Attention: The anti-Michael Adams crowd will love this one
Here’s a submission from an unexpected source: The famous Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe loosed a screed against Georgia president Michael Adams on Sunday. Bobby’s point — I’ve known him since 1978, when I was a cub reporter at the Lexington Leader and he’d gotten snowed in on an assignment to write about the Kentucky Wildcats — was that Adams is unfit to be president of the NCAA.
A couple of things here: First, Adams insists he’s not interested in the NCAA, and second, almost nobody believes him. That said, here are the highlights from Bobby’s blast:
Former NCAA president Myles Brand lost a battle with pancreatic cancer last September. A search committee is at work to choose his successor, and while I do not know for sure who should be that person, I have little hesitation in saying that I know who most definitely should not be that individual. That would be Michael Adams, president of the University of Georgia since 1997 and, from all indications, a leading contender for the job.
To say that the Adams reign at Georgia has been controversial is to indulge in vast understatement. Now, the idea of a college president, especially one at a large state university, butting heads with faculty, clashing with the athletics department, or having policy decisions challenged by everyone from politicians to alumni is not uncommon. Some of that almost inherently comes with the territory.
Complicating matters at Georgia is an arrangement where there is a Board of Regents responsible for the running of the entire network of state colleges, as well as an entity known as the UGA Foundation, which oversees investment gifts and pledges, manages investments, and distributes endowment gifts and scholarships, among many functions. Is there inherent office politics? Are there friendships and loyalties? You betcha. Are all the dynamics at the University of Georgia remotely understandable to outsiders such as you and me? Absolutely not.
But here’s something that is easy to comprehend. After being subjected to six years of what its members believed to be serious lapses of judgment and competence, the UGA Foundation engaged prestigious Atlanta law firm King & Spalding to select an independent firm to conduct what is known in the trade as a forensic audit, not of the entire Adams operation, but of seven specific items it believed called into question Adams’s conduct.
Is there more? Oh, yes. Lots.
Start with the idea that he is not really an academic. His doctorate from Ohio State is in political communication. Michael Adams is a spinmeister. He is a clever and ruthless politician. He was once chief of staff to then-Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker. He knows how to amass allies — a power-seeking liquor magnate named Donald Leebern being the most prominent — and he knows how to wield power. He is not a leader. He is a schemer and an intimidator.
And still more:
He pushed out athletic director Vince Dooley, a much-beloved figure in Georgia, a year ahead of schedule and then sold a surprisingly compliant Atlanta Journal-Constitution the entirely misleading premise that it was a matter of Academics vs. Athletics, which was simply not the case. The idea that the newspaper of Ralph McGill would buy into such a phony act is truly sad.
What’s really scary is that the same search firm that delivered him to the University of Georgia is handling the NCAA matter as well. As one Georgia source said, “Don’t ever underestimate Michael Adams.’’
But if the NCAA people want to investigate Adams for themselves, all they need do is pick up a book written by the late Rich Whitt titled, “Behind the Hedges: Big Money and Power Politics at the University of Georgia.’’ (NewSouth Books, Montgomery, Ala.) It’s all there, in exquisite detail.
And here we note — as has been noted before in this space – that the firm in question is Parker Executive Search of Atlanta. And here I must also point out that this newspaper was not “sold” on Adams’ rationale for ousting Dooley. I still bear the memories of a not-entirely-comfortable off-the-record lunch at the Commerce Club convened by Adams in the summer of 2003. (Adams did most of the talking. Shockingly enough, he wasn’t happy with some of the things I’d written.) But let’s get back to Bobby, who’s about to wind it up:
Both [former King & Spalding partner Robert] Miller and [law professor James] Ponsoldt are mystified that the NCAA would even consider Adams as a candidate for its most important job.
“The charges against him all come back to integrity,’’ said Miller.
C’mon, NCAA. Wake up. You can do better than Michael Adams.
Me, I’m guessing Bobby Ryan is about to get an invitation for lunch at the Commerce Club. If I recall, I had the chicken.
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Fed Up With Wren (Again)
March 29th, 2010
1:50 pm
First.
Mark Bradley
March 29th, 2010
1:54 pm
Kudos, Fed Up With Wren (Again).
Vince Dooley
March 29th, 2010
1:55 pm
Fire the SOB!!!!
DTC
March 29th, 2010
1:59 pm
Man, 15 minutes later and I am the second post? Tells you how excited we are to read about the nitwit Adams.
