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Sunday, March 9, 2008
Bulldog highs and lows
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Stegeman Coliseum can really rock when it’s packed with fans and students for a Georgia team that’s playing the way UGA athletic teams are expected to play.
None of that was the case Saturday as Dennis Felton’s basketball Bulldogs closed out their regular season with a typically frustrating game against Ole Miss.
The official attendance was 7,774, but it looked like only about half that number were actually there. It was Senior Day, a particularly bittersweet time this year with Sundiata Gaines and Dave Bliss closing out their careers in an extremely disappointing season. Plus there was a long, loud final ovation for the late Kevin Brophy, who would have been playing his last game as a Bulldog.
Always a streaky team this season, Georgia managed to build a lead in each half and then go completely cold. The Dogs’ shooting was abysmal most of the day, but because Ole Miss wasn’t really impressing anyone, the game stayed close for the first two-thirds.
Then Georgia went into its typical tailspin and you sat there wondering. Why did Felton just sit on the bench watching instead of calling a timeout and trying to rally his troops while there was still time? Why didn’t he pull Jeremy Price, who seemingly could do little but foul and allow the Rebels to pad their lead at the free-throw line? What might this season have been like if Felton had recruited kids who bothered to go to class? Was this the end of the Felton era we were watching, or will he get another year?
All in all, a depressing day at the Steg. One UGA fan, who’d been loudly trying to support the defense in the second half, summed up the mood when he greeted the final whistle with a sing-song chant: “Let’s play football!”
Speaking of which, a stop by the Borders store at Beechwood in Athens after the game produced a nice surprise when I spotted the official BCS DVD release of the 2008 Sugar Bowl. Included is the complete Fox telecast of the black-clad Dawgs’ dismantling of Colt Brennan and Hawaii (minus the commercials but unfortunately not minus the Fox crew’s pro-Warriors whining), plus some bonus features: “Shortcuts” (highlights of each quarter), unnarrrated season highlights for each team, both fight songs, the post-game show, and a wrap-up discussion of the role the polls play in teams’ thinking nowadays.
A nice treat for Dawg fans, especially those like my son who were at the game and didn’t get to see the original telecast.
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