Athens — The NCAA doesn't allow schools to play "intro songs" over the stadium sound system for their players when they're hosting a regional or super regional. Yet every time Georgia's Robbie O'Bryan comes to bat you can clearly make out the Irish jig, "The Blood of Cuchulainn," blasting in from right field.

That's because the long arm of NCAA law doesn't extend to the two houses on Morton Avenue that sit just beyond UGA's property line and about 50 or so yards beyond the right-field wall at Foley Field. It's there where three UGA students reside who make it their personal mission to make sure O'Bryan and all the Bulldogs have whatever support they can provide from their convenient perch above Kudzu Hill.

UGA seniors Ryan Enright of Richmond, Taylor Bird of Augusta and Zac Smith of Jesup, Lamda Chi Alpha fraternity brothers, have rented the brick house on the hill for the past couple of years. They are there in part because of the $1,300-a-month rent but mainly because they love Georgia baseball.

They had a fourth roommate, David Jensen, but he graduated and moved on to a "real job" a couple of weeks ago. So now Jensen's old roomies text him throughout games to "make sure he knows what's happening — and what he's missing," said Enright between sips of his can of Lite beer.

The "Right-Field Guys," as they've come to be called, have taken ticket-free spectating to a new level. There is the resident keg, of course, that sits on modest deck extending into the backyard off the back of the house. The fence-enclosed backyard connects with and includes the backyard of a smaller, wood-frame house painted emerald green. A spray-painted sheet hanging over the fence tells people inside the stadium this is "Gordo's Green House."

That's a reference to Georgia's Gordon Beckham. He doesn't actually live there, but it's the everlasting hope and dream of these guys that he would launch one of his mighty home runs up there to them. It would have to some good curl on it not to be foul, but they all believe it's possible.

Despite his efforts, Beckham has never gotten one of his many dingers into the infamous backyard. He has, however, dropped off a 12-pack or two this season in appreciation of the Right-Field Guys' efforts. Beckham also summoned his whole team to the right-field wall after this past Monday's win over Georgia Tech and had them take an ensemble bow to their most passionate fans.

"We just really think they're great," said Beckham, a shortstop who became the No. 8 pick in the major-league draft Thursday. "They really care about the games and winning, and they help us out with both. We appreciate what they do. They bring a lot to the games and to the atmosphere."

And they bring a lot of noise.

Alex Murphy, a rising senior from Augusta, acts as the group's disc jockey. He sits in a loveseat recliner atop of couple of crudely-built wooden platforms that allows him to see over the six-foot wooden fence between him and Kudzu Hill. In his right hand he holds an iPod from which a black wire extends up an oak tree, around a nail, and then in the air across to a small deck connected to the green house. There it feeds into two enormous Yamaha speakers on stands.

At a moment's notice, Murphy can shuffle through his songs and pull up Beckham's "Your Love" by The Outfield. Murphy said he procured the intro songs the players from an article in the school newspaper.

"O'Bryan wasn't playing at the time I got the list, so I had to come up with something myself for him," Murphy said. "I heard the theme from [the movie] 'Boondock Saints' and that sounded Irish to me, so I went with it."

While Georgia's players and coaches love the Right-Field Guys, they've caused the Bulldogs some trouble. Early in the season, Brian Jester, Georgia's director of baseball operations, gave the three residents old, authentic Bulldog jerseys. Athletics department officials found out about it recently and had to report it to the SEC office as a secondary violation.

"We'll give them back," volunteered Smith, even though he has cut off the sleeves and had "R. Bones" stitched on the back of his. "We don't want to cause them any trouble. That's the last thing we want to do."

Several opposing coaches have complained, both to the SEC office and to local police. To date, there has been no response.

"Nobody complains to me," Georgia coach David Perno said. "You get it at other places, too. But these guys are good. If you ask me they've done a tremendous job all season."