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Georgia can build on ‘history’

By Mark Bradley | Friday, March 21, 2008, 12:54 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Mark Bradley

Washington D.C. — As tough as it has been to put what Georgia just did in perspective, the truly tricky part comes next. Was the Bulldogs’ rise from last in the SEC East to being, as Xavier’s Derrick Brown told the Washington Post, “the best 14th seed ever,” an eight-day blip or the sign of a page having at last being turned?

“We made history,” said the freshman Jeremy Price, and nobody rose to object. And then, even more to the point: “We came over a big hump.”

While the history part was, and forever will be, nicer than nice, eight days in March 2008 will cut no ice when it’s January 2009 and the Bulldogs are playing in Thompson-Boling or Rupp or the O-Dome. But what Georgia learned about itself in those eight days will. It learned it doesn’t have to be a second-rate program. It learned it has the resources to compete and win at the highest level.

And that’s huge. For five years Georgia had Harrick Hell to brandish as an excuse for failure. (Even Dennis Felton, who started out saying he wouldn’t make excuses, was pointing toward the mess he’d inherited midway through Season 5.) But the Tony Cole scandal has now been replaced by a fresher, cleaner memory, and Felton can stop making the case for his stewardship and can simply tend to stewarding.

He’s a good coach. He proved as much at Western Kentucky, where basketball is taken far more seriously than the masses realize and where he won with teams both big and small, and he proved it when he turned Harrick’s not-always-receptive remnants into a decent team. But he’d hit a barrier, or so it seemed, and he needed something extraordinary to happen to surmount it. At what might well have been the last possible moment, he got it.

Jim Donnan once called this writer and asked: How does a team know when it’s ready to break through? Now as then, this writer had no real answer, except to suggest that you can’t really know — a team either does or it doesn’t. (Donnan’s teams, alas, never quite could.) Felton’s team just did. With every successful coach, there comes a moment when he takes his men to a place even they weren’t sure they’d reach. (For Mark Richt, see “Auburn 2002.”) Felton took his men to a title.

Felton can now visit recruits without having to apologize for Georgia’s failure to reach the NCAA tournament. He can point to the soon-to-be-raised championship banner as proof this school indeed cares about men’s basketball. He can present himself as the coach who just cemented his job, not one in imminent danger of losing it. If this coach hadn’t gone out of his way to make friends and sow good will in his first five years in Athens, those four days in Atlanta did it for him.

The SEC East is in flux. Kentucky is no longer the gold standard, and Florida just missed the Big Dance. Vanderbilt loses its best player. South Carolina is looking for a coach. Tennessee is ascendant, but there’s room to move in this division. Georgia has the opportunity to be one of the prime movers. It has good recruits — Howard Thompkins III and Dustin Ware — on the way and should be able to use its heightened profile to get better ones.

“To have the experience of winning a championship is almost priceless,” Felton said, and the doings of those eight dizzying days — four wins in the league tournament plus a meritorious loss to a No. 3 seed — changed everything we’d come to think about Georgia basketball. The program that just couldn’t get over the hump soared above and beyond in one Bob Beamon-esque bound.

What Felton called, even in his post-Xavier briefing, “the most difficult period in Georgia basketball history,” belongs to the past, and good riddance. He and his team have an SEC championship to protect and defend. There’s no reason this program can’t take these eight days and run with them for … oh, the next eight years.

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By Dawghead

March 21, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

This indeed can be a nice springboard and I hope it is. I’d like to have a UGA basketball team worth being excited about every year.

By Truthman

March 21, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

As an alumnus of UGA, I have said the one overarching thing the Bulldogs need to do to get into the elite ranks is KEEP GEORGIA KIDS IN GEORGIA!!!

How many great players have left the state (male and female) to go play at UNC or UK or Duke or UConn…some other place not named UGA?

Stop that and we’re on our way to the big time for a long time!!

By Left to Right

March 21, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

Time will tell if Georgia basketball has indeed made a breakthrough. The history of UGA basketball, unfortunately, has been of one (or two) steps forward followed by many steps back (Final Four appearance leading to nothing, Tubby Smith hiring leading to Ron Jirsa hiring, Jim Harrick hiring leading to probation).

