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By Matthew At The SLC

April 23, 2007 4:51 PM | Link to this

I often wonder about how Damon Evans runs things. The thing I wonder is: does he even runs things at all? Until we rid our wonderful University of the stench of Michael Adams, that question will linger around Damon Evans. It’s amazing that someone who is as hated by students, alumni, and faculty as Michael Adams is, is able to keep his job. I guess having a bunch of dumb@$$ old white guys who could care less about the students, the alumni, and the faculty in your pocket helps. Yes, I’m talking about the Regents. I don’t know whether we can trust Mr. Evans as long as Michael Adams continues to stand close by. And I also wonder why, when this school has a 26 million dollar, tax-free surpluss from football that we can’t build an indoor practice facility, why we have other student athletes on the swimming, track, etc. teams who don’t have even partial scholarships, and why, in a stadium that was expanded to over 92,000 seats, that the student section is the smallest in the whole SEC, giving absolutely NO homefield advantage for the Dawgs because the idiot wine & cheese alumni are above making noise at a football games.

I wonder. You’d think with that much surpluss cash, that Evans & Adams could throw some more money towards their students athletes who don’t play football. You’d think that we’d be able to build an indoor practice facility for football that could also double as an indoor track facility for the track team. And you’d think that we could, with a stadium that seats that many people, have a student section that’s at least as big as the one that students at Ole Miss or South Carolina enjoy. You know, South Carolina, a football team that owns a TREMENDOUS homefield advantage even though their teams suck, because they actually realize that it’s the students who bring the noise?

One would think. But as long as Michael Adams is around, I know none of these things will happen. Especially expanding the student section. It just makes too much sense, I guess.

By Vince the Prince

April 23, 2007 4:54 PM | Link to this

I agree with Damon that it is best not to focus on the football program, and focus on tennis and ping pong, which is something we can win at.

Gymdogs is where the action is.

By Vince the Prince

April 23, 2007 4:55 PM | Link to this

Misquote of the century:

“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.”

By Barry M. Wolfe

April 23, 2007 4:57 PM | Link to this

Damon appears to be doing a great job. Anyone who says they only care about what happens in football misses what college sports is all about. I follow football and basketball closer than the other sports but take great pride in UGA’s success in all sports.

By Vince the Prince

April 23, 2007 4:57 PM | Link to this

OU has a 47 game winning streak, and someone makes some comment like this:

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.

Talk about aiming low…2 of 5 WOO!!!

By Lane4411

April 23, 2007 5:11 PM | Link to this

Let’s not forget, it was Adam’s who wanted Donnan OUT. Dooley and Adams were responsible for the Richt hire-MAJOR TURNING POINT IN GEORGIA FOOTBALL-simply check the winning %. I hav never been a Dooley fan, with the talent he had winning %/championships were at best average. Erk should have gotten the job when Dooley retired - this impairs my objectivity.

Adams, did however bring in Harrick, which devastated the program for 5 yrs. Harrick, was a bad actor @ Pepperdine, never got caught, unlike UCLA,Providence and Athens.

Adams, also pushed Dooley out-a positive for me.

NOW, if Vince/Barbara(syrupy mouthed southern belle)would just go away!!!

Hope, everyone is offended.

By AltamahaDawg

April 23, 2007 5:15 PM | Link to this

Matthew, the current seating arrangment was prabable on the board long before Damon Evans took over as AD.

By Vince the Prince

April 23, 2007 5:17 PM | Link to this

[Barry M. Wolfe]

“I follow football and basketball closer than the other sports but take great pride in UGA’s success in all sports.

UGA’s only success would be in tennis and gymnastics, and not the gridiron.

UCLA, Stanford and USC hold the titles for most national titles in men and womens NCAA Div-1 Sports, and just in case some rabid dog fan tries to make up the stats I have included the link just in case:

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

UGA did not even make the top-ten with only 2 SEC schools, and 3 Pac-10 schools leading the way.

By Vince the Prince

April 23, 2007 5:24 PM | Link to this

Alabama, Florida, Tennessee and South Carolina are just waiting to derail the Bulldog Train in 2007.

8-4 at best for football in Athens for 2007.

By Matthew At The SLC

April 23, 2007 5:25 PM | Link to this

Yeah, we can’t win at football. We don’t have 3 East Titles and 2 SEC Championships in the last 5 years. We don’t own a 4-2 Bowl Record since Richt took over. We never finished 13-1, No. 3 in the nation, Sugar Bowl Champs in 2002. We didn’t win 9 games in a DOWN year with a true freshman QB. We didn’t beat 3 top-15 teams in a row to end the year.

Wow, the Gaturds win a few games, and suddenly, they think Spurrier is back. It must suck knowing that your college football history began in 1990. See, at Georgia, our college football history began in the 1890’s. So, denizens of FU, why don’t you go look through a few college football history books, and take in your pitiful football history BEFORE 1990. I never thought a group of fans could be more full of themselves than the idiot football fans from the Big 11. Then I had the displeasure of meeting a bunch of Floridiots.

And you know what’s the worst thing? Vince the Idiot is probably a pitiful little Bug.

By Max Sizemore

April 23, 2007 5:32 PM | Link to this

Right on, Matthew. Evans sold his soul to cast his lot with the devil (Adams) himself. To hell with him.

By Matthew At The SLC

April 23, 2007 5:34 PM | Link to this

Yep, that settles it. Vince the Idiot is a Bug. Hello little Bug. What, are you on the big boys board because your wittle football team never gets any press, yet when Coach Richt sneezes it makes front page news? Are you jealous of that, little Bug? It’s okay. Your team might be able to beat us one day without cheating. Maybe.

By reality check

April 23, 2007 5:39 PM | Link to this

I don’t know if he is a bug or not Mathew, but you are right he is pitiful.

Vince, tell everybody on the blog, what is your greatest accomplishment? You are really big on criticizing championship teams. What have you ever won? Just give one credible example of something you have done that people can legitimately conclude was a positive accomplishment.

By Dawg4life

April 23, 2007 6:00 PM | Link to this

I think the fact is that football and basketball are the most marketed collegiate sports for most programs (due to their constant coverage on networks like ESPN, etc.).Plus, we do live in the south, where football is largely a way of life and is one of the most glorified sports in the region. The fact that most people don’t pay attention to the other sports probably is a matter of the circumstance of location more than anything else. I mean, over 90,000 people just filled Alabama’s stadium to watch what was a glorified spring scrimmage game. I’m sure that wouldn’t have happened at an Alabama gymnastics exhibition, which is annually one of the school’s top programs.

