SPORTS AND GRITS

Big Dust on a Tuesday? Yes Please!

2012-02-28T13:17:00.000-05:00

BREAKING NEWS ON THE SEC That's Right Breaking News and We Will Have It First

2012-02-28T13:14:00.000-05:00

Now we do not pretend to be any sort of reputable news outlet or anything. In fact we are adamant about being nothing more than a humor/opinion blog. However, we do have a handful of sources and a few are in Birmingham (who are not aware of our blogging identities but will be soon enough). This story was just leaked to us but since it is legit we are actually going to do some of the dreaded research to confirm a few things before just running with it (a la the Red and Black).

Just as a teaser to wet your appetite we may be effectively looking at the end a rather long and storied career in the SEC!

Eastbound and Down Episode 2 Review...Spoiler Alert it was Awesome

2012-02-27T09:13:00.000-05:00

Now normally I would be crying foul about last night's episode. A white Southerner who lives in a Plantation home and fires a civil war era cannon at people while screaming out "Old South" is terribly racist and offensive to white Southerners. However, in my heart of hearts I know that I was more jealous than offended. I wish I had a civil war era cannon to shoot at people while screaming out "Old South"....that would be awesome.

Here is a Negative Post on Mark Richt---Bring Your Hatred Richt-O-Philes!

2012-02-27T09:12:00.001-05:00

Did I miss something?

Do I need to take the day off and drive up to Athens so that I can see the National Title trophy that I missed us win this January?

I assume we won a National Title because of the way Richtie-Poo is talking out on the off-season tour......wait what is that......no we didn't.......well at least we finished the year strong with tons to build on.....wait what is that.....no....we got embarrassed in the SEC title game and then......WHAT....we LOST to a big slow team in our bowl game?

Oh that's fine--- after all this is Georgia not LSU or Bama or Florida.........Ten wins is just as good as it is ever going to get and the sooner you accept that the happier you will be. I think most of you in the "Fire Richt" camp have missed a few very important issues:
1. Demanding Championships is absurd. No coach could consistently compete for National Titles at any school in the SEC......well except for Bear Bryant, Spurrier at Florida, Saban at LSU, Miles, Urban, and Saban again at Bama.
2. Richt is a good Christian man! Which as we all know has a direct correlation to winning football games right Rick Santorum?

"Heyyyyyyy...shamelessly pandering to religious zealots in order to get or keep a job that you are unqualified for or are failing at. I hear ya' Mark Richt."

This past Friday at the Macon Touchdown Club in true religious-pimp fashion Richt threw in a little church humor:

Parishioners would tell Richt, “I’m praying for you brother.” Then they started 0-2, and Richt said it became, “We’re fasting for you, brother.” “So I said, ‘Wow we better win some games, or else people are gonna starve around here,’ ” he said.

Huh......so at no point in time did he think "I better win or else I will be fired" he was just worried about the fans not eating enough. Do you see the problem here? Four losses in a season is NOT A SUCCESS!!!!!!
You continue to have accomplished a fresh steaming pile of NOTHING! If Neil Bortz can call Al Sharpton a race pimp then I can call people like Richt and Santorum religion-pimps. Yet do you see how content, smug, and defiantly unable to strive for greatness Richt really is.

“Anybody hear ever heard of the hot seat?” Richt said, drawing laughter.

Who the F' laughed at that? I'll tell you who RICHT-O-PHILES! You know why they laughed? Because of their unrestrained pleasure and raging boners in regards to the idea of keeping some absurd image in place as the HC of the Dawgs and simultaneously ensuring that Alabama, LSU, and Florida continue to dwarf us in football.

"OHHHHH...HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH.....HAHAHHAHAHAH..DID YOU SEE WHAT THE BELOVED DID THERE? HE POKED FUN AT THE CRAPPY JOB HE WAS DOING. SURE HE BEAT A BUNCH OF BAD TEAMS AND GOT BEAT BY ALL THE GOOD TEAMS WE PLAYED BUT THOSE ARE JUST SILLY DETAILS. HE IS SO MORAL AND JUST AND ETHICAL..... ALL MORAL VICTORIES WE CAN HANG OUT HATS ON WHEN WE LOSE THREE GAMES THIS YEAR! HOW DELIGHTFUL.....WE ARE ALL THE SCUM OF THE EARTH ARE WE NOT, GENTLEMEN!" ~Random Richt-O-Phile in Macon on Friday night.

