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Amid an army of publicists present to fuss over Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley, one man sits quietly. It's Kazuo Ishiguro, the 56-year-old Booker-prize winning author of The Remains of the Day.
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You might think Ishiguro would feel uncomfortable surrounded by all this Hollywood glamour; after all, most screenwriters – let alone authors – are kept well away from the media at such events. But he seems relaxed, welcomed. "I'm friends with the people who made it," he says. He spent time on set helping shoot a 'making of' film for the DVD but kept a respectful distance from the production. "I feel it's often not helpful to be on the set too much," he says. "It's like a really busy day at the office – and then the visitor turns up. So what are you supposed to do with this person?"
For a film that deals with friendship, it seems apt that the script for Never Let Me Go grew out of one. Adapted by Alex Garland, Ishiguro – known to his chums as Ish – first got to know his fellow novelist over a series of "rambling" lunches in the wake of Garland's hit debut novel, The Beach. As their friendship evolved, so did Never Let Me Go – which Ishiguro twice abandoned. With Garland lending a sympathetic ear, when he later asked if he could adapt it for the screen (following his own success scripting Danny Boyle films 28 Days Later and Sunshine), Ishiguro agreed.
He credits Garland's generation for inadvertently assisting in writing the book. By the time Ishiguro returned to the novel for a third time in 2001, Garland and writers such as David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas) had begun to experiment with science fiction. "It's almost like they've given us older writers licence to use it," he says. "Before, it was ghettoised and stigmatised. For years there has been a prejudice towards sci-fi writing, which I think has been to the loss of the literary world, and not vice versa. But with things like graphic novels now, people are taking it seriously."
In light of this, Ishiguro began to see a way forward. "My main interest was to create a situation where the life-span of a group of young people was unnaturally short. I wanted them to have a limited perspective. So to what to the rest of us looked like a cruel fate was to them normal. And I was trying for a long time to figure out how to do that." He hit on the idea of creating a dystopian world that mirrored ours with one major exception – a breakthrough in biotechnology has led to clones groomed to provide healthy organs for the sick.
He says he has no "strong feelings one way or the other about cloning", freely admitting that it's a device to raise the question of what it means to be human. In the case of Never Let Me Go, both novel and film are far-removed from emotionally sterile worlds so often associated with sci-fi. Rather, the characters – in particular Kathy (Mulligan) and Tommy (Garfield), who become a couple – are desperate to feel, to love and to belong, in spite of the grim fate that awaits them. In truth, the sci-fi label is misleading, says Ishiguro. "I'm just wary like everybody else that it'll bring in the wrong audience with the wrong expectations."
In the past, the closest Ishiguro has got to aliens is dealing with his own feelings on living in a foreign land. His 1982 debut novel, A Pale View Hills, told the story of a middle-aged Japanese woman living in England. Born in Nagasaki in 1954, Ishiguro's family moved to England six years later. The son of an oceanographer, Ishiguro and his two sisters expected to return to Japan after a year – but instead saw their family settle in Guildford, Surrey, so their father could work on oil development in the North Sea. Curiously, it was through cinema that he kept in touch with his roots. "I didn't read much when I was young, I watched films," he explains.
He saw Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai when he was 10, "which is a great thing for a boy to see". By the time he was in his teens, he was devouring the domestic dramas of Ozu. "I could see my childhood. Those were the rooms I remember from my childhood. Those family relationships were relationships I knew – the women spoke in the way that my mother spoke. So for me it was a very intense, private thing as well, and it did have a huge impact on the way I wrote my early novels." Not only his debut, but his second novel, 1986's An Artist of the Floating World – which dealt with an ageing painter living in post-WWII Japan.
Yet it was his third, 1989's The Remains of the Day – turned into a hugely successful 1993 Merchant/Ivory movie – that cemented his reputation. The story of a butler caught between love and duty, critics marvelled at how a Japanese author by birth could so acutely lift the lid of the British class system. Of course, Ishiguro had lived in Britain for almost 30 years – and not just in England. In 1976, he spent some time in Glasgow. "I lived in Renfrew, for six months," he notes. "I was a community worker there." He laughs for a second. "I've done all kinds of weird things in Scotland! I've even been a grouse-beater."
Married to wife Lorna, who comes from Milngavie, Ishiguro now lives in London – though his fiction has frequently strayed beyond. His fifth novel When We Were Orphans was set in pre-war Shanghai, the same setting as the 2005 film The White Countess, Ishiguro's second Merchant/Ivory collaboration. Based on an original screenplay he wrote, and starring Ralph Fiennes, it was arguably the only bad experience he's had in the cinema. "It was dogged with all kinds of problems," he says, notably that producer Ismail Merchant died during post-production. "Ismail dying was very hard to recover from. Merchant/Ivory operated almost like a family. So the whole thing became quite traumatic."
While Ishiguro has published six novels across 30 years, he broke that five-year production cycle in 2009 with the publication of the anthology Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall. In the same year, he realised a teenage ambition, co-writing four songs for jazz singer Stacey Kent's 2009 Breakfast On the Morning Tram album.
"If you're a songwriter, it's all about letting go," he says. "What you really dream is that lots of different artists will take your song and find new things in it. And that's kind of what I want to do. I don't want it to just end with my book." He lets out a wry smile. "I'd like there to be a musical of Never Let Me Go!"
Never Let Me Go opens on February 11.


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In Arabic, the word hadith means something like "utterance" or "speech." (It's one of those words to which no single translation does justice, one for which a whole complex of cultural assumptions needs to be explained.) One common use of the word denotes "reports" or "accounts" about the sayings and behavior (or sunna) of the Prophet Muhammad and his "companions." These accounts or reports, gathered together by such scholars as al-Bukhari, Muslim, al-Nasa'i, Abu Dawud, al-Tirmidhi, and Ibn Maja, and, among the Shi'a (drawing on Muhammad and their imams), by al-Kulayni, Ibn Babawayh, and al-Tusi, form a supplement to and a commentary on the Qur"an, and provide the basis for Islamic law.
In Muslim belief, a hadith qudsi or "holy/divine hadith" ranks rather higher, between the Qur'an itself and an ordinary hadith. It represents extra-canonical revelation, in the words of God but, having been communicated via intermediaries rather than directly, not included in the scriptural text. Here is one of my personal favorites, slightly modified from the translation given by Mahmoud Ayoub in his Islam: Faith and Hiistory:
I am at My servant's expectation. And I am indeed with him when he makes mention of Me. If he remembers Me secretly in his mind, I will likewise secretly remember him in My mind. But if he makes mention of Me in an assembly, I will make mention of him in an assembly far better than it. If he draws nearer to Me the distance of a hand's span, I draw nearer to him an arm's length. And if he draws nearer to Me by an arm's length, I draw nearer to him by a fathom's length. If he comes to Me walking, I will come to him running.


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Carmen, I didn't realize you were doing IUI (is it IUI?) this cycle. What a bummer that you can't figure out your cycle either. I hate it when things just don't seem to make any sense. At least you got a +OPK though! Is your monitor still asking for sticks? Maybe you'll get a peak reading tomorrow for your second insemination! I'm usually very good at pinpointing ovulation, but this cycle just has me so perplexed with the EWCM coming and going, the temps going up and down, and close to +OPK's, then blatantly -OPK's.
So off topic, but I've got to share. I volunteered to send a box of things to one of the families in need with MDC's holiday helper this year, and I got this random email in my gmail account from a woman saying that she had received my box but didn't know the family who I sent the box to! She apparently tracked my email address down using my return address and google. Apparently the address I was given from the holiday helpers doesn't exist, and the post office has been delivering this family's packages to her house. So, she went around the neighborhood trying to find them, and I just got a note that she found them -- the family was living with some of her neighbors. So, I'm thankful that this woman tracked me down and that she put out the effort to find the family, how many people would actually do that?! PS, holiday helpers is a lot of fun if you haven't checked it out. There are a bunch of families still needing things for the holidays.
Right, I guess for anyone who joined the thread after the month I did they wouldn't know...my DP is female so we are using a known donor (same donor as we used for our DD). So, we actually do inseminations at home - just with a needle-less syringe, not an actual IUI. So, obviously we have to REALLY have good timing as we don't have the "goods on tap" so to speak ;)
Sounds like the holiday helper is a great progam - I didn't know about it! Good for you for participating :)
Hi everyone, I am at 13 DPO and my temps are soooo up and down, but they went back up this morning. The whole family has been sick on and off the past two or three weeks, pretty annoying! As many of you know, I am trying to hold off on POAS for as long as I can, just so I KNOW that it is accurate and just trying to trust my body to know if I am pregnant. I am not having a problem avoiding the pee sticks, but I am totally over analyzing my chart!
