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By Ft Worth Dawg

June 5, 2006 04:14 PM | Link to this

Yet another year that the SEC is a meatgrinder. Don’t forget that we’ve been told repeatedly that the 12 game schedule will mean more injuries and more chances for freshmen to play. UGA’s defense seems to be setting itself up for an extra-special year. Stafford alone will supply sufficient blog topics until after the bowl games. UGA’s schedule seems very favorable this year. Is South Carolina better than Boise State last year? Did Spurrier really recruit well after ticking off all the SC high school coaches early on? UGA’s potential at running game should help take the heat off of whoever is at quarterback. This may be the year of the toss-sweep at UGA (run more reverses too). If this is projected as a down year then so be it as UGA has done fairly well in projected down years under Coach Richt. Go Dawgs!

By dave

June 5, 2006 04:36 PM | Link to this

Nice analysis Carter. I believe that Auburn and South Carolina will do better this year than what most prognosticators think simply because there is no QB controversy. Hopefully they won’t win at the expense of the Dawgs.

By Lee

June 5, 2006 04:45 PM | Link to this

This is the wide open year for a 6 team race for the conference title with 3 teams from each division, Ga, Tn and Fl in the east and LSU, Aub and Ala in the west, dark horses SC and Ark make life interesting for those who go to sleep playing them. The 3 freshmen QB will get playing time and a glimpse of the future or the now. Auburn may have the most returning talent along with Tn and Ala, so I would make them the favorites to win. Fl still isn’t sure on how Meyer the cryer can hold up in the SEC. Sept approaches quickly and we’ll know quite a bit as Oct 7 and the heat of the schedule kicks in.

By godawg

June 5, 2006 04:49 PM | Link to this

Good blog Carter! Thanks for doing a new one and for the obvious time and thought you put into it. I don’t agree with all of it, but that’s what it’s all about anyway, right?

Couple of thoughts after the first read:

McFadden better than Irons? Don’t think so based on what I saw last year. This year? Don’t know. Maybe it’s (let’s hope)Lumpkin. That’s why we play the games.

War Eagle on the other blog states, “according to the Clarion-Ledger newspaper, Schaefer their highly recruited JUCO player and former Tenn. has not qualified. He failed to complete required courses to enter Ole Miss.” Apparently he can possibly fulfill the requirements this summer but he may not be at Ole Miss this fall. Who plays then?

By northwestDawg

June 5, 2006 05:14 PM | Link to this

Chip, you’re behind the times and I don’t understand why you said that the “Ole Miss. game would be the over/under game for Stafford. True freshmen QBs are starting all over the nation. You think that losing Inman causes the Dawgs to have over a 50% chance of losing the SC game? EXCUSE ME!!! He has the talent but his attitude sucks. I believe that you have made comments about how the “O” line underachived last year. Don’t wait, play Joe T some but give the ball to the franchise coming out of the shute. He’s going to make mistakes so make them early, learn and mid-season he’ll be playing like a soph. and in a rebuilding year, we’ll have a good chance of a 10 win season.

By godawg

June 5, 2006 05:25 PM | Link to this

NEWSFLASH from Tenersee:

University of Tennessee quarterback Jim Bob Cooter was suspended indefinitely from the team Monday after being charged with driving under the influence.

By reality check

June 5, 2006 06:16 PM | Link to this

Best Blog Carter has ever done. No others are even close.

Good analysis. I have nothing to add.

By kendall smith

June 5, 2006 08:24 PM | Link to this

Who said this was a rebuilding year? Oh, yeah, you same folks that said the same thing last year. CONCEDE NOTHING! With CMR in Athens, there are no rebuilding years. Go Dawgs…keep this 2-1 lead against free shoes.

By War Eagle

June 5, 2006 08:36 PM | Link to this

Lee,LSU is loaded with QB`s, they have an advantage with any injuries could occur to Cox, Wilson or other starters in the West. The East is Florida with Leake and Tedow. Tedow looks good in the spring game and will probably be a winner for the Gators down the road. UGA has many talent with their strong recruiting, unfortuantly QB is not like last year with a DJ.Matt Stafford will open some eyes, but 2006 is questionable. The bottom line is ? mark with UGA QB production, the rest is very good for the Dawgs. It will be a 3 team race with Vols making alot more noise than last year with a new OC. LSU or Auburn will play Florida for the SEC title and hopeful a BCS bid. UGA is a year away due to QB experience.There is always a possibility a young freshman or a previous backup can come in and make huge waves which could take another direction.

By War Eagle

June 5, 2006 09:01 PM | Link to this

This is MY personal predictions for QB production in the SEC for 2006. West, Brandon Cox,Auburn J. Russell,LSU West,Leake Fla. Mitchell and Ainge SC and Tenn.One of these teams will win SEC title.

By geechee

June 5, 2006 09:03 PM | Link to this

Carter this was an awesome column but you have to stop all this gloom and doom talk about playing in Columbia. First, it serves no positive purpose and secondly Mark Richt is the best coach in the SEC. We’ll be ready.

By geechee

June 5, 2006 09:53 PM | Link to this

RIGHT ON DIAMOND DOGS!!!!!!!!! This has become one incredible baseball team over the course of this season. I don’t even think they were ranked a month ago but they finished the regular season in the top ten. These guys just seem to get better every week and they play best when their backs are to the wall. GO DOGS!!!

By southwestdawg

June 5, 2006 10:07 PM | Link to this

godawg, just to let you know…irons average last year was only 5.1 while mcfadden’s was 6.3 (not even close) while rushing for over 1100 yds and he’s much faster. i hate that all the hype is going to irons this preseason

By GW

June 5, 2006 10:21 PM | Link to this

No Daniel Inman? Oh my gosh, just forfeit the first 2 games. Carter makes him sound like Herschel. We may be better without him.

By ConyersDawg

June 5, 2006 10:33 PM | Link to this

That would be funny if Schafer doesn’t make it in. If I was an ole miss qb I would have left the moment they named Brent the starting qb even though he had not been to school there yet just to stick it to them for not even letting them compete.

By northwestDawg

June 5, 2006 10:36 PM | Link to this

GW, did you read my post? Has anyone looked at the Reptiles schedule? They will have a pretty fair team but they’ll never win the SEC this year. geechee, my man you got it right!!!!!! How ‘bout ‘dem Diamond Dawgs!!!!!

By godawg

June 5, 2006 10:44 PM | Link to this

HOW ‘BOUT THEM DIAMOND DAWGS!!

Awesome game. Good coaching, right p’s @ right time. YOU GO JOEY!!! Kudos to Coach Perno. Rare late nite appearence by godawg in 1848 farmhouse in no-where TN w/slow dial-up but had to say * GO DAWGS!!* (I can’t believe I could get the game here on DTV).

SW Dawg, I did not know per carry ave., BUT did know how they looked against us. One, we shut down, the other, we couldn’t stop. Numbers don’t always tell the story.

As the Auburn sorority girl said at rush…”Bring on the Cocks!”

GO DAWGS!! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!

By godawg

June 5, 2006 11:10 PM | Link to this

Oh, and BuLLdawg…have at it son. I expect when I check tomorrow you will have a whole novel on what a piece of dung Coach Martin is/was and ALL the supporting links and data. YOU GO BOY!!!

AND to all ya’ll BuLLdawg detractors…The man’s got a fire… LET IT BURN!!! It ain’t hurt’in you, it will only burn others. If you don’t want to read everything, skip over it. I do from time to time, it’s not that hard.

By Robert

June 5, 2006 11:54 PM | Link to this

Matt Stafford will play in every game for Georgia this year and will start by the 3rd or 4th game. He will turn out to be the most talented and productive QB Georgia has ever seen and will be the MAN in the SEC.

Prediction: With Stafford improving every game, Dawgs and LSU will again be in the SEC Championship game and the Gators will lose three or four games this year, one being them Dawgs. Urban Myers will be on the HOT Seat in Gainesville.

By northwestDawg

June 6, 2006 12:45 AM | Link to this

godawg, hope you caught my blog thanking BuLLDAWG for the info he gave me as to where I could keep up with the Diamond Dawgs during the game. He has some good stuff I just wish he would break it up into smaller pieces. Robert, did you read my blog?

By BuLLdawg

June 6, 2006 06:14 AM | Link to this

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Who’s the Quarterback for Florida State, or has been since the day Coach Richt quit that gig for this one 6 years ago now ?

Oh…oh…ohhhh. Oh…oh…ohhh

Now, that was a Baseball Game. Facing the toughest Strength of Schedule in the nation of the Top Baseball Teams (SOS Number 8) was nothing for The Georgia Diamond Dawgs, as Monday Georgia continued to show that they are battle-tested in yet another thrilling Win over a Top Baseball Team 2006.

Shane Robinson is quite a Baseball Player for Florida State, but in the end, the Diamond Dawgs had more players as the Regional Most Outstanding Player was not Centerfielder Shane Robinson, but Georgia’s Centerfielder Joey Side who hit his 3rd Home Run of the Weekend Regional Championship for 12 Runs Batted In including also 2 doubles and a triple along with three laid-out Andruw Jones diving catches to end rallies.

Josh Morris, Georgia 1st Baseman, now has 23 Home Runs on the season, one short of owning the Season Record All-Time for a gritty Baseball Team who continues to prove that we should be playing each season in the NCAA Tournament, and especially as the Host.

Foley Field has now watched Georgia 8 times face ending their baseball season, and all 8 times Georgia Won.

Florida State troubles against The Diamond Dawgs in Athens continued, and for the first time since the NCAA went to this exciting 3-games in 3 days Super Regional Format to Advance to the College World Series, FSU did not make it.

Catcher Jason Jacobs from Florida but not recruited by Florida State, was outstanding behind the dish, and even more stellar on Offense where for a catcher – like myself – he flashed his speed on the base paths to catch Florida State by surprise legging out infield hits on routine ground balls, stealing bases, and generally upsetting the Premier ACC Baseball Program, keeping them short of Texas Longhorns in NCAA Baseball Tournament Wins on a day Texas too had been eliminated.

The SEC has 4 teams in the Super Regionals. No Conference has more. There were a host of other SEC teams that took it to the brink and fell short.

But, in the two Regionals where SEC and ACC teams battled it out, South Carolina Won the Virginia Regional (Remember my comments that Virginia was not a Great Baseball Team?) And, Georgia Won a Regional which Mike Martin Senior of Florida State stated that FSU deserved to be the Host and NOT Georgia. He would not shut up about the rain which gave FSU a huge advantage.

But, not even that would deny The BuLLdawgs.

Jonathan Wyatt in Left Field and Bobby Felmy of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in Right Field completes one of the Most Potent Outfields of all of College Baseball and all 3 could find themselves with a Minor League Contract. All 3 flash the leather, have outstanding speed, power, and with their cannon arms have thrown out – including FSU in this electrifying team effort – 25 Base Runners this season.

FSU had no answer for arms like Rip Warren for Georgia either. Rip was unhittable as the FSU bats just simply fell silent, except for Shane Robinson.

Yesterday, after the 1st inning - a Freshman Trevor Holder who did not have a winning record before the game pitching against the best baseball teams in the nation including Tech whom he beat at Turner Field to run UGA’s record there against Tech to 4-1 – Holder Held Florida State to one batter getting a hit. And, now Holder does now after the exhilarating Win over yet a 3rd ACC Team Georgia does not have a Losing Record Against this Season, at 4-3 now and counting including now 2 wins his Freshman Year against ACC teams.

And, Redshirt Freshman Stephen Dodson shut down FSU bats, which just fell silent against Georgia but did great against cupcakes on their Number 78 SOS this season.

It was a moving stirring Win in front of a sold-out crowd at Foley Field, which had shipped in some of the worst little league umpires I’ve ever witnessed, especially behind the plate.

But, the Georgia Crowd was able to put the pressure on those bad calls by the umpires behind the plate all Regional long, and in the end – it didn’t matter.

Seemingly, every call went against Georgia.

But, the undaunting Joey Side, would not be denied as his 2-run homer (13th of the season) put FSU down and out.

Florida State managed two 3-run home runs the 1st game, but other than those two at bats, FSU could not hit their way out a wet paper bag putting up two single runs the entire rest of the Regional Match-up of two on the nation’s Top 10 teams.

How FSU was sent here with UGA the Number 7 Seed Nationally as the Number 10 seed, still needs some discovery; but now the SEC sends on 4 to Super Regionals and those game times will be announced this afternoon.

Georgia seems to be hot at the right time, have team speed, have a great fielding team, have home run power that sets up well for Rosenblatt Stadium’s short porches, hits for average, is especially adept against great pitching, has big innings seemingly at will, is a deep team, has solid starting pitching, and has a great bullpen.

Half the starters have played on College World Series’ teams here at Georgia, as this is now the 3rd time since 2001 that we are in a Super Regional, winning all the others.

And, certainly you have to like our chances against South Carolina too.

Too many, 5 bottom feeders, of the ACC cannot play Baseball at all for that conference to be better than the SEC with all 12 certainly very good Baseball Teams.

But, Georgia may be the Class of the Field.

Tech certainly has beaten a host of teams this season who made to the NCAA Baseball Tournament Tech has Never Won, but Georgia has.

Florida State never had either.

And, won’t once again.

15 runs UGA put up in 3 games against FSU’s Best Pitchers, saved by Mike Martin for Georgia only this weekend.

Georgia, on the other hand, ran out Freshmen Pitchers staying with David Perno’s Rotation all season long, no matter who the opponent – as Georgia simply put has played more of the NCAA Tournament Field than any team in the nation.

And, beat them.

Florida State, in the end, managed including the 2 home runs with men on of game 1, a grand total of but 9 runs.

You are not going to win many baseball games scoring 3 runs a game, not in college with the ping of the aluminum bats.

And, it was especially noteworthy that Tournament Most Outstanding Player Joey Side hit his Game Winning 2-Run Home Run off the Sign in Right Centerfield Gap of Foley Field that Reads : 1990 College World Series National Champion BuLLdawgs.

Georgia has an outstanding record when the NCAA does let us play Baseball in their little tournaments.

No matter whom it is the purposely set up as our obstacle the next game.

They figured Virginia would be next up.

I figured otherwise, and I was right.

It’s South Carolina, arguably one of the Best SEC Baseball Programs of All-Time.

I was glad Gene Beckerhoff was not calling last night’s game because twice Friday he called UGA, Georgia Tech and 3 more times in the games Saturday and Sunday, he called UGA the dolphins.

The announcers of last night’s game were very good, although frankly I prefer Matt Stewart to all of them.

Or, Buck Belue.

Georgia was on both Fox Sports Network Comcast Channel 48 all weekend while Tech was relegated to the CSS 45, and Georgia was simulcast on Channel 290 to the rest of the nation as well on the New Fox College Sports Network – Atlantic. FCSN Atlantic.

It is a bitter pill for FSU to shallow that every year so much hype, yet another Number 1 team in the nation early this season only to fall to UGA who did the same to 4 teams ranked Number 1 this season. And, again they go home.

Georgia may go home, but it will not be with a whimper.

Georgia plays great schedules in all sports, and is noted for it.

Georgia beats good teams.

Let the Record Book show please that Georgia beat Florida State in Baseball 2006.

And, let the records show that FSU is the Best Baseball Program of the ACC and has been forever. There is no one close.

Stimulating Win sure to propel Georgia Diamond Dawgs to much national publicity with 30 of our 33 players from this state.

I’d say we got the better of the Georgia freshmen shortstops.

Their SS could not throw out our Unearned Runner, who had hit the ball to the left of their 3rd baseman who got his glove on it or knee to have it bounce to the SS from Georgia on FSU’s team.

When he then scored, that was the difference in the game.

An unearned run.

The difference.

FSU didn’t hit the ball well against UGA, did not field the ball well against UGA, did not pitch particularly well against UGA, and made many questionable coaching decisions such as having a pitcher throw 123 pitches against UGA and not stealing and not using the hit and run and not bunting players over and generally proved that Mike Martin doesn’t understand get them on get them over get them in.

Georgia did and David Perno was especially vigilant in the dugout against what hopefully will be the worst umpires I hope to ever witness being shipped in here from God Knows Where to call a game of such importance.

Two of the nations’ top Baseball Teams this season.

One the Victor and one the Vanquished.

Again, as always for Mike Martin who doesn’t have the fire David Perno has.

The demeanor of the Coach is always reflected by their squads.

Always.

As it is in Business that an owner’s personality can be seen in his employees as well.

I think that was the difference on this weekend.

As I said before the weekend started.

Whew, that was a close one.

3-2.

Might as well have been 30 to Nothing.

Only it hurts a little more when you have players like Shane Robinson, mouth off about it always raining in Athens, brag before the Tournament is even played that you should be the Host, and play in fact the Number 78 Strength of Schedule with no where near the impressive Diamond Dawg Record against this NCAA Tournament Field as the Number 7 team in the nation.

In Baseball, as in all sports, you have got to want it.

David Perno and his boys of summer did.

Bring on South Carolina, yet another Great Baseball Program The Diamond Dawgs are going to just have to out-hustle, out-think, out-run, out-hit, out-pitch, out-field, and out-coach…somehow someway.

Omaha on my mind, but first things first for South Carolina is a Great Baseball Program too, as was Florida State, now down and out for the count yet again at the hands of the Diamond Dawgs.

3,612 attended.

68 Games now assured for The Diamond Dawgs.

Next up South Carolina Gamecocks, a Great Baseball Team.

The ACC doesn’t face such a set-up where two ACC teams play each other, with then one gone and one playing in the College World Series.

This is because the NCAA purposely carefully set-up their brackets so that the ACC did not face such a scenario.

But, that doesn’t make the ACC the better Baseball Conference because they have 4 chances to make the CWS and the SEC only has 3 chances.

Mike Martin could not get out of town fast enough for him.

He had to take yet more parting shots against Georgia, which I do not find complimentary one damn bit :

”I hope I never see you again. Not here, anyway.” Continuing his theme that Florida State would have won at their house, but lost to UGA at our house instead.

The ACC faces the SEC when Miami (Florida) faces Ole Miss in Super Regional play this weekend and when North Carolina faces Alabama this weekend, and the SEC is the better team of all 4 of those teams.

Meanwhile relative light weights Oral Roberts and College of Charleston face the other 2 ACC teams, Clemson and Tech – neither of whom have a Winning Record against UGA this season.

Georgia Diamond Dogs’ Record against NCAA Tournament Field 2006 :

3-0 versus San Diego (32-23) .

1-2 versus Alabama (41-19) .

2-1 versus Arkansas (38-19) .

1-1 versus Clemson (47-14) .

0-3 versus Ole Miss (40-20) .

2-1 versus Mississippi State (35-21) .

2-1 versus Georgia Tech (45-16) .

2-4 versus Vanderbilt (36-25) .

3-1 versus Kentucky (42-15) .

1-0 versus Jacksonville

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1-0 versus Sacred Heart

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2-1 versus Florida State (44-21) .

4-0 versus South Carolina (40-23) .

Georgia Diamond Dawgs (45-20) Strength of Schedule Number 8 in the nation, Ranked 7

24 of the 39 Games by Georgia this season against the in fact NCAA Tournament Field have been won by Georgia.

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Yes, I do like our chances as we have been hot all season - when you Win 20 Games against the NCAA Tournament Teams in one season, as we did this year so far with more Wins to come; however, I feel like Florida State should not be in Athens.

http://und.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/sched/nd-m-basebl-sched.html

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Anyone want to look up Tech’s Record against the NCAA Tourney Field this season ?

NCAA Brackets : http://www.ncaasports.com/baseball/mens/brackets/viewable/special64/2006/DI

Georgia Tech’s Schedule (SOS Number 50) : http://www.geocities.com/beesball/sked2006.html

Let’s see :

2-1 vs. Virginia

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1-2 vs. NC State

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2-1 vs. North Carolina

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1-2 vs. Georgia Diamond Dogs

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3-3 vs. Clemson

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3-0 vs. FSU

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4-1 vs. Miami of Florida

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3 more wins this last weekend against an easier field than UGA just faced.

And, Tech faces an easier task this weekend too.

In keeping with what the entire season has looked like for Tech and for Georgia and comparing the two schedules for the 2 clubs.

Tech has some impressive wins.

Just not over UGA.

And, more to the point, Tech has played far fewer games against the teams in the NCAA Baseball Tournament, and won far fewer of the games than has Georgia as well.

While UGA Won 24 Games against the NCAA Tourney Field, Notre Dame Won Zero, and Georgia Tech has now Won 19, 5 fewer wins over the Tournament Field than Georgia so far today.

While UGA played 39 Games (Number 8 SOS) against the NCAA Tourney Field, Notre Dame played 3, and Georgia Tech has played 29, ten (10) fewer games than Georgia has.

Oh…oh…ohhhh. Oh…oh…ohhh

By NoahRules

June 6, 2006 07:28 AM | Link to this

Joe t? Is that guy for real? That is almost as bad a name as Jim Bob Cooter at UT? UF will absolutely destroy UGA like usual. Oh and we also got hoops to look forward to as well. Joakim, Al, Corey, Lee, Taurean. Oh and can you say Jonathan Mitchell- Mr. Basketball of NY coming in. Oh and can you say Rivals #1 rated player overall PERCY HARVIN coming in like Carter mentioned. UF is outright sick when it comes to athletics.

By Joakim

June 6, 2006 07:47 AM | Link to this

Tim Tebow was named national HS quarterback of the year yesterday and will be presented with the award next month in July with Vince Young and many others there. Did anyone see the Georgia baseball players last night on TV? What is up with their hair? Classic. I hope they make it all the way to Omaha so the whole country can see these rednecks. Joakim is the man. 2006 NCAA Mens Basketball Champions

By gdawginkalamazoo

June 6, 2006 08:25 AM | Link to this

First, Diamond Dawgs are awesome.

NWdawg, GW, Yeah, I didn’t know that Daniel Inman wore #34? Carter must have some insight that we don’t. This one guy is the team? He controls our destiny? Wow. You would have thought that he would have received as much hype as Stafford if he was that good. Obviously not disciplined or smart enough to stay out of trouble.

By gdawginkalamazoo

June 6, 2006 08:42 AM | Link to this

And Carter, good analysis. I like your Florida prediction. Meyers is under pressure to produce and he won’t waste any time benching Leak. I feel sorry for the guy having to go through all those coaches and offenses because he definitely has the talent to win just no guidance and now it is too late. He wasn’t Meyer’s guy to start with so his senior year will be a waste. As for LSU, the are in the best position with the QB’s. Two have tremendous game experience and a third has the potential.

By Carlton Powell

June 6, 2006 08:44 AM | Link to this

Carter: Good analysis. Still think too much emphasis is being placed upon Daniel Inman’s suspension from the SC game. Word around town is that his attitude is horrible, and that many “in the know” feel he has lost interest in football. Georgia MUST win at SC, or the season is over for all intents and purposes. That may sound harsh, but GA would really be looking up hill the rest of the way. To get the “W” in Columbia, GA will need focused players who understand the importance of the game. Heck, I’m not even sure the coaches have grasped the importance of the SC game in recent years. But, it is IMPORTANT. A loss, and GA is playing for a spot in one of the many “loser” bowls that populate the holiday season. With a win, GA can get really organized and be ready for the tough stretch in late October and November.

GA should NEVER lose to SC, no matter if the game is played on the far side of the moon, and five SOS’s are on the sidelines. It’s just a matter of getting focused and having a good game plan.

The most interesting situation could be at TENN. Fulmer’s thrown everyone else under the bus, so if things don’t go well early, he could really be feeling the heat. A loss to FLA could make the game at Athens HUGE for Fulmer.

Of course, all these blogs are for fun and speculation. We’ll see in about 80 days or so who is right and who is wrong.

By 007Dawg

June 6, 2006 08:55 AM | Link to this

Carter,

Stafford will be the starter at UGA from Day One. Take it to the bank. Anyone who has been to practice or is close to the program knows this to be a fact.

By AltamahaDawg

June 6, 2006 09:31 AM | Link to this

Carlton, the coaches at the University of Georgia football program haven’t grasped the importance of a SEC East game against a persistant rival?????????????????????????

By crs

June 6, 2006 10:20 AM | Link to this

Jim Bob Cooter has to be the best name in all of sports!

By BirdDawg

June 6, 2006 10:45 AM | Link to this

This is how it goes.

If Joe T struggles one bit in the first game, he’s done after half time.

If Joe T struggles in the first series in South Carolina, he’s done.

There is a super short leash on his weak arm, this you guys must understand.

Watching him at G-Day, everyone can see that the guy’s arm has about half the velocity of David Greene’s.

That’s a slow - @$$ arm.

SEC linebackers will be waiting to pick off his passes. They’ll have all day to step into the lanes with his weak arm.

He’s a good, loyal Bulldawg, and does great things like punt protect (which was a problem a couple of years ago until he took over), but the boy can’t throw to save his life.

There’s no life in his arm. It’s painful to watch.

If Georgia is behind at the half of the USC game, Joe T is done.

And you can take that to the bank.

And it won’t be Cox taking over. It’ll be Stafford.

The future is NOW!

By crs

June 6, 2006 10:50 AM | Link to this

Any word yet on a time for the dogs/sc baseball games?

By AltamahaDawg

June 6, 2006 11:50 AM | Link to this

BirdDawg, I beleive at this point we can stop repeating the incredibly obvious “prediction” that if Stafford plays better than JoeT , he will be in during some game. I havent heard a single person dispute that. I do beleive that if CMR starts ANYONE he will give them more than a single series to get it rolling. If that were the case JoeT would have come into about half of the games last year.

I dont doubt Stafford’s arm, but to say JoeT cant throw a lick? I saw him in highschool, Ark game, Fl, and G day. Come on and be fair. If not fair, at least recognize the laws of physics when it come to velocity. I dont think there is a BullDawg in the nation that doesn’t want Stafford to be the man we hope. But why the need to keep trashing JoeT so that some look “informed” if he inevitable gives way at some point? It’s going to be funny when 100,000 folks turn and say I told you so. Told who? If he does it will be a CMR decision and not the result of the great talent scouts we have in this blog. Pulling for Stafford is great , but lay off of JoeT. First of all, unless you are a QB coach for a living, your opinion is worthless about his arm. Secondly , I believe you are going to find yourself totally at odds with CMR at some point, and I’ll take his resume’ in these matters.

