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Goff is Dog-gone
if losses continue
A sign drooping over the door
leading from the dressing room
at the Butte-Mehre Buildi:
ng to
the Georgia football practice field
read Monday morning: "U Can't
Touch Our Bulldogs. r
Now, with games against na-
t'onally-ranked Florida, Auburn,
and Georgia Tech on the horizon
after a 26-24 last-second loss Sat
urday at Kentucky, the Bulldogs
(4-4) should be humming the
tune of another M.C. Hammer
tune.
“Pray."
The Bulldogs are suddenly on
the brink of their first losing
season since 1977. In addition,
the 1990 Bulldogs will be under
dogs in each of the last three
K mes of the season. If the Dogs
is all three, the four-win total
will be their lowest victory accu
mulation since 1963.
In 1963, the Bulldogs were
coached by Johnny Griffith and
his three year stint at the helm
was far less than spectacular — a
career record of 10-16-4. In 1964,
Vince Dooley’s first season, the
Bulldogs went 7-3-1, played in
the Sun Bowl, and won the SEC
crown two years later. Ray Goff
inherited a far better team than
Dooley did and has taken a huge
step backwards.
In 1988, Dooley's last year as
the Bulldogs’ head coach, Georgia
finished 9-3 and won the Gator
Bowl. Goff took over in 1989, with
future pros Rodney Hampton and
Ben Smith in his stable, and the
team went 6-6 and lost the Peach
Bowl. This season has been any
thing but better as the Bulldogs,
unless miracles occur, will not go
to a bowl game for the first time
since 1979. If they do not win an
other conference game, the two
SEC wina will be the worst
output since the two SEC-win
squad of 1977.
Depressing huh? Well, the
Bulldog team is also depressed,
down and discouraged and the
coaching staff is doing little to
pull the team out of the dumps.
Goff and his staff will spit,
grin, and chalk up the losses to
youth, and in part they are cor
rect Georgia does have a young
team and that will partially ex-
lain losses to Clemson and per-
spa LSU. But give the fans a
break. Ole Miss, despite what
their record may tell you, and
Kentucky, are not great football
teams and have far less talent
than the Bulldogs. Yet Kentucky
and Ole Mise — along with
Southern Mississippi and East
Carolina, have throughly embar-
' and soundly whipped the
Gene
Williams
t
Dogs.
Think about it. The Bull:
brain trust has still not fit
out a way to stop anyone from
running the ball. Georgia faced
the option offense three weeks in
a row and they never once oould
stop it. Then Kentucky lines up
and rushes for 286 yards. The
Wildcats averaged only 107
rushing yards a game coming
into the contest — worst in the
SEC.
Coach Goff said, after the
Vandy game in which his defense
gave up real estate on the ground
in big chunks, that he was "glad
that his team would not have to
face another option team because
they just couldn’t Btop it." Isn’t
that the job of the coach to figure
these things out? Remember
times when Georgia had lesser
talent but were always prepared
to play? Those Dooley-led teams
always had a solid game plan,
were prepared, and didn’t use ex
cuses when they lost. Goff and
his current staff have continually
prepared the team inadequately.
Examples? How about waiting
until the Vandy grnne before re
leasing Andre Hastings on a deep
route? How about a lack of an of
fensive game plan against
Clemson where the Bulldogs
looked conftised and grasping for
straws on every play? How about
switching quarterbacks in the
Kentucky game after your
starter, Greg Talley, vaults the
Bulldogs into a commanding 10-0
lead in which the offense had
gained 147 yards on his three
drives? Joe Dupree may be the
“change of pace guy,” but why
change this kind of pace? The list
can go on and on.
But the losing can’t.
Despite the losing, Goff will be
back as coach next year. ‘Die
alumni will be patient, but if
these types of performances con
tinue for the rest of this season
and into next season, Goff will be
out the door.
And you can bet the house on
that.
The South's Top Dag is the
Georgia football beat writer for
The Red and Black.
