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GEORGIA <strong>vs</strong> KENTUCKY<br />
PLAYERS TO WATCH | 14<br />
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FROM THE INTERN: COBY SERINA | 20<br />
A VIEW FROM … LEXINGTON | 22<br />
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GAMEDAY PHOTOS | 30<br />
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WALLY’S BOYS PHOTOS | 50<br />
PROUST Q&A: JOHN MANLY | 52<br />
GEORGIA’S GRAND COUPLES: ALICE<br />
AND JOHN SANDS | 53<br />
MORE SPORTS<br />
HAMILTON CULPEPPER | 57<br />
STATS THAT MATTER | 58<br />
FROM THE FIELD | 60<br />
BUTLER’S PLAYERS OF THE GAME | 61<br />
JD’S TOP 12 | 62<br />
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ISSUE 8: KENTUCKY<br />
October 3, 2023<br />
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ON JACKSON MUSCHAMP<br />
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JACKSON MUSCHAMP<br />
QUARTERBACK #16<br />
Jackson Muschamp was an<br />
outstanding high school<br />
quarterback in South<br />
Carolina, where he won<br />
three consecutive state<br />
championships at Hammond<br />
School, playing defensive back initially<br />
and then moving to quarterback for<br />
the last two titles. After committing to<br />
Colorado State in 2020, he chose to<br />
become a preferred walk-on at <strong>Georgia</strong><br />
where his father, Will Muschamp, is<br />
co-defensive coordinator for the Bulldogs.<br />
A Consumer Economics major, Jackson<br />
is a member of Kappa Alpha and highly<br />
regarded among the coaches for being a<br />
true student-athlete. He has the same<br />
competitive fire that his dad had as a<br />
defensive back for the Bulldogs.<br />
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VANCE LEAVY<br />
EDITOR IN CHIEF<br />
After surviving the Auburn barnburner, it’s time to light up the Cats and <strong>Sanford</strong>!<br />
Wowsers, what a barnburner it was on the Plains<br />
this past Saturday as Kirby’s Dawgs had to dig<br />
deep to secure the victory over Auburn. The<br />
play on the field certainly wasn’t perfection,<br />
but thankfully neither the team, nor the terrific Red and Black<br />
fans in attendance ever panicked. Instead, collectively they all<br />
just kept chopping wood. Final result … Dawgs 27 Tigers 20.<br />
It truly was a battle in Jordan-Hare Stadium, so I would be<br />
remiss not to give the home team and the Auburn faithful a tip<br />
of the hat. They were ready to play from the opening whistle and<br />
really did enough to win the game. However, that wasn’t meant<br />
to be thanks to Brock Bowers’ dynamic performance, which was<br />
complimented by the steady play of the Dawgs’ signal caller,<br />
Carson Beck.<br />
Leading up to the game, I told folks that we would learn a ton<br />
about Carson due<br />
to the fact that he<br />
was making his road<br />
game start. And<br />
like always, when<br />
things are going War<br />
Eagle’s way, Jordan-<br />
Hare is probably the<br />
loudest stadium in<br />
the SEC. And I assure<br />
you the place was<br />
rocking the entire<br />
game. Nonetheless,<br />
our Dawgs stepped<br />
up, including freshman placekicker Peyton Woodring who was<br />
true on all his kicks.<br />
Not surprisingly, Kevin Butler (page 61) named Brock (offensive)<br />
and Peyton (special teams) as his players of the week. KB also<br />
tabbed Javon Bullard as his defensive player. It sure was nice<br />
to have No. 22 back on the field since he means so much to<br />
the <strong>Georgia</strong> defense. And the same for Ladd McConkey, who<br />
returned for the first time this season. And Kevin’s Unsung Dawg<br />
of the Week is extra special this week as it goes to his father, Joe.<br />
Our thoughts and prayers are with the Butlers during this time.<br />
Next up for our Dawgs is a red hot <strong>Kentucky</strong> team that arrives to<br />
<strong>Sanford</strong> Stadium undefeated. The success Mark Stoops continues<br />
to have at Big Blue is so impressive. And you can bet his team<br />
will be ready to play. They are always physical and always well<br />
prepared by an excellent coaching staff. It’s time to buckle up<br />
Bulldog Nation because Saturday’s game is guaranteed to be<br />
another slobber knocker.<br />
This issue of BI will get you ready. While it was hot as Hades in<br />
Auburn, it sure was a blast taking fan photos (pages 30-44) at the<br />
game. And thankfully, everyone in the photos are smiling, which<br />
was looking oh so questionable for most of the game.<br />
In our Social section (pages 25-54), enjoy our regular features …<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> Girls (Olivia Bienvenu Massie), Proust Q&A (John Manly),<br />
A GREAT DAY IN AUBURN FOR PEYTON WOODRING AND THE SMARTS<br />
(WESTON, KIRBY, JULIA, MARY BETH)<br />
PHOTOS BY: TONY WALSH/GEORGIA ATHLETICS<br />
MixTape (Chandler<br />
Call) and Grand<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> Couples<br />
(Alice and John<br />
Sanders). So many<br />
great Bulldogs,<br />
who are all so neat<br />
and interesting<br />
… touchdown<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong>!!!<br />
Finally, Hamilton<br />
Culpepper is back<br />
in this issue with<br />
a terrific interview<br />
with PGA golfer<br />
Brian Harman (page 57). While Team USA fell short at the Ryder<br />
Cup, Brian played well and represented both the state of <strong>Georgia</strong><br />
and UGA with class. What an awesome year it has been for<br />
Harman. Congrats on your continued success.<br />
That’s going to do it for me. Like everyone who made the roadie<br />
to Auburn, I’m plumb tuckered out on this Sunday evening.<br />
However, it is so worth it as our Dawgs’ magic continues. See you<br />
on Saturday night. Let’s light up the Cats and <strong>Sanford</strong> in high<br />
fashion. Go Dawgs!!<br />
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October 19, 2019 was a bad day, but helped these Dawg rise like a Phoenix<br />
It rained and rained and rained and<br />
never stopped. The rain started<br />
sometime between 7 a.m. and 8<br />
a.m. in the morning. It went until<br />
sometime between midnight and 1:00<br />
a.m. Never relenting. On a scale of 1 to 10,<br />
with a 10 being a deluge, it was between a<br />
7 and an 8 all morning, all day and all night<br />
long. I’ve never experienced or witnessed<br />
a rainstorm last that long with that much<br />
of a constant downpour in Athens.<br />
Of course, the next day was gorgeous, as<br />
was the lovely day before.<br />
The date was Saturday, October 19, 2019.<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> and <strong>Kentucky</strong> played football<br />
that night. Kirby Smart’s powerhouse<br />
program had a meteoric rise, winning the<br />
Southeastern Conference and playing<br />
for the national title in 2017, and sniffing<br />
something similar in 2018. The Bulldogs<br />
of 2019 had gotten off to a 5-0 start,<br />
highlighted by wins over Notre Dame<br />
and Tennessee. But then something bad<br />
happened.<br />
South Carolina came into Athens after an<br />
open date, while the Dogs were winning<br />
the Saturday night prior in Knoxville, and<br />
the Gamecocks upset <strong>Georgia</strong> 20-17 in<br />
double overtime. The Bulldogs turned<br />
the football over four times and missed<br />
two field goals. During <strong>Georgia</strong>’s run of six<br />
straight top ten finishes from 2017-2022,<br />
it was the most head scratching setback. It<br />
wasn’t Alabama or LSU, it was a Gamecock<br />
team coached by Will Muschamp that<br />
headed to Athens as a 20-point underdog.<br />
By no means did that loss do anything to<br />
dissuade the moment of the juggernaut<br />
Kirby Smart was building, it was a bump in<br />
the road. But it hurt.<br />
And it was a nooner. Losing the noon<br />
kickoff is awful. Especially when you’re<br />
in the top five and a three touchdown<br />
favorite. Makes it hard to watch any<br />
football the rest of the day and night. You<br />
just want to move on.<br />
After our postgame show, my friends<br />
Amy and Gordon Burnett, were there at<br />
Hotel Indigo, and we wanted to catch up. I<br />
was awful. Completely consumed by what<br />
had just happened, how that one had<br />
gotten away.<br />
Next up was the <strong>Kentucky</strong> game, and<br />
then a brutal November schedule of<br />
Florida, Missouri, a trip to Auburn, Texas<br />
A&M and then the Jackets at what is now<br />
historic Hyundai Field.<br />
I just remember thinking, the program is in<br />
great shape, we’re going to soon get to the<br />
mountaintop with Kirby leading the way, but<br />
this is probably going to be a 9-3 year.<br />
Well, against the Wildcats on the rainiest<br />
of rainy days in Athens, it was tied 0-0<br />
at the half and nobody was happy.<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> was favored by more than two<br />
touchdowns, but stuck in the muck and<br />
mud with the Wildcats. My - at the time -<br />
daily talk show co-host Chris Brame, who<br />
usually had the job of calming me, texted<br />
and said “a loss is very much in play here.”<br />
Yikes. He was right.<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> had a lightning fast<br />
quarterback, Lynn Bowden, and <strong>Georgia</strong>’s<br />
top threat was D’Andre Swift, the<br />
sensational tailback. I remember thinking,<br />
one of these guys is going to break a long<br />
run, and that’s going to be the difference.<br />
Fortunately it was Swift who broke one. He<br />
went 38 yards to pay dirt. <strong>Georgia</strong> added<br />
another score in the third quarter and led<br />
14-0 heading into the final period. The<br />
Bulldogs came up with a red zone stand,<br />
later completed the lone pass attempt of<br />
the second half and tacked on a fourth<br />
quarter touchdown to win 21-0.<br />
Having to fight and scrap for that win was<br />
the best medicine for the Bulldogs. If it<br />
would have been a typical picturesque mid<br />
October Saturday, the Bulldogs might have<br />
won 38-10, and it would have seemed easy.<br />
But facing and responding to that adversity<br />
on the heels of that loss to the Gamecocks,<br />
it got <strong>Georgia</strong> back on track.<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> incredibly ran that November<br />
gauntlet with a perfect 5-for-5 mark,<br />
beat Florida, Mizzou, Auburn, the Aggies<br />
and the Jackets. Unfortunately, <strong>Georgia</strong><br />
lost to LSU’s amazing eventual national<br />
champions in the SEC Championship<br />
Game, but the Bulldogs rallied and beat<br />
Baylor in the Sugar Bowl to finish 12-2 and<br />
No. 4 nationally.<br />
That loss to South Carolina in 2019 is<br />
the last time the Bulldogs fell at home.<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> has won 22 straight on Dooley<br />
Field in <strong>Sanford</strong> Stadium since, two off<br />
the school record 24 victories in a row<br />
Between the Hedges from 1980-83.<br />
After the loss to the Gamecocks, that<br />
disappointment served as the organic<br />
filaments that helped the Bulldogs rise like<br />
the Phoenix from the ashes - this winning<br />
streak beginning on that rain soaked<br />
Saturday against <strong>Kentucky</strong>.<br />
Along the way, the Bulldogs have<br />
famously won back-to-back national<br />
championships. The cornerstones for<br />
winning at the national and conference<br />
level, take care of business at home and<br />
in-state. Well 22 in a row Between the<br />
Hedges, and a 5-0 record against the<br />
North Avenue Trade School since 2017<br />
check those boxes.<br />
Mark Stoops may have his best team yet<br />
at <strong>Kentucky</strong>, better potentially than his<br />
10-3 Wildcats of 2018 and 2021. Along<br />
the way, Stoops’ Cats have broken some<br />
streaks and flipped some series, most<br />
notably ending a 31-year losing streak to<br />
Florida in 2018.<br />
The numbers on the board now are 22<br />
and 13, 22 straight at home for the Dogs<br />
and 13 in a row over <strong>Kentucky</strong>.<br />
