Young UGA QB surrounded by experience on offense
Georgia’s starting quarterback has never played in a college game, but the extensive experience around him has Mark Richt notably enthused about the Bulldogs’ offense.
“I’d much rather have that kind of maturity around a young quarterback than a very veteran quarterback surrounded by a bunch of puppies,” Richt told the Greater Atlanta Bulldog Club this week.
Particularly comforting to Richt is the experience on the offensive line, where senior Chris Davis has 37 career collegiate starts, senior Clint Boling 36, junior Ben Jones 23, junior Cordy Glenn 22 and senior Josh Davis 9. That’s a combined 127 starts.
Boling, Jones and Glenn have started since their true freshman seasons and Chris Davis since his redshirt freshman season.
“They played before they should have had to play,” Richt said, “but now they’re mature. They’re so much more ready for these games. They’re bigger; they’re stronger; they’re wiser. They have the confidence to know they can play in any SEC venue and have success. When you’re breaking in a young quarterback, that’s very important.”
Richt also feels good about the experience elsewhere on offense.
He has a senior tandem at fullback in starter Shaun Chapas and backup Fred Munzenmaier. “I can’t think of a better fullback combination in the country,” Richt said.
The tailback tandem is less experienced -– sophomore Washaun Ealey (two starts) and junior Caleb King (five starts) –- but Richt expects them to build on their confidence-inspiring successes of late last season.
“Washaun Ealey a year ago was kind of a chubby kid and didn’t really know what to do; he wasn’t in great condition,” Richt said. “But now he’s in tremendous condition and knows what to do. And we got Caleb King starting the season healthy, and he’s going to make a difference.”
Richt also expressed optimism about the mix of talent and experience at wide receiver, led by junior A.J. Green, and tight end.
Someone else should be comforted by all of this experience: Aaron Murray, the redshirt freshman quarterback who will be playing in his first college game on Sept. 4.
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jacketbrave
July 28th, 2010
6:04 pm
hurricane 33-17, i remember the year before that. how sweet that bitch was to!
Paul Has A Small Johnson
July 28th, 2010
6:06 pm
CH Dawg
And you think Bobo and Richt will do what you say? I doubt it. Though I totally agree with you on all points
So be prepared for the conservative play calling you saw with Joe T in the FL game, Joe Cox in the OK ST game, and when Stafford was an inexperienced freshman
And watch and see if we dont lose to either SC or Arkansas or both
You cant teach an old dawg new tricks
Richt has shown that he is stubborn, i.e Willie Martinez, short kickofffs for years, not wanting to play freshman that can play, conservative play calling against FL and the list goes on
jacketbrave
July 28th, 2010
6:07 pm
HECK YEAH! I WEAR RED PANTIES!! THE ONES WITH THE BIG UGA SYMBOL! CRAP IN THEM TOO!
ryan
July 28th, 2010
6:16 pm
Jacketbrave we beat your a## every year so at least UGA is not yellow.
Paul Has A Small Johnson
July 28th, 2010
6:17 pm
jacketbrave
Shut up and go fry some fish
I will loan you some red panties from my hot girl friend, something you booger picking nerds have never seen before.
Oh and how about putting your Sanitation Degree to good use and pick up the garbarge around your high crime infested campus neighborhood.
If you do a good job we’ll let you back on ours again this year to pick up our trash after the home games.
“”"”30-24″”"
Gratefuldawghead
July 28th, 2010
6:22 pm
GO DAWGS!!!!!
Win P.
