Defensive end Montez Robinson’s future with the football program remains to be determined after his arrest earlier this month on battery and criminal damage charges for two separate incidents involving a female student.

Robinson is suspended indefinitely.

“We’re working on that decision, I guess is the best we can say,” Georgia coach Mark Richt said after practice Sunday. “I’ll just leave it at that.”

Robinson went through foster care growing up and Richt acknowledged it’s a balancing act to hand out appropriate discipline and also be mindful of wanting to keep the freshman in a stable environment. “It will be a tough decision is the best I can tell you,” Richt said.

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Georgia’s top receiver A.J. Green may not be able to play Saturday against Georgia Tech because he’s still not recovering from an injured left shoulder, coach Mark Richt said today.

“Right now, he’s still working on the strength and getting the soreness out,” Richt said. “He doesn’t have full range of motion right now. Sometimes those things can change.”

Richt said a decision on Green’s status might not be determined until before gametime.

“We may know sooner that he’s out if he can’t do anything at all, if he couldn’t have a full range of motion and run full speed and feel comfortable and confident by Thursday,” Richt said.

Green, who leads the Bulldogs with 47 catches and 751 receiving yards, sprained a joint in the shoulder in the first half of the Bulldogs win against Auburn and missed Saturday’s loss to Kentucky.

A quick update on the availability of receiver A.J. Green (shoulder) and safety Bacarri Rambo (concussion) for Saturday's game at No. 7 Georgia Tech.

Here's what coach Mark Richt said this evening:

"They’re getting there. I’d say we’re pretty hopeful on both of them. I wouldn’t say either one of them are a slam dunk right now, but hopefully by Tuesday, we’ll have a really good feel.”

Both were injured in the win against Auburn on Nov. 14

A.J. Green’s shoulder injury will keep him off the field Saturday against Kentucky, but won’t necessarily knock him out of his top spot among SEC receivers at the end of the season.

The sophomore currently leads the SEC in catches per game and receiving yards per game.

Even if his injured left shoulder forces him to also miss next week’s game against Georgia Tech, Green can still end up the SEC leader in both categories if he returns for a bowl game.

To qualify for NCAA and SEC statistics, a player must appear in 75 percent of his team’s games. Green would play in 10 of 13, 77 percent, if he’s back for the bowl game.

Georgia hasn’t had a player lead the SEC in receiving (based on receptions per game) since Brice Hunter in 1993-94. Green led the league last year in receiving yards per game.

Green is averaging 5.2 catches and 83.4 yards per game this year. Ole Miss’ Shay Hodge is right behind, averaging 5.0 and 81.0.

Georgia safety Bacarri Rambo, knocked unconscious in a scary moment late in the Bulldogs’ 31-24 win against Auburn Saturday night, was back among teammates at the Butts-Mehre building Sunday after being released from St. Mary’s Hospital earlier in the afternoon.

Coach Mark Richt said Rambo will miss Saturday’s game against Kentucky with a concussion, but that the redshirt freshman from Donalsonville did not have any other injuries.

“He has recovered extremely well,” Richt said. “There’s no symptoms from it, no headaches, no neck pain. Every test he has been through he’s passed with flying colors. Still, he won’t play for sure.”

Neither will A.J. Green, who is out for the 7:45 p.m. ESPN2 game with a sprained joint in his left shoulder. The injury to the Southeastern Conference’s leading receiver won’t require surgery.

Here's the football notebook that ran in our paper today. Since we've had some online technical difficulties, I'm posting the notebook here in the blog.

By Marc Weiszer
marc.weiszer@onlineathens.com

Georgia has used four different starting combinations on its offensive line this season.
The fifth could be on the way.
Junior Clint Boling said Thursday that offensive line coach Stacy Searels could be making more changes for the Oct. 31 game against Florida.
Boling lined up at first-team left tackle in the portion of Thursday’s practice open to the media. Cordy Glenn was at left guard with Ben Jones at center, Chris Davis at right guard and Vince Vance at right tackle.
“He might be considering moving things around a little bit, just so he can get a lineup out there that he likes,” Boling said. “I’m not really sure what he has in mind.”

A.J. Green is leading the SEC in catches (41), receiving yards (682) and touchdown receptions (6), but Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin has found a flaw in the sophomore’s game.

Kiffin was asked this week to compare Alabama’s Julio Jones, who has 13 catches for 175 yards and a touchdown, to Green.

“Julio is more physical,” Kiffin said. “Both really dangerous, both really big, can go up and get the ball. A.J. has a tendency to run out of bounds with the ball. Julio finishes his runs and is more physical.”

Georgia coach Mark Richt was asked after Tuesday’s practice about Green running out of bounds.

By Marc Weiszer
marc.weiszer@onlineathens.com

The excessive celebration penalty on Georgia receiver A.J. Green in Saturday’s 20-13 loss to No. 4 LSU should not have been called, Southeastern Conference coordinator of officials Rogers Redding told the Athens Banner-Herald Monday.
“My sense of it is that the official reacted to what he saw, he didn’t make this up,”
Redding said after reviewing video. “He reacted to what he saw, but on the other hand the video that we looked at does not support the call that was made on the field.”
Green was flagged after a 16-yard touchdown pass from Joe Cox put Georgia ahead 13-12 with 1:09 to play. Georgia kicked off from its own 15 and two plays after a 40-yard kickoff return, Charles Scott scored on a 33-yard touchdown run with 46 seconds to play.

Back in June of 2007, I made the drive from Athens to Summerville, S.C., to get to know more about A.J. Green.

Oh, sure, the wide receiver was already a well-known name for those that follow Georgia recruiting and the top national prospects. Sports Illustrated had pegged him as one to watch after his sophomore season of high school

I got a chance to speak to Green’s football and basketball coaches. I watched Green and his Summerville basketball team go through a summer workout. Green sat down with me for an interview for more than 25 minutes.

"I think he's an impact player," national recruiting analyst Tom Lemming told me. "If Georgia uses him right, he should be an impact player as a true freshman."

Things can get a little heated around the football offices when there’s a difference of opinion between coaches.

There was some “resistance,” in the words of Georgia coach Mark Richt, from receivers coach Tony Ball when John Jancek suggested that star receiver A.J. Green play on the field goal and extra point block team, but a decision was reached peacefully.

The same can’t be said at New Mexico, where school administrators are investigating a fight after football coach Mike Locksley struck an assistant coach. Receivers coach J.B. Gerald told police Locksley struck him during a staff meeting at the football office, splitting his lip, according to an Associated Press account.