Hopefully there’s no nonstop rainstorm<br />
Saturday night, but it will take that kind<br />
of grit, grind and guile, and of course a<br />
raucous crowd of over 90,000 strong, to<br />
extend those streaks here in these current<br />
Good Ole’ Days.<br />
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<strong>Georgia</strong> is coming off a thrilling 27-20 victory at Auburn<br />
that improved the two-time reigning national champions<br />
to improve to 5-0 on the season and 2-0 in the SEC. The<br />
Bulldogs have won 38 of the last 39 games, and are riding a<br />
school record 22 game winning streak. <strong>Georgia</strong> has won 32<br />
consecutive regular season games and 21 straight regular<br />
season SEC contests. The Bulldogs have won 22 in a row in<br />
Athens.<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> is riding high. The Wildcats rolled past Florida 33-<br />
14 this past weekend in Lexington, upping its record to 5-0<br />
and 2-0 in the league. Sensational tailback Ray Davis ran for<br />
280 yards and three touchdowns on 26 carries, and had a nine<br />
yard scoring catch for four total TDs, as the Wildcats delivered<br />
before a sellout crowd in the Commonwealth. The Wildcats<br />
opened the season with three straight non conference wins<br />
over Ball State, Eastern <strong>Kentucky</strong> and Akron. <strong>Kentucky</strong> took its<br />
SEC opener over Vanderbilt by a 45-28 margin. No doubt the<br />
victory over the Gators stamped <strong>Kentucky</strong> legitimate.<br />
The victory is <strong>Kentucky</strong>’s third straight over Florida, making<br />
an astounding turn in the series. Florida had beaten <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
for 31 straight years before the Wildcats won in Gainesville in<br />
2018.<br />
Now the Wildcats try to break all those streaks for <strong>Georgia</strong><br />
on Saturday in Athens. That includes the series between<br />
the Wildcats and Bulldogs. <strong>Georgia</strong> has beaten <strong>Kentucky</strong> 13<br />
consecutive times, including a gritty 16-6 triumph for Kirby<br />
Smart’s Dogs on a frigid late November Saturday in Lexington.<br />
While Davis was shining for <strong>Kentucky</strong> against Florida,<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong>’s All-American tight end Brock Bowers had a<br />
sensational performance on the Plains. He pulled in eight<br />
catches for 158 yards, showcasing a wide array of skills<br />
and grabs. Bowers 40-yard touchdown catch and run from<br />
quarterback Carson Beck put <strong>Georgia</strong> in front 27-20 late in the<br />
fourth quarter.<br />
Both the Bulldogs and Wildcats will focus much of<br />
their defensive gameplan into trying to slow down two<br />
tremendous players who could certainly continue to play<br />
themselves into Heisman Trophy consideration.<br />
There are only three teams in the SEC that escaped the five<br />
Saturday month of September unscathed - the Bulldogs, the<br />
Wildcats and Missouri. The Tigers from Mizzou host the LSU<br />
Tigers Saturday. The winner in Athens gets an October leg up<br />
in the race for the SEC East and a berth in Atlanta.<br />
Red zone woes were a problem in <strong>Georgia</strong>’s win over South<br />
Carolina. Turnovers plagued <strong>Georgia</strong> last week at Jordan-Hare<br />
Stadium, and the week prior against UAB. But Bowers, a pair<br />
of clutch fourth down stops, and excellent performances<br />
from Beck and freshman kicker Peyton Woodring keyed the<br />
comeback victory over Auburn. Like the South Carolina game,<br />
the Bulldogs fell behind by double digits in the first half, but<br />
found a way.<br />
Smart has built his alma mater into a national power, and<br />
his team will need a complete performance Saturday night to<br />
hold off the red hot Big Blue.<br />
BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 13 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
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KIRBY SMART (HC) - Coach Smart has an infinite amount of respect for<br />
Mark Stoops and the job he has done since taking the Wildcat head coaching<br />
position in 2013. Nobody understands the challenge that the Bulldogs face<br />
this weekend more than the <strong>Georgia</strong> head coach. In two SEC games, <strong>Georgia</strong><br />
has come back from 10+ point deficits. <strong>Kentucky</strong> is coming off a dominant win<br />
against Florida, and Stoops is looking to beat the Bulldogs for the first time<br />
since Coach Smart has taken over. Expect Coach Smart to shore up the <strong>Georgia</strong><br />
rush defense and find a way to limit a balanced <strong>Kentucky</strong> offensive attack this<br />
Saturday in Athens.<br />
BROCK BOWERS<br />
TIGHT END<br />
PHOTO BY: ROB SAYE/BI<br />
CARSON BECK (QB #15) - <strong>Georgia</strong>’s offensive success lies within the hands<br />
of the junior quarterback. Beck, coming into the <strong>Kentucky</strong> game, has thrown<br />
for 1,487 yards, seven touchdowns, and two interceptions. Over the past four<br />
seasons, <strong>Georgia</strong> has struggled to successfully air it out against the Wildcat<br />
defense. In 2022, Stetson Bennett threw for just 116 yards and an interception.<br />
Beck will need to sustain drives and keep the Wildcat defense on the field in<br />
order to control the game against a difficult SEC East opponent.<br />
DAIJUN EDWARDS (RB #30) - Edwards has been a breath of fresh air<br />
since returning from injury. The <strong>Georgia</strong> back, in three games, has rushed for<br />
260 yards and five touchdowns. The Colquitt County product added two critical<br />
touchdowns this past weekend against Auburn, his second consecutive game<br />
with two or more touchdowns. Success for <strong>Georgia</strong> starts with running the<br />
football. Edwards will be given a multitude of opportunities and will look to<br />
alleviate the pressure from first year starter Carson Beck.<br />
BROCK BOWERS (TE #19) - Big games call for big time players. There is no<br />
better player in the country than Bowers, and the junior looks to torment the<br />
Wildcat defense just like he did the last time <strong>Kentucky</strong> came to Athens in 2021.<br />
Bowers is coming off a monster performance against Auburn where he compiled<br />
157 yards with 121 of those coming in the fourth quarter. Bowers also scored<br />
the game winning touchdown as he scampered away from numerous Tiger<br />
defenders for a 40-yard score. Over the past two games, Bowers has 278 yards<br />
receiving on 18 catches and three touchdowns. <strong>Georgia</strong>’s offense will revolve<br />
around 19 once again this Saturday.<br />
MYKEL WILLIAMS<br />
DEFENSIVE END<br />
MYKEL WILLIAMS (DE #13) - Williams is <strong>Georgia</strong>’s most dominant pass<br />
rusher and most skilled defensive lineman. <strong>Georgia</strong> has not been efficient at<br />
getting to the quarterback this season, having racked up just eight total sacks<br />
through five games. <strong>Kentucky</strong> has a balanced offensive attack led by a veteran<br />
PHOTO BY: ROB SAYE/BI<br />
BY JEFF DANTZLER<br />
In 1987, <strong>Georgia</strong>’s 17-14 come-from-behind victory<br />
over <strong>Kentucky</strong>, Lars Tate scored the go-ahead<br />
touchdown and Rusty Beasley sealed the win with a<br />
clinching interception.<br />
All-SEC safety Kirby Smart had two tremendous<br />
games in <strong>Georgia</strong> triumphs over the Wildcats,<br />
picking off No. 1 overall draft pick Tim Couch twice<br />
in 1997 and twice again in 1998.<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong>’s 1982 SEC champions fell behind 14-3<br />
in Lexington, but rallied for a 27-14 victory, led<br />
by John Lastinger, who threw three TD passes,<br />
including a 64-yarder to Herschel Walker.<br />
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transfer quarterback as well as the top rusher in the SEC.<br />
Williams will not only be relied upon to disrupt the Wildcat<br />
offense in both the passing attack but will also be needed to<br />
limit Ray Davis and the <strong>Kentucky</strong> ground game.<br />
SMAEL MONDON (LB #2) - One of <strong>Georgia</strong>’s advantages<br />
lies within their inside linebackers. Mondon is a monster<br />
athlete who is currently <strong>Georgia</strong>’s leading tackler with 25 total<br />
tackles on the season. Through Mondon’s time as a starter,<br />
he has found success blitzing, something Glenn Schumann<br />
loves to do with his inside backers. Against Auburn, Mondon<br />
found a way to get into the Tiger backfield and bring down<br />
Payton Throne for his first of the season. Expect Mondon to<br />
once again be all over the field against a very difficult Wildcat<br />
offense.<br />
SMAEL MONDON<br />
LINEBACKER<br />
MALAKI STARKS (S #24) - Starks has been a model of<br />
consistency for the <strong>Georgia</strong> secondary. Starks sealed the deal<br />
on the Plains with an impressive fourth quarter interception.<br />
Starks, who is excellent in coverage, is also exceptional as a<br />
tackler. The <strong>Georgia</strong> safety has made 18 total tackles in 2023<br />
which is currently third most on the team. Starks will be a<br />
critical piece in <strong>Georgia</strong>’s defensive scheme again this Saturday<br />
and will look to add another interception to his name.<br />
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MARK STOOPS (HC) - Coach Stoops, renowned for his reputation<br />
and motivational prowess, has instilled a winning mentality in this<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Wildcats football program and has grown the team into a true<br />
SEC threat in his time in Lexington. His leadership has propelled <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
to new heights, earning notice from the college football sphere after<br />
proving themselves in their victory against a ranked Florida. The Wildcats<br />
may be on the verge of something special, and Stoops will be doing<br />
everything to keep it going against the Dawgs.<br />
BARION BROWN (WR #7) - Though the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Wildcat offense<br />
is known for their stout run game, that doesn’t mean you can disregard<br />
what they have to offer through the air. Barion Brown is the speediest<br />
option at the receiver position, and given the Cats’ liking for the run,<br />
a play action shot to him may wind up hurting the Dawgs on defense.<br />
Brown’s longest reception of the season has been for 55 yards, so he<br />
DEVIN LEARY<br />
QUARTERBACK<br />
definitely has it in him. He’s also tied for <strong>Kentucky</strong> quarterback Devin<br />
Leary’s most targeted receiver with 19 receptions this year.<br />
PHOTO BY: KENTUCKY ATHLETICS<br />
RAY DAVIS (RB #1) - 280 yards, that’s how much Ray Davis ran for<br />
against the Florida Gators last Saturday. Just him. It’s rare to see that kind<br />
of production against an FBS opponent, let alone a team in the SEC, but<br />
Davis did it nonetheless. On the season, he now has 594 yards, averaging<br />
7.8 yards per carry. What stands out with this guy is the way the Wildcats<br />
like to lean on him. Davis has over three times as many rush attempts<br />
as JuhTain McClain, <strong>Kentucky</strong>’s second leading back, with 76 to his 21.<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> allowed 243 rushing yards to Auburn last week, so that should<br />
inspire <strong>Kentucky</strong> to lean on the ground attack.<br />
DEVIN LEARY (QB #13) - Transferring from North Carolina State,<br />
Leary has made an immediate difference with the Wildcats, having<br />
thrown for 1,129 yards and 10 touchdowns so far this season. One thing<br />
the Wildcats do well is protect their quarterback, having allowed only<br />
four sacks to this point in the year. This protection in the pocket gives<br />
Leary the extra second he needs to make plays.<br />
TAYVION ROBINSON<br />
WIDE RECEIVER<br />
PHOTO BY: KENTUCKY ATHLETICS<br />
