More trouble for Tennessee QB Bray
Tyler Bray was recently praised by coach Derek Dooley for his increased maturity. (AP photo)
The Knoxville News-Sentinel reports that Bray appeared in Loudon County General Sessions Court on Wednesday where he faced charges stemming from a July 4 boating incident.
The paper reported:
According to Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency officer Dewayne Williams, Bray was driving a Jet Ski with a woman passenger when he was observed by Williams “hot dogging” with another Jet Ski. Williams explained the term “hot dogging” as “almost like playing chicken” on Jet Skis.
The other Jet Ski tipped over spilling the unidentified occupants into the water. Bray then sped near the swimmers “spraying them with water,” according to Williams, who added “he was almost on top of them.”
Jet Skis are supposed to operate at least 100 feet apart, Williams said.
“This all happened directly in front of me,” said Williams of the incident. “That’s what I couldn’t believe.”
Bray was charged with reckless operation of a personal watercraft and failure to have a boating education certificate, both misdemeanors.
In Wednesday’s court hearing, Bray reached an agreement on the charges in which he agreed to either make three appearances at schools to promote boater safety or make a public service TV spot. He also lost his boating privileges for a year and must take a boating training course and pay court costs, the News-Sentinel said.
In exchange, Bray will not have to enter a guilty plea, which could have resulted in six months in jail and a $2,500 fine.
Bray’s behavior raises concerns for Coach Derek Dooley, who recently praised the junior quarterback’s increased maturity and “lifestyle changes.”
“You have to live as the quarterback at Tennessee,” Dooley said at SEC Media Days. “If your lifestyle is not reflecting that, then it’s going to be hard to go out and perform to your best.”
After Bray admitted to throwing beer bottles at cars from his apartment balcony two weeks ago, Dooley called it “silly behavior” and then made a joke about it.
“Obviously, his accuracy isn’t where it needs to be. He missed the trash can,” Dooley said.
Dooley has not commented publicly on Bray’s boating behavior.
Tennessee opens the season Aug. 31 against North Carolina State in the Georgia Dome.
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172 comments Add your comment
uga realist
August 9th, 2012
7:40 am
First!
Bigguy
August 9th, 2012
7:42 am
The fallenqueers strike again!
King Gator
August 9th, 2012
7:45 am
Alabama St’s new QB!
cokie
August 9th, 2012
7:48 am
Who cares?
Whiskey Breath
August 9th, 2012
7:50 am
This is hillbilly behavior. Bray is from California, but Tn converted him real quickly.
Look at that picture. Doesn’t that look say, ” Where’s the moonshine”?
B1G
August 9th, 2012
7:50 am
Ahhh yes….it’s the height of police blotter season in the SEC. Some things never change.
Burdell
August 9th, 2012
7:52 am
I guess we can say “at least he isn’t beating up cops in a bar parking lot…things are looking better in Knoxvegas this summer!”
BTW, what is up with all these CFB players getting in trouble at lakes this summer?
sec fan
August 9th, 2012
7:56 am
Not a chance in this world Dooley will do anything. The kid absolutely feels he is above the law. 2 separate vandalism incidents late in July. Admitted to the first but not the second. Charges dropped on both. Early July these charges at the lake and a deal worked out with judge to keep off his record. Now he can get arrested again in August and there is no record of any of this July activity. Only at UTk can a cop get kicked unconscious by football player and no charges be filed. Dooley continuously kissing the backsides of these kids is really embarassing to UTk and the SEC.
Mountain Dawg
August 9th, 2012
7:57 am
I guess all teams have their fair share of Idiots.
JB
August 9th, 2012
7:59 am
Consider yourself lucky. If he were at Georgia, there would be about 15 stories on it .
PatDowns
August 9th, 2012
7:59 am
@ Whiskey Breath
7:50 am
Yeah…and your next comment probably is, “Hey, I’m horny. Where’s my sister?”
EDawg71
August 9th, 2012
8:00 am
Just glad UGA is not alone in all this silliness. Any punishment will reflect directly on Dooley and with this season being a “hot seat” season, my bet is that he won’t miss any playing time.
Red Neckerson
August 9th, 2012
8:06 am
Water, jetski and a college kid trying to impress a girl. What’s abnormal about that? Happens every day on the lake here. Give the kid a break.
TN Firefighter
August 9th, 2012
8:10 am
Well at least he wasn’t drunk or drugged up. He was just being a kid and the fact that he did this in front of a TWRA officer is a good hint he didn’t even know the law. GIVE HIM A BREAK AND GO BUST A REAL CRIMINAL!!!!!!
Rod
August 9th, 2012
8:10 am
Dooley’s a JOKE.
jalford
August 9th, 2012
8:11 am
God blesses all of us in different ways. It never ceases to amaze me how often these athletes take that gift and throw it away. None of his actions are necessarily serious, but throwing beer bottles at cars and wrecklessly endangering others(and himself) on the water are the actions of someone ready to have serious accident. He is in position to make millions of dollars and he is doing dumb s!?t like this? I certainly hope that he grows up soon because this kid can flat out play! Looking forward to seeing you in orange this fall(on the highway picking up trash!!!) GO DAWGS!!!!
Whatever
August 9th, 2012
8:12 am
TN Firefighter – just a kid? Give him a break?
Would you still be saying that if the jetskis had crashed and someone had been killed?
What an idiot.
5150 UOAD`
August 9th, 2012
8:14 am
What a JOKE…..this is NOTHING.
This is really a case of kids being kids. Who hasn’t sprayed/splashed a dock/boat or people using a boat or jet ski?
