UGA blog finds new home
Morning all. As I’ve said a couple of times this week, we’re converting this blog over to a WordPress platform and it will be a permanent move the first of next week.
Those of you who are regulars probably know that I’m not what you’d call techno-wizard when it comes to these things. But from what I understand the technology offered in this new format should make the blogging and commenting experience better for all. Of course, I’ll be learning as we go along, too. But I’m hoping to provide more pictures and video and things like that which should bring the blog more to life.
Of course, this blog is nothing without all you guys so I want to heartily invite (read: beg) you to come over to the new site by CLICKING HERE ON THE NEW ADDRESS and save it in your browsers. As of Monday, Feb. 23rd, this will be the permanent home of the UGA blog you so love or, in the case of some of you, love to loathe. If you’d prefer to copy and paste or just memorize, the new address is: http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/.
See at the new place!
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Moreno stays behind Brown at TB
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Just sitting down at my desk after coming back from Georgia’s weekly press conference over at Stegeman Coliseum. Pretty non-eventful session for the most part. Probably the two items you guys would be most interested in are that Thomas Brown will continue to be the starter ahead of Knowshon Moreno at tailback and that Tripp Chandler is NOT in coach Mark Richt’s doghouse but is competing for his starting job this week.
A few other items of interest: Even though Mohamed Massaquoi had only two catches for 23 yards Richt thought he played the best overall game of his career. Coincidentally, he said Sean Bailey and Mikey Henderson probably did, too. Kregg Lumpkin may come back this week but still won’t carry the football. Marcus Howard continues to be a beast at tight end, cornerback Asher Allen had the game of his life and Richt is having Willie Martinez work overtime to get him some answers on the defensive breakdowns at ends of halves this season.
Oh, and the closed-practice veil has been lifted, though only ever so slightly. Practices will be opened for 20 minutes on Tuesdays between the first and fourth periods as they work in full pads on fundamentals.
But let’s focus on the two most high-profile topics today — Moreno and Chandler.
Here was Richt’s comment on the prospect of starting Moreno ahead of Thomas Brown: “That’s not going to happen. Knowshon’s not ready to be the starter yet, in my opinion. He’s talented but he’s still growing. He’s still learning. It’s tough to do. And Thomas is playing extremely well in his own right and he’s a great leader, too. You’ve got to have leadership.”
Richt went on to say he likes the way the tailbacks are being deployed. Saturday night, they combined for 44 touches (47 if you include Brown’s three kickoff returns) for 209 yards (277 including KOR). “We do like to have those guys touch it,” Richt said. “We want the best players getting the opportunitioes and those guys have been the most productive to this point. I like how we utilize our backs.”
Here’s what he said about Chandler: “I don’t know what happened [on the dropped balls]. He’s been very sure-handed. I don’t know what happened. I guess he’s human. Even so, he’s got to keep fighting to keep his job like everybody else. I mean, I haven’t lost confidence in Tripp, but we’ll continue to compete at that position… . That was a good catch at the end. It was great; it was clutch.”
So there you go, Richt’s answers to some of your questions that have been swirling around here. Let’s here what you think about them.
And meanwhile, as long as we’re kind of on the subject, in light of Mike Gundy’s blowup at The Oklahoman columnist for being extremely critical of Oklahoma State quarterback Bobby Reid, where do you guys fall on the issue of criticizing college players. You guys have gotten after Chandler and Martrez Milner and others pretty hard about drops and we have, too, to some extent in print. Should we be more forgiving and less critical of these players since they’re not professionals?
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