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, September 11, 2008
Does Spurrier strike fear in Dogs?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
With South Carolina’s 16-12 win over Georgia in Sanford Stadium last season, coach Steve Spurrier improved to 12-3 against the Bulldogs in his head coaching career. That’s a fairly gaudy .800 winning percentage.
But obviously Spurrier hasn’t been able to work much magic since he’s been with the Gamecocks. They slipped to 6-6 and missed a bowl game last year and were 15-10 his first two seasons.
Oddly enough, offense has been South Carolina’s biggest shortcoming under Spurrier. Their defenses have been great but it seems every season they’ve been unsettled at quarterback and inconsistent on offense. Spurrier was actually asked this week by AP writer Rick Scoppe if he thought the modern-day offensive game had passed him by. I thought Spurrier was fairly gracious in the way he answered that.
“The way we play offense you’d say that,” he said. “But there’s a lot of teams sputtering a lot now on offense Two years ago our offense was pretty good, but it ain’t been good enough. When I had a bunch of guys running around scoring a bunch of points I was a real good coach. Right now I don’t have a bunch of guys scoring a whole lot of points and I’m not a good coach. That’s just the way life is and I accept it. I have no problem with the complaints.”
So what do you Bulldogs fans think? For you, is Spurrier stilled the feared “Evil Genius” that has terrorized Georgia for so many years? Will he ever be able to do at South Carolina what he did at Florida? Is it just a Georgia thing for him?
Meanwhile, here’s a look at some other stories
Might Garcia play vs. Dogs?
According to the Columbia State newspaper there is at least an outside chance the Bulldogs could see redshirt freshman quarterback Stephen Garcia on Saturday. Until the middle of this week, the talk had been of quarterbacks Chris Smelley and Tommy Beecher sharing snaps against Georgia. But the State quotes Beecher as saying he hasn’t been getting much work with the first team offense but Garcia has. Garcia, you may recall, was a four-star recruit out of Tampa but was suspended indefinitely after several run-ins with the law. National TV against No. 2-ranked Georgia in a rivalry game would be one heck of a way to get started.
Devils: Bring on Georgia
An interesting sidebar developing out in Tempe. Seems some of Arizona State’s fans didn’t like Chick-fil-A breaking out “Bring On Georgia” signs during the Sun Devils’ game against Stanford last weekend, especially when they learned Chick-fil-A is headquartered in Atlanta. As it turns out it was merely the local operators out there trying to drum up enthusiasm and not a grand conspiracy to fire up Georgia.
Lumpkin to play for Packers
It looks like former Bulldog tailback Kregg Lumpkin has landed on his feet in Green Bay. An undrafted free agent after an injury-marred career at Georgia, Lumpkin made the Packers’ roster and now is running first team after injuries to Green Bay’s top two running backs. The hope out there is that Ryan Grant and Brandon Jackson may get back. But Lump and his coaches believe he’s ready if needed.
Dogs fall to 8th in merchandising
Alan Thomas, Georgia’s marketing and promotions czar, told me not long ago that the Bulldogs had fallen from the top few spots nationally when it comes to merchandising. Just a few years ago Georgia was third and led all SEC schools. According to the latest figures from Collegiate Licensing Company UGA has fallen to eighth. Texas, as it has been for a while now, remains No. 1 and Florida and LSU are 3 and 4, respectively. Asked about the drop, Thomas asked a rhetorical question: “What have those schools done lately that we haven’t?” That’d be win a national title, of course.
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