Good morning, Bulldog Nation!
Here’s hoping you enjoyed a fantastic weekend in which your coach didn’t appear for an arraignment and your Athletic Director isn’t trying to explain why this sort of thing
keeps happening on his watch.
Sadly University of Georgia athletics has t been completely immune from crime and punishment news as word broke on Friday that freshmen Bo Walker and Dontrell Glover were arrested for misdemeanor shoplifting. The details are. Bit murky with some online sources indicating that they didn’t scan all merchandise at one of the now ubiquitous self-checkout kiosks blighting the retail landscape. I’m withholding judgment on this one until we know more. But I’d be a little surprised if this situation isn’t handled internally.
In sunnier news, your Georgia Bulldogs cleaned up at this weekend’s college football awards announcements. Brett Thorson won the Ray Guy Award as the nation’s top punter, and Beau Gardner took home the Patrick Mannelly Award for college football’s top snapper. Some might brush aside these awards, which obviously aren’t the Heisman Trophy. But if you watched Georgia give up zero blocked punts this season, and watched the momentum of the SEC title game flip decisively because Alabama can’t say the same, you know better.
Speaking of winning, Mike White’s Hoop Hounds just can’t stop winning, most recently taking down the Cincinnati Bearcats 84-65 on Saturday. That runs their record to 9-1 on the year headed into the final stretch of the non-conference slate. Unless they find a way to slip up against Western Carolina, West Georgia, or Long Island University the ‘Dawgs should enter SEC play at 12-1 with only a 3 point overtime loss to Clemson blemishing their record. I’ve watched enough UGA basketball over the years to have trouble believing Nni just typed that. Until later,
Go ‘‘Dawgs!!!
