FS Jakar Hamilton out for season, TBs out for scrimmage
ATHENS – Georgia has likely lost free safety Jakar Hamilton for the season.
Hamilton
The senior, who started five games last season and played in all 13, was diagnosed Wednesday with a stress fracture in his right ankle. Since it will require two to three months to heal, “my guess is he won’t play this year,” coach Mark Richt said.
Hamilton has been sidelined since the beginning of preseason camp with a hamstring pull. Richt wasn’t sure if Hamilton had suffered a new injury but said it required a bone scan to detect Hamilton’s fracture.
Hamilton will be able to redshirt. He transferred to UGA from Georgia Military College last year.
Meanwhile, junior Shawn Williams appears to have locked down the starting job at free safety. The 6-foot-1, 220-pound graduate of Early County High continues to draw praise daily for his good work in practice. He was second among defenders with seven tackles in Wednesday’s scrimmage.
Junior Sanders Commings and freshman Corey Moore will provide depth.
Richt on TE Orson Charles
Richt said he was fairly confident Orson Charles would not face eligibility issues in the wake of his inclusion in the Yahoo! Sports report on a rogue booster at Miami.
“I wouldn’t say I didn’t get too concerned about it, but I didn’t think about it a lot or dwell on it much,” Richt said after Wednesday’s practice. “I felt like it was something I couldn’t control and until I heard one way or another I was just going to move forward as if everything was going to be OK.”
Charles, a junior tight end and preseason All-SEC selection, was among dozens of athletes listed in a Yahoo! Sports story who allegedly had interactions with convicted felon Nevin Shapiro. Shapiro claims to have provided millions of dollars worth of improper benefits and services to former Miami players and recruits from 2002-2010.
Richt mum about Miami troubles
Richt is a Miami alum and football lettermen, but he was very measured in what he said about his alma mater’s problems.
“I haven’t read the report but I’ve been hearing about it,” he said. “It just sounded pretty dramatic, I guess would be a good word for it.”
Richt said he heard a brief radio report on Miami while driving to the Athens Holiday Inn to speak to the Rotary Club.
“I’m not one to throw stones because I know the bottom line is it’s hard to be perfect,” Richt said. “So, we’re just trying like mad to do things right.”
Crowell, Samuel miss scrimmage
Georgia conducted its second controlled scrimmage of the preseason on Wednesday at Sanford Stadium and it did so without its top two tailbacks.
Isaiah Crowell (pulled groin) and Richard Samuel (strained quad) were unable to participate due to injuries. Former walkon Brandon Harton (12 carries, 51 yards) and redshirt freshman Ken Malcome (5-10) filled in on the first team instead.
Richt said he’s not overly concerned about the running backs missing time at this point.
“I’m not too concerned now,” he said. “If they get to the two weeks prior to the game, I don’t think it will be took problematic.”
Richt said Crowell could return as early as Friday but Samuel will likely be next week.
Scrimmage standouts
Quarterback Aaron Murray was 11-of-16 for 108 yards with a touchdown and an interception. Backup Hutson Mason was 13-of-27 for 125 yards with no TDs or interceptions.
Rantavious Wooten led all receivers with 61 yards on five catches and a touchdown and Israel Troupe added five catches for 50 yards. Malcolm Mitchell had three for 37.
As he did in the first scrimmage, linebacker Alec Ogletree led all tacklers with eight. He also had a sack and a pass breakup. Bacarri Rambo and Jordan Love added six apience and Jarvis Jones had five and a sack. Rambo also had an interception.
Richt said there were no injuries but that center Ben Jones suffered from cramping, likely because he had a one-hour aerobics class earlier in the day.
Picture Day on Saturday
UGA’s annual Fans’ Picture Day is Saturday in the Reed Plaza area of Sanford Stadium. Due to recent NCAA issues raised over the sell and trade of autographed memorabilia, fans will not be able to bring any outside items to be signed. The only thing UGA will permit to be signed is schedule posters. A limit of two per person will be provided.
Gates will open at 1 p.m. Head coach Mark Richt and players will be available at 3 p.m. Special ticket coupons are required for access to Richt and bulldog mascot. Those tickets will be distributed to the first 150 fans at 8 a.m. from the East End ticket windows on East Campus Road. All other teams will be available at 1.
