Keith Marshall dazzles teammate: ‘He shook two people … both fell down’
Freshman Keith Marshall has been wowing his coaches and teammates with his moves in the open field. (UGA photo by Steven Colquitt)
ATHENS – Linebacker Christian Robinson’s enthusiastic account of a play in a recent practice probably will heighten Georgia fans’ anticipation of freshman tailback Keith Marshall’s debut Saturday.
“Keith put a move on somebody the other day that I hadn’t seen in a while,” Robinson said Tuesday. “He shook two people, and they both fell down. That’s pretty special to me because I haven’t seen somebody just blatantly fall down because someone did a move on them.
“Literally, he was untouched. He was running in the middle of the field and made two guys fall and then outran somebody to the pylon. That type of talent, I haven’t seen that in a while. … I’d like to see that in a real game. I think that’d get people excited.”
Robinson said the last Georgia player with “that type of juking ability” was probably wide receiver A.J. Green.
Robinson had high praise for Georgia’s entire tailback group, which also includes redshirt sophomore Ken Malcome (the expected opening-game starter), freshman Todd Gurley and senior Richard Samuel (who also plays fullback).
“We’ve got a lot of good running backs,” Robinson said. “They’re all different. They all have their unique running style.”
A senior, Robinson said he has been impressed with what he has seen from the Bulldogs’ overall 2012 recruiting class.
“This freshman class is very solid,” Robinson said. “… I think this group is way farther ahead than a lot of groups in the recent past.”
– Tim Tucker, AJC
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Dawg Whisperer
August 28th, 2012
7:28 pm
Game Changer… uh oh, you forgot to refer to “we” when talking about UGA. You are a dawg fan aren’t you?
sportzfan
August 28th, 2012
7:40 pm
@ DawgNation…..UGA success is history, nothing recent. What’s happening currently is what’s important…….gee it would be nice if Abe Lincoln could be President again. S. Carolina has beaten UGA two years in a row, and probably going to be three come October. Give credit where it’s due, not to UGA which currently is a middle of the road SEC team…..as is S. Carolina.
If you want to talk smack and brag, wait til end of season.
wikki
August 28th, 2012
7:47 pm
Millions for college football radio show? You obviously no nothing about the radio biz moron!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I-DOG
August 28th, 2012
8:02 pm
HABDAWG:
Agree that IC was injury prone, but don’t forget that Samuel and Malcome have been just as injury prone. Hopefully, we have at least 2 of our 4 available at all times and more importantly in the big games.
I think that Robinson’s comments about Marshall are another reason not to ASSUME that the best player is the guy that had the best yards per carry average in 3 scrimmages. We don’t get to see what the holes looked like for each back or if they were against the 3 team defense. Also, the guy who is ultimately the best back may not be the one that impresses the most in the first three weeks of practice. Some guys take a little longer to get up to speed.
Sounds like Malcome is going to start, but that all four will get a chance against a lesser opponent this week. Lets see what happens in an actual game and then against a quality opponent in MO before we start saying that one of these guys has really seperated.
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 28th, 2012
8:05 pm
what
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August 28th, 2012
8:06 pm
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DawgNation
August 28th, 2012
8:06 pm
The “DawgNation” at 7:08 was not me. I have refrained from comment the past few weeks as the BS from outside fans has been way over the top……………again. “DawgNation” of 7:08 thanks for not being an a$$ with your comment and posting on an intelligent level. I agree with sportzfan that for the past 5 years we really have not had that much to beat our chest about but history is a nice remembrance of what will be again.
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 28th, 2012
8:07 pm
DawgNation
August 28th, 2012
7:08 pm
I cannot believe that there are actually South Carolina fans are here – and elsewhere – talking smack. You have 4 bowl wins in school history. We have 26, with 4 just in the past 5 seasons.
=================================
UGa has lost the last 2 bowl games. I see we have another soon to be UGa Engineer on the blog.
Lakedawg
August 28th, 2012
8:10 pm
Veteran Fan–Your Tech team runs the ball every down and what have the results been the past 10 out of 11 years?
kingdaddy
August 28th, 2012
8:22 pm
Twink
Why does it seem so many “outsiders” have flooded the UGA sites? Few of them will claim a school for themselves and just come to disrupt. You can’t seem to help yourself but you don’t hide or lie about being a Tech fan which I respect. Most of these other bums are here just to be confrontational. What happened to respecting someone else’s backyard???
Tampa Gator
August 28th, 2012
8:23 pm
Obviously, Robinson has never seen the replay of Trent Richardson juking the Ole Miss safety off his feet and out of his shoes last year…..and that was in a REAL game. But I am sure Marshall is going to be a fine back…..but let him play a game before anointing him as the next great RB for Georgia. And the guy who earlier compared Marshall to Ealey, King, Crowell…and such….come on man. Night and day difference between Marshall and those guys…..maybe not much difference in skill…..but a lot of difference in character. Good difference.
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 28th, 2012
8:29 pm
KingDaddy it is almost game day so you know how it gets.
