New Beginnings in Athens, Ga.
Han Vance on Georgia athletics: When Josh Brooks officially accepted a promotion to become the J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics following the announcement of the professional “retirement” of Greg McGarity, a decade of Dawggone difficulties and dreams turned to…
Fallacy of Fling
Next year’s champions since January 2nd of 1981, the day, in the morning after Ol’ Georgia’s only undisputed national championship. Here we are again, friends. Looking at a (NY6) New Year’s Six big non-championship qualifying bowl, probably the Peach Bowl…
Todd Monken Experiment Failing: More than Just QB
Han Vance on Georgia football: Walking out of the Mercedes-Benz Stadium after another outdistancing and yet another loss in the SECCG, Georgia fans were chanting for Mike Bobo, the once-vilified quarterback and offensive coordinator, who left UGA on top of…
Comparisons Continue
Han Vance on Georgia football: Kirby Smart can someday cease these constant and/or annual comparisons to his former boss Mark Richt, by outperforming the retired coach by a wide margin. It just hasn’t happened. The once all-time leader in school…
It’s JT Time
Athens, Ga.— After leading the #2 team in the country 24-20 at halftime, GEORGIA was soundly outplayed and outcoached in the 2nd half in Tuscaloosa. Bama tacked on another 21, while snuffing UGA. Bennett went from program hero to goat,…
How Jamie Newman Outsmarted Kirby
Han Vance on Georgia football: You got played, Coach. It is as simple as that, and your annual Athens’ apologists – who called for Jamie Newman to win the Heisman, the freaking HEISMAN!, c’mon, y’all, you have to be smarter…
‘A Tale of Two Programs’ -Johnny Vance (Guest Columnist)
My Eldest Younger Brother Johnny Vance’s BHB Debut Here’s Johnny on Georgia ~ A Tale of Two Programs: Hey Dawgs fans. This is it. The BIG one. This year’s “Game of the Century.” Georgia and Bama tee it up in…
Deep Insider Intel from Cali on JT
Han Vance on Georgia football: Trusted source on the West Coast revealed to me last night that the USC hardship waiver transfer from USC – the real one in Southern California, not the Chickens – talented quarterback JT Daniels had…
Richard LeCounte III + Eric Stokes Jr Get Auburn
Han Vance on Georgia football: The Deeps South’s Oldest Rivalry will be played this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Between the Hedges. Georgia. Auburn. Get excited. No that photo is not young LeCounte and Stokes. It’s Loran Smith and HAN on…
Tight Ends Win Deep South Rivalry
Han Vance on the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry: Auburn invented the toothbrush, I reckon, those Plainsmen. If it had been invented at UGA, it would have been called the teeth-brush. AUBURN stands for Alabama Usually Beats Us Red Necks, but…
The Mailman Rings Twice for Georgia Football
HAN VANCE on Georgia football: Dawgs 1-0. MAILMAN DELIVERS IN HOGLAND: IV, the fourth rangeth twice ‘fore loud Chapel Bell clanged into an autumnal Classic City night. Talk about knowing who your people are, Stetson Bennett IV hails from Georgia,…
Championships Speak
Han Vance on Georgia football: Man, I miss my Georgia game day friends. Feature photo of Face and I at his place in Athens. There is no real and true to the South on-campus tailgating at all this season in…
World Capital of College Football Chronicles
Han Vance on American college football: Georgia’s soon-to-be breakout true freshman George Pickens goes high for a snag in the front of an ATL end zone, as junior Jake Fromm has just thrown his last in-state touchdown, the 22nd of…
Eligibility Waiver Creates Logjam
Han Vance on college football: The NCAA has waived this year as it regards to class-statuses for individual players, completely. While there will be an American college football season in summer/fall 2020, thankfully. With the Big Ten and Pac-12 (of…
Classic City Quarterback Quandary
HAN VANCE on Georgia football: Here we go! I have my birthdays in late August, then it’s ALWAYS college football season, Between the Hedges summer heat. Not always. Georgia opens at new head coach Sam Pittman’s Arkansas on 9/26, surely…
Getting 2020 Going
The final old college football bowl game of the long bowl season – before the college football playoff final for the national championship, which is technically a bowl – is always the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. 8:45 p.m., the…
The Georgia Gang
Han Vance on Georgia football: ATHENS, Ga., home to the nation’s oldest state chartered public university. The birthplace of not only American public higher education – 1785, Old College, where we tailgate behind and adjacent to, directly in the President’s…
Kirby’s Wheelhouse by: Han Vance
The University of Georgia ranked the top class by Rivals but came in at 2nd by 247Sports and ESPN, as there are three primary recruiting ranking services these days. ESPN is way up in terms of most-entertaining coverage source with…
How Kirby Compares to Richt
Han Vance exclusive for BIG HAIRY BLAWG: ATLANTA – At the end of the third season of Mark Richt’s career as a head football coach, he had failed to find the ultimate successes he had at FSU as an assistant,…
GONE BOWLIN’
One way to think of it would be an early retirement-like, second-tier type final job, getting out of the SEC pressure cooker and either it works out big at Miami or it doesn’t but, dude, you are from Boca. Half…