Last Thursday morning, I believed Felton had to be let go. The play of the team since then has earned Felton a deserved reprieve. I now have a wait-and-see attitude towards his coaching. As you mention, there is no reason for UGA not to be great in basketball and those fans who fret about UGA never being able to attract a good coach are simply displaying a defeatist attitude.

P.S. I would argue it was the “Hobnail Boot” game when Richt showed his program what was possible.

P.P.S. Mark, what was the context of Donnan calling you for advice on what it took to get a team over the hump?

By JMD

March 21, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

I am not a fan of UGA athletics (love Tn teams) but I admire Dennis Felton as a coach; He has done the right things for UGA and is well respected. Even with the losing record this year he has positioned UGA for a more competitive progam that stands well with the UGA reputation as a great public university.

By Pat

March 21, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

Right now Felton’s biggest challenge is keeping his entire roster around until the opening tip next season. That may prove to be a bigger accomplishment than winning the SEC tournament.

By Mr Wrestling#2

March 21, 2008 2:24 PM | Link to this

The truth man spoke the truth

By Mike

March 21, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

Coach Felton has raised the bar at Georgia for current players and recruits. He runs a clean program and expects his young men to be students first, athletes second.

Name me another NCAA tournament coach that has DISMISSED TWO starters from the teams initial roster and still wins his conference.

By BOBO

March 21, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this

IT SHOULD BE SIR COACH FELTON

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT ,COACHING THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN TO OUR HOMETOWN TEAM.

By Blake

March 21, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this

Georgia can’t get or keep all of the top high school players because not everyone desires to go there for athletics or academics. Obviously there are several other choices that are far better. Indiana, LSU, South Carolina and others will soon come calling on Coach Felton. Be careful what you asked for earlier in the season bulldog fans and sportswriters.

By greg

March 21, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this

Hey Mike. Let’s keep some perspective. All of the players who have been dismissed for personal or academic reasons were recruited by you-know-who. Poor recruiting? When you add it the guys who voluntarily walked away from Felton — K. Johnson, Y. Idrissi, C. Toney, Singleton — it’s little wonder we always have a short bench. With all of the basketball talent in Atlanta, we starte ONE Georgian yesterday. The others were from Wisconsin, NY, Virginia and Kentucky. There are many clean programs with much less chaos than Felton’s.

By defactodawg

March 21, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

Two weeks ago in my local column, I wrote that it was time for Georgia Head Basketball Coach Dennis Felton to be terminated.

Now, I take back my call for Felton�s job and offer congratulations to the coach of the 2008 SEC Basketball Tournament Champion Georgia Bulldogs.

But, should the Bulldogs return next season to their woeful play, falling again into the SEC cellar and missing out on post-season play, I�ll once again join the chorus calling for Felton�s job. And next time, I�ll be unable to take it back.

By Duke

March 21, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this

Greg, it wasnt poor recruiting on Feltons part. It was a hard time when he was recruiting those players. He had to go out on limbs on kids with any kind of problems or else he would have had nothing. Lets not forget that he has a great class coming in and that kind of includes Jeremy Jacob, who was red shirted. Although he has some experience. Watch for him and Chris Barnes to have great seasons along with an up and coming Albert Jackson. Great job dawgs and Felton. Keep it going.

By Dustin

March 21, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this

This was a nice 3-day stretch, but let’s not kid ourselves. We’re not UK, UT, or UF, and we can’t compete with those schools for the premier prospects. Felton has done a terrible job for 4.9 years, and now one weekend is suppposed to make us forget about all that? If we really want to be thought of as a team on the rise nationally, we need to figure out how to get a coach like Donovan or Pearl to come take over the program. I think for the right price we can have any coach we want, starting with those two.

By Tee

March 21, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

I must say that I am extremely proud of the basketball team for winning four games in three days to make the NCAA tourney, and were in the Xavier game until the end. I hope we can keep the momentum going into next year, but we must do a bettr job of keeping the Georgia kids in Georgia, men and women. I do agree with Truthman…There is outstanding talent throughout the state and not just Atlanta, which I think UGA has made a big mistake. They focus so much on recruiting Atlanta kids (who go elsewhere) that they give me the impression that there is no one else outside of Atlanta that can play. I hope coach Felton and coach Landers keep that in mind when recruiting. I know we can’t get all of them, but we must do a better job of keeping some of the elite talent in GA!!!!