DTC
March 29th, 2010
1:59 pm
well 4th.
lanier
March 29th, 2010
2:00 pm
hope the NCAA gets him because thats the only way we will get rid of him. Besides he looks like a dork with that comb over
Sonny Clusters
March 29th, 2010
2:00 pm
Ralph McGill? Ralph would not approve of how narrow the paper has become. Narow paper, narrow columns, cut and paste. Good thing they still have Bradley.
Mark Bradley
March 29th, 2010
2:03 pm
Thanks, Sonny.
Jaaarvis Hayeeeessss
March 29th, 2010
2:03 pm
somebody needs to throw some doo doo at michael adams
gdawginkalamazoo
March 29th, 2010
2:07 pm
Don’t forget the whole Jim Harrick episode that Adams put UGA through. That was his puppy and it crapped on the entire unitversity. I would have to put that right up there as the main reason the NCAA should not be looking at Mikey.
gdawginkalamazoo
March 29th, 2010
2:08 pm
Thanks for the article Mark. I loved it.
You can pick my name
March 29th, 2010
2:13 pm
I wuess I should go read the Boston Globe for an original column.
You can pick my name
March 29th, 2010
2:14 pm
dammit. I guess
CoastDog
March 29th, 2010
2:16 pm
Run the sleazy scoundrel off before he sells the arches to McDonald’s.
BravesFan79
March 29th, 2010
2:17 pm
Id be in favor for Adams for NCAA pres if he helped force football to go to a playoff system. Till then, college football will always be secondary to the major sports in importance and relevance.
ugaaccountant
March 29th, 2010
2:18 pm
I love NCAA sports. I’d hate to see a corrupt politician heading it up. But I love the University of Georgia much more. As an alumni, I have to hope whole heatedly for Adams to get this new job, so he’ll leave UGA.
Bean Counter
March 29th, 2010
2:19 pm
The only mistake we (UGA) made was hiring Adams in the first place. The only thing he has done for the University is to make it look bad. Fired Dooley, hired Herock, removed tailgating from the sidewalks and road side spaces and now closed North Campus. If he had his way 100% he would close all of the streets at the university and ban cars from the campus. Our University is full of tradition and beauty and he is slowly scheming to get rid of the traditions. I expect to pick up the paper one day and find that the arches have been eliminated and the fence has been extended to reduce access to North Campus. As a member of the Presidents Club I can’t wait until Adams is gone!
chuck
March 29th, 2010
2:20 pm
didn’t Luckovich do a wonderful cartoon with UGA and Michael Adams? Boy I wish someone could post that thing as it fits this article to a ‘T’!
Crossdawg
March 29th, 2010
2:24 pm
Let the NCAA have him. Would be great for UGA.
Adams Must Go
March 29th, 2010
2:24 pm
Adams really wanted that job and lobbied hard for it, but they didn’t want him, since he’s very abrasive and underqualified. He would run the NCAA lower than it already is. Hopefully, he leaves Georgia soon for another job–anywhere—he’s a jerk.
crackbaby
March 29th, 2010
2:25 pm
Enter your comments here
George Foreman 3:16
March 29th, 2010
2:25 pm
It is as it was…
Otto
March 29th, 2010
2:25 pm
While I want Adams out of UGA, Pres of the NCAA would be bad for all of college sports. Can’t he just go to the Ivy League or something?
ugaaccountant
March 29th, 2010
2:26 pm
There are no arches at UGA. There is an Arch, singular. If you’re looking for arches, there is a McDonalds within a few miles of you no matter where you are currently standing.
Smitty
March 29th, 2010
2:26 pm
Adams is a Spinmeister, unethical, self-promoting, political,manipulator. Not that Vince wasn’t clever himself(might have been worth the paycut and loss of influence he would suffer as a Senator) but I don’t trust Adams as far as I can punt him
Dawgwild
March 29th, 2010
2:27 pm
Adams is a tool! I wish Mark that you would tell us exactly what was said at that meeting of the minds. I hope the NCAA gets him so dawg fans don’t have to put up with his BS any more. Adams=TOOL, like TECH=Red headed step child!
crackbaby
March 29th, 2010
2:27 pm
Jim Harrick, Jim Harrick, Jim Harrick. Nuff said.
What for those who don’t remember:
Here is the Basketball 101 exam for the course “taught” by the coaches son.
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/quiz/_/id/600
Hill Dawg
March 29th, 2010
2:28 pm
I know. Let’s throw a $5,000 graduation party for Adam’s son’s law school class and let the University pay for it. Ah, never mind….. Wait, wait. Let’s give Adam’s wife a job at good Ole UGA. Oh? He did that,too? Can we pay for another house for him? I mean a third one.
dawgstyle
March 29th, 2010
2:28 pm
I learned all I needed to know about Michael Adams’ character ( or lack thereof ) with the way he handled the UGA basketball players when they went to speak with him to get an explanation as to why they were not going to get to play in the tournament. He refused to speak with them and called the police to have them removed.