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266 comments Add your comment
Tman
August 18th, 2011
9:58 am
I am sure these concerned UGA fans are going to include Hamilton in their daily prayers along with their hot smokin wives. Give me a break
DawginLex
August 18th, 2011
9:59 am
Hey JB
you survive that politics blog the other day?
Those folks scare me
Tman
August 18th, 2011
10:01 am
Whose that Dawgin lex? Those tea party racist fanatics?
Joey
August 18th, 2011
10:02 am
Tman, you should try female companionship one day. It makes for less grouchiness . . .
DawginLex
August 18th, 2011
10:04 am
Tman
Are you a racist?
Tman
August 18th, 2011
10:04 am
Joey you get a real man’s name instead of the kiddie name you have now Joey LOL
Tman
August 18th, 2011
10:05 am
I am a White Democrat you tell me if I am DawginLex
WDE
August 18th, 2011
10:06 am
@Tman pick which bone and I’d be glad to oblige you….T does stand for Troll..
AltamahaDawg
August 18th, 2011
10:06 am
Real men don’t LOL themselves.
Joey
August 18th, 2011
10:07 am
I am a real man. With a wife.
Tman is real manly. LOL
I-DOG
August 18th, 2011
10:07 am
Sorry to hear about Hamilton. I was also critical of his play last year and I hope he can come back from this and contribute in a big way next year.
On a brighter note: I am very happy to hear in previous articles about the great play of Abry Jones, Marlon Brown, Shawn Williams continues to draw raves for his improved playing and also Branden Smith at corner as well as the first team offensive line and Dallas Lee and some of the other backups.
These are many of the players that we needed to step up and improve this year, so it is great to hear the coaches talk about their improved play.
I have been checking out the Boise Sports page and there is rarely ANY real info on the Boise State team. Only positive articles like (RB named to this pre-season watch list) or team ranked 4th by Sports Illustrated the only hint of negativity is something like OL overcomes prior problems in HS to be an angel once he steps on Boise campus.. I’m sure it is just a case of it not being reported to the public, but if not this has to be the Shangri La of college football. Not a single missed class, or even a sports or non-sports injury of ANY kind is discussed. Not a single hammy, turned ankle or even general soreness is reported. There are no players that are an academic concern, there are none that missed a punishement run or even were assigned a punishment run because team rules are NEVER broken. There are no depth problems, no attitude problems, nobody is transferring. They are like Stepford football players?
DawginLex
August 18th, 2011
10:08 am
I don’t know you. That’s why I asked since you brought it up.
The politics blog was filled with folks with differing opinions but mostly folks who talked in gibberish. Folks overly impressed with their own brain power. Big bunch of nothing. No one wants to really talk about the problems in our country today. They only want to blame everybody else.
Back to football
slydog
August 18th, 2011
10:08 am
Hey JB
It’s ok. What do we call them? Nerds, right? So they spend 20 hrs a day in front of a computer screen instead of outside and socializing with the rest of humanity….lol. Don’t whine yechsters, it was just a joke that contains a kernel of truth.
slydog
August 18th, 2011
10:09 am
White democrats can’t be racist? hahhahhaha
AltamahaDawg
August 18th, 2011
10:10 am
I-Dog. Everybody love tater-tots.
slydog
August 18th, 2011
10:11 am
Tman, you are probably not racist, may be a little biased, but not racist. Being a white democrat has absolutely nothing to do with that. Where did Jim Crow come from? What was Lester Maddox?
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 18th, 2011
10:11 am
Strom Thurmond got a kick out of that joke sly for sure.
JB
August 18th, 2011
10:11 am
Lex, I didn’t stay there long. Those folks scare me. They honestly believe this guy is doing a great job, deserves four more years and ought to be spending and handing out more. They believe EVERYTHING is the GOP’s fault( and some is) but big government, big taxes, more entitlements and punish the successful is the answer. It’s scary they believe that…and will fight you over it.
DawginLex
August 18th, 2011
10:11 am
One of the ways I would describe myself would not start out with “I’m a white democrat”.
Speaks to white hoods starched and pressed hanging in the closet
I-DOG
August 18th, 2011
10:14 am
Miami knew about this booster. This wasn’t some middle aged guy who blended in and ran under the radar and gave out $100 handshakes that nobody knew about. This guy had at least one scheduled meeting in the President of the school’s office. He had a suite at the stadium and asked if he could install a stripper pole (red flag?)… now the request was turned down, but apparently the suite was like Sodom and Gommora every Saturday. This guy lead the team on the field and as few as 6 basketball and football assistants were in on it and as many as 7.