By BirdDawg

June 6, 2006 02:01 PM | Link to this

Altamaha, on the subject of Joe T, all I hear from you is what Charlie Brown hears from his teachers.

Because it’s all the same noise over and over.

“Don’t doubt the coach, he knows what he’s doing. How dare you have an opinion!”

I bet you’re a Bobby Cox apologist as well.

By gdawginkalamazoo

June 6, 2006 02:05 PM | Link to this

AltaDawg, well said and I second that regarding Joe T. Just because Stafford is there doesn’t make Joe T any less of a capable QB. If Joe T does start for us then he is the best man for the job and EARNED it fair and square. And that is CMR’s job to pick the best QB.

By crs

June 6, 2006 02:15 PM | Link to this

For all the jacklegs that come on this board and talk about UGA and their problems with the law, look now, Blackmon at Auburn got arrested for alcohol, this stuff happens everywhere, i am not condonning it, but it happens at every school in the country and I still say it happens far less to kids in organized sports than it does to the student population at large.

By AltamahaDawg

June 6, 2006 02:43 PM | Link to this

Not at all Birddawg , you missed my point. What exactly am I appologizing for? I dont understand that comment. I am saying that saying Stafford is a talented QB, is NOT an informed opinion, as much as it is just a repeat of the blatently obvious. I think you are correct, but I guess I have grown tired of the ten thousand times we can say that if JoeT cant win the games we might go to another QB. It’s really not a news flash. Any 10 year could figure that out. I’m sure a professional big time coach can too. Are you doubting the coach? I never said you were, or dont dare do that. Nor do I think you have said anything he hasn’t said or wouldnt. Obviously if Stafford can do a better job…….well, obviously he will play. I am saying when it come to coaching QBs and the decision process, timming, situations, I just beleive he has a leg up over the purely casual observer. Is that the noise you keep hearing? Is that not correct? And trashing JoeT doesn’t serve any purpose. Not for the team, not for Stafford.

By Carlton Powell

June 6, 2006 02:56 PM | Link to this

Altamaha: I certainly understand your question marks concerning my earlier comments. I too find it hard to believe that the importance of the SC game is in question. But, remember we lost to SC in 2000,2001, had to have luck and a incredible defensive play by David Pollack in 2002 to win, had to have a fairly significant comeback in 2004, and BARELY won in 2005. From these past games, I just don’t get the feeling that the players yet feel they have to give it their all against SC. It’s the coaches job to make sure they all do understand the importance of the game. Maybe THEY do, but something is missing. My feeling stands; GA shoud NEVER lose to SC, I don’t care where the game is played.

The SC game is an important game. It sets the tone for the season. Let’s just go down to Columbia and take care of business like we did here in Athens in 2003. That game was over at the half, the way it always SHOULD be.

By SunDawg

June 6, 2006 03:19 PM | Link to this

Impresive win, DIAMOND DAWGS!!! Now it’s time to take those bats and do unusual things to a bunch of feathered-bipeds.

For those lizard fans who act out by posting here, we don’t care about Timmy LeBlow’s awards, we’ll see him in October, maybe. As some have posted here, I too feel sorry for Leake, a good quarterback and a bad situation.

As for the DAWGS quarterback situation (can you say plethora?), CMR will field the best of the litter, you can take THAT to the bank. ‘Nuff said. GO DAWGS

By War Eagle

June 6, 2006 03:56 PM | Link to this

Coach Shula at Bammer announced he has dismissed Chris Keys and John Eubanks from the team. Violation of team rules was the reason. Chris Keys was outstanding recruit in 2004, played in 11 games as a true freshman. They will not be able to return to the team….source….TideSports….

By AltamahaDawg

June 6, 2006 04:05 PM | Link to this

Carlton, I agree that we should not lose to them. I really don’t think anyone in the program has ever taken them lightly though, its just been a number of situations. I think some of it is timing. SC is full of emotion those early weeks, this is the year, all that, and prabably plays Georgia over thier heads. By mid season they have lost the race and not so much fire. We have been, of late, an even keeled emotional team over the season. When you face a critical SEC game every other weekend, surely they all can’t be the best effort of the year. Tenn needs to have thier all. FL. AU. Heck you can’t take Vandy or KY lightly and I dont think they do. I dont think anyone dominates everyone, every week. SC has just played a heck of a game against us lately. I guarantee, nobody will NOT realize the importance of that game this year. We seem to be a lot of peoples big games and we have to juggle about 5/6 of them.

By gdawginkalamazoo

June 6, 2006 04:10 PM | Link to this

War Eagle, Think Auburn will go after them?

By Law Dawg

June 6, 2006 04:12 PM | Link to this

Of course Irons is getting more hype preseason. McFadden is a scarily good player, but you’re forgetting that he plays for Arkansas. I think they’ll be improved this year, but Auburn will most likely be much stronger. You will also get a better picture of how teams will defend McFadden this year, as most teams naturally prepare more for Auburn than Arkansas. However, now that everyone knows about McFadden, the gameplans will probably be a little more extensive this year.

By War Eagle

June 6, 2006 04:13 PM | Link to this

CORRECTIONS: Travis Robinson was dismissed from Bammer instead of John Eubanks…sorry,

By gamecockgary

June 6, 2006 06:38 PM | Link to this

glad someone in the ATL has enough sense to realize blake will totally outclass anyone georgia can send out there and the GAMECOCK NATION will prevail!!!!question is will steve hold the score down///NOT!!

By IrishSECer

June 6, 2006 07:12 PM | Link to this

Ask a Georgia Fan about Darren McFadden and Kenny Irons. I don’t think they’d blink twice before telling you they’d rather play Irons in a heartbeat. Keep in mind that he had his entire 6.3 a carry and 1100 yards in a one-dimensional offense, on a bad wheel— a partial tear of the MCL that required offseason surgery. He’s healthy and faster as this season approaches.

By IrishSECer

June 6, 2006 07:16 PM | Link to this

Mustain may start early, but it’ll be McFadden who turns heads all season long around the SEC. Ask Georgia fans about him sometime :)

By War Eagle

June 6, 2006 07:38 PM | Link to this

Kalamazoo, we stop recruting Chris Keys after he committed to LSU. He lived in Berra-something, LA, but dismissed from high school and moved to Jackson, AL, to a friends place.He played in 11 games last yuear, but was discipline from playing in the Cotton Bowl. Every school got off him except Bammer. Of Course,they signed him and they ate their own bullet…So Kalamazoo, I don`t think we are interested at this time. Have you ever heard of Tony Cole??You know what I mean…

By Lenox Road

June 6, 2006 08:49 PM | Link to this

Question for the board: Which SEC school is number one in all-time SEC Championships in two of the three major major sports (Football, Baseball), and number two in all-time SEC Championships in the other major sport (Basketball)?

By The best

June 6, 2006 08:55 PM | Link to this

ALABAMA is number one in all-time SEC Championships in Football (no-brainer) and Baseball, and number two in all-time SEC Championships in Basketball.

By Ramblor

June 6, 2006 10:43 PM | Link to this

BuLLdawg, You stated “And, let the records show that FSU is the Best Baseball Program of the ACC and has been forever. There is no one close.”

Nice try buddy, but not this year. Look at the records. I know it was an impressive series for UGA, but come on, don’t act like FSU was the cream of the crop this year in the ACC. Over the last decade, maybe, but not this year. This year is all that matters, and FSU was not the best. Thanks for trying though.

Also, you keep bringing up the records for Tech and UGA against tournament teams. But, as I pointed out to you in the other blog, look at the winning percentages, genius. That is how you compare the two. Tech won a higher percentage of its games against tournament teams. Calculate it, stat man. Wait, I’ll do it for you. UGA was 23 out of 38 against tournament teams for a winning percentage of 60.5%. Tech was 19 out of 29 against tournament teams for a winning percentage of 65.5%.

Finally, there were two other match ups between SEC and ACC that you failed to mention in your novel above and that is the match up in the Atlanta regional and the one in the Clemson regional. Looks like ACC came out on top of those. But, I wouldn’t expect you to give Tech or Clemson any credit since they are ACC and beat an SEC team to make it to the Supers.

Needless to say, both Tech and UGA have their work cut out for them. USC and CoC (second best ERA in the tournament) are both great baseball teams, but I think Tech and UGA can handle them. Here’s to the Jackets and the Dawgs meeting in Omaha!

By War Eagle

June 6, 2006 10:44 PM | Link to this

Basketball-Kentucky, Baseball-LSU or UGA Football- Bammer, Track- Arky, Swimming- Auburn, Most coaches- Bammer. Last five years, Football- UGA, basketball. Kentucky, Baseball- LSU, Track- Arky, swimming-Auburn, Most Coaches-Bammer. These are my picks….I would like to see the link with Bammer being all-time SEC leader in baseball and second in basketball..

By The Best

June 7, 2006 12:56 AM | Link to this

After winning the SEC Baseball Championship this year, Alabama is #1 in all-time SEC Baseball Championships with 14. As I said, Alabama is also #2 in all-time SEC Basketball Championships behind Kentucky.

I have no idea about track, swimming, etc. I do not know anyone who includes those sports within the definition of “major sports” in the USA.

Sorry, but I do not have a link for the above facts that can be accessed without a password.

To recap:

Football - #1 Baseball - #1 Basketball - #2

By BuLLdawg

June 7, 2006 06:56 AM | Link to this

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THE BEST : I don’t know where you get that when you don’t even give us the URL Link or even tell us the WebPages site, but clearly you are totally wrong.

The SEC and Alabama specifically compete in 22 sports, and the Directors’ Cup is given out on the basis a representative group of those College Sports. Women’s Basketball is just as important as men’s basketball. Gymnastics counts half as much as those sports, probably because Alabama is behind the 8-Ball against Georgia at that sport, but you all have a great Gymnastics Team too; just not as good as UGA’s. Or Women’s Basketball. Track and Field is certainly important. Don’t you watch the Olympics in the Grand Ole USA here with the rest of us The Best ? Swimming doesn’t count ? Yes, it does. Football Counts too. You know the Sport you did not play for the SEC Championship again ? Had you played for the SEC Championship in Football, you would have played Georgia. But, you did not. And, we Won the SEC Championship. In fact, recently, we have won 2 of the last 4. Alabama has not beaten Georgia in Football during our 9-Year Run of being ranked recently in 9 Consecutive Final AP Polls; now Alabama was ranked ahead of Georgia this season by two places in the AP Poll - congratulations - I pulled for Alabama in the Bowl Game. That was fun. Your men’s Basketball Program is clearly one of the best in the nation and 2nd best in the SEC and your Baseball Program is great this season again.

But, when I look up Alabama’s National Championships according to the Official NCAA WebPages to do so, what I find is that Alabama has never done squat in any men’s sport, while you come across as a gender biased poster for men’s sports at Alabama.

Like Men’s Golf.

I guess no one in America watches Tiger Woods either, right The Best ?

You have at Alabama but 4 National Championships EVER ACCORDING TO THE NCAA.

All 4 for Alabama are Women’s Gymnastics.

Congratulations Alabama fan telling us that Women’s Gymnastics are also not important and that no one in the USA follows it.

They are sold out on your campus and our campus at UGA too every meet. The only good meets are the ones between Alabama and Georgia, as Georgia has 7 National Championships to your lowly 4 and those the only NC Alabama has ever had in any sport followed in the Good Ole USA :

http://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/champs_listing1.html

Georgia also has several NC in men’s and women’s golf, 4 in men’s tennis (Would you trade your 4 women’s gymnastics’ NCs for our 4 men’s tennis NC, or do you not follow Tennis either, you know like Maria Sharapova?) and Georgia has 4 excuse me for mentioning women’s swimming and diving national championships.

Are your stinky 4 NC in only women’s gymnastics better than our 4 women’s swimming and diving NC ?

I am still trying to remember when Alabama won a Baseball National Championship ? Can you help me The Best ?

Georgia has one of those too, as you sit there with the handle The Best.

The Best is the NC.

Alabama has 4.

Women’s gymnastics all 4.

I do not see Alabama even in the Top 25 in the nation in the Directors’ Cup and that is certainly a measure of the USA for College Sports.

The Directors’ Cup.

Used to be called the Sears Directors’ Cup.

Georgia is Number 13 in the nation and Alabama Number 28 today and both still playing in Baseball.

We cannot catch Florida this year as the Top SEC Athletics Department that Vince was 3 of his last 6 years as our AD, but we are already Number 2 and cannot lose that lead over anyone else in the SEC.

http://graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/nacda/sports/directorscup/auto_pdf/0506D1June1Stand.pdf

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As for Baseball besides our CWS NC and Alabama zero :

A very important part of the game of Baseball, as it is in Football, are the Professional Drafts. www.MLB.com Major League Baseball’s Official WebPages site covers it, but Navigation of their site needs a serious overhaul to provide URL Links the pages that are in fact non-navigational pop-ups, and you cannot use the pop-ups to find say the top players from the state of Georgia.

A better site is the Draft Database by www.BaseballAmerica.com which is found at : http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/draft/2006draftdb.html Here, in the Supplemental Round 1 Draft Picks you find that Georgia, and NOT Georgia Tech have the Top MLB Draft Pick with Starting Pitcher Brooks Brown, a Junior for The Diamond Dawgs named one of the 1st Two Starting Pitchers against South Carolina in either our Game Saturday at 11 a.m., or the Sunday Twilight Game where the outfield is so treacherous (And, us the best Outfield in the nation) Starting at 4 p.m.

Both Games are on TV obviously, as so many have been, and Saturday morning’s Game is on ESPN2 at 11 a.m.

ESPN2. That’s channel 47 on Comcast cable.

Sunday’s Game is on ESPN at 4 p.m.

The Sunday Game could be on ESPNU, whatever that is.

You should always check out the 290, 291, and 292 at Game Time, as those channels never have on them what they say they will have on them.

CSS 45 and Turner South Sports 53, also pick up games of local interest. And, Sunday’s Game surely will be on a channel of the 950 I have.

Speaking of Turner Sports South, I missed anyone noting that Coach Richt was on TV at 7:30 p.m. last evening for a half hour one-on-one; but, they air that again Thursday at 7:30 p.m. EDS on Channel 53 TSS, tomorrow June 8th.

http://georgiadogs.collegesports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/060606aac.html

Of course, this article depicting it, wasn’t posted by the Official BuLLdawgs WebPages www.GeorgiaDogs.com until yesterday after I had already gone to work. And, the AJC certainly didn’t mention it either.

I have however, now; if there is anyone in here who follows Georgia BuLLdawg Football…or reads anything on the topic to share with others of a similar hobby interest…or maybe just everyone types on the Internet as their hobby, and doesn’t read a thing before they do.

I still say the AJC owes its quarter of a million UGA alumni in their readership and especially those overseas or on the West Coast or up North for example, for Georgia to have a Sports Discussion Forum again as we did when I posted to it all of the 1990’s before they shut it down for the Tech Nerds coming into and speaking in crass terms.

Posters such as BUZZTER for example.

As for Georgia Tech, The Diamond Dawgs had our 1st Player taken in the 1st Round Supplemental, Brooks Brown, while Tech’s 1st pick happened twice as poorly for Tech.

34th Pick Overall Brooks Brown Diamond Dawgs, Junior, to Arizona Cardinals

http://www.baseballamerica.com/draftdb/2006xrnd.php?rnd=1s

2nd Round Brent Brewer Sandy Creek was taken with pick number 60 by Milwaukee Brewers. Brewer to Brewers, but 2nd player from the state of Georgia taken in the Draft. Brewer has signed his letter to play not Shortstop for FSU, but Football. 60th pick is probably more than a million. Hopefully, he takes that offer.

We still have not gotten to the 1st Georgia Tech Baseball Draft Selection, please note.

Wes Hodges of Tech was taken with the 69th pick, which is twice as bad as the Top Diamond Dawg Selection.

Arizona, who took Brooks Brown also then tabbed Joey Side, UGA Centerfielder whom David Perno said he could not believe he lasted to pick number 177.

And, Diamond Dawgs’ All-Time Home Run Leader, 1st Baseman Josh Morris, a Junior, settled with the Braves for more with pick number 360 than a Braves offer with their pick about twice as high.

So, 2 Juniors and a Senior Day 1.

Day 2 of MLB Draft is today from noon to 6 p.m.

But, I thought it was noteworthy to point out the one Georgia Tech fan in our blogs that Georgia Tech did not get either the 1st pick or the 2nd pick from Georgia, nor was Tech’s Best MLB Draft Pick even the 3rd top pick from Georgia, but Pepperell High Lindale Georgia Outfielder Tom Hickman by the Florida Marlins.

They dangle big money in Baseball.

360th pick Josh Morris said he is going to take the higher offer from the Atlanta Braves and join the other BuLLdawgs in the Braves once-great organization Will Startup and Clint Sammons.

Baseball America does not update its Poll from May 29th until June 26th when the CWS is over, and then they copy the CWS Elite 8 in their Final NCAA rankings.

But, Tech’s WebPages http://www.geocities.com/beesball/ claim today anyway with a URL Link that takes you to Tech being Number 10 and Diamond Dawgs Number 8, that BEESball says Tech is Number 8 Baseball America.

Uh, no Tech is NOT : Georgia is.

And, why all the hype about Tech Baseball, when UGA is 189-143-2 ahead by 46 games in Baseball.

I just don’t get it.

They are so full of it.

And, now we have the Higher MLB Draft Pick too than Tech.

And, are higher ranked.

And, every year play the Number 8 Strength of Schedule to Tech’s Number 50 SOS.

Does anyone know how to search www.BadJocks.com for Florida State Criminoles ?

3,612 tickets are sold out except for 1,000 standing room only reserved for Game Days’ Sales at Foley Field Saturday 11 a.m. Sunday 4 p.m. and Monday if necessary at 1 p.m. Number 1 from the state of Georgia MLB Draft Pick Brooks Brown of UGA will start one and Mickey Westphal the other.

Standing room only are $6 sold two hours before game times, and I think I saw some seating put in for them.

Why don’t we charge the Kudzu Hill one cent or a nickel, so that we can count at our games those who in fact go there to watch us play as paying customers ?

There are probably some 1,400 folks mulling around, not in seats at Diamond Dawgs’ Baseball Games. Let’s see…go to Tech games buy tickets and get 2 free hot dogs, a coke and a box of cracker jacks, paying less than the cost of the food for the ticket, or go to Georgia’s games and have twice the attendance and play a far better opponent, and get nothing ? In city of 5 million, they draw fewer than we, and play stinky opponents, like College of Charleston while we play 40-23 South Carolina.

Tech always talks about their won/loss record and the entire ACC and all out-of-conference opponents, other than us every year, all play cupcakes. Who cares what their won/loss record is ?

Only the Monday Game Time could possibly be changed.

And, that for TV, depending on whom they want to hype the most on ESPN who has the NCAA Baseball TV Super Regional Contract.

Monday’s game is on ESPN or ESPNU and game time subject to change from 1 p.m. with the winner of that game obviously going to the College World Series June 16th to June 26th at which time the Directors’ Cup is Awarded to the Top College Athletic Departments, which UGA certainly remains one of the Top of.

College of Charleston or South Carolina is the better opponent ?

Who cares what you think Steve Spurrier about you saying they should not call it the “World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party” because you sir ain’t involved

Another hype of Tech every year is who signed with them and then was Drafted like we all didn’t know that to begin with on each of them ?

A guy from Columbus Georgia taken with the 220th pick by the Braves too, Adam Coe – is also from this Great State for Athletes, but, he played his senior season only in Alabama.

The Atlanta Braves in 3 consecutive MLB Drafts have now taken Catcher Clint Sammons in 2004, last year Will Startup our closer in 2005, and now Josh Morris.

Joey Side leads the SEC with 102 hits this year so far to-date, and he wants it.

Brooks Brown has reportedly been offered $975,000 by the Cardinals to take his fastball to Arizona and his team-leading 111 strikeouts according to Morris News Service and Online Athens Banner-Herald :

http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/060706/baseball_20060607070.shtml

Collegiate Baseball Poll is out today though, and they have The Diamond Dawgs Number 7 (Tech 8) and South Carolina Number 12.

College of Charleston is Number 13, in case anyone thought they and not The University of South Carolina have played the better opponents this season, or is a better program.

Both the SEC and the ACC have 6 teams in Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Top 25.

http://www.baseball-news.com/polls/divI/currentpolldivI.htm

Florida State inched their way in to Number 24 and Arkansas to Number 25, with Kentucky’s season over too at Number 18.

Ahead of Georgia, is only Alabama at Number 6, one ahead of us.

Georgia Diamond Dawgs were 1-2 versus Alabama this season, 2-1 versus Georgia Tech, 4-0 versus South Carolina (Wish we had lost some of those, another team with a big chip on their shoulders), 2-1 versus Florida State, 3-1 versus Kentucky, 2-1 versus Arkansas, 1-1 versus Climpson Farmers, and 0-3 versus Ole Miss who is ranked Number 9 in this poll that is updated today Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Top 25 who is 43-20.

Vanderbilt and Mississippi State did not get ranked in the latest Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Poll.

I find that amazing with some of the teams ranked ahead of them.

Boyd’s World this morning reports Vandy RPI Number 34 and Mississippi State Number 35 RPI, but Boyd’s World RPI Rankings have been proven to NOT BE The NCAA’s RPI Rankings, since there Georgia is Number 7 and Tech 8.

We know that Boyd’s World and your ISR doesn’t reflect that either, one or the other of which, Boyd’s World must change its formula to that of The NCAA.

Boyd’s World also reports today that Tennessee vols are Pseudo RPI Number 66 and Auburn Number 60 and with Florida Number 43 and LSU Number 37.

6 SEC Teams Ranked in Top 25, 2 who are not who should be maybe 3 with LSU not even allowed to play in the NCAA when they did in the SEC Tournament and 3 others that are all 12 higher ranked than the 3 worst ACC Baseball Teams :

This is not the same as the SEC with the ACC having Duke Number 193 RPI and Virginia Tech Number 111. And, Boston College Number 84.

These are the facts about the ACC whom The Diamond Dawgs just beat to have now 3 ACC teams that don’t have winning records against The BuLLdawgs this year in Baseball. All 3 we played.

Against Teams ranked in the updated Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Poll Top 25 today, The Diamond Dawgs have 15 Wins against the Top 25 in 25 games so far this season and counting.

The other teams have not played 25 games against the Top 25, but instead have played 25 games against teams who ARE NOT RANKED in the Top 50.

Number 12 South Carolina has played Schedule Strength Number 44, a lot better than the ACC cupcake schedules.

Georgia’s SOS is Number 9.

Stanford has a good Strength of Schedule, but they arte 33-25 to UGA’s 45-20, so we have won 12 more games than they have. And, there isn’t another team with a better Schedule Strength this season than The Georgia Diamond Dawgs who is still playing.

This does not prove that teams who are battle-tested are battle-weary too.

What it proves is that playing cupcake schedule strengths is what the teams, still playing to move on the CWS, do – especially the ACC.

40-23 Number 12 South Carolina at 45-20 Number 7 Georgia.

5,000 will attend.

The nation will watch.

South Carolina is a very Proud Baseball Program whose impressive credentials have been earned on the field of play against Georgia because we have never before – with this sport UGA’s oldest college sport – ever swept South Carolina in a season.

We will not this season either.

http://www.baseball-news.com/polls/divI/currentpolldivI.htm

See us there Georgia Tech ? Number 7 to Tech Number 8 in the only College Baseball Poll that is updated today Tech Nerds ?

See South Carolina Number 12 and College of Charleston ranked worse than South Carolina too Tech Nerds ?

See the ACC does NOT have more ranked teams today than the SEC ?

Getting any of this Georgia Tech ?

With your 187 Losses to Georgia in Baseball to only 143 wins over UGA in Baseball with two ties.

If Georgia Tech won every Baseball Game between the two of us between now and 2020, it would take more than 14 years for you to be a better Baseball Program than Georgia.

Despite all your hype fed to the AJC while only I present the truth to you Tech fans.

And, quit saying on your famous BEESball site that you are Number 8 in the Baseball America Poll today, for that is Georgia – did you forget you are Georgia Tech Number 10 today ?

If Climpson Farmers and Georgia Tech Nerds both beat your cupcake opponents this weekend, you will play each other in the College World Series.

http://www.ncaasports.com/baseball/mens/brackets/viewable/special64/2006/DI

The Winner of Alabama and North Carolina Super Regional will play Powerhouse Cal State Fullerton or Missouri at the CWS.

The Winner of Georgia South Carolina Super Regional in Athens at Foley Field, counting half of our crowd in our attendance and not counting the other half, will play Powerhouse Rice or Oklahoma in the CWS.

And, the Winner of Ole Miss and Miami (Florida) will play the winner of Stanford Oregon State.

I think Climpson is overrated. I think Tech has done well against the limited few teams compared to UGA than Tech has played this season at 10 fewer games against this NCAA Baseball Tournament Field 2006 for Tech than for UGA this season and 5 fewer wins against this NCAA Tourney Field for Tech than for UGA.

I think both Super Regionals pitting the SEC vs. ACC this weekend have the better team from the SEC although I am willing to concede NC has 2 pitchers.

And, Tech doesn’t have a winning record against Climpson this season.

Georgia doesn’t have a Losing Record against Tech, Climpson or Florida State this season.

ACC has 4 chances with 4 teams to make the CWS.

SEC has 3 chances with 4 teams to make the CWS.

SEC will send more.

We always do.

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By CollegeFootballFan

June 7, 2006 08:56 AM | Link to this

WarEagle…..Keyes was dismissed from the Alabama team due to violation of team rules. Not his first offense either. Kind of a troubled past which didnt straighten out. Unforturnate for the kid because he was a good player. Robinson on the other hand was not dismissed from the team but left for medical reasons. This is per a university announcement. Hope they both do well in future endeavors!