So the war against Richt-O-Philia rages on and on and on and onnnnnnnnnnn.

We Start the "Dear Colts Take Ben Jones #1 Overall" Campaign!

2012-02-27T06:00:00.001-05:00

In 1998 the Colts.....the horrible, horrible, horrible Colts took a four year starter from the SEC. The Colts took one of the best pure passing prospects in 25 years. The Colts took a hard working kid with a big enough pedigree to win the Westminster Kennel Club. The Colts became a brand on this kid's shoulders. Peyton has won the MVP almost every other year since 1998. Peyton has taken the Colts to numerous play-off runs, AFC championship games, and two Superbowls. Peyton had a real case for the MVP in 2011 without taking a snap. Why? Simple....the Colts went from a play-off team to the Duke Bluedevils in one off-season with essentially the same team.....oh yeah except they didn't have Peyton. Manning is arguable--no scratch that---Peyton is the best player in the NFL(Please don't bring the Brady argument here he is a system QB and has never carried the Pats on his back).
Since the Colts are obviously STUPID they will be picking number one overall for the next 5 to 8 years and the Washington Redskins are about to be a play-off team. So what world beaters are coming up that are soooooooo freakin awesome the Colts are going to deal the best QB/Player in the NFL? How about this guy?

MOUTH BREATHER

Who invited this white Erkle kid? Close your mouth son it makes your breath stink.

CLASSIC BLACK/RUNNING/FUTURE BUST QB

Of course the Colts could be pumping these two kids up so that they can trade the #1 overall pick for a King's ransom and give Peyton some tools to work with......tools like Trent Richardson with the 4th overall pick after trading down with the Browns. Then again I doubt the Colts are that awesome because they hired some douche to be the new GM when the Cold Blooded Ones were available to come in and re-vamp that failing franchise. Trading away a legend for the hope of a PAC 12 QB or a Black Running QB makes about as much sense as a bluegrass cover of Snoop Dogg performed by Muppets.

So why not ensure that the most valuable neck in the NFL is always safe and secure? Why not give Peyton a mantastic crotch to place his priceless hands under? We here at S&G would like to start the BEN JONES #1 Campaign right here right now! Don't screw this thing up Indy......DRAFT BEN JONES!

I think I just found the cover of the 2012 Colts "Program Guide"!

Good luck to Trinton Sturdivant

2012-02-26T09:57:00.002-05:00

with the combine going on, Seth Emerson has a story on someone that could have been there, but is moving on with his life. Good luck to the young man, and if anyone is hiring in the world of finance, he might be a good free agent signing.

Good recruiting weekend?

2012-02-26T07:28:00.002-05:00

Dawgbark certainly seems excited, and we've already snagged one much needed potentially instant impact DB, in a JUCO out of Warner Robins, Steven Nelson. He's an explosive CB from reports, who will enroll early, and just may redshirt this year to save 3 to play 3 if College of the Sequioas is agreeable to the plan.

I said it's great, to beat, the Florida Gators

2012-02-26T07:24:00.000-05:00

Talk about unexpectedly beautiful. Great win yesterday, and thank you sir may I have another Nemi Djurisic? That's the consistent flashes we've been waiting for from you.

Last night's basketball

2012-02-23T09:53:00.000-05:00

This ain't horse shoes or hand grenades, so it's another loss. We played close, played good D, but we are close to wins, yet still so far away after countless times failing to capitalize when chances were presented. Not much time left before we are out of our misery on this disappointing year.

But at least baseball is still undefeated.

T Kyle King is becoming an ornery old man

2012-02-23T09:41:00.002-05:00

and we love him for it. From his morning round up....

don’t try telling me Yankees don’t drive south for the winter; they do, in droves, and I see tons of them on I-75. They don’t like being up there any better than the rest of us do, so they should thank us for the chance to get the heck out of there. If they want to host home games in December, they need to secede and petition Canada for annexation. Being the tolerant (read: indifferent) sorts that we are, we’d let ‘em go without burning anybody’s home town to the ground.

The morning papers: Speed, speed, and more speed. Yes please.

2012-02-23T08:47:00.002-05:00

Seth Emerson gives us an update we've all wanted, on the possibility of DB Mario Alford, and a little on OL transfer Max Garcia too.

