGA’s Richard Samuel advises not to forget about him at tailback | UGA sports blog
March 20th, 2012
10:05 am
[...] You may have seen the story last week where Georgia Athletic Director Greg McGarity said a statue honoring Herschel Walker was not a high priority for UGA at this time. A quick update: You can still vote in our poll to share your feelings on a Herschel [...]
Deven
March 20th, 2012
10:52 am
McGarity is an absolute idiot if this is his argument. Herschel is one of the greatest athletes the NCAA has ever seen. If ANYBODY is deserving of a statue on UGA’s campus, it’s Herschel.
TheAlpha&OmegaDawg
March 20th, 2012
11:26 am
Then what is the priority. Herschel is the Greatest football player in Georgia Bulldogs history. He is also the greatest running back in college football history. He was a key factor in winning the 1980 National Championship, and won the Heisman Trophy in his junior year. Make it happen and cut out the politics
Fats OKelly
March 20th, 2012
1:24 pm
Dont kiss Walker’s Hiney anymore. You did enough in the 80’s Thats enough