So I don’t think it’s that we take these other sports or the successes of UGA’s spring sports for granted, or that our other programs don’t deserve the credit for their success, but I just think that due to the fact that we’re in the south, where football is king, that’s what normally is gonna get most of the attention.

By 2007

April 23, 2007 6:12 PM | Link to this

Matt at the SLC. First of all go out and act like a college student, go have a beer. You can thank Title IX for the way we have to spend our athletic budget. That is a big reason for not having an indoor practice facility. Your athletic budget has to be proportioned according to your gender enrollment. With all the money the football team is getting, and the new facility for mens bball there is no money right now. As far as the PAC 10 thing goes. There schools all have about 26 sports programs where the average SEC school has about 12. I agree that the older people shouldn’t be at the games bc they dont make enough noise, but the student section is not the loudest section. Half the students don’t even pay attention to the games and show up in the second quarter. I say we cut down on the student section and the over 55 crowd, and take the drunkest loudest fans that are willing to get to the games on time.

By JayBird

April 23, 2007 6:31 PM | Link to this

2007, are you kidding me? You are a stupid redneck. First of all, the over 55 crowd is more than likely the people putting the majority of the money into the football program. Secondly, the students have more of a right to be there than anyone, they attend the school. Lastly, I believe that most of us true Bulldog fans, those of us who have been going to games pre-Richt, don’t want the drunken rednecks at the games. You are the idiots who have completely ruined the Georgia football experience and who trash Athens after games.

By Bubba the redneck

April 23, 2007 6:33 PM | Link to this

Bubba just read this story and laughed. while Bubba was laughing he could feel the wind blowing into his mouh because of the absence of his 2 front teeth. that is another story. bubba almost swallowed his dip too in regards to this nonsense. bubba has said before that we do not care about these sissy sports. the bulldawg nations wants championships in football. that is the only one that matters. if thar aint no hittin then it cant be no sport bubba says. uga needs to do whatever it can to win championships in football. bubba would give away his toothless wife and trailer for a national championship in football. championships in football are all that matter. mr damon evans must realize that. mr damon vans must do all he can to hlp coach richt accomplish this goal. bubba cant wait till we get rid of vince dooleys illegetimate son as ad anyway. you know bubba has always thought that thar was a resemblace between prince vince and his boy damon evans dooley. remember fellow bulldawgs we once had a great basketball coach in jim harrick until prince vinc and baby vince back doored him out. bring back harrick and baby harrick. harrick 4 yrs as coach 3 out of 4 of those yrs we would have been in the tornament. prince and baby vince get rid of him for sorry dennis felton the man who picks out his wifes clothes. felton cares more about womens clothes then he does about winning games. 19-14 equals a raise what nonsense. bubba has said enuff unless someone upsets him.

By Bryan Carver

April 23, 2007 6:39 PM | Link to this

Dear Vince (I’d call you your real name but you are too chicken to post it),

2 of 6 is aiming low? Since Mark Richt has been here, there only other school to win 2 of 6 is LSU. The only schools to appear 3 of 6? LSU and UGA. Everyone else UT - 0/2; Ark - 0/2; AU - 1/1; UF - 1/1.

So I’m pretty sure most schools would like to have our record in the SEC championship over Mark Richt’s tenure.

And yes, of course we’d love to have LSU or UF’s NC since Richt has been here. But you know what, so would 117 other D-I programs. So I hope you are a tiger or gator, because otherwise, you have nothing to say.

By Bubba the redneck

April 23, 2007 6:47 PM | Link to this

bubba is back. bubba read some more of these cooments after sending his message. bubba believes that some of you socalled bulldawgs arent real bulldawgs at all. your more in the line of missy state bullbups then real bulldawgs. anyone of you who agitates the firing of the grat president michael adams is a fool remember fools prince vince didnt want to get rid of donnan. you idiots have short memories. i gues you idiots like the 7-4 and 8-3 years and coming in third in the sec east and losing to git too. bubba only got out of the 7th grade and he knows that we would be nowhere without the great michael adams. bubba says move on you bulldawg wannabes.

By 2007

April 23, 2007 7:02 PM | Link to this

He said he wanted the ones who would make Sanfor the loudest, and I was just saying that is who it would be. Yeah and for those of us who have been going to games since 1978 we love the drunken “rednecks” you refer to. The Tennessee game in 1996 when we had a losing team was louder than any game this past season. You are right the old crowd is who puts the most money in, and the students deserve to be there. I did not say they didn’t I was answering his question on why the stadium isn’t loud. I wish I was one of the drunken rednecks you refer to though, because they do have a blast.

By 2007

April 23, 2007 7:06 PM | Link to this

And jay bird since you are a true Bulldog as you say you are, name every y head coach at UGA without looking it up. Throw some crazy statistic or story from another team besides football at me that only a “true” bulldog would know. I love UGA, and doubt anyone follows all of the programs more than me. The crap Chip throws out on here is widely known among bulldog fans, we knew the golf team was pre-season number 2 entering the year. We knew the kids that got arrested with Hebron were golfers. None of you did, and neither did the AJC staff. But you are right Season tickets in the family since 1978 we are not “true” bulldogs. And if you have ever sat in the student section then you know half of the student section does not pay attention

By Matthew At The SLC

April 23, 2007 7:18 PM | Link to this

2007, I have sat in the student section. And unless it’s UWK, then I’m sorry, but the students pay way more attention and make way more noise than anyone else in the stadium. You’re mistaken my friend.

By JayBird

April 23, 2007 7:28 PM | Link to this

I have sat in the student section many times and I have sat in numerous other seats around the stadium over the years. I would say you are probably in the minority when it comes to the drunken rednecks I refer to. There is a huge difference between drinking, having a good time and being an obnoxious, drunken buffoon. You know, the kind of people who cuss throughout the game in the presence of kids, the kind who refuse to sit in their assigned seats, and you know, the j******* who give UGA a bad name. People can say whatever they want about fans from other schools but any problems I have had with obnoxious fans were with UGA fans. And I don’t have to answer some obscure fact or statistic to prove how much of a Georgia fan I am. What’s preventing you from being a drunken redneck? Go ahead, cut off your sleeves, get a camo UGA hat with a hook on it, drink a case of Budweiser, you’ll be well on your way!

By Bubba the redneck

April 23, 2007 7:39 PM | Link to this

bubba the redneck just read jaybirds coments about my people. bubba dont care too much about you wine and cheese people either. bubba and his friends would take thar shotguns in if allowed.. if bubba and hiis fellow rednecks were allowed this we would be able to intimidate the oppositon more.

