The unspoken question: Who leads the QB derby?
(UPDATE: Report on Saturday’s scrimmage, including the quarterbacks’ performance, is here.)
ATHENS –- Each day, Georgia’s quarterbacks meet with their position coach, Mike Bobo. One topic never comes up in those meetings: a pecking order among the three quarterbacks competing this spring to be the Bulldogs’ starter.
“Coach Bobo really isn’t telling anybody, ‘You stand here,’ ‘You stand here,’” Logan Gray said.
“No, Coach Bobo hasn’t said anything, him or Coach Richt,” Aaron Murray said.
The three quarterbacks -– Gray, Murray and Zach Mettenberger –- have evenly shared snaps with the first-team offense in the seven sessions of spring practice so far. And they will do so Saturday morning when the team holds a closed scrimmage in Sanford Stadium, undoubtedly the most important day yet in their competition.
“I’m looking forward to it,” Murray said. “Coach Richt was talking after practice [Thursday] that this is going to be the first test for everyone, [the time] to see where everyone is at, what we have learned and where we have come after two weeks of practice.”
The scrimmage will be Georgia’s first of three allowed by the NCAA during spring practice.
“This is my third spring, so obviously I’ve found out scrimmages in the spring are what are judged probably the most and the biggest,” Gray said. “With this being our first one, and with the quarterback competition going on how it is right now, obviously it’s going to be really important.
“But I don’t want to make it the end of the world,” Gray added. “If one of us has a not-so-good day, I don’t think that’s just going to kill us, or put somebody out of what’s going on. But I think everybody is going to be excited to go out there and go live for a long period of time and make plays at all positions.”
Gray’s view of the competition so far is that all three quarterbacks have had “really good days” and “days there could be improvement.”
The coaches’ silence about any sort of day-to-day pecking order is by design.
Said Richt: “Coach Bobo in the first meeting told them, ‘Men, don’t worry about the depth chart. Don’t worry about what the media might say. Don’t worry about what your hometown might say. Just focus on becoming a better quarterback each day.”
Gray said the quarterbacks have been able to focus on day-to-day progress, rather than fretting the high-profile competition.
“We’re just all three of us trying to get better and correct the mistakes we’re making,” he said. “I think all of us have done a good job of trying to come out and work hard every day and take care of our business.”
For his part, Gray believes he has improved his passing accuracy.
“I felt like I’ve had some really good days where I’ve been hitting my targets better maybe than I did in the past,” he said. “I just have to keep on running the offense on a consistent basis so the coaches know every single time I’m in the huddle hopefully something good can happen.”
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ga gator
March 26th, 2010
3:22 pm
These Tech trolls don’t know how to discuss football Dave.
Dave In Tampa
March 26th, 2010
3:26 pm
Vandy Dawg: I hear what your saying and many others agree with that. I guess I’m just hoping this past year woke him up. We’ll see
ga gator: your 100% correct. Brantley will be strong this year. He’s a good one.
Vandy Dawg
March 26th, 2010
3:27 pm
Let us hope so.
NASA? pilotes?
March 26th, 2010
3:31 pm
NASA? I thought we were talking football and Navy FLYERS. NASA has PILOTS that CAN fly. The two clowns that buzzed tech? They cannot fly because they were DEMOTED for their INABILITY TO FLY SAFELY and their BAD JUDGEMENT. NASA? They would never hire these two clowns …….Dumb and DUMBER.
Besides, tech spawned Jimmy Carter and we all know how that turned out. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA
To: Jeff
March 26th, 2010
3:36 pm
Dancing girls? You betcha. As long as they are UGA girls dancing in their fine lil spring dresses. I am all up for that. Take a drive over to Athens next pretty day ……….You will see. You can leave your tech campus security pistols at home …………you will not need them in Athens. You will need a convertible.
Go Dogs.
PS I do not ever want to see two tech men dancing together, I have to view that once every 10 years when UGA lays down like in 08 and it is one bad image.
Dave In Tampa
March 26th, 2010
3:39 pm
I’m guessing that Pi$$onaDAWG had to get back from break and go back to his/her Cashiers table.
Navy Hornet to Dobbins Tower
March 26th, 2010
3:40 pm
” Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeas do not tell the ADMIIRAL THAT WE DID SOMETHING SO GOOFY AND DANGEROUS. Gee, all of our silly lil boy Tech fans just had chills up their skinny legs when we flew over Atlanta at 1,000 ft above sea level. The three fat girls in Grant Field were so impressed with us.
