QB Gray meets with Richt; no decision yet on transfer (UPDATED)
(Updated 8 p.m.)
Logan Gray, Georgia’s No. 2 quarterback, met Monday with coach Mark Richt to discuss his status on the team and the possibility of transferring to another school.
Gray remained with the Bulldogs as of Monday night, associate athletics director Claude Felton said, but “he is weighing options for the remainder of his playing career.”
The uncertainty about Gray’s future surfaced four days after Richt revealed the Bulldogs’ post-spring depth chart, which has Gray, a junior, behind redshirt freshman Aaron Murray at quarterback.
Richt’s dismissal of Zach Mettenberger from the team on April 18 left Murray and Gray as the only quarterbacks in the Georgia program until recruit Hutson Mason arrives this summer from Marietta’s Lassiter High.
So if Gray decides to transfer, that would leave a true freshman, Mason, as Murray’s apparent backup in the fall.
There was no indication Monday night that Gray has made a decision. He was not available for comment.
Gray has two years of eligibility remaining at Georgia but, under NCAA transfer rules, would have only one year to play if he moved to another Division I-A school. He would retain two years of eligibility if he transferred to a school in a lower division.
Richt said last week that Murray’s spot atop the depth chart does not guarantee he will be the starter in the Sept. 4 season opener against Louisiana-Lafayette.
Gray, from Columbia, Mo., was Georgia’s backup quarterback last season but played minimally behind senior starter Joe Cox.
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1eyedJack
April 27th, 2010
11:46 am
James T. Kirk “I am posting from my hot tub in my frat house on Tech campus.”
Kirk you idiot, you don’t put electronic equipment anywhere near a hot tub. Being that you aspire to being an “Engineer” you should know that.
Tea Party
April 27th, 2010
11:47 am
Everything I read about UGA makes me ashamed to have a state university with such a sleezy athletics department. We should fire everyone involved and start over with coaches who will only recruit respectable players who aren’t immoral drunks.
And this fellow Mark Richt has to be the first to go.
How2fish
April 27th, 2010
12:09 pm
Tea Party ..is that you St.Simon??
Terry
April 27th, 2010
12:18 pm
Tea Party, I would like you to tell me one top college football program that does not have problems with immoral behavior with their players you are living back in the 50’s, I would say that 90% of the world is immoral so good luck with that.
Huston Masons
April 27th, 2010
12:25 pm
don’t want…don’t need him
Kickoff Zone College Football Blog » More UGA QB Problems on the Horizon?
April 27th, 2010
12:31 pm
[...] three candidates for the quarterback job. The Bulldogs could be down to one with junior Logan Gray considering a transfer after freshman Aarron Murray was named the [...]
Dog The Bounty Hunter
April 27th, 2010
1:03 pm
I will be filming some shows in Athens during the summer. We will be tracking down UGA football players who have jumped bail….its gonna be a long 2 weeks in Georgia. Aloha!
James T. Kirk
April 27th, 2010
1:19 pm
I have a state of the art laptop that is water resistant. And yes, the hot Tech woman were here this morning, but they had to leave to go to class. We are having another fun hot tub party tonight. You are all jealous since you are stuck with those dogs you call co-eds in Athens.
coondawg69
April 27th, 2010
1:34 pm
I’m not worried about who is going to back up Aaron Murray at QB. The most important question is who is going to fair catch our punts now????
Delbert D.
April 27th, 2010
1:49 pm
How does it work with JUCO transfers? Would a JUCO about to “graduate” have paper in place with a 4-year school by this time, or can that be done only after the end of the school year?
chicken little
April 27th, 2010
1:53 pm
Roubini could see the economic storm coming back in 2006. He was labeled a “pessimist”. He was right.
Friends, countrymen, I tell you, the sky is falling, and Georgia football is coming down, in chunks, arrests, transfers, disunity, firings, get out while you still can.
The sky is falling!!!!!
WARNING: AVOID THE DANGER!!!
Jim
April 27th, 2010
2:05 pm
So, Tim…..why are some blogs open for comment and others, not?
