Hoop Scheduling News

Kevin Kelly at SicEmDawgs has been busy sussing out the 2014-15 basketball schedule. Here is what he has so far:

Date		Opponent	Location	Time (ET)/TV
11/07		Georgia Southwestern	Athens, GA	—
11/14		at Georgia Tech	Atlanta, GA	—
11/21		Troy	Athens, GA	—
11/23		Florida Atlantic	Athens, GA	—
2014 NIT Season Tip-Off
2014		1st Round	Athens, GA	—
2014		2nd Round	Athens, GA	—
11/26		Semifinals	New York, NY	—
11/28		Finals	New York, NY	—
12/02		at UT-Chattanooga	Chattanooga, TN	—
12/07		Colorado	Athens, GA	—
12/21		Seton Hall	Athens, GA	—
12/27		Mercer	Athens, GA	—
12/31		at Kansas State	Manhattan, KS	—
01/03		Norfolk State	Athens, GA	—
01/06		Arkansas	Athens, GA	—
01/10		at LSU	Baton Rouge, LA	—
01/14		at Vanderbilt	Nashville, TN	—
01/17		Florida	Athens, GA	—
01/21		Ole Miss	Athens, GA	—
01/24		at Mississippi State	Starkville, MS	—
01/28		Vanderbilt	Athens, GA	—
01/31		at South Carolina	Columbia, SC	—
02/04		at Kentucky	Lexington, KY	—
02/07		Tennessee	Athens, GA	—
02/11		at Texas A&M	College Station, TX	—
02/14		Auburn	Athens, GA	—
02/18		South Carolina	Athens, GA	—
02/21		at Alabama	Tuscaloosa, AL	—
02/25		at Ole Miss	Oxford, MS	—
02/28		Missouri	Athens, GA	—
03/03		Kentucky	Athens, GA	—
03/07		at Auburn	Auburn, AL	—

A couple of highlights:

• Season opener at Tech. That is the night before the Auburn football game. As I mentioned, I think Auburn is a 3:30 kickoff, so being in Atlanta for a basketball game isn't a deal breaker.
• Florida, Tennessee, and Missouri are all home Saturday games. This is the equivalent of getting Auburn, Florida, and Tennessee (when they were good) at home in football. 
• Troy game the night before we play Charleston Southern in football. This is very good scheduling, allowing folks in town to come down to Stegeman to check out the basketball team.
• Vandy, South Carolina, Kentucky, Auburn, and Ole Miss on the schedule twice. Essentially, we have five of the likely bottom half of the conference home and away. 

This schedule is extremely favorable for Mark Fox. We'll get a couple of decent, but winnable games in the NIT at home (right now LIU-Brooklyn, St. Joe's, Western Kentucky, and Stony Brook are confirmed non-host teams). The Saturday home schedule, when we bring the biggest crowds, is solid. We have two of our toughest OOC games at home with Colorado and Mercer coming to Stegeman. This is a schedule built for making an NCAA run.

More importantly, we'll likely be playing a number of ESPN Saturday afternoon games at home. Crowds matter more in basketball, especially to TV, where the vast majority of those that drive the information flow to the NCAA selection committee members get their information. Stegeman has to be loud for those games. We do that, TV will come. 

Then all we have to do is coach the players up.

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All eyes on Travis and Trey

Lots of interesting articles about the waiting game to see Travis and Trey's intentions. If they were both to return, the addition of Kentavious Caldwell-Pope to the mix would give Georgia the bomber they desperately need to bust zones and open things up inside for Trey.

There haven't been many Georgia rosters that had a slasher (Travis), an All SEC post player (Trey), a bomber (KCP) and a steady PG (Ware). I doubt we'll be so lucky as to them both back, but why not hope for a miracle.

Their return would also buy Fox enough time to get 5-6 of the uber talented 2012 in state recruiting class on campus. For more articles:

-- What now for Georgia
-- Quick Exit Shouldn't spoil Season
-- Almost but not quite
-- Different look for UGA next season
-- All eyes on Travis and Trey

Update: Numerous sites are saying the 2011 draft could be the weakest in either many years or potentially ever. For a guy like Travis or Trey, the agents will position this weakness as an opportunity for them to fill a talent void and be drafted high. However, the reality is that the weakness of the draft also translates into much less predictability in terms of player placement.