Hellen Keller would have known what was going, so I don’t buy that this was something that a rogue booster did and it was impossible to stop. Sometimes, that is the case.. not here.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 18th, 2011
10:16 am
Hellen Keller would have been blind not to have seen it…
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 18th, 2011
10:17 am
O yeah she was it was the rest of them at “The U” even Shalala…
DawginLex
August 18th, 2011
10:17 am
Charlie Strong has an asst coach who was dead in the middle of it.
UK folks are laughing big time over the plight of Louisville’s coach
Georgia | MrSEC.com
August 18th, 2011
10:17 am
[...] safety. Senior Jakar Hamilton was diagnosed yesterday with a stress fracture in his right ankle.“My guess is he won’t play this year,” Mark Richt said. Hamilton has been out with a hamstring pull since the beginning of preseason [...]
AltamahaDawg
August 18th, 2011
10:18 am
The stripper pole was a pretty good idea, you have to admit.
suwanee dawg
August 18th, 2011
10:19 am
Tech Guy – yes UGA does have the support of every red neck in the state, but I will take that any day instead of not being able to sell out a 45k seat stadium.
JB
August 18th, 2011
10:21 am
I know this is football, so I’ll move on after this, but Canada’s economy is on fire. They lowered their corporate rate to 18% and it will drop to 16.9 % in January, and they are booming. Yes, revenues HAVE INCREASED and unemployment has greatly dropped. They don’t have a lot of the class warfare issues we have. Sorry folks sitting at home blaming rich folks and you oew me. That’s our problem. Obama wants those people to have what had working people have without working for it is the problem in a nutshell.
slydog
August 18th, 2011
10:21 am
JB
How is it an “entitlement” when it is our money? Both parties and all of their leaders don’t give a rats a%$ about you, me, the tea party, jobs,etc… All members of Congress, the Senate, and most high-level government employees are receiving “public” health benefits. Why can’t the public, the very people who fund these same benefits, have a public option? Instead of cutting domestic spending first, bring the troops home!!! We can defend the homeland from….home. Why do 536 of the smartest people in the country produce a rational, logical, result on anything? These folks haven’t passed a budget since Obama became president. So, I guess all the government accountants are just dotting I’s and crossing T’s. None of them deserve 4 years of anything. NOT ONE. When human beings wake up and realize you can govern yourself and you don’t need a daddy, then we will have a better world.
Nothing Could Be Finer
August 18th, 2011
10:21 am
“Defense had a lot of good plays here and there. They were hustling around, so it was overall I think a pretty good scrimmage.”
-Steve Spurrier after last night’s open scrimmage.
AltamahaDawg
August 18th, 2011
10:21 am
Do you think they were getting the #1 defense some work at pass protection? 27 attempts at a scrimmage?
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 18th, 2011
10:22 am
Big whoopy dooo
AltamahaDawg
August 18th, 2011
10:23 am
How did Alshon do?
WDE
August 18th, 2011
10:24 am
@AltamahaDawg your right it was a great idea..I hear Jerry Jones is thinking of “upgrading” a few of the luxury suites in the Jerry Dome with them this season…
suwanee dawg
August 18th, 2011
10:24 am
JB – their are too many idiots on this site to follow you. You can add Brazil to your arguement. Transform (limit) entitlements and move to a simple tax structure with either sale tax only or simple income taxes at lower rates with zero deductions.
slydog
August 18th, 2011
10:25 am
And as far as the corporate tax thing, how did that 11% corporate tax rate in Ireland, which every GOP Senator hailed as the bastion of job creation we should follow, work out for the average Irishman? No one wants a handout, but businesses want bailouts? Where is the fairness in that?
Nothing Could Be Finer
August 18th, 2011
10:27 am
How did Alshon do?
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I don’t think he scrimmaged that much.
Lots of young WR’s getting action with Garcia and Shaw.
Shaw dislocated a finger and will be out a couple days.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 18th, 2011
10:28 am
60 minutes did the report that over 600 U.S. Business are in Ireland right now at a tax rate of 11%. Something along the lines of about 150,000 jobs I believe have been created. Perhaps more.
