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, November 20, 2008
Injuries ravaged Dogs in 2008
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
According to Ron Courson, Georgia’s director of sports medicine, the Bulldogs had only two season-ending injuries this time last season and one of those was to walkon Chris Gaunder, who managed to return later for the bowl game.
This season that number is 18.
Let that number roll around in your head a moment.
People wondering what happened to the Bulldogs this year can rest assured some of their struggles are at least partly due to injuries.
To be sure, not all of those are starters. If you count starters only, they have missed a combined total of 49 potential games so far because of injuries. That number includes of course left tackles Trinton Sturdivant and Vince Vance, defensive tackle Jeff Owens, middle linebacker Dannell Ellerbe, tight end Tripp Chandler and, the latest, right tackle Justin Anderson.
“That’s a lot,” coach Mark Richt stated flatly Wednesday.
But the number of starters missing doesn’t paint the full picture. That doesn’t take into account players like wide receiver Tony Wilson, linebackers Darius Dewberry, Akeem Hebron, Marcus Washington and Charles White and safety Quintin Banks. Those are players that, in addition to playing a lot of snaps on offense or defense, played on nearly every special teams units the Bulldogs field.
“It affects your scout teams, it affects your special teams, it affects everything,” Richt said. “I don’t want to go through that again.”
Georgia’s not alone. Auburn has had 16 players from its two-deep miss a combined 57 games. Among those are three starters — LB Tray Blackmon, OL Chaz Ramsey and DB Aairon Savage.
Anyway, regarding Georgia’s injuries: Legitimate reason for losing two games and not looking great in a couple of others or just lame excuses?
Some links:
This is just another notebook off of yesterday’s practice but ugasports.com’s Anthony Dasher talks to tailback Caleb King, who hasn’t played in the last two games, about his demotion to third team… .
I’ll have to check with Coach Richt on this one to see if there’s anything to it but there’s a conspiracy theory going around regarding Auburn’s offensive signals… .
John Walters of NBCsports.com is one of the few voices against an eight-team playoff for college football… .
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