North Campus pigs have ruined tailgating at UGA
The trashing of campus has ruined tailgating at UGA. (Tom Ritch / Special)
As many fans had feared, the pigs who continued to trash UGA’s North Campus on football Saturdays despite warnings from the school’s administration have pretty much killed off tailgating as it’s traditionally known in that area.
UGA announced new tailgating guidelines today that limit access to the traditional quads on North Campus to four hours before kickoff and ban tents, kegs, generators, televisions, amplified music, grills or cookers of any type, tables larger than 4 feet long and household furniture (folding chairs not included).
If you can imagine tailgating without any of that — spreading a tablecloth on the ground like an old-fashioned picnic — then you’ll be alright. Otherwise, the search will be on for new places to party before a home game.
The tailgaters who abused the campus and those who stood by and watched them have no one to blame but themselves. The tons of trash left on the university grounds and the urinating in inappropriate places (which already had caused the locking of buildings on game days to keep the idiots from using stairwells as toilets) could not be allowed to continue.
In a statement on its Gameday Gameplan Web site, UGA said a committee that was convened to deal with the problem “sought solutions that would maintain the long tradition of tailgating at UGA, but at a level more compatible with the historic buildings and grounds on North Campus. The consistently high traffic and negative impact to this historic area on game days led many in the public to call for a complete ban on tailgating in the area, while others called for increased regulations. The committee took into account the multitude of letters and e-mails from fans and alumni, the wealth of media coverage from the 2009 season and the physical costs involved in protecting this historic and treasured University of Georgia landmark.”
Those planning on moving their parties to the nearest UGA parking lot should think again. In order to accommodate the increased fan traffic that will hit those lots, UGA says, it also is instituting a few changes in parking regulations throughout the campus. Those include: no pull-behind items (trailers, cookers, etc.) on game days, no golf carts or ATVs and no parking on sidewalks (expanded to include Carlton Street). Additionally, the ban on setting up tailgates (tents, tables, etc.) in parking spaces controlled by the athletic association will be re-emphasized.
Congratulations, morons. You’ve ruined it for everyone.
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PTC DAWG
March 18th, 2010
4:01 pm
1 more thing needed for a proper tailgate…enough trashbags to haul out ALL your own trash.
Otto
March 18th, 2010
4:02 pm
georgiadawg70, I was there for several home games as well. It was a problem.
bbdawg
March 18th, 2010
4:09 pm
If we had a capable President we would not be in this situation. Thanks to AJC for failure to investigate the problems brought out in “Behind the Hedges” by Rich Whitt. This book is required reading for every true Dawg. When, oh when, will we get rid of Adams so that I can again contribute to my University.
RAMMER JAMMER YELLOW HAMMER
March 18th, 2010
4:15 pm
so some of you georgia fans are to good to pick up your own trash? social issue ,and you talk about the state of alabama ,sounds like a educational problem or non-educated. you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas..
collegeballfan
March 18th, 2010
4:19 pm
Adams ain’t the problem. The problem is some of the UGA fans are pigs just as Bill King called them.
Suggestion: do not sell season tickets to anyone who is not a UGA graduate. This is a big part of the problem, trust me on this one.
Question: I go to a football game to watch a football game. I do not go to grill out. When I want to grill out I do it at home. Please explain the need to “tailgate”.
alumni donor
March 18th, 2010
4:20 pm
the donors wont be holding back money. UGA gives us parking passes with plenty of room for tailgating. new rules wont mess me up at all.
