Georgia’s average home football attendance of 92,746 ranked sixth best in the country for the 2009 season, according to statistics released by the NCAA this week. The sixth-place finish marks the 24th time in the last 27 years that Georgia has ranked among the nation’s top six teams in average home attendance.  It is also [...]

The backup quarterback is always the most popular player on the football team. Joe Cox hadn’t even taken a snap last season before fans were already clamoring for his replacement — a five-star freshman with pinpoint accuracy and mobility in the pocket. Freshman Aaron Murray wanted on the field, too. What competitor doesn’t? “When I [...]

Richard Samuel spent his first two years dodging and running over defenders as a running back for Georgia. In his remaining two years on the Georgia roster, Samuel will spend his time trying to corral running backs, moving to linebacker. “I like the position change, and I feel like I’ll be more comfortable and be [...]

In the days leading up to National Signing Day, Bulldog Nation was sent into a furor — with a picture put on Facebook. That’s right, Facebook. The picture was one of Georgia’s top prospects, Da’Rick Rogers, kissing Tennessee’s 1998 national championship trophy. That photo led Georgia fans to correctly assume that Rogers would be switching [...]

The last piece of the defensive puzzle on Mark Richt’s staff was put into place with the hiring of Vanderbilt linebacker coach Warren Belin. Belin was named linebackers coach at Georgia after having spent the last eight years at Vanderbilt coaching the linebackers. Belin served as the recruiting coordinator for the Commodores for the last [...]

Warren Belin, linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator at Vanderbilt, has been named a linebackers coach at the University of Georgia according to an announcement Friday by Bulldog head coach Mark Richt. Belin just completed his eighth season with the Commodores coaching linebackers. The 20-year veteran also just completed his second year as recruiting coordinator after [...]

It might have been a disappointing signing day for Georgia, but it was still a pretty good day for the Bulldog athletic director. University athletic director Damon Evans was awarded a sizable pay raise, and millions to renovate Stegeman Coliseum and Reed Alley were approved by the University Athletic Association on Wednesday. The association vote [...]

Georgia’s 2010 recruiting class consists of 19 athletes from three different states.

Change can spell disaster on the recruiting front, as prospects want to feel a sense of stability when signing away their collegiate futures. And Georgia was full of change in the offseason. New coaches, new scheme and new positions were just a few of the factors working against Georgia in creating doubt in the minds [...]

I don’t understand. Georgia’s 2010 football recruiting class, even dissected by the most optimistic of Georgia fans like myself, is very unimpressive. Why wasn’t 2010 the big recruiting year for Georgia football that it seemed destined to be? Just last month, concern was brewing in Gainesville over continued revelations about the sub-par health of Florida [...]