Hutson Mason ‘moving up the depth chart rapidly,’ and other notes
Cleaning out the notebook:
- With all the turmoil at Georgia’s quarterback position of late, Mark Richt has been fielding a lot of questions on the speaking circuit about incoming freshman Hutson Mason. “I’m sure he’s very excited about what’s going on,” Richt told a group last week. “He’s been moving up the depth chart rapidly because of what happened with Mr. Mettenberger and Logan Gray probably spending most of his time at wide receiver now.”
Asked the followup question of whether he sees Mason playing or redshirting this year, Richt said: “I don’t know. I want to see what he can do. If we don’t think he’s ready, I’d be more apt to have Logan continue to be our No. 2 and just go from there. I don’t want to say because I have no idea how he’s going to perform until he shows up.”
- Another hot topic, of course, is conference expansion. Richt is on record against it for the SEC, mainly because “I think if you get into what would be a super-conference, you’re just not going to play everybody. I think it would feel like two leagues rather than the Southeastern Conference.”
- Georgia’s baseball season is down to its final series: a visit by Kentucky to Foley Field Thursday through Saturday. The Bulldogs (14-36, 3-22 SEC) will enter the series with a staff earned run average of 8.63, which ranks 283rd among the nation’s 292 Division I teams and is almost two runs per game higher than the previous worst in UGA history (6.80 in 1998). Georgia pitchers have walked 261 batters and thrown 80 wild pitches in 433 innings this season.
- When Georgia’s men’s tennis team rallied from a 3-1 deficit to beat Florida State 4-3 Sunday, it marked the Bulldogs’ 17th win in 18 NCAA tournament matches since 2007. The victory puts the Dogs in a round-of-16 match against Florida at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex, which once again will be the center of college tennis this week. The NCAA Championships, men’s and women’s, begin a 12-day run there on Thursday. The Georgia-Florida match is scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday.
- The NCAA softball tournament also is heading to Athens this week, with Georgia -– the No. 6 national seed –- hosting one of the 16 regionals. Other teams in the Athens regional: Florida State, Radford and Elon. Georgia’s opening game in the double-elimination regional is against Elon at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
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Big Play Ray
May 18th, 2010
9:38 am
I agree, Murray looked bad in Spring, saw him perform at G-Day, no accuracy on long throws, couldn’t score, another terrible interception, and he only completed around 40% of his passes. Mason will be the QB this season.
Big Play Ray
May 18th, 2010
9:49 am
Aaron Murray’s High School won a state championship 2 years before he did, and 1 year after he left. The state championship Plant won in 2008, Murray was injured for 7 games and another QB won those games. Plant has sent a lot of guys to college football, it’s a powerhouse, so you don’t really know how good Murray is, like I said, they won before & after Murray & with all the talent on the team, you don’t know if the reaosn they won was Murray, or just talent.
Lassiter went 12-1 & won it’s 1st regional championship in school history with Mason.
DawginLex
May 18th, 2010
10:23 am
Florida is going to win the SEC again?
They didn’t win it last year and they won’t win it this year. They may not even win the east
Joe
May 18th, 2010
10:28 am
Hey Jeff….what happened after the 12-0???????????????????? Joe Cox had the same record in HIGH SCHOOL…….
Joe
May 18th, 2010
10:31 am
Big Play Ray….high school doesnt matter…its just a indication. Trouble with us is we always talk about how great they were in HS….Stafford…cant even win the east…..Cox….nuff said…..David Green- average in hs and look what he did. High school doesnt matter at all…..what they do now does. I dont get all lathered up about what someone did in hs…..they need to prove it when they get here
Dawglasville
May 18th, 2010
10:34 am
St. Richt – Some of the jokes about Richt are funny. The “spray on tan” and the “Helen Hunt look alike” lines were clever. Kudos to the original authors. Why is it cool to joke about the man’s faith?
Big Play Ray
May 18th, 2010
10:49 am
Joe,
If Mark Richt took your lousy advice, he would only offer scholarships to brand new QB’s with no past track record. Yeah, whatever.
Is Mason guaranteed to turn into a superstar? No. But considering Mark Richt’s track record, there’s a really, really, really, really good chance he’ll do well.
I’ll go with the best QB developer in college football’s talent evaluation skills over some Anti-Georgia blogger.
Joe, how many heisman QB’s have you coached so far?
Jimmy
May 18th, 2010
10:50 am
I agree w/ Richt’s opinion on expansion. I hope we never get a super conference. Like Richt says, if you get a 16 team conference you won’t get to play everybody. It would be like two seperate conferences.
