Go, Mike, Go!

For any of you who have attended The University of Georgia, it should come as no surprise that the majority of people associated with the school do not like Michael Adams. The man who has been at the top of University of Georgia food chain since 1997 has constantly upset Georgia students, alumni, and faculty with his ill advised decisions and policies.

Adams has been notorious for making decisions that have been particularly upsetting to followers of Georgia athletics. In 2003, it was Adams decision to punish the entire Georgia basketball team for the actions of Tony Cole, removing the team not only from the SEC tournament but the NCAA tournament that year. It was arguably the best Georgia team since the early 80's and Adams decision is still haunting the men's basketball program to this day. Adams was also behind the "forced retirement" of Vince Dooley. While Damon Evans has done a fine job at the helm, Coach Dooley is a legend in Athens and should have been able to leave on his own terms. Most recently, the announcement of the new tailgating policies are a direct results of Adams' desire to make more money and move tailgating off campus.

With presidency of the NCAA vacant, Adams sits near the top of the short list of people to take the job. Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN fame wrote an article (found here) on why the rest of the country should be scared. Do I think Adams would do a horrible job as NCAA President? Yes. But for the love of everything that is good in Athens, I hope the man gets the job.

All I can say is, NCAA give Mike a chance (and get him away from my University!)

What’s on My Mind – The NCAA is Dumb, Winter Sucks, and Other Thoughts

1. The NCAA is talking about some stupid rule changes for football.
a. The NCAA wants to band players writing messages on eye-black. As much as I dislike Tebow, I had no problem with him putting bible verses on his eye black. This seems very stupid to me.
b. The excessive celebration penalty would cause a touchdown to be taken off of the board. This is ridiculous. The 15 yard penalty was already a judgment call that could have potential major impact on a game (see the Georgia-LSU game last year). Now you want to make a judgment call take points off the board. NCAA, please see this is a dumb idea.
2. The Winter Olympics are starting…and no one really cares. In my opinion, the Olympics rank third on the most important sporting events of the weekend behind the Daytona 500 and the NBA All-Star game. No matter how much figure skating NBC puts on over the next few weeks, I still don’t care.
3. What a letdown for the Georgia basketball team against Auburn the other night. How can a team that has victories over 4 ranked opponents and took #2 Kentucky to the brink lose by 21 to Auburn? Mark Fox has made major strides with the program, but we still have a lot of work to do.
4. Tom Glavine officially retired and joined the Braves front office. I am glad to see Tommy put his anger from last year aside and come back to the Braves. Now, it’s the Atlanta fans’ turn to get off his back. It was an amazing career for Glavine, including 300 wins seen in the video below:



5. Football season is over. Congratulations to the Saints, but when the Falcons’ biggest rival wins the Super Bowl, I kind of get the same feeling as Florida winning the National Championship.

6. 4 weeks til spring practice. Let the talk about Grantham’s D, the quarterback competition, and whether Richt is on the hot seat (which he is NOT) commence.