Leather Helmet Blog

Hoop Dawgs beat No. 18 Vandy

Georgia's Saturday night 72-58 beating of No. 18 Vanderbilt wasn't contradicted by a feeling of what could have been this season. The emotion trended to what could continue to be.After suffering losses in six of its seven SEC games, most in heartbreaking fashion, Georgia finally finished the second half with authority. Finally employed a team-wide scoring effort. Finally quit turning the ball over and focused on defense.

Dawgs thin at wide receiver

Georgia will have just seven scholarship receivers on hand in 2010 -- senior Kris Durham, who missed all of last season with a shoulder injury, juniors A.J. Green and Israel Troupe, sophomores Marlon Brown, Tavarres King and Rantavious Wooten, and true freshman Michael Bennett, who just signed with the Bulldogs on Wednesday.

Thomas County Central junior has 17 offers already

«As of right now, I'm just now actually looking into schools and what they have to offer—but I'm not really that deep into it all yet, I'm just starting,» Drew (6-5/235) told Sporting News Today. «I was a big Florida State fan when I was little, but that was my dream school. Now with so much going on, I'm just waiting to see how everything comes out. I'm going to use all the extra time I have to check them out.»

Cousin Walter finishes off the Da'Rick Roger discussion

College Football Recruiting, in addition to being about relationships as Richt stated in the post signing day press conference, is about what you can offer a player opportunity to play in the SEC, playing time, exposure to NFL scouts, academic programs, and on and on down the almost endless list that schools like Georgia and Tennessee can offer. Derek Dooley and Tennessee offered something that apparently Mark Richt was not willing to offer which was a scholarship to Roger's best friend and high school QB Nash Nance.  It's that simple.  This was clearly the key point in signing Da'Rick Rogers.

In the spring of 2009...Alec Ogletree was the far and away the number 1 player in Georgia and was Georgia's number 1 priority in recruiting. In the spring, based on media reports/interviews, it was obvious that Ogletree's mother wanted both her two sons to go to the same school.

...Georgia did not HAVE TO SIGN Hutson Mason. They just HAD TO sign a QB bringing their roster/depth chart total to 4.  There is no overly significant difference in talent level between Nash Nance and Hutson Mason that would prove detrimental enough to affect the future of Georgia football.  If Georgia wanted Da'Rick Rogers to sign and if he really was that important to them, they should have offered Nash Nance a scholarship instead of Mason.  They didn't and that is why Rogers is not a Georgia Bulldog.