Richt ‘very hopeful’ Murray can resume practice by Monday
Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray, who didn’t practice Tuesday because of injuries suffered against Auburn, could return to work by the first practice of next week, coach Mark Richt said this afternoon.
“I’m very hopeful that by Monday he’ll get to do something — and hopefully everything by then,” Richt said. “It’s one thing to be able to drop back and throw the ball and another to be able to play in a real, live football game. We’ve tried all year not to get him hit in practice, so that will be the goal next week, too.”
Georgia’s next game, its regular-season finale, is Nov. 27 against Georgia Tech in Athens.
Murray suffered a bruised knee and a bruised sternum in last week’s loss to Auburn, during which he took several controversial hits from Tigers defensive tackle Nick Fairley.
With an open date on Saturday, Georgia has only one practice remaining this week, that on Thursday. Richt didn’t rule out Murray participating in that session, but it seems doubtful.
“It truly is day-to-day,” Richt said. “We’ll see how he feels tomorrow.”
Richt cautioned that practice conditions are quite different than game conditions for a quarterback.
“There is a difference between being able to practice the way we practice without the quarterback getting hit and actually being in the game,” Richt said. “My guess is he’ll be able to do some things practice-wise, but in the end will he be able to play?”
Richt told the Touchdown Club of Atlanta on Monday, “We think by game time he’ll be able to play.” Later Monday, Richt said on his radio call-in show, “There is no guarantee he will play in the game, but we’re thinking there’s a good chance he will.”
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TrishaDishaWarEagle
November 17th, 2010
5:37 pm
Once sCam Newton is gone we will be back to our losing ways. But it was worth the money we paid him for one good season!
Blog Security
November 17th, 2010
5:39 pm
Let’s get back to Football – I will miss you! Enjoy dinner cutie! muah!
Blog Security
November 17th, 2010
5:39 pm
TrishaDishaWarEagle – Get back in the kitchen and make me some dinner
Tattler
November 17th, 2010
5:45 pm
From a Neal Boortz column illustrating what UGA is like:
Well, I don’t want to embarrass the subject of our little story by using her real name. We’ll call her Prunella. Our heroine is a senior at the University of Georgia and a columnist for the Red and Black, the independent UGA student newspaper.
At the end of her most recent column, “Think before you shop at Walmart,” you will see this tag: “[Prunella] is a senior from Lawrenceville majoring in magazines and women’s studies.”
With such a double major I’m sure the recruiters are knocking down her door.
“Think before you shop at Walmart?” As a matter of fact I do! My thought process is usually something like, “I think I’ll go shopping at Walmart.”
Prunella disapproves. She says that when she walks into a Walmart she sees “concentrated evil.” Not just evil, mind you — concentrated evil!
Our magazine major’s problems with Walmart seem to stem from the fact that many local retailers find it difficult to compete when Walmart moves into town.
That’s the nature of the free market.
Prunella doesn’t explain how she would remedy the situation. Consumers exercising their free choices apparently don’t sit well with this young lady. She is also upset with Walmart because it is a “large unfeeling corporation with (a) major impact on what we buy, where it’s produced and how much we pay.” Please. Whoever it is out there forcing Prunella to shop at Walmart, knock it off.
Somehow, in her column about the “concentrated evil” that is Walmart, Prunella didn’t address the fact that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. donates just shy of $300 million a year to charities around the country. The company also reportedly pledged $2 billion for a five-year campaign to fight hunger. The evil must be concentrated somewhere other than in charitable giving.
Perhaps, then, this is Prunella’s real problem with Walmart. In her column she expresses displeasure that profit-driven corporations “are firing American workers to cut production costs. They then charge American consumers more money than what it took to produce their products.”
Let’s address both of her points. First: How dare any evil “profit-driven” corporation fire workers to cut production costs! Cutting production costs is nothing less than a blatant attempt to improve the bottom line. Don’t these dastardly businessmen realize that they’re in business to hire people, not to make money? After all, potential investors look to the number of unnecessary employees as a surer sign of corporate health than profit and loss figures. Any good woman’s studies major surely knows that!
Second: Let’s erect some gallows at Sanford Stadium so, at the next Georgia home game, we can hang the next evil businessmen we catch selling a product for more than it cost to produce. Prunella must have sneaked into the back of a UGA business class to learn that her next pair of shoes should be sold for exactly what it cost to make them and place them on the shelves of her favorite store (not Walmart) — and not one penny more.
Seriously, folks. Is this what we get after tens of thousands of dollars are spent to produce a college graduate these days? Did her magazine professor see this column before she submitted it to the Red and Black? Didn’t someone warn her that such public displays of economic brilliance can end up being embarrassing?