By JayBird

April 23, 2007 7:50 PM | Link to this

Thanks Bubba, for backing up my point. Wine and cheese people? So if my tailgate doesn’t consist of Copenhagen, jacked up 4x4’s, Hank Jr. on radio, and incorrect English, I’m a wine and cheese person? You are a complete moron. Please, don’t ever try to type again. You are not only an embarrassment to UGA fans, you are an embarrassment to yourself. Oh yeah, please use the aforementioned shotgun on yourself and do us all a favor!

By S.E dawg

April 23, 2007 7:53 PM | Link to this

2007, Just for your information I’ve just turned 55 and I cheer for the dawgs harder than I ever did and will do so until I can’t do it anymore. Matter of fact after every game I can barely speak. What really ticks me off is the younger group that has a cell phone in there ear the entire game. And those who come to the game to just socialize and doesn’t have a clue what’s going on in the game.

By Bubba the redneck

April 23, 2007 7:56 PM | Link to this

Just so you know guys, I’m really not a redneck. I’m a 30 year-old virgin grad student from Georgia Tech. I tell you what, guys, I cannot wait for Dragoncon this week! I’ve got my stormtropper armor all polished up and ready! This is gonna be the year, I know it! I’m finally going to score with that girl in the Princess Leia bikini! I’m pretty frustrated with just stroking my lightsaber, so I have to get it done this year. I think I’ll impress her with tickets to a Georgia Tech football game. You get free hotdogs and Cokes and everything! Of course, she’ll have to help me understand what’s happening on the field, but that’s okay. Then we’ll go back to my room and play Worlds of War on the internet and then, if I’m lucky, I can sneak a kiss!

Oh, to be a nerd who’s in need of gettin’ some!

By JayBird

April 23, 2007 8:03 PM | Link to this

You forgot about the free language lessons with your choice of Chinese and Korean at Tech home games. Plus they have wireless internet available at every seat.

By Bubba the redneck

April 23, 2007 8:07 PM | Link to this

bubba is back and he would like to comment. that thar last email wasnt by bubba. this here is the real bubba the redneck. bubba just stomped on one of them thar measley flying bugs while he was spittin his chaw out. bubba also take exception to what that thar jbird said. how about bubba using his coon huntin gun on you jbird. then i can sic my coon dawg named michael adams on yo wine and cheese a* boy. jbird you probably use grey poupon on yo hotdawg.

By Randall H.

April 23, 2007 8:28 PM | Link to this

Lane 4411 YOU ARE GETTING THE MOST OUT OF THIS FREE SPEECH THING AREN’T YOU! YOU GIVE HOMO SAPIENS A BAD NAME OR DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS?

By AltamahaDawg

April 23, 2007 8:47 PM | Link to this

Matthew, I really dont know what the situation with student tickets are nowadays. Do you know how many student ticket are actually allocated? Seems difficult to beleive anyone who really wanted to go, cannot. I can almost guarantee you that a pretty significant percentage of the student body is not there every game by choice.

I’m afraid what you are seeing is just supply and demand. And in reality, they cannot allocate resources based on a highly subjective “crowd noise” factor. I’m not sure you are really correct on that anyway. I promise you my wife cheers louder , than your date with that cell phone, socializing. I’ve been to plenty of games in the past years and when it matter, its plenty loud, old farts included. Can you really say that the older crowd not cheering constantly has ever changed the outcome of a game?

Do think about this… in a few years are you going to want to hear that you need to contribute for several years to even begin to be eligible for season tickets? The more seats allocated to students are just that many more that are going to have to be turned away for recent grads come allotment time. I do wish we had the seats for any and everyone, but for now, its a finite number. Alumni pays in the hundreds for every game they go to. Don’t they deserve to be there? Is it fair to restrict my tickets to ensure a student has one. I was a student too. I dont really think that paying tuition now, vs a few years ago, (ok 25) gives somebody prefered status.

If it were me, I’d say paying bucks gets first grab, then student co-eds are assured, then whatever is left the male students can fight, armwrestle, punk each other, have a rap lyric sing off, whatever.

By Chip Towers

April 23, 2007 9:06 PM | Link to this

Man, it always amazes me what turns these blogs can take on any given day. Interesting to see some of the talk about the general countenance of the crowd at Georgia football home games. It’s actually a topic I was thinking about bringing up this week, especially in light of Alabama’s much ballyhooed 92,000-plus for its spring game. A lot of people think that’s very impressive and I suppose it is for the recruits attending the spring game. I tend to think, man, there must be nothing to do in Alabama.

By Bryan Carver

April 23, 2007 9:32 PM | Link to this

My 2 cents on the crowd -

First, there will always be a group that says we are loud and another that says we are not.

I do think we can get loud on 3rd or 4th down, and for extended times during a big game. But to be a great crowd - one that is talked about as being a true homefield advantage, we should be loud every down (like EVERY pro football game is) for every opponent.

Every game should sound like LSU 2004.

By Hill Dawg

April 23, 2007 10:07 PM | Link to this

Students just don’t get it. Son, with a little luck you will be one of the old alumni a lot longer than you will be a student. If you had your way, in about five years you would be b*** about the students having better seats than you, the old, loyal alum. Try to think forward,kid.

By JayBird

April 23, 2007 11:14 PM | Link to this

Chip, I think it shows that there is nothing better to do in Alabama. They don’t have any professional sports and it’s not like Birmingham and Tuscaloosa areas are hotbeds for the arts or anything like that. Plus Bama fans think Saban is the second coming of the Bear, so they showed up to see if he would walk on water. Saban will stick around for a couple of years, make them respectible again, and then bolt for a better job. Yes Bama fans, I said it, a better job. I know it’s hard for you to believe any job is better than being head coach at Alabama but it’s not the 1970’s anymore now matter how old your trailers are.

By Gen Neyland

April 23, 2007 11:56 PM | Link to this

This Vince the Prince might really be a Red Elephant. Sure seems to have the IQ of one…He probably keeps a flat of bricks in his basement…

My sincere congrats to UGA for all your success in Womens Gymnastics, Tennis, Golf, etc. Something to be proud of…

By Matthew At The SLC

April 24, 2007 1:09 AM | Link to this

Just a few things before i head to bed. Look, I can understand Altamaha. I can. But the fact remains that the student section at Sanford is one of the smallest in the SEC, and THAT is why we have NO homefield advantage. And no, it isn’t easy to get tickets. In fact, last year their was a lottery, but the thing is, they only gave out tickets for 4 home games. Meaning they split them up. So, we had to pay for tickets and the students couldn’t see every game without scalping. THIS is what Michael Adams brings to Georgia. Then we had the issues with tickets for basketball at the Steg where they only had one ticket booth (two windows) open to students and had a line of 300 students waiting instead of just opening more booths / windows for students.

