Filed under: College Baseball, College Basketball, College Football, GEORGIA, NCAA, SEC, Sports, THE FRAT, bowl games, championships, family, richt
Interesting the parallels between the football and baseball programs at GEORGIA. Two seasons ago, both finished as National Runners Up. UGA football smoked Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl, after being outvoted in favor of LSU. UGA baseball was up a game in the best of three College World Series final series, before dropping two consecutive to Fresno State. Resultant: The Dawgs were oh so close in football and oh so close in baseball. We felt the great divide between 1st and 2nd.
This past season, UGA was a regular season Number One in football and baseball. Then we fell off in both sports. The football team finished 10-3, and the baseball team was barely ranked at seasons end at 24th.
We are in the mix in two of three major men’s sports and recently hired a new basketball coach. Long way to rise up in hoops, but in baseball and even more so in football, we are right there as a system, as a program. We just need to take the final steps to glory.
Baseball head coach David Perno benefits from Jason Eller’s strong recruiting and the program is at a point that NCAA postseason play is a regularity. College World Series visits have become frequent.
Football head coach Mark Richt benefits from Rodney Garner’s strong recruiting and the program is solidly top ten. Richt has two SEC rings and has finished #2 and #3 nationally.
Nothing remains as an unaccomplished goal in either program except National Championships. Go Dawgs!
Filed under: Cocktail Party, College Football, Cox, D, Floor-DUH, GEORGIA, Green, Injuries, LSU, Moreno, NCAA, SEC, Stafford, athens, bama, bowl games, championships, fall, kentucky, richt, taunts, tech
Think about this: For the first time in the history of this storied program GEORGIA gave up 38 or more points five times, all during the regular season. That’s right. Five out of twelve times that we lined up, we were utterly scorched for at least 38 points. In the regular season finale, holding Tech to 38 would have won the game and preserved the state win streak. We lost 45-42. Kentucky and LSU found a way to lose to us on their home fields after cracking 37. Florida in the second half, Bama in the first half and Tech in the third quarter – NIGHTMARES.
And our offense was the best in the SEC. We had the best running back in the nation and the number one overall NFL draft pick at QB. Our true freshman wideout led the SEC in receiving and was often outplayed by our senior wideout.
Penalties were frequent, predictable and untimely. Injuries and poor defensive coaching were major factors. And we lacked a killer instinct and the confidence to stop the regular bleeding.
We won a bowl game, remaining perfect against the so-called Big 10. We finished with ten wins. The program is very solid, yet the season was in many ways squalid. Moreno is gone; Stafford is gone; Asher Allen is gone; Massaquoi is gone.
And we move on. The one season Joe Cox era is underway.
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