Rennie Leaves

Rennie Curran held a teleconference at 4pm today to announce his decision to either stay or leave for the NFL. Curran has decided to forgo his senior year and enter the NFL draft. Curran said that it was tough decision but thinks it is for the best.

Rennie Curran Gone

Rennie Curran has dinner with Mark Richt last night and told the coach that he is leaving school. Curran will make the announcement Monday. Coach Rodney Gardner is still trying to convince Curran to wait until the DC is named. However, Rennie said he is 99.9% sure he is gone even if Kirby Smart is hired.

Reshad and Rennie

Reshad Jones today made an official announcement that he would be forgoing his senior year at Georgia to enter the NFL draft. Jones is rated as one of the top 5 safeties in the draft this year.

Rennie Curran was suppose to make his announcement today, but has decided against it and is still undecided. However, most people strongly believe that Curran will be leaving as well.

Georgia Recruiting

Currently the Bulldogs are ranked #7 in both polls for 2010 recruiting. This is not a bad spot right now, with many recruits still undecided at this point. Georgia will be losing 20 seniors this year, with these being the top people leaving

QB Joe Cox, S Bryan Evans, WR Micheal Moore, CB Prince Miller, LB Marcus Washington, DT Geno Atkins, DT Kade Weston, and DT Jeff Owens

The QB situation is already taken care of with Georgia having three underclassmen waiting for there shots

Losing Micheal Moore will not be that big a problem, since we have Tavarres King and Marlon Brown still coming around.

As for the DL, this will be a bigger issue. Losing Roderick Battle might not have been a terribly bad thing, now we can get some experience for other guys that might not have got a shot until next year. We are losing our top 3 DT which will be a huge blow. We have people to fill the gaps but will be running low on bigger guys. If we get hit by an injury we might have to move an end to the tackle spot.

The linebacker unit should stay in tact unless someone leaves early, Rennie Curran will be the only person the might forgo his senior year for the draft.

The secondary will be another issue with us losing our best CB and S. We might lose both S if Reshad Jones decides to leave early. 

Verbal Commitments: The Bulldogs are off to good start right now. They have two verbal commitments from 5 Star recruits, Garrison Smith is the #1 rated DT and Alec Ogletree is the #2 rated S. The Bulldogs have 11 verbal commitments from 4 star recruits with 7 of these coming on the defensive side of the ball. 

Georgia is still in the running right now for the #1 RB Marcus Lattimore, #10 RB Eduardo Clements, #4 WR Christian Green, #5 WR Chris Dunkley, #10 T Chaz Green, #1 C Bradon Linder, #11 DT Micheal Thornton, #1 DE Jackson Jeffcoat, #2 DE Ronald Powell, #4 DE Corey Lemonier, #10 DE Wayne Dorsey, #2 OLB Jordan Hicks, #1 MLB Jeff Luc, #2 CB Lamarcus Joyner and #5 CB Johnavon Fulton. 

If the Bulldogs can sign even 3 of three guys that will help us out in recruiting. Total we have 18 verbal commitments right now.   

Heart and Soul of Defense

I can assume most Dawgs fans know this will be about, none other than Rennie Curran. Curran coming out of Brookwood H.S., in Snellville, GA, was a highly sought after recruit ranked #5 at his position nationally and the #11 prospect n nationally. Curran now just two seasons later is on the watch list for the Lott Trophy, Chuck Bednarik Award, Butkus Award and Bronco Nagurski Trophy, not to shabby for a junior. Curran is considered small for position at 5'11" 225lbs, but so was Zach Thomas and Randall Godfrey and we know how those stories played out. Curran had 113 tackles last year and is on pace this year to have right around 150. Curran is a great leader for the Georgia locker room and knows how to get the defense up for every game. He does not care about his personal statistics but only about the defense as whole. He knows that we gave up to many yards and extremely to many points in some of our contests last year, and he feels that we will able to shutdown many of the opposing offenses this year.

I will be reviewing one of the UGA players every week.