Georgia has a basketball tradition. Georgia had Dominique Wilkins and well, that’s about it. UGA has made mistakes with their past two coaches (Herrick and Felton) and now it’s time to get rid of Felton.
Felton got his start coaching high school in 1984. The following year, he coached community college, and then served as an assistant coac
h until 1998. At Clemson during the six years he was there, the team averaged 19 wins. In 1999, Felton took over at Western Kentucky. As the head coach, the Hill toppers went won the Sun Belt Conference tournament from 2001-2003, when Felton was offered the head coaching position at UGA. In his first four seasons in Athens Felton has a losing record at 58 – 63. While Felton had to deal with the mess Herrick left, there’s a limit on time. He would have been fired last year had it not been for an unprecedented 4 wins in 3 days to win the SEC Tournament. Now, the Bulldogs are 9 – 9 overall and 0-3 in the SEC. I’ll be surprised if they win 4 games in a down SEC this year. I think Georgia got a great person in Felton, but it’s clear, he’s not the coach Georgia needs. Felton came in under terrible circumstances and it looked at first as if he would be successful. The crowds were bigger and everyone was starting to get excited about Georgia basketball. Unfortunately, he never made it over the top. Maybe he needs pointers from Sylvester Stallone about getting “Over the Top,” maybe he needs to learn to recruit, maybe he needs to wear Dominique's short shorts. He has failed over his tenure at Georgia and he needs to move on.
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harsh. yellow jackets are getting killed too.. winless against a badass acc conference. but theyre recruiting class coming in is sick... can uga recruit anyone at all? hmmm.. maybe they should start dressing the woman up as men and let them play. they're always solid.
but hey. at least we're not the New Jersey Institute of Technology. They've only won ONE game. Ever.
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