Working Mama to DD (2/14/09) and DS (9/13/12) and wife to DH (7/31/05)
Afm: my temp spiked this morning but only a high again on the monitor. I'm really thinking the very positive opk, ewcm and cramping along with the temp rise point to O yesterday. I didn't use the monitor last month so I wonder if it's just confused? We'll have one more try today just in case and then call it done for this cycle. If my temp is up again tomorrow I'll start the progesterone suppositories.
Carmen - I have been light headed in the mornings, which is normally a sign of pregnancy for me, but I have also been sick, so it is tough knowing. I had REALLY strong O signs this month and good timing, so I am hopeful. But I also kind of want to find out later on past O just to make the first trimester go faster! Wishing you luck on your timing of insemination!
Working Mama to DD (2/14/09) and DS (9/13/12) and wife to DH (7/31/05)
Carmen - I won't be testing too soon. After the emotional roller coaster of having a BFP and then NOT, I would rather just trust my signs and maybe test a week or two after missed period. I think it is better for my mental health, even though I am obsessing over my crazy chart!
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OMG ladies, i'm such a DORK I forgot to post this.
I'm 4w5d today!! If we went by LMP i'd be 5w something, but I o'd late!
:D :D :D :D Due the 3rd of August!!!
Congrats ilovetchotchkes!!
Working Mama to DD (2/14/09) and DS (9/13/12) and wife to DH (7/31/05)
Congratulations, ilovetchotchkes!
Ava's Mama, I understand :) I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!
Afm: Well, we're in the 2WW now...and hopefully it really is the 2WW. I will know more after seeing my temp in the morning.
Camen-- it does sound challenging! I hope you catch the egg this cycle. Good luck in the 2ww, I hope to be behind you any day now!
Avasmama -- how are your temps looking this morning?
ilovetchochkes -- congratulations!
I can't believe it's December already, I'm passing the December thread on to starlight!
Kelly: Mama to a spunky, joy-filled DD (10/04/10), and a loving wife to a music-making DH (07/14/07) We and , and are just starting to TTC#2
Hi moonstone - My temp went down a bit, but not much and well above coverline...sort of going crazy, but trying to hold out on POAS!!! [url=http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/32d812/]My Ovulation Chart[/url] I keep looking at my chart, as if it is going to change or something new and obvious will jump out at me! I wish my temp would just go up and stay up so it was more obvious, this steady up and down is driving me nuts!
Working Mama to DD (2/14/09) and DS (9/13/12) and wife to DH (7/31/05)
Okay, ladies, I've started the December post, if you would like to join me!
Stephanie - Wife to and Mom to Baby Bubo
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Ilove... Congratulations! I'll see you in the Aug. due date group!
I'm missing you ladies! I wish you all lots of and I'm hoping to see more of you in my DDC! Thanks so much for being supportive and virtually going through this journey with me!
I have been feeling great. No symptoms of pregnancy at all. Just for fun I have been doing IC HPTs every other day. They are getting darker! I'm going to use my last FRER when I'm 5 weeks on Monday. I hope no one minds me sharing! I truly hope you ALL are soon to follow!
Catholic, SAHM, Married 6 yrs. , (Miscarried Sept. '08 April '09 & Jan. '14) DD is 4, DS is 2, DS born 1/15 We had a wonderful with both boys. I'm also a foster mom to a beautiful baby girl.
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THE Black Country Living Museum will come to life this Halloween as little ghosts and goblins enjoy trick or treating in safety, ghoulish face painting and thrilling street entertainment from circus performers, fire-jugglers, magicians, living statues and more!
Costumed demonstrators in the shops, houses and workplaces will be dishing out treats, tricks and terrifying tales of old as little devils collect their Halloween goodies as the eerie half-light of the museum's gas lamps cast an atmospheric spell, and throw strange shadows at twilight on Friday, October 31 and Saturday, November 1.
Jane Allcock, Event Co-ordinator at the Black Country Museum, said: "The museum is offering families the chance to do some trick-or-treating in complete safety on site – there's a whole village to explore, with each shop and house offering something different."
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WE CANNOT see what lies beyond the visible horizon of our universe, simply because light emitted beyond that horizon has not had time to reach us. Despite this out-of-sightness, we've always assumed that space is filled with the same stuff wherever you go in the universe.
So a recent finding by Sasha Kashlinsky at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, does not make sense. His team has found a group of galaxy clusters moving at an extraordinary speed towards a small patch of sky between the constellations of Centaurus and Vela. Kashlinsky calls it the "dark flow", in tribute to those other cosmic mysteries dark matter and dark energy (New Scientist, 24 January, p 50).
There is no obvious reason why the clusters should be moving at such breakneck speeds, unless they are experiencing an unusually strong pull from something beyond the visible horizon. But what? The most obvious answer is that there is something big out there, far bigger than anything in our known universe. Such a behemoth would impose a kind of "tilt" on the universe, causing matter to move in one particular direction - as observations of the dark flow suggest.
If such cosmic megastructures do exist, though, they merely replace one mystery with another. One of the foundation stones of cosmology is the Copernican principle, which says that there is nothing special about our region of the universe. So if there are megastructures beyond our horizon, there should be megastructures in our patch, too. We haven't seen any.
There are also suggestions that the pull might be from another universe altogether. That would be good news for proponents of eternal inflation theory, which suggests that the universe should actually be composed of "mini-universes" that have bubbled off from one another.
Kashlinsky is preparing papers with further results. He says observations point the finger at megastructures beyond the horizon.
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Historical books may offer details concerning the different stages since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 - but you can also learn something from Chinese names.
CHINESE parents often seem to be looking to major events – or historical milestones - for inspiration for the names of their babies – such as Jian'guo, which refers to the establishment of the People's Republic, and more recent popular names such as Hexie ("harmonious society") and Aoyun ("Olympics").
More than 960,000 Chinese share the name Jian'guo, including about 24% who were born between 1949 and 1959, according to data from the National Citizen Identity Information Center (NCIIC). This name was rarely given to newborns before 1949.
From 1950 to 1960 there was a surge in Chinese names representing the new China and people's hopes for a prosperous country, including names such as Jianhua (which has a similar meaning to Jianguo) and Guoqiang ("strong country").
In addition, about 60% of Chinese with the name Minzhu ("democracy") were born in the 1950s.
During the Korean War (1950-1953), Chinese people often chose names to reflect the conflict, as tens of thousands of babies were named Yuanchao ("aid the Korean people"), Kangmei ("resist US aggression") and Weiguo ("guard China's territory against infringement").
A total of 493 Chinese people sharing the family name Zhang were given the name Yuanchao – and nearly 90% were born in the 1950s. Zhu De, the former commander in chief of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, also chose "Yuanchao" for his eldest grandson.
In the period of "cultural revolution" (1966-76), Chinese parents showed their loyalty to the "revolution" by giving names such as Weihong (which literally means "protect red" – meaning the revolution), Weidong (literally meaning "protect Dong" which refers to Chairman Mao Zedong) and Xuenong ("learn from the peasants"). Some new babies were also named Wenge, which means "cultural revolution."
The pool of Chinese names became more varied from 1978, when China initiated its policy of reform and opening-up. And, since the start of the one-child policy in the 1980s, parents also sometimes abandoned the traditional naming pattern of two or three characters in one name – and instead used four characters.
This reflects the parents' aim to have a name for their only child which contained the family name of both the father and mother – rather than only the father's family name.
A new naming trend began in 2001 following China's successful bid to host the Olympics in 2008, with about 31,000 infants named Shen'ao ("bid for the Olympics") or Aoyun ("Olympics").
In 2008, a total of 4,783 babies were named Aoyun.
But the popularity of children's names connected with national events means that many people in China share the same names – especially as many Chinese people also share a small number of family names.
In an attempt to help their child stand out from the crowd, one Chinese couple even tried to name their baby "@" saying the symbol sounds like "love him" in Mandarin. — China Daily/ Asia News Network
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Marcus Thornton may be a long-shot to be selected in Thursday's NBA draft. He may not even be the most highly-rated player named Marcus Thornton in the pool of prospects.