Reggie Ball-a
April 27th, 2010
2:06 pm
Ya kno, I can alwayz quit mah job at Krogre and make thingz happen 4 yall
fix
April 27th, 2010
2:16 pm
Jim,
Probably because he knows how lonely and insecure Yech fans are and which blogs they would use as their escape of their miserable existence.
ugaaccountant
April 27th, 2010
2:17 pm
Jim
April 27th, 2010
2:05 pm
So, Tim…..why are some blogs open for comment and others, not?
Well Jim, a long time ago in a more civilized era, newspapers actually wrote these “blogs” that they called a story or an article. In this era they only printed news that was important or relevant to other people. They had these printed on a piece of paper and sold them to people. If you wanted to comment on a story you had to find someone who gave a rip what you thought about the news or you could just talk to yourself.
Now, since newspapers have decided to give their product away for free online, they have to generate “page-hits” in order to sell fractions of pennies worth of advertising. So this particular paper has noticed that UGA is popular and the only thing more popular is for other school fans to make fun of UGA. So they search high and wide for any story remotely conected to UGA in order to post something you will click on. Then once you’ve read that story you have to make another page click or two to find a space to comment on the story. So by spreading out the content they can get you to click more pages than if they simply let you comment on every story.
The real sad part in all of this is that Journalistic integrity has fallen by the wayside. Instead of letting non-violent misdemeanors fade into the obscurity they deserve, they put them in prominent places on their website where actual news should go.
Stinger
April 27th, 2010
2:38 pm
Jim, are you single? Just curious….
Ed
April 27th, 2010
2:45 pm
Wow.
Put yourself in Gray’s shoes. Your a former highly touted recruit, in year 3 at the program, you outperform a freshman in the Spring Game (didn’t see it, but the stats seem clear enough), and you start the fall behind on the depth chart to only the second best freshmen quarterback option the team had before the other guy got booted.
Is there much more the coach could do to indicate that he has no faith in you as his starting QB?
It’s not like the kid grew up in Georgia listening to Munson and dreaming of suiting up for the Dawgs – I assume he came all the way from Missouri because he thought he could be UGA’s QB. Hate to see Georgia end up so thin at QB, but hard to blame the kid for thinking about transferring.
17 of 20
April 27th, 2010
4:08 pm
I got wood
Fulmer cup is now called Mark Richt cup
April 27th, 2010
6:03 pm
Enjoy mutts!
Mark Richt aka...
April 27th, 2010
6:04 pm
RON ZOOK!!!
Bad Dawgs Bad Dawgs
April 27th, 2010
6:11 pm
Whacha gonna do Whacha gonna do When they come for you? Will enough Bulldog players be out on probation to start the season?
BuLLdawg
April 27th, 2010
6:18 pm
Tim Tucker, sir :
How convenient that responses are closed to the # 94 Arrest / Suspension in the 1st 9-Years of the Coach Richt Era.
Redshirted last season, listed as # 3 in the Depth Chart on the OL released by Coach Richt just 2 days ago, yet ANOTHER – the # 94 Arrrested / Suspended Georgia Bulldogs’ Football Player in the Coach Richt Era, 38 in the last 3 years alone according to David Halle last week, is in the Negative News.
Congratulations.
For a program in 2010 who last even went to The SEC Championship Game in 2005, this is not good news. 4 since Spring Practice have been Arrested / Suspended and 3 of the 4 have been kicked off the team.
I was wrong.
I said May 5 the next Georgia Bulldogs’ Football Player on this roster and on this Depth Chart just relased 2 days ago by Coach Richt, would be arrested.
April 27, and I am wrong.
May 27, the 85th Georgia Bulldog Player Arrested / Suspended in the 9-Year Coach Richt Era will be Arrested / Suspended.
1 a month for 9 years running Arrested / Suspended.
I have the URL Links for the last 38 in the just the last 3 years.
And, I have the URL Links for the 94 Arrested / Suspended in the Coach Richt Era.
Available for those of you who think this goes on at every school.
Not 94 Arrested / Suspended in the 9-Year Coach Richt Era, it does NOT go on at other schools at this # 94 Arrested / Suspended in the only 9-Year Coach Richt Era, it does not.
