Future Schedules Offer Revelatory Peek
Han Vance on Georgia football: 2019: Aug. 31 at Vanderbilt 7:30 p.m. ET/SECN Nashville Sept. 7 vs Murray State 4:00 p.m. ET/ESPN2 Athens, GA Sept. 14 vs Arkansas State 12:00 p.m. ET/ESPN or ESPN2 Athens, GA Sept. 21 vs Notre…
Few Points on Georgia
Han Vance on Georgia football: Imagine Georgia having to go for two to get the win and going for it and getting it. The Bulldogs have been basically that razor close to better season outcomes twice consecutively. Don’t blow a…
Georgia Looking Strong at SEC Media Days
Han Vance on Georgia football: Go Dawgs! Kirby Smart is slated to speak TUE approximately 10-10:30 a.m. Georgia is 32-10 under Kirby Smart. Sure, only one-and-one in the CFP (College Football Playoff), one recent SEC title. Back-to-back SEC East champs…
On Paper
Han Vance on Georgia football: The preseason college football magazines are out, and the scribes are liking the University of Georgia Bulldogs, just not as much as Clemson/Bama. As I noted in my article “Power in the Piedmont”, each of…
Rivalry Out of Options
The Institute ran out of options. A classic American rivalry, all but dead. Georgia men’s basketball team won at the North Avenue Trade School in basketball 70-59 in front of a mostly-tepid crowd, while I was in attendance in my…
2019 Georgia Bulldogs Football Schedule:
Analysis: Much more exciting schedule for our beloved Dawgs in 2019, with the Notre Dame fighting Irish coming to Athens, likewise the Texas A&M Aggies the week before the Governor’s Cup. It opens in steamy Nashville the last day of…
2018 Impact Performers: Deandre Baker
Looking at the Georgia Bulldogs most likely to impact the upcoming college football season at BIG HAIRY BLAWG, for Bulldawg Illustrated. Senior Deandre Baker is a total shutdown corner: Fabulous Baker Boyz ~ BIG HAIRY BLAWG
“Richt Era: 15 Years in Athens” (book):
1st edition SOLD OUT ~ Master edition forthcoming with new foreword by Loran Smith. www.SilverStonePress.com
Half-Decade SEC Rewind
Georgia finished with the 2nd best record of any SEC program over the half decade, with #1 Bama netting two national titles. The parity across the league faded, as nobody accomplished the biggest prize besides Bama, twice. Even the miracle…
Podcast: Southern Sports Roundup
Mastered Podcast of my radio show from Atlanta: http://southernsportsroundup94487.podomatic.com/entry/2015-12-23T20_16_23-08_00 You can also view the raw TV simulcast footage of us making this show on Youtube and/or here at Big Hairy Blawg (ONE POST BELOW THIS ONE). With music by: Pavement,…
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…
Smart to UGA
Jeremy Pruitt stressed he would like to return as the UGA defensive coordinator immediately after he stoned Tech 13-7 in Atlanta Saturday afternoon. An opening score by 1,000-yard rusher Sony Michel outdistanced the Jackets, who were held scoreless into the…
Dawgs for 8-of-10 in Old Series
Welcome to the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry. An exciting matchup every year, Georgia (6-3) holds a 55-55-8 record versus our “sister school” Auburn (5-4), both programs’ series record on exacta. The first game-between was played in Piedmont Park of Atlanta…
Next Year’s Clemson?
My Tech buddy Bubba, who guest appeared on my radio show two seasons ago with Wayne Gandy (a former Auburn all-American who had an undefeated senior season) and me, was texting yesterday talking about how bad Tech and Georgia were….
Big Moment
Big moment for our program as the World’s Largest Cocktail Party looks to be called GEORGIA-FLORIDA instead of “Florida-Georgia” for the next full year. I propose the winner get first name in the series and the losing fans HAVE to…
“Cocktail Party” (poem) by Han Vance
Writer (author/journalist/poet/blogger) Han Vance won the Harriette Austin Poetry Award for ATL Fire (published by Silver Stone Press in 2015) and is the aspiring Georgia Bulldogs Poet Laureate. Cocktail Party (C) 2006 HV This is what it comes down to….
An Ecstatic Homecoming
The dust has settled on a 9-6 (American League of baseball-like) slugfest Homecoming Saturday night Between the Hedges. Mizzou, the two-time back-to-back belt-holding SEC East champions gimped into the Classic City hungry for a win of any variety after being…
Vast Depths of Tradition
Between the Hedges – 1785 Chapel (Victory) Bell – Arch Track People – Lone Horn Uga – Hairy Dawg Classic City – ’42 & ’80 OGs to New JAX City next week with our vast depths of tradition, versus: these…
Richt’s Folly Could Still Net Crown
Mark Richt fell to 3-3 versus the University of Alabama Saturday amidst torrentially soggy conditions in the Classic City of Athens, Georgia. 4-1 Bama surged to #10/#8 in the (meaningless post-BCS) polls with UGA tumbling to #19/#16 after a humiliating…
October Off to a Bang
GEORGIA…Bama. This is big time, y’all. Alabama doesn’t want to be forced to realize the dynasty is over. We are poised for a breakthrough. Alabama had (only) one undefeated SEC + National Champion team during their historic four-year run. They…