We were disappointed that there were only 12,000 fans in Grant Field for our rivalry game with mighty Wake. “
ugaaccountant
March 26th, 2010
3:44 pm
“Pi$$onaDAWG
March 26th, 2010
3:02 pm
I am sure all the ACC grads would love to turn their Diplomas for a SEC piece of Toilet Paper”
Can’t let this one pass. He implied that a diploma from an ACC school isn’t as good as a piece of toilet paper from the SEC. Wow! I guess this proves he’s not actually a tech grad since he clearly has 0 respect for a Tech degree.
BS Patrol
March 26th, 2010
3:52 pm
cantondawg, you can tell me all you want about the coaches always putting the best players on the field and I will tell you they don’t. Sometimes they like tallest or the ones who look like they could play. Sometimes it might be the one with the best haircut. Coaches haves some of the worst egos there are. I have personally heard my high school coach state that he had to play some kids because of politics and the rest were fill- ins. And believe me, I could go on.
So to flatly state that coaches always put the best player on the field is just BS.
UGA QB Update
March 26th, 2010
3:52 pm
[...] Who’s leading UGA QB derby? [...]
Dogs on the Moon? U of west FL.
March 26th, 2010
3:55 pm
IS ANYONE on the moon? Did I miss something? I mean, like wasn’t it like 35+ years ago that we last stepped on the moon? ON second thought, maybe one of those GROUNDED Navy flyers IS on the moon because the NAVY JUST LEFT HIM there. AAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA
Now, as a sophomore, I for sure howled at the moon in the UGA Tri-Delta shrubs in the late 60s.
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Dogs. College is about fun, yes, more fun, academics and yes, more academics, social contacts and eventually parlaying it all into a career. UGA did that nicely for me and to argue that “tech turns out NASA pilots and engineers” and smart this and smart that ……………..just reinforces all of the IMMATURE,geeky, silly, owlish, bookish, nerdy images of tech men.
NASA and plenty of Tech educated engineers have been getting their share of lay offs due to Barnie Frank’s and Nancy Pelosi’s BAD decisions in this economy. Being a moon jockey holds all kinds of job security …………right? When is the LAST TIME we even flew there? Hmmmmmmmmm?
DUMB and DUMBER are FORMER Navy aviators. Big deal that they went to tech. Auburn has turned out far MORE NASA folks than Tech and how about that? Hmmmmmmmmmmm???
University of West Florida has too. They are in Pensacola ……………….look it up, GT morons.
Go Navy and Go Doooooooooooooooooogs.
superDawg
March 26th, 2010
4:00 pm
poed loves moon pies.
Pi$$onaDAWG
March 26th, 2010
4:02 pm
BOY you guys are still too easy! Just like a UGA Tri Delta any day of the week. What is that perfume? Ankles behind the ears or just another dawgs butt? HAHAH Too easy. The Tech Pilots were great and just ask a ground soldier if he wants a pilot to get that close to the buildings when engaged in urban warfare and a building needs to be taken out.
ugaaccountant
March 26th, 2010
4:06 pm
What weird version of reality are you living in when you are trying to debate the logistics of urban warfare on a football blog regarding which of 3 quarterbacks will start for UGA?
Pi$$onaDAWG
March 26th, 2010
4:08 pm
I love the Q Carter comments. The guy had to go to UGA because he couldn’t read a book. Tech wanted him out of high school the minor league baseball and comic books killed his brain. Glad UGA took him. He got some NFL money and the Best Pot he could afford. Good for him. At least K Butler could play/kick even with his bad Coke habit.
Vandy Dawg
March 26th, 2010
4:09 pm
Followup: now he’s back to football instead of urban warfare.
MELLER YELLER
March 26th, 2010
4:14 pm
uga has no quarterback , a troublemaker, a punt fielder , and the other one is always hurt , they better hope a true freshman steps up or it could be a perfect season 0 wins even with a qb there are losses to sc,tenn,aub,fla,ky, and TECH those are a done deal. but good luck with that
Vandy Dawg
March 26th, 2010
4:18 pm
Again, what’s with trolling?