If I was Dooley I wouldn’t even say a word about this crap.
tell me again
August 9th, 2012
8:15 am
what a joke. So, Coach Dooley just laughs this off. Courts drop the charges. Wow, poor Isaiah Crowell, if only he had gone to Tenn. he not only would still be on the team after riding around with an illegal weapon but if he took a shot at somebody and missed he could have shared a good giggle with Dooley when he looked into the cameras and said, “Good thing he’s a rb and not a qb cause he can’t hit sh#t!
Buckhead Bulldog
August 9th, 2012
8:18 am
EDawg71-”hotseat”? This is only DDs 2nd year after Kiffy’s drunken house of horrors. I hope DD is given a chance and gets UT back up in the elite SEC club. I love playing UT when both teams are hot….makes for some good SEC caliber football. Even though Rocky Top drives me frickin’ nuts, at least they are not a Johnny come lately S. Calalackey.
EDawg71
August 9th, 2012
8:21 am
@Buckhead Bulldog – DD is one of the top 5 Head Coaches listed on the hotseat this year. Not saying it’s right, or that I agree with it, but yeah he’s on there. Being a Dawg fan, I really do want the 2nd generation Dooley to succeed. Just goes to show you it’s a “What have you done for me lately” college football world we live in. Right or wrong, check this out… http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/62416/dooleys-seat-hot-despite-many-challenges
Samual L. Jackson
August 9th, 2012
8:22 am
Whatever…a case of do as I say not as I do? You sound like a Republican, jack azz/. You are so full of your holier than thou BS, that even your writing reflects your moronic little brain.
gadem
August 9th, 2012
8:25 am
I am sure he didn’t know the law…hell, I didn’t even know that. Who does? I am sure there are plenty of people that ride jet skis that do the same thing.
sogadog
August 9th, 2012
8:26 am
This is not a big deal. Boys will be boys, make him run laps. I look forward to watching Bray play chicken with Jarvis Jones. GO DAWGS!!
sportzfan
August 9th, 2012
8:28 am
Quit throwing stones….try to keep your own yard clean, which is almost impossible.
ua1984
August 9th, 2012
8:30 am
This just proves how college athletes are held to a completely different standard!!! How does this make news??? Can you imagine how times ALL of us would be written up in the papers for doing things like this when we were in college??? Not to mention the underage drinking we did back in the day…
jsmooth
August 9th, 2012
8:32 am
This is not a big deal? Did you hear what happened to Usher’s son in July? How about the other boy’s who were hit by the drunken hair dresser in June on Lanier? This is a big deal only in the fact that boating safety is paramount. Do not give me the excuse that kids will be kids. I have a place on Lanier with boats and jet skis. MY kids KNOW the right things to do and have been through boating certification classes. The parents need to do their jobs and coaches as well. This could cost a life!
Mike
August 9th, 2012
8:34 am
For goodness sake, he was playing around on a jet ski…big deal.
Paddy
August 9th, 2012
8:35 am
Red Neckerson…..you just don’t get it, do you pal?
firster
August 9th, 2012
8:36 am
dooley won’t suspend bray for anything–he’s under pressure to win and the backup QB is terrible. Just win baby!!
blkbear
August 9th, 2012
8:39 am
Just another example of a pampered athelete doing whatever he wants and getting away with it. There’s really nothing special about it being UT. It could have been anywhere that has these jerks.
Captain Obvious
August 9th, 2012
8:39 am
Sheesh! How many breaks do you want to give this guy?! The very second an Athens Policeman gets a Georgia player, you’re ready with the jail jokes and under the bus he goes!…now, it’s your guy, and “he;s just being a kid”?! Folks, live in concert, it’s Double Standard!! It’s breaking the law…period!
DD
August 9th, 2012
8:41 am
Each arrest drops these kids’ desirability in the NFL’s eyes = lower draft pick = less money = something to think about.
BBB
August 9th, 2012
8:42 am
It’s all fun and games until somebody gets hurt or killed, which has happened way too many times on the area’s lakes. Laugh it up, Coach…if you think this behavior is funny, you’re the joke. What’s next? He rapes a girl and you will call it “just guys being guys”? This kid needs to be sat on – - hard!
Whatever
August 9th, 2012
8:42 am
Yeah – Mike – just playing around until someone dies. Tell me – EXACTLY – what would your opinion be if he did this “playing around” and killed a member of your family. What EXACTLY would your opinion be then? Just laughing it off?
Brunswick Marsh Dawg
August 9th, 2012
8:42 am
Dooley recently praised Bray at SEC Media Days regarding his increased maturity and “lifestyle changes”. Really?? Wow, imagine the punk he must have been before!!! Rednecks turn orange in the Fall. I hate Tennessee.
auburnfan
August 9th, 2012
8:43 am
who cares? what an idiotic story. everyone that is on jetskis messes around, that is why you ride them. so what if the kid splashed his buddy with water. he wasn’t drunk and he was having fun. get a life
J
August 9th, 2012
8:44 am
Win at all cost, This young man should be disciplined by UT, but because they want to save the coach they will turn the other cheek, It will bite them , Mark it down…
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August 9th, 2012
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Truth
August 9th, 2012
8:49 am
What do you expect from a dumb as rocks dooley
Let's Be Real
August 9th, 2012
8:50 am
Dooley: the new Fulmer?
5150 UOAD`
August 9th, 2012
8:51 am
Murray was Photographed at FSU underage drinking a beer. WHY wasn’t anything done to him?
This is about as serious.
Mutts got their butts in a knot just because UGa players get arrested for real crimes so they want everybody to get in trouble too.
Did the cop look under the seat? I bet there was an illegal spear gun with no serial on it. cops really missed their chance to get a real bust.
"The Georgia Way"
August 9th, 2012
8:53 am
At UT it’s jet skis. At Georgia it’s motor scooters.