By Carlton Powell

June 7, 2006 09:15 AM | Link to this

Altamaha: Good Morning! Think we’re definitely “on the same page” with regard to the SC game. I just live in fear that not being focused will lead to a very unfortunate loss, that we’ll have a very hard time over coming. Just read gamecockgary above. SC fans act like GA walks in mortal fear of them. I will assure ALL SC fans, GA WILL bring a few players for game. And, until SC gets some type significant win streak against GA, they ought to just worry about beating Clemson and The Citadel. But, you are correct; with the game early in the season, and emotions still a factor we need to go to Columbia fully loaded and ready for war. No doubt, it will be a tough game. And all coaches and players need to do the smart things to win. I do have confidence in CMR and staff. Their record speaks for itself. Again, I just hate to see a season made difficult by a loss to a team that will be on no one’s radar scope by November 1st.

By BIGNCDAWG

June 7, 2006 10:55 AM | Link to this

We might not agree with all BullDAWG writes, and we may not read all his long blogs, but his insites are mostly good and I love his DAWG spirit. His heart is in the right place and he is a great DAWG. You are right Godawg, the man keeps up with all the DAWG sports, and eats sleeps DAWG sports like I do. He has got fire.

By gdawginkalamazoo

June 7, 2006 11:00 AM | Link to this

War Eagle, Tony Coles? Ugh! Yeah, yeah! that was Mike Adams baby. First bringing the Harrick Clan who in turn brought in Coles. No ethical coach or university president would have allowed that.

Looks like lamecockgary is back? Who turned over that rock in SC?

IrishSECer, how do you become that?

Ramblor, you bonehead, look what you did. You got BuLLdawg going again with another war and peace on baseball (I think baseball, I didn’t read any of it).

By gdawginkalamazoo

June 7, 2006 11:13 AM | Link to this

BIGNCDAWG, Although I don’t read ALL (I do read a lot of them) that BuLLdawg writes, I agree with your last post 110%.

By reality check

June 7, 2006 11:21 AM | Link to this

Former Georgia players will tell you playing South Carolina in Columbia is one of the toughest games of the year and it always has been despite Georgia’s record against them. Believe me, the Georgia coaches and players are well aware of the challenge and focused. If South Carolina wins it won’t be because of lack of preparation or focus on Georgia’s part.

What I want to talk about, though, is Jim Bob Cooter. I have been thinking about it for more than a day now and I just can’t remember a better football name. LSU used to have a guy named Ruffin Rodrigue and I thought that was a great football name. There was the Adam Shandler character Bobby Bouche’, but somebody had to make that up and it still isn’t as good as Jim Bob Cooter.

I don’t believe there is anybody in the SEC, or all of college football for that matter, who can compete with a name like that.

Can anybody think of one? BULLdawg, have you? If anybody can do it you can, but I don’t believe you are up to it.

I tell you if Jim Bob ever gets into a game I really want to be there just to hear them announce, “now playing at quarterback, Jim Bob Cooter”. I wonder if there is any way they’ll play him in Athens?

In my view anybody with a name like that has every right to get liquored up every now and again. Fat Phil’s sanctimonious lecture strikes me as inappropriate under the circumstances.

I am very embarressed I hadn’t heard of Jim Bob Cooter until yesterday and Carter blew it after all not including him in his analysis. So I take back the nice things I said.

By crs

June 7, 2006 11:36 AM | Link to this

Jim Bob Cooter is classic!

Just saw that Caleb King is the #4 overall best prospect for 2007 and the #1 running back. I have seen him play and was not super impressed - those that have seen a lot of him, in your mind, is he the next Garrison Hearst?

By gdawginkalamazoo

June 7, 2006 11:54 AM | Link to this

reality check,

Arkansas has all those QB’s last year, remember the headlines, Nutt pulls Johnson and puts in Dick. Think if Cooter had been on the depth chart what that headline would have looked like. That would be QB Casey Dick, QB Robert Johnson. They also have a dude named Mark Bonner.

By godawg

June 7, 2006 12:02 PM | Link to this

reality…my sides are splitting from laughing at your post.

Here in Tenersee people love him just for his name. Here is the player profile for James Robert Cooter. I guess with a last name like Cooter it was inevitable that people would shorten the first and second to “Jim Bob”.

I remember first hearing about him when he came into the SC game late in ‘04. Apparently that was the last time he played. Academically he seems to be pretty smart and won the High School Heisman his senior year. Maybe we’ll get to see some of him in Athens after we kill Ainge.

Also check out Junior QB Bo Hardegree, he looks about 12 years old. The only other guy they got is a 6’4”, 225 lb. redshirt freshman named Crompton who I know nothing about, but looks like a hoss. It will be a good game.

By crs

June 7, 2006 12:29 PM | Link to this

Cooter has to be a legacy like tereshiniski

By gdawginkalamazoo

June 7, 2006 01:07 PM | Link to this

godawg, funny. That Hardegree guy looks like he could work with Chris Hansen on those Dateline specials. Of course he is 6-5 215lbs.

By Ron Roberts

June 7, 2006 02:38 PM | Link to this

It amazes me how the press in Georgia completely overlook the college baseball programs - until they get into regionals and super-regionals, then the College World Series.

Here in Louisiana, you’d swear the LSU Tigers were a major league team, the way they’re covered, whethet it be in-season or off-season. It warms my heart to see the BLOGGERS leading the baseball discussion, here, since it’s apparent you can’t expect it from the ajc.com staff.

Don’t get me wrong - it’s ALWAYS good to talk UGA football 24/7 365, but uh, how about some baseball, folks?

And not just now because the team’s 2 wins shy of another CWS berth.

Imagine what media coverage might do to stabilize and strengthen UGA’s baseball progam if recruiting, pre-game and post-game coverage were treated as visibly as they are in college baseball hotbeds like Louisiana.

Frankly, the lack of coverage Perno’s Pups get makes it all the more apparent just how good a coach and recruiter this coaching staff has been.

By reality check

June 7, 2006 02:56 PM | Link to this

Godawg, does Jim Bob Cooter have a fan club? Maybe Fans of Chan could issue a special award for the best name in football.

Somehow I envision chants of “we want Cooter” ringing down in Sanford when they play.

I can assure you I will follow his career with interest.

By wild thing

June 7, 2006 03:31 PM | Link to this

GGARY…ol bawl coach must have gotten up early to schedule wofford, florida atlantic, and middle tennessee state as non-conference foes….can we say awbarn!!

By craig t

June 7, 2006 03:33 PM | Link to this

I love all of you DAWG fans who think that GAsould never lose to SC. Exactly what or more importantly who do you think we have as our head coach, that’s right the man you love to hate, the SPURRIER.Carlton Powell,to say that GA doesnt take SCa seriously enough is once again giving SC no credit. The cocks get it, they get up for GA and come ready to play every year, if GA doesnt, then perhaps it’s the all time greatest coach in the world Ritch’s problem. SC will be improved this year, we Have the best WR in the SEC in Rice, a running attack that is as deep as GA’s, and a QB playing his second year in the eveil genius’s system. Our defense will be very young, but fast and overall more talented. Good luck to GA this year, they’re going to need it. GO COCKS

By craig t

June 7, 2006 03:33 PM | Link to this

I love all of you DAWG fans who think that GAsould never lose to SC. Exactly what or more importantly who do you think we have as our head coach, that’s right the man you love to hate, the SPURRIER.Carlton Powell,to say that GA doesnt take SCa seriously enough is once again giving SC no credit. The cocks get it, they get up for GA and come ready to play every year, if GA doesnt, then perhaps it’s the all time greatest coach in the world Ritch’s problem. SC will be improved this year, we Have the best WR in the SEC in Rice, a running attack that is as deep as GA’s, and a QB playing his second year in the eveil genius’s system. Our defense will be very young, but fast and overall more talented. Good luck to GA this year, they’re going to need it. GO COCKS

By wild thing

June 7, 2006 03:34 PM | Link to this

GGARY…ol bawl coach must have gotten up early to schedule wofford, florida atlantic, and middle tennessee state as non conference foes[bet season tix holders luv these ones]…can we say AWBARN!!!!!guess your 3-9 record will be improvement over some recent years

By craig t

June 7, 2006 03:36 PM | Link to this

Carlton Powell you’re crazy, SC and the evil genius will be GA this year- GO COCKS

By gdawginkalamazoo

June 7, 2006 03:42 PM | Link to this

craig t,

Can you post the same thing again? I missed it the first 23 times.

By War Eagle

June 7, 2006 04:02 PM | Link to this

No link or source, just a hot Auburn topic, Caleb King has petition the Georgia High School Association for eligibility status for transfer to Greater Atlanta Christain School.No reason w3as given.

By AltamahaDawg

June 7, 2006 04:23 PM | Link to this

craig, I beleive that “should not lose” comment was based on the fact that SC simply has not recruited the same caliber of talent lately. More talented teams should win. If that changes, obviously, Sc should not be losing. Your coach is really what worries everyone the most, but SC is not FL, just like SC was not ND for the last guy. We all recognize the players you have returning, but you also lost a lot more than that. We should not lose to SC, if we do,then hats of the the cocks.

By reality check

June 7, 2006 05:33 PM | Link to this

craig t, settle down, take a deep breath, and let’s focus on some facts about South Carolina. Let’s start with the running attack, which you claim is as deep as Georgia’s. South Carolina averaged 95 yards a game rushing last year. Only Ole Miss was worse. Georgia averaged 162 yards a game - 3rd in the SEC.

Last year South Carolina was statistically worse offensively and defensively than they were the year before under Holtz and the difference was big - an average of 45 yards less on offense and 45 yards more on defense.

The fact South Carolina won more games is amazing considering the statistical decline.

This year SC lost Daccus Turman. They get Boyd back from suspension. Everybody is singing Boyd’s praises in Columbia, but that is not based on his history. He rushed for a total of 641 yards in the 2 years he played.

South Carolina’s strength on defense last year was the secondary. Bennett is good, but with losses to the NFL the secondary won’t be as good this year. The defensive line won’t be as good unless they can get Doughty motivated. He has been demoted to second team. The offensive line has to be rebuilt. Maybe that’s good. And maybe Jasper Brinkley can be the answer they are looking for stopping the run. Last year SC couldn’t get that done.

South Carolina has a lot of question marks. Georgia has more athletes and on paper should win the game. Guess they’ll have to play it and we’ll find out.

By ConyersDawg

June 7, 2006 09:41 PM | Link to this

Hey guys, I got this e-mail from my bulldog club. This is for a great cause and I hope you guys can make it. I just copied it from my e-mail.

Dear Bulldog Club President,

I want to let you know about an inaugural event taking place in July at the University of Georgia to benefit the Georgia Transplant Foundation, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at the Georgia College of Education.

Mark your calendar for some family fun as former UGA football players Matt and Jon Stinchcomb host the inaugural “Countdown to Kickoff” on July 15, 2006, from 3 to 6 p.m. at the University of Georgia Practice Fields in Athens. Join the Stinchcombs, along with current and former UGA and professional athletes, for an afternoon of autographs, pictures, games and good times.

“The Stinchcomb brothers may have moved on to play in the NFL, but they have not forgotten their roots,” says David Bakelman, Executive Director of GTF. “They share fond memories from their years at Parkview High and UGA, and we’re grateful that they’re moved to give back to the Georgia community by hosting this exciting event.”

Individual tickets to “Countdown to Kickoff” are available for $30. Family packs can be purchased for $100 and include four tickets and a football for player autographs. Sponsorship opportunities start at the $500 Kickoff level, which includes name recognition on event signage and four event family packs (16 tickets). Please view the attachment to learn more about sponsorship opportunities.

Please come join the fun while supporting some great causes to help residents of Georgia. For sponsorship information, contact Pat Sortor, GTF Deputy Director, at 678.514.1173. To purchase individual tickets or family packs, visit www.gatransplant.org.

I am a volunteer on the organizing committee for the “Countdown to Kickoff” event. I, along with the Stinchcombs and the entire committee would appreciate your support. Please forward this information to members of your Bulldog Club. Feel free to contact me with any questions at matt.wilson@agg.com.

Thank you for your support.

Sincerely,

Matthew Wilson Volunteer, “Countdown to Kickoff”

By GT90

June 7, 2006 10:59 PM | Link to this

BuLLdawg - BOTTOM LINE: Tech will be playing for the national championship after the supers, UGAY will be watching at home. Tech is a top baseball program nationally, UGAY is a once every 5 years decent team. UGAY does not have the talent that TECH does year in and year out. Congrats on beating FSU, although Tech has beaten them 13 out of the last 15 games including a 3 game sweep in Tallahassee this year. I hope UGAY makes it to Omaha so they can face Tech’s conference pitchers, so you will shut up and wait another 5 years until the next UGAY team shows up.

By dave

June 7, 2006 11:59 PM | Link to this

GT90 you freakin nerd! UGA beat the bugs 2 out of 3 this year! Stop talking about something you know nothing about and go calibrate your calculator!

By BuLLdawg

June 8, 2006 05:58 AM | Link to this

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Carter Strickland, if you are going to write an article on Georgia and Georgia Tech comparing them with the storied program of South Carolina in Baseball, throwing in Clemson but not Georgia Southern University – or any of the other Baseball Traditions in this state compared to the Palmetto State, why don’t you ask someone who knows ?

Like me.

Or, at least verify the veracity of the factual statements you do list, none of which are in fact correct.

The Georgia Diamond Dogs have been to 4 College World Series in 1987, 1990 (Won NC), 2001 and in 2004 when David Perno directed Georgia to 3rd Place Finish in the CWS and Won The Baseball America National Coach of the Year Award.

As to our history in Baseball back to 1886, Spurgeon Spud Chandler Won 6 World Series Titles as the Key Pitcher of the New York Yankees in 7 World Series’ he pitched in. Besides being the 1st Pitcher Yogi Berra caught in Major League Baseball History, Spurgeon Spud Chandler Started 184 Games in MLB History 109 of which were Complete Games Pitched and 26 of those Shut-Outs with 6 Saves in Addition to his 109 Wins with a career ERA of only 2.84, giving up 155 fewer hits than his 1,485 Innings Pitched during which he gave up only 64 Home Runs and The Yankee’s Ace Hit only 19 Batters. He also hit 9 Home Runs, has a Career Slugging Average of .290, and has a Career Fielding Average of .980 including 5 entire seasons during which he made zero errors all 5 years. During his Career, he was charged with only 10 errors in 211 Games Played in Major League History over 11 years with the World Series’ Champion New York Yankees. They would not have been the Bronx Bombers without him, and the stadium he played in from 1937 to 1947 still stands. I know I have been there numerous times.

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/features/alumni/stats.jsp

Chris Carpenter was on our 1st College World Series Team in 1987 when he was taken in the MLB Draft and has compiled 89 Wins to-date with Toronto Blue Jays of the American League and currently these last 3 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals including his 1st season as St. Louis Ace going 15-5 in 2004 and last season 2005 going 21-5 with a 2.83 ERA in 33 Games Started of 241 Innings last season. While Chris Carpenter certainly is our most successful Major Leaguer recently, who went to the College World Series with The Diamond Dawgs, he isn’t a very good hitter but has posted a Career Fielding Average of .976, certainly stellar flashing the glove with only 6 Career Errors to-date over 9 Seasons so far – but, his career is hardly over. In 9 Seasons already in Major League Baseball, Chris Carpenter is already Number 48 in Active Career Wins behind Roger Clemons’ 341 Wins, Greg Maddux’s 324 Wins, and Tommy Glavine’s 3rd Place Total So Far of 284 Wins; but, they have all pitched significantly longer than Chris Carpenter over 4,000 Innings Pitched by the Top 3 Active Win Leaders to Chris Carpenter’s only 1,364 Innings Pitched to-date.

Other All-America Diamond Dawg Baseball Players include Will Startup, Josh Morris and Joey Side along with 27 BuLLdawg All-America Baseball Players such as Derek Lilliquist who was Named National Pitcher of the Year in 1987 in our College World Series Run then with Chris Carpenter and David Perno’s brother on Coach Steve Webber’s teams who would quickly after their graduation, Win the NCAA National Championship in Men’s Baseball three years later in 1990 when David Perno played 3rd Base some for us. Chris Carpenter, Derek Lilliquist and Jeff Pyburn among several others were all Drafted in the 1st Round of the Major League Baseball Draft along with most recently now Brooks Brown the day before yesterday.

The Diamond Dawgs had 5 current Baseball Players on this Team Drafted in the Latest Major League Baseball Draft that just ended and we have 5 of our Signed Recruits for David Perno also whom were Drafted. David Perno said he is afraid he lost his top left-hander.

Georgia has had at least one former BuLLdawg Baseball Player Drafted in the MLB Draft 33 Consecutive Years now. 10 BuLLdawgs Drafted in this year’s Draft which just ended.

Our Catcher Jason Jacobs from Florida, SEC Tournament Most Outstanding, our Right Fielder from Pennsylvania who at one-time this season was down on himself to come on strong now Bobby Felmy whom I said would be drafted just two days ago in your blog here Carter Strickland, All-Time Career UGA Home Run Hitter Josh Morris one shy of owning the Season Record too our 1st Baseman, the undauntedly undeniable NCAA Regional Most Outstanding Player last weekend our Centerfielder Joey Side, and of course the Top Georgian Drafted in the 1st Round of the Major League Draft Winner Brooks Brown taken by Arizona Diamondbacks along with 5 new BuLLdawg faces Pitcher Justin Edwards of Orlando, Fla., (3rd round, Chicago White Sox), shortstop/second baseman Adam Coe of Columbus, Ga., (7th round, Atlanta Braves), infielder Mike Freeman of Orlando, Fla., (41st round, San Diego Padres), third baseman Luke Stewart of Normal, Ill., (42nd round, San Diego Padres) and pitcher Alex McRee of Gainesville, Ga., (48th round, Tampa Bay Devil Rays) were drafted., all of whom have signed with David Perno, but again he figures he loses Top Signee MLB Draft Pick Justin Edwards. A quarter of a million dollars is a lot of money to turn down.

http://georgiadogs.collegesports.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/060706aab.html

Looking back at it, I preferred to go to UGA to wear my ring every day in my business which means a lot to me, giving me opportunity after opportunity to have those who comment on it, hear the current facts of the day – something they seek me out about, frankly and I am known for.

Yesterday the AJC reported from yet another writer with his Georgia Tech bias that Georgia had only 2 Drafted.

BS.

10.

Try getting it straight AJC.

Or, come within a higher percentage of being correct than 20 percent correct.

That would be 80 percent pure unadulterated BS.

Or, 5 times, 500 percent wrong.

Lies, misrepresentations, and poorly researched articles are not just typos when 3 million read the rag with no corrections except for by me when partial (20 percent correct) factual statements are weasel-worded in such a manner as to mislead Tech fans into thinking they had 5 Drafted and Georgia 2; wouldn’t you say ?

2 BuLLdawgs were drafted. Uh, yeah, 2 were and Carter got it right today in the AJC that the 1st Round Supplemental Draft Pick Brooks Brown is the “Winner” as the top MLB Draft Pick of all of South Carolina and Georgia. Actually, I did not look up that statement including South Carolina. Georgia I most assuredly did, and he is of this Baseball State.

Besides producing Baseball Players forever, this state also produces the 4th most of any state in the nation behind only California, then Florida and then only Texas in All-Time NFL Players who were recruited from their homes here in the state of Georgia.

This is a Sports’ State, has been, is and forever will be and The University of Georgia according to the AJC has a quarter of a million alumni such as myself who live here and read the paper daily for 50 years as have I compared to again AJC figures of just only 30,000 Tech alumni in your readership here.

So, don’t feed me this BS that a team with a 189-143-2 forty-six game lead over the other, together have 6 College World Series that we have played in combined among us both. UGA has been to 4 – and, that leaves, by your calculation Carter Strickland 2 CWS appearances by Georgia Tech whether you refer to Omaha Nebraska as the CWS or the CWS over the previous 19-year period.

Jeez Louise AJC **BuLLdawgs’ “Beat Writer” Carter Strickland, just whom is it that you think you are writing to ? The 30,000 and their friends and families or the quarter of a million of us and our friends and families ?

6 combined Carter Strickland ?

BS to that type of biased reporting when UGA has been to 4 CWS and Won 1.

We are trying for our 5th CWS and Tech and UGA combined have 6 ? And, South Carolina 8. College of Charleston 0 ?

Give me a break Carter Strickland. That is as unfair to the team that you are supposed to be our beat-writer of as saying we have only 2 BuLLdawgs Drafted in the MLB Draft this year.

Try 10.

BEESball reports that Torre Langley is certainly signing with the Florida Marlins, not to become a Tech Nerd. I could make that choice myself. A quarter of a million of us have to their lowly 30,000, according to the AJC where you work, sir.

How many Tech nerds were Drafted by MLB ?

I don’t know, but I know how BuLLdawgs it is, and it is 10 or 9 if David Perno is right about his left-hander signed.

It is 10 today Chip Towers. By the way, Carter Strickland, if you are the BuLLdawgs’ Beat Writer and that is a Big IFF in my record book sir, then why was Chip Towers the one who came to Athens Regional to give us his update compared to mine on The BuLLdawgs’ great season and 3,612 paid (not counting Kudzu Hill) barking and woofing it up BuLLdawg fans to the unmentioned horrible home plate umpiring all Athens Regional ?

Why is that Carter Strickland ?

Because you fail daily to present The University of Georgia Readership, which you are supposed to bond with and report to, the truthful facts on every article you poorly research and write anyway.

That’s why.

Because you have no perspective, as none of the AJC “Sportswriters” do.

Not one of you has even one vote on any Ranking Poll of ANY Sport.

What kind of credibility does that give the AJC Sports Department when Furman Bisher in the Sunday Column this week states that Coach Richt has not even commented on to his knowledge where he might stand on the “World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party in The Gator Bowl.” What kind of reporting is that ?

Truthful ?

Unbiased ?

Factual ?

Well-researched ?

This the leader ?

“to my knowledge” is a weasel-worded cop out which cannot and should not ever be used by a Reporter, with all due respect to he who probably is or was your best sports reporter.

Why shape, or paint the picture that the AJC paints daily in every sentence of every Sports Article ?

Who is in charge of this mess ?

Someone none of us have ever heard of ?

Someone who never writes the first article in his own Sports Pages he is responsible for ?

Get with the program gentlemen.

Assimilate that which you type in your won newspaper gentlemen.

Try reading your own sports pages. Or, is this a matter of poor memory by the entire sports staff ?

How can Tech be the better baseball team, or program ?

Tell me that again…

”The Gamecocks and Cougars had one player drafted between them.” Excuse me Carter Strickland, but this is my entire point. Your lack of attention to detail is what dooms you to failure; and it is patently painfully evident in every article you write sir that you wish to paint a biased picture of a Proud Georgia Baseball Tradition against Specifically Georgia Bloody Tech – On Probation the next entire 2 Seasons in Football, a point of which the AJC would drive home daily in every article were it UGA on Probation and NOT Georgia Tech. The BuLLdawgs had 5 players and 5 Signees Drafted. Would that not be factual and what is important, and that which is unbiased reporting ?

It is now to the point where I have no confidence in anything you write.

Sorry.

8 CWS for South Carolina ? 6 between UGA and Tech combined ? That is the picture you paint, or tried to get away with, exposed totally by little ole me.

We all read the “Advertisement for a BuLLdawgs’ Beat Writer for the AJC” when the AJC ran the employment request ad. Why not Josh Kendall of Macon Telegraph formerly of Athens-Banner Herald, whom they have NEVER replaced ?

You would do well to study his column before you do your own, and then sit back and determine that which is the gist of what it is that fine Sports Writer, Josh Kendall, actually have come across as HIS POINT of the article.

One would think you owe some judiciary responsibility to the organization which you are supposed to be the beat writer for.

Never mind that you should certainly address yourself to the quarter of a million of us with what 5 each whom we are personally responsible for in our daily lives, giving them our viewpoints on what is presented by the only newspaper allowed to compete in this fair city of 5 million ?

State-wide you have a lot of competition.

Here, none.

Never allowed it.

We are given no choice but to try to get through to those whom we, me especially, pay the salaries of.

It is clearly too much to ask that you address yourselves to the vast majority of your readership instead of 4 kids who call you up on the telephone and feed you a line or bias that you didn’t address their viewpoint.

You aren’t their beat-writer.

And, you ain’t our beat-writer either.

Sir.

Respectfully.

Georgia has had at least 1 player Sign a Professional Baseball Contract 33 consecutive years in a row Carter Strickland.

“Tech has sent 37 and Georgia 30” you state to the Majors.

Fascinating, 6 CWS “Omaha” UGA and Tech “combined” but “Tech has sent 37 and UGA 30 to the Majors:” that makes no sense Carter Strickland, unless of course those areas where UGA is superior are glossed over and halfway presented only by direct comparison in same article to have Tech’s advantages singled out; why not be consistent in Palmetto State versus Georgia ? And, why nothing about no Major League Baseball Team in the whole state of South Carolina ? Why not the records head-to-head of UGA versus South Carolina Colleges this year and those of Tech’s to South Carolina; and College of Charleston to Georgia Colleges and South Carolina to Georgia colleges this season ?

You see, Carter Strickland, if 1st your objective is to deceive, then you do not sit back and study Josh Kendall’s beat-writing compared to your own, and get the gist of that which is presented.

You’re biased; or someone is editing your piece after your final copy with little subliminal messages hidden in every presentation of the facts therein presented.

Including the misleading headlines of 2 BuLLdawgs Drafted in MLB Draft.

Great Scott.

If you think David Perno was upset at the home plate umpires in the Athens Regional you appear to have not been given even the four-dollar gas money to attend with no AJC sportswriter who was commenting on it once, you should drive up there and ask him if the points I make grind on him too ?

That we sit here laughing at you.

Sorry.

It is comical the manner in which the AJC sports department conducts itself with regard to the presentation of Tech as the team you are supposed to be covering and not UGA who OWNS TECH.

