358 MILES
I ain’t goin’ ta Atlanta. Thass a whole utha countrah!It should surprise no one to find that Georgians do not like to travel–after all, why do you think the place got torched by the Union Army? Mostly because Georgians just kept sending notes to the Union Army reading “Hey, it’s cold out. Come on down here and we’ll tussle.” It’s also scientific fact that 42% of Georgia fans are fat white guys who only leave the confines of Gwinnett County to go to Georgia games and for heart surgery, so the immobility isn’t surprising.
What is surprising is seeing it quantified, especially in terms of mileage traveled.
Georgia has traveled a total of 358 miles for nonconference road games since 1998. By comparison, Hawaii has traveled 72,918 miles.
Not that Florida, or any other SEC team may complain about his, since Tom Tancredo himself envies the xenophobic tendencies fo the conference as a whole:
Teams from the Southeastern Conference hold down seven of the top eight spots for teams having traveled the fewest miles. This includes Florida, which last played a nonconference road game outside of the Sunshine State on Sept. 21, 1991, at Syracuse.
But there’s auslanders out there! And Jamba Juice stores, which we just know are a front for the homosexual atheist agenda! And also, more logically speaking, SEC teams can sit on their front porch and watch the money roll in without even getting their shoelaces dirty from hitting the road for longer than a few hours at a time.
(And go ahead and anthropomorphize the argument if you want, because you’re illogical and will do it anyway: SEC teams are skurred! They don’t want none! No, they just make shitloads of money shuffling around the block, and have no incentive to get wanderlust thanks to mountains of cash on the local circuit. Plus: strangers frighten and confuse us!)
Hawaii, however, has spent more time in the air than a John Kitna post route or Venus Williams’ buttocks.









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Will (the other one) says:
I’d like to see an updated version that removes Hawai’i miles from the equation (including stuff like ‘Bama’s “Fuck probabtion, we’re giving ourselves a bowl” trips out there in the early 2000s).
They’re thousands of miles away even from conference opponents, so any travel they make is going to widely skew the totals.
Also, we’re following in LSU’s footsteps and heading out to ASU next season. The potential talent (not talking about the teams) will have Catholic fans of both teams in confession for 800 days.
December 20th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
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Mr Pelican Pants says:
The simple answer is this….why travel over 400 miles when the best competition in the land is within the SEC, and most SEC teams are within that distance……if any other OOC competitor want sum, they come to us, we aint got nothin to prove….if they want it they have to come and get it..Want some? Get some…Bad enough?…come take some……..
December 20th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
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Doug says:
Most of us Georgia fans only heard just a few years ago that they’d actually started playing football west of Amarillo, Texas. “What? You mean there’s a New Mexico?”
December 20th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
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Dr. Ed PHD.XYZ says:
Sometimes the answer is ” That’s just the way it is”.
December 20th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
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Mr Pelican Pants says:
Now if we could schedule some teams in Rio DeJaneiro, we have something to talk about
December 20th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
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Beatuofa says:
Hopefully when Georgia comes out to Tempe next season to play the Sun Devils, they’ll be confused and bewildered by the whole “airplane” and “time change” and “desert” business and won’t know what to do on the field.
December 20th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
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WWJD says:
Why leave Florida when there are so many schools to fill out the non-conference schedule? Hell, I’d love to see UF schedule USF, UCF, Miami, and FSU as its four. If it wouldn’t mean the team were even more bruised and battered by the end of the season. Four games I’d pay to see, though.
December 20th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
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Mr Pelican Pants says:
I thought “New Mexico” was slang for all these rag tag shanty towns of trailer parks on the outskirts of your city filled with illegal workers in trucks with Texas plates, coming to a town near you in 2008??
December 20th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
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Mr Pelican Pants says:
If you are gonna play ASU in Arizona, be sure to bring up the conversation starter of “yeh, but its a dry heat”
December 20th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
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Techie says:
Sounds a lot like KU and Syracuse basketball.
December 20th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
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Etch Westgrin says:
I’ll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missourah.
December 20th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
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Eric says:
Meh – this is utterly meaningless. The idea that you have to play anyone to actually be considered a good team went out the window this year with Ohio State…and pretty much any Oklahoma team from the first half of the decade.
December 20th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
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chalky dawg says:
Isn’t UGA going to ASU in 2008 and Colorado in 2009?
December 20th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
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Unhappy Monkey says:
Mr. Pelican Pants @ 8: Don’t forget names spelled in giant gothic letters on the rear glass and cock (roster variety) and torro decals all over the conversion van.
December 20th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
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PeteJayhawk says:
#10 Assuming “Techie” is referring to Georgia Tech, did you miss KU going to Atlanta a mere two days ago?