Brunswick Marsh Dawg
August 9th, 2012
8:58 am
auburnfan, how do you know he wasn’t drunk? I guess he wasn’t drunk or had been drinking at all when he was chunking beer bottles at parked cars either, huh?? Not sayin’ he was drunk, but guarantee you he had been drinking while out on the lake on a summer day with his buddies. Nothing wrong with that at all, but when your the starting QB at a major college football program you have to be more responsible and conscious of your actions than that.
sogadog
August 9th, 2012
8:58 am
The point is if the kid didnt play football for Tennessee his jet ski incident would not be reported in the Atlanta Journal. College athletes are held to a different standard from other students and unfortunately they have to give up a large portion of their private lives to play college sports. Sadly, the media reports mistakes made college athletes to sell newspapers and boost ratings.
Concerned
August 9th, 2012
8:59 am
Dooley is desperate and Bray and the team know it. Thus here we have another Georgia in the making. Players loss focus because there is little to look up to in the form of a dynamic coach who has the player’s attention. Hence reasons why South Carolina will not win a Championship either. Out of these three, Georgia now stands the best shot at a Championship via Richts added years on to his contract, as well the biggy, that the players see him as no longer the Dad who always receives the prodigal son back with a feast and the best coat. The players at Georgia now know things are for real, and that stupid goes to other schools via a fast bus ticket back to Mommy.
biscuit
August 9th, 2012
9:01 am
More antics from the mountain mutts. But srsly, this is NOT really newsworthy. The Tn wildlife ranger did his job and wrote him a ticket. These guys for all of our incredulous disbelief are still just dumb kids. Throwing beer bottles off your balcony is kind of embarrassing but it’s UT, not Penn St., right?
Artie
August 9th, 2012
9:04 am
It’s the SEC…did you expect anything different?!?! LMFAO
SimpleDawg
August 9th, 2012
9:07 am
DD is heading down a Rocky Road…….. Without handing out some severe penalties to his band of hooligans, that will get their attention, his fall from Rocky Top could be abrupt…..and soon, very soon.
Teddy Kennedy
August 9th, 2012
9:08 am
A whole lot of chatter about an unproven QB! One thing for sure, I’d rather be on a Jet Ski with Tyler Bray than ridin’ in a car with Randy Travis!
Old Guy
August 9th, 2012
9:08 am
Who cares?
puntthemarxist
August 9th, 2012
9:14 am
All you UGA redneck deliverance inbreds need to get a grip on something besides your junk. Bray has been wild on a jet ski and thrown some bottles…and he made restitution. At UGA, you have legit thugs driving drunk with serial numbers scratched off stolen guns at 3 AM. Huge difference…
Concerned
August 9th, 2012
9:15 am
As I read the responses here above I see hate from people who are nothing other than bottom feeders. Maybe it is fun to display the slants and exchanges that are less than thought out and appropriate for the article. In respect for college coaches, players, and their schools. The dynamics of being a college student mean that this is a growing up phase. Not many keep this in prespective. Given this as the foundation, a student athelet is in the public eye in that same developmental stage. Throw in a top tier sport like football in a region and conference where football in August through January is King, and wow do these guys have a loaded plate. Talk about presssure, and getting bound up. So yes they are kids, young men, and future contributing tax payers.
How about we relax and understand that coaches to are under pressure in must win at all costs schools. Have we not created this evil. Call it enterainment if you will, but to these people it is real life. Do you think the media who loves the story really cares one flip about the student athlete who made a mistake? How about we back off and go live our lives with some poise, and encourage others. My thought is the bottom feeders need to feed because they like dirty water and leftovers.
If you cannot bring something to the covered dish, stay home.
Paddy
August 9th, 2012
9:16 am
Teddy Kennedy……..It is refreshing to know that you do not want to be in a car w/ a naked man at a 7-11. The kennedy’s always had higher standards.
Before all this Bray controversy, I thought he had a chance to be all-sec, now, not so much!
GFY
August 9th, 2012
9:19 am
Really don’t care where he plays QB….UGA, UA, AU, GIT. Need to be more responsible for his actions. As has been the case on many GA lakes this summer, people get hurt when “acting the fool” with these heavy and powerful watercraft.
NomNomNomATL
August 9th, 2012
9:22 am
Can wait to see Tenn, NC State, Clemson and Auburn fans mixing it up in downtown Atlanta hotels with DragonConers. WHAT A FREAKING AWESOME SIGHT!
Admiral Obvious
August 9th, 2012
9:24 am
Who wants to place bets by what game this season Derek Dooley is fired? And Bobby Pucktreno is hired?
Old Dawg
August 9th, 2012
9:27 am
For the folks who are saying this isn’t a big deal, check out the number of deaths this summer at Lake Lanier. Water safety IS a big deal!
DP
August 9th, 2012
9:29 am
Bray is from the San Joaquin Valley, where the biggest cities are Fresno and Bakersfield. Anybody who’s ever been there knows he had plenty of training in how to be a drunken redneck before he got to Knoxville.
Spurrier was Right
August 9th, 2012
9:30 am
The topic Du Jour on yesterday was South Carolina’s 4th-string QB transferring…go back & check that thread. I posted the rest of world was discussing Tennessee’s Starting QB run-in with the law while UGA ranted over a player no one has ever heard of before. Tyler Bray is a household name, isn’t it? SMH
gt4ever
August 9th, 2012
9:32 am
This article is a complete JOKE… This kid is just being a kid.. Good Grief!
5150 UOAD`
August 9th, 2012
9:34 am
About as stupid as getting arrested at a pantie raid.
Doo Whut?
