Archive for March 11th, 2003
10 Reasons UGA Basketball Sucks

10. Their Coliseum has been referred to as “The Tub” and the “Jir-cuzzi” but most folks know it as “that round building where football pep rallys are held.”

9. Dominique Wilkins is the only basketball player from UGA that anyone can name. He played 20 years ago. Wilkins played only three years at Georgia. His most successful season ended in the NIT Final Four, he never played in an NCAA Tournament game and the school’s best season ever came the year after he left. During that same period, Herschel Walker led the football team to 2 SEC championships and one National Championship.

8. The players routinely get beat in pickup games at the Ramsey Center. The average GPA of the pickup team is as high as the blood alcohol level of the players’ team. 7. The basketball players’ hall in the athletic dorm has its own fog advisories. Strangely, the fog seems to make people laugh a lot and eat Funyuns.

6. The players’ Escalades only have 20″ Dayton Dubs. Everyone knows that pimps only skate on 22″ dubs.

5. Tubby Smith, one of UGA’s winningest (percentage) basketball coaches and most promising to bring the team to true national consciousness left after only 2 seasons. One of his sons stayed, but the other found greener pastures with his dad. Tubby has since taken UK to the NCAA tournament 5 consecutive years, including one national championship and a 75.4% winning percentage. Good thing we let him go.

4. Sellouts at Stegeman Coliseum are as rare as players attending class.

3. Practices at UGA often break down the team into 2 groups: “On Parole” and “On Probation.”

2. Coach…er…President Adams insisted on hiring Harrick, only to make Vince Dooley do his dirty work when it came time to fire him. Adams’ ham-handed meddling in the Athletic Department office is like Jim Donnan careening through the buffet at Golden Corral.

And the number one reason UGA basketball sucks:

1. Jim Harrick