With that said, we all need to engage in that time-honored practice of making him appear to be the greatest thing that has ever happened to college athletics in an effort to get the NCAA to take him…it’s called pass the trash.
Pulpwood Smith
March 29th, 2010
2:28 pm
Take him away, NCAA, please. This guy is a tool box, and has been since day one. An arrogant, cut-throat politico. I have yet to meet one Alum who likes the man. He still can’t make an announced appearance at a home football game without being booed out of the stadium. “Doctor” Adams is not my fav.
Bryan G.
March 29th, 2010
2:31 pm
I wish Ryan would have shut up and let the NCAA take him.
atldenver
March 29th, 2010
2:31 pm
Does Adams put bleach his hair with peroxide? Man, he is a creepy looking dude.
Vince Dooley
March 29th, 2010
2:32 pm
Thanks Bob Ryan for telling the truth. I have been trying to open the eyes of these people for years about this person.
F-105 Thunderchief
March 29th, 2010
2:35 pm
Is there a pro-Michael Adams crowd? Probably not, you’d need at least three people.
Marlon Barefield
March 29th, 2010
2:36 pm
I’d be the last one to defend “King Mike”…….. but how is it that all the top flight investigative journalists at the AJC can always find negative “stuff” to write about about someone or something at UGA? Meanwhile back at the ranch, on North Avenue, a football player gets suspended for ten games. Exactly, what do you have to do to get suspended for ten games? It would have to be a pretty serious offense wouldn’t it? Inquiring minds need to know, and nobody at the AJC seems interested.
UGA alumni
March 29th, 2010
2:39 pm
Mark Bradley,
You have not done any favors to the Dawgnation with this article. We were hoping that the NCAA would hire Adams away from us just as much as that TechVillage was hoping Hewitt would take the St. John’s job. But your article will help expose the truth about the power hungry, conniving, sneaky, control freak, Dr. Michael Adams, and the NCAA will no longer be interested in hiring him. The result will be Dr. Adams (a.k.a. Blofield from the James Bond movies) will stay at UGA and torment us for many more years.
Thanks for nothing!
Fred Davidson
March 29th, 2010
2:42 pm
Adams has been all about Adamms since he arrived. Two things: He is in charge as UGA President and was in charge during the latter days of AD V D. Dooley had over stayed HIS welcome and now, so has Dr Adams. UGA is better off with BOTH of these men gone.
Dooley truly made his mark as coach and AD. He also was a fine ambassador at large for UGA. A Gentleman he is. They do not make them anymore like VD. Vince was/is also a self promoter but aren’t we all??
Adams? His time has come and gone. UGA can do better. UGA deserves better.
Russ, the Temporary Mascot
March 29th, 2010
2:43 pm
A$$ painting. What did Michael Adams know and when did he know it? A mascot like me needs some friends when the big shots decide to paint a little dog’s a$$ white. There is only one arch on campus and I was tied to it when we were doing mascot tryouts. That was pre-a$$ painting.
Ga.girl
March 29th, 2010
2:44 pm
I haven’t liked Michael Adams since he told me that he would like to make the University a graduate school and let the smaller schools such as Ga. Southern be the undergraduate schools that feed their graudates into UGA. So UGA would have no undergraduates! Can you imagine??
Real Truth
March 29th, 2010
2:45 pm
Dr. Michael Adams is the real person responsible for the Jim Harrick/NCAA probation fiasco. Dr. Adams waived UGA nepotism rules to allow Harrick to hire his son, who then taught the infamous “principles of coaching basketball class.” Dr. Adams then overruled the admissions committee that had denied the admission of Tony Cole on academic and character grounds when asked by his good friend, the now disgraced coach Jim Harrick. Also, Dr. Adams was instrumental in the hiring of his longtime friend and Pepperdine chum, Jim Harrick.
Without Adams, Harrick may have never been hired at UGA to begin with. Without Adams, Tony Cole would not have been admitted into school. And without Adams Jim Harrick could not have hired his son.
duluthdawg
March 29th, 2010
2:46 pm
everyone is questioning adams character. wasn’t Harrick and his son enough evidence of misconduct to oust this dude? what an embarassment to the university. lets hope the ncaa gets him.
Bill
March 29th, 2010
2:48 pm
Gee…all this ’cause the guy wants the goobers to quit trashing the campus?
Wondering
March 29th, 2010
2:50 pm
Didn’t Michael Adams learn his trade under former US Senator Joe McCarthy?