And the most troubling question of all: Is she registered to vote?
Blog Security
November 17th, 2010
5:47 pm
Using dual computers to post uh? That way you cant be accused of using another person’s posting name cause the post times match. Smart but not smart enough for Blog Security.
Blog Security
November 17th, 2010
5:49 pm
Im sure Trisha Disha appreciates you blogging her name.
Tattler
November 17th, 2010
5:51 pm
I love dudes and midgets
Blog Security
November 17th, 2010
5:53 pm
If anybody is curious if I am paranoid and blowing this whole Blog Security thing out of proportion the answer is YES!
Blog Sheriff
November 17th, 2010
5:55 pm
Blog Security, you have been relieved of your duties! Let the new Sheriff in town take over and catch this imposter!
Blog Sheriff
November 17th, 2010
6:14 pm
Blog Security, thanks for leaving!
Brewdawg
November 17th, 2010
6:15 pm
Whatever happened to L-DAWG. I miss his ALL CAPS.
L-DAWG
November 17th, 2010
6:27 pm
I AM HERE YOU MISS ME?
col fot
November 17th, 2010
6:59 pm
auburn is the penitentiary of southern football…fairley and the rest of the thugs
Questions
November 17th, 2010
7:05 pm
Does UGA have a single player who is enrolled in a real curriculum working toward a degree?
reality
November 17th, 2010
7:11 pm
You UGA fans are unbelievable. Your season has come down to hoping you can beat GT and get a bowl invitation. You have a pitiful program and a pitiful coach…..you will be 5-7 in 2 weeks. Enjoy your winter.
reality
November 17th, 2010
7:13 pm
UGA fans have no room to talk about Cam Newton with your 15 arrests since March….also Farley is no worse than the dirty tactics used by your team…it was a clean hit…deal with it.
ThugaDawgs
November 17th, 2010
8:09 pm
Pretty sure when UGA fans call Nick Fairley a thug, they’re using it as a term of endearment, basically accepting and approving of him as one of their own.
Still@theBAR
November 17th, 2010
8:18 pm
Ben Jones I don’t hate you as a Person, but as a football player you are no better than FAIRLEY. I hate that DAWGS can’t accept that nut the TRUTH HURTS. UGA fans find it easy to HATE on Black Players more than they can HATE on Ben Jones. AHAHHAHAHAH
McLovin
November 17th, 2010
8:22 pm
You have to love Techsters–Have a team worse than us and still talkin’ s@#$! I mean, you would think they have beaten someone this yr. I know we havn’t but I am not talkin like we are world beaters. Hey Tech, what was the autopsy results of your team found behind that empty building on campus?
John
November 17th, 2010
8:31 pm
One hell of a bulldawg? A 5-6 bulldawg is one hell of a bulldawg? No wonder ya’ll suck!!
Gene
November 17th, 2010
8:40 pm
Enough already on Fairley. Everybody but Murray is whining. He is a tough sob, in spite of his school boy looks. He will be ready to play when the next whistle blows.
LOL
November 17th, 2010
9:00 pm
“controversial hits” .. depends on the perspective…
I say .. Georgia got whipped by a superior team !!
Tim… you are a tool !!
5-6 and we think we are 11-0 LOL
November 17th, 2010
9:01 pm
Hey McLovin, the only people talking smack is you’re 5-6 redneck fan base. And who have you beaten? Oh the mighty Idaho State! Whoooo Hooooo!!! Man you rednecks think you are 11-0 when you are the bottom feeders of football. Get over yourselves. Oh, go have fun cleaning all the trash next week all over the campus and Athens. Can’t wait til we kick the crap out of you next Saturday @ Athens once again. It’s raining panties!!!!
46-39
November 17th, 2010
9:23 pm
Buckeyes would be 4-6 if they were in a real conference..
Doug
November 17th, 2010
9:27 pm
Let him play. As bad as tech’s defensive line is, they won’t even touch him.
tyger
November 17th, 2010
9:28 pm
HBCU – Historically Black Colleges and Universities
PWI – Predominately White Institutions
Black Power Poll – ranks strength of HBCU football only.
