Panthers Make Major Steps, Progress

This past week the talk of college football in the state of Georgia may have focused on UGA’s Stafford and Moreno turning pro but another school is inventing a team from nothing. While UGA and GT have solid football programs in place, the state’s second largest university, Georgia State University, has been sans football team since its opening in 1913.

This week, the GSU Panthers took a small step towards building their team, which is expected to begin competing in the Colonial Athletic Conference in 2010. They enrolled their first player into the school. Mark Hogan of Matthews, NC comes in as a potential wide receiver and running back. The team expects more recruits to enroll by February. Head Coach Bill Curry and his staff have also held multiple walk-on tryouts and have a team assembled for fall practice.

The Athletic Department broke ground in November on a 3.8-acre plot of land in downtown Atlanta to construct an athletic practicing complex for the team. Though they are without a stadium, the first season’s home games will be played in the Georgia Dome.

Expect the journey of Bill Curry to be a major story at the start of the 2010 football team. Curry was tasked with building a collegiate caliber football team in only two years time.
So far, so good.