Georgia’s Todd Gurley scoffs at comparisons to Trent Richardson
ATHENS – Nobody is sure yet what Georgia has in tailback Todd Gurley. The freshman from Tarboro, N.C., has been the Bulldogs’ leading rusher in their first two scrimmages and has impressed coaches and teammates with his size and speed during preseason camp.
But if nothing else, it’s becoming clear that Gurley is well-grounded. He just laughed this week when he was informed that senior safety Shawn Williams compared him to Alabama’s Trent Richardson.
“I think he probably compared me to him because I wear No. 3 and I have dreads like Trent Richardson,” Gurley told reporters after practice Monday. “I have a long, long, long way to go to be like Trent Richardson. But, I mean , just for a starting senior here and one of the key leaders on the team to call me that, that’s big. I’ll just take that and keep working with it. That’s a nice compliment there.”
It certainly is. Richardson rushed for 3,130 yards and 35 touchdowns at Alabama, including 1,679 this past season as he led the Crimson Tide to the national championship. Richardson was picked No. 3 in the 2012 NFL draft by the Cleveland Browns.
The physical comparisons between Gurley and Richardson go beyond their hairstyles, however. Richardson is 5-foot-11, 220 pounds. Gurley is 6-1, 218. And both have exceptional speed for their size. Gurley ran track for Team USA in Europe in 2011 and advanced to the semifinals in the 110-meter hurdles at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Lille, France.
Georgia coaches are saying they currently have four No. 1s at tailback heading into the Sept. 1 season opener against Buffalo. Gurley and fellow freshman Keith Marshall is in that group, so either become the first freshman to start an opener for the Bulldogs since Danny Ware in 2004.
“I haven’t really even thought of that,” Gurley said. “I really haven’t. Man, that would be great just to start in the SEC as a true freshman at any position. But I haven’t really thought about starting. I’m just trying to get everything down.”
Sophomore Ken Malcome gets the majority of snaps with the No. 1 unit and senior Richard Samuel reps with the ones as well.
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kingdaddy
August 21st, 2012
1:29 pm
BTW, Great article in the Savannah Morning News yesterday and today. Yesterday’s was about UGAs coaches continuity. Very special to todays recruits. Only 16 other programs in the country had “no” coaching turnovers. This will definitly show on the field this year. Today, the paper had a fantastic write-up (two actually) about Jarvis Jones & Todd Gurley and the running game. I recommend all three articles. Hit Savannahnow.com/sports. Everyone have a Buffalo burger next weekend, delicious…
Big Crimson 75
August 21st, 2012
1:31 pm
Twink — touché. Richt always seems to have weak link at a Coordinator spot.
Bobo or Martinez — which was worse??
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 21st, 2012
1:31 pm
OBA Dawg…….Richt probably has other things to do. His weekends are going to be Jam Packed for the next few months so I would bet any free time he has now is spent with his family.
or
he could be waiting for the weekend calls to Bail some players out of the ACC Jail……just kidding.
Big Crimson 75
August 21st, 2012
1:34 pm
King — how much are the Bravos paying Uggs??
What a joke. I hate going to bed pissed!!
Kingdaddy's Math Tutor
August 21st, 2012
1:34 pm
@ Nate Dawg:
Was his sister plowing or what??? I just assume you meant “or What”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 21st, 2012
1:35 pm
KingDaddy….do you have a Ted’s Montana Grill in Sav? You can get you a good Buffalo burger there.
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2012
1:37 pm
True, I prefer to show bias towards my alma mater, but you do it your way. That’s a plan.
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 21st, 2012
1:37 pm
Bi Cri better to be pissed off than pissed on or pee the bed.
Well depending on your kinks/fetishes.
natedawg
August 21st, 2012
1:41 pm
kingdaddy…..i dont know what she was doin with mule…i guess its just a bama thing?…….
bham dawg
August 21st, 2012
1:42 pm
@Big C… bobo is a weak link. I think he is great at developing qb’s and he is probably our best recruiter but he wasn’t ready to be a coordinator when he was hired. I wish that we would hire a big time offensive coordinator I really think that’s all we are lacking.
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 21st, 2012
1:44 pm
Is it somehow wrong for a Democrat to be so rich, raise Buffalo, kill and sell Buffalo, have his son marry the daughter of a dead Republican whose ex-wife is now a Democrat and inherited her fortune from the Ketchup added to the buffalo Burgers?
kingdaddy
August 21st, 2012
1:45 pm
Twink,
changing names isn’t my style. Think I’ll just plod along with this one, lol. Once football starts, nobody will lack for something to say. What are you going :to do when they say 1 address, 1 name? You need to go ahead and become a UGA fan since you’re always on our blogs anyway, lol. You know you want to…
Dawg Haus
August 21st, 2012
1:45 pm
Agreed, bham dawg. It just seems too simple.