Mia Hamm, aside, I would not want to claim that Nerd our Great Olympian Champion married or any of his weirdo mannerisms at the plate before every pitch. 37 ? Uhhh… how many of Georgia Tech’s student-athletes who actually did something at Tech like Beat Georgia in their Sport, actually graduated with a GT degree ?

They sit there and talk about their Academics, and you say nothing about being on Probation for 2 solid years up-coming now in 4 sports for Academic Fraud ?

Trust me, if the shoe was on the other foot and it were UGA, you would all Crucify us in every sentence.

How is Reuben Houston today after what he did with his infant on his lap in a van with 93 lbs. of drugs he admitted to the AJC was on Tech’s campus when he bailed out of the van and ran seeing the authorities after him taking them to a friend to have him sell them he assured they who drove them from California to him personally.

Foley Field named one of the nation’s Top 15 fields has the most modern up-to-date Media Boxes in the entire nation; and, yet, while that is what you do and Tech supposed to be a North Avenue Trade School for technology only, why is that you don’t say a word about 4,290 paid to watch UGA last beat Florida State at Foley Field in the 2001 Super Regional ? Why is it only I who recalls that UGA beat Tech at Rusty Ole Chandler Stadium in 2004 Super Regional to go on to the CWS ?

Palmetto State versus state of Georgia ? Or, talk up Tech is you can weasel some half-truth their way, and then when it is not to Tech’s advantage, lump UGA and Tech together and in the very next sentence say “combined Tech and UGA have been the CWS 6 times.” Or Omaha, whatever that parenthetical thought, not the gist of the sentence presented, means.

Where did you get 30 were announced who went to the University of Georgia ? Where did you get that Carter Strickland ? Where is your URL Link to that fact ?

If Tech can count Stephon Marbury, typical Institute of Georgia Technology “student-athlete,” then help me out Carter Strickland and give us the details of 30 former UGA have been announced in Major League Baseball history.

Where is that found sir, with all due respect ?

One Thousand University of Georgia Lettermen in the oldest sport at this Grand Flagship University are presented at this URL Link : http://georgiadogs.collegesports.com/sports/m-basebl/archive/090503aaa.html 30 were announced in a MLB game ever ? But, yet Bobby Jones is a golfer from Tech ? Bobby Jones never golfed one single solitary ball for The Georgia Institute of Technology, not one. Never. And, what of David Duvall who said and I quote : “All of the Georgia Tech golfers on our Golf Team are all ‘hackers’ when I was there” he said. You don’t follow our athletes, and do not know who did or did graduate from or compete for the two schools in the sports you report on daily.

You don’t try to know.

But, act like you can report on it and we are supposed to what ?

Quote you on it Carter Strickland when you have absolutely no precedence and present not the 1st supporting statement for any of you on the AJC Sports Staff including Furman Bisher this Sunday saying “to my knowledge.”

Sad.

Very sad.

” …the best on either team — Tech catcher Matt Wieters.” you report today Carter Strickland.

A sophomore from Stratford High in Goose Creek South Carolina is the best player in the two states of South Carolina and Georgia ?

God Almighty Carter Strickland.

You call yourself the Georgia Beat Writer with that kind of message yet again today sir ?

You should be ashamed of yourself.

The Best Player on Either Team : Georgia or Georgia Tech is Matt Wieters Carter Strickland ?

http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/uga/stories/0608collegebase.html

Based on what Carter Strickland ?

That you have established yourself on this sport that you can’t get four dollars gas money to report but Chip Towers instead the Georgia Regional we just won to run our Record against the “ACC Tournament harder than the NCAA Tournament” the AJC reports to us when not even the SEC’s 8 did the ACC send to the NCAA Tournaments ? When adding in Clemson you mention in the article today Carter who doesn’t have a Winning Record against Georgia or Georgia Tech this season in Baseball, I point out, Georgia now runs its record against the ACC of Tech, Clemson and Florida State to 5-3 a .625 Winning Percentage over the ACC by Georgia and that isn’t relevant ?

Would it surprise you to know that 10 Tech players and 8 UGA players were Drafted in the MLB Baseball Draft and that Matt Wieters was not ?

I can hear it now, he is a sophomore. Catcher you say.

6’ 3 and 230 lbs. he is not likely to only play catcher.

He has already played 2 other positions in addition and seems more naturally a 1st Baseman to me were I to call him just only a catcher, as you sir.

He has 13 Home Runs and 144 Total Bases against the Number 50 Strength of Schedule in the Nation for his 64 games, has stolen a grand total of 3 bases. Matt Wieters has a Losing Record as a Tech pitcher and did not win a game, but did lose a game at Tech as a pitcher of record this season, pitching in 8 different games throwing 2 wild pitches in 17 innings pitched. As a Catcher, Wieters has one runner picked off with 14 thrown out stealing against the Number 50 SOS.

Our Catcher, Jason Jacobs stole more than twice as many bases as did Matt Wieters. So did Joey Side steal more than twice as many bases against far tougher Number 9 SOS, while Bobby Felmy has stolen more than 3 times as many bases as Matt Wieters. Jacobs also has thrown out 14 runners stealing against the Number 9 SOS, and picked off twice as many of these far better opponents as did Matt Wieters. Joey Side has as many Home Runs, as Wieters of Goose Creek you call the best player on either team, while Josh Morris who plays 1st Base like Wieters too has ten more Home Runs so far at 23 than Wieters does. Total Bases, Joey Side has 30 more than Wieters and against far better competition to stand at 174 Total Bases Joey Side to only 144 Matt Wieters. As a pitcher Brooks Brown has a Winning Record against far tougher opponents and instead of 11 percent of his innings pitched thrown a wild pitch as has Matt Wieters, Brooks Brown has only 7 percent of his innings pitched this season thrown a wild pitch.

Where do you get off Carter Strickland the very day of the Major League Draft is completed trying to tell us as our Beat-Writer that Matt Wieters is better than all 5 of these BuLLdawgs, all of whom were Drafted by MLB and Matt Wieters was not, that Matt Wieters who lost 2 of the 3 games against Georgia this season, is the best player on either team ?

Want to consult a Scout or two for Major League Baseball ?

Or, share with us, just how you are qualified to tell us all 5 of these BuLLdawgs, better than Matt Wieters at what he does well and against far tougher opponents, are in fact worse Baseball Players than Matt Wieters ?

I believe you just soled something Carter Strickland. Excuse me for correcting your “facts” presented and the biased manner in which I perceive them to be painted once again today Carter Strickland.

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By Lakeland

June 8, 2006 07:11 AM | Link to this

anyone know who the #1 ranked HS program in the country is? Lakeland HS. 4 out of the 9 gator verbal commits are from this school. 3 gave there verbals yesterday including the pouncey twins, sure bets by everyone to wear the garnet and gold. Oh my urban legend.

By Senator Blutarsky

June 8, 2006 07:13 AM | Link to this

You’ve confused current St. Louis pitcher Chris Carpenter with former UGA pitcher Cris Carpenter.

The latter, I believe, is currently a pitching coach in Gainesville, although he did play for the Cardinals once upon a time.

By JonDawg

June 8, 2006 08:12 AM | Link to this

Bulldawg - thanks for the facts and data. Also thanks for focusing attention on the hidden messages in Mr. Strickland’s article. I was annoyed when I read his column early this morning and felt exactly as you. I don’t understand the AJC’s inability to remove their personal love of the bugs from their reporting. Reporting is supposed to unbiased and factual - I have noted (after over 50 years of reading it) that the imbalance in their reporting has grown far more severe in recent times. I am paid to bring an impartial, fact driven analysis to my work and I can recognize efforts - whether unconscious or not - to bias a story. Bulldawg does a good job of showing how the AJC slants its stories by omission and misrepresentation of facts. Unfortunately it is an all too common occurence. I have the opportunity to travel around this country and I have never seen another newspaper that does such a poor job of consistently allowing bias to enter their reporting. I agree that the editors need to look long and hard at the quality of work they are doing, because at this time it is poor.

By gdawginkalamazoo

June 8, 2006 09:07 AM | Link to this

GT90,

We know already. Tech better at baseball, Tech better at basketball, Tech better at football. BOTTOM LINE: Tech better at getting put on probation.

By tired of the useless stats

June 8, 2006 09:29 AM | Link to this

Bulldawg,

I dread calling you out on this one because it will no doubt lead to another rambling meaningless post, but I can’t help myself. You obviously spend all day looking up stats that support your position while conveniently overlooking anything that doesn’t.

If you would spend even 1% of the time you do researching to actually engaging your brain, you might have thought it odd that a pitcher at UGA in 1987 who had compiled 89 wins through 2006 might not be the All-star you claimed he is since he would be averaging less than 6 wins a year. I don’t think Cooperstown would be calling anytime soon.

Since you are so quick to jump on the AJC writers, I’ll point out that your research has inflated the UGA’s Carpenter career wins of 27 by a whopping 329%. That seems to be about in line with your perceived value to this board compared to your actual value.

By geechee

June 8, 2006 09:43 AM | Link to this

BuLLdawg, all I can say to your latest one is WOW!! However, I did read every word of it. It was a bit long but very intertaining.

By Ga's finest

June 8, 2006 10:59 AM | Link to this

South Carolina should have beat Georgia five of the last six years. Georgia seems to have incredible luck and is very fortunate to win a lot of their games. If I was a UGA fan I would enjoy that 17-15 victory last season because it’s going to be the only time they get a victory against South Carolina as long as Steve Spurrier is coaching the Gamecocks. South Carolina is going to be a much improved team over the one that UGA barely beat last season in Athens. Blake Mitchell is going to be the best quarterback in the conference after a year in the Spurrier system. Cory Boyd is returning after being suspended for 2005 and Mike Davis is going to be a much better runner in 2006 after a solid freshman season. Sidney Rice is the best in the conference and if UGA wants to double him Blake will make them pay with Kenny Mckinley or O.J. Murdock or Noah Whiteside. The game will be over by halftime. Final score South Carolina 31 Georgia 10

By BuLLdawg is an idiot

June 8, 2006 11:41 AM | Link to this

BuLLdawg, the more you write, the more you discredit yourself. Just shut the hell up, get a life, and enjoy your summer vacation from high school. Summer time is when you should be laying by the pool and chasing girls, not spending 12 hours a day digging up useless information, that is wrong more often than its right. I find at least two of your “facts” to be wrong each post. Hell, the way you drone on and on, maybe you should spend the summer learning the definition of punctuation or run on sentences.

Chris Carpenter did not go to college and was not drafted until 1993. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/5771/career;_ylt=AnTeafYOLVWPWhGkYoJb1iWFCLcF

UGA only had 5 players drafted http://georgia.scout.com/2/537894.html

Its also hilarious that someone who clearly has no life, other than to spend all day on the computer researching 18-21 year old boys, has the nerve to call anyone a nerd. This link certainly sounds like you. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nerd Get a life BuLLdawg

By gdawginkalamazoo

June 8, 2006 11:51 AM | Link to this

Ga’s finest,

WAKE UP DUDE! YOU ARE DREAMING AND SLEEPTYPING!

BTW, THE KEYBOARD ISN’T YOUR TOILET SO STOP PEEING ON THE BLOG..

By Ga's finest

June 8, 2006 12:09 PM | Link to this

gdawginkalamazoo,

If you think that UGA is going to beat a good South Carolina team at night in Columbia with a quarterback that has a weak arm and is inexperienced or a true freshman dude you have got to be delirious. I only see South Carolina losing maybe to Auburn and Florida, I can see UGA losing at least three games ( South Carolina, Florida, and Auburn). Final score South Carolina 31 Georgia 10

By AltamahaDawg

June 8, 2006 01:22 PM | Link to this

Ga’s finest, I think most folks have summerized that SC always plays one of its best games of the year against UGA, while UGA prabaly does not play that well, that night. I dont think most folks think SC should have won any of those, as they were surprised UGA didn’t win more convincingly. It’s not lucky to score more points. That has been the longstanding way to determine a victor. If anything, we are on the back end of a lucky break at least as often. That being said: If the best SC has still couln’t beat the mediocre effort of the Dawgs, how does that bode well??? Whatever improvements or stengths SC has, we have the same. SO….Four things can happen this year. 1. Same deal. 2. UGA finally has a good game up there. 3. SC cant play over its head for a change. 4. UGA plays horrible. We win 3/4 of those situations and I wouldnt bet on UGA having its worse game against SC in 6 yrs. Unless something drastically changes in the next 3 months, UGA will be more talanted, higher ranked, and an odd on favorite. Thats hardly delirium. SC may win, but at this point, they are wishful only. Pull for your team, but please stick to reality.

By AltamahaDawg

June 8, 2006 01:56 PM | Link to this

over at halftime? ever watch college football?

By AltamahaDawg

June 8, 2006 02:01 PM | Link to this

So the halftime will be 14-10. That doesnt seem over. 21-7? How about 31-0? Sc doesnt score at all in the second half? Or we are ahead by 10 at halftime but you still know its over (because of Spurrier)and you score 31 unanswered in the second half? help me with this please.

By geechee

June 8, 2006 02:08 PM | Link to this

SC does not have the depth this year to hang with UGA for a full 60 minutes.

By gdawginkalamazoo

June 8, 2006 02:41 PM | Link to this

Ga’s whiniest,

You missed it or didn’t see it because you are still sleeping. UGA, ARK, TN, UF, Clemson, AU. You might beat Wofford HS, Middle Tennesee St, Miss St, Florida (Atlantic), and possibly Vandy.

By gdawginkalamazoo

June 8, 2006 02:53 PM | Link to this

Ga’s whiniest,

UGA’s spring game is called the Red and Black game. Why don’t you guys go with colors instead of the Chickens versus the Eggs?

What one word describes the tradition of SC football? TANNEYHILL

By spell expert

June 8, 2006 08:04 PM | Link to this

BuLL smells badly!

By $%^&*(%$##

June 8, 2006 08:06 PM | Link to this

I meant spells badly!

By geechee

June 8, 2006 08:20 PM | Link to this

So, I guess that means that you spell badly.

By GT90

June 8, 2006 09:49 PM | Link to this

BuLLdawg - Matt Weiters is the best player in Georgia/South Carolina. Ask any pro scout and they will tell you the same.

As for the UGAY team, they are solid THIS YEAR. They are a scrappy bunch but not super talented.

As for the draft which you twisted around with your selective statistics, you need to look at the first day draftees. Tech had 7 drafted on the first day which is rounds 1-15 or so. UGAY had 3 drafted on the first day. Three is a good number for first day and you should be proud, but 7 is where the elite programs are at.

As for former players in the program Tech has Nomar Garciapara, Jason Veritek, Kevin Brown, and Mark Texiera. Georgia has no one. Chris Carpenter had moderate success (depending on which one you are talking about!) and Derek Liliquist who played for the Braves before “Sid Slid”. Program wise there is no comparison. UGAY is going to win a few vs Tech, especially against a banged up Tech team. Anyways good luck in the supers and we’ll let you know what the weather is like in Omaha.

By GT90

June 8, 2006 10:00 PM | Link to this

dawginkalamazoo- Tech better than UGAY in probation?

University of Georgia Infractions

November 14, 1978 NCAA finds UGA guilty of infractions in 75-76,76-77, and 77-78 academic years.

September 20, 1982 NCAA finds UGA guilty of infractions during the 81-82 academic years.

May 22, 1985 NCAA finds UGA guilty of infractions during the 1985 school year.

January 4 1987 NCAA finds infractions during the 85-86, 86-87 academic years.

March 5, 1997 NCAA infractions found from 93-94, 95-96 academic years.

August 5, 2004 NCAA infractions from 98-99, 01-02, 02-03 academic years.

REPEAT OFFENDERS RING A BELL?

By geechee

June 8, 2006 10:40 PM | Link to this

So North Avenue clown, you are saying the Diamond Dogs are not as talented as the NATS team yet we took 2 out of three from y’all. Oh, but wait, I’m sure you have a good excuse for that such as half your team was on their period those two days so they don’t count. Put a rag in it wuss. Face it there is not a single team at NATS that does not suck compared to UGA.

By Ga's finest

June 8, 2006 11:02 PM | Link to this

gdawginkalamazoo,

Maybe you are not seeing the same UGA team that I see coming back next season in Kalamazoo. Correct me if I’m wrong but I see a Georgia poodle team with a depleted secondary trying to cover faster South Carolina receivers and face it dude UGA doesn’t have anybody that match up with Sidney Rice who is at least going to have two touchdown catches. UGA doesn’t have any receiver that Carlos Thomas or Fred Bennett can’t cover. Remember the Carlos Thomas interception before halftime on Shockley?? I just don’t see Georgia challenging SC with Terra whoever or that true freshman Stafford

By reality check

June 8, 2006 11:10 PM | Link to this

GT 90, why aren’t you on the Tech blog supporting your team? I just read the Tech blog - all 17 entries - and you didn’t have a single post saying something positive about Georgia Tech baseball. Have you not heard they are in a super regional? Why aren’t you supporting them?

It really doesn’t speak well for you that you would rather make negative comments about a rival than support your team. If you are typical of Georgia Tech fans it is no wonder Tech’s athletic programs aren’t doing well in general. Get with it and show some support for Georgia Tech. If you join your fellow Tech fans on your blog your ranks will swell to a grand total of 18!

By northwestDawg

June 8, 2006 11:35 PM | Link to this

This game is so unique and this year both teams are in a state of transition that this will come down to game day coaching. The thing I’ve watched during recruiting for SC has been their picking up some real studs on their interior line. some JUCO, some returners and a couple of freshman. Ga., speed, speed, speed on “O” and “D”. Carolina will have an advantage inside; however, I thing MR will use his talent in a different way for this game. This game won’t be won with a TB off tackle type of “O”. No need for any more details because I’ve blogged them before so final point is: If MR is very creative with the “O” and Martinez isn’t to slow on adjustments the score will be Dawgs 24-10.

By MadMerf

June 8, 2006 11:51 PM | Link to this

It appears we have a C** fan on this blog who claims to be from Ga. which is funny since this state is not known for it’s caves! Maybe you are’nt seeing the same SC team coming back next season that I do. I had a post on the Tebow/Stafford blog that bears repeating since it is more appropriate here.

By MadMerf

June 9, 2006 12:08 AM | Link to this

The guys on the O-line need to grow up fast. They will be key to the maturation of the QBs early on. We have been known to sleepwalk through the SC games but seem to wake up in time to win. They’ve lost their TOP NINE TACKLERS on last year’s defense, so our young QBs won’t have to face Ko, J. Joseph and co. My primary concern before the spring game was our inexperience at DB, but goshalmighty the young guys looked good, did’nt they? Paul Oliver will have Rice for lunch and the rest of the secondary will have Blake Mitchell studying the grass beneath his bench! (Not the same grass Reuben Houston studies, mind you!) As long as the O-line holds up, our ‘backs should control the T.O.P. and the fastest thing our QBs will be dodging will likely be a visor!!!!

By BuLLdawg

June 9, 2006 03:37 AM | Link to this

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ESPN will televise the game with South Carolina September 9th at Columbia with Steve Spurrier their coach in that sport, whom Coach Richt beat last year on the Whirling Dervish Touchdown of his choice for UGA’s Quarterback last year - whom this time last year, the vast majority of you put down artists, put down big time as not being any good then either, especially the AJC as “only question marks for UGA at QB” last year this date.

ESPN is also televising another game between Georgia and South Carolina and that is NOT 4 MONTHS FROM NOW TO THE VERY DAY but tomorrow at 11 a.m.

While the AJC (and several other “UGA posters” aka put down artists) wish to keep up this mantra of Coach Richt is an idiot and cannot determine for you whom it is who should be his Quarterback having made such horrible choices for 2 entire decades of his College Quarterback including David Greene and then DJ Shockley so far here at UGA, I would prefer to finally have a blog about Georgia-South Caroilna on ESPN now, not 120 days from now.

If you do not mind.

5 SEC and 5 ACC Teams made the June 6 Baseball America Poll.

Georgia is 7th, Tech 8th, and South Carolina 15.

Alabama and Ole Miss are both ranked ahead of Georgia’s Diamond Dawgs.

In this sport, as in all NCAA sports except for Division 1-A Football only, the polls are changed after the season to reflect who actually won – not some opinion poll of a group with a vested interest on the part of each voter to vote some club ahead of another.

Arkansas (was Number 21) was dropped out completely or the SEC would have had 6.

http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/college/top25/261630.html

Josh Morris is on the short-short list for the National College Baseball Player of the Year Award. He has 10 more Home Runs than does Matt Wieters of Georgia Tech, who is listed on this list as a Junior – the same as Josh Morris is.

Shane Robinson of Miami (Florida) is also listed. Joey Side and Brooks Brown are not.

The Johnny Bench Award for the Top Catcher has been narrowed down as well, and Matt Wieters is not on it.

Only one of North Carolina’s pitchers is still on the list for the Brooks Wallace Award – College Baseball’s Player of the Year Award to be given out interestingly enough unlike the Heisman Trophy – after the College World Series is over on July 4th.

http://www.collegebaseballfoundation.org/watchlist/files/pdf/2006%20Wallace%20Award5-22-06a.pdf

That list will be slashed to 3 on June 15th following the Super Regionals this weekend.

Odds of Winning the College World Series for the remaining Sweet 16 – Super Regional Teams of interest :

68/6 Georgia . 32/1 South Carolina . 62/5 Tech . 38/1 College of Charleston

Last week, South Carolina’s current head baseball coach had 3 pitchers who all 3 were thrown to the wolves with unbelievable pitch-counts, which is why some college pitchers are better off going to the minors to rookie leagues instead :

Last Saturday, Mike Cisco of South Carolina was forced to throw 135 pitches. Last Saturday, Harris Honeycutt of South Carolina was forced to throw 123 pitches. And, on Monday, this week, Wynn Peltzer of South Carolina was forced to throw 121 pitches.

Obviously, this is clearly something to keep an eye on this time of the season that pitchers are forced to throw so many pitches this late in the season.

With our last game against Miami (Florida) Win, the SEC is now 140-128 over the ACC in head-to-head games over the last 10 years now.

So, there is no advantage the ACC enjoys over the SEC against each other either.

http://www.boydsworld.com/cgi/scores.pl?team1=SEC&team2=ACC&firstyear=1997&lastyear=2006&format=Text&records=records&submit=Fetch

The Series with Georgia Tech this Century shows that indeed, recently, Georgia Tech has NOT BEAT GEORGIA MORE THAN WE HAVE BEATEN GEORGIA TECH, in fact it is The Georgia Diamond Dawgs who have the advantage this Century in the Games played between Georgia and Georgia Tech:

14-12 Georgia over Georgia Tech in Baseball Starting 2000 :

http://www.boydsworld.com/cgi/scores.pl?team1=Georgia&team2=Georgia+Tech&firstyear=2000&lastyear=2006&format=Text&records=records&submit=Fetch

Oh, the 189-143-2 Huge 46-game Advantage Georgia enjoys over Georgia Tech in Baseball is old based upon wins over 120 years ago by Georgia over Georgia Tech.

Yes.

But, it is also an advantage that Georgia continues to make bigger this century than it was to end last century when Georgia was ahead by only 44 games at the end of the last century.

Georgia Tech is not, recently, better than Georgia in Baseball – or in ANY OTHER SPORT.

Here is the College World Series Rosenblatt Stadium Omaha, Nebraska Home WebPages URL Link for those interested that the Opening Ceremony is one week from last night, next Thursday Night June 15th at 7:30 p.m.

8 Teams advance from the Super Regionals where in this sport the Home Field Advantage is given to the team who has played the toughest Strength of Schedule and won the Most of Those games…RPI. By the way, we bat last Saturday at 11 a.m. Sunday at 4 p.m. and if necessary Monday at whatever time they move that game to, if needed – and, it will be needed.

http://www.CWSomaha.com

6 million fans have attended games at this Stadium for 56 Consecutive Years now, dating back to 1950 before I was born.

The College World Series National Champions Database there at that site goes back to 1947, which is interesting :

http://www.cwsomaha.com/html/about/champions.asp

It shows that Georgia has Won the CWS, Georgia Tech has not, South Carolina has not, Florida State has not, and that LSU has won the CWS 5 times.

The Most Outstanding Player of the College World Series in 1990 was Mike Rebhan of Georgia, our Pitcher.

Georgia Diamond Dawgs have A Solid Tradition in Baseball, and although Georgia was the 1st Team from the SEC to Win the College World Series NCAA National Championship, the SEC in fact Won the CWS 6 times from 1990 to 2000 decade with Mike Rebhan on the All-CWS Team of the Decade. LSU won the other 5 times for the SEC.

No team of the ACC has EVER WON the College World Series National Championship.

What is this junk about the ACC ?

They are the hype masters, aren’t they ?

No ACC team ever won the CWS.

6 times the SEC has won the CWS since 1990.

Southern California has won the CWS 12 times and Texas half that number, 6 times.

Stanford has won it twice, Cal State Fullerton has won it 4 times, Rice has won it once, Miami (Florida) 4 times but not once as a member of the ACC as with so much of the ACC hype, and Oklahoma has won the CWS twice.

The facts on Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium, thank you very much The Best Alabama Fan.

And, Tech nerds along with the rest of the little bitty schools of the ACC who have NEVER WON A CWS, NOT ONE TEAM OF THE ACC EVER.

2006 CWS Records Book, 266 pages, Free : http://www.ncaa.org/library/records/baseball/collegeworldseriesrecordsbook/2006cwsrecords.pdf

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By BuLLdawg

June 9, 2006 04:23 AM | Link to this

Thanks Blutarsky for the correction, and isn’t is great just how wrong you were that With DJ Shockley as the Starting Quarterback last year, just how wrong you were on the 5-6 Record you said we would be with him as the Quarterback June 2005 ?

By BuLLdawg

June 9, 2006 04:26 AM | Link to this

After our Win over Florida State (sorry for the typo) this past weekend, the SEC is now 140-128 over the ACC in the last entire 10-year period to-date in Baseball, a sport the ACC has never won while the SEC has won 6 Baseball CWS National Championships.