If you have two eight team divisions, you would play only one team from the opposite division each year(while playing the other seven teams from your division for a total of eight conference games). Even if you played nine conference games(like the Pac10) you would play only two teams from the opposite division each year. That would take what, almost an entire decade to play each team in your conference at least once??
I know money is driving this expansion, but it totally disgusts me.
I just hope that Notre Dame gets off their high horse and goes to the Big10 so they can have a conference game. The Pac10 gets maybe Boise St and Utah, or BYU and the rest of the conferences remain the same.
St. Richt
May 18th, 2010
10:53 am
Thanks for the complement, St. Richt, but those weren’t my lines- especially the Helen Hunt thing. I also don’t think I’ve talked about spray on tans but that may well have happened. As for his faith, I’m not joking about it but he does throw it everyone’s face all the time. And his track record in punishing players who’ve been arrested, especially relevant players, is not always indicative of his “holier than thou” attitude. Similar to his mentor Bobby Bowden during his prime Criminole years…
Its a little ironic that you’re disturbed by someone joking about Richt’s faith after reading all of the Georgia bloggers comments on Tim Tebow over the years.
St. Richt
May 18th, 2010
10:56 am
Sorry meant to thank Dawglasville for the complement..
Ron Mexico
May 18th, 2010
10:59 am
Remember when football was just a game…
Ron Mexico
May 18th, 2010
11:01 am
And for the record I have never said one bad thing about Tebows faith, his crying though – completely hilarious!
Warren
May 18th, 2010
11:09 am
One thing’s for sure, any QB on the Georgia roster is better than Florida’s QB John Bentley.
ARdawg
May 18th, 2010
11:16 am
Small Johnson
Still, you have a problem with flawed logic. Shockley was the more talented QB as it relates to Greene. He was faster, a better passer and twice the mobility than Greene. Could Shockley have set the SEC records as did Greene? No. Greene had the playbook down, experience and the ability to execute. Shockley did not. Could Shockley had he not sat on the bench for two years? We’ll never know. What we do know is, Shockley couldn’t earn/win the position for 2 years.
If you think Richt or any coach in the SEC doesn’t want the best, most talented players on the field, leading the team and contributing, you sir, are wrong. They all have a method to the madness as to how they determine which players are the best and on any given Saturday the players you see on the field are what they’ve determined are the best for that day. There is no “forced” into anything. More of a matter of inventory and soldiers in battle.
hammerhead
May 18th, 2010
11:33 am
So happy to see the world is loaded with idiots who never stepped foot on a football field yet take time out of their day to crap on a kid who has worked hard and realized the dream of attending UGA on an athletic scholarship. I suspect many of you make up the 10% of the unemployed and likely unemployable portion of our population.
dawgwalker
May 18th, 2010
11:36 am
dawg fans i’m really disapointed reading all this hog wash about our qb’s.boys we havn’t been doing our homework now have we.disrespecting our current qb in(aaron murray) like that. The most decorated qb in elite 11 history(nationally),voted (mvp) meaning best of the best ,(best leader)and that’s after winning nat’l 7 on 7 contest throwing an estimated 1000 balls plus and he also attended regional camp as a soph( water boy) winning the most accurate competition.When aaron started his highschool career iT was as a junior,yes that was his first start, being he was playing behind an all-american in (robert marve) who broke (tim tebow) state touchdown record of 47 with 48 oh but guess who broke that ,yeah you got it, could it be our current qb (aaron murray) yes 51 touchdowns in the state of fla agruebly the toughest highschool competition in the country and to top that off over 900 yards rushing and 12 more touchdowns he accounted for.Won the state the following year after breaking his leg I beleave 4 th game into the season, they said he was out for the year,wrong again ,his love for the game and gut determination put him back on the field and his highschool got their 2nd championship in 3 years.dawgnation this kids a warrior a fighter and a winner and how soon we forget because of a not so great outing on g-day let’s be patient and not jump the gun with this kid,(mason)(lemay)will get there chance when due, but we got some exiting days ahead with this gunslinger.
gdawginkalamazoo
May 18th, 2010
11:57 am
ButlerDawg, my thoughts exactly. Maybe they had Willie finish out his contract by coaching baseball defense.
Alan
May 18th, 2010
12:11 pm
Murray completed 59% in this 3 spring games for Georgia, 2 TD’s and 3 Int’s, pretty bad Spring for someone that’s supposedly real dominant. The accuracy is fine, but the touchdown production is too low, and the intercepotion to passes thrown ratio is way too high. Looks like Murray was good in High School because of the players around him. He’s just not producing as a college player.
dawgwalker
May 18th, 2010
12:29 pm
(Alan)your not jumping the gun are you, maybe just maybe,being aaron hasn’t played in his first game yet.go back to sleep bonehead i’ve got no patience for folks like you, stop watching football (mud wrestling is your new sport) come on man you can do beter than that.
