Dooley jokes about Bray incident
UPDATE: Head coach Derek Dooley has responded to the vandalism incident involving quarterback Tyler Bray, saying he was disappointed in his quarterback, and then joking about it.
Dooley’s reaction, reported in the Tennessean:
“He’s made some progress in a lot of areas, but that’s just silly behavior. Any time we get a little negative publicity for our program, we take it seriously.”
“Obviously, his accuracy isn’t where it needs to be. He missed the trash can.”
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Tyler Bray was accused of throwing beer bottles and golf balls from his apartment balcony. (UT Athletic Dept. photo)
Bray, 20, has offered to pay for the damages he inflicted to one of the cars, so he will not be charged in that incident, police told the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
“The victim called us and said she no longer wishes to prosecute,” Knoxville Police spokesman Darrell DeBusk told GoVolsxtra.com, part of the newspaper’s website. “[Bray] reached out to her and told her he would take care of the damages to her vehicle,” he said.
The victim, Bradi Hudson, said the windshield of her 2008 Ford was broken and that Bray and his roommate also damaged the car last Friday.
Hudson told police that after the Friday incident Kirstie Allen, another resident of the apartment complex, told her that Bray and roommate Michael Grandinetti were responsible for the damage.
On Monday, Allen, called police to report that her windshield had been smashed in apparent retaliation for implicating Bray and Grandinetti.
She told police that Bray and Grandinetti had thrown beer bottles off a balcony and onto vehicles in the parking lot, the Associated Press reported. The report quotes her as saying an office manager for the complex told her Bray and Grandinetti had been “served with an eviction notice just prior to her arriving home.”
As of Thursday morning, Tennessee Coach Derek Dooley had not commented, even though police said they notified him of the incident on Monday.
The Vols open the season Aug. 31 against North Carolina State in the Georgia Dome.
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bitter hillbillie
July 26th, 2012
2:09 pm
In all fairness All SEC teams –except –UGA— cover up thugg behavior, ok–hillbillie behavior
—————–ITS NATION WIDE PROBLEM——STARTS AND STOPS WITH THE —NCAA
———–THE PROBLEM ALWAYS STARTS AT THE ——–TOP
Cobb Dawg
July 26th, 2012
2:10 pm
College football programs that I have the least amount of respect for: 1) Tie, UT Vowels/Awbarn Tigers, War Eagles, Whatever-the-heck-they-are 2) Vacant 3) Vacant 4) Vacant 5) Vacant 6) Vacant 7)Vacant
Vacant 9) Vacant 10) Floraduh Gaders
sec fan
July 26th, 2012
2:13 pm
Police now saying the retaliation window smashing and car damage was not related to the first incident. How stupid are folks in K’ville to believe that. 3 Vol players, all with rap sheets, swear that Bray was with them somewhere else at the time of the second vandalism. Girl #2 won’t drop charges so K’ville. cops drop investigation. Dooley buys it all. The AJC would go nuts over this if it was UGA. Talk about Loss of Institutional Control. The Coach doesn’t run the Univ., the players run the Coach. Ya gotta be embarassed for Dooley, he is such a wimp.
bitter hillbillie
July 26th, 2012
2:14 pm
CHRIS SANDERS AND TYLER BRAY—Both just elected to the THUGG HALL OF SHAME
King Gator
July 26th, 2012
2:17 pm
How’d this guy not sign with the Dawgs? must have been all filled up the “vandalizing” position that year. Go Gators! Maybe USC wants him…
sec fan
July 26th, 2012
2:20 pm
Difference is Sanders was kicked of the team at UGA for first offense. Bray was named ‘face of the offense’ by Dooley and no punishment at all. Oops, forgot he admitted to the first vandalism and offered to pay the damages so that is being called punishment. The second offense, due to the expense of the damage, is a felony in Tennessee. Little Tyler won’t admit to that one.
Question Mark & the Mysterians
July 26th, 2012
2:31 pm
It will be interesting to see if the Sometimes Ethical Conference can go an entire week without some other public black eye.
When ii comes to thuggish or otherwise criminal and reprehensible they are worse than the next four conferences put together…
Alphare
July 26th, 2012
2:35 pm
Didn’t Vince Dooley comment on Crowell? Where is he hiding now about the Bray guy?
King Gator
July 26th, 2012
2:35 pm
in Bray’s defense that windshield was wide open…
Tide Rising
July 26th, 2012
2:45 pm
What an idiot. Geez.
concern
July 26th, 2012
2:46 pm
Assume the guy is no longer with Tennessee. Know Dooley will not tolerate. A clean cut guy, not depending on any one player.
Alphare
July 26th, 2012
2:48 pm
UGA legend Vince Dooley, where are you now? You sounded all righteous just a couple of weeks ago.
Tide Rising
July 26th, 2012
3:01 pm
Good one King Gator.
harold
July 26th, 2012
3:03 pm
THIS IS NOTHING COMPARED TO UGA….
