Quarterbacks: Dogs need a solid (and injury-free) season from Aaron Murray
(Fifth in a summertime series looking at Georgia’s football team by position.)
TODAY: QUARTERBACKS
- Returning starter: Nope.
- Depth chart: Redshirt freshman Aaron Murray is No. 1, would-be wide receiver Logan Gray No. 2 and true freshman Hutson Mason No. 3.
- Attrition: Joe Cox (24 touchdown passes and 15 interceptions as last season’s starter) graduated, and redshirt freshman Zach Mettenberger was dismissed from the team.
- Key fact: The three scholarship quarterbacks on the roster have thrown a total of 12 collegiate passes (all by Gray, a junior).
- Key fact II: Murray was rated the No. 3 quarterback prospect in the nation coming out of high school and was named MVP of the prestigious Elite 11 quarterbacks camp.
- Key questions: How smoothly will Murray make the transition to No. 1 QB? Will he be able to heed his coach’s don’t-try-to-be-a-hero refrain and protect the football as Georgia tries to dramatically reduce last season’s turnovers (28)? And after being sidelined from throwing in practice for four weeks last season because of triceps and forearm tendinitis, will he be able to stay healthy? (As for the latter, Murray has said he’s more focused on “shoulder maintenance” this year to keep the arm strong and fresh.)
- Recent developments: It was no surprise that Murray emerged from a three-way competition in spring practice as the No. 1 quarterback, but his grip on the job was unexpectedly tightened by two post-spring developments. First, Mettenberger was kicked off the team shortly before pleading guilty to misdemeanor sexual battery. Next, Gray considered transferring before electing to remain with the Dogs and divide his time between quarterback and wide receiver. (It remains unclear, even to the coaches, exactly how that QB/WR juggling act is going to play out.)
- Outlook: Murray is a smart, hard-working and very talented player for whom Georgia won a recruiting battle against Florida and many other schools. He passed for 4,013 yards and 51 touchdowns as a junior at Tampa’s Plant High School and returned early from a broken fibula and dislocated ankle to guide the team to a state championship as a senior. So his credentials are strong. The only thing is, he’ll be a (redshirt) freshman starting at quarterback in the SEC, no easy task. The key to his season –- and perhaps Georgia’s — is whether he can minimize mistakes while growing into the job. With returning starters at all other positions on offense, Georgia needs Murray to be solid, not necessarily spectacular.
- Your turn: What say you about the quarterbacks?
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361 comments Add your comment
chazzo
June 19th, 2010
11:04 am
Hmm,
Sounds about right… I will throw in an upset and make them a 10 winner. It is not a crip schedule but much easier than the past couple. It has a good range of games with enough challenges early so as not to get everyone complacent (see UF last season). One thing I am convince of is that everybody wants to win. To hear some talk, you’d think that the losses were planned. I think the big disconnect comes when it stops being fun. I mean that is why I am watching a bunch of kids play football… because it is fun… because I like seeing people overcome adversity, achieve goals and dreams. Sooner or later it comes together and gels. Sooner or later it just doesn’t work. It is a cycle. I appreciate your cautious and level headed prediction. 8 to 10 wins… I won’t be surprised either way. I just hope all these guys play to full potential, stay healthy, and succeed.
Yes
June 19th, 2010
11:05 am
Shreveport = Athens West
chazzo
June 19th, 2010
11:08 am
Let Mett go, folks. In my humble opinion, Richt and co. knew they were letting the kid go and gave him the opportunity to showcase in the spring game. One hell of an arm, that kid but passing to tight ends a couple of times over second string 5′10″ corners doesn’t exactly convince me that he was the be all, end all starter for the fall.
Delbert D.
June 19th, 2010
11:09 am
“I bet you have sold a lot those lunch boxes, huh?”
He’s obviously pitching his wares to the grade-schoolers. I think a lot of posters on all of these sports blogs are grade-schoolers.
atlxmen
June 19th, 2010
11:12 am
i like the more balanced attack. play action passing off the running game is ideal. about 55/45 running and passing would be nice. of course if they cant stop the run like tech couldnt then run all day.
Delbert D.
June 19th, 2010
11:19 am
Murray is taller than any of the tailbacks He outweighs Ealey, too.
