What should UGA do about tailgating troublemakers?
UGA students want the tailgate tents to return to North Campus. (Photo by Bill King)
The issue of what to do about tailgating before football games at UGA reared its head again this week.
The Athens Banner-Herald reported that while students want the school to ease up on restrictions imposed last season on tailgating on the historic North Campus, the administration instead may crack down on tailgaters in other parts of campus.
The Student Government Association has asked the university to drop the prohibition of tents and tables longer than 4 feet and the rule of no tailgating on campus until four hours before kickoff. The ban on kegs, televisions, grills or other cookers, generators and household furniture such as couches on North Campus would remain in place under the student proposal.
The restrictions were put in place after UGA was embarrassed by the continued trashing of North Campus and the damage left behind by fans during the 2009 season, which had a lot of night games that extended the tailgating period.
This past season all the home games except the last one had early starts, so there weren’t as many folks looking to tailgate anyway. In the wake of the restrictions, the new ground zero for tailgaters moved to the Meyers quad off Lumpkin Street on South Campus. I cut through there before several games and the area was pretty packed, looking like the North Campus of old with all the tents set up.
And that’s where the possibility of expanded restrictions comes in.
Speaking of the Meyers quad, George Stafford, the university vice president in charge of game day activities, told the Banner-Herald, “We were unhappy with what went on over there, particularly at the last game.” During the daylong tailgating before the Dogs’ only night home game Nov. 27 against Georgia Tech, he said, someone pulled a couch from a nearby residence hall and set it on fire.
And other idiots drove beer bottles into the ground, then broke them, exposing jagged glass. Guess they got tired of playing beer pong.
So what should UGA administrators do about controlling tailgating?
Last season’s restrictions pretty much killed it on North Campus, as about all that was left as an option was a picnic basket and blanket on the ground. That suited UGA officials, who worried the historic green space was being ruined by the game day crush. As I’ve said before, probably the only way full-scale tailgating ever will return to North Campus is on a paid basis.
If the same restrictions on tailgating are applied to the Meyers quad, the result likely will be the same … the tailgaters will move elsewhere on campus. And then what? As the Dawgs Online blog put it this week, the university “can’t keep playing whack-a-mole every year to react to where the mess pops up next.”
Campuswide restrictions like those on North Campus aren’t a realistic option. Tailgating can’t be driven off campus because it has nowhere to go, so UGA needs to deal with it in a way that allows responsible fans to socialize before a game without letting the idiot fringe act like the trash they leave behind.
At the same time, it doesn’t do any good to appeal to tailgaters to act more responsibly, because alcohol and tailgating are inextricably linked, and the ones causing the problems are so drunk they barely know what they’re doing anyway.
It would seem like a reasonable solution would be to have a visible presence of UGA police in the vicinity of tailgating hot spots like Meyers quad and have them patrol regularly and deal with those tailgaters who get out of hand, leaving the others to enjoy themselves as long as they do so responsibly.
Tailgating is a part of the college football experience. Trying to stamp it out ultimately might hurt attendance at games.
What do you think the solution is?
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pdxdawg
January 29th, 2011
11:29 am
good article bill
HPerry
January 29th, 2011
11:44 am
It is a shame that a few bad apples spoil it for the whole bunch. Tailgating is certainly part of the game day experience. Do they want everyone to stay home and watch on TV?
dawggone
January 29th, 2011
11:57 am
You have to be responsible for your actions…the trash and drunks..etc… kill it for all.
larry
January 29th, 2011
11:59 am
Don’t want glass bottles? Allow kegs. Don’t want full kegs? Only allow pony kegs. Don’t want either of those? Allow Cans only. Don’t allow drinking at all? People will bring liquor anyway…just like inside the stadium.
I think there are only 2 solutions left:
1. No more home games. We just play in everyone else’s stadium. Nobody would leave any trash then. And think what that would do to Richt’s stellar Away record.
2. Kill all the tailgaters. Have the A/CC police department wear riot gear and carry automatic assault rifles. Everytime they see someone wearing red smiling on game day–they open fire.
AltamahaDawg
January 29th, 2011
12:02 pm
Bringing back tables and tents, seems like a good compromise. That level of restriction was obviously to make a point, that needed to be made. I had said last year I figured those restriction would ease up over time to allow tailgating after the habit of setting up a giant party and trashing the grounds had been interupted. Setting up a TV lounges with couches and kegs was always a stupid idea to allow in the first place. The university basically breed this problem by not having some common sense restrictions years ago.
But now, you allow tailgating in some form or you don’t. A chair and a basket is the don’t, may as well ban it completely. Fee paid spots is still the simpliest solution.
I’m still wondering who these people are that tailgate and leave all their trash.
larry
January 29th, 2011
12:08 pm
We never leave any trash…we pack it out, like camping. Plus we respect our school.
The main problem is that Adams wants all the benefits of football fans without any of the trouble they cause. You can’t have it both ways.
TROJAN
January 29th, 2011
12:09 pm
Hire a few people at minimum wage to clean it up!
Rook
January 29th, 2011
12:12 pm
Allow private companies to setup individual tailgates with a percentage of their fee going directly to UGA. These companies have done a great job of setting up and cleaning up in the past.
