NCAA inquiry is the last thing Georgia and Mark Richt need (UPDATED)
Mark Richt is trying to turn Georgia's program around. An NCAA inquiry doesn't help.
(UPDATED at 7:45 p.m.)
Georgia can finally count itself in the same company as Alabama and Florida — just not in the way everybody hoped.
According to our Tim Tucker, the NCAA has contacted Georgia to inform the school of an “inquiry” on campus.
This is never good news.
Georgia associate athletic director Claude Felton emailed a statement, reading: “I have been asked numerous times over the last two days whether we had been contacted by the NCAA and the answer has been ‘no.’ … Late Wednesday afternoon, the University of Georgia received a call from the NCAA requesting permission to conduct an inquiry on the UGA campus. Athletic Association officials indicated that full cooperation would be provided. The NCAA has requested that UGA officials, coaches, and/or student-athletes decline further comment until the inquiry is completed.”
The best case scenario for the Bulldogs is that this inquiry goes nowhere, because if coach Mark Richt suddenly has to deal with a full-fledged investigation and even the potential of NCAA sanctions, after last year’s down season, it could hamper his efforts to move the program forward.
No reason was given for the inquiry. But given recent news, it could be connected with investigations into illegal contact between various college players and agents. Players from Alabama, South Carolina and North Carolina been linked with a party hosted by an agent in South Miami Beach earlier this summer. If the players were compensated for the trip in any way — travel, lodging, meals — it would negate their amateur status and constitute an NCAA violation. Alabama defensive lineman Marcell Dareus reportedly is among those under investigation.
Former Florida offensive lineman Maurkice Pouncey, a first-round draft pick of the Pittsburgh Steelers, has been accused of taking $100,000 from an agent following last year’s SEC title game and before the Sugar Bowl, which also would constitute an NCAA violation. Pouncey denies the charge.
UPDATE: Stories on SI.com and TMZ.com both referenced wide receiver A.J. Green about an agent’s Memorial Day weekend party in Miami. Green denies being at the party in the SI.com story. The TMZ.com story says Georgia “ is investigating” whether Green attended.
A source said one potential interview subject is junior receiver A.J. Green, but if enforcement officials plan to ask Green about the now-infamous party in Miami Beach, Fla., on Memorial Day weekend that prompted the inquiries at North Carolina and South Carolina and an internal investigation at Alabama, they won’t learn much.
Reached by phone Tuesday night — almost a day before the NCAA contacted Georgia — Green told SI.com that he did not attend the party. Green, who is considered on of the nation’s best receivers, said a Georgia compliance official asked him Tuesday if he attended the party. Green said he spent Memorial Day weekend at home in Summerville, S.C.
“I never went to South Beach,” Green told SI.com.
TMZ has learned the University of Georgia is investigating whether football star A.J. Green partied on South Beach at the same bash that’s launched investigations at three other colleges.A source closely connected to Georgia’s athletic department tells TMZ the wide receiver allegedly attended a party at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami on Memorial Day weekend. Partying alone isn’t a crime under NCAA rules — Green is 21 years old — but if someone (like an agent or financial adviser) paid for anything related to Green’s trip, that could be a violation.
Agents and their pursuit of college players dominated the first day of SEC media days.
Alabama coach Nick Saban referred to agents as pimps.
Florida coach Urban Meyer called agents “predators.”
Call them what you like, they’re the major story right now.
What level are your concerns about the inquiry into Georgia?
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256 comments Add your comment
Jason
July 21st, 2010
7:05 pm
Last?
Asheville Dawg
July 21st, 2010
7:06 pm
Second?
Let the Big Dawg Eat
July 21st, 2010
7:07 pm
No concerns
Asheville Dawg
July 21st, 2010
7:08 pm
O well, this is just what UGA needs now. All I can say is oh vey!
G-Money
July 21st, 2010
7:12 pm
Jeff, I asked Mr. College Football this same question (no response yet): If USC, Bama or any other school for that matter, is forced to vacate bowl wins, shouldn’t that also mean they should return the money they received for winning that particular bowl game?
It's A.J.
July 21st, 2010
7:15 pm
A.J.’s the guy in question. It’s in regards to the party in Miami.
JJ
July 21st, 2010
7:16 pm
Not really concerned yet. I guess it just depends on what the penalties will be if players had contact with the agent and/or received a paid trip to Miami.
If it’s automatic career ending it will be really bad for everyone and that will be concerning. If it’s a suspension and repayment of the money then I can live with that. Just all depends. Really too early to tell right now.
Gatorbait
July 21st, 2010
7:18 pm
Guess Schult’s article from two days ago blasting the gators looks foolish now. Go Gators
David C
July 21st, 2010
7:18 pm
Maybe the NCAA figures this is the easiest way to level the playing field across conferences. Put half the SEC on probation and take scholarships away.
greg
July 21st, 2010
7:19 pm
“The best case scenario for the Bulldogs is that this inquiry goes nowhere, because if coach Mark Richt suddenly has to deal with a full-fledged investigation and even the potential of NCAA sanctions, after last year’s down season, it could hamper his efforts to move the program forward.”
Boy that is one giant leap isn’t it? We all know what the inquiry is about. Where did “full-fledged investigation” come from? You should right for a tabloid…oh…wait…you already do!
DP
July 21st, 2010
7:19 pm
Jeff, this party took place during a Freaknik-like event in South Beach over Memorial Day weekend. Do a search on “Black Beach Weekend 2010 South Beach” and you’ll find plenty of stories and pictures. It stands to reason that there were a lot of athletes from a lot of SEC and ACC schools down there. I’ll be surprised if a lot of schools aren’t caught up in this in another week or two.
Bama fan
July 21st, 2010
7:20 pm
Not that big of a deal if its related to the agent dealings because it looks like a lot of players from a lot of schools got tripped up and went to this party.
From what I’ve in other reports up to 45 different players from various schools showed up at the party. Word out of Bama is that Dareus and about 15 other players from various schools showed up, found out an agent was behind the party, and left. Dareus will no doubt be suspended by Saban though as will a lot of players from a lot of different schools. I’ve a feeling the NCAA is going to come down a lot harder on the agent than on the schools. What are they gonna do? Put 45 schools on probation?
If you’re Georgia you’re hoping that its nothing more than a player attending the party same as a lot of other players. If its something else than that’s a whole different issue.
A handful of dawg posters on the other blogs were taking their various digs at Bama and Florida for Dareus and Pouncey having contact with the agent and the party. Those of you that were having a good time flaming on Bama and UF can now take your foots out of your mouths.
meansonny
July 21st, 2010
7:22 pm
I agree JJ. Not concerned at the moment.
If a player was dumb enough to receive compensation, then I’ll be worried about depth.
But until proven otherwise, i could care less about the investigation. It sounds like a due-diligence search by the NCAA. They don’t want defamation suits brought against them. That’s why they can’t even hint at a purpose for the investigation. They’re grasping at straws. Trying to see what mud pops up.
Anyway, if there’s mud. Then so be it. Some player screwed up big time.
Gainesville D.A. is a Gator booster
July 21st, 2010
7:24 pm
Gatorbait,
A named former player (Pouncey) on your team has been accused of doing something improper. No named player at UGA has been accused of anything. You look foolish. But that’s nothing new to you since you probably have your jean shorts on right now.
Bama fan
July 21st, 2010
7:25 pm
Greg,
Most likely this NCAA investigation is about the party and its probably not that big of a deal. But you don’t know that for sure. Better to just wait and see and hope its just an inquiry into a player or 2 who showed up at the party and that the end result is a player suspsenion for a few games just like what will likely happen everywhere else.
The Bagman
July 21st, 2010
7:25 pm
Mark, Dont let the look up in the ceiling tiles of my office. That’s where I keep the “goodies” for the recruits.
DawgPhan
July 21st, 2010
7:25 pm
Like this wasn’t coming to bite us in the bum? You dont think those kids weren’t getting anything on the side to play in Athens? We have a record of corruption and NCAA violations… (Kemp, Basketball corruption, ect.) All we need right now, very bad timing.
GeoffDawg
July 21st, 2010
7:26 pm
Very little concern at the moment. Given the recent spate of violations in the region, it wouldn’t surprise if the NCAA is just randomly fishing at adjacent programs to see if they can uncover anything. Probably means nothing and will just be a pain in the neck. Like an IRS audit.
David C
July 21st, 2010
7:28 pm
I just heard its AJ Green
bardawg
July 21st, 2010
7:28 pm
Maybe the NCAA does’nt want UGA to feel left out since they evidently think all SEC schools must be dirty. Why don’t we disband that austere group of demogogues
Left to Right
July 21st, 2010
7:30 pm
Two days ago you played down the “Pouncey gets $100k” story by saying it wasn’t anything for Georgia fans to get excited about, and that the worst case scenario for the Gators was the vacating a meaningless bowl win.
But today, you rush to post a blog entry on UGA announcing an inquiry by the NCAA regarding a Georgia player simply attending a party in Miami. This, you now inform us, is “never good news” and could setback Richt’s efforts to “move the program forward.”
But if the worst that may happen to Florida is forfeiting a bowl game because a player took $100k, then what could possibly be the worst that could happen to UGA if a player attended a party? The player has to sit out a couple of games? Not really worth your breathless tone, is it?
Regardless, I’m sure you and Bradley will now go into customary tag-team mode and hammer this topic for the next few weeks. It’s all about the clicks, baby.
