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On Dec 2, 2012, at 3:43 PM, "mail.bobparks.com" <[email protected]> wrote: > Poor Georgia, always a bridesmaid... > > Oliver Barry, CRS, GRI > Real Estate Broker > Bob Parks, LLC > 1517 Hunt Club Blvd > Gallatin TN 37066 > 615-972-4239 > 615-826-4040 > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 30, 2012, at 9:45 AM, Helen Huntley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The Miss Congeniality of the SEC >> Georgia, Often Good but Rarely Great, Takes Its Shot at Glory >> Article >> Comments (6) >> MORE IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL » >> smaller >> Larger >> facebook >> twitter >> google plus >> linked in >> EmailPrint >> Save >> ↓ More >> By RACHEL BACHMAN >> >> >> Associated Press >> The Bulldogs celebrate a touchdown on the field early in their 2007 win over >> Florida. >> Georgia is a power football program. The Bulldogs play in the powerful >> Southeastern Conference. They have a power running game. They even call >> their helmet logo the "Power G." >> >> But there is one area in which the Bulldogs have been weaklings lately: >> winning the national championship. While SEC brethren Alabama, Auburn, >> Florida and Louisiana State have combined to win the past six national >> titles, Georgia's last came in 1980 behind chiseled (and now 50-year-old) >> running back Herschel Walker. >> >> The drought isn't because the Bulldogs are lousy: Over the last 10 years, >> they are the third-winningest team in the SEC. A typical Georgia season is a >> top-20 ranking and a nice, irrelevant bowl game. Put another way: Georgia is >> the Miss Congeniality of the SEC. >> >> All of that could change Saturday, when the third-ranked Bulldogs face No. 2 >> Alabama in the SEC title game in friendly Atlanta, just 70 miles from >> campus. A win likely will vault Georgia into the Jan. 7 national-title game >> against No. 1 Notre Dame. >> >> Enlarge Image >> >> >> Sports Imagery/Getty Images >> Former Georgia star Herschel Walker, the 1982 Heisman Trophy winner >> So Saturday's showdown is the biggest game in decades for a program that is >> often good but seldom great—although Georgia folk don't want to hear that. >> >> "Since I've left, people keep saying, 'What is Georgia after Herschel?' " >> said Walker, who won the Heisman Trophy in 1982. "But I'm like, 'Guys, look >> at Georgia after Herschel. They put so many great guys in the NFL and >> they've been winning games.' " >> >> For better or worse, the Bulldogs' virility has been a theme throughout >> their history. In 2001, a last-second Georgia touchdown to beat Tennessee >> birthed a legendary call from late Bulldogs radio announcer Larry Munson: >> "We just stepped on their face with a hobnail boot and broke their nose! We >> just crushed their face!" Before the 2002 Georgia-Alabama game, former >> Bulldogs All-American (and ex-Auburn coach) Pat Dye said on a radio show >> that Georgia wasn't "man enough to whip Alabama." The Bulldogs won. >> >> Enlarge Image >> >> >> Getty Images >> Uga IX, Georgia's mascot >> But despite being the flagship program in a talent-rich, football-mad state, >> Georgia has just one undisputed national title—1980. (The 1942 team also was >> named No. 1 by several polls.) That 2002 Bulldogs team finished third. In >> 2008, Georgia was the preseason No. 1 in the Associated Press poll but >> finished 13th. >> >> "When they were preseason No. 1, that was a spot that I think they should >> have relished. And they just succumbed to the pressure of being No. 1," >> former Georgia and NFL running back Terrell Davis said. "When they play a >> team of a higher rank…they tend not to play as well. They have a great >> opportunity this year to really just wipe all that away." >> >> Among Georgia faithful, anticipation for Saturday's game began building Nov. >> 17, when undefeated Oregon and Kansas State lost, clearing a path for >> Georgia to win the national title if it won out. On Thursday tickets to the >> Georgia-Alabama game were reselling for an average of more than $480, >> according to secondary ticket-market aggregator TiqIQ. >> >> Onetime Georgia student Ryan Seacrest, host of the "American Idol" TV >> program, has been talking up the game on his Los Angeles-based radio show. >> "Everyone in Georgia, especially in my hometown of Atlanta, has been waiting >> a long time for this game," he said in an email. >> >> Enlarge Image >> >> >> Associated Press >> Coach Mark Richt gets doused after the Bulldogs' 2002 SEC-title game victory. >> And this isn't just any opponent the Bulldogs are facing Saturday. This is >> Alabama, the defending national champion, with whom Georgia has a neglected >> rivalry punctuated by a bizarre, long-ago scandal. >> >> In 1963, a story in the Saturday Evening Post accused Georgia athletic >> director Wally Butts and Alabama coach Bear Bryant of conspiring to fix the >> 1962 game, won by 17-point favorite Alabama, 35-0. Butts and Bryant sued the >> Post—Butts winning a $460,000 judgment and Bryant a $300,000 settlement—in >> what became a landmark libel case and helped hasten the magazine's decline. >> Georgia and Alabama have played just 17 times in the 50 seasons since then. >> >> In recent years, Georgia has played a secondary role in the giant, >> live-action menagerie that is the SEC. There is frowning, flawless Alabama >> coach Nick Saban, mad-genius LSU coach Les Miles, explosive, overachieving >> Florida coach Will Muschamp and snide, smiling Steve Spurrier of South >> Carolina. Lost in the madness is mild-mannered Mark Richt, the 12th-year >> Georgia coach most publicly criticized for not punishing players harshly >> enough. >> >> "Maybe we're not as flashy as some of those other places," Georgia president >> Michael Adams said. "But I think when you put the combination of our >> academic standards with our athletic success, we have a pretty good record." >> Indeed, only Florida outranks Georgia among public SEC schools on U.S. News >> & World Report's best-colleges list. >> >> Georgia wasn't always the strong silent type. In the 1980s, iconic college >> football TV announcer Keith Jackson popularized the greeting, "How 'bout >> them Dawgs?" said Vince Dooley, coach of the 1980 title team. The correct >> response, Dooley said, was "How 'bout them Dawgs!" >> >> Today Georgia football enjoys a massive following. The 93,000-seat Sanford >> Stadium regularly sells out. Last year Georgia ranked eighth nationally on >> the Collegiate Licensing Company's list of top-selling merchandise—one spot >> ahead of Notre Dame. >> >> Some fans see a chance for symmetry with a looming title-game matchup >> against the Fighting Irish, whom Georgia beat in the Sugar Bowl to clinch >> the 1980 title. "We've got two games left," said Doc Eldridge, former mayor >> of Athens and the current president of its chamber of commerce. "If we win >> both of our two games, we'll be the king. Of course, Alabama can say that, >> too." >> >> Write to Rachel Bachman at [email protected] >> >> Corrections & Amplifications >> Only Florida outranks Georgia among public SEC schools on U.S. News & World >> Report's best-colleges list. An earlier version of this article incorrectly >> omitted the word public. >> >> >> >> -- >> Helen Huntley >> (727) 823-3801 >> www.helenhuntley.com >> -- >> GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! >> 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions >> 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions >> 2008 National Football Champions | >> Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), >> Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
