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Georgia Southern, November 13, 2012

From the editor : vance leavyAhhh, what a wonderful feeling it is to be heading back

to Atlanta to play in the SEC Championship in a few weeks.And how nice to not only beat Auburn, but to totally dom-inate and shut them out at their own place.

Huge accolades go to Coach Richt and his staff who hadour boys ready to roll when the first whistle blew on thePlains. It was a fundamental butt-whipping that equated toa rockin’ good time for the Bulldog Nation.

Throughout our yearsof doing Bulldawg Illus-trated, all of us that get toopine about our numberone love have alwayspreached the desire forMark Richt’s teams to playsound football in all phases.And that’s exactly what wegot this past Saturday inJordan-Hare Stadium. Boy,doesn’t it feel good?

On offense, betweenAaron Murray zipping theball around to his receivingunit to Todd Gurley andKeith Marshall combiningfor another stellar perform-ance running the football,Auburn simply had no an-swers.

And the same coulddefinitely be said for ourdefense that literally shut theTigers out. 38-0. There’s nothing like a goose egg!

And lastly, our special teams had their best game of theseason.

Kudos guys. It was a wonderful night and certainly agame that made everyone proud to be a Georgia Bulldog.

And with that, we say goodbye to thegreat victory because now it’s time tofocus on our next opponent.

And while it would be easy to assumethat Saturday’s game against GeorgiaSouthern will be a simple task, I refuse tothink that way. If you need a little re-minder that anything can happen on anygiven day in college football, then justlook at Florida’s near disaster this pastweek versus Louisiana-Lafayette.

It rarely happens that David actually brings down Go-liath in these miss-matched games, but it hits every nowand again. Remember Appalachian State’s historic victoryover Michigan a few years back? Bottom line, is our teamand our fans need to hit Sanford Stadium on Saturday withthe same focus and determination that occurred in Auburn.

At this point, our national championship goal requirestwo unbeaten teams to lose over the next few weeks. Yes,

the helplessness of thissituation isn’t fun, butthe fact of the matter isthe Dawgs must con-tinue to take care oftheir own business forany of this to matter.Not only do we need tokeep winning, we needa couple more beat-downs to enhance ourBCS ranking.

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Enjoy this issuefull of photos from theAuburn game. There’snothing like capturinghappy faces at halftimeknowing that the game

is already over. Take it easy, Aubie!Also inside, make sure to read Jeff Dantzler’s terrific

column on the beloved Georgia and Georgia Southern coachErk Russell. He is greatly missed by the Bulldog Nation. Buthis legacy of not only being a great coach but an incredibleman will never cease.

And in our center spread, our interns Pierce Personsand Annie Trice have put together a fantastic feature wherethey show off the true spirit of the Georgia Bulldogs withspotlights on two cheerleaders, two majorettes and a RedCoat Band Member. Yes, we love our football here at Bull-dawg Illustrated, but we certainly appreciate all thepageantry that enhances every game.

Sadly, there are only two more games left in the 2012regular season. Let’s make them special.

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It is very rare in the world of collegiate ath-letics for someone to be beloved by two schools.The late Erk Russell is an iconic exception to therule. This giant of a man is one of the great treas-ures to ever coach at Georgia. Programs, fran-chises and teams have their Mt. Rushmore’s oflegends.

In Statesboro, Erk Russell is the mountainitself.

He is the biggest reason this game is hap-pening.

College football’s most well-known assis-tant stalked the Bulldog sidelines with red andpants and a bloody head for 17 seasons as thegame’s premier defensive coordinator. It was1980 and Georgia was a perfect 11-0, South-eastern Conference champions, and bound forthe Sugar Bowl to play Notre Dame for the na-tional title.

But Auburn had a head coaching vacancy,firing Doug Barfield. They were calling one oftheir own to come home. And Auburn gradu-ate Vince Dooley was listening to an enticing offerto be the Tigers head coach and athletics direc-tor. Over the next month or so, three historicthings happened.

1. Dooley turned Auburn down to re-main at Georgia.

2. Georgia had its greatest of days, de-feating Notre Dame 17-10 on January 1, 1981 inNew Orleans to capture the undisputed nationalchampionship.

3. Erk Russell left Athens to start a foot-ball program at tiny Georgia Southern, whichhad not fielded a gridiron team since World WarII.

His success in Statesboro was phenomenal.By 1984, the Eagles were playing at the DivisionI-AA level, the second highest in college athlet-ics. In 1985, Russell led Georgia Southern to theI-AA national championship. In 1986, the Ea-gles won it again.

In 1988, on the heels of his 200th win atthe Georgia helm – a 24-3 victory over Tech be-tween the hedges – Dooley announced he wasretiring. Russell, who’s Eagles were set to playfor another national championship, was every-one’s choice to take over the Georgia program.This was the ultimate no-brainer hire. It hadcome close to happening in 1980, but now thetiming seemed right. Unfortunately, Dooley hadalso retired as athletics director to pursue politi-cal interests.

There was a void of leadership. The hiring process was botched and it was

not to be. Erk Russell coached one more year, lead-

ing Georgia Southern to the 1989 Division I-AAnational championship with a perfect 15-0record, winning the title game in Statesboro.

Soon after, he announced his retirementfrom coaching.

Erk Russell passed away in September of2006. It was a Friday.

Every now and then, in life, you might belucky enough to come across a wonderful per-son that nobody ever had a bad thing to sayabout.

