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had a good year last year overall
Looking forward to the college season and wagering on georgia games.
Tough schedule this year. Still dont know who the QB will be and Richt usually goes with the senior people.
still got the beast for running back. that should make the QB job easier
good luck this year
Looking forward to the college season and wagering on georgia games.
Tough schedule this year. Still dont know who the QB will be and Richt usually goes with the senior people.
still got the beast for running back. that should make the QB job easier
good luck this year
There?s angst in Athens about the lack of a clear No. 1 quarterback. That?s understandable because no one likes for the most important position to be unsettled this late in the summer. (I hear what they are sayin?).
At least the Dawgs aren?t alone. One reason the SEC East is looking least again is because there is no QB in the division that you can be sure is
The Man.
That?s true in Knoxville, even though it may not seem like it. After all, junior Joshua Dobbs is preseason All-SEC and on several of those awards watch lists. Phil Fulmer is comparing him to Heath Shuler.
Thing is, Dobbs built his rep largely on his performance during four games, and all of them come with asterisks: vs. Bama when down 27-0, South Carolina, Kentucky and bowl game vs. Iowa
At least Dobbs has potential. In South Carolina, the Ol? Ball Coach had nothing good to say about Perry Orth, Connor Mitch, Lorenzo Nunez or Michael Scarnecchia.
?We didn?t have a ?best? quarterback,? Steve Spurrier said after the first scrimmage. ?You see any best ones??
Ouch.
At Kentucky, mediocre 2004 starter Patrick Towles held off touted prospect Drew Barker to win the starting QB gig. I thought this one was pretty much settled when Barker got sucker punched back in April and a couple of his teammates seemed pretty OK with it.
In Gainesville, new coach Jim McElwain is pretending he?s comfortable with either Will Grier or Treon Harris at quarterback. He?s just not comfortable enough that he will name a starter but, hey, plenty of time.
New Vanderbilt OC Andy Ludwig is taking his time in deciding whether Johnny McCrary or Wade Freebeck quarterback will lead his offense. Freeback was bad last season, McCrawy was bad in the spring game and so good luck with that, Coach Ludwig.
Maty Mauk didn?t live up to the hype for Mizzou last year but he was OK after the Bulldogs shut him out. But reports from the weekend scrimmage were that Mauk was mediocre while hotshot freshman Drew Lock looked good, prompting QB coach Andy Hill to compare the youngster to Chase Daniel?s arrival in Columbia.
Nothing fans and media types love more than a new QB who might be better than the old one they have now, so that?s why Hill was backtracking a couple of days later.
?Drew?s done some great things, but he?s got a long way to go,? Hill said on Monday. ?Chase Daniel was a standard-setter in a lot of ways for Missouri. Drew?s been out here for, what, 11 practices? We?re certainly keeping a level head about how guys can play.?
Not sure Hill was keeping a level head when he spouted off about Lock looking like Chase Daniel after one practice, but maybe he?s just being hopeful. In the SEC East, no one can be sure about their QB.
At least the Dawgs aren?t alone. One reason the SEC East is looking least again is because there is no QB in the division that you can be sure is
The Man.
That?s true in Knoxville, even though it may not seem like it. After all, junior Joshua Dobbs is preseason All-SEC and on several of those awards watch lists. Phil Fulmer is comparing him to Heath Shuler.
Thing is, Dobbs built his rep largely on his performance during four games, and all of them come with asterisks: vs. Bama when down 27-0, South Carolina, Kentucky and bowl game vs. Iowa
At least Dobbs has potential. In South Carolina, the Ol? Ball Coach had nothing good to say about Perry Orth, Connor Mitch, Lorenzo Nunez or Michael Scarnecchia.
?We didn?t have a ?best? quarterback,? Steve Spurrier said after the first scrimmage. ?You see any best ones??
Ouch.
At Kentucky, mediocre 2004 starter Patrick Towles held off touted prospect Drew Barker to win the starting QB gig. I thought this one was pretty much settled when Barker got sucker punched back in April and a couple of his teammates seemed pretty OK with it.
In Gainesville, new coach Jim McElwain is pretending he?s comfortable with either Will Grier or Treon Harris at quarterback. He?s just not comfortable enough that he will name a starter but, hey, plenty of time.
