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, February 2, 2009
Durham believes Georgia’s “a great job”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Had a great conversation with Hugh Durham over the weekend. Surely everybody remembers Georgia’s basketball coach of 17 years. He’s living comfortably in retirement these days, splitting time between homes in Boone, N.C., and Jacksonville, Fla. He’s in Florida this time of year, of course, and was getting ready to hit the links shortly after I called him. Poor Hugh.
Do you realize that since Durham was fired in 1995, Georgia will have had six coaches by the time Damon Evans hires Dennis Felton’s successor sometime in the next six weeks? The last five were Tubby Smith, Ron Jirsa, Jim Harrick, Felton and interim coach Pete Herrmann. With the exception of Herrmann, on whom the book is still out, only Smith could be considered a success.
Anyway, couple of things from Durham: (1) He still loves Georgia. Said the Bulldogs and his alma mater Florida State are the only two teams he truly roots for. Said he follows the Dogs very closely. (2) Durham said he thought Felton was a decent coach but might not have embraced the Georgia people as well as he could have. When times got tough Feltyon didn’t have enough folks standing up for him. (3) A lot of people think Georgia is a tough job, hard to recruit to. Durham believes Georgia is not only a good job, which it was when he had it, but “a great job.” He said it still has its unique set of obstacles to negotiate but, with Stegeman fixed up like it is these days and the $30 million practice facility, there should be nothing holding them back. (4) Said he likes Bob Knight and thinks he would create a nice buzz for Georgia but he doesn’t believe it’s what’s best for the Bulldogs in the long run. (5) Of the candidates we discussed Anthony Grant seemed to be the only one he was real enamored with but he didn’t want rate candidates, not right now anyway. (6) No, Hugh’s not applying… .
— Speaking of “Herrmann’s Hounds” (see how I just slipped that in there?), they’ll be looking for their first win in more than a month — and first under Herrmann — Wednesday against LSU. That’ll be another toughie. I’ll be interested in seeing what kind of support the team gets back home post-Felton… .
— By the way, take this for what it’s worth but a person I know that spends a bunch of time in the Coliseum Training Facility said more noise hsa been coming out of the men’s practice gym in the last few days than had been heard in there the last few years… .
— What else is going on this week? Oh, yeah, I think something’s happening with football recruiting. But you’re probably not interested in that… .
— OK, not to steal Michael Carvell’s thunder (he’s our in-house recruiting guru), but I’ll tell you what’s going to happen. The Dogs will get DB Greg Reid and TE Orson Charles and some wide receiver from somewhere not named Marlon Brown. So there, now you can just relax until signing day.
— In case you hadn’t guessed, those were guesses… .
— Another ring for Hines Ward. You gotta like that… .
Tell me what you want to know this week and I’ll try to get you an answer.
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