Michael Adams is not the friend of the student body. From his ridiculous plus / minus grading system which is killing our GPA’s, to his treatment of students who want to actually give the football team a homefield advantage, Michael Adams has let it be known that it’s money that talks and it’s money that walks, and that is why our student section is smaller than Alabama’s, Auburn’s, South Carolina’s, Florida’s, etc. And that is why they have louder stadiums than we do. It’s a fact. I understand that I’ll be an alumni soon, very soon. But I will still bemoan the fact that the stadium is never loud enough, and I’ll bemoan the reason why. When we expanded by almost 10,000 seats, are you telling me that we couldn’t find any more room to add more seats to the student section?

Chip, seriously, I hope you take up this issue, because it’s embarassing. It’s embarassing that our President is shutting out the students, and it’s embarassing that our wine & cheese alumni can’t be bothered to get off their butts and make noise. It’d be nice if every game was like the first half of the Tennessee game, or like LSU in 2004. South Carolina has great fans, but a crappy team. We have a great team, but… well, y’all get where I’m going, I’m just too ashamed to finish the sentence.

By AltamahaDawg

April 24, 2007 6:51 AM | Link to this

Matthew , we all understand your issue as as student, but the fact remains (and Michael Adams isnt the head of physics, which is the real issue). If one more student has a ticket tommorrow, one less recent alumni will. Those 10,000 seat were taken 3 years before they were built. And they still turn down 1000s of applications for season tickets now. As a rational person running the joint, what do you tell those folks who paid tuitions as well, and now want to contribute to the cost of running the athletic department? Why wouldnt giving money rate higher than somebody who may or may not even be there another year. Isnt somebody paying now, more deserving than somebody who might want t pay in the future? I suspect you will have a completely different take on it very soon. I can also say, I see absolutely no significant difference in the crowd noise or student response or “home field” advantage now than 25 years ago. If we were indeed wine and cheese, it just been a function of who and where, and its been that way, and nobody is embarrassed by it, that I am aware of. I guess over the years I just at someplace stopped worrying about what other people do or dont do, and I just go for my own personal pleasure. And please dont be that guy that spends more time turning around to tell everyone else to stand up, (which usually has the opposite effect)than he does paying attention to the game.

By Cuz

April 24, 2007 8:26 AM | Link to this

I dont know Alt. During the early eighties when all the students got in Sanford would really rock. The student roars would embarass the alumni and they would roar back. With the memories of games that I had as a student, I think it is a shame that students are not guaranteed tickets. But money talks and Mike Adams walks.

By the way, Vince is a Red Elephant. Like his team has something to brag on in the 21’st century.

By Ken Stabler

April 24, 2007 8:39 AM | Link to this

Matthew At The SLC

The SEC has been in existence for close to 70 years, and UGA has 12 SEC titles to your name. Now that is Big Time!!!

Someone mentioned that all of a sudden the Gaturds are talking big time as of recently, but all UGA talks about is CMR and the last few years and the 2 pitiful SEC titles in the last 5 years. Oh Yeal!!!

UGA football has been running for 80 years or more and only 1 national title to show for it. Oh Yeal, now that is something to write home about. Talk about Dominating!!!

I agree with Gen Neyland and his congrats to gynastics, tennis and golf, this is what UGA excels at and hats off. Keep up the good work and avoid football and baseball.

For Sale: used D-1A football program on the decline. Real Cheap. Contact Vince Dooley at the UGA Athletic Dept. or email me at dogshaveonly1title@ugasucks.com*

By Bryan Carver

April 24, 2007 9:22 AM | Link to this

Stabler,

You’ve got to be kidding me right? I know UGA can’t argue with the number of titles Bama has over the course of history. But the blog was about the CURRENT state of UGA athletics. And that would mean 3 of 6 years in the SECC and 2 titles. Remind me how many times Bama’s been this decade? Oh, yeah, that’s right ZERO. You’re right, those 2 titles are pitiful. I’m sure NO Alabama fan would take them. Hell, even Arkansas has at least been 2 times to the SECC since 2002. So don’t come on and talk about our program in decline. Try getting your own program of the schnide first - just do it without cheating.

By AltamahaDawg

April 24, 2007 9:31 AM | Link to this

Cuz, I was those students in the 80’s, I though we were loud then, but I really can’t say its so different now. Perspectives change. Maybe. A few of the games I have been too in the past few years have been just as noisy, when it counts, but thats not really the point. (also I think its worth noting that the drinking age was diffent then too) If you will recall, they also used to let us reserve “block” seating, and we would cram 30 or more people into 15 seats. I don’t doubt the student section is a bit more tame now, that they actually enforce seating.

I think Matthew is mixing up two completely different topics. The discussion of the UGA fan behavior, relative to demographics is an entirely diffent issue. But wine and cheese was a term 20 years ago long before tickets were at a premium. UGA is unique just as other schools have thier quirks. I also have to question, this blanket that other stadium are always noisier than Sanford, all the time. I think you’d have to go to those stadiums when they were not playing UGA to know that for sure. Even if so, I think thats much wider issue than student tickets. BUT Back to the point, how many less students are we talking about now in Sanford? Are there actualy less students in the stadium now, or did the students ticket just not grow proportionaly? I dont know, thats why i asked, what are the actual number involved? Chip usually had good answers to that sort of thing. I’d say we need to question why the students arent loud NOW. OK some of them didnt win the lotery, but they arent the ones in the stadium. What about them? Why dont they roar now? What stops them? I’m sure there are far less students at a georgia Southern game, (than UGA’s). Do they not have a “Home Field advantage”? So it cant be just a matter or raw numbers. I simply refuse to believe that the president of the university has devised some evil plot to purposely make sure that UGA football will lose more games for lack of noise.

I also think it a bad situation that every student is not guaranteed a ticket, but I remember when we had the coupon system, and how many just didnt bother to redeem them. I’m sure a huge amount of thought was given to the current system, trying to alienate as few of people as possible. FACT is, somebody is going to get left out. Also what exactly is so out of place about money talking. The very fact that somebody is a student at the University of Georgia is a function of money talking. UGA student are for the most part a walking poster for supply and demand. I just think its a bit hypocritical to be a college student at a major universtiy and then preach about the evils of basic economic forces. . Again I ask, who doesnt get that ticket, guaranteed to Matthews roomate, who may very well not be there tomorrow, and is not paying any of the cost to provide that seat? I’d say the only answer would be… to build more seats. Now, who might we get to pay for those? Is there any doubt who that is going to be?

