Friday 9:57 am July 30 2010 Dawg Moment(s) of ... I have been remiss in my duties. I have promised you one Bulldog moment per... ---------------------------------------
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Wednesday 8:59 pm July 28 2010 Re:All Time Wins averagedawg wrote:
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Although season tickets are again sold out, Georgia will put a “limited number” of single-game tickets to three home football games on sale to the general public next week.
Tickets to the Sept. 4 season opener against Louisiana-Lafayette, the Sept. 18 game against Arkansas and the Nov. 6 game against Idaho State will be available starting at 9 a.m. Tuesday by phone (1-877-542-1231) and online (www.georgiadogs.com). The tickets are $45 apiece.
The tickets are available because the opposing team did not require as many seats as for some other games and/or because UGA season-ticket holders did not request as many additional seats as for some other games. Georgia typically has a small number of single-game tickets available to the general public for a couple of home games each year, but it’s surprising that the Arkansas game — the Bulldogs’ first SEC home game and a potential matchup of Top 25 teams — is available.
Georgia said the single-game orders will be filled on a …
Georgia will be the first SEC team to start preseason practice when the Bulldogs take the field at 3:25 p.m. on Monday. By the end of next week, every SEC team will be in camp. Each team can have 29 practices, the NCAA-allotted maximum, before the opening game.
Georgia generally will practice every day except Sundays through August, with two-a-day drills planned for only one day (Aug. 9).
Here, FYI, are the calendars for SEC teams:
Team First practice First day/full pads First game
A hot rumor spread from the West Coast on Wednesday that the USC football team would come to Atlanta to play Georgia in the 2011 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game. (It spread the new-fashioned way, from Twitter to message boards.) But Gary Stokan, the game’s president, denied the rumor when I called to ask him about it Wednesday night.
He said there have been talks with USC about a possible appearance in the 2011 game — but not, he said, against Georgia.
“Georgia is not a possibility for 2011,” Stokan said.
He said UGA, through former athletic director Damon Evans, expressed interest in playing in the season-opening game in the Georgia Dome at some point in the future but indicated the next few years wouldn’t work schedule-wise.
Georgia is scheduled to open the 2011 season against Louisville in Athens.
As for USC, Stokan said Trojans coach Lane Kiffin sent him a text message in February to suggest a 2011 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game matchup against his former team, Tennessee. “It’d be a …
Georgia’s starting quarterback has never played in a college game, but the extensive experience around him has Mark Richt notably enthused about the Bulldogs’ offense.
“I’d much rather have that kind of maturity around a young quarterback than a very veteran quarterback surrounded by a bunch of puppies,” Richt told the Greater Atlanta Bulldog Club this week.
Particularly comforting to Richt is the experience on the offensive line, where senior Chris Davis has 37 career collegiate starts, senior Clint Boling 36, junior Ben Jones 23, junior Cordy Glenn 22 and senior Josh Davis 9. That’s a combined 127 starts.
Boling, Jones and Glenn have started since their true freshman seasons and Chris Davis since his redshirt freshman season.
“They played before they should have had to play,” Richt said, “but now they’re mature. They’re so much more ready for these games. They’re bigger; they’re stronger; they’re wiser. They have the confidence to know they can play in any SEC venue and have …
(Click here for lots of notes from last night’s Greater Atlanta Bulldog Club meeting.)
Georgia linebacker Akeem Dent, a projected starter, had surgery early this morning on an injured toe and is expected to be sidelined for four to six weeks, UGA said.
That timeline means Dent will miss most, if not all, of preseason practice and makes him questionable for the Sept. 4 season opener against Louisiana-Lafayette.
Georgia said Dent injured his left big toe in an off-field accident last week. Details on the injury were not released.
Dent had outpatient surgery performed at St. Mary’s Hospital in Athens by orthopedic physician Dr. Joe Johnson, the UGA football team’s foot and ankle specialist.
The surgery came on the morning after coach Mark Richt told the Greater Atlanta Bulldog Club that the team seemed set to enter preseason camp “the healthiest we’ve been since I’ve been at Georgia.”