Meaning...if you're an NBA GM and you believe that there's very little difference in the #10-#40 or #30-60 players in the draft, your draft selection order will be all over the place. A kid like Travis or Trey may think he's going late 1st round and end up watching the entire process end without being picked.

It's also important to remember that getting drafted in the NBA's 2nd Round means nothing. You are not guaranteed a roster spot in the NBA unless you go in 1st round.

Ultimately - players view draft projections and advice the way most people view weather forecasts. They keep looking around until they find one they like. Which is why I think Trey is gone, and we'll be lucky to keep Travis. Just hope for the best. What other option is there?

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Hoops: Moving Forward

In Coach Fox's first season, the team's record was 14-17 overall and 5-11 in the SEC. In his second season, we improved to 21-12 overall with a 9-7 SEC record. By any definition, that's tremendous improvement. The kind of improvement that warrants pay increases and contract extensions. The kind of improvement that should facilitate more high profile recruits selecting Georgia.

However, everything isn't sunshine and lollipops.

In Fox's first season, UGA lost 8 of those 17 games in the final two minutes. The reasons for those losses included lack of depth, athleticism in the back court, experience, mental toughness, etc. In fact, Coach Fox said last year that having Gerald Robinson on that team would've resulted in 6-7 more wins. It's tough to argue with his logic given that the team improved by exactly 7 wins this year.

However, we did lose 8 games again this year where we had a legit chance to win in the final 2 minutes. This year, it wasn't about athleticism in the back court. It was a parade of different issues resulting in a series of car crash like final moments.

Regardless, a major point of emphasis for the program going forward has to be avoiding what looks an ABC After School Special on the Dangers of Sugar Crashed Bed Wettings. Some of this will be resolved with recruiting more natural leaders as well as more talented kids overall. But whatever it is...it has to be fixed.

The good news again...we won 50% more games than last year with the addition of only two more players of note in Robinson and Thornton.

The bad news...we're likely losing Trey, Travis, Jeremy and Barnes off a team who's bench only contributed to 14 percent of the points and who finished 281st in the country in bench minutes played. The rest of the bad news...Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is only one kid.

Fox can and should build on this moment. He just has to close the door on more recruits and find a way to toughen up the ones we have next year...both mentally and physically. We have to walk through the door.

I'm optimistic for the future, but I'll be much more optimistic if we close guys like Evan Nolte, Jordan Price, Jordan Adams, Jarmal Reid, Tony Parker, Shaq Goodwin, etc for the 2012 recruting class. We'll have much more visibility into that process over the next 4-6 months.

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Dear Bama fans

I know you're pissed about being left out. But don't point your anger this way. And honestly...why get mad at UAB? Your anger should be pointed at Anthony Grant. How did he not have you ready to play in Puerto Rico? The loss to 11 win Iowa probably cost you 15 RPI points, and the loss to St. Peter's probably cost you another 10-15 RPI spots.

It just goes to show you. St. Peter doesn't just guard the entrance to the Pearly Gates. He also watches over Bracketville.

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Motivational Speech for Tonight

We'll save Hoosiers clips and the reading of 1 Samuel 17:49 for tomorrow.

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Georgia gets Vandy Tonight

I really like our chances tonight for several reasons:

1. We beat Vandy soundly at home, and only lost by a very narrow margin in overtime at Memorial Gym.

2. This game isn't not in Memorial Gym. The Vandy crowd will be relatively small given that UK and UT fans own almost all the tickets to the event. If you've never been to an SEC Tourney, you can't appreciate how incredibly slanted the entire affair is towards UK. It's basically the Big Blue Invitational.

3. Vandy has nothing to play for. Their seed is pretty much set. Historically, Stallings is at his best in the tourney when he's on the bubble. The 'Dores know they aren't going to beat UK to win it all. So what are they really playing for?

I'm not guaranteeing a victory or anything insane, but I do like our chances. Especially, if we play defense like we did last night against Arkansas.

Interestingly, the Macon Telegraph reports that UGA doesn't have to finish with a winning record to get invited to the CBI or CIT tournaments. Those are Tier 3 tourneys behind the NCAA and NIT events. CollegeRPI.com and WarrenNolan.com have us with an RPI of 99 and 100 respectively. With a win over the Gators on Saturday and the emerging star power of Trey Thompkins and Travis Leslie, the Dawgs might be an attractive get for those lesser tourneys, and we clearly need the experience.