Remarkable
January 29th, 2011
12:14 pm
Your solution is so full of common sense that it will of course be ignored. Too bad. After all, whose policing the new rules anyway?
A reasonable solution would be to have a visible presence of UGA police in the vicinity of tailgating hot spots like Meyers quad and have them patrol regularly and deal with those tailgaters who get out of hand, leaving the others to enjoy themselves as long as they do so responsibly.
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heyberto
January 29th, 2011
12:21 pm
I’ve long said the school doesn’t do enough to encourage responsible tailgating. Trash cans fill up quickly on long days i have yet to see anyone come around to empty and replace. Some game day ‘dumpsters’ in strategic locations would help, as would providing more places to use bathrooms. I know why they started locking buildings, but that took away legitimate places to relieve yourself. Heightened police presence seems essential to crack down on the ‘passing-through population’, that don’t make a spot for themselves, but dump trash along the way. More facilities that allow people to get the conveniences they can’t pack out with them because they have to park 5 miles away from where they tailgate. If they want a response, they have to make the process easier for it’s ‘constituents’ that come from far out of town just to support the school. Mutual respect is the operative word and I love the ‘whack a mole’ analogy that the university has relied upon and needs to change.
Matt
January 29th, 2011
12:29 pm
The administration should look at other schools that seem to handle tailgating issues just fine. “The Grove” at Ole Miss comes to mind. I’ve never attended a game there but they apparently manage to keep things under control.
59bulldawg
January 29th, 2011
12:36 pm
I don’t have a clue on this one except perhaps to hire an army of security guards with the power to arrest folks. I know it’s not realistic but the fellas who drove beer bottles into the ground and then broke them need a good old fashioned a$$ whipping.
maddawg
January 29th, 2011
12:44 pm
hey, here’s an idea……how about seeing what the the other sec schools who aren’t having these type problems are doing.
There is just as much tailgaiting going on at Auburn, UT, and Fla, etc…and they also have intoxicated people. I don’t leave trash nor do the people I associate with. If you stop tailgaiting I for one will not attend anymore and I suspect I am far from the only one who feels this way.
I refuse to believe there is not a better solution than this. Not to long ago it was pretty common to see someone driving with a beer but now there are DUI hotlines posted on the highways and the penalties are much stiffer and everyone has a cell phone. They didn’t take away cars to fix the problem.
Adams,
there’s a fly, grab your elephant gun and take aim!!!!!!!!
maddawg
January 29th, 2011
12:47 pm
Matt,
I didn’t see your post @ 12:29 before I sent mine; I agree with you!!!
Bobby
January 29th, 2011
12:57 pm
As much as I hate UGA it is unfortunate some fans are not using common sense and risk the tailgating experience becoming less so for fans and visitors alike. When I visit Clemson and FSU for away games I don’t notice a lot of trash after their games although I’m sure there is some; No idea how they handle cleanup.
Bite Me
January 29th, 2011
12:57 pm
Its a matter of having respect for your school and showing a level of responsibility for your actions. The Dawg Nation has shown that they have had neither over the last few years. A few bad apples? I think not.
To TROJAN, typical racist caucasian response. Please continue to use them (TROJANS) as you try to procreate, the world needs a few less apathetic, village idiots.
larry
January 29th, 2011
1:03 pm
Hey Bite Me…I read Trojan’s post and nothing about race was mentioned. Minimum wage has nothing to do with race you over-sensitive putz.
I’ll bet Trojan meant we should hire the cheapest labor available to clean up. Would it have made any difference to you if Trojan said “We should pay some people $500 an hour to pick up the trash.” Is that racist too?
Jerry Blooger
January 29th, 2011
1:07 pm
How did you get this job Bill??
SSIgator
January 29th, 2011
1:10 pm
What’s the matter Bill? In a bad mood today?
mta56
January 29th, 2011
1:11 pm
Sorry folks but MOST of this was done by worthless irresponsible students & their guests. I doubt pulling out the couch from a residence hall & setting it on fire was done by fans! Make the rich parents of these dumpy kids hire & pay private contractors to police the area’s & clean up after the game. They have always paid for their brats to be lazy anyway!
spank da butt
January 29th, 2011
1:22 pm
The ol’ cane across the back of the thighs would clean up many of these kids. I will volunteer to handle the coed’s.
Dawg Tired
January 29th, 2011
1:25 pm
If you can get arrested for driving the wrong way down a seldom used alley, why can’t folks who can not conduct themselves with common decency be arrested?
Dawg Tired
January 29th, 2011
1:26 pm
I’m assuming littering is still illegal and finable at a fairly steep rate.
Dawg Tired
January 29th, 2011
1:28 pm
Jerry Blogger – I doubt it pays enough to worry about.
Anyone... anyone... anyone?
January 29th, 2011
1:43 pm
When the UGA students are mostly a bunch of semi-literate drunks, and the players are felons and other assorted miscreants, why would anyone expect the fans to be any different?
Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain
January 29th, 2011
1:48 pm
UGA = The Cesspool of the South.
War Eagle!!!
HOUDAWG
January 29th, 2011
1:52 pm
Hey TROJAN ……. you want a job at minimum wage ??