New Vanderbilt OC Andy Ludwig is taking his time in deciding whether Johnny McCrary or Wade Freebeck quarterback will lead his offense. Freeback was bad last season, McCrawy was bad in the spring game and so good luck with that, Coach Ludwig.
Maty Mauk didn?t live up to the hype for Mizzou last year but he was OK after the Bulldogs shut him out. But reports from the weekend scrimmage were that Mauk was mediocre while hotshot freshman Drew Lock looked good, prompting QB coach Andy Hill to compare the youngster to Chase Daniel?s arrival in Columbia.
Nothing fans and media types love more than a new QB who might be better than the old one they have now, so that?s why Hill was backtracking a couple of days later.
?Drew?s done some great things, but he?s got a long way to go,? Hill said on Monday. ?Chase Daniel was a standard-setter in a lot of ways for Missouri. Drew?s been out here for, what, 11 practices? We?re certainly keeping a level head about how guys can play.?
Not sure Hill was keeping a level head when he spouted off about Lock looking like Chase Daniel after one practice, but maybe he?s just being hopeful. In the SEC East, no one can be sure about their QB.
It?s a consensus: Pollsters thinks Georgia is going to be a Top 10 team this year.
The Bulldogs, who ended last year as the nation?s No. 9-ranked team, will open 2015 with a No. 9 ranking, according to the writers and broadcasters who vote in The Associated Press poll. The preseason rankings were released Sunday afternoon.
Georgia Tech was ranked No. 16. As is the case with the Amway/USA Today Coaches poll released in late July, it?s the first time that the Yellow Jackets have been ranked in the preseason since 2010. Tech is No. 17 in the coaches poll.
It?s recognition of the high expectations for the Jackets, who finished the 2014 with an 11-3 record and an Orange Bowl victory. Tech returns eight starters on defense and five on offense, including quarterback Justin Thomas.
Ohio State is the first unanimous preseason No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll.
The defending national champion Buckeyes received all 61 first-place votes from the media panel.
TCU is No. 2, followed by Alabama, Baylor and Michigan State.
Georgia, which also ranked in No. 9 in the coaches poll, is one of eight SEC teams in this year?s AP rankings. The Bulldogs join No. 3 Alabama, No. 6 Auburn, No. 14 LSU, No. 17 Ole Miss, No. 18 Arkansas, No. 24 Missouri and No. 25 Tennessee.
The Bulldogs, who were 10-3 last year, return 15 starters and three specialists from that team. However, they continue to search for a starting quarterback to succeed Hutson Mason. Georgia opens this season on Sept. 5 against Louisiana-Monroe.
Tech is ranked third among the three ACC teams in the top 25, following Florida State at No. 10 and Clemson at No. 12. The Jackets play four ranked teams: Georgia, Notre Dame, Florida State and Clemson. Three of the four games, with the exception of the game with the Seminoles, will be on the road for Tech. Tech opens the season Sept. 3 against Alcorn State.
It?s the 12th time that Tech has appeared in the AP preseason poll. Tech has been included eight times since coach Bobby Dodd?s retirement after the 1966 season. Three have come since the hire of coach Paul Johnson before the 2008 season.
Ohio State won the first College Football Playoff championship last season and is trying to become the 12th team to win consecutive AP titles since the poll began in 1936.
Preseason rankings date back to 1950. Since then, no team had received more than 97 percent of the first-place votes in a preseason poll.
In 2013, Alabama, which had won two straight championships, received 58 of 60 first-place votes and defending champion Florida did the same in 2009. Neither finished the season No. 1.
This is the eighth time Ohio State has been named the AP preseason No. 1, but the Buckeyes didn?t win a national championship in any of the previous seven years it happened. They finished No. 2 in both 1998 and 2006 after being ranked No. 1 at the start of the year.
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come on Georgia . pick a QB already ...
Geeez
The Bulldogs, who ended last year as the nation?s No. 9-ranked team, will open 2015 with a No. 9 ranking, according to the writers and broadcasters who vote in The Associated Press poll. The preseason rankings were released Sunday afternoon.
Georgia Tech was ranked No. 16. As is the case with the Amway/USA Today Coaches poll released in late July, it?s the first time that the Yellow Jackets have been ranked in the preseason since 2010. Tech is No. 17 in the coaches poll.
It?s recognition of the high expectations for the Jackets, who finished the 2014 with an 11-3 record and an Orange Bowl victory. Tech returns eight starters on defense and five on offense, including quarterback Justin Thomas.