July 28th, 2010
6:25 pm
Bloggers (Fans?) continue to be skeptical about UGA’s up comming season and with good reason. Two seasons back, UGA was preseason # 1, Richt had promoted himself to CEO, and delegated Offensive & Defensive responsibilites, which for the most part was a disappointment in results. Not only has UGA been unable to produced the unexpected, they have not produced the expected. There has been the annual destruction in Jacksonsville, the total destruction in Athens by Al., the embrassing loses to Tech & Kentucky in Athens. Usually UGA would give a good accounting for themselves even when they lost. In the last 2 yrs they appeared to be unfocused, unprepared, prone to injuries,(conditioning maybe)and behavorial problems. Richt is the best coach UGA has ever had. but his success maybe his downfall. He showed us what a good teams could do and then showed us what bad teams cannot do. He refused to acknowledge or address problems, especially on defense and special teams. Problems that most fans with all their limitations could detect. He is a fine person, he is a smart coach & he can win the big ones, but he may have a higher calling. This season will be interesting.
longdog
July 28th, 2010
6:49 pm
gt you said you had a peice of our hedge on your desks that’s great because I got a whole set of your stands and you idiots haven’t even missed or needed them
ryan
July 28th, 2010
6:50 pm
Win p we beat Tech last year Kentucky had real good team oh yea and we beat Auburn and Texas A&M to finnish out the season last year so get the facts right.
Why can't UGA win?
July 28th, 2010
6:59 pm
{{{RED PANTIES}}}
{{{NCAA INVESTIGATION}}}}
Enjoy your season Dawg Fans.
kevin
July 28th, 2010
7:10 pm
Why Can’t UGA win?,
Who cares about red panties and what happens off the field.
NCAA wants to talk to one player, has investigated other schools recently, found nothing and will find nothing with us. And, we will enjoy our season…Make sure you enjoy losing 9 out of 10 this year and watching the most boring offense in college football.
ryan
July 28th, 2010
7:12 pm
Red panties is all you Tech fans can talk about well at least UGA didn’t get beat by a bunch a of white guys from Iowa thats more embarrassing than Evans have girl in his car .
kevin
July 28th, 2010
7:20 pm
Nice point Ryan. Speaking of being beat in bowls. GT fans love to write “shreveport” all over these blogs. Might want to take a look at some of the bowls you’ve been in lately, sans last year. Also, your record in those games is nearly as bad as your record vs. UGA the last 9 years (2-6). By the way, GT if 0-5 in their last 5 bowl games. If that does not scream “program on the rise”, I don’t know what does.
GT bowl game history since 2002.
2009 Orange Iowa L 14-24
2008 Chick-fil-A Louisiana State L 3-38
2007 Humanitarian Fresno State L 28-40
2006 Gator West Virginia L 35-38
2005 Emerald Utah L 10-38
2004 Champs Sports Syracuse W 51-14
2003 Humanitarian Tulsa W 52-10
2002 Silicon Valley Fresno State L 21-30
Still@theBAR
July 28th, 2010
7:35 pm
HAHAHAH
SOAD
July 28th, 2010
7:57 pm
Can’t see the midget getting it done. No sir. I jest don’t see it. Dawgs got a good O-line but everywhere elese they are average at best. One great wr and that’s pretty much it. Oh, good punter too. That’ll score ya lots of tds.
kevin
July 28th, 2010
8:01 pm
SOAD,
Don’t forget the best place kicker in the country, a killer running game and revamped (and by all accounts, very well revamped) defense. And by the way, Murray “the midget”, is 1 inch shorter than the NFL QB who has passed for the most yards in the league 2 years in a row, was the 3rd ranked QB recruit in the country and won the MVP of the elite QB camp. You have no idea what you are talking about.
college is forever
July 28th, 2010
8:10 pm
http://www.collegelunchboxes.com Murray will have a much better line then Stafford did at this same stage of their college playing days. This will be a very eye opening season not only for us Dawg fans but for the whole SEC. The sound that they will hear will be the sound of the Bulldog Express roaring into thr station. Don’t forget your granddaughter’s birthday get her a UGA classic tin lunchbox so she has a place to keep her hair ribbons and still support her favorite school. Bring them up right. Available online and at Kroger. Go Dawgs!!!
ryan
July 28th, 2010
8:20 pm
Don’t forget Murray maybe small but he is mobile and fast Terrell Pryor is not a big QB and you saw how well he did last year one the Rose Bowl.