December 20th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
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UgasTexan says:
Arizona State! Yes!
Oklahoma State in 2009! Does that count?
Colorado! Sometime! If we don’t back out! And we better not!
Oregon! Louisville! Clemson! Clemson? Ok, maybe that’s a stretch. It is though in another state, though.
Yes, being stuck in that no-win scenario with North Avenue Trade School every year is really starting to blow. When we hit 10 in a row, we should just treat them like they treat Georgia Southern.
Hey… do you think Tech will finally allow Ga Southern to play them now??? Wonder what PJ thinks now that the shoe is on the other foot?
December 20th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
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UgasTexan says:
I’m with Eric.
See KU in Orange Bowl.
Schedule weakly, my friends!
December 20th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
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Hiphopopotamus says:
KU in basketball? You mean the same KU team that this year has played road games @USC, @ Georgia Tech and will play @ Boston College?
December 20th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
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Beatuofa says:
Mr Pelican Pants, re #9: You should have seen the ASU/LSU message boards in the dog days of summer before they played in 2005. The number of threads regarding dry heat vs. humid heat and how it would affect both teams was enough to make you cry. LSUJoshua can probably corroborate this.
December 20th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
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Franklin Delanor Romanowski says:
Yes, Georgia has not traveled far for non-conference opponents and many Georgia fans are very glad that the trend is ending. However, some rival fans of the Dawgs have often pointed to the lack of distance as if that in and of itself makes Georgia’s non-conference opponents weak. To use an example of a non conference foe UGA has faced often on the road I will point to Clemson. Just because in 2003 Tech opened up at BYU ( well over a thousand miles away) and UGA opened up at Clemson (about 65 miles away) doesn’t have a single thing to do with the actual difficulty of the opponents, in fact, in this case the closer opponent was much tougher (even though Tech did lose to BYU and UGA won 30-0). Are the opposing fans at a road game somehow not as loud since the visiting team is close?
Just so no one is confused, I am very glad that my Dawgs will start to play farther away if for no other reason than to garner more national attention. I just don’t buy the whole argument that UGA’s non conference is so much easier than most team’s just because Tech and Clemson are nearby.
December 20th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
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Mosby says:
It’s best that they not travel. Let’s not forget the issues U[sic]GA fans have with escalators…
December 20th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
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Will (the other one) says:
I’d always thought the Trade School refused to play GA Southern because they were scared of losing, much like how they never played GA State when Lefty was coaching and they were good.
That 1999 Tech team vs. a PJ-coached, AP (the original Adrian Peterson) running GSU would’ve been a good game. AP would’ve shredded the Tech D, but Tech could score a ton on anyone that year too.
Tech would’ve won though, b/c they played ineligible players.
December 20th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
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Herb says:
#6, he thinks he put up about 500 yards of offense on the Dawgs with D1AA players.
December 20th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
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Meg says:
I love how everyone assumes GA players haven’t seen airplanes. This is the SEC. The football team probably flies to SC which is only a 3 hour drive away.
December 20th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
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Mr Pelican Pants says:
Orson,
In a weird “3 degrees of Vern Lunquist” way, I just,like in the last 5 mins, met his nephew, James, who recently made a purchase at a store I work at….I, jokingly, said, “Ever heard of a guy named Vern Lundquist?” and he said…”The Soulja boy announcer??Yep, thats my dads brother…my dad says he’s been married too many times though..” I thought that was funny as hell, then he said “Uncle Vern has always been crazy, and watching him bounce around in the booth,we laughed so hard, we couldnt breathe”…
Well thats my brush with greatness for today…carry on…
December 20th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
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Biggus Rickus says:
In our defense, we’ve only had planes for three years.
December 20th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
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Allahver Fist says:
I spent about 6 years being a fat white youth in Gwinnett County (Norcross and Duluth). Thank God our family escaped to Florida in time for me to be saved by the Gators.
At least my next door neighbor in Duluth was the co-founder of Waffle House. That is forever cool, much like Flav-O-Fry.
December 20th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
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Techie says:
I was well aware of that game. It’s a return for us going out there in 2004.
Last year, the Jayhawks left Allen Fieldhouse TWICE until 1/13 @ Oklahoma St. And one of those games was against the mighty powerhouse South Carolina.
December 20th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
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justanotherbuckeye says:
“The simple answer is this….why travel over 400 miles when the best competition in the land is within the SEC, and most SEC teams are within that distance……if any other OOC competitor want sum, they come to us, we aint got nothin to prove….if they want it they have to come and get it..Want some? Get some…Bad enough?…come take some……..”
