Wow, it’s been a while. I pretty much completely abandoned every idea I had about posting regularly. Oops. Sorry guys. I’ll try and do better. Anyway, time to start getting ready for the season. Hard to believe that but we’re getting pretty close. They’re already up there doing summer drills so it won’t be long before we’ll be hearing word about who’s looking good and get the annual report of how the team’s really focused and exceeding expectations. It’s pretty much a rite of summer. Around that time we’ll have a walk-on get arrested for driving a moped on the wrong side of the road and we’ll spend the next two weeks refuting the claims of print media that our program is simply out of control. At that point Fall practice will have started and everyone will be clamoring to hear who the starting tailback is. Once that starts it might as well be football season, all the college football shows will be on en force on ESPN and the NFL network and the season will be upon us. So with that in mind I decided to dust off the laptop and get the fingers back in typing mode. So far, so bad as I’m pretty sure I’ve had to retype every every other word. My typing skills roughly equate to the complete opposite of Tebow.
Now, as for meaningful information since I last posted, um, when was that? Oh yeah, Stafford and Moreno left. Right. Hard to argue with either of those decisions in light of what happened. Stafford went #1 overall. Now many will say the track record of QBs leaving early isn’t good (I do), but something tells me that Stafford just might buck that trend. He’s already getting rave reviews up there. Hopefully he pulls it off. There was a time where I thought Moreno landing in Denver was a perfect fit but I’m not so sure that’s close to the case anymore. Denver’s new coach has screwed up pretty much everything he’s attempted since he got there, running off the franchise QB and now possibly losing his star WR. That doesn’t spell good touches for Knowshon. Couple that with the fact Shanahan is gone and I’m not so sure the “plug a RB in for 1,500 yards a season” offense is going to be there. Moreno will be fine but I’m thinking we could look back in a few years and say that Moreno didn’t go to much better a situation than Stafford. Maybe I’m way off on this. Wouldn’t be the first or last time.
As for UGA, I’m thinking we’re going to be pleasantly surprised by Joe Cox and the offense, no matter who ends up toting the rock. I think the defense will be a good bit better simply because they’ve never been that bad under Richt and I think we’re bound to rebound. The talent is there, we just need to harness it…and tackle. That’d be awesome. Tackling. I’m envisioning Rennie Curran just out there doing Oklahoma drills against all comers until the team is a tackling machine. Hey, I can dream can’t I?
Finally, recruiting is taking off. I mean really taking off. We’ve started stacking up players for the next class, silencing the folks who were worried about our lack of progress but frustrating the folks who disapprove of getting commitments that the recruiting services don’t have rated highly yet because they haven’t been reviewed. Whatever. Our coaches have a darn good track record of doing a good job recruiting, I’ll trust them. They’ve earned it.
OK, sorry for the lack of much of anything substantive in here, just needed to do this in hopes of breaking me out of lethargy regarding posting. Hopefully I’ll start back soon…
Trophy Wife
2 posts in less than 24 hours. I’ll Probably burn out and won’t post for another 2 months but might as well ride the hot streak. Ken Malcome committed to UGA today. The beefy RB out of Southwest Dekalb is one of the top RBs in the state this year. He’s a big kid and runs like it. We don’t really have a back like him on campus and probably haven’t since Musa. Watch his film and you’ll see why the Jamal Lewis comparisons get made, as he’s a big, physical back but not lumbering, he can turn the corner with speed and can make a cut. A great get. It will be interesting to see now what happens with his close friend and fellow top RB (rated the top in state by eveyrone anyway) Mack Brown. The two have mentioned playing together in the past and were both down to UGA and UF. Speaking of finalists, Malcome had offers on the table from UGA, UF, Oklahoma, Michigan, Miami, UT, and FSU among others. That’s impressive.