Why, the AJ-C says so.
Remember that vaunted Lowndes-to-FSU pipeline that sort of died out when Josh Harvey-Clemons put on an UGA baseball camp?
That pipeline is flowing again after Lowndes High School linebacker Brian Bell committed to FSU over Clemson and UGA, although he didn’t have an offer yet from the Bulldogs. [Emphasis added.]
There is so much epic troll packed into those two short sentences that all I can do is tip my cap in the presence of a master at work.
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UPDATE: In the interest of fairness, I want to mention that Carvell e-mailed me to let me know that “committed to FSU over Clemson and UGA” were Bell’s words, not his.
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That pipeline is flowing again after 3 star Lowndes High School linebacker Brian Bell committed to FSU over Clemson, UGA and the rest of the SEC, although he didn’t have an offer yet from any team in the SEC.
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Yeah, how can you commit to one school over a second school if the second school hasn’t offered you a scholarship?
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Yep, you nailed it Homer. The kid is a 3 star with offers from Cinci, Clemson, Louisville, and Tech. Just minor details Carvell left out.
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Camp? Really AJC?
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That’s what happens when your editor is a spell check program.
I should know. 😉
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You’re not a major newspaper.
We’ll, they’re not either, but still…
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Time to put Carvell and Spurrier in a room and have a UGA troll-off. I might actually watch that!
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… and this surprises you somehow?
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More amuses than surprises, I’d say.
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You are quite adept at spotting Trolls in the wild Senator.
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I dont need him to pump UGA and tell me how great UGA is at everything, but he seems to go way out of the way to take shots at UGA. LIke he has some nit to pick with UGA over some transgression that the rest of us are not aware of.
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Carvell really got himself in Dutch this time
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I don’t have as much animus toward the AJC’s columnists as a lot of folks, but there’s definitely an air of Finebaumesque bandwagoneering about them when it comes to the UGA-GT rivalry. To wit, when Georgia’s up, the Dawgs are the greatest thing since sliced bread and the Jackets are a pathetic second fiddle; when Tech has the upper hand in the rivalry, they’re on the cusp of bringing back the Dodd glory days and UGA is an underachieving hot mess.
Problem for them is, it’s been so long since the latter situation was in effect that they’re starting to get bored. Hence arbitrary, self-refuting potshot attempts like the one above.
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I don’t think they’re bored over there. They’re mining for visitor hits and Georgia recruiting happens to be a rich vein to dig at.
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They are fighting for their livelihood…just X more hits till retirement…I coulda been Tony Barnhart, ma.
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closer to the truth than many might think. Print journalism has become one of the true dead-end jobs.
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What really matters is the number of paid subscriptions, via web or delivery. Those numbers are what counts. I would love to see the figures for people who pay for the AJC’s “premium” sports coverage. 🙂
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They’re mining for hits, and you’re helping ensure they hit that rich vein of their target audience (Georgia fans on the internet) that gives them the clicks they so desperately need to validate this sort of journalism and continues it’s practice.
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True, but I’m getting to mine their idiocy, so it’s a fair trade. 😉
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And that’s the dilemma that the Senator puts us in. So tempting to click on that link, yet we know that we are supporting that crap by falling into the Troll trap. Don’t take the bait…
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In my defense, I quoted the juicy stuff, so it’s not like you had to visit. 😉
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Yeah, but YOU had to click on it to quote it though.
I will admit, I do appreciate you extracting whatever they do that’s worth noting so that I never have to give them another click for as long as I live. But I still think you are feeding those professional trolls when you link to them and mention them.
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True, but I’m just one humble blogger.
Let’s face it – you want me on that click… you need me on that click. 😉
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but we CAN’T HANDLE the click.
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LOL this.
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I guess humble works since it describes how you carry yourself. But getting emails from the AJC when you call them out, and known by none other than THE Herschel Walker? You are the Lebron (or is it Bill Russell) of blawggers, Sir.
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Yes we do and we thank you.
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Bluto’s one click saves us all from clicking. He’s sacrificing his dignity for the rest of us. Thank you , Sir…..And as a reward, look at the clicks he’s getting on the clicks.
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You guys clicking on the ads is my reward for the sacrifice. 😉
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LOL @ ‘rivalry’. COFH is more a nuisance than anything else. Have you hugged a nerd today?
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Natrez Patrick, D’andre Walker, Roquan Smith…If UGA whiffs on all three of these guys then it is safe to say their recruiting has failed.
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You see me trollin’
You hatin’
Patrolling they try catch me riding dirty
Carvell…the Chamillionaire of Recruiting.
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LOL. I thought he had turned over a bit of a new leaf, leading up to this last signing day, he seemed to be trolling a lot less than usual. Even went out of his way to say things like UGA shouldn’t worry about missing on Raekwon McMillan because he (Carvell) thought Detric Dukes is gonna end up being just as good, and he really sang praises about the commitment of Dominick Sanders on more than one occasion. He was more positive towards UGA than I’ve ever seen from him.
But I guess in the peak of recruiting season, you don’t have to troll for clicks. Now that clicks have slowed down, it’s back to the grind.
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Considering his sources for the Richt is snowed in at Bryson Allen-Williams’ house was some random guy on a message board, I’d say Carvell is along the lines of Milli Vanilli.
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with the likeability of Terence Moore, apparently
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Regarding the update, if only there were some way to let the reader know that you are writing a quote from someone, one day they will think of something.
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I, for one am irritated by quotation marks and punctuation
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For all the deserved criticism of the AJC’s “coverage” of Georgia, I might point out that this whole thread is an indication that what they are doing works.
“I don’t care what they say about me…as long as they spell my name right.”—Marvin Griffin, former governor of Georgia, referring to the “lying Atlanta newspapers”
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Is it still a quarter? You could get a rubbber for a quarter..much better choice.
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I think it’s remarkable that both Creepy Carvell and Jackass Chuck Oliver read your blog. Just goes to show that you have relevant information to share with the Dawg faithful.
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Where else would they get real news about UGA?
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