The Georgia Bulldogs Are Back in Intercollegiate Action Tonight! Are You Ready for Some Futbol?

by T Kyle King on Aug 19, 2011 8:55 AM EDT in Georgia Bulldogs Soccer

Ladies and gentlemen, University of Georgia intercollegiate athletics resume tonight!

Granted, there still are 15 days remaining until the Georgia Bulldogs kick off the 2011 college football season against the Boise St. Broncos in the Georgia Dome, but, in the meantime, at 8:00 this evening, the Red and Black women’s soccer team will open its season against Furman in Greenville, S.C. For those who are inclined to keep tabs on the match, live scoring is available here and live blogging is available here.

The Athenians, who made it to the SEC semifinals a year ago and are expected to place third in the East this autumn, bring back eight regular first-teamers from last season’s squad, including all-conference goalie Ashley Baker and the Bulldogs’ top six players in terms of point production. Though Georgia boasts an all-time record of 11-2-2 in season openers, the injury-riddled Bulldogs lost an exhibition match last Friday night, and they dropped last year’s initial outing against Duke.

The preceding three paragraphs pretty much have succeeded in maxing out the length and breadth of my soccer acumen, and, but for the fact that these ladies represent the University of Georgia in intercollegiate athletic competition, those selfsame paragraphs would have exceeded by a good paragraph and a half the extent of my interest in the sport. I mention this not to disparage this fine group of young women, but to make it clear that (a) I believe the Georgia soccer team is worth reporting on simply by virtue of the fact that it is the Georgia soccer team, and (b) I am by no means competent to handle this task adequately.

Accordingly, if any of the several soccer fans here---we know who you are, though we have refrained from reporting you to the Department of Homeland Security and the House Committee on Un-American Activities---would care to keep us posted on the on-field achievements of this particular bunch of Bulldogs, this is an excellent opportunity to have reader fanposts promoted to the front page. Anyone so inclined is not only welcome, but actively encouraged, to sign up in the comments below.

Go ‘Dawgs!

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Glad to hear about it

Somewhat sad to say I never ventured down to the women’s sports complex on south milledge for a game, but I know people that had a blast down there some evenings. Hope the ladies do well, they seem like an emerging squad that compliments our successful women’s sports program well.

Nick Bloomfield deserves and will recieve a rec from me on any post he makes over the next week*

*offer not valid if 2002 Cocktail Party is referenced

by Dawg in Beaumont on Aug 19, 2011 9:06 AM EDT reply actions

Sorry，BSU fan here, this has nothing to do with football, especially BSU football, let me give you some links to 2010.

"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker

by tankertoad on Aug 19, 2011 9:12 AM EDT reply actions

Whooo Boise State women's soccer!!

How about some pictures of the muscle hamstette?

/On second thought, how about not.

by vineyarddawg on Aug 19, 2011 9:15 AM EDT up reply actions

Mrs. Vineyarddawg and I have lived about 3 miles from the UGA soccer/softball complex for the last 8 years...

… so we’ve definitely seen our share of Georgia soccer matches. We probably would have seen more, but the soccer games are usually on Friday nights and Sunday afternoons. My parents always roll into town on Friday nights before Georgia home games, typically right about the halftime mark of the soccer game, and they care nothing for footy. So sometimes on Georgia home-game weekends, we just bag the game altogether instead of leaving at halftime. We’re about to move to another house that’s about 15 minutes further away from that facility, as well, so our soccer attendance record might deteriorate even further. :-(

I highly recommend attending a Georgia soccer game to anyone that is in the area on a Friday night or Sunday afternoon of a game. The University creates a fun atmosphere, the setting is as picturesque as it gets, and the games are surprisingly well-attended, with the stands typically at least 50-60% filled for every single game. In addition, the metal bleacher-style stands they use are the same stands that were used in Sanford Stadium prior to the enclosing of the west endzone! So you can literally sit on a piece of history!

And, of course, there’s always this:

by vineyarddawg on Aug 19, 2011 9:36 AM EDT reply actions

Isn't it better cheering for a team wearing red...

and not some ugly combination including blue? Go Reds!

http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/

by Mr. Sanchez on Aug 19, 2011 10:25 AM EDT up reply actions

COYS!!!

"If there's one thing worse than chlamydia, it's Florida." ~ Emma Stone

by RedCrake on Aug 19, 2011 10:44 AM EDT up reply actions

So you'd prefer teams in blue and not red? I think that casts a huge doubt on your Georgia fandom

/I did not just question your fandom.
//#teamredcausebluesucksandisuglyandisusedbyfloridaauburntennesseetechandothersofillrepute
///or for short, #teamredwho’swithme?

http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/

by Mr. Sanchez on Aug 19, 2011 10:49 AM EDT up reply actions

No....

I prefer following teams with:
a) tons of potential
b) maddeningly mediocre performances
c) an inability to hold a lead
d) questionable decision making

… this confirms my Georgia fandom :-)

All that said, I will be pulling for Liverpool tomorrow for obvious reasons.

"If there's one thing worse than chlamydia, it's Florida." ~ Emma Stone

by RedCrake on Aug 19, 2011 10:53 AM EDT up reply actions

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

now i think i understand this thread LOL

/couldn’t understand the blue/red thing

I can bake like a demon.

by podunkdawg on Aug 19, 2011 11:31 AM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, Mr. Sanchez is trolling...

… which perfectly confirms his suitability to be a Liverpool fan. :-)

And besides… who couldn’t root for a team whose nickname is the Toffees?

COYB!

by vineyarddawg on Aug 19, 2011 12:01 PM EDT up reply actions

Where's the harm in a little playful banter between friends...

and toffee makes great candy bars.

But I think podunk’s got it. Red is worn by honorable, upstanding teams worthy of support such as Liverpool, and the University of Georgia. Blue is the color of choice for dispicable, unsavory characters such as those produced by Florida, Georgia Tech, Auburn, Everton, and Tottenham. Boo blue, YEAH RED!

http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/

by Mr. Sanchez on Aug 19, 2011 3:14 PM EDT up reply actions

Arsenal, ManU — Red

It is an honorable color for most… but mere redness does not define the team wearing it. For Blue the same can be said regarding its negative connotations.

Now Orange is another story altogether.

"If there's one thing worse than chlamydia, it's Florida." ~ Emma Stone

by RedCrake on Aug 19, 2011 4:15 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Yeah, I'll stand idly by and let y'all hash out the red/blue thing, . . .

. . . but, if anyone starts sticking up for orange, there’s a warning on the way.

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Aug 19, 2011 6:58 PM EDT up reply actions

Orange is the filthiest, most offensive color on the face of the earth.

Blue, however, is amoral. It can be good, as in the case of Duke and Everton, or it can be evil, as in the case of Florida and Auburn. Sort of like purple (LSU – good, Clemson – evil).

Red is an honest, pure color in America, but defines people as either communists or wankers once you cross the pond. (As RedCrake said… Man U, Arsensal, and the ‘Pool.) It’s really a hemisphere thing.

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