Georgia's Aaron Murray wants first bowl win, then he'll think about senior year or NFL Draft
Athens-Banner Herald
ORLANDO ? Between bowl practices in Athens and at Celebration High School near Disney World, Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray got a chance for some down time back home in Tampa.
He stayed sharp by throwing some passes back at his old stomping grounds, Plant High School, and watched plenty of films of a different sort, including the just released Judd Apatow comedy ?This is 40.?
?That was a great movie, hilarious, my parents loved it,? Murray said. ?I think every night we watched a movie just at the house. Just chilling. We had a good time.?
The redshirt junior quarterback also spoke some with his parents about his future. He is weighing whether to return for his senior season or enter the NFL Draft.
?We sat down a little bit and talked about it,? Murray said of what he said was about a 10-minute discussion. ?It was mostly my parents doing the pros and cons. I?m just sitting there watching TV as they talked about it. We talked about it a little bit, but I told them I mostly want to focus on this game and talk about it more when I get home after the game.?
While Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron made a quick decision to return for his senior season, Murray said he still wants to put some more time between the 32-28 SEC title game loss to the Crimson Tide and making his decision.
He also wants to discuss it more with Georgia coach Mark Richt and offensive coordinator Mike Bobo after Tuesday?s Capital One Bowl against Nebraska.
Coaches usually spend plenty of time in the lead-up to a bowl game talking about what the next step in a player?s development might be, but Bobo begged off doing that with the media on Murray and declined to discuss any conversations the two have had about the NFL.
?Right now, I want to see him finish off strong this year and get a bowl victory, something that he hasn?t done and our team hasn?t done in two years,? Bobo said.
Murray completed 20-of-32 passes for 288 yards with two touchdowns, two interceptions and a lost fumble in a 33-30 triple-overtime loss to Michigan State in the Outback Bowl last season and was 21 of 38 for 198 yards with no touchdowns and two interceptions in a 10-6 loss to Central Florida in the Liberty Bowl in 2010. He was sacked a combined seven times in the two games.
?Both of them were tough,? Murray said. ?The first one, we had a chance at the end of the game to drive down the field and score. We didn?t do that. The other one, the triple-overtime loss definitely stunk. Both of them were pretty tough. I?m just hoping to get a win so we finally get a bowl win, finish the season off with a win and have a great offseason from there.?
A comment like that might sound like Murray plans to be a part of leading that offseason for Georgia.
Tight end Arthur Lynch, Murray?s roommate, hasn?t changed his view that Murray is likely to return.
?If I could guess, I would say he wants to stay,? Lynch said.
Lynch said he thinks Murray?s projection from the NFL underclassman advisory committee on where he might go in the draft will be a factor. Murray said he?s still waiting on that.
If Murray returned to Georgia, he?s on pace to set SEC career records for completions, passing yards and touchdown passes. He currently has 678 completions, 9,644 passing yards and 90 touchdown passes.
?Playing against him the last few years at Tennessee, Murray?s been able to make some big-time throws,? said Nebraska secondary coach Terry Joseph, who spent the previous two years on the Volunteers? staff.
The last time Georgia played in the Capital One Bowl, at the end of the 2008 season, its quarterback got questions about the NFL, too.
Michigan State reporters quizzed Matthew Stafford about his thoughts of possibly playing for the Detroit Lions.
Stafford became the No. 1 overall pick when he was indeed drafted by the Lions. He was a slam dunk to go.
The 6-foot-1, 210-pound Murray isn?t.
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