Garcia has now been allowed to transfer to Vandy, where former Maryland assistant James Franklin runs the show, that is possibly depending on how the tampering charges Maryland is running against him go. Georgia is closer to home, and the more successful program, but Franklin has gotten Vandy up to mediocre and Garcia would see the field much easier there than he would in Athens where by the time he'd play, we'd be returning all 5 starters and their backups from the year before.

The more pressing need is Alford, who could add much needed depth to the secondary immediately.

"They are conversing," GMC head coach Bert Williams said on Wednesday. "To my knowledge, he does not officially have (an offer) extended. But that possibility is there."
...
"I told him, from an athletic standpoint, this is a guy that I think you could be looking for," Williams said. "Now, you've basically gotta look at his atlhetic skills and see if he could be what you want. ... He's got the top-end skills. he's quick, he's shifty.

And Gentry Estes brings us the likelihood of adding a speed expert to the staff. As we've said all along about Coach T, for all the good he brings in his position, he lacks a technical expertise. Well, this guy can help bring that, especially on the much needed ability to run fast. There'd be another spot to fill, with NCAA max on S&C staff set at 5, and the Dawgs sitting at 4 when/if Armstrong is hired.

A Few Days Late.....Our Review of East Bound and Down Season 3 Episode 1

2012-02-22T12:57:00.000-05:00

GREATNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kenny F'in Powers + K-Mart by the Sea = Television Magic!

The Lucid Idiocy Blog Asks a Very Important Question.

2012-02-22T12:56:00.002-05:00

Now we don't.....well we rarely ever.....well usually we disagree with the Lucid Idiocy blog.....no scratch that. Usually the Lucid Idiocy Blog disagrees with us. We have had disagreements as to what is and what is not racist and who is the better fan; the blind supporter or the Cold Blooded Demander of Excellence. Also, apparently LI majored in English or sumthin' and our often grumaticully inkorect writings make his skin crawl. That said we are all Dawgs are we not? I place LI right beside people like our hero Ben Dukes....they really believe what they believe and it just ain't always what we believe. We love Big Ben, LI, and all the "real" fans. Without them where would we be? We would be like Skeletor without He-Man......sure we would rule Eternia but that would get old eventually.

Anyway LI has posed a very valid question here.

The gist of the question is this:
When your superior sperm produces a male off-spring what is the appropriate time to place him on a weight lifting regime, punch him in the face, and have him wrestle wild boars to the death?

A little over six years ago my sperm finished the job and made a male child....female children are the same only they lack a penis so they are incomplete humans. My wife asked "What do you want to name him?" I immediately said "Evil". Naturally my wife's lack of a penis is synonymous with her mind not being fully developed. As a result my wife hated the name Evil. I went so far as to say to her "Ok, picture this.....I make crowd noises.....Number 66 EVIL RIDER Makes the Tackle!" She then told me that the way our child's name will sound over the PA systems in SEC stadiums should have no bearing on what name we select. I immediately drafted divorce paper work as I assumed we had reached the dreaded "irreconcilable differences". Also, when she was pregos and I would sneak up on her with a needle full of a Pheno/Deca/D-Ball/Test cocktail and she would start yelling "STOP TRYING TO INJECT MY STOMACH WITH ANABOLIC STEROIDS!"
Well needless to say my plan was to punch the male child in the face the moment he exited the birth canal so as to break his nose and then have it heal up all crazy looking.....oh and also to cause his front two teeth to never grow in properly. Now that may sound drastic but understand I am attempting to groom an inside line backer so a menacing face may not be necessary for your male child.

Now that is what a Line Backer is supposed to look like!

This just in: The Red and Black still publishes blithering idiots who have no idea what they are talking about

2012-02-22T09:15:00.000-05:00

We say so, because of this article, thankfully brought to our attention by the good folks at Sugar Falling.

Let's analyze the idiocy of Ms. Morris, FMJ style, shall we?

Mark Richt handed down a two-game suspension to Sanders Commings last Wednesday following Commings’ Jan. 21 arrest for simple battery.

Sounds simple enough right? Misdemeanor crime, some punishment.

Though I’m sure the details of the crime are better known to Richt than to myself, I have to question the rationale behind the meager suspension for a charge of assault on a woman when stronger actions have been taken for arguably less severe crimes.

Read that first part again. Essentially, though she doesn't have a damn clue about anything that happened, and the man who made the decision has a much, MUCH more intricate knowledge of what did happen, I'm gonna go ahead and run my mouth about it even though I'm completely ignorant of the situation.