By AltamahaDawg

April 24, 2007 9:52 AM | Link to this

Matthew, dont think I dont feel for you. I think its terrible if any UGA student truly wanting to go t a game , cannot becasue of tickets. For the record, I let my season passes go years ago as living 5 hours away and the demands of life, I just didn’t get to go but to a few. I average going to 2 or 3 in Athens and then of cource , thankfully, my Atlanta brethren, havent succeeded in selfishly moving the Ga/Fl game to that sterile dome yet. So I have the same problem you do, I just understand and appreciate the root of it. If it makes you feel better, my pals and I end up paying upward to $200.00 per for the privaledge of going to a bigger game. We have a saying, “just shut up and pay the man.” And truth be told , the person selling us those ticket, didn’t make a dime, considering the current level of contributions required now.

By gdawginkalamazoo

April 24, 2007 9:58 AM | Link to this

Chip, did you see the mention that all those 92138 fans gave 42 cents each to a Tornado relief drive going on that morning according to the Dothan Eagle.

Back to the topic. I don’t hear all of the politics that go on in the athletic dept but I don’t see why everybody is unhappy w/ Damon. The dept is doing very well and we are winning in a variety of sports.

I do agree with the students that they need a section in the stadium. That it is something I think a lot of us enjoyed during our time there. Allocate the seats to the student body and if needed distribute the tickets by lottery.

By Lane4411

April 24, 2007 10:02 AM | Link to this

Response to Randall H.

Lane 4411 YOU ARE GETTING THE MOST OUT OF THIS FREE SPEECH THING AREN’T YOU! YOU GIVE HOMO SAPIENS A BAD NAME OR DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS?

Apparently you are a Dooley kind of guy, which indicates, that you are

the epitome of negative intelligence and verbal discentary. Apparently your condition has been compounded by mental constipation and troglodyte(cave dweller) tendencies.

You are in dier need of a philosophical and spiritual exploriation guide. You need a keeper!!!

Remember Goof, was on Vince’s watch. Vince also attempted to hire Glen Mason, prior to Donnan, fired from Minnesota last year.

Adams is pompus and arrogant, Vince was much worse. Dooley was and average coach in a state/region with superior talent. Georgia football is at the beginning of the best period ever-without question.

By Cuz

April 24, 2007 10:30 AM | Link to this

Good posts ALT. Buy you a drink at Brogens in late October.

By godawg

April 24, 2007 10:32 AM | Link to this

IMO any student who REALLY wants to go to the game should be able to. The problem is that there are a number of students who go to games just as a social event. They come late (especially to the earlier games) and leave early. They pay little attention to the game itself , being more interested in hanging out with friends and talking. If you want to hang out, go to a bar. If you want to watch the game and cheer, more power to you.

As far as crowd noise goes, Sanford will never be as loud as Tiger Stadium or Sanford North in its current configuration. The design lets noise go up and out. It would be a lot louder if the west endzone was enclosed and the top deck extended all the way around. I personally like the way it is now and hope if they enlarge the seating in the west endzone they would leave a “window”. To me, Sanford is one of the prettiest college football venues in the country.

By Ron Roberts

April 24, 2007 10:40 AM | Link to this

JOKE: Know what ‘Bama fans and maggots have in common??

ANSWER: They can both survive on dead BEAR for over 25 years.

By Chip Towers

April 24, 2007 10:46 AM | Link to this

AltamahaDawg:

Georgia allots 18,026 tickets for its students. The percentage of seats allowed compared to undergraduate enrollment is No. 1 in the conference. Florida allots more student tickets (21,000) but is No. 2 as for as percentage of enrollment… . Not every student that wants to get season tickets is able to and those that don’t are freshmen. However, EVERY student is able to get tickets to at least three games under a new system UGA employed a couple of years ago… . As for noise at games, it’s been my experience that Georgia is no different than any other SEC school in that the crowds are wild and boisterous at big games and not so much at others. Also, Sanford Stadium does not contain acoustics quite as well as some bowled stadiums, such as Neyland and Tiger.

By godawg

April 24, 2007 11:03 AM | Link to this

I could definitely do Chip’s job. However seeing how he works for the ajc, I’m sure the pay is lousy, the hours long and putting up with us would be the straw that’d break my back. Chip, I could do it, don’t want it, keep up the good work. Thanks! ;-)

By austindog

April 24, 2007 11:55 AM | Link to this

Ken Stabler, sorry to inform you but sarcasm doesn’t translate into print. Lets look at the points you failed to make:

SEC titles, two in the last four years, no one has more.

Twelve SEC titles overall, 2 teams have more.

Two national championships, 9 teams have more.

Plus, I’ll add Georgia is 11th overall in D1 winning percentage (teams over 1000 games played)(sorry Boise St).

Those all look pretty good to me.

By Vince the Prince

April 24, 2007 12:36 PM | Link to this

Hey Bryan Carver

Step outside the SEC sometime and you might a clearer picture of serious competition. It is “nice” that UGA continues to gauge their program by a few wins here and there against LSU or AU, but the bigger picture is not just a win here or there or an SEC title or two every 6-10 years, but National Titles.

AustinDog

Nice try, but let’s break it down:

1. Miami has 5 National Titles
2. ND has 14 National Titles
3. Alabama has 12 National Titles
4. OU has 9 National Titles and the record for a 47 game winning streak
5. UGA does not have much but alot of glitz.

How about UGA open with some of the following:

1. OU in Norman, oh no can do, we must open with Agnes Scott at home
2. USC in LA, oh no can do, we must open with Western KY at home.
3. ND in South Bend, oh no can do, we must open with UAB at home.
4. Miami in Miami, oh no can do, we must open with FIU at home.
5. FSU in Tallahassee, or no can do, we must open with Austin Peay at home.

Predictions for 2007 and beyond:

1. 9/1 will be the day or reckoning with OSU beats UGA 21-10, thus confirming the SEC needs to move UGA to the Big East and the Big 12 continues to dominate.

2. M Stafford will break Mike Bobo’s record of 17 INT at UGA with 21.

3. CMR will leave UGA after the 2010 season and return to Miami.

4. UGA will advance Mike Bobo to replace CMR, thus driving the program deeper into the ground.

**Win some National Titles, beat some good teams, and quite losing to Vandy, KY, UF and UT then come bring some smack talk. Otherwise, everyone back to the double-wides (i.e. class at UGA)

By Vince the Prince

April 24, 2007 12:39 PM | Link to this

austindog

So impressive!! Maybe you need to create a museum to display those sorry #@# accolades…oh that’s right…you do have the Ray Goof and Jim Donnan Museum of Mediocratiy.

