Hutson Mason makes good first impression on Dogs
ATHENS – It was one practice, the first practice, and it was held in shorts, jerseys and helmets. But Georgia freshman quarterback Hutson Mason made a strong impression, nevertheless.
“I was really pleased with Hutson Mason’s command in the huddle,” offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Mike Bobo said Monday night. “He got in there and took charge. Everything wasn’t perfect, but I was just pleased with the way he approached practice and the way he carried himself. Liked a lot that I saw.”
Mason, from Marietta’s Lassiter High School, has a chance to be Georgia’s backup quarterback behind starter Aaron Murray. Basically, if Murray stays healthy and Mason has a good preseason camp, Logan Gray probably will remain at wide receiver.
“Hutson looked real good,” wide receiver A.J. Green said after the first practice. “He’s just so quick with his decisions, just being a freshman. Just the way he carries himself, he looked real good today.”
As Lassiter fans know, Mason last year set Georgia state single-season high-school records for passing yards (4,560) and touchdowns (54) and a state single-game record for passing yards (552).
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A few quips I thought you might enjoy from Day 1 of the Bulldogs’ camp:
- Offensive line coach Stacy Searels on how his group looked in walk-through drills before the opening practice: “We really kicked butt in walk-through this morning. We were awesome. . . .Walk throughs, we are world-beaters.” Then, sternly: “You don’t walk through a football game.”
- Offensive tackle Clint Boling, when a reporter jokingly asked if Boling and Searels go online and study projections of Boling’s NFL draft stock: No, but “Coach Searels and I had a couple of meetings with some agents.” Joking, mind you.
- And coach Mark Richt, while sheepishly struggling to come up with the name of one of Georgia’s walk-on quarterbacks: “I’ll think of the other gentleman in a minute.”
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If you haven’t checked it out yet, please take a look at AJC.com’s bulked-up UGA page, ajc.com/uga. It has been redesigned to include more Bulldogs coverage than ever. Hope you’ll be a regular visitor throughout preseason camp and the season.
Practice No. 2 is Tuesday afternoon. Updates will be posted on the blog and @ajcuga on Twitter. See you then.
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Links to Monday’s coverage of UGA camp, Day 1:
“It’s a little bit scary in there,” Richt says of youth in QB room.
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kb
August 3rd, 2010
10:59 pm
No matter how some of you on this blog try to justify this “neutral” site concept, It simply does not make sense even coming from Richt. What really makes sense is to rotate home field play each year just like all the rest of our opponents. This will never make any sense no matter how anyone tries to dress it up. Get the game back to Athens period!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Home and Home
August 3rd, 2010
11:38 pm
Florida has all the advantages playing in jacksonville, which is basically a home game. They travel 45 minutes on a bus to the city and UGA has to travel for hours on a bus and plane and are usually worn out when they get to jacksonville. They need to move the game to home and home or atlanta to make it more fair so Ga can win more.
JT
August 3rd, 2010
11:49 pm
Here is a NEWS FLASH… Richard Samuel is 19!!!!!!
All of you talking about Richard Samuel being wasted…..Look at his birthdate..
2-3-1991. In my book that adds up to 19.
Ealey is 20 months older than him. Who wasted him the first year on 20 carries in the games. It is a shame what they have done to this kid and not redshirting him the first year as a 17 year old when he could have been a junior in HS. Ealey’s birthday is after May 1 so that meant he could play as a 19 year old senior in HS. His running experience in a small school really helped him be ready.. When a kid plays his senior year as a 16 year old and divides his time between LB and RB it reaks of dividing time between two jobs. Can you imagine him starting as a 13 year old hs freshman. He had flashes of brilliance last year but his lack of total RB experience showed….Realize he should have been a senior in HS last year when he started at UGA his second year there!!!!
JT
August 4th, 2010
12:04 am
One more thing about Richard Samuel……. How good a RB could he be behind this all world Offensive Line that we should have this year????? Could he have not been coached better by a running back coach last year and really learned something???? I am certain we will never know.
We cannot waste these kids abilities whether it is a RB or a QB… Logan Grey will never be a very good receiver because of the time not training to be one.
Da'Rick
August 4th, 2010
6:46 am
It’s kind of sad to see all the Dawg fans getting so excited this year (just like the year before, the year before that, etc.). How long is it going to take for UGA fans to realize that UGA is simply no longer relevant in the SEC? In the national picture, UGA isn’t even a blip on the radar, and hasn’t
been since the preseason #1 ranking two years ago.
Sit back and be grateful for the seven or eight wins you’ll get every year. Coaching genius Mark Richt may take you to 10-2 or even 11-1 occasionally, but Florida will still win the SEC, meaning no BCS bowls and no top 10 final ranking. Most years, UGA will be very lucky to finish in the top 25, and only after a big bowl win over a nobody opponent.
It’s a different world now, and Dawg fans, like Miami and Ole Miss fans, need to adjust their expectations downward to reflect reality.
Unfortunately nothing is going to change until UGA changes its mediocre coaching. That’s where the difference is, and that’s why everyone outside Bulldog Nation just laughs at Dawg fans getting so excited year after year about what a great recruiting class UGA gets. It doesn’t matter how many
blue chip high school players go to UGA, they simply don’t get the coaching they would get at Florida or Alabama, to name two schools whose programs are far ahead of UGA. And that’s not going to change as long as Mark Richt is in Athens.
Get your heads out of the sand and face reality. And mediocrity and irrelevance.
And red panties in your face everywhere you go.
Year of the Dawg
August 4th, 2010
11:24 am
UGA finally has a good defensive coach again and is loaded at all the key positions on D, oline and RB. Murray will fit in good and UGA should only lose 1 or 2 games. 2010—this is the year. Dawgs beat florida and win the SEC east—book it.
Gators R Us
August 4th, 2010
3:18 pm
Don’t get your hopes up for Murray or Mason. Neither of them would ever start for at least three of the teams in the SEC. For sure, they wouldn’t get a second look at Florida or Alabama.
And at least one of them is bound to be arrested and suspended.
Stagger through this year, and beg Mettenberger to come back next year.
Revine Dawg
August 4th, 2010
9:16 pm
Mason and Murray are better than nesbitt at tech—without any good RBs or WRs, nesbitt’s going way down this year—mark it down.
uncle shawn
August 5th, 2010
6:57 pm
LAST !!!