kevin
July 28th, 2010
8:20 pm
college is forever,
like your enthusiasm and could not agree more. If Grantham’s defense is all it’s cracked up to be, should be a great year.
bobo is still the coordinator
July 28th, 2010
8:28 pm
Does it really matter how good Murray is? He is still a freshman and he is still going to be under coached….
ryan
July 28th, 2010
8:34 pm
I had enough of all sophomoric name calling i am ready for the season start we can all agree about that .
edumacated
July 28th, 2010
9:23 pm
I love it when Tech fans spout how great their school is when we remind them that their football team sucks. A-holes…..it’s an engineering school. Big freaking whoop. Unless you haven’t noticed, every civilized country in the world is kicking the USA’s butts in YOUR chosen field. You need to shape up.
jacketbrave
July 28th, 2010
9:23 pm
paul has a small johnson, are you sure you have a hot girlfriend? i bet its a BOYFRIEND considering your more worried about how big someones dick is than anything else. im sure your UGAly ass cant come up with a better comeback than that anyways. And ryan, try not to come up with something A FIFTH GRADER would say. OH THATS RIGHT, YOU BOTH HAVE THE EQUAL EDUCATION. SEE YOU I ATHENS ” MAKE SURE YOU GET YALLS PERMISSION SLIP SIGNED BY YO DADDY BUZZ”
jacketbrave
July 28th, 2010
9:26 pm
AND WHO TF IS WORRIED ABOUT BOWL GAMES??? YOU GUYS ARE ONE OF THE MAIN ONES WANTING TO CHANGE THE BCS SYSTEM!!
jacketbrave
July 28th, 2010
9:34 pm
you always like to talk football….. lets look at other sports shall we?? baseball: tech swept UGA 3-0 and was a consistent top ten team…. Softball: ACC Champions Golf: ACC champions “uga fans dont want to get there Basketball : ACC runner Up and went to second rd of tourney… oh, the ACC sucks? Tech has a combined SEC and southern conference championships that add up to 12! so do the math big boys, if you can
ryan
July 28th, 2010
9:37 pm
Jacketbrave you talk the talk but can’t walk the walk UGA has beat jackets so many times i have lost count oh yea you lost to a bunch of white guys from Iowa .
superDawg
July 28th, 2010
9:42 pm
I just beat the hell out of two tekies and one ala.alum in golf it was to easy.Thanks for the steaks and beer.Go Dawgs!
harold
July 28th, 2010
10:16 pm
IT WON’T HELP. GEORGIA ISN’T A CHAMPIONSHIP PROGRAM LIKE ALABAMA OR FLORIDA. IN FACT LSU AND AUBURN ARE BETTER FOOTBALL TEAMS THAN GEORGIA. GEORGIA LIKES THOSE DREAMS THOUGH!
Kang & Kodos
July 28th, 2010
10:23 pm
The Braves would have won 3 World Series in the ’90’s but for Bobby Cox. Leo Mazzone was overrated. Chip Caray is a flatulent butthead. Ron Gant was a juicer. Fran Wren wets the bed. Terry Pendleton has no testicles. Troy Glaus is actually 49 years old. Chipper is a p-ssy.
Oh, wrong blog….
jacketbrave
July 28th, 2010
10:34 pm
WTF U MEAN WALK THE WALK??? ONCE AGAIN, UGA DUMB*SSES SPEAKING!
jacketbrave
July 28th, 2010
10:36 pm
RYAN,
do you really want to go there to white guys??? i bet those corn pickin’ mother f*ckers could whoop yo *ss easily, personally, and in football
kevin
July 28th, 2010
10:40 pm
jacketbrave,
aside from being clearly retarded, you have no idea what you are talking about. with the exception of FL, we have as good or better record against every team you named. and, since you mentioned it, our softball team (who cares) went further than yours this past year. caps lock doesn’t make you right, it makes you more obviously stupid.
jacketbrave
July 28th, 2010
10:41 pm
kang & kudos,
why are u talking about a MLB team that has one of the largest # of pennants in the league!
