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, December 28, 2007
Should Dogs stick with Munson in ‘08?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By now I’m certain word has reverberated from New Orleans to Atlanta and back and forth throughout the Bulldog Nation that Larry Munson is not going to call the Sugar Bowl after all. Too bad. This would have been No. 6 for the legendary voice of the Georgia Bulldogs.
In our conversation on the subject a couple of weeks ago Larry told me how excited he was about going back to New Orleans and how much he was looking forward to the game, which he anticipated to be a wild one. It was as optimistic as I’ve heard Larry in a while.
Team and radio station officials who made statements about Larry’s decision to pull out were careful to say that “nothing medical” had come up, only that Larry had a “change of heart.” But I think all of us who know Larry and have followed him closely over the years know that Larry would be there if he felt like he could. He is 85 years old, after all, and suffers from arthritis and stenosis of the spine and that can be very difficult for people half Larry’s age.
As he just told me a few minutes ago, “Yeah, it’s a little bit of a surprise. I was all set to go and have been for some time. But it’s obvious there still are some health issues and one of them showed up the other day pretty big. So I decided I better hold off. In the final analysis that’s what the doctors wanted, too.”
The obvious follow to this, and I alluded to it in my initial news report, is how much longer Larry will continue to be the voice of the Bulldogs. Larry told me he’d like to do the home-games-only thing that he did this past season again next year but he said he wasn’t sure if Damon Evans and the power-that-be would still want him to.
So let’s hear from you, the most fervent of the Bulldogs’ followers. Is that something you’d like to see Larry do, continue calling Georgia home games? Should the Dogs stick with Munson as long as Munson wants to do it? Or is there any part of you that thinks they should move on to the next chapter in their broadcast history?
And if and when Georgia does move on, did you like what you heard from Scott Howard enough to know that he’s who you’d like to see follow Munson? If not Howard, then whom?
Thanks. Next blog will be from New Orleans. Aloha!
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