Hey Larry …… careful with the ” kill the tailgaters ” …… you’ll have the new ” civility police ” on your ass !
Sick of Adams
January 29th, 2011
1:52 pm
More portable toilets. More trash cans. Empty trash cans during the day for night games. More police patrolling the hot areas. Common sense! But wait, Michael doesn’t possess any of that!
will
January 29th, 2011
1:54 pm
how about the administration try communicating with the fanbase to self-regulate first. Increase police patrols and implore the fans to tell officers of those who get out of hand. this empowers those who are most affected, namely the responsable fans who know how to have a great time without getting black out drunk, and allows the administration to have a reasonable excuse for placing restrictions if things continue to get out of hand. Thus a move to more restrictive policies will be viewed for what it should be, protection for the beauty of one of the greatest places in the southeast, and protection for the fans rather than unilateral oppression. Send an email to every alumnus and student. Hell, send an email every month communicating the universities position and why they are acting as they are. Communication is everything!
2010nationalchamps
January 29th, 2011
1:56 pm
“Sorry folks but MOST of this was done by worthless irresponsible students & their guests. I doubt pulling out the couch from a residence hall & setting it on fire was done by fans!”
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Ahahahahaahaahaaa. So, UGA does have the same problem as UF and Bama! True fans didn’t go to the school. They were born into it and live it with their blood and jean shorts. Thanks for making that clear, mta56.
Also, the UGA administration has ruined gameday already. They will see to it that it is eventually destroyed altogether.
Ceasar
January 29th, 2011
2:00 pm
Typical cesspool school behavior! Admit it, Bill!!!
UGA student
January 29th, 2011
2:07 pm
The students aren’t the problem here. The problem is the inbred hillbillies who have no connection to the university that the football program attracts.
Steve Spurrier
January 29th, 2011
2:12 pm
was,is, and forever will be my beeotch. Please keep CMR and Adams…
AltamahaDawg
January 29th, 2011
2:15 pm
Well it can’t be that simple, the AJC hasn’t been able to figure out how to stop the same problem on thier blogs.
Jackson
January 29th, 2011
2:38 pm
Ask Billy Payne and Masters Tournament officials for advice on how to control patrons, end of story!
AU Fan
January 29th, 2011
2:45 pm
Funny, I’ve never seen any significant amount of trash on the ground on rowdy fan behavior at Auburn games. Hmmm.
Ralph
January 29th, 2011
2:45 pm
Stop recruiting non-student thugs, and maybe more actual students and alumni will attend instead of the classless run of the mill red-neck gangbangers.
@Steve Spurrier
January 29th, 2011
2:46 pm
Your 2-4 against Richt while coaching S. Carolina, you lose 5 games every year.
jdawgs34
January 29th, 2011
2:47 pm
I am getting ready to mail contribution, guess a phone call will do over the Prez office to see…..maybe they will respond…..no tailgating means no higher contribution….period
Bawney Fwank
January 29th, 2011
2:52 pm
What they need is a damn good public wickin’!
Dawg89
January 29th, 2011
2:56 pm
Arrest and prosecute those who break the law. Seems like a pretty simple solution.
forbes 2nd most profitable program
January 29th, 2011
2:56 pm
can’t find a few bucks to remove the trash (drunks included)?
sounds like adams & co. are pretty greedy
woo - #1 party school
January 29th, 2011
3:02 pm
Dear UGA student,
The fact that you decided to attend the #1 party school tells me that you have other priorities and cannot be taken seriously. There’s no way I will ever hire a UGA graduate…
1eyedJack
January 29th, 2011
3:16 pm
Which would be cheaper, more cops or more trash men? Yet another fine tradition that will fall by the wayside because of society’s lack of respect and personal responsibility.
1eyedJack
January 29th, 2011
3:17 pm
You could hang a few perpetrators to make an example.
Did you even go to school there?
January 29th, 2011
3:19 pm
It’s spelled MYERS (not named for the erstwhile Florida coach). For God’s sake, can we get someone who actually went to school there to blog the UGA beat.
mta56
January 29th, 2011
3:21 pm
To all you jerk students who love to get in the crowded parking lot & throw a football 30 to 40 yard & hit peoples cars! This happen to me & I took out knife & cut the football to pieces. I’l do it again!
mta56
January 29th, 2011
3:26 pm
UGAstudent says, “The students aren’t the problem here. The problem is the inbred hillbillies who have no connection to the university that the football program attracts”. What a moron. Its sad FOOLS like you are going to be the future of this country! Bet mommy & daddy gots lots of money & you are a gold digger!
Ralph
January 29th, 2011
3:35 pm
What a sorry image thUGA projects for our state. Thank goodness for Emory and Georgia Tech!
1eyedJack
January 29th, 2011
3:42 pm
Yeah, Georgia Tech, a veritable Camelot…in the hood.
Single or Double Wide
January 29th, 2011
3:42 pm
Since a large percentage of UGA fans are drunken, illiterate trailer park trash, what do you expect.
ROLL TIDE!
5150 UOAD
January 29th, 2011
3:47 pm
Why pick on the BAD and not All?