... There are multiple witnesses in the case, and none of the accounts makes light of the incident. Yet Richt found two games to be sufficient punishment for Commings.

Again, he has been able to get a little more detail about the incident, than both the writer, and the "multiple witnesses" who were in downtown Athens in the wee hours, intoxicated, and we all know just how reliable drunken 20 yr olds are as sources of information. In a police report, that if there was actually enough evidence, both the ACC-PD and Solicitor's office have always shown a willingness to prosecute fully, have never pulled a Cervone, yet felt the reports were only worth a misdemeanor simple battery and not any of the much more serious charges warranted in cases of domestic violence.

Commings recently neglected to make himself eligible for the NFL in lieu of finishing his senior season at UGA. He started all 14 games last year for the University and tied for fourth on the team with 55 tackles — there is no doubt he is a huge asset to the team.

This has nothing to do with anything. Not on the point of domestic violence, nor on how Mark Richt hands out punishment as he has shown time and time and time again in a very long history of handing out punishment.

I am a Georgia football fan and would love to see a winning season in 2012, but it should not come at the cost of downplaying the seriousness that is violence against women.

It isn't, but glad you could climb up on that high horse to say something that was never in doubt in the first place.

Using Commings as an example, Richt has effectively told the rest of his players that not only is beating a woman OK if you don’t get caught,

Say what? I couldn't even begin to know about how to respond to how stupid that statement is. But let's continue, maybe she'll make a point that isn't idiotic and ignorant.

...but even if you do, you’ll only sit two games. Not only is this particular punishment shamefully light, but the fact that Richt has taken other arrests more seriously in the past again speaks to his devaluation of this crime.

Nope, she didn't.

Many fans will remember former quarterback Zach Mettenberger, who was completely dismissed from the football team following an arrest for five misdemeanor charges, including underage possession/consumption of alcohol, resisting/obstructing arrest and false identification.

These fans will also remember that part of Mettenbergers arrest was due to his treatment of a woman. So yeah, let's completely ignore that part of his crimes, because it doesn't coincide with the idiotic, ignorant, and incorrect point I'm trying to make. And let's ignore the fact that Mettenberger was a possible starting QB, so you were saying about valuing winning above appropriate punishments for significant wrongdoing?

Nick Marshall and Sanford Seay are two freshmen who were released just weeks ago for reportedly stealing from another UGA player. Freshman Chris Sanders was also released for “violation of team rules” according to Richt, but the law was not involved in any of the three men’s cases.

So let's again attempt to speak ignorantly about something on which we have absolutely no knowledge of any details, but can use as a general statement to cast idiotic and ignorant claims in an attempt to make a misguided point.

Good to know that beating a woman is worse than illegal drugs but not as bad as carrying a fake ID, underage consumption of alcohol or stealing.

And you draw this conclusion how? Oh, right, by being completely ignorant of the situations you are attempting to draw conclusions from. Good stuff.

I think Mark Richt needs to take a good, hard look at the “code of conduct” and “team rules” he sets for his players. What he says and does speak volumes about his priorities as a coach.

That's right, it does. Perhaps you need to take a good hard look yourself, considering you clearly have no idea what priorities he has shown repeatedly and consistently over more than a decade that would make your entire ignorant and idiotic rant look like, well, an ignorant and idiotic rant.

Glad to know that the Red and Black still hasn't changed, and neither has the moronic fools that get editorials published.

Your SEC Draft Preview Part 1.....Top 5 Draft Day Rules!

2012-02-22T07:50:00.000-05:00

Now that the boring quasi-Arena Bowl season that is the NFL is over we can get to the most exciting part of the NFL......the Draft!

I love the Draft because it is yet another bit of indisputable evidence as to the overall superiority of the SEC in all aspects of the game of organized football. There is all sorts of excitement coming our way in the next few weeks. Things like:

The "Mel Kiper Hedge"
What is the MK-Hedge you ask? Simple! Kiper will spend the next few weeks talking up Big Ten and Big 12 players. You will think that these guys hung the moon by the time Ol" Kiper is done. Of course Mel will always be given a 2 minute spot on Sports Center where he slobs all over the collective nobs of these Big 10 and 12 players.......then just as they are about to cut to commercial Mel will say something like"
"Of course insert SEC player name here could be the better player and could be the first player at this position drafted." Then when the Draft rolls around and the SEC player is picked first ESPN will cut the clip and only show the part where MK gave the SEC player love.

