Good morning!
Don’t ya just love the classics?
We’re down to 32 days to go and here is card #132 to represent that:
A SOEAGA boy! Is that the correct acronym for southeast Georgia? Doesn’t roll off the tongue like SOWEGA. From Titletown USA, the Valdosta pipeline under Coach Nick Hyder (who succeeded Wright Bazemore) sent 2 starting QBs to UGA back-to-back, Buck Belue was the starter for all 4 of his UGA years from 1979-1981. John Lastinger followed him to Athens and took over the starting QB reins in 1982. Helped guide the Dawgs to the ’82 SEC Championship. And John will always… ALWAYS know, what time it is in Texas!
Go Dawgs!
Not exactly John Elway with the arm but pretty quick on his feet. Remember that 99 yard TD drive to beat Florida in ‘no Herschel’ 83? Lastinger got one 4th down conversion by about a half inch, but he got it.
That was my first WLOCP. When the Dawgs scored what turned out to be the winning TD, all these bourbon and cokes went flying into the night sky, and I was shortly covered in it. Think I gave a shit?
Crazy that Belue and Lastinger were back to back starting QBs at both Valdosta and Georgia. I wonder if that has ever happened anywhere else?
And the next qb at Valdosta, after Belue and Lastinger, was the starter for Missy State for four years, John Bond. An incredible athelete in his own right. Not so much with his arm but with his legs. Look him up// YOu’ll be impressed.
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Check out that record compared to Lastinger’s stats.
DOOLEYBALL… and Herschel.
Josh Brooks calling Lastinger to call the Dawgs before the Tejas game > Josh Brooks calling Rapid Eye Movement Band for a concert Between the Hedges
#GoDawgs
Also, have Lastinger take the PA mic and at 8:50 pm and ask the crowd “what time is it?”
SEGA = Southeast Georgia
That makes more sense.
It is true Belue was the starter for 3 seasons, specifically 1979, 1980 and 1981, but he was not the starter his freshman year in 1978.
Lastinger was a really good athlete. In order to not waste his athleticism Dooly played him at flanker for a season or 2.
Valdosta isn’t southeast Georgia. If WALB covered your high school games back in the day, you’re SOWEGA. That was classic region 1. All 4 classifications in region 1 was where the best ball was played on Friday nights.
Agreed. But the internet disagrees. So, that’s what I went with.
That’s only because the Okefenokee swamp is to the east of them and it was easier to cover them from Albany lol.
A coach whose team had a playoff or championship game against Valdosta called our Coach Honey and asked if he could tell him how to beat Bazemore. The reply was “sure, I can tell you how to beat him, but you can’t do it.” Such was the life in 1-AAA during those years. LHS did it in 1958 for all the marbles.
’80-’82 seasons speak for themselves, but that ’83 season really was a pleasure to watch. It showed the programs successful trajectory to that point wasn’t just because of Herschel. I remember the scintillating tie game against the hated Clempson club, the squeaker in the WLCOP that I guess finally pushed Charley Pell over the edge. Even our losing but valiant battle against an all-star Auburn backfield was an absolute slobber knocker. Lastinger’s TD to derail the insufferable Texans from a National Title on their home turf was as proud of a moment I can recall as a UGA fan, other that our nattys. And of course the 2018 Rose Bowl….
Bought my HS class ring from Lastinger in 1985…good dude.