Erk Russell was that man. As a coach, he had that incredibly rare qual-

ity of not having to ask his players to go hard forhim. It came natural. Nobody wanted to dis-appoint him. Players went as hard as they couldfor him, because they wanted him to be proud.

“He never really had to raise his voice to us,”says Chris Welton, starting rover for the 1980national and SEC champion Bulldogs. “If youmessed up on a play in practice, he would justgive you a look, and that was enough. You dideverything you could not to disappoint him.”

Hugh Nall, stating center for the 1980 na-tional and SEC champion Bulldogs, began his

highly successful coaching career as an assistantfor Russell in the early days of Georgia South-ern’s program.

He recounts one of his first recruiting trips,and asking coach Russell what he was lookingfor in terms of size, speed, technique, etc?

“Hugh,” Nall remembers, “I want you to gofind us some guys with a bad case of the wants.”

He brought out the best in everyone. Fromwalk-ons to All-Americans, everyone laid it onthe line for Erk Russell.

Whenever he would come back to Athensfor reunions of Georgia’s great teams, his wouldbe the loudest of ovations.

His accomplishments at Georgia Southern,an astounding three national championships andfour trips to the national title game over a fiveyear stretch from 1985 – 1989 for a program justreborn, are remarkable.

He would have had the same incrediblelevel of success at Georgia. Or Alabama. OrFlorida. Or Auburn. Had it worked out andhad he gotten the opportunity at a SoutheasternConference superpower, Erk Russell’s namewould be next to Bear Bryant’s and KnuteRockne’s amongst the greatest legendary headcoaches in major college football history.

As it is, Erk Russell is the greatest coach inDivision I-AA annals and the most celebrated as-sistant in major college football lore.

But his accomplishments stalking the side-lines pale in comparison to the enormity of hishumanity. He touched countless lives – his play-ers, fellow coaches, close friends, kids, fans, sup-porters, alumni, and so many others.

Just like nobody ever wanted to do any-thing to let him down or disappoint him, ErkRussell had an incredible God-given knack ofmaking everyone he knew feel special in someway – often through a clever nickname he wouldcome up with. He made you smile and feel goodinside. Erk Russell was one of the warmest peo-ple who ever walked the world.

As a kid, I got to play tennis with him. Thefirst time, he was in his 50s and I was 15, thebest junior at our club. He flat out wore me out.We squared off a few more times. The resultswere much the same. But for me, just being onthe court with him created some of my fondestever memories. I also enjoyed sitting on the deckof the tennis shop watching him play our oldfriend, and fellow monster Bulldog fan BillyRushing. Whenever coach Russell would missa drop shot, he would yell at himself – “Oh whydid you try that?! Because you’re yellow?! Youjust wanted to end the point!” After the match,they would then drink a tall Budweiser andcoach Russell would get pelted with footballquestions from me, and without fail, alwaysshared great stories and insight.

In my 20s, we played golf together threetimes. He had to quit tennis because of badknees. Within a few months he was breaking50 on nine holes. The last four sport lettermanin Auburn history (football, basketball, baseballand tennis) was just a great natural athlete.

Yes, I was very lucky. As was everyone he ever knew.The day after coach Russell passed away,

Georgia shut out South Carolina 18-0 in Co-lumbia. It was the Bulldogs first road shutout ina true SEC road game since a 27-0 win at Ken-tucky in 1980. His final year on the Bulldogsidelines.

It was the most fitting of tributes, and theone he would have most wanted.

And as Georgia and Georgia Southernsquare off between the hedges, there is one thingthat 100 percent of the faithful for programsunanimously agree on – an incredible love for amost remarkable man.

A remarkable man ... Erk Russell

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Archer applies business acumen to athletic board

Bill Archer grew up next to the Atlanta air-port, watching the facility, Hartsfield-Jackson In-ternational, become what it is today … thebusiest airport in the world.

So, at the time, young Archer certainlygained a sense of the history, business acumenand development of Atlanta and years later, hewould apply that knowledge to his role withGeorgia Power Company where he was em-ployed for 35 years and, upon his retirement in2006, was honored by the Georgia General As-sembly.

But, what Archer cherished the most, rightalong with his service with the electric company,was his days in high school and his beloved Uni-versity of Georgia and what he’s doing today,which is serving on the Board of Directors of theGeorgia Athletic Association.

“I played the high school sports, football andbaseball, at old Russell High School,” Archer re-lated. “I played defensive back and wide receiverin football and in baseball, I was a second base-man. I was a step too slow to go on and play col-lege ball. I graduated from the University ofGeorgia in 1970 with a business administrationdegree,” he said. “My wife and I got married be-tween my junior and senior years. Back then, gaswas 40 cents a gallon and with a fill-up, they gaveyou a free Bulldog glass. We didn’t have muchback then but we really enjoyed my senior yearat Georgia before we graduated in 1970.”

Archer and his wife, Andrea, were highschool sweethearts at Russell High in East Point.“As I said, we got married between my junior andsenior years at Georgia,” Archer said. “She taughtthat year at Jefferson High in Jefferson, Georgia. Itwas a wonderful year for us that year in Athensat University Garden Apartments. We now havethree children, a son and two daughters. My sonand oldest daughter went to the University ofGeorgia and my youngest daughter went toGeorgia Tech and she married a Tech guy so wehave to deal with that. It’s a helluva mess,” Archerjoked. “My son’s name is Keith who’s 39, my old-est daughter is Alice, 37, and my youngestdaughter is Ellen, who’s 34. And the beautifulthing is each of them has three children so I havenine wonderful grandchildren.”