Update: In news of the very weird...Jim Harrick is on the selection committee for the CIT's 16 team tournament. I've heard strong rumblings that he's a big fan of the Mark Fox hire. The CBI tourney is also a 16 team event played on campuses, but the final round is a best 2 out of 3 affair. Based on last year's attendees, the CBI is the more prestigious event.

UF and Miss State are both beatable opponents on Saturday, but we have to win tonight first.

See Also:
-- A high note in Nashville - ABH
-- Tired of talking about 2008 - AJC
-- A good time to win outside of GA - AJC
-- A hunch that Thompkins will be back - AJC

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If the SEC Tourney were tonight...

Georgia is tied with South Carolina at 5-10 in SEC play. Because of tie-breaker rules, we would be the 5 seed in the East if the SEC Tourney were tonight.

We would fall to the sixth seed if South Carolina wins at Vanderbilt as we'd move to head to head tie breaker C, which gives the nod to the chickens based on their win over Kentucky.

Said differently:

If UGA beats LSU and SC beats Vandy, UGA gets the 6 seed.
If both UGA and SC both lose, we get the 5 seed.
If UGA wins and SC loses, we get the 5 seed.
If SC wins and UGA loses, we obviously get the 6 seed.

The most likely scenario is that both of us lose on the road or UGA wins and SC loses. In either of those scenarios, we're the 5 seed in the East. Which means our most likely tournament path would be:

Round 1:
E5 UGA vs. W4 (Alabama/Arkansas/Auburn)

Round 2:
E5 UGA vs. E1 Kentucky

Round 3:
E5 UGA vs. W2 (ARK or Ole Miss) or E3 Tennessee

Round 4:
E5 UGA vs. E2 Vandy, W1 MSU or E4 Florida

In other words, we got a brutal draw with UK in the 2nd round. Damn.

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Felton to Pay Off on Bet with Students

On Friday, Dennis Felton will make good on his promise to the UGA students. He swore that he'd shave his mustache if UGA won the SEC Championship.

Mission Accomplished.

On Friday at noon, the mustache comes off. Check the Athens Paper for details.

"It's so hard
To say goodbye
To hairy days."

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Cinderella is a Bracket Busting Skank

Cinderella is a very dirty girl. She has taken her naughty ways into my life and soiled my bracket. She didn't so much as place a note on the night stand before leaving me a broken man.

It's one thing to let Davidson, Villanova and Western Kentucky advance to the Round of 32, but it's an entirely different deal to have them knock one of my Final Four teams to the curb so very, very early. Damn you Dell Curry's son.

I have only been correct on 32 of 48 picks in the Yahoo Pick 'Em. That puts my prognostication skills -- which are far inferior to my procrastination talents -- at the lowly 59th percentile on YahooSports. There are Cricket fans in India with better brackets.

Sigh.

At least UCLA is still alive. Thank you Ben Howland. Thank you for sending Cinderella back to her step-sisters to mop and sew their dresses. Without your belief in the Big Guy advancing, I would be hopeless.

Ben Howland...you are a great American. And Cinderella...we had good times. But please, keep your clinic visiting body away from the Bruins. Please.

See Also:
-- Afternoon Madness - DeadSpin

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Come on Home Fellas. We've got Banners to Hang

Three separate forces converged on Georgia in their first round loss to Xavier. The Bulldog offense fell to pieces in the second half resulting in a nine minute stretch with only three points. That problem was compounded by "Refs Gone Wild" as the officiating crew awarded 33 free throws to Xavier while the Dawgs only shot five. And lastly, Xavier is really damn good defensively.

But none of that matters right now. All that matters is that Georgia just completed one of the greatest weeks in Bulldog basketball history.

The team will open the season next year with two important lines added to the banners hanging above the score board. We'll add one for SEC Tournament Champions, and we'll add another for NCAA 1st and 2nd Rounds. Any season that ends with two more banners on the wall is a good season.

The only other thing left to say is "Thank You" to Dave Bliss and Sundiata Gaines.

See Also:
-- Felton's team shows heart - AJC
-- Honoring Gaines - AJC

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America's Laughing Stock to America's Team

Today's New York Times includes a feature story on the 2008 Bulldogs titled "Disgraced to Embraced." It's an excellent read, and I highly recommend starting your day with it.