Anyway for the first story in our NFL/Arena League 2012 Draft we will revive and rehash one of our original stories about the five Cardinal Rules of drafting players:

1. Thou Shall Not Draft Big 10 Linebackers:

Big 10 LB's are soft, weak, slow, injury prone, poor tacklers, and have over-inflated college stats. The main reason 98% of the world doesn't realize this is because Kirk Herbskreet, Mark May, and Lee Corso, have inexplicably established themselves as "experts" in college football. Herbskreet, May, and Corso all have one thing in common...a massive case of SEC envy. Every year we are forced to hear about how ferocious some kid from Ohio State or Penn State is and how the world had better look out because Andy Katzenmoyer/A.J. Hawk/Bobby Carpenter/Dan Connor/Paul Posluszny/James Laurinaitis/Vernon Gholston/Sean Lee is the second coming of Dick Butkus. However, all of these linebackers have one thing in common; they get owned against almost any SEC team they play in their bowl games (ahhhheeemmmmmm “almost” looking at you Arkansas 2011 Sugar Bowl and Georgia 2012 Capital One Bowl), and when they get to the NFL all they can do is get to the play late, grab the back of a player’s jersey, and hold on until help arrives.

2. Thou Shall Not Draft Big 10 Running Backs

The Big 10 produces great Offensive Line talent and has absolutely no Defensive Line talent, therefore Big 10 running backs get spotted three yards on every carry. Since the D-lines are so awful they never make tackles and that responsibility falls to Big 10 LB's (another reason for the over-inflated draft value of Big 10 LBs). The running backs win 50% of the time and the LBs 50% of the time and the result is that both the LBs and the RBs have over-inflated numbers.

Big Tenlevinie running backs are SSSSLLLLOOOOOOOWWWWWW! They are also injury prone because they spent three to four years playing patty cake with Big 10 linebackers and get a serious case of the "I don't wants to plays no mores" the first time they take a hit from Patrick Willis. Naturally none of this matters to Herbskreet and his gang because every year we get to hear about how Ohio State/Penn State/ Michigan/Wisconsin should get a chance to play for the national title despite having 1, 2, or 3 losses during the season because those losses came when Ki-Jana Carter/Tim Biakabatuka/Ron Dayne/Mike Hart/Larry Johnson/Beeanie-Weenie Wells was hurt and the fill in the blank Big 10 team is completely different when their running back is healthy.

Patrick "Beast-Man" Willis the Freddy Kruger of BIG 10 running backs dreams.

3.Thou Shall Not Draft Pac-12 Quarterbacks

This one is easy, eleven out of twelve teams in the Pac-12 have refused to play defense for the past 15 years. Eleven out of twelve teams in the Pac-12 throw the ball 70-80 plays per game. The result is the one team that sorta’ plays D and runs the ball always wins the conference and 5 or 6 QBs average 300 yards passing and 3 TDs per game, and they also average 6 losses a year. When these guys get to the NFL and see SEC and (some ACC) speed on defense they become ineffective.

4. Thou Shall Not Draft Oklahoma Players Unless Thou Wantist a Soft Team

Oklahoma players are always hurt in the NFL. I know Adrian Peterson is a beast but he is always banged-up (and he fumbles...a lot...I mean he cost the vikings a trip to the Super Bowl because he fumbles...a lot and fumbles are the result of being mentally soft). Well AD aside how about The Boz, Teddy Lehman, Jason White, Roy Williams, Tommie Harris who has been hurt for five straight seasons now, the ever-injured Stockar McDougle, Dusty Dvoracek, Dan Cody, Rocky Calmus, and the human concussion machine who had a brief stint at Oklahoma Troy Aikman. Chokelahoma is SOFT but before the Texas fans get overly excited the entire BIG XII is SOFT!

5. Thou Should Always Show Preference to SEC Players

Let’s say you need a quarterback the way the Colts did in 1998. There were two players on the board that played QB. One played at Tennessee in the SEC and the other played at Washington State in the Pac-10. One played a schedule that had eight conference games in which he saw anywhere from five to nine NFL caliber players on defense in each of those eight games. The other played in the PAC-10 so if you combined all his conference and non-conference games he saw as many NFL caliber defenders in 12 games as the SEC player saw in any given two weeks in the SEC. The result is that the SEC player is always more prepared for the rigors of the NFL. The Colts took the SEC player, 4 time MVP, 2 Super Bowl trips, 1 Super Bowl win, the Chargers took the other guy 0 MVP, 0 Super Bowl trips, 0 Super Bowl wins.

