Stats and more from Georgia ‘practice game’
ATHENS — “Georgia” beat “Louisiana-Lafayette” 38-24 in a practice game Wednesday in Sanford Stadium. Or was that 38-0?
UGA coach Mark Richt said he spotted the “Louisiana-Lafayette” team –- Georgia scout teamers impersonating the season-opening opponent — 21 points. And he gave the “Ragin’ Cajuns” another three points by counting a missed field goal as made.
Got that?
The teams played one half of football, with coaches trying to emulate game conditions as much as possible.
That included having the assistant coaches working from where they’ll be in real games -– Todd Grantham, Rodney Garner, Mike Bobo, Stacy Searels and Bryan McClendon at field level; Warren Belin, Scott Lakatos, Tony Ball and John Lilly upstairs in the coaches’ box.
The scrimmage was closed to the public and media, but Richt provided what he called “unofficial official” statistics afterward:
- Quarterback Aaron Murray completed 9 of 17 passes for 127 yards and one touchdown. He threw no interceptions. “He’s still learning,” Richt said. “It wasn’t real bad, but there were a couple of times he could have made a better decision.”
- Freshman QB Hutson Mason completed 5 of 10 passes for 69 yards.
- Caleb King had five carries for 36 yards and Washaun Ealey four for 31.
- Wide receiver Kris Durham had three catches for 78 yards and A.J. Green four catches for 40.
- Branden Smith had a punt return of 63 yards and a kickoff return of 31.
- Defensively, Darryl Gamble had eight tackles and Vance Cuff six.
Before the scrimmage, coaches named captains for the opening game. They are Shawn Chapas for the offense, Demarcus Dobbs and Cuff for the defense and Fred Munzenmaier for special teams.
Here are the statistics UGA provided (and remember, they’re “unofficial official,” meaning they’re incomplete and won’t add up in all cases):
PASSING
Aaron Murray: 9-17, 127 yards, 1 TD, 0 interceptions
Hutson Mason: 5-10, 69 yards, 0 TD, 0 int.
RUSHING
Caleb King: 5 carries, 36 yards, 1 TD, long run of 10 yards
Washaun Ealey: 4 carries, 31 yards, long of 15
Carlton Thomas: 5 carries, 26 yards, 1 TD, long of 15
Shaun Chapas: 1 carry, 5 yards
Fred Munzenmaier: 7 carries, 20 yards, 1 TD, long of 13
Murray: 1 carry, -6 yards (sack)
RECEIVING
A.J. Green: 4 catches, 40 yards, 1 TD
Kris Durham: 3 catches, 78 yards, 0 TD
Michael Bennett: 2 catches, 17 yards
Israel Troupe: 1 catch, 19 yards
Shawn Chapas: 1 catch, 11 yards.
DEFENSE
Darryl Gamble: 8 tackles (2 sacks)
Vance Cuff: 6 tackles (3 unassisted)
Marcus Dowtin: 4 tackles (2 unassisted)
Kiante Tripp: 3 tackles (2 sacks)
Bacarri Rambo: 3 tackles, 1 interception (66-yard return for TD) Christian Robinson: 3 tackles, 1 pass breakup
DeAngelo Tyson: 2 tackles (1 sack)
Brandon Wood: 2 tackles (1 sack), 2 pass breakups
Jakar Hamilton: 1 tackle, 1 interception (42-yard return), 1 pass breakup
Nick Williams: 1 tackle (1 sack)
Playing for the “Louisiana-Lafayette” side:
Marc Deas: 11 tackles (6 unassisted), 2 pass breakups
Chase Vasser: 5 tackles (2 unassisted)
Alec Ogletree: 3 tackles (1 unassisted)
Demetre Baker: 2 tackles
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127 comments Add your comment
Payne
August 26th, 2010
8:00 am
Warrior Queen Boudica, did you read the article? Neither murry or mason are on the scout team so It would be pretty dang hard to throw a int to Jakar Hamilton and Bacarri Rambo
GeoffDawg
August 26th, 2010
8:03 am
Did Justin Houston not play? I’m surprised he wasn’t in on that sack fest.
