Why is Georgia QB Aaron Murray wearing a glove on his throwing hand?
Glove-wearing QB Aaron Murray passes at practice as Mike Bobo watches. (AJC photo by Brant Sanderlin)
Murray gets a play from Bobo at Tuesday's practice. (AJC photo by Brant Sanderlin)
ATHENS — Some of you have noticed in photos from Georgia’s spring football practices that quarterback Aaron Murray is wearing a glove on his throwing hand.
Which, of course, has led to the question: What’s up with that?
Basically, Murray said after practice Tuesday, it’s a spring-practice experiment.
Surrounded by a half dozen reporters in the Butts-Mehre building -– hey, welcome to life in the limelight — Murray said he just happened to wear a glove for the first time when throwing on his own on a particularly cold day this winter, surprisingly liked the results and has stuck with it, even on a nice, sunny day like Tuesday.
“The ball is pretty slick,” Murray said. “I felt good with [the glove], so I tried it out for a couple of more weeks and continued to like it. So I finally talked to the coaches about it. They said if I want to try it out, spring is a good time to try it out. ”
So far, he feels it provides a better grip and more control of the ball.
Whether Murray, who is battling for the starting quarterback job, continues to wear the glove into the season remains to be determined.
Gloves have become a bit of a trend among NFL quarterbacks, with Kurt Warner, Ben Roethlisberger and Tom Brady, among others, wearing them in games in recent seasons. Warner wore them in all games the past three years, even in Arizona. Others wear them only in cold-weather games.
As with many things in football, there are arguments on both sides of quarterbacks wearing gloves. Some say it improves grip and ball security and perhaps offers protection against hand injuries. Others say a glove hurts passing accuracy and that a quarterback needs full feel of the ball.
Murray, by the way, reports no problems with his arm this spring after missing a big chunk of practice time last season, his redshirt year, with tendinitis in his triceps and forearm. “Arm feels great. Arm feels strong,” Murray said. “I’m taking good care of it.”
Murray and fellow quarterbacks Logan Gray and Zach Mettenberger are sharing snaps evenly in spring practice, and Murray said there are more than enough snaps to go around. “Oh, it’s plenty of reps,” he said Tuesday. “I was talking with Logan today, and at one point in practice, we’re, like, ‘Man, there’s a lot of reps we’re getting right now.’ . . . They’re working us out there pretty good, which is good because we need as much practice as we can get right now.”
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185 comments Add your comment
Gratefuldawghead
March 17th, 2010
12:43 pm
Sweet home Alabama…Richt is 3-1 against the Tide!
GO DAWGS!
Jeckyll Island
March 17th, 2010
12:56 pm
30-24!!!
30-24!!!
30-24!!!
30-24!!!
30-24!!!
30-24!!!
30-24!!!
30-24!!!
Dawgs own the jackettes!!!!
Pi$$onaJacket
March 17th, 2010
1:06 pm
We run this state!
Mark "Crimson Crier" Ingram
March 17th, 2010
1:06 pm
Joe Cox had more passing yards than Tim Tebow in 2009 and both cried after a major career losses. Will he go before Tim in the draft?
Mark "Crimson Crier" Ingram
March 17th, 2010
1:08 pm
“dude has small hands man give him a break” and hold his burger for him!
james
March 17th, 2010
1:17 pm
Doug Flutie is the one who gave the glove idea to Brady, and since he was the greatest college QB ever… listen to the Flutieman
Stinger
March 17th, 2010
1:23 pm
He’s trying to look like Michael Jackson and it gives him an excuse for every INT that he throws.
Stinger
March 17th, 2010
1:23 pm
6-5
south
March 17th, 2010
1:24 pm
Wow…great article Tim…can you also find out why Bobo is holding the playsheet? Shouldn’t he already have memorized the plays?
This would be another great topic to write about.