By Rod

March 21, 2008 4:23 PM | Link to this

Mark, Why would Donnan ask your advise on how to get over the hump? LMAO, Sports newspaper opinionist are so full of theirselves. LOL

By durrtydogg

March 21, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

***ATTENTION****

TO ALL GA HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PLAYERS.

STAY IN STATE AND LET’S PUT UGA ON THE BASKETBALL MAP! WE HAVE THE TALENT. LET’S DO IT!!!

By Bobby Cox

March 21, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

IT’S ALL DOWN HILL FROM HERE FOR DOGS.

By FL DAWG

March 21, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this

UGA B-Ball has a long ways to go and it is a slow process. We played a great four game stretch. Congrats to CDF and the entire team. This was one of the many steps in the journey.

Now CDF must move the team forward from here. He must recruit and coach extremely well next year. We lose Gaines and he must be replaced, we lose Bliss and while he was not a great player, he was a great Bulldog. Thanks to both of those guys for being bulldogs. It will be hard to replace their leadership. The on court leadership those guys earned will be hard to replace. Players are going t

By FL DAWG

March 21, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

…players are going to have to step up to fill the void.

By BirdMahn

March 21, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

Wait!!! Georgia has a basketball team???

This season will be nothing more than a blip on the radar, like there Final Four appearance 20-something years ago. That’s the REAL truth!

By Johnson

March 21, 2008 5:19 PM | Link to this

AJC: Thanks for putting Moreno and FOOTBALL back on the Georgia homepage.

By Marshall

March 21, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this

Dustin:

Right on target - somebody who actually has a brain on this blog. BUT, unfortunately Damon opened his big mouth and promised Felton another year after a losing regular season and as you said, 4.9 bad seasons, so we’re still stuck with him. I wish Damon would put in next years contract that if Georgia has a anither losing season, then he’s fired - no matter what.

By Reality Check

March 21, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this

Storied run? UGA managed a four game winning streak against four unranked opponents to win the weak SEC. They folded against Xavier. They wouldn’t have even made it to the quarterfinals in the ACC tourney.

None of it was magical, it wasn’t a Cinderella story or whatever anyone wants to call it.

They managed a four game streak against unranked opponents. They got beaten by the next ranked opponent they faced. That about sums it up.

By reality check

March 21, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this

Dude, I don’t know whether you are trying to steal my blog name or just don’t realize I’ve been posting as reality check on this blog for over 2 years, but either way you need to use another name to express negative views about Georgia

By honest_abe

March 21, 2008 5:59 PM | Link to this

to those of you that say that georgia has let its great in state players slip away, get a grip. why would one of georgia’s finest choose to come to georgia in the past five years? after all the negative press after the harrick fiasco. also, georgia had some of the worst bball facilities (of course some of that was alleviated with the new practice facility but stegeman is still a dump) for a major division one program, couple that with the hiring of an relatively unknown coach. couple those factors together and you can plainly see why georgia maybe wasn’t the first choice for the top in-state talent. felton still got the best player in georgia at that time louis williams to commit. too bad he left for the nba. felton’s done an admirable job with the situation he was put in. last weekend was the first stroke of “good luck” he’s had in five years. i just have this really good feeling, just like mr. bradley here that the next few years are going to be really darn good for uga. one last thing. you know you have a good coach when you see players develop. gaines and bliss were completely different ball players after four years with felton. they became exponentially better. look at billy humphery. his on court play has matured and he’s become a more efficient team oriented player. can’t leave out ajax! this guy couldn’t get out of the way of his own shadow. now look at his little hook shot and confidant play. he has developed under felton. which just tells me zach swansey, jeremy price, chris barnes and troy brewer are all going to be THAT much better come fall of next year. much to look forward to dawg hoop fans!

goooo dawgs!!!!

By honest_abe

March 21, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

sorry for all the typo’s and grammatical mistakes. hope you got my point.

to the fake reality check: what you talking bout willis? sure winning the conference championship with only 8 scholarship players is nothing to be in awe of. you’re dead on, felton only had 3 true freshmen in his rotation. i mean seriously, beating two tournament teams on the same day? whats so impressive about that? ya 4 teams in 3 days. no biggie we see teams that do 4-12 in the conference win their tournament all the time.

such a dolt. must be one extremely lonely techie. bah!