In the following question-and-answer ses-sion, Bill Archer talks more about his backgroundand his role on the Georgia athletic board.

What is your occupation? I’m presently retired. I retired from the

Georgia Power Company in 2006 after 35 years.I worked a lot through the governmental affairsorganization at Georgia Power with the GeorgiaGeneral Assembly. In those years through theGeorgia Power Company in public service Iserved on the Georgia World Congress CenterAuthority for 11 years and following my retire-ment I served on the Georgia Department of Nat-ural Resources board for seven years.

How many years have you served on theUGA athletic board?

In ’06 I went on the board and so actuallyI’m in my seventh year and my third term as analumni representative. And I’m officially on thenominating committee.

Where did you grow up and what made itspecial?

I grew up in East Point, Georgia. I grew upthere in the 1950s and the 1960s. I graduatedfrom Russell High School in 1966, which is thethird oldest high school in Atlanta, in FultonCounty when it started. It’s no longer a highschool. They consolidated it with Headland andHapeville High School and it’s now Tri-CitiesHigh School. But we grew up there in East Pointand back then East Point was an industrial city. Atone time it was the seventh largest industrial cityin the state of Georgia and it was sort of a self-contained city. We had all the amenities and inaddition to that we had a job center growing nextto us and that was the Atlanta airport. So we weretotally focused on East Point and our own littlecommunity and in those days you just didn’tventure far out of there. It was just a wonderfultime.

You had the trolley lines when you wantedto go to downtown Atlanta, coming out of LeeStreet and West End, the trolley lines, so it wasjust there and you didn’t focus on much otherthan that, other than you got to watch the Atlantaairport grow up. And we all kind of looked at theAtlanta airport as our future employment grow-ing up in that area. So everybody was very happywith that and in fact a lot of my friends from highschool eventually went on to careers in the airlineindustry.

What has been the most exciting part foryou serving on UGA’s athletic board?

My job at Georgia Power Company was inthe external community affairs area and as such

I got to see the impact of Georgia Power Com-pany on the communities and the public weserve. And I think the exciting thing about theathletic board is actually watching the No. 1brand in the state, which is the University ofGeorgia Bulldogs. And watching the things thatthis board does to enhance that brand and know-ing that everything that happens in the athleticassociation with our student-athletes, it is re-viewed instantaneously by the public at large, andyou can understand that with today’s technologyand everything. And so the exciting thing for meis knowing everything’s instantaneous there andthe good things that are happening for the stu-dent-athletes. I have the opportunity to watchwhat I think is just top notch leadership from Dr.(Michael) Adams and (AD) Greg McGarity.There’s a tremendous spirit of teamwork amongGreg McGarity’s staff and when we have an ath-letic association meeting or an event there’s al-ways a spirit of excitement around what’s goingon because we know something good’s going tohappen.

What has been the most exciting aspectof your career?

Working with electric utility you learn veryquickly that the customer comes first and as such,dealing with retail customers. I retired as execu-tive vice-president of external affairs with GeorgiaPower, and in that job we had many customers.Our customers were not only just the retail cus-tomers that we provided electric service to butstate and local governments and educationalcommunities like the University of Georgia. Withthose things I personally got to meet so many keycontributors in this state, to make things happenin a positive way, so I had a very varied career thatdidn’t keep me in the office all the time and Iguess the diversity there in meeting with all thedifferent publics was what really made it excit-ing. And understanding the importance of thecustomer, if you do a good job with the cus-tomers everything else is going to work itself out.

What do you think are the biggest chal-lenges for Georgia athletics in the near future?

Again, in this age of instant information andtechnology, we’ve got to maintain our positivebrand image. And that’s not only with our cus-tomers, who are our fans, but with the generalpublic at large. The general public at large, theywatch everything we do so our challenge is whenyou’re on top like we are, we’ve got to continueto stay on top and manage our brand image.We’ve also got to focus on value to our customers,our fans; again, with this instant age of technol-ogy they can follow us in many ways and we’vegot to continue to give them with our footballteam a positive game day image. And then theother thing we’ve got to do, which is more inter-nal, we’ve got to continue to invest in our facili-ties. They are excellent right now; we are on topwith that but that’s also a moving target. We’vegot to continue to evaluate and invest. It justthrills me to serve on this board and see us investback into our facilities. While it takes short-termfinancial reserves to do that, it is an investmentthat will pay dividends long-term and along withthat, you’ve got to manage that long-term finan-cial picture.

How has the knowledge from your occu-pation helped in the betterment of UGA athlet-ics?

I think my overall focus on the customerfrom my job helped me have an insight into thebrand image of the university and how impor-tant it is to maintain that. I think my career andthe opportunity to work with the University ofGeorgia while I was at Georgia Power and un-derstanding what goes on with the general pub-lic and the governmental entities has helped mefrom that standpoint.

