A Trip to Athens

As the Cats visit Georgia tomorrow, some thoughts on the meeting:

• Top question has to be: what does Jodie Meeks do for an encore? I can't imagine him approaching another half-century or scorching the Bulldogs for another 10 treys. Expect the offensive focus to be more on getting Patrick Patterson involved, which is really as it should be. Patrick remains a most crucial piece to UK's scoring apparatus.
• "Paging Mr. Liggins, Mr. DeAndre Liggins. Your playing time has become separated from the rest of your party. Please pickup the white courtesy phone, Mr. DeAndre Liggins." Who knows what's truly going on with this young man? I will save the ruminations for later, but after not seeing any action at all vs. Tennessee, I would expect Coach G to find more than a few minutes for him in Athens.
• Dennis Felton deserves better. I had followed him fairly closely as he coached at Western Kentucky, and consider him to be a fine coach and a very well-respected gentleman and role model. His record at Georgia to date does not reflect the caliber of coach and person that he is. We all know he was rumored to be on the hot seat until their great tournament run last year, and I hope he gets a chance to make good at Georgia (against every team except Kentucky, of course.)
• I definitely won't miss Sundiata Gaines, if for no other reason than I won't have to look up how to spell his name. Seriously, though, that guy was a beast. I'm not sure who we would have put on him this season-- Porter? *cough* Meeks? I have no idea; maybe you put a 3 on him like Ramon. That guy was tough. Just a tough player, won't miss him at all.
  
• I know I speak for Dan-O when I say-- Can we do it this time without the tornado, please?