By Gen Neyland

March 21, 2008 6:35 PM | Link to this

Tornado or not, the road in the 2007-2008 season went through Knoxville…Good show in the SEC Tourney for the Dawgs, but the lackluster performance of the regular season earned them a 14th seed in the big boys tourney. Wait till next year is what we hear from the Gamechickens of South Carolina ( pick a sport ). Elevate in the regular season and rewrite this feel good story next year after the fact…if applicable…

By Bravesfan79

March 21, 2008 9:04 PM | Link to this

Man yall UGA fans should stick to football where you actually know something about the sport your talking about. Felton is a good coach and his team overachieved this year.
Yall were wrong when you wanted him fired, and your wrong when u expect UGA to be anything but a middle of the pack SEC team. (ESPECIALLY next year!)
Next year things will be back to normal and GT will be in the NCAA’s and UGA will be lucky to be in the CBI.

By Reality Check

March 21, 2008 10:43 PM | Link to this

Dude, I don�t know whether you are trying to steal my blog name or just don�t realize I�ve been posting as reality check on this blog for over 2 years, but either way you need to use another name to express negative views about Georgia

Pretty pathetic that you are claiming a name on a board that doesn’t register them. Perhaps you should just use “butthead”.

The SEC is weak this year and the tourney is proving it out. Real ballers play in the ACC.

By Dawg2

March 21, 2008 10:47 PM | Link to this

Blake, your either uninformed or stupid or a Bitter Yellow Jacket.

Georgia is a fine academic institution, usually battling it out with North Carolina, as the number one public Liberal Arts University in the country.

Athletics, p-l-e-a-s-e…

Mens basketball is the one sport that we have struggled with. Felton is the right coach. The entire team is on schedule to graduate. Outside of maybe Duke, I’m willing to bet you that there isn’t another Division One team that can make that claim.

Felton will stay, he will recruit the right players, UGA will win, which will give you one more thing to add to your list of reasons to be a Dawg Hater.

Finally, show a little class and go to your own blog.

By Joe

March 21, 2008 11:22 PM | Link to this

Congrats to the UGA Team for a gallant representation in the NCAA Tourney. Best of Luck to the Xavier Musketeers in their attempt to win,, amidst a mid-major status, with the elite teams of the SEC, Big East, ACC, etc. Go Muskies!

By glw

March 22, 2008 1:20 AM | Link to this

Like many, I thought that Felton had reached the end of his tenure, but after last weekend, I definitely felt he had finally turned the corner. He made his players believe in themselves and that the future can be bright. He definitely earned a reprieve and I am taking a wait and see approach to next year to see how he builds on the late season success. Some of the key things I will look for next year are: 1. Can Woodbury and Humphrey be not only offensive leaders but team leaders next year. 2. Can Jackson, Price continue to improve on the inside. 3. Are the freshman as good as advertised particularly Thompkins and Ware.

By pe coach

March 22, 2008 2:10 AM | Link to this

this is why I teach kids. Values are forever. This coach ran in the way it should always be. Team. No me. Beautiful job. I’m glad they jelled. Just think if it took one more year and we went with another snake. class 0f 92 rest in peace Alec Kesler

By Fred

March 22, 2008 3:13 AM | Link to this

Georgia showed that it has the talent. Does it have the coaching staff though? They had that game won and lost their poise the first time things got tough. Sundiata (bless his heart) decided he WAS the team and went 1 on 5 for a good bit of the second half. As soon as he started that crap, coach should have brought him to the bench, calmed him down, and sent him back in to play with the other 4 guys as a TEAM. Live and learn. He is good, the team is good. UGA should do well next year. Win a National Championship? I wouldn’t rule it out. The TEAM is good enough, but one man alone is not. I think he learned (or will learn after he looks at the tapes). Either way, they gave us fans much more than we had any rights to expect and I for one am proud of them and proud to be a BULLDAWG fan. Good job men. As we rednecks would say, You done good.

Thank you for a great end to a long season. The future looks bright for you fellers and we fans are looking forward to the ride.

By Fred

March 22, 2008 3:21 AM | Link to this

Oh and Mark, nice column. You failed to mention (because it didn’t run well I suppose( that Georgia lost a bunch of players due to thugginess (yeah I just made up that word). the guys that WERE NOT thugs took a while but they gelled at the end. My last post may have seemed critical of the coach but I did not mean it as such. He took what he had left and turned those boys into men. Anyone who watched the SEC tourny and the NCAA game can not help but be excited about next year.