Georgia's all-time leader in games played certainly has tried to make the most of his chances to be seen up close and personal by teams in recent weeks.
The 6-foot-8, 240-pound forward from Atlanta has worked out for seven NBA teams, becoming a frequent flyer in the lead-up to the draft.
"It's definitely a whirlwind," he said before a Tuesday workout in Los Angeles for the Clippers.
Phoenix, Philadelphia, Miami, San Antonio, Oklahoma City and the Los Angeles Lakers also brought Thornton in to get a look-see at the player who was named second-team All-Southeastern Conference last season.
His two trips to Los Angeles gave Thornton a chance to also see his sister, Andrea, who works in TV production
At one of his team visits, Thornton was there along with Marcus Thornton, a guard from William and Mary, not to be confused with Marcus Thornton, the Phoenix Suns' guard.
"I'm pretty cool with him now," Georgia's Thornton said of the other draft prospect. "We get that all the time."
The other Thornton isn't projected by ESPN's Jay Bilas to be drafted.
"I think it's a really deep draft," Bilas said. "It's a really talented draft. There are just so many close calls."
Unlike the NFL and MLB draft, the NBA draft isn't a three-day affair.
Only 60 players will be selected, making going in the two rounds quite selective.
"We're definitely not ruling him out of being drafted," said Ben Pensack, the San Francisco-based agent of Georgia's Thornton. "He's had some good workouts. The second round, you never know what's going to happen there. It's very unpredictable. Overall, the feedback from teams has been positive."
Said Thornton: "It's not one of those situations where everybody pretty much gets a chance, gets a shot. You just have to get after it every single day. That's the biggest thing I can worry about it, continue to compete and take advantage of every opportunity given to me."
That opportunity, if Thornton goes undrafted, could be an invite to an NBA summer league team in Orlando or Las Vegas.
Thornton led Georgia in scoring (12.3 points per game) and rebounding (7.3) this past season when he was named to the SEC all-defensive team.
He thinks he offers an NBA team "toughness, defense and intangibles. Rebounding, the small things that not a lot of people want to do. Of course there are other skills I can bring to the table. I think I'm definitely developing my offensive game and my jump shot. I think I'm just a really good team player and bring a lot of character in any organization."
Thornton already has an undergraduate degree in real estate and is close to earning a master's degree in sports management.
Opening the college football season with a marquee top 20 matchup provides plenty of motivation to get through sweltering summer workouts.
Starting with Louisiana-Monroe? That doesn't quite register as much on the excitement meter for Georgia like getting a shot at a ranked Clemson team each of the past two years, but the Bulldogs aren't framing it like that.
"It's no different whether we're playing Louisiana-Monroe, Alabama or Clemson," senior defensive lineman Sterling Bailey said. "We're going to treat every team the same way. The saying is any given day you can be beat."
The countdown clock outside the football offices in the Butts-Mehre building has been marking how many days, hours, minutes and seconds until the Sept 5, 2015 season opener like it does before every game.
It's now at the 80-day mark.
"I personally think we work so hard and then you go to camp, I think game one is just an exciting time — period," Georgia coach Mark Richt said. "I don't think it matters who you play game one. And I think Louisiana-Monroe has a really outstanding football team and we're going to have to be ready and everybody knows that."
Well, maybe.
The Warhawks, under coach Todd Berry, are coming off a 4-8 season that included three losses to SEC teams (31-0 at LSU, 48-14 at Kentucky and 21-16 at Texas A&M). Hey, there was that overtime upset against Arkansas in 2012 when John L. Smith was the Razorbacks' head coach.
"They are not a team we're going to take lightly by any means," senior offensive tackle Kolton Houston said.
Three other losses for Louisiana-Monroe last year were by six or less points including 22-16 at Georgia Southern in the season finale.
"They gave us a tremendous ballgame," Georgia Southern coach Willie Fritz said. "They were really not playing for anything. To me, that's a sign of good coaching. You motivate your guys and they play extremely hard in that kind of situation. They took us down to the last play of the game for us to win 22-16 at our place."
Two days before Georgia kicks off its season, Georgia Tech gets going against FCS opponent Alcorn State. Game three brings a non-conference road trip to Notre Dame.
"We've got a schedule that's probably the toughest I've had since we've been at Tech," said coach Paul Johnson, whose team also plays Florida State, Clemson and Georgia. "Our division is tough enough. With all of those games, our schedule will probably be ranked in the top 15 or 20, I'm sure."
The opener may be a yawner for Georgia, but the non-conference slate includes the annual tilt with Georgia Tech and a monster game with Alabama in Athens.
This seems like good timing to open with an opponent from the Sun Belt Conference given there will be a new starter at quarterback — Brice Ramsey, Faton Bauta or Virginia graduate transfer Greyson Lambert.
"I don't know if I've ever gone into game on and said the guys weren't excited about playing that game," Richt said. "I don't care who the opponent is."
Georgia freshman wide receiver Terry Godwin was selected in the 33rd round by the home state Atlanta Braves Wednesday in the MLB First-Year Player Draft, but he still is likely to be playing between the hedges this season for the Bulldogs.
Godwin is leaning towards playing both football and baseball at Georgia, according to Dusty Hubbard, who coached Godwin in baseball at Callaway High. Godwin was the 990th overall pick on the final day of the draft.
Coach Mark Richt has told Godwin, a five-star football recruit, that arrangement of playing two sports in Athens would work out as long as he was taking care of business in the classroom. Godwin is already in summer school at Georgia.
"I think he would have had to go pretty high to get him away from there," Hubbard said Wednesday night. "I think that's what he wanted to do and what he's worked hard for. I would be shocked if he wasn't there playing football there this fall."
The 6-foot, 165-pound Godwin was drafted as a center fielder. He played third base all four seasons of high school and also played shortstop and in the outfield. Godwin took part in a Braves workout at Turner Field last month.
"He's expressed a commitment to baseball," Braves director of scouting Brian Bridges told reporters Wednesday night in Atlanta, according to the Associated Press. "He would like to pursue baseball or we wouldn't have gone down this road with him. He's an athlete. He's got a plus arm and can run and do some things."
Godwin hit .277 with two home runs and 17 runs batted in with 15 stolen bases in 83 at bats this season. He missed practices and some games early in the season because he was playing basketball.
"A lot of people see him as an athlete," Hubbard said. "He's played baseball since he was 6 of 7 years old. He understands the game, understands it from a mental standpoint. He's got a great throwing arm, runs well, has really good instincts and good bat speed."
Said Bridges: "He's a kid who loves baseball. He's a great kid. So moving forward, we'll just have to talk to him and see how it goes from there."
Godwin needs to work on his timing when hitting, but Hubbard said he has power and great feet."
"He's intriguing just because he's got so many tools," he said.
Signing bonuses for players are slotted based on where they are selected. The 315th overall pick (final 10th round selection) was slotted at $149,700, according to Baseball America which listed figures for the first 315 picks.
Teams that pay more can be penalized draft picks, Hubbard said. He didn't think the money for a pick as late as Godwin could get him away from playing football at Georgia.
Richt and offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer each said they had not talked to Godwin about pro possibilities in baseball, although Richt didn't rule out that another assistant coach may have.
Godwin is one of Georgia's key recruits because of the need for playmakers at wide receiver.
To the victors go the spoils, especially when you are Georgia Tech and coming off the first football victory against in-state rival Georgia since 2008.
That means rings that Yellow Jacket players are proudly wearing this offseason include not only that they are Orange Bowl champions and won the ACC Coastal Division but declare they are "State Champs."
"A big win like that brings a lot of life back into a program," senior defensive lineman Adam Gotsis said. "It's been a while since we've won one like that. It's just great for Georgia Tech. Give credit to Georgia. They're a great team and it's always going to be a good game between us just because it is a rivalry."
A rivalry where Georgia had won 12 of 13 under coach Mark Richt before last year's game turned into disaster at the end of regulation with a squib kick and 53-yard Tech field goal. Georgia Tech left Athens with a 30-24 upset overtime win.
"It's definitely something where you don't realize the importance of it and the magnitude of it until you're actually in it," said Yellow Jacket senior offensive lineman Errin Joe, who started against Georgia. "That was definitely a big thing for us and a big thing especially for our fans. I was glad we could give them a win, too."