Pi$$onaDAWG
March 26th, 2010
4:20 pm
DAVE I see where you spelled COLIST about the Cotton Bowl! U mustaz beedz a UGA GRADZ 4 show. HAHAHA POT meet Kettle. HAHAHH.
dawgfan
March 26th, 2010
4:20 pm
If this thing goes deep in to preseason camp look for another disappointing 8 or 9 win dud of a season. I want so badly for a big breakout year but just don’t see it. We just don’t have any great players outside of AJ. Grantham will probably be an improvement, but we have average talent on defense. And Bobo is just clueless. Utterly clueless.
I’m not optimistic.
Pi$$onaDAWG
March 26th, 2010
4:21 pm
VANDY get to work and pay that HOUSE NOTE. Myself I already my farm and home FREE and Clear. Cars Too.
Pi$$onaDAWG
March 26th, 2010
4:24 pm
Dewberry is an A$$ and thinks he is Atlanta’s D Trump.
Dawglasville
March 26th, 2010
4:27 pm
Not a big fan myself.
SOUTHGADAWG88
March 26th, 2010
4:27 pm
Boy I will glad when people let go of the “Moreno RS” crap!.. geesh….the kid only played at UGA two seasons.His RS year we had 3 quality backs…Lumpkin,Brown and Ware.Lumpkin was a good back as a true freshman same goes for both Brown and Ware.Folks kept going on and on about “he should have played as a freshman” as if we had a bunch a bums at tailback.The way I see it Knowshon was at his best as a RS freshman…that’s because he shared carries with T.Brown who almost had a thousand yds himself.His soph year EVERYBODY got their wish and we ran Moreno left..Moreno right and Moreno up the middle and guess what?We still didn’t have a this overpowering dominant running game everybody envisioned.The kid is gone let it go.
bulldogmaniac
March 26th, 2010
4:28 pm
One question:
Why do all of you tech, bama and gator fans have to comment on BULLDOG stories!
Are you really closet fans or what?
Starring Kam Fong as Chin Ho
March 26th, 2010
4:40 pm
bulldogmaniac, it’s called either jealousy or envy, take your pick. Inferiority is a hard habit to kick
Pi$$onaDAWG
March 26th, 2010
4:48 pm
Does it really matter who UGA picks? He will have to pass his HOLDING the CLIPBOARD calss to get to the NFL MONEY anyway. Fran, Q, and Matt the only UGA QB to see the field in LIVE ACTION, but Richt coached or played with all the best QBs at Miami and FSU. Richt must make great QBs. Wait BOBO is the coach. Now I get it. Sorry Coach Richt you can go back to being The RUG MASTER and Ford salesman.
I Beat Pi$$ Ass :)
March 26th, 2010
4:56 pm
LOL, guys, I know the real Pi$$onadawg in person. Went to high school with him. He played freshmen football and that is as far as he made it. He is 33, single, teaches special ed. and didn’t even get anywhere to going to tech. He does go to the games though. He is overweight, and oh yeah, I beat his ass in high school because he got drunk and hit a girl. Please remember this every time you let him get under your skin. And I am a dawg till i die! Hunker down you hairy dawgs.
Debose
March 26th, 2010
4:59 pm
“Mikey what are you bandwagon croc fan i been a dawg since 82 i was 4″
Excellent so you have seen every game since 1990 then? How proud you must be!
Pi$$onaDAWG
March 26th, 2010
5:04 pm
Sorry! Wrong! I am 43. I attended Riverside Military Academy, North Georgia College and Kennesaw State University. Played Football, Baseball, Basketball, Wrestled, and the Rifle team. I still have a flat stomach and I am not nor have I ever been overweight. I have the same waist size I had in college can you say the same?
UGA 77
March 26th, 2010
5:11 pm
You played Basketball and wrestling huh? That’s kinda hard to do since they are in the same season. Unless you are talking about rasslin? Now that I can believe.
DD
March 26th, 2010
5:37 pm
Come on you guys, leave Pi$$onaDAWG alone. It’s obvious that he is missing his sister. Why else would he make up that garbage he just did. His juvenile comments alone make me believe I Beat Pi$$ Ass comment. This guy is nothing but a loser. So mad at UGA because they can’t beat us. Obvious also that he has a lot of class. Too bad it’s all Low!
