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, November 24, 2008
It’s all relative for Dogs, Jackets
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
OK, here we go into Georgia-Georgia Tech week. It has shaped up just exactly how we expected in the preseason, hasn’t it?
One team is getting ready to possibly play in its conference championship game while the other one is just hoping to put a positive ending on an otherwise disappointing season.
Raise your hand if you expected the Yellow Jackets to be the ones still in the hunt for a championship. They will be in the ACC Championship in Tampa [not Jacksonville—thanks bloggers!] if Virginia beats Virginia Tech in Blacksburg on Saturday. That game also kicks off at noon.
I’m just teasing the Bulldogs. The truth is Georgia (9-2) has had a solid season. Just not up to expectations. Regardless of whose expectations they were or how realistic they were, it’s like they say — it’s all relative.
You could equate these two programs’ seasons to mountain climbing. For the Bulldogs, who began the season as the nation’s No. 1-ranked team, only reaching the peak of Mount Everest or K-2 was going to do. The Jackets (8-3) had their own mountain to climb but, in this particular year at least, that summit was much more modest. Call theirs Mt. McKinley.
Whatever you want to call it, all that junk will be out the window on Saturday. Georgia will be going for it’s eighth straight win over Tech, matching the longest streak in the series. Tech will be doing everything in its power to see that the Bulldogs don’t win that eighth one in a row.
We’ll have all kinds of great stories coming to you out of both camps all week long leading up to Saturday’s game in Athens. Let us hear from you about what you want to read. And as always, let me have your questions — legitimate and reasonable only please — to ask coach Mark Richt and/or players at the press luncheon on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, here’s a few links:
Florida Today columnist and UF grad Peter Kerasotis believes Urban Meyer will leave Florida for Notre Dame.
This is a profile on Georgia linebacker Rennie Curran in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer… .
Here’s a story in the Chattanooga Times-Free Press on Georgia’s first-year chaplain Thomas Settles III. He succeeded Kevin “Chappy” Hynes, Richt’s brother-in-law… .
This is a story in the Athens Banner-Herald about Georgia’s tattoo-covered slot receiver Michael Moore.
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