Georgia used to prominently push the lopsided nature of the series with the slogan 'We Run This State,' something Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson brought up when asked about the "State Champs" on the rings.
"We just copied Georgia," Johnson said. "They're the guys who started 'We Run This State.' We just kind of played off that."
The talk of all of this makes Georgia senior offensive tackle Kolton Houston noticeably agitated.
"Yeah, you know, that hurts," Houston said. "That game will always hurt. Even when I'm 50, 60 years old. That game will always hurt. But life's not perfect. You can't win every game, but we're going to come back strong this year."
Joe, from Lakeland, Fla., said Georgia Tech players will have "all the games circled, but that last game is always important. We always know that's always a
great game."
Georgia Tech now has former Georgia tailback and defensive back J.J. Green on the team. He's an A-back in the Yellow Jackets' triple-option offense, but must sit out this year as a transfer.
"We give him a hard time," Joe said. "Every once in a while we try to get him to say, 'To hell with Georgia.' He's working on it."
Georgia plays at Georgia Tech on Nov. 28.
"No matter where the teams are ranked, it's one of those games where you always know that something special is going to happen," said Gotsis, a native of Australia who played little football before coming to the United States. "The last two years that's really happened, both games going into overtime, both just being heartbreaking for one team. You've had the high and the low and I think this year is going to be even better."
Gotsis didn't know much about the rivalry until he said Georgia Tech "got killed" 42-10 in 2012. The overtime loss a year later left "a bad taste in our mouths."
Now that's what Georgia feels from last year's game.
Houston didn't make a Joe Namath type guarantee exactly, but he did say this regarding the Governor's Cup: "We're going to get that trophy back in our locker room."
Attention starting quarterback candidates at Georgia.
Head coach Mark Richt has an important quality he wants to see in the guy that will be picked to be the man: Secure that ball.
Richt mentioned it again and again last week at a media event in Macon.
"I'm not looking for somebody to be a hero," Richt said. "And it's hard sometimes when you're competing for that quarterback job not to want to make a big play, do something where they start oohing and ahhing. You have a few of those plays, but every fourth or fifth play you throw a ball that could easily get picked off or gets picked off. The guy's not going to win the job, or if he doesn't progress properly, if he starts making up his own stuff, he's not going to play."
Richt was quick to point out that Georgia ranked fourth in the nation in turnover ratio last year.
"Part of it is we didn't turn it over much," said Richt, whose team ranked tied for seventh in the nation for fewest turnovers lost and tied for ninth in fewest interceptions thrown with six. "If you don't give games away, you've got a chance to win 'em."
Brice Ramsey, viewed as the favorite to win the starting job, had three touchdowns and two interceptions in 39 attempts last year as a backup. That's one interception every 19.5 passes.
Greyson Lambert, the graduate transfer coming to Georgia from Virginia, had 10 touchdowns and 11 interceptions in 261 attempts. That's one interception every 23.7 passes.
Faton Bauta, who pushed
Ramsey this spring, has just five career pass attempts without an interception. Jacob Park has never played in a game.
Richt and offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer will weigh how turnover prone a player is among other factors when making their decision.
"When bad things happen, will he throw the ball away in a safe spot or will he hit a checkdown?" Richt said of quarterbacks. "Will he take a sack and secure the football while he's going down? At the end of every series we need to have a kicking play–an extra point, field goal or punt. We don't need a lot of turnovers."
A quarterback transferring to Georgia on scholarship like Lambert hasn't happened in recent years.
Walter Norley in 1983 going from Ohio State to Georgia is believed to be the last at the position to do so, according to UGA. He arrived after his freshman year. Others include Danny Greene in 1982 after Villanova discontinued football and Steve Rogers in 1977 after transferring from Navy.
Lambert, who has two years of eligibility remaining, started nine games, including against several ranked opponents.
He had a pair of interceptions returned for touchdowns in a 28-20 season opening loss to then No. 7 UCLA.
An interception against North Carolina in the fourth quarter set up a game-winning touchdown for the Tar Heels in a 28-27 loss.
He led the Cavaliers to an early 13-7 lead at No. 2 Florida State behind a pair of touchdown passes, but two turnovers — one on an interception and fumbled lateral — led to Seminole touchdowns in a 34-20 loss.
"There's a maturation process that you gain when you play in games, when you're playing and you're behind center and you're running plays," Virginia coach Mike London said before the Florida State game of Lambert, who was in his first season as a starter. "You're out there on the field competing. The things you can check the box for him off the field are he studies harder than anybody I've been around. As far as organizing things for teammates, he does that. He's a very cerebral guy when it comes to wanting to know more. So those are attributes you want your football team to have. The on the field things, which are always critical, are quarterbacks have to be accurate. Their percentages have to be high. We all know that the better the quarterback, the better your team, or the better your quarterback, the more your surrounding skill and players around them have to raise to a level that can also help them. Greyson is a young man that continues to learn this position because he's playing in games."
Tailback Kevin Parks praised Lambert prior to last season before he became the Cavaliers' starter.
"Greyson has always been a great leader," Parks said. "Even when he wasn't playing last year and the year before that, guys always looked up to him. They always heard his voice. He's always been a vocal leader, loud, and guys are like, wow, this kid is serious about what he does."
Now Lambert — when he arrives on campus this summer — and the other Georgia quarterbacks can show coaches they are serious about protecting the ball as they try to win the starting job.
MACON | Georgia's latest batch of incoming freshmen arrived on campus Monday.
They will hit summer workouts with the returning players.
"There's been years we've kept them separate from the upperclassmen like in the first summer session," Georgia coach Mark Richt said Tuesday at the Peach State Pigskin Preview. "This year we've decided just to integrate them in the strength and conditioning program right off the get-go and just see how they do. We've tried to give them everything as far as knowledge. As soon as you sign them, you can give them a program to be working on running, agility stuff, lifting, all that kind of thing."
Among Georgia's freshmen who reported on Monday: wide receiver Terry Godwin from Callaway, safety Rashad Roundtree from Lakeside, defensive lineman Trenton Thompson from Westover and inside linebacker Roquan Smith from Macon County.
Smith didn't sign a letter of intent, but he will officially be a part of the team once he attends class. The summer semester begins on Thursday.
There are a handful of players yet to report. Richt said some of that has to do with later high school graduations. Westlake defensive tackle DaQuan Hawkins has yet to arrive.
"Some of them have more things to get done with the clearinghouse and that kind of thing," Richt said.
DeVondre Seymour, the stepson of former Georgia defensive lineman Richard Seymour, is already enrolled in Athens.
The offensive lineman signed with Georgia out of North Gwinnett in 2013 but attended Hinds (Miss.) Community College to work on his academics.
Seymour, listed at 6-6 and 310 pounds, is expected to line up at tackle.
"Obviously, we've got two starting tackles who are seniors," Richt said. "It would be nice to have guys getting a lot of reps that when those guys are gone, they'd be ready to go. He could be one of them."
D-lineman Thompson among 'really good looking bunch of guys'
OK, this may have been an understatement when Richt was talking about five-star defensive lineman Thompson.
"I think Trenton is going to be able to help us," Richt said. "He's a big man up front."
Richt mentioned Georgia lost senior defensive linemen Mike Thornton, Toby Johnson and Ray Drew.
"Trenton will help us in that spot," Richt said.
Richt and the other coaches got another impression of the 6-foot-4, 311-pound Thompson and the other freshmen on Monday.
"Just as a whole, we thought they were a really good looking bunch of guys," Richt said. "Some of our big men are really big men. There's some guys at other positions that are put together extremely well. We've got a few walk-ons that are really good looking kids."
Offensive linemen Sam Madden checked in at just under 330 pounds, Richt said.
Newborn for the Pruitts
Jeremy Pruitt and wife Casey are the parents of a boy born on Monday afternoon.
Ridge Pruitt weighed in at 7 pounds, 14 ounces.
The Georgia defensive coordinator spent most of Monday at the hospital, but Richt said "popped in" to the team meeting with the freshmen to say hello.
"We gave him a round of applause for the newborn Ridge," Richt said.
Jeremy Pruitt has a son, Jayse, who signed this year to play quarterback at Jacksonville (Ala.) State.
Representing the 'G'
It didn't take long for the newcomers this week to be reminded about what's expected of them off the field.
