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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CHARLOTTE DAWG
April 26th, 2010
7:03 pm
Trey’s post above:
hilarious….”hopefully he won’t transfer there and become a Taliban.”
That is good stuff right there!
Heywood Jablowme
April 26th, 2010
7:05 pm
I don’t disagree that Logan did not look good. However, I have heard that Bobo has long pumped up Logan with ideas that he will play and it never happened. Due to Cox’s arm issues, there were one, if not more, practices a week where Cox did not practice at all, and Logan took most of the snaps.
Do you recall the story early in the ‘09 after the Ok.St. game that Schlabach broke saying that Logan was going to start the next game vsS.Carolina? Well, the story was absolutely true in the sense that Logan was told that by Bobo. When it got out, the crap hit the fan, and after that Logan was not gonna get a real chance to challenge Cox to avoid a QB controversy…. Bobo has misled & mismanaged Logan since he arrived in Athens…I wish Logan nothing but good luck in the future…G.A.T.A.!!!
Delbert D.
April 26th, 2010
7:05 pm
Two of the critical must-do’s in management are succession planning and risk analysis.
It is in the details ......always success is
April 26th, 2010
7:09 pm
Such is life. My firm lost a top man to heart attack and the guy was found in his hotel room. He was a great sales rep but stuff happens. He eventually was replaced and we made do till we got it covered.
If we are now down to Murray and then we add Hutson ……….life goes on. Stuff like this is out of our control. You would think that the staff would make Logan feel that he is gonna play a bunch but now, the damage is done whether he stays or bolts.
Time will tell.
GT51
April 26th, 2010
7:11 pm
Pollack said it was true. so it must be so. obviously gray doesn’t want to be a career backup and he has no other option because there are only 2 qbs on the roster. i don’t blame him for wanting to transfer. blame cmr for not having more qbs on the roster. don’t most teams have 4-5.
Sanford Drive
April 26th, 2010
7:13 pm
“Pollack said it was true. so it must be.”
Yeah Pollack really hit the nail on the head when he said Kirby Smart was ‘pretty much a lock’ for our new DC.
JSD
April 26th, 2010
7:13 pm
He is not good enough to play QB at UGA. I’m sorry. He’s a good kid & player but not here. Nice 5 yd pick six in Jacksonville. He doesn’t have it. Sorry.
Delbert D.
April 26th, 2010
7:13 pm
“You would think that the staff would make Logan feel that he is gonna play a bunch”
I’m imagining on-bended-knee proposals, just short of offering an engagement ring.
Standing on the sidelines
April 26th, 2010
7:13 pm
If Gray transfers, Richt will get what he deserves. I would not blame Gray one bit.
crazy dawg
April 26th, 2010
7:14 pm
Its like i said all along if you dont want to be a Bulldog then we dont need you. Logan is a fine young man and a good football player, but if his heart is not in being a Dawg then let him transfer out with no ill will toward him. The 2010 Dawgs will be just fine with or without him.Aaron Murray is alot better than people know and will do a great job this season. Every College in the country was after him his senior season at Plant High in Tampa. The lack of depth will be an issue but Mason should be able to step in and play if needed. I also heard Buck talking about a prefered walk on Qb from Columbus Ga that had some medical issues last year that kept him from getting an offer. Buck said the kid is about 6′4 and can throw the ball if Logan leaves word is he will be given a full ride to uga. 2010 will much better than last year and if we can land Christian Lemay or the kid out of South Ga. Nick Wilcox to team up with Murray in 2011 watch out.The point is we only want players who want to be Ga. Bulldogs.
Tech Man
April 26th, 2010
7:14 pm
There are ALWAYS MR. TAYLOR which thinks he’s a english major, trouble brewing in Athens!!
It sucks to be a THUGA fan
April 26th, 2010
7:14 pm
5 wins if that. HAHA
Lose to TN, FLA and GaTech
April 26th, 2010
7:17 pm
Mark Richt will be fired.
Tech Man
April 26th, 2010
7:20 pm
Just face the facts…UGA IS NOT A ELITE FOOTBALL TEAM THAT YOU ARE SO DESPERATELY WANTING!!!!!!!!!!
Paul Finebaum
April 26th, 2010
7:20 pm
says when will Georgia fans get a clue. FIRE MARK RICHT. Over paid and not getting the job done.