By the ritz blitz

March 22, 2008 4:45 AM | Link to this

Good job Coach Felton!!

By AltamahaDawg

March 22, 2008 7:42 AM | Link to this

Fred, the hope is that as valuable as Gaines was, sometimes the other guys respond when they arent waiting for the “other guy” to do it all. Case in point, Humpreys. Will certainly be a different philosophy next year. True point guard and more post players.

By AltamahaDawg

March 22, 2008 7:51 AM | Link to this

The thing is, fake rc, everyone on this blog knows who Reality Check has been all these years. So no, its not a registered name, but when every single person in here thinks only a “butthead” would insist on using somebody elses tag, which gentlemen’s agreement prohibits, is that a battle you really want to wage?

By Ken

March 22, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

It seems everyone has forgotten that Mark Bradley is a Kentucky booster. Sure, he would like to keep Felton as the Georgia coach for the next 25 years so Kentucky could beat them twice every year. The SEC tournament was a three-day abberation. See what UGA does next year. I predict another finish in the bottom half of the East division. We may never have a basketball program like our football program, but i sense that Damon Evans again will be pondering whether to retain Felton or try to find a coach who can put us on the path to respectability.

By Seadoggy

March 22, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

Hey, I’m still not over the officiating in Thursday’s game. There are a lot of people on this blog talking about next year. What does next year matter when the outcome is as frequently as not controlled by the referees, rather than by the play of the teams?

It was like a switch was thrown Thursday afternoon about 1/3 of the way through the second half. Georgia was going back and forth between having a lead of 9 and 11 points, had been dominating the entire game and had no reason to begin fouling like their lives depended on it. Suddenly the refs started calling foul after foul on the Dogs. It destroyed their momentum, allowed Xavier to draw even and then handed the game to them on a silver platter.

I was particularly amazed at some of the ricky-ticky fouls called on Bliss. On most of them, I absolutely could not see any contact on the replay. None of them were flagrant. Both guys were playing extremely hard and well. Yet virtually all of the fouls went against Bliss and not his opponent.

Now, Bliss is not some dumb jock who can’t keep his head under pressure. He is a straight-A student who already has one degree and is working on another. He showed a lot of grace under pressure throughout the SEC tournament. It was easy to see from the looks on his face what he thought of the fouls being called on him. I really don’t know how he kept his cool and avoided having a string of technicals called on him.

In the end, Xavier was 27 of 33 FTA and Georgia was 3 of 5, an amazing disparity. If the fix wasn’t on, at some point the refs should have started equalizing the foul situation by calling a few on Xavier because, as I said, these were not flagrant fouls. Both sides were playing just as hard and aggressively. God knows, the refs had plenty of opportunities to blow the whistle on that guy who was mugging Gaines for practically the entire game!

It is obvious to me that the NCAA is at least as corrupt as the NBA. Regardless of whatever steps the NCAA may claim it takes to prevent refs from betting on the brackets, I do believe that it happens more frequently than anyone wants to admit.

And here’s another thing that bugs me. I wish I had a nickel for every time I have heard someone on ESPN or some other sports commentator make a remark about how teams have to pay their dues in the NCAA Tournament. They constantly comment on how this team or that team went one-and-out one year, then did better the next and finally got to the Eite Eight, Final Four or Championship Game the year after that. Of course, teams who have excellent recruiting classes several years in a row really do get better. However, I absolutelly believe that there is something to this “paying your dues” thing and that some refs feel compelled to keep the upstarts down.

I really do not see any reason to watch a sport where the referees don’t call fouls only where players are breaking the rules and playing too aggressively, but to actually control the outcome. What’s the point? I watch to see the players contend, not to try to divine which team the refs are going to push down or lift up.

The refs should not be the determining factor in the outcome of a game, but they certainly were in this one. This is a farce and a fraud. I’m done with this load of malarky.