"Certainly representing the G and representing their family name and the University of Georgia is something that was very important," Richt said.
Richt was pleased with the orientation program put on by Sean Bailey, Antavious Coates and several other former Bulldog players on Monday evening. He got positive feedback from the freshmen on what they heard.
"They talked about what's coming down the pike for these guys and how to try and manage it," he said. "From a survival mode to a thrive mode."
Richt expects to tap into the former players in the future as well.
"I don't think they're going to make unbelievable mint off of it," he said. "I think it's more of a labor of love. …I think what they're doing is very noble, very honorable. I'm excited about it."
This and that
Two-time All-American offensive lineman Matt Stinchcomb (1995-98) and All-American defensive back Scott Woerner (1977-80) from Georgia are among 76 former players and five coaches on the 2016 ballot for the College Football Hall of Fame. The announcement of the class will be Jan. 8, 2016…Georgia has a team meeting on Wednesday night after returning players get back on campus for the start of the first summer session. …Richt arrived in Macon fresh off a haircurt earlier in the morning. "I got my neck shaved," he said. "Nothing like getting your neck shaved. It just feels better."
MACON | The biggest storyline this spring and summer for Georgia traveled with Mark Richt to the annual Peach State Pigskin Preview Tuesday.
The team's quarterback situation, the Bulldogs head coach confirmed, could still have another candidate join the mix.
Four days after the Athens Banner-Herald reported that Georgia received permission to contact Virginia graduate transfer quarterback Greyson Lambert, Richt said, yes, he is still being recruited by Georgia.
"It's just like at any position," Richt said measuring his words because Lambert is a recruit. "If you have guys that are interested in your school and they've got ability, you spend time with them and talk to them and see if it's a good fit."
Lambert was to visit Georgia last weekend and then visit Florida on Monday, according to 247Sports.
"Everybody's got to compete for the job and that's true in all sports," Richt said at the event at the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame. "This is really no different."
Georgia's three scholarship quarterbacks—redshirt sophomore Brice Ramsey, redshirt junior Faton Bauta and redshirt freshman Jacob Park—are all enrolled in summer school that begins Thursday, Richt said.
"They'll all be in town," he said.
Richt was asked about what those quarterbacks might think about another player possibly joining the mix.
"We recruit every year," Richt said. "It's an interesting dynamic—the timing—but it's really not a whole lot different than recruiting anybody. Every year we recruit, every year we bring in guys. Every year you go compete for your job and win it."
Senior offensive tackle Kolton Houston said about a possible addition to the position: "If that happens then the more competition, the better. If we can add another player to the mix to help us win, that's great."
Georgia already was linked earlier this spring to Notre Dame graduate transfer Everett Golson, who will play at Florida State. It's not clear to what extent Georgia wanted Golson, who would have needed an SEC waiver to transfer due to an academic suspension earlier in his career.
Lambert, out of Wayne County High, started nine games last season at Virginia, including a 35-10 loss at Georgia Tech when Lambert completed 19 of 32 passes for 230 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions.
"I think he started against us in Atlanta," Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson said. "I know he was a pretty highly recruited kid coming out of high school and I'm sure he's a good player."
By preseason practices, Richt said he wants his quarterbacks to be able to run the Georgia system "with consistency and confidence. Guys that will hit their target when the protection is there and routes are open, go through their progressions properly. If they run into trouble, be smart enough to throw it away or take the sack and avoid the fumble."
Richt had said he'd like to nail down a starting quarterback after the second preseason scrimmage. He said the "bottom line is we've got to find the guy that we think will give us the best chance to win."
Richt is not concerned about the quarterback's style at the position. He wants somebody that can be "polished," that can help Georgia get in the end zone and have teammates rally around him.
Ramsey and Bauta are the leading candidates currently on the roster.
"Is there a chance that we still have two rolling into the last week of competition?" Richt said. "It's possible. We just have to wait and see."
Georgia defensive back target Mecole Hardman from Elbert County weighed in on the quarterback situation on his Twitter page on Tuesday.
"Georgia just waiting on @skinnyqb10 (2016 five-star verbal Jacob Eason) to get there!" he tweeted. "Because when he get there the QB battle over with."
A little more than a half hour after coveted McEachern defensive tackle Julian Rochester posted on his Twitter page Thursday night that he committed to Georgia, Mark Richt tweeted his own not-so-subtle expression of glee about the get with a tweet that included this hashtag: #homeGrown.
The Bulldogs coaching staff is hauling in recruits with a theme of locking down the borders of the state.
"There's always a lot of great players in our state," Richt said earlier this month. "This year in particular we think it's very heavy, maybe more than most years."
Georgia already has 2016 commitments from four of the top eight players in state, according to Rivals: No. 4 Stephens County offensive lineman Ben Cleveland, No. 5 Rochester, No. 6 Clinch County defensive end Chauncey Manac and No. 8 Archer offensive lineman E.J. Price.
"Sometimes you catch a little momentum that way and get the right guys that have influence of other kids in the state and they all kind of like each other, they all like the idea of playing together," Richt said. "We're selling that."
Georgia also has in-state commitments from four-star defensive lineman Tyler Clark from Americus Sumter and five three-star prospects: Peachtree Ridge defensive back Chad Clay, Houston County wide receiver Darion Anderson, Creekside offensive lineman Aaron Dowdell, Peach County defensive back Tyrique McGhee and Lee County offensive lineman Chris Barners.
That's 10 of the 13 commitments so far for 2016 from the Peach State.
The top two rated players in state, Savannah Christian athlete Demetris Robinson and Lanier defensive tackle Derrick Brown, are considered Georgia leans.
Georgia landed eight of the top 11 in the state in its 2015 class, but recruiters flock to the state to get a piece of the action.
Ten of Auburn's 27 signees in 2015 were from Georgia, led by offensive linemen Marquel Harrell from Creekside and Kaleb Kim from Mill Creek and receiver Darius Slayton from Greater Atlanta Christian, who flipped from Georgia before signing day. This year Auburn has two commitments from Georgia led by three-star tight end Landon Rice of Calhoun.
The Tigers promote that they have Georgia on their mind, marketing that its campus is just 30 miles from the Georgia border and their roster last year had 35 players from the state.
"Georgia's very important to our recruiting," Auburn coach Gus Malzahn said this week at the SEC spring meetings in Destin, Fla. "We're right there on the border. You look at the history. When Auburn's been very good, there's been a lot of great players from Georgia. That's one of our main recruiting grounds."
Join the party.
Schools want to tap into a talent-richt state that produced 30 NFL draft picks this year, second only to Florida's 39, according to Scout.com. Georgia had the highest number of drafted players per capita at 2.97 per million.
"There's only a limited amount of guys we can take," Richt said. "If we just hand pick 20 every year, you could say 25, but in reality on average it's probably around 20. If you average 20 a year and you can handpick them, there still would be another 100 going all over the place."
Georgia isn't done exploring the possibility of adding a transfer quarterback to its roster.
Virginia has granted Georgia permission to contact Greyson Lambert, who started nine games last season and missed three others with an ankle injury for the Cavaliers.
Lambert, from Wayne County High School in Jesup, is leaving Virginia as a graduate transfer and has two years of eligibility remaining. He would be eligible to play immediately.
The 6-foot-5, 220-pound Lambert completed 59 percent of his passes last season while throwing for 1,632 yards with 10 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.
Georgia left spring practices with redshirt sophomore Brice Ramsey and redshirt junior Faton Bauta in a close race for the starting job with redshirt freshman Jacob Park also in the mix.
Reached by DawgPost.com. on Friday, Lambert said: "I haven't visited Georgia. I haven't visited anywhere. The situation (transfer options) is going well, but I don't want to speak about it. I don't want there to be any fuss over anything. All that other stuff is noise."
Former Notre Dame quarterback Everett Golson reportedly visited Georgia, but Bulldogs coach Mark Richt has not confirmed that, saying he doesn't comment on recruits. Any SEC school would have needed a waiver from the league for Golson to transfer due to an academic suspension, but commissioner Mike Slive said while schools made inquiries no formal action was taken. Golson will play for Florida State of the ACC.
Richt said he would "always feel better with four or five" scholarship quarterbacks.
At Virginia, Lambert was competing with Matt Johns for the starting job, but was listed at No. 2 on the post-spring depth chart. He completed 6 of 14 passes for 79 yards with a touchdown and interception in the Cavs' spring game.