Stinger
March 17th, 2010
1:24 pm
Does UGA have any team with a winning record?
south
March 17th, 2010
1:25 pm
30-24 & 73-66 Stinger
scott
March 17th, 2010
1:27 pm
sweet home alabama…not only is richt three and one against alabama but the schedule is rotated therefore, regardless of how much you call on us to “man up” we can only play who is on the schedule…onto the main topic…if he feels he can throw more accuaratley and grip the ball better then go for it by all means.
south
March 17th, 2010
1:28 pm
Who’s your Daddy Stinger…go ahead…say it…
Karl
March 17th, 2010
1:29 pm
Nope, Florida runs this state.
south
March 17th, 2010
1:30 pm
Yea Karl…nice showing in Atlanta this year…idiot
JS
March 17th, 2010
1:37 pm
south – your teams suck, yet you think they are great. And if your team is great, you think that makes you great. But REALLY UF, TN and KY own you, that means you really are pathetic. Just the facts! BTW, winning one game against your in-state rival doesn’t make your season, just like it doesn’t make Tech’s season. ACC champs, not Shreveport!
Haters Really??
March 17th, 2010
1:40 pm
Yall make me proud to be a Dawg fan!!!LOL!!!
JS Really??
March 17th, 2010
1:42 pm
Glad to know that you know it all….We know you suck therefore you suck…but really you suck…Now get back to work or class because you don’t know it all and you suck!!!
south
March 17th, 2010
1:46 pm
JS – the fact that you are on this blog trying to hate on UGA shows how good we are as a program and one down year doesn’t mean a thing.
All you have done here is show what an ingorant idiot you are. By the way, winning the ACC and getting blown out in BCS game isn’t really anything to brag about.
big hands aaron
March 17th, 2010
1:51 pm
The rumor is his hands are so big he needs the glove to try and not overwhelm the ball with so much contact.
Makes sense. That’s probably why he did so well in high school.
Good to see him learning from Brady and Warner. Looks like a smart guy.
JasonDawg
March 17th, 2010
1:53 pm
Really, this is a story?
It’s amazing what our fanbase will read. For those of us that can read.
JS
March 17th, 2010
1:56 pm
Wasn’t hating on UGA as much as hating on a “type of UGA fan” that even UGA fans don’t always like. I certainly don’t know it all and never have claimed to. Yes, UGA has had a down year, I get it. I was trying to get “south” to understand that FACT.
Dawglasville
March 17th, 2010
2:02 pm
A slow news day. Happy to see the Techsters, Gators, and Red Elephants keeping it so entertaining. Keep it up. You maybe able to write for Dane Cook or Sinbad one day.
scott
March 17th, 2010
2:03 pm
js your right having one win over in state rival does not make your season but winning 8 out of 9 years makes one helluva decade. UGA owns this state.
south
March 17th, 2010
2:04 pm
JS – I understand we had a down year and beating Tech doesn’t make up for that and if you look, I was only responding to Stinger. Has nothing to do with who had a great year, but if your gonna talk smack when we beat you on the field, I’m gonna respond to that.
So maybe you meant to hate on Stinger?
rocky redwood
March 17th, 2010
2:04 pm
Better grip on the ball is not always a good thing for accuracy in passing. Sometimes it sticks a little too much. Grip is fine, but you need feel and touch in your index finger for maximum accuracy. In my experience, if the glove is really tight in the fingers and no seams at the tip of your index finger…all is good.
south
March 17th, 2010
2:09 pm
Tim, tomorrow, can you let us know what Logan Gray has for breakfast….that should be another great piece of beat reporting
JS
March 17th, 2010
2:09 pm
Yes, nice decade against Tech. Most of the games were very close and well played, I think you guys got 2 blowouts in those 8. BUT, every year but one you beat Tech, you lost to Florida. Not only lost to Floriday, but lost by double digits every year but one. So exactly how do you run a state when you lose to your biggest rival 17 out of 20 (15 blowouts). Just sayin!
NotaUGAFan
March 17th, 2010
2:15 pm
Really, Tim….is this all you can find to write about? Who really cares if he’s wearing a glove? Next thing you’ll be questioning is his brand of jock strap
Top Dawg
March 17th, 2010
2:18 pm
AL. E. GATOR, you’re an idiot. The difference between Donnan and Richt is 2 SEC championships, and playing for 4.
Sweet Home Alabama, you’re an idiot. Their in the same conference, they don’t “schedule” eachother. They’re on a rotating system that was set up by the SEC.