76-Dawg
March 18th, 2010
4:22 pm
UGA could have handled this a little better than banning such a tradition. Before it got as far as banning tailgating I would have divided the areas into sections and made you sign up for an area giving a credit card number and pay $100 for it’s use . You have to provide your, name,address and phone number and it is your responsibility to police the people in your area. When you get ready to go someone walks through the area with the person responsible and clears it . If you just trash the area and leave without picking up your mess UGA debits your card for $500 to pay for the clean up. If the card is not good then the sheriff comes to your house and arrest your sorry ass for littering and fines you $1000 for acting like a immature irresponsible jerk. There has to be consequences for your actions and that will get rid of the idiots that are there just to show there butts and get drunk and disrespect the integrity of a great college.
school my but
March 18th, 2010
4:30 pm
we fans are entitled. They can pick up the trash,we pay for tickets. These tickets cost a lot of cash. So they should just let us be and pay to pick the mess. GO DOGS
Game Worker
March 18th, 2010
4:32 pm
I have a job that requires me to be around the Ga Tech stadium at the start of Game time….most games the trash is OK…but when the UGA fans come to town, its a DISASTER> there are bottles, cans everywhere! the trash cans overflow and there is litter everywhere. I do not get it! Not even those Hokie fans are so messy!
Dawg in Breman
March 18th, 2010
4:35 pm
Breaking News!
http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/7/l_f11f63decc514f8cae39aecd439d8e30.jpg
Stinger
March 18th, 2010
4:41 pm
You bunch of stinking pig losers!! 6-5 we walk this state!!!
Ron Mexico
March 18th, 2010
4:41 pm
Been to Bama for a game Once, and I will never go back to that trailer park. There may not be litter there, but the litter would probably be an improvement.
Greg
March 18th, 2010
4:42 pm
AJC reader 2:33; it figures that a UGA graduate would call himself an “alumni” instead of an “alumnus”. Are you more than one person? Look it up. Thanks for proving your point about it being an “academic institution first”.
Stinger
March 18th, 2010
4:43 pm
Excuse me ! What time does your guys basketball game start tonight?
Stinger
March 18th, 2010
4:45 pm
OH, you mean to tell me that you didn’t make the tourney?? What a shame.
Oh well, you haven’t won anything since 1980.
Dawghater
March 18th, 2010
4:48 pm
Not even a surprise. These are Dawg fans, they bark like Dawgs, act like Dawgs and treat everyone in Athens like Dawgs. Then the go on a building just like a Dawg. Look at the bright side Shreveport will let you tailgate any where you want to when you vist them every year!
Pete F
March 18th, 2010
4:50 pm
The Shreveport bowl no longer has SEC ties. Give it a rest.
Dawghater
March 18th, 2010
4:51 pm
Hey “school my but” I bet you think you deserve a job too when you grad u ate in 10 years from Athens with that recreational science degree too. Sorry, buying a ticket does not entitle you to free garbage pickup. You get a seat in a stadium for that game and that is it!
MTA56
March 18th, 2010
4:52 pm
They should have extra police to check the tailgating areas & 45 minutes before kick-off start writing tickets to everyone in the areas they have trashed. Fine everyone in the group. The fines should start at $200 & go up in $50 incriments according to the seriousness of the trash!
Richard Hamilton
March 18th, 2010
4:54 pm
It’s about time the school did something about this. Good for them. These people will just move
somewhere else and trash that place.
GaDawg
March 18th, 2010
4:57 pm
Tracey March 18th, 2010…1:48 pm
Marcos March 18th, 2010…1:54 pm
Excellent observations!
The tiniest violin playing…March 18th, 2010 1:47 pm
If they stay home and throw a party in their back yard, then they’ll have to clean up their own mess, or just add to the mess they left there the previous week.
Don’t blame the administration; personal accountability doesn’t take a vacation on game day. Tailgating was a privilege not a right. To all of those responsible for our loss of privilege, I hope that you do get angry enough to pull back your money and stay at home. If you have exhibited such disrespect for the UGA campus, you don’t possess the quality of character necessary to be a member of the UGA family. The University doesn’t want you, or need your money! It’s too late to “shape up,” so just “SHIP OUT!”
