So, another year, another GDAY has come and gone. The best news out of the entire day, NO INJURIES. I watched the game via tape delay and my trusty DVR (thanks to the Bama game going over, I ended up missing the last portion of Gday-yet another reason to dislike Bama). Speaking of which, why in the world does Saint Nick feel the need to wear a suit for a spring football game-to borrow a classic line from Will Ferrell, playing the character of Chaz from Wedding Crashers, "what an IDIOT". Yeah, he is such a classy guy, he needs to be walking the sidelines in his suit during spring A-Day. Hey, the man can coach there is no doubt but there is very little to like about him otherwise.
Back to our spring game, it was pretty ugly like most spring games tend to be. I did like the play of several of the young guys-LeMay looked really good to me, so did Jay Rome and Justin Scott-Wesley. There was also a white WR name Erdman that was quite impressive. I liked the way Malcome, Crowell and Samuel ran the ball. On the defensive side, Ramik Wilson looks like a beast, I think Jenkins/Geathers looked really good-or was that Andrews at center looking really bad-I will go with the former. Swann looks very capable of playing corner for us as well. Some folks I believe were a little worried about the point total but I didn't come away worried at all. We have some really incredible athletes on our defense, more waiting in the wings, Grantham is going to get those guys ready to play without question. The one thing missing to me is more quality depth-so that we can keep guys fresh and not wilt late in games like we did at times last year. With more quality guys getting reps and more quality guys being recruited on defense, I REALLY like the direction we are headed on the defensive side. As for the offense, with Scott-Wesley looking like yet another quality WR, Rome looking like the next star TE for us, I believe that is going to give us the luxury of getting Mitchell a lot of PT on defense, especially early on when he will be needed there. But, having him play both ways, that is just a bonus. The improvement of Malcome, Crowell looks to be much stronger/thicker to me, I believe his work ethic and size will hopefully make him more durable this year, Samuel is just a bruiser, Marshall and Gurley also being ready to go, the OL will of course be the key component to our offense being incredible of average. Those guys don't have to be GREAT, just adequate. Because they have a very experienced QB behind them, a lot of depth and talent at the WR and RB positions, just provide those guys a little bit of area and we can be very explosive. I am excited about the potential of this football program moving forward. I feel like 2010 was Richt's bump in the road and now I feel like we are moving back to the top of the hill again.
Recruiting has really picked up for the 2013 class, we all knew it would be a large class but don't think anyone could have expected us to have 15 commitments in April also three kids for class of 2014 have already said they would play for UGA. Granted, things can change between now and signing day but in most cases, kids keep to their word.
Ok, I had a lot more stuff on this blog but for some reason I am having issues publishing my blogs here lately so I am going to stop here. A few more tidbits, good luck to the Gymnastics team today as they compete at Gwinnett Arena for a national title. They first most finish top 3 (out of 6) in their session, then will compete with the top 3 from the other session for the title on Saturday. IF they can make it to tomorrow, they will be going for their first national title since 2009 which was Yoculan's last season as coach.
The baseball team travels to Gainesville for a weekend series with the Gators, the Dogs are now 23-15 and 7-8 in SEC play. They did win the series last weekend with Ole Miss but then lost a Tuesday game to Furman-that is NOT good. It will be hard to take this series against the #1 ranked Gators but at least one win is almost a must. This team to me has underachieved and you have to wonder how the future of Dave Perno if this team fails to make the SEC and reginonal tournaments. They should make both but this team has been hard to figure out this year.
Finally, Tony Parker, the stud PF basketball prospect is set to make his choice Monday. At one time, it was thought to be a Duke/Kansas/Ohio State battle but now most believe it will come down to UCLA or UGA. I still think Duke could have a shot but UGA does have a realistic shot to snag him. His only complaint about us is lack of fan support but he signing with UGA helps to improve that. He can stay close to home, play with two high school teammates and help drastically change the direction of our hoops program. Let's hope he picks the red and black on Monday.
Have a great weekend, happy bday to my daughter tomorrow and my son on Monday. Go Dogs!
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