Todd Monken speaks to Stetson Bennett’s legacy at Georgia
By Keith Farner
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Todd Monken has been at Georgia for most of Stetson Bennett’s career, and understands the big-picture idea about a kid’s dreams.
For Stetson Bennett, in his offensive coordinator’s mind, the Georgia quarterback is living that dream.
The home videos of Bennett telling his mother that he wanted to be Georgia’s quarterback when he was just a small child are well-documented, and will likely be replayed on Monday.
The silver-screen-type story of Bennett going from walk-on to JUCO transfer to potentially winning a second straight national championship is something that not even Hollywood scriptwriters could produce.
Monken explained.
“Well you’ll be hard pressed to find someone that loves the University of Georgia more than Stetson Bennett,” Monken said. “I think growing up — first of all, we all have dreams, all right. We all have, I want to be the head coach here or I want to be a movie star, I want to fly to the moon, I want to be a fireman. Whatever the hell you want to be when you’re a kid. And Stetson Bennett wanted to be the quarterback at Georgia. And that is rare that you get to where, whatever that dream might have been, whatever that would have been. And I’m too old to remember what that dream would have been, but I know what his was and I think that’s awesome.”
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
