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Murray Going To Georgia


Plant junior quarterback Aaron Murray made up his mind weeks ago and couldn’t wait any longer to let everyone know.

Aaron Murray

He didn’t do the “hat thing” or open his shirt to reveal his choice. Murray simply stated where he will play college football.

Murray announced he will attend the University of Georgia on Thursday at the Panthers fieldhouse. Hillsborough County’s leading passer selected the Bulldogs over the Florida Gators. He’s on schedule to graduate from Plant in December so he can early enroll at Georgia in January and participate in spring practice.

Before his announcement on Thursday, Murray had received 54 scholarship offers from Division I schools including Florida State, Miami, Notre Dame and LSU. In recent weeks, he took unofficial visits to Georgia, Florida and UCLA.

One of the top passers in the nation, Murray set a state record last season with 51 touchdown passes. He’s garnered national accolades such as his selection as the first quarterback for the Elite 11 Quarterback Camp and the Army All-American Bowl Game.

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Posted by  Ross Butler, Savannah, Ga on 04/24  at  02:31 PM

EVERYONE NEED TO GO BACK AND READ THE COMMENTS OF ALL THE FANS WHO HAVE POSTED A COMMENT.  THAT IS EXACTLY WHY AARON IS COMING TO UGA.  THOSE GATOR FANS ARE CLASS ACTS!  IF YOU DO TALK WITH 4 LETTER WORD, YOU DON’T GET INTO UF.  AARON WAS SET ON GOING TO UF UNTIL HE CAME TO ATHENS!  BETTER CAMPUS, COLLEGE TOWN, FOOTBALL TRADITION AND ALL AROUND A CLASSER FAN!

WE UNDERSTAND YOUR CHOICE AARON! 

GO DAWGS!


Posted by  gatorboy, augusta,ga on 04/24  at  02:20 PM

TEBO ALREADY HAS A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RING!


Posted by  gatorboy, augusta,ga on 04/24  at  02:18 PM

embarrasing losses ... georgia lost to who… gamecocks! now thats funny.ga only scored 12 points againts them!


Posted by  terry sands, gainesville, fla on 04/24  at  02:17 PM

Hey, pretty boy QB.  As a graduate of the University of Florida you can take that ##### bait bulldog and cram it up your ...... we don’t need jerks like you!  Go Urban!


Posted by  mitchell, Btown GA on 04/24  at  02:17 PM

What is TEEBLOWS record aainst Georgia?  How many east division titles does he have?  How did FLA do against Michigan in that bowl game?  What was their final record last year? Notmuch to brag about other than Teeblows Bloated stats.


Posted by  gatorboy, augusta,ga on 04/24  at  02:14 PM

everybody knows the brantley didnt play last year because of the hurt shoulder and newton tore up his ankle. thats why they didnt bring him in when tebo was hurt. and yes he was hurt and finished the ga game with a broke hand.


Posted by  dan moore, Young Harris georgia on 04/24  at  02:13 PM

Hey Gator fans,

I don’t blame this kid for choosing UGA. He won’t have to worry about some idiot coach running him between the tackles like a full back 20 times a game. And after last year’s win 42-30, your silly head games are over. Ya’ll were lucky to even get to the national title game and like LSU, had all the breaks go your way with teams losing ahead of you. UGA got screwed out of it’s title game, so I don’t want to hear that crap. So you Gator fans can have fun with your 9-4 records and your embarrasing losses to Michigan, and leave the championships to teams that actually deserve them.


Posted by  Chris Jones, Clearwater, Fl. on 04/24  at  02:07 PM

Tom, I can only say that I wish he was still with the team that won the title in 93 and 99.


Posted by  JD, ATL on 04/24  at  02:01 PM

Gator Boy,

Why don’t you learn how to spell????  The kid made the right choice.


Posted by  gatorboy, augusta,ga on 04/24  at  01:59 PM

stafford go pro!with a 55% passing avg. only 19 passing td’s last year, but WITH 10 INTERCEPTIONS!whats that close to 50% interception ratio!! just like the year before except HE HAD TWICE AS MANy INT AS HE DID TD’S. ...go pro.what a joke. 2 running td’s.TOTAL rushing yard for the year. ready…..-18!! wow thats impressive. i guess thats why he wasnt invited with the other great qb’s to new york. TEBO 55 td’s with 4,181 TOTAL YRDS!  GO GATORS.. when georgia gets both national championships in the SAME year then you have the right to talk smack.


Posted by  Bryan Gregory, Valdosta, Ga on 04/24  at  01:52 PM

Funny how Fla is a perrenial power. Before the 90’ and Spurrier they were Duke.  Nice run but Spurrier’s gone and ##### now has to win with his own players.  good luck with that!


Posted by  tmanning, gville on 04/24  at  01:46 PM

Hey pretty boy, you have officially become GATORBAIT. 2006 National Champs, When was Georgia’s last?

Hopefully Georgia won’t play Armwood, you see what type of performance he turns in against the Hawks!


Posted by  Third Ward, The Muck on 04/24  at  01:43 PM

Excellent choice!!!


Posted by  Scott Sanders, Odessa on 04/24  at  01:37 PM

Mike:

Cam Newton and John Brantley are “Great” QBs?  They may be talented, but “Great”?  Based on what?  Newton did mop up work last season and Brantley hasn’t even taken a snap in a real game yet.  Now both may turn into quality QBs at the college level but to call them “great” is a little premature don’t you think?