By AltamahaDawg

April 24, 2007 1:38 PM | Link to this

Holy cow! This thing is interactive. Thanks Chip. Still, I suppose conspiracy theories are more dramatic.

By bigdawg

April 24, 2007 1:58 PM | Link to this

chip you are definitely right about acoustics. I sit in the student secition 2 sections over from the redcoats and can barely hear them!! Other bands (read UT) actually mikes their bands and has speakers in front of every so many sections so the fans can hear. the band noise is a huge contribution to a home field ad, so maybe we should work on this.

By Cuz

April 24, 2007 2:21 PM | Link to this

Vince you talk pretty good smack for a team that has not done squat in this century. Roll Tide Roll, around the rim and down the bowl. That pretty much sums up your team in the 21’st Century. Win the SEC West, then talk some smack. Look for a whipping from LSU and Auburn this year. And yes, we will beat you too.

By austindog

April 24, 2007 2:28 PM | Link to this

Vince Carver,

Nothing you wrote refutes anything I wrote. But to your points:

USC Trojans open 2007 at home against Idaho.

The Sooners open 2007 at home against North Texas.

Miami opens 2007 at home against Marshall.

And easiest of all, ND opens at home against GT.

By mexdawg

April 24, 2007 2:56 PM | Link to this

i’ve seen alot of games in athens but the loudest crowd i ever saw was the ga-ala game in 76.now that was a pumped up crowd.what’s your opinion?

By bigdawg

April 24, 2007 3:06 PM | Link to this

LSU 2004…kicked some Tiger Arse…sweet revenge!!

By gdawginkalamazoo

April 24, 2007 3:21 PM | Link to this

Clemson 84’ seconds after Butler’s kick sailed through the uprights.

By I-DOG

April 24, 2007 3:26 PM | Link to this

Vince:

2 out of 5 SEC Championships and 3 out of 5 SEC East Titles is not aiming low for Damon Evans or UGA. It is an impressive run in any measurable way grounded in reality.

NO other SEC team wins the conference at a higher rate than UGA since Richt arrived or wins their Division more often. Nobody.

I believe you revealed your team to be the Crimson Tide. When was the last time AL played in the SECG or won the SEC Championship? It has been so long, I honestly can’t remember. Was it like 98 or 96?

Alabama had great teams 3 decades ago and was the dominant force in the SEC
and for part of that time in all of college football. It is a great program with great tradition.

The reality is that in the past 10 years AL has done nothing and has been largely irrelevent. The Tide may rise again, but is looking up (way up) at UGA in SEC Championships, Wins, Top 10 FINISHES, and nearly every other measurable statistic that would count during the Richt Era.

By Chip Towers

April 24, 2007 3:40 PM | Link to this

The first Georgia home game I ever covered was as a student in 1985 when the Dogs opened against Labor Day night. I was standing on the Georgia sideline when Terry Webster blocked that punt and the Dogs scored with less than two minutes to play to take the lead. I had never heard anything so loud in my life. The electricity in the air literally made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Of course, that was followed a short time later by Bama quarterback Mike Shula leading the Tide on a game-winning drive and the Dogs lost 20-16.

By Bryan Carver

April 24, 2007 3:47 PM | Link to this

Vince,

Of course every one wants a NC. But my point was that you tried to belittle the SEC Championship that UGA has been to 3 of 6 and won 2x. That only LSU can boast a similar record. I’m not looking just inside of the SEC. YOu are telling me that a majority of fans of any school from ANY conference wouldn’t take those stats? Right… But here just to make your ego feel better - yes I wish Georgia had more NCs. But again I’m sure you can at least agree (but won’t), that our record since CMR has been gives pretty good odds year in and year out that nearly any fan of any conference would take. Do that in any conference and at some point you’ll play for NCs. You are the one that came on to a blog asking if GEORGIA FANS were happy with the state of the program and starting yapping.

By Matthew At The SLC

April 24, 2007 3:56 PM | Link to this

Wow, Chip, I stand corrected. That’s the last time I trust what someone else has told me without checking up on it first. Okay, probably not. Hey, did you hear Barak Obama is really cool? That’s what my friend said. Let’s all vote for him ;o).

Chip, I think percentage wise is the best indicator. Not only percentage of students, but also, percentage of students per seat in the stadium. Florida allows 21,000 students in a SMALLER stadium. That equals a louder stadium. And I don’t know about big game vs. little game. I’ve been to South Carolina when they’ve played Podunk U, and I’m telling you Chip, it’s way louder there than when we’re playing a middle of the road SEC Team (which is better than middle of the road Big 11 or ACC).

So, I still think, given that we have the second largest stadium in the SEC (5th largest on-campus in the nation), we should have the second largest amount of students at the game in the SEC. How many students does Tennessee let in, Chip. And at Alabama, where they’re only a couple of hundred seats behind us, how many students do they let in? Wouldn’t that seem fair to you, Chip, if we had the second biggest stadium and let in the second-most students? Are you telling me that in a 92,000+ seat stadium, we can’t let in 22,000 students and leave over 67,000 for alumni and 3,000 for opposing fans? This way, instead of only getting a crappy 3 or 4 home games, the student body can see 6 or all home games? Isn’t that fair? Then again, I think those of us who detest our wonderful President (University) like having more to b*** about, so what do I know. And Altamaha, no, man, I feel you. I understand where you’re coming from, and I know you understand me. Hey, I’m 26, and still have some growing up to do, so I’m not going to argue for arguing’s sake. I just feel that with Adams, the students and faculty always seem to get the short end of the stick in many, many situations. Sports just happens to be one of them.

Hey, I have an idea. Someone else said something about beer. Well, Buck, Altamaha, Somoan, and the rest of the non-crazy bloggers, we should all meet sometime this coming football season. The easiest ticket to get would be Western-Southern-Northeastern Carolina, so I say, we should all meet up at the Blind Pig, first round’s on me for some late breakfast pitchers, and then stumble up to the stadium and watch Stafford and Moreno pound on the suckers from Cackalacki. What say y’all?

By I-DOG

April 24, 2007 4:01 PM | Link to this

Vince the Prince:

You reference OU as playing against top competition? If you had not already lost your credibility that comment would have done it.

OU plays NE and Texas and not much else each year. Nebraska has been down, way down. OU has a very good program, but it is easy for them to go 10-2, 9-3 at the worst because the schedule they play is weak weak weak other than “maybe” 3 games a year. (CU, Baylor, KS State, KS, plus 2 “out of conference” cupcakes). If OU beats just one top 15 team and one top 25 team on their schedule, they can get 10 or 11 wins. That doesn’t happen in the SEC.

