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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Saturday, February 14, 2009
Richt speech inspires hoopsters
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I had a lot of good stuff left over after filing my game story on Georgia’s 88-86 win over Florida on Saturday so I figured I’d share it with our loyal bloggers.
First of all, I wasn’t able to note in the game story that football coach Mark Richt deserves at least some credit for inspiring the Bulldogs. At the behest of interim coach Pete Herrmann Richt came and spoke to the team before their Friday afternoon practice.
“I called Mark and asked him if he’d come over,” Herrmann said. “He’s as respected a person as we have on this campus and I wanted him to, you know, say a few words about what he loves. He loves Georgia. He loves the coaches here at Georgia, he loves the athletes, and he talked about that. And he talked about playing it all the way through.”
It worked.
“That really inspired us,” senior captain Corey Butler said. “He said ‘G.A.T.A.’ Wrote it on the board. I don’t want to say what that stands for but we all know what it means (Get After Their [butts]). He told us about some of his experiences and how nobody believed in them when they went down there in play them [in 2007]. He said we have to play for us and that’s what we did.”
Also, while his line in the box score doesn’t pop off the page, junior center Albert Jackson played a fantastic all-around game. He finished with nine points and seven rebounds and that was nice but it was his offensive and defensive aggression in 33 minutes of play that was most impressive. Jackson had two emphatic, crowd-inspiring dunks and, while he was credited with only one block, he altered several others.
Jackson was beaming afterward: “We found some sunshine today,” he said. “Those smiles I’ve been looking for finally came back in the locker room. I haven’t seen my teammates smiling and happy in a long time. I feel like I’ve won the SEC championship right now.”
Also of note, sophomore forward Jeremy Price did not play for the second straight game. Herrmann said it wasn’t a punishment like the last game in which Price was held out along with teammate Travis Leslie for arguing with each other.
“Nope, no issue,” Herrmann said. “He’s just got to play better. And Chris [Barnes] is coming in and doing a good job.”
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