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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Festus
March 18th, 2010
9:30 pm
Yawl shuld haive been burnin thait traish lykes the Waste Virginny folks burn them thare couchees. Them thare Georgee urchins are jist plain stupid a defecating on everthang.
Festus
March 18th, 2010
9:38 pm
BTW Hey thare Cuzzin Beal Kang !
bad apple dawg
March 18th, 2010
9:49 pm
What a bunch of stinkin slobs!
Denver Dawg
March 18th, 2010
9:59 pm
testing… wondering if Bill King and / or the wonderful moderator will let THIS post through…
jimmy
March 18th, 2010
10:06 pm
you have made adams look good
The Dog Wisperer
March 18th, 2010
10:50 pm
If you build it, they will dump their crap all over it…
Q: What’s the difference between a UGA tailgate and the garbage dump? A: The people running the dump have been there more than just a few Saturday afternoons.
AltamahaDawg
March 18th, 2010
11:01 pm
Are we selecting what gets posted tonight, Bill?
Ashamed
March 18th, 2010
11:07 pm
That is the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw the pictures of what led to this.
It is funny how so many of you sit on here all year long and beat your chest, trash talk, couch coach, and yada yada freakin yada…
The majority of the fans in Athens are good Dawgs. However, the outright stupid redneck idiots tend to make it miserable.
Do like they do at Augusta. You must have a visable badge with and ID on it. If you get caught being and idiot, your ID number is turned in, you don’t get your badges the next year.
Let some of these idiots loose their season tickets and you will see things straighten up. And before you say, “Yeah, but he got them from someone else.” Well, that person will loose their tickets then. Talk about a vested interest. Let me see, I donate and purchase tickets for 10 years. I have well over 100K invested in seeing the Dawgs. I can’t go to a game due to a family illness. I give my two tickets to a collegue at work and he take his brother. His brother gets drunk, shows his butt, gets in trouble. A plain clothes officer gets his ID # off his badge which must be visible to tailgate. He goes home with nothing more than a headache. I however, loose the ability to purchase tickets anymore.
Put this in place and the BS will stop.
AltamahaDawg
March 18th, 2010
11:14 pm
let’s give it another shot.
A few bad apples did not ruin it for everybody. A few bad apples ruined it for a few bad apples.
vuduchld
March 18th, 2010
11:57 pm
Nothing new here. We all knew UGA people were pigs all along, so what’s the big deal!?
Big D Dawg
March 19th, 2010
1:27 am
college ball fan, you’re an a hole. I graduated from Kennesaw which doesn’t have a football team. I’ve been donating to the athletic association for 40 yrs and I doubt that you have donated that long. So, selling to only graduates is not even in the cards. you’d lose at least 20% of the ticket holders and believe me a lot of those are big doners, like me.
Yawn
March 19th, 2010
7:30 am
Ashamed,
Idiots like you who think LOSE is spelled as “loose”? Not once but twice.
Loose- My girlfriend is a LOOSE girl.
Lose- I hope I don’t LOSE my girlfriend to my drunk buddy who took her to the game because I had a cold..
merculf
March 19th, 2010
8:24 am
The majority of the problem makers and unruly fans are people who never went to UGA. They have the same problem at most of the larger state schools around the nation. People who didn’t go to the school think they have to prove themselves to those who did. This leads to people bringing their “toys” to the games (Satellite T.V., rolling grills, kegs, furniture and more). If you want to show off how well you have done for yourself (if you graduated form UGA or not), then throw a party at your home. If you have to watch T.V. , stay home…By cooking a whole pig or entertaining 25 people isn’t going to help the team win or lose. The “tailgate” was for those that had to travel great distances to return to support the team, it wasn’t supposed to be a great big weekly party and excuse to drink to excess.
ugaaccountant
March 19th, 2010
8:30 am
#1 culprit – Suprisingly not Mike Adams – It’s the AJC for their yellow journalism constantly making an issue out of a non issue. This was not news and you insisted on running it.
#2 culprit – Yeah, it’s Mike Adams
Future Careers
March 19th, 2010
8:31 am
This surprises no one. It’s what you expect from a UGA fan.
Cuz
March 19th, 2010
8:41 am
I guess I won’t be able to bring my three pig smoker with the wet bar and keg attachment that sleeps four. Darn.
Lennon & McCartney
March 19th, 2010
8:50 am
Have you seen the little piggies
crawling in the dirt?
And for all these little piggies
life is getting worse.
Always having dirt to play around in.
Have you seen the bigger piggies
in their starched white shirts?
