Sample the wares, people.
- You may not agree with every name on Chris Low’s list of the top 25 players in the SEC, but I doubt there’s a name on there you wouldn’t include in a list of, say, the top 35. So it’s some indication of how recruiting at Tennessee has gone over the past few seasons when you see that of the three players on that list who hail from the state, none are dressing out in orange and white.
- Jonathan Tu pops up out of the ether with this extraordinary post about how a Southern Cal fan struggles to deal with the program’s past, present and future in the wake of Pete Carroll’s departure. (h/t Jerry Hinnen)
- Speaking of Southern Cal, have we reached the point where you can’t believe anything anyone associated with the program has to say?
- Patrick Garbin digs into a subject near and dear to my heart: Georgia and turnovers.
- In case anybody’s interested, here’s Jim Donnan’s take on the AD situation.
- The 2010 football ticket cutoff scores have been released. It looks like there isn’t much cutting off going on this season.
- Seriously, who names their kid “Fudge”?
- In the offseason, there’s a new list to look at every day. Here’s “Ten scheme changes to watch in 2010”.
Get The Picture 
“Raise your hand if you’re tired of hearing about Georgia’s scheme change to the 3-4”? Really? Maybe that is why I quit subscribing to Rivals two years ago. It is hard to believe this story is a major topic of conversation around the nation. There are many teams making similar conversions and we are not exactly a media darling. I speak to a lot of people around the US and this is rarely brought up by anyone, in fact, I doubt more than 50% of the total UGA fanbase can have a conversation about CTG and our 2010 season. I hardly think many CFB fans are sick and tired of this subject
However, we may be the best example of a team that COULD make a dramatic impact on a media darling IF our scheme change is successful in 2010. ND, Texas, GT, etc., are all making changes but I don’t see their modifications having a 2-3 game change on their final record.
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The cutoff scores are misleading. They wouldn’t even let you order South Carolina or Auburn unless your cumulative score was over 20k.
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Good point because that seemed odd, but I now recall that.
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Here’s the min to order AU & SC tickets …
South Carolina: 26,000 cumulative points are required to be eligible to order South Carolina away game tickets.
Auburn: 29,000 cumulative points are required to be eligible to order Auburn away game tickets.
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The georgiadoggs.com release says all contributors that ordered Auburn and So Carolina tickets will receive them. Not doubting you & Castleberry, but can you share a link where you got your info. Thanx!
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Sure … here you go …. http://thegeorgiabulldogclub.com/tickets/football/awaygame.php
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Thanks Ubiquitous Alum,
Just to tack on to your link here – when I received my order form – I could not order those games either. In other words, they would not take my money just to hold it and refund like they’ve done in years past. I’m near 20k cumulative points.
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Senator, it appears to me that you UGA fans feel the same way about Donnan as us Aubies do about T. Bowden…after 2 great years, Tot ran AU into the ground…What is it with Donnan?
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If Coach Donnan were better at PR and picking defensive coordinators, he’d still be the head coach in Athens today.
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That speaks volumes to the importance of keeping your staff intact. I think the wheels began to come off when his original staff started to grow their careers some-and departed. That and the Quincey Carter foolishness ! Which ended up costing him a promising WR as well. I think back up Cory Phillips’ game against Kentucky was one of the gutsiest performances by a qb that I have ever seen.
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Man, I remember that game…craziness. Didn’t Phillips and Lorenzen each pass for 400+? Fun to watch, but exhausting.
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Also, hiring his son as QB coach prior to the Quincy implosion didn’t help. Not that it was Todd’s fault, but it didn’t help. Losing to Tech didn’t help either.
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If you take out the first season ( which is only fair as the program had slipped dramatically under Ray Goff) Donnan had years of 10-2, 9-3, 8-4 and 8-4. That totals 35-13, a winning percentage of.729, which is almost exactly CVD’s winning percentage.
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When was the last time the SEC featured more WR talent than RB talent?
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Good question.
Although some of that is balanced out by the sketchy QB situation in the conference.
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As far as Donnan, he says RE: the AD Hire:
“Athens is a beautiful city, and it’s an hour away from everything you could want in Atlanta.”
Isn’t everything you could want in Atlanta what got the last AD in Trouble! LOL
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Donnan actually still lives in Athens, so he does put his money where his mouth is
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I respect and appreciate the fact that for the past 10 years, I have never heard (not once) Jim Donnan say anything direspectful or disparaging about UGA.
And Senator is dead on: Kevin Ramsey and Quincy were his downfalls.
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His co-hosts on “Talkin’ Football” used to try and bait him into talkin’ poop about UGA, but he graciously declined to do so and deftly changed the subject each time; and Coach Magill is still his doubles partner. So, I’ve got nothing bad to say about Coach Donnan.
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Wasn’t Donnan a singles tennis champ at NC State?
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This article says high school state champ, but still…
http://www.ncshof.org/inductees_detail.php?i_recid=291
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One of Coach Donnan’s weak points was that he never let the fans forget that some had doubted his abilities because he came from a Div-IA school. Almost any time UGA did good he would say that it wasn’t too bad for a Div IA coach. He had a big chip on his shoulder about that and it affected his relationship with fans and the press.
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I have no idea why the world thinks UGA fans hate CJD.He did a great job in the post CRG era. CMR has yet to match the talent CJD left him, so why would we hate him ? I will say I wish CJD was coaching our offense (he would kill with the te’s on the roster). CJD has said many times the 2-3(incl the sanks “fumble”) vs. tech , was his albatross.
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Tu’s piece was great, and I can feel his pain. He may be better off than we Dog fans. It’s as if USC was in the ring with Big George Foreman and got careless and took a shot. Now they are wobbly and dazed but still on their feet and if they are smart and cover up they have a chance to come back in later rounds. I feel like we have been in the ring with Joe Frazer. We are taking body shot after body shot and now we have this Python wrapped around our rib cage and every time we exhale that snake tightens it’s grip. Joe is relentless and keeps coming at us and pounding our mid-section and we know he will never stop because that’s the only way he knows how to fight so we keep taking those left hooks under our elbow and now we can’t feel our legs anymore and we can’t get out of the way anymore and we just want the torture to stop. Damon Evan’s arrest and the farce with the UGAPD and Love just took my legs away and I know that left hook to the head is coming soon.
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Stop with the boxing metaphors………please.
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Ali, how about some boxing cliches? The D backs need to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. UGA needs to get behind that O line and pound the ball, because if you kill the body the head will die. Enough? Line A. J. up on the right and motion him left, if you can’t hit’em with the left you can’t hit’em at all. Oh, you hit like my sister, CHUMP!
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