August 9th, 2012
9:35 am
If NC State wins that game, it will be the beginning of the end for Derek Dooley. I suspect UT will have a challenging year anyway, but with Mark Richt’s general failure to have his team at their best when they play UT, I wouldn’t be suprised to see another upset loss in Athens. Bray will throw at least 50 passes in that game.
Keith
August 9th, 2012
9:38 am
This moron and DaPunk will be the downfall of Dooley. UT folks wont put up with much more crap…especially if he goes 0-3 vs UF. UGA and Bama and sub par year again
Vampire Bill
August 9th, 2012
9:39 am
Of course he wont be suspended or punished in any way by Dooley.
Dawg Reporter
August 9th, 2012
9:39 am
Who will be gone in 2013? WIll it be Richt, Muschamp or Dooley? I’ll bet my year’s salary that one of them does not return next season. Additionally, I can’t see UT or UF hiring Petrino as someone mentioned earlier. Talk about a textbook public relations nightmare!
azazel
August 9th, 2012
9:40 am
FULMER,FULMER,FULMER: Dooley is just a UGA PLANT
Bama in Atlanta
August 9th, 2012
9:42 am
In next week’s episode of MTV’s Jacka** watch as Tyler Bray plays Pin The Tail on the Donkey….with live donkeys!
OrangeBlood
August 9th, 2012
9:48 am
Beware of the Man that does not Talk and the Dog that does not Bark!!!
Xavier
August 9th, 2012
9:48 am
OH MY GOD!! NO! Not on JET SKIS!! Lock them up for life!!! Such “HOOLIGANS!!”
>yawn<
So, by the rationale of most of these posters, any UGA player caught going over the legal speed limit should face "trouble," then?
dagadawgs
August 9th, 2012
9:48 am
Wow, this is news? Boys will be boys
Stinger
August 9th, 2012
9:48 am
Enter your comments here
SweatDawg
August 9th, 2012
9:50 am
The college Kenny Powers
Stinger
August 9th, 2012
9:51 am
UGA. UT. What would the court system do without football players from the SEC?
Jeff and Lori Fail
August 9th, 2012
9:52 am
Coach Dooley’s right – throwing beer bottles at cars is funny. Even funnier is acting like you’re going to run someone over with a jet ski and after tipping them over. The funniest is that losers rarely make good leaders – lacking things like character and integrity usually trips them up.
Is Tennessee’s coaching staff (a) too stupid or (b) too lazy to recruit a better person to lead their team?
JJ
August 9th, 2012
9:56 am
Let’s just keep giving him passes. He is a QUARTERBACK after all, and should NOT be held accountable for his actions. These guys are WAY above the law and they know it. They have been praised for their skill, they have been courted and “drafted” and have had tons of freebies thrown their way. Their heads are HUGE as they know they carry the team, and bring the money in. That’s what it’s all about anyway is MONEY…..so let’s just give him a little slap on the hand, avoid any court proceedings, and just let thugs be thugs.
Then, when he’s totally out of control, and in jail for some horrendous crime, like DUI/vehicular homicide……..we will wonder “What happened? he was So talented”……
So yea, just give him a pass. Got make the money. No big deal, no one was killed…..this time.
5150 UOAD`
August 9th, 2012
10:02 am
This is almost as serious as the UGa female soccer player stuffing hash browns in her pants.
Bama Bill
August 9th, 2012
10:02 am
Do the Vols have another QB – one with maturity, judgement and leadership off the field ? Dooley clearly is not thinking – What would Saban do ? More to the lines of Daddy Vince and Mark Richt ?
KennyP
August 9th, 2012
10:03 am
100% he would not be playing game 1 if he went to UGA, but Dooley just makes jokes about it. If he went to South Carolina, he would have been suspended and reinstated 3 times by now. SEC needs to have uniform suspension rules!
Tim
August 9th, 2012
10:04 am
For those making light of the incident, Duke WR Blair Holliday almost lost his life this summer due to Jet Ski antics.
5150 UOAD`
August 9th, 2012
10:11 am
Tim and you can almost lose your life everyday just crossing the street. Give me a break. Living Life is dangerous for sure but this is a joke.
SM
August 9th, 2012
10:13 am
The fact that some of you think his behavior on a jet ski is “normal” just tells me how badly this country’s standards of acceptible behavior have fallen. Playing chicken and possibly drowning someone is not why anyone should ride one of those things.
As for DD, he’ll be gone before the season is over. He can’t recruit, he can’t coach, and his team can’t compete. Vol fans got rid of Fulmer for doing better than this.
vincedooley
August 9th, 2012
10:23 am
Lil Derek’s got that resume updated. UGA’s new OC in 2013!!
UGA Athletics??
August 9th, 2012
10:32 am
“This is almost as serious as the UGa female soccer player stuffing hash browns in her pants.”
Players stealing from players, recruits stealing from players, reefer smokin’, reefer brownines eatin’, gun tote’n and now hash brown stealin’ “student athletes.”
Same ole Georgia. SMH
Tdawg
August 9th, 2012
10:32 am
Come on dawg fan’s. I’m a, to the bone dawg fan, but this is BS. Sounds as if some jerk game warden didn’t have nothing better to do than harass some kid’s having a little fun. Game warden’s are nothing more than cop’s with a ego problem. Now if you want to get mad. Get mad at Dooley and the University of Tennessee for not throwing the book at Bray for destroying private property. Why would anyone be surprised? Crap, if DaJerk can kick a cop unconsciousness, why would they punish Bray for destroying some poor girl’s car’s?
Go Blue
August 9th, 2012
10:34 am
Have to agree that there is not much to this. Would be about like throwing some dirt on people by spinning the wheel on a dirt bike. As to the deaths on lake lanier this year….when you put that many boats into a little pond, it looks like a bumper cars ride at a carnival and they are going to collide. That place is way too small to have that many boats on it.