AL had an incredible run with national championships galore under Bear Bryant. Unfortunately, that has hurt your program in the last three decades. AL fans don’t have any patience with their coaches and it has become a less than desireable job.

Franchione left AL voluntarily to coach at TX A&M. If that happened to UGA in football, I would be incredibly embarassed. That pretty much tells you where AL has been in the last 10 years. You don’t see Hoops Coach K at Duke voluntarily leaving to go take a job at Clemson job do you?

AL used to be a great program. Over the last 10 years how many times have they even FINISHED in the top 25. Have they even accomplished that?

I believe UGA has finished the season ranked EVERY year over the last 10.

Since Richt:

More wins than all but 4 college football programs from the major conferences. (AL Probably ranks 25-30 on this list)

More SEC Championships than any other team (0 for AL)

More SEC Division Titles than any other team (0 for AL)

Four top 10 FINISHES including #3 (o for AL) 7 straight years finishing in the top 25 (? for AL, is it 0 or 1??)

The only thing that you can pick on UGA about since Richt arrived is head to head with FL and no national championships…yet.

By reality check

April 24, 2007 4:02 PM | Link to this

We might as well ignore Vince the Prince.

He is obviously a pitiful person who has never accomplished anything in his life and is incapable of adding anything of substance, or even logical thought.

I don’t think he is an Alabama fan based on two things. First he is critical of the SEC in general and Alabama fans never are.

Secondly, Alabama is the Crimson Tide, not the pink tide.

By I-DOG

April 24, 2007 4:11 PM | Link to this

Ken Stabler:

You were a great QB and it reminds me of when Alabama had a good football program. Thanks for taking us down memory lane. Your work with AARP is exemplary, enjoy your golden years, you have earned it sir.

I didn’t realize that UGA has won 12 SEC titles in the last 70 years! That is more than 1 every six years! That is actually incredibly impressive.

When you factor in all the great teams like LSU, FL, TN, and Auburn and Alabamas run in the 60’s and 70’s, I think it is exceptional that UGA has won nearly 1 out of 5 titles. I am confident that Richt can keep winning them at least one every four years.

By I-DOG

April 24, 2007 4:19 PM | Link to this

Notre Dame?

Vince, I just realized that you referenced Notre Dame as a program UGA should aspire to be like: They haven’t won a bowl game in like 15 years.

You must be wearing 70’s clothing and still have your perm. OU, Alabama, and Notre Dame, kings of college football… in 1978.

Take Donna Summer out of the 8 track and get with the times. At least try living in the 80’s or 90’s, if you can’t catch up with us here in the present.

By reality check

April 24, 2007 4:42 PM | Link to this

I understand Buck Belue reported on 680 The Fan yesterday Caleb King has met all his requirements.

Can anybody confirm that?

Chip, I know your philosophy of not digging too deep on this sort of thing, but it is valid news if it can be confirmed.

By Dawg4life

April 24, 2007 4:46 PM | Link to this

Well said, IDog. Truth be told, ND didn’t even deserve to play in that bowl game last year. They got murdered by LSU (another testament to the fact that the SEC is the BEST conference in football). The game wasn’t even competitive, and I’m sure that if Notre Dame didn’t have all the years of exposure under its belt from their independent contract with NBC, they’d be regarded as what they truly are: an underachieving school program that’s a has-been power.

But people like Vince clearly don’t know football!!

By Cuz

April 24, 2007 4:48 PM | Link to this

Matthew, I usually drink my lunch before every game at the Blind Pig. I would love to buy you a cold one. You pick the flavor.

BTW, Buck does not drink and living in Seattle prevents him from attending games. However he will be at the JAX game this year. He and Altamaha will have an thumb wrestling match before the game to fire up the crowd.

By Cuz

April 24, 2007 4:52 PM | Link to this

That would open up a new can of worms there reality. Have not heard any confirmation here on the west bank in my UN observation post. I can tell you the henhouse has been quiet lately.

By Chip Towers

April 24, 2007 4:55 PM | Link to this

Here’s some infor you may be able to use, the dates and places for Georgia’s annual “Dawg Days Tour:

May 2 — Middle Georgia/Macon, Walnut Creek Hunting Preserve

May 3 — Jacksonville, Fla., Morocco Shrine Center and Auditorium

May 9 — Albany, Hilton Garden Inn

May 10 — Augusta, st. Mary on the Hill gymnasium

May 15 — Savannah, Marriott Riverfront

May 16 — Golden Isles, Jekyl Island Convention Center

May 22 — Columbus, Columbus Trade Center

July 30 — Atlanta, TBA

By Chip Towers

April 24, 2007 4:59 PM | Link to this

Reality check, I did not hear that about Caleb but Carter is monitoring that situation closely and I’m sure he’ll report it if and when it becomes fact. Thanks for the heads up.

By KD

April 24, 2007 5:25 PM | Link to this

“Bulldogs win a glut of SEC titles”…ha ha…we all know the only one that matters is the AFCA National Championship Trophy!

By Big Dawg

April 24, 2007 6:09 PM | Link to this

Vince,

How about UGA open with some of the following:

OU in Norman, oh no can do, we must open with Agnes Scott at home USC in LA, oh no can do, we must open with Western KY at home. ND in South Bend, oh no can do, we must open with UAB at home. Miami in Miami, oh no can do, we must open with FIU at home. FSU in Tallahassee, or no can do, we must open with Austin Peay at home.

First off Georgia has tried to schedule these teams but they wouldn’t agree to a home and home with us. Second- 2007 openers 1. USC Trojans at home against Idaho.

1. OU at home against North Texas.

2. Miami at home against Marshall.

3. ND opens at home against GT.

So I would say most of these so called powerhouses schedule some cupcakes themselves. Besides they don’t play in the toughest conference in Division 1.

By Cuz

April 24, 2007 8:27 PM | Link to this

Georgia opens with cupcakes. Listen here baker boy. As Big Dawg said, we have tried. Our schedule with the Jax away game gives us one less home game per year. Yet we are still the most profitable football team in the NCAA. You and your pansie a$$ school wish you had a fan base that would shell out the bucks to fund the rest of the great teams we have. Your jealousy is so apparent. Learn a poker face and if you can’t run with the Big Dawgs, stay your a$$ on the porch.

By Cuz

April 24, 2007 8:31 PM | Link to this

Notre Dame opens with Tech. Man you gotta love this one. As a founding member of the order of THE FANS OF CHAN, guess I will pull for the bugs. Hate Notre Dame from the day I walked into the Hilton in New Orleans in 1980 and was told by some frat boy in a green jacket to leave. Only if you pay for my room you SOB I said. Go bugs, beat them dwarves.