More National Coverage:

• Divine Intervention - SI.com (Mandel)
  
• Gaines Turns Around Georgia - NY Daily News
  
• Gaines Leads UGA - Newsday
  
• Accounting for Every Hour - Washington Post
  
• Weathering the Storm - Washington Times
  
• UGA Riding Emotion of Rally - Cincy Enquirer

In other Bulldog Hoops News (Local Coverage):

• Joy for Georgia - Chattanooga Free Press
  
• Felton appreciative of Evans' Patience - AJC
  
• TipOff Time is bad for Business - AJC
  
• Xavier Banking on the Past - ABH
  
• One and Done Not in the Plans - ABH
  
• Unlikely Triumph - red and black
  
• Do Dawgs Have Enough Left - ABH
  
• Dawgs Draw from Chaos - ABH
  
• Even Xavier Appreciates UGA's Run - Macon Telegraph
  
• Players Glad Felton Still Around - Columbus Ledger
  
• Tipoff Surprise from Felton - ABH
  
• DC Dawgs Show Support - ABH

At 12:20, it's Game On. And as the NY Times asks..."Why Not?"

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Georgia vs Xavier: Random Tidbits

Georgia faces off against Atlantic 10 foe Xavier in the first round of the 2008 NCAA Tournament on Thursday in Washington, D.C. at 12:20 pm EST on CBS. See TV Coverage Map for details.

Xavier is 27-6 overall and 14-2 in the Atlantic 10. Their biggest major conference wins on the season were against Indiana, Cincy, Kansas State, Virginia and Auburn. They also played and lost to Arizona State and Tennessee (by seven points). This is a battle tested team that has definitely played a big boy schedule. Here's the Tale of the Tape (Source: UGA SID):


UGA has nine all-time NCAA Tournament appearances

1983 - #4 seed - Final Four
1985 - #6 seed - 2nd Round
1987 - #8 seed - 1st Round
1990 - #7 seed - 1st Round
1991 - #11 seed - 1st Round
1996 - #8 seed - Sweet 16
1997 - #3 seed - 1st Round
2001 - #8 seed - 1st Round
2002 - #3 seed - 2nd Round

The program is 7-9 all-time in the tournament. It has experienced some outrageously huge wins, and some heart breaking defeats.

My Top 3 Biggest Wins:

1. Beating Michael Jordan's UNC Tarheels in 1983 to advance to the Final Four.

2. Beating Chris Mullins' #1 seed St. John's squad in 1983 to advance to the Sweet 16.

3. Whipping #1 seed Purdue in the 1996 tournament to advance to the Sweet 16.

My Top 3 Heart Breaking Losses:

1. Syracuse's John Wallace hits a miracle three pointer in overtime to beat Georgia by two points in 1996. Brutal way to lose a game.

2. The 1997 squad had exceeded everyone's expectations, and a team of puppies secured a #3 seed in Charlotte only to see UT-Chattanooga burn the Dawgs. Georgia lost by three points.

3. Tie: Losing to Southern Illinois (2002), Pitt (1991), KSU (1987) and Missouri (2001) all in either overtime or by less than three points. I would've listed the loss to NC State in the Final Four, but making the Final Four would be so glorious that I can't imagine feeling heart break in losing to another Cinderella by 7.

One could also argue that UGA pulling itself out of the 2003 NCAA Tournament when the team had the #5 overall RPI and a 19-8 record was the most heart breaking loss of all. But that's a topic for another post.

2nd All-Time Meeting Between Xavier and UGA
Thursday’s game is the second all-time meeting between Georgia and Xavier in basketball. The Bulldogs won the only previous meeting 73-70 on Dec. 29, 1983 in Athens.

There is some degree of significance to that only prior meeting of these schools. Then-Georgia coach Hugh Durham arranged this contest out of respect for the family of one of Georgia’s all-time greats: Vern Fleming. The New York native, who starred at Georgia from 1980-84, had an identical twin brother, Victor Fleming, who played basketball at Xavier during the same span.Georgia won the contest, but Victor won the sibling warfare on that night. He outscored Vern 21-2.

Thanks to the UGA SID's office for many of the factoids.

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Georgia vs. Xavier TV Coverage Map for 2008 NCAA Tournament First Round Games

The above TV coverage map shows the basic over the air broadcast coverage for the Georgia Bulldogs vs. Xavier WhateverTheirMascotIsBecauseIHonestlyHaven'tLookedItUpYet game (click to enlarge).

Roughly 25 percent of the country will see the game as part of their normal telecast. I'm not sure how PPV or Internet coverage works, but normally you can hit a bar in any market and see just about any game.