Tdawg
August 9th, 2012
10:43 am
SM when I was a youngin I use to crawl out the door window and crawl into the back of the truck while who ever it was at the time was speeding down the road at seventy miles per hour. We use to also climb onto the hood of the car while speeding down the road. Even played chicken with the cars a time or two. Only difference between then and now is the cop’s would often try and not arrest you if they didn’t have to. In other words sometimes they would just give you a break. Cops today are nothing more than money collectors for the goverment. The more tickets they write the the more money for the goverment. Some cops will cut you a break on the speeding thing, but that’s about it. Most want. I can tell you one thing for a fact. You better stay the heck out of Tifton, GA if you have a lead foot. Big speed trap town if there ever was one.
Double Standard
August 9th, 2012
10:48 am
He’s a thug, he’s taking advantage of a free education, he should not be allowed to play football…..sounds familiar? This is what’s actual being said “he’s just a kid, nothing to report here”. If I remember correctly didn’t Usher just bury a step-son that DIED from a jet-ski incident. No harm no foul here, nothing to look at just give him 1 more chance. I’m Just Saying!!!!!
Pitbull
August 9th, 2012
10:51 am
Looks like Stephan Garcia changed his name and moved to Knoxville.
Bray is obviously Spurrier material.
Tennessee of South Carolina, the coaches won’t do anything to a football player that breaks the law. What happened to the Tennessee players in the bar fight? What happened to the South Carolina players that got discounted rooms at a nice hotel? Nothing, that is what.
Tennessee and South Carolina: its almost as good as going to college.
VolsFan in GA UGGG
August 9th, 2012
10:52 am
Wow this is news????….. So anytime our crazy out going QB decides to act stupid it is posted on the AJC, then Tennessee is ripped for not suspending him…. As a Tennessee Alum I am not happy with his actions, yet he is 20 years old and on a lake with friends riding jet skis and gets a ticket…. He was drunk and throwing beer bottles……At least he did not beat his girlfriend, have a concealed gun, or sale weed in his dorm room…. He may not be the smartest or most courteous fellow, yet he throws a dang good football……..Let’s get on with football season
SM
August 9th, 2012
11:05 am
Once again, I am referring to the general lack of intelligence in the overall population that ANYTHING like this is tolerated, at any level. Two of my childhood friends were allowed to do anything they wanted under the guise of “Well, boys will be boys.” Between the two of them they’ve gotten 4 DUI arrests, two arrests for possession with intent to distrubute, and spent over 8 years in prison… before they were 35!
If you want a better society, you have to stop allowing behavior like Bray’s to go unpunished. A week in jail in GP will do him a world of good, and if it doesn’t, then kick him out of school and let him try to make it in this economy without any education or resume.
ZoSo
August 9th, 2012
11:19 am
Can’t wait for Bray and Hunter to light you twits up this fall. Go Big Orange!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
slick
August 9th, 2012
11:29 am
The trouble with the NCAA is that you can commit a crime and still play even if you do time in jail. However, God forbid if you fail to maintain a 2.0 or better GPA!
KevinM
August 9th, 2012
11:37 am
If Dooley loses Bray, they will have to go to the Wildcat.
UT has little chance to be dominant anyway this year. They may lose to NC State with Bray. I say punish him by letting him continue to run Dooley’s offense.
Spurrier has the inside track on the East once again.
Houston Nutt
August 9th, 2012
11:37 am
Dooley obviously will bury his head in the sand, as he cannot afford to be without Bray. The Vols have a long and ignoble history of covering up and taking it easy on star athletes. At UGA, he’d be suspended,and Richt wouldn’t be making jokes about it.
bitter hillbillie
August 9th, 2012
11:43 am
This serf boy turned mountain mutt—say’s it all
LOL
August 9th, 2012
11:49 am
Dawg fan here, and this is stupid. He got in trouble for it, and is paying for it. I don’t personally think he should have been in trouble in the first place.
7576DAWG
August 9th, 2012
11:51 am
Dooley is stuck between a rock and a hard place just like Spurrier was with Garcia. With Bray Tennessee losses four or five games but without Bray Tennessee losses six or seven and then it’s Dooley’s A@@ .
Steve
August 9th, 2012
11:52 am
If Tenn doesn’t want him anymore, I’m sure Spurrier will take him at USC.
bitter hillbillie
August 9th, 2012
11:53 am
JAIL IS NOT THE ANSEWER YOU SIMPLE MINDED FOOL———-SITTING HIS A$$
————–ON THE BENCH FOR HALF THE SEASON SENDS A BETTER MESSAGE
—PUTTING A YOUNG PERSON WITH SEASONED CRIMINALS IS A RECPIT FOR DISASTOR
7576DAWG
August 9th, 2012
11:57 am
The leader of a peer group has a responsibility to be the one that has the most common sense in order for that peer group not to go too far and affect other groups. When the leader is the one that doesn’t have any intelligence hopefully the peer group are smart enough to realize they need a new leader , then antics like what Bray did doesn’t seem to be so cute or funny.
If he keeps doing dangerous things like that it is only a matter of time before he hurts himself or someone else.
CC
August 9th, 2012
11:59 am
This guy could get a DUI and Dooley would not make him miss a game.
BG
August 9th, 2012
12:01 pm
Dooley will not do a thing to Bray. DaRick Rogers is still on the team after a million second chances given to him by Dooley.
7576DAWG
August 9th, 2012
12:03 pm
By the way , where is his parents , if I had done sometime as irresponsible as that on a jet sky my parents would have sold my jet sky or they would have torn my butt up , or they would have put me on so much restrictions that I wouldn’t ever do something that stupid again.