By BuLLdawg

June 9, 2006 04:38 AM | Link to this

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Thank you BIGNCDAWG :

By BIGNCDAWG

June 7, 2006 10:55 AM

“We might not agree with all BullDAWG writes, and we may not read all his long blogs, but his insites are mostly good and I love his DAWG spirit. His heart is in the right place and he is a great DAWG. You are right Godawg, the man keeps up with all the DAWG sports, and eats sleeps DAWG sports like I do. He has got fire.”

That about says it all.

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By BuLLdawg

June 9, 2006 05:11 AM | Link to this

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Thank you GdawgInKalamazoo :

By gdawginkalamazoo

June 7, 2006 11:13 AM

“BIGNCDAWG, Although I don’t read ALL (I do read a lot of them) that BuLLdawg writes, I agree with your last post 110%.”

It is hard to keep up with Georgia BuLLdawg Sports in Kalamazoo, unless someone provides us the overview of the day’s news about our alma mater - especially when the Online Athens Banner-Herald dropped off so much in Quality BuLLdawg coverage when they lost Josh Kendall to www.Macon.com - given that the AJC’s bias against us, especially by our “BuLLdawgs’ beat-writer” is so patently obvious. “Matt Wieters is the Best Baseball player on Georgia or Georgia Tech” yesterday being Carter Strickland’s point.

I think of my own points, look them up, research the proper authorities and come back with what I think is relevant - to me anyway - as I cannot judge others by what their measure of what might be relevant - I can only use myself as a measure of what I think is relevant.

Take today, for example, ESPN televising Georgia at South Carolina 4 months to the day today, is not as relevant as ESPN televising Georgia versus South Carolina tomorrow morning at 11 a.m.

What to say to an Alabama fan, “The Best,” is very easy when he states Alabama is better than Georgia in Baseball, given that The Best is given out in each sport and then tallied for the year in the Directors’ Cup showing UGA Number 13 and Alabama not in the Top 25 even - especially in a sport UGA has a CWS NCAA National Championship in that we also won the SEC Championship first in 1933 as well.

Ramblor Tech fan on the other hand is very easy to respond to, since Tech has no advantage over The Diamond Dawgs in Baseball period.**

. I take the time to read you all post here too. What else is there to do at 4 a.m. in the morning drinking your coffee when you have already read your e-mails., besides having a hobby and being somewhat interested in it.

Maybe I am slightly more interested than somewhat in my hobby.

And, my hobby is Georgia BuLLdawgs Sports.

I’m not Perfect, and only 1 is.

I don’t claim to be. I’m sorry that anyone would be resentful of my efforts over 50 years daily in my hobby, but those are really those who have the same hobby as me, but aren’t as good at it as I, and the vast majority of those vocal few are clearly fans of the teams that I specifically hate with a passion of all my heart.

Take the itty-bitty ACC schools, Georgia Tech Nerds On Probation the next entire 2 Seasons in Football for Academic Fraud, Florida crocodiles, Tennessee vols orange clad pajama wearing fools with back-stabbing coach with the sane number of SEC Championships the last 14 seasons now, 2, as Coach Richt has in one-third the time when the vols haven’t been ranked at ALL in the Final AP Polls 3 of the last 6 years now, Climpson Farmers, Florida State Criminoles, Miami of Florida cupcake-playing teams in front of NO FANS, Notre Shame’s no Defense against a Number 52 Football Strength of Schedule last season, Ohio State who hasn’t had an Offense in Forever, Oklahoma who does nothing but play powder-puff creampuff opponents, Penn State with their valley full of “happy” to be LOSERS fans, Virginia Tech fans who haven’t ever done squat but play pansies, and Nebraska who has fallen off the map too – for example.

I’ve got the Ultimate Goods on ALL of them, and am happy to share it. I would not want to be a fan of one of those schools, come in here and have a thing to say, were I they. (I mean how in the world can they say they are better than we at a thing?)

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By geechee

June 9, 2006 05:25 AM | Link to this

BuLLdawg, how in the hell did you come up with that guy’s Shockley post from a year ago? I am truly amazed.

Mad Merf you hit it on the head with the OL. We have some great younger players; sophs, redshirt frosh and true frosh who are in a dream situation for a player. They all have the opportunity to play very early in their careers at a major football institution. We need these guys to grow up and step up fast. If they do, we we will once again be one of the most underrated teams in the country just as we were last year. We know these guys have the talent or they would not have been signed by Mark Richt but, do they have the maturity and leadership skills to step up and be heroes?

It is not only the OL where this opportunity exists however. Richt has signed what will very likely be the greatest class of LBs in our history and close behind them is the class of DBs he landed. If our younger players in these three positions take advantage of the opportunity they have fallen into, it can be a very magical year in Athens because we could not have asked for a much better schedule for a rebuilding year.

Merf, how are things in the great State of Chatham?

By BuLLdawg

June 9, 2006 05:47 AM | Link to this

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Thank you JonDawg, sir :

By JonDawg

June 8, 2006 08:12 AM

“Bulldawg - thanks for the facts and data. Also thanks for focusing attention on the hidden messages in Mr. Strickland’s article. I was annoyed when I read his column early this morning and felt exactly as you. I don’t understand the AJC’s inability to remove their personal love of the bugs from their reporting. Reporting is supposed to unbiased and factual - I have noted (after over 50 years of reading it) that the imbalance in their reporting has grown far more severe in recent times. I am paid to bring an impartial, fact driven analysis to my work and I can recognize efforts - whether unconscious or not - to bias a story. Bulldawg does a good job of showing how the AJC slants its stories by omission and misrepresentation of facts. Unfortunately it is an all too common occurence. I have the opportunity to travel around this country and I have never seen another newspaper that does such a poor job of consistently allowing bias to enter their reporting. I agree that the editors need to look long and hard at the quality of work they are doing, because at this time it is poor.”

Hello, AJC ?

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By geechee

June 9, 2006 05:50 AM | Link to this

BuLLdawg, there are no real Dogs’ fans who could be resentful of you and we all truly love your passion for the Dogs. My one concern is that you have so many great points to make but some are not being made because people are jumping over some of your posts because of their length. I read every post you enter but not all do. You seem to be leaving out all the stats that you were inserting in your earlier posts and I want to thank you for that. This in itself makes your posts much easier to read. The stats can be very tedious. I want everyone to read your posts because you put so much time into them and have so much to say but, you simply are losing some because of the length. If you don’t mind that fine. As I said, you’ve slowed down on the stats now and that helps greatly. We know that you know them and we trust you to just give us the result of the stats without listing them. If somebody challenges you on them then you can whip them out and prove your point. We love ya BuLLdog. GO DIAMOND DOGS!!!!!

By tired of the useless stats

June 9, 2006 06:15 AM | Link to this

Funny how Bulldawg completely skips the part about being wrong on former UGA baseball players, but continues to spout out useless and often incorrect facts.

I understand your taking shots because Miami was not in the ACC all the times they won the CWS, but exactly which conference did you decide to put Wake Forest in since they did win it ( check your own link) in 1955.

Just because you can find a bunch of like-minded twits to say “Way to go” does not mean you are doing a great job. Again, spend a little more time researching and a little less time telling us about it.

By BuLLdawg

June 9, 2006 06:49 AM | Link to this

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by geechee

“We know that you know them and we trust you to just give us the result of the stats without listing them. If somebody challenges you on them then you can whip them out and prove your point. We love ya BuLLdog.”

I have never posted without giving the factual basis for the bias of the AJC against my beloved BuLLdawgs. Not once.

Nor will I ever when responding to posts that state that it is not true that Coach Richt is the 6th best college football coach in America, and tops in the SEC.

Weak Forest in 1955, 51 years ago, was in the ACC ? I could give a crap if that is correct that Weak Forest was.

Here is the URL Link for you : http://www.theacc.com/

Why don’t you go look it up and see if Weak Forest, a school of 1,700 students - about the size of my High School - was in the ACC in 1955 to give the ACC 1 National Championship 51 years ago in the College World Series, since you changed your handle to reflect that you are NOT a Georgia Tech fan because Tech certainly never did.

Nor any other ACC team ever.

While the SEC has 6 NC CWS Championships in Baseball since 1990.

After the 1953 College World Series, the ACC indeed became a conference of little itty-bitty schools without Athletic Departments and indeed once in 1955, less than 2 years later, indeed Weak Forest Won a National CWS Championship for the ACC - the ONLY 1.

Happy now ?

Why change your handle from that of the Gators poster ? Because the gators never won a NC in Baseball and are not playing in Baseball NCAA Tourney this year ?

You are not a fan of the Weak Forest small insignificant Athletic Department with but 7 National Championships, 1 Baseball, 3 men’s golf, and 3 women’s field hockey.

http://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/champs_listing1.html

Georgia has 22. .

Florida 16.

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Georgia Tech 0.

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Now, which one of those schools are you really a fan of ?

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By BuLLdawg

June 9, 2006 06:58 AM | Link to this

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By the way, even then the Most Outstanding Player in the NCAA College World Series National Championship, was not a Weak Forest player even.

. http://www.cwsomaha.com/html/about/champions.asp

By geechee

June 9, 2006 07:01 AM | Link to this

Hey Mr “useless stats” this is our blog, a few Dog’s fans may take issue with BuLLdawg but you have no freakin standing on this blog and your opinion of his posts means nada, zip.

By NoahHorford

June 9, 2006 07:29 AM | Link to this

You gotta love UGA fans talking about college baseball when the thread is about SEC QB’s. UF=20006 NCAA Mens Basketball Champions.

By Bradley G

June 9, 2006 08:51 AM | Link to this

20006 NCAA Mens Basketball Champions? You gotta love that!

By gdawginkalamazoo

June 9, 2006 09:08 AM | Link to this

Nothing to do with UGA football and this was posted on the AP a few days ago but I thought it was hilarious.

Ohio coach Frank Solich is fighting a drunken driving conviction based on testing that revealed the “date rape” drug GHB in his system, his lawyer said Friday.

Looks like Nebraska just can’t leave this guy alone.

By JaxDawg

June 9, 2006 09:32 AM | Link to this

Ga’s finest, Aside from Sidney Rice, are you really stating that SC has a top-tier wide receiving corp? I’ll concede your point about our secondary being in a rebuilding year, but the talent/potential is unquestioned. As MadMerf stated earlier, Paul Oliver will have Rice for lunch. I believe our young secondary (Asher Allen, Bryan Evans, Ramarcus Brown, Byrd, and newbie Reshad Jones) will have more than ample skill to cover your stellar wideouts. Go Dawgs!!!

By gdawginkalamazoo

June 9, 2006 09:45 AM | Link to this

GT90,

Nice post regarding our past transgressions. Okay, so we are also better than you at that. AT LEAST WHEN WE COMMIT THE INFRACTIONS WE WIN.

GT90, PS did you read reality checks comments regarding support for your own team as opposed to criticizing somebody else?

Ga’s finest, No you are dreaming and I am looking at reality. Sure Rice is probably THE best receiver in the conference if not the nation. Our secondary will be young but just as quick as “minute Rice”. Plus our LB’s and DE’s will be putting a hurt on your QB. As for our WR’s, MoMass, Raley, Durham are a couple of names to make note of. As for that INT last year, that was last year and I believe that was a W for us. You still have to contend with our running game which won’t look anything like last year.

By reality check

June 9, 2006 10:06 AM | Link to this

During the half hour interview with Mark Richt on Sports South last night, he was very candid all the elements for a good season are in place. He mentioned they have found answers for all the key positions. I assume that includes quarterback. He also said there is a lot of competition. That means depth. He specifically mentioned the secondary. He also mentioned senior leadership. For the past few years Georgia has had a lot of seniors starting and their replacements have stepped up and been just as effective and eventually moved on to the NFL. Georgia has a lot of players who haven’t been starting who will be playing on Sunday one day and some of them will start asserting themslves this year.

Richt didn’t predict anything. He said the season would have to play out because Georgia plays a lot of great teams. He is right. But he was very clear all the elements for another good year are in place - no limits. That’s what you’re looking for right there.

By godawg

June 9, 2006 10:21 AM | Link to this

Ga’s funniest: South Carolina football is still a joke. Sure you’re getting better and had some good games last year (Florida). You even went to your 4th bowl game, in over 100 years of playing football. (The WeedEater bowl which you lost.) The fact remains you still do not have the talent and speed from top to bottom on your roster to take you to the next level. The last time I looked Spurrier had to stay off the field. Go c**-a-doodle-doo somewhere else.

PS: Know how to get a Carolina cheerleader into your dorm room? Grease her hips and push…

By godawg

June 9, 2006 10:31 AM | Link to this

I can’t believe the ajc edited the O-C-K out of the phrase c**-a-doodle-doo. Damn! They did it again!

By geechee

June 9, 2006 12:10 PM | Link to this

“You gotta love UGA fans talking about college baseball when the thread is about SEC QB’s. UF=20006 NCAA Mens Basketball Champions.”

Hey Noah, this our blog we make our own rules and we talk about whatever we want to talk about. You are not discussing football either you are only making a weak attempt at insulting Dog’s fans. Why do you care what what we discuss? I do like the first part of your post however; You gotta love UGA fans.

By AltamahaDawg

June 9, 2006 12:34 PM | Link to this

reality, is that guy smooth in an interview or what? No crap, straight forward. optomistic, realistic. We will do the best we can and see what happens. Its usually pretty good coach.

By gdawginkalamazoo

June 9, 2006 01:20 PM | Link to this

Sic’em geechee!

By godawg

June 9, 2006 02:47 PM | Link to this

Just read Bill Curry’s six keys for Tech to beat Notre Dame. Here’s the last one:

6. All Georgia Tech people must rally to this team and this staff. Petty bickering and foolish criticism distract the players and really hurt our chances.

They’re dead.

By War Eagle

June 9, 2006 03:43 PM | Link to this

Auburn-UGA 2005 game is on CSS tonight at 7:00 PM.

By gdawginkalamazoo

June 9, 2006 03:49 PM | Link to this

War Eagle, yeah we will all be watching! Maybe turn it off with a minute and a half to go. You can have it my friend.

By AltamahaDawg

June 9, 2006 03:52 PM | Link to this

does TT get to call 3 more timeouts after the ball is in the air on the replay too? JK. Was one of the best games of the season.

By godawg

June 9, 2006 03:56 PM | Link to this

War Eagle, please don’t tell my wife!

By AltamahaDawg

June 9, 2006 04:02 PM | Link to this

godawg…..say it aint’t so!

By godawg

June 9, 2006 04:15 PM | Link to this

Yes, I’m afraid it is so…I took pity and married an unfortunate waif who suffered through four years on the plains. She received her degree in Banking and Finance and understandably cannot balance her checkbook. She is cute though.

ALL TRUE.

By AltamahaDawg

June 9, 2006 04:47 PM | Link to this

well I assume she had to be cute to overlook the other.

By geechee

June 9, 2006 05:00 PM | Link to this

Alta don’t forget, they were nice enough to give us Vince.

By uga4ever

June 9, 2006 08:27 PM | Link to this

BuLLdawg- I would have liked to read your post, and you may have made some good points. But Damn…. who wants to read all of the shiat. Trim it down a little or a lot and you might make some valid points. Wow!!

By tired of the useless stats

June 9, 2006 10:24 PM | Link to this

I am proud to say I am a Tech fan and I made up the name only to get Bulldawg’s attention. I’m not here to trash UGA Geechee, I’m sorry you don’t feel I belong here, but so long as he is spouting off incorrect facts and juvenile analyses to attack Tech, and every other college team for that matter, then I will continue to call him out on it. If you do not wish to read my posts, please skip them and move on. I assure you I will sleep fine either way. If you want to drink the Kool-Aid he offers, enjoy your sheltered little world. I respect UGA fans, and for that matter all fans that care about their school. That is what makes college sports exciting and worth watching. My problem with Bulldawg is that he often quotes stats that are incorrect ( at least one per post), makes wandering, pointless arguments based on stats that are filtered to support his point, and most importantly shows he has no respect for anyone that offers a contrary opinion. I understand why you and the other UGA bloggers support him, but deep down you know he is like that cousin you know you have to invite to the wedding but hope like hell he doesn’t actually show up.

On recent posts from the cousin, he provided a link and said no ACC school had won the CWS further argued that the SEC has won 6. Well “Weak Forest” has one 1, despite his dismissing it to a small school with no credentials and fails to mention that outside of UGA’s one( congrats on that to you guys), the rest belong to LSU and LSU only. Nice to surround yourself with the conference when convenient and slam them any other time it suits your argument. Bottom line is “Weak Forest” has still won the CWS as many times as UGA has, and I understand that is one more time than Tech has.

If I were Bulldawg’s alter ego, I might ask ‘What is the only current member of the ACC or SEC to have a losing record in football to “Weak Forest”?’ Upon providing the answer, I would then continue to make circling statements around some point that came down to the fact that “Weak Forest” is a better football team than UGA based on stats. Of course, that is ridiculous, but not in Bulldawg’s world. Again, not picking a fight with UGA fans, just him.

He recently went off on a diatribe about how great former UGA pitcher Ch(r)is Carpenter is. While that has been well proven wrong, even if we give him credit for both Carpenter’s attending UGA, their combined record of 116-85 over 18 seasons still doesn’t compare to Kevin Brown’s 211-144 record over 14 seasons (unless you want to count the other Kevin Brown who played for the Brewers, Mets, and Mariners over 4 seasons) which drops his record to 214-149. We will completely ignore Varitek, Garciaparra, Teixera, and Payton because that would just make him look ignorant, best case, or make him try to come up with some argument about how UGA leads CWS participants on grass, on the road, against left handed pitchers when the moon is full.

Cousin also went off on the AJC about Matt Wieters. First, why would any club draft him when they could not sign him before another draft? Tech had two Sophomores drafted because they will be eligible under the age limit. Wait till next year and see where he goes before you make your stupid comments. You know you’d be singing his praises if he played for the Dogs. You compare any number of players stats against his, but the point is he has it all. Show me an effective pitcher that has more homeruns, RBI’s, stolen bases, and slugging percentage, or whatever stat than him. Matt will be fine and I’d trade all of my salary and a tenth of your perception of your net worth for his signing bonus next year.

Finally, Bulldawg or cousin, says Tech played in an easier regional than UGA. Of course we are playing in an easier Super as well, even though COC went through Kentucky, Eastern Division champs and tied for best record in the SEC. Let’s look at the two regionals and compare.

2nd seeds, Vanderbilt (GT) and FSU(UGA).

Vandy 3rd in the East, 6th in SEC. FSU Tied for 2nd in the Atlantic, Tied for the 6th in the ACC.

GT’s record (2-0), UGA ( 2-4) on Vandy. GT (3-0) on FSU vs UGA (2-1) on FSU.

3rd seeds, Michigan (GT) and Jacksonville (UGA). Michigan won the Big 10+1 season and conference titles. Jacksonville won the regular season in the A-10 and lost to Stetson for the tournament title.

4th seeds Stetson (GT) and Sacred Heart (UGA). Stetson won the A-10 tourney and had a winning record in conference. Sacred Heart finished with a losing record (26-28) in the traditional powerhouse of the Northeastern Conference and won the tourney.

How exactly do you say Tech played in an easier regional, which we swept by the way?

Again, sorry to all you true UGA fans, but if you are one of those that feel the need to dance with your cousin and drink the Kool-Aid, be my guest. So long as Bulldawg continues to attack anyone and everyone with his dribble, I’ll call him on it. If he presents accurate stats with cohesive arguments, I’ll acknowledge them. Bulldawg, why don’t you spend your weekend working on your essay and then I’ll be sure to point out every single mistake or flaw you make.

Sorry to clog the blog but Bulldawg spews so much crap that has to be countered. Future posts will be limited to directly disputing his usual misinformation. Either way, he either spends more time researching, or he makes his posts shorter. I do not care either way and it will be a community service. Good luck against SC.

By northwestDawg

June 9, 2006 10:50 PM | Link to this

geechee, your comments about our “O” line compliment what I said. That is, with this recruiting class that the “O” line simply needs to hold there own and we’ll win. I really believe that MR has the talent he needs to open things up more than he ever has at Ga. When I say speed, speed, speed I’m referring to his new class of freshmen and like you I thing we’ll have at least 6 or 7 be impact players. I’ve already predicted a 24-10 win if MR lets it rip. a final point. Just because someone disagrees with some of the moves that MR makes DOESN’T mean that they don’t think he’s an outstanding coach. I’m not dissing MR when I say that it’s my belief that game day coaching will be the key to who wins and I’ve put my money on Mr. It’ll be a “High Noon Showdown at Night”. Mr vs. SOS

By GT90

June 9, 2006 11:37 PM | Link to this

Halfway to Omaha BuLLdawg! GTech 5 CoChar 0. Good luck tommorow.

By auburn suxs

June 10, 2006 12:35 AM | Link to this

wareagle do you really think auburn has a chance at the SEC title NO ,,, my friend auburn is not that good and they need a better QB kenny irons is the only thing auburn has this year and they really don’t have a O-line. We will see come kick-off time. Who does auburn play not in the SEC this year??

By dawgsrule

June 10, 2006 12:48 AM | Link to this

uhhhh, now that i have recovered from the blitzkrieg, i have to say….i agree with the anonomous spewer of corrections. while i don’t usually like giving credit to ANYONE besides myself, I truly abhor misinformation. Sir, I will begrudgingly support your previous statements. Because I, as a LONG time dawg supporter and graduate, know them to be true. Selah…

By geechee

June 10, 2006 04:42 AM | Link to this

Hey Mr. “tired of the useless stats” this is not your blog. What BuLLdawg or any other Dogs’ fan posts is our business. If you ever post another lengthy comment like that simply to trash our blog I promise you, we will destroy the damn Tech blog. We will fill it with so much crap for days or weeks that Tech fans won’t even want to post there anymore. Who the hell do you think you are? BuLLdawg does not need to be countered by the likes of a friggin troll like you. If you want to be the one that causes us to come over to your blog en masse be my guest but this is no idle threat. How dare you come on this blog with the intention to disrupt it like that. Do you think the AJC does not know who you are because you used a fake email address? They have the exact address of every poster who comes on these blogs. BuLLdawg posts his comments on this, the UGA blog for UGA fans.The posts are for us and are our business. He does not posts these comments on the Tech blog but he certainly could and we could all join him. Push the envelope punk. You are totally lacking in any manners whatsoever. If you want to post here, be my guest but that troll crap better stop.

By BuLLdawg

June 10, 2006 05:32 AM | Link to this

.

I see CBS has finally responded, instead of everyone telling us what CBS thinks about The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party:

http://www.sportsline.com/spin/story/9449637?spinpoll519

6. “The Florida Is Going To Win Bowl” with some modification is my choice of the 12 Choices for the name of The Game CBS gives us all to vote on today at this URL Link.

The Florida Crocodiles are Going to Win at The Gator Bowl Game, 45 minutes from their campus and 9 hours from our campus, named for them (ask Toyota), or Click the URL Link : http://www.GatorBowl.com which the Gator Bowl Association puts on, in front of 84,753 fans (half of which each year are for UGA) instead of 92,746 at our far better football facility – every year named one of the Top 10 College Football Stadiums in the Nation (see page 62 latest Georgia BuLLdawgs’ Football Media Guide)

And, so in a small out-dated stadium run by the Gator Bowl Association, ten percent smaller than our own Beautiful Sanford Stadium ‘Tween The Hedges, we are given 42,376 tickets they say. 9 hours away from our campus for our boys in a heat and humidity which Coach Richt has said from Day 1 is unfair to our players, and that he would say that if UGA won 5 consecutive games.

42,376 instead of every other year 92,746.

Every newspaper report of The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party at the Jacksonville Florida Gator Bowl reads the same : Georgia Lost Again.

Duh.

And, for what ?

For a few fans, who would what ?

Say that they will not be Georgia BuLLdawg Football Fans because we moved the game away from the field the Coach says is unfair to his players to play at every single year.

They cannot get to Sanford Stadium every other year ?

They want to take a Vacation to Jacksonville Florida, that Hell Hole ?

No, they do not.

They stay in St. Simons Island, or Brunswick, and we Never have the Home Field Advantage in a series 2-14 and counting because they are so selfish about what they want, that they categorically refuse to address the coach’s point that it is unfair to the team, the players, and the boys of Fall – from Athens, Georgia.

$20 million it provides in the economy down there. St. Simons, Brunswick folks clearly do not want me to tell you exactly what it means to their city 68 miles from Jacksonville but Jacksonville officials have repeatedly stated that the Economic Impact on Jacksonville is $20 million dollars.

Now, it would not pump $20 million into the Athens Economy every year having the game every other year at our Far Better Stadium where we enjoy Home Field Advantage as they at their Gator Bowl, but it would certainly mean by recent analyses about $5 million into the Athens Economy.

Some estimates put it at higher than $5 million Economic Impact every other year for the Georgia Florida Game to be played every other year at our Stadium.

Who wants to take a Vacation anyway in November ?

No one in their right mind, would take a Vacation to Jacksonville, and certainly not in November.

But, here we are half with a vested interest like the folks down there in Brunswick, and the other half asking those fine folks : “What do you think about Coach Richt’s statements that the travel and climate which our boys cannot get acclimated to in one day’s time, is patently unfair to our players?”

It’s 50/50 on this issue.

Now, what they call the Game, I could care.

We all know that the Gator Bowl Association tried to change the name of the stadium to fool us that the travel and climate is not an unfair advantage to the Florida Gators. Steve Spurrier would have none of that. Neither will Toyota.

Or, me.

And, the same will happen to name the game differently as well.

You cannot tell people what the call the stadium.

Ask Steve Spurrier or Toyota.

Or, ask the Gator Bowl Association itself to change their WebPages URL Link from www.GatorBowl.com

And, you cannot dictate what we call the game either.

Call it UNFAIR TO UGA FOOTBALL TEAM.

And, quit being so selfish about what you want as a fan instead of what the players need at least half of the time to have Home Field Advantage.

With your vested interests in Brunswick.