Dent, a senior from Atlanta, came out of spring practice No. 1 on Georgia’s depth chart at …
OK, here’s the final word (I think) on whether the Bulldogs will have any two-a-day practices this summer:
They’ll have one session of two-a-days.
Georgia’s original practice schedule called for no days of double drills, but the revised schedule calls for two practices on Aug. 9. Otherwise, the Dogs will have single practices almost every day in August except for Sundays, when they’ll be off.
“My goal with this whole thing was . . . instead of the old ‘let’s break them down and build them back up’ . . . was to just build them up from the get-go,” Mark Richt said Monday night before speaking to the Greater Atlanta Bulldog Club gathering at the Cobb Galleria Centre. “We get two more weeks of really good [weight-]lifting cycle. . . . When we start the season, I’m hoping we’ll be stronger and healthier. Plus, when you go a lot of two-a-days, you tend to fatigue, tend to pull muscles. I’m trying to keep that from happening if possible.”
The NCAA has informed the University of Georgia that investigators will interview one UGA student-athlete “to determine his knowledge of or involvement in, directly or indirectly, any violations of NCAA legislation,” according to a document obtained Monday by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The athlete’s name was redacted before the document -– a copy of an e-mail from the NCAA to UGA -– was turned over to the AJC in response to an open-records request.
The e-mail was sent by NCAA Assistant Director of Agent, Gambling and Amateurism Activities Marcus M. Wilson to UGA Assistant Athletic Director of Compliance Eric Baumgartner shortly after the NCAA informed UGA by phone last Wednesday that investigators would come to the Georgia campus to conduct an “inquiry.”
The probe is believed to be the latest in a series of investigations of possible improper benefits received by college football players from sports agents. Investigations also are …
A few quick items to start the week (more later today):
The University of Georgia has placed a want ad for what might well be your dream job: running the Bulldogs’ athletics department.
UGA posted the ad for its vacant athletic-director position on the NCAA’s website. The ad says the position “requires someone who has considerable expertise in intercollegiate athletics management, a keen business sense and an appreciation for the important role athletics plays in a great public university.”
Eighteen “duties and responsibilities” of the job are listed, ranging from “coordinating the recruitment, selection and evaluation of all coaches” to “serv[ing] as the primary spokesperson of the Department.”
Interested? Click here for the ad, which includes info on how to apply.
Georgia’s annual Bulldog Club tour ends Monday night with the “Celebration of Georgia Athletics” at the Cobb Galleria Centre. Social begins at 5:30 p.m. and program at 7 p.m. Admission and parking are …
Amazing, how quickly the subject changes in college athletics. When the SEC held its spring meetings in Destin, Fla., in early June, the dominant topic was conference expansion/realignment. Seven weeks later at Media Days, that subject was hardly broached, replaced by the new Hot Topic: the agent mess.
And for that matter, I only heard two questions in Hoover about Damon Evans. The news cycle moves fast.
One of my favorite moments of Media Days was hearing Derek Dooley praise his high school coach, Billy Henderson, from the stage. “Probably had as big an impact on my coaching style as anybody,” Dooley said. “Just an incredible way with people.” I had the good fortune of covering Henderson’s Clarke Central High School teams long ago, and it was nice to hear Dooley spreading the word about the greatness of his old coach.
One more thing from Dooley on stage, talking this time about his dad Vince:
HOOVER, Ala. – More than 85 percent of the voters in the SEC’s annual preseason media poll picked Florida to again win the East Division, with Georgia the choice to finish second.
The Gators got 153 of 177 votes to win the East in the survey, announced Friday as SEC Media Days wrapped up. Georgia got 15 first-place votes, South Carolina eight and, inexplicably, Vanderbilt one.
Alabama was the media’s overwhelming pick to win the West Division, with Arkansas second.
And in the SEC Championship Game, Alabama will beat Florida, according to the poll. The Crimson Tide drew 143 of 177 votes to win the Dec. 4 game in Atlanta, while the Gators got 17 votes. Two voters picked Georgia to win the championship game.
