Postgame quotes about Todd Gurley:
“I thought everybody handled it well. Football is a team sport and those guys know that. It has a lot to do with emotion, too. I thought our guys did a great job of listening to our coaches and trying to do it the way we’re coaching it. They brought a lot of energy and emotion into the game. Whether it was because of what happened during the week or not, I don’t know. I don’t have that answer. But I’m just proud of the effort of everybody.”
— Coach Mark Richt, on the team’s reaction this week
“I love Todd. We all love Todd. We texted a few times (Friday) night. He just wanted to wish everybody well.”
— Richt’s thoughts what Gurley is alleged to have done
“I know all the guys love Todd. We’re a very tight bunch. There’s great camaraderie. It could have been any one of our guys going through that type of thing. But everybody knows that life goes on, the season goes on, games go on. Todd could’ve had a high-ankle sprain a week ago and we’ve still got to play. So it wasn’t all that unusual for a teammate to not be able to play.”
— Richt on whether the victory was in honor of Gurley
“I’m not going to make any predictions. I have no idea. I really don’t. We’ll just have to wait and see what comes out of this process.”
— Richt on whether Gurley might play again for Georgia
“There were some pros and cons to that whole thing coming out on a Thursday. We didn’t really have another practice so you couldn’t really change anything even if we needed to. The good thing about it was it was so close to the game where you really did have a lot of time to ponder it.”
— Quarterback Hutson Mason on Gurley
“I don’t really know if any rules were broken. Right now we don’t really know. (UGA) took the protocol you have to take when something of that sort happens. But, you know, when it comes down to it, we look that guy to death. We’ve got his back regardless of the situation. We came out today and we got a ‘W’ for him. Now we’re going to go back home and we’re going to kick it with him.”
— Defensive back Damian Swann on Gurley
“It really jacks me up. My idea on the whole thing, the guy set it up. He’s the one who approached Todd. And then he’s going to report him in because he’s mad about something? That guy screwed himself. He’s not going to be able to run a business in Georgia.”
— Linebacker Jordan Jenkins on Gurley
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