DawginLex
August 18th, 2011
10:29 am
I want prayer put back into schools and abortion outlawed.
That makes me a certifiable idiot in most circles.
No one wants to discuss the FACTS about the economic impact that killing 1 million people per year has had on our economy over the past 38 years. We won’t even talk about my belief on right or wrong, just simply look at the dollars not in our economy. It’s staggering.
Of course the abortion industry is now a billion dollar industry so it will be even tougher to shut that puppy down.
Off my soapbox
Nothing Could Be Finer
August 18th, 2011
10:30 am
“Stephen threw some good balls there at the end,” noted Coach Spurrier, “so we had some encouraging plays and we had some sorry plays also.”
slydog
August 18th, 2011
10:31 am
Jerry Jones is working harder to expand his luxury suites. Arthur Blank is going to find a way to make you, the average citizen, pass a bond referendum to help fund his new stadium. But most of our children are being crammed into a trailer outside, overwhelming teachers. I’m not into taxing the rich to death. The finances of this nation are clearly being mishandled and misappropriated. Look at the HOPE Scholarship. Do you really think they are running out of money? The money is being used for things other than education,plain and simple. The two heads of the retirement fund for the state merit system make more in base salary than Michael Adams. Why? They are stockbrokers and investment bankers on the state payroll. Paid by your tax dollars.
AltamahaDawg
August 18th, 2011
10:31 am
(was talking about our defense at 10:21, just to be clear) but since SC came up: Eveything I have read is that thier defense has completely dominated their o-line. So it comes down to is thier D-line that good, or thier oline that bad? some of both I’d say.
My concern would be: when they face teams with maybe not AS good, but pretty good Defensive lines.
Dawg Gone
August 18th, 2011
10:32 am
@slydog that 11% did create a lot of jobs for the Irish, but in many cases their work ethic got in the way. In another life I worked very closely with a Irish call center and lets just say their attendance rates ran them out of business. I have a great idea lower corporate tax rates here to 18% here with a 5 year flyer is jobs go up it becomes permanent and if not we raise it.
DawginLex
August 18th, 2011
10:35 am
SC has a very good DL. Their problem has been covering the pass. i expect Murray will have to win that game for us. The running game has got to be used some though. I believe our defense is good enough that we can keep it close.
Arkansas is going to have a field day on SC’s secondary though. They have the best WR corp in the SEC.
slydog
August 18th, 2011
10:35 am
@Lowcountry Bulldawg Is the Irish economy in shambles right now, yes or no? Is there an account of how many of those jobs are low wage, service jobs, versus what they had before? How may of those jobs are tech-related, requiring a higher level of skill? As you can see, it appears to be one thing, but then it is clearly another.
5 Time National Champs Nebraska
August 18th, 2011
10:36 am
Have to admit, the UGA uniform is one of the best.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 18th, 2011
10:36 am
I say if you are going to be a family on welfare we limit the number of kids you can have. If you are on welfare with three kids then its time for a operation to make sure you cannot have child 4,5,6,7. To many single parent households using welfare and government based programs that use childbirth as a way not to get a job.
People paying $4 dollars a month rent driving new Yukons with 5 kids? Hello? Then not paying the rent? I work with property managers and mutli family housing projects and some of the stories you hear about people not paying $4 dollars a month rent and then not being able to get evicted is apauling.
Nothing Could Be Finer
August 18th, 2011
10:36 am
SC’s Dline is good – Oline mediocre; QB’s are good – Secondary is mediocre/bad.
Nothing Could Be Finer
August 18th, 2011
10:38 am
Ark has some really good WR’s but their QB is a ?
DawginLex
August 18th, 2011
10:39 am
Arkansas QB will be great this year. He played really well against Auburn last year. Their offense is going to be electric and the defense will determine how far they will go. I don’t think SC can keep up. I had Arkansas as my pick to win the west before Davis went down. They are still very good.
JB
August 18th, 2011
10:40 am
Roll back our rates 5% and put a 5% federal sales tax in it’s place. The following people would then have skin in the game.
1. Well, tax payers would also have to pay it, so there break is not a full 5%
2. drug dealers
3. illegals
4. The underground paid in cash folks
5. Folks paying not one red dime.