Goff: Dog players have not given up
Swim dogs tread water;
Tide meet ends in tie
From staff reports
The Georgia men’s and women’s
swim teams earned a split Friday
with the Alabama Crimson Tide in
its first meet of the year as the
women’s team won 169-124, while
the men lost 136-107.
The team of Tanya Philbeck,
Maggie West, Paige Wilson, and
Caroline Woodcock won the 200
women’s Medely relay, beating the
Alabama team by 89/100 of a
second. Sheila Taormina,
Christine Stephenson, and Susan
Suwalski finished in the top three
positions in the 1000 freestyle.
Malin Gustavsson took the 200
freestyle by 7/100 of a second.
Sonja Leiter also edged teammate
in the 100 backstroke.
Other events won by the
women’s team include the 200 but
terfly, 1 and 3-meter diving, 500
freestyle, 100 butterfly, 200 1M,
and the 400 freestyle relay.
For the men’s team, Georgia
swimmers swept the 1000 free
style, while Steven Mortimer won
the 200 IM.
Ian Stewart and Matthew
O’Conner finished at the top of the
200 backstroke.
The Swim Dogs host their first
home meet of the season Friday,
November 2, against Georgia State
at 5:00 in Stegeman Hall.
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Kentucky fullback A1 Baker,
who ran for 133 yards on 24 carries
and scored touchdowns on runs of 1
and 12 yards in Kentucky’s 26-24
victory over Georgia, was named
the SEC offensive player of the
week.
Mississippi State linebacker
Reggie Stewart, who set a school
record with 26 tackles, 16 of them
SPORTS BRIEFS
bo log, in State’s 17-16 loss to No. 2
Auburn, was named SEC defensive
player of the week. He also had two
tackles for losses and caused one
fumble.
By GENE WILLIAMS
Sports Writer
As far as the Georgia Bulldogs are concerned,
there is no rest for the weary.
Instead of emoving their first week off of the
season, the Bulldogs returned to the practice
field Monday to figure out what went wrong in
their 26-24 logs to Kentucky Saturday in Lex
ington.
“Obviously our team is disappointed because
we’ve had some things go against us," Georgia
coach Ray Goff said. "But when you lose, its
better and try to improve instead of taking time
ofT.”
The Bulldogs worked out in shirts and shorts
Monday and ended practice with a spirited
round of wind sprints.
“Do those guys look like they’ve given up to
you?" Goff said while watching his troops finish
their paces.
“Everyone is looking forward to the last three
games," Offensive tackle LeMonte Tellis said.
In their first set of sprints, the winner was
freshman Andre Hastings. Saturday night,
Hastings also left everybody behind with a 89-
yard kickoff return, which briefly gave Georgia
a 17-16 lead. Also defensive back Chuck Cars
well returned a punt 69 yards for another
touchdown.
Goff said that the special teams unit was the
only source of satisfaction he had while
watching Saturday’s logs.
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Goff said. “If it had not been for the play of
Andre and Chuck, we wouldn’t have been in the
game at all."
One person Goff should have left in the game
was quarterback Greg Talley. After leading
Georgia to a commanding 10-0 lead early in the
second quarter, Talley was removed from the
game in favor of freshman quarterback Joe Du
pree.
Greg Talley
One person Goff should have
left in the game was
quarterback Greg Talley. After
leading Georgia to a
commanding 10-0 lead early in
the second quarter, Talley was
removed from the game in favor
of freshman quarterback Joe
Dupree. After Dupree came In,
the Dogs gained only 39 yards
on three possessions and were
forced to punt three times.
Under Talley's three first half possesions, the
Bulldogs had accumulated 147 yards of total of
fense while Talley completed four of his six
passes for 42 yards and a touchdown. After Du
pree came in, the offense gained 39 yards on
three possessions and punted three times.
Goff said that he hasn’t decided how practice
will be run this week, but that the team will
definitely work on the fundamentals and start
preparing for Nov. 10 game in the Gator Bowl
aganist Florida.