Takedowndog, you’re an idiot. Logan Gray was EASILY the best qb on the field for the G-Day game last year. And Aaron Murray was redshirted in part due to tendenitis in his throwing arm, he couldn’t throw for 5 weeks. That kinda slowed down his development. C’mon people, if you don’t know what you’re talking about don’t say anything at all. It really is best that way.
Top Dawg
March 17th, 2010
2:19 pm
JS
We run THIS state because we kicked everybody’s a$$ in it.
scott
March 17th, 2010
2:23 pm
clearly i said nothin about running the state of florida that would just be silly…
AltamahaDawg
March 17th, 2010
2:23 pm
Somebody call the SEC office and see if we can break our contract for the intra-league schedules.
south
March 17th, 2010
2:24 pm
JS – 2004 UGA beat FLA and Tech, 2007 UGA beat FLA & Tech
small hands....
March 17th, 2010
2:27 pm
small gloves
south
March 17th, 2010
2:27 pm
JS – but nobody here has said anything about owning the state of FLA…WE RUN THIS STATE is a reference to the state of GA.
Conyers Yellow Jacket
March 17th, 2010
2:41 pm
To ALL DAWG FANS: Notice yesterday GT 6 UGA 5
WE RUN THIS STATE !!!
scott
March 17th, 2010
2:47 pm
To CONYERS YELLOW JACKET…see basketball and football and then rethink your statement.
Tuck Fech
March 17th, 2010
2:47 pm
Conyers Yellow Jacket…Now try Filling your High School football stadium and actually winning a bowl game!
JS
March 17th, 2010
2:50 pm
If you run this state, why does FLA always play in the GEORGIA dome in DEC? We run this state is just a stupid comment. Why would a program like UGA be happy with that as their slogan for success. Bama and FLA get any state of georgia recruit it wants. TN, Auburn and TECH get some of the state of georgia talent it wants. So, again, what do you really run?
takedowndawg
March 17th, 2010
2:53 pm
top dawg sh$%&t, you were right about the Murray’s elbow tendonitis but although Grey looked good he definitely was not better. Two decade tenur HS coaches I was sitting with at the game agreed with me. Murray displayed tighter spirals and better timing when comparing Grey and Murray. Don’t overestimate your own opinion and I won’t overestimate mine, Smart ass.
JS
March 17th, 2010
3:02 pm
Top Dawg – A better goal would be “To run the SEC”. Congrats on the 8 out of 9 against Tech. But I know you want so much more than that.
Tuck Fech
March 17th, 2010
3:02 pm
JS…We Run This State comes from EALEY ..who Ran over TECH ..and OWES FLORIDA for Eye gouging from CHEATING Gators!
GO DAWGS
JS
March 17th, 2010
3:06 pm
Georgia doesn’t cheat? Jan Kemp and Jim Harrick. Two of the biggest sports cheating scandals in NCAA history. That’s just way too easy, you need to get back to some other topic than cheating. Please!
Tuck Fech
March 17th, 2010
3:09 pm
JS What about “Gallen Hall’s best team money can buy Gators” Still DAWGS lead the series over Fla and Urban hasn’t cloned Tebow yet! Don’t yall have a Jean Short blog somewhere?
JS
March 17th, 2010
3:18 pm
Gallen Hall has nothing on UGA developmental studies program which graduated 12 years worth of illiterate athletes. At least we agree on something, I will make fun of gator/FSU fans wearing “Jorts” ALL DAY!
AltamahaDawg
March 17th, 2010
3:20 pm
Good job ConyersYJ, now you guy have something to talk about for the next 2 years.
DDDAWG
March 17th, 2010
3:21 pm
only a dumb redneck bama fan would talk trash to another sec school and say “man up and play bama more”, what an idiot.
Bremen Dawg
March 17th, 2010
3:21 pm
What ever works, then go with it. I just hope that Bobo can develop a good QB this year with a run heavy offense the help whoever wins the starting job.
AltamahaDawg
March 17th, 2010
3:22 pm
That buttkicking, that start of the next Dynasty.
Good thing reggie wasn’t the plate umpire, eh?