You will find the bigger piggies
stirring up the dirt.
Always have clean shirts to play around in.
In their sties with all their backing
they don’t care what goes on around.
In their eyes, there’s something lacking,
what they need’s a damn good whacking….
Catchy tune, huh? Thanks for the inspiration, Bill King.
virginia dog
March 19th, 2010
8:56 am
Here is the skinny … due to the hope scholarship and the growth of atlanta the typical UGA student is a kid that grew up outside the south. So the hallowed halls of Georgia mean nothing … i repeat nothing to them. it is just another stop until mom and dad are called back to the home office in Ohio or new Jersey.
georgiadawg70
March 19th, 2010
9:11 am
virginia dog, You could not have said it better. In twenty more years Georgia wll look like Florida. I-95 is nothing but a sewer for all the waste from NY and NJ pouring into the Sunshine State. It will not be long before we look just like them. What a waste.
georgiadawg70
March 19th, 2010
9:13 am
Most of these outsiders anre the ones that tailgate and don’t but a ticket to the game. Thirty percent of tailgaters fall into this catergory
Lakedawg
March 19th, 2010
9:38 am
It’s sad when people act so irresponsibly regarding the property
of others. It’d be great if video cameras could be set up, capture
car tag numbers, and transport the trash back to the front door of
whoever left it. Perhaps that would clarify the situation for them ?
I know that that couldn’t really happen, but it’d be appropriate.
Unfortunately, often, poor upbringing + too much alcohol = poor
behavior. However, the fans of other schools who say that THEIR
fans never do this are not telling the truth. Wrong is wrong,
no matter who does it.
Richie
March 19th, 2010
9:39 am
its about time they crack down on those drunks.
Pig Dawg
March 19th, 2010
9:45 am
Actually, it’s 34.8%.
DDT
March 19th, 2010
9:47 am
Having been invited by friends to attend a couple of tailgate parties at UGA I can tell you one thing for sure, its not about the game its about the party for a lot people. None of the people that I went with went to UGA or had tickets and neither did I. It is about the same as going to a NASCAR race in Alabama and camping out, its all about getting drunk, watching other drunks act stupid, picking up some strange if your lucky and showing off. You know its getting bad when you have to watch ESPN the next day to find out who won the game or race which I have done several times even though I was there. I’m glad those days are over for me. At least we picked up our trash and tried to leave our area as we found it or better but from I saw a lot of people did not care about anybody or anything. Just party on.
cajdawg
March 19th, 2010
9:48 am
Here is the truth:
1)Some young alumni and current students act like uncouth savages. Solution: larger police presence to crack down on underage drinking and unlawful public behavior.
2)Lack of trash recepticles and frequency of pick up DURING PREGAME TAILGATING AND THE GAME. Solution: School and city should be able to easily rectify this with some money and ingenuity.
3)Slowly eliminate the redneck, UGA unaffiliated season ticket fanbase. A third to half of the “Dawg fans” on game have no affinity for the school or Athens and they are bring shame and embarrassment on the school.
The last game I attended was the Colorado game several years ago with my wife (VT grad) and friends who attended UNC and Vanderbilt. They laughed and laughed the entire day as every Southern- redneck-stereotype was fulfilled that day. The crowd in our immediate vacinity embarrassed me in too many ways to count. I haven’t been back since.
k-dawg
March 19th, 2010
9:53 am
It will be mass chaos! You’re talking 10’s of 1000’s of people now trying to find another place to tailgate (because we all know people are not going to just start showing up for a 4 hour only tailgate) welcome to “Family Friendly” part 2, another spectacular idea that has already been mostly done away with (prior to these new regulations). Just … See Morewhere exactly do they think all these people are going to go??? Every damn lot/deck is already UGA controlled and require a permit. People already park on the exit ramps on the loop, what’s next, tailgating on the side of Hwy 78??? Maybe I’ll just tailgate in my own damn yard, in MONROE!!! I guess that’s what they’re trying to force anyways….
Cross Dawg
March 19th, 2010
9:55 am
Now we sorta know how Vince felt when adams stuck it to him. Time for a change in the President’s Mansion. Wait, forget that, adams rather live eleswhere. Time for a NEW PRES.
Hal
March 19th, 2010
10:04 am
yeah thanks guys. I was ok until the ban on pull behinds….. this sux
TROTTINGHOME
March 19th, 2010
10:24 am
I didn’t tailgate anyway. So no loss for me, however the residual effects of trash and stupidity will long haunt Georgian intellect.
Also higher intellect doesn’t mean high moral fiber.
