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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Thursday, January 24, 2008
BVG with Falcons better than those other birds
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I know we have forums on this latest development in other places, but I just had to weigh in on it here and hear what you guys had to say.
Of course, Brian VanGorder is on the move again. Seems he’s leaving South Carolina to join new Falcons coach Mike Smith here in Atlanta. Obviously VanGorder and Smith know each other very well having worked together in Jacksonville and coming back to the NFL as a defensive coordinator is certainly a more lucrative and prestigious position for BVG.
What makes this particular interesting is, just a month ago, BVG came out in the South Carolina papers and vehemently pledged his allegiance to college football and to Steve Spurrier in particular. This, my friends, is just another good example of a phrase Vince Dooley used to always cite regarding the football business: “Never say never.”
Meanwhile, Spurrier said he understands the move and doesn’t have any hard feelings toward BVG. However, it certainly can’t be helping the Gamecocks’ cause, especially with immediate regard to recruiting. VanGorder was heavily involved in their recruitment of several defensive prospects.
Meanwhile, I don’t care what anybody says, but this can only be good for Georgia. I don’t know about the actual coaching staff but I know a lot of Dogs’ fans were concerned about BVG calling the defensive shots for South Carolina and I think their concerns were justified.
I’m not saying he’s better than anybody on the Dogs’ staff. I’m just saying the VanGorder is a really, really good coach — assistant coach especially and defensive coordinator in particular. So you knew the Gamecocks’ defensive players were going to be “coached up,” especially the front seven, where they were already pretty talented and gave the Dogs fits last year. Got to be a setback for Carolina.
Meanwhile, say what you will about VanGorder’s job-hopping — this is position number six in the last four years, for those keeping count — but there’s a reason he’s such a popular commodity. The guy knows what he’s doing when it comes to coaching defense. I’m not sure about what went wrong with Georgia Southern down in Statesboro but not everybody is meant to be a head coach. Truth is, he wasn’t there long enough to ever know if he would be successful.
Anyway, I know this is a subject a lot of people are talking about and I wanted to see what everybody thinks about it.
By the way, a press conference is underway as I write this at South Carolina and the word going into that was they were going to name Citadel head coach Ellis Johnson as the new d-coordinator. I’ll update you with that info as soon as I have it, which could be as soon as I post this.
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