and instead of having a name that sounds like two chinese brothers making a condem company, have one that includes 2 of the best their is in their games like me
jacketbrave
July 28th, 2010
10:43 pm
kevin
im stupid? your the dumb*ss who doesnt realize we have won b2b ACC titles in softball and have gotten 4 trophies in the past 2 years in that sport and yet u have none
jacketbrave
July 28th, 2010
10:46 pm
oh and make sure you get all of your players out of jail b4 the start of the season
kevin
July 28th, 2010
10:53 pm
jacketbrave,
winning the acc means nothing when you do not make it to the world series as uga has the last 2 years.
did it ever occur to you that the athens police have less to do than the atl police. in any event, who cares. we’ll still beat you again.
Brainiac(Dawg for life)
July 28th, 2010
10:54 pm
Laura dahlin I been trying to get in touch with you to return your red panties that you left at our frat party. Oh, Damon sez Hi.
Brainiac(Dawg for life)
July 28th, 2010
10:59 pm
Jacketbrave: Who the hell plays softball in college? My 7 years old grand daughter plays softball. Your head is a softball and yo mama wears red panties.
jacketbrave
July 28th, 2010
11:00 pm
in what kevin? football? even if your distant dream comes true, we have ur *ss in everything else! and u said u have been to the cws for the past 2 years? SO WHAT. u have no championships to show now do you? WE EVEN HAVE MORE CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS AND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS THAN YOU IN FOOTBALL AND YALLS OLD *SSES HAVE BEEN AROUND LONGER!!
jacketbrave
July 28th, 2010
11:01 pm
braniac, really? even though it may not have been around during the civil war, THERE IS COLLEGE SOFTBALL
The Exterminator
July 28th, 2010
11:02 pm
jacketbrave –
Only a bug like you would come on OUR blog and want to talk about sports besides football.
Oh, yeah, I know why:
8 out of 9.
Let’s hear your eloquent retort to that, you illiterate bedwetter.
jacketbrave
July 28th, 2010
11:05 pm
yeah exterminator thats also 1 out of two and 6 out of 6 in baseball u ugaly pantssh*tter
Brainiac(Dawg for life)
July 28th, 2010
11:06 pm
Has this turned into the Jackassbrave…..oops, Jacketbrave blog? that muthepoker(remember the red panties) don’t ever run out of trash talk. He needs to get that badass case of diarheamouth seen about soon as he gets finished with he mama.
jacketbrave
July 28th, 2010
11:08 pm
im a class of 2000 and a GT graduate. im sittin here in my MANSION sippin wine and watchin baseball. WHAT ARE U GUYS DOING?? aye bobby! go get me a cold one out of the doublewide!
jacketbrave
July 28th, 2010
11:10 pm
braniac, stop getting comebacks from your granddaughter ok?
Brainiac(Dawg for life)
July 28th, 2010
11:10 pm
Hey Exterminator: You need to apologize to bedwetters everywhere. That Jackassbrave is in trouble for having sex with his teacher, him being homeschooled and all.
jacketbrave
July 28th, 2010
11:11 pm
oh and nice try with me blogging on your page try scanning through ours for stuck up ugay fans
jacketbrave
July 28th, 2010
11:13 pm
hey braniass (dickhead for life) once again your a uga redneck u got that joke from larry the cable guy im not a dumb*ss uga fan or at all
The Exterminator
July 28th, 2010
11:15 pm
The subject of the article and of this blog is UGA football. If any bugs want to come on here instead of their own blogs then obviously they want to see whay real football discussion is like. If I played in the irrelevant Almost Competitive Conference, and UGA beat my team in football and basketball this past year, I’d be too ashamed to post on my team’s blog, too.
8 out of 9.
Brainiac(Dawg for life)
July 28th, 2010
11:15 pm
Jackassbrave, I’m sure your parents are brother and sister(red panties) and they were not trying to get you but rather was just doin it fer fun.