Latest Posts from Mike Griffith
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WATCH: Breaking down Kirby Smart’s spring sports break briefing
ATHENS — Georgia football coach Kirby Smart covered a lot of ground in his teleconference with beat writers on Tuesday, leaving some room for speculation in key areas. Smart made...
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Kirby Smart reveals 5 Georgia football players who impressed during offseason workouts
Mike GriffithATHENS — Kirby Smart is the first coach to tell anyone football is played in pads. But on Tuesday, the Georgia football head coach was in a giving mood. Giving,...
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Rising coaching star Dan Lanning becomes Georgia football’s highest paid assistant
Mike GriffithATHENS — Dan Lanning has become the highest paid assistant on the Georgia football staff after the Bulldogs led the nation in scoring defense and rushing defense last season. Georgia...
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Kirby Smart: Why Georgia gave Scott Cochran opportunity that Nick Saban wouldn’t
Mike GriffithATHENS — Scott Cochran is working for a man who believes in him at Georgia. Kirby Smart explained why he gave Cochran an opportunity to become an assistant coach with...
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Kirby Smart: Football stoppage will ‘affect quarterbacks more than anything’
Mike GriffithATHENS — Kirby Smart says the football position affected most by the universal sports stoppage is quarterback, where Georgia will be breaking in a new starter next season. “There’s no...
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Georgia football coach Kirby Smart: ‘Control what you can control’
Mike GriffithATHENS — Kirby Smart says he’s like everyone else, “trying to figure out what the new normal is” amid the sports stoppage triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. The fifth-year Georgia...
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WATCH: Former Georgia OL Isaiah Wilson reveals years of family sacrifice
Mike GriffithATHENS — Many questioned Isaiah Wilson’s decision to declare himself eligible for the NFL draft with two years of eligibility remaining. But interviews with Wilson at the NFL combine, and...
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NCAA votes to grant spring sports athletes extra year of eligibility
Mike GriffithATHENS — The Division I Council voted on Monday to permit schools to allow their respective spring sport athletes an extra season of competition and another year of eligibility. Winter...
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Head of the Class: Georgia QB Jamie Newman expected to excel quickly
Mike GriffithATHENS — Class will soon be in session for Jamie Newman and the rest of the Georgia quarterbacks with online football chalk talks approved to start at 1 p.m. on...
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Georgia football jumps 8 spots in USA Today preseason rankings
Mike GriffithATHENS — Georgia football didn’t get a chance to start spring football drills in earnest, but the Bulldogs are moving up in the ranks in terms of perception. The latest...
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Georgia quarterback D’Wan Mathis continuing comeback ‘home’ in Athens, granted exemption
Mike GriffithATHENS — Georgia quarterback D’Wan Mathis was back in his home state of Michigan over spring break when the coronavirus pandemic began to take effect. Some of the Bulldogs’ players...
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Georgia football, Jamie Newman stand tall among preseason favorites in updated odds
Mike GriffithATHENS — Georgia and its new quarterback will be among the favorites when college football resumes, per the latest online odds from sportsbetting.ag. Wake Forest graduate transfer Jamie Newman is...
