UGA Football QB Carson Beck Shows off With Kirby Smart After Graduation from UGA
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ATHENS - UGA Football QB Carson Beck graduated from the University of Georgia this summer, and showed off his accomplishment in a photo with UGA coach Kirby Smart.
Beck enrolled at Georgia in 2020. He took over the starting quarterback job in 2023 and guided the Bulldogs to a 13-1 season and an Orange Bowl victory over No. 5 Florida State to conclude the season.
Beck told Dawg Post this summer that he has grown up a lot since he arrived in Athens. He specifically pointed to the UAB game in 2021 as a major growing point for him. It looked like Beck was about to start the second game of the Bulldogs’ national championship season, but Stetson Bennett took over for an injured JT Daniels that game, and the rest his history.
Bennett led the Bulldogs to back-to-back national titles. Beck had to deal with what could have been.
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“I am not going to lie: That was a very pivotal point for me as not only a person, but as a quarterback,” Beck said. "It was a reality check for me. I think it was a big turning point in my career. I realized that maybe I was not ready. Maybe I am not the player that I think I am. There is a lot of improvement that needs to happen. My mindset changed after that game. That experienced sucked in the moment, but it has made me into what I am now. In the moment I took a deep dive into myself. I grew through that. I think I matured a lot due to that situation. I wouldn’t be the person or quarterback I am today if that situation didn’t happen.”
As the Bulldogs enter the 2024 season, Beck is a leading Heisman Trophy candidate, and the Georgia Bulldogs are ranked No. 1 coming the season for only the third time in school history. Beck said he’s grown to get to this point.
“At the beginning I was so… I don’t want to say cocky, but naive to an extent of what I really was as a quarterback,” he told Dawg Post. “Everyone comes into college and thinks: ‘I am going to start as a freshman.’ You don’t start as a freshman. Next year: ‘I am going to start, right?’ The mind initially says: ‘I am getting out of here.’ I think if I would have done that it would have ultimately made me decline. I never would have realized where I was at. And I needed to improve in this area and this area and this area. I can’t tell you why it went there, but that’s how I was raised and built up. When something goes wrong look at yourself and see what the problem is. Then fix it from there.”
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