SickandTired
June 19th, 2010
11:43 am
Murray will be fine in a couple of years. The learning process will be hard. Bobo will probably get fired to take the heat off Marky Mark Mark. The next season will bring controversy because of the recruiting violations involved in this “Dream Team”….and then Mark Richt will be fired. Only after throwing his best friend overboard, and firing Mike Bobo who has really and truly having to just run Mark Richts early 1990’s offense he had at Florida State and people like Nick Saban figured it out a long, long time ago.
Georgia: The Wisconsin of the SEC
Georgia deserves better
Pat
June 19th, 2010
11:48 am
I agree with the 1st post. FIND SOMETHING TO WRITE ABOUT!
chazzo
June 19th, 2010
12:56 pm
Why will the learning process be so hard? Murray has been working on the playbook and practicing it for over a year. He knows it. Okay there is going to be a big crowd, experienced backs, and the game is fast. Great players thrive on these things. Great players love the pressure. I understand beng realistic about expectations and the learning curve, but I also understand that the negativity of some Dawg fans feeds mediocrity as much as the hype.
UGA75
June 19th, 2010
1:36 pm
Tech Fans . . . until you actually win one of your bowl games, I wouldn’t make fun of UGA winning in Shreveport. How long has it been since a win in a bowl for you techies? Not even a win with the great PJ!!!! Losers!
CLEVON LITTLE
June 19th, 2010
3:40 pm
atl xmen, I guess we’ll tend to disagree –and that’s OK. You know what’s said about opinions….. I do agree that Stafford played well his true-frosh season –that’s though for anyone changing from HS to the SEC …the problem I had is he never truly progressed… Joe Cox threw 10 times more long balls than Stafford, and I mean CONNECTED on 10 times more, and lets not forget that Cox isn’t mentioned as being in the same talent zip-code as Stafford, so why the huge difference?? And as for Moreno pulling himself out of games, I believe that should be a call for the coaching staff –Not the players. If they are afraid of getting hurt then they should sit on the sideline until the April draft. Just my opinion.
harold
June 19th, 2010
4:10 pm
GEORGIA ALWAYS TALKS THE TALK ( DREAM TEAM etc.)! THEY JUST CAN’T WALK THE WALK.
POAD
June 19th, 2010
4:20 pm
UGA’s Dream Team is a great concept. The problem is the SEC East is the Dawgs nightmare and the Ga. Dome is Never Never Land. The best thing that the dawgs could do this year is to win the SEC East and The SEC Title in 2010. Next Year “11″ all the dawg Fans will think the sky is the limit, but will lose too many O-linemen and a few Key O Weapons to have their hopes dashed again. UGA has such an easy schedule in 10 that it is funny Richt and Bobo don’t a Starting QB with any game experience.
Tuck Fech
June 19th, 2010
5:25 pm
“F” harold…. GO DAWGS!
chazzo
June 19th, 2010
5:55 pm
POAD,
Everything comes full circle. Bank on it.
AltamahaDawg
June 19th, 2010
6:35 pm
chazzo, you are dead on. I doubt anmybody else will pick up oin that comment about Mett. But I had said that pretty soon after the game. I heard (from the know somebody who knows somebody grapevine) that he was probably gone about 2 days after the bar story broke. And now its absolutely certain that the coaching staff knew it. He had to physically go out there and do it, but I sure as heck know the defense was scripted.
Stuaer Brenner
June 19th, 2010
6:46 pm
Carrer GA HS Passing Records:
5029 David Green
5167 Mike Bobo
5214 Buck Belue
8265 Hutson Mason…
Hmmm…who knows what the furtue may bring…Hutson Is the real deal!
Pitbull
June 19th, 2010
10:45 pm
Saying that passing the ball is the key with Murray is BS. If we can run the ball. Run it. Running tires the other team out. Once they are tired out. The game is basically over. Vince won many a game in the 4th quarter. The other team would just be too tired to stop us and we scored late and won many a game the way. But you have to have faith. Play good defense. Keep the score close. Then go for the killing TD with a mean bunch of offensive lineman. Yes, that have to tuff as hell. As Dooley said of his Nat. champ. line. “I’d go to war with these guys any day”. Thats the coaches job to make them tuff and recruit them tuff.
