Jarvis Jones: ‘It’s week by week and we can’t get ahead of ourselves’
THEY SAID IT
“It was a very good game. It was hard-fought. Georgia Southern has an outstanding football team. They run their offense well. They’re well-coached, even the little things like sprinting to the other side at the end of a quarter. They have a plan for everything, and they execute it well.”
Georgia coach Mark Richt on his impressions of the Eagles
“We were just shooting ourselves in the foot. We were driving the ball, but kept committing penalties or turning the ball over, which helped them stay in the game. We need to work this week to correct that and be sharper.”
Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray on the Bulldogs’ slow start
“It just took us some time to get comfortable with what they were doing and what plays they were going to run. Once we got comfortable, I thought we played a pretty good game. It definitely will help [playing Georgia Southern the week before Georgia Tech], but we have to come back to practice this week and work. This was a good test, but we have some things to fix.”
Georgia linebacker Alec Ogletree on defending the triple option.
“We just have to keep fighting. Having this game before Tech is good, but we have to get back to practice and focus on this week’s game plan, and then the week after focus on Atlanta. It’s week by week, and we can’t get ahead of ourselves.”
Georgia outside linebacker Jarvis Jones on not looking ahead to SEC Championship game
“I don’t think it’s ever good to lose. People say you learn a lot from a loss, but I can usually find a lot more things to learn from after win. Hopefully it’s not going break our stride going into the playoffs. This game today, win or lose, had no bearing on the playoffs. We are the automatic bid into the playoffs, so we can go to bed tonight knowing that we are in.”
Georgia Southern coach Jeff Monken on heading into the FCS playoffs
“It was a big penalty, but those things happen when you run this type of offense. We tried to bounce back from it, but they’re a good team. They made a lot of good plays, and we couldn’t ever get back in the game.”
Southern quarterback Jerick McKinnon on the chop-block penalty that negated a first-and-goal run at the end of the first half.
“That was a 10-point swing, so it was big. It kind of crushed there momentum and gave it to us. I think after we got settled, in we looked pretty good.”
Georgia tailback Keith Marshall on Bulldogs scoring at end of first half
“It was exciting to get to play in Sanford Stadium. We were playing them tough for awhile, but in the second half, I feel like they caught on to us. We’re disappointed to lose, but we played a great team today, and we will take this as a lesson leading into the playoffs.”
Southern B-back Dominique Swope on Saturday’s experience
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Put in Timeout by Ken Suguira,Filtered by Mark Bradley, Banned once by Bill King & Chip Towers but only slightly loved by Jeff Schultz.
November 18th, 2012
2:19 pm
Show where Tech has 92% special admits………
At the University of Georgia and Texas A&M University, 94% of freshman football players were special admits.
Now the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has gone ahead and quantified that by comparing average SAT scores and grade-point averagesGPAs of athletes with the rest of the college’s student body. Not surprisingly, football and men’s basketball players came out on the bottom, and some averaged hundreds of points lower on SATs than their classmates.
The Journal-Constitution studied 54 public universities, “including the members of the six major Bowl Championship Series conferences and other schools whose teams finished the 2007-08 season ranked among the football or men’s basketball top 25.”
We all suspect that big-time student athletes sometimes aren’t the best and the brightest academically.
Some highlights:
Football players average 220 points lower on the SAT than their classmates. Men’s basketball was 227 points lower.
University of Florida won the prize for biggest gap between football players and the student body, with players scoring 346 points lower than their peers.
Georgia Tech had the nation’s best average SAT score for football players, 1028 of a possible 1600, and best average high school GPA, 3.39 of a possible 4.0. But because its student body is apparently very smart, Tech’s football players still scored 315 SAT points lower than their classmates.
UCLA, which has won more NCAA championships in all sports than any other school, had the biggest gap between the average SAT scores of athletes in all sports and its overall student body, at 247 points.
Some “universal truths,” according to the Journal-Constitution:
All 53 schools for which football SAT scores were available had at least an 88-point gap between team members’ average score and the average for the student body.
