OT: Rank the media folks who cover UGA sports by likeability

Agree with this and I have to put Murf up there with them

Seth is definitely my favorite UGA beat writer. Not sure how I'd rank the rest but I don't care for Bradley or Schultz at all.

Seth & Gentry Show (or was it Gentry & Seth Show?) was great stuff.

Overall, I'd rank them like this:

Rusty Mansell - Most trusted recruiting guy out there. Could put Chad Simmons here too as he's pretty UGA-friendly

Jake Rowe & Jake Reuse - Second only to Rusty in trustworthiness. If they say something, I at least listen

Seth Emerson - Maybe the best balance of honesty and sunshine of all of them. And when he's critical, he backs it up . Also solid analysis on basketball (Maryland background helps)

Fletcher Page - a poor man's Gentry Estes

Murf Baldwin - solid video breakdowns and write-ups. Not crazy about the podcasts but they're at least tolerable

Marc Weiszer - Has the critical touch of Seth and the trustworthiness of Rusty or the Jakes (I believe he is now the senior beat writer in the room) but there's just like this jaded feeling to his writing and podcast work. I'll listen to what he has to say but it's kind of a downer at times

Bill King - I like Bill and the AJC Junkyard Blawg. He's an open homer and covers a lot of the non-on the field topics like Sanford Stadium conditions, Stegeman construction, baseball, gymnastics, etc. Doesn't deliver anything int he way of breaking news but he has been around and has some solid takes that make for good reading

Jeff Sentell - Has done a solid job for the Dawgnation site with respect to recruiting. Maybe a little high on this list but, hey, I'll give him a bump just for sparing us from Carvell

Jason Butt - solid newcomer. Not much goo or bad to say about him yet.

Dean Legge - Certainly trustworthy and has been around for a while but he goes on these whiny streaks about a number of issues (see the QB controversy last season) that really make me disregard what he has to say

Kipp Adams - Kipp is kind of the midpoint on this list. He's got his good qualities and his meh qualities. Not rushing to see what he says but not unfollowing him on Twitter either

Chip Towers - How do you describe Towers? He has a penchant for delivering bad news which, admittedly, isn't his fault; he is after all a reporter by trade. But there's just something about his delivery in his articles and on the radio. I feel like he wants to be the affable Lewis Grizzard type for the fans but, in this day and age, I think types like Lewis just can't exist anymore (not with the access the media has, the money at stake in college athletics, and the duty a good media base has to cover a program so as to prevent shite like what has happened at Baylor and Tennessee). I think he reallt does mean well and, like them or not, he breaks a lot of big stories for UGA fans. But it's this feeling that he wants to be the fanbase's friend while telling us about all the bad crap that I think rubs a lot of people the wrong way. Could see him being one of those guys that we all end up missing once he's retired but wish he'd leave while he's still here.

Barrett Sallee - Having the Bleacher Report label doesn't help his case and, quite frankly, he comes off exactly like the outsider passing judgement on UGA football that he is

Bradley - Prototypical AJC stooge

Schultz - Stereotypical Tech-loving douche

I forgot about Rusty and Radi as well. That being said, my list would look a lot like yours, TD. I would send Legge down to live with Schultz and Bradley, along with Sallee.

Legge seems very impressed with his own opinion, and when he is on with Weiszer and Page during the season, he seems like such an arrogant prick. Incidentally, I dont think he and Fletcher Page get along well by the way they interact and the way Page speaks when Legge is mentioned.

Sallee seems like he just cant wait to say something judgmental about UGA. Just a week or two ago, he mentioned that everyone thinks Tennessee is the king of preseason hype but its actually UGA...and he liked that opinion so much, a few days later, he was on one of the Sirius/XM college sports shows and had to say it again.

Its not like these guys always have to have their homer glasses on for me to have a good opinion of them but damn, dont be so impressed with yourself or so anxious to make an observation with UGA as the negative focal point.

And for some stupid reason, I like Tyler and Curtis on the Glory UGA podcast...serious homers, and they constantly talk over each other but, they are entertaining.

Thanks to those who participated.

Legge and Page are friends. They used to work together.