Your favorite UGA sports moment?I graduated in 1970 and I’ve been a Dog

ever since. I’ve traveled to a lot of the venues. Imade sure I got to the Missouri game this yearand I was really impressed with that. But I trav-eled to many away games after I got out of schooland I went to the Georgia-Florida game in 1975.I was there with my brother-in-law and I saw anatmosphere of a game that I didn’t think we weregoing to win. I saw the (Richard) Appleby-to-(Gene) Washington play; I was sitting on the 40-yard line watching that and, to me, that was themost exhilarating game I’ve ever been to. It wassuch a tight game and we were unable to movethe ball and score points, and we had had a num-ber of end-arounds in previous games and wejust kept saying to ourselves something’s going tohappen in this end-around. And when they ranthat end-around and stopped and threw thatfootball (to give the Bulldogs a 10-7 victory), itwas just unbelievable. I get chill bumps nowwhen I listen to Munson’s playback of that

poole shotsBy Murray Poole


any people had in their minds that this past weekend wouldbe a a letdown for Georgia; that perhaps the worst Auburnteam of all time would be able to come out and ruin theDawg's season. But that's not what happened. Instead,

Georgia came out focused and determined with a keen eye on oneof the goals they set for themselves at the beginning of the year. Now,a trip to the SEC Championship is once again set; that makes fivetrips in Coach Richt’s 12 years as head coach. There are other goalshowever. Being in the top 5 in the BCS rankings means that Georgiahas a unique opportunity to do something special with the rest of theyear. But first, they have to get through this week and Georgia South-ern.

Fear the FlexboneWhen Georgia Southern comes out next Saturday in Sanford

Stadium, you’ll notice something very familiar when their offensetakes the field. They run a flexbone/wing-t/option offense that is al-most identical to Georgia Tech’s. These type of offenses are very hardto prepare for after you have been game planning all season for themore traditional offense of the SEC. This week, the defense has a short amount of timeto get ready for the deception and trickery of an option offense. Perhaps the most dif-ficult thing is getting the defensive line ready to handle cut (and chop) blocks thatSouthern will inevitably use. More over, the d-line needs to understand how to avoidinjury when taking these on (more on that later). Make no mistake, Georgia Southernknows how to run this offense and run it well. To this point of the season, they havealmost 4,000 total yards rushing. But when you concentrate almost all of your resourcesinto that one element of the game, usually something else suffers. For Southern, that’stheir passing game with only 30 passing completions and four TD passes. They’ll comeout and run that ball and run the ball some more and when that’s not working, they’llrun the ball again. Just like Tech, they have great confidence in this offense and it’s abil-ity to catch defenses off guard. The Dawgs better be ready to snuff it out.

A Little Help! Kansas State plays Baylor. Oregon plays Stanford. Notre Dame plays Wake Forest.

It’s hard to imagine after that devastating loss in Columbia but Georgia still has a chanceto play for a national title and at least a BCS bowl. But in order for that to happen, theyneed some help in front of them. With only two weeks left in the regular season it’scoming down to the wire for the Dawgs and for the rest of the SEC. Right now, the con-ference’s streak of six national titles in a row is in great jeopardy. Of the group previ-ously listed, the team that may be in the most danger this week is Oregon simplybecause Stanford is a top-25 team whereas Baylor and Wake Forest are nowhere closeto Kansas State and Notre Dame respectfully. For Georgia fans though, this is a nicechange of pace. Usually, the Dawg’s are on the outside looking in, but now, they’re rightin the thick of things. With a little help, they could be back in business in talks of a tripto Miami.

Avoid InjuriesThis is a tricky subject this week and next week for Georgia. Coach Richt needs to

find the perfect balance in keeping starters in long enough to win the game but notlong enough for one of them to get hurt. This is of particular importance along the de-fensive line. With Abry Jones already out for the year with an ankle injury, that groupup there is in a very vulnerable spot as far as players go. Unfortunately, Georgia is fac-ing offenses in the next two weeks that are notorious for illegal chop blocks that causeinjury to defensive lineman (see DeAngelo Tyson last season). For the defensive line,they have to shed blocks with their hands this week rather than bull rushing and try-ing to over power lineman. This is really the only way to truly avoid the dreaded anklesprain from a chop block. For the rest of the team it’s pretty simple; play hard until thegame is out of reach, then sit your butt on the bench. The last thing Georgia fans needis a key player going down against Georgia Southern and not being able to play in theSEC championship. Likely, their opponent will be Alabama and the Dawgs will need allof their horses to beat that behemoth that is the Crimson Tide.

IntangiblesGeorgia Southern shouldn’t win this game. Heck, they shouldn’t even sniff victory.

Georgia is riding a pretty good wave of momentum after dismantling Ole Miss andAuburn in back to back weeks. The caveat is always that the visiting team in a game likethis has nothing to lose but it really shouldn’t have affect on the outcome. This is thefirst time that these two squads have hooked up in awhile so the crowd may be a fac-tor as well. These Georgia Southern kids are used to playing in front of 20,000 fans agame. You better believe they’ll be a little shell-shocked when the run out between thehedges and find 93,000 people waiting for them. Either way, it’s another chance forDawg fans to see their boys strap it up in Sanford en route to Atlanta.

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Red Coat awardsband in the Southeastern Conference to receive the Sudler Trophy which recognizes bands who have “demonstrated the highest musical standards and innovative marching routines and ideas, and which has made important contributions to the advancement of the per-formance standards of college marching bands over a period of years.” This placed the Redcoat Band in the company of previous recipients of the award which included Michigan, Ohio State, Texas, and Illinois.

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Bulldawgs..” Some team mates and I made up funny choreogra-phy to go along with it.

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Favorite Part of Being a Majorette: My favorite part of being a majorette is being able to be a part of the traditions that go along with being a member of the Redcoat Band. Performing pre-game in Sanford Sta-dium encompasses many traditions of the University of Georgia and I am so blessed to be able to be a part of something that means so much to the Bulldog Nation.