By Gen Neyland

March 22, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this

Tag thieves, pedophiles and child pornograpy jerkwads rate the lowest of the low. If you’re gonna start posting, come in original or use the generic tag of BuLLdawg…Everybody uses it when they start posting…

By Gen Neyland

March 22, 2008 8:17 PM | Link to this

Whatever, GN-wanna-be. You sound like a redneck & an embarrassment to the Orange & White. I will get Fulmer to sit on your lap and make you feel better…

By PHIL

March 22, 2008 9:01 PM | Link to this

Someone at Xavier must have some incriminating pics of lots of zebras, because they did the same thing to Purdue today. Terrible.one sided officiating again.

As to the blame of Felton for recruiting those who have left or been forced to leave, that’s just an asinine argument. These are men, albeit young men. They make decisions themselves. There is nothing you can do to prevent them from making poor ones. Can we fire Adams for recruiting and personally oking the admission of Tony Cole? I wish we could.

As to the loss of in-state players, and someone in a previous blog mentioned Atlanta area players, did anyone read the article on the kid at Memphis in Fridays AJC? Why wasn’t he a Bulldog??? Being a UGA alum, this is almost funny to say, but it’s academics. He couldn’t get in. Can you believe that UGA actually has academic standards that are higher than other schools? Mercer and Brown would still be playing at Mississippi State or Auburn. MANY in state players can’t make the grade to get in here but they can get in Memphis or other similar schools. Look at Tech, they can’t put together a consistent program over there either and the same in state players left them as well. If you argue that Vandy, Stanford, and Duke all have much higher academic standards than UGA (or Tech), I’ll counter that there are a very finite number of young men who can both play a high level of Division I basketball AND accept the academic requirements of a Duke, Stanford or Vandy. UGA will never, ever have five players on the floor who considered going to Stanford, Duke, or Vandy.

Coach Felton has done an outstanding job wherever he has been. Let’s start fresh now and see what happens. I’m still not sure that he or anyone else at UGA for that matter, will be able to recruit, get and keep in school the level of players needed to be in the Sweet Sixteen every year.

By March FRAUDness

March 23, 2008 1:18 AM | Link to this

33-5. The NCAA Tournament is fixed, corrupt to the core. I can’t wait for the day that Miles Brand is perp-walked in shackles and an orange jumpsuit into a courtroom.

By X

March 23, 2008 4:13 AM | Link to this

Wow - apparently all the refs want Xavier to win. Take a look at last year’s tournament game against Ohio State and the non-flagrant/intentional foul on Oden at the end. Georgia had a nice run, but is it shocking a 3 seed beat a 14 seed? The SEC was pretty weak this year outside of Tennessee. The Big Ten was also fairly suspect, but again apparently the refs wanted Xavier to beat Purdue. I am just glad that a team with 28 wins and an RPI of 9 got the help - they certainly could not have won without them.

By Gen Neyland

March 23, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

Yee-haw, I’ve got another poser…Is this imposter from NC..? Go Vols

By Reality Check

March 23, 2008 6:04 PM | Link to this

Hansborough is half man half hogzilla

By AltamahaDawg

March 23, 2008 6:13 PM | Link to this

Felton needs a fedora

By Gen Neyland

March 23, 2008 6:35 PM | Link to this

After Phil Fulmer’s armpit farts nothing cools my jets like 311’s come original. word.

By Gen Neyland

March 23, 2008 10:27 PM | Link to this

Gen Neyland # 2…Not only does the reference to pedophiles and child pornography upset you, you seem to have a penchant for CPF’s armpits and CPF doing some lap sitting…Dude…Grab a Bud Light and meet me at the truck stop of your choice, coast to coast…Is this how it’s done, EMRBG..? BTW, Congrats to the Vols…

By Edgar

March 26, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

I see the comments in this column have digrested to topics that have little to do with UGA basketball but my comment is direct on. I watched all the games that I could this past weekend and wished that the UGA team was still in the bracket but alas they were beaten by a team that has gone on to the “SWEET 16”. And this Xavier team could go to the Final Four!! The Dawgs even showed how good they were by almost bush whacking Xavier. They’re over the hump. UGA can quit making excuses and feeling second rate about themselves because of that puke Harrick. They now know they can play with the best and can beat any team without the feeling of “being second rate”. Next season they will know that on Sunday selection day they will be there with a seed that will assure them of a top seed. Way to grow up Dawgs. You finally made it to an even level with your football brothers. NOW STAY THERE!!!

By Michael Elliott

March 26, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this