By Buck Cochran in the NW

April 24, 2007 10:30 PM | Link to this

Matthew, cuz is right. I can’t make the other games but I’ll be home for the “party” and I hope to meet a lot of you guys when I’m there. I’m haveing fun not posting and just reading and learning. Keep it up!

By dawgfan

April 24, 2007 10:39 PM | Link to this

With the money coming in at UGA lets build the biggest stadium in the nation.

By Gen Neyland

April 24, 2007 11:23 PM | Link to this

Ken Stabler

Snake, You still driving that Corvette you earned watering grass at an auto dealership in Mobile one summer back in the day..? Remember when CBB told you, ” Just go to class, Stabler.” and you didn’t…Those were the days, huh Snake..? I believe you may have the wrong impression of me within these UGA blogs…I’ll take a Bulldawg over a stinkin’ Red Elephant any day, except when we play at Sanford North or Neyland South…and Fulmer is planning to hand out cigars AGAIN this year after we Roll over you Hickbilly’s…

Vince the Prince

War Eagle owns the state of Alabama…Stinking Red Elephants…

By Matthew At The SLC

April 24, 2007 11:24 PM | Link to this

Dawgfan… wouldn’t that be awesome? Here’s my idea. Keep the bridge. In fact, expand the bridge so it links with the West Endzone stands and acts as yet another entry point. Then, take down the video board, and what you do is connect the north and south upper decks by way of the west endzone. But don’t connect the club level. Keep that open, so you can keep the bridge as a way to see inside the stadium. Do like Bammy did, and put the video board in the corners between the upper and lower endzone decks. Which means we need another board. Doing this adds 10,000 seats easy. That doesn’t make us the biggest, but pushes us close to 103,000, and if we wanted to, we could wrap around the club seats as well and west endzone luxury suites and push us near 106,000. Which puts us past Ohio State and Tennessee, right behind Beaver Stadium and the Big House for 3rd biggest in the country. And then, maybe, just maybe, Michael Adams can see fit to allowing more students to be able to get tickets for gameday. But I would never hold my breath on that.

Y’all should see what they have planned for the Tate Center. They’re expanding it and making it look athstetically like the SLC. I wonder how much dough is being put into that? I just hope they have more smart classrooms.

By Gen Neyland

April 24, 2007 11:26 PM | Link to this

Cuz

I haven’t kept count, but you’re in for a lot of beers this coming season…’course with your money…

By AltamahaDawg

April 25, 2007 6:59 AM | Link to this

matthew, great save.

By Coondawg69

April 25, 2007 8:34 AM | Link to this

Excuse me, Lane4411 …. Just real quick, Harrick never coached at Providence…. Rhode Island, yes, but never in the Big East.

By austindog

April 25, 2007 8:49 AM | Link to this

Matthew, I liked your idea about expanding Sanford, but I think they’ve got a lot of room to keep wrapping that upper upper deck, I think that would add another 10. Hope the Tate renovations include the adding of a tower or some other signature architecture visible from the stadium.

By gdawginkalamazoo

April 25, 2007 8:49 AM | Link to this

Hey Chip, You left the Kalamazoo stop off of that Dawg Days Tour. What day was that again?

General, keep up your rants against the elephants, I am still laughing.

By Lane4411

April 25, 2007 9:12 AM | Link to this

Coondawg69, thank you. With the thought of Goof or Harrick, I become illogical. Oh yes, Harrick @ Rhode Island, with that great scholar Lamar Odom. There was a great article in SI, pertaining to Odom’s road to eliigibility under Harrick, the journey was even more jaded that that of Tony Cole.

By cmac

April 25, 2007 9:25 AM | Link to this

I believe this is an ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT, not a FOOTBALL DEPARTMENT. I am a big supporter of UGA Football … I go to EVERY game, but I want to see the DAWGS do well in ALL sports. Damon Evans & his team are the best people for the job & their performance is proving it.

Additionally, why do we need an indoor football practice facility? Isn’t football played OUTDOORS in ALL types of weather? You practice like you play in the conditions God creates!

By scooter11

April 25, 2007 9:52 AM | Link to this

Reminder to Vince: We open the ‘07 season with the ‘cupcake’ that kicked your sorry butts last year in a bowl game.

By austindog

April 25, 2007 10:27 AM | Link to this

cmac,

An indoor facility is an alternative to outdoor practices and lets players practice longer and safer in the summer heat and in any type of weather (lighting, downpours). You can amp up crowd noise. If you’re prepping for a game in the Georgia Dome and spend the week practicing in the rain, you are not “practicing like you play.” The football team doing running drills in the Ramsey center basketball courts isn’t practicing like you play. With the NCAA clamping down on practice time to the minute, the Junction Boys concept to training is antique.

By AltamahaDawg

April 25, 2007 11:25 AM | Link to this

I don’t have a problem with the advantages of an indoor facility, but I did disagree last year when the buzz was that this was a DIRE need, no way we can compete without one. My contention was that we would build it when the timing was right, and thats been echoed now by both the Athletic department and Coach Richt. Seems odd this “can’t live without” facility is also absent from the 2 SEC schools that seem to give us the worst time.

By Cuz

April 25, 2007 4:15 PM | Link to this

Good point Altamaha. It would be nice to have an indoor facility but if we do not get one it will not cause us to sink down to a level like say Tech for instance.

By Matthew At The SLC

April 25, 2007 6:33 PM | Link to this

An indoor facility could also be built to so it can be converted to an indoor track for NCAA Indoor Track. Also expanding the upper, upper deck isn’t the best idea. It doesn’t fit with the rest of the stadium. The upper, upper deck has anchors the north stands the way the sky suites anchors the south stands. It makes the stadium somewhat symetrical, while having the best possible seats that far up. If you contiue it around, those seats in the endzone would be terrible, and not even opposing teams would take those tickets. People would be dropping all over because of vertigo.

By Don

April 27, 2007 4:47 PM | Link to this

Yeah, we could stand to expand the stadium, again, and if not, I’m all for putting the students and band in the east end zone, spending a little money and running the seats all the way to the end line in the end zone. I’m not sure why this hasn’t been done. Also, why can’t the west lower level stands be taken to 60 rows like the rest of the lower level? I’m mean aesthetics are aesthetics, but, good grief, it’s just a BRIDGE, folks!?! Let’s jsut go ahead, bite the bullet and stick 10,000 more seats in there.

By Don

April 27, 2007 4:50 PM | Link to this

One more thing…I’m obviously out of the loop, not surprising…but, since when was every student not able to get ticket to a UGA home game? I mean, that’s ridiculous. Regents, Guv…Adams has GOT to go.