Best Game day Memory: My best game day memory would have to come from this years Georgia Florida game. Winning that game my senior year will always be something I remember!!

I love being a majorette because it allows me to represent my school and makes me feel more a part of the university. I love my teammates and couldn’t imagine being anywhere else. There is nothing like twirling between the hedges in Sanford Stadium every Saturday!

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What does it mean to Georgia Southern to play Georgia?I think it means a great deal to Georgia Southern toplay Georgia. The memories of coach Erk Russell are stillcommon grounds for both programs. While GSU fanslike to think of the Eagles as worthy rivals, I think Geor-gia fans aren’t threatened and wouldn’t mind GeorgiaSouthern having some success in this game – for abouta quarter.

What do the Eagle faithful think of Tech not play-ing them before? GSU and Georgia Tech have a game scheduled for 2015and I think there’s some wonderment of why Georgiacould play the Eagles every four years and Tech haswaited until the program’s more than 30 years old before scheduling agame. Surely, Tech could use the revenue from 10,000 fans paying fullprice to fill up its stadium. To be honest, Southern fans just figure the Ea-gles are probably too much of a risk for the Yellow Jackets.

How much conversation does this game carry in Savannah?I think fans are realistic and see the game as a money-maker for GSU anda breather in the schedule for Georgia. There won’t be much smack talk.At least not in Savannah.

Where does Georgia football rate as far as Savannah sports fa-vorites?Georgia football might be No. 1 among Savannah sports favorites. There’sdefinitely a spike in interest in sports during the college football season.

What does Southern need to do to pull off the upset?The Eagles will need a turnover or two to keep up with the Bulldogs. OK,maybe five or six. A rainy day wouldn’t hurt.

Did that Appalachian State win over Michigan give I-AA heavy-weights more confidence that they were capable of beating thetraditional powers?

Appalachian’s win shocked the college football world in2007, but FCS teams have had their share of wins overthe years. This season, Youngstown State beat Pitts-burgh 31-17 in the 2012 opener. Two months later,Youngstown is tied for seventh in the 10-team Mis-souri Valley and Pittsburgh is taking Notre Dame to 3OTs. There have been about 10 FCS wins over FBSschools this year. Go figure.

Is this Eagle team good enough to win the na-tional title?I’m inclined to say no, but the Eagles have gotten bet-ter as the season goes on and that’s usually the recipe

for success for option teams. This was supposed to be a rebuilding yearfor Southern, but this program continues to recruit well.

What is your take on Georgia?I thought Georgia had a shot at a national championship this season. Agreat quarterback, talented young running backs, good receivers, play-makers on defense. But the Bulldogs won’t be able to overcome that lop-sided loss to South Carolina– on national TV, no less. Too bad, the FBSdoesn’t have a 20-team playoff. You’d like UGA chances on get on a roll.

Do you think we’ll see any more significant change and shake-up in college athletics in the near future? I think college offenses have gotten ahead of the defenses with the no-huddle attacks. And along with producing abnormally high-scoring games,there’s a health issue here for tired players who can’t get off the field.

Donald Heath talks about the Eagles

1. Stop the Fullback – When it comes to stopping the triple option, from the wishbone to the Eaglesand Tech’s flexbone (originally named the “Hambone” by the great icon Erk Russell for star quarterback TracyHam), everything begins with the fullback. If the fullback is gashing the front, then the option pitch becomeseasy and the defense is flat out defeated. Remember, in that painful loss to Tech in ’08, Johnathan Dwyer setthe tone with a long touchdown run to start the second half. The Eagles have a standout fullback in Do-minique Swope. He’s one of the top runners in Division I-AA. To avoid the upset, the Dogs front can’t let himrun wild.

2. Pressure the QB on the Pitch – It’s the next stage of defending the option. It start with limitingthe effect of the fullback. When the quarterback decides to keep it and fakes to the fullback, he’s going wideright or left with a pitch man. If the quarterback is right handed and the ball is on the left hash, making thewide side the right side, this is when the next phase of the triple option can be its most dangerous. JeRickMcKinnon is one of the dominant players in the country, and the other quarterback Ezayi Youyoutei s very dan-gerous as well. Georgia must be physical with the quarterback on the option. Hit them hard every time anddon’t make it an option.

3. High Octane Offense – It is important for the Georgia offense to set the tone and put the pressureon the Eagles. This will far and away be the most talented offense that Georgia Southern has faced all year,and the Bulldogs ability to move the ball and strike for big plays on the ground and through the air should meana big day on the scoreboard for the red and black. It would be nice to take some pressure off of the defense,since this will be the first of two straight games against the tough-to-defend triple option, and special teams.The Dogs will have the ability to come out fast, and keep the foot on the accelerator from start to finish.

4. Get Physical Up Front – Georgia’s offensive line is going to have to be tough and strong. The Ea-gles have a stellar defensive tackle in Brent Russell, who is on his way to becoming a three-time consensusAll-American. He’s big and strong at 6-2, 300. But the Bulldogs offensive front has a size advantage and theycan set the tone for a big day on offense, and be in a physical frame of mind against an underdog defensethat will be flying around like it’s the Super Bowl. This week and next, Georgia’s offensive line can continue togrow, improve and make their mark as a standout up-and-coming unit.