“We’re going to decide Tuesday whether or
not to dress out in pads any this week but we
will give the guys Friday and Saturday off so
that the coaches can go out and concentrate on
recruiting," Goff said.
BULLDOG BITES
Offensive lineman Russell DeFoor suffered
an injury to his left knee Saturday and is ques
tionable whether or not he will be able to play.
Bennett home again with hoop Dogs
By DAVID PACE
Sports Writer
All alone in Oklahoma far from
his native state of Georgia, Ar-
lando Bennett began to have his
doubts.
Doubts about school, his basket
ball career and his future.
While attending Conyers State
Junior College in Oklahoma to
work on his academics after suf
fering a broken right wrist in 1989
at Georgia, Bennett began to
wonder if he would ever play again
for Georgia coach Hugh Durham.
“In January it all hit me," Ben
nett said. The people were very
nice, but I was very tar from home.
I had to learn to deal with it."
Dealing with the prospect of
strange new surroundings and un
familiar faces helped bring about
the inevitable. Bennett matured.
He is focused on his future now and
more confident in his abilities.
"It worked out for the best," he
said. "I ran into a lot of people at
the junior college level who were
Arlando Bennett
trying to work their way up to the
Division I level. Before I had taken
it all for granted.”
Another Durham, Hugh Dur
ham’s son Doug was in Oklahoma
also and became a friend and confi
dant for Bennett. The younger
Durham is now with Dad as a stu
dent assistant coach with the Bull
dogs.
During the 1988-89 campaign,
before last year’s ir\jury, Bennett
played in 20 games for the Dogs. In
nis freshman season, Bennett av
eraged 2.3 points and 1.7 rebounds.
With the loss of All-American Alec
Kessler to the pro-ranks, Durham
will be looking to fill the void left
by Georgia’s all-time leading
scorer.
Bennett should be one of those
counted on to contribute. His offen
sive skills should be the focus, but
he possesses good defensive skills
and is known as a shot-blocker.
Bennett blocked 128 shots as a se
nior leading his Madison County
High School team to the State AAA
title. Although he has been
working out with the first team in
practice, the forward slot hasn’t
been filled yet.
“I wouldn’t consider myself a
starter," Bennett said. There are
plenty of other guys out here hus
tling for the same position."
Durham is quick to point out
that he isn’t looking for anyone to
replace Kessler. He just needs five
people to mesh well together on the
court.
“It starts with experience,”
Durham said. “Kessler was a se
nior and he had bulk. Arlando’s
thin and right now his range is no
where near that of Kessler’s.”
Bennett is happy to be back with
the team he kept in contact with
weekly throughout last season.
There's been a few changes since
he left though. The Dogs are the
SEC Champs. His major has
changed from Mass Communica
tions to Social Work because that’s
what his Mother does and he likes
to work with children. But the big
gest difference for Georgia is that
Bennett is back out there and that
bodes well for the team.
“It’s good to have him back. We
need him,” Durham said.
Spikers drop two to shine state teams
BASEBALL BEST BET
The 1990-91 Georgia baseball
team will play a doubleheader
Tuesday against DeKalb College at
Foley Field starting at 4 p.m. Ad
mission is free. Georgia will con
clude its Fall exhibition schedule
Saturday with another double-
header with Gordon College at
noon. Georgia begin its Fall season
on Oct. 21 when the Diamond Dogs
split a double header with Middle
Georgia College.
FLORIDA LOTTERY
The lottery for tickets for the
Florida game continues Tuesday at
the Coliseum. A limit of four stu
dent IDs can be used per person.
The winning ID numbers will be
posted Wednesday.
RUGBY UPDATE
The Georgia rugby clubs split
two matches with Columbus/Ft.
Benning last weekend as the A-
side was defeated 10-8 while the B-
side emerged victorious 20-4.
Georgia will host the SEC Rugby
Tournament this weekend at the
intramural fields.