WeeWilly
March 18th, 2010
5:06 pm
Bill,
What are we talking about here, maybe 6 home games a year? The best of my recollection is that there weren’t enough trash receptacles and certainly not enough (if any) port-o-lets for a crowd the size to fit the expanded stadium. That should be a fixable problem. Seems to me that the football program generates an enormous amount of cash to the university and they should be able to provide sanitary facilities for those that they conunt on to buy tickets. Tailgating is part of the gameday experience and while personal responsibility is not be ignored, the nuclear option is an inhospitable reaction to 6 clean-up days per year.
HDTV is starting to look like a better bet. I can always tailgate at home and I don’t mind cleaning up after the drunks afterward (including self).
GaDawg
March 18th, 2010
5:07 pm
Tracey March 18th, 2010…1:48 pm
Marcos March 18th, 2010…1:54 pm
Excellent observations!
The tiniest violin playing…March 18th, 2010 1:47 pm
If they stay home and throw a party in their back yard, then they’ll have to clean up their own mess, or just add to the mess they left there the previous week.
Don’t blame the administration; personal accountability doesn’t take a vacation on game day. Tailgating was a privilege not a right. To all of those responsible for our loss of privilege, I hope that you do get angry enough to pull back your money and stay at home. If you have exhibited such disrespect for the UGA campus, you don’t possess the quality of character necessary to be a member of the UGA family. The University doesn’t want you, or need your money! It’s too late to “shape up,” so just “SHIP OUT!”
11-3 GT
March 18th, 2010
5:14 pm
………Josh Nesbitt for Heisman……….
Paddy
March 18th, 2010
5:14 pm
Thats not tailgating! Thats your rec time in the general populace courtyard at the local prison. You were warned to behave and you could not act like adults. Too bad you have ruined it for many of us.
SJ Pennypacker
March 18th, 2010
5:16 pm
They took er JOBS!!!
Casey
March 18th, 2010
5:17 pm
All I know is that anyone who claims to love the University of Georgia and then leaves it totally trashed is not a true fan of the University of Georgia. You’re a complete waste of space and the University would be better off if you didn’t show up at all.
kauai dawg
March 18th, 2010
5:19 pm
“Congratulations, morons. You’ve ruined it for everyone.”
I agree…. Well said! Where is the responsibility? There is no excuse. Clean up your mess, don’t and everyone suffers. Sad day!
Dave In Tampa
March 18th, 2010
5:19 pm
Absolutely ruined it for us! What an embarrassment? Use to not be like that when I attended back in the early 80’s. If I were a Techie or any other school I’d be unloading as well. That just gave the entire football country plenty to rip us about. After looking at that picture again, I’d be doing the same thing if I were from another college
GDAWG65
March 18th, 2010
5:21 pm
Mike Adams was a loser before he came to UGA and has been a disgrace as president since he’s been here. Why did he get involved – isn’t some one over a buildings and grounds department that should have nipped this in the bud.
UGA wisely got rid of Martinez – it would be much more wise to get rid of Mike Adams
Dave In Tampa
March 18th, 2010
5:23 pm
GDAWG65
Adams is a moron, I agree, but it’s hard to blame this one on a bunch of slobs. This is embarrassing. Those were suppose to be so-called adults that did this. What a shame!
Dave In Tampa
March 18th, 2010
5:23 pm
Meant hard to blame this on Adams. Blame it on the slobs
Techie
March 18th, 2010
5:26 pm
Warning welfare recipient @ JimBob
do we expect anything less from uga fans?
Huh?
March 18th, 2010
5:33 pm
Night games force people to drink too much??
Last I checked, it was a choice – same as cleaning up after oneself.
And tickets to sporting events now come with porta potties and clean up crews? Since when? They have toilets inside the stadium – trash cans too – included in the ticket price.
The excuse makers need to look in the mirror – you are more than likely part of the problem.
Results – not excuses.
OldFan
March 18th, 2010
5:46 pm
Come on now. These aren’t pigs. They’re UGA fans. And if they’re loud, rude, littering, profane drunks, then we’ve got the fans we deserve. They act that way ouside the stadium, because that’s how they act inside the stadium—and we love the hometeam fanatics. If the University is foolish enough to try to enforce civility, it first needs to decide it doesn’t want big time college football and will opt instead for real student/athletes playing in leather helmets. So, give up the outrage. There’s already enough hypocrisy in college football.
