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Spring (cross) training: team wants ‘best players on the field’

DB, QB, ILB, WR are all acronyms that players find next to their names. The letters define their positions and at times even label their abilities and skill sets. But for some, the two or three letters next to their name mean next-to-nothing in the spring, as some players find themselves in a state of [...]

Bobo ready to see how quarterbacks ‘respond to pressure’ on Saturday

With the G-Day game fast approaching, the annual exhibition will not only mark the end of spring practice, but it will also be the first and last time coaches will be able to see how players react to pressure situations before the fall. The G-Day game will be the first time that early enrollees will [...]

FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK: Bobo impressed by Marshall’s speed, pleased with Crowell and Malcome’s progress

While the receiving corps has been limited all spring due to injuries, the Georgia running backs have been able to stay healthy for the most part this spring. Unfortunately for Bulldog fans, the one back many fans were looking forward to seeing on Saturday has also been the one back who has suffered the most [...]

FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK: Starting offensive line revealed for G-Day, wide receivers battling injury woes

Even if the question as to what the Georgia starting offensive line is going to look like next year has not been answered, at least the answer to what the line will look like for the first-team offense for Saturday’s G-Day game has. “Going into the spring game it would be [Ken] Gates and [Kolton] [...]

Free safety Williams returned to Bulldogs to ‘have my name and picture in the locker room as an All-American’

When safety Shawn Williams decided to forgo the NFL and return for his senior season, he was excited for the potential that the 2012 Georgia defense would have and the talent and friends he would get to play beside for one last time. “I made my decision first that I was going to come back [...]

Defense looks to overcome off the field issues, excel this fall

Coming into the spring the Georgia football team had one thing on its mind — defense. With the return of nine starters from a unit that ranked fifth nationally in total defense and 11th in rushing yards, it was going to be the backbone for a team with national championship aspirations. “I think this may be the [...]

Georgia receiver King ready to carry momentum from Outback Bowl into 2012 season

Coming into the 2011 season, wide receiver Tavarres King’s production on the field had been limited. In two full years and a shortened redshirt freshman season the former four-star recruit had caught a total of 47 passes for 947 yards and four touchdowns. Playing behind receivers such as A.J. Green and Mohamed Massaquoi kept King [...]

Rambo, Ogletree issues prove drug testing applies regardless of time

Pot brownies. Like a bad sitcom, this is about some pot brownies. Most of the news coming from Georgia this spring practices has not been about football itself, but instead has been allegations and questions of player suspensions due to team — and frankly, legal — violations. After cornerback Sanders Commings was charged with domestic [...]

Safety Marc Deas becomes second Bulldogs in two days to transfer

Somehow a week of bad news just got a little bit worse. A day after the Georgia junior defensive end Derrick Lott announced he was going to transfer, sophomore safety Mark Deas decided to follow in Lott’s footsteps and also transfer out of the program, with the news surfacing on Saturday. Deas appeared in all [...]

Richt ‘can’t confirm anything’ on reported suspensions for Rambo, Ogletree until ‘process has run its course’

After suspension rumors for two Georgia players, Bacarri Rambo and Alec Ogletree due to drug policy violations surfaced late Wednesday night, all media members were handed a single sheet of paper before Mark Richt’s press conference on Thursday that had just two sentences on it. “There is a process we follow regarding team guidelines and [...]

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