Russ for President
August 26th, 2010
8:15 am
Warrior Queen Boudica no conspiracy here Hamilton and Rambo played on the Georgia side so it’s hard to intercept their own qurterback while they are on the bench. Bingham and the other walk-on played for LA Laf and committed the interceptions. Why do fans look for conspiracy theories don’t know why the coaches would want to lie and if they were I’m sure they are smart enough to know if they list a defensive player having an interception that there had to be a quarterback throwing one.
Payne
August 26th, 2010
8:37 am
Skb, I guess all these college coaches know a little more than you about recruiting…who would thought it!
Paul is a Johnson
August 26th, 2010
8:58 am
By the numbers it looks like our TE’s are going to dominate. Haven’t seen many stats of them catching balls. Anyone have numbers from Charles, White, and company.
treyingeorgia
August 26th, 2010
8:59 am
12-2 ” So who is your team of choice “… why the railing on Aaron Murray? The kid played in the highest classification in Florida and spurned the big 3 in Florida for Georgia- are we a little po’d at that…sounds so to me… my god UGA has their worst season in over 10yrs and everyone assumes that is the end… please– it has always fallen back on coaching for a number of years and yes Richt ws guilty of propping up his buddy and his cronies ignorant to the fact he was in over his head.. He finally made the long awaited change hence the new defensive coaches on board. ( the one constant between all of them is: THEY ARE TEACHERS!!! which is something UGA has not had in the past as evidenced by the lack of funadmentals- arm tackles… penalty’s…etc )
Later
It is going to be ok
August 26th, 2010
9:14 am
Stop panicing dawg fans. We have the best receiver if football. We have the best field goal kicker and punter. We have two good running backs with an O line that should be able to create some holes this year for the guys to run through. We have a young quarter back who is still learning but was highly recruited around the country and was damn good in highschool. The defense can only be better. This should be a good season. Enough sreaming about the sky falling. We had a lot of close games last year wins and losses. We should be better. Meaning some of the wins will not be the nail biters we had last year and some of the losses like Kentucky and the horrible LSU ref will not happen again. I doubt Tennessee is going to kill us this year. Tech lost a ton of talent. Ark has no D. Florida has a new quarter back, d coach, and a lot of new players. Our schedule is not as tough as it has been in the past. We do not play LSU or Alabama. Auburn will be much better and they probably could/should have beaten us last year. Yes, things could go horribly wrong, but you have to be optimistic with the opportunity the boys have this year. Still, I would rather play Techs schedule… What a joke. If they are not a 1 loss team when we get ready to play they should look for a new coach.
ECB
August 26th, 2010
9:26 am
Where is Marlon Brown???
Honest and Frank Discussion
August 26th, 2010
9:46 am
lol at whoever counts stats for this thing. It would be like taking the father v. son t-ball game seriously and counting stats for it.
Well little Joey was 0-4 but his dad was 15-15 with 47 RBIs.
how2fish
August 26th, 2010
9:49 am
Best stat to come out of the practice game…no injuries….we stay healthy we will be fine. 12-2 still a gasbag I see. With some many trees in the state you would think you could just pick one and get some rope already.How can anyone keep going when they are so negative ? 2,000,000 blogs not one positive post.
G-E-O-R-G-I-A
August 26th, 2010
10:08 am
Munzenmier rushing! That’s awesome! The kid always seems to put his head down and punishes his tacklers! I’d like to see more of that! GO DAWGS!!
Pointdexter
August 26th, 2010
10:27 am
Wonder how much Mason’s passing yardage was YAC. Glad to see is playing ball and is probably a good kid, but alot of his record breaking stats from high school last year were padded by YAC. 3 yard pass, 60 yard run, net 63 yards passing. Anyway, good for him—the Bennett kid is a good player at receiver….oh yes, The Hell With Georgia.
