JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — University of Georgia president Jere Morehead often gets interviewed on the Georgia football pregame radio show.

This time, he turned the tables by asking sideline reporter D.J. Shockley if he’d like to be the spring undergraduate commencement speaker.

“That’s pretty cool,” the former Bulldog SEC championship winning quarterback said before the Georgia-Florida game on Saturday Nov. 1. “I can’t turn that down. That’s pretty awesome.”

If Shockley got a heads up what was coming, he didn’t act that way.

“I wasn’t expecting that,” he said on air.

Georgia’s undergraduate commencement is scheduled for Friday, May 8.

Shockley is the Fox 5 Atlanta sports anchor and has worked as the sideline analyst for Georgia since 2021. He led Georgia to the 2005 SEC championshi

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