DP
July 21st, 2010
7:31 pm
Imagine a Freaknik like atmosphere in South Beach with athletes and good looking women from all over the place texting each other. How long does it take for the word to spread about a great party? Does anybody think that everybody who shows up knows who’s hosting the party, who paid for the food and drinks?
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July 21st, 2010
7:31 pm
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Jeff Schultz
July 21st, 2010
7:32 pm
G-Money — If you’re asking me, yes, they should have to. But I’m not aware of any precedence for that. Of course, in this case, Georgia would only have to give back its Independence Bowl payday.
Another Source
July 21st, 2010
7:33 pm
I concure with David C, I have also heard something about AJ.
Jerry
July 21st, 2010
7:34 pm
Georgia should be clean here. They don’t have any players that can make it into the NFL. Green was there best shot but he has a bum shoulder.
Worm
July 21st, 2010
7:34 pm
it would be totally out of character for A.J. Green to have been at an event like this..He was in Summerville, S.C.
Jeff Schultz
July 21st, 2010
7:35 pm
It’s A.J — For what’s it’s worth, A.J. Green was asked about the party the other day in an S.I. story and denied being there. Here’s the link. I’ll add it to the blog in a few minutes.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/football/ncaa/07/21/georgia.investigation/index.html
Another Source
July 21st, 2010
7:37 pm
BAMM! Knew my source was on the spot! DANG kid, you are trouble!!!
Clean House
July 21st, 2010
7:38 pm
It time to get rid of these clowns in Athens. They have no control both on and off the football field. This will be Mark Richts Waterloo season at UGA. Bank on it !
Beast from the East
July 21st, 2010
7:39 pm
Hopefully, nothing is discovered that is being done by any of these universities. If the kids received improper benefits, then they should all take their medicine. Whatever, each school decides is appropriate. It’s never fun having the NCAA “digging” at your school. Kind of like when the IRS decides to audit you. You think you did everything right, but their opinion is the only one that seems to matter. Scary stuff.
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July 21st, 2010
7:40 pm
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snellville jacket
July 21st, 2010
7:41 pm
Sorry to see anyone get in trouble. Almost have to have a compliance officer with each player 24/7.
Another Source
July 21st, 2010
7:41 pm
I have to say though, where their is smoke, their is usually fire. Sometimes it takes the NCAA to straighten out of control programs, ala FSU.
Another Source
July 21st, 2010
7:42 pm
there*
Gainesville D.A. is a Gator booster
July 21st, 2010
7:42 pm
CNNSI asked AJ if he was at the Miami party as well as Mark Richt. He has told both parties that he was in Summerville, SC that weekend. Now, it could be about another incident but it sounds like AJ was not at the Miami party. The NCAA has not mentioned AJ’s name at all. Make sure you are reporting the facts Jeff and not just trying to sensationalize a story to help make AJC some money so that they can pay their bills.
Damon Evans
July 21st, 2010
7:45 pm
Guess what ?…. you ignorant dawgs fans were hoping my snafu was merely nothing however I wasn’t being totally truthful about a friend. More fire to come mutt fans ! I mean “Good People” !
Dawg 95
July 21st, 2010
7:45 pm
I will have to say, if AJ is guilty, it would be highly out of character for him.
crabapplejoe
July 21st, 2010
7:46 pm
A.J.’s momma and all his cousins will testify that he was in Summerville……
bugsquacher
July 21st, 2010
7:48 pm
go look at tmz.com for the story……. AJ
Another Source
July 21st, 2010
7:48 pm
Dawg 95, to be honest, do we ever know the true “character” of these fellows one way or the other? To say it is out of character is baseless, that is unless you know him?
Bob in SF
July 21st, 2010
7:50 pm
Well if it was AJ the Dawgs are screwed because Dareus was just declared ineligible for being at that party.
Another Source
July 21st, 2010
7:50 pm
http://www.tmz.com/2010/07/21/university-of-georgia-bulldogs-football-aj-green-investigation-south-beach-party/
Beast from the East
July 21st, 2010
7:51 pm
Gainesville D.A.,
That name is fitting. The DA surely does not stand for District Attorney.
Jeff,
To be fair, this doesn’t bode well for ANY coach or program. Not just Richt or UGA. I’m sure Saban, Meyer, Spurrier and Davis aren’t to thrilled with any of this right now, either.
bugsquacher
July 21st, 2010
7:52 pm
TMZ has learned the University of Georgia is investigating whether football star A.J. Green partied on South Beach at the same bash that’s launched investigations at three other colleges.
reebok
July 21st, 2010
7:55 pm
Tech fan here. I honestly hope this turns into a lot of nothing.
Above the Law
July 21st, 2010
8:00 pm
Gatorbait,
I would hardly call Shultz’s article about the inquiry into UF a couple days ago “blasting”. In fact, just the opposite. Typical dumb ..ss gator comment
Gainesville D.A. is a Gator booster
July 21st, 2010
8:02 pm
When has TMZ become a reliable source? It is sad when journalists stoop to the level of the paparazzi. I guess it is all about the almighty dollar.
david
July 21st, 2010
8:03 pm
What were you saying about Miami the other day, about their arrest record? You need to shut your mouth, considering UGA with 40+ arrests including the AD, and now this under Richt. Look for Dan Mullen to me the next head coach of UGA in 2011, with Greg McGarity as the new AD.
crabapplejoe
July 21st, 2010
8:04 pm
No big deal…the Dawgs are pretty deep at WR…
thunderbull56
July 21st, 2010
8:10 pm
Come on Lucy ’splain to me why the school and the clean players are penalized,often years after the fact, and the playa,and I use that in term in tha’ gangsta’ esque of ways,and the professional sleaze balls classified as “Agents” aren’t the one’s going to jail,paying fines,kissing AD’s behinds, you get my drift? In other words why should Alabama’s,Southern Cal’s current innocents be penalized and the perps are all out making millions ‘cluding the coaches? Kinda like knockin’ up a lady and expecting someone else to pay for and rear the child.
Jethro
July 21st, 2010
8:11 pm
How many Wake Forest players were there?
Beast from the East
July 21st, 2010
8:11 pm
Jeff,
Make sure you’re not implicated in any of the SoHoo parties that will surely take place over the next couple of days. These agents are looking for the next big sportswriter, too!
GeoffDawg
July 21st, 2010
8:12 pm
“A source closely connected to Georgia’s athletic department tells TMZ the wide receiver allegedly attended a party at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami on Memorial Day weekend.”
If AJ Green has denied it to Coach Richt, then just who is this source within the athletic department and where does he get information that apparently the head coach isn’t privy to? Sounds like a whole lot of nothing to me.
Heyward22
July 21st, 2010
8:13 pm
I am a GT fan, but I am a little torn here. While on one hand it’s incredibly selfish for these high profile players to go to an agent party, if they knew it was, knowing that they could be ruled ineligible and thus leaving their team in a pickle. However, if they didn’t know and it was completely innocent then they shouldn’t be ruled ineligible, but somehow else reprimanded to remind them and future players to think about things like this first.
FWIW, I don’t think AJ Green would have been there, and fellow GT fans, I would suggest we not flame UGA fans until something like this. Remember, UGA fans were flaming UA and UF players just hours ago for this, and now they aren’t laughing much anymore. Let’s learn that lesson.
SD Dawg
July 21st, 2010
8:13 pm
These kids know what they can and can’t do. Get caught, pay the price. I say yank their eligibility. And that goes for Green too if he was in fact a part of the fray. I have no sympathy for these athletes. They live a charmed life even though the game is dangerous to their health. The only way it stops is if people (players, agents, boosters, and all) pay some sort of legal price. The NFL needs to step in and help too.
What a mess. God bless us this season. We can’t get out of our own way. When was the last time we went into a season with only on the field issues.
Sorry, but I am sick of it.
Beast from the East
July 21st, 2010
8:15 pm
thunderbull56,
I agree in principle with most of your comments. However, I simply cannot feel sorry for USC as long as Kiffen is their choice as the face of their program. Their president allowed their recently ousted AD to hire that scumbag and in my opnion, they deserve each other.
Bad Dawg, Bad Dawg
July 21st, 2010
8:15 pm
UGA needs to start fresh with a new A.D. The A.D. issue, numerous player issues, coach tells the players to rush the field intentially getting an unsportsmanship penalty, fan behavior. It seems top to bottom and everywhere in between.
Another Source
July 21st, 2010
8:18 pm
I agree Bad Dawg, sick of this attituede, players and our fellow fans alike. Need a pact or somekind of agreement to change the image. UGA has a bad wrap because of stuff like this.
Tim Tebow's Tears
July 21st, 2010
8:20 pm
I agree Heyward
Clud Bannakerstrom
July 21st, 2010
8:21 pm
No biggie. Minor infraction. Slap on the wrist, then UGA players can go back to drinking and driving.
meansonny
July 21st, 2010
8:21 pm
Gotta love the internet.
A story breaks… and 4 hours there is unconfirmend confirmation.
4 Dawgs were present.
Michael Moore, Jeff Owens, Reshad Jones, & Prince Miller.
The party was on Memorial Day Weekend.
We can all now go to bed.
meansonny
July 21st, 2010
8:23 pm
Regarding TMZ… they are also the group that confirmed LEBRON TO NEW YORK!
They amazingly break a lot of stories first.
Yet, their batting average is around the Mendoza line when they are the first report in terms of accuracy.