RED DOG 77
June 19th, 2010
11:58 pm
ga dawgluver…6/19..3:07am……….Yup………yer right my friend !…….I stand corrected………. Ok………get the picture, DOGS up 17-10…….4min. to go in the fourth quarter…….and South Carolina is driving……and I mean driiiiiving !!!!……….Garcia back to pass, sees his man on our 22yd line………theres the pass, its on a rope !……whats that flash ? Rambo at the 26…….folks Rambo has intercepted……….Rambo to the 35 Rambo to the 45 Rambo 50…….45……..30……15…………Rambo !! Rambo !! Rambo !! Touchdown DOGS !!! GEORGIA 24 South Carolina 10…………..Thanks ga dawgluver !! Thanks Bacarri Rambo !!!!!!!……….Thanks coach Grantham…..Belin……..Lakatos !!!!!
Stevo
June 20th, 2010
12:43 am
Anyone else expecting us to use Gray possibly for a screen pass? possibly against Florida, or in a game where we need a big play in a hurry? Just get Gray the ball like a screen and then have someone else going deep, and boom. Possibly?
BuLLdawg
June 20th, 2010
3:07 am
Attrition : 2001 QB thrown in unprepared 4 loss, 2006 QB thrown in unprepared 4 loss, 2009 QB thrown in unprepared 5 loss, 2009 QB thrown in most concede 3 loss. Gone is Joe Cox, Logan Gray has moved to wide receiver now in his 4th year on campus, Hutson Mason benefited in high school from a pass-happy offense, Zach Mettenberger (Bobo recruit) has been kicked off the team for multiple counts sexual battery with all the other charges not even pursued when he should have played in the Oklahoma State game last year, and now the recruit at QB for next season (Bobo recruit) has had his hearing in Charlotte where he committed the exact same crime as did Michael Grant who the UGA Admissions out-of-hand refused to allow him into UGA prompting Coach Richt to get into it with Admissions over Michael Grant. We play favorites on Offense and 2010 and 2011 show we have not signed the Top Players in-state on Offense. Why is this ? We try to rehabilitate the wayward here if they can play football, as Mike Bobo recruited Zach Mettenberger, Montez Robinson and Christian LeMay, the last 3 to run afoul of UGA Admissions Standards. Aaron Murray threw the fewest TD passes and the most Interceptions in ALL 3 SCRIMMAGES. We also had Five (5) Fumbles in the G-Day Game.
Key Fact : All the QB on the roster have combined for a grand total of 5 completions, 2 interceptions, 0 TD passes.
Key Fact II : Aaron Murray is 5’ 11” and 198 lbs leading to 3 injuries in last 2 years, and has never taken a snap under center at any level of football with talk of him scrambling with his 4.7 speed in the 40-yard dash slower than SEC defensive linemen. There is no back-up All last year, after his broken fibula and dislocated ankle, tackled from behind by a high school defensive lineman, he missed 21 Fall Practices because the coaching staff allowed him to throw his throwing arm out, which is a lingering injury much like that to the knee of Caleb King, which he has never recovered from.
Key Questions : Last season’s turnovers ? Over the last 4 years in a row now, our Average Number of Interceptions is 14 per season 4 years in a row, our Average Number of Fumbles stands at 21 per season as well over the last 4 years in a row, and we Average NCAA Number 96 in Penalties. We don’t practice plays so that we can line up and run them without penalty and when there is no penalty called, they were committed, yet we either throw an interception or fumble. With Coach Richt admitting that the Offense is broken, he has stepped in to make all the decisions on the plays called, who is where on the depth chart on offense, and to sit in on all discussions with the Quarterbacks to “see what is being told to them in every meeting.” That, my friends, is taking over the Offense because Coach Richt says that Mike Bobo is NOT doing the job, and Coach Richt has in public criticized the recruiting on Offense of Mike Bobo’s failed offense. Last year, it was said Joe Cox was GREAT. We had the # 75 NCAA Total Offense and the NCAA # 80 in Passing Offense.