5. Sound Special Teams – Turnovers and kicking game blunders, more than any other issues, tendto open the door for major upsets. Georgia must be solid here and not lose the game on special teams. Therehave been issues on special teams – primarily in place-kicking and the return game. For the most part, Geor-gia’s kick coverage has been outstanding, and punter Collin Barber has had a couple of excellent games herein the second half of the season. It would be a big plus if the Bulldogs could get a quick strike on special teamswith a big return or a blocked punt.

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Eagles in a thumbnail: Until they were tripped by Ap-palachian State 31-28 on Nov. 3, the Eagles (8-2, 6-2Southern Conference) were ranked No. 1 in America in theFCS Division poll. Georgia Southern’s only other defeat wasa 23-21 setback to The Citadel in the Eagles’ second out-ing this season. Georgia Southern, which has gained atleast a share of its 10th Southern Conference champi-onship, has toppled Jacksonville (58-0), Elon (26-23), Sam-ford (35-16), Western Carolina (45-13), Wofford (17-9),Furman (38-17), Chattanooga (39-31, 3 OTs) and Howard,this past Saturday by 69-26.

A look at the Georgia Southern offense: In theirpatented triple-option attack, the Eagles are led by thedouble-barreled running attack of junior quarterback Jer-ick McKinnon (5-9, 208) and sophomore back DominiqueSwope (5-11, 221). McKinnon, from Marietta, has run for1,056 yards and 11 touchdowns while Swope, from Buford,has run for 819 yards and a conference-leading 14 touch-downs in just eight games. Both average over 100 yardsper game rushing and in the romp over Howard, McKinnonran for a career-high 198 yards and three touchdowns asthe Eagles rolled up a staggering 529 yards on the ground.Georgia Southern, of course, doesn’t throw it much asMcKinnon has passed for 396 yards and five touchdowns.The Eagles average a whopping, league-leading 401 yardsa game on the ground and also lead the SoCon in scoringat 37.6 points per outing.

A look at the Georgia Southern defense: The Eagleshave struggled at times on this side of the ball, giving uppoint totals of 23, 23, 31, 31 and 26 but have also hadtheir bright moments in a shutout of Jacksonville and lim-iting Samford, Western Carolina, Wofford and Furman to16, 13, 9 and 17 points, respectively. Georgia Southernranks second in scoring defense in the SoCon, surrender-ing 18.9 points an outing, and is led by senior linebackerJohn Stevenson (5-11, 202) and senior safety J.J. Wilcox(6-0, 215). Stevenson, who hails from Stone Mountain, hasrecorded 83 tackles while Wilcox, from Cairo, has notched63 stops.

What Eagles head coach Jeff Monken says: “It wascritical we find a way to win. We had to get to eight wins.Last year only two teams made the playoffs with sevenwins, and 22 of the top 25 in the rankings this year alreadyhad seven wins. We couldn’t afford to hope and cross ourfingers. There’s still no guarantee we’ll get in postseasonplay, but this will help. Now, we’ve got to prepare to playthe University of Georgia.”

Game Prediction: This game is most timely for the Bull-dogs as it falls between Auburn and state-rival GeorgiaTech and since the Eagles run the triple-option offenseunder Monken, who learned the craft under Tech headcoach Paul Johnson, it should provide the Georgia defensewith a look at what the Bulldogs will see Thanksgivingweekend when the Yellow Jackets buzz between thehedges. Georgia Southern has never been intimidated bythe Bulldogs in their past meetings in Athens and likelywon’t be this coming Saturday, either. I called this contest38-17, Georgia, in the preseason and although I believethe Bulldogs should now tally 45 points or more againstthe smaller Eagle defense, with Georgia coming off the bigSEC East title clinching in Auburn and likely being a bitemotionally spent, let’s keep it at that 38-17 prediction.

#6 Dominique Swope, FB5-11, 221 Soph. Buford, Ga. (Buford H.S.)

As dynamic as Georgia Southern’s quarterbackshave been in their years of greatness, the suc-cess of the “Hambone” triple option starts withthe fullback. The Eagles have had plenty of greatones before, most notably Adrian Peterson, whogoes down with Ham as the two best players inschool history, Joe Ross and Gerald Harris. Wellthe Eagles have a dynamite quarterback/fullbackduo again in 2012. Swope is a big time playerwith power and speed. When he is runningstrong up the gut, then the Eagles are doublydangerous on the perimeter. Swope was theSouthern Conference Freshman of the Year lastseason, chalking up 1,033 yards and seventouchdowns, while averaging over six yards percarry. Swope, who has missed a couple of gamesthis year, is producing over 100 yards a game anda touchdown per game. He and McKinnon aretwo of the front-runners for Southern ConferenceOffensive Player of the Year honors.

#1 Jerick McKinnon, QB5-9, 208 Jr. Marietta, Ga. (Sprayberry H.S.)

A front-runner for the Walter Payton Award, the Di-vision I-AA/Football Championship Subdivision’s ver-sion of the Heisman Trophy, McKinnon is a dynamicthreat who’s running sparks reminiscences of pastEagle greats Tracy Ham, Raymond Gross and J.R.Revere. The Eagles don’t throw the ball very much,attempting around seven passes per game, butMcKinnon is the trigger-man for the best FCS rush-ing attack in the country, as Georgia Southern aver-aging nearly 400 yards on the ground. As asophomore, McKinnon threw, caught and ran fortouchdowns. He also intercepted two Maine passesin a playoff game. This season, he is posting nearly100 yards per game, and distributing to a stellar col-lection of skill personnel. The Eagles have anotheroutstanding quarterback, Ezayi Youyoute, who takesa lot of snaps and puts up big numbers. This is aterrific duo of quarterbacks who provide numerousproblems for opposing defenses. The rare timesthey do throw, the Eagles have big play potential.