Cloudodust
July 26th, 2012
3:17 pm
A college kid tossing golf balls and beer bottles at a car from an apartment balcony is bad. No doubt. Malicious, destuctive behavoir at best. He should be thankful no injuries occured. But to feel that it’s akin to driving around with a pistol tucked under the drivers seat with a filed down serial number is a truly stupid comparison of college high jinks.
Slaw Dawg
July 26th, 2012
3:21 pm
Hey we ain’t got no room to be cumming down on a Vol player when half of our players are either in jail or on probashun. He made a nukilheaded mistake and he will pay the price. As I see it Mark Rich ain’t much better as discapline than Dooley. Go Dogs.
thisisawesome
July 26th, 2012
3:32 pm
What a Gangsta! “You wanna be a snitch???… I’ll break your window too!!”
Steven G
July 26th, 2012
3:42 pm
He must have studied Steven Garcia’s playbook, except Garcia vandalized his teacher’s car, not his neighbors. Only 4 more violations to go and if they find a better QB he’s off the team.
My girlfriend wants her red panties back
July 26th, 2012
3:48 pm
Don’t have a problem with a kid throwing a couple things at cars, I rattled a few at the Sussex Club Apartments back in the day, everyone here did too. You get drunk, you do stupid stuff. However, I wasn’t a quarterback in the SEC with a team to lead this fall. Guy’s an idiot doing that in the position he’s in. At least Stafford was just holding up a keg, not destroying property.
VOL IN BETHLEHEM
July 26th, 2012
3:49 pm
I Love how all the bulldog mutts respond to this news when there boy crowell was scraping serial numbers of of guns.What bray did is childs play compared to that.
Dawg-Gawn
July 26th, 2012
3:50 pm
This is not Bray’s first brush with the law. Just this month, on July 4th, Bray was cited for operating a boat in a reckless manner on Tellico lake.
Columbus
July 26th, 2012
3:54 pm
See the difference between the police departments with SEC schools? Other cities PD dp not arrest unless they absolutley have no choice and do all they can to NOT arrest a player.
These guys would been in the slammer and all over the papers a week ago if they were Bulldogs! We just hear about this now, days after….the police departments and universities should be ashamed for treating football players differently than they do regular citizens and students….
Go Dawgs! Beat em anyway! Especially big mouth Spurrier. And AUburn where they definitely wont arrest a player unless they have to….the University OWNS that town…..trust me.
Go Dawgs!
VOL IN BETHLEHEM
July 26th, 2012
3:54 pm
I have on word for the bull-mutts HATERS!
VOL IN BETHLEHEM
July 26th, 2012
3:59 pm
Lets not forget Mettenburger raping and what not in Valdosta.
VOL IN BETHLEHEM
July 26th, 2012
4:01 pm
Or Bacrri Rambo with all the weed accuses.
bitter drunk SEC young turd
July 26th, 2012
4:03 pm
Coach dooly was approached by CHIP TOWERS for a interview and ansewered a question about
crowbaby————————i’m sure if towers called coach vince dooly, towers would get a ear full of the truth
Bray is really just an example of a system that has been broke for years and is ruled by T.V. contracts
—————–The super stars are protected from prosiqution—-except in Athens
—————–Where a change in thugg culture is taken place—————–CLEAR MIND
———————-AND YOUR A$$ WILL FOLLOW———————
——————-JUST SAY NO TOO?????????????????—-STUPID BEHAVIOR
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
July 26th, 2012
4:04 pm
Vol In Bethlehem has got to be Da’prick Rogers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No indication whatsoever that his IQ is more than single digit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MrDan
July 26th, 2012
4:06 pm
Who needs God when you’ve got college football, right?
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
July 26th, 2012
4:07 pm
Vol In Beth:
Obviously you flunked English AND spelling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bitter drunk SEC young turd
July 26th, 2012
4:11 pm
Got me a GLOCK—Six pack of BEER—-and a bi__h to slap around, –LIFE ON CAMPUS
Cops are my BUDS——I’m a football KING——-UNTOACHABLE
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
July 26th, 2012
4:13 pm
@ Slaw Dawg:
There is as much difference in how CMR and CDD handle discipline as there is in your IQ and a Rhodes Scholar’s IQ.
Slaw Dawg = Single Digit IQ
Rhodes Scholar = Triple Digit IQ
dawg tired
July 26th, 2012
4:16 pm
Didn’t realize Bray was accurate enough to hit a parked car with a beer bottle. Dooley must be thrilled his hand has healed.
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
July 26th, 2012
4:17 pm
@ Cloudodust:
Nobody said Bray’s action was as bad or worse than IC!!!!!!
We are just saying it will go unpunished or maybe a couple of pushups. Pay attention dummy!!!!!!!
