2011 NCAA Football Thread

mws4ua · Nov 20, 2011

No... Just members of the Mountain West, WAC, CUSA, etc.

dwalden2 · Nov 20, 2011

On a different note, Larry Munson, the Voice of the Georgia Bulldogs, and, in my opinion one of the best play callers of all time, died today. Sad day in Bulldog Nation.

mws4ua · Nov 20, 2011

dwalden2 said: ↑

On a different note, Larry Munson, the Voice of the Georgia Bulldogs, and, in my opinion one of the best play callers of all time, died today. Sad day in Bulldog Nation.
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That's too bad... Was he ill? I know he was 89.

dwalden2 · Nov 20, 2011

mws4ua said: ↑

That's too bad... Was he ill? I know he was 89.
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They're sayin he died of Pneumonia. I think he's been fighting it for a little bit. I still get chills when his voice comes on over the Battle Hymn of the Bulldog Nation in Athens...

TacoDawgfan · Nov 20, 2011

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Depends on which UGA team shows up. The one that dismantled Auburn, or the one that sucked against Kentucky...
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X2 If we play like I know we can now I think we're capable of beating anyone. If we play like Saturday, we'll get slaughtered.

dwalden2 said: ↑

On a different note, Larry Munson, the Voice of the Georgia Bulldogs, and, in my opinion one of the best play callers of all time, died today. Sad day in Bulldog Nation.
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Damn! I hadn't heard. This is a sad sad day.

Ironically so many people I know thought he died already.

dwalden2 · Nov 20, 2011

AlphaEcho2k5 said: ↑

Should everyone have a shot sure... I think the BCS guys just try to avoid games like this that come to mind. That Colt Brennan sure put up some numbers.
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That was a great game. Love seein what happens when a ridonkulus offense goes against a good defense.

It was nice to be able to put Hawaii back in their place. If only we coulda done that to Boise this year...

AlphaEcho2k5 · Nov 20, 2011

dwalden2 said: ↑

That was a great game. Love seein what happens when a ridonkulus offense goes against a good defense.

It was nice to be able to put Hawaii back in their place. If only we coulda done that to Boise this year...
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Yeah, as a die hard Gator fan it does sting to say it but... go UG for the SEC East

Warhorseforever · Nov 20, 2011

Going to my first Clemson/SCAR game this weekend. I'll be rockin my orange and purple in the scar student section, wish me luck so that I don't get my ass beat lol. It's going to be crazy. I hope Clemson can do something so that I don't have to hear scar fans talk trash for another year and on top of it being a 3rd year in a row.

dwalden2 · Nov 20, 2011

http://www.georgiadogs.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/112011aab.html

Nov. 20, 2011

ATHENS ----- Larry Munson, legendary voice of the Georgia Bulldogs for 42 years, died at his Athens home Sunday night with complications from pneumonia according to his son, Michael.

Funeral arrangements had not been determined.

Munson wrapped up a lifetime of sports broadcasting in the fall of 2008, most of which was spent with the Georgia Bulldogs from 1966 to 2008. His dramatic delivery, along with an unabashed partisanship for the Bulldogs, endeared him to generations of UGA fans.

The Georgia job, which Munson landed in 1966, was the latest and longest lasting in a career that has covered over 60 years. He has been duly honored by several organizations for his outstanding contributions to broadcasting.

Born Sept. 28, 1922, in Minneapolis, Munson is an alumnus of Moorehead State Teachers College in Moorehead, Minn. After World War II, he used his military discharge pay to enroll in broadcaster's school back homein Minneapolis. He followed 10 weeks of training by landing an assignment to work at a small radio station in Devil's Lake, N.D.

This job started a series of short-term jobs for Munson behind the microphone, the last of which took him to Cheyenne, Wyoming. He had gotten the job by recording an audition tape of a football game between Ohio State and Minnesota, replete with canned crowd noise and special effects.

During his time in Cheyenne, Munson befriended another young broadcaster who later gained national fame: Curt Gowdy, who was calling University of Wyoming football and basketball games at the time. When Gowdy left Cheyenne for a Double A baseball job in Oklahoma City, he recommended that Munson replace him. It was the break that Munson sought.

In 1949, when Gowdy joined Mel Allen on the New York Yankees radio crew, he again recommended Munson for the job in Oklahoma City. Munson eventually spent three years broadcasting baseball there before making his next move.