Delbert D.
April 26th, 2010
7:22 pm
Here we go. Brandon Boykin’s high school bio:
“he also appeared on offense at quarterback, completing 33 of 43 passes for 416 yards and three touchdowns, rushed 94 times for 600 yards and six touchdowns.”
big....G ....Gossip
April 26th, 2010
7:23 pm
…….A RUMOR SWIRLS……….
"Chef" Tim Dix
April 26th, 2010
7:23 pm
Logan’s days in Athens became numbered when A.J. raised his hand wanting to return punts.
"Chef" Tim Dix
April 26th, 2010
7:24 pm
Logan = fair catching machine
call em like i see em
April 26th, 2010
7:24 pm
@THUGA, lose to TN,FLA,andGAyTech, and tech man
we have 10 returning starters back from a unit that racked up over 340 rushing yards on yalls home turf last year and you lose your only two good defensive players, on top of this you lose baby thomas and Dwyer who were the only guys who actually DID anything against us last year. and add this on as well: Mark Richt is ten times the coach small Johnson will EVER be. lets face facts, if it werent for VT having a down year and MIA being up and down you wouldnt have even won the division, and even then you barely beat Clemson who was recently blown away by USC!!!!!
hold up your Orange Bowl runner up plaque and we’ll hold up our two Sugar Bowl Trophies and two SEC championships
pluss if you think that this will be the best season Tech has had in the last ten years, then go ahead and mark down a uga win
every time you nerds say you have the best team you’ve had in the last ten years youre soundly beaten (eg: 2002,2006, and 2009)
keep trashin nerds
wow win one in ten and you think youre a big program all of a sudden lol
"Chef" Tim Dix
April 26th, 2010
7:27 pm
Logan’s Professors always him if he’s got a question and his reply is always the same: Naw, just practicing my fair catching.
6-7 Texas A&M
April 26th, 2010
7:29 pm
Did you forget to hold up your tacky Shreveport Trophy ?
Dawg man
April 26th, 2010
7:29 pm
Dont worry, we’ll still be National Champs the next 5 seasons, Gray is transferring, because the word is out about the dawgs and teams are trembling at the name of UGA, and heard 3-4 teams are thinking of forfeiting, rather than be run off the field by the dawgs
call em like i see em
April 26th, 2010
7:31 pm
wheres your ten crappy trophies from this last decade
aww awful quiet about that little fact now arent ya?
....
April 26th, 2010
7:31 pm
NESBITT is one bad ass nerd
call em like i see em
April 26th, 2010
7:33 pm
@….
youve got a point there lol:)
RJ
April 26th, 2010
7:36 pm
Who Cares about a bunch of thugs.
All hands
April 26th, 2010
7:37 pm
Abandon the sinking ship.
Since 1980....
April 26th, 2010
7:38 pm
If in his position, I dont blame him. But not good for the UGA program.
comments closed
April 26th, 2010
7:39 pm
What are these clowns doing in Athens? We cant keep players off the jail blotter, no coaches want to come to UGa to coach. beatdowns in both football and baseball are mounting. Fire Damon, fire Richt and fire Perno.
call em like i see em
April 26th, 2010
7:40 pm
@Urban Liar & Satan Sabin
first of LOVE the name
second you’re gonna be in a lot of troble in Jacksonville when you gaytors finally get of the drug pipe and realize holy crap the whole time we were trashin uga, we forgot we dont have Tebow, Cooper, Pouncey, Dunlap, Spikes, Stamper, Wright, Pierre-Louis, or… ANYBODY!!!
plus all the players who have been kicked off were not even major players with the exception of Mettenberger and even he probably wouldnt have been a starter over Murray
....PIN POINT PASSER
April 26th, 2010
7:41 pm
get Joe Cox TO COACH-EM up
call em like i see em
April 26th, 2010
7:42 pm
btw, where’s all my gt buds out there…
awwww did they all get scared and run off, I was just startin to have fun…
hey nerds come back you left your 70’s style, taped glasses!
74 UGA grad
April 26th, 2010
7:42 pm
Has anyone commenting about Gray actually seen him play? Anyone who has would have known immediately that he is no way, shape or form an SEC QB and will never be one.