5150 UOAD
January 29th, 2011
3:48 pm
1eyed
You do know USC West is in the Ghetto too right?
1eyedJack
January 29th, 2011
3:51 pm
5150 UOAD, I don’t have to deal with the holier than thou fans of USC West on a daily basis.
1eyedJack
January 29th, 2011
3:55 pm
Someone from Alabama calling UGA fans illiterate trailer park trash is like someone from Georgia calling ‘Bama and Awbun fans big toothed peanut farmers.
Doesn’t Alabama lead the nation in mobile home and dentures production?
HanktheTank
January 29th, 2011
4:00 pm
Bill, this blog is a joke. Pick a side for once. Stop waiting on Tim Tucker to write an article about anything UGA and then headline a blog of your own with a question about the same issue. Lame.
Rusty
January 29th, 2011
4:02 pm
Thank you Hank. This blog really is worthless.
daslicksta
January 29th, 2011
4:02 pm
1st weekend stay at the Clarke County Jail will probably solve most problems that arise…
1eyedJack
January 29th, 2011
4:19 pm
Go do a little snooping Bill and write something positive.
Bill
January 29th, 2011
4:41 pm
Could the University provide more on the scene security and arrest offenders?
Solution
January 29th, 2011
4:52 pm
Do what other venues are doing. Only allow plastic and aluminum beer bottles/cans on the property. Of course you’ll always have your morons who try to do stupid things. If anyone sees anyone doing anything like sticking broken bottles into the ground, kindly walk over and taze them. If that doesn’t work, pull out a 357 and walk them to the nearest security guard.
Solution
January 29th, 2011
4:54 pm
Bite Me
You sound like a typical Cynthia Tucker cult follower. Always trying to find something racist about a comment. Please take your Jesse Jackson type comments over to BET or PMSNBC, loser.
Solution
January 29th, 2011
4:56 pm
“Since a large percentage of UGA fans are drunken, illiterate trailer park trash, what do you expect.”
Alabama wrote the book on trailer trash.
Solution
January 29th, 2011
4:57 pm
“Doesn’t Alabama lead the nation in mobile home and dentures production?”
They also lead the nation in worst education, inbreeding, animal porn, obesity, ugliness, stupidity etc…
Coastaldawg
January 29th, 2011
5:06 pm
The money has ruined it. TV dictates game times and you can’t plan. Hotels over charge and make you buy two nights an every game. Being from S Ga, it isn’t worth it anymore. Giving up season tickets and watching on TV.
Jeff Dantzler
January 29th, 2011
5:15 pm
AU fan- I had lengthy response and am not sure if it will get posted but AU knows how to handle tailgating. They have bathrooms open and everywhere. They have trashcans and access to dumpsters. They rent out primo tailgating spots and provide flat screens for pregame. They just “get it” and we don’t. It has nothing really to do with who attends the games, it is how they are treated when they attend. And people WILL stop going. I know they administration doesn’t believe that, but its true.
Jeff Dantzler
January 29th, 2011
5:16 pm
And I am also calling BS on someone burying fricking glass bottles then breaking them. I’ll bet my next paycheck that that is a wives tail and you can’t provide one (1) person who has conclusive proof that happened.
oakwood dawg
January 29th, 2011
5:18 pm
won’t matter, after the dawgs start 0-2 their won’t be enough people to tailgate to care. so big deal.
papadawg
January 29th, 2011
5:25 pm
Citation, Court & Hefty Fines
Jeff Dantzler
January 29th, 2011
5:32 pm
Citation for what? Not putting trash in a full trash can? Urinating behind a bush when there aren’t adequate bathrooms? Do you people actually go to the games? You have 120,000 people there (sometimes more) with facilities designed to cater to the 30,000 students that go there. We bring in 30 port-o-lets and lock all the buildings. Does that make sense?
jaxdawgfan
January 29th, 2011
5:47 pm
Arrest violators on the spot then make them, Damon Evans and any players arrested in the last 12 months pick up the trash.
saban
January 29th, 2011
5:47 pm
Is this all about choak dawg and all the snakes he bit the head off of and left the bodies in the library? Look he was just getting the team fired up to play cental florida.
i hear for Boise state he is beheading a deer?
Sergeant Joe Friday, LAPD
January 29th, 2011
5:55 pm
I don’t even go to games anymore because of the sorry-a$$ drunks.
GA born and bred
January 29th, 2011
5:55 pm
I was born and raised in Georgia and absolutely despise the idiots that are the “Bulldog Nation”. They are either spoiled brats, big-fish-in-a-small-pond yahoos from small towns, or preppy future Lawyers or GA legislators. Sorry is as sorry does and GA fans are the sorriest bunch out there.
Sanitize and they won't show p
January 29th, 2011
6:26 pm
How many posts actually get posted?