#66 Brent Russell6-2, 300 Sr. Comer, Ga. (Madison County H.S.)

One of the dominating forces on the defensive line inthe nation, Russell has had an exceptional senior cam-paign. He is fifth on the team in tackles, and leadsthe squad in sacks and tackles for loss. He also has ablocked kick. As a big body on the defensive interior,one of Russell’s primary duties is to tie up blockers.He does that – and makes plays. He started the sea-son opener as a true freshman against Georgia in2008, but injured his knee, missed the rest of the yearand was redshirted. Russell came back strong as wasthe Southern Conference Defensive Freshman of theYear. Since, he has simply been the best defensivelineman in Division I-AA. Russell was a consensus firstteam All-American and finalist for the Buck BuchananAward in 2010 and 2011. He was the Southern Con-ference Defensive Player of the Year in 2011 and is aleading contender again. Russell is in the conversationas arguably the greatest defender in Georgia Southernhistory.

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It was an incredible day in college football with a slew of fantastic finishes, upsets and near misses. The biggest story of course was Texas A&M’s 29-24victory at Alabama. Florida got a once-in-a-decade magic win against Louisiana-Lafayette on a blocked punt that landed perfectly. Vandy beat Ole Miss by onein Oxford, Missouri topped Tennessee by three in quadruple overtime, and Georgia clinched the SEC East with a rout of Auburn. This week there aren’t nearlyas many huge match-ups, as everyone wants to tune up with the Thanksgiving rivalry games on deck.

1. Oregon – It was 24-17 and tight with Cal this past Saturday. Next thing youknow, the Ducks flat out got it rolling. Oregon collected a 59-17 victory over theGolden Bears and are sitting pretty at 10-0. There are two tough challenges withStanford and Oregon State remaining, but the Ducks are rolling.

2. Kansas State - What a job by Kansas State. The Wildcats played great defensein Fort Worth, jumped in front and held off TCU 23-10. Kansas State hits the roadagain this week, going to Baylor. Then Texas comes to call on the first Saturday inNovember.

3. Notre Dame – The Fighting Irish played great defense in a 21-6 win overBoston College in Beantown. Notre Dame hosts Wake Forest Saturday, and theDemon Deacons are struggling. Then comes Southern Cal in Los Angeles, and a tonfigures to be on the line.

4. Alabama – It was a tough loss for the Crimson Tide against Texas A&M.Bama fell behind 20-0 and came storming back, but the Aggies responded. Bama hasa tune-up and then Auburn. A win over the Tigers would get Bama to the SECChampionship Game. But their national title hopes have taken a severe blow.

5. Georgia – The Bulldogs flat out took care of business, dumping downAuburn 38-0 to improve to 9-1 and clinch the SEC East title for a second straight year.Todd Gurley, Jarvis Jones and Aaron Murray were all outstanding. Georgia has to notlook ahead as Divison I-AA power Georgia Southern comes to Athens.

6. Ohio State – Urban Meyer’s team is a perfect 10-0 with two more big hur-dles to climb. The Buckeyes have a couple of major hurdles to clear in Wisconsinand Michigan. Ohio State caught a break with the schedule and they had an im-probable win over Purdue. But 10-0 is 10-0, and Meyer has the Buckeye expressright back on track after their NCAA woes.

7. Florida - It was a red alert day for the Gators, who trailed Louisiana-Lafayette 20-13 with under two minutes to go. But the Gators scored and thenblocked a punt, got perfect trajectory off the thud and got another TD with two sec-onds to go. The Gators host Jacksonville State Saturday then go to Tallahassee.

8. LSU – There was no hangover for the Bayou Bengals on the heels of thatdevastating loss to Alabama. The Fightin’ Tiger defense was terrific and Zach Met-tenberger came up big in a 37-17 victory over Mississippi State. Next up is OleMiss, which lost a heart-breaker by one to Vanderbilt, then comes a trip to Arkansas.

9. Texas A&M – What an incredible win for the Aggies. Beating top-rankeddefending national champion Alabama in Tuscaloosa goes down as the program’sbiggest win since defeating undefeated Kansas State in the 1998 Big XII Champi-onship Game. Gig ‘em Aggies! They are smiling big and bright in College Station.

10. Florida State – The Seminoles pulled out an exciting come-from-behindwin at Virginia Tech, as E.J. Manuel hit Rashad Greene, who made a tremendous runafter the catch for the TD. If the ‘Noles win at Maryland, they wrap up a berth inthe ACC Championship Game. Then the Gators come to call.

11. South Carolina – The Gamecocks took advantage of their open day and puttogether an outstanding performance in a 38-20 win over Arkansas. The South Car-olina defense is rugged and Connor Shaw is playing very well.

12. Clemson – This looks like Clemson’s best team in over 20 years and maybethe best offense the Tigers have ever had. Clemson makes big plays on the groundand through the air. They have done a great job avoiding the upset this season.Clemson has a golden opportunity to make it to a BCS game for a second straightyear.

13. Oklahoma – The Sooners got in a shootout with Baylor, but came out ontop. Bob Stoops has his team primed to win out and go 10-2, staying in the picturefor a possible BCS berth. Oklahoma lost twice at home this year, the first time in theStoops era.