Alan
May 18th, 2010
12:44 pm
Some of you need to wake up. Murray’s had 3 games so far in the Spring, and laid eggs in all 3. If you want to act like throwing an interception each game is normal/acceptable/expected/good enough/meaningless, I disagree. Let me repeat, 3 games, an interception in each game. 3 games, about 60 passes, 3 interceptions. I guess if you’re a big Joe Cox fan, you like those numbers, I’m tired of QB’s throwing an interception every 20 passes. Either Richt can’t fix the interception problem, or we need a new QB. I’m hoping a new QB will fix it, if not, it’s Joe Cox again in a new jersey.
dawgwalker
May 18th, 2010
1:13 pm
Allan—ok after joe cox I can understand you being upset.He made some bad decisions for a 5th year senior,but your talking about a red shirt freshman big difference in age and talent.wake up and be open minded this kid (murray) is the real deal.
Alan
May 18th, 2010
1:32 pm
What about that makes you think 3 int’s and 2 td’s over 3 games over the last few weeks makes someone “the real deal”? I’m not impressed with that kind of “talent”. No, Murray has NOT shown Georgia fans anything so far to indicate he’s even CLOSE ot being “the real deal”. I don’t care about red shirt whatever. Let the best guy play, age and “potential” is irrelvant, Gray, Mason, a walk on, whoever get sit done.
Alan
May 18th, 2010
1:45 pm
If Murray panics when blitzed like he did on G-Day and throws picks, defenses will bring it on him like a rolling thunder. The only way to stop defenses from blitzing you is to burn them when they do it. Until then, they’ll keep bringing the heat. Murray’s going to get the heat from South Carolina and Arkansas because he showed he’s not comfortable when you blitz him and he has poor decision making when you get to him. That’s the kind of stuff D Coaches game plan around, “where can we sniff out some turnovers? who’s interception prone? who’s fumble prone?” Murray is going to get the mother lode of all blitz stunts against South Carolina, and just like G-Day, he’ll panic and try to be a hero, and hit the wrong team right in the numbers with picks.
dawgwalker
May 18th, 2010
1:50 pm
it’s called practice,practice ,practice practice thats where you can make mistakes and learn from them,thats why you call it practice,practice makes perfect have you ever heard of that.(cmr) I assume had confidence in cox not to make those bad decision he did as a 5th year senior,but he was wrong,(joe)might have been hurting a little bit though, hell one excuss better than none,I felt all along (murray) would have been the better way to go based on his talent alone.thinking it would have made up for his lack of expericence.
Alan
May 18th, 2010
1:58 pm
Murray’s already had a year of practice. And he still averaged a pick every game this Spring. He needs more time on the bench. Not practice. Then he’ll stop throwing interceptions. You don’t reward interceptions with more playing time. Georgia tried that with Cox, didn’t work. Sit his butt on the bench and give his spot to somebody who doesn’t throw to the wrong team, and he’ll get the message.
Alan
May 18th, 2010
2:01 pm
Practice didn’t work for Joe Cox, Cox had lots of practice. Sometimes, the QB just isn’t a good decision maker when it comes to picks. Practicing, the way Georgia teaches players, hasn’t helped stop peanalties, fumbles or interceptions. You have to EXECUTE in the game, or sit the pine. Since this staff cannot correct mistakes with their teaching style, you have to switch QB’s.
dawgwalker
May 18th, 2010
2:12 pm
(Alan) your new name is bonehead no I mean hardhead, just kidding we’ll be just fine with (murray) now when he leads us to that nat’l championship are you going to be pulling for him,oh no that’s right you can’t,you was that dude that said he should be riding the pine.ole saying, lead horse to water but can’t make it drink.(enjoy your new sport mud wrestling)cause you can’t be pulling for the dawgs nat’l championship is in the near future.. .
1eyedJack
May 18th, 2010
2:39 pm
Why is Aaron Murray considered injury prone, because he had a broken leg? Then most every college football player should be considered injury prone.
pcsjax1
May 18th, 2010
11:35 pm
Let me see if I have it straight? 1. Mettenberg was dismissed. 2. A. Murray was given the number one spot. 3. Logan Gray is all but “alienated”. 4. Three star recruit Hutson “I’m a Dawg Baby” Mason is the backup QB behind injury prone Murray. WOW! Another great situation to be in courtesy of “Middle of the Pack” Mark Richt.