TAYVION ROBINSON (WR #9) - Robinson’s numbers speak for<br />
themselves. He’s the leading receiver for <strong>Kentucky</strong> with 308 receiving<br />
yards, averaging 16.2 yards a catch, and like fellow receiver Barion<br />
Brown, has a long of 56 yards. That 16.2 yards per catch is going to be<br />
BY JEFF DANTZLER<br />
In the 1984 NBA Draft, <strong>Kentucky</strong> had two of the top<br />
six picks … Sam Bowie went second overall to the<br />
Portland Trail Blazers and Mel Turpin was the sixth<br />
selection by the Washington Bullets.<br />
One of the greatest players in <strong>Kentucky</strong> football<br />
history, Babe Parilli was an All-American for Bear<br />
Bryant’s Wildcats in 1950 and 1951, leading Big Blue<br />
to Sugar and Cotton Bowl victories.<br />
Five different coaches have led <strong>Kentucky</strong>’s storied<br />
basketball program to national championships:<br />
Adolph Rupp, Joe B. Hall, Rick Pitino, Tubby Smith<br />
and John Calipari.<br />
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dangerous. As mentioned earlier, he and Brown are tied with the<br />
most receptions on the team, so that means Robinson is going to<br />
get plenty of opportunities to showcase his explosive capability.<br />
MAXWELL HAIRSTON (DB #31) - Maxwell Hairston is an<br />
impressive athlete leading the team in tackles from the cornerback<br />
position. Not safety, but the cornerback position. Naturally, he has<br />
good straight speed and has developed his change of direction<br />
since coming to college. It’s those traits that have helped him rack<br />
up 33 tackles and two pick-sixes this season. 10 of those tackles<br />
came against Florida, a season high for the Michigan native.<br />
Hairston’s going to be coming in hot when the Wildcats take the<br />
field this Saturday.<br />
MAXWELL HAIRSTON<br />
DEFENSIVE BACK<br />
PHOTO BY: KENTUCKY ATHLETICS<br />
TREVIN WALLACE (LB #32) - Wallace had a significant impact<br />
in the Wildcat’s 33-14 rout of Florida, making an interception that<br />
led to a touchdown. Beyond that, Wallace has been a consistent<br />
source of production for the Wildcat defense, ranking second on<br />
the team with 27 tackles, 3.5 sacks, and a forced fumble, in addition<br />
to the stats he accumulated against Florida. Wallace is actually a<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> native - a highly touted prospect from Jesup. He will have<br />
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THE<br />
FIVE<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> <strong>vs</strong>. <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
BY: JEFF DANTZLER<br />
THE ALWAYS FORMIDABLE<br />
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1. Devin Leary Addition - Our <strong>Kentucky</strong> insider Darrell Bird gives a<br />
great take on the Wildcats new quarterback in “A View From.” The new Wildcats<br />
quarterback is outstanding, maybe an upgrade from Will Levis, who was very<br />
good. You know <strong>Kentucky</strong> is always going to be big and tough and physical. I<br />
always remember Coach Dooley and <strong>Georgia</strong>’s players saying that you knew you<br />
would be in a physical battle when playing <strong>Kentucky</strong>. Mark Stoops is an excellent<br />
defensive coach and <strong>Kentucky</strong> is strong in the line of scrimmage. The Wildcats also<br />
have a terrific quarterback who can deliver consistency and big plays.<br />
2. Stoops - <strong>Kentucky</strong>’s head coach has done a terrific job in his decade long<br />
tenure for Big Blue. This is Stoops 11th season, and he’s led the Wildcats to seven<br />
straight bowl games. His first year, the Wildcats went 2-10, then improved to 5-7<br />
in each of the next two. Since then, with the exception of the Covid year when<br />
they went 5-6, it’s been a winning record for the ‘Cats. Most notably in 2018 and<br />
2021 when <strong>Kentucky</strong> posted 10-3 records and Citrus Bowl victories over Penn<br />
State and Iowa. Stoops’ Wildcats broke the 31-game losing streak to Florida in<br />
2018. Now his team tries to make some magic happen in Athens.<br />
3. Dawgs Decade - <strong>Georgia</strong> is riding a 13-game winning streak over<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong>. The Bulldogs “ran the decade” of the 2010s against <strong>Kentucky</strong>, going<br />
10 for 10.. The Bulldogs last lost to <strong>Kentucky</strong> in 2009, when the Wildcats won<br />
34-27 at <strong>Sanford</strong> Stadium. <strong>Georgia</strong> also carries a 22-game home winning<br />
streak into this battle - a streak that began on a rainy Saturday night (and all<br />
day) with a 21-0 win over <strong>Kentucky</strong> in 2019. The school record for consecutive<br />
victories Between the Hedges is 24, set from 1980-1983.<br />
4. Yeah Yeah Yeah - One of the most memorable Bulldog victories over<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> came in 1978, as <strong>Georgia</strong> rallied from a 16-0 deficit to defeat the<br />
Wildcats 17-16 in Lexington. Rex Robinson delivered the game winner in<br />
the closing seconds, and Larry Munson was at his very best. For the Master,<br />
that one and the 1982 victory over Auburn that clinched a third straight SEC<br />
Championship, was the best the great one ever called. It was a crystal clear, cold<br />
night, and that WSB signal was bouncing from Miami to Maine. College Football<br />
fans used to surf the radio dials at night like we jump around on TV now. A lot<br />
of people heard Larry Munson deliver an epic performance, with a thrilling final<br />
drive that culminated with Rex’s kick when “the whole stadium’s standing, no,<br />
some of ‘em are upside down, but they’re tryin’ to stand. “Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!”<br />
5. 97 and 98 for 16 - Two other favorite <strong>Georgia</strong> victories over <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
came in 1997 and 1998 when the Bulldogs current two-time reigning national<br />
championship head coach was an All-SEC safety for Jim Donnan’s Dogs. Both of<br />
those <strong>Kentucky</strong> teams were led by quarterback Tim Couch, the top pick in the<br />
1999 NFL Draft, running coach Hal Mumme’s Air Raid offense. In 1997, stellar<br />
tailback Robert Edwards scored on an 80-yard touchdown run in the rain. Right<br />
before the half, Ronald Bailey returned an interception 37 yards for a touchdown.<br />
It was one of three Couch interceptions on the day. The other two were picked<br />
off by Kirby Smart. Edwards scored on a 44-yard run that put the game away, as<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> prevailed 23-13. The next year in Lexington, <strong>Georgia</strong> won a 28-26 thriller.<br />
The Dogs fell behind 10-0, but turned the game on a goal line stand stop by<br />
Orantes Grant. The Dogs got going and built a 28-20 lead. The Wildcats scored, but<br />
the Dogs stopped the two-pointer. It looked like <strong>Georgia</strong> had run out the clock,<br />
but fumbled in the final minute while picking up the first down deep in Wildcat<br />
territory. Couch drove <strong>Kentucky</strong> into field goal range, but the snap exchange<br />
was botched and the Cats never got the kick off. Whew. Along with Grant,<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong>’s defensive MVP was Kirby Smart, who recorded two more picks against<br />
the eventual top pick. On one of those picks, he just got tripped up, negating a<br />
chance at a long return. <strong>Georgia</strong>’s future Hall of Fame head coach was a terrific<br />
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Whenever <strong>Georgia</strong><br />
has a tough game,<br />
like the one they<br />
just had in Auburn,<br />
Coach Kirby Smart tends to say<br />
he was able to learn something<br />
about his team that day. This 27-20<br />
victory over the Auburn Tigers, the<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> Bulldogs’ longest standing<br />
rival, was yet another testament<br />
to that. Smart credited this team<br />
as being “resilient as hell,” to quote<br />
him from his postgame presser.<br />
Now that may just sound like<br />
coach speak, but his players had<br />
something to say about it, too.<br />
After the game, adding to that<br />
mantra of resilience, <strong>Georgia</strong> safety<br />
Javon Bullard said that “This team<br />
fights … We’re a relentless team.<br />
We’re a team that doesn’t quit until<br />
the final whistle.”<br />
It’s interesting to break down<br />
because you can’t quantify resilience.<br />
You can’t measure the amount of<br />
fight a team may or may not have,<br />
but it’s precisely that metric which<br />
is defining the Bulldogs’ season.<br />
The level of resilience the 2023<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> football team possesses is<br />
unparalleled to what any other team<br />
in the country has dealt with, and it<br />
continues to propel this team further<br />
into the season.<br />
The seed of this characteristic was<br />
planted during the 2022 Missouri<br />
game, where the Dawgs didn’t<br />
have a lead until the fourth quarter<br />
against an unranked Missouri<br />
Tigers team. It was seen again<br />
in the Peach Bowl game against<br />
Ohio State later that season, where<br />
the Dawgs overcame a 14-point<br />
deficit to advance and eventually<br />
won the College Football Playoff<br />
Championship Game, securing<br />
their second consecutive national<br />
championship.<br />
When the Dawgs played against<br />
South Carolina in <strong>Sanford</strong> Stadium<br />
earlier this season, they entered<br />
halftime trailing 14-3. How did they<br />
respond? They displayed resilience<br />
and came back to shut out the<br />
Gamecocks for the entire second<br />
half of the game while scoring 21<br />
points to stage a comeback and<br />
secure their first conference victory<br />
of the season. That’s it. That’s a key<br />
characteristic of this team, and we<br />
witnessed it in action at Jordan-<br />
Hare Stadium against Auburn.<br />
At this point, it’s obvious that the<br />
2023 <strong>Georgia</strong> team doesn’t have<br />
the same level of talent they’ve had<br />
in years past, especially in 2021 and<br />
2022. If they did, <strong>Georgia</strong> wouldn’t<br />
find themselves in these situations.<br />
For perspective, the UGA versus<br />
Auburn score was 34-10 in favor<br />
of <strong>Georgia</strong> in 2021 and 42-10 in<br />
2022. Furthermore, their injury<br />
report resembles a five-year-old’s<br />
Christmas list in length. Prominent<br />
talents like Amarius Mims and<br />
Branson Robinson were sidelined, and<br />
you could observe the impact on the<br />
Dawgs’ inability to establish the run<br />
against the Tigers last Saturday.<br />
Kirby’s said it before: if you<br />
can’t run, it’s going to make<br />
throwing the ball all the more<br />
difficult. The stats proved it.<br />
Carson Beck barely threw for<br />
more than 75 yards in the first<br />
half. It wasn’t until the game<br />
started coming down to the<br />
wire that <strong>Georgia</strong> began to dial<br />
in – especially Brock Bowers. In<br />
the second half, <strong>Georgia</strong> threw<br />
for 236 passing yards, scored 17<br />
points, and forced a turnover to<br />
secure their victory against the<br />
Tigers. It wasn’t pretty, but as<br />
Bullard said after the fact, “A win<br />
is a win in my book.”<br />
The <strong>Georgia</strong> defense may allow<br />
more than the fans are used to,<br />
and the offense may not show up<br />
until the second half, but one thing<br />
that’s for certain is these guys are<br />
going to find a way to win. I’d bet<br />
you they find a way in every game<br />
for the rest of the season.<br />
Kirby Smart and his team are<br />
going to keep chopping next week<br />
when facing a physical <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
team at home. That game probably<br />
won’t be pretty either; the Wildcats<br />
ran for 329 yards against Florida<br />
