Wednesday Morning Dawg Bites: Y'all Can Release the SEC Schedule Any Time Now, Really
by T Kyle King on Dec 21, 2011 8:40 AM EST
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PrintWednesday is upon us, though, technically, I’m not sure Wednesday counts as "hump day" if it falls in a four-day work week, and my office will be shutting down for Christmas as of the close of the business day tomorrow. Accordingly, I am bringing you the glad tidings and great joys associated with the Georgia Bulldogs for what will be my final time before taking off to celebrate the holidays. It is in that spirit that I urge you to pour a cup of the cold-weather beverage of your choice and settle in for this morning’s edition of Dawg Bites:
- After falling to Gonzaga at the buzzer on Monday night to open the Las Vegas Holiday Hoops Classic, Andy Landers’s Lady Bulldogs rebounded with a 63-49 win over Montana State in Tuesday evening’s Sin City matchup. Meanwhile, Mark Fox’s Hoop Hounds downed Mercer, 72-58, in Stegeman Coliseum last night. (My postgame wrapup will follow later in the day, incidentally.)
- Speaking of the Baptist Bears, it warrants mentioning that, last month, Mercer unveiled plans for, and broke ground on, its new football and lacrosse facility. Mercer, the alma mater of longtime Georgia coach Wally Butts, will revive the dormant gridiron program in Macon beginning in 2013, closing out a 70-year lacuna in the history of the school that provided Georgia with its first opponent in 1892. Hopefully, the Bears will appear on the Bulldogs’ schedule shortly after resuming play.
- Speaking of Georgia’s future football schedules, we’re still waiting for the release of the Bulldogs’ revised SEC slate, which Greg McGarity said would be released by Tuesday . . . Tuesday being yesterday. Hey, no hurry, people, it’s just college football, for crying out loud!
- Speaking of college football, folks can say all they like that we have too many bowl games, but they can’t say the bowl games we have are dull. Four games into the Division I-A postseason, we have seen Ohio (Ohio) score the go-ahead touchdown with 13 seconds remaining to win the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl by one point, Louisiana-Lafayette kick a 50-yard field goal with no time on the clock to win the New Orleans Bowl by one point, and Marshall score a touchdown with 30 seconds left to seal the deal in a Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl in which the Thundering Herd hitherto had held only a three-point lead. Question if you must whether the games are “meaningful,” but don’t tell me they don’t make for exciting football.
- Speaking of lower-tier gridiron programs, do you remember Coastal Carolina’s David Bennett, of “we need more dogs” fame? Well, he was fired by the Chanticleers, and he since has been replaced by millionaire Joe Moglia in a move akin to letting Phil Knight coach Oregon, letting Boone Pickens coach Oklahoma State, or letting Jerry Jones coach Dallas (assuming, of course, that Jerry Jones does not, in fact, coach Dallas). As a Georgia fan who recalls that George Cecil Woodruff, a successful Columbus businessman, coached our alma mater’s football program for a dollar a year, I’m not going to criticize hiring the wealthy, but, even so, this is an odd move. If Moglia was willing to put his money into the Coastal Carolina program, maybe he should’ve shelled out enough coin to permit Coach Bennett to fix his broken screen door, or perhaps even to move into a house that wasn’t across the street from a residence occupied by a dozen stray cats.
You are now up to speed, my friends. Feel free to go about your business filled with the spirit of the season, secure in the knowledge that God’s in His Heaven, the Bulldogs are on the upswing, and all is right with the world.
Go ‘Dawgs!
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Maybe they will wait until after the bowl game to release the schedule.
That way the players aren’t looking ahead. No? Yeah, you’re right, this wait is bogus.
- FOW
I can't wait until there are enough non-Bill Curry coached I-AA teams in Georgia so that we can keep them on rotation
If we’re going to schedule I-AA patsies, we might as well keep them as Georgia I-AA patsies. That way, the money we pay for the win can stay in state. In the near future, the list will be Georgia Southern, Kennesaw State, and now probably Mercer. It’s too bad Valdosta, Augusta, and Albany States are all D-II.
The 984 Has Spoken!
by The984 on Dec 21, 2011 10:56 AM EST reply actions 2 recs
That's a rec'in.
Maybe all those programs can also graduate to minor Division I-A status, like basically all the schools in Ohio have. That way, just like tOSU, we won’t have to leave our home state to schedule any of our out-of-conference games at all. (Except Clemson, of course.)
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by vineyarddawg on Dec 21, 2011 11:27 AM EST up reply actions
"lacuna"
That’s a new one for me. Thanks. it’s the diminutive of the Latin lacus, lake. So it’s a little lake, used to mean a ditch or small depression or, figuratively (as you used it), a gap. Awesome. Thanks again.
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Lacuna Patata.
Potato lake. No worries, man.
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by vineyarddawg on Dec 21, 2011 11:30 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Oh, and if Richt decides to retire from coaching,
I would hesitate before objecting to the hiring of Don Leebern, as long as Suzanne calls the coaching shots.
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by NCT on Dec 21, 2011 11:07 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
since you brought it up...
How crazy was it that when Ol’Suzzane was coaching the Gym Dawgs, she was openly dating a married man? I guess that’s ok in the Athletic Department when you’re winning titles and the married guy just happens to be a bagillionaire Booster….Strange bedfellows (pun intended).
by SoGaDawg on Dec 21, 2011 11:21 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
"Four games into the Division I-A postseason, we have seen "
I don’t know if “we have seen” is the right phrase here. I haven’t watched a second of it.
http://sportsandgrits.com/
Your loss, then.
They’ve been very entertaining games, and, as evidenced by the victors’ reactions in each of them, they’ve been very meaningful contests for the teams involved, none of whom would have any realistic prospects for success in a Division I-A playoff.
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I get that argument for keeping the status quo...
kids really seem to enjoy the bowls. And it’s the one thing the NCAA does, even if it’s not for that reason, that actually is good for the student-athletes.
And I’ve been either watching Georgia hoops, or on son dury. So not a loss one bit.
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But you missed seeing Penn Wagers screw up a game besides ours.
by Cherokee's Grip on Dec 21, 2011 4:19 PM EST up reply actions
You really couldn't appreciate the full extent to which he botched it . . .
. . . unless you watched it live, but, if you were watching your son and watching Georgia sporting events, I can’t find fault with that! :)
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I've heard about the mistake
But haven’t actually heard what the mistake was (or seen a video of it).
The 984 Has Spoken!
It's difficult to describe adequately; you really just need to Google it.
Seriously, he announced three different decisions, two of which were wrong, and, when he finally got it right, he referred to the receiver as “the boy,” which I’m pretty sure was intended innocuously, but which just made me cringe.
It has not been a good year for established college football institutions beginning with “Penn” that have a habit of costing the Georgia Bulldogs games.
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bowl fever
It’s good, clean entertainment, you get to see a lot of local color, like the Ragin Cajuns pregame warmups, and it stimulates the economy. It’s like a layer cake that takes three weeks to eat and leaves me utterly satiated until Super Bowl Sunday, if not March Madness/Opening Day. I can’t believe I’m interested in some of these games, but I am.
by memphisdawg on Dec 21, 2011 4:14 PM EST via Android app reply actions 1 recs
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