Fast Eddie
January 29th, 2011
6:33 pm
I’ve been a guest of friends at Ole Miss who tailgated in The Grove and everybody did a great job of self-policing their own trash the times I was there. I have season tickets to UF games and don’t tailgate because they have a pre-game buffet for us before the game but I usually stop by a friend’s tailgating area before the game for a beer. Their place is always policed well including the times I’ve dropped by after the game. The university puts out lots of trash containers and collects the sacks periodically when they have evening game start times. They have the same restrictions on kegs in tailgating areas and the police will arrest you for having an open beer can or bottle if you leave the tailgating area even for a short period of time. I don’t know what the answer is at UGA. I’ve been to a few games there but didn’t tailgate. The only place I’ve seen people getting drunk is at the UF/UGA game in Jax. but many of them tailgate throughout the game and watch it on TV in their tailgate area.
spank da butt
January 29th, 2011
7:03 pm
AU Fan
January 29th, 2011
2:45 pm
Funny, I’ve never seen any significant amount of trash on the ground on rowdy fan behavior at Auburn games. Hmmm.
Well all the trash is in the stadium seats. Hmmm. That is the sound the AU coed makes when she goes below the belt.
bottom line
January 29th, 2011
7:18 pm
Most of the trash is because of all the Rednecks who never went to Georgia.
Unfortunately, this puts a Major Negative on the Dawgs !
Okeefe/Bob
January 29th, 2011
7:22 pm
Read most of the above.Pigs are Pigs. I can’t beleive the ugly reaction of these fans.Are you kidding me? Do you people have no respect?
Lugnut
January 29th, 2011
7:29 pm
Simple – ban the fraternities. They only exist to make the college experience palatable for those that shouldn’t be there anyway. Same for the sororities, but they at least serve the purpose of attracting the attractive female to college. Seriously – serious drunkeness is the purpose of the fraternity expereince on game day. Get rid of them.
JGWOOD
January 29th, 2011
7:30 pm
With an ID you can rent a specific spot for a small amount of money that will pay for those workers monitering tailgating, the clean-up effort afterwards and the restoration of the landscaping. If a particular spot is damaged beyond normal use, then the moniters have the identification and address of the renter where they can send the bill.
Is anyone really surprised?
January 29th, 2011
7:31 pm
Once again, we’re made to believe that Georgia fans are out of control animals, unlike those at LSU, Alabama, Auburn, Florida, etc…where these types of restrictions don’t exist.
This is playing out exactly as Mickey Adams wants it to. Unless everyone behaves like they’re at a Harvard-Yale game, the banning will continue.
Jeff Dantzler
January 29th, 2011
7:36 pm
Is anyone, you’re exactly right. Ultimately what will happen is we’ll have to pay to tailgate and the University won’t change anything. In other words, they won’t have any more bathrooms or trashcans or “investment” they’ll just charge for the same grass. Just tear down 60,000 of the seats and turn the stadium into Duke. And let “born and raised” in Georgia and his 25,000 friends go up there.
saban
January 29th, 2011
7:48 pm
Why Georgia fans are out of control animals. Nothing knew there.
Empty the Walmart and scratch a Georgia fan.
5150 UOAD
January 29th, 2011
7:48 pm
hi
5150 UOAD
January 29th, 2011
7:51 pm
UGA is a DRUNK TANK
5150 UOAD
January 29th, 2011
7:53 pm
#1 party school and #1 in Date R not reported. Daddy I really love him! I don’t know his name but he was so nice at the ???? frat party and he said he LOVES me.
The Ghost of Wally Butts
January 29th, 2011
7:58 pm
EUREKA! Here is the perfect solution…
Allow tailgating only on the grounds of the Clarke County Detention Facility….that way the ThugDawg faithful can see their favorite ThugDawg players up close and personal!
5150 UOAD
January 29th, 2011
8:00 pm
Hi BILL let it go Have some GUTS
Mark Ingram's Tutor
January 29th, 2011
8:09 pm
“Nothing knew there.” Does that mean your inbred a$$ “knew” nothing or did you mean to say “new there.” Or perhaps a combination of both?
S.E. Dawg
January 29th, 2011
8:14 pm
oakwood dawg, I disagree. I feel our first game for 2011 will be our finest moment.
Music City Dawg
January 29th, 2011
8:20 pm
Rope the area off. Charge admittance to the area at $20 per head. With that money, hire a private company to clean it up afters. And do not allow glass in the area.
The Watergirl
January 29th, 2011
9:56 pm
We have a tailgate that can get to upwards of 60 to 75 ppl on a big night game and for some reason we are able to keep our trash picked up and just as clean as we left it!!
Best idea would be to have more security on hand at the hott spots and take every person arrested for alcohol offenses for that weekend and require them to show up on Sunday morning at 7 a.m. to 12, make them pick up trash leftover by the trash that put it there!!!
lemons into lemonade
January 29th, 2011
9:59 pm
Since we will surely have 7 to 8 suspensions each season, ..have those players assigned to trash & cleanup duty for the tailgaters on the gamedays that they r suspended. In full uniform too. Might actually learn something and also see what the fan experience is like as well. Instead of the Dawg Walk on gameday, they get to do the Dawg Walk of Shame. Bet u within a year, suspensions drop almost none!
BehindEnemyLines
January 29th, 2011
10:07 pm
re: “What do you think the solution is?” Attract a higher class of fans who don’t have to act like drunken hillbillies in order to think they’re having a good time.
5150 UOAD
January 29th, 2011
10:52 pm
Daddy always gets drunk at the UGA games and lets me and Sister mom Dance on the Pole for dollars and PBR. That ain’t wrong when it fills my Red Thong. Go Dawgs Lixks Um.
