Seriously, Jancek as defensive coordinator would be more than enough. But please don't let that word spread up in the hills. If Jones can somehow find room for John Fabris to coordinate special teams I might never stop smiling.Reports out of Alabama and Tennessee indicate Tommy Thigpen, recently fired at Auburn, is a potential candidate for Jones' defensive staff. Another ex-Auburn defensive assistant, Willie Martinez, was mentioned Saturday by various sources as a likely addition.If Thigpen and Martinez both are hired, the defensive portion of the staff would appear to be set if Jones brings coordinator John Jancek and defensive line coach Steve Stripling from his Cincinnati staff.
Monday, December 10, 2012
Is Butch Jones Santa Claus?
The guy has the potential to be my favorite Tennessee coach since Layla left town.
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Jarvis Jones named permanent captain
The GALA Awards dinner banquet was last night. I'm always intrigued to see which Bulldogs are permanently immortalized as team captains. This season Jarvis Jones was overall, Aaron Murray and Tavarres King were selected as offensive captains, Shawn Williams as defensive and Ty Frix as special teams captain.
And then there was this matter of business:
And then there was this matter of business:
Senior tailback Richard Samuel of Cartersville and senior defensive end Abry Jones of Warner Robins were named winners of the David Jacobs Award as the players who, by example, portray courage, spirit, character and determination.GATA.
Dawg gone good stocking stuffer
If you are looking for that perfect stocking stuffer for your favorite Dawg fan, you might want to consider the "1980 Dawgs" DVD set. It was just released last season and has been a big hit among Dawgnation.
Dawg Fan Testimonial: " '1980 Dawgs' is the best Bulldog gift I've ever received. Frankly, I was surprised. I thought I already knew everything there was to know about that season. I laughed, I cried and I was inspired by this fantastic film! "
Order Online: www.1980Dawgs.com
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Alternatives to the Heisman ceremony
Tonight the Heisman Award will be given to the year's least undeserving player. Don't kid yourselves, this award has been irrelevant for decades. Herschel couldn't win the thing during his freshman season so it has lost a large measure of validity every year since, with an exception in 1982.
So tonight, here's some things you can do instead of watching Herbstriet gush over (insert quarterback's name here) or some Tom Rinaldi story designed to make you cry over that kid that plays defense with the Japanese restaurant's name on his jersey. Choose carefully, and bonus points if you manage to fit in all of them:
*This is usually the president of the HOA.
So tonight, here's some things you can do instead of watching Herbstriet gush over (insert quarterback's name here) or some Tom Rinaldi story designed to make you cry over that kid that plays defense with the Japanese restaurant's name on his jersey. Choose carefully, and bonus points if you manage to fit in all of them:
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| I was so Lochte before Ryan was so Lochte. |
- cut your toenails
- watch a movie with Matthew McConaGay in it
- pretend to be helping your wife with mailing all those Christmas Cards until she realizes you're (completely unintentionally...) sticking the address labels upside down
- read a book
- troll Abuurn fans, at least the ones that have internet dial up
- introduce your lady friend to the musical stylings of Mr. Barry White
- eat a bowl of cereal at 8pm just for the hell of it
- call your mom and tell her you just ate a bowl of cereal at 8pm
- go around your block with a cup of hot chocolate and sing carols door to door until that creepy jewish lady calls the cops because you won't stop screaming the lyrics to Sandler's Hanukkah Song and get off her lawn
- read every post I've ever written after google translating them all into swedish
- learn to read swedish
- invite yourself over to a neighbor's house and turn all of their pictures upside down when he goes to get you a beer(s)
- catch a Greyhound bus Watts Dantzler style to each Heisman finalist's hometown and spray paint on the welcome sign - Manti/Johnny/Collin wears JARVIS JONES pajamas!!!"
- make pudding
- spend all afternoon gathering up every 2012 election yard sign you can find and then erect them all in the neighborhood nazi's* yard
- buy a ticket for the 2012 Sun Bowl and then call to return it because you "didn't realize Georgia Tech was playing in it...again."