HARLEYDAWG FAN
July 21st, 2010
8:24 pm
WHY IS THEY PICKIN ON THE DAWGS? TEHY AINT DONE NUTTIN WRONG CUZ THEY CANT PROVE N E THING.
GO DAWGS I ALWAYS BE 4 U!
The Ghost of Wally Butts
July 21st, 2010
8:26 pm
This news, if true, doesn’t surprise me one bit about AJ “Push Off” Green. Those who believe he pays for his diamond earrings can keep on drinking Kool-Aid I reckon.
In a larger sense, all of this hypocrisy will probably come to an end sooner than later. We all know that elite college programs are in essence the minor leagues of the NFL and that the players are provided perks (money and, ahem, “otherwise”). Perhaps the process will be institutionalized soon, instead of this hypocritical infraction junk.
HARLEYDAWG FAN
July 21st, 2010
8:29 pm
THIS IS NO FARE! I BET NICK SABER IS BEHIND THIS CUZ HE WORRIED THE DAWGS WILL WHUP HIM THIS SESSION
GeoffDawg
July 21st, 2010
8:29 pm
Unconfirmed confirmation? That’s alarmingly reassuring.
Brand Loyalty
July 21st, 2010
8:33 pm
If all you dawg fans would step back far enough and look at the big picture you will see that your school is just once big mess.
crabapplejoe
July 21st, 2010
8:36 pm
Looks like A.J. went pro a little early…
GeoffDawg
July 21st, 2010
8:36 pm
I’m sure that’s an objective comment Brand Loyalty.
Dawg78
July 21st, 2010
8:37 pm
I have heard that AJ was in miami and is telling a big lie because some shady stuff went down in miami. If this turns out to be the case, AJ may not be able to play this year and our program will be hit hard. This will be no slap on the wrist. The NCAA claims they will take a hard line on this and stiff penalties will be thrust to the programs if this is found out. With all the arrests with our players, lets be real here…We do not have the smartest bunch on the block people! I believe this is the start of something bad for this program and CMR will be done at UGA within 2-3 more years.
POSER
July 21st, 2010
8:37 pm
Getting sick of all this! I guess each school needs to hire several babysitters for the recruits. And follow them everywhere.
Gainesville D.A. is a Gator booster
July 21st, 2010
8:37 pm
The UGA players that were at the Miami party were players that have already signed with NFL teams. Everybody needs to settle down. Don’t believe everything you read. Especially if TMZ is reporting it. I’m disappointed in you Jeff.
Dawglasville
July 21st, 2010
8:46 pm
I wish it would end now. Set up a minor league system like baseball and then make the kids compete for a scholarship after they pass the same requirements the rest of us have to pass to get into school. Screw the agents, screw the kids on the take, screw NIKE, and Russell, and those involved at all of the schools who don’t give a crap about these kids. College football and basketball are just filthy with greed and hypocrisy on all levels.
Vince Lombardi
July 21st, 2010
8:47 pm
Who stole my Green Bay Packers “G”???
TampaGator
July 21st, 2010
8:47 pm
Anybody think all this bull crap was hatched by Lane Kiffin after his favorite team got slammed with a near death penalty by the NCAA? I wouldn’t put it past the jerk.
heywood...
July 21st, 2010
8:48 pm
kinda gotta agree with “left to right”, jeff.
but still love you and your work. see the point?
TampaGator
July 21st, 2010
8:49 pm
P.S. TMZ is located in LA….Kiffin is in LA….????? Just saying.
Urban Meyer
July 21st, 2010
8:50 pm
This is a nightmare for the schools involved because: 1) the recent USC sanctions 2) Current momentum and appearence of the NCAA hammering down 3) no school with any player involved is going to allow other schools to get by on a free ride, if one goes down they’ll all have players go down. The bright side is Florida just got a committ from Chris Martin, 6:4 240 lbs #1 LB in this past class. How does Florida do it?
Tao
July 21st, 2010
8:54 pm
Nothing to see here. NERDS have been playing ineligible players for years.
thunderbull56
July 21st, 2010
8:56 pm
Beast,sorry I too would never feel sorry for SC, just using them as an example with Bush.A better example would have been way back with SMU, a proud SWC member and their “Death Penalty”.
Tao
July 21st, 2010
8:58 pm
How do you think Reggie Bush got Kim Kardashian? She is an expensive habit.
Gatorbait
July 21st, 2010
8:59 pm
Let’s hope it is not true. The Gator Nation would love for Richt to at UGA for a long time.
Gatorbait
July 21st, 2010
9:00 pm
Yep a 5 star commit today who was supposed to be a freshman at Cal this year.
puleeeze
July 21st, 2010
9:07 pm
Schultz, for a guy who writes stuff for a “sports” section, you sure are dense. SEC teams split bowl money evenly (once expenses are taken out) Georgia and Florida made the same from bowls last year (as did Vandy and Miss St. ……)
Alledgedly
July 21st, 2010
9:11 pm
Reporters, Include me and you can write anything, true or not.
SickandTired
July 21st, 2010
9:14 pm
Surely someone associated with the Georgia football program couldn’t be guilty of poor judgement. This is just a witch hunt because ESPN and the SEC is afraid Georgia is going to run the table this year because this is gonna be a great season. Mark Richt is such a nice Christian fella and let’s always remember he was mentored by Bobby Bowden and he never had any problems with the NCAA did he?
another strike for UGA
July 21st, 2010
9:17 pm
In the photo above if you give Mark Richt a black cowboy hat and a whip he would be a spitting image of Lash LaRue……
Heyward22
July 21st, 2010
9:17 pm
SickandTired….yeah….Ok….UGA.
Run the table.
Notice how I didn’t include them in the same sentence.
thunderbull56
July 21st, 2010
9:18 pm
And let it not be misconstrued there are myriad ways to run afoul of the NCAA.
shane
July 21st, 2010
9:18 pm
Hmmm Florida and Alabama and UNC and South Carolina all were involved in this story and not a word on AJC.
Now that UGA is mentioned its everywhere
See a pattern here?
shane
July 21st, 2010
9:19 pm
Surely someone associated with the Georgia football program couldn’t be guilty of poor judgement.
Maybe but not as bad as Georgia Tech which used ineligble players a few years back and got busted big time.
Demon Evans
July 21st, 2010
9:20 pm
Did anybody find some red panties?
Heyward22
July 21st, 2010
9:21 pm
shane…yep and GT is paying and almost has it paid off.
Good thing that coach isn’t here anymore and GT has moved on.
dobearsbare
July 21st, 2010
9:22 pm
You know what worries me? The fact that TMZ is reporting it. You can make all the snarky comments about their credibility you want, but they’ve been right an awful lot. I hope there’s nothing to it, but they’re right and they’re first on a lot of things.
dobearsbare
July 21st, 2010
9:26 pm
And, if it turns out to be true and he lied about it … whoa nellie
Robert
July 21st, 2010
9:28 pm
Here’s the difference between the Georgia situation, and Bama and Florida’s situation: Bama and Florida reported their incidents to the NCAA. In contrast, the NCAA called Georgia and told them they were coming. Not good for the Bulldogs. Not good at all. If Bulldog fans were giving Bama a hard time…well, you’re looking REALLY foolish now. I wonder if the NCAA will ask Georgia why they didn’t self report like Bama did?
Heyward22
July 21st, 2010
9:30 pm
dobearsbare
July 21st, 2010
9:26 pm
And, if it turns out to be true and he lied about it … whoa nellie
He’ll just be like Dez Bryant and sit out the year until the draft. Bad for UGA and him.
Heyward22
July 21st, 2010
9:31 pm
Robert,
Good point. I am surprised Saban was so quick to self report, but with the recent NC, I wouldn’t want the NCAA threatening to take it away.
harold
July 21st, 2010
9:31 pm
TOUGH ROAD AHEAD FOR RICHT & GEORGIA!
Robert
July 21st, 2010
9:34 pm
Contrary to what one poster said above, this is no nightmare at all for Bama. Everyone knows the drill…if Dareus’s expenses were paid, he makes restitution, maybe he sits a couple of games, and that’s it. Bama will be praised by the NCAA for self reporting and being on top of the situation.
On the other hand, the NCAA called Georgia. Let that sink in for a minute. The NCAA called Georgia and said, “We’re coming to your campus to investigate.” You want to talk nightmare? There’s your nightmare. Why didn’t Georgia call the NCAA first?
CrackDaddy
July 21st, 2010
9:34 pm
Mark Richt, Saban, Davis, and Spurrier should be held responsible for what one of their football player did? And my Dad should be responsible for me smoking a “J” in high school. Get real people!
theTruth
July 21st, 2010
9:35 pm
DAWG78, quit being a troll. You are not very good at it. Even IF Green was there, there is no consequence to the school just the amateur status of the player. The program is going to be hit hard? Epic Fail.
TGator, interesting, I wouldn’t put ANYTHING past that sleaze ball in LA.
SHULTZIE, you are using TMZ as a source, really? Oh where oh where has journalism ethics gone? It’s a good thing you aren’t getting graded on your papers anymore.
jojatek
July 21st, 2010
9:36 pm
Yup. Surprise, surprise…
theTruth
July 21st, 2010
9:38 pm
ROBERT, that is because there is nothing to report. AJ has said he wasn’t there. Would you like for me to call the NCAA and tell them I wasn’t there as well?
BTW, this might be about dawg night, not AJ.
Michael Jackson
July 21st, 2010
9:41 pm
Why can’t we start knee-capping these maggots? One .45 in each patella.