5150 UOAD
January 29th, 2011
10:59 pm
what?
Gen Neyland
January 29th, 2011
11:08 pm
AltDawg : Re your 1415 post…Good one.
RED DOG 77
January 29th, 2011
11:22 pm
Answer ?……….Grid-off all tailgating areas, charge a reasonable fee to “rent” these spaces, alow just about everything except glass beer bottles……….use “rental proceeds” to hire a crew to clean-up afterwards………….put drunk idiots in jail !……….go watch the game, and “Hunker down, you hairy Dogs”……………GATA !!!!
ReddDawg
January 30th, 2011
12:43 am
The situation is horrible ……….. Pull the ones that are guilty and bar-b-que their asses. Don’t punish everyone. People can act civil, I have seen them do it. No more lenience on the guilty. Pull their season tickets. Some of them think the world owes them a living.
Come down hard of the bad ones, and let the majority of fans have a good time.
5150 UOAD
January 30th, 2011
1:34 am
RED DOG the problem is GATA! when the UGA men get drunk tht is all they do GATA,
UGA FRIEND
January 30th, 2011
5:15 am
If people want to drink alcohol and watch football games at the same time, make them do it at home. This means no drunks (at least from the games) on the road.
mgdawg
January 30th, 2011
7:28 am
First and foremost, hire more security in the big tailgating spots. I think this would solve most of the problems. Second, charge for tailgating spots. A lot of places are doing this now, I say go cheap with it like 5 dollars. This would probably help pay for the extra security and if a spot does get overly trashed you will know who did it and further action can be taken. Tailgating needs to be allowed again, it is a big part of the college football tradition that UGA has lost.
Boobie Bowden
January 30th, 2011
8:25 am
“During the daylong tailgating before the Dogs’ only night home game Nov. 27 against Georgia Tech, he said, someone pulled a couch from a nearby residence hall and set it on fire. And other idiots drove beer bottles into the ground, then broke them, exposing jagged glass. Guess they got tired of playing beer pong.”
Just goes to show, you take a damn delusional drunken dawg, dress him up, take him to the city, and he will still be a damn delusional drunken dawg with red panties around his head..
boohoo
January 30th, 2011
8:31 am
Very unfortunate for you true devoted dog fans, however larry is right , respect for your school, there are fewer truly devoted fans than there are the CMR era bandwagon fans. Most of your bandwagon fans never played the game and could care less about the football game. Their there too see who can get the drunkesssed, loudest, and do things their momma wouldnt allow. Most dont even have a ticket. Unfortunately its not just uga, but as a resident of ga I can say that I have never seen such sore losers than the ga bunch. I remember 80s 90s ga took beatings pretty regular and none of this trashing of your own facilities by the bandwagon punks. Take a win when you get it and take a loss like a man and show some class and dignity not only for yourself but your parents, your school system , and your country.
TROJAN
January 30th, 2011
8:37 am
Ralph: You need to get out more.
DAWGS RUN YOUR FACE
January 30th, 2011
8:47 am
Need to make sure instructions are provided.
David Hoffman
January 30th, 2011
8:53 am
Charge a big rental fee for each tailgating location. Make the locations big enough for an Wonderlodge RV with movable expandable extensions. Put an excellent condition full size dumpster in each location. Put 4 Port-A Potties in each location. Cordon off area and have controlled entry points.
Apples II Oranges
January 30th, 2011
8:56 am
And other idiots drove beer bottles into the ground, then broke them, exposing jagged glass. Guess they got tired of playing beer pong.
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What made Bill make a joke after telling us this?
SEC whiners
January 30th, 2011
9:53 am
The bulldog nation is an embarassment to this state and college football in general. Their lack of class on football Saturday makes most SEC tailgates look like a Sunday morning church service. Just pitiful.
DawgFan
January 30th, 2011
10:02 am
It won’t do any good. UGA is slowly turning into Vanderbilt. More emphasis on Academics/research, etc. Less emphasis on Athletics. Look at our expenses on Athletics the last few years… Near the bottom of the SEC. The Administration’s expectations are low regarding athletics. Very depressing
Dirty Dawg
January 30th, 2011
11:08 am
More trash cans…pick-ups every hour…no tailgating on the grass…more policing of the areas and ticket those that break the rules – that means having a set of rules to begin with, including ‘no glass’.
Cousin Eddie
January 30th, 2011
11:19 am
I wont bring my motor home back there anyway to party with all them Georgia Urchins. There are plenty a places around UGA to dump my $hi##er when its full.
LakeHardingDawg
January 30th, 2011
11:41 am
Maybe everyone should be required to have either a ticket to the game or a valid student ID card. The problem is people pouring into Athens with no intent of attending the actual game. These people need to stay home or go to a sports bar.
Maria
January 30th, 2011
11:55 am
What a sorry image thUGA projects for our state. Thank goodness for Emory and Georgia Tech!
Amen to that! There’s a reason why UGA is known everywhere as The Cesspool of the South.
Uga BB
January 30th, 2011
12:57 pm
last place in the SEC East
Comedian Ron White
January 30th, 2011
2:16 pm
What to do?
