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Seniors set for final
game at Sanford
•y NICK PARKER
The Kid & Buck
It’s exactly how every
Georgia senior envisions
going out waving the
final goodbye to Sanford
Btadlum with a home vic
tory in a heated rivalry
against the opponent from
the conference deemed
Inferior, in front of the tens
they've come to love for
four years.
And although this sea
son may not have panned
out Just as this group of
seniors envisioned or
expected, the dream end
ing remains the same.
“I think it’s going to be
pretty emotional," senior
Clint Boling said. "It’s been
a quick four yean. It's gone
by test. But all I can really
try and focus on Is getting
the win, whether It’s my
last game or not, I want to
go out on top, beating
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winning my last game."
Whether It's the last
game for Boling and the
rest of his fellow seniors
remains to be seen —that's
why this Isn't a game just
for in-state pride. It's also a
chance not to be that
group. That group that left
Georgia without a bowl for
the first time since that
1996 group, Jim Dorman's
first bunch.
"We don't want to be the
senior class that goes with
out a bowl game. I don't
think that's happened In
the Mark Richt era here,”
senior Demarc us Dobbs
said. "But we just have to
get this game. It's very
Important to the seniors
and important to our
morale and we got a lot of
pride In ourselves. So it's
very important to us to win
this last game and get in a
bowl."
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A CHnt'BoKng (60) and ttw rest of tho seniors
prepsre for their final game In Sanford Stadium.
Unlike most senior
groups, though, this bunch
thanks to a bye week
will have an extra week to
let It all sink la There's no
denying Georgia would
have loved for the bye week
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to have come In the middle
of the season, allowing
them a break from the
physical toll of the week
to-week SEC grind, but a
bye week Is always wel
comed nonetheless.
"We’ve been going 11
weeks, and it's just been a
long season,” Boling said.
“It'D give the defense a lit
tle extra time to focus on
the option and everything
they nut. And give us a lit
tle chance to get some rest
and get our legs back
underneath us, so it'll be a
good time for a break right
now.”
It could also be the last
time Georgia tens see A.J.
Green and Justin Houston
on the field, who both will
have to make decisions of
whether or not to bypass
their senior seasons for the
NFL Draft.
“I think It’s going to be
pretty emotional, especial
ly just being here and the
season not really going as
everybody expected,"
Green said. “It’s going to
be pretty tough for the
seniors. It’s going to be a
lot of emotion running
high, but I believe if we
come out with a win, it’s
going to make everything
better.”
For Dobbs, he knows
the moment is coming, but
just like the rest of his col
lege career, he’s sure It’ll
happen way too fast.
“It has been a long ride.
It’s been a long journey.
The season hasn’t panned
out the way all the seniors
wanted it to from the
beginning of the year, but
it’s saying bye to Sanford
Stadium and the fans and
your teammates. You prob
ably won’t have this oppor
tunity again ever to be with
all these guys at once,"
Dobbs said. "It’s going to
be emotional. I don’t know
how to put it In words, but
I guess you’ll be able to see
it, how much it really
means to us to play our
last game in Sanford
Stadium.”
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Team eyes
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• It has made throughout the
week, in particular fresh
man guards Ronika
Ransford and Khaalidah
Miller.
“They seem to be pick
ing things up,” he said.
“They’ve improved the
most this week.”
This improvement is
bolstered by the fact
Landers said the team is
finally getting to put in
more of the offensive and
defensive sets it will run
throughout the season.
But with three games in
the span of five days
Georgia heads to Los
Angeles to face Southern
California on Tuesday
Landers knows there is still
more work to be done.
"You don’t have every
thing in that’s going to be
in offensively or defensively,
so when it’s this early and
you’re playing games back
to-back, as a coach, you’ve
got to have a sense and a
feel for what any of the
three teams might present,
since you only have a day
of practice between each of
the games,” he said. “It’s
not like you drop things in
the day before a game.”
Landers’ biggest goal for
the team is simple he
wants to see them playing
with more passion on the
court.
“1 Just want us to ratch
et up everything, particu
larly the intensity, and
make sure we’re playing as
hard as we’re capable of
playing,” he said.