Robert
July 21st, 2010
9:42 pm
Heyward, if you go back and look, that’s what Saban has done in every incident since he’s arrived. Saban suspended the Textbook Five on their own the morning of the 2007 Tennessee game. He suspended Andre Smith for the Sugar Bowl, and he suspended Julio and Ingram before the 2009 season. The Textbook Five didn’t play again until they made restitution and were cleared by the NCAA, and they missed a few games. Smith may have been cleared, but Saban didn’t play him because he was less than 100% cooperative with the investigation. Julio and Ingram didn’t play until they made restitution and were cleared by the NCAA, not more than a day or two before the VaTech game.
I’d like to think that we learned our lesson a long time ago. I don’t think that most Bama fans wish Georgia any harm in this deal; I certainly don’t. I don’t see Georgia as being one of our bitter rivals, and I usually pull for Georgia against everyone else.
Tough spot for your new AD to be in. I just hope that UGA is very thorough and cooperative.
Above the Law
July 21st, 2010
9:49 pm
Robert,
I went to UGA and I didn’t read any UGA fans (granted I wish we could lose a few) giving Bama a hard time. Frankly, I see wayyyyyyyy too much UGA bashing from fellow SEC brethern…..
Robert
July 21st, 2010
9:51 pm
Truth…I never mentioned AJ or a party. Other posters did. I just made mention of the fact that the NCAA made a call to UGA and said that they’re coming to town. That’s fact. I have no idea why they’re coming or what they’re investigating. I also know that the NCAA didn’t call us or Florida. That also is fact.
Robert
July 21st, 2010
9:52 pm
Fair enough, Above The Law.
All Vol
July 21st, 2010
9:56 pm
They need to crack down on the low down agents. I think it is a small percentage…but some agents prey on high profile recruits. I know that these kids know they should not do anything….but it just looks like they get caught up in it. Just sick of reading these stories….I wish we could just talk about SEC football and not this crap.
ryan
July 21st, 2010
9:58 pm
Nothing is going happen unless there is bombshell here there is not when all said& done i believe AJ was in S.C.
Above the Law
July 21st, 2010
10:00 pm
The problem for us (UGA) and these posts is we have the biggest rag (AJC – Atlanta) in the south and UGA is the biggest school in Georgia – that provides it’s biggest readership – and Atlanta is melting pot for all schools. Surely not near as many posters look at the Birmingham News, Tampa Tribune, or Orlando Sun.
Brian
July 21st, 2010
10:01 pm
U{sic}GA gets caught for cheating. Am I supposed to be surprised? What a joke that program has become.
Dawg Whisperer
July 21st, 2010
10:03 pm
This is probably a lot to do about nothing but hey it generates interest which generates sales which, well you know where this going. Who wants to talk about football when you can talk about sleaze? College football has become a daily soap opera. Stay tuned (if you like).
The Sham
July 21st, 2010
10:04 pm
I LOVE HOW ONE MEDIA SOURCE THROWS OUT SOME ALLEGATIONS AND UGA LOGICALLY ASKS AJ WHAT HAPPENED AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, BC UGA ASKED HIM, ANOTHER MEDIA SOURCE (I USE THAT TERM LOOSELY WITH TMZ) THEN PROCLAIMS UGA IS CONDUCTING AN INVESTIGATION! YOU GOT TO LOVE THE RUMOR MILL.
IF I’M THIS AGENT HOSTING THIS PARTY I’M REALLY REALLY NERVOUS ABOUT WHO MIGHT BE WALKING BEHIND ME. I KNOW THE DAWG NATION CAN BE ROWDY, BUT I’M NOT SURE I WOULD WAN’T TO DRAW THE IRE OF THE TUSCALOONIES OR NICK SATAN!
All Vol
July 21st, 2010
10:04 pm
Above the Law. You are right..their are so many responses on here from other schools because Atlanta has so many alumni from other places. I am one of those but do not flame against any other school on here.
joey
July 21st, 2010
10:15 pm
I saw A.J in Sumerville.this story is sh#t.
ryan
July 21st, 2010
10:18 pm
Brian UGA has not been caught for cheating all this is to see whether Greene was at that party in south beach and he was not get facts strait before you accuse anyone jerk.
justafan
July 21st, 2010
10:20 pm
Hope Green is not telling a lie. Kids will be Kids and Money talks.
59bulldawg
July 21st, 2010
10:24 pm
If AJ was there and the NCAA comes down hard on Georgia, Richt, even though not his fault, had better hope for a much improved season. If not things could get ugly come January. But this agent thing is something all college football fans, no matter what school we pull for, should be together on because it threatens the sport we all love. Would love to see one of these agent fellas caught on campus and roughed up a little bit . . . in addition to some type of suspension or ban. I’d be in favor of the NFL refusing to negotiate with these guys . . . even with a rumor of impropriety. This has got to be squashed now.
Kerryb
July 21st, 2010
10:30 pm
This is nothing. So they are coming, who cares. They will find nothing. Green said he was at home that weekend. He is not the type of guy that would lie to Mark Richt about that. The NCAA is looking at every big name kid from South Carolina for some reason. Not worried about it.
Ron
July 21st, 2010
10:39 pm
ha. couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of nitwits.
Kerryb
July 21st, 2010
10:40 pm
Ron, what’ happened? answer, nothing.
fayncdawg
July 21st, 2010
10:43 pm
The Gators have a whole lot more to be concerned about for about 100,000 reasons.
ryan
July 21st, 2010
10:46 pm
Everyone needs to realize that its not UGA , Alabama, Florida, or S.C. fault it these damn agents and lawyers those should be people mad at for taking advantage of the players.
dawgfan
July 21st, 2010
10:47 pm
Not at all concerned. AJ says he wasn’t in Miami. Schultz is just trying to stir the pot and get Mark Richt fired. When absolutely nothing comes from this “inquiry” we will of course hear absolutely nothing about it from the AJC. Its garbage tabloid journalism. What a crock.
jod
July 21st, 2010
10:49 pm
Dogs going down hard from what I have heard from my sources… aj Is shady.
Above the Law
July 21st, 2010
10:52 pm
Jod,
Go back to peeling potatoes with your sources. Your shift break is over.
ryan
July 21st, 2010
11:00 pm
I think most of these jerks want UGA to go down like USC well if were going down were taking you down with us because those other schools are just as guilty to what goes around comes around.
P. Bull Terrier
July 21st, 2010
11:05 pm
No one would ever question the credibility of TMZ as a news source. They rank right up there with the National Inquirer, POAD and the AJC when it comes to quality journalism.
Sources tell me that athletic departments at every school that participates in NCAA football are conducting investigations to determine if their players participated in the party in Miami. The fact that most of the investigations consist of nothing more than a coach asking “Hey guys, did any of you go to the party in Miami on Memorial Day weekend?”, is irrelevant. When you have page views to count, that’s as good as a full scale investigation.
Chuck Allison
July 21st, 2010
11:07 pm
If UGA and Mark Richt and the Bulldogs are indeed guilty as it appears, then the best thing that can happen to them is that they get caught and are held accountable for their normal excesses. Only with very severe discipline will the situation at the State University ever be brought under control. The people of Georgia deserve better.
Larry M.
July 21st, 2010
11:08 pm
They’re picking on us again.
girl know better than you
July 21st, 2010
11:13 pm
OMG this has been going on forever..big surprise..including your precious dogpoops…Saban upset…that is too funny..I imagine the Miami Dolphins owner was angry himself when Saban shook his hand and pledged loyalty only to haul a$$ to the airport to catch the privste plane to take him to Tuscaloosa and please Pertrino do not get me started on you. Self righteous hypocrites in the coaching world and the SEC is right up there in the top 5. One more reason to thank CPJ for not hauling @ss to Notre Dame or Auburn after you people did everything you could except pack his clothes to get him to do just that. If the coaches want the agents to stay away and players to not look that way..then practice what you preach. It is all about money and these kids see you coaches heading to the gold mine and you all expect them to stay impoverished but at the same time be sure to win a national title for me while your shoeless and tattered without a dime to your name. I D I O T S
Above the Law
July 21st, 2010
11:15 pm
Chuck, last time I checked this is still America and YOU are ready to say UGA is guilty over in inquiry? If I said you may be suspected in shoplifting, am I right? Nice…..
jod
July 21st, 2010
11:18 pm
Above the Law, that’s a warning for talking back to your manager. Now back to your station fry cook 1.
jod
July 21st, 2010
11:21 pm
Story first broke in Sports illustrated
Above the Law
July 21st, 2010
11:22 pm
jod, come on. What sources say UGA is going down? Anyone can say such a thing on these blogs. Oh well, it’s your right. But please, AJ Green is probably one of the most respected and respectful kids on the team.
jod
July 21st, 2010
11:24 pm
Do u know him personally? If not, your word is as good as mine
SEC Analyst
July 21st, 2010
11:24 pm
Georgia is clean. No offense to the dawg fans but AJ is really the only high profile 1st round draft pick on the dog’s roster. There’s really not any other sure fire 1st or even 2nd round upcoming jrs or srs on the Georgia roster for agents to prey on. And if AJ wasn’t there he wasn’t there. End of story.
haha
July 21st, 2010
11:25 pm
this isnt about AJ he is clean (was at a graduation on that weekend). most likely this is about a former player tweeting some pretty defensive stuff about taking stuff from “outside sources”
haha
July 21st, 2010
11:27 pm
@SEC analyst…cling boling is rated as going in the first round on numerous sites
SEC Analyst
July 21st, 2010
11:28 pm
From the comments that Rennie Curran was tweeting they sounded awfully defensive as if he was trying to justify players getting some upfront money early. He whines about the players coming from poor families and not getting financial help, he whines about players not making money off the jersey # sales, a lot of curious comments that he tweeted as if he is trying to justify something. Very curious tweets.