Now, it should be noted that the preseason media poll does not have a good track record for predicting the SEC champion. Only four times in the past 18 years has the team picked to win the league actually done so.
The media correctly forecast Florida’s championships in …
Georgia will enter preseason camp on Monday with just three scholarship quarterbacks on its roster.
About the last thing it can afford is to lose starter Aaron Murray to injury.
It’s a good thing for the Bulldogs that what Murray described as a “conditioning accident” left the redshirt freshman sporting only a shiny purple bruise under his left eye this week. He said it won’t keep him off the practice field.
Murray said it happened during an agility drill on Tuesday called `Chase the Rabbit.’
“One person has a belt connected to another person with a belt and the belt can break,” Murray said. “If you’re the chaser, you don’t want the belt to break and if you’re the rabbit you want to juke the guy behind you and have the belt break. I was the chaser and I got too close at the start to the guy and it went straight to the cheek.”
When you’re the starting quarterback at Georgia, even minor injuries will get attention.
Gearing up here for Georgia’s preseason practices that get rolling on Monday afternoon.
Before the grind of August kicks in, Georgia’s coaches already have done a summer breakdown of opponents on their 2010 schedule.
Offensive coordinator Mike Bobo explained earlier this month about the work that the coaching staff does to get ready for the season.
There’s a full breakdown on the first six opponents—Louisiana-Lafayette, South Carolina, Arkansas, Mississippi State, Colorado and Tennessee. And an “in-depth look” at teams in the SEC East and Georgia Tech. Bobo said he takes about two or three days to study each opponent and comes up with a base gameplan that he puts on paper.
Rep. Paul Broun voted against $33 billion in funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Tuesday, but he says he still supports the troops. The bill contained additional funding for projects like the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Fund, and improvements to the Port of Guam.
“As a Marine, I understand the importance of ensuring our men and women in uniform have the resources necessary to successfully complete their mission,” Broun said in a news release. “In fact, I firmly believe that one of the primary responsibilities of the federal government is to ensure a strong national defense. However, I am disappointed that Congress waited until the last minute to pass this bill and used vital funding for our troops to pass over $25 billion of unrelated projects.”
Georgia’s 2010-11 men’s basketball schedule isn’t yet out but its season opener will be against Mississippi Valley State at 7 p.m. on Nov. 12 in Stegeman Coliseum.
Georgia will also get a visit this coming season from Xavier, according to a tweet from Musketeers coach Chris Mack earlier this month.
“Get your plane tickets to Athens, GA for February X fans,” he wrote.
Georgia coach Mark Fox said he didn’t know if the contract with Xavier was signed yet, but said that “it’s in the works.”
The pairings for the Old Spice Classic on Thanksgiving weekend in Orlando have not yet been announced, but it looks like a Notre Dame-Georgia matchup in the opening round, according to a tweet from the Irish’s beat writer for the South Bend Tribune (h/t Georgia Sports Blog).
Well, the Athens-Clarke mayoral race is officially on.
It’s no longer the province of those blessed few who are actively involved with local politics, nor the even fewer who are paid to watch them, such as myself. Spencer Frye is going on the radio, taking his campaign to the masses. From Team Frye:
Spencer Frye’s campaign for Mayor will be airing a radio ad this week touting his experience.
As Executive Director of the Athens Area Habitat for Humanity, Spencer Frye interacts with several major departments in the Athens-Clarke County government: planning, inspections, public works, and human and economic development. Spencer manages the budget of one of the largest non-profits in Athens and manages a staff of 13 employees on a daily basis. It is a difficult job, indicated by the fact that there were five executive directors in the preceding six years before Spencer became director.
With his candidate of choice, Eric Johnson, out of the race, U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston is throwing his support behind Nathan Deal in the gubernatorial runoff.
"I encourage conservative Republicans in Southeast Georgia to join me in rallying behind Nathan Deal to be Georgia's next governor. For those who supported Eric Johnson, Nathan is the natural fit for the Aug. 10 runoff.