He left Oklahoma City for Nashville, Tenn., in 1952, taking a job calling games for the Nashville Vols, a minor-league affiliate of several teams, including the New York Giants, Cincinnati and Minnesota. It was a career move that led him into other broadcasting directions. He served a stint as a Nashville disc jockey and also started what was believed to have been the first-ever TV show on fishing. Munson continued to host the fishing show long after he left Nashville for Georgia in the mid-1960s.

While in Nashville, Munson also made his second venture into collegiate athletics. He called Vanderbilt University football and basketball games over the powerful airwaves of AM station WSM.

But in 1966 Munson got his big break into major-league baseball when he landed a job calling Atlanta Braves baseball in their inaugural season. As the Braves' first spring training began, he read a newspaper story about the departure of Georgia football announcer Ed Thilenius. He then made an inquiry to UGA athletics director Joel Eaves, whom he had known during his days at Vanderbilt. Eaves offered him the Georgia football job during that first phone call.

During his career as the Bulldogs¹ play-by-play man, Munson has held a variety of auxiliary jobs. He called games for the Georgia basketball program from 1987-96 and for the Atlanta Falcons from 1989-92. He has also hosted various sports talk shows on radio and TV.

In 1983, Munson was recognized by the Georgia General Assembly for his role in the Georgia championship football program. Fourteen years later the same legislative body, led by Governor Zell Miller, honored him with a proclamation celebrating his 50 years in broadcasting.

In 1994, Munson was inducted into the Georgia Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame, and in 2005, he won a similar induction into the State of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame on May 2, 2009.

Munson was also the 2003 recipient of the Chris Schenkel Award, given annually by the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame. The award recognizes broadcasters with long and distinguished careers in broadcasting college football, as well as their contributions to community service. He was also named winner of the 2008 Furman Bisher Award for Sports Media Excellence presented by the Atlanta Sports Council.

On Nov. 17, 2007, Munson was named a UGA "Honorary Football Letterma" and presented with a letterman¹s plaque and jacket at the Georgia-Kentucky game.
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TacoDawgfan · Nov 20, 2011

As far as Houston goes, bring them on, were not even close to being in the nc and they don't scare me at all. I'm all for teams getting their shot but I did look at their schedule and saw the points they gave up to cream puffs. I'm sorry but put them against LSU or Bama and it will look worse than Hawaii did against us in 07 IMO.

AlphaEcho2k5 · Nov 20, 2011

Warhorseforever said: ↑

Going to my first Clemson/SCAR game this weekend. I'll be rockin my orange and purple in the scar student section, wish me luck so that I don't get my ass beat lol. It's going to be crazy. I hope Clemson can do something so that I don't have to hear scar fans talk trash for another year and on top of it being a 3rd year in a row.
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Bring a Poncho, it maybe like the old Gallagher shows for you.

JimBeam · Nov 20, 2011

swamppirate said: ↑

Dude...17 is a long way to fall.....
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yup

Not surprising really, we got absolutely DESTROYED by an unranked, mediocre team...plus the media has been chomping at the bits for Clemson to "pull a clemson"

Xshark · Nov 21, 2011

What an amazing weekend for football!
What an amazing weekend for Razorback Football fans!

Arkansas has won 3 of the last 4 on LSU. Arkansas is playing its best ball now, so this should be a good game.

WPS!!

*Prayers and thoughts to the family & friends of Garrett Uekman.*

swamppirate · Nov 21, 2011

In the tradition of rivalry week....a little old but still funny....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMQhExsGwD4

SACTOWN · Nov 21, 2011

Xshark said: ↑

*Prayers and thoughts to the family & friends of Garrett Uekman.*
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x2

jbmccul · Nov 21, 2011

Xshark said: ↑

What an amazing weekend for football!
What an amazing weekend for Razorback Football fans!

Arkansas has won 3 of the last 4 on LSU. Arkansas is playing its best ball now, so this should be a good game.

WPS!!

*Prayers and thoughts to the family & friends of Garrett Uekman.*
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Bring it on! Hahaha.

We have had this game circled on our calenders ever since we beat Bama. Should be a really good game.

Prayers to the Uekman family as well

mws4ua · Nov 21, 2011

Yup... Mississippi State painted a hashtag in their endzone for the upcoming Egg Bowl to determine which Mississippi school sucks more...

jbmccul · Nov 21, 2011

mws4ua said: ↑

Yup... Mississippi State painted a hashtag in their endzone for the upcoming Egg Bowl to determine which Mississippi school sucks more...

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Is this real?

mws4ua · Nov 21, 2011

jbmccul said: ↑

Is this real?
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I haven't seen anything that makes me believe it's a photoshop. I think it is real.

jbmccul · Nov 21, 2011

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