Colorado State, now coached by former Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo, is one of several schools that has shown interest in Lambert, according to the Newport News Daily Press.
His offers in high school included Georgia, Alabama, LSU and Clemson, according to Scout.com.
Lambert is on track to finish his undergraduate degree this summer in anthropology from Virginia.
DESTIN, Fla. | Big increases in coaching salaries and the addition of more off-field support staff has spending on Georgia's football program rising significantly for the new fiscal year that starts in July.
Georgia's budget for football will increase 35.66 percent from $17,275,044 to $23,434,888, according to figures presented to the UGA Athletic Association board of directors last week.
Compensation and monthly payroll totals increased from $7,810,479 to $10,732,324.
Coach Mark Richt got an $800,000 raise to $4 million. Defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt went from $850,000 to $1.3 million. Georgia is paying new offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer $957,200. It paid former offensive coordinator Mike Bobo $575,000. Other assistants also received significant raises.
"We feel like we do a good job of coaching and we do a good job of teaching young men how to help them get their degree, how to succeed in college and help them succeed in life," Richt said Wednesday after wrapping up two days at the SEC spring meetings. "We think that's part of our mission."
Georgia's staff pay for assistant coaches had ranked sixth in the SEC and 14th nationally before the latest increases, according to a USA Today database. LSU, Alabama, Auburn, Texas A&M and South Carolina were ahead of Georgia.
"Most all schools have a little bit more money than we used to have," South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier said. "Sometimes from donors, boosters. A lot from television."
Richt said additional support staff helps "to manage all the issues that our young men have. I don't know exactly where every single dollar is going but the great majority of it is to help make it better for our players."
Georgia lists its budget line for recruiting and coaches travel growing from $638,000 to $1.25 million.
Part of Georgia's increased spending in football in the upcoming year is $1.2 million more for one additional guarantee game this season compared to the 2014 season.
Flying out of Athens instead of Atlanta will mean an additional $343,000 in expenses.
Georgia athletics ranked 23rd nationally in expenses in the most recent USA Today survey ($92.56 million) and 19th in revenue ($103.50 million) from data from the 2013-14 school year for public schools.
"We are committed to providing the necessary financial resources to each sport we sponsor," Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity said. "A significant amount of the increase in our overall expenditures are directly related to student wellness and enhancements to the student experience."
DESTIN, Fla. | When Georgia begins putting up its indoor practice facility after this coming season, it will be the last of 14 SEC schools to have such a building for use by its football program.
"It's going to be, I think it will be, the best in America," coach Mark Richt said Tuesday at the SEC spring meetings at the Sandestin Hilton. "We've seen a few around the country and see what people would do differently if they had to do it again and ours is going to be right there next to our weight room, right in the heart of our stamp of football athletics. So it's going to be a beautiful thing, we're excited about it."
Florida will have its new $15 million facility ready in time for this season. Georgia's could cost at least twice that much.
"We're the last ones to build one, but sometimes when you're the last one to build it you can make it the best," Richt said.
Florida coach Jim McElwain said the football facilities in Gainesville "have a ways to go. We've got some great things going on with our housing situation, our office of student life, obviously the indoor."
He knows the new facility at Florida won't be as glimmering as others.
"Are we at the top with the Tajh Mahal of what's going out there?" he said. "No. But at the same time, we're making movements."
Richt and Georgia officials have been able to visit other campuses to see what their indoor facilities had to offer and got input on things to build in their own facility which is being planned to connect with the Butts-Mehre building.
"When you go visit and you say what would you do different, they tell you what they would do different," he said. "All kind of things. From how you have your filming tower set up, how you have your goal posts set up. Whether you put your beams on the inside or the outside of the building, how much safety space you have from your sideline to the wall. Just so many different things that come into play that we just want to make sure it's nice. Plus, the fact that it's going to be where it's going to be is tremendous. I can't tell you how excited I am about that."
The two lower fields that are currently FieldTurf surface will be transformed into grass fields, Richt said.
That "will give us more grass (fields) than we've had in a long time and I'll be excited about that," he said. "We're going to get more grass, we're going to have an indoor facility that's going to be attached to our building. I can't ask for anything more than that."
McElwain came to Florida from the head coaching job at Colorado State, but he saw the resources Alabama had when he was offensive coordinator for the Crimson Tide.
"Pretty light fixtures and nice wood, that isn't the guts of the program either," he said.
The Georgia men's basketball team can boast something that only 12 other programs nationally can.
It made the NCAA tournament and was in the top 10 percent in the sport in the latest Academic Progress Rate report.
Coach Mark Fox shrugged off his team being recognized by the NCAA for the work in the classroom for a 990 APR, a measure of graduation, eligibility and retention for each program's scholarship athletes.
"That's what we're supposed to do," said Fox, who said when he was hired by then president Michael Adams that improving the graduation rate was emphasized. "The credit should go to the kids. They did all the work. …And our academic people. …They put a lot of support behind it."
The latest data is from the 2010-11 through 2013-14 academic years.
The NCAA will release all scores on Wednesday. Georgia's sport-by-sport scores were obtained via an open records request.
No programs at Georgia were down near the 930 threshold that can bring about penalties like loss of scholarships or postseason play.
Football scored a 961, dropping from 967 a year ago, continuing a slow decrease the last five years. That's still well above the four-year average APR nationally in football last year of 951.
Georgia's multi-year retention rate in football is 944. Attrition for off-field discipline can affect the APR score. For instance in 2012, Georgia dismissed three players that February including Nick Marshall and Chris Sanders.
"We're in a position that we feel like that our APR is strong," athletic director Greg McGarity said. "Could it be stronger? Yes, but it's not in the danger zone by any stretch of the imagination. You just have to balance that. That's why it's important during the evaluation process, the recruiting process that all of those factors come into play when you're bringing young men and young women on our campus. You just have to do the best you can."
The biggest gain for Georgia was women's tennis which rose 17 points to 984. The largest decrease was men's swimming which fell nine points to 967.
Georgia APR scores ( data from 2010-11 through 2013-14 academic years ):
Men's scores:
Baseball 971
Basketball 990
Cross country 992
Football 961
Golf 994
Swimming 967
Tennis 994
Indoor track 971
Outdoor track 967
Women's scores:
Basketball 981
Cross country 996
Golf 987
Gymnastics 1,000
Softball 968
Soccer 981
Swimming 1,000
Tennis 984
Indoor track 986
Outdoor track 986
Volleyball 995
MACON–If heralded wide receiver signee Terry Godwin is considering pursuing a pro baseball career, Georgia coach Mark Richt hasn't heard about it firsthand.
"I have not talked to him once about it," Richt said Wednesday night before speaking at a UGA Day event at the Walnut Creek Shooting Preserve.
Godwin starred in football for Callaway High in Hogansville, but also played for the school's baseball team.
Richt said Godwin may have talked about interest in pro baseball with assistants John Lilly or Bryan McClendon.
"From all indications, he plans on being in town in (early) June, but I know the draft is after that," Richt said.
Godwin told UGASports.com that he would take part in a tryout camp with the Braves later this month, but Richt said he was unaware of that.
He is not listed among Baseball America's top 100 prospects.
Meanwhile, Richt said another receiver signee, Jayson Stanley from Creekside High, "should be able to do everything in June with the rest of the guys." Stanley is coming off a torn ACL.
Offensive lineman Sage Hardin from Marist in Atlanta will give Georgia another big body up front once the freshman gets to the school this summer.
"You know what? Sometimes it's hard to realize or remember how big that kid really is," Richt said. "He's a big kid who's got a big neck and a big noggin. He's just a big guy, big hands and feet and he still looks just young in his development."
Hardin, listed as 6-5 and 250 pounds when he signed, has the height and length to be a tackle and is athletic enough to play guard, Richt said.
And he may be in the mix at center.
"He could," Richt said. "He's a sharp kid. We'll probably see what he can do in that regard. …We'll probably try to get him in a spot that gives him the best chance of playing. Kind of like Cordy Glenn."
Glenn is now a starter in the NFL for Buffalo.
Georgia men's basketball coach Mark Fox said he may record the final David Letterman show later Wednesday night.
"We all grew up watching Letterman," Fox said.
There's a connection.
Former Georgia administrative staff member Mark Pope's wife worked for Letterman as an assistant in New York.
