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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Monday, August 11, 2008
Is Richt ‘great’ without national title?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In Birmingham for SEC Media Days a couple of weeks ago there was a big front-page spread in the Birmingham News on the great coaches in the league. They ran a big focal-point picture of Alabama’s Nick Saban — of course — and then four other smaller pictures down one side of the page of Tennessee’s Phillip Fulmer, Florida’s Urban Meyer, LSU’s Les Miles and South Carolina’s Steve Spurrier.
There was no photo of Georgia’s Mark Richt but he was mentioned in the story… .
In the 17th paragraph.
The story asked the question, “is this Golden Age of Coaching in the SEC?” and compared this current time to the period when there was Bear Bryant, Vince Dooley, Johnny Vaught, Bobby Dodd and Shug Jordan. Considering the focus of the story was on the five coaches in the league who have won national championships — the ones in the photos — the lack of attention given Richt is understandable. But I often find when I travel throughout the league that Richt doesn’t command the “great coach” distinction quite as readily as he does here in his home state.
That’s the focus of our discussion here today. Should Richt be considered a “great coach” because of what he’s done at Georgia (72 wins in seven seasons, four SEC East titles, three SEC Championship games, two SEC titles, three BCS bowls, two BCS bowl victories). Or must we reserve the “great” moniker only for those that have won national championships?
In the meantime, I’m here in the Butts-Mehre Building waiting for Georgia’s special teams scrimmage to wrap up. I’ll give you a brief rundown here after talking to the players when they get back from the stadium. We’ll have more details later this evening — there’s a full-squad scrimmage this afternoon — in our daily practice notes package.
Meanwhile, there’s a lot other Bulldog information floating around… .
In case you missed it, our Michael Carvell did a nice piece on Mark Richt’s oldest son Jon being at Clemson this morning. It gets into the difficulties parents experience when their kids go off to college… .
Macon Telegraph writer David Hale did a brief Q&A with true freshman tailback and kick returner Carlton Thomas in his daily blog over the weekend… .
For you video buffs, here is a compilation of Georgia’s quarterback sacks from the Florida game on last season on YouTube. It’s set to Soulja Boy, of course, so you may want to mute it like I did.
That’s all for now. REMEMBER TO GET YOUR PRACTICE UPDATES HERE IN THE COMMENTS SECTION THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
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