Above the Law
July 21st, 2010
11:29 pm
Oh boy. Well, I guess we will have to wait and see. You say he is “shady”- what cause? He never celebrates after a TD, always hands the ball to the official, is not a hot dog, why? Like i said, it’s your right.
SEC Analyst
July 21st, 2010
11:31 pm
haha,
I was thinking about Boling but I didn’t mention him because he’s not black. Not to sound racist but the beach party was on memorial day weekend and Miami is the new, scaled down freaknic destination. That’s been reported on several times. And all the players implicated are black.Again not being racist. Just saying it has a lot to do with this being a mini freaknic sort of weekend down there.
jod
July 21st, 2010
11:36 pm
All I can say at this point is $$$… you take from that what u want.
coach smith
July 21st, 2010
11:41 pm
Guys SCHULTZ INCLUDED
you are making a mountain out of a GRAIN OF SALT (anything else is to big)
AJ GREENE has been upstanding and honest in everyway since before he walked on campus. he says he has recipts and pictures proving he was in SC at the time this went on, if that is the case it ends right there
Also, SCHULTZ, when did “asking questions” become a “full-on investigation that could hamper UGA’s future”
LOL
that is like TABLOID interpretations….give me a break! you are really hoping for some responses considering that BS
Sweet Home Alabama
July 21st, 2010
11:41 pm
Mutts have always been cheaters and Jailbirds.other than that they are wonderful.
ROLL TIDE ROLL. OH HELL YEAH………………………..
coach smith
July 21st, 2010
11:43 pm
Sweet Home Alabama
Dude? Really? LOL LOL
You ACTUALLY have a guy who has lost his eligiblity and you have the nerve to be here knocking UGA over some bogus BS that will go nowhere?
Boo Radley
July 21st, 2010
11:50 pm
Jeff — We get it, if you are newspaper columnist or report a plane crash is a lot more thrilling and makes your job easier than 1000 planes landing safely. However, you are really working yourself up in a lather in trying to propel this ‘Richt on the hot seat’ narrative. This is especially rich, “if coach Mark Richt suddenly has to deal with a full-fledged investigation and even the potential of NCAA sanctions.” Yeah, and if the Russians launch warheads our way we will be at war. If the Sun burns itself out, we will all be very cold. If the Internet shuts down, newspapers will have their business model back. All of these things are very, very unlikely to occur, but let us not allow facts or probability get in the way of what would be really fun times for the news biz. You can continue to gin up these ridiculous scenarios about a “full-fledged investigation”, or you can actually do some reporting and research like what is being done at the following…. http://blogs.onlineathens.com/node/2116
Where AJ Green is quoted by the ABH….”‘I was home that weekend,’ said the junior from Summerville, S.C. ‘There was a buzz going around that I went. I talked to them a couple of days ago. Like two days ago’……Asked if he had ever been to Miami, Green said: ‘Never.’”
MikeP
July 21st, 2010
11:56 pm
By Bama fan: “I’ve a feeling the NCAA is going to come down a lot harder on the agent than on the schools.”
The NCAA has no way to come down on the agent. The NCAA has no legal authority. In this case, the schools aren’t in jeopardy because no games have been played since the par-tay.
What should, and probably will happen is that this will be the end of college football for any that got transportation, meals or lodging paid for. They have lost their amateur status.
DOO DOO LEE
July 21st, 2010
11:57 pm
you know the shame of it all with it looking like 3 teams in the SEC East are going on NCAA probation, only one is preranked in the top 25. bwahahaahahhahahahaha
Dawg CRaze
July 21st, 2010
11:59 pm
Some florida fan probably turned in the Dawgs after their players got caught taking money.
Bob
July 22nd, 2010
12:06 am
Sounds like a bunch of hot air about something that is relegated to one player at most(even if its true), same as the florida story, one player being a moron so its not a big deal except to that player.
Still hoping AJ wasnt there and people are just throwing stones.
NEW GA AD
July 22nd, 2010
12:20 am
Don’t worry, I’m on top of this agent thing! I just got a huge $120,000 raise for doing nothing new, so I better look busy investigating Ga players taking money.
bjohndawg
July 22nd, 2010
3:57 am
Cannot sleep so decide to blog. AJC….your journalist ability has reached an all time low. Relying on TMZ as a source. What happened to the journalist who would actually write an article or investigate and report. You guys are basically pulling stories and sources off of web urls. There is software that will do that for free. The AJC should save themselves the sports departments salaries.
As to Georgia…doubt AJ was there. If he was he probably paid his own expense. If so AJ dont pull a DJ and lie to the NCAA. Just tell the truth.
As for agents. The NCAA and the NFL needed a plan of attack. And if the NFL wont play ball, they the colleges should ban all agents from campus, and ban the NFL from any on campus testing or combines.
But as everything else this comes down to $. Until the players get a cut of that jersey money with their name and # on it, that butt load of yearly TV money, and that crazy gate from ticket prices, you will always have agents handing players early money.
Because the cold hard fact is this players are usually from poor families. And if they want to take a girlfriend to a night out, it will have to be Dinner and a Movie on TBS,,,,but they dont have an money and the NCAA and the universities do not give them the time off from the game or the ability to earn any extra money even if they had the time. Curran had it right, a Pell Grant is not enough.
For years this schools have used players as chum for their money shark. Play em hard, play em long, and then when they are hurt hey…..feed them to the money shark,,,and get another 30 recruits. Question….why does the damn shoe money go the coach, is his foot in the that NIKE? No it is the players. And if the player does not like that shoe…tough …coach is getting $500,000 a year so put the darn thing on.
If the player is fortunate he gets a 4 year degree, if not,,,,tough. and oh yeah a hand full make it to the NFL or arena football.
And we collectively wonder why agents get the power they have over the players. Because to the players the agents seem to be the only ones that give a rats backside about the players. The fans….all of us, we just want to win. The coaches, they just want to make 3.5 million a year. The schools just want their BCS check. ESPN and AJC just want their headline so they can sell ad space and subscriptions. And the agents …to the players here is someone who will give me a few bucks so that I can go to Wendy’s and take my girl out to go see Avatar.
Honestly….maybe we need to point the finger at ourselves. We fund all of this damn nonsense.
Okay….now back to my fan status.( I have stirred the pot long enough…hey like the AJC).
Go Dawgs!
Southside Dawg
July 22nd, 2010
5:00 am
I remember Georgia got a scholarship taken away for giving out some ball caps and sweat shirts. The NCAA is a monopoly hypocrite. They rake in millions from the labor of the “student-athlete” and then hammer the same guys for crap that does not matter.
Reality
July 22nd, 2010
5:31 am
Wow. How can anyone, alumni or not, support such a program? DUI every other day, bar fights, alcohol for minors, red panties, and now this?
UGA should simply fold up the men’s athletic program and stop making the people of GA ashamed.
Hedgepruner
July 22nd, 2010
6:01 am
UGA the new FSU of the North !!!!
SCOOBY DOO
July 22nd, 2010
7:02 am
RUT ROW RAGGY!!!
Big Whoop
July 22nd, 2010
7:04 am
So, what if there’s no A.J. or no King … we got Kris Durham and Logan Gray, baby! WOOOO HOOOO!!!
Denver Dog
July 22nd, 2010
7:14 am
We still bestest team in the land. 2010 undefeated will surprise everyone. Best team ever, best history of winning ever. goooo dogs
GoodTimes
July 22nd, 2010
7:23 am
The rules are just too hard for some college student-athletes to understand. They should make the rules easier to understand…..
JB
July 22nd, 2010
7:33 am
Man, the blather from the idiot squad is mind numbing!
UGA is a big time cheater??? Really??
Care to inumerate us with what major NCAA violations UGA has commited in oh say, the last 15 to 20 years? Let me save you some time. You wont find any cause they haven’t happened. Such blather and showing how ingnorant you are.
As to not self reporting, if they were any players there and they don’t tell anyone, how do you self report? Hmmmmm…
Sheeeeesh!
The Dawg Post, who is fairly close to the program, is saying that if it’s anyone, it’s former players and if it was Memorial Day, it doesn’t matter.
Continue to speculate all you like but realize how foolish you look when you do.
HBTD!!!
CrackDaddy
July 22nd, 2010
7:33 am
Don’t give out scholarships. Let students earn their way into the universities, then go out for the FB team if they are so inclined. Anyone disagree?
bamafan
July 22nd, 2010
7:35 am
Jeff – this development makes your previous blog about Saban’s concern look even stupider than it was when you wrote it. I suppose it is now okay for Coach Richt to be concerned but it was newsworthy and subject to your biting criticism yesterday when Coach Saban expressed his concern. Maybe we better review the SEC Media Days tape – Coach Saban may have been talking about sportswriters and not agents when he used the word pimp.
theTruth
July 22nd, 2010
7:37 am
Yes, there were Ga players at the party. This has been confirmed, those players were Michael Moore, Jeff Owens, Rashad Jones. Notice anything? I’m waiting for an update on the story…… waiting……
As for AJ, Moore’s tweet said it best.
