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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Monday, August 25, 2008
Bobo: Young O-line ‘kind of scary’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
We haven’t been able to get offensive coordinator Mike Bobo pinned down very often this preseason (he’s a little busy) but he did sit still long enough to answer some questions over the weekend. So here’s some of that:
On whether the offense will be able to pick up where it left off last season:
“I’d like to pick up where we left off but to say we’re going to walk out and execute the way we were at the end of last year, you’d like to think so, but it’s a new team, a new offense, a new identity. We feel like we got a certain identity but we still have to establish that on Saturdays, find out what kind of football team we’re going to be offensively.”
How long does it take for offensive lines to start clicking?
“You like for guys to redshirt, play a year as a backup and then by their third year, redshirt sophomore, get in there and play and then have two-to-three years to play together. Our situation on offensive line, we have had to play freshmen. We’re going to have to play another freshman this year starting and two will play (Cordy Glenn, Ben Jones). I think it takes time but you’ve just got to find a way to get things done in season and hopefully we can keep this unit, these young guys we’ve got, together for the next couple of years. Maybe next year we’ll have a chance to be a pretty dominant offensive line.”
Are you uneasy having to play freshmen offensive linemen?
“It’s kind of scary sometimes… . They might be physically-gifted enough athletic-wise. But I think strength wise sometimes that’s not where they need to be. [You’d like them to] have a year, two years in the weight program. They’re not as big and strong as they should be. Nowadays you do get some big guys, like Cordy Glenn, who come in and are just naturally gifted. Mentally, there’s a lot of stuff. Some people think offensive line, you just line up and play ball and block the guy in front of you. There’s a lot of things they’ve got to know. I’d say next to quarterback, that’s probably the position that’s got to be the most knowledgeable of what you’re doing offensively. They’ve got to be extremely sharp… .
“It’s our job as coaches to not put too much in, to do what they can do. If they’re confused, they’re not going to play fast and they’re not going to play to their ability. Like Cordy Glenn, we believe he has ability. But if they’re confused and thinking about what they’re going to do, they’re not going to be able play fast.”
Do you have any idea what to expect of Georgia Southern defensively?
“There’s a lot of rumors going around of what they’re playing defensively. It’s tough on us. It’s same thing last year: New coordinator at Oklahoma State. First games, it always seems like you’re playing a defense that has either got a new coordinator or supposedly going to a new defense. It’s going to be an adjustment. We might come out and they might give us something we haven’t seen or haven’t practiced and we’ll have to make adjustments during the game.”
UGA students upset over tickets
Good story in The Red and Black, UGA’s independent student newspaper, about scores of UGA students being upset over football season tickets. Seems that a great number of students ended up with split-season packages, which means you get tickets for only half of the six home games and which ones are determined by the ticket office. I’ll look into it myself later today.
Know your Knowshon
It’s been interesting to see all the national stories popping out on Knowshon Moreno as the beginning of the season approaches. You’ll note, and our Mark Bradley pointed this out today as well, that Moreno is usually least-quoted individual in any of his stories. Not that anyone should care but, for all his personality on the field and on the sidelines during games, Moreno is one of the worst interviews in the business. But the New York Times did a nice piece on him where they were able to visit his grandmother in their New Jersey home.
REMEMBER, PRACTICE UPDATES COMING LATER TODAY.
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