Athens -- Vince Dooley's former football players are glad that Georgia decided to do something to honor their old coach. They just don't think their alma mater did enough.

Georgia's Board of Regents listened Tuesday to the university's plan to name the southwest area of campus where most of the school's athletic facilities are housed the "Vince Dooley Athletic Complex." In addition, a statue of Dooley being carried off the field on the shoulders of two players during the 1980 national championship season would be placed at the corner of South Lumpkin Street and Pinecrest Drive -- where Spec Towns Track and Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall are located.

The Board is expected to vote today, according to University System spokesman John Millsaps.

"It's long overdue would be my first comment about it," said Buck Belue, who was quarterback of Georgia's 1980 national championship team and now works as a radio talk-show host on Atlanta's 680 The Fan. "How long does it take to figure out all the things this man did for the University of Georgia and the impact he made on so many people's lives and the leadership he provided for over 40 years?

"My other question is, now you've got to make a special trip to show it to your kids? Why couldn't they have done something at the stadium? We've got burial plots inside the stadium for the dadgum dogs. Now you're going to have to put the kids in a wagon and hike two miles to see it. I don't know why you couldn't put it where 95,000 people are going to be six or seven times a year."

Jeff Harper, one of the offensive linemen whose likeness is captured in the statue, said anything short of placing Dooley's name on Sanford Stadium or the field therein is insufficient.

"It think it should be Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium," said Harper, who lives in Alpharetta and owns a construction company. "That's what they've got at Auburn. Alabama has Bryant-Denny Stadium. Coach Dooley and Coach [Bear] Bryant were the main guys in the SEC, if you look through 75 years of SEC history. Coach Dooley put Georgia on the map. But he's been treated like a red-headed stepchild by [UGA President Michael] Adams."

As he did Monday, Dooley declined to comment until the project is approved. In addition to coaching Georgia's football team from 1964-88, he also was the school's athletics director from 1979-2004.

Not everybody is upset about UGA's plans. Bob Hope is a public relations executive who helped organize a march from the state capitol to the Board of Regents in 2004 in an effort to get Dooley's name on the stadium. He said what UGA did is better than nothing.

"My thinking is they needed to do something to honor Vince," Hope said. "It's nice to have something people can go to and visit and reflect on his accomplishments. And it certainly shows some class on behalf of the university president to put his differences behind him."

Stan Mullins, the Athens artist who created the statue of Dooley, said he always thought his work would be displayed at Sanford Stadium. He envisioned it being erected outside Gate Two "where people could rub [the statue's] foot for good luck going in and maybe smack his butt going out after a victory."

Mullins said he is glad to see the statue going somewhere.

Mullins created the sculpture out of clay three years ago. He eventually had to have a rubber mold made so that it could be preserved to eventually be bronzed. He was initially unable to raise through donations the money he needed to complete that process, which he estimated would cost about $200,000.

Mullins said he hadn't learned of UGA's plan until he received a call Monday night.

"I'm not really sure of anything right now," Mullins said. "Nobody has told me anything. I'm not on any boards or committees or anything like that. I don't want to jump the gun but, if it's true, that's a huge step."

Just not huge enough for some.