That country boy has never been to south beach
Pollack also tweeted that AJ was not there
theTruth
July 22nd, 2010
7:38 am
bamafan, Shultzie a pimp, lol
bamafan
July 22nd, 2010
7:41 am
Got to have somebody to dislike now that Terrence Moore is gone!
PappyHappy
July 22nd, 2010
7:42 am
At present, nothing would surprise me that would happen within the athletic department of UGA. Seriously, would it surprise you?? Think that as long as Dr Adams is at the helm, anything could go on — as long as you do not get caught!!
ugag is irrelevant
July 22nd, 2010
7:43 am
yawn …. nothing out of that pig-trough is of any interest to anybody other than themselves
Paddy
July 22nd, 2010
7:44 am
AJ said he was at home and not at this party. End of story for the NCAA. You should know if you were 600 miles away at the famous Fountainbleu Hotel.
LOR
July 22nd, 2010
7:59 am
Now we know why tony was so mad yesterday. his little georgie doggies have stupid players too.
JB
July 22nd, 2010
8:01 am
Or from reading buffoonery from folks like you.
HBTD!!!
Don
July 22nd, 2010
8:01 am
Yeah right, he’s from SC, a lot of the players involved are from SC and NC, likely all friends. The ncaa is investigating. WHy would they come all the way to athens just to ask ol AJ hey were you there? They know he was there. Ol AJ is lying out his arse because getting caught costs you big in the draft.
JB
July 22nd, 2010
8:03 am
The Don has spoken. Insert roll eyes icon here.
HBTD!!!
Athenian
July 22nd, 2010
8:04 am
Much ado about nothing. This is just a routine inspection of the SEC. Maybe we should lose a national title or two to get them off our backs.
Don
July 22nd, 2010
8:06 am
Right jb. I understand. I know how hard common sense and logic are for uga fans!
JB
July 22nd, 2010
8:10 am
Or maybe some coach or player, from another school, suggested such and they’re doing their due diligence. Especially if some of our recently graduated players were there.
Common sense, indeed.
HBTD!!!
DYNAMICBIGBOY
July 22nd, 2010
8:10 am
Hey Schultz, I know you are salivating over the thought that AJ Greene might be cought up in this, but he’s not. So go back drooling over the bumblebees.
Name Dropper
July 22nd, 2010
8:11 am
Ther’s a reason why people call UGA The Cesspool of the South.
And it’s not just the red panties and Saint Jan Kemp.
timo
July 22nd, 2010
8:11 am
“Jeff, I asked Mr. College Football this same question (no response yet): If USC, Bama or any other school for that matter, is forced to vacate bowl wins, shouldn’t that also mean they should return the money they received for winning that particular bowl game?”
They didn’t get the money for winning the game. They got the money for participating. If an investigation shows they did not participate (!) , then they can give the money back.
JB
July 22nd, 2010
8:13 am
Mostly cause the are yellow maggot fans who are tired of being owned and can’t come up with anythinig else to say. No matter how foolish that come back might be.
HBTD!!!
Don
July 22nd, 2010
8:15 am
Keep grasping man. Yeah it’s all hearsay!! He was sittin in his town a fishin. I was not at that party. Nevermind the ncaa is sending investiGATORS to ask WHY. Why what? Of course he would lie. It will cost him millions. I would too.
richham
July 22nd, 2010
8:17 am
Seriously TMZ? That is the source that claims he was at a party. That doesn’t worry me at all. Green has more than earned his stripes and this would be highly out of character for him.
Tough road ahead for Georgia? And the reason is? Just because they want to talk to the school and some of the athletes doesn’t mean anything happened. Why don’t you guys take a deep breath and wait until the investigation is finished.
Alex
July 22nd, 2010
8:17 am
Who’s owned more? GT by UGA in football or UGA by UF since 91? That would be uga by UF. How does it feel to be so dominated by your arch rival?
Sojourner
July 22nd, 2010
8:17 am
After the story broke late Wednesday of the NCAA’s inquiry at Georgia, former Bulldogs linebacker Rennie Curran, who gave up his final season of college eligibility to enter this year’s NFL draft, addressed the matter on his Twitter account.
“Can’t believe how hard the ncaa is trying to crack down on college athletes,” Curran tweeted. “How can [you] expect someone not to look to outside sources…”
Continuing on his next tweet, Curran wrote: “… when there are video games being made of you, your jerseys getting sold, your family is struggling [and] you don’t even get a dime except pell [grant].”
Curran is obviously admitting guilt. What a freaking moron.
Nope
July 22nd, 2010
8:18 am
David C,
That makes perfect since?? Level the playing field?? If that were the case, wouldn’t they only have to sanction UF and Bama? I would say aside from those two teams, the playing field is pretty level for the rest of the country.
Truth, justice, and the American way
July 22nd, 2010
8:20 am
You Dawg fans who keep repeating “30-24″ like a mantra enjoy yourselves all you want. The thing is… Tech alumni and fans have lives that don’t depend entirely on what a bunch of kids does on Saturday afternoons. College sports are fun to follow, but the biggest reason for going to college is to get an education.
UGA fans don’t seem to care about anything but football, and they don’t care if their players are enrolled in silly majors that no parents who are paying the bills would send their kids to UGA for. The very few football and basketball players who graduate have no job opportunities and end up unemployed or working in menial jobs that hardly require a college degree.
Georgia Tech is a real school with serious academic standards, and that includes scholarshipped athletes. UGA has a long history of being a party school, where parents send their kids for an easy degree, even if the degree itself is practically worthless.
Jan Kemp exposed the crap going on at UGA with athletes being enrolled in courses a ten-year-old kid could pass. That was almost three decades ago, and nothing has changed. If anything, the abuses are more blatant today. Way too many illiterate morons are being recruited, and the very high arrest rate shows clearly that Richt does not care if his players have any morals or self-discipline.
The bottom line is that most Tech fans have very good jobs and productive lives that don’t depend on Tech’s football record for their happiness in life. It would be great to beat UGA more often, but when you put scholar-athletes up against dummy-athletes, it’s usually no contest.
It’s pretty pathetic to see UGA fans who typically have never been within miles of a college classroom and who live or die with UGA’s weekly results on the football field.
So keep on posting your “30-24″ all you want, especially since you’re home with plenty of time on your hands. I wish you well, maybe you’ll get lucky and get your old job back at the Waffle House before your unemployment checks stop coming.
JB
July 22nd, 2010
8:20 am
I know you want this to be true but wishing so doesn’t make it so. Two, if you have any clue about SEC football you know full well that the other schools point fingers at each other 24/7. All UGA folks say he wasn’t there as does he. I’m going with that until proven otherwise. You are going with hearsay.
As to losing millions, not! Even if he was do you really want to try to sit there and tell me he wouldn’t still be a top ten pick???
Run along now. With every post you make you prove to be even more ignorant.
HBTD!!!
Athenian
July 22nd, 2010
8:20 am
I wish everyone on here had to photocopy their degree from said instutution to comment. The rhetoric on here is riduculous. And I am a UGA grad, not a Wal-mart “bulldog” fan.
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July 22nd, 2010
8:22 am
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JB
July 22nd, 2010
8:27 am
Oh lord!!! Not the academics crap, again. You might want to check up on where UGA sits, these days, in regard to such.
You also can’t tell us, least not with a straight face, that you wouldn’t take every kid we recruit.
You can also tell me how often you ran around, last year, when you had your once a decade win and didn’t talk about that win but talked about how many of your kids graduated with what degree. Pah-Lease!!!!
You get owned by us in most sports you play and it burns you to your core. You know it and I know. You also know that UGA and Yech don’t compete in academics because we offer very few of the same majors. You want to be an engineer, you go to Yech. You want to major in damn near anything else, you go to UGA. Degrees from both will get you far.
So, you hate losing to us in what we do really compete in and I hate it for ya!!!!!
HBTD!!!
Nope
July 22nd, 2010
8:28 am
This will blow over where AJ is concerned. I saw him in Summerville myself over the memorial day weekend with his family having a good time.
tim
July 22nd, 2010
8:31 am
there’s a rumor that green was cavorting with the south fl gay community and uga is aware of his behavior…someone even mentioned that the red panties belonged to a.j.
KP
July 22nd, 2010
8:31 am
Sounds like wishful thinking to me JB
MisterT
July 22nd, 2010
8:33 am
Can’t see how a party in May 2010 would cause a need to vacate wins prior unless the “relationship” between a play & agent was prior to any games. I think that “vacating wins” is a bunch of bunk anyway.
I imagine that cmr wants to get tot he bottom of this before AJ plas a snap this year though. He could be deemed ineligible and cost uga wins or put on some type probation.
I have to agree with Saban & Meyer about agents.
R Curran is just incriminating himself based on his tweets.
The student athletes are there to get an education. that is their pay. The fact that many choose notto take advantage of that is their own fault. Yes, the schools do make money off the sale of jerseys, TV and the rest of the marketing. The atletes would not have the opportunity to showcase themselves if the school were not also paying the way for all those athletes that they also have to pay to have educated, fed and housed…the ones that block, kick, hold the PAT, or even just hold the dummys at practice so the stars can get face time and be marketed to the next level. The stars will get their payday, but they should be preparing for the possiblity that they won’t by taking advantage of the education opportunity…even if it is uga.
I get it that they feel like they are bing taken advantage of by “footbal mills.” The fact is that some of them will score contracts that will be equal to the profit of the institution during their time of training. If they have a beef it is with the NFL or NBA that restrict their being allowed to “work” until a certian age. Oh yeah, most of them weren’t ready to play at that level when they came out of High School.