Silver Classic
March 19th, 2010
10:30 am
Tailgating is not dead! Check out http://www.BulldogPark.com where you don’t have to worry about sharing space with the morons.
AceDawg
March 19th, 2010
10:44 am
While I have always loved the wildness of tailgates at UGA, I agree that the messes left by fans got worse over the last couple years. It is still an academic institution, and it’s sad fun can’t be mixed with at least a minimal amount of responsibility.
DawgBuzz
March 19th, 2010
10:49 am
Don’t ban such a tradition. If you want to keep it going hire extra security and police. You want to stop this type of behavior during tailgating? Fines for litering, public indecency, arrests for public drunkeness, etc.
JMc12203
March 19th, 2010
10:56 am
Just as undisclipined as the football team
Alabama Jack
March 19th, 2010
12:51 pm
dawgs go to Shreveport
Shreveport drops SEC tie
Wonder who the dawgs will dump on at their next bowl, if there ever is one.
Spike
March 19th, 2010
12:57 pm
This just the beginning from Adams. He can kiss my a$$ and say good bye to any more donations from me to UGA while he is there.
ConcernedDawg
March 19th, 2010
1:04 pm
This is a tactic and ploy by the Administration to get the Athletic Department to share some of its funds for unrelated budget short falls of the University. The Administration knows they have these funds but the Athletic Department will not agree to share their perceived wealth. The University has to know that something of this magnitude will cause tens of thousands of dollars (if not much more) in reduced donations to both the Athletic Department and the University as a whole. I can assure you the $6,000 plus I contributed in 2009, much of which went to the University itself, will not be given in 2010 if this issue is not properly addressed prior to the first game. I have half a dozen other friends that feel the same way. (They also contribute a lot more than I do each year) Hopefully all parties involved will see the big picture of things and find a way to work all this out as the complete ban as now proposed is only going to hurt the University in the long run. I, for one, remain confident that the cooler heads will prevail before September of 2010. Go Dawgs.
Skipper
March 19th, 2010
2:47 pm
Yet another reason to keep the Fl-GA Game in JACKSONVILLE!
Reality
March 19th, 2010
4:08 pm
Trashed property and rude behavior by ugag fans – is this really new news?
El Eddo
March 19th, 2010
4:41 pm
Highly Entertaining as per usual. I’m going with lastgrad. It got ruint a long time ago, here’s why:
- Bowling then enlarging the stadium again and again
- Night Games (no times printed on tix)
- Money
- Procreation of fans who didn’t even go to GA
Revista Dawg
March 19th, 2010
6:44 pm
It’s mainly the young, drunk frat punks, who act like slobs and expect other people to clean up their trash, like their mom’s been doing for years. They are losers.
$750K
March 19th, 2010
9:03 pm
At least we have money to pay a football coach $750 K to support of such behavior. I mean, do you think that UGA is some kind of real university?
Winger
March 19th, 2010
10:07 pm
So the prevalent opinion is there should be more people and money to clean up after you and tell you if you had a good time. No wonder you’re the dogs.
Lovedthedawgsonce
March 19th, 2010
10:17 pm
No longer a dawg fan…way too much trash on and off the field. Hard to decide which is worse.
ONLY Fair
March 19th, 2010
10:26 pm
194rd
DD795
March 20th, 2010
12:01 am
What do you expect it’s UGA
Dawg Max
March 20th, 2010
9:01 am
Another michael adams special–ruining tailgating for 99% of the people who do not leave trash. I’m hoping he leaves or gets fired soon—he’s a big useless jerk!
bugman
March 20th, 2010
10:09 am
“Seriously… what is this state coming to when personal responsibility is seen as a bad thing?”
Methinks personal responsibility was MIA after their third beer.
And left in a stairwell…
deegee
March 20th, 2010
11:16 am
Nobody is saying you can’t tailgate. You can bring a prepared meal, eat, socialize like civilized people and leave the area clean. You just can’t behave like a bunch of hillbillies anymore. People are sick of hillbillies.
I'm sure somebody sells garbage bags with the UGA logo on them
March 20th, 2010
11:39 am
The Dollar Store sells 1 box of 30 gal garbage bags (7 bags per box) for a $1 So – One dollar plus some self respect equals – no getting Adams involved.
retired on the lake
March 20th, 2010
12:26 pm
MBWillson
March 18th, 2010
3:47 pm
Being a tailgater of over 30 years……..
Your an idiot if you bring it in take it out .. bring your own garbage bag. look in the mirror fool before blaming the university for not putting out trash cans. idiot!