this past weekend. But again, one<br />
thing these <strong>Georgia</strong> Bulldogs are<br />
going to do is find a way to be<br />
resilient, and with that resiliency,<br />
you can expect the Bulldogs to find<br />
a way to win.<br />
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Darrell Bird once again does a<br />
tremendous job giving us the scoop on<br />
Saturday night’s SEC battle from the<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> perspective. He does great<br />
work as the General Manager of The Cats’<br />
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always appreciative of his insight.<br />
BY JEFF DANTZLER<br />
A VIEW FROM ...<br />
lexington<br />
CAN YOU TALK ABOUT<br />
THE IMPACT DEVIN<br />
LEARY HAS HAD AT<br />
QUARTERBACK FOR<br />
KENTUCKY?<br />
Leary is finally settling into a<br />
groove at <strong>Kentucky</strong>. Folks forget<br />
he was ACC preseason player of<br />
the year before suffering a bad<br />
shoulder injury early in the 2022<br />
season. He returned sooner than<br />
expected, but there was still some<br />
rust to shake free. He’s always<br />
been great at mid-range, but the<br />
long ball was the best it’s been<br />
during UK’s SEC opening win at<br />
Vanderbilt on Sept. 23.<br />
COULD THIS BE MARK<br />
STOOPS BEST TEAM HE’S<br />
HAD AT KENTUCKY?<br />
Yes, it could be but the emphasis<br />
is on ‘could.’ Stoops was a<br />
curmudgeon throughout the<br />
three non-conference games,<br />
harping on mental mistakes,<br />
slow starts, etc. I’m convinced it’s<br />
because he knows how good this<br />
team “could” be, but it has been<br />
way too inconsistent to date.<br />
Flashes of greatness don’t lead<br />
to SEC success. But the potential<br />
absolutely is there.<br />
WHAT WOULD A WIN AT<br />
GEORGIA MEAN FOR THE<br />
PROGRAM?<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> is the path to an SEC<br />
East championship, the last<br />
East championship sadly. So for<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> it’s the final hurdle in<br />
this rebuilding process and proof<br />
that UK has arrived and deserves<br />
to be talked about with the best<br />
football teams of the league,<br />
something the rest of the SEC<br />
media has been slow to accept.<br />
OF ALL THE BIG ONES,<br />
WHAT DO YOU THINK<br />
THE BIGGEST WIN OF<br />
THE STOOPS ERA AT<br />
KENTUCKY IS?<br />
Sept. 8, 2018, when <strong>Kentucky</strong> went<br />
into The Swamp and convincingly<br />
beat Florida 27-16. It ended a<br />
horrendous 31-game losing<br />
streak to the Gators, but more<br />
importantly, it was the confidence<br />
to know <strong>Kentucky</strong> had arrived and<br />
it propelled the Wildcats to its first<br />
10-win season in 40 years.<br />
WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON<br />
GEORGIA?<br />
It feels like <strong>Georgia</strong>, like so many<br />
other SEC powers, is struggling a<br />
bit to find its way. But then again,<br />
an 85 percent <strong>Georgia</strong> is better<br />
than everyone else’s 100 percent.<br />
But it does give <strong>Kentucky</strong> a ray of<br />
hope, but also the sobering reality<br />
this may be the best, last chance<br />
to knock off the Bulldogs. UK may<br />
not win, but <strong>Georgia</strong> will know<br />
it’s been in a fight, especially from<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong>’s defense.<br />
WHAT DO THE WILDCATS<br />
NEED TO DO TO WIN?<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> will not only need to play<br />
flawlessly, something it hasn’t done<br />
to date, but it will need points from<br />
everyone – defense and special<br />
teams to go with the offense. The<br />
good news is they are very capable<br />
of doing so with three defensive<br />
touchdowns and one special teams<br />
score through four games.<br />
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE<br />
TO SEE THE SCHEDULING<br />
SET UP WITH THE<br />
LATEST ROUND OF SEC<br />
EXPANSION?<br />
I’ve been beating the drum for<br />
months for a compromise of<br />
the schedules being proposed.<br />
Instead of eight SEC games with<br />
three permanent opponents,<br />
go to eight SEC games, but<br />
with only one permanent rival.<br />
That preserves the big games<br />
– <strong>Georgia</strong>-Florida, Ole Miss-<br />
Mississippi State, Texas-Oklahoma<br />
and Alabama-Auburn – while<br />
allowing fans to see their teams<br />
against a better variety of SEC<br />
opponents on an annual basis.<br />
Nine SEC games introduces<br />
another loss for half the league<br />
and until we know how many<br />
two- or even three-loss teams get<br />
into the new 12-team playoff, I’m<br />
not budging off eight conference<br />
games.<br />
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Crab Cakes<br />
Lump crab sautéed and served over stewed corn<br />
with remoulade<br />
Stuffed Filet<br />
Stuffed with bleu cheese and port wine sauce.<br />
Served with potatoes and chef’s vegetables.<br />
Carpetbagger<br />
Topped with fried oysters and bernaise sauce.<br />
Served with potatoes and chef’s vegetables.<br />
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Redfish, oysters, shrimp and crawfish over a<br />
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BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 22 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
2023 georgia bulldogs numerical roster<br />
Provided By UGA Athletics - Subject To Change<br />
No. Name Pos. Cl. Ht. Wt. Exp. Hometown (Previous School) No. Name Pos. Cl. Ht. Wt. Exp. Hometown (Previous School)<br />
0 ^Troy Bowles ILB Fr. 6-0 220 HS Tampa, Fla. (Jesuit HS)<br />
0 #Roderick Robinson II RB Fr. 6-0 240 HS Imperial, Calif. (Lincoln HS)<br />
1 Nyland Green DB RSo. 6-1 185 1VL Covington, Ga. (Newton HS)<br />
1 Marcus Rosemy-Jacksaint WR Sr. 6-2 195 3VL Pompano Beach, Fla. (St. Thomas Aquinas HS)<br />
2 Kendall Milton RB Sr. 6-1 220 3VL Fresno, Calif. (Buchanan HS)<br />
2 Smael Mondon ILB Jr. 6-3 225 2VL Dallas, Ga. (Paulding County HS)<br />
3 Kamari Lassiter DB Jr. 6-0 180 2VL Savannah, Ga. (American Christian Acad.)<br />
3 Andrew Paul RB RFr. 5-11 218 SQ Dallas, Texas (Parish Episcopal School)<br />
4 Oscar Delp TE So. 6-5 245 1VL Cumming, Ga. (West Forsyth HS)<br />
4 #AJ Harris DB Fr. 6-1 190 HS Phenix City, Ala. (Central HS)<br />
5 #Rara Thomas WR Jr. 6-2 200 TR Eufaula, Ala. (Miss. State/Eufaula HS)<br />
5 #Raylen Wilson ILB Fr. 6-1 225 HS Tallahassee, Fla. (Lincoln HS)<br />
6 Daylen Everette DB So. 6-1 190 1VL Norfolk, Va. (IMG Academy)<br />
6 #Dominic Lovett WR Jr. 5-10 187 TR Belleville, Ill. (Missouri/East St. Louis HS)<br />
7 Marvin Jones Jr. OLB So. 6-5 250 1VL Sunrise, Fla. (American Heritage HS)<br />
7 #Lawson Luckie TE Fr. 6-3 240 HS Norcross, Ga. (Norcross HS)<br />
8 #Joenel Aguero DB Fr. 5-11 205 HS Lynn, Mass. (St. John’s Prep)<br />
9 Jackson Meeks WR Jr. 6-2 205 2VL henix City, Ala. (Central HS)<br />
9 #Justyn Rhett DB Fr. 6-0 190 HS Las Vegas, Nev. (Bishop Gorman HS)<br />
10 Jamon Dumas-Johnson ILB Jr. 6-1 245 2VL Hyattsville, Md. (St. Francis Academy)<br />
10 #Tyler Williams WR Fr. 6-3 205 HS Lakeland, Fla. (Lakeland HS)<br />
11 Arian Smith WR Jr. 6-0 185 3VL Bradley, Fla. (Lakeland HS)<br />
11 Jalon Walker ILB So. 6-2 245 1VL Salisbury, N.C. (Salisbury HS)<br />
12 Julian Humphrey DB RFr. 6-0 190 1VL Webster, Texas (Clear Lake HS)<br />
12 Brock Vandagriff QB RSo. 6-3 210 SQ Bogart, Ga. (Prince Ave. Christian School)<br />
13 #Zeed Haynes WR Fr. 6-1 170 HS Philadelphia, Pa. (North Penn HS)<br />
13 Mykel Williams DL So. 6-5 265 1VL Columbus, Ga. (Hardaway HS)<br />
14 David Daniel-Sisavanh DB Jr. 6-2 185 2VL Woodstock, Ga. (Woodstock HS)<br />
14 Gunner Stockton QB RFr. 6-1 215 SQ Tiger, Ga. (Rabun County HS)<br />
15 Carson Beck QB Jr. 6-4 220 2VL Jacksonville, Fla. (Mandarin HS)<br />
15 ^Daniel Harris DB Fr. 6-2 175 HS Miami, Fla. (Gulliver Prep HS)<br />
16 C.J. Madden OLB RFr. 6-4 240 SQ Ellenwood, Ga. (Cedar Grove HS)<br />
16 Jackson Muschamp QB Jr. 6-2 190 SQ Columbia, S.C. (Hammond School)<br />
17 #Anthony Evans III WR Fr. 5-11 165 HS Converse, Texas (Judson HS)<br />
17 Dan Jackson DB Sr. 6-1 200 2VL Gainesville, Ga. (North Hall HS)<br />
18 C.J. Smith WR RFr. 6-3 190 SQ Apopka, Fla. (Mount Dora HS)<br />
18 Xavian Sorey ILB RSo. 6-3 220 2VL Campbellton, Fla. (IMG Academy)<br />
19 Brock Bowers TE Jr. 6-4 240 2VL Napa, Calif. (Napa HS)<br />
19 Darris Smith OLB So. 6-5 240 1VL Baxley, Ga. (Appling Co. HS)<br />
20 Sevaughn Clark RB Sr. 6-1 215 2VL Dawsonville, Ga. (Dawson County HS)<br />
20 JaCorey Thomas DB So. 6-0 200 1VL Orlando, Fla. (Boone HS)<br />
22 Javon Bullard DB Jr. 5-11 195 2VL Milledgeville, Ga. (Baldwin HS)<br />
22 Branson Robinson RB So. 5-10 220 1VL Canton, Miss. (Germantown HS)<br />
23 De’Nylon Morrissette WR So. 6-1 200 1VL Stone Mountain, Ga. (North Cobb HS)<br />
23 Tykee Smith DB Sr. 5-10 205 1VL Philadelphia, Pa. (WVU / Imhotep Inst.)<br />
24 Malaki Starks DB So. 6-1 205 1VL Jefferson, Ga. (Jefferson HS)<br />
25 E.J. <strong>Light</strong>sey ILB RFr. 6-2 223 IVL Fitzgerald, Ga. (Fitzgerald HS)<br />
26 Collin Drake QB RSo. 6-1 195 SQ Ennis, Texas (Ennis HS)<br />
26 #Sam M’Pemba OLB Fr. 6-3 2 45 HS Olivette, Mo. (IMG Academy)<br />
27 Sam Bush QB Fr. 5-11 185 HS Athens, Ga. (Athens Academy)<br />
27 ^Chris Peal DB Fr. 6-1 190 HS Charlotte, N.C. (Providence Day School)<br />
28 Walter Blanchard WR Fr. 6-1 195 HS Columbus, Ga. (Brookstone)<br />
29 Luke Bennett WR RFr. 5-11 175 SQ Blackshear, Ga. (Pierce County HS)<br />
29 #Gabe Harris Jr. OLB Fr. 6-4 245 HS Thomasville, Ga. (IMG Aacdemy)<br />
30 Daijun Edwards RB Sr. 5-10 201 3VL Norman Park, Ga. (Colquitt County HS)<br />
30 Terrell Foster ILB RFr. 6-1 220 SQ Kennesaw, Ga. (IMG Academy)<br />
31 Grant Briscoe WR RFr. 6-3 190 SQ Carrollton, Ga. (Carrollton HS)<br />
31 ^Kyron Jones ATH Fr. 6-0 200 HS Charlotte, N.C. (Charlotte Christian HS)<br />
32 Chaz Chambliss OLB Jr. 6-2 250 2VL Carrollton, Ga. (Carrollton HS)<br />
32 Cash Jones RB RSo. 6-0 182 1VL Brock, Texas (Brock HS)<br />
33 #C.J. Allen ILB Fr. 6-1 235 HS Barnesville, Ga. (Lamar County HS)<br />
35 Jacob Fleming DB RFr. 5-11 190 SQ Atlanta, Ga. (Westminster Academy)<br />
35 #Damon Wilson II OLB Fr. 6-4 235 HS Nokomis, Fla. (Venice HS)<br />
36 Colby Smith DB Sr. 5-10 175 SQ Danielsville, Ga. (Pres. College/Madison Co. HS)<br />
37 Izayah Reeves WR RSo. 5-11 175 TR Long Island, N.Y. (Charleston/Monocan HS)<br />
38 Patrick Taylor DB Jr. 6-0 175 SQ Johns Creek, Ga. (Johns Creek HS)<br />
39 Parker Jones DB RFr. 5-11 165 SQ Albany, Ga. (Deerfield-Windsor School)<br />
39 Collin Lark DB Jr. 6-0 198 HS Dallas, Texas (Dallas Jesuit HS)<br />
39 Miles Thornton RB RFr. 6-0 195 SQ Tyrone, Ga. (Sandy Creek HS)<br />
41 Denton Shamburger DB RFr. 6-0 185 SQ Atlanta, Ga. (Westminster School)<br />
41 ^Len’Neth Whitehead RB Jr. 6-2 220 TR Athens, Ga. (Tennessee/Athens Academy)<br />
42 Graham Collins ILB Jr. 6-2 215 SQ Atlanta, Ga. (Holy Innocents Episcopal School)<br />
43 Marek Briley WR Fr. 6-3 205 HS Buford, Ga. (North Gwinnett HS)<br />
43 Ali Hall DB RFr. 6-1 201 TR Jacksonville, Fla. (GMC/Westside HS)<br />
44 Cade Brock TE Jr. 6-0 250 SQ Subligna, Ga. (Darlington HS)<br />
44 #Jordan Hall DL Fr. 6-4 320 HS Jacksonville, Fla. (Westside HS)<br />
45 Jacob Hardie RB RFr. 5-9 180 SQ Olney, Md. (Our Lady of Good Counsel)<br />
46 George Vining WR Sr. 6-0 205 SQ Macon, Ga. (Tattnall Square Academy)<br />
47 Sam Shurtleff OLB Jr. 6-4 230 TR Watkinsville, Ga. (Nebraska/Oconee County HS)<br />
47 Will Taylor WR Fr. 6-3 190 HS Milton, Ga. (Cambridge HS)<br />
48 Joseph Daniels RB Gr. 5-10 188 SQ John’s Creek, Ga. (Indiana/Roswell HS)<br />
48 Cooper Johnson TE RFr. 6-4 220 SQ Cumming, Ga. (West Forsyth HS)<br />
49 Luke Collins OLB RSo. 6-2 245 SQ Birmingham, Ala. (Birmingham Prep)<br />
51 Will Snellings SN Fr. 6-2 220 HS Fayetteville, Ga. (Whitewater HS)<br />
52 Christen Miller DL RFr. 6-4 305 IVL Ellenwood, Ga. (Cedar Grove HS)<br />
53 Dylan Fairchild OL RSo. 6-5 315 1VL Cumming, Ga. (West Forsyth HS)<br />
54 ^Kelton SmithJr. OL Fr. 6-4 330 HS Columbus, Ga. (Carver HS)<br />
