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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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
‘What If’ the Bulldogs had …
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I don’t know if this is a good thing or simply a scary thing. I’d been planning since this weekend to do a “What If … ” blog this week. Then I was perusing the comments on Monday’s blog and noticed a number of you guys were already thinking about the same thing.
Personally I’m not a recruitnik. It’s not that I don’t understand the importance and the excitement of recruiting. I get it. But when you’ve done this as long as I have, you just get tired of all the hype, all the fawning over high school seniors and you just kind of think it sad to see grown men rejoicing and bemoaning the whims of 18-year-olds.
Now Georgia is always going to recruit well. Just because it’s the flagship university in a state brimming with Top 100 national prospects — not to mention UGA graduates — the Bulldogs are always going to get their share of blue-chippers.
But almost as impressive as the players Georgia has been able to sign under Mark Richt is the list of really, really good ones that got away. Imagine if the Bulldogs had this year just a few of the prospects that had them as finalists only to go another direction.
“What if …”
(1) Georgia had Tennessee defensive back Eric Berry?
Even though his father played for the Vols, Berry made numerous visits to Georgia and considered the Bulldogs all the way to the end. Earlier this season he told me he still has loads of friends in Athens and could have seen himself going to school there.
(2) They could have landed Allen Bailey?
The freakishly-athletic, big guy from the tiny Hog Hammock community on Sapelo Island chose Miami over Georgia mainly because the Hurricanes promised him a crack at linebacker. The 6-foot-4, 285-pounder played one series against Texas A&M last season but has emerged as a star defensive end this season.
(3) Cameron Heyward had come to Athens?
Drew Butler’s 6-6, 287-pound teammate at Peachtree Ridge instead chose Ohio State, where he was named freshman All-America and has 35 tackles and 3 sacks this season.
(4) Antwane Greenlee doesn’t flip but flops?
The 6-foot-6, 292-pounder from Columbus backed out on the Bulldogs on national signing day to ink with Florida State, where he’s now a starting tackle. Georgia thought it recovered with Chris Little’s last-second reversal on Notre Dame but Little quit the Bulldogs and headed back to Twiggs County earlier this fall without ever playing a down.
That’s but a few. You could go on and on and the same could probably be said of almost virtually every BCS program around but it is fascinating to consider What If? What if Tech’s Jonathan Dwyer had come to Georgia instead Tech. What if Brian VanGorder had never left? What if the Bulldogs hadn’t “blacked out” the Alabama game? What if they’re not called for two personal fouls on the Tide’s opening drive? What if Knowshon Moreno had signed with Maryland and Matthew Stafford with Texas and A.J. Green with South Carolina? Things might be a little different.
Let’s hear some of your best “what-ifs.”
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