WINNING WOMEN
The women’s club soccer team
continued its winning ways last
weekend in Tallahassee as they
beat the University of North
Florida 8-0 on Saturday and
Florida State 3-0 on Sunday. The
team is now 5-0.
By LYA WODRASKA
Sports Writer
The Georgia volleyball team suffered two dis
appointing losses this weekend at Florida (11-
11) and at Florida State (19-7).
Georgia coach Jim lams said last week he
was looking forward to the matches because it
would be a chance to see if his Spikers have im
proved since they defeated both teams earlier
this season. Unfortunately, he wasn’t pleased
with the results.
“It’s hard to say if we’ve improved, but based
ur pla)
haven’t," he said.
Georgia (18-9, 4-2 in the SEC) who now is
tied for third in the conference with the Gators,
didn’t play as aggressively as they’ve been
playing in the 3-1 loss to Florida on Friday.
“We played very tentatively, and were never
really in the match," lams said. “We didn’t hit
well or get many service aces. The whole level
of the game seemed real uncertain and scared.
“It was very frustrating because it was a big
blow for us as far as the SEC goes. We can still
do okay, but it puts a lot of pressure on us for
the last three SEC games,” he said.
Senior Christie Lord led the offense with 15
kills and Lenore Davis added 10 to the team
total of 58 kills.
The Bulldogs ended the weekend with an
other loss at FSU but played a little more like
lams wants them to in the 4-15, 6-15, 12-15
loss.
“FSU is a good team and we certainly played
better than we did against Florida. FSU was
clearly the better team," he said. “Our level of
play was more encouraging because the mis
takes we made were aggressive mistakes. We
played harder and stayed in the match more."
Franci Rard led the team with 12 kills while
Lord and Davis both contributed 10 in the
losing effort.
The Dogs played FSU without senior Kristin
Hackley, who is out with a serious stress frac
ture. It will be two or three weeks before it is
known whether or not she will be able to play
anymore this season.
The Spikers will be on the road again this
weekend when they take on North Carolina,
North Carolina State, and Duke.
“It’s tough to be on the road but I hope the
players win be eager to find out how they can
do," lams said. “You can’t make up for losses
but I hope they can look forward to getting bock
on course again.”
Bulldog trading cards fight drugs
By ERIK SCHMIDT
Sports Writer
Officials from Charter Winds
Hospital, in conjunction with the
University of Georgia and the
Athens Police Department, pre
sented Georgia coach Ray Goff,
place kicker John Kasay and offen
sive lineman Lemonte Tellis with
Georgia football cards containing
anti-drug messages Monday.
The football cards, which feature
Goff, UGA V and 13 Bulldog
are utilized by Charter
and the Athens police as
drug deterrents for area children.
The cards are distributed to
grammar and intermediate school
students in the Clarke County area
as part of a program called DARE
(Drug Abuse Resistance Educa
tion) in an effort to dster Northeast
Georgia’s youth from taking drugs.
The project is in its third suc
cessful year.
"Two years ago we got the cards
to as far away as Madison and
Oconee Counties." Athens Police
Sergeant Joe Walter said.
The fame of the cards’ subjects
UGA trading card: Is the most popular.
and their geographic proximity to
the students play a major role in
the effectiveness of the program.
’They (the children) can identify
with athletes," Walter said. "The
local people make it a lot more spe
cial.
Thus far, the card which has re
ceived the most popular acclaim is
Georgia’s beloved mascot, UGA V.
Bulldogs
run well
at SECs
The men’s and women’s cross
country teams finished sixth and
second respectively in the SEC
Championships in Gainesville,
Fla. Monday.
Junior Keli Butler stayed true
to form as she once again led the
Lady Bulldogs with a time of
16:51 to finish second overall to
Tennessee’s Patty Wiegard
(16:45).
Tennessee won the overall
women’s competition while Ala
bama finished third.
The men weren’t very effective
as they also fell to Tennessee, the
men’s overall winner*. Kentucky
finished second in the men’s com-
petiton followed by Florida, Ala-
Lama and Auburn.
— Erik Schmidt