Why do people walk their dogs and let them crap in other peoples yards but not clean it up? LOL
Teriyaki Dawg
August 28th, 2012
8:33 pm
Hooters girls make good lovers but poor wives
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 28th, 2012
8:38 pm
According to the divorce numbers not just Hooter’s Girls make poor wives.
kral
August 28th, 2012
8:45 pm
partial out of context quote…gamechanger…I don’t think
Dawg-Nation
August 28th, 2012
8:46 pm
I apologize for mimicking another posters user name, that was not my intent. I generally read, not remark on posts, but some of the South Carolina fans are either extremely young or have very short memory spans. But sorry about that.
I dropped my fried twinkie, I have followed your posts on this and several other threads over the last month or so. Your pseudo intellectual viewpoint is not original, refreshing, nor a credit to your own team. You have claimed not to be a troll, but somehow you manage to read and remark on nearly every positive Georgia thread imaginable. You obviously feel that you have about as much vested interest in the Georgia Bulldogs as most of us do, albeit from a very negative perspective. I cannot speak for any other Dawg fans, but I am far beyond caring whatever post appears next to your posting ID anymore, as it is all a rehash of the exact same snide message.
As for the “Yeah, but what have you done for me lately?” viewpoint of other individuals, I am not a Mark Richt apologist… because he does not need one. His winning percentage is the highest of any Georgia coach since 1922, and he has done considerably better through 10 seasons then Vince Dooley had at the same point. Vince had not won a bowl game since 1973 when we beat Notre Dame in 1980. Spurrier’s winning percentage at USC East is roughly equivalent to Joe Morrison’s winning percentage from the 1980’s over a comparable period of time, and far from spectacular. I firmly stand by my comments; one glance at your schedule tells me that you have absolutely zero chance of winning the SEC East this season. Therefore, I believe that you are completely irrelevant. And, according to the opinions that I am hearing, isn’t the only thing that matters the here and now?
Roll Tide ROLL!
August 28th, 2012
8:49 pm
Yore coach Ricth coulddn’t hold Nick Sabans jockey strap. You doggies are way ovverrated.
7576DAWG
August 28th, 2012
8:54 pm
sportzfan
Unless you were watching a different game last year I don’t see where South Carolina beat Georgia.Even Spurrier couldn’t believe South Carolina out scored Georgia in that game. Georgia beat themselves. The defense only gave up 22 points, if I remember right. The players at South Carolina will remember the over 400 yards that Georgia had, Georgia will not make the same mistakes this year. Your tackle ran a play back for a touchdown and Georgia missed an easy field goal. No, if South Carolina wins this year it will be because they out played Georgia.
HABDAWG
August 28th, 2012
9:11 pm
I-Dog 8:02…. You are correct about the injuries last year. The difference this year is that we have KM & TG and they appear to to be the real deal. We shall see.
I hope R.Samuel gets to go out with a bang. I can’t wait for Saturday.
Huh?
August 28th, 2012
9:24 pm
7576Dawg…The whole “they didn’t beat us we beat ourselves” arguement is old. Every team wins a game they probably shouldn’t, and lose a game they probably shouldn’t. So what. That was last year. Whatever you feel about the game doesn’t change the record books.
Dawg-Nation
August 28th, 2012
9:24 pm
Roll Tide Roll – Another fine Tuscaloosa education, I see.
Nick Saban’s record against winning teams: 69-47, or 59%.
Mark Richt’s record against winning teams: 54-35, or 61%.
I will certainly get Saban the edge when it comes to winning national championships, but it is far too big of a subjective process right now to determine absolute level of coaching skill, as few people argue, in retrospect, that Georgia was the best team in the country at the end of the season (with the obvious exception of LSU fans). Either way, their records against the teams that matter are remarkably similar. Just an FYI.
kingdaddy
August 28th, 2012
9:25 pm
Twink
I don’t know of many Dawg fans who waste their time on another teams site. Not saying it never happens, but nothing like what has been going on in these blogs…losers…
Huh?
August 28th, 2012
9:26 pm
wikki…do you even know where Paul Finebaum’s show is aired?
Dawg-Nation
August 28th, 2012
9:26 pm
Sorry, that last post should have said at the end of the 2008 season (obviously).
Huh?
August 28th, 2012
9:27 pm
kingdaddy…that’s because other teams’ fans don’t act like UGA fans…they are not as unrealistic…they accept defeat when it’s called for. They don’t whine and cry and talk about what ifs.
It’s generally accepted that UGA fans are the worst. So if you want to keep acting that way, expect other fans to give you a hard time about it.
Huh?
August 28th, 2012
9:30 pm
and kingdaddy…this is a public newspaper site. If you want to get away from non-UGA fans, then put down some money and join a real UGA site.
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August 28th, 2012
9:30 pm
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kral
August 28th, 2012
9:33 pm
huh huh huh..everyone else’s fans are realistic…what kool-aide have you been drinking..oh you must hang out on blogs of many other teams and have developed your hypothesis
FaithfulDawg86
August 28th, 2012
9:35 pm
@Veteran: You are an idiot – that is all. @Huh: You are including Moreno in that group that was “over-hyped”? Really?
kingdaddy
August 28th, 2012
9:37 pm
Huh?