I hope Bray realizes that if he hurts someone and the person sues him that they will also sue his parents for everything they are worth , and the hurt person will collect. It could financially ruin his parents if the injury was bad enough.
Patrick
August 9th, 2012
12:05 pm
Who cares? Tenn will be mediocre… with or without him.
BobbyDawg
August 9th, 2012
12:09 pm
Don’t worry about tomorrow, just have fun right now. This is the way these kids think. Mommy and Daddy will get me out of any trouble I get in. What ever happened to growing up and becoming an adult ?
sweeping
August 9th, 2012
12:10 pm
Sweeping problems under the rug does not work. Just ask Penn State.
Maybe college football will turn the corner on discipline. Until then, the animals will run the zoo.
Actual UGA Alum
August 9th, 2012
12:18 pm
I am sorry but it must have be a slow news day. These charges are like reckless driving or failure to maintain lane. Yeah he is going to have to pay a fine but other than that not much is going to happen. (Community service, probation maybe) There are very few people who have ridden a jet ski that can say that they have not done the same thing.(they just didn’t get caught) He will not be suspended for this and I have no idea why it is news. If he would have been drunk then that would have been another story.
1eyedJack
August 9th, 2012
12:23 pm
Not only that but he was messing up the fishing too.
Statues R' Us
August 9th, 2012
12:28 pm
Barbara Dooley for Congress
OkieDawg
August 9th, 2012
12:28 pm
Vince needs to have a conversation with Junior about bad apples.
Paddy
August 9th, 2012
12:34 pm
gt4ever……..”the kid is just being a kid” you say. That thinking does not work now and it did not work back in the day either. My father, like many others, would have yanked me off the team and out of school if I pulled the crap Bray did this past mon.
5150 UOAD`
August 9th, 2012
12:34 pm
OkiedWag…..Junior knows about bad apples. He was growing up around them and watching dad cover for them his whole life at UGa until he went to UVa.
Cobb Dawg
August 9th, 2012
12:35 pm
Too bad for him it didn’t happen in K’ville. The K’ville police would have asked for an autograph an let him go. They don’t even punish playa’s for beating up cops there. So this would be laughed at.
5150 UOAD`
August 9th, 2012
12:37 pm
He was doing what a jet ski was basically made to do. You dWags need to worry about your REAL criminals breaking the law.
ColumbusDawg
August 9th, 2012
12:38 pm
I hate Tennessee and the rest of our rivals as much as anybody, but when a report says “hot dogging” I really got to question the seriousness of the crime. Hot Dogging? Really? I would bet this “Lake Cop” is as big of a loser as the “Beer Cops” that try to bust everyone on gameday’s in Athens.
I used to ride jet skis every once in a while when I was younger. I can’t remember one time where I didn’t try to splash my friends and get really close to them. In fact, I would be more worried if an SEC football player was on a jet ski and obeying the 100 feet rule mentioned above. “Guys the rule is 100 feet and no splashing, stay back”. The biggest question I have is if the kid rented the jet ski? I hope for his sake he was just on the lake on the 4th of July and rented it for fun. Otherwise, it means he he owns it and trailers it to and from the lake. In that case we have a Kenny Power’s situation and I’m calling him out!
K Conway
August 9th, 2012
12:43 pm
Oh Barackboloney….. again…another Democrat caught …probably lie so he won’t miss any playing tiime!
Straight Jacket
August 9th, 2012
12:47 pm
Most Tech football players and fans “play in Piedmont Park after hours and because they are so “smart” don’t get caught!
Paddy
August 9th, 2012
12:47 pm
5150……you are kidding me. Another 20 feet and he could have killed those people. Let me guess, you are not in law enforcement!
Paul in NH
August 9th, 2012
12:49 pm
Certainly stupidity on Bray’s part – I expect him to be suspended for the same number of games as Branden Smith
5150 UOAD`
August 9th, 2012
12:53 pm
paddy…..lighten up francis….the COP was getting MONEY and that is all most cops are good for. It is no more than Laying Drag aka burning rubber from a red light.
Joan of Arc
August 9th, 2012
12:53 pm
Enter your comments here
S Braden
August 9th, 2012
12:54 pm
Took 3 pages of comments., but I knew some a@@ would change the topic from athletics to politics. What the hell does being a Democrat have to do with this??
Joan of Arc
August 9th, 2012
12:54 pm
Bray and Dooley should both be gone before the sun sets tonight. Immatrue behavior by both of them.
ColumbusDawg
August 9th, 2012
12:58 pm
In response to CC: This guy could get a DUI and Dooley would not make him miss a game.
Um Richt just let Brandon Smith skate for pot possession. My point is why does everyone call each other out. It only makes you look stupid when one of our guys inevitably gets caught doing something next week! News Flash: We all recruit from the same pool of players and we all have our fair share of less than ideal citizens.
The only school that can call out other SEC schools is Vandy! They have higher standards for admittance and conduct and you see what that gets them. Last in the SEC almost every year!
“Ooh look. UT has 7 arrests this year, we have 6 and Bama has 9(made up numbers)? That Bama is running a programs of thugs!” STFU people, we all have our problems and I hope Richt continues to get as many of our athletes on the field every Saturday to entertain me. I’m under no impression that we or any other SEC school has a bunch of choir boys playing each Saturday. I’d say the majority of college FB players smoke weed, drink and do what most every other normal college student’s do.
Steve
August 9th, 2012
1:01 pm
I can’t decide who displayed worse judgement: Bray throwing beer bottles at cars, or his coach trying to brush it off by making a joke about it. Wow.
Steve
August 9th, 2012
1:06 pm
This story and accompanying comments made by Dooley is more an indictment on him than it is Bray. Bray wasn’t fighting anyone, cheating, or taking $$ from an agent, but how classless to make a joke about your own player breaking the law.