Posted by  gatorboy, augusta,ga on 04/24  at  01:30 PM

ga in the national championship game?? get real. how can you loose that many games and not even win you own division or the sec championship and expect to go! as far as stafford.i how many interceptions has he thrown ??enough said.


Posted by  Tampa Tony, Tampa on 04/24  at  01:21 PM

One more question.. What was the final score last year of the uga vs uf game? AND WHERE DID UGA FINISH IN THE NATIONAL RANKING AFTER GETTING THE SHAFT FROM THE BCS, AND WHAT IS THE REASON UF LOST TO PATHETIC MICHIGAN AGAIN, AND WHERE DID THEY FINISH IN THE FINAL RANKINGS????

HA HA HA ... The SILENCE speaks for it’s self!!

GOOOO DAWGSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! #1


Posted by  Patrick cezar, Miami, FL on 04/24  at  01:20 PM

with all this talk I could swear GA have been a dominat team in the SEC the past decade you guys have murray wow and you guys won last year i will respect that but remember that was a really young defence GA should expect the same treatment they always get from the gators GA and Tenn are florida beaten sticks so you guys can have mr. murray but you guys think you going to win a national championship with him ha all i can do is laugh we will give the good treatment in jacksonville this year remember the same one from the past decade


Posted by  mike depue, south of gandy on 04/24  at  01:18 PM

cam newton and john brantley are great quarterbacks and aaron murray would be ridding the bench for atleast two years. if georgia wins the national championship this year…as expected. matt stafford will go pro. So a good move on murray’s part. also florida’s spread attack doesn’t suit him as well as georgia’s pro-style offense. so congrats aaron murray.

oh and this is a typical tbo article.
PLant Plant Plant.

football season has been over for how many months now?

yeah exactly.

plant gets their bathrooms moppped and tbo finds a way to assimilate that into their web site. plutocratic bias…its so american…


go knights!


Posted by  Tampa Tony, Tampa on 04/24  at  01:17 PM

Aaron, You the MAN!! You want to be a TRUE champion not a florida #####.. Excellent choice brother, We welcome you into DAWGNATION with open arms.. GO DAWGGGSSSSSS!!!!!!!


Posted by  JJ Smith, Savannah on 04/24  at  01:01 PM

Tebow had a sore left shoulder last year that wasn’t even his throwing arm. We sacked his ##### 6 times. We didn’t have Shockley a couple years back and he was REALLY hurt. Don’t worry #####…we’ll see you in October.


Posted by  gatorboy, augusta,ga on 04/24  at  12:50 PM

its hard living in ga with all these gator haters. i guess with whatthe gators has done to them dogs over the past 20 years i know why. keep trying bulldogs.that goes for basketball to!!after the way tenn blew yall away and we spanked them by 40 points. good thing tebo was hurt when we played last year.


Posted by  David B. Martin, Miami Beach, Florida on 04/24  at  12:46 PM

Great choice, Aaron! Coach Mark Richt will have his National Championships before it’s all said and done…don’t worry that Gator Nation…he’s just getting started. Richt is the ONLY UGA coach in history to win 2 Sugar Bowls, and he did that rather quickly. UGA is 3 and 4 deep with Blue Chip All-Americans on both sides of the ball…and we also have the TOP PLACE-KICKER coming in. If Tebow thought our defense was fast last year wait until he sees the team this year…and we’ve added Akeem Hebron to the line-backing corps…and he’s a freak.


Posted by  Shawn P, Atlanta on 04/24  at  12:33 PM

I love how yall try to feel better by saying that you didn’t need him in your class or that he wouldn’t play for 4 years in UF’s system. New flash:Matt Stafford has 2 years left, then its a fellow named Logan Gray from Missouri, who you all will be hearing about in three years when he and the dawgs run all over you in JAX. So don’t act like your all high and mighty that you are soooo stocked at QB the kid never had a chance to play.Fact is, the situation is very, very similar in Athens. So why don’t you just admit it- you lost AGAIN to the Dawgs on this one. Dont worry a/b QBs, I’d work on defense down there some, or else UGA will but 50 up on you this year. But hey, at least you got that super cool heisman, does he play defense too?


Posted by  Rusty Hays, albany, ga on 04/24  at  12:30 PM

Meyer will probably be exposed as a cheater and man of low integrity in the long run. I haven’t seen him coach very well when he is under pressure or things are not going his way. As far as his national title, Florida lost a game that year, they were no better than UGA when we went 13 and 1 4 or 5 years ago or last year when we could have been in the mnc game.  The only thing that counts is the SEC championship, it is decided on the field.  Florida just got lucky on it being the right year to get in with a loss, just like LSU got lucky with 2 losses last year. Auburn didn’t get in with 0 losses in 2004, the system doesn’t really produce a national champion…I will still say that if UGA wins it in 2008.


Posted by  Jonny Tingler, Ocala, FL on 04/24  at  12:12 PM

Good choice for this qb to go to UGA, he has no chance to play w/Tebow, Cam Newton and Brantly on the Gator roster for the next 3 years. UGA will be looking for a new qb after next season. UGA better get it done this year, or it will be the same old sour grapes! UF has 2 titles (NC, not SEC) in the last 11 seasons and has owned the sorry pups for the last 2 decades - this better be the year for the Dawgs; but we all know they’ll choke on it - probably to USC, UF or Auburn. Go Gators!


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