Today is the day for Georgia’s first scrimmage of the spring. It is A Very Big Deal.
“We had a little shorter practice today,” coach Mark Richt said in a news release. “Tomorrow is a very important day. It’s the first scrimmage of the spring and practice number seven. We’re almost halfway through. We’ll find out where we’re at tomorrow.”
As is usually the case with such things, the scrimmage will not be open to the public or the media. But Richt has decided to go one step beyond the usual.
We’ll have to rely on observations of players and Richt afterwards because Georgia has said there won’t be statistics provided.
No stats? Say what? Doesn’t Richt realize what he’s setting up if we don’t get scrimmage stats? The only thing we’ll have to chew over the summer will be G-Day QBR numbers.
The horror.
Seriously, I suspect the quarterback situation is the real reason behind the decision to keep us in the dark. And it’s understandable to an extent.
Brice Ramsey, Faton Bauta and Jacob Park will continue their spring competition for the starting job.
Ramsey figures offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer is “kind of just feeling it all out right now,” and is looking for “consistency of play and grasp of the playbook and knowledge of knowing what’s going on with everyone on the field, making the right decisions, getting us in the right runs. Just normal stuff an offensive coordinator would want.”
Asked if he felt this was a true open competition, Park said: “I guess so. I’m not really one to ask that question. As far as playing time and as far as opportunities out there, I think it’s definitely a pretty equal chance.”
The less public second-guessing, the better. At least from the coaches’ standpoint. But it’s frustrating for the rest of us. Especially when you consider the list of items of interest Weiszer lays out in his piece.
Ah, well, there’s always G-Day. Unless they make the quarterbacks wear disguises.
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UPDATE: Turns out we get stats after all.