55 #Jamaal Jarrett DL Fr. 6-5 350 HS Greensboro, N.C. (Grimsley HS)<br />
55 Jared Wilson OL RSo. 6-3 310 2VL Winston-Salem, N.C. (West Forsyth HS)<br />
56 Micah Morris OL RSo. 6-6 330 1VL Kingsland, Ga. (Camden County HS)<br />
56 William Mote SN Sr. 6-2 230 3VL Hoover, Ala. (Spain Park HS)<br />
57 #Monroe Freeling OL Fr. 6-7 310 HS Isle of Palms, S.C. (Oceanside Collegiate Acad)<br />
58 Austin Blaske OL Jr. 6-5 310 2VL Faulkville, Ga. (South Effingham HS)<br />
59 ^Bo Hughley OL Fr. 6-7 280 HS Fairburn, Ga. (Langston Hughes HS)<br />
60 Henry Peagler OL Fr. 6-3 290 HS Blackshear, Ga. (Pierce County HS)<br />
63 Sedrick Van Pran OL Jr. 6-4 310 3VL New Orleans, La. (Warren Easton HS)<br />
65 Amarius Mims OL Jr. 6-7 340 2VL Cochran, Ga. (Bleckley County HS)<br />
66 Aliou Bah OL RFr. 6-5 320 SQ Memphis, Tenn. (IMG Academy)<br />
66 Jonathan Washburn SN RSo. 6-2 230 SQ Ringgold, Ga. (Heritage HS)<br />
67 Clinton Barlow DL Fr. 6-5 310 HS Charlotte, N.C. (Charlotte Catholic)<br />
68 Chris Brown OL Jr. 6-5 300 SQ Savannah, Ga. (Islands HS)<br />
69 Tate Ratledge OL RSo. 6-6 310 1VL Rome, Ga. (Darlington School)<br />
70 #Joshua Miller OL Fr. 6-4 300 HS Chesterfield, Va. (Life Christian Academy)<br />
71 EARNEST GREENE III OL RFR. 6-4 320 SQ LOS ANG, CA (ST. JOHN BOSCO HS)<br />
72 ^JAMAL MERIWEATHER OL FR. 6-6 287 HS BRUNSWICK, GA. (BRUNSWICK HS)<br />
73 XAVIER TRUSS OL SR. 6-7 320 3VL W. WARWICK, R.I. (BISHOP HENDRICKEN HS)<br />
74 DREW BOBO OL RFR. 6-5 305 SQ AUBURN, ALA. (AUBURN HS)<br />
76 MILES JOHNSON OL JR. 6-5 320 SQ BLUE RIDGE, GA. (FANNIN CO. HS)<br />
78 CHAD LINDBERG OL JR. 6-6 325 2VL LEAGUE CITY, TEXAS (CLEAR CREEK HS)<br />
78 NAZIR STACKHOUSE DL SR. 6-3 320 3VL STONE MOUNTAIN, GA. (COLUMBIA HS)<br />
79 GUS GAMMAGE OL FR. 6-5 306 HS CEDARTOWN, GA. (DARLINGTON SCHOOL)<br />
80 BRANDON MOODY WR JR. 5-7 1 65 TR MONROE, GA. (BERRY COL./MONROE AREA HS)<br />
81 DAVID LALAIAN TE FR. 6-4 225 HS MONROE, GA. (MONROE AREA HS)<br />
82 LOGAN JOHNSON WR RSO. 5-6 155 SQ B OGART, GA. (PRINCE AVE. CHRISTIAN)<br />
83 COLE SPEER WR SO. 5-11 185 1VL CALHOUN, GA. (CALHOUN HS)<br />
84 LADD MCCONKEY WR JR. 6-0 185 2 VL CHATSWORTH, GA. (NORTH MURRAY HS)<br />
85 DREW SHEEHAN TE SR. 6-2 240 SQ WOODSTOCK, GA. (KENN ST. / WOODSTOCK HS)<br />
86 DILLON BELL WR SO. 6-1 210 1VL HOUSTON, TEXAS (THE KINKAID SCHOOL)<br />
87 MEKHI MEWS WR RSO. 5-8 185 1VL GRAYSON, GA. (CENTRAL GWINNETT HS)<br />
88 #PEARCE SPURLIN III TE FR. 6-7 2 30 HS ROSEMARY BEACH, FLA. (S. WALTON HS)<br />
89 BRAXTON HICKS WR JR. 6-2 195 SQ TIGER, GA. (RABUN COUNTY HS)<br />
90 TRAMEL WALTHOUR DL SR. 6-3 270 3VL HINESVILLE, GA. (HUTCHINSON CC/<br />
LIBERTY CO. HS)<br />
91 ^PEYTON WOODRING PK FR. 5-10 175 HS LAFAYETTE, LA. (ASCENSION EPISCOPAL HS)<br />
92 LIAM BADGER PK RSO. 6-0 170 TR CUMMING, GA. (KENNESAW STATE/<br />
WEST FORSYTH)<br />
92 BRETT THORSON P SO. 6-2 220 1VL MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA<br />
(PROKICK AUSTRALIA)<br />
93 WILL HATTAWAY PK FR. 6-0 185 HS EVANS, GA. (LAKESIDE HS)<br />
93 TYRION INGRAM-DAWKINS DL RSO. 6-5 280 2VL GAFFNEY, S.C. (GAFFNEY HS)<br />
94 HENRY BATES PK RFR. 5-11 170 SQ WAYCROSS, GA. (WARE COUNTY HS)<br />
94 JONATHAN JEFFERSON DL RSO. 6-3 295 2VL DOUGLASVILLE, GA. (DOUGLAS COUNTY HS)<br />
96 ZION LOGUE DL SR. 6-5 310 3VL LEBANON, TENN. (LEBANON HS)<br />
97 WARREN BRINSON DL SR. 6-4 305 3VL SAVANNAH, GA. (IMG ACADEMY)<br />
98 NOAH JONES P RSO. 6-0 165 SQ CAIRO, GA. (CAIRO HS)<br />
99 JARED ZIRKEL PK JR. 6-3 185 1VL KERRVILLE, TEXAS (TIVY HS)<br />
#2023 EARLY ENROLLEE; ^JUNE 2023 ARRIVAL<br />
PRONUNCIATIONS<br />
ALIOU BAH............................... UH-LOO BAH<br />
AUSTIN BLASKE............................... BLAS-KEE<br />
TROY BOWLES.........................................BOWLS<br />
JAVON BULLARD...............................JUH-VAHN<br />
CHAZ CHAMBLISS...........................CHAM-BLISS<br />
SEVAUGHN CLARK..........................SUH-VAUGHN<br />
DAVID DANIEL-SISAVANH............. SIS-UH-VAHN<br />
JAMON DUMAS JOHNSON.....JUH-MAHN DO-MAS<br />
DAIJUN EDWARDS...........................DAY-ZYAHN<br />
DAYLEN EVERETTE.............................. DAY-LYNN<br />
TERRELL FOSTER.................................TUH-RELL<br />
NYLAND GREEN...................................NY-LUND<br />
ZEED HAYNES..............ZEED RHYMES WITH SEED<br />
BO HUGHLEY..................................... HUGH-LEE<br />
TYRION INGRAM-DAWKINS..............TY-REE-AHN<br />
JAMAAL JARRETT...................................JUH-MALL<br />
KYRON JONES.........................................KYRUN<br />
DAVID LALAIAN...........................LUH-LAY-LEE-IN<br />
KAMARI LASSITER........................KUH-MARH-EE<br />
E.J. SIGHTSEY................................... LIGHT-SEE<br />
ZION LOGUE............................... ZI-ON LOWGUH<br />
MEKHI MEWS......MUH-KAI LIKE “NEWS” WITH AN “M”<br />
AMARIUS MIMS...................... UH-MARE-EE-US<br />
SMAEL MONDON................RHYMES WITH SMILE,<br />
.....................................RHYMES WITH LONDON<br />
DE’NYLON MORRISSEETTE...............DE-NYE-LUN<br />
SAM M’PEMBA...........................EM-PEM-BUH<br />
IZAYAH REEVES..............................EYE-ZAY-UH<br />
RODERICK ROBINSON......................ROD-ER-RICK<br />
MARCUS ROSEMY-JACKSAINT.....ROSE-UH-MEE<br />
DENTON SHAMBURGER.................. SHAM-BURGER<br />
SAM SHURTLEFF....................................SHIRTLUFF<br />
XAVIAN SOREY........ EGG-ZAY-VEE-AHN SORE-EE<br />
NAZIR STACKHOUSE......................... NAH-ZEER<br />
MALAKI STARKS..........................MAL-UH-KAI<br />
JACOREY THOMAS.............................JUH-COREY<br />
RARA THOMAS......................................RAH-RAH<br />
BROCK VANDAGRIFF......................VAN-DUH-GRIFF<br />
JALON WALKER..................................... JAY-LUN<br />
TRAMEL WALTHOUR........................... TRUH-MEL<br />
..........................WALL-THOUR (SOUNDS LIKE ‘OUR’)<br />
LEN’NETH WHITEHEAD.......................... LEN-NEETH<br />
MYKEL WILLIAMS.................................MY-KELL<br />
DAMON WILSON..................................DAY-MUHN<br />
RAYLEN WILSON.................................... RAY-LYNN<br />
JARED ZIRKEL..................................... ZER-KUL<br />
BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 24 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
GEORGIA GIRLS: OLIVIA MASSIE PG. 28 | PROUST Q&A: JOHN MANLY PG. 52 | GEORGIA’S GRAND COUPLES: ALICE AND JOHN SANDS PG. 53<br />
SOCIAL<br />
georgia - Auburn photos: PG. 30 - 45<br />
Kate Bobo, Olivia Bobo, Ava Bobo<br />
PHOTO BY: VANCE LEAVY/BI<br />
BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 25 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
M I X T A P E<br />
playlist featured by Chandler Call<br />
brought to you by BULLDAWG ILLUSTRATED + LAST RESORT GRILL<br />
In honor of Athens’ distinction as one of the best music towns in the nation and the original<br />
Last Resort opened as a music club in 1966. Those who can still remember the tunes of<br />
such passionate performers as the Reverend Pearly Brown, Towns Van Zandt, Doc Watson,<br />
Jimmy Buffett, and even Steve Martin may feel nostalgic at the mere mention of the club’s<br />
name. Today that passion is found in Last Resort Grill’s menu and atmosphere, pulling<br />
directly from the building’s eclectic history. - Compiled by: Cheri Leavy<br />
CHANDLER CALL<br />
NAME: Chandler Call<br />
FAMILY: Tom and Kelly Call (parents), Sarah Kate<br />
and Coleman Call (siblings)<br />
HOME TOWN: Valdosta, GA<br />
CURRENT TOWN: Nashville, TN<br />
WHAT YEARS AT UGA: 2019-2022<br />
SCHOOL/DEGREE: Advertising, Music<br />
Business<br />
PROFESSION: Publicist at Sacks & Co.<br />
TIES TO ATHENS MUSIC: Athens is where I<br />
fell in love with music and realized it’s my biggest<br />
passion in life. My dad and grandpa (Tom Call<br />
Sr.) have taken me to many many concerts at<br />
the <strong>Georgia</strong> Theatre and some of my fondest<br />
memories in Athens are with the people I love<br />
most listening to the best music I know!<br />
FAVE BAND YOU HAVE SEEN IN ATHENS:<br />
It’s a tie between Jason Isbell at the <strong>Georgia</strong><br />
Theater and Dirty Guv’nahs at the <strong>Georgia</strong> Theater.<br />
Walls - The Lumineers<br />
Run-Around - Blues Traveler<br />
Don’t Stop - Fleetwood Mac<br />
Chandler's Playlist<br />
Soulshine - Allman Brothers Band<br />
Walls - The Lumineers<br />
Ooh La La - Faces<br />
Angel from Montgomery - Live - Susan Tedeschi<br />
Little Lily - Widespread Panic<br />
Killing Ground - Futurebirds<br />
No Such Thing - John Mayer<br />
Ophelia - The Band<br />
Rhythm & Blues - The Head & The Heart<br />
Reelin’ In The Years - Steely Dan<br />
Closer To Fine - Indigo Girls<br />
The Warrior - Patty Smyth<br />
Run-Around - Blues Traveler<br />
Away From The Mire - Billy Strings<br />
Running on Empty - Jackson Browne<br />
Strangers - Mt. Joy<br />
Scarlet Begonias - Grateful Dead<br />
Don’t Stop - Fleetwood Mac<br />
The Best of What’s Around - Dave Matthews Band<br />
Souvenirs - John Prine<br />
Check out the<br />
playlist on<br />
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southwestern-inspired southern<br />
cuisine in beautiful downtown<br />
Athens, <strong>Georgia</strong>.<br />
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University of <strong>Georgia</strong> Alumni<br />
and Last Resort Owners<br />
Melissa Clegg and Tom Call<br />
BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 27 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
GEORGIA GIRLS<br />
SOCIAL<br />
3.<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> Girls<br />
OLIVIA BIENVENU MASSIE<br />
Cheri Leavy’s rapport with her favorite tastemakers and<br />
UGA Alumnae brings you plenty of doggone good inspiration!<br />
Foundation:<br />
NAME: Olivia Bienvenu Massie<br />
FAMILY: Daughter of Jim and Camille Massie,<br />
Older sister to Larkin and Elise Massie<br />
HOMETOWN: Alexandria, Virginia<br />
CURRENT TOWN: New York, New York<br />
WHAT YEARS AT UGA: 2014-2017<br />
SCHOOL/DEGREE: Lamar Dodd, BFA in<br />
Fabric Design<br />
PROFESSION: My career has been focused<br />
on designing upholstery and decorative fabrics<br />
for the residential home interiors industry. My first job<br />
after graduation was designing prints and home product for<br />
a women’s block printing initiative in Jaipur, India. In my 14<br />
months there, I immersed myself in each step from sourcing<br />
and product ideation to print design, colorwork, sampling, and<br />
production. After Jaipur, I moved to NYC and was a designer for<br />
John Robshaw Textiles until I moved into designing upholstery<br />
and decorative fabrics for a textile mill based in New Jersey.<br />
This experience broadened my understanding of the way<br />
our industry works between the furniture manufacturers, the<br />
“Kravet’s” and “Schumachers” and the retailers of our world.<br />
Designing for each industry in tangent with my background and<br />
love for the artisan, handmade side of this industry brought me<br />
to launch Maison Venu, a heritage collection of home textiles that<br />
weaves character filled, colorful prints with handmade details.<br />
2.<br />
BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 28 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY<br />
Accolades:<br />
Textile Eye Fall 2023 Report<br />
<br />
Inspo:<br />
BOOK: The Golden Thread (1)<br />
MAGAZINE: Textile Eye,<br />
Cabana, World of Interiors<br />
PODCAST: The Daily, How I<br />
Built This - I love the episode with<br />
Amanda Hesser. Her path through food,<br />
cooking, and writing resonated with me.<br />
BLOG: I wish I had more time to read blogs!<br />
INSTAGRAM: @housesandparties (2)<br />
BRAND: Pierre Frey (3), Parterre, Pomelo Casa<br />
FASHION DESIGNER: Johanna Ortiz, La<br />
Double J<br />
INTERIOR DESIGNER: Beata Heuman<br />
CHEF: Rita Sodi (4)- she owns a<br />
restaurant in my neighborhood that<br />
transports you to Florence. I could eat<br />
there every night!<br />
HISTORICAL FIGURE: Helen<br />
Frankenthaler (5), St Francis of Assisi<br />
1.