Ohio State is the first unanimous preseason No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll.
The defending national champion Buckeyes received all 61 first-place votes from the media panel.
TCU is No. 2, followed by Alabama, Baylor and Michigan State.
Georgia, which also ranked in No. 9 in the coaches poll, is one of eight SEC teams in this year?s AP rankings. The Bulldogs join No. 3 Alabama, No. 6 Auburn, No. 14 LSU, No. 17 Ole Miss, No. 18 Arkansas, No. 24 Missouri and No. 25 Tennessee.
The Bulldogs, who were 10-3 last year, return 15 starters and three specialists from that team. However, they continue to search for a starting quarterback to succeed Hutson Mason. Georgia opens this season on Sept. 5 against Louisiana-Monroe.
Tech is ranked third among the three ACC teams in the top 25, following Florida State at No. 10 and Clemson at No. 12. The Jackets play four ranked teams: Georgia, Notre Dame, Florida State and Clemson. Three of the four games, with the exception of the game with the Seminoles, will be on the road for Tech. Tech opens the season Sept. 3 against Alcorn State.
It?s the 12th time that Tech has appeared in the AP preseason poll. Tech has been included eight times since coach Bobby Dodd?s retirement after the 1966 season. Three have come since the hire of coach Paul Johnson before the 2008 season.
Ohio State won the first College Football Playoff championship last season and is trying to become the 12th team to win consecutive AP titles since the poll began in 1936.
Preseason rankings date back to 1950. Since then, no team had received more than 97 percent of the first-place votes in a preseason poll.
In 2013, Alabama, which had won two straight championships, received 58 of 60 first-place votes and defending champion Florida did the same in 2009. Neither finished the season No. 1.
This is the eighth time Ohio State has been named the AP preseason No. 1, but the Buckeyes didn?t win a national championship in any of the previous seven years it happened. They finished No. 2 in both 1998 and 2006 after being ranked No. 1 at the start of the year.
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come on Georgia . pick a QB already ...
Geeez
THENS ? Georgia?s starting quarterback competition has a winner, and it?s an unexpected one: Greyson Lambert, the transfer from Virginia.
Lambert will start in Saturday?s season opener against Louisiana-Monroe, coach Mark Richt announced after Monday?s practice.
Brice Ramsey, who had been the presumed favorite since he finished last year as the No. 2 quarterback, will share second-team snaps with Faton Bauta this week in practice.
?There may be other or others who get in the game. But right now the thing that I know that he?ll start the game,? Richt said of Lambert. ?Very, very close competition. Still being contested in my mind. But at this point we felt it would be wise to name a starter and get him ready to play in this ballgame. ? We?ll start playing ball that way and see how it goes.?
The quarterbacks were notified prior to Monday?s practice. Richt said he and offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer were ?pretty sure? on Saturday, then gave it a couple days before finalizing it.
It?s quite a turn of fortune for Lambert, a 6-foot-5 junior who transferred from Virginia this summer after dropping to No. 2 on the Cavaliers? depth chart. He started eight games for Virginia last season as a sophomore, passing for 10 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.
?Anything that happened at Virginia had nothing to do with the decision for him to start,? Richt said. ?It might have had something to do with the decision to have him come on our campus because that?s what we had on him to go by. We didn?t invite him blindly. We watched his film and felt like he could function and do the things that we?re going to ask the quarterback to do here at Georgia. But we didn?t say: ?He?s gonna come in and be our starter? by any means. We told him he would compete for that job and legitimately have a shot to compete for that job.?
The competition isn?t over yet: Richt said that the coaches are ?very interested? in another quarterback getting first-half snaps on Saturday. He didn?t specify which one, but Ramsey has consistently shared reps in practice with Lambert.
?I think they all can get us in the right plays. They can all get us in the right protections. I think they can all function extremely well and help us win,? Richt said. ?That?s what made it extremely tough. I can?t tell you how many times we went back and forth on the thing, quite frankly.
?So it was very close, but coach Schottenheimer and I have decided that it would be wise to decide on who it is right now so we could kind of get it over with, so to speak, and maybe within a day or two everybody can kind of settle down and play football, think about winning.?
Ramsey was long considered the favorite after finishing last year as the No. 2 quarterback behind Hutson Mason. The 6-foot-2 Ramsey is regarded as having the strongest arm the program has seen since Matt Stafford, and he got game experience last season, finishing the Belk Bowl after Mason suffered a head injury.