Regardless of his lack of experience, Mason is a better backup than Gray, simply based on the fact that he can actually throw the football. The offense he ran in high school is more complex than the one Georgia runs, so the transition will not be that difficult, other than learning how to take a snap from under center and hand the ball off, two things he didn’t do much of in high school.
It would be nice if someone/anyone at the AJC would do their job and find out exactly what ZM did to merit expulsion from the team. Rumors don’t cut it when the truth is out there.
Considering the surrounding talent on offense, Georgia doesn’t need a Heisman candidate at QB to be successful this Fall. Anybody remember how Georgia did with David Greene as a freshman? Both Murray and Mason are more talented than Greene was at the same stage.
sinknshipDAWG
April 26th, 2010
7:45 pm
UGH! going to be a really long season…and it looks
to be getting even longer by the minute!
GeezusDawg
April 26th, 2010
7:45 pm
Gray’s announcement will come after LeMay’s announcement.
Delbert D.
April 26th, 2010
7:47 pm
Just jumped off to another blog and back, and I see it’s no longer just a rumor.
Call em as I see em is
April 26th, 2010
7:48 pm
just another dumb redneck mutt. No nc in last 30 years..won the SEC titles with Jim Donnan team. Keep playing that say broken record hillbilly.
Zaxbys
April 26th, 2010
7:49 pm
Like ole’ super coach Ray Goff used to say,
We’ve had a lot of ADVERSITY
…………………………………………….. at the university this year.
Chazz
April 26th, 2010
7:51 pm
man…..bet UGA fans are now pondering there decision to not offer Nash Nance and which prob would have secured Darick Rogers to UGA if Nance did commit to them too
oh well….TN got em both
Edward
April 26th, 2010
7:51 pm
Saw Gray play at G-Day, he played tons better than Murray. Murray had no timing on his passes. Murray hit a LB right in the numbers for an int in the red zone instead of checking down, totally panicked from the rush. From the stats I’ve seen, Gray outplayed Murray overall over the 3 public scrimmages. So, if people on this blog are right that Logan Gray stinks, then Murray must be beyond awful, because Logan Gray flat out kicked his butt over the 3 spring scrimmages, so did Mettenberger. Murray was the worst of the 3 quarterbacks in the 3 spring scrimmages. Murray looks like Joe Cox Jr., averaging an interception every 19 passes over the 3 Spring scrimmages (3 int’s out of 57 passes), worse than Joe Cox EVER was. I wouldn’t be talking about how bad Gray is, makes Murray look that much worse.
Who is next?
April 26th, 2010
7:51 pm
I hope A.J. Green stays.
Taylor
April 26th, 2010
7:53 pm
just another dumb redneck mutt. No nc in last 30 years..won the SEC titles with Jim Donnan team. Keep playing that say broken record hillbilly.
UGA won the SEC 5 years after Donnan left. Tech fans need to work on their trash talk, at least say stuff that’s true
Logan Gray Transfer?
April 26th, 2010
7:54 pm
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bob
April 26th, 2010
7:54 pm
What if he does leave? He is not SEC QB material, maybe Ga State needs a 3rd stringer for the Bama game. They will probably use many QB’s and stretchers that day.
Remperton
April 26th, 2010
7:57 pm
Logan Gray will win a championship at Valdosta State.
call em like i see em
April 26th, 2010
7:57 pm
Call em like I see em is is… another fan who has obviously been so enfuriated with Richt’s success as a coach (may I just mention that he has the 3rd highest winning percentage of any college coach now that Carroll is gone) that hes been waiting for UGA to have a down year so he could FINALLY get to have room to talk smack on UGA blogs
call me next year pal, youl be singin a different tune
mikey
April 26th, 2010
7:58 pm
Dont worry as soon as CMR returns from Mexico or Indonesia or wherever he is building mud huts for the homeless he will turn his attention to Georgia football.
Drew
April 26th, 2010
7:58 pm
Relax Dawg nutz. How was it that Stafford get started? I mean the last time a GA season looked promising what happened? As for the G-day game … when has it ever not been an embarrassment? I’ve been to the last several and I can’t remember any looking very promising. As always, we just have to sit back for the ride. But dangit Mettenburger!
dixie
April 26th, 2010
7:58 pm
it sux to be a mutt…..