"As a member of Congress, Nathan earned a perfect score from the American Conservative Union which speaks volumes for his conservative record.
"On immigration, he introduced legislation and led the fight to end birthright citizenship. His citizenship verification law slashed Medicaid fraud, cutting Georgia's Medicaid rolls by 160,000 and saving our state millions.
It will be very difficult for Shane Coley to make up 18 percentage points on Frank Ginn in Senate District 47 and win the runoff, but these endorsements will help. Coley is going to have to either win over almost all of Kelley Gary and Doug Bower’s supporters or do twice as good a job bringing his own voters back to the polls as Ginn.
Georgia starting linebacker Akeem Dent is expected to be sidelined for four to six weeks after undergoing outpatient surgery this morning at St. Mary’s Hospital for a toe injury.
The senior sustained the injury to his left first toe in an off-field accident last week, according to Georgia associate athletic director Claude Felton.
Dent will miss at least three weeks of preseason practice and his availability for the Bulldogs season opener against La.-Lafayette on Sept. 4 is in question. Georgia starts preseason practices on Monday.
Dent was the starting “Mike” inside linebacker for the Bulldogs. He made 32 tackles last season in eight games.
“If he went down, Christian Robinson would move over and (Marcus) Dowtin would move up,” inside linebackers coach Warren Belin said earlier this month.
Vanquished insurance commissioner candidate Gerry Purcell is backing state Sen. Ralph Hudgens, R-Hull, in the runoff.
Of the remaining candidates, Ralph Hudgens is the one candidate who is prepared to lead this office through the difficult times ahead. I have the utmost respect for him. He is a successful small businessman and leader. While others have been pushing paper, Ralph has created jobs and made payroll, year after year.
His opponent is an Atlanta insurance lawyer/lobbyist who was mentored by and maintains close ties to Commissioner Oxendine. After 16 years, we need a fresh start. Ralph's positive and clean primary campaign further demonstrates he has the ethics, the honesty, and the character that the people of Georgia deserve. Ralph took the high road in the campaign, while his opponent ran a divisive and toxic campaign.
That’s where applicants to replace Damon Evans, who resigned in the fallout of his June 30 DUI arrest, can send information for consideration or a nomination can be submitted, according to the listing posted on July 16.
HOOVER, Ala. — Auburn’s summer motto, uttered repeatedly by strength and conditioning coach Kevin Yoxall, captures all the necessary elements: It’s short, sweet and easily fits on a T-shirt.
HOOVER, Ala. — Imagine an SEC coaching trio consisting of a legend, a current giant and a newcomer heading to the mountains of northeast Georgia for an offseason vacation.
HOOVER, Ala. — Alabama had a conference-high 12 players selected to the All-SEC preseason team Friday at the SEC Media Days, and that group includes defending Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram.
HOOVER, Ala. — Despite 90 wins, two SEC titles and complete dominance of instate rival Georgia Tech, Mark Richt is still fielding questions about if he is coaching for his job this season.
HOOVER, Ala. — Pegged to be the best quarterback in the SEC in 2010, Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett is already popping up on preseason Heisman Trophy lists.
HOOVER, Ala. — Since taking over the Kentucky job in January, Joker Phillips has had only periodic conversations with his predecessor Rich Brooks, whose cell service doesn’t always cover the remote fishing holes of Oregon.
HOOVER, Ala. — Although Nick Saban and Urban Meyer figure to be embroiled in a hostile rivalry on the field for years to come, there is an issue the two agree on.
The Saturday, Sept. 4, SEC football game between Georgia and the University of Louisiana-Lafayette in Athens will be televised by the SEC Network with kickoff set for 12:21 p.m. ET.
Six Georgia football players have been named to the Southeastern Conference Coaches Preseason All-SEC teams, according to a league announcement on Tuesday.
Countdown to Kickoff will host its annual "Fan Day" charity event featuring Georgia football standouts and current NFL players on this Saturday, July 17.
University of Georgia redshirt sophomore tailback Dontavius Jackson has decided to transfer to another institution at the conclusion of the spring semester according to UGA head coach Mark Richt.
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