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Georgia Bulldogs Basketball, Recruiting, and Mark Fox: Is the Man Ready to Meet His Moment?
(Photograph courtesy Josh D. Weiss.) Thank U to our players 4 being people we can be proud of & 4 a good season. Thanks to the Dawg nation 4 the support. Mark Fox (March 19, 2011) It’s a good time to be Mark Fox. For the first time since the last year of the Tubby Smith era---for the first time...
Georgia Bulldogs at Alabama Crimson Tide: The Haphazard Ill-Informed Roundball Preview
All right, this is awkward. It’s awkward, and we both know it, and there’s no getting around it, so let’s just talk about it, all right? Let’s just get it right out in the open, and deal with it, and move on from there, O.K.? This weekend, the Georgia Bulldogs are playing the Alabama Crimson Tide...
Georgia Bulldogs v. South Carolina Gamecocks: The Haphazard Ill-Informed Roundball Preview
I have to tell you, I’m feeling pretty good about this weekend’s game---well, as good as someone with my disposition is capable of feeling, at any rate. The stars appear to be aligning in a favorable way for the Classic City Canines. First, and most obviously, the Georgia Bulldogs are playing at...
Georgia Bulldogs Basketball Fans, Is Mark Fox Your Favorite Fox?
I feel safe in stating that, at this juncture, every denizen of Bulldog Nation is a fan of Mark Fox. Whether you were a Georgia Bulldogs basketball booster in the first place or have become more enthusiastic in your support of the sport as a result of the Hoop Hounds’ recent success, you doubtless...
Rating the SEC Coaching Changes
Now that the SEC coaching carousel appears to have come to a halt (unless in the unlikely scenario that Andy Kennedy leaves Ole Miss for Memphis), it's time to rate the coaching hires. As usual, I'll be comparing what teams got for what they lost. Georgia: Fired Dennis Felton; Hired Mark Fox The...
Friday Night Link Dump
Football Joe Person on Spring Practice. The big news is that the injury bug has hit our secondary to a certain degree. We're young and thin at the position due to graduation and early departures, so staying healthy once fall rolls around will be really critical to not suffering a 2007-like...
UK Basketball: Searching for the Home Run Ball
Now that it has become official, and Billy Gillispie has (rightly or wrongly) been told to hit the proverbial pavement, the search team of UK Athletic Director Mitch Barnhart, Wildcat great Mike Pratt, and UK President Dr. Lee Todd will embark on a job-saving journey to find a home run hire for the...
Three Points in Response to the Dennis Felton Firing
While I never thought as highly of Dennis Felton as I did (and do) of Tubby Smith, I also never called for the Bulldogs’ most recent previous head basketball coach to be fired with anything approaching the vehemence with which I have called for the heads of more than one defensive coordinator. The...
Talking points: Kiffin is the Anti-Dale Carnegie edition
Tennessee Lane Kiffin on How to Make Enemies and Irritate People. Woo! Recruiting update. The Coaching Chimera was in Louisiana Monday making its final pitch to five-star DB Janzen Jackson. Preliminary result? Still committed to LSU, but he hasn't "canceled" Tennessee out yet. Basically the...
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