Another football walk-on gets scholarship; Fox wants to play Tech earlier
For the third time this spring, Georgia coach Mark Richt had the pleasure of informing a walk-on player that he will go on scholarship.
Richt called senior Chad Gloer, a special-teams standout the past three seasons, into his office Wednesday to give him the good news.
“He was excited, and he felt like his mom and dad would be even more excited,” Richt said. “He was really looking forward to telling them. He said, ‘Coach, don’t be surprised if my mom gets in the car and drives over here and gives you a big hug.’”
Gloer, a cornerback from Fayetteville, joins linebacker Reuben Faloughi and long snapper Ty Frix as walk-ons who have received scholarships for the 2010-11 year.
Two scholarships became available when linebacker Montez Robinson and quarterback Zach Mettenberger were kicked off the team following arrests.
NCAA rules allow Division I-A football teams to have 85 players on scholarship each season.
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Georgia and Georgia Tech are discussing moving their annual men’s basketball game from early January, which is when it has been played the past three seasons, to late November or early December.
“We’re working with Tech to move the game . . . to before the students leave campus [after fall semester],” Georgia coach Mark Fox said. “I think Tech is in agreement with that.”
The teams’ 2010-11 game will be played at Tech.
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- Richt noted that the highlight film shown at a Bulldog Club meeting in Macon on Wednesday night was the same one shown there a year earlier. “This last season must have been so bad we couldn’t show last year’s highlights,” he said, “so we showed the highlights from the year before.”
- Richt expects a much better 2010. “I don’t do jumping jacks like some people do when they’re excited,” he said, “but I can promise you, I’m as excited about this season as I have been for any one since I’ve been at Georgia. I think we’ve got the right stuff.”
- As things stand now, every Georgia player is expected to be ready for the start of preseason practice in August. “It’s the first time I can remember any team I have ever coached where 100 percent of the players are due to be healthy enough to participate at the beginning of camp,” Richt said. “Which is huge.”
- Richt reiterated that he is opposed to expanding the SEC, but “it’s going to be interesting.”
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uga89
May 13th, 2010
8:50 pm
If we really start the running game more than the pass then expect more penalties. We were forth in the nation in penalties last year and got away with several holds against yech and our bowl win while pushing the run. This has surely been pointed out to the sorry SEC officials by more than one team.
poopdawg
May 13th, 2010
8:55 pm
Congratulations to Mr. Gloer, job well done. The receivers at UGA are the best group i have ever seen at UGA. Murray will have a better year than most people expect. Well timed play action passes ( like UA 2008 John Parker Wilson) will be crtical for Murray’s success.
silly uga fans
May 13th, 2010
8:58 pm
I will take that bet. I’m not doubting that UGAs backs have the skill but your big o-line is going to get plenty tired trying to pull that off against quality Ds. I think that is why CPJ likes to use smaller more athletic lineman. That has burned us against teams like LSU and Iowa and I think that is why you see bigger interior lineman being recruited now. I could be wrong we will have to wait and see. Plus I honestly don’t know this, but does UGA have the depth to do that on a continues basis?
hugedawgfan
May 13th, 2010
9:28 pm
Learn to finish a game first (LSU or UK) then we can pump our chests. Fact is, we have a history of starting slow and coming on in the end. Learn to start and finish winning games. All remains to be seen-it is played on the field, not here on this blog. All competitors want to see us fall on our faces, but I do think Coach TG will have this D back performing like the old days, may take a yr or two but, could it really get worse? Here’s hoping for a great season. GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Elliott
May 13th, 2010
9:54 pm
Coach Richt: “I think we got the right stuff”
I agree. Richt helping Bobo with QB’s, solid. New special teams coach, solid. Special teams, solid. QB Depth, solid. Running backs, solid. WR’s, solid. TE’s, solid. O-Line, solid. Belin tackling machine coach, solid. Lakatos, pass defense, solid. Grantham, lb’s, solid. Garner, d-line, solid. New 3-4 defense, solid.
100% healthy going into camp.
This team gonna win some games and make some noise.
Rabun Dawg
May 13th, 2010
10:07 pm
GT BBall Fan, you are correct. Play the game at Phillips, Dome, Gwinnett,and a pretty much split crowd. To those impaired UGA homers, we usually win in Athens,but not all of the time. Play in Dec., before conference schedules begin.
daddydog
May 13th, 2010
10:18 pm
Congrats to the walk-ons who got scollys. now lets hold on to the rest,with so many prospects loking at UGA.
Glenn
May 13th, 2010
10:19 pm
I love it, go Dawgs
Lotte Lenya
May 13th, 2010
10:51 pm
“This last season must have been so bad we couldn’t show last year’s highlights,” he [Richt] said.