Mike
July 26th, 2012
4:18 pm
As a former student at Tenn., Dooley should kick Bray off the team as soon as possible as Richt did with Crowell. The beer bottles he threw could have easily hit someone on the head and caused serious injury. It may be kids being kids but sometime they have to be held accountable.
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
July 26th, 2012
4:19 pm
Back in your cage HAROLD and put a sock in it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like orange because it rhymes with loser
July 26th, 2012
4:20 pm
Meanwhile…Ms. Allen wins the lottery… And by lottery… she receives an undisclosed amount of “hush money”. Ms. Allen’s tuition has been paid for and she receives a new “Tennessee Orange” car of her choice.
kral
July 26th, 2012
4:20 pm
dumb a…he deserved to be kicked =off but it was not a rape;;;it was an incident in a bar with a waitress..know the arresting officer..let’s cover our shame by spreading the shame of others..we are tennerseee…while you are at the wall..pray ..bethy..vol
BG
July 26th, 2012
4:25 pm
He will not miss a GAME. If he played at UGA he would have been arrested and booked and he would miss at least 2 games. UGA plays by a different set of rules.
kral
July 26th, 2012
4:26 pm
sorry the we are tennnersee comment was overboard..just like the rape accusal
Please!
July 26th, 2012
4:29 pm
What? No suspension? He’s not being charged? Is that all Tennessee?
Why do some schools punish players and some schools don’t?
Isaiah Crowell should’ve gone to Tennessee and he’d be playing this season, gun or no gun.
Meka
July 26th, 2012
4:30 pm
‘Penn State’ sound familiar?
Tdawg
July 26th, 2012
4:46 pm
Fill Fulmer smoke all the weed you want to. He!! snort coke or shoot up for all I care. It ain’t no skin off my arse. However; when you start destroying my personal property, you have over stepped my boundaries. You and the rest of you jerk need to get off Richt and UGAs back about discipline issues. The only difference between UGA, Tennessee, GT, SC, Auburn and Alabama is that UGA actually disciplines their players when they step out of line. It’s quite obvious that none of the schools I mentioned does anything to a player when one of theirs steps out of line. The DaLiar case was conveniently dropped, as is this case with Tyler Bray. Mr Emmert where the he!! are you? It’s as plain as the nose on your smug face that Tennessee is covering up for their law breaking kids. Didn’t you call it lack of institutional control?
Tdawg
July 26th, 2012
4:49 pm
I like oranges, don’t forget the life time season tickets to Vol game’s that she will now be getting.
sec fan
July 26th, 2012
4:50 pm
Poor dumb Vol fans. Don’t know the difference in a HC that actually punishes kids and one who consistantly kisses their arses. Every school have some kids who mis-step. However, only UTk has and absolute dumpster fire of players running over the coaches and coaches who are afraid to do anything about it.
Dawglasville
July 26th, 2012
4:51 pm
I hate, stupid, “I am the man” mentality crap that these kids do. Like Mettenberger, like which ever FSU qb ran up tix parking in the handicap spots, like what Bray just did. I know what Mettenberger did was 100 times more vile but it starts with the same mentality, “Look at me. I’m the all star. I can do what I want. It doesn’t matter that I hurt others because I’m so cute.”
Jimmy Johnson
July 26th, 2012
4:59 pm
LOLOL, UGA would drop the hammer…..that is hilarious! It took numerous felony charges for Crowell to get booted. A misdemeanor arrest in Athens results in post season awards for the player.
Bammer, that is some funny crap…lol
Jimmy Johnson
July 26th, 2012
5:01 pm
Cobb Dawg, the SEC team no one has respect for, including the pollsters, UGA. Go color your book.
Tdawg
July 26th, 2012
5:02 pm
Vol in Bethlehem get off your high horse. What Bray did was worse than what Crowell did. Who the he!! did Crowell hurt? What property damage did Crowell cause anyone? Crowell kept his weapon under his car seat. Bray was throwing his weapon at people’s cars and destroying them. Don’t compare what Crowell did to what Bray did. Crowell hurt no one but himself. Bray was destroying peoples property because the whinny little coward was miffed because some lady point him out for being the jerk he is. He didn’t hurt himself because the victim was bought off and that coward DD, just as he did with DaLiar, will do nothing more than kiss Bray’s butt.
Vol Hater
July 26th, 2012
5:02 pm
Having had a nephew caught up in some crap at UTK a couple of years ago, I remember the outcry of thugs etc. They were wrongly accused, he played his last two years graduated and gone on to pro training camp. This white “pr***” is guilty as sin and not a peep from the UTK powers that be. Its a d*** shame at the double standard in this “great” country we live in…. God Bless White America
Jimmy Johnson
July 26th, 2012
5:05 pm
Hey SEC fan, you should google Isiah Crowell, Sanders Commings, Branden Smith, and Orsen Charles. Yeah, those are jailed UGA players. No problems in Athens…..