Add your own in the comments.
Or if you've already done all that, grab a couple fingers of bourbon and join me out on the deck. We can compare the depths of our misery from one week before. That might sound like an awful way to spend a Saturday night, but it beats the hell out of watching a fake award show.
Friday, December 7, 2012
What might have been
Just like y'all, still working my way through this.
I've been thinking this week about signature plays. Ones that not only help define a game but also put that player(s) on the Shelf of Legends at Butts-Mehre. The best example to get where I'm coming from is - would you remember Verron Haynes so easily without the Hobnail Boot play? Sure, he later rushed his tail off against Ole Miss when we absolutely had to have him at tailback, but it was because of that play in Knoxville that he's so easily recognizable, mostly due to the importance of the win.
Others that came to me in a rush: Fred Gibson's finger tip catch on the hard slant route in Jacksonville 2004, Michael Johnson's catch on the Plains to send Georgia to the SECCG for the first time, Tra Battle on the Plains as well in 2006, and of course Pollack's circus interception in Columbia 2002.
So here's where it gets hard for me. And I have yet to watch the replay of it; I'm only going by the raw footage in my brain that continually torments me. So I will probably miss a play or two. But there are so many guys on this year's roster that were so incredibly close to achieving that "status" in last week's SEC Championship game.
For instance, the first one that comes to mind is Tavarres King's catch on the last drive where he knew two things going in: 1) he was going to get nailed, and 2) he HAD to catch it. And he did. It was heroic and as full of courage as it was skill. For all I know T King will have another incredible day January 1st, 2013 in Orlando like he did on the first day of 2012 in Tampa. But for me, that catch in the Georgia Dome will be the cherry on top of an incredible career wearing the "G".
And of course there are others. Washington blocking the field goal that Tree returned for a touchdown really helped carry us later in the game; it was a confident shot in the arm. Gurley carrying Bama defenders that were draped all over him was a highlight to his award winning season.
Aaron Murray...just pick a throw, damn. I mean the guy was one lousy tipped pass away from immortalizing himself as one of the best, if not the best, quarterbacks in Georgia Bulldog history. It's one thing to have records, it's quite another to have a game winning play on the biggest of stages. And damnit if Aaron Murray didn't deserve just that. Every shot he took, he just kept getting up and making even bigger throws.
Don't get me wrong, the fact that Alabama ended up winning the game doesn't diminish these guys' careers in Athens. Not one bit. They're all damn good Dawgs, every single player on that sideline this season.
It's just the what might have been that haunts us. As that final second drained from the clock my eyes turned to Murray and I was reminded that my pain and my hurt was but a fraction of what he was feeling. I saw Chris Burnette walking slowly in disbelief towards the locker room and Kenarious Gates doubled over near the goal line. They had proven themselves as champions, and still...STILL were left to wonder, what might have been.
I've been thinking this week about signature plays. Ones that not only help define a game but also put that player(s) on the Shelf of Legends at Butts-Mehre. The best example to get where I'm coming from is - would you remember Verron Haynes so easily without the Hobnail Boot play? Sure, he later rushed his tail off against Ole Miss when we absolutely had to have him at tailback, but it was because of that play in Knoxville that he's so easily recognizable, mostly due to the importance of the win.
Others that came to me in a rush: Fred Gibson's finger tip catch on the hard slant route in Jacksonville 2004, Michael Johnson's catch on the Plains to send Georgia to the SECCG for the first time, Tra Battle on the Plains as well in 2006, and of course Pollack's circus interception in Columbia 2002.
So here's where it gets hard for me. And I have yet to watch the replay of it; I'm only going by the raw footage in my brain that continually torments me. So I will probably miss a play or two. But there are so many guys on this year's roster that were so incredibly close to achieving that "status" in last week's SEC Championship game.
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| Mike Ehrmann |
And of course there are others. Washington blocking the field goal that Tree returned for a touchdown really helped carry us later in the game; it was a confident shot in the arm. Gurley carrying Bama defenders that were draped all over him was a highlight to his award winning season.