Fox said Letterman treated Pope's wife "like gold. He was very good to her. I don't think he never knew who Mark was." He said they may have gone back for the last show.
Fox asked a reporter if he was a Letterman fan.
"Who's the other guy that made fun of me?" he said.
That would be Jimmy Fallon, who ran a clip of Fox's hoarse voice in a postgame interview this past season.
"It's all in fun," Fox said. "It didn't bother me a bit."
The University of Georgia softball team gives the school national exposure Thursday night when it plays in an NCAA Super Regional at Michigan airing on ESPN2.
It will also once again put on display Nike's swoosh as the official apparel and footwear provider for Bulldog teams.
Georgia is completing the first year of a new 10-year deal with Nike worth at least $40.8 million over its length, according to a copy of a contract obtained by the Athens Banner-Herald under an open records request. There was no announcement last summer when the school extended its deal for seven years through June 30, 2024 with the Beaverton, Ore., company. Georgia has been under an all-sport contract with Nike since 1999.
Under the latest deal, Georgia gets an average of $2.88 million in product from Nike per year, $1 million in cash per year and also received a $2 million signing bonus. The reworked Nike deal is now worth an average of $1.3 million more per year than the previous agreement.
Georgia's deal is more than what Nike is paying to Texas, according to the Houston Chronicle, which reported Nike is supplying that school with $2.53 million in merchandise and $1 million in cash, but that deal reportedly ends in 2016.
It is still dwarfed by Michigan, which gets $4.4 million in equipment and apparel from Adidas and $3.8 million in cash, according to the Portland Business Journal, which surveyed schools nationwide on their footwear and apparel deals with Nike, Adidas and Under Armour.
The new Georgia deal would have ranked 13th in the database from 2014 (before Georgia's new contract). In the Southeastern Conference, only Tennessee ($5.5 million in previous deal with Adidas), Auburn ($4.3 million) and LSU ($4.2 million) deals were more. Georgia would have been ahead of Alabama ($3.6 million), Kentucky ($3.5 million) and Florida ($3.4 million).
Nike has extended deals with Kentucky (through 2025), Florida and Florida State (through 2024), according to the Portland Business Journal.
"If you compare across the SEC, all the deals are fairly close," said Alan Thomas, Georgia associate athletic director for external operations. "There may be some a little longer term, some a little less term. There are some minor differences in all of them. Florida's deal, to my knowledge, doesn't have the cash component and is different in product. The Kentucky deal is a little different as well as how they do cash product. The Tennessee deal is a brand new deal (in 2014 with Nike worth a reported $34.9 million over eight years)."
What Thomas considers to be Nike "flagship programs," he said, are all in the same ballpark in their financial arrangements.
"They're being considerate of all and not ranking one necessarily over another," he said. "They certainly put premiums on programs that have a national spotlight. I think being able to compete for a national championship has a lot to do with programs as well."
Nike also pays performance bonuses to Georgia for football, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's swimming, men's golf and baseball. In football, Georgia receives $10,000 for reaching the SEC championship game, $20,000 for winning the SEC title, $25,000 for a college football playoff semifinal, $50,000 for the national championship game and $100,000 for winning the national title.
The NCAA runner-up finish for women's swimming was worth $5,000. If Georgia's men's golf team wins the national title, that's $2,000.
Nike also funds a paid internship valued at $13,000 annually to be served at Nike Headquarters for an undergrad selected by Nike from a candidate pool presented by UGA.
Georgia football coach Mark Richt, men's basketball coach Mark Fox and women's basketball coach Joni Crenshaw are obligated to make up to three appearances a year on behalf of Nike up to 24 hours in duration, including travel time.
Georgia teams (other than football) should be available to take part in Nike-sponsored tournaments once every three years, according to the contract.
The contract also calls for Nike to get 10 tickets and two sideline passes for home football games (adjacent seats, field level and between the 20 yard lines) and 16 tickets for basketball games (court level and at or near center court) with getting an additional 50 football tickets and 30 basketball tickets for one game. Ten tickets also go to Nike for bowl games and 20 for any college football playoff games. Georgia also provides four "VIP" parking passes and "an exclusive area" at the stadium and arena for Nike to host hospitality events at its option and expense.
Georgia has updated the player weights on its football roster for the first time since late July.
And even that, in the offseason, is something to size up.
Who's up? Who's down? Who's packed on the pounds? Who has shed them?
Here are some observations from the listing on Georgia's athletic website:
There's more Jeb Blazevich than when he rolled onto campus last summer. The 6-foot-5 sophomore tight end — the team's second leading returning pass catcher with 18 catches for 269 yards and two touchdowns — has added 16 pounds and is now at 248. That's the second biggest gain on the roster after true freshman Michael Barnett. The defensive line early enrollee is up 21 pounds to 276 from what he was listed at on signing day. Barnett did not practice this spring due to a shoulder injury.
Defensive lineman Jonathan Ledbetter, another early enrollee, is now listed at 251 pounds, down 14 from when he came to the school. Ledbetter lost weight after dealing with an illness prior to spring practice. On the other end of the spectrum on the line is 6-foot-4 nose guard Chris Mayes, the heaviest player on the team at 323 pounds.
The next heaviest player is starting guard Greg Pyke. The 6-foot-6 junior is 313 pounds, down eight from last year. Georgia has three other offensive linemen topping 300: tackle Kendall Baker (310), tackle John Theus (303, down 10) and center Hunter Long (303).
Some listed weight changes really aren't what they might appear to be. For instance, outside linebacker Chuks Amaechi's listed number is down 10 pounds to 220 but that's what he said he was in February. Jake Ganus' listed weight is up 12 pounds to 227, but that's actually only two pounds more than what he said he was before reporting.
Redshirt freshman Lamont Gaillard, who moved from defensive tackle to offensive guard, is 298 pounds, down seven. Another player who made a position change is Glenn Welch, who moved from fullback to center and is down 36 pounds to 244, the biggest drop on the team.
How about some of the marquee players? Well, running back Nick Chubb is down eight pounds to 220. Quarterbacks Brice Ramsey (213) and Faton Bauta (215) are each down three. 5-8 returner/receiver Isaiah McKenzie is up six pounds to 170. Outside linebackers Leonard Floyd (232) and Jordan Jenkins (253) are each up one. Outside linebacker Lorenzo Carter is listed at 242, which is about where he said he was at in late March. It's up five pounds from his listed weight last summer although he said during spring practice that he had put on about 20 since arriving at Georgia.
"I feel," he said, "faster than ever."
Hutson Mason just packed for the weekend.
The former Georgia quarterback will need to get some clothes sent his way. Mason signed Sunday morning with the Washington Redskins after earning a free agent deal following the team's rookie minicamp.
"I'll be up here for the next four weeks doing OTAs (organized team activities) and stuff like that," Mason said. "I'm sure they'll hook me up with some stuff, but I'm going to have to have some clothes shipped up here. I think I only packed for two pairs of shorts and a couple of shirts."
Mason already had gone through the Miami Dolphins' rookie camp as a tryout player and did not get signed to a team he said has four quarterbacks already on the roster. So he was at Washington's team complex in Ashburn, Va., for two-a-day practices Friday and Saturday also on a tryout basis.
"I came up here basically just to give it one last shot," said Mason, who is from Marietta. "As a tryout guy, you're behind the eight ball a lot. You only get two days, four practices to show what you do and you're trying to learn a whole new offense in two days. They're installing crazy amounts with wordy plays and you've got to try to spit it out and make the right read and do your best to impress. I guess I impressed enough."
Mason took advantage of an opportunity when another undrafted free agent, Washington State quarterback Connor Halliday, went home before the camp started, according to The Washington Post. A team scout told Mason after the minicamp ended Saturday afternoon that Washington would sign him.
"I was like,`That's pretty freaking sweet,'" said Mason, who got a congratulatory handshake from head coach Jay Gruden soon after.
Mason is the third former Georgia player to get a free agent deal after going to rookie camps on a tryout basis. Defensive lineman Mike Thornton (Steelers) and safety Corey Moore (Texans) also signed.
Mason thought he would have a chance to get a free agent offer, but with only seven quarterbacks drafted, there were more available to teams than Mason figured.
Mason signed a three-year deal, but he will have to make the regular season roster or at least the practice squad. If he made the 53-man roster, he would make the league minimum of $435,000 in his first season.