Kingdaddy's Math Tutor
August 21st, 2012
1:48 pm
@ Tommy:
NOTHING in the article implies or says Gurley is/was anything but HUMBLE. Maybe you need a dictionary!!!!
Scoff means to downplay or make light of!!!!!!!! In my “humble” opinion it was a really good article especially if you are a Dawg Fan and apparently we will soon see if TG is the real thing both on the field and off. Not a huge number of those types out there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bham dawg
August 21st, 2012
1:49 pm
@Dawg Haus… until we have consistent O-line play the type of offense richt and bobo like to run just doesn’t utilize the talent we have. We need to be spreading it out with quick screens and slants. Get the ball out of murrays hands quick and into the speedy play makers hands.
Brainiac aka Kingdaddy's Math Tutor
August 21st, 2012
1:52 pm
K Daddy: Are you offended that I, your evil twin, sorta kinda harassed you as Math Tutor??????????????????
kingdaddy
August 21st, 2012
1:54 pm
BC
I hate watching a game 13 to see someone give-up. Chipper boots one and then Ugh decides to take-up juggling, lol. Gotta give Nats credit for not folding. Braves still got a chance, but it looks dimmer and dimmer. Our pitching looked good though…
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 21st, 2012
1:55 pm
KingDaddy………….I figure the AJC will let me go with my original name and Bradley will have to deal with it. I figure everybody will be Un-Banned from the start of the new format but I guess we will see.
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 21st, 2012
1:59 pm
Kingdaddy’s math tutor……………MOE RON
scoff 1 (skf, skôf)
v. scoffed, scoff·ing, scoffs
v.tr.
To mock at or treat with derision.
v.intr.
To show or express derision or scorn.
n.
An expression of derision or scorn.
Look up the word again you GED holding butthead.
Dawg Haus
August 21st, 2012
1:59 pm
bham, I’m really hoping they can find a way to use Gurley in space. I like how he had a few receptions in one of the scrimmages. Maybe that’s a good sign, but then again, it’s Bobo…
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
August 21st, 2012
2:01 pm
@ B’ham Dawg
Please don’t get Bobo fired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Two thirds of the trolls and DFINO will have to find something else to bitch about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kingdaddy
August 21st, 2012
2:04 pm
Natedawg
that’s not me bud, just another good Doggie…
Twink,
I prefer to “grill” my own. That way I know it didn’t get spit in, lol. You may want to add a little ground beef or pork. The Buffalo is very lean and the mixture really helps. I used to get them in Wichita when I was working there…
VADAWG
August 21st, 2012
2:04 pm
excellant rb talent is wonderful, however the war is in the Oline!!!!!!
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 21st, 2012
2:06 pm
kingdaddy’s math tutor to help you even better understand the definition of Scoff here is the definition of DERISION
de·ri·sion/diˈriZHən/
Noun:
Contemptuous ridicule or mockery.
Big Crimson 75
August 21st, 2012
2:06 pm
Twink — No pissing fetishes here!!
I do, however, have a great pee fetish story this “girl” told me about one of her friends & former Michigan WR Derrick Alexander — too bad I can’t post the story. Really graphic & fairly disgusting!!
Different strokes……….
BTW, are you back on Ken’s stories?
bham — if Bobo is your best recruiter(which i’m not arguing), then why do y’all pay Garner a Mint to that job?
dawgfan
August 21st, 2012
2:07 pm
My way gets us the best coaches so that we can win as many football games as possible. That’s all I care about. Your way gets us guys like Ray Goff and Mike Bobo. That’s a plan.
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)Math Tutor
August 21st, 2012
2:10 pm
@ I dropped my fried BRAIN er, uh Twinkie:
That’s what I said knuklehead but I wasn’t speaking to you!!!!!!!! Are you some kind of self appointed blog patrol. Apparently we have, in you, yet another Single Digit IQ on here but I love your fat a$$ anyway
Back in your cage and wait your turn or I will WHIZ in your fried twinkies
Big Crimson 75
August 21st, 2012
2:12 pm
Another State has adopted the Tim Tebow Law!!
This law, which has been passed in Florida, Alabama & now S.Carolina, seems to be unfair.
