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Marlon Brown will be a Georgia Bulldog. He just announced his decision on ESPN U.

From Rivals:

Memphis (TN) Harding Academy’s Marlon Brown announced his decision moments ago to sign with the Georgia Bulldogs. The 6-foot-5 wide receiver chose the University of Georgia over Ohio State, Ole Miss, and Tennessee.

He described his connection with the Bulldog coaches as the deciding factor, and feels he can come in and excel opposite sophomore wideout A.J. Green. The 4-star prospect is the 18th player to sign with Georgia.

This should put a little salve on the wound left by Greg Reid at Austin’s Cattle Company last night. Orson Charles would be the cherry on top in an already great class.

AJC is reporting some very interesting comments from Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson in regards to the recruitment of WR Stephen Hill.

“It got crazy in the end, and some stuff went on that probably shouldn’t have gone on,” Johnson said. “I told his dad this morning, ‘This is a 40-year decision, not a four-year decision.’ We feel he did the right thing.”

Oh my, this is getting interesting:

“You know, I’ve been thinking about my recruiting decision, and Georgia came back into the picture,” Hill told the AJC on Tuesday evening.

“I’ve got the scholarship papers from both schools, so it’s going to be either Georgia or Georgia Tech. I’m going to talk about it with my parents, and then decide on [Wednesday]. I’ll know for sure when I sign.”

The Lady Dogs dealt No. 5 Auburn their first defeat of the season tonight 67-58.

Angel Robinson scored 17 points to help Georgia beat No. 5 Auburn 67-58 Thursday night, handing the Tigers their first loss of the season.

Christy Marshall had 15 points and Angela Puleo added 10 as Georgia (14-7, 4-2 Southeastern Conference) won its third straight, including consecutive games against a Top 25 team. The Bulldogs beat then-No. 17 Vanderbilt last week.

Congratulations to Andy Landers and the surging Lady Dogs.

They closed the night by striking a positive note for University of Georgia athletics on an extremely difficult day.

Mark May thinks Mark Sanchez had, like, a totally awesome Rose Bowl and is, like, 6′ 3″, so will obviously be a better college QB than Matthew Stafford. Then, just when you think he is going to put the knife in Knowshon, he puts it in Beanie Wells. He was pretty tough on ole Beanie too… questioning his durability and toughness. Ouch love… veeery ouch.

Spare yourself the Sanchez highlight reel and zoom ahead to the 2:00 mark.

Bernie thinks so and lays it out in this great post that delves into the state of all things Georgia.

The heart of the matter:

Honestly, this really hurts the Dawg defense. I realize that Stafford and Moreno were star players and accounted for just south of 90% of the offense this past season. And I also realize that replacing them will not be easy.

But for my money, losing Asher is a much bigger hit to a team that needs defensive leaders returning. Allen is an experienced cover corner that subscribes to a very physical style of play. His stats were down this season (only 44 tackles and no INTs), but he played the last five games with a broken hand. (Note: Allen had an INT against the reptiles, but a penalty negated it. What else?)

I tend to agree and I believe that Willie Martinez just ran to get some more Pepcid.

Allen is the kind of guy fans take for granted. Flashy stats? Nope. Why not? Probably because opposing QB’s have been learning all week to throw to the opposite side of number 2.

Good luck Asher Allen.

One of Knowshon’s signature moments. Also showed up on most year end highlight montages.

The top basketball prospect in Georgia and the top center prospect nationally will announce his decision tomorrow night.

South Atlanta center Derrick Favors, the No. 1 basketball recruit in Georgia, will announce is college decision Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., according to his high school coach, Michael Reddick.

I’ll believe it when I see it. Just really down on UGA hoops at the moment.

Via Georgia Sports Blog.

Tim Tuckers says it in his latest UGABlog post:

In another stat that dogged Georgia’s defense this season: The Bulldogs finished 72nd among major-college teams in sacks, getting an average of 1.77 per game. No. 71 was Alabama, getting 1.79 sacks per game. No. 1 was Texas, 3.62 per game.

And one more thing that jumps out at me from the final NCAA stats: The teams that played for the BCS title — Oklahoma and Florida — finished the season as the nation’s top two teams in turnover margin. Oklahoma gained 23 more turnovers than it lost, and Florida gained 22 more than it lost. Georgia finished 73rd in turnover margin, losing three more than it gained for the season.