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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Thursday, February 22, 2007
Shaking off the dust
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I apologize, guys, but it’s well after 3 p.m. and I just got home from my trip to Oxford and Memphis to cover Georgia-Ole Miss. It was a “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” kind of day, with delays getting out of Memphis and into Atlanta and — imagine this — heavy traffic in Atlanta.
My point is not to solicit empathy (that’d be a wasted effort in here!). Just letting you know that I haven’t had much of a chance to contemplate topics or certainly to do any kind of research. So with respects to my buddy Mike Bianchi in Orlando, I’m just going to kind of run off at the keyboard.
First, on the basketball team: As anybody knows who has read my reports or blogs in the last 24 hours, Georgia pretty much stunk up the place last night, especially in the second half. The defeat has me re-think the Bulldogs’ postseason chances a bit.
It wasn’t that they lost. I expected that. It was the way they lost. I thought I detected a little bit of give up in Georgia last night and that’s something I haven’t said often about Dennis Felton’s teams.
Now let me qualify that by saying I don’t think the Dogs are a bunch of quitters. Far from it. I believe fatigue might be starting to set in. That’s probably the result of a few factors. One is we forget Takais Brown is a first-year player in the SEC. He has become the number one focus of all of Georgia’s opponents and he’s taking a beating. Also, Yata Gaines and Levi Stukes and Billy Humphrey are now having to log big minutes every game with Mike Mercer now out of the lineup. Mercer was probably the number one energy producer for this team before he went down with a knee injury. And remember, this team is down a bunch of guys, with Kevin Brophy, Channing Toney, Kendrick Johnson and Younes Idrissi all out of the mix. Not offering excuses. Just a recent revelation.
On the football team: It’s combine week up in Indianapolis and some Bulldogs are up there trying to make some money. In case you missed it, Mel Kiper is projecting DE Charles Johnson as a middle first-round pick while he expects DE Quentin Moses to go “second round at best.”
You know who else is up there? Former tailback Danny Ware. His agent tells me Danny’s made some significant physical strides in training and is expecting to make a big bang in Indy. He’ll need to to improve his status.
On the SEC race: Kentucky’s probably in regardless but the ‘Cats have probably the toughest row to hoe the rest of the season. After barely beating LSU — without Glen Davis — at home, they have to play Vanderbilt and Florida on the road with a home game against Georgia in between. Don’t laugh about the Dogs; Felton’s teams have played Kentucky tougher than just about every team other than Florida.
Hopefully we can generate some conversation out of that. Help me out guys. I’m exhausted.