A chance to play in preseason games will at least provide more film for other NFL teams to look at in case he doesn't make the roster.
"Probably one of my knocks right now is not a lot of game film, not a lot of experience," said the one-year Georgia starter. "I knew the whole time if I could just find a way to get into camp, it would be the best thing for me. Now it's just about putting your nose down and learning the playbook and making plays."
Georgia had five players taken in the NFL draft April 30-May 2: running back Todd Gurley, receiver Chris Conley, inside linebackers Ramik Wilson and Amarlo Herrera and cornerback Damian Swann.
Center David Andrews and defensive linemen Ray Drew and Toby Johnson were signed as undrafted free agents.
"Now," Mason said, "it's just about going out there and making the most of the opportunities. …It's not really about how you get there, whether you're a drafted guy, first round, fifth round or seventh round, free agent or a tryout guy. This is all everybody really ask for–one opportunity, one shot. You've got to make the most of it now."
There isn't much down time these days for college football players, especially those at programs competing at the highest levels.
With the spring semester over, Nick Chubb, like most of his Georgia teammates, is back home now before returning to campus in early June, but it's not like he's taking it easy. Except for maybe Saturdays and Sundays.
"I've got weekends off," Chubb said.
The running back also returned to his hometown of Cedartown in northwest Georgia for spring break instead of hitting the beach.
"My high school coaches wait for me to come home just to kill me," Chubb joked. "I'm prepared for it."
Those coaches include Cedartown football coach Scott Hendrix and track coach Mike Worthington.
"You don't have to motivate Nick," Hendrix said. "He's obviously motivated. We just provide him with a little structure and a little opportunity to work."
Yes, a Heisman Trophy candidate is back working out at his old school.
"Everyone around here has known Nick forever," Hendrix said. "We're certainly as proud as we can be of him and the things he's accomplished and all that, but when he comes here Nick just always wants to be treated like Nick's always been treated here. I think he likes coming here because it's just a place where he can come and work. If he goes out in the community, people want to visit with him and get pictures."
The last time he was home to get in some work, word traveled fast.
"The news got around," Chubb said. "That's my hometown, they've always been supportive of me so I don't mind."
Chubb mentioned his workout routine includes using a VertiMax system (to improve power, speed and vertical jump) weightlifting and powercleaning. Worthington handles much of the training with the 5-foot-10, 220-pound Chubb, who came to Georgia with a reputation already as a workout warrior.
"I'm big on lifting weights and running," Chubb said. "I'm always focused on that."
Chubb usually arrives after 1 p.m. and works out for two to three hours.
His daily routine also includes some resistance running in the school's sand pit and some speed work.
High school teammate Israel Battle, who plays linebacker now for The Citadel, was home this past week and worked out with Chubb.
Chubb has taken time to visit students at elementary and middle schools and dropped by a local recreational league.
"He's been busy," Hendrix said.
Chubb is just entering his sophomore season at Georgia, but what he did on the field last year — rushing for 1,547 yards and 14 touchdowns — has thrust him into a role where others are taking note of how he goes about his business, coach Mark Richt said.
"That kid works so hard every day, it's obvious part of the reason why the guy has success, part of the reason why he has the stamina to run it 25, 35 times game is how he practices every day," Richt said, "how he works in the offseason. I think that in itself is great leadership."
Georgia will have a chance to pick up a quality men's basketball road win when it plays this coming season at Baylor in the Big 12/SEC Challenge.
Baylor, located in Waco, Texas, is ranked No. 17 in ESPN.com's early top 25 rankings. This is the first ever meeting between the schools. The Bears went 24-10 last season, losing in its opening game in the NCAA tournament to Georgia State.
The challenge games this year are all being held on the same date: Saturday Jan. 30. ESPN and ESPN2 will air eight of the games matching all 10 Big 12 teams against SEC opponents with the other two games on ESPNU. This is the third year of the challenge, but the first time Georgia is taking part.
The SEC says all 10 of its teams playing this year will also play in the challenge in 2017.
Georgia's nonconference schedule also includes a road game at Seton Hall and home games against Clemson, Kansas State, Georgia Tech, Chattanooga and Winthrop. The Bulldogs are coming off a trip to the NCAA tournament and their second straight 20-win season.
The matchups:
Texas Tech at Arkansas
Oklahoma State at Auburn
West Virginia at Florida
Georgia at Baylor
Kentucky at Kansas
Oklahoma at LSU
Ole Miss at Kansas State
Tennessee at TCU
Iowa State at Texas A&M
Vanderbilt at Texas
Georgia is down another wide receiver.
Blake Tibbs, a rising junior with four career catches, is leaving the program with plans to transfer. The school made it official Wednesday afternoon.
"Blake and I have met and he has decided it would be in his best interest to transfer to another institution," coach Mark Richt said in a statement. "I certainly understand and wish him nothing but the best."
Tibbs played in 15 games at Georgia, including 13 last season. He battled nagging injuries in 2013 a season after redshirting.
The Lithonia product was sidelined for much of this past spring with a shoulder injury.
Georgia was down to four scholarship receivers available towards the end of the spring due to injuries. It has four incoming freshmen coming in at the position including five-star Terry Godwin from Callaway.


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Firefighters from Perkins, Sandusky, Huron and Margaretta battled the early morning blaze.
The potting area and storage facility for the soil/fertilizer mixture are a total loss, but the retail center and nursery were spared.
Firefighters can't determine what caused the inferno yet, but Perkins Assistant Chief Bill Hodges said the fire was contained because of cooperation and coordination with area fire departments, Perkins police and Ohio State Highway Patrol.
The state fire marshal and two local investigators spent Thursday combing through the structural remains of the two buildings in search of a cause. At this time they haven't released any findings, Hodges said.
The Corsos didn't let a fire deter their business. A farmer on East Perkins Avenue called in the blaze, which was already shooting through the glass tiles of the roof at 5:58 a.m. Smoke continued to pour from the roof of the greenhouse as small flames flickered along the edge of the building until after 7:30 a.m.
At about 8 a.m. Hodges said the fire was under control and contained to the main storage house.
A garden center supervisor pulled in at about the same time, shortly after hearing a small explosion. Firefighters later determined it was a propane tank on a piece of equipment that had blown.
No one was injured.
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Lost in the joyful commotion surrounding the Avalanche's kid duo of Matt Duchene and Ryan O'Reilly has been the play of the Avs' "old man," T.J. Galiardi.
On most any other team, Galiardi would be the one getting the "so good, so soon" praise that 18-year-olds Duchene and O'Reilly are receiving. After all, Galiardi turned 21 in April, and like the aforementioned youngsters is living at the home of an older Avalanche veteran.
Landlord Paul Stastny, 23, says Galiardi is earning his keep at home, and the Avalanche coaching staff echoes that sentiment about his play on the ice. Galiardi is quietly off to a good start with six points (one goal) in his first 11 games, and perhaps more important, he helps lead a vastly improved Avs penalty-killing unit.
"We're just trying to get back to basics on the penalty kill," Galiardi said. "We've just got to keep it up. And of course, having a goalie (Craig Anderson) play as well as he has, that always helps your PK."
The Avs entered Sunday with the NHL's sixth-best PK percentage (.843). Colorado was 21st (.799) last season, and 21st the season before that (.814).
Galiardi and O'Reilly have been two of the primary forwards on the PK. Not only are they younger and quicker than Avs PK forwards of recent history, they seem in sync with the other's tendencies. One player not in step usually results in a breakdown and a goal against.
"They're starting to form some chemistry," Avs coach Joe Sacco said of his team's PK unit. "When you kill penalties and you can work with the same guy often, you develop some chemistry out there. You can kind of read off each other, know where each other is going to be. They're starting to do that, and they're starting to understand how important little things are in penalty killing, like winning draws, stick position and putting your body on the line to block a shot."
Galiardi, who played 11 games at the end of last season with the Avalanche, has played mostly on the third and fourth lines, and none of the Avs' top three centers are older than 23.
"We're confident in here right now, but I think if we get too confident, that's when we're going to have problems," Galiardi said. "We've just got to keep doing it simple, keep doing what we're doing."
Galiardi said he was happy to get his first goal this season in Saturday's victory against the Red Wings — a nifty backhander up high against goalie Jimmy Howard.
"It's a nice weight off the shoulders," Galiardi said. "It took longer than I thought."
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