I don’t know if this is TIC or serious as a bike horn, but this summarizes us Northern football fans stereotype of the southern school to a T! You guys make fun of the Big 10 for this, but in our case it’s because we’re weak footballers, like you guys would even bother to watch a Big 10 game(like watching women’s hoops to you) in the first place.
Anywho, I believe Orson has the gist of it, it’s all about the dough.
December 20th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
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Papa Lou BSU says:
I know it’s the way of the college football world, but as a MAC fan who has seen his team slog through too many schedules with only four home games, I’d love to see Florida (or pick your non-travelin’ SEC team) forced to play one season with no non-conference home games, all roadies against BCS opponents, just so their fans get an appreciation of how the other half lives.
(And I’m sorry, but you haven’t left the state for a non-conference game in 16 years? Christ, guys, there’s being fat and happy off your gate receipts, and then there’s being flat-out isolationist…it’s like you’re looking to sever trade relations or something.)
December 20th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
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Kate says:
Georgia, you say?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=esl2NNOtHQE
#26: Waffle House. I never understood its appeal.
December 20th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
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Alex says:
353 miles? we covered that each trip going to arizona, az. state, and va tech, and that was in a 4 year span. its not quite the million miles hawai’i does but we don’t live on an island….yet.
December 20th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
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TIGERinATL says:
Pelican,
Did Vern’s nephew order fries with his Whopper?
DAMNIT — I just can’t stop myself!
December 20th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
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Techie says:
Didn’t UGA expect “10 in a row” sometime back in the mid-90s?
Didn’t y’all fire a coach for losing 3 to us?
December 20th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
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TIGERinATL says:
Funny side note: My wife used to work with senior citiznes in Cobb County, and when those codgers had to go to the Marrietta Square, they would refer to that as “going downtown.” Actually going into downtown ATL was “driving to Atlanta,” as if they lived in another state.
#31 – Waffle House is God’s gift to drunks at 3 a.m. — GOD’S GIFT I SAY! Even better than Krystal.
December 20th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
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Mr Pelican Pants says:
#33
You know as well as I do, we dont take checks at the Huddle House…..
#29
It was meant in jest, or TIC..TAC….TOE
December 20th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
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D-nice says:
It’s really the quality of the non-conference opponent (at least one or two of the four non-conference games, obviously every school has a few gimmees) that matters, not so much the miles traveled.
USC under Carroll has been great about scheduling tough opponents AND playing them on the road, including VT, Auburn, ND, Arkansas, Nebraska. Of course, this year ND and Nebraska ended up being crap games, but on paper at the time of scheduling, they were legit.
December 20th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
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Rival says:
#34
Yes. But since the 7-win streak is underway via a new coaching staff, you can put away any proud moments against the Donnan regime. (Of course those weren’t the cleanest of wins for Tech.)
And you won’t likely see that happen again. That’s why it’s realistic for us to look ahead to 10 in a row.
December 20th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
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Techie says:
I am well aware that the day Chan Gailey was fired, the mood was the same in Athens when Reggie Ball ran out of eligibility.
December 20th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
40
Dawgy says:
Georgia is going to drop teams like Ga. Tech and Clemson and pick up Kent State, Akron or, Youngstown State.
This will improve our mileage ratings and possibly give us a better chance of playing in the BCS MNC game.
December 20th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
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NRBQ says:
“It should surprise no one to find that Georgians do not like to travel….”
Putting 827 Waffle Houses within a 40-mile radius of ATL is the most brilliant business plan. Ever.
Kate, your hate never disappoints.
December 20th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
42
DC Trojan says:
When a man is tired of Gwinnett County, he is tired of life.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
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hunglikehussain says:
xenophobia? Fear of xenos?
Nope, don’t care fer em. Shifty, lazy no counts…send em back to Xenobia, tats wat I say.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
44
Rival says:
“Snellville: Where everybody is somebody”
That is adorable!
How can you mock Gwinnett County when it holds such towns?
Ah, the home town…
December 20th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
45
Will (the other one) says:
a Xeno tried to shoot me with an arrow once…never did hit me though. He must be a lousy shot.
Techie, let’s look at this another way. From 1990-Present Day Tech has beaten UGA 4 times. 3 years they used players determined ineligible by the NCAA (and for a while even had those wins stricken from the record books). The other win was the co-MNC team over one of Goff’s worst squads. So without using ineligible players, it took the combination of the worst UGA coach in 50 years against the best Tech team in 50 years to get a clean win.