BuLLdawg
April 27th, 2010
6:25 pm
Wrong.
Ed.
This is Logan Gray’s 4th year in this system this year he just started.
Logan Gray has completed 0 passes for touchdowns. He has completed 5 total passes in his 4th year now, and has thrown 2 Interceptions, one of those to a wide open best defender on the Florida football team who has beat us 17 of the last 20 for a TD for the defense against Logan Gray.
He also OPENLY criticized the offensive coaching staff at UGA in the newspapers repeatedly.
But, then again so too has EVERYONE else.
Except for patrick M. Sulley.
BuLLdawg
April 27th, 2010
6:33 pm
ugaaccountant, sir or madam as the case may be,
Since just Spring Practice started THIS SEASON, our would be Starting Quarterback reached his hand up the skirt of a college girl not working at the bar in Valdosta (Remerton.)
Then, the next week, the # 1 Football Recruit in the state of Indiana for all football players at all positions and one of the top recruits in the nation at his position, beat up his little girlfriend AGAIN, violating his PROBATION for his earlier arrest for beating her up, a student at UGA.
Then last week a guy who had 3 punts in the G-Day game hit a guy in the face for all to see and was arrested, drunk.
All 3 were THROWN OFF THE TEAM by Coach Richt.
But, according to you, ugaaccountant, these are NON-VIOLENT MEANINGLESS CRIMES.
Then, last night a 4th player listed on Coach Richt’s Official April 2010 Depth Chart, was charged with DUI and suspended / arrested.
Which 1 of these 4 is the NON-VIOLENT meaningless crime you refer to please ?
I’m lost in your excuses.
Smart dawg
April 27th, 2010
6:36 pm
Thanks BuLLdawg. That is exactly what I asked for earlier.
Any odds on who will get the coveted #100th arrest?
Any odds on when the arrest will occur?
Using your numbers, my best guess is before the annual massacre at Jax
BuLLdawg
April 27th, 2010
6:43 pm
Logan Gray can go to any other SEC or other Bowl Subdivision school and play the year after this, his 5th year.
Logan Gray can do to any other non Bowl Subdivision 1-A school and play this year his 4th including redshirt year, and play next year, his Redshirt Senior Year – like Georgia State or Georgia Southern, for example.
Our Graduation Rates are going down the tubes.
The NCAA gives the recruits 6 years to graduate. If they are in good standing academically, and transfer, it does NOT count against the school they transfer from in the official NCAA GSR Graduation Success Rate.
Zach Mettenberger and Montez Robinson, 2 of the highest rated recruits in the nation at their positions, obviously get The University of Georgia a Zero on Graduation Success Rate being KICKED OFF THE TEAM.
Coach Richt is already in the bottom half of The SEC in Graduation Success Rate, and is failling even further with this off-season turmoil, exactly the same as every other off-season turnoil here with an Arrest / Suspension once EVERY month for 9 years running.
Jimmy
April 27th, 2010
6:45 pm
This just proves that in today’s world, you better win big or players who are not receiving playing time will transfer.
UGA needs to start adjusting their recruiting philosophy. They need to start looking for players who want to be a part of the University of Georgia. Instead of looking for players who want to use the university as a stepping stone to the NFL.
BuLLdawg
April 27th, 2010
6:47 pm
There are already 100 Arrests / Suspensions in the Coach Richt Era smart dog.
I had it at 121.
Then, I started to look them up and have the URL Links for 94 today.
There are a LOT more.
38 in the lasts 3 years alone according to David Hale, the best UGA Beat Writer in the nation at macon.com.
Smart dawg
April 27th, 2010
6:58 pm
BuLL dawg:
By all means consider St Mark’s previous schools: Miami and FSU. He learned to facilitate and overlook from one of the old masters, Bobby Bowden.
Sautee Dawg
April 27th, 2010
7:00 pm
Rambo can play QB. He played QB in highschool and has run the pratice team from the QB position. More QB’s on the team than what you may think.
Delbert D.
April 27th, 2010
7:13 pm
The meeting between Gray and CMR must be over by now. I didn’t see any updated info (that sports blog site is pretty much BS, I think).