“Folks, be real…You just can’t fix…STUPID.”
UGA Dad
January 30th, 2011
2:31 pm
To all you UGA haters out there — Read U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, etc., and you will see that UGA is highly ranked academically, especially within schools in the Southeast. In Business Administration alone, the state of Georgia is extremely fortunate that UGA, Tech, and Emory are all highly ranked nationally. Its pretty hard to get admitted to UGA. As a UGA grad and a Dad of a UGA female student (chemistry major), I’m especially proud that about 65% of UGA admissions are women who got admitted because of their brains.
UGA Dad
January 30th, 2011
2:41 pm
In the AJC Jeff Schultz’s column on the issue of football over-signings, he discussed that only the SEC’s three top academic schools of Vandy, Florida, and UGA don’t use this practice. Also, Georgia Tech doesn’t do it either.
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
2:58 pm
Wait ’til they find out I scheduled all their home games at 8:00 AM this year.
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
3:00 pm
They’re going to LOVE our new pay-potties this year.
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
3:02 pm
No tables over 29 3/4 inches or your car will be towed.
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
3:05 pm
Sorry, you can’t park there.
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
3:07 pm
Son, let me see what is in that cup.
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
3:09 pm
No, this is now a family-friendly area.
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
3:15 pm
You can’t bring that here.
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
3:16 pm
Don’t even think of plugging THAT in here.
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
3:18 pm
Turn it down or I will have you removed.
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
3:20 pm
Sorry, no glass, metal, plastic, or paper.
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
3:20 pm
No, you can’t sell that ticket.
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
3:22 pm
Did you read your ticket? It said, “No cameras!”.
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
3:22 pm
No, you can’t keep the cap on your water.
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
3:27 pm
Yes it is true. They are ALL ladies rooms now.
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
3:31 pm
Are YOU the smartest bulldog? Text *1 for yes, *2 for no. Fees will apply.
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
3:34 pm
Please drive responsibly…after all, we gave you a three mile walk to sober up.
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
3:35 pm
You can only turn left here.
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
3:41 pm
Yes, the proselytizers have a right to be here. You don’t. Keep moving.
Grim Reaper
January 30th, 2011
3:42 pm
When the NEXT “dream team” doesn’t live up to expectations, have them clean up the mess. The hype surrounding them will have Dawg fans chasing their tail till reality sets in and they have more arrests than wins, Richt is finally fired and Kirby Smart, Will Muschamp, Derek Dooley, Nick Saban, Jimbo Fisher, (insert name of any other coach you like here) all turn them down and they hire the head coach of the Blackshear Tigers to coach em up!
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
3:42 pm
You can’t use the restroom unless you buy something. Move on.
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
3:44 pm
Ma’am, let me see what is in that bag.
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
3:53 pm
Yes. We do have $65 million in reserve and we are at the bottom of the SEC in football, basketball, and baseball spending.
Don’t forget. This year’s contribution deadline is February 15.
M. F. Adams
January 30th, 2011
4:17 pm
We run the most profitable athletic department in America.
Be a part of it.
Your contribution deadline is February 15.
BOBO the Clown
January 30th, 2011
4:44 pm
Put them in jail. Or worse make them go to Auburn.
VIningsDAWG
January 30th, 2011
5:53 pm
My better is an Aubir and her family is bi time Auburn. Auburn has a company called the tailgate guys and sells the premium places by the stadium. Also they sell the spots by Tiger Walk for a pretty good profit. Other wise they have cut off cars pulling up to tailgating spots near the cmaput area. Most folks drop off the gear a nd leave but the area are patrolled pretty heavily by security.
FLA DAWG
January 30th, 2011
8:16 pm
With Richt at the helm and another season like the one we just experienced there won’t be any tailgaters.
Lance
January 30th, 2011
9:14 pm
I stopped going to the games years ago because tailgating is a nightmare. Occasionally I will take one of my kids but we park in a parking deck and go to the game and come home. Kill tailgating and for the most part your alumni loyalty will begin to drop off steadily. If we can’t get together and enjoy each others company with a cold beverage…well we just lose touch and UGA can’t demand money for a donation and then pay for the tickets and tell you to drop dead if you don’t like their tailgating policies. They haven’t received a donation from me in 5 years. They wont be getting one any time soon either.
Lance
January 30th, 2011
9:17 pm
MF Adams all that is perfect! all that and send us your check pronto.
john
January 30th, 2011
10:29 pm
Keep it up and I’ll watch all the home games from my couch and keep my 3,000 dollars I donate each year. No other school seems to have this problem, fix it & keep it fun and quit building concrete with what grass is left. 10 yrs ago it was fun to tailgate at UGA, now its more fun on the road. In fact I enjoy road games twice as much as home games.
Those are facts from a long time supporter of 15+ years.
RED DOG 77
January 31st, 2011
12:04 am
Redd Dawg…….1/30…12:43AM………Good post my friend, but please, try to be a little more original with your name……..I’ve been posting under RED DOG 77 for years, thanks in advance for your consideration…….Regards, RED
RED DOG 77
January 31st, 2011
12:10 am
5150 UOAD…..1/30…….1:34am……..My refering to GATA relates to playing college football, I suspect you clicked on the wrong blog, the “boys” you are trying to “chat” with are on another blog altogether………bye, bye
Charmin Harmon
January 31st, 2011
7:25 am
Hire the same cops that watch the football players to watch the tailgaters!