5.<br />
Athens + UGA:<br />
DESCRIBE ATHENS IN FIVE WORDS<br />
OR LESS: Creative, comfortable,<br />
community.<br />
4.<br />
RESTAURANTS AND BARS: I spent<br />
multiple nights a week in college at<br />
World Famous ... it was my happy<br />
place. Love Heirloom, Homemade,<br />
Seabear, the pub!<br />
SHOPS: RWood, Heery’s, the<br />
Creature Comforts gift shop :)<br />
QUOTE:<br />
“To be yourself<br />
in a world that is<br />
constantly trying to<br />
make you something<br />
else is the greatest<br />
accomplishment.”<br />
-Ralph Waldo<br />
Emerson<br />
BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED<br />
ATHENS/CAMPUS LANDMARK:<br />
The tree that owns itself and walks<br />
through Normal Town.<br />
MEMORY WHILE IN SCHOOL:<br />
Lamar Dodd at sunrise with my<br />
fellow fabric design classmates.<br />
Many friendships I cherish were born<br />
during late nights in the dye lab and<br />
weaving room. I learned so much<br />
about myself during those times.<br />
PROFESSOR/CLASS: Material<br />
Futures with Zipporah and Classical<br />
Indian Art and Religion with Nicolas<br />
Morrissey.<br />
GAMEDAY RITUAL/PLAN: Most<br />
Saturday home games started with a<br />
trip to the Athen’s farmers market - Farm<br />
Cart breakfast sandwich and mimosas<br />
before heading to the tailgate!<br />
TAILGATE RECIPE: Buffalo chicken dip!<br />
29 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY<br />
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SOCIAL<br />
FAN SHOTS<br />
Harris Hines, Hap Hines<br />
Deanna Bowers, Brock Bowers, Warren Bowers<br />
GEORGIA- 27, AUBURN - 20<br />
Buddy Parker, Rob Leebern Andrew Moore, Steve Maloof D.J. Shockley, Mike Bobo<br />
REAL ESTATESouthern Style<br />
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Over 60+ Years of Real Estate & Financial Experience<br />
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BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 30 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
Chris Lakos, Leland Barrow, Claude Felton, Armando Yanz<br />
Shep Rose, Kirk Adams, Woody Gayle, Miller Peer<br />
Jay Locklair, Olyvia Locklair, Ashleigh Slaton, Heath Slaton,<br />
Manny Castillo, Sidney Castillo, Lara Schmidt, Miklos Schmidt<br />
Jordan Reab, Ethan Reab, Kaitlin Otting<br />
Jack Miscall, Will Thompson, Wade Harper, John Ferguson,<br />
Smith Flynn, Grant Turner, Greyson Clark, Luke Veal<br />
ULLA JOHNSON + HUNTER BELL<br />
AMANDA UPRICHARD + STAUD<br />
AGOLDE + DOLCE VITA + VERONICA BEARD<br />
MOTHER + SOFTWAVES + CELIAB<br />
LOVE THE LABEL + MARIE OLIVER<br />
RAG & BONE + SEA NY + KREWE<br />
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ATHENS, GA<br />
706.543.0702<br />
Analise Williams, Rob Moore, Samantha O’Neal, Ella Stanley,<br />
Cade Jones, Haley Edone<br />
BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 31 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
SOCIAL<br />
FAN SHOTS<br />
Spence Pryor, Thomas Pryor, Madeleine Pryor, Lissa Pryor<br />
Scott Deviney, Abbey Deviney, Kristy Deviney<br />
GEORGIA- 27, AUBURN - 20<br />
Duncan Miller, Jeff Ramsey Vance Leavy, Will Hutter Steve Bennett, Tommy Caswell, Sr.<br />
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Tina Fallon<br />
Realtor<br />
Elizabeth Smith<br />
Marketing<br />
Coordinator<br />
Desiree Varnedoe<br />
Rental Manager<br />
Sarah Broyles<br />
Rental Agent<br />
Emily Wages<br />
Rental Division<br />
Freddy Stroud<br />
Broker<br />
BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 32 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
A Seaside Tradition<br />
THE RSM CLASSIC<br />
NOVEMBER 13-19, 2023<br />
The Fall is Bigger. The Fall is BETTER. The Fall MEANS MORE.<br />
Join us at Sea Island Golf Club this fall as we welcome the worlds best to the<br />
2023 RSM Classic.<br />
Our most popular Seaside Terrace ticket includes multiple hospitality venues<br />
with complimentary food and beer,wine and seltzers.<br />
Scan QR Code for all availble ticket options!
SOCIAL<br />
FAN SHOTS<br />
Shellie Sullivan , Greg Sullivan<br />
GEORGIA- 27, AUBURN - 20<br />
Allen Miller, Tom Followill, John Calhoun, John Calhoun Jr.,<br />
John Avant, Andrew Rothschild<br />
Andy Sorrells, Laurie Cooper, Wayne Cooper<br />
Nyima Thomas, Nikki Thomas, Walter Thomas, Laura Thomas, Evelyn Thomas<br />
YOUR TRUSTED REAL ESTATE ADVISOR<br />
HALLY<br />
DEMENT<br />
Athens Office, Founding Member, Realtor ®<br />
o. 706.995.7500 | c. 404.771.1017<br />
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BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 34 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
1860 Barnett Shoals Rd | 1739 S. Lumpkin St | 1180 Prince Ave<br />
NEXT PARTY<br />
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GUAC N’ ROLL<br />
Let us cater your<br />
next get-together!
SOCIAL<br />
FAN SHOTS<br />
Ben Brown, Chad Brown, Will Campbell, Grant Campbell,<br />
Rex Ramsey, Whit Ramsey, Jeff Ramsey<br />
Antonio Davis, Elyse Jones<br />
GEORGIA- 27, AUBURN - 20<br />
Sydney Horne, Angie Woodcock, Denise McGill, Brittney McConkey, Benji McConkey,<br />
Hinton McConkey, Benji Burgess, Jess Daniel, Zach Stafford, Miller Peer<br />
Dan Hensley, Gary Wright<br />
NOSH ON SMALL PLATE DINING AND FUN LATE NIGHT …<br />
ALL IN THE HEART OF FIVE POINTS!<br />
THE ROOT BASEMENT BAR<br />
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oysters, cheese and<br />
charcuterie inside and<br />
outside on the patio.<br />
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BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 36 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
VISIT ATLANTA’S AWARD-WINNING SHOWROOMS<br />
Interior Design: Brian Watford Interiors l Architecture: Castro Design Studio l Builder: Ladisic Fine Homes l Cabinetry: Marion & Bond Millwork<br />
CONSTRUCTION RESOURCES SUPPORTS THE DAWGS<br />
CR Design Center &<br />
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Decatur, GA 30030<br />
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CR Flooring<br />
4969 Roswell Rd.<br />
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CR Design Studio<br />
(COMING SOON)<br />
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Atlanta, GA 30305<br />
470.305.6289<br />
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404.255.0640<br />
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Scan to find a<br />
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SOCIAL<br />
FAN SHOTS<br />
Jack Duffey, Bella Pellock, Alley Yeager, Max Karetny<br />
GEORGIA- 27, AUBURN - 20<br />
Mark Kelley, Lori Kelley, Chase Kelley, Lexy Kelley<br />
Kathryn Masters, Avery Friedman. Olivia Simms<br />
Jess Daniels, Ben Burgess, David Mowery, Scott Drugley<br />
Alice and Olivia<br />
Shoshanna<br />
Simkhai<br />
Saylor<br />
Hutch<br />
Paige<br />
Philippe Model<br />
and many more<br />
Plum Nelly Antiques is owned by Linda Jerkins who specializes in<br />
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than twenty years offering gifts for all occasions. Engraving, gift<br />
wrapping and shipping world-wide are available.<br />
20 Pine Valley Dr., Athens, GA<br />
706.540.5731<br />
www.plumnellyantiques.com<br />
You might need<br />
a bigger closet!<br />
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1059 Baxter St. Suite A<br />
Athens GA 30606<br />
706.850.8577<br />
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BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 38 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
FAN SHOTS<br />
SOCIAL<br />
Trey Carter, Al Parker, Allen Miller<br />
Mitchell Masters, Margaret Anne Masters,<br />
Hampton Masters<br />
Lindsey Grier, Ava Wilhoit,<br />
Jordan Marger<br />
Reid Calhoun, Elizabeth Calhoun, John Calhoun, John Calhoun Jr, Bo Blanchard,<br />
Loic Ettlin, John Avant<br />
Scott Tonneson, Brandon Anderson<br />
BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 39 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
SOCIAL<br />
FAN SHOTS<br />
Lawrence Kenny, Jim Nalley<br />
Ta’Sanee Sisavanh, Araya Sisavanh, Nikki Sisavanh , Yamani Sisavanh, Rocky Sisavanh<br />
Sue Gaither, Larry Gaither Jackson Muschamp, Cam Bloodworth Ellis Goodshall, Lynn Breedlove<br />
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BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 40 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
FAN SHOTS<br />
SOCIAL<br />
Troy Duncan, Branson Duncan<br />
Catharine Williams, Brennan Cox<br />
Scott Flynt, Eddie Flynt<br />
GEORGIA- 27, AUBURN - 20<br />
(front) Nolan Zaepfel, Jake Callahan, (back) Chandler Breedlove,<br />
Cassidy Sims, Sydney Slaughter, Aubrey Slaughter<br />
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BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 41 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
SOCIAL<br />
FAN SHOTS<br />
Marcus Stroud, Keunn Glass, Marcus Thomas<br />
GEORGIA- 27, AUBURN - 20<br />
Rob Saye, Kaylee Mansell, Jeff Sentell<br />
Courtney Redmond, Courtney Tamberino, Denton Redmond, Matt Redmond<br />
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BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 42 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
FAN SHOTS<br />
SOCIAL<br />
Rhonda Parson, Marshell Parson<br />
Dana Whitfield, Catherine Anne Whitfield,<br />
Brad Whitfield<br />
Weston Smart, Julia Smart,<br />
Mary Beth Smart<br />
Asher Sinclair, Farrah Sinclair, Heather Lee, Janna Nimmo, Linda McGee,<br />
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Camden Nalley, Chase Nalley, Kim Nalley, Clay Nalley<br />
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champions<br />
i n r e a l e s t a t e<br />
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BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 43 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
SOCIAL<br />
FAN SHOTS<br />
Anne Crawford, Jarrett Broome, Cassidy Stevenson,<br />
Kendall Champlin, Sarah Kate Call<br />
Ava Moore, Walker Givens, Myers Hostetter, Brennan Harry<br />
Kaya Santesso, Esra Santesso<br />
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BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 44 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
FAN SHOTS<br />
SOCIAL<br />
Chris Belans, Leigh Collins,<br />
Michael Schuff, Chad Collins,<br />
Michael Malone, Parker Belans,<br />
Jalena Bradley, Bob Bradley,<br />
Amy Malone, Alex Perry<br />
Keith Stephens, Ryan Davis, George Foster<br />
GEORGIA- 27, AUBURN - 20<br />
Chris Brock, Tessa Brock Eliza Gross, Emma Surber, Helen Morgan Sallie Fuller, Kayla Cope<br />
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BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 45 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
THE DONALD ROSS GEM<br />
OF THE GOLDEN ISLES<br />
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BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 46 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
FAN SHOTS<br />
SOCIAL<br />
Kevin Jackson, Brad Lastinger Jeff Miller, John Humphries, Oliver Pryor Chris Atkinson, Jody Patton<br />
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BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 47 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
SOCIAL<br />
FAN SHOTS<br />
Joe Bishop, Hal Greer, Pearce Spurlin Bill Brown, Skip Evans Jeff Trapnell, Corky Warner<br />
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BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 48 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
FAN SHOTS<br />
SOCIAL<br />
Chris Haack, Skip Evans<br />
Denise Saliba, Billy Shuman<br />
2023 BULLDOG OPEN<br />
Don Niepoth, Jack Mosley<br />
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BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 49 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
SOCIAL<br />
FAN SHOTS<br />
Billy Payne, Loran Smith<br />
Cicero Lucas,<br />
Frank Orgel Orlean Castronis, Billy Payne Allison Yeomans, Billy Payne<br />
Billy Payne, Lucas Family Norman King,Cicero Lucas Jason Hasty, Billy Payne<br />
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BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 50 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
FAN SHOTS<br />
SOCIAL<br />
Brook Whitmire, Jennifer Whitmire,<br />
Billy Payne<br />
Todd Story, Swann Seiler, Bobby Lenihan,<br />
Sonny Seiler<br />
Jan Anderson Davis<br />
WALLY’S BOYS – G-DAY/SPRING 2023<br />
Billy Payne, Dylan Fairchild<br />
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BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 51 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
Q&A<br />
PROUST<br />
COMPILED BY: CAROLINE CHAMPION<br />
FAMILY: Megan Usher Manly (B.A. 2005; A.B.J. 2005; J.D.<br />
2008); Thornton (Age 9); Margaret (Age 5)<br />
HOMETOWN: Marietta (May-rhett-uh), <strong>Georgia</strong><br />
CURRENT TOWN: Savannah, <strong>Georgia</strong><br />
WHAT YEARS AT UGA: 2001-2008; and every fall since then<br />
SCHOOL/DEGREE: Franklin College (Religion), A.B., 2004;<br />
SPIA (Political Science), A.B., 2004; School of Law, J.D., 2008<br />
PROFESSION: Partner with the law firm Manly Shipley, LLP<br />
ACCOLADES: Thornton and Margaret’s dad; State Bar of<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> Board of Governors; Gridiron; 4th Grade Co-Ed Flag<br />
Football Coach (Go Hancock Eagles!)<br />
WHAT LIFE LESSONS DID YOU LEARN FROM<br />
WORKING WITH SONNY SEILER?<br />
The great Russian Physician Dr. Smirnoff will cure just about<br />
anything that ails you. Football games are meant to be<br />
watched with chili (even in hot weather), cold Budweiser, hot<br />
dogs, and good friends. For the last few years, Sonny would<br />
watch most away games at my house and would serenade us<br />
with the opposing team’s fight song – so the lesson there is to<br />
know thy enemy!<br />
WHAT PROFESSOR DID YOU MOST ADMIRE?<br />
I admired the professors that gave me As (there weren’t many<br />
of them, so you know who you are!).<br />
WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER YOUR GREATEST<br />
ACHIEVEMENT?<br />
Starting my own law firm. I started my practice after leaving<br />
a big(ger) firm and had 12 cases (that isn’t very many). Now<br />
I have a great law partner (Jim Shipley) and the best staff<br />
around. I don’t ever regret taking that leap of faith and<br />
hanging my shingle.<br />
WHICH HISTORICAL FIGURE DO YOU MOST<br />
IDENTIFY WITH?<br />
