Georgia running back Todd Gurley (3) celebrates with fans after defeating Kentucky 59-17 in an NCAA college football game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013, in Athens, Ga.
Georgia fans show their support for senior quarterback Aaron Murray after Georgia defeated Kentucky 59-17 in an NCAA college football game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013, in Athens., Ga.ATHENS, Ga. – Georgia recognized 28 seniors Saturday night before hosting Kentucky, including 10 who arrived on scholarship.
The loudest roar, to nobody’s surprise, was for quarterback Aaron Murray, who was surrounded by cameras as he embraced his family. Whether Georgia’s seniors arrived in 2009 or 2010, they experienced the only losing season in Mark Richt’s tenure (6-7 in ’10) before being a part of SEC East championships in 2011 and ’12.
“These seniors have been through a lot,” sophomore linebacker Jordan Jenkins said earlier this week. “They’ve been through the bad times when people were trying to blow up the program. They’ve just come such a long way, and they’ve changed people’s opinions on Georgia over the past four years.”
Richt called this senior class “a really unselfish bunch” but didn’t want to say the group had gone through more adversity than any other previous senior classes.
“They all go through adversity of some kind,” Richt said. “When everything is going your way, it’s hard to grow as a person or as a player.”