Many of the ones that do come out early end up blowing the millions they make because they aren’t mature enough to handle the money when they come out. The agents that “pimp” them end up keeping more of what players earn than the players do. A Fool & His Money are soon parted.
I could go on all day on this…bottom line is that the cry baby athletes are completely selfish. “I want mine now.” People don’t appreciate that you have to learn, then work, then earn. Not just in sports…every walk of life. Then if they aren’t willing to learn and work, they want the government to take care of them.
Sorry, I digress!
THWg!
V Tech
July 22nd, 2010
8:35 am
99% of the players on rosters at any of these big schools couldn’t be admitted under regular admission rules. Many can barely read or write. The academic rules are thrown out the window so big and fast players can generate millions in profits for universities to build fancy stadiums and pay millions in salaries and benefits for coaches. A total disgrace.
JB
July 22nd, 2010
8:35 am
Or facts…
HBTD!!!
JB
July 22nd, 2010
8:36 am
Or facts…
KP
July 22nd, 2010
8:37 am
JB The ncaa isn’t going to send reps to athens if he wasn’t there.
Second, dez bryant was a top 10 pick but was taken i think 26th. He lost millions. He got to play some last year. Will AJ? AJ WOULD NOT be a top 10 pick after last season. You know very little about pro scouting and the draft if you think that. He was a 15-25 pick. If he missed an entire season, this most certainly could not him down to the bottom. Plus they have that change in pay starting this year in the nfl for rookies. I know you really want to believe him but someone has proof he was there. He may have thought he covered his tracks but that is very hard to do in today’s tech age. Poor Murray won’t have anyone to throw to if AJ is gone. Talk about a one dimensional team. They may run the ball more than Tech. Ha
KP
July 22nd, 2010
8:39 am
What facts? Facts are statements that are known to be true?
The Difference
July 22nd, 2010
8:40 am
You can kiss the recruits goodbye! No one wants to play for a team that will be on probation!
South Carolina Dawg
July 22nd, 2010
8:41 am
I went to High School with AJ and a few of my high school buddies said they saw AJ in Summerville Memorial Day weekend. AJ is a very honest guy and all lying would do is hurt his future and he knows that. AJ is not the type of guy to promote himself or bring attention to himself, all he wants to do is play football and help the Dawgs win the SEC.
JB
July 22nd, 2010
8:47 am
KP – You are obviously another person who is clueless. Her is a link to a 2011 mock from Si.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/andrew_perloff/04/27/2011.mock.draft/index.html
Feel free to research others. You’ll see similar results.
As previously mentioned, the NCAA is doing an “inquiry’ AND not an “investigation”. Again, if a bunch of recently graduated Dawgs were there and some coach suggested that AJ Green was there, might the ncaa “inquire”?
Again, you are another who want this to be so but wishing it doesn’t make it.
HBTD!!!
DawgPounded
July 22nd, 2010
8:52 am
Hmmm JB you sound awfully defensive…kinda like you’re trying to convince yourself it’s all a bad dream. It’s not. Say goodbye to A.J.
JB
July 22nd, 2010
8:53 am
Nah… Just trying to enlighten many of Atlanta’s envious, bitter and clueless. It’s readily apparent that someone has to do it and it might as well be me.
HBTD!!!
South Carolina Dawg
July 22nd, 2010
8:53 am
Dawgpounded,
You are a real idiot. I just told you that numerous confirmed friends of mine saw AJ in Summerville for Memorial Day weekend. Last I check you can’t be 2 places at one time.
MisterT
July 22nd, 2010
8:55 am
JB,
I don’t think that uga is a bad school acedemically. I really don’t think it ever has been. They have produced many well educated men and women that have inturn made a lot of money. I would never argue that ou can’t get a good education there. The problem lies in that historically you can also go to uga and slack off and still get a degree.
The competition to get into uga as well as any other school in Georgia that has been brought by the HOPE Scholarships has limited the number of slackers that actually get into uga. The number of degrees and the varying levels of difficulty to get those degrees still allows for the slacker to get through.
Athletes often do get a pass on the “competition” part of the entrance requirements. The requirements are still lower at uga than at Tech and some others. After the athletes get into uga, they can then take advantage of the much less demanding avenues of study that uga provides.
Tech has less demanding degrees than others. Athletes do tend to gravitate towards those degrees. Tose or that degree is Mangement. The rub is that Industrial Management at Tech is on par or even considered by many to be more difficult than a Business degree at uga. business at uga is considered a pretty difficult avenue.
Yes, things have changed at uga since Jan Kemp exposed the program. You should be proud that she did. uga didn’t need to sink to that level to acheive success. Somethings are still the same though. There are definitely some much easier routes to take at uga and still pass than there are or have ever been at Tech. You can’t tell me, at least not with a straight face that this is not the case.
Congrats to you for having gone to uga and taken one of the more difficult courses of study and achieving success in your life beyond the dawgs winning on Saturdays. At least I hope you have.
To Hell With georgia!
Call Deion
July 22nd, 2010
8:57 am
AJ needs to call Deion Sanders for some counseling on dealing with agents. Maybe Deion can introduce AJ to his good friend, agent Eugene Parker.
KP
July 22nd, 2010
8:57 am
JB
And Dez was a top 10 last year in the mocks before he got suspended moron.
KP
July 22nd, 2010
9:05 am
Mock drafts are a joke. Only the top 3 picks are ever close. D Thomas was nowhere near a top 25 pick before last season. I guarantee you 15 of the players on that list won’t be taken in the first round. Keep being illogical. The guy even called him Calvin Johnson light. And CJ went what, 2nd? I will bet you that AJ is not taken in the top 10 this year even if he plays all season.
Mike
July 22nd, 2010
9:07 am
My question is: Why, if AJ was in Summerville during that weekend did his name even come up? Who said he was there? And why?
KP
July 22nd, 2010
9:09 am
Wow SC dawg. Sticking up for your player huh? Funny I can’t even remember what I did for Mem day and you have “numerous” people that do. QUit lying idiot. You are so FOS.
South Carolina Dawg
July 22nd, 2010
9:11 am
This is truly unreal. AJ was in Summerville and the reason his name is being brought up is because people are starting rumors he was there. Of course if there is any suspicion whatsoever the NCAA is going to inquire. KP, if AJ stays healthy the whole year, I will guarantee he is a Top 10 pick. You are a fool not to think that. NFL scouts drool over the ability AJ has.
JB
July 22nd, 2010
9:11 am
Mr T – I did get a good degree and do very well for myself. It’s what allows me top post here, as I, for the most part, make my own schedule.
That said, I also know it still burns you when we win.
KP – I have mocks by “experts” and you have your opinion…
HBTD!!!
KP
July 22nd, 2010
9:14 am
Because he was there Mike. You think the NCAA would spend the time money and effort going to athens to talk to him if there was solid proof he was in SC? Someone or something linked him there. He’s lying now to appease his coach and hoping he doesn’t get suspended. Who wants to miss the year before they go pro? Why do you think Tony B was so upset in his article yesterday. This was before the uga news was leaked. He was pissed because he knew aj was being investigated and uga is tony’s school.
South Carolina Dawg
July 22nd, 2010
9:14 am
Really KP, you must be smoking way to much reefer not to know what you did Memorial Day weekend or a real Tard. I would imagine you went to some sort of trade school or something and do not have a college education. Good luck flipping burgers at the local Mickey D’s and when you have something to bring to the table, please return to the forum.
Sincerely,
Educated Football Fans
South Carolina Dawg
July 22nd, 2010
9:16 am
Why the hell would AJ lie when he saw what happened to Dez Bryant. This is a smart kid who is not going to ruin his football career for something stupid.
KP
July 22nd, 2010
9:22 am
Experts? Like I said, half the guys they have in that list won’t be drafted in the first round. Nice experts! No gt players were in the mock drafts last year. 2 were taken first round. Dez was a top 10 wr. He went around 25th. Who had the bigger game in OK last year? Dez or AJ? Uh huh.
JB
July 22nd, 2010
9:28 am
Guys, KP knows all. Don’t bother.
HBTD!!!!
KP
July 22nd, 2010
9:28 am
Haha. And you really sound like someone who “knows” all these people in small town south carolina! Nice made up name. The truth hurts doesn’t it. How many of these players are from S Carolina? Seems to be a link. Your team is really gonna suck with no AJ. Hahahaah. All that talk about tech running the ball and that’s what you will be. A one dimensional team with a no experience qb. Haha. Sc and ARK are going to crush your lousy team.
Scott
July 22nd, 2010
9:29 am
Um, they lie because they want to play to improve their draft status. Duh.
Dez still got drafted. He didn’t make as much had he not been suspended. Same applies to AJ and the others.
JB
July 22nd, 2010
9:33 am
Gents, KP knows all. Don’t waste more time trying to prove otherwise.
HBTD!!!
South Carolina Dawg
July 22nd, 2010
9:35 am
Dez Bryant has had serious character issues before he even lied to the NCAA. There were also questions about him coming late to practice and also a health condition (Irregular Heartbeat). AJ Green is a great kid and practices very hard and never runs his mouth. With all that against Dez he still went 25th. AJ will be Top 10 and there is no doubt in my mind about that. If you are really going to compare their stats on one game, you are an even bigger idiot than I thought. I guess Mark Ingram is not any good cause he had a poor game against TN last year too.
