Peach State Pigskin Preview notes: Mark Richt ready for “Gurshall” nickname to be retired | Sports | Columbus Ledger Enquirer

When it was born, the nickname of “Gurshall” for Georgia running backs Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall was nice and unique and catchy.

And now it may be time to shelve it.

“First of all, I think the guys are trying to want to get away from the ‘Gurshall’ label a little bit,” Georgia coach Mark Richt said Tuesday at the annual Peach State Pigskin Preview at the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame. “Because they are two individual human beings. So, I’m all for kind of breaking off that saying.”

The first month of the 2012 season wasn’t in the books when the nickname emerged from the Georgia locker room, to fittingly rhyme with the name at the forefront of Bulldogs’ lore, Herschel Walker.

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