Three things that stood out from first day of Georgia football spring practices

The last time Kirby Smart met with the media who cover the Bulldogs before late Tuesday morning, his Georgia football team had just gotten off the field after a 63-3 drilling of Florida State in the Orange Bowl

In the 10-plus weeks since, the Bulldogs coaching staff lost and replaced three coaches for four total, brought its total to seven incoming transfers and welcomed 22 early enrollees to campus.

“It’s a big group of guys,” Smart said. “It’s almost one-third of your team that keeps turning over each year. …When March hits, you get to actually go out there and practice football.”

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Smart and the Bulldogs did that Tuesday afternoon in a practice that was closed to the meida. He said his spring goal is to expand “our roster of winning football players.”

Here are three things we learned about the Bulldogs ahead of that first spring practice:

Florida transfer Trevor Etienne fitting in even with viral comment

Not everything that is said on the “Real Talk” podcast that Georgia offensive guard Tate Ratledge co-hosts makes it through the editing process.

A spicy comment from former Florida running back Trevor Ettiene, now at Georgia, did make it to YouTube.

“I guess that was something that we didn’t catch right away,” Ratledge said Tuesday.

Here’s what Etieene said on the thinking behind leaving Florida for Georgia.

“Pretty much to sum it up, it was like, I can either be running back 2 on a losing team or go somewhere — I wanted to play in December, too,” he said. “That also played a big part in me transferring. So I said, ‘I can stay Running Back 2 on a losing team or go somewhere and possibly be Running Back 1 and win a…

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Publish date : 2024-03-13 08:01:05

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