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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Monday, April 23, 2007
Evans happy, wants more
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I touched on this a little last week but I thought I’d bring it up again in light of the events of this past weekend and because I had the chance hang out with Damon Evans for a short while Monday afternoon.
As you may or may not have noticed, Georgia captured three SEC titles on the same day on Sunday. The Bulldogs won tournament championships in men’s and women’s tennis (which had already clinched regular-season titles) and in women’s golf. Georgia’s No. 1-ranked men’s golf team had a tough first day in St. Simons Island and finished only sixth in the conference tourney, otherwise the Bulldogs could have recorded four championships on the same day for the second time since 2001.
I talked to Damon for a while about that today and brought up the same debate we had on this board last week with regard to nobody cares about the sports other than football and basketball. Here’s what he had to say:
“First of all, I’m proud that we have good football here at the University of Georgia. It’s outstanding,” Evans said. “But I don’t want people to look at us as just a football program. I want them to see that we’re the total package, that we’re a total athletics program. When you get to this time of year and you look at our spring sports and look at our coaches, it’s phenomenal. These sports are the ones that help us place high in the director’s cup each year and give us a shot at winning the [SEC’s] all-sports trophy. A lot of people might not notice but I hope they understand that Georgia is good at almost everything we do and we’re striving to be the best at everything we do.”
That said, Evans makes it clear that his philosophy applies to every sport Georgia competes in, football and basketball included. He’s VERY plugged in to what the men’s basketball team is doing and was going over with me how he thinks Dennis Felton’s team ought to be very competitive next year and move up in the league and the recruits they’ve got coming in, etc. Coach Mark Richt has had the football team in three SEC championship games the last five years — winning two titles — and Evans expects the Bulldogs to continue to have a say in the race year in and year out.
So again, do the average Dawg fans put much stock in these spring sports championships? And what are your thoughts on Evans. He’s been the top Dog now since December of 2003? Do you like the way he’s running things? What have been your observations about the program under his leadership? Does this continued run of overall athletic success have anything to do with him?
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