Brainiac(Dawg for life)
August 26th, 2010
10:32 am
Brian: You forgot to mention Nick Saban getting the boot from Bama around mid-season.
Humans vs Zombies
August 26th, 2010
10:43 am
Tech is way cooler than UGA.
We have Humans vs Zombies and that is way better than winning a football game.
DAWGWALKER
August 26th, 2010
10:56 am
Dawg nation ————please let’s enjoy reading these wonderful comments about Murray and that of our team failing.We have received no respect from the polls and do you really think you are going to read good things from the enemy.Come on,let’s take a positive feed of this,maybe their hoping
Murray is short ,slow and can’t throw the football,our defense will not perform well under the 3-4 with our new DC Grantham.Let’s enjoy reading these great comments in their little dream world our maybe our foes will read this great stuff and take it to the bank, probable to good to be true, you think..Can’t wait to see these boneheads on game day, they might be shocked.
dawgs01
August 26th, 2010
11:16 am
all you idiots that are like i only see 1 TD how did they score 38 read the whole article they are all on there
dawgs01
August 26th, 2010
11:23 am
Some people on this blog are stupid as hell. These are a half of stats and they are unofficial meaning some things might not be correct. Murray’s stats are not that bad for 2 quarters. If they were great yall would be saying our backups suck. Are yall negative about every facet of life.
#1 Stunna
August 26th, 2010
11:30 am
Calm down DAWG fans. We are okay!!! CMR doesn’t wanna give away too much to the media to be exposed at this time. That’s why the stats are “unofficial”. We will be just fine this year. Expect great things!!!
Mr. Reality Calling
August 26th, 2010
11:52 am
The sky isn’t falling, but even the most optimistic dawg fan has to admit that Murray is making them a little nervous. He looked poor in the Spring game and his stats from the scrimmages have been average. Meanwhile, Richt has no solid backup for him in case he goes down, and by the way, he seems to be a little injury prone. There really is no excuse for a coach who has been in place as long as Richt to end up in such a dire QB predicament.
G-E-O-R-G-I-A
August 26th, 2010
12:18 pm
I SAY, LET’S GO GEORGIA! Enough said!
I Could Have Put Some Lame Name Here
August 26th, 2010
12:42 pm
Where are the Tight Ends?
Also if he is not spreading it around in scrimmages. What will he do live action?
Dominique Wilkins
August 26th, 2010
12:50 pm
Is Aaron Meaurray related to Flip Meaurray?
Dominique Wilkins
August 26th, 2010
12:50 pm
Is Aaron Meaurry related to Flip Meaurry?
74 Dawg
August 26th, 2010
1:17 pm
Hey Tim, didn’t Houston play?
bass stringerfish
August 26th, 2010
2:07 pm
Hey ” I could have…” I was just abt. to ask that same question? I feel these guys will be our secret weapon, I sure hope we get them more involved down field…
ftballman
August 27th, 2010
1:11 pm
Mason threw one nice pass that a TE dropped in the end zone as well. The numbers aren’t adding up but it not a conspiracy. It is still a team working on their game. Every day they learn more and improve. I can’t wait for many of you to explain how the very people you claim can’t prerform, play or are too short, no arm, too slow, too young… etc. are getting the job done. Amazing how so many really know so little about the people they are judging. Almost comical how much is repeated from bloggs or some evaluation of a kid when he was in HS. Do any of you ever question the so called “gurus” that produce these half truths and poor evaluations. So many believe what they read and don’t look at how motivated a player is to get better. Makes me question how much moxie, dedication and determination many folks have in their own lives. I’d hate to think that by the time I’m 18 to 19 years old I am finished and done improving in my career, profession or personal life. So many draw conclusions, so few correct. I can’t wait to “watch” what happens and expect big days ahead.
Floriduh
August 28th, 2010
9:56 am
@ FORTY ONE POINTS to your seventeen points
Come up with something else to say.
Have fun with your REAL schedule this year….Bama on the road and then LSU at home back to bacK?
Bama will POUND Brantley into little pieces and LSU will finish off your season the next week…wait and see.