Y’all know the story, it gives home-schooled freaks the opportunity to basically “pick” which HS Football Program they want their child playing at.
Is this not considered recruiting at the HS level, which got Troup’s Coach whacked & eventually led Rueben attending Auburn HS & of course “committing” to the Barn as soon as Trooper Taylor’s check cleared.
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)Math Tutor
August 21st, 2012
2:13 pm
@ Big Crimson 75:
Unfortunately we pay Garner by the pound(His pounds)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 21st, 2012
2:14 pm
KingDaddy……….like Venison it has to have a lil fat of some type added for sure.
I went to school & played ball with Beau & Rhett Turner. Beau runs the Montana Ranch among other things and is married to Tereza Heinz Kerry( john kerry’s wife). It is crazy the Heir to a Ketchup fortune married a Buffalo Burger King. LOL
kingdaddy
August 21st, 2012
2:14 pm
Brain
I always took it as a compliment. “King” may be part of my name, but I am a very humble one. I lead because I stickout in crowds. Don’t or can’t blend in very well, just like lots of you guys. More of a Shepherd than a sheeple or wolf…
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 21st, 2012
2:19 pm
Kingdaddy NO ken has his timeline and I am holding for another week. LOL
kingdaddy
August 21st, 2012
2:23 pm
Twink
I haven’t bought a bottle of “Heinz” since John ran for el presidentae…
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 21st, 2012
2:24 pm
Brainiac…..you said Humble…….Scoff is not to Downplay but to maybe laugh at and Look down upon as beinging better than. You were totally WRONG in your definition of Scoff. TRY again.
You sling it to me so I slang it back at you.
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 21st, 2012
2:26 pm
KingDaddy…I will not even use the packets if that is the only ketchup a place has to put on my burger. LOL
bham dawg
August 21st, 2012
2:33 pm
@Big C… that’s a great question. i wish we could start implementing the saban system and hire 9 recruiters that don’t count toward your number of coaches. how he gets away with that is unknown to me. can you explain that?
Big Crimson 75
August 21st, 2012
2:36 pm
Beau runs the Montana Ranch among other things and is married to Tereza Heinz Kerry( john kerry’s wife)
————–
Twink — Which one is married to her?? I thought John Kerry was married to the Heinz trust-fund baby.
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 21st, 2012
2:38 pm
Beau Turner(Ted Turner’s Son) I think is married to Tereza Heinz Kerry’s daughter.
Big Crimson 75
August 21st, 2012
2:41 pm
bham — I know nothing of what you speak!!
I do know the asst Coach that got “popped” with weed has been whacked. Damn U grads. Can’t do nothing with em.
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2012
2:46 pm
I thought he had been cleared of that charge.
bham dawg
August 21st, 2012
2:49 pm
We need to hire football analyst aka recruiters that don’t count toward your coaching numbers. saban is evil but he is one smart man. loophole master
Big Crimson 75
August 21st, 2012
2:50 pm
bham –
Nick Saban — HC
Burton Burns — RBs
Mike Groh — WRs (Dabo’s old gig)
Doug Nussmeier — OC/QBs (got a long way to go to prove he’s in McElwains class)
Jeff Stoutland — OL
Jeremy Pruitt — Secondary(weakest position coach we have)
Kirby Smart — DC(yeah right) & LBs
Lance Thompson — LBs…….i.e. Recruiting coordinator
Bobby Williams — TEs & Special Teams
Chris Rumph — DL
……..what am I missing b-ham? These are the only Asst Coaches @ Bama.
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 21st, 2012
2:51 pm
http://www.facebook.com/calvin.j.johnson.92/posts/464362653598216?notif_t=share_reply
Big Crimson 75
August 21st, 2012
2:58 pm
I thought he had been cleared of that charge.
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Lake — if your talking about Derrick Crudup, who was on Saban’s staff as a grad asst, Yes — he was fired. He’s now @ Vigor HS in Mobile — a notorious feeder program for the Barn.
Big Crimson 75
August 21st, 2012
2:59 pm
*sorry about that Altamaha.
bham dawg
August 21st, 2012
3:00 pm
@big C… http://boards.dawgrun.com/message_board/georgia/2012/August/10/668738.php
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2012
3:00 pm
It’s a river. Not a lake.
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August 21st, 2012
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AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2012
3:03 pm
I actually thought Saban handled that properly. As I understand it, he wasn’t just fired on the spot, but was allowed to clear those charges (passed drug test, insisted a passenger had left it) then the enevitable parting of the ways.
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2012
3:04 pm
sort of like the inevitable typo.