BuLLdawg
June 20th, 2010
3:08 am
Outlook : 3 losses vs SEC teams means no SEC Championship Game appearance for the 5th year in a row for my beloved Bulldogs. That is then 13 games in a 14-game season. On top of that, it is much-ballyhooed around here that this is (1) what is expected this season and (2) a 10-win season in a 14-game season. We already are the # 19 team in the nation in Won / Loss record over the entire last 4 years at 38-14, and 10-3 this season (or many think 9-4) is once again the # 19 team in the nation. It has been discussed multiple times in this blog that Phil Steele said we should be able to run the table; Phil Steele has us ranked # 19 this up-coming 2010 season, after which we lose 15 Seniors and 4 or 5 Juniors – all Starters. This season, then, is Our Season – not 2011 when all these players are gone. You cannot do a thing in college football when you lose nearly every Starter, which is exactly what we face AFTER THIS SEASON. As for the returning starters on Offense, much has been made about them as well – yet, no one considers they in fact are the # 96 most penalized, have averaged 21 fumbles per year, have averaged 14 interceptions per year and just last year were the # 75 Total Offense. On Defense we are going to be good because last year’s Starters are GONE. On Offense, we are going to be good because last year’s Starters are BACK ? One need look no further than at Caleb King, who came on Campus in 2007 and because of his injury which still requires surgery not performed to fix he ran 0 yards in all 13 games. 2008 Caleb King had 5 of the 13 games where he ran the football for -0- or -1- yard total; in addition in 2008 Caleb King rushed 4 more games for 5 yards, 7 yards, 12 yards and 18 yards. In 2009, he was promoted to Starter and ran the football in 13 games -0- yards 3 more games, 7 yards 1 game, 14 yards 1 game and 19 yards 1 game. Of the 39 games since Caleb King was recruited as the # 1 football player in the state of Georgia, he has had 22 – more than half where he was unable to perform more than 1 yard rushing. This season, he schooled the recruit from Decatur at Running Back that it is a grind being a running back at UGA, and Caleb King is the Prima Donna example of the Strength and Conditioning of this team with a paltry showing of 225 lbs reps.
Crucial Season for Coach Richt, not yet on the hot seat and he stood pat on his Failed Offensive Coaching Staff, exemplified none worse than what they have failed to do in recruiting on Offense in this State last year 2010 and next year 2011.
Urban Meyer
June 20th, 2010
5:51 am
“I understand beng realistic about expectations and the learning curve, but I also understand that the negativity of some Dawg fans feeds mediocrity as much as the hype.”
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”
Georgia Fan
Disturbed Dawg
June 20th, 2010
8:16 am
Murray will be average at best. He was good at Plant High because he was playing with a good college team against high school competition. His back up was actually better, but they brought him back because he was a senior. Not to mention he is injury prone. Could be a long season…just sayin.
chazzo
June 20th, 2010
8:29 am
Hey Urban,
The reality is the Dawgs could win the East. The reality is the Gators also have a new QB and a new D coordinator. The difference is that Richt is calm cool, and collected, and Urban is calling it quits over a big tummy ache. Get off our block, loser.
chazzo
June 20th, 2010
8:34 am
Hey Urban,
The reality is that the Gators play schedule almost as tough as Dawgs last two. The reality is that the Gators play LSU and Bama back to back. Better get your Valium and Zantac, coach.
chazzo
June 20th, 2010
8:49 am
Murray was the number 2 or 3 QB recruit in the nation. I am sure this has little to do with how he will perform his first year in the SEC. I am sure, also, that it means that he didn’t spend his life dreaming of mediocrity. I don’t think this kid ever sat around thinking, “I hope I grow up to be a QB that just doesn’t lose.” None of us know how well the Dawgs will do. I do know that these kids want to win it all and they will give it their best. I do know all of us fans want to see these young men succeed on the field and off. So screw the stats and the history and definitely that pre-season poll crap. That’s all to sell magazines so we have something to do while we pinch a loaf. How is that for reality, Urban, you putz. Say a little prayer to St. Chris today as you travel out of our neighborhood.
Henry
June 20th, 2010
9:13 am
He will fail and fail miserably and the toiletlapper nation will then finally turn on St. Mark and kick him out of that hellhole known as athens.
One, two, free, fo, fi, them der Gator don't take no jive!
June 20th, 2010
10:36 am
Here’s hoping the young man has a good year and stays injury free. If not, then UGA will really struggle this year. I’d like to see UGA get things turned around and start challening for the East again. Makes the rivalry alot more fun!
Happy Father’s Day to all and we’ll see ya in Jax!
secsecsec
June 20th, 2010
10:50 am
BuLLdawg, we’ll never understand your obsession with Caleb King, but surely YOU understand you can’t blame a kid for getting redshirted, right? So when you count 39 games against him, you realize he was redshirted the first season? And that he missed 3 because of injury? And if he only gets the ball once, that’s not his decision, either?
You understand all that, right? Because it sure seems like you don’t.
you are obsessed with that young man and will cling to the games in 2008 where he was only given the ball once instead of looking at his success against Auburn or Georgia Tech or Arkansas.