Here is a Story About How Much Better Nick Saban is at Football as Compared to Everyone Else.

2012-02-22T06:30:00.001-05:00

Saturdays Down South has the article here.

I have a six and a three year old. As a result the Ol' Rider is often reduced to doing things that......wellllllll.....let me just say are less than "adult" in nature. Last year I took a week off of work and instead of doing something I wanted to do I spent a week in Disney World Hell. Instead of spending all of my money on things that I want-- I spend it on crap that they break about 30 minutes after they get it. Instead of going to lunch at lunch I am often running out to Toys R Us for whatever new wonderfully marketed piece of crap they want.

When you deal with children you cannot approach it as if you are dealing with an adult. Often times children can be frustrating. If you have been at work all day dealing with adults it can be difficult to return home and shift gears into the world of a child. One thing that can help is to stop and say to yourself "Ok, I have to put myself in this child's mindset." Of course that is much easier if you and the child have the same struggles such as reaching the sink and getting on roller coasters (that was a Nick Saban is short joke and I did it especially for Erk's Forehead who is obsessed with the notion that I am a Bammeroid). Anyway, puberty does not an adult make and most recruits still have the mind of a child. It would appear that Saban, more than anyone else, understands the mind of the man-child.

The article focuses on Norcross, GA prospect Alvin Kamara who Saban sent 105 letters to on the same day. Now I know what you are saying:
1. That is stupid!!!!Who would be impressed with that staged crap?
- Your answer.....how about a poor black kid who lays his head down in the ghetto at night and dreams about being something more in life? How about a poor black kid in the ghetto who's grand-mother just counts him as another "guvment" check and wants nothing more than to have someone "want him" and really mean it? How about Alvin Kamara who said “It’s because they [Alabama] want me,” or
2. Woooaaahh, whoa, whoa......that is a waste of paper! How can that work with a black kid? 99.9% of blacks are Democrats and the Dems hate people who waste paper and hurt the environment!
- Your answer.....your silly environment means nothing when compared to National Titles.

Additionally, DeMarcus Walker from Jacksonville, FL tweetes us through his visit to Tuscaloosa. Now, I understand that many of our readers are rich, old, white, Republicans who may not understand the slang lingo of a 17 year old black kid. With that in mind I will write DeMarcus' tweet and then I shall interpret that tweet just below the tweet itself. Here goes:

TWEET: “Alabama this weekend”

Translated: "I am visiting Alabama this weekend. They have already given me and my granmomma a lot of money and I fully expect to be given more money when I get there."

TWEET: “Headed to Alabama…..Roll Tide!!!”

Translated: "A GA from Bama just got to my Granmomma's house with three skanky white girls and a brown paper Piggly Wiggly bag full of hundred dollar bills for my Granmomma. I currently favor Alabama because they are giving me more stuff than anyone else right now. Also, because I grew up without any positive male role models in my life to teach me about loyalty to things like a program. I am basically an adult body with the brain of a 9 month old who lives in a mindset in which I am the center of the Universe."

TWEET: “Just got threw eating dinner thinking about going out tonight…..roll tide.

Translated: "Coach Saban just took me to a thing called Outback. They had these people that are sorta' like the people who give you food at the MacDonalds only they keep coming back to bring you bread and more to drink. Coach Saban called it a "sit down" restaurant. He left the people who brought bread and drink some cash on the table when we were done. He called it a "tip"....white people are wild, dog! Speaking of I really hope that one of those skanky white girls that have been hanging around will give me some later."

TWEET: “Feeling like a King up here Thank u Lord for this life.”

Translated: "One of those skanky white girls just BROKE A BROTHA OFF!!!!!!WHOOT WHOOT! Money and White Girls......Coach Saban is talkin' my language, dog!"

TWEET: “I got a feeling tonights gonna be a good night.”

Translated: "Another skanky white girl just came through, and that same GA just gave me another brown bag of cash. Then he winked at me and said "That is for you Big Daddy D-Walk....don't tell yo' granmomma."

TWEET: “Clubin”

Translated: "These rich, white, frat dudes have the craziest weed of all time and they made me a fake ID so I can get into bars. White people in Jacksonville don't even talk to me! I love these honkies.....they are ALL rich and they keep spending their money on me without wanting anything in return. These white folk in Alabama are my true friends! Yo, Chizik you had better warm-up that check writing hand..........It is going to be hard to top this midget here in Tuscaloosa!"

