Monthly Archives: July 2012
2012 UGA SEC Media Days Report
Mark Richt, the longest-tenured head football coach in the greatest American college football conference, headlined the SEC Media Days in Hoover, AL on July 19th. Over three gloriously long days in the Birmingham area, thirteen other head football coaches had spoken to the media masses. Richt stepped to the mic after 1 p.m., under a […]
Murray’s Biggest Wins
Quarterback Aaron Murray won the SEC East in 2011 while setting the school single season touchdown mark (35). He was second team All-SEC in 2011 and is projected by most national publications as ALL-SEC first team for 2012, considering the talent returning around him at wide receiver (Malcolm Mitchell, Tavarres King, Michael Bennett) and on […]
The Big Four
For the first time in his mostly successful eleven-year head coaching career at the nation’s oldest state chartered public university, Mark Richt was able to do what Jim Donnan and Ray Goff never could: beat our four biggest rivals in the same season. Richt’s best team went 13-1 but lost to Florida in a flukey […]
Ode to a Legend (c) ’08
(On the 2008 retirement of Larry Munson:) My God, Larry …. Would you look at the stupid clock …. It says forty-two …. That’s how many …. Beautiful, bountiful …. Years you gave …. To the fair institution …. You are one, yourself …. And no man can be an island …. But Hell if […]
BHB History
Big Hairy Blog on my MySpace page became the precursor to www.bighairyblawg.com, after having over 35,000 sports readers there in my first full season blogging about American college football. Big Hairy Blawg is trademark and copyright, HV. http://www.myspace.com Hanish Vance (VANCE)’s blog on Myspace
Top Ten List:
1. My Herschel Walker Action Figure 2. The World’s Greatest Nation’s Oldest Public University (1785) 3. Between The Hedges 4. The Arch 5. LARRY MUNSON 6. That Lone Horn 7. The Victory Bell 8. The Classic City 9. UGa 10. Hairy Dawg Others receiving votes: Big Hairy Blawg, World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, Sanford Stadium, […]
For the love of Georgia
Welcome to BIG HAIRY BLAWG 2012. After being recognized as the #2 “Fastest-Growing Blog” on all of WordPress in 2010, the largest blog host site in the world, I contemplated going commercial and getting advertisers like so many of my peers. You know what I came to realize, as I watched the Bulldogs limp to a sub […]
Big Hairy Blawg on Facebook / The Georgia Playbook Magazine
BIG HAIRY BLAWG now has a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Big-Hairy-Blawg/231896716826223 Cut and paste the above link into your browser, and then when you are on the page remember to “like” to get all the BHB updates and mini-blawgs on Facebook. Thanks…GO DAWGS! The Georgia Playbook Magazine: View past issues of The Georgia Playbook Magazine at: http://www.thegeorgiaplaybook.com, featuring senior […]
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