Now, I know that that is a passion that the millions brought into the Brunswick area every year is so critical to having Festive Holiday Seasons in the Brunswick area, and that you must be passionate with me in response to this clearly worded post that you have a vested interest to demonstrate fire to this post – but the facts are that you are selfish and you do have a vested interest to refuse categorically to discuss the 1st one of you in Brunswick to say one analysis of Coach Richt’s Statements to the Augusta BuLLdawg Club 3 weeks ago again.

So, go ahead, tell us what you think about Coach Richt’s statement that it is unfair to our players every year to play in that heat and humidity which we cannot acclimate ourselves to in one day’s time 9 hours from our campus and 45 minutes from the Gator’s Campus at a Stadium Clearly Named the Gator Bowl whatever they try to change the name of the stadium to with 42,376 tickets for us instead of every other year 92,746 ten percent bigger crowd for Home Field Advantage for our players every other year – and that Coach Richt said that he would say that if UGA won 5 games in a row or not ?

Go ahead tell us, for stonewalling Coach Richt’s statements have only tipped the scale of the power and impact of his statements once again – just 3 weeks ago – toward Heaven Forbid 51 percent of us wanting to have the game anywhere but at The Gator Bowl every single year.

Right now, it’s 50/50.

Furman Bisher in Sunday’s AJC column, he states that to his knowledge Coach Richt has NEVER SAID ONE WORD ABOUT HOW HE FEELS ABOUT THE GAME BEING PLAYED IN JACKSONVILLE EVERY YEAR.

2 items of point Furman Bisher :

(1) You obviously feel that if Coach Richt had made such a statement that it would be important, or you would not offer up that to your knowledge he never has. (2) He has made such a statement about the game in Jacksonville and the unfair advantage it has on our team every year.

Why is it that no one in Brunswick has yet discussed in the open to the rest of us who do not have a vested interest in all of this, Coach Richt’s statements ?

Y’all leave it sitting there, hanging, like a water droplet fixin’ to fall from the roof, knowing that you have no response and that Coach Richt’s words are powerful.

And, the droplet does fall from the roof, and the longer it sits there on the edge hanging, clinging, holding on, gathering mass : The Bigger the SPLASH the droplet has when it hits the ground.

Hits Home.

As this game has to be anywhere but at Jacksonville’s Gator Bowl every year.

Heaven Forbid y’all have to come up with some Event on your own to draw a crowd in Brunswick maybe on multiple weeks even and who knows ?

Maybe at a better time of the year than November for Brunswickians or those who take their vacation there or St. Simons 7 miles away from Brunswick.

Be honest about it Brunswickians ?

Tell us what you think in the open public here about Coach Richt’s statements that it is unfair for our football players to every year travel down there in heat and humidity that so takes a toll that Gatorade was invented by the University of Florida (only to sell the formula and Rights) and that no one day there acclimates us to it, nor is the series any longer like it once was in the 80s when it didn’t matter because the Florida Gators did not have a team back then.

They do now.

What was Florida ranked ?

Do you know ?

12th.

Give our boys a fair shot every other year.

Or at least tell us what you think about Coach Richt’s statements that it is unfair and that he would say that if we won 5 games in a row or not ?

Go ahead ?

Show some panache ?

Call it UNFAIR TO UGA FOOTBALL TEAM or at least admit you have a vested interest in ignoring or even caring how unfair it is to our players.

Have some confidence in your own ability to respond to Coach Richt’s statements ?

Tell us what you think about Coach Richt’s repeated statements that this venue is unfair, every year ?

By northwestDawg

June 10, 2006 11:50 AM | Link to this

got to cry for a minute, SC is bombing the Diamond Dawgs. Can we come bcak from 9-0 again. Bases jucied, 1 out. need some runs badly. strike out! Diamond Dawg fans we’re in a whole lot of trouble.

By GT90

June 10, 2006 03:10 PM | Link to this

What happened BuLLdawg? 8 homeruns in one game! At least UGAY is in the record books, even if it is for giving up 5 STRAIGHT HOMERUNS!!!!!!!!! Go ahead and say that College of Charleston is easier, but you might want to check and see what Coll of Charleston did vs the SEC’s #1 Kentucky before you spout off! We’ll let you know what Omaha is like this year. BTW UNC (ACC) just spanked Bama (SEC).

By War Eagle

June 10, 2006 04:05 PM | Link to this

auburn sux, I hope you are wrong about Auburn football team this coming season. We are going to make every effort to win the SEC as is UGA, LSU, and Florida. Brandon Cox has experience behind him after a good season last year and hoping he will stay injury free and help Aubrn to the SEC crown and BCS Bowl. Kenny Irons is a premier RB in the country and should make alot of noise this year. There is no doubt the four schools mention are contenders. All four schools have minor issues to overtake such as UGA QB situation, Auburn Offensive line power, Florida leake? and LSU offensive line, so it will be a good run and I hope all teams can keep injuries down to a minimum.

By jim

June 10, 2006 06:40 PM | Link to this

who the hell is afraid of south carolina. not me. I would never, ever,ever be afraid of south carolina. I don’t care if vince lombardi is coaching the team. get over it. do they play UGA tough almost every year? Yes. But that’s what happens with certain teams that base their season on winning one game. Go Dawgs and to Hell with Ga Tech!

By King of the Ring

June 10, 2006 06:55 PM | Link to this

GAME…..COCKS…..GAME…..COCKS!!! One more and out for the puppies!!

By War Eagle

June 10, 2006 09:25 PM | Link to this

Auburn won its 4th 2005-06 NCAA National Championship title today winning Women Track and Field Championship in California. Xavier Carter WR from LSU was the first athlete to win the 100m, 200m, 440m and 4 by 400 relay since Jesse Owens.

By BadgerDawg

June 10, 2006 09:38 PM | Link to this

With any luck the Gamecocks in the Spurrier era may get to as many bowl appearances IN THEIR HISTORY as the Dawgs get this decade. That is South Carolina football. Two other thoughts on South Carolina: 1) They are not USC that is Southern Cal and everyone knows it. 2) They are not Carolina that is North Carolina and everyone knows it. Major identity crisis in Columbia…if you can’t get help at Charter, get help somewhere.

By GT90

June 11, 2006 12:19 AM | Link to this

Three ACC teams in BuLLdawg! Tech, UNC (over an SEC team), and Clemson. I didn’t forget your remarks back in April about ACC baseball. How does that crow taste?

By GT90

June 11, 2006 12:44 AM | Link to this

BuLLdawg I stand corrected it was your remarks from March. If you need a little refresher here it is.

Originally posted on March 13, 2006 by BuLLdawg

The SEC has 7 of the Top 19 Teams in the latest Baseball America while the ACC has 4 of the Top 25.

http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/college/top25/2006top25.html

Collegiate Baseball reports the same that there are 6 ACC Teams in its Top 30 Poll, while the SEC has 9 and this includes Georgia being ranked, despite our far tougher Strength of Schedule than Georgia Tech’s.

50 percent of the ACC “teams” are not ranked at all by Collegiate Baseball, while only 25 percent of the SEC is not ranked by Collegiate Baseball this week.

http://www.baseball-news.com/polls/divI/currentpolldivI.htm

The latest USA Today Coaches’ Poll has 6 ACC teams to 8 SEC Teams ranked in their Top 25 poll as well.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/baseball/usatpoll.htm

AND NOW FOR BuLLdawg’s MOST IDIOTIC COMMENT EVER….drum roll…ddddddddddd

This has been a down year for the ACC in Football, in Men’s Basketball, and now in Baseball – compared to the SEC.

BuLLdawg you are a freaken genius!!!

By BuLLdawg

June 11, 2006 02:46 AM | Link to this

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By War Eagle

June 10, 2006 04:05 PM

“…have minor issues to overtake such as UGA QB situation…”

Yeah, this is a horrible situation to have to overcome - I have to admit :

Number 1 QB in Nation Matthew Stafford http://uga.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?Sport=1&pr_key=29228

Number 7 QB in Nation Joe Cox http://uga.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?Sport=1&pr_key=27899

Number 10 QB in Nation Joe Tereshinski III http://uga.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?Sport=1&pr_key=792

Number 9 QB in Nation Blake Barnes http://uga.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?Sport=1&pr_key=16760

Which cupcake, creampuff, powder-puff, wuss, and unranked team is Coach Tommy Tuberville going to lose to this year ?

Georgia Tech ?

By weather man

June 11, 2006 07:53 AM | Link to this

It must have been hot and humid yesterday!

By Michael Cameron

June 11, 2006 09:45 AM | Link to this

Note: Those readers who may be indifferent toward the following topic should simply scroll down and skip my remarks. Here follows a coherent refutation of “BadgerDawg’s” specious contention regarding who is entitled to be graced with the acronym “USC” and the cognomen “Carolina,” as well as an infusion of edification into his “thoughts,” which, on this matter, are in need of renovation.

Mr. (I presume) BadgerDawg states: “Two other thoughts on South Carolina: 1) They are not USC that is Southern Cal and everyone knows it. 2) They are not Carolina that is North Carolina and everyone knows it. Major identity crisis in Columbia…if you can’t get help at Charter, get help somewhere.”

“USC” is, indeed, logically synonymous with The University of South Carolina, every bit as much as it is with The University of Southern California. Merely because the latter is better known than the former does not delete the reality that Carolina is entitled to this moniker (USC) as much as the more famous school. Southern Cal happens to be located out there in the land of golden and glamorous Hollywood, which affords greater publicity. And, yes, their various athletic teams have, historically, won more games. So what? The letter “U” begins “University,” then “S” begins “South,” and the “C” begins “Carolina.” Surely you can follow the logic. Yes, most sports fans will first think of Southern Cal upon hearing/reading “USC.” And why is that? Well, that is because people such as you, and especially writers and broadcasters, lamentably continue to perpetuate this inappropriate unfairness. One pertinent point is that the Southern USC is older than the entire state of California, itself, easily eclipsing the inauguration of The University of Southern California. USC (Southern version) was founded in 1801. The state of California did not join the Union until 1850. The Southern USC predates the one in the far West by generations.

“Carolina” is logically synonymous with The University of South Carolina, every bit as much as it is with The University of North Carolina. Again, repeating the same argument as above, merely because the latter is better known than the former does not delete the reality that USC is entitled to this moniker (Carolina) as much as the more renowned school. The word “Carolina” appears all over the USC campus, in its media guides, in Williams-Brice Stadium, on clothing and paraphernalia, on its websites and so on, as does the abbreviation “USC.”

“The University of South Carolina, Columbia (USC or Carolina) is a public, coeducational, research university located in Columbia, South Carolina and is the flagship campus of the University of South Carolina System.” The preceding quote is from Wikipedia www.wikipedia.org. It seems there are some respected, and quite neutral, sources of info that fall out of the realm of your “everyone” population.

You refer to yourself as BadgerDawg. I don’t know whether the “Badger” prefix alludes to The University of Wisconsin. But, in any event, you reveal an allegiance to UGA and indicate you are an aficionado of the SEC. Via your disrespectful refusal to acknowledge the palpable applicability to USC/Carolina of these nicknames, you manage to inflict contempt against your own conference. You, perchance unwittingly, infer that a fellow SEC program is unworthy of the level of acclaim you wish to extend to members of competing leagues, thereby unavoidably implying a strain of SEC inferiority. Now, why would you want to go and do a self-defeating thing like that? And, if you are a Southerner, as I am proud to be, you also, de facto, manifest a dissing (I think that’s the right word that young people use these days) of The South (with the USC discrimination). Please consider that, should you drive eastbound on I-20 from here in Atlanta, you will arrive in Columbia in about three-and-half hours; should you journey to Los Angeles, however, that trip will take a bit longer — as in going all the way to the other side of our big and wonderful country. I argue that the U. of S.C. should, over time, begin to receive top billing as USC, both in academic as well as athletic references, in the region approximating the contiguous Dixie states, from Southern journalists and fans. Also, UGA plays USC in multiple sports every single year, as the respective campuses are only the proverbial hop, skip and a jump away, with S.C. and GA. actually bordering each other.

Outside the states of S.C. and N.C. the Gamecocks should ideally receive equal billing, along with UNC, as “Carolina.”

Carolina/USC folks suffer no “identity crises,” as they are fully aware of whom they are. You, sir, by contrast, appear to have the classic one finger pointing out and three aimed back at yourself, as you struggle with grasping a proper identity of the flagship university of the great state of South Carolina. This college can properly be identified — and should be — as USC and/or Carolina just as readily as the other two. And, no, winning a bunch of games in whatever sport, while this would certainly enhance notoriety, should not be ordained as a mandatory criteria for earning equitable treatment concerning this subject. The fact that the university exists, is sensibly described by the names, and, most importantly, is actively educating students while putting teams on the field/court (in Division I, no less), should be enough for proper respect in this area.

I understand you want to eschew courtesy in order to razz the opposition with insults because of the rivalry thing, etc., and that’s fine, but I’m disputing you on this issue, as I have been annoyed (not enraged, as there are far more important matters in our distressed world; it’s just aggravating) for several decades now over the national media’s unprofessional inequity in not sharing these sobriquets with our USC/Carolina. This oft-repeated slight relates to civic, community, regional and state honor. No, it is decidedly untrue that “everyone knows it,” that is, the inane perception that Southern Cal and North Carolina somehow hold some kind of prerogative claim of exclusivity on those names, because knowing something that is false must be, by definition of what entities can be truly known, a misnomer, and thus impossible. You can believe mendacity, that is, a fallacy, but you cannot know it — because it does not exist.

I hadn’t heard the old “…get help somewhere” Charter Hospital ad since the 1990s. That was fun to see again. The USC/Carolina faithful aren’t the ones who need to make an appointment.

Thank you for reading.

By BuLLfagg

June 11, 2006 09:51 AM | Link to this

The first three teams in the college world series are all from the ACC. You are right BuLLfagg, that conference does suck.

By War Eagle

June 11, 2006 10:01 AM | Link to this

BuLLdawg, I need a BRIEF answer on this question…how many ranked teams are on UGA schedule 2006? Not Auburn > UGA…Thanks

By War Eagle

June 11, 2006 10:03 AM | Link to this

BuLLdawg, I nam talking about Top 10 rank teams…thanks again

By BuLLdawg

June 11, 2006 11:42 AM | Link to this

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A Georgia Tech nerd comes in, logs in as a Tech fan, and has something to say about The ACC being down in Football – 1 of 4 sports Georgia Tech cheated at and is on Probation in for the next entire 2 Full Seasons – when in Football this season The ACC had but only 1 Team in the AP Poll Top 16 compared directly thereto with the SEC having 5 of the Top 14, while Georgia doubled the score of Georgia Tech in Football to have Georgia end the season in the Top 10 for the 4th consecutive year while Georgia Tech was totally unranked in Football this season ?

Oh boy; tell me it’s not true that we can actually have a conversation with a Tech nerd in person, logged in as a Tech fan about the topic he writes about this morning ?

The nerd has something about The ACC being down Men’s Basketball this season, a Sport in which once again The ACC did not have more ranked teams in than The SEC who won the National Championship, when Georgia Tech has zero National Championships in any sport ever, and lost to Georgia in this sport too ?

Oh boy, tell me it’s not true that we can actually have a conversation with a Tech nerd in person, logged in as a Tech fan about the topic he writes about this morning ?

The nerd has something to say about The ACC having Zero College World Series National Championships in Baseball in the last 50 years and just 1 in the last 51 years, and leaves out that Ole Miss beat Miami (Florida) in Baseball last night, when in this sport too, The ACC has 3 teams that are ranked worse than the Number 84 RPI in Baseball – all 3 worse than any SEC Baseball RPI – when Georgia Tech most assuredly AGAIN THIS YEAR lost in this sport to The Georgia BuLLdawgs too ?

Oh boy, tell me it’s not true that we can actually have a conversation with a Tech nerd in person, logged in as a Tech fan about the topic he writes about this morning ?

I said that South Carolina is a great Baseball Program with Chuck Tanner, and that unlike The ACC, the SEC faces itself in a match-up of 2 teams that either one of which will knock off the ACC – like we do in every sport.

As for College of Charleston being an easier opponent for Tech this weekend than Georgia faces, as you readily admit yourself – well, that is as true as it is that Tech also last weekend faced easier opponents than we did too.

The BuLLdawgs will put Brooks Brown on the mound today and force the game on Monday, which is what I said would happen all week long against a lot better Baseball Team than Tech played; and, our game at 4 p.m. Today Sunday is on ESPN – unlike Georgia Tech’s Baseball Game yesterday, deemed in fact to be such a cupcake game, that it was NOT EVEN ON TV.

This obviously is a bitter pill to swallow for nerd that out of 22 sports this season, Tech beat Georgia in one. What was that ? Women’s Tennis ?

That you cannot even watch your teams on TV while our games are all nationally televised.

Tell us all nerd, how many times did you call Comcast yesterday to complain that Georgia Tech - ON PROBATION FOR THE NEXT 2 YEARS the 2nd time now that Georgia Tech has been found GUILTY of MAJOR INFRACTIONS DATABASE and put on Probation, and this one for Academic Fraud in Football – to complain to Comcast that Tech should be on TV like Georgia is ?

How many times nerd ?

How’s Reuben Houston doing ? Seen him driving around campus in the van with 93 lbs. of drugs, only to play him against us in the Game this season after he admitted he was having the drugs taken from Tech’s campus to a friend of his whom he knew would sell the drugs for the guys who brought to him from California ? With his infant on his lap before he bailed from the van on Tech’s Campus, seeing the GBI, Tech campus Security, FBI, Georgia State Patrol and Atlanta City Police following them.

On Tech’s Campus.

You rename your Football Stadium for a college dropout of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville when the Stadium used to be known as Grant (Commander in Chief Union Forces in the War of Northern Aggression, in Atlanta of all places), name your Basketball Gym for a Guy Tech fired and ran out of town on a rail (Bobby Cremins), and drive a 1930 Automobile around like it is your mascot when in 1893 the AJC took a picture of your cheating butts barricaded in a train that was wrecked in Lawrenceville coming back and titled the photo “Ramblin’ Wreck returns home to Atlanta” and you have the brass to come in here and act like Georgia Tech beat Georgia at a thing this year ?

Oh boy, tell me it’s not so that we can have this conversation – while the rest of the nerd nation hides behind their little geek keyboards, shuddering and hiding from The BuLLdawg Nation for years now, hoping no one notices you are a Tech nerd ?

And, while you sit there Nerd talking about how the ACC was not down in Football with 1 Top 16 to 5 Top 14 SEC by direct comparison this season, was not down in men’s basketball again without more ranked teams than the SEC in this sport either, and now is not down in Baseball with yet again fewer ranked teams in this sport, let me remind you that may have the AJC sportswriters in your hip pocket, but that you have a long way to go in The Great BuLLdawg Nation trying to address the facts of the cheating that once again The Georgia Institute of Technology has been caught red-handed at cheating this year yet AGAIN for playing in Football as your best Football Players for 6 years your very best Football Players not a one of which would have been eligible to play at any school in this great nation.

RB Joe Burns, for example, whom the NCAA said was not eligible to play for Tech. URL Link 5th Bowl Game up from the bottom of the page : http://www.collegefootballpoll.com/2001archivechampionship.html

DE Tony Hargrove, for example, whom the NCAA said was not eligible to play for Tech and which Tech’s own WebPages state the same exact thing : http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/hargrove_tony00.html

DL Travis Parker, again totally ineligible to play as is proven at each of these URL Links I provide to you from Tech’s own WebPages : http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/051105aac.html

DB & RB Tony Hollings, yet another Tech Football Star who was not in the least eligible to play Football at Tech or anywhere else : http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/hollings_tony00.html

“Georgia Tech student faces charges he supported terrorists” By BILL TORPY Cox News Service Friday, April 21, 2006 : http://www.ajc.com/search/content/shared/news/stories/GAARRESTS0421_COX.html

Mealy-mouthed Athletics Director at The Georgia Institute of Technology who was caught red-handed deadest in the middle of all this cheating, Dave Braine : “The ideals that Georgia Tech stands for and the proud heritage of this Institute are bigger than any one individual. And that has nothing to do with the young man Reuben Houston himself because we feel that he has handled the situation as best as he could. He has taken responsibility for his actions and tried to do the right things.” Oh, Lord Above.

Head Coach Chan Gailey, about whom Dave Braine states that Tech can NEVER WIN 9 GAMES A SEASON with or any other Tech Football Coach on Reuben Houston : “First, there will be an evaluation of where Reuben Houston is physically and mentally. My responsibility in this whole thing is to treat him like any other student-athlete on the football team, and that’s what I’ll do. If he’s good enough, he’ll play; if he’s not, he won’t. He’s on the team, and I’m going to treat him just like every other team member.”

URL Link to these 2 unforgettable Tech quotes : http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/111505aae.html

QUOTE :

Statement form Georgia Tech on the Athletic Board Investigation

ATLANTA - It has been a difficult week at Georgia Tech. It’s been difficult from an institutional perspective, and it’s been very difficult from a personal perspective. Waiting in limbo while your future is discussed on the front page of the paper and on primetime news is something very few of us would ever want to endure. There are no winners here.

The world of college athletics has changed notably as a result of Coach O’Leary’s experience. As an academic institution competing at the highest levels of Division I sports, Georgia Tech - and the rest of our colleagues - will forever more have to approach the hiring and publicizing of coaches and staff in a much more strict, structured, and controlled fashion. Regardless of how anyone feels, however, we have to adjust to this new environment.

We’re here today, because - quite frankly - Georgia Tech didn’t execute our adjustment to this reality well enough in the aftermath of the O’Leary revelations. We had policies and measures in place to prevent just this type of thing from happening.

But, sadly, for all involved, we did not follow them in the cases of Robinson and Smith.

We’re here today to discuss why, to announce decisions on processes and people, and to move forward.

In response to the questions surrounding the bios of Wide Receivers Coach Tommie Robinson and Defensive Coordinator Rick Smith, President Clough-as the chair of the Georgia Tech Athletic Board-appointed a sub-committee of that Board to work with Athletic Director Dave Braine. Their assignment was to assess our policies and procedures for verifying bios, and to evaluate the circumstances surrounding these hires and our public pronouncements about them. Their charge was simple, but substantive: 1. help us understand what happened and why, 2. advise Dave Braine on what, if any, personnel actions should result, and 3. make recommendations for preventing this from ever happening again.

While we are undertaking this in the glare of the media, athletic departments from coast to coast are going through this very same exercise in order to prevent these types of problems from surfacing in their own programs. Hopefully our work, and the publicity surrounding it, will be helpful to Georgia Tech

This sub-committee-consisting of Bill Wepfer, Turner Warmack, and Trey Childress-has worked diligently since Wednesday to ferret out fact from fiction, right from rumor. They have reached their conclusions and presented them to our Athletic Director Dave Braine. Dave has consulted with Dr. Clough and they’ve both agreed on the following course of action:

1. RESCIND THE OFFER OF EMPLOYMENT TO COACH RICK SMITH It is very important for everyone to understand a fact that has been somewhat lost in all of this. Coach Rick Smith never submitted any incorrect biographical information to Georgia Tech. The problems with his bios have their roots 25 years ago. Unfortunately, the sub-committee believed that the errors persisted long enough and were not dealt with aggressively enough in light of Coach O’Leary’s problems. Coach Smith has offered his resignation and we have, quite reluctantly, accepted it.

2. RETAIN COACH TOMMIE ROBINSON A thorough review of Coach Robinson’s situation reveals someone who tried diligently to correct errors that we not of his making. The sub-committee report goes into extensive detail on the events. After multiple interviews with those involved, they came to the conclusion that Coach Robinson never misrepresented himself to anyone and was consistently diligent in attempting to correct the errors about his education. Both Tech and Oklahoma State erred in our descriptions of his educational background and have unfortunately placed him in a difficult light. To quote the subcommittee report, “…we believe his efforts to correct the inaccuracies at OSU and his submission to Georgia Tech of accurate employment and educational background information indicate that Coach Robinson never intended to mislead Georgia Tech.”

3. IMPROVE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES FOR VERIFYING BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND DISSEMINATING IT PUBLICLY In the aftermath of Coach O’Leary’s resignation, the Athletic Association discussed and executed new policies and procedures in the hiring of Coach Gailey and in the verification of existing coaches’ information. The new procedures were not, however, uniformly applied in the rush to disseminate information about Coach Gailey’s appointment of assistant coaches. That lack of adherence to the new procedures has been very costly to Georgia Tech and to the individuals involved. As of Friday, the Georgia Tech Athletic Association has new, written guidelines for checking credentials and background information and all background will be double-checked before it is publicly released. Both the Assistant Athletic Director for Business and the Sports Information Director will be responsible to ensure that this policy is followed to the letter. The sub-committee will follow up with both parties in the coming weeks to ensure that this process is being followed.

That concludes the summary of the sub-committee recommendations.

All of us at Georgia Tech are deeply grateful.

I would also like to commend everyone in the Athletic Association for their cooperation and assistance with this review. This has not been a pleasant experience. Yet they have been uniformly professional in assisting the sub-committee and the President’s Office. They too deserve our sincere thanks.

This has not been an easy process for anyone involved. While the scrutiny and attention are somewhat understandable, we remind everyone that we are dealing with living, breathing, and feeling people here. They are not figureheads or automatons. They have friends, families, and relatives. And they are fundamentally good people. Please be respectful of them and their personal privacy through this very, very difficult time.

END QUOTE : URL Link :

http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/020202aaa.html

DT Alfred Malone also a Starter and as all the rest your best football players at Georgia Tech :

QUOTE : Sports Illustrated :

10 Georgia Tech football players, including tailback Tony Hollings and defensive end Tony Hargrove, were declared academically ineligible and dismissed from school. Finally, in July, six more players — including starting DT Alfred Malone — were also declared academically ineligible.

END QUOTE : URL Link : http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/2003/preview/teams/gatech/

There have been a lot of losing seasons at The Georgia Institute of Technology, hard times, rampant cheating, and multiple NCAA Major Infractions with 7 Football Seasons of Zero Wins all Season Long, 5 more Seasons for Tech in Football when Tech won but 1 stinking football game all season long, and 5 more Seasons for Tech in Football in which Tech Won but 2-games all season long.

