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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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Dogs get rare open date before Florida
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I’ve been working the last week or so on a story that is going to run in tomorrow’s paper on open dates, or bye weeks. It was a painstaking project that required me researching every SEC teams’ schedule since league expansion in 1992. I’ve uncovered some interesting factoids.
The impetus of the project was the fact that Georgia had an open date before the Florida game this year for the first time since 1991. Conversely, the Gators do NOT have a bye week before playing the Bulldogs for just the second time in the last 15 seasons.
Now when you’re beating somebody by 30 or more points as Florida was Georgia for much of the 1990s under Steve Spurrier, it’s hard to say having an extra week of rest and preparation could have made much of a difference for the Bulldogs. But it has been a very competitive game every year since 1999. In fact, Georgia’s last four losses to the Gators have been by a touchdown or less. Certainly it could have made a difference in those games.
So without giving away all the information in the story that should be up on the website later today let me just ask you guys what you think about that.
Did you realize Florida had the week off before Georgia in 13 of the last 14 seasons? Do you think that could have had any bearing on the outcomes of the games? Do you think Georgia should do everything in its power to see that it gets an open date before Florida every year or are you fine with where it traditionally falls, which is the week after Jacksonville and before playing Auburn (sometimes it gets an off week before playing Georgia Tech, too?
I’ve got to get back to finishing the story but I’ll be checking in to see what your questions and comments are. C-ya in the paper!
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