For anyone who doesn't make a habit of checking the AJC recruiting updates, take a gander at the pictures of UGA commit Da'Rick (that's DAY-rick) Rogers vs. Jefferson County on Friday night.

http://blogs.ajc.com/recruiting/2009/12/04/darick-the-freak-living-up-to-namesake-in-calhoun/

Can you say "Holy Schnikes?"

Plus, we also got Zander Ogletree, brother to current commit Alec Ogletree.  A solid addition to this class.

Click on this link to the AJC's photos from the GT game and go to the last picture.

http://projects.ajc.com/gallery/view/sports/tech/tech-uga-2009-photos/

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Or: What may wind up turning the Cocktail Party rivalry back in the Dawgs' favor.

I was browsing my usual combination of football and movie sites when I come across a link to one of those ubiquitous movie countdown lists, this one on IFC.com.  Being the week of Halloween as well as Hate Week, this list was of "Scariest Moments in Non-Horror Movies."  I thought that might be a pretty interesting way to waste a few minutes, so I clicked on it.  There were a couple of good choices from movies that rock (The Bourne Ultimatum, Raiders of the Lost Ark) and several from movies I'd never seen or heard of before.  Then I came across the entry that really caught my attention: #18 An Inconvenient Truth.  (Here's the link if you want to check it out.)

What caught my attention, other than seeing a documentary film on a list of scariest moments?  This sentence:

"I was most frightened by the montage of graphics illustrating the effect that rising waters, brought on by the melting glaciers, will have on land masses around the world -- major portions of China, India, Florida, California and Manhattan are shown to be swallowed by the ocean."

For a fleeting moment, the blackness of my Hate Week-infused soul blotted out any environmentalist leanings I have, and I smiled as I contemplated the only pro about global warming.

Go Dawgs!

Will

Please read the article below and view the attached video.

http://www.ajc.com/uga/content/sports/uga/stories/2009/02/23/georgia_track_lawrence.html

Then walk down the street and offer that young man a scholarship as a returner.

Seriously, if you have not seen the video of this kid, Torrin Lawrence, blowing the doors off of his Gator rival on the last leg of the 4x400 relay after being saddled with being 10 meters behind him at the handoff, watch it and drool.  Maybe Florida's anchor man just ran out of gas, but still...dang.

I'm sure he wouldn't fit into our offense as well as the Harvin/Rainey/Demps creature does into the Gators', but couldn't we at least give him a shot on special teams?

A thought occurred to me last night as I watched the Chosen One win another game with what might be the most irritating play of all time, the jump pass:

Stafford and Tebow have been compared to one another since they started their college careers, which was natural since they were ranked either the number 1, 2, or 3 QB depending on which recruiting site you checked, and they wound up playing for rival schools.

I don't think that anyone would argue that Tebow has had a more successful college career than Stafford (and if you would, you are a hopeless homer and I salute you).

Stafford has had to watch as Tebow gathered all of the honors that he himself no doubt dreamed of when he enrolled at UGA: a Heisman, a NC (not two, Tebowites; the first one was Leak's), and of course, the constant tongue-bathing of his scrotal area by assorted members of the press.  Stafford has always done an admirable job maintaining that he admires Tebow's ability and that Heismans and NC aren't really that important to him, but you have to think Tebow's success and his (relative) lack of it bothers him.

Tebow, on the other hand, despite all of his accolades and accomplishments and media adoration, apparently still can't break into the 1st or 2nd rounds of the draft.  There's no question that this bothers him, as evidenced by his confrontation with Todd McShay (or whatever recruiting guru it was) about why he would be drafted so low.

My thought was this: Do you think it bugs Stafford more that he didn't have Tebow's success, or do you think it bugs Tebow more that he (probably) won't be drafted as high as Stafford?

For those who think that Mark Richt may be burying his head in the sand with regards to the difficulties of this season and a particular assistant, here is an interesting quote from AD Damon Evans (from David Hale's blog http://ugadogsblog.blogspot.com/ ):

That's a hard question because I tell people and I use this with our coaches and staff I call it the blind spot. The blind spot is the difference between the perception you have of yourself and the perceptions others have of you. That's your blind spot, and sometimes our blind spot gets a little bit too big. We perceive ourselves as being everything OK, but everyone else is perceiving us to be (worse). The difference between the two is our blind spot. Perception is reality. Sometimes it doesn't matter where we think we are, what matters is how other people perceive us.

Maybe we gripe because of BS like this:

If Oklahoma and Texas win out, and Penn State and Alabama each lose a game, is there any BCS regulation preventing an Oklahoma-Texas rematch in the BCS championship game?
--Jason Denis, Cochrane, Alberta

Nope.

That's from Stewart Mandel's mailbag for this week.

And I also just heard Robert (is it Smith?) on College Football Live respond to a viewer e-mail by saying that he didn't have a problem with Oklahoma facing Texas in the BCS championship game if they both won out.

Did I miss something?  Aren't Oklahoma and Texas in the same division in the Big 12?  Doesn't that mean that if Texas wins out, Oklahoma couldn't win their division (and vice versa)?  And didn't every pundit and his brother say just last season that Georgia shouldn't be in the title game BECAUSE IT DIDN'T WIN ITS OWN DIVISION, MUCH LESS ITS OWN CONFERENCE?