Schools with the highest admissions standards, such as Georgia Tech, the University of Virginia, the University of California-Berkeley, UCLA, and the University of North Carolina, had the biggest gaps between the SAT averages for athletes and the overall student body.
Football players performed 115 points worse on the SAT than male athletes in other sports.
The differences between athletes’ and non-athletes’ SAT scores were less than half as big for women (73 points) as for men (170).
Many schools routinely used a special admissions process to admit athletes who did not meet the normal entrance requirements. More than half of scholarship athletes at the University of Georgia, the University of Wisconsin, Clemson University, UCLA, Rutgers University, Texas A&M University and Louisiana State University were special admits. . . At Georgia, for instance, 73.5 percent of athletes were special admits compared with 6.6 percent of the student body as a whole.
At a glance, here are the top 10 highest and lowest schools based on the average SAT scores of football players (out of a maximum 1600 score):
FOOTBALL SAT SCORES:
THE TOP 10
School, Average
Georgia Tech, 1028
Oregon State, 997
Michigan, 997
Virginia, 993
Purdue, 974
Indiana, 973
Hawaii, 968
California, 967
Colorado, 966
Iowa, 964
Really?
November 18th, 2012
2:37 pm
put in blah blah blah whatever
Wow!!! You have been a doosh on every ajc blog? Dude you are the coolest troll ever!!!!
Put in Timeout by Ken Suguira,Filtered by Mark Bradley, Banned once by Bill King & Chip Towers but only slightly loved by Jeff Schultz.
November 18th, 2012
2:49 pm
REALLY?…..I see you have been on all the blogs too.
JB
November 18th, 2012
6:26 pm
A nice new tradition would be to drop Tech and pick up GSU every year. They could use the money. The team is as good, maybe a little better than Tech, and EVERYONE would enjoy it from our point of view. Maybe Tech could pick up Notre Dame. A little easier for them.
DawgJohn
November 18th, 2012
7:08 pm
Yawn!!! That was really nice printing guys but have you heard that if we win the next 3 games our kids will win a ring!! Wow, I think KS went through something like we did with South Carolina. You can’t play those games over but guess what…………We don’t have to!!!!!
slawdawg
November 18th, 2012
7:09 pm
Hey Barnaby…..The points that the Tech defense gives up each week, kinda looks alot like “Tech SAT Scores!” Pass the Bud Light Please! Go DAWGS!!!!!!!
DawgJohn
November 18th, 2012
7:11 pm
Oh by the way……….this blog is about competing on the field……….not the classroom………Hello…….Hello………Are you there? OOOoops………Guess not…..Can you come out an play on the field? What does a loser write about ^^^^ (four arrows pointing up….I learned that in the classroom)
slawdawg
November 18th, 2012
7:17 pm
When are these Co-Tech (TEX) crybabies gonna realize that when you step on the football field, nobody gives a damn about your SAT score? Shut up, line up, & take this DAWG ass whoopin like a man! Nobody buys a ticket to the game because they are impressed with your SAT score…..stupid!
FaithfulDawg 87
November 18th, 2012
7:45 pm
Barnaby: You are a moron! Tech is not that great academically. Yes, good engineering program, but other majors? Not so much. I graduated from UGA (now have a PhD and have taught at several major universities) and have a number of friends and colleagues who graduated from Tech. Trust me, nothing to write home about. Are you seriously claiming that your athletes have higher SAT and GPA than Harvard, Yale, Stanford, BC, Notre Dame (who cuts NO slack in admissions requirements for any athletes, by the way), UNC, Wake Forest, etc. etc.? SERIOUSLY!??! Grow up.We kick your butts in football, deal with it.
Michael
November 18th, 2012
8:07 pm
It is now a three game playoff. GT is part of the playoff now no matter what their ranking is.
FB
November 18th, 2012
10:05 pm
GT is better than Southern. It will be close at half and our lines should dominate from then on.
I was hoping Notre Dame would lose. Now I want to meet them in Miami! UGA vs. ND with a freshman RB! Sound familiar!
Statesborodawg
November 19th, 2012
8:21 am
where are all the mark richt haters now calling for his head….. Fake fans .. GO DAWGSSSS
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