Reminder

2012-02-21T12:35:00.002-05:00

The Diamond Dawgs play Georgia St in Foley tomorrow at 5. later that evening, on your SEC Network channel, you can watch Georgia men's hoops head down to Red Stick for a game against LSU.

We know nothing about Georgia St baseball, but they may have some random starter who's good, and early season, mid week upsets, are common in college baseball.

LSU men's hoops, the storied program that gave us Pistol Pete, Shaq, and Chris Jackson (aka Mahmoud Abdul-Raouf), we have a little knowledge on. Trent Johnson (Mark Fox's former boss) has rebounded from an abysmal year last season and given unexpected results this year (we hope for a similar situation for his former assistant). They are 6-6 in conference, with outside dreams of an NCAA berth. A loss to us would crush those hopes, as we did to Arkansas. 5'11 freshman G Anthony Hickey has come on strong for them in SEC play. And their best player is 7' big Justin Hamilton, a transfer from Iowa St. Considering their season numbers, expect a slow paced, long scoring, poor shooting game. It'll be ugly, which we do well. Not always well enough to win (see Vandy on Sunday), but we should at least give our fans hopes of a win until some random 8 minute streak of no points kills our chances.

Football position changes

2012-02-21T12:05:00.002-05:00

Seth Emerson brings us a bit of roster news, although not the news we'd like of adding a late signee in the form of a DB or OL (or both).

Emerson mentions the long expected, at least around here, move of Ray Drew to DL. He just has that size, and as kids mature, they geet bigger. Drew was near OLB limits on size as a freshman, and like Sterling Bailey, as he matures and continues in S&C, he outgrows the spot and sticks his hand in the mud. He should improve DL depth, allowing Atkins and others to focus on the nose (or perhaps Atkins to shift to OL) and could compete with Garrison Smith for the starting spot opposite Abry Jones.

He also mentions Josh Harvey-Clemons perhaps taking the Ogletree path of starting at S (which depth wise isn't a bad idea) until his body matures and he adds the weight to move closer to the line and play (what we expect to be) ILB once Gilliard, Ogletree, and Robinson graduate. We don't need LBs next year nearly as much as we need S, so it makes a lot of sense from a temporary depth chart perspective.

And finally, on the not surprising roster moves, is Richard Samuel to FB. With Gurley and Crowell and Marshall, among others, at TB, and just Xander Ogletree and a true freshman in Hicks, at FB, the depth chart screams for this move, as does Samuel's unnatural ball carrier history. Richt notes he's still a TB "right now", which may be precautionary depending on how Crowell, and Boo Malcome and Carlton Thomas have had off the field issues, but if all TBs on the roster return, a move for the now heavier Samuel to FB seems inevitable.

What the hell is taking so long on Mario Alford?

2012-02-20T13:58:00.002-05:00

that is all. We have the need, either at WR or DB depending on where the staff feels he's best. We have the room. What's the deal here?

Baseball sweeps Presbyterian to get the season going

2012-02-20T13:50:00.002-05:00

The Diamond Dawgs opened the season dominating the Blue Hose for the most part this weekend. The compiled score for the 3 games would be 22-5 (yeah for Easton bats!), with 34 hits to Presbyterian's 18, and dominating outings from Alex Wood Friday, the bullpen Saturday, and a committee of arms Sunday. Aside from the 2010 disaster, Perno's pups have done their best in even years, so 2012 may have the chance to be something special.

Their season continues Wednesday, when Georgia St comes to Foley Field at 5, before a weekend series at home against Winthrop.

How much leash is left on Mark Fox?

2012-02-20T12:19:00.002-05:00

CorbinDawg brings up an interesting topic for discussion today. He recaps a conversation regarding current basketball coach Mark Fox, and his increasingly insecure job status. Now, as the preeminent Fire the Coach website in the Dawg blogosphere, we couldn't let this slide without some sort of commentary.

All in all, we agree 100% with Corbin. Mark Fox, despite a disappointing season, and increasingly disappointing season, can not be let go within the next 12 months, if not longer. Now, there are some excellent coaches possible to be had if we're willing to pay them at or near Mark Richt money (cough*JoshPastner*cough) who've proven they can recruit with the best out there and also coach a little game too. But that's a discussion for another day, if and when an unfortunate time comes.

