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, January 2, 2008
Not much of a surprise at all
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
New Orleans — Well there you have. Georgia just obliterated Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl 41-10. It could have been worse for the Warriors.
If I said I was surprised I’d be lying. I just felt from the beginning the matchups of the front seven were not good at all for the Warriors. Georgia had a bowl record eight sacks of quarterback Colt Brennan, who was knocked out of the game on the last one by Geno Atkins.
DE Marcus Howard became the first defensive player since Alabama had one in 1979 to be named Most Valuable Player of the Sugar Bowl. And it was well deserved: 3 sacks (BCS bowl record), two forced fumbles, one of which he recorded for a touchdown, a pass deflection that led to a UGA interception.
Here’s some of what was said after the game:
Colt Brennan — “You know what, I took one in the mouth today. Luckily there’s always tomorrow.”
Brennan on UGA defense — “We knew coming in they had the best defense we’ve ever seen. We just couldn’t get going. They were extremely fast and physical. It wasn’t Xs and Os. They were just winning the battles.”
June Jones — “Georgia has a lot of great players. When you face somebody like that you have to play almost mistake free and we weren’t able to do that.”
Mark Richt — “We wanted to force Colt to throw the ball faster than he wanted to. We really didn’t think we would get that many sacks but we thought we could make him throw it quickly.”
Marcus Howard — (on being named MVP) “Wow, I don’t know. It feels great. I didn’t do it by myself though. I had a lot of help from my teammates and my position coach (Jon Fabris) and the man upstairs.”
Howard on defensive effort — “We came out tonight with a winning attitude. The goal was to put pressure on Brennan and our coaches said if we could do that we would win the game.”