14. Stanford – In a PAC-12 thriller, the Cardinal held tough at home and tookcare of tough Oregon State. That Stanford defensive line is just stellar. Not many sawthis team sitting at 8-2 on the heels of Andrew Luck’s departure to the NFL. And howgood is he, by the way?

15. Texas – Something has clicked for Texas the last couple of weeks. That winat Texas Tech got the Longhorns going. It was a great tribute to the late Darrell Royal,as Texas came out in the wishbone and hit a big trick play to get rolling this past Sat-urday in a rout of Iowa State. That Kansas State game on the first Saturday of No-vember will be huge for a lot of teams.

16. Oregon State – What a heartbreaker for the Beavers, as they fell at Stanford27-23. The Beavers have lost just twice this year. It is one of the best years in schoolhistory thus far. The losses are by three at Washington and four at the farm.

17. UCLA – The Bruins have been a big surprise this season, and at 8-2, a berthin the PAC-12 Championship Game is on the line against Southern Cal. I don’t thinktoo many people gave the Bruins a shot before the season started.

18. Louisiana Tech – This is the king of the shootout this season. The Bulldogsfrom Ruston out-gunned Texas State 62-55. Now they get Utah State, one of collegefootball’s big surprises this season. Their only loss was by two to Texas A&M.

19. Louisville – When a 9-0 team is only a two-point favorite at a 4-5 team’splace, that is a red flag. Uh-oh. Syracuse smoked Louisville, handing the Cardinalstheir first loss of the season. The Cardinals can still win the Big East if they win out.

20. Nebraska – Do it Big Red. Nebraska took down Penn State in a hard foughtaffair – this game 30 years ago was an all-time instant classic with both riding high. Ne-braska got a couple of breaks and the defense was tremendous in the second halfagainst the Nittany Lions.

21. Mississippi State – The rigors of the toughest league in the land got to Mis-sissippi State. The Maroon Bulldogs were 7-0, but have fallen to Alabama, Texas A&Mand LSU the last three weeks. Dan Mullen has a good squad, but the SEC West is justdownright brutal.

22. Texas Tech - The Red Raiders survived a huge scare from Kansas. Texas Techwas coming off of a five game stretch that was one of the toughest any team faced thisyear. So you could see a letdown coming. But Tommy Tuberville’s team got the winto move to 7-3.

23. Southern Cal – The Trojans had national championship dreams, but threelosses clearly blew those away. But their next two games are enormous. Southern Calplays its two rivals, UCLA for a berth in the PAC-12 Championship Game, and thenNotre Dame.

24. Michigan – In one of the best games of the day and all season long in the BigTen, Michigan rallied back to defeat Northwestern 38-31 in overtime, keyed by a hailmary that set up a tying field goal. The Wolverines had to do it without injured starquarterback Dennard Robinson.

25. Northwestern – Pat Fitzgerald has done outstanding work in Evanston. TheWildcats are a physical team on defense and they do an excellent job running a spreadpassing attack. The loss to Michigan was a real heart-breaker. That last gasp pass isa painful stinger.

Jeff Dantzler’s Top 25

Kevin Butler, former University of Georgia leg-endary kicker and a member of the Georgiaradio broadcast team, will each week duringthe 2012 football season select his offensive,defensive and special teams players of theweek for Bulldawg Illustrated. Here are But-ler’s selections and reasons why for the Bull-dogs’ 38-0 win over Auburn Saturday, avictory that clinched the SEC East title for asecond consecutive year.

OFFENSE – Offensive coordinator MikeBobo and the entire UGA offensive staff,which directed an attack that scored onthe Bulldogs’ first four drives and to-taled right at 500 yards of offense onthe night.“Mike Bobo and his staff have done an excel-lent job of developing a young offensive line,”said Butler. “Mike has done an unbelievablejob of creating true balance with our offensethrough the air and with the running game.Mike had to battle to get the right receivers onthe offense and Aaron (Murray) distributesthe ball to all the receivers and the way hehas used our freshman running backs (ToddGurley, Keith Marshall) to establish the rungame has created tremendous balance forthe Georgia offense that will give them an op-portunity to win the SEC title.”

DEFENSE – Defensive coordinator ToddGrantham and the entire Georgia de-fensive staff, which directed an effortthat saw the Bulldogs blank Auburn forthe first time since 1976 while holdingthe Tigers to just 57 yards rushing and181 passing.“Todd and his staff have worked through in-juries and suspensions from Day 1 this yearand have consistently improved the play ofour defense week by week,” said Butler. “Theplay of Jarvis Jones, the play of Jordan Jenk-ins has shown the ability to get everybody in-volved on the defensive front. And thesecondary, once we got everybody back fromsuspension, has developed each week into atougher pass defense. They are finally play-ing at the level that everybody expected themto play at the beginning of the year and nowis the time of the season you want to havethat happen.”

SPECIAL TEAMS – All the Georgiacoaches who instruct areas of the spe-cial teams, which enjoyed outstandingkick coverage and had excellent punt-ing and kicking nights in the completewin over the Tigers.“This is the area that has seen the biggestimprovement for the Georgia football teamfrom the beginning of the year,” said Butler.“Going into the season with two freshmankickers (Marshall Morgan, Collin Barber), thespecialty teams were obviously the biggestquestion mark but through the work of thecoaches and the development of the specialteams, they are now creating great field po-sition and adding to the offense and defenselike specialty teams should for a champi-onship drive.”

- Compiled by Murray Poole

Kevin Butler’s Players of the Game

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