Most of the SEC states (excluding the Miami market) and the Ohio Valley will get our game. However, if you are a Washington DC area Dawg fan, you need to either get your butt to the Verizon Center or a bar because the game is blacked out in your area.

For a full TV coverage map of all games, check out CollegeHoopsNet.

Also -- According to the Verizon Center's web site, the winner of the UGA/Xavier game will play the winner of Purdue/Baylor in the second game on Saturday at the Washington DC regional site.

The first game starts at 2:10 pm, and our game (assuming we win) will begin 30 minutes after.

In other words, we should tipoff on Saturday (assuming no Acts of God or unlikely defeat of our juggernaut of awesomeness) at roughly 4:45-5:00 PM.


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Dawgs Warm Up at the Verizon Center

Our friends at the DC Bulldog Club continue to provide updates on the Dawgs. Today, "Junkyarddawg34" tells us:

"There were 20-30 DC Area Dawg fans that showed up at the team hotel to greet them last night. Felton seemed surprised to see us there when he came in. The only disconcerting thing was that the Dawgs hotel is right next to FEMA's offices here in DC. After last weekend..."

See I disagree there. I think that's the perfect place for us to be located. If it takes a rain out, tornado, hurricane or friggin' locust to get us past Xavier, I'm all in for it. Hell, I expect it. Since there's no government agency that has more conspiracy theories surrounding it than FEMA, we might just get the help we need. I'm not saying. I'm just saying.

Junkyarddawg34 also tells us that today's shoot around went well, and the team looked loose. He took the photo above, and he has some video up on his site.

The beat writers are starting to log their stories as well:
-- Photos from the Verizon Center - DawgPost
-- Dawgs crash the Tournament - ABH
-- Upbeat Send Off - AJC
-- Video from the Tourney Warm ups - DawgPost
-- DC Area Dawg Fans Ready to Bark - AJC

See Also:
-- Premium Tickets for Georgia's NCAA Regional
-- Premium Seats for all NCAA Tournament Games

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Dawgs Remain National Story of Interest

Some prime time coverage of the Georgia Basketball team from around the country:

• Miracle Run for Georgia - USA Today (Tues)
  
• Do you believe in Madness - MSNBC
  
• Creative Guard for UGA - Cincy Enquirer
  
• Georgia gives Felton another chance - Fox Sports
  
• NCAA Pants Party - DeadSpin

It's interesting to note that both sides of the college football playoff debate are using UGA as a symbol to prove their point for why college football does or doesn't need a different type of post-season. The MSNBC article above is essentially just an opportunity for them to point out the need for a college football playoff.

Local Coverage for Wednesday:

-- 300 fans send team off in style - AJC
-- Juniors heating up - ABH
-- The Stuff of Legends - AJC

More headlines later as the web sites get their articles online.

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Odds of Developing a Perfect NCAA Basketball Bracket?

So how sure are you of your office pool picks? Are you convinced you have the perfect bracket? Every year, the question is asked, "What are the odds of selecting all the teams in the NCAA Tournament Pool correctly?"

Well, there are two ways to calculate that. The first is to assume that all teams are equal in quality, and develop a random bracket generator to get you the right answer. In that case, the odds of correctly selecting the perfect bracket is 1 in 9.2 quintillion. Or said differently "one in nine million trillion." (Yes. I wrote that right)

In terms of decimal points, it looks like this:
One in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808

The other way to do it. You could somehow weight each team based on the historical odds that a team of that seeding would advance. For instance:

• The #16 seed has never beaten a #1 seed
  
• The #2 seed has only lost four times to the #15 seed. And no #15 seed has ever won a second round game.
  
• The #14 seed has beaten the #3 seed fifteen times, but the #14 seed has only advanced to the Sweet 16 twice. The Sweet 16 stat here is interesting because UGA is a 14 seed and because the UT-Chattanooga team that did it knocked UGA out of the tournament in Tubby's second year.

I have no idea how a weighted formula would work, but I've seen projections that this is still a probability in the hundreds of millions.

In case you are wondering, no major bracket selection web site (which process MILLIONS of brackets per year) has ever processed a perfect bracket. That includes Yahoo, ESPN and Sportsline. That's according to the WSJ (link in last sentence) and PBS.

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Tate Center Theatre to Broadcast Tournament Game

Image: Georgiadogs.com

ATHENS, GA --- The Tate Student Center Theater will host a Viewing Party for the Georgia Bulldogs’ first game of the NCAA Tournament. SEC champions Georgia face off against Atlantic 10 champs Xavier on Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 12:20 p.m.