Aaron Murray...just pick a throw, damn. I mean the guy was one lousy tipped pass away from immortalizing himself as one of the best, if not the best, quarterbacks in Georgia Bulldog history. It's one thing to have records, it's quite another to have a game winning play on the biggest of stages. And damnit if Aaron Murray didn't deserve just that. Every shot he took, he just kept getting up and making even bigger throws.
Don't get me wrong, the fact that Alabama ended up winning the game doesn't diminish these guys' careers in Athens. Not one bit. They're all damn good Dawgs, every single player on that sideline this season.
It's just the what might have been that haunts us. As that final second drained from the clock my eyes turned to Murray and I was reminded that my pain and my hurt was but a fraction of what he was feeling. I saw Chris Burnette walking slowly in disbelief towards the locker room and Kenarious Gates doubled over near the goal line. They had proven themselves as champions, and still...STILL were left to wonder, what might have been.
"I mean, it's life man."
Perhaps you've already read this, but I just found it last night (h/t @RMeaders). It's about as good a description as you can find of the emotion in the Georgia Dome Saturday night, both in the stands and behind the scenes as Coach Richt met Kathryn after the confetti was being swept up. I'm not going to even paste a portion of Tomlinson's words to tempt you. Just follow the link when you have a few extra moments.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
When HillBillys fail...
...hard. Like, harder than usual.
Lulu and Junior, the HillBilly Adam and Eve, have to be getting as restless as the coon stew rumbling around in their belly. Because the line is getting long.
Have you #TurnedDownTennessee today?
Lulu and Junior, the HillBilly Adam and Eve, have to be getting as restless as the coon stew rumbling around in their belly. Because the line is getting long.
Have you #TurnedDownTennessee today?
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| Reckon we should not a eaten The Forbidden Fatback Lulu? |
Foster recruiting for Trooper?
What's the world coming to when a high school football recruit is lobbying for his benefactor a school's top recruiter to keep his job...or step up to a better one? Seriously, this Reuben Foster kid has lost his damn mind. And it ain't even his fault I'm sure, he's been fed so much bullshit over the years it has to become damn near impossible to tell which is up and which is down.
But son, Taylor's name is lower than Spurrier's around Athens. And it ain't even close. Did you even see this game as your "father figure" celebrated the cheap shots to our quarterback? There is a line 20 miles long at UGA waiting to hate Trooper Taylor just a little more.
And Coach Richt is at the front.
But son, Taylor's name is lower than Spurrier's around Athens. And it ain't even close. Did you even see this game as your "father figure" celebrated the cheap shots to our quarterback? There is a line 20 miles long at UGA waiting to hate Trooper Taylor just a little more.
And Coach Richt is at the front.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Third Annual Bowl Pool - Festivus4theDawgNus
You're on strike from H&H Bagels. You find tinsel distracting. Or maybe you just got out of the schvitz and the lighting is bad on the porch. Regardless, Festivus is your heritage George! It's part of who you are.
So join in the fun again this year as we spend over three weeks and 35 bowl games to determine who picked them best. This year you'll walk away with a stylish t-shirt if you win. So follow the link to join and pick carefully.
So join in the fun again this year as we spend over three weeks and 35 bowl games to determine who picked them best. This year you'll walk away with a stylish t-shirt if you win. So follow the link to join and pick carefully.
PASSWORD = thehumanfund
What is Festivus? Glad you asked.
C-Wash - Dawgs' "premier motivator"
This is a lengthy read that mostly centers on Cornelius Washington's reaction to fans this summer after Crowell's dismissal, but it does a good job of capturing who #83 is, on and off the field.
"He's the most vocal guy we have out there," Robinson said. "He's not just somebody that breaks it down, he's somebody you respect. When he says something, people listen. He's been that guy for us for a while. That's one thing in the past two seasons — we've had great guys like that, him and Ben Jones, guys that weren't afraid to speak to the team and say what's on their minds and keep us together when things aren't going well."
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