MisterT
July 22nd, 2010
9:39 am
JB,
Absolutely burns me. I know it burns you when we do as well. I wouldn’t have it any other way. I am sure you feel the same way.
I did go to Tech. It is a very tough school. Admittedly I would likely have enjoyed and done better at uga. As a Realtor now, having gone to uga might have been the better play. But I do alright
Why did I choose Tech then? I thought I wanted to be an engineer…for about two quaters
I also grew up in south Georgia as a Tech fan all my life. uga fans drove me to the passionate level of hate I have for uga…the school. I still like my friends that went to uga. They are fine folks. They just went tot he dark side.
I think Tech will continue to do well under CPJ. The years of going 7-4 and losing to uga 7 out of 8 years are probably gone for the near future. Tech will always have the difficulty of the narrow band of degrees to choose from that will make recruiting a struggle. The guys that we get will be winners though. Not that uga’s aren’t. Ours will tend to have less ego and “me first” mentalities…as a general rule. We will have a few. I think CPJ will mold them well.
JB, I think in your heart of hearts, you like the kind of coach that we have. You know he is a footbal coach as opposed to a CEO and you like that. Don’t you?
THWg!
Lance
July 22nd, 2010
9:43 am
who cares — this is a non-story as it relates to UGA.
JB
July 22nd, 2010
9:47 am
Actually I don’t.
The guy buys rings for beating us one year and then says it’s no big deal the next, when he loses. No big deal to play your in state arch rival? He then suggests that your fan base should take a swing at people. Really?
I think you will always struggle with getting WR’s (not that that may matter) and stud OL, as they both know that they can’t show case their talents in a predominantly run O. I also think that your O will start to get figured out, whcih will force you to pass… Ala IA.
So, frankly, I’d much rather have our coach than yours. Just sayin’.
HBTD!!!
cocky
July 22nd, 2010
9:57 am
As a South Carolina fan I know we are in serious trouble, UGA is not because AJ was at that party unlike Saunders. Like I am worried about playing UGA at 12:20 this season. I’m also afraid of some serious penalties on the USC program. This is not good for us or Bama. I think UF and UGA are ok however.
Bama fan
July 22nd, 2010
10:07 am
It would be pretty sad if UGA was cheating and didn’t have any more to show for it than they do, wouldn’t it?
srschirm
July 22nd, 2010
10:17 am
Give ‘em the Death Penalty.
JB
July 22nd, 2010
10:18 am
Watching Green at the SEC Media day now and he seems to be in awfully good spirits.
HBTD!!!
PMC
July 22nd, 2010
10:27 am
The problem is as mentioned by Mr. CFB all of the contact is by predatory agents who are small time losers that can’t do it the right way.
They do need to have more contact with good agents earlier on so they know how to maximise thier earning ability and how to make an informed decision on when to jump.
They need to modify the rules to let reputable agents have contact and that naturally will help to weed out a lot of the shady dealings and bad sports agents who wind up screwing thier client and their client’s school.
michaelj
July 22nd, 2010
10:28 am
These morons are going to talk to AJ because he’s an exceptional player. He didn’t even talk to that self-important self-reporting POS Chip Towers that was clearly trying to cause trouble.. If these guys that work for the Atlanta paper could actually write and report, this sort of abject speculation wouldn’t see the light of day.
And really, TMZ as a news source? Yeah, they are a step up from Fox so far as integrity and trustworthiness are concerned, but that’s like one small step out of just making stuff up.
They think Sara Palin speaks English, and what’s worse, they actually seem to understand the incomprehensible things she Tweets. (They don’t, either, but they have to act like they do.) As far as Pope Urban is concerned, he’s just getting ahead of the curve, like Pete Carroll. Rams next year? Maybe this all contributed to his heart/panic/conscience attack. Saban, on the other hand, proved beyond a doubt he’s mercenary, and incapable of coaching in the NFL.
This bidness of Saban and Urban acting like agents have Hansen’ disease, and they think they caught a non-communicable disease from smoking Pete Carroll’sHavanas is almost hilarious. I guess there’s no offense taken by their own agents.
At UGA, kids buy beer when they aren’t supposed to. Whoofreakinghooo. Kids in college drink beer. Athens cops have pictures of UGA players and target them.
Sometimes Athens cops recognize them as football players and jack them up beyond anything normal. I lived there years and years, and I know this for a fact. Barney Fife multiplied. And the University Police think they work for Tom Cruise preventing crimes before they’re conceived of. And every one of them wishes he could have played football.
Please apply the Gertrude Stein rule. There’s no there there, unless you make it up.
And the rent-a-guards at GT, they never got emoluments from agents, right? They saw agents more than they ever saw classrooms. What a crock.
Tech Buzz
July 22nd, 2010
10:34 am
The dawg players are on the take and they still lose 3-4 game per year. What gives?
james
July 22nd, 2010
10:39 am
Tech won’t have to worry about this kind of stuff.
Their players don’t get invited to parties.
They are too busy playing world of warcraft to notice.
Doug
July 22nd, 2010
11:27 am
Amendment;
Since the colleges are farm teams for the Pro’s,
And since most footbll players will not graduate from college,
And since most footbll players given the opportunity to go to the Pro’s could care less about their college,
Therefore what is taking place with the NCAA is all in a days work.
And furthermore, the colleges should just take money from the Pro’s, pay the footbll players on a graded scale of ability and let them forget taking up a seat in a classroom.
Alumni and football groupies then can buy tickets without having to be held hostage by the atlhetic association and their money reguest for good seats.
Passed this 23rd day of July 2010.
Dawghater
July 22nd, 2010
11:36 am
Better hope AJ’s not lying to the NCAA. They didn’t like that much last year when OK State’s Dez Bryant did the same! Of course UGA players don’t lie, right Mettenburg.
AJ Knows
July 22nd, 2010
11:47 am
AJ would not lie–Mark has counseled him using bible verses. He’s completely honest.
Damon Evans
July 22nd, 2010
12:49 pm
I’m ratting you bums out. how about em red panties.
Andy
July 22nd, 2010
1:02 pm
Well Memorial Day is a long weekend, is it not possible for AJ to be in Summerville 1 day and in Miami the next day ?
MisterT
July 22nd, 2010
1:07 pm
JB,
It was the defense that was solved by uga last year, notthe offense. If Superman, I mean Nesbitt, had not gone down, it may have been different…nahh…the defense was non-existant. I hope that issue has been solved. Note: It didn’t take CPJ three years to cut the DC loose.
CMR’s loyalty to Martinez likely costs uga a NC the year before last.
I think that WR would be well served to come to Tech. One of uga’s all time greats would have been phnominal in this offense. Heinz Ward is exactly the type of WR that would thrive in the Tech TO. BeBe Thomas was drifted high not only on the strength of his numbers, but because he was a complete WR. He wasn’t afriad to block.
I think you will see more passing anyway. Not because they have to, but because they can.
JB, you are afraid of someone taking a swing at you are you? Don’t talk trash unless you can back it up.
I actually did call a uga fan out on this once. Completely obnoxious at work in front of everyone. I invited him to step outside. Coward. Tried to report me to HR. They laughed at him and tlod him to shut his pie hole. Here is the rub. He never went to uga. Just a redneck with a big mouth and no backbone. Which is typical…not of uga fans necessarily…I meant big mouth and no backbone = all talk. I don’t see CPJ being all mouth. My fear is that one day he does punch somebody and we lose him.
THWg!
michaelj
July 22nd, 2010
1:28 pm
Mister T
I’m sure eevrybody laughed when you “called somebody outside” But you didn;t, and you wouldn’t, because you are a weenie. Making threats on the internet is Tlod you so so plastic pocket protector.
Usually it takes time passing and a ref messing up for Tech to beat Georgia. Sometimes it just takes Reggie Ball playing against actual football players.
Jared
July 22nd, 2010
2:18 pm
Saban calling ANYONE a greedy pimp is laughable.
As a Tech fan, I hope Green is not found to be mixed up in anything like this. Plus, I hate the rule anyways. Coaches make millions, ath. dept’s make even more millions, but the player is supposed to play for love of the school. The NFL should do something about it, as well, since they’re basically getting a free minor league system to evaluate players in.
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BeefATL72
July 22nd, 2010
5:08 pm
From what I understand, if you are following AJ’s twitter page, you’re able to go back to memorial day weekend & see where he tweeted he was in Summerville with his family.
Now unless he’s psychic or constructed this outlandish plan to have his mother tweet that for him from Summerville with his own cell phone just to give him a fake alibi while he really went to this party in South Beach, I think it’s a safe bet he wasn’t there.
Mr. Sulu
July 22nd, 2010
7:42 pm
poppycock…….. I can beam A J anywhere he wants to go in a matter of moments…….
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R G HIGHT
July 23rd, 2010
10:02 am
If you are old enough to die for your country, You should be allowed to make business decisions and make money anyway you can that is legal. The NCAA dose not have the right to tell anyone that they cant take money. People have the right to decide what benefits them, The NCAA is looking out after their own interest , so why not give the players the same benefit. If a person can pick up some money from an agent before the turns pro more power to him , i fail to see how that can make him a better athlete, it dose not change his talent level. however it is wrong to throw a game , no cheating in that reguard please.
Sven Ottke
July 23rd, 2010
10:17 am
Look at that picture of Richt. Jeez that is a bad haircut.
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12:22 pm
NCAA Football 11 is out now. I get my rosters from GameRosters.com. Where are you getting yours?
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