Most people in my position say Thomas Carlyle, but I like to<br />
think of myself as similar (in some respects) to Jimmy Carter.<br />
We are both native <strong>Georgia</strong>ns, devoted to church and family,<br />
and think America’s best days lie ahead.<br />
WHO ARE YOUR HEROES IN REAL LIFE?<br />
My grandfathers – John C. Bell, Sr., and Clarence H. Manly.<br />
Both were great family men who served their country in every<br />
respect. If I can be half the man they each were, I’ll die a happy<br />
and prosperous man.<br />
QUOTE TO LIVE BY:<br />
JOHN MANLY<br />
“Keep the faith!” – Frank Wilkins “Sonny” Seiler. Sonny used to<br />
write this on the Uga autographs he signed for fans. Despite<br />
being simple, it can apply in most situations you find yourself<br />
in – professional or personal.<br />
WHAT IS YOUR IDEA OF PERFECT HAPPINESS?<br />
I experienced it in Sofi Stadium on January 9, 2023 as the<br />
Dawgs dismantled TCU. That was the easiest game I’ve<br />
watched, and I was with my beautiful wife and surrounded by<br />
friends. Pure bliss.<br />
WHAT IS YOUR MOST MARKED CHARACTERISTIC?<br />
Other than the obvious (my hair), I think it’s my loyalty.<br />
WHAT DID YOU MOST VALUE IN YOUR FRIENDSHIP<br />
WITH SONNY?<br />
His ability to not take himself too seriously. As an example,<br />
last Christmas, my wife was the director of the children’s play<br />
at church and we didn’t have enough kids to play all of the<br />
wisemen, so Sonny (aged 89 at the time) announced that he<br />
had never been allowed to be a wiseman when doing the<br />
same play as a child, so he would gladly fill-in. He walked<br />
down the church aisle with kids and proudly played the role of<br />
Wiseman #2 with great poise.<br />
IF YOU COULD CHANGE ONE THING ABOUT<br />
YOURSELF, WHAT WOULD IT BE?<br />
I would love to be able to hit a golf ball with some sort of<br />
consistency. My golf game is non-existent these days and I’d<br />
like that to change, but only if I can knock it around and not be<br />
too embarrassed.<br />
WHO ARE YOUR FAVORITE WRITERS?<br />
Emily St. John Mandel. Her novels are thought provoking and<br />
great stories that leave you wanting a sequel.<br />
FAVE SOCIAL MEDIA AND WHO TO FOLLOW?<br />
@TheQualifiedCaptain. The shockingly bad boat skills of the<br />
folks featured can make even the most novice boater feel like<br />
Horatio Hornblower.<br />
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GRAND<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> Couples<br />
LORAN SMITH<br />
Alice and John Sands<br />
It came naturally that Alice and John Sands, a generous Bulldog<br />
couple, would grow up with <strong>Georgia</strong> on their minds. It was<br />
ingrained in them that they would wear red and black and that<br />
they would always consider Athens to be the Dawg’s Valhalla.<br />
Growing up in Columbus where half the town has always been<br />
populated with nearly as many Auburn fans as Bulldog aficionados they<br />
were related to the <strong>Georgia</strong> hierarchy, realizing early on, their good<br />
fortune.<br />
Stalwarts like Judge Frank Foley, father of the <strong>Georgia</strong> Student<br />
Educational Fund (now the Hartman Fund), George “Kid” Woodruff,<br />
famous for coaching the Bulldogs for a dollar a year and was also the<br />
man who brought the Notre Dame Box football formation to Athens.<br />
That needs some explaining. Woodruff, who coached the Bulldogs,<br />
1923-1927, saw Notre Dame devastate <strong>Georgia</strong> Tech, 35-7 in 1923, and<br />
decided to bring the Irish system to UGA.<br />
Woodruff hired three of legendary Knute Rockne’s former players<br />
(Frank Thomas, Jim Crowley and Harry Mehre) as assistant coaches.<br />
They installed the Notre Dame Box at <strong>Georgia</strong> and later became<br />
successful college head coaches themselves. Mehre became the<br />
Bulldog head coach.<br />
John and Alice appreciate that sort of lore, and while they are mostly<br />
caught up in the emotional excitement of winning championships<br />
in the Kirby Smart era, they learned, in their formative years, the<br />
importance of loyalty to UGA. They sang the words to “Glory, Glory to<br />
Old <strong>Georgia</strong>,” with deep and abiding commitment. They didn’t paint<br />
their faces but embraced the Bulldogs with enduring good sense and<br />
unswerving allegiance. (They can tell you about loyalty. John married<br />
Alice when she was 16, and their marriage has gotten stronger with<br />
each passing year.)<br />
They experienced firsthand the<br />
commitment of the “Bulldog mafia” in<br />
Columbus, including those previously<br />
mentioned along with Bradley Driver,<br />
Frank Lumpkin, Don Leebern, and<br />
others. “Bradley was a first cousin,” Alice<br />
says, “but he was more like an uncle.<br />
For sure, I was raised a Dog.” John was<br />
a classmate of Fate Leebern (brother<br />
of Don Leebern Jr.) and grew up within<br />
arm’s length of the Bulldog’s most<br />
valuable alumni circles.<br />
Early on, the Sands were attracted to<br />
the “Gameday” experience in Athens.<br />
“There is no place we would rather be<br />
on a fall Saturday,” Alice says.<br />
“We are serious about football,” John<br />
adds. “We started buying season tickets<br />
in 1980, certainly a good time to start,<br />
and we have been royally rewarded for our investment in Bulldog<br />
football.” John and Alice are members of the exclusive Director’s Circle in<br />
the Bulldog Club.<br />
For years they were avid skiers and enjoyed trips to places such as<br />
Snowmass but settled on a second home in Clark, Colorado, which is<br />
twenty miles northeast of Steamboat Springs. They also have a place<br />
in Highlands, North Carolina, which they frequent in summer when the<br />
heat is unbearable in Columbus.<br />
In addition to the back-to-back championship years, their favorite<br />
games include beating Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans<br />
for the national championship in 1981. The Tennessee game in 1980,<br />
Herschel’s coming out party, is a favorite although they didn’t see it.<br />
They were spending the weekend at Callaway Gardens where the<br />
radio reception was weak. They got into their car and drove around Pine<br />
Mountain to listen to the game.<br />
With their business success, they have been generous to several<br />
charities, their favorites being animal causes and the University of<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong>. “We love our Dawgs,” Alice smiles. “We support the things<br />
we like.”<br />
Their love of dogs and Dawgs has no limit which is why they are proud<br />
to have the opportunity to endow the offensive coordinator position at<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong>. “We have been admirers of Mike Bobo for some time,” John says.<br />
“We saw how great his offenses were a few years ago and how he was<br />
regarded in the profession with his quarterback development with the<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> QBs. He is a <strong>Georgia</strong> graduate, a great family man and we know<br />
he will do great things for our football program.”<br />
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BRIAN HARMAN - A DAMN GOOD GOLFER AND DAWG!<br />
“ They’re gonna go nuts when he hits<br />
this thing…” We’ve all heard this<br />
broadcast call or seen the ensuing<br />
Tiger Woods hole-in-one at the 1997<br />
Phoenix Open, but for Brian Harman it’s a<br />
moment that sparked his love for golf.<br />
After missing school on a random day in<br />
February, 10-year-old Harman was flipping<br />
through the channels and happened<br />
upon the famous shot that shook TPC<br />
Scottsdale. Harman watched Tiger “raise<br />
the roof” after drilling an ace on the staple<br />
16th hole. He thought to himself, “Man, I<br />
want to try this.”<br />
A baseball player at heart, Harman<br />
started biking to the nearby golf course in<br />
Savannah, his hometown, and the spark<br />
for golf was kindled into a raging fire. The<br />
now Champion Golfer of the Year made a<br />
pretty good decision years ago to drop the<br />
bat and pick up the club.<br />
The offers began rolling in as Harman<br />
grew a little older than 10 and his golf<br />
game improved. It was only two visits that<br />
he took: Clemson and the University of<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong>. Harman said, “[Clemson] is kind<br />
of a dump,” and, “I wasn’t a hard sell on<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong>. My friend Kevin Kisner was in<br />
charge of my recruiting, and anyone that<br />
knows Kisner knows that he knows how to<br />
have a good time.”<br />
The decision was made, and <strong>Georgia</strong> was<br />
Harman’s next stop.<br />
The legend, head coach Chris Haack,<br />
alongside Coach Jim Douglas have built<br />
a program unlike any other in Athens,<br />
putting more golfers on Tour than any<br />
other school, but how? Well, it’s not easy to<br />
even make tournaments as one of the five<br />
starters, so the Tour competition is forced<br />
upon each Bulldog golfer the minute they<br />
arrive on campus.<br />
“It took action…” said Harman. “While we<br />
were here, we played against each other.<br />
Qualifying at <strong>Georgia</strong> was really hard, and<br />
we hated Haacker for the qualifiers. I’ve<br />
called ‘Haacker’ and told him that many<br />
times. But, those guys who have made it<br />
on Tour, it’s because of those qualifiers. It<br />
builds a foundation of ‘can’t quit.’”<br />
To the surprise of myself and probably<br />
many of you, Hudson Swafford, Harris<br />
English, Chris Kirk, Brendon Todd and<br />
more, missed tournaments while they<br />
were here, but for Harman and the other<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> golfers, a standard of excellence<br />
was forged on the UGA Course; within<br />
the <strong>Georgia</strong> golf program and within<br />
themselves, they only strive for excellence<br />
as they compete with the best golfers in<br />
the world on Tour.<br />
The competition factor brought upon<br />
at <strong>Georgia</strong> along with a dedication to<br />
his craft finally paid off on July 23, 2023.<br />
One of the most dominant performances<br />
in Open history, an absolute putting<br />
spectacle, and sheer determination<br />
granted Harman his first major win at the<br />
prestigious Royal Liverpool Golf Club links<br />
at Hoylake.<br />
With 24 top five finishes, 51 top 10s, and<br />
two prior wins on Tour, Harman had been<br />
at the cusp of winning the big one for<br />
years, even finishing second at the 2022<br />
Open. However, entering the Open in July,<br />
a newfound determination to stick to his<br />
game despite ups and downs brought<br />
a confidence that showed up on the<br />
grueling course in 2023.<br />
“I started feeling this really peaceful<br />
feeling of if I do these things, I know it<br />
will be successful at some point. I was<br />
ultimately committed to that, and I had a<br />
really good weekend of putting. It wasn’t<br />
a different kind of week; it was just every<br />
week leading to it, I was getting more and<br />
more committed to what I was trusting in<br />
my game.”<br />
The putting was, indeed, “really good,”<br />
nearly perfect. Harman broke the record of<br />
least number of putts needed to win the<br />
Open with 106, going 58-for-59 on putts<br />
inside 10 feet. His game was unmatched.<br />
As Harman raised the Claret Jug, he<br />
had wiped the field, stealing the title of<br />
Champion Golfer of the Year as a winner<br />
by six strokes.<br />
It wasn’t just a first major or a big<br />
paycheck, it was a tournament that would<br />
lock Harman in as a member of Team USA<br />
in the Ryder Cup.<br />
Harman and I met at my apartment prior<br />
to the Ryder Cup, so forgive me for the lack<br />
of “evergreen” this article perceives, but<br />
it is still amazing to hear Harman’s words<br />
prior to his first rookie experience.<br />
“Heavy lies the burden,” said Harman.<br />
“You can’t control what the other guy is<br />
doing. It’s all cliche, but the more you get<br />
married to the process, the better off you’ll<br />
be. So, I start at the end result then work<br />
backwards. We want to win the Ryder Cup,<br />
right? How? We have to win more matches<br />
than they do. How do we win more<br />
matches? Well, if I win all of my matches,<br />
then we’re one step closer. How do I win<br />
all my matches? Well, I have to win more<br />
holes. How do I win more holes? Well, it all<br />
goes back to the first tee box. How goes<br />
my mindset? Am I prepared? And then,<br />
how many times can I do that throughout<br />
the day? I have to do it more times than<br />
that guy does.”<br />
The individual aspect of golf is not<br />
completely ousted the week of the Ryder<br />
Cup, but a team comes to play more so<br />
than any other tournament as seen this<br />
weekend. Storylines surrounded the<br />
tournament all weekend as Patrick Cantlay<br />
refused to wear a hat. Assumptions of lack<br />
of camaraderie for the Americans came to<br />
be, but Harman confidently said they had<br />
an amazing connection throughout the<br />
process.<br />
“If a guy is willing to do his best and not<br />
quit,” said Harman. “Then I will go to war<br />
with him, and I think every guy on that<br />
team is ready to do that… We’re going<br />
to do our best, and we’re not going to<br />
lose for a lack of chemistry because it’s<br />
fantastic.”<br />
The Savannah native and St. Simons<br />
resident has taken the crown at the<br />
Open Championship, and alongside 11<br />
other Americans, he represented the<br />
entire United States. Unfortunately, the<br />
Europeans took the Cup, but it was an<br />
honor beyond comparison for Harman<br />
to play this weekend, and an even higher<br />
honor for me to talk with the one, and<br />
current Champion Golfer of the Year, Brian<br />
Harman!<br />
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BULLDAWGILLUSTRATED 57 ISSUE EIGHT • KENTUCKY
STATS THAT<br />
MATTER<br />
GEORGIA – 27, AUBURN - 20<br />
BY: CLAY WATKINS<br />
A look back at what decided the game between <strong>Georgia</strong> and Auburn.<br />
157<br />
Brock Bowers had 157 yards receiving against the Tigers. After a<br />
quiet first half, Bowers exploded in the fourth quarter for 121 yards.<br />
Bowers averaged a cool 19.6 yards a catch on eight total receptions.<br />