Students are encouraged to bring their lunches and watch Georgia basketball together on the big screen. Seating is limited to the first 500 people, although the game will be shown on additional televisions in the Tate Student Center lobby.

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Basketball Team Send Off Planned for Tuesday at 4:00 pm

Image: georgiadogs.com

Bulldogs to depart Athens for the first round of the NCAA Tournament

ATHENS, Ga. --- Fans will have the chance to send off the Georgia men’s basketball team on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. at the Stegeman Coliseum’s loading dock. The Bulldogs will then depart to catch a plane in Atlanta on their way to the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Washington, D.C.

Fourteenth-seeded Georgia (17-16) is scheduled to face third-seeded and 12th-ranked Xavier (26-5) at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., at 12:20 p.m. on Thursday, March 20.

UPDATE: I've been told that you need to be there at 4:00 is possible.

(source: UGA)

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Georgia Tech to Rename Arena

Georgia Tech announced plans tonight to rename the McThriller Dome to the Dennis Felton Memorial Coliseum at Historic Gaines-Bliss Court.

The move comes in the glorious aftermath of the University of Georgia's SEC Tournament Championship won on Sunday at Tech's former home gym.

"It's time that we recognize who really owns our facilities," said Dan Radacovich, athletic director for Georgia Tech. "We're hopeful that we can reach a favorable lease agreement with Georgia on DFMC at HGBC."

The Georgia Bulldogs won three of their four games at Tech's facility over the weekend. As a point of comparison, Georgia Tech didn't enjoy a three game winning streak at home this entire season.

(image: Victory T-Shirts for the Cinderella Dawgs)

Officials at McDonald's, Inc. were heart broken with the news.

"We felt that McDonald's and Georgia Tech were nearing completion of a new marketing, cross promotion arrangement whereby our logo would return to GT's court and Buzz would be replaced by our famous Ronald McDonald clown," said Sandy Kroc, the hamburger heiress and chief marketing officer of McDonald's.

"It's an unfortunate turn of events for us as everyone knows UGA would never whore out their iconic imagery to make a quick buck like Tech would," said Kroc.

See Also:
-- Bulldogs Make the Cover of Papers Across the US - SicemDawgs
-- Felton Talks SEC and NCAAs - DawgPost (video)
-- Party like it's 1983 - DawgPost
-- The Road Less Traveled - AJC
-- Felton Eternally Grateful - ABH
-- Team send off planned for Tuesday - Georgiadogs.com
-- SEC Championship T-Shirts - Football Fanatics (Black)
-- The F-Bomb - DawgSports.com

(Note: the Felton Coliseum line came from S.A.W.B. in our comments section)

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DC Area Bulldogs: Greet the Team

This info was sent in via Will regarding the DC Dawgs Alumni gathering plans for meeting the team, tickets and game watching. Please forward to your Mid-Atlantic Dawg Nation contacts:

Attention DC DAWGS!

1.) NCAA Team Arrival Information
2.) NCAA Ticket Purchase Information
3.) Game Watching Party

1.) The Hoop Dawgs are coming to DC on Thursday for the opening-round of the NCAA Tournament! The DC Dawgs want to welcome them to the city and show then a big UGA DC welcome! They are leaving from Atlanta Tuesday night at 6:30 PM. We are not sure which airport they are landing at yet, but we do know where they will be staying. They should get to the Capitol Holiday Inn (See Map Here) around 8:15 PM or so tomorrow night! It could take a bit longer, but better early then late. There should be parking in the area and if not, it is in walking distance of the Union Station Metro on the Red Line. Just look for some alums that will be getting there early!

So even if you can't make the game on Thursday, show up tomorrow evening at the Capitol Holiday Inn and wear your red and black, bring UGA Flags and show your UGA Pride!

2.) Also, tickets went on sale Monday at 8:30 AM via Georgiadogs.com. Let's try and fill up the Verizon Center with Dawg fans! Tip off is at 12:20 PM.

3.) 2008 NCAA Tournament Game Watch Reminder

#14 Georgia vs. #3 Xavier
Thursday, March 20, 2008
12:20PM At Penn Quarter Sports Tavern
639 Indiana Avenue NW Washingoton, DC 20004
www.dcsportstavern.com
Contact Matt Hunter at 202-279-1900
or at pqsportstavern@gmail.com

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