UGA blog finds new home
Morning all. As I’ve said a couple of times this week, we’re converting this blog over to a WordPress platform and it will be a permanent move the first of next week.
Those of you who are regulars probably know that I’m not what you’d call techno-wizard when it comes to these things. But from what I understand the technology offered in this new format should make the blogging and commenting experience better for all. Of course, I’ll be learning as we go along, too. But I’m hoping to provide more pictures and video and things like that which should bring the blog more to life.
Of course, this blog is nothing without all you guys so I want to heartily invite (read: beg) you to come over to the new site by CLICKING HERE ON THE NEW ADDRESS and save it in your browsers. As of Monday, Feb. 23rd, this will be the permanent home of the UGA blog you so love or, in the case of some of you, love to loathe. If you’d prefer to copy and paste or just memorize, the new address is: http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/.
See at the new place!
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Friday, February 17, 2006
Durham gets his due
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia is honoring former basketball coach Hugh Durham in Athens this weekend. He’s being roasted tonight at a dinner at Athens Country Club and a tribute is being held in his honor at halftime of the Vanderbilt game Saturday night.
It’s about time.
Durham is the Bulldogs’ winningest coach of all time with 298 victories and his 633 career wins are 25th in college basketball history. Bob Knight, Eddie Sutton, John Chaney, Lute Olson, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Calhoun and Jim Boeheim are the only active coaches who have more victories.
I, for one, am glad to see Durham get some recognition. Basketball people around the country often said that Georgia could never do better than Durham in terms of his coaching ability, competitiveness and willingness to stay put. They argued that great coaches will use Georgia only as a steppingstone, as Tubby Smith did, or it’d get stuck with a bad coach (Ron Jirsa) or a dirty one (Jim Harrick). Dennis Felton is definitely a good coach but, eventually, the Bulldogs may have to fight to keep him here.
It’s interesting to think what might have happened with Durham at Georgia if the athletics board would have chosen to roll-over his contract in the early 1990s. Do you think the Bulldogs would have been better off over the long haul if he had stayed until he retired, which he just did after last season at Jacksonville University? Or was change just inevitable and it was time to move on? When you think of Durham as a basketball coach, do you think of his Final Four run in 1983 and SEC championships or some of the bad stuff that happened during his tenure? In short, what will be his legacy?
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