TROJAN
January 31st, 2011
8:33 am
Great and timely article. Such insight!
Murphy
January 31st, 2011
9:54 am
On top of the poor performance of our football team in past 3 years and the tailgate restrictions it almost impossible to want to make the drive to a UGA game.Its sad that we cant have the traditions of years past.
Rick
January 31st, 2011
10:40 am
We did not renew our season tickets this season. Not becuase of our poor season but becuase tailgating access stinks. It just so much easier to watch the game at home then trying to find a place to tailgate. Plus the extra thousand bucks that we are saving is great.
PTC DAWG
January 31st, 2011
11:09 am
Whatever happened to people actually being responsible for themselves, their trash, etc. You hauled it in, you haul it out.
Matt
January 31st, 2011
11:38 am
As a 32 yr. old alumni I still like to have fun but it had gotten out of hand out there. I went back with some friends this past fall under the new rules and it was fine. We still had fun, threw a football, had some drinks. Much better.
“inbred hillbillies” stay at home, they don’t go to the games. The alumni from the ages 27-80 aren’t the problem.
GatorBoy
January 31st, 2011
11:47 am
” . . . someone pulled a couch from a nearby residence hall and set it on fire.
And other idiots drove beer bottles into the ground, then broke them.”
Stay classy UGA!
Averyboy
January 31st, 2011
12:32 pm
Only THUGA would have to ban tailgating because it’s fanbase is so full of white trash!!!!
Jay Sulkowsky
January 31st, 2011
3:08 pm
If ticket prices keep going up only the drunks will show up for the games. Anyone sober enough to figure it out won’t spend this much money on the game. Only good thing about the lousy season was the cheap after market tickets
Wonder Dawg
January 31st, 2011
3:54 pm
We could be like Tech and not have any socializing or fan base…that’ll cure the problem.
Coach Brad Scott
January 31st, 2011
4:44 pm
I would apply, but I understand the candidate is not allowed to raise his voice or use colorful words to motivate these linemen.
DawgPolice
January 31st, 2011
5:24 pm
Solution is simple:
1. Cameras.
2. Police presence.
3. Criminal prosecution for acts of endangerment.
We love tailgating experience as part of the game day experience.
Casey
January 31st, 2011
6:05 pm
Kick the tailgaters out! I go to the games to watch FOOTBALL. Not to drink alcohol. I can’t watch football drunk. I have no idea what’s going on. Speaking as someone who doesn’t treat it as simply a social event, I say kick them all out and don’t let the door hit you on the way out!
Delbert D.
January 31st, 2011
6:25 pm
“What should UGA do…”
Require them to buy tickets to the game.
ECDawg
January 31st, 2011
8:00 pm
You’ve nailed it Bill with your last three paragraphs…..let the police patrol around where the vast majority of the idiots congregate…….
Bud
January 31st, 2011
8:49 pm
I’m sure the Clarke County Jail inmates could come over Sunday morning and clean up the mess! No wait, that would mean some of the football players would be doing the cleaning up!
Big D Dawg
January 31st, 2011
11:35 pm
why should we pay for tailgating? we already pay($120 per season) to park in a deck that was paid for with tax payer money, we pay thousands of dollars for the privilege to buy season tickets and now some of you and probably Mike Adams (POUGA not POTUS) wants the good guys to pay to tailgate. You are out of your ever loving minds.
Judson
February 1st, 2011
7:49 am
Arrest the ext ream drunks I see em all the time on game day. So how can Athens police not see em? You can’t get rid of tailgating it brings the atmosphere into the game!
J R
February 1st, 2011
8:57 am
J R
February 1st, 2011
8:43 am
To bad that all we hear about are these young fellows being treated as the “special ones” anointed with ” golden gifts” that will allow you fellows write about their value to football america as if the world’s fate is in their hands – and the business of college football is more important than anything else in this world. Think about those same aged young fellows laying in hospital missing arms, legs, eyes or other injuries because they chose to fight for our interest in wars that may seem so irrelevant one day. Whose gifts are more important really – these “majestic” recruits or the gifts of service that our solders give in such a magnificently quiet way. Your drooling over these fellows is so obsessive and so misplaced. No wonder this world and this country has become so pagen. God please forgive us………..
guy
February 1st, 2011
10:18 am
Put security with guard dogs around and stay on the tailgaters who don’t know how to act.Lock them up and don’t let up.
dp
February 1st, 2011
12:34 pm
I go to games at VT and you don’t see as many falling down drunks and the school puts garbage bags everywhere for folks to pick up and fill up. When the tailgating is near an end they fill up the bags and go to the game -it is really amazing. No graffiti and no garbage. The number of serious drunks is embarrasing especially downtown after the game.
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Burroughston Broch
February 5th, 2011
12:05 am
Arrest and fine those who abuse the privilege, and revoke their right to buy season tickets for 5 years. This problem will go away.