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.
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Sunday, September 7, 2008
Richt: ESPN ‘didn’t do their homework’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
For those of you wondering why ESPN didn’t run Knowshon Moreno’s hurdling highlight on either SportsCenter or its College Football Final shows highlights Saturday night, Georgia coach Mark Richt was wondering, too.
Moreno literally leaped over Central Michigan safety Vince Agnew in full stride during the Bulldogs’ 56-17 win at Sanford Stadium. You can see the play RIGHT HERE via YouTube. Afterward Richt said it was one of the most amazing moves he’d seen in all his years and he looked forward to seeing it on SportsCenter that night. Trouble was, ESPN didn’t bother showing it.
ESPN buried Georgia’s game deep within its broadcast and, when it finally got around to the nation’s No. 2 team, quickly ran through the 78-yard interception return by Demarcus Dobbs, the first TD catch by Mohamed Massaquoi and Moreno’s 52-yard TD run in which he stiff-arms a defender to spring him down the sideline.
But the play that left everybody awestruck was a no-show.
I asked Richt about its omission on his weekly Sunday teleconference call and it initiated a pretty interesting exchange between me, him, an “ESPN guy” and a “Fox guy.”
Was he surprised they didn’t show it?
Richt: “Yeah. They missed the boat or didn’t do their homework or whatever. I don’t know how they couldn’t have noticed that as thorough as it seems like that are most of the time. But it’s going to make our highlights for a long time.”
Then Brett Jensen of “TotalUGA.com,” a website that covers Georgia athletics for ESPN, piped in.
Jensen: “I spoke to some people up in Connecticut about that today. They said Fox, who had control of the game, didn’t put that in that highlight in the highlight package they sent up to the satellite.”
Richt: “You’re kidding me? [Starts laughing] Oh, so you throw Fox under the bus? I threw you under the bus and now you throw Fox under the bus. That’s the way it works.”
Then Dean Legge, whose website georgia.scout.com is in the Fox family, chimes in? “They had cameras there. They could have pulled it off the satellite.”
Richt: “Maybe it just wasn’t that good of a play. I don’t know. I thought it was pretty good.”
Another reporter asks: “So ESPN is back under the bus?”
Richt: [Laughs] “I think they’re both under the bus now.”
What do you think? Minor oversight? Major oversight? ESPN conspiracy against Georgia?
For what it’s worth, Moreno told reporters after practice Monday hadn’t heard about the oversight and doesn’t watch TV anyway. “I’m not here to make highlights,” he said.
Some other notes:
Demarcus Dobbs said he timed his 78-yard touchdown interception and it was “a respectable” 12 seconds… .
Saw Jeff Owens in the weight room Monday — yes, he’d been lifting — and he said he was undergoing knee surgery Tuesday morning at 11 a.m. at St. Mary’s Hospital. Said he was “a little scared” but not looking forward to no food or drink after midnight.
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