That kid has worked hard, has played with an injury. When he had his jaw broken against LSU, no one is really sure when it happened because he didn’t let it show – he wasn’t flat on the field, he didn’t pull himself out of the game.
I am thinking you call him a “prima donna” becuase he won’t call you back. Get over the kid already.
secsecsec
June 20th, 2010
10:53 am
AND it’s funny to me that BuLLdawg [sic] will take a blog about Aaron Murray and make it about Caleb King, yet again.
what do you want people to do? run him out of town? boo at him for you? you should just write a manifesto about what you think about caleb king and what YOU want done with him and then post a link so folks can find it anytime of the day.
Or go to an autograph day and say it to Caleb’s face so you can get it out of your system and give us all a freaking break.
secsecsec
June 20th, 2010
11:02 am
just wanted to ADD – I checked, and for Kentucky and Auburn, King had a better ypc average than Ealey. For Georgia Tech you’ll recall they were listed as both of them having 9.2 ypc but in reality Ealey’s was 9.15 and Caleb’s was 9.22. Did you realize that, or are you still just going to focus on 2008?
chazzo
June 20th, 2010
11:02 am
secsecsec,
Amen.
Stuaer Brenner
June 20th, 2010
11:36 am
Georgia High School Passing Stats….How good can he be! Maybe Great! Gee…wonder if this kid is coachable….watched him at Lassietr 3 years…..he is the real deal…who knows he may be starting before the year is out! Numbers Talk….he fits the Richt QB Mold!
Hutson Mason 8265 yds 2007-2009
Buck Belue 5214 yds 1974-1977
Mike Bobo 5167 yds 1989-1992
David Greene 5029 yds 1997-1999
Source http://ghsfha.org/records.php?gRecID=14
Delbert D.
June 20th, 2010
11:49 am
Shows how dumb the scouting services (and college coaches) are. Mason’s best offers prior to the 2009 playoffs were Indiana, UAB, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan. That’s from today’s Marietta Daily Journal.
ugaclassof2004
June 20th, 2010
12:05 pm
I think everyone is reading WAY too much into the spring game. I mean Carlton Thomas and Justin Houston were great in the spring game last year, and neither did much during the year. A spring game is a glorified practice, that’s all it is!
Also, I don’t share the opinion that many Dawg fans have about Mettenberger based on ONE spring game. He has good size and a great arm, but he’s slow and un-athletic in the pocket which doesn’t bode well for him with the speed of the SEC. And after talking with many of his classmates from Oconee County, most of whom think he’s a monster jerk; I had major concerns about his maturity level which eventually revealed itself to be in Valdosta. Even if Mettenberger won the starting job, I could see him getting in trouble during the season and getting kicked off the team. If he’s going to act like an idiot, it’s better to cut him lose in the off-season.
Finally, I have seen all I have wanted to see from Logan Gray, especially after that awful pick 6 he threw vs. Florida. He has terrible mechanics, and is a hybrid athlete. Not to mention he’s a Toolbag Whigger! If Murray goes down and Gray has to take over this team, UGA could go 6-6.No joke.
PowerDawg
June 20th, 2010
12:15 pm
ANY Dawg fan who is not behind this kid 110 % needs to find another school to support and another team to buy game tickets for. I am SURE that the NATS, GSU, or Ga Southern would love to sell you a season package.
I am sick of hearing about how him being a RS frosh with no experience. I am sicker of the “injury prone” bull$hit. I am most sick about the concerns about his height.
First, you bunch of jelly-spined hand-wringers seem to forget we’ve been down this road before and come out smelling pretty dang nice. David Green, anyone?
Second, we have gone into the season with an untested QB before. Mixed results emerged, I admit. But this is definitely not the primary concern and it shouldn’t be.
Lastly, I don’t have the exact numbers, but there have been a bunch of VERY successful QB’s who were in the 6′0″ to 6′1″ range. DJS and EZ come to mind. The kid from Mizzou and the 5″10″ dude from Kansas? How about the Super Bowl MVP?
Relax people. Murray is for real and he will prove it. He just needs a little game time to evolve.
Davis
June 20th, 2010
12:22 pm
From what I saw at G-Day, Murray was ranked so high because he was on a great team, with great athletes. In other words, OVER-RATED. Plant High on the State Championship the year before he QB’d & the year after he left. Look slike Tampa won for other reasons besides Murray. Even the year Murray QB’s in the State Championship, another QB started 7 games that year for Plant, because Murray was hurt again. So Murray has never led a tam to a championship.