Sanford Drive
March 18th, 2010
6:01 pm
Let’s just all plan to drop off our post-tailgating trash in Mike Adam’s driveway. He lives right on Prince. Giant mansion. You can’t miss it.
This is only going to displace the problem to a different area. Mike Adams is such an idiot.
Pig Dawg
March 18th, 2010
6:07 pm
Surprise, surprise.
You piggies got what you deserve! I love it! Oink! Oink! Oink!
BS Patrol
March 18th, 2010
7:22 pm
I live in what might be called a poor man’s paradise where people like to come and camp. Thankfully, most visitors use the same simple rule I have gone by for years: IF YOU BRING IT IN, YOU TAKE IT OUT. As simple as being able to use a napkin. The posted picture looks like the aftermath of Woodstock. These people should be ashamed.
Dawgs 2010
March 18th, 2010
7:25 pm
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn53/zrdan/richtqo3.jpg
GaDawg
March 18th, 2010
7:41 pm
Something along these lines should accomplish the goal, but could the university formulate a workable plan to achieve the objective? You need to forward your idea to Michael Adams 76-Dawg
76-Dawg March 18th, 2010…4:22 pm
UGA could have handled this a little better than banning such a tradition. Before it got as far as banning tailgating I would have divided the areas into sections and made you sign up for an area giving a credit card number and pay $100 for it’s use . You have to provide your, name, address and phone number and it is your responsibility to police the people in your area. When you get ready to go someone walks through the area with the person responsible and clears it . If you just trash the area and leave without picking up your mess UGA debits your card for $500 to pay for the clean up. If the card is not good then the sheriff comes to your house and arrest your sorry ass for littering and fines you $1000 for acting like a immature irresponsible jerk. There has to be consequences for your actions and that will get rid of the idiots that are there just to show there butts and get drunk and disrespect the integrity of a great college.
icedawg
March 18th, 2010
7:48 pm
Perhaps they’ve earned a new designation, “litterdogs” rather than litterbugs. They should have banned leg hiking while they were at it.
Keep America CLEAN
March 18th, 2010
7:49 pm
You can not even behave for 6 days out of 365 a year.
Shame on you.
GoDOGS1
March 18th, 2010
7:54 pm
Get rid of Adams……NOW!
...........
March 18th, 2010
8:01 pm
Get rid of trashy fans piling up trash…..NOW!
Buckhead Bulldog
March 18th, 2010
8:06 pm
I’ve never experanced a LSU game in Baton Rogue at night….they seem to have some of the most rowdy fans in CFB. How does their Univ. handle it down there?
Good ole M. Adams = broken little toe, cut the whole dang leg off. I loathe Adams!
GoDOGS1
March 18th, 2010
8:08 pm
Get rid of trashy fans piling up trash and Adams….NOW!
Better?
Buckhead Bulldog
March 18th, 2010
8:10 pm
correction: experienced
The Truth
March 18th, 2010
8:51 pm
GA Tech Lies & Cheats & Everyone knows it. Tech fans are the scum of the earth.
But we do have an idiot for a President (Michael Adams).
Iraq Dawg.... Hooah!
March 18th, 2010
9:01 pm
Thanks yon morons for ruining my homecoming from Iraq.
But at least I don’t have to worry about being attacked by a friendly mugger near Tech. I’ll probably blast their azz if they tried.
Guess I’ll be at the Georgia Bar.
RAMMER JAMMER YELLOW HAMMER
March 18th, 2010
9:05 pm
hey ron mexico when you went to a bama game did you go to bryant denny or legion field ,legion field is a dump… but no way is bd as you say.i’ve been to most every stadium in the south and bd and the quad is as nice as any . without the trash……..just sayin