Black Power Poll TM
Week 11 2010
1. Bethune (9)
2. S. Carolina St (13)
3. Albany St (5)
4. Grambling (22)
5. FAMU
6. Texas Southern
7. FVSU (22)
8. Morehouse (23)
9. Shaw (25)
10. Tuskegee
(#) – Top 25 Ranking Coaches Polls, FCS, AFCA
http://www.hbcuclassics.com
Forty Nine points to your thirty one
November 17th, 2010
9:29 pm
ya’ll still complaining over a hit when you were just as guilty
6 personal fouls losers
5-6. nice record mutts
Browndog
November 17th, 2010
10:06 pm
Hopefully there is no scandal with Cam because if so, all of college football will be hurt. It shall all play out soon enough, but generally, the smoke and fire thing does have merit. Good luck to Murray for a speedy recovery. UGA cannot take GT lightly as GT certainly won’t come to Athens without a plan to play the game all out.
icedawg
November 18th, 2010
12:15 am
It’d be nice for once to see a game where there is less jawboning on both sides. Leave the talking and breast beating to the professional bloggers such as those that spend a good deal of their time posting on the AJC website.
Who me? 
college is forever
November 18th, 2010
12:18 am
http://ww.collegelunchboxes.com Murray is a very tough kid as evidenced by the fact that after breaking his leg in high school the doctors said he was done for the year but he rehabed like a mad man to return to his team and lead them to a state title. Fairley took a couple of cheap shots and remember Karma is a Bitch. Hey Kroger (metro Atlanta, Athens, Macon) is having a sale on the UGA calssic tin lunchbox just in time for Christmas which will be 5 weeks from this Saturday. If you do not live in Georgia or the Metro Atlanta area go to the website send us an email and we will match Kroger’s price of $6.99 Go Dawgs!!!
icedawg
November 18th, 2010
12:21 am
Brilliant Tattler, just brilliant. You know that the ‘uni” is for thinking people, eh?
icedawg
November 18th, 2010
12:22 am
Tattler, this is what will be running the country in the coming generation. I’m glad I’ll be gone.
WRECK-THUGA
November 18th, 2010
1:54 am
I personally would love to see the Grambling/arena football uniforms from last years uga/florida game. On another note I think this will be a good game that hopefully GT can win. I think both teams have the potential to play decent despite their ugly records. Yes GT lost to VT but if they play like they did that night with Tevin getting more reps since that game GT can beat UGA. Esp if UGA plays like they did against Colorado who btw lost to Kansas the ugliest GT loss in recent memory. But UGA has played solid in some games so I’m predicting a close game. GT and Johnson arent dumb. They know their D is soft. So I’m predicting LONG 7-9 minute drives for GT with 3 or 7 points on the end of the drives. This will keep GT fresh and UGA’s D tired which would open up some big plays late in the game. For me that is the key for GT. just play keep-away with uga and GT can win. I like the Jackets but wish the dogs the best of luck. GT 34 UGA 27
WRECK-THUGA
November 18th, 2010
1:59 am
BTW Johnson while with Navy set the record for lonest offensive drive at Navy. –>Navy vs. New Mexico in the 2004 Emerald Bowl in San Francisco. The Navy offense had a 26-play, 94-yard, 14:26 drive that was capped off by a Geoff Blumenfeld 22-yard field goal to make the score 34-19. The 26 plays and 14:26 time of possession were both NCAA records for a single drive. Johnson.
CPJ knew that game would be tough for his D. SO… just keep the ball as long as possible. I’m just saying dont be shocked if GT takes this approach. If the execute it properly uga may miss their first bowling trip in a while
WRECK-THUGA
November 18th, 2010
2:00 am
correction longest drive in NCAA history
Jeff
November 18th, 2010
7:31 am
Again….I hope and pray that Fairley blows his knee out and never plays a down of football again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Auburn 0-12
November 18th, 2010
7:38 am
Hey “our 49 points”…..its sewage like you that makes hope for 3 things to happen:
1. Fairley is injured and never plays again- what goes around comes around
2. Auburn ends up 0-12
3. Your sorry excuse for a coach is found to have known more than he is telling on the cammie front.
Hate is to good of a word for anyone associated with Auburn….
Kyle
November 18th, 2010
9:21 am
To bad the SEC just turns the other way and wont deal with this stuff. Doing the same with the Cam stuff too. read your own by-laws Mike Slive…..nuff said
WarEagleII
November 18th, 2010
9:24 am
How about a friendly practice game between us and UGA? Come on over to Auburn anytime you want to practice this game that is giving you so much trouble. You can even bring your ugly dog.
Kyle
November 18th, 2010
10:11 am
War Eagle….be happy to….you act like Da “barn is some kind of dynasty….LMAO….maybe if we come play you can sit Cam…..0-1 looks better than 0-13. Let’s see how many of the barnyard animals are talking smack….read the headlines dude…only a matter of time now before the SEC and NCAA are forced to deal with the Cammie and his daddy issue and it aint gonna be pretty for the cluckers in Aubarn
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