Paul Johnson should be, eventually, an improvement over Chan, but Mark Richt has never tasted defeat at Tech’s hands (no losses while at FSU either) and he’s not about to start now.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
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TIGERinATL says:
I used to work with a smokin’ hot UGA grad* from Snellville. Aside from beach vacations, she only left those city limits to go three places: Work, Athens, and Jacksonville
* Purely in the most technical sense, as I think she would have difficulty with the brain teasers on the back of an Apple Jack’s box — and she was blonde. She was the poster child for H.O.P.E induced grade inflation.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
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hunglikehussain says:
Way to go Will!!!!!
Thats the way to chop, chunk, scatter and smother Techie.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
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Will (the other one) says:
@46
I’d defend the honor of UGA ladies, but sadly I think your former co-worker is still the majority. If hot SMART girls were plentiful, I would’ve dated more when I was in Athens. Instead it’s far too many girls who, when they list anything under their “Favorite Books” section on Facebook put “US Weekly.”
‘Course that’s true outside of Athens too…
December 20th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
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paulwesterdawg says:
BEWARE OF DRAGONS!
DRAGONS I TELL YOU!
That’s what happens when you said off the end of the earth.
BTW — All of the Gator miles appear to be in one trip.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
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hunglikehussain says:
Orson.
In the future if you refer to UGA, please refrain from the Iron Maiden music. If you are trying to musically emphasize a point in reference to Georgians we prefer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZYrWcgX3-g
December 20th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
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Millon deFloss says:
Waffle House – the food’s pretty bleh, but the entertainment is first-rate.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
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Mosby says:
#41
What do you expect? Waffle House, Inc is run by Tech Men.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
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Because They Can says:
Cripes, how many of you people live in ATL? Brings to mind a Lewis Grizzard quote…
December 20th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
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Techie says:
I’ll be damned to let a Dawg of all people moan about “clean wins”
4 probations in the last 28 years?
Does the name “Jan Kemp” ring any bells?
Can a UGA recruiter go into Palm Beach County yet?
December 20th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
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fattus says:
i think the travel number game gets overplayed. some teams can’t help that they travel a lot and some can’t help that they don’t. the closest 1-a school to boise state is 315 miles away so they’re gonna get frequent flyer miles (not to mention hawaii).
when you can schedule good games close to home, why not?
December 20th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
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SunDawg says:
Reggie Ball… [places greasy ball cap with "G" on front reverently over heart]. [whispers] Reggie…
Georgians travel; hell, I went all the way to Griffin once. And Lovejoy! We travel!
December 20th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
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Techie says:
Plus, if Goff is a handicap for y’all, then can we put asterisks against the wins over B*** L****’s teams? Worst coach in Tech history.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
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Acorns says:
29 – easy there, son. We feel your pain, but if we’re going to pay for our fancy weight rooms, hookers, etc., we need seven home games. Plus, our big-hat-wearin’ skybox renters are good for another 100k or so with that extra game. That stuff adds up, you know.
And I know a lot of us who watched Illinois-tOSU this year. Much more fun than watching women’s hoops, it was.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
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Will (the other one) says:
Yeah, b/c Tech has never had academic scandals…recently…involving liberal use of “collaboration”…
Does “Jan Kemp” explain why from the 1960s to now Tech has never managed more than 3 wins per decade against UGA?
December 20th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
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DevilGrad says:
“Hawaii, however, has spent more time in the air than . . . Venus Williams’ buttocks.”
*Still* laughing over here.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
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Mr Pelican Pants says:
#60
So what happens when we can claim part of the Moon as the 53rd State? (I count Puerto Rico 52)
who is gonna travel into space to play the Predators of Lunar Tech and their awesome Zero Gravity Spread offense….good news is they launch from Houston or Florida, now thats traveling……not just from the mainland…..from the Earth……outta space baby
December 20th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
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Fred Sanford says:
IOK, its official. Atlanta has taken over EDSBS. The Falcons are an embarrassment so why not?
45: Did I catch a Zeno’s paradox reference there. Where are your priorities? This ain’t philosophy class…this is football.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
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Will (the other one) says:
It’s privative physics actually. Sort of.
And I wouldn’t be in Atlanta if there were salaried jobs (non-professor) in Athens…
December 20th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
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Mo Claretts' cellmate says:
xenophobia? Fear of The Warrior Princess?
December 20th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
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my left nut says:
re: ga. tech frequent flier miles…
the NATS[north avenue trade school]have been to boise so often they have a new cheer….
male fans yell…who’s-da-ho
famales respond… I-DA-HO.
hell yea i’m a dawg..
way up north to me is chattanooga…
GATA
December 21st, 2007 at 11:05 am
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RomeDawg says:
“Fat white guys” ? Man, what is the world coming to when someone who worships a school that has more middle easterners, than a Saturday at Mecca, make fun of us poor white people. I feel so bad now, Habib.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:33 pm