He also added a crucial third down conversion on the ground.<br />
Bowers late 40-yard winning TD showcased his speed and strength<br />
as he ran away from coverage and plowed through defenders.<br />
Announcer Gary<br />
11<br />
Danielson took notice, and at one point declared<br />
that if a QB doesn’t win the Heisman, Bowers perhaps should.<br />
313<br />
Beck averaged an impressive 9.5 yards a throw in going 22 of 33<br />
on the day. Beck, after a slow first half, dialed in and seemed to<br />
gain confidence as the pressure mounted. Beck and Bowers have a<br />
special connection and comfort level that appears to be blossoming.<br />
Beck made some impressive throws down the stretch and surely<br />
gained confidence leading <strong>Georgia</strong> to a come-from-behind win in<br />
his first SEC road game.<br />
17<br />
The number of points scored by <strong>Georgia</strong> in the first half of its<br />
first five games. Surprisingly, 17 is also the number of points that<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong>’s opponents are averaging in the first half. That’s right, the<br />
team has not bettered their opponents, on average, in the first half<br />
of games this year. Every <strong>Georgia</strong> fan is worried that our slow starts<br />
will eventually come back to haunt us which is a logical concern and<br />
the reasoning behind Mike Bobo criticism. The reality is <strong>Georgia</strong>’s<br />
offensive gameplan, whether passing or rushing, has struggled<br />
to find success in the first half. On the other side of the ball, the<br />
7.8 157<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> D also is not nearly as impactful on the defensive line.<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong>’s discipline, talent, and depth have prevailed so far, but the<br />
combination of slow starts and shortened games with a running<br />
clock (interrupted by a million commercials) has made for<br />
some tense Saturdays. Smart acknowledged that <strong>Georgia</strong> must<br />
improve. “We’re not going to get where we want to go if we don’t<br />
get better,” Smart said, “That’s the biggest thing.”<br />
7.8<br />
Auburn quarterbacks Payton Thorne and Robby Ashford<br />
averaged nearly eight yards a carry combining to rush for 125<br />
yards on only 16 carries. Of course, this number was aided<br />
tremendously by Thomas’ 61-yard scamper in the first quarter<br />
where it seemed like the Red Sea had parted allowing Thorne<br />
to challenge the Dawgs’ DBs speed along the sideline. The<br />
defense had undoubtedly prepped all week for the possibility of<br />
quarterback runs, but the Bulldogs failed to consistently stop the<br />
read option. <strong>Kentucky</strong> has surely taken note of this vulnerability,<br />
especially since <strong>Georgia</strong> will be heavily focused on slowing Ray<br />
Davis next week. Davis put up an absurd 280 yards on the ground<br />
against Florida. Coaches will be determined to shore up our run<br />
fits before our clash with Wildcats this Saturday.<br />
11<br />
The number of tackles by inside linebacker Smael Mondon<br />
against Auburn, including seven solo tackles. Mondon’s play<br />
has been outstanding for the Dawgs as he comes back from<br />
an injury that slowed him earlier in the season. Mondon is a<br />
three-down player who can flex out in coverage, plug run gaps,<br />
or rush the passer. Mondon may be <strong>Georgia</strong>’s most NFL-ready<br />
defender. <strong>Georgia</strong>’s inside linebackers – Mondon, Dumas-<br />
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SPORTS<br />
FOOTBALL<br />
FROM THE<br />
field<br />
BY GREG POOLE<br />
After many years of photographing UGA games, I am skipping<br />
some away games this year. Auburn was my first time reporting<br />
from television, and as much as I feared missing the game’s feel,<br />
there were some advantages. Television has always been the<br />
best seat in the house for viewing the action, especially when<br />
my normal game day position is on the sideline with a powerful<br />
camera lens restricting me to a narrow field of view. My biggest<br />
overall takeaway? Games are far more nerve-wracking on TV, or I<br />
just picked the wrong game to change my perspective.<br />
Coach Freeze’s first edition of the Tigers has plenty of issues<br />
inherited from his predecessor, but getting a home-field shot at<br />
the two-time defending national champions was enough for him<br />
to rally his troops and punch the Dawgs in the mouth from the<br />
opening kickoff. At the same time, <strong>Georgia</strong> continued its seasonlong<br />
first-quarter malaise. After interceptions, poor blocking,<br />
and big plays by Auburn on both sides of the ball, my positive<br />
takeaway from the first quarter is it could have been worse.<br />
What’s the problem with the Dawgs? There must be some<br />
fundamental flaw holding back the 2023 version of the Red and<br />
NO PANIC IN THESE DAWGS!<br />
BROCK BOWERS, KIRBY SMART,<br />
CARSON BECK<br />
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Black, right? Wrong! Winning SEC football games is hard, and<br />
living up to fan expectations after back-to-back natties is harder<br />
still. We (<strong>Georgia</strong> fans) must stop judging the 2023 Bulldogs<br />
by the accomplishments of those championship teams. Those<br />
champion Dawgs put the current team in the crosshairs of<br />
every team in the country (especially SEC opponents) with their<br />
achievements.<br />
Fans often gloss over less than exceptional performances<br />
during successful seasons. Last year, for example, the high-flying<br />
Dawgs waltzed into Columbia, Missouri and got their heads<br />
handed to them for 3.8 quarters. <strong>Georgia</strong>’s first lead of the game<br />
came with 4:03 to go in the fourth (deja vu yesterday?). Then, in<br />
the playoff, Ohio State came close to derailing <strong>Georgia</strong>’s natty<br />
quest. Close, but no cigar!<br />
Based on many of the comments I saw on social media after the<br />
game, one would think the Dawgs are 0-5 rather than 5-0. Those<br />
keyboard warriors should take some deep breaths and check<br />
the results. Style points are not part of the rankings and do not<br />
impact inclusion in the college football playoff.<br />
Individuals may have underperformed at Auburn, but the<br />
bottom line is on the scoreboard. The TEAM did not panic. They<br />
weathered the storm created by an energized Auburn squad,<br />
ignored the incredibly boisterous hostile home crowd and took<br />
the game away from both when it mattered.<br />
The Plains trip was not the last test for these Dawgs. Beating<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> has become the common motivator in the SEC. Kirby<br />
Smart and his charges know they are targets and are happy to<br />
meet those challenges as they come. Remember, after the trip<br />
to Auburn, this Bulldog team remains your unbeaten, untied,<br />
defending national champion: warts and all.<br />
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KEVIN BUTLER’S<br />
PLAYERS OF THE GAME<br />
COMPILED BY JEFF DANTZLER<br />
OFFENSIVE PLAYER<br />
Brock Bowers - Superman. Batman. Iron Man. All of these<br />
heroes have something in common with Brock Bowers …<br />
they’re all just bad asses. When a football team is in need of a<br />
kickstart, something that will inspire them to reach a higher level<br />
of play, great players respond to that request! Saturday versus<br />
Auburn, everybody witnessed Brock Bowers carry the Bulldogs<br />
to victory with a fourth quarter performance that has not been<br />
matched this year in college football. Brock’s performance in<br />
the fourth quarter consisted of four catches for 121 yards and a<br />
touchdown of 40 yards to seal the victory for the Bulldogs. His<br />
totals for the day were Heisman like- 8 catches for 157 yds. The<br />
Mackey award -the All-American awards -the new Kevin Butler<br />
“Taylor Swift” award - they are all going to go to Brock. He’s one<br />
of a kind and he’s ours. What a Damn Good Dawg!<br />
DEFENSIVE PLAYER<br />
Javon Bullard - AKA “Da Bull”! The Bull is Back!! Our junior<br />
safety from Milledgeville, <strong>Georgia</strong> is back in action. Javon is<br />
the leader of a defensive backfield through his physical play<br />
and knowledgeable command. When Javon is back in the<br />
game, our corners can get much more aggressive. As I said,<br />
Javon is as physical as they come, and he recorded 10 tackles,<br />
nine solos and two pass deflections in a tough physical<br />
game against Auburn. His style of play offers the opportunity<br />
to change the game and his command makes our team respond in a<br />
physical manner on defense. I’ve loved this guy since he stepped on the<br />
field and I sure hope we have another season with his inspiring play and<br />
great enthusiasm. When Javon is in the game - it’s a Bull’s market! Buy,<br />
Buy, Buy!<br />
SPECIAL TEAM PLAYER<br />
Peyton Woodring - The freshman kicker from Louisiana made his mark<br />
as the Bulldogs starting place kicker Saturday versus Auburn in a truly<br />
tough place to kick. After a shaky start to the season, he has started his<br />
own streak of success. His two field goals against Auburn were clutch<br />
to say the least. <strong>Georgia</strong>’s personality on offense is not to run away from<br />
teams on the scoreboard so every field goal opportunity carries a little<br />
bit more weight the season. Great kickers have confidence. Peyton has<br />
confidence, and he is starting his journey in a strong fashion.<br />
UNSUNG DAWG OF THE WEEK<br />
My unsung hero this week is my hero, my father, Joseph Aloysius<br />
Butler. Our family brought Joe home this week to spend his remaining<br />
time with his family and the people that love him the most. My father<br />
is my hero because he taught me how to respect yourself and others<br />
every moment you breathe. He gave me the opportunity as my coach<br />
in little league to play football and to try your hardest every time. He<br />
taught me respect not only for others, but more importantly, for yourself.<br />
He supported my choice to play for the Bulldogs and his support was<br />
invaluable. As we sat together before Saturday’s game, I asked him if I<br />
should go do the radio or spend time with him and he quickly responded<br />
with “you have a job to do and I enjoy listening to you and Jeff.” “You’re<br />
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BY: JEFF DANTZLER<br />
September is in the rearview mirror, the regular season is one-third<br />
of the way over. Now it’s the heart of the season, as the calendar rolls<br />
to October. The Southeastern Conference had seven intra-conference<br />
games and some early positioning in the race for Atlanta has taken<br />
shape. Ole Miss won a shootout over LSU, and <strong>Kentucky</strong> dominated<br />
Florida. The Wildcats and Missouri join <strong>Georgia</strong> as the league’s<br />
lone undefeated teams. The PAC-12 is deep and talented, including<br />
Washington State, Oregon State and Utah, who aren’t listed below.<br />
1. TEXAS - The Longhorns put together a terrific<br />
performance and stormed past Kansas 40-14 this past<br />
Saturday. Texas and Oklahoma meet at the fairgrounds<br />
this weekend. Both are undefeated in the final year of<br />
the Big XII version of the great rivalry.<br />
2. FLORIDA STATE - The Seminoles had this past<br />
Saturday off, giving them time to heal up from and<br />
revel in their terrific comeback win at Clemson. Their hit<br />
list is the most impressive thus far in college football. Virginia Tech<br />
heads to Doak Campbell Saturday.<br />
3. GEORGIA - The two-time reigning national<br />
champions pulled out a 27-20 thriller at Auburn.<br />
Brock Bowers is the best player in the country. It will<br />
be a tremendous challenge Saturday night in a battle of SEC<br />
unbeatens, as <strong>Kentucky</strong> comes to Athens.<br />
4. OHIO STATE - The Buckeyes were off this past<br />
week after the thrilling victory over Notre Dame and<br />
embarrassing, unnecessary postgame rant from Ryan<br />
Day. Now comes eight straight Big Ten games, starting with<br />
Maryland in the Horseshoe Saturday.<br />
5. MICHIGAN - The Wolverines overpowered<br />
Nebraska 45-7 to push the record to 5-0. The<br />
September slate was relatively light for Michigan,<br />
which has won the last two Big Ten titles. Now the Wolverines<br />
head to Minnesota to battle the Golden Gophers.<br />
6. SOUTHERN CAL - The Trojans jumped out to a<br />
big lead over Colorado and held on for a 48-41 win. Caleb<br />
Williams threw for 403 and six touchdowns. USC has<br />
scored over 40 points in every game. Arizona heads to the Coliseum<br />
Saturday night.<br />
7. WASHINGTON - The Huskies held off Arizona<br />
31-24 to make it 5-0. Washington is off this week, and<br />
the stage is set for an enormous showdown with rival<br />
Oregon. The Ducks are also off.<br />
8. KENTUCKY - The Wildcats pummeled Florida 33-<br />
14 this past weekend to improve to 5-0 and 2-0 in the<br />
SEC. Ray Davis was sensational with 280 yards and four<br />
total touchdowns. Now they visit <strong>Georgia</strong>, and the Cats can take a<br />
step towards Atlanta.<br />
9. OREGON - The Ducks handled Stanford 42-6 and<br />
the record is a perfect 5-0. They are off this week, so<br />
Oregon can enjoy its start and focus on the October<br />
14th showdown with Washington in Seattle. The Huskies are also<br />
off. Bo Nix is having an outstanding year.<br />
10. NOTRE DAME - The Fighting Irish came back<br />
and beat Duke 21-14 in Durham this past Saturday. It<br />
was a great bounce back after the heartbreaker against<br />
Ohio State. Next up is another road trip, as Notre Dame heads to<br />
Louisville to battle the Cardinals.<br />
11. ALABAMA - The Crimson Tide beat Mississippi<br />
State 40-17 for a 16th straight win in the series. Dallas<br />
Turner is a fantastic outside linebacker. It should be a<br />
good one in College Station Saturday, as Bama battles Texas A&M.<br />
Both have spotless 2-0 SEC records.<br />
12. MISSOURI - The Tigers have a tough,<br />
experienced defense, an accurate quarterback, a<br />
weapon at kicker and lights out wide receivers. Mizzou<br />
is 5-0 and in the mix. The Tigers took down Vandy and now hosts<br />
LSU for an early kickoff at Faurot Field.<br />
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