DD
March 26th, 2010
5:40 pm
By the way Pi$$onaDAWG, why do you gloat about Tech? Shouldn’t you be on Kennesaw States blog??? Oh, that’s right, they don’t have a team. Plus, if you played all those sports that you claim to have (ha ha) I’m a Tech fan……. Pretty far fetched wouldn’t you say. Now go crawl back to sister.
Timmy tear drops Tebow
March 26th, 2010
5:44 pm
i wished i would have went to uga i could have cried every year in Jacksonville with the rest of you losers from redneck central Georgia. go suck on a bone biotch
DD
March 26th, 2010
5:47 pm
Just go to Tech and you would have the same feeling there Techie. Acting as if they were a gator fan. I give gator fans more respect than that on their comments. No doubt a Techie>
Thuga
March 26th, 2010
5:51 pm
The only qb we need is one who can lead by example. Discipline, hard work, team dedication. We have been missing that for years….keg bench press is not one of those qualifications!
To all you smartbutt trashtalkers…didn’t your momma ever teach you that if you don’t have something nice to say then don’t say anything at all – that goes for all sides.
If you have to state any score as part of your handle you don’t belong here.
When you have achieved a championship – east, west, sec, acc, national, then you have bragging rights just to that event … nothing else. If you haven’t then don’t diss the other guy.
Talk about what we can and should do and worry about ourselves. Coach Dooley always spoke highly of the other teams.
If we keep talking like what I’ve seen today, we will “ruin this state”
peace out dogs!
Sanford Drive
March 26th, 2010
5:54 pm
POAD,
You make fun of a UGA degree and you went to Kennesaw? Was that school even an accredited university when you went there?
patrick
March 26th, 2010
5:55 pm
to ALA fans that harp on the last game. Ummm Richt is 4-1 against you. Congrats on FINALLY beating him for once
sleazmonkey
March 26th, 2010
6:01 pm
125th!!!!!!!! Wooooo Hoooooo!!!!!!
I hate those dumb a$$e$ that post “1st”
What losers!!!!!
Trojan Player
March 26th, 2010
6:10 pm
Listen up…UGA is a bonafied 2nd tier SEC football team. They were out recruited by Alabama, Tennessee (Yes, Coach Dooley recruited better than UGA…look at the facts), Auburn, LSU, and Florida. The ESPN top 150 high school prospects is the pool of players that I base my input on. Get your emotion out of the discussion and think hard and long; our beloved DAWGS are playing and recruiting as a 2nd tier SEC program…sad days on the gridiron are ahead regardless of who the QB is.
GT Dog
March 26th, 2010
6:13 pm
Always remember…
1. When a stranger tells you his salary…he’s LYING.
2. When someone brags about owning this, that and the other…he’s LYING.
3. When a guy talks about his athletic conquests…he’s LYING.
Lying to strangers, people whom you believe can neither verify nor debunk your boasts, is the ultimate sign of insecurity. And it is also a form of flattery. That person wants SO badly to impress someone, but is not able to do so in reality, that boasting anonymously is the only release that he (or she) has available.
Now, and I’m not going to name the blogger here, but we all know who it is…one of two possibilities exist:
1. This “person”, so highly educated, has never actually set foot in a classroom at GT, NGC, KSU or DCC for that matter.
2. The gnome of whom we speak is so absolutely (and apparently often) inebriated that he has what we can refer to as a “wet brain”.
Okay, now let’s see if it responds…or if it has already passed out for the night (6:11PM)
poopdawg
March 26th, 2010
6:25 pm
Trojan Player , get your head out of your A$$, Amen GT dog
Trojan Player
March 26th, 2010
6:29 pm
poopdawg…stay with the FACTS!
GT Dog
March 26th, 2010
6:38 pm
One 2nd tier recruiting class each decade sounds great to me…
poopdawg
March 26th, 2010
6:40 pm
Trojan Player , Please get your head out of your A$$.
Jackson
March 26th, 2010
6:43 pm
Put in that Tampa boy to beat up on them GATORS!
Murray for QB!
What's new?
March 26th, 2010
7:02 pm
Who cares? They’ll lose 8 and be shut out of any Bowl and maybe get rid of the great stone face.
stw
March 26th, 2010
7:09 pm
What’s new….And the only bowls you are familiar with are the ones you bus at the waffle house…
Tech Man
March 26th, 2010
7:11 pm
WHO CARES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ABOUT UGA’S QB PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
George
March 26th, 2010
7:11 pm
It will be whoever can protect the ball the best.