But, it is your continuing whining and cheating that irks me GT90.

And, covering up of what is going on at The Georgia Institute of Technology :

I can understand how Dave Braine is no longer going to be Tech’s Athletics Director with all this going on, but G. Wayne Clough ?

How does he weather these horrendous hits on The Georgia Institute of Technology’s Academic Fraud of its only good student-athletes in every sport at Tech, just cheat to win and win cures all ills, even if it means that Tech takes these huge hits on it’s totally soiled Academic Reputation of its “student”-athletes.

QUOTE AJC :

Ex-adviser alleges Tech cover-up

Clough, Braine named in suit by former academic adviser

By MIKE KNOBLER The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 03/01/06

President Wayne Clough, athletics director Dave Braine and another Georgia Tech official deliberately concealed some of the NCAA violations that led to the school being put on NCAA probation, a former Tech academic adviser alleges in a wrongful termination lawsuit.

Tech, already stung by the May 2003 announcement it had dismissed 10 football players from school, decided it couldn’t afford the public relations hit it would take from further academic bad news, Shane Olivett’s suit alleges.

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The suit seeks Olivett’s reinstatement and unspecified monetary damages from the Georgia Tech Athletic Association, Clough, Braine and senior associate athletics director Larry New. The suit, filed last week in Fulton County Superior Court, represents one side of a legal argument. The NCAA infractions committee found Tech guilty of a lack of institutional control over its athletics program but did not charge the school with intentionally concealing rules violations.

“It’s unbelievable he’d accuse the president of a university of a cover-up,” Braine said Tuesday. “[The NCAA] looked at it. There was never any intent to cover up anything. It’s unbelievable he would say that. He might end up being sued for libel.”

At a July 2003 meeting to discuss the eligibility of five or six football players, football coach Chan Gailey “explained that he could not weather another academic-related scandal and try to recruit quality student-athletes to Georgia Tech,” the suit says. “Defendant New repeatedly warned Defendant Braine that another eligibility scandal, if brought to the public’s attention, would ruin Georgia Tech’s athletic and academic reputations.”

Olivett argued Tech had an obligation to self-report rules violations, but Braine and New rejected his advice, the suit says. Clough, who was not present at the meeting, and Braine “made the decision to conceal these facts from the NCAA and the public,” the suit says.

Less than a year later, the NCAA enforcement staff learned of Tech’s rules violations via an anonymous tip and informed the school, which conducted an audit of its athletes’ academic records. In the end, the NCAA ruled Tech had allowed 17 ineligible athletes in four sports to compete. Tech and the NCAA said the violations were inadvertent, and Tech blamed its failure to uncover the problem in 2003 on communications failures within the department.

The NCAA characterized Tech’s 2003 self-investigation as “inadequate,” but the NCAA never accused the school of intentionally committing or concealing any wrongdoing.

Clough and Olivett did not immediately respond to telephone calls seeking comment Tuesday afternoon. New and Gailey declined to comment.

The NCAA enforcement staff interviewed Olivett during its investigation of Tech. Olivett’s suit alleges Braine “chastised” him for what he said to the NCAA and the athletics department stripped him of duties, restricted his computer access and threatened him with firing “should he continue to uncover and call attention to the eligibility issues plaguing the Georgia Tech football program.”

Olivett worked at Tech from October 2002 until June 2005. He now coordinates academic advising in the Akron athletics department.

Olivett’s suit claims Tech violated his First Amendment right to free speech, his 14th Amendment right to due process and his rights under Georgia’s whistleblower law.

Mistreatment by Tech caused him “severe emotional distress, mental anguish, and humiliation,” his suit alleges.

Tech is appealing some of its NCAA sanctions, including cuts in football scholarships for the 2006 and 2007 seasons and a requirement to wipe past seasons from the record books. Tech has begun a two-year probation, its first ever.

Braine is retiring for health reasons; new athletics director Dan Radanovich is scheduled to begin work by April 1.

END QUOTE AJC : http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/gatech/stories/0301techsuit.html

The Georgia Institute of Technology certainly knows and knew at the time what the NCAA rules are with regard to eligibility of its “student”-athletes” the very best athletes the Georgia Institute of Technology has in every sport.

The Athletics Department has not weathered these horrible earth-shattering storms on its Academic Reputation playing 17 ineligible “student”-athletes in 4 different sports for 6 solid years. And, the Akron Zits certainly have this man doing exactly this for them.

As for this total misleading, carefully worded to make two but 1, ill-informed, poorly worded what I see as fabrication by the AJC in its 2nd to the last paragraph above, this is NOT THE GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY’S 1ST EVER TIME in the NCAA Major Infractions Database in which the Georgia Institute of Technology was given SANCTIONS BY THE NCAA including LOSS OF SCHOLARSHIPS IN BOTH CASES BY THE NCAA AGAINST TECH, POSTSEASON SANCTIONS FOR TECH’S 1ST EVER IN MEN’S TENNIS IN 1989 WHEN IT WAS 1ST CAUGHT CHEATING TO WIN IN ATHLETICS WITH INELIGIBLE PLAYERS IN 5 DIFFERENT SPORTS NOW, and recruiting SANCTIONS against Tech in both cases as well. : URL Link to THESE FACTS which ostensibly is what is trying to be painted about a trade school which has twice been found **GUILTY by the NCAA for CHEATING: https://goomer.ncaa.org/wdbctx/LSDBi/LSDBi.MajorInfPackage.ProcessMultipleMajors?pMultiple=0&pHeadingTerms=ThisIsADummyPhraseThatWillNotBeDuplicated&pSummaryTerms=ThisIsADummyPhraseThatWillNotBeDuplicated&pPenaltyTerms=ThisIsADummyPhraseThatWillNotBeDuplicated&pPublicTerms=ThisIsADummyPhraseThatWillNotBeDuplicated&pAppealTerms=ThisIsADummyPhraseThatWillNotBeDuplicated&pMultiple=615&pMultiple=73

To wit, specifically I offer this rebuttal to what is clearly AJC bias to try to present 2 as 1st ever :

QUOTE : THE NCAA

In January 1988, a student-athlete in the sport of men’s tennis at Georgia Institute of Technology provided information to the institution’s director of compliance indicating that the young man had received improper financial assistance from the then men’s head tennis coach. The institution immediately commenced its own investigation and subsequently determined that violations of NCAA legislation had occurred in the men’s tennis program during the 1985-86, 1986-87 and 1987-88 academic years.

Based on its internal investigation, the institution self-reported 23 violations of NCAA legislation to the Atlantic Coast Conference, including: the payment of excessive compensation and provision of extra benefits by the then men’s head tennis coach to prospective and enrolled student-athletes totaling at least $20,000; violations of NCAA grant-in-aid limitations as a result of the improper payments; numerous violations of NCAA tryout rules, and impermissible automobile transportation, meals and lodging for several prospective student-athletes involving the then men’s head tennis coach and the then men’s assistant tennis coach. In its report to the NCAA, the institution admitted the violations, and they are set forth in Part II of this report.

As a result of the information developed during its investigation, the institution self-imposed the following sanctions prior to its appearance before the Atlantic Coast Conference Executive Committee.

a. The institution accepted the resignation of the then men’s head tennis coach early in its investigation, declared him to be ineligible for [Page 2] reemployment by the institution and disassociated him from the athletics program consistent with the provisions of NCAA Bylaw 19.4.2.6.

b. The institution terminated the association of the then men’s assistant tennis coach with the institution’s athletics program, effective in June 1988.

c. The institution obtained repayment of all excessive financial benefits received by student-athletes in the form of charitable donations, and the institution awarded no new financial aid in men’s tennis for the 1988-89 academic year.

d. The institution eliminated all expense-paid recruiting visits for prospects in men’s tennis during the 1988-89 academic year.

e. The institution prohibited off-campus recruiting by any member of the men’s tennis coaching staff until the conclusion of the 1988-89 academic year.

f. The institution promised to return the equivalent of all excessive athletically related financial benefits received during the preceding three academic years during the 1988-89 academic year by: (1) limiting the award of athletically related financial aid to the individuals who were team members during the 1987-88 academic year only, and (2) limiting the total amount of financial aid awarded to 1988-89 squad members to three full grants-in-aid (a reduction of two grants or 40 percent).

g. The institution agreed to conduct a recertification program regarding its current athletics policies and practices to ensure conformance to all requirements of NCAA regulations.

In September 1988, the institution appeared before the Atlantic Coast Conference Executive Committee. The conference committee accepted the findings of violations reported by the institution and adopted all institutionally imposed penalties and sanctions. In addition, the conference committee required that the institution submit a complete status report on the men’s tennis program to the conference by the end of the 1988-89 academic year. The conference committee also declared the men’s tennis team ineligible to compete in the 1988-89 Atlantic Coast Conference tennis championships but suspended this sanction in light of the institution’s role in detecting and investigating the violations, and in light of the sanctions that the institution self-imposed.

During the NCAA Committee on Infractions’ February 3, 1989, meeting, the committee reviewed the institution’s report to the Atlantic Coast Conference, the conference’s action and the NCAA enforcement staff’s report of the institution’s infractions case. The committee determined that it would not attempt to determine the adequacy of the actions by the institution and conference at that time without an appearance by institutional representatives to discuss the case. The enforcement staff then submitted a February 16, 1989, letter to the institution in accordance with NCAA Bylaw 32.5 that requested the institution to respond regarding: (a) whether [Page 3] the enforcement staff’s report of the infractions case was stated correctly, and (b) whether the findings of violations in the case should be classified as “major” in nature. The institution also was asked to provide information to be taken into account in determining appropriate NCAA penalties in the case. The institution responded in writing on March 17, 1989.

On April 23, 1989, the Committee on Infractions met with institutional representatives to consider the nature of the violations in this case and the NCAA penalties, if any, that should be imposed on the institution. The commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference also was present. Following this hearing, the Committee on Infractions determined that the violations set forth in Part II of this report constituted intentional, major violations of NCAA legislation. In this regard, the case involved the provision of significant benefits to prospective and enrolled student-athletes in the sport of men’s tennis in a manner that was neither isolated nor inadvertent and that resulted in a competitive advantage to the institution. Further, because the violations occurred after September 1, 1985, the committee’s findings normally would subject the institution to minimum prescribed major penalties.

Under the NCAA legislation that establishes these penalties, however, the Committee on Infractions may impose lesser penalties if it determines that the case is “unique.” The committee concluded that this case was unique on the basis of many of the same factors previously identified by the Atlantic Coast Conference. The committee took into account that: (a) the institution uncovered the violations through its existing compliance program and, once detected, promptly reported the matter to the NCAA and the Atlantic Coast Conference; (b) the institution conducted a thorough internal investigation of its men’s tennis program and self-reported all violations set forth in Part II of this report; (c) the institution took decisive action to demonstrate to its athletics department staff members that it would not tolerate violations of NCAA legislation by severing ties with the then men’s head tennis coach and the then men’s assistant tennis coach prior to the conference or NCAA hearings and while in the midst of a season of competition, and (d) the institution further demonstrated its commitment to rules compliance by self-imposing the additional recruiting and grant-in-aid sanctions described above.

In light of these factors, the Committee on Infractions determined that not all of the prescribed NCAA penalties for major cases should be imposed. Further, the committee considered the self-imposed institutional sanctions and conference penalties to be meaningful and significant, and determined that those sanctions should be adopted as a substantial part of the NCAA penalties. The committee decided, however, that significant penalties were warranted due to the pervasive nature of the violations within the men’s tennis program, the substantial dollar amount of benefits involved and the length of time the violations went undetected. Therefore, the committee initially imposed two additional penalties: (a) a probationary period of two years, and (b) a prohibition regarding postseason competition in men’s tennis for the 1989-90 and 1990-91 academic years. The committee suspended application of the probationary period, however, as well as the second year of sanctions regarding postseason competition [Page 4] in light of the same mitigating factors considered in classifying this case as “unique.” The text of the committee’s penalties is set forth in Part III of this report.

END QUOTE : NCAA : URL Link : https://goomer.ncaa.org/wdbctx/LSDBi/LSDBi.MajorInfPackage.ProcessMultipleBylaws?pMultiple=0&pPK=73&pButton=View+Public+Report&pTextTerms=ThisIsADummyPhraseThatWillNotBeDuplicated&pTextTerms2=ThisIsADummyPhraseThatWillNotBeDuplicated&pDivision=1

Now, tell me again AJC how The Georgia Institute of Technology, NEVER before has been found GUILTY of Major NCAA Violations and is not therefore ever before this most recent one going on now for the next two years, found then in the NCAA Major Infractions Database ? That there were not penalties imposed upon Tech in 1989 for cheating, and that specifically that which appears to be to the public the point the AJC is making that Tech never before deserved to be classified in the Public Reprimand Group according to the point you most certainly address yourself to AJC that it never happened before ?

AGAIN QUOTE FROM THE SAME URL Link :

QUOTE AGAIN NCAA :

III. Committee on Infractions penalties.

The Committee on Infractions determined that the violations of NCAA legislation in this case were major. More than $20,000 in improper benefits and financial aid in excess of that allowed by the rules of the Association was provided over a period involving three seasons of competition in the sport of men’s tennis. The violations involved fundamental rules of [Page 9] the Association that limit financial assistance to athletes and benefits to prospective student-athletes, which should be part of the working knowledge of any coach at the Division I level of competition. Moreover, the institution’s former head coach was involved directly in the provision of this improper financial assistance, and the institution acknowledged that its men’s tennis program gained a competitive advantage as a result of these violations.

Major violations are subject to the schedule of minimum penalties prescribed in Bylaw 19.4.2.2. In a case involving violations of this magnitude and with such a significant competitive impact, the committee normally would impose “broad and severe” penalties, as called for in Bylaw 19.01.4, to respond to the “general disregard” for the Association’s rules by the institution’s former staff member in the case. The minimum penalties prescribed by the legislation include at least a two-year probationary period, elimination of expense-paid recruiting visits and off-campus recruiting for one year, possible termination of the employment of all athletics staff members who condoned the violations, the loss of postseason competition and television opportunities for one year, and institutional recertification of compliance.

Because of the prompt and forceful actions taken by the institution’s athletics administration to detect, investigate and report the violations and to self-impose corrective actions that left no doubt as to the institution’s commitment to govern its men’s tennis program in compliance with the Association’s rules, the committee does not believe the normal schedule of penalties should be applied. For the reasons stated in Part I, the institution’s actions make this a “unique” case. These actions reflect an unquestioned commitment on the part of the institution and its athletics administration to operate its athletics programs with integrity and in a spirit of fair play. [NOTE: The institutional actions are set forth in Parts I and III of this infractions report.] Given the effectiveness and promptness of the institution’s handling of this case and the fact that its own compliance program detected the violations, there is no need for the institution to demonstrate its ability to manage its compliance responsibilities during a period of probation. Similarly, the institution’s own curtailment of recruiting activities and grant-in-aid awards in the sport make it unnecessary for the committee to require actions of this nature. The departure of the principal staff member involved in the circumstances of this case reduces the need for penalties that focus directly on the institution’s present coaching personnel in the sport of tennis.

In light of the seriousness of the violations in this case and the competitive advantage gained as a result of them, the committee believes the following measures should be taken in addition to the institution’s own actions.

A. If the former head coach had remained at the institution, the committee would have used the procedures set forth in Bylaw 19.4.2.1-(e) to require the institution to show cause why an additional penalty should not be imposed if, in the opinion of the committee, the institution had failed to take appropriate disciplinary or corrective action [Page 10] against the person involved. Such a show-cause order would continue in effect in the event the former coach transferred employment to another NCAA member institution and would place such a subsequent institution under the same obligation to show cause to the committee. Consequently, the committee will notify the former head coach that in the event he seeks employment as an athletics department staff member at an NCAA member institution within five years (June 1, 1989, to June 1, 1994), he and the involved institution shall be requested to appear before the committee in order for the committee to consider if such a show-cause order should be issued to that institution, which could limit this individual’s athletically related duties at the new institution for a designated period.

B. The university shall be placed on probation for a period of two years from the date these penalties are imposed. [NOTE: This penalty is immediately and completely suspended on the basis of the mitigating factors stated elsewhere in this report.]

C. The university’s men’s tennis team shall conclude its competition with its last regularly scheduled in-season match and shall not be eligible to participate in the National Collegiate Division I Men’s Tennis Championships in the 1989-90 and 1990-91 academic years. [NOTE: This sanction for the 1990-91 academic year is suspended on the basis of the mitigating factors stated elsewhere in this report.]

D. The corrective actions initiated by the institution are summarized below. The committee adopts these institutional and Atlantic Coast Conference penalties. In addition, the institution shall submit a report to the committee regarding its implementation of these measures similar to its report for the Atlantic Coast Conference. It also is understood that the institution will obtain the approval of the committee before any modification in its program of corrective actions. The institutional and conference actions are as follows:

1. The resignation of the men’s head tennis coach was accepted on January 27, 1988; further, the former coach may not be considered for reemployment by the institution, and finally, the former coach shall be disassociated from the athletics program of the institution per Bylaw 19.4.2.6 [1989-90 NCAA Manual]. In addition, the assistant men’s tennis coach’s association with the institution’s sports program was terminated on June 30, 1988.

2. The repayment of all excessive financial benefits received by student-athletes was received by Georgia Institute of Technology in the form of a charitable donation. No new financial aid was awarded in men’s tennis for the 1988-89 academic year.

*3. All expense-paid recruiting visits during the 1988-89 academic year in men’s tennis were prohibited. [Page 11] *

4. All men’s tennis coaching staff members were prohibited from engaging in any off-campus recruiting activities from September 1988 until the conclusion of the 1988-89 academic year.

1. In accordance with the violations set forth in this report, the institution will return the equivalent of all excessive athletically related financial benefits received during the 1985-86, 1986-87 and 1987-88 academic years. This occurred in the 1988-89 academic year as follows:

a. During the 1988-89 academic year, no athletically related financial aid was awarded to individuals who were not members of the team during the 1987-88 academic year.

b. The total amount of financial aid awarded to 1988-89 squad members did not exceed three full scholarships (a reduction of two scholarships or 40 percent from the maximum award limitation).

1. The institution shall conduct a recertification program regarding its current athletics policies and practices to conform to all requirements of NCAA regulations.

NCAA COMMITTEE ON INFRACTIONS

Roy F. Kramer

Thomas J. Niland Jr.

John E. Nowak

Patricia A. O’Hara

Milton R. Schroeder (acting chair)

END QUOTE : NCAA SAME URL Link.

Now, tell me again AJC how never before Tech has been found Guilty and never before deserved the PUBLIC REPRIMAND that these penalties, MAJOR, carry with them ?

Why is it ONLY THE AJC (and The Georgia Institute of Technology itself) present this as NEVER HAPPENED ?

I’m LOST IN ALL OF THIS GARBLE-DY-GOOK.

Weasel-worded misrepresentations to the benefit of The Georgia Institute of Technology, who is for the Sports Writers of the AJC, ON PROBATION AGAIN.

Official Visits for Tech in recruiting again as Punishment for Two Major Cases of Cheating agreed to by Georgia Tech, again.

Loss of Scholarships for Tech again.

Probation from Postseason play the 1st time and 2 years of Probation the 2nd Major Offense by Tech.

Reduction in Financial Aid both Cases.

Recruiting Penalties too, both Cases.

Now, tell me where I am wrong – please help me out – I want to be correct in my ability to read that which is there for all to know that Tech has twice been found GUILTY by the NCAA and therefore twice falls into this category the rest of the known world refers to as the Major Infractions Database where the whole entire Universe has complete and utter total knowledge of what Tech did wrong, that in both cases it admitted it, in both cases accepted Major NCAA sanctions including in one case postseason Probation of one year in Men’s Tennis and in the other Major NCAA sanction Probation for Tech Football for 2 years.

Help me out AJC why this should be characterized as 1 ?

Is this really unbiased reporting AJC ?

I ask you ?

The cheating like these TWO MAJOR INFRACTIONS CASES BY TECH ACCORDING TO TECH ITSELF AND ACCORDING TO THE AJC, BOTH OF WHOM TOTALLY HAVE FAULTY MEMORY has gone on forever in Georgia Institute of Technology Athletics :

I should like to address the lies in the AJC the year before last about THE RIVALRY with Georgia Tech, the cheaters :

Item # 31 : The 1st Game

I will not bother to post to you what the AJC said because it is all fabrication and nothing near the truth.

Georgia started football in 1892 and we won a game and lost a game that year. Halfback Park Howell and Quarterback John Kimball played for Georgia and won our 1st Game for us ever in 1892 as students at Georgia.

Georgia Tech too started football in 1892 and they lost every game, all 3 at 0-3 one of 7 years Georgia Tech would lose every game all season long so far.

Never mind the junk in the AJC today on Item # 31 about Leonard Wood, who had played 4 years for Harvard and another 2 years for Army, and then showed up on Tech’s roster in 1893 against Georgia cheating; for he is not the issue; it was solely Park Howell and John Kimball who were Georgia players and students at Georgia who led us to not go defeated in every game while Tech indeed did without them.

Park Howell scored a touchdown for cheating Georgia Tech as their halfback.

John Kimball was outstanding for Georgia Tech as their Quarterback.

They were both recognized by the fans in Athens as players who helped Georgia win our football game in 1892 while Tech had lost every game in 1892.

And, Tech went so far as to hire in addition to all of this the cheerleaders Lucy Cobb Institute which was adjacent to the Georgia campus to cheer Tech on.

QUOTE :

ATHENS BANNER 1893 :

“Everyone who knows the personnel of the Tech team knows that many of them make no pretense of pursuing courses at the Technological school, and if this policy in athletics is pursued by that institution, its athletic record will soon be looked upon with disdain by the college world.”

The cheating Tech team by the way was rocked out of town, as they high-tailed it back to their ill-fated train to avoid being pummeled by rocks by the Georgia fans who had recognized Park Howell and John Kimball the Georgia Halfback and Georgia Quarterback whom Tech had employed by paying them to play for Tech.

John Kimball and Park Howell barricaded themselves in the train Tech had taken from Atlanta to Athens for the game.

And, the train took off for Atlanta with them hiding inside and still are to this day. When the train got to Lawrenceville trying to get back to Atlanta, it rear-ended a freight train, and showed up in Atlanta for the AJC to snap a shot of it with the headlines the next day “Rambling Wreck return home.”

And, that is where they got their name.

Ramblin Wreck.

The train wreck.

Now, of course, Tech fans would have you believe that the Ramblin Wreck is an automobile from some 38 years later.

Yeah, right.

They don’t even know they need to be riding a train around their stadium.

When you see the automobile, I hope you will think of the truthful story of events of Quarterback John Kimball and Halfback Park Howell.

Item # 9 The Missing Years :

QUOTE FROM AJC the game before last :

AJC :

“Georgia fielded no team in 1917 and 1918 because of World War I. The series did not resume until 1925 after Tech took offense to floats in a Georgia Parade that questioned Tech’s patriotism during World War I.”

END QUOTE

That is BS worded for Tech yet again AJC. The reason the series ended was not because Tech took offense to floats in a Georgia Parade that questioned Tech’s patriotism during World War I.

That, directly, is not how it happened; and furthermore, you know it AJC.

It was Georgia who took offense, not Georgia Tech. So, why present it the other way around totally AJC ? Tell us that ? Huh ?

And, the float in question was built by the brother of a Tech student.

Again, why leave out that fact while you present Tech’s side of the story, but categorically refuse to tell the truth about the bloody float ? Is it not newsworthy facts to present in an unbiased article that indeed the float was built by the brother of Georgia Institute of Technology student ?

The float said that General W. A. Cunningham, Georgia’s Football Coach, during World War I was in France and that Tech was at home rounding up players from every other team in the nation in an effort to try to claim to be the National Champions. At War time, The University of Georgia sent our football players and their coach to War to defend this great nation, and the facts of the matter are that that is the only time Georgia Tech decides to have a good team, and they field said teams by playing football players from every other team they can find still in this nation other than from their own team.

Because they are KNOWN HABITUAL CHEATERS who feel that cheating is ok for them, yet have been found GUILTY several times by the NCAA of just exactly this.

Looking down their holier than thou snooty noses at us, like their’s doesn’t stink. Sure, it does.

FLOAT FRONT AND BACK :

”1917 GEORGIA in FRANCE 1918”

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”TECH in LANTA 1917-1918”

These are the facts AJC.

Try reading your own biased reports of it at the time, and to be impartial and unbiased, try reading other accounts of those events those days just as you should be doing today to find how Sports Illustrated, ESPN, and every other reputable unbiased reporting account of Tech today is just how pervasive this hideous Georgia Tech Athletics Department is that Dave Braine just resigned from.

The Coach at Georgia Tech who pulled this ?