You feel the need to come on a UGA blog again and bash us because we are doing excatly what to you? We must have tore the brakes of of your team on a regular basis for you to waste your time on our site with your jealously toward our program. Dawgs are good people but trolls like you are vindictive,petty and small-minded losers intent on bashing Dawgs on the blog since you can’t seem to do it on the field…
Huh?
August 28th, 2012
9:37 pm
Faithful…yes I am…not a bad player at UGA….not Walker, but not bad. One of the biggest busts in the NFL over the last 10 years though.
Huh?
August 28th, 2012
9:38 pm
kral…indeed.
Huh?
August 28th, 2012
9:40 pm
kingdaddy…a UGA fan calling another fan small minded? Really? I tore you a new one on the other article, so you feeling a bit vindictive yourself? Get over it. This is a public site. If you don’t like it, then leave.
kingdaddy
August 28th, 2012
9:43 pm
Of course it’s a public site with the heading of UGA SPORTS. Try finding a site that talks about your team and give the hate a rest…
kral
August 28th, 2012
9:44 pm
inspiring huh..tell where you go ..for these realistic blog conversations..and what does that say about you that you do not stay there..oh I get your here to council poor UGA fans or your led by a higher power to try and set them straight..very noble of you..check your kool-aide
lj
August 28th, 2012
9:45 pm
Richt must not have that much faith in not starting one of his great RB freshman that everybody keeps raving about.
Huh?
August 28th, 2012
9:46 pm
kingdaddy…I don’t hate UGA footballl…just UGA football fans, for the reasons that I indicated above. UGA fans certainly give fans of other schools a hard time (including the ones on this site). So, I have every right to state my opinion. Again, if you can’t handle my opinion, then go somewhere else.
Huh?
August 28th, 2012
9:47 pm
kral…there are so many mistakes in what you typed, that it is very hard to understand it. Please try again.
The Factor
August 28th, 2012
9:47 pm
Huh? Or Huh??? Like any of us give a s-it. You are pathetic. Get youself a women to occupy your time as you obviously have no life.
lj
August 28th, 2012
9:50 pm
Hey Dawg Nation I will give you credit that UGA has a lot more storied football history than South Carolina has but Spurrier is building a national powerhouse at USC and will prove it this season. Look out Dawgs Spurrier might hang that 50 points on you on Oct 6th since you wanted to not play that game 2nd week of the season.
Huh?
August 28th, 2012
9:50 pm
Factor…it’s Huh?, not Huh??? I am pathetic because I am not drinking the Kool-aid and circle jerking on the big G with your fellow Dawg brethren? Please. If you guys want to hold hands and make the world a better place with your UGA idealogy, then do it somewhere else. Like a real UGA blog.
kral
August 28th, 2012
9:52 pm
sorry you have trouble with reading comprehension..try reading my blog slowly 3-times huh..if you do get it..blog back at me..but my answer may take awhile the BRAVES are about to start..if you can’t understand this refer me to your sanctimonious azz for english lessons
Just a thought
August 28th, 2012
9:53 pm
I remember when Tech beat UGA, and the board was filled with comments about ” A New Sheriff was in town”. It was a new era…. How’s that working out for you tech fans…Of course, you were just being REALISTIC…..
kingdaddy
August 28th, 2012
9:54 pm
Huh
you were owned in the last blog. Your butt was like a doorknob, everybody took a turn, lol. Once again, you’re just a troll on a Dawg site trying to be something you’re not, significant.
Huh?
August 28th, 2012
9:56 pm
kral…are you kidding? You had so many grammar errors and absolutely zero punctuation. I didn’t have the time, or the patience, to try to figure out what you were saying. And you want to talk to me about English lessons?
kingdaddy
August 28th, 2012
9:57 pm
Huh
Nope, your just a pathetic loser looking for attention on a Dawg blog. We’re done…
Huh?
August 28th, 2012
9:58 pm
kingdaddy…trying to pretend that I was owned on the other blog is about the most ridiculous thing you have said all night. The fact is, everyone readying this can easily go and re-read our back and forth. Pretending won’t get you anywhere…except embarrassed.
Huh?
August 28th, 2012
9:59 pm
kingdaddy…”were done?” You are just now figuring that out? You blogged me first on this article. If you can’t handle it, sorry.
kral
August 28th, 2012
10:07 pm
huh you’re a trip …But you and I BOTH know you got it..you’re a hoot forget punctuation..read for context clues tried to throw out some apostrophes for you this time..did you not get the azz part..really check your kool-aide if you did not get it surely with your high standards you would not keep acknowleging it..mispeeled a few so you can keep that superior feeling
kingdaddy
August 28th, 2012
10:07 pm
Keith Marshall is going to want to make a statement Sat. Many teams seem to be very worried about UGA making a prolonged run into the SEC this year. It’s eating some of them up real bad. They are jealous of us once again and can’t do anything but cry. Probably sell a lot of Midol outside the state of Georgia this year, lol…