| Georgia | 13 - 8 | .619 | 24 - 21 - 0 | .533 | 13-10 | 8-10 | 3-1 | W2 |
9 - 12 | .429 | 23 - 21 | .523 | 14-12 | 6-9 | 3-0 | L3 |
BTW, the 13-10, 14-12 is home record, 8-10, 6-9 would be road and 3-1 and 3-0 would be neutral field record. UGA comes in after taking 2 of 3 from Arkansas, AU comes in after being swept by SCarolina.
I read on the AJC blog, written by Bill King, that UGA will not recruit a QB for the class of 2012. He was asking if this was a mistake. Well, we have two sophs (it is possible Mason could red shirt) and a FR (who might redshir). We have been down this road before and honestly, I just don't think you need to recruit a QB every year-you certainly are not going to get elite QB's every year. The best guys are typically not going to go where another top guy is already in place and sit-this is why getting LeMay was a surprise. But, this idea that we need another guy in this class, I don't buy it. Even if one our backups were to leave, I just don't see a need to have more than 2-3 at any give time on scholarship. So, if Hudson Mason decides he has a better shot going somewhere else to play, thus leaves our program to use his redshirt season at another school and be in position to get a starting spot, I say let him leave. I like Mason and think he is a good looking QB but I think LeMay has more upside. I also think we all have to remember, UGA was the biggest offer Mason had coming out of HS, he also was offered by Miss State but otherwise, not a lot of big time offers. Now, some say LeMay might be the one that leaves but I can't see any reason he would do that. He enrolled early, he has to believe he will eventually get the starting nod. The perfect plan in my book is to redshirt LeMay and keep Mason as the backup. Obviously if Murray gets hurt for more than a game, that pulls the shirt off LeMay but otherwise, let him RS and learn the playbook, get him another year of separation from Murray. Also keeping in mind, besides Gday and the other scrimmages this spring, LeMay has not gone live since his JR year of HS. Bottom line, even if one of our QB's leave, I still wouldn't offer a QB just to fill a spot. I would wait this year out and then offer a kid in the 2013 class, there is a good one at Mason's high school that would be a good catch.
If ever there was a recruiting class that will be watching our results on the playing field this year, it is the class of 2012, followed closely by the class of 2013. Assuming we have a nice rebound year, I think Dream Team 2 will be every bit as impressive as the first group. They are just playing a wait and see game at the moment I believe. The season is far from being here but there are a lot of elements coming together that at least has me optimistic. First, the return of our QB, the fact he is a bright kid and he did experience success and failure in his career already. He also faced 4 games without AJ, so that will not be something that will cause him a lot of concern. Second, the second year of playing our new 3-4 D. I think if you look at most schools that make changes like we made (changing your entire scheme is drastic in my book), it is going to take time to adjust. Third, the scheduling to start the year. I think a team heading into a season on a mission to get back to playing winning football, they need to be challenged early-it will give them a sense or urgency during fall camp. Fourth, the incoming talent base. UGA routinely has great talent coming in most years but I get a sense this class is different. Reason being, this group was sold on the idea of coming in together and together turning UGA back around, together as mostly in state kids, pride in the red and black. This class also just seemed to bond so much during the recruiting process, this group is hungry and they have been promised the chance to earn immediate playing time. They are confident enough in their abilities to where they believe they can and will come in and play right away. This in turn gives us the 5th reason, the upperclass kids in the program are feeling the heat. It is one thing for coaches to feel the heat but quite another for the players to feel the heat. So, the players now are playing for their jobs-you tell me that doesn't motivate kids to give 100% of their effort at all times. I firmly believe there was way too much entitlement running wild within our program. Too many guys getting fat/lazy/complacent-and that goes for the coaching staff as well. I think you see the success at Bama, at UF etc, you get the feeling from the outside looking in, there was more urgency within the top programs in our conference. Again, that starts at the top and I think Coach Richt for the first time in his career IS feeling the heat. He is realizing now that he can be fired, it is a possible result for him where as before, he could relax a bit.
My thought process for our 2011 season has been and continues to be, we need to find a way to win game 1 and game 2. This team played a LOT of close games last year, finding ways to lose rather than finding ways to win. I fully expect that games 1 and 2 will be close, it will come down to what team finds a way to make a play, force a turnover, make a critical tackle on 3rd down, convert a crictical 3rd down-if this team can dig deep and find ways to win those games, I really do believe we will win the SECe and stand a good shot to win the SEC title this year. If we see 2010 come back into play, we see fumbles on the goaline, we are unable to make the key stop on 3rd and long, we can't convert 3rd and inches etc, I believe the season will finish much like last year and we will be searching for a new head coach for the 2012.
Hope everyone has a great weekend, if any Mom's read the blog, HAPPY MOTHER's DAY (my Mom might be the only one might read here).
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