Brent
April 27th, 2010
7:18 pm
Tim, I know the AJC is necessarily (supposedly) penny-pinching these days. But, do you think they’ll ever let you or somebody go down to Remerton and get to the bottom of the Mettenberger thing?
Delbert D.
April 27th, 2010
7:20 pm
I went to the AJC front page and found this -
“NCAA passes over UGA’s Adams”
One of those bad news-bad news things. 1) He’s not leaving, and 2) He’s probably pi$$ed about the bad publicity from his athletics department that must have factored in the decision by the NCAA
AltamahaDawg
April 27th, 2010
7:57 pm
The reason that the blog about the linemen arrested is closed is that the story actually goes back to the night of the G-day game, and Tim knows that so no need to let a bunch of folks make fools of themselves till the detaisl are out.
Gen Neyland
April 27th, 2010
10:13 pm
Just thinking about that Nance and Rogers package deal tonight…
JAXDAWG
April 28th, 2010
12:01 am
How’s Nash Nance looking now? Hahaha. I really wish Mettenberger wouldn’t have screwed up so bad, this is going to be a nightmare. Its going to be hard to get two guys to commit behind two freshmen. Hopefully Christian LeMay will go ahead and “name a leader” and that leader will be UGA.
bake
April 28th, 2010
12:18 am
i love it that all the techies have nothing better to do than comment on the dawg blog. they know where real football resides…beyotches!!! tech football is about as exciting as watching my grass grow. GO WACK-ITS!!!
Monday News and Notes: Logan Gray Update and Aaron Hernandez Situation « MrSEC.com
April 28th, 2010
12:20 am
[...] Logan Gray Update. Unless you live under a rock or in the parts of Pickens County that aren’t wired, you’ve probably heard that Georgia Bulldogs backup QB Logan Gray is considering transferring. We now know that Gray has met with Mark Richt to discuss his future, but no decision has yet been made. Stay tuned on this one, folks. [...]
AdvoCare Independence Bowl
April 28th, 2010
6:46 am
We would like to officially extend an invitation for UGA to play in our 2010 bowl game. Your opponent has not been named yet, but will be some low level division II school you should be able to beat. Our only concern is that enough of your players will be out on bond or probation. We look forward to hosting UGA for many years to come. Here’s to a successful 6-6 season and we look forward to seeing everyone in Shreveport come December! Book your trips now. The Motel 6 fills up fast and Waffle House now takes reservations! http://independencebowl.org/
17 of 20
April 28th, 2010
9:48 am
Even I think it’s gay that grown men are complaining about an article not being open for comments. And for me to think that, that’s saying something.
The Roady's Humanitarian (Smurf) Bowl
April 28th, 2010
9:53 am
We anxiously await the triumphant return of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets to their rightful bowl this coming season. Seeing how the ACC finished last year’s regular season with half the conference at .500 or worse, we are confident this same poor showing will not continue, therefore meaning Georgia Tech will never again even compete for the ACC championship. We are looking forward to watching the Yellow Jackets get anally ripped apart by yet another WAC powerhouse football team this bowl season.
Til then!!!
Delbert D.
April 28th, 2010
10:24 am
If Tech (or Georgia) choose to play in the Boise bowl, Boise State is replacing the blue turf with non-reflective blue this year. That is very good news for TV watchers.
Saint Simons
April 28th, 2010
10:26 am
That’s good news for Tech!!!!
aw
April 28th, 2010
11:00 am
Maybe he should take Marlon Brown with him. Because I am sure Richt will waste him.
rdbdrankin26
April 28th, 2010
1:02 pm
They should have just let Gray play a game or two last year. instead he got like 12 total plays all year. what was CMR thinking. clearly cox blew last year , why not see what your possible next years qb has to offer. it really gets under my skin cmr didnt try to find anything new at qb last year for this year. We just got to see cox suck and the whole fan base turn against the qb.
StingEngineer
April 28th, 2010
11:33 pm
Richt needs to take the players swimming more to cut down on these arrests–they can use all their energy in the pool and be too tired to go out and get drunk in downtown athens.