UGA blog finds new home
Morning all. As I’ve said a couple of times this week, we’re converting this blog over to a WordPress platform and it will be a permanent move the first of next week.
Those of you who are regulars probably know that I’m not what you’d call techno-wizard when it comes to these things. But from what I understand the technology offered in this new format should make the blogging and commenting experience better for all. Of course, I’ll be learning as we go along, too. But I’m hoping to provide more pictures and video and things like that which should bring the blog more to life.
Of course, this blog is nothing without all you guys so I want to heartily invite (read: beg) you to come over to the new site by CLICKING HERE ON THE NEW ADDRESS and save it in your browsers. As of Monday, Feb. 23rd, this will be the permanent home of the UGA blog you so love or, in the case of some of you, love to loathe. If you’d prefer to copy and paste or just memorize, the new address is: http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/.
See at the new place!
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Friday, February 16, 2007
Dogs, Hogs and fun with numbers
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s Friday, which means it’s my last blog of the week, which means it’s time to empty the ol’ in box and let ya’ll have at it.
Rumor of the week: Looks like the shoe is getting to drop over in Arkansas. There are all kinds of Internet reports that athletics director Frank Broyles, 82, is preparing to retire and that football coach Houston Nutt may not be far behind. The Razorbacks have been a mess since their 10-win season and SEC West championship. Hard to figure how everything goes to pot after your best season in years.
Close calls: The Bulldogs get a big time spooking from little ol’ Kennesaw State. The best thing about it is the Owls are coached by one of the nicest and funniest men in sports in Tony Ingle. If you ever get a chance to catch one of his speeches, don’t pass it up. He’s both hilarious and profound. Played golf with him one time a few years ago and I’ve never laughed so hard. My cheeks hurt at the end of the round.
Dogs OK: I don’t think you can read too much into Georgia’s sorry performance against the Owls. They were truly sleep-walking and Kennesaw was totally jacked and actually made some unconscious plays. If anything, it should serve as a wake-up call for the Dogs, who need only to protect their home court and win one game in the SEC tournament to make the NCAA tournament, in my opinion.
RPI collapse: The worse thing about playing Kennesaw State is Georgia RIP dipped 15 spot from 38th to 53rd thanks to the Owls low ranking. But the Dogs will get it all back with a few more SEC wins.
Mat drills: I’m reminded while watching the football team go through mat drills that this is indeed still a very talented squad with a lot of awfully impressive physical specimens who either didn’t play at all last season or didn’t play much. Like Coach Richt always tells me, media types tend to pay attention to how many seniors you’ve got back and what kind of freshmen you signed but they tend to forget about the groups in between. Georgia ‘tweeners are pretty darn good.
Searching for sellouts: Hoping to see the Stegosaurus filled to the rafters tomorrow. Less than 500 tickets remained as of Friday. It’d be pretty impressive - for Georgia and for the recruits considering playing for Felton - to have four SEC sellouts in a row. The UGA students have been impressive in their following this season.
Meanwhile, I’d be happy to hear from all of you with suggestions for blog topics for the coming week. Just like in our recruiting blog, you ask for it and I’ll do my best to find it out.
Have a great weekend!