We've gone on record with our like of Mark Fox. He's a good coach to our eyes, although warts have certainly been shown this season as well as in the past. And considering the long unstable and lacking support environment surrounding Georgia men's basketball, you have to give the man an honest opportunity to fail before pulling the trigger on his tenure. Hell, Dennis Felton got 6 years of showing complete incompetence before we parted ways, and while his recruiting may not be any better, Fox's coaching and PR skills have been vast improvements over his predecessor.

But that recruiting is an issue. We've said it before, and we'll say it again, regarding the tie between coaching and recruiting, the best driver in the world ain't winning Talladega in a Honda Accord. You have to have the horses to succeed in college basketball, and that's recruiting. You need coaching too, but having talent to work with can cover up coaching issues (see Billy Donovan at Florida) a lot easier than coaching can cover up talent issues. And therein lies Fox's biggest concern. We disagree with Corbin in the sense that we think there is a growing discord with this staff and that increasing number of the relatively very small contingent of basketball fans are not pleased and getting concerned with the direction of the program. But that is not the same as saying a coach should go.

Plain and simple, Georgia has long had issues with men's basketball. A big part of those issues are an obvious lack of support administratively and a willingness to cut and run at the first sign of trouble, often hurting the kids within the program. By cutting Fox loose this soon, we continue that pattern of cut and run behavior and lacking support through difficult times. But make no mistake, this is a difficult time. We have a problem in terms of talent with this team, and while there are some solid role players in the incoming recruiting class, we have yet to land a star aside from Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, and whiffed in a huge way on a very talented group in 2012 despite being in prime position to pounce on that class. We desperately need to reload with a talented 2013 class to get things back on track.

And again, that's the issue, can we recruit those 2013 kids, after whiffing so badly in 2012? Do we have the connections as a staff with the people we need to have relationships with in state and in Atlanta, to get the talent we need to succeed? Mark Fox has done a good job cleaning up the mess he was left with, but is he the right coach to take this program out of the problems of its past? We just can't say right now. What we can say is that things aren't working, and changes (perhaps to his staff, or perhaps in the way his staff operates) need to be made to correct the current failures.

We have a good group of role players developing, around a legit star in Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. What we don't have is a second star to complement KCP or for him to complement, and a confidence that things will continue to improve in the future.

DBT! DBT! DBT! DBT!

2012-02-17T11:16:00.002-05:00

Baseball's back this weekend, and what goes better with the slow game than some good drinking. So in green house tradition, we'll start this weekend with some drinking songs from their recent stint at the 40 Watt.

Highlights of Yulee RB Derrick Henry: The next Brandon Jacobs?

2012-02-17T11:03:00.003-05:00

Hedges to Hardwood notifies us of a highlight reel for 2013 commit Derrick Henry.

The clips are just sick (competition for the small school in Yulee?), especially starting around the 45 second mark, where on one play he shrugs off defenders Earl Campbell style before leaving everyone in his dust. And then on the following play, he pulls a Barry Sanders-like scramble around the backfield to get all 11 after you before turning a corner and pulling away.

The skill is clearly there, and while he looks a bit thin on the film for someone 240+, his size is a intriguing factor for his position. Tailback might be the only spot on the football field where all else being equal, shorter is better. Low center of gravity and hiding behind lineman before bursting loose being part of the reasons. You see a lot of TBs in the 5'9-5'11 range. You rarely see them in Henry's 6'3+ height. Adrian Peterson, Eddie George, and Brandon Jacobs are amongst the few who can be successful at that height. His size reminds a bit of the manbeast that is Jacobs (who looks as big as some of his New York Giant OL teammates), and his upright running style of Eddie George. George was very successful for a long time before that style, which leads to a lot of hard hits, finally took it's toll and he physically just couldn't do it anymore. As great as Henry looks, is his height a serious concern for his long term success?

Weekend starters

2012-02-17T10:54:00.004-05:00

Roger Clarkson has a nice article on former freshman All-SEC performer Colby May making the transition to 1B from 3B, and attempts to refind his past success. And another on the unusual amount of seniors on the roster.

He also lists the weekend starters for the series againsst Presbyterian, starting tonight at 5:30.
Southpaw Alex Wood goes tonight. Michael Palazzone Saturday, followed by Taylor Hicks on Sunday.

And while we're on the subject of baseball

2012-02-16T14:15:00.000-05:00

Don't forget, the Diamond Dawgs have opening day tomorrow night against Presbyterian. Let the Green House get to rocking again!