Which is More Important for the Georgia Bulldogs: Getting the Right Athletic Director or Getting the Right Uga?
by T Kyle King on Jul 29, 2010 5:30 PM EDT
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PrintAs you most likely noticed, it is Georgia Bulldogs week at Team Speed Kills. (Well, technically, it's Georgia Bulldogs and Arkansas Razorbacks week over there, but cut 'em some slack for double-booking; it has, to put it delicately, been a busy summer for the SEC, and the 'Dawgs must shoulder more than their fair share of the blame for that fact.)
As part of our conference-centric weblog's coverage of the Red and Black, C&F sent me a series of questions about Georgia in 2010. You probably could figure out that four of them dealt with Aaron Murray, Todd Grantham's 3-4 defense, the temperature of Mark Richt's chair, and the fan base's expectations for 2010.
C&F's fifth and final question took me by surprise, though. He wanted to know which was the more important choice: the hiring of a new athletic director or the selection of a new Uga.
I found this question genuinely intriguing, so I wanted to put it to you. My answers already have been submitted to C&F, so you'll be able to read what I said later in the week. Now it's your turn, though. Does it matter more that we get the right athletic director or that we get the right Uga?
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I voted Chosing the right A.D.
Because if he gets pulled over for a DUI with another woman whilst trying to hide some red panties, he’s considered an embarassment. Not good for the school. We need a high character guy or gal.
However, If the new Uga gets pulled over for a DUI whilst trying to hide some red panties, he’s considered colorful. And we all know this really isn’t a plausible scenario. Uga’s women don’t wear any panties.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
Thank you for displaying the decorum to use the phrase "Uga's women."
I think we all know the technical term.
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hahahaha
Better to have died a small boy than to drop this football - John HeismanFromTheRumbleSeat
by Winfield Featherston on Jul 30, 2010 9:14 AM EDT up reply actions
This guy thinks that's a silly question.
Seriously, though… when you get right down to it, Uga is just the mascot. As long as he doesn’t vomit on the playing field or bite a player, nothing he’s going to do will negatively affect Georgia’s athletic teams. An AD’s actions, on the other hand, could potentially bring down one of the most profitable and successful athletic programs in the country.
I’d even go so far as to say that, while finding the right AD is critical to the good health of the athletics program, as long as you have a mascot on the sidelines and as long as he’s a Bulldog, it ultimately doesn’t matter a lick which dog you choose.
Evidently, I'm more of a superstitious romantic than most of you.
As for the claim that, “[a]s long as he doesn’t vomit on the playing field or bite a player, nothing he’s going to do will negatively affect Georgia’s athletic teams,” I beg to differ, on both counts.
When Georgia played UCLA in 1983, Uga threw up on Rick Neuheisel’s shoes before the game. Personally, I think that proves that Uga is a good judge of character.
When Georgia played Auburn in 1996, well . . . you know:
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Love that pic
That was the exact moment I became a Georgia fan.
Sic 'em Dawgs
by ClassicCityDawg on Jul 29, 2010 9:28 PM EDT up reply actions
me too
if by “fan” you mean "hate less than anyone in the SEC east almost to the point of actual ‘like.’ "
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Man, I love that photo.
If there is one piece of Georgiabilia that I am determined to eventually pony up to purchase and have framed, that’s it.
"Georgiabilia"?
Is that an actual term, or did you make that up yourself?
I’m not giving you a hard time, I’m just curious. I think I remember a family reunion one Labor Day weekend when the potato salad was left out too long in the heat and went bad, and a couple of my uncles and several of my cousins came down with a heaving case of Georgiabilia.
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I think Georgiabilia...
… is what you get after the first Saturday after Halloween doesn’t go so well down in Jacksonville. I had a particularly bad case of Georgiabilia on October 31, 2009… forced me to leave the game early.
by vineyarddawg on Jul 31, 2010 1:07 AM EDT up reply actions
i am catching a lot of hell for us not having a new Uga
I think some of it is good natured ribbing, but i think some of it is Uga is simply adhored nationwide and even our enemies would like to see the new Uga.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
I'm with you on this one, tankertoad.
I’m taking my seven-year-old to the season opener on Labor Day weekend, and it was not a happy day in the King household when I had to tell him the new Uga wouldn’t be introduced that day.
Obviously, the athletic director is more important from a practical standpoint, but we shouldn’t discount the importance of the symbolic. College football is hip-deep in symbolism, and few schools are more tied to such emblems than the University of Georgia. The hedges, the oval “G,” the silver britches, and (more recently) the Battle Hymn soloist and the Dawg Walk, all are an integral part of our identity as a fan base.
Anyone who was outraged at the black helmets in Jacksonville last year should remember that Uga embodies the University of Georgia to a far greater degree than the red helmets do.
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LMAO - OMG - I litterallly just peed my pants - +11111111111111111111111111111111
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
I am totally surprised. . .
. . . you had the temerity to share that.
by College Buddy on Jul 29, 2010 10:15 PM EDT up reply actions
thanks for letting me look up the word "temerity" )
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
i want brownie points
for not making a smart @$$ comment.
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
SG Standard, that is the best argument offered in this comment thread, . . .
. . . and it also very well may be the comment of the week!
Well done.
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by T Kyle King on Jul 29, 2010 11:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Also, in a related item . . .
. . . we’ve never had a retired former Uga start rooting for Tennessee when one of his puppies got appointed the new Smokey, either.
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by T Kyle King on Jul 29, 2010 11:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Even though I realize tongues are firmly planted in cheeks here...
You guys are coming awfully close to convincing me that my that my initial argument was wrong.
by vineyarddawg on Jul 30, 2010 8:23 AM EDT up reply actions
I look at it this way
To use a very weak analogy:
It’d be more symbolically important, as well as a greater moral boost, if we caught Bin Laden right now. That would do very little in the way of actually ending the Afghanistan conflict, but it’d be held aloft with great significance.
Meanwhile, the most crucial thing is the new AD, but Bulldog Nation is thirsting for something positive to talk about, and UGA VIII would be that.
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I'm thinking a certain blogger
who owns a white bulldog might need to be providing pictures of said bulldog and offering him as an option in the choosing of the next uga.
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
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