And they’ll be showing the same one again next year. This disorganized, arrest-prone bunch of goons will be lucky to be 7-5 this year.
Lotte Lenya
May 13th, 2010
10:55 pm
Coach Richt: “I think we got the right stuff”
Translation: UGA has recruited some top lawyers and bail bondsmen.
UGABasketball
May 13th, 2010
11:06 pm
Early or late we got PAUL HEWITTS # …No way they win!
col fot
May 13th, 2010
11:31 pm
nest year UGA coach Fox will cost Tech coach Hewitt is job, count on it.
BS Patrol
May 13th, 2010
11:42 pm
Ga’s gonna avg more yds rushing than Tech? A Fool & his money are soon parted.
Buzz
May 14th, 2010
12:26 am
I have an idea, you didn’t want to help us by moving one measley football game, we aren’t moving the darn basketball game.
Big D Dawg
May 14th, 2010
1:44 am
buzz… you’re a da**n fool. gt wanted to move the football game to enhance their home schedule and have clemson and ga on the same year. big problem with that is that UGA would play tech and aub away on the same years to end the season. NOT ever gonna happen and gt would never end their season playing two away games either!!
UGA owns you tasty bees..
May 14th, 2010
2:31 am
why don’t all of you tech fans email the AJC requesting more stories/blogs about the under-sized linemen your team recruits, tailbacks recruited to play QB (easy at tech, 4 pass attempts at most a game) or what size bra your coach should be wearing next year, and stay outta our parade. You, my lowly buzzy bee, were not invited, nor of you welcome here.
Paddy
May 14th, 2010
6:53 am
David, you must not be from round here? We talk football everyday.
Paddy
May 14th, 2010
7:00 am
Talker….if a kid has not signed by now for 2010, do you think he would be good enough to play football in the SEC for Georgia. Now that would be throwing away a scholarship. All schools give aid to their walk-on’s when they can. Why are you against these kids and this great policy?
AltamahaDawg
May 14th, 2010
7:24 am
I think H. Talker was getting scholarships confused with his time share points.
james T. Kirk
May 14th, 2010
7:52 am
How cruel is that? Giving a kid in his last season of eligibility a scholarship? You’d think Mr. Churchy would have a bigger heart than that. Or it is as we all expected, just for show?
J.G. Wentworth
May 14th, 2010
8:01 am
Now that we’re officially in the off-season, wouldn’t this be the perfect time to take an in-depth look at UGA and have a free-ranging discussion about the problems at UGA and why the arrest rate of players is the highest in the country? it’s common knowledge that UGA is a party school, but have any football players every actually graduated with a real degree? Jan Kemp exposed the school and the coaches almost three decades ago, but there is no sign that anything has improved; if anything, the arrest rate shows that things are getting more outrageous every year while Mark Richt – a decent fellow with minimal coaching skills – has no clue what to do.
UGA has become a major embarrassment to all Georgians, and we want some answers starting now.
Joey
May 14th, 2010
8:04 am
“UGA will run, run, run. If Bobo does not get too greedy trying to out think a Spurrier or so and so coach,…”
Haha. Bobo can’t even out-think a Kiffin. . .
WonderDawg
May 14th, 2010
8:07 am
I’m just glad that “Russ the temporary mascot” poster must have finally taken my advice and chased a stick out onto I-75 . . .
those games meant everything to tech
May 14th, 2010
8:34 am
and to Paul Johnson, lmao….why do you call tech fans stuck up nerds…we dawgs employ a bunch of them up here…they drive trains well ..great Engine …ers……..tell coach Paul to wear a helmet to the hedges come november ..the disrespectful nerd nation leader will need it…as coach Johnson said “what has Georgia done since 1980?”
UglyOldDog
May 14th, 2010
8:49 am
Hope Murray grows up fast…I really don’t think it will be fun in Columbia….I gotta sit with a boat load of Chicken fans (wife’s family) and don’t look forward to Murray imitating UGA raising a leg at mid field and hearing that god awful screeching Chicken noise.
SCfalconfan
May 14th, 2010
9:31 am
You give the scholarships to the walk-ons because they are for the 2010 season. Its highly unilikely that you would get a player at this point ofr the 2010 season. Maybe a JUCO guy would be possible, but other than that, there’s not many guys you could bring in. It would in no way effect the number of scholarships you could give for the 2011 recruiting class.
Ron
May 14th, 2010
10:16 am
Some posters don’t realize, a freshman can come in January and be counted against 2010’s numbers.
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damngooddawg!
May 15th, 2010
8:17 am
The Dawgs will possibly loose one game this season, to Fla. Most favorable schedule in years.