But there were also concerns about Ramsey?s decision-making with his throws. During the spring he couldn?t get separation from Bauta, who is more mobile but has a weaker arm. Then when Lambert became available, Richt and Schottenheimer jumped at the chance to bring him in to compete.
Lambert, even while still taking classes at Virginia, studied Georgia?s playbook, preparing for his next team.
?I am a pro-style quarterback. I love the play-action pass,? Lambert said in June during an interview in Charlottesville. ?I love to be able to survey the defense and try to figure out what they?re doing and get the ball to the playmakers. Because ultimately that?s our job as a quarterback, is to facilitate the football, get it there accurately, on time, and make the right decisions.?
Lambert arrived at Georgia on July 13. His first practice with the Bulldogs wasn?t until Aug. 4, but in less than a month he was able to beat out Ramsey and Bauta.
?I can?t sit here and say Greyson just pulled away from the pack. They were all doing well, in our opinion,? Richt said. ?But he got the nod.?
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well its a start
Lambert will start in Saturday?s season opener against Louisiana-Monroe, coach Mark Richt announced after Monday?s practice.
Brice Ramsey, who had been the presumed favorite since he finished last year as the No. 2 quarterback, will share second-team snaps with Faton Bauta this week in practice.
?There may be other or others who get in the game. But right now the thing that I know that he?ll start the game,? Richt said of Lambert. ?Very, very close competition. Still being contested in my mind. But at this point we felt it would be wise to name a starter and get him ready to play in this ballgame. ? We?ll start playing ball that way and see how it goes.?
The quarterbacks were notified prior to Monday?s practice. Richt said he and offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer were ?pretty sure? on Saturday, then gave it a couple days before finalizing it.
It?s quite a turn of fortune for Lambert, a 6-foot-5 junior who transferred from Virginia this summer after dropping to No. 2 on the Cavaliers? depth chart. He started eight games for Virginia last season as a sophomore, passing for 10 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.
?Anything that happened at Virginia had nothing to do with the decision for him to start,? Richt said. ?It might have had something to do with the decision to have him come on our campus because that?s what we had on him to go by. We didn?t invite him blindly. We watched his film and felt like he could function and do the things that we?re going to ask the quarterback to do here at Georgia. But we didn?t say: ?He?s gonna come in and be our starter? by any means. We told him he would compete for that job and legitimately have a shot to compete for that job.?
The competition isn?t over yet: Richt said that the coaches are ?very interested? in another quarterback getting first-half snaps on Saturday. He didn?t specify which one, but Ramsey has consistently shared reps in practice with Lambert.
?I think they all can get us in the right plays. They can all get us in the right protections. I think they can all function extremely well and help us win,? Richt said. ?That?s what made it extremely tough. I can?t tell you how many times we went back and forth on the thing, quite frankly.
?So it was very close, but coach Schottenheimer and I have decided that it would be wise to decide on who it is right now so we could kind of get it over with, so to speak, and maybe within a day or two everybody can kind of settle down and play football, think about winning.?
Ramsey was long considered the favorite after finishing last year as the No. 2 quarterback behind Hutson Mason. The 6-foot-2 Ramsey is regarded as having the strongest arm the program has seen since Matt Stafford, and he got game experience last season, finishing the Belk Bowl after Mason suffered a head injury.
But there were also concerns about Ramsey?s decision-making with his throws. During the spring he couldn?t get separation from Bauta, who is more mobile but has a weaker arm. Then when Lambert became available, Richt and Schottenheimer jumped at the chance to bring him in to compete.
Lambert, even while still taking classes at Virginia, studied Georgia?s playbook, preparing for his next team.
?I am a pro-style quarterback. I love the play-action pass,? Lambert said in June during an interview in Charlottesville. ?I love to be able to survey the defense and try to figure out what they?re doing and get the ball to the playmakers. Because ultimately that?s our job as a quarterback, is to facilitate the football, get it there accurately, on time, and make the right decisions.?
Lambert arrived at Georgia on July 13. His first practice with the Bulldogs wasn?t until Aug. 4, but in less than a month he was able to beat out Ramsey and Bauta.
?I can?t sit here and say Greyson just pulled away from the pack. They were all doing well, in our opinion,? Richt said. ?But he got the nod.?
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well its a start
