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Basketball picks
up third commit
By MITCH BLOMERT
The Red & Black
Georgia basketball
picked up a third member
of its 2011 signing class
Monday when junior col
lege prospect John
Florveus commit
ted to the Bulldogs.
Florveus, a 7-foot
sophomore center
from Hillsborough
Community College
in Tampa, picked
the Bulldogs over
Hawaii, lowa State,
UTEP and
Washington State.
Florveus played
a limited role but
saw action in all 24
games last season
for Hillsborough,
averaging 3.8 points
per game, along
with 3.5 rebounds
and a team-high
54.3-percent field
goal percentage.
The newest com
mit is the third of
the 2011 class for
Georgia, and also
the tallest. There
are no Bulldogs taller
than 6-foot-10 on the ros
ter.
Royal chooses Tech over
Georgia
The basketball team’s
attempt to pull in anoth
er nationally-ranked
recruit failed last
Thursday, as highly-tout
ed power forward Julian
Royal picked Georgia
Tech over Georgia.
Royal chose the Yellow
Jackets after announcing
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last week that his deci
sion was between the two
in-state rivals.
The 6-foot-7 prospect
out of Milton High School
in Milton, north of
Atlanta, is ranked
13th in the nation
among power for
wards, earning
him a four-star
rating.
Football prospect
has big game
If there’s any
way for a defen
sive end to get
Division-1 atten
tion, three sacks
should do it.
Georgia pros
pect Xzavier
Dickson of Griffin
High School in
Griffin found the
quarterback in
the backfleld
three times in a
24-0 win against
Union Grove High
School last
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Friday
Dickson, the 14th
ranked defensive end in
the country, also collect
ed eight tackles and
deflected a pass.
Dickson comes from a
recruiting hot spot for
Georgia this season, with
two other Griffin natives
committed to the
Bulldogs.
With an offer waiting
for him from the
Bulldogs, he could be
next.
Bulldogs bargain beards for turnovers
By RACHEL G. BOWERS
The Red & Buck
Mark Richt said he
wants his players to be the
“nastiest looking” team in
the country at season’s
end.
The head coach isn’t
promoting poor personal
hygiene. He isn’t telling his
players to stay out of the
showers.
However, he is bending
his usual facial hair rules
as an added incentive for
his boys in relation to the
turnover margin.
“We’ve got some furry
guys on the team lately,”
quarterback Aaron Murray
said.
Richt’s normal facial
hair policy is simple
mustaches are OK, beards
are not.
But as a small incentive
for his players, he imple
mented a policy that
would allow his players to
grow facial hair however
they want —as long as the
Bulldogs win the turnover
battle on the field each
week.
“Anytime we win the
turnover ratio, they get to
grow their beards as long
as they want,” Richt said.
“We actually started it last
year, but unfortunately we
were clean-shaven all year.
That was a bad sign. This
year they’re getting a little
furrier. You learn who can
grow a beard in a hurry.”
Richt’s rule is from
game to game, but if a
game is “a wash” then
Richt said he turns to the
season’s turnover margin.
The Bulldogs are plus
three in the turnover bat
tle through the first seven
games, which has allowed
fullback Fred
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▲ Aaron Murray stays clean-shaven despite Georgia’s turnover margin.
Munzenmaier and tight
end Arthur Lynch to take
the lead on the team with
the fullest beards.
“I love it. It makes me
wanna get turnovers. I
don’t like to shave,” line
backer Christian Robinson
said. “I would love to have
a nasty beard like Arthur
Lynch has right now.”
Murray said he was
scruffy last week, but at
the firm request of his
mother he cleaned up his
five o’clock shadow,
FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK
though he said he can only
grow a beard in “patches
right now.”
“I got a little fUzzy last
week. [My mom] likes it
clean-cut," Murray said. “I
gotta make mommy happy
because my birthday’s
coming up soon so I want
some good gifts, and she’s
threatening me if I don’t
keep it clean I’m not
gonna get anything good
this year.”
Richt said while players
such as Munzenmaier and
Lynch can grow beards,
some players don’t have
facial hair, like center Ben
Jones.
But Robinson said it’s
further motivation for him
because he wants the
added freedom of growing
a beard.
“There’s certain guys
that they really don’t care
about the no-shave rule
because they can’t grow it,
but I don’t wanna shave so
I’m gonna fight to get
those turnovers,”
Robinson said.
Wide receiver Kris
Durham said he likes to
have “scruff” because he
doesn’t care to shave, but
the no-shaving incentive is
just “icing on the cake" to
producing on the field.
“If we can cause turn
overs and get good field
position then we put our
selves in the right situa
tions to win the game,"
Durham said.
• Fellow wide receiver
Tavarres King said the no
shaving rule in relation to
the turnover margin is a
rallying point for the team,
even though it is a small
incentive within the team.
“I really enjoy that rule.
I feel like it gives us some
thing to fight for, even if
it’s not nothing huge,”
King said. “Everybody
wants to have their facial
hair and not look like a lit
tle kid.”
Comeback Wildcats
In his weekly Tuesday
news conference, Richt
said he, the players and
the staff are more than
well aware of the come
back potential Kentucky
has shown in the past,
especially in its win over
South Carolina last week.
“They’ve actually had 14
games since 2006 where
they were losing in the
fourth quarter and came
back and won, so those
guys are very, very resil
ient,” Richt said. “They are
not going to give in.”
And after coming off a
shutout for the first time
in nearly a year, linebacker
Akeem Dent said the
Wildcats’ offense which
is averaging nearly 430
yards per game has a
fight in it that will prove to
be a “big test” for the
Bulldogs’ defense.
“That team is gonna
fight until there’s no time
left on that clock in the
fourth quarter,” Dent said.
“They kinda started slow,
but they've been able to
finish, and that’s one of
the main things that
stands out to us as a team.
They’re able to finish
strong, so we’re gonna
have to play for 60 min
utes.”