Dog Dung
August 9th, 2012
1:07 pm
Wow, just a dozen more players at UT getting in trouble and they will be even with the dumb dog redneck vandals and criminals,lmao.
Chesty LaRue
August 9th, 2012
1:08 pm
Could be worse…..He could have removed the tag on his mattress.
Tea Party Meber
August 9th, 2012
1:10 pm
This is no dout Obama Bin Ladnes falt.
Tax n spend librals allow thugs like this 2 go 2 collage where they get in truble.
59bulldawg
August 9th, 2012
1:18 pm
Except when he plays us I’m pulling for DD and think he’s done a decent job at UT considering everything he inherited. He doesn’t need Bray acting like a jackass right now and that’s for sure!
UGAX
August 9th, 2012
1:20 pm
I’m a VOL hater but this is a non-story. Are you frickin’ kidding me?. Horseplaying on the lake, on a jet ski, in front of a girl…….Geez, lock the kid up and throw away the key. Surely there are better topics to be covered and reported than this!
10Dawgs
August 9th, 2012
1:23 pm
What’s not mentioned here is that East Tennessee has a long history covering up for these kids. They are the most arrogant, dislutional fan base in the country and have a “win at all costs” attitude that justifies coverups. Be sure that this is the tip of the iceburg. Obviously this Bray guy is a trainwreck and will implode on and/or off the field. Hate it for Dooley the younger but it couldn’t happen to a bigger bunch of *******s of a fan base.
Paddy
August 9th, 2012
1:34 pm
5150….when the prank gets to the point it could hurt or kill someone, then it is serious. If thats what you think of cops, I hope you never need one.
LogicalUS
August 9th, 2012
1:42 pm
Good to see Bray’s horrid On-the-field decision making is just a reflection of his horrid Off-the-field decision-making.
Note to Dooley…bench this kid and more on…nobody with such a lack of decision-making ability is going to lead your team to anything but losses.
you are the weakest link...goodbye
August 9th, 2012
1:44 pm
Vince would have kicked this kids a s s
must've taken maturity lessons from ryan leaf and gamechicken garcia
August 9th, 2012
1:49 pm
No suspension?????? The beer bottle incident that damaged cars should warrant suspension. And this on top of it. Another school proving Georgia has the strictest discipline policies
what the ?
August 9th, 2012
1:52 pm
just pay for the car damage and it will be ok.
just make PSA commercial and it will be ok.
Tennessee justice, another point of pride.
UGA
August 9th, 2012
2:06 pm
It’s great to have Aaron Murray. Great player, no ego, no trouble.
5150 UOAD`
August 9th, 2012
2:08 pm
Paddy I have needed a cop. That is exactly why I say that. They don’t prevent crime. They clean up afterwards and tell to take it up with your insurance company. COPS collect revenue for the city, state or county. Detectives that cover/investigate serious crime actually EARN their money, but they are the only ones that do.
out of control and could have seriously hurt someone
August 9th, 2012
2:09 pm
Remember all the accidents and deaths at Lake Lanier and lakes all around the nation. Most “just hot dogging”. Not all because of drunks either.
Take it a little more serious!
oldfart
August 9th, 2012
2:13 pm
It appears to me that the punishment handed down by the real judge, as opposed to the self-appointed ones here, is sufficient for the “crime”.
5150 UOAD`
August 9th, 2012
2:13 pm
UGA
August 9th, 2012
2:06 pm
It’s great to have Aaron Murray. Great player, no ego, no trouble.
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HAHAHAH right. His stuff has been over looked.
Murray photographed underage drinking at FSU but NOTHING was done to Murray.
ColumbusDawg
August 9th, 2012
2:19 pm
“No suspension?????? The beer bottle incident that damaged cars should warrant suspension. And this on top of it. Another school proving Georgia has the strictest discipline policies”
Again I will mention Brandon Smith? We’ll see if our pot toting safety can beat their beer bottle throwing “Hot Dog”. But just stop with the school discipline comparisons. Our next arrest is just around the corner as it is at every other SEC school! STOP IT! We are all the same in the long run!
OkieDawg
August 9th, 2012
2:23 pm
5150 TOAD, Of course you’ve needed a cop. You’re a Techerhead that goes to games at silly little BD Stadium. Anyone who goes into the Tech ghetto needs a cop!!
Vol in Bethlehem,Ga
August 9th, 2012
2:30 pm
like ColumbusDawg said everyone has there trouble makers. I wouldn’t mind Bray being suspended
for a quarter or two.Oh and by the way our back up is no slouch either he was the gatorade player of the year two years ago.
UGA Insider
August 9th, 2012
2:37 pm
Nothing major here…. Bray is just a head-case. UGA will punish him worse than last year.
Paddy
August 9th, 2012
2:38 pm
5150……the crime prevention departments are filled w/ mostly uniform officers and some detectives. You have a rather narrow scope of what a police officers really does day to day. Yes, he hands out tickets, that is part of his job. Prevention of crime has many faces, not all of which are visable to the public. You are the one that needs to throttle back, Francis.
Tim Scott
August 9th, 2012
2:40 pm
Dooley will do NOTHING , Bray is the only shot he has. Tennessee is not very good with him and bad Bray. Dooley’s seat is so white hot you can’t even stand near him. At the end of the day it will not make a difference DD will be gone and once again UT will be on the prowl for a new head coach.
LHarding Dawg
August 9th, 2012
2:46 pm
I’m a Georgia man but give these guys a break. This is absolutely no news and should not be in the AJC from either a Tennessee prospective or a Georgia prospective.