Win
June 20th, 2010
12:43 pm
How does Murray learn to adjust to his new role where he’s not the playmaker, but the distributor to the playmakers? UGA already has 7 BIG-TIME proven playmakers with AJ, Washauan, Orson, Aaron, Tavarres, Branden, & Rontavius.
Murray will have his chance to be the playmaker in 2-3 years, 2010 is not about HIM. UGA’s QB can NOT be the playmaker in 2010–just too inexperienced and too many other weapons. We’ll see how big his ego is, some guys can’t adjust to being a secondary player. I’d prefer Logan Gray in this role, Gray is all about TEAM. Just think Murray will try to do it all by himself.
McElroy adjusted, and played a mild secondary role, and won a National Championship. But McElroy’s a very unselfish player. He basically just distributed the ball to his 2 RB’s and Julio.
Even Michael Jordan couldn’t win a championship until he started trusting his teammates to make plays.
Do we have a Dan Marino here or a Terry Bradshaw?
trey
June 20th, 2010
12:55 pm
We’ll know what Murray is made of after the SC game.
Dunn
June 20th, 2010
1:10 pm
We’ll know what kind of QB Hutson Mason is after the SC game, if he blows it, then let Murray have a shot. Mason will win the job. Not even close.
Win
June 20th, 2010
1:17 pm
Can Murray be content to move from “Playmaker” at Plant High to “RolePlayer” at UGA? I doubt it.
On G-Day, Ealey or AJ or Charles didn’t make a big play. All you saw was Murray trying to show off his “big arm” slinging it 50 yards down the field, 10 yards past AJ.
Then you saw Murray trying to show his mobility, by not taking a sack, and throwing an INT when pressured.
This looks more like a “ME” player than a “TEAM” player.
Davis
June 20th, 2010
1:21 pm
Logan Gray looked solid on G-Day the last 2 seasons. Nothing spectacular, but good accuracy, good production with td’s, and good ball protection. That’s all we need in 2010. Love to see Gray get a shot in the Arkansas or South Carolina game for a few drives at QB.
Tuck Fech
June 20th, 2010
1:53 pm
Murray is Top DAWG…Deal with it!
GO DAWGS!
Davis
June 20th, 2010
2:22 pm
Richt has made clear that Murray was NOT named the starter, only #1 on the depth chart, after Spring. That’s it. Mason will be competing for the job over the summer.
PowerDawg
June 20th, 2010
3:35 pm
Dunn-
You should call yourself ” Under Dunn”… Do you you even know what day it is?
Hutson Mason is THIRD on the depth chart. Aaron Murray is # 1.
“If he (Mason) blows it, then give Murray a shot”?????? WTF?
We will know by October whether or not AM can manage the offensive game plans he will be given.
Personally, I think he will do well.
Greene became the unquestioned leader of this team against Tennessee in the Hobnail Boot game…October, 2001 as a RS freshman. And the level of talent around him that year was no where near what Murray will have to work with.
Have a little faith, dude.
PowerDawg
June 20th, 2010
3:46 pm
All Mason is going to do over the summer is try to learn the first 1/3 of the play book and throw to recievers in 7-on-7 drills. All this while adjusting to life as a freshman on campus and carrying 13-15 credits minimum.
He’ll get a shot in fall camp but he won’t have enough knowledge of the offense to do anything but signal in plays from the sideline this year.
Hopefully we can play well enough in some games to get him some 4th quarter snaps, but that is about all he can expect.
AltamahaDawg
June 20th, 2010
3:59 pm
We should indeed know exactly how Mason looks by the end of the SC game. The back up usually get plenty of TV time standing next to the coach.
Dunn
June 20th, 2010
5:55 pm
Mason is the next Tom Brady. He’s got the “IT” factor. Watched Murray on G-Day, he ain’t got the “BENCHWARMER” factor. Murray wll be an adequate backup, but he just isn’t starter material, neither was Joe Cox, do I need to remind you of Murray’s Spring statistics? Don’t want to make anyone here look plain dumb, but please, stop the “murray is great” mantra, or I’ll break out his Spring stats for the world to see.
Dunn
June 20th, 2010
5:58 pm
If the QB competition is over, Richt needs to change what he’s been saying so Mason can go play for another team. Mason was told it was wide open this summer. i guess if it’s already decided that Murray will start, Mason should transfer, eh?