John Heisman

When you look at the 14 Tech players and coaches in the College Football Hall of Fame, (Georgia has the same number.) please take note that none of our players have 2 colleges listed, and that Georgia Tech’s do, and those were one cheater, John Heisman, took from other schools such as Carlisle and from Davidson to try to claim a national championship while General W.A. Cunningham, UGA Football Coach and his players were in Europe Fighting World War I :

http://www.collegefootball.org/famersearch.php

28 matching results found.

oneN.B. Carlisle ! Joe “O-gee-Chideah (Big Brave)” Guyon Carlisle, Georgia Tech Halfback / Tackle 1912-1913, 1917-1918 1971 twoN.B. Davidson ! Buck Flowers Davidson, Georgia Tech Halfback 1916-1920 1955

threeBill Alexander Georgia Tech Coach 1920-1944 1951 fourBobby “In Dodd We Trust” Dodd Georgia Tech Coach 1945-1966 1993 fiveMaxie Baughan Georgia Tech Center 1957-1959 1988 sixBobby Davis Georgia Tech Tackle 1944-1947 1978 sevenBill Fincher Georgia Tech End / Tackle 1916-1920 1974 eightGeorge Morris Georgia Tech Center 1950-1952 1981 nineLarry Morris Georgia Tech Center 1951-1954 1992 tenPeter “Peter The Great” Pund Georgia Tech Center 1926-1928 1963 elevenEverett “Strup” Strupper Georgia Tech Halfback 1915-1917 1972 twelveRay Beck Georgia Tech Guard 1948-1951 1997 thirteenRandy Rhino Georgia Tech Safety 1972-1974 2002 fourteenJohn Heisman Oberlin, Akron, Auburn, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Pennsylvania, Washington & Jefferson, Rice Coach 1892-1927 1954 Cheater-Total Cheater, rounding up every football player in America who in no way were students at Georgia Tech to play football for John Heisman when he was at habitual Cheater - Georgia Institute of Technology

Hall of Fame Georgia N.B. none of our players went to 2 schools, note that please oneVince Dooley Georgia Coach 1964-1988 1994 twoWally Butts Georgia Coach 1939-1960 1997 threeBill Hartman Georgia Fullback 1935-1937 1984 fourBob McWhorter Georgia Halfback 1910-1913 1954 fiveFrank “Fireball Frankie” Sinkwich Georgia Halfback 1940-1942 1954 sixVernon “Catfish” Smith Georgia End 1929-1931 1979 sevenFran Tarkenton Georgia Quarterback 1958-1960 1987 eightCharley Trippi Georgia Halfback 1942, 1945-1946 1959 nineBill Stanfill Georgia Defensive Tackle 1966-1968 1998 tenHerschel Walker Georgia Running Back 1980-1982 1999 elevenTerry Hoage Georgia Safety 1980-1983 2000 twelveKevin Butler Georgia Placekicker 1981-1984 2001 thirteenJohn Rauch Georgia Quarterback 1945-1948 2003 fourteenPop Warner Georgia, Cornell, Carlisle, Pittsburgh, Stanford, Temple Coach 1895-1938 1951

And, for good measure Georgia Tech has no Heisman Trophy while Georgia has several, and has 2 on the Heisman Trophy Watch List now for Next Season too.

Item # 28 Coaching King Dooley and # 29 Coaching Prince Dodd

Bobby Dodd, a college dropout of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, never beat and always lost to Vince Dooley.

Item # 30 NCAA Team Titles*

AJC

• Division 1-A football titles aren’t official NCAA Championships

Georgia has 22 Official NCAA Division 1-A National Championships.

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Georgia Tech has 0 NCAA National Championships in any sport.

. Ever. .

Item 32 and Item 33 : National Championships

Both schools have 6 National Championships in the Official NCAA Records Book Division 1-A. LINK has been provided to this austere group many times. If you need the URL Link again, ask me.

Item 38 Disputed Games

AJC

Georgia says it leads 55-36-5; Tech says the record is 55-38-5. . The Bulldogs don’t count 2 World War II games in 1943 and 1944.

Again, in World War II just as they did in World War I, Tech stayed in Atlanta and fielded all their regular players but one lone Tech patriot Castleberry, and Tech again fielded a team made up of players who were not taking classes at Tech and were not Tech students. In addition, Tech had the V12 Deferment which they extended to the Tech football team which The University of Georgia again could have extended to our best athletes on our football team too to allow them to play a game instead of defending this country, such as Charley Trippi. But, Georgia did not extend the V12 to our players, and Tech did. Those 2 games do not count, obviously, and never will.

It’s just been one big cheating of a Rivalry by Georgia Tech from the very beginning.

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To this very day. .

Habitual Cheater Tech.

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Bring on South Carolina, and UGA’s Brooks Brown, 1st Round Major League Baseball Draft Pick while Tech had zero.

You played SOS Number 50; UGA Number 9, and we have played more NCAA Baseball Tournament Teams this season than Tech by 10 more games than Tech and Won more Baseball Games against the NCAA Baseball Tournament Teams as well

Our Game is today 4 p.m. and we are on TV unlike Georgia Bloody Tech – Habitual pathological cheaters.

If Tech ever gets to 4 College World Series as The Diamond Dawgs already have done, or wins their 1st Ever National Championship according to the NCAA, let me know.

Ok ?

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By northwestDawg

June 11, 2006 12:35 PM | Link to this

Thanks, BullDawg, I like to check the blog before I go to church so I can let these PAC 10 people know what’s going on. Thanks for hoging the blog!!!! You don’t realize how much disrespect you show to other members of the “Nation” and how self centered you are. We love the way you do a lot of things but when it turns the whole blog into what “I” know it becomes intarlable.I’ve thanked you for the tips you’ve given me. They were appreciated but enough is enough.( sorry about the spelling of intarlable. No SC)

By Vince Dawgley

June 11, 2006 12:57 PM | Link to this

BullDawg, I’ve got to go with northwestDawg on this one. Enough is enough. You’re becoming this blog’s equivalent of spam and it destroys it for everyone.

And don’t you think “Habitual pathological cheaters” is a little over the top about Tech? After all, we are the ones who have been caught by the NCAA a lot more often. Tech’s “flunkgate” doesn’t hold a candle to Jan Kemp, and we certainly don’t want to start a comparison of appearances on the police blotter between Dawg student-athletes and theirs.

By War Eagle

June 11, 2006 02:10 PM | Link to this

I am a SEC man all the way except I can`t adjust mysef to pull for Bammer in any sport. I remote the TV last night as the kid from NC hit the walk-off homer to sent Bammer back home.Of course they are covering as they always do, “if Wells bag had not been packed for LSU, WE won big”. The expression on their fans faces were the same when Auburn sacked Brodie 12 times for the 4th win in row.I was really happy to see that ball fly over the right field fence…by the way> best of luck to Dawgs today, they will come back and WIN for Georgia to have 2 teams in CWW, what excitemnt.

By George P. Burdell

June 11, 2006 02:29 PM | Link to this

Northwest and Vince, sorry for any of the spewing I might have provoked. This is my usual sign in and I used a different one just to get Bulldawg’s attention. His blathering gets to a point that drives me crazy, but I was only kidding when I told him to work on his essay over the weekend. In all fairness, he was doing a pretty good job of spewing out volumes before I came along and one of my main arguments was for him to be concise. I think buried in all of that, he does make some good points, especially when he sticks to UGA and what is going on with the team rather than “fighting the world”. I do follow this blog and both of you make a lot of good points and provide a lot of good insight. From now on, I’ll stick to the original plan and just scroll past the encyclopedia when I catch his name. Maybe if we could get everyone to ignore him, he would learn to be concise. Again, good luck against SC.

By Jimmy

June 11, 2006 02:45 PM | Link to this

Wow..what a blog. I find it amusing that some would claim that this is “our” blog, as if fans of other schools don’t have the right to blog here. Anyway, whats that famous quote about using stats to prove your point? Something like, “stats don’t lie, but liars use stats.” Oh, and btw, the University of Texas is the best program in the nation, academically and athletics wise.

By weather man

June 11, 2006 08:54 PM | Link to this

GT is in. UGA one away from out…

By GT90

June 11, 2006 09:27 PM | Link to this

BuLLdawg - cupcake game???? I believe Coll of Charleston is ranked 11 in one poll and 13 in another. South Carolina is ranked 12. What a cupcake game!!! Again, this is not football. Baseball is totally different and has nothing to do with the size of a school or other sports. I guess Cal State Fullerton and Rice are cupcakes to by your standards as well. Those cupcakes (Coll of Charleston) beat Kentucky who by the way finished ahead of UGAY in the SEC. If UGAY gets a chance to face Tech again in the CWS, UGAY will face one of Tech conference pitchers which they did not face any of the 3 times. Bottom Line is 3 ACC teams are in ALREADY. Better drink alot of cold beer to wash down that crow. GTECH AND TWO MORE ACC SCHOOLS ARE OMAHA BOUND!

By BuLLdawg

June 12, 2006 12:47 AM | Link to this

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See a Tech pitcher, we haven’t seen… You mean in our 2 Wins to your 1 Win?

This millennium, Georgia is ahead of Tech in Baseball by several more wins over Tech. All-Time, it stands at 4 World Series appearances UGA and 3 Tech, and it stands at 189-143-2 in Baseball. And, as for the Number 12 beside South Carolina’s name, do you see the Number 7 beside our name ? (And, the number 8 beside Tech’s?) Those are not stats but rankings, exactly as the Tech fans post their rankings. And, those are wins like the 3 Wins UGA has over Kentucky this season to but 1 loss to them.

As for cupcakes, in this sport of Baseball - I would consider Duke one, wouldn’t you ?

I would consider Boston College one in Baseball too, and Virginia Tech too.

http://www.boydsworld.com/baseball/rpi/currentrpi.html

Number 193 RPI for Duke, and ACC fans have something to say about what is and what is not a cupcake ?

This too is not a stat, but an answer to the question of what is a cupcake in Baseball, which is what you asked me.

Duke.

There is your answer.

Brooks Brown and the UGA pitchers held South Carolina to 4 hits in 32 at bats today while getting 16 ourselves to Win the Game.

Georgia is on TV again today, Monday, while Tech was not because no one gives a crap about Tech Baseball - losers that you are.

And, those loses are not stats either.

They are called losses.

NCAA College World Series National Championships (or any other sport since Tech has zero) are not stats either : Those are called National Championships, according to the NCAA.

As for UGA being cheaters - this is not a stat either - Georgia Tech is on Probation for the next entire 2 full seasons in Football, not Georgia.

As for who has the better conference in Baseball when the ACC has 3 of the worst teams in the nation at Baseball, well I tend to let some Authority quoted on the Tech WebPages be the Authority and not the Tech fans :

The SEC is the Number 1 Baseball Conference because the ACC has 3 bottom feeders, all 3 worse than the worst SEC team :

http://www.boydsworld.com/baseball/rpi/confrpi.html

Why is it that all the Wins over Tech in Baseball, are always “just some stat” why is that huh ?

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By BuLLdawg

June 12, 2006 02:44 AM | Link to this

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10 Wins 0 Losses at Foley Field in Elimination Games for Georgia, is a stat – and a damn good one too.

7 p.m. today Monday Night, The Diamond Dawgs – all tied up with South Carolina – choose to be the Visitors to have our own Dugout, David Perno stating with our great BuLLpen of Rip Warren and Josh Fields, last at bat does not mean everything.

TV for The BuLLdawgs, and in Prime Time. Tech played a game no one watched Friday afternoon and Saturday’s Tech game not being on TV was a big hit to the Tech fan base.

All 1 of them.

I found it interesting that the Tech posters admitted once again in this thread, that they log in as different handles other than as their Tech handle to post posts in this blog. I guess when you are dominated in sports by UGA, you have to do that.

The crowd was unbelievable in Sunday’s Win for The BuLLdawgs; still they count only those who pay so the 1,400 in Right Field and on Kudzu Hill are not considered as being there.

Overall, UGA is 18-6 at Foley Field in Postseason Play.

Jason Leaver, one of our Freshmen Pitchers, will Start tonight against another of the 3 pitchers for South Carolina who all 3 threw more than 120 pitches in the series that ended Monday, Wynn Pelzer.

Ray Tanner must not have much confidence in his Bullpen.

I thought the squeeze bunt was particularly good strategy for Michael Dunn’s at bat, to come back and tie the game.

Josh Morris and Joey Side again proved that they are both better than Matt Wieters. Wieters is 6 foot 3 inches tall, weighs 230 lbs. and does not get up from the squatting position behind home plate particularly well at all.

In fact, when you watch him play, he does even throw the ball on attempted steals. He holds the ball because after he gets out of the crouch, the runner is already there at 2nd base anyway.

As for a pitcher, well, Tech was going to put him in the game as the “Closer” the announcers said but didn’t come in. This is a hot dog move by Danny Hall to try to make Matt Wieters appear to be a Pitcher. He is anything but.

Wieters is particularly fond of moving the mitt behind the plate to steal calls from the home plate umpire, and this too will catch up with him as he gets the reputation for moving the mitt.

As for his 12 Home Runs, he hit 3 last weekend to reach a number which stands double-digits behind Josh Morris, who was Drafted by the Atlanta Braves and signed a big bonus with the Braves, while Matt Wieters was not Drafted at all by anyone.

The problem Major League Baseball Scouts have with Matt Wieters is, what position does he play ? Pitcher ? He absolutely sucks as a Pitcher, and would not be considered Tech’s closer or anyone else’s including cupcake Duke. As for catcher, his fundamentals on being prepared to throw to 2nd with a man on 1st are as poor as any I have ever witnessed. It looks good on his stats (Now, this is stats.) to when he does bother to get up out of the crouch to throw on a base runner stealing, that he has thrown out 14 runners stealing, but the facts of the matter are that that is not more than Georgia’s catcher has thrown out stealing this year, and many times such as this weekend again, Matt Wieters just stands up and holds the baseball – not throwing because he wants his percentage to be high on the stats. There is your stats, Tech fans.

The only position then for Matt Wieters is 1st Baseman. As a first baseman, his range is not that great as noted for his movement behind the plate – although his abject inability to get out of the crouch and bother the throw the ball at all from behind the dish, is not nearly as big a liability at 1st Base. And, for a 1st Baseman, his 12 Home Runs against the Number 50 Strength of Schedule Cupcakes – like Duke – Tech played this season, is not better than a host of BuLLdawg Home Run Hitters who did it against far better pitching than Matt Wieters hit his against. His whole 12. There is your stat for you, Tech nerds.

I see no Tech fan has a response to the known fact that Tech’s Ramblin’ Wreck is a Train and not an automobile from some 38 years later.

Why does that not surprise me ?

Why is it that no one has yet pointed out that the SEC can still send 3 teams to the College World Series too, as Ole Miss plays Miami of Florida today for that right too ? Still Tech plays Clemson in Game One out there, so the ACC is soon enough facing what the SEC is today at 7 p.m. on TV between a very good South Carolina team ranked higher than College of Charleston and Georgia ranked higher than Tech.

Which is bottom line, why Tech was NOT on TV for anyone to watch while all the UGA games were.

Tear in your beer.

I was hoping we would start a Freshman tonight. Those guys have a big future in the SEC. Joey Side needs one hit to be the all-time hit leader and Josh Morris 1 Home Run to be the all-time Home Run Hitter – and while those are stats – trust me on this both are very much wanting to accomplish those Very High Achievements in a Program that has owned Tech in Baseball, and this decade since 1990 have only increased our dominance over Tech in Baseball.

Matt Wieters, Carter Strickland ?

You call yourself The “BuLLdawgs’ Beat-Writer” with that little subliminal quip ? Hells Bells, Chip Towers is better at that role than you in this sport young Carter Strickland, which is why the AJC puts him on our stories and why they don’t put you on them.

Get that ?

Still, none of the AJC Sportswriters measures up to Josh Kendall of The Macon Telegraph in better BuLLdawg Coverage – not that the AJC gives a crap about that.

Matt Wieters throws the ball from his knees, he is so slow at getting up to throw from behind the dish.

3,937 paid for attendance at Foley Field yesterday, one of the nation’s Top 10 Best Baseball venues, which afforded UGA many great photos of our campus and our 55 percent women (Tech 22 percent), our campus blowing away the slums of Tech’s campus.

When UGA this year had a guy who admitted that he had 93 lbs. of drugs driven across this great nation to our campus as he did, to tell them that his friend would sell them for them, and personally escort them to his friend to make the drug deal of 93 lbs. of drugs on The Georgia Institute of Technology’s campus with his infant on his lap, let me know ok ?

When Georgia plays 17 ineligible to play anywhere “student”-athletes in 4 sports, let me know, ok ?

When Georgia names our football stadium for a college dropout, let me know Tech fans ok ?

When Tech gets their very 1st NCAA National Championship in ANY SPORT, let me know ok Tech fans ?

When Georgia doesn’t go to War, as Tech did not in World War I and World War II and then tries to count those games while our players and coaches were defending this great nation, let me know Tech fans ?

When Georgia has players who are our Best Football Players of All-Time listed in the College Football Hall of Fame who actually played Football at Carlisle and Davidson instead, and were brought to UGA to play during World Wars by John Heisman, let me know Tech fans.

Speaking of John Heisman, when Tech gets their 1st Heisman Trophy Winner, be certain now to let me know of that too, would you please gentlemen ?

I say gentlemen because their ain’t no women at The North Avenue Trade School.

It is good to get all you closet Tech fans out in the open in Public admitting that you resort to multiple handles that you post to this same blog as, to try to fool folks just exactly as geechee said you were doing in fact – and, stated exactly that as a statement of fact about you, only to have you admit in Public that that indeed is exactly what you are in fact doing.

You fool no one.

And, if the ACC was so damn good at Baseball – this is obviously a point which is a thorn in the side of Tech fans, clearly – then why is it that in the last 50 years the ACC has 0 CWS Championships ? And, 1 ever and it by little Weak Forest in 1955, while the SEC has 6.

And, again, why you as Tech fans want to bring up the CWS is beyond me with the abject loser status Tech has, while you post – yes IN GEORGIA’S BEAT-WRITER’S BLOG - about CWS like you can separate that topic and our CWS NC in Baseball.

Funny as Hell Tech nerds.

ESPN2 at 7 p.m. Nationally Televised games with both teams higher ranked than the 2 teams that did not get on TV for anyone to watch at all.

Going to watch us Tech fans ?

It was all you could do this weekend you know ?

Watch The Georgia Diamond Dawgs, since your stinking losing Baseball Program, was not on TV for one of you to watch at all.

Joey Side has set the Official UGA All-Time Career Record for Hits, 108, and Josh Morris has set the Official UGA All-Time Record for Home Runs, 23, and both blow away Matt Wieters.

Rip Warren and Joshua Fields are both warmed up, ready, and not overused for tonight’s National Telecast.

Freshman Louisville Slugger Award All-America Pitcher Nathan Moreau (8-1 vs. Number 9 SOS) will not start this evening, but fellow Freshman Louisville Slugger Award All-America Shortstop Gordon Beckham will – 2 who got away.

Who wants to be a nerd anyway ?

Pray tell, who ?

Joey Side and Josh Morris were both Freshman Louisville Slugger Award All-America Players too for Georgia in 2004.

And, look how they both turned out to be better than Matt Wieters ?

There is not, by the way, one stinking Georgia Tech Freshman who is even on the list :

URL Link :

http://www.baseballnews.com/allamericans/currentfrallamericans.htm

Try telling me that is a stat ?

Like Georgia Tech doesn’t care ?

Sure you do.

2 more who got away, like Joey Side and Josh Morris.

How do you plan on Beating The Georgia Diamond Dawgs ever Georgia Tech ?

Oh, yeah, by sending your posters into The BuLLdawgs’ Beat-Writers Blog and telling us that all our Wins over you, are just stats. How quickly we forget.

When 1st we try to deceive, by logging in as BuLLdawg fans when we are but Tech nerds, and type that which is Tech’s mantra, we best to recall that the easiest person to deceive is one’s own self :

Sir Walter Scott (1781-1832) :

**”Oh, what a tangled web we weave,”

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“When first we practice to deceive.”**

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By BuLLdawg

June 12, 2006 03:03 AM | Link to this

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By Ramblor

June 12, 2006 07:07 AM | Link to this

Oh, man, thanks for the entertainment, BuLLdawg. Your Tech envy is duly noted.

To all you other dog fans, good luck tonight. Here’s to meeting you guys in Omaha for a best-of-three!!

By SunDawg

June 12, 2006 08:49 AM | Link to this

Great win DIAMOND DAWGS!!! One more tonight and it’s on to OMAHA.

I think the bug fans are intentionally provoking BuLLDawg so that he becomes defensive and spews forth protective clouds of verbage, kinda’ like a squid with its ink. You guys stop that, it’s not funny.

Ramblor, hope to meet your team at the SHOW.

GO DIAMOND DAWGS!!!

By northwestDawg

June 12, 2006 09:04 AM | Link to this

I QUITE READING!!!! I thought I would read a Bulldawg blog all the way through. I quite reading when he started jumping on the Tech catcher because he’s moving the mitt to try to have more strikes called. If that’s not one of the things a catcher, who’s worth a grain of salt, is suppose to do then the game of baseball is truly in a world of hurt. Has anyone ever watched Posada? Will someone in Atlanta call the Braves and try to talk to a coach about this. On 2nd thought, call the Mets. I’m of course a big time SEC fan but ‘Ole Miss better beat Miami today or we’ll only have 1 team in Omaha. Don’t want to hear all this “stuff” about who’s weak and who’s not etc. Bottom line is that the SEC has been worked over pretty good in the regionals.

By gdawginkalamazoo

June 12, 2006 10:04 AM | Link to this

Thanks Ramblor, congratulations to Tech. We hope to join you in Omaha.

By godawg

June 12, 2006 10:06 AM | Link to this

Just caught up on the blog from over the weekend. Man…ya’ll shouldn’t poke at BuLLdawg. You know he’s just gonna comeback with both barrels…point blank in this case. I don’t think you can find enough pieces to fill a bucket…Talk about a train wreck!

I knew the Dawgs would come back with a vengence after the shelling we got on Saturday. Brown, Warren and Fields were awesome. Joshua sure can bring the heat! We need LIGHTS OUT BASEBALL TONIGHT! WOOF! WOOF!

By northwestDawg

June 12, 2006 02:38 PM | Link to this

godawg, you’re right, I just blew a gasket when I read the part about a catcher trying to sway close calls by moving his mitt around is somehow wrong or implies cheating. That’s just not true. My catcher had better be doinhg ezactly that. I’m really pulling for ‘OLE MISS to beat Miami today because the SEC has been roughed up in the Regionals so far. Hope that guy on ESPN was right last night when he said that SC was going to beat the Dawgs because their pitcher was a low throwing fastballer. If they come out with that type of pitcher, the Dawgs will win for sure because they are a fastball hitting club. The Diamond Dawgs sure do like to make things interesting and I just hope it doesn’t bite’m in the britches. Lets go to Omaha! GO DIAMOND DAWGS!!!!! THE SEC NEEDS YOU!!

By MadMerf

June 13, 2006 03:11 AM | Link to this

DIAMOND DAWGS ROLL!!!! ON TO OMAHA!!!! I feel a great disturbance in the Farce! As if hundreds of smack-talking bumblebees suddenly broke out into hives!!! And then……nothing. Was I dreaming or do I recall someone saying something about eating crow? Your nightmares are far from over. Just remember, in case UGA falls into the losers bracket, it’s safe to go ahead and count them out, OK?!!

By MadMerf

June 13, 2006 03:52 AM | Link to this

Oh, and geech, in response to your response to my response some 4 or 5 days ago, Chatham is in the liquid state, as in melting from the heat! Then again, who isn’t. Bulldog Nation is alive and well in the City of Sav, but it’s painfully obvious the local media is peppered with antidawgs. You know the routine, focusing on the negatives, failing to list proper TV times for games, even going as far as misplacing tapes of the Mark Richt show the day after a big win! It’s tough enough staying up past midnight on Sundays while anticipating Munson’s calls on the win, only to find a repeat of a previous game against a lesser opponet. I’ve heard every lame excuse in the book from the media switchboard, but I must admit they’re getting better! Sorry for the delay but I’ve been recharging my batteries at our Tybee condo the last few days. See ya on the next blog which BTW still isn’t about baseball. Maybe they’ll blog on the D-DAWGS during football season. NOT!!!!

By AltamahaDawg

June 13, 2006 09:39 AM | Link to this

madMerf, I too am in that area. Tell me how the CMR show gets such prime time as it does on Savannah TV. It’s either, right in the middle of church or at midnight. Why not just make it 3:300 am tuesday night? Sonny Siler doesnt own any stock down there in that station. Pitiful.

By BadgerDawg

June 13, 2006 06:07 PM | Link to this

Michael Cameron, I can’t find my post in the middle of all of BuLLDawg’s nonsense. He occupies 95.423% of the space in this blog and I can’t read his ^&*(. I recall that the references were only after a S.Car fan was talking trash and I mentioned the lackluster(understatement?) history of your program. My comments on the school references were an aside. I respect your right to use those names, I just think it’s funny that I’m watching your team play, I hear Carolina, and I wonder where UNC is and have I been drinking too much. I’m also glad you liked the Charter reference, I miss those commecrials. And yes, I am a UW fan and UGA grad, so you were correct I like both schools. Responses like that are really just for Gamecock Gary and not most fans/alums. I will say that I equate S Carolina trash talk with the trash talk I saw before we played Georgia Southern about 12-13 years ago. I couldn’t halp but think that a)they have no major track record and 2) no one at that school would have gone there if they could get into UGA(more true for GSU but you get the point.) My trash talk is only aimed at the delusional USC/Carolina fans(you like the terminology? :)

By Michael Cameron

June 15, 2006 01:19 AM | Link to this

Mr. BadgerDawg,

Yes, I do indeed “like the terminology.” Thank you for the cordial acquiescence and courtesy in regards to USC/Carolina; it is appreciated. Yes, I note that you were replying to the other guys’ “trash talking.” I normally don’t do much of that, myself, but I know that’s something the younger crowd enjoys. And, razzing can be A-OK when delivered in the right spirit…Regarding GSU, many people have been accepted at UGA (or would have been had they applied) as well as at GSU, but chose to attend GSU instead. I know of some, personally. Reasons can include being from S. Georgia or Florida and wanting to remain closer to home, or just preferring one campus or curriculum over another (some persons opt for a smaller college environment). Financial, academic and logistic considerations aside, such choices are a matter of personal preference…On Wisconsin (pun intended, as in the fight song), I liked your former coach, Barry Alvarez, who retired after last season. He was one of the better coaches, always with a strong ground game (as a football purist, I like that), and he seemed to be a classy gentleman who truly cared about his players, his school and his community. You must’ve been torn when Wisconsin played UGA in the Outback Bowl several seasons ago (late ’90s — Coach Donnan was coaching UGA), as the Bulldogs won with their faster team speed…Although I’m Tech and USC all the way, I recognize that UGA is a great institution, both academically and athletically… Congratulations to the Diamond Dogs on winning their way to Omaha…Have a good summer.