Katie
August 9th, 2012
2:51 pm
This is a college kid acting like a college kid on a jet-ski. Seriously, can’t we get better news on the front page of the AJC???
ColumbusDawg
August 9th, 2012
2:57 pm
“like ColumbusDawg said everyone has there trouble makers. I wouldn’t mind Bray being suspended
for a quarter or two.Oh and by the way our back up is no slouch either he was the gatorade player of the year two years ago.”
Nice post but if we can get our starting corner out of missing any games after being busted with a baseball size bag of pot, Bray shouldn’t miss any time for bottle throwing and jet skiing too close. I just hate all the hypocrisy and every school has more than their fair share of these type of fans. Urban Meyer touted Tebow and his virtues in every interview while setting the record for arrests during his coaching tenure there. And guess what, they have 2 NC trophies and could care less about the off the field issues. Every poster that comes on here and says Dooley or any other coach is running a rogue program and it will hurt them should look in the mirror. We all run rogue programs! Get over it! It hasn’t hurt Florida, LSU or Alabama.
That said I think we will beat you this year. I’m worried about depth but I think your defense will struggle a little learning a new system. Same with Florida’s offense.
5150 UOAD`
August 9th, 2012
3:04 pm
ColumbusDawg…he has passed pee tests and took drug classes. So I guess he doesn’t smoke he just transports it or sells it and that doesn’t deserve a suspension.
Paddy
August 9th, 2012
3:07 pm
Katie…….no that is a college kid acting like an idiot. 20 ft closer and he could have injured or killed those folks. I call that serious and news worthy!
Dogs Smell
August 9th, 2012
3:15 pm
You Ga homers even commenting is funny. He wasnt driving the wrong way on his scooter. He didnt have an illegal gun under the seat and there was not a strong odor of weed coming out of the “JetSKI” ! Idiots. Oh and he is still rated above A.Murray.
LOCK HIM UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEY
August 9th, 2012
3:26 pm
Any college jock – especially football players – think they are a privileged class – in truth they are nothing but dumb a$$ ball handlers…..they should be made examples of….should have been tasered while he was in the water and then put on the chain gang working on the side of the road for 1 year….then let’s see how privileged he feels.
Tampa Gator
August 9th, 2012
3:47 pm
It is too bad that all the other football programs can’t be as well run as the Gators. Our coach will not tolerate this type of behavior.
hmmmmm............
August 9th, 2012
4:03 pm
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PMC
August 9th, 2012
4:12 pm
Finally, poor behavior we can actually write off as immaturity. No reason to suspend him for being stupid in this case.
51 arrests in four years
August 9th, 2012
4:25 pm
If he was at UGA, St. Mark would send him to bed without a lollipop, then suspend him for ten minutes of his next remedial studies class. That’s called tough love, Richt-style.
BILLY JACK
August 9th, 2012
4:32 pm
If Bray was at Georgia folks would want to send him to the electric chair-but at ole rockytop even Darrick Rodgers who pistol whipped that guy in a bar,that story strangely went away and after a briefcase full of money was dropped off at his bar,he refused to press charges.STRANGE
Contractor
August 9th, 2012
4:37 pm
Really? This has to be the biggest pile of garbage ever brought to the courts. Yes, people can get hurt, well they can get hurt walking down the sidewalk or giving each other high fives as we’ve seen star athletes do. Anyone and everyone that has ever gotten on a jet-ski has done something remotely close to this, atleast the splashing part. Can’t believe the AJC even reported this BS story.
TennGa
August 9th, 2012
4:40 pm
You Ga homers even commenting is funny. He wasnt driving the wrong way on his scooter. He didnt have an illegal gun under the seat and there was not a strong odor of weed coming out of the “JetSKI” ! Idiots. Oh and he is still rated above A.Murray.
Good comment!
tdog
August 9th, 2012
4:46 pm
dooley will cover all this up to keep bray eligible–he better win big this year or he’ll be out the door.
Backwoods Inbred Coaching at its finest
August 9th, 2012
5:12 pm
Honestly I would have thought Spurrier would win the biggest hypocrite award in the SEC and that is not easy to do with so many viable candidates who deserve such an award but Coach DOODOOley wins it hands down. Keep on laughing and making jokes Doobreath..hope you are still laughing when Tennessee fires you…Guarantee I will be
Sam Jones
August 9th, 2012
5:54 pm
I lost all respect for CDD when he brushed off Bray’s juvenile, thuggish behavior with the beer bottles. While it would be reasonable to expect that due to this latest incident, Bray will sit out a few games. But my bet is CDD will do what ever it takes to keep his job, including playing Bray.
OkieDawg
August 9th, 2012
6:04 pm
How on God’s green earth can Derelict Dooley play off Bray’s throwing beer bottles at cars as “silly behavior” and then joke about it? No wonder he lost control of the locker room last year. He needs to take off the silly orange pants and act like a head ball coach. His Mama needs to coach him up on coaching.
o-my dawgs
August 9th, 2012
6:42 pm
@8:22 you the jack a@@!
oldtimer
August 9th, 2012
8:19 pm
Tyler Bray is on the path to be the next Stephen Garcia and has a coach like Spurrier who has limited options and will not do anything about him.
cdpridg
August 9th, 2012
9:24 pm
Good example of hillbilly behavoir….this is normal up there.
5150 UOAD`
August 9th, 2012
11:23 pm
What is worse a lil fun on a jet ski or http://blogs.ajc.com/recruiting/2012/08/09/alabama-accused-of-encouraging-recruit-to-transfer-high-schools/?cp=1#comment-286753
This is not Dooley's fault!
August 9th, 2012
11:27 pm
C’mon. This is NOT Dooley’s fault. Bray needs to account for his behavior. Period!