The Athens Banner-Herald has a story comparing the 2005 Georgia Bulldogs to the 2009 Georgia Bulldogs. The most obvious similarities are the previous year’s disappointments and the QB situation; a patient fifth year senior rising to take his much-deserved turn at the helm of the offense.

A key difference though is that Shockley had challenged Greene consistently the previous three years. In 2002 I believe you could make the argument that Shockley was about to overtake Greene until he injured his foot in the South Carolina game and missed enough games to allow Greene to solidify his hold on the starting job.

With regards to the QB situation, next year bears more of a resemblance to the 2002 season. Even though Cox has been a solid number two, he never seriously challenged Stafford for the starting position in the last couple of years.

Then, there are quotes like this:

Cox, who battled for the starting job in 2006 along with Stafford and Joe Tereshinski, is the front-runner this time around for the No. 1 spot.

“I think he’s plenty enough ready to go in and lead this football team,” offensive coordinator Mike Bobo said.

Redshirt sophomore Logan Gray, who played on four specials teams unit this past season, will begin the spring at No. 2.

“It’s going to be interesting to see Logan do his thing too in the spring, but right now Joe’s the No. 1 quarterback and we’ll see who wins the job in the end,” Richt said.

Uh, “going to be interesting”, “right now” and “we’ll see” all seem to be saying that Gray is a serious factor at the QB position for 2009. In all of this coverage of Cox ascending to number one to have his “Shockley moment” I think there is at least some doubt about who will be taking the first snap of 2009 in Stillwater, OK.

I think Gray gets overlooked because of how he was utilized in 2008; Special teams. What’s missed is the fact that the kid is a great enough athlete to compel the staff to get creative about finding ways to get him on the field. Those natural athletic gifts are Gray’s edge in this competition.

All things being equal, why wouldn’t you put the best athlete on the field?

Next year, when you see Logan Gray on the field it will be at Quarterback, and it may be a lot more than people are currently expecting.

Baseball America is looking ahead to the 2009 college baseball season.

They have the ‘Dawgs at number 14, which gives me a lot of optimism for the season coming up.

Basically, Georgia needs to see if they can overcome this odd year curse that seems to be haunting them.

Georgia has some unfinished business after coming so close to a national title in June. But odd years have not been kind to the Dawgs in the David Perno era: they went to Omaha in 2004, ’06 and ’08 but missed regionals in ’05 and ’07.

I’ve been to a few games at Foley but admittedly haven’t followed the team as closely as the football and basketball teams in the past.

I believe last year changed that for me though. I got into the World Series run as much as any football game. I’m looking forward to tuning in a lot earlier to this year’s season.

Georgia has received the latest commitment in it’s 2009 recruiting class from Reuben Fahlougi, a DE from Evans, GA.

The 6-foot-5, 210-pound Faloughi says he will join UGA as a “preferred walk-on,” turning down offers from smaller colleges. He is considered one of the state’s most underrated prospects.

“It has always been my dream to play for Georgia, and we worked it out
where it could happen … I’m excited,” Faloughi said.

While the first paragraph may not seem so impressive the second paragraph more than makes up for it. It’s going to be great to have a kid in the locker room that turned down other scholarship offers just so he could have a chance to play for the Georgia Bulldogs.

Welcome aboard, Reuben Fahlougi!

At QB, Kiper takes Stafford, McShay takes Bradford.

Ok, hopefully for Stafford’s sake this is true.

At RB Kiper takes Chris Wells, McShay takes Moreno.

No way… NO WAY any team is taking Chris Wells over Knowshon Moreno. Book it.

I am actually excited about Joe being QB next year. I think what he may lack when compared to Stafford in regard to physical tools he may make up for in leadership and moxi.