JPDawg
March 29th, 2010
2:50 pm
I’m a UGA Grad – 1984…Add me to the LONG list of people who cannot stand this guy. I have a friend who lives on the same street as Adams, and he says that virtually every day there’s someone driving by Adam’s house, either cursing, or flipping him the finger. The guy is a tool….period. Has never been, is not now, and will never be a Dawg. Please Mikey…..take a job somewhere….ANYWHERE else.
A Question
March 29th, 2010
2:51 pm
Why did Dr. Michael Adams take away the trash receptacles that were once dispensed on campus for tailgaters to use to clean up after tailgating?
Jack
March 29th, 2010
2:53 pm
I don’t know much about that readin’ and writin’ business cause I am a Georgia Dawg fan, not a fan of no college.
That said, take Adams. When he decided I could not pee in the bushes on the North Campus nomore and that I could not set up my mancave on that campus on game day, he got to go!
Jimmy Dizzle
March 29th, 2010
2:53 pm
The most ergregious Adams offense isn’t even mentioned! When he fired Dooley, alumni donations instantly dried up, so Adams cashed out an annuity being paid by a pharma company (the dry eyes formula) that cost the University tens of millions (I recall it being $60 MM) and cost the researcher who invented it something like $12 million. Adams did it under the table, without the UGA researcher’s consent, and made the UGA community think that since they raised so much money that year–that no one cared that Dolley was fired! Adams is a bad guy.
Garry Owen
March 29th, 2010
2:53 pm
Another question for young Harricks outrages basketball exam. What color was George Washington’s white horse? Let Adams go to the NCAA. Maybe he can find another job for Harrick and son.
Matt the Brave
March 29th, 2010
2:56 pm
I know that we are talking sports here, but look at the academic side. Has UGA really become an elite university that a lot of students talk about wanting to go to after high school? Not really. The academic standard has gone up because UGA can be choosy due to the amount of applicants, but it does not mean that the academic standard has truly been raised. And it certainly has not raised to the level of a national university other than football. Adams’ job is not only to work with the department heads and athletic director, it is to improve the standard of the university.
For a good example, look at Betty Siegel or Dan Papp at Kennesaw State. Look at Wayne Clouth at Georgia Tech. Both of these schools have improved greatly academically and in sports. Wish the same could be said at UGA.
It begs to be asked...
March 29th, 2010
2:57 pm
Can you imagine how much evil Dr. Adams could do as head of the NCAA? He’d probably extort very major university athletic program of huge amounts of cash, honorariums, etc. or put them all on probation for trumped up violations. And I bet he’d sell each national championship to the highest bidder.
Jeckyll Island
March 29th, 2010
3:01 pm
This is for all you Techies posing on here….
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8 out of 9!!!
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73-66!!!
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GA Tech Jackettes good enough to be football chumps of the weak ACC but NOT good enough to be football champs of the state of Georgia!!!!
Faculty
March 29th, 2010
3:09 pm
If you think Dr. Adams is unpopular with the football fans at UGA believe me that Adams is even more unpopular with the faculty at UGA. He is a very manipulative and controlling in order to enhance his goal of promoting himself and his power.
joe
March 29th, 2010
3:13 pm
Yes Adams has to go…now, we can blame him for Georgia losing to Tennessee in the federal funding initiative, in addition to 3 out of 4 blowouts on the gridiron and 9 out of 10 hoops games. Wait, didn’t TN beat out GA for the water in the Tennessee river too?? Somethings gotta give…
ugaaccountant
March 29th, 2010
3:15 pm
Matt the Brave – Not sure what you’re talking about, the academic quality at UGA has gone up dramatically during the time he’s been in charge. However, this largely due to the fact that the applicant pool is enormous, hope pays tuition for the majority of applicants, and the student enrollment is capped at the same size as a decade ago.
So I don’t think we can credit or discredit Adams on the quality of students.
His faculty relations however are legendary. In a bad way of course.
Tech Lifer
March 29th, 2010
3:16 pm
As much as I wish UGA athletics to have losing seasons forever, Coach Dooley is an icon and should have never been treated like a chump.
Adams is an A-Hole!
game day girl
March 29th, 2010
3:17 pm
Either way it’s a no win. If he stays at UGA….well things keep going the way they are. If he goes to the NCAA he’ll try and take all the fun out of any college campus traditions! Smuck! No make that Creepy Smuck!
PMC
March 29th, 2010
3:19 pm
Isn’t the above article pretty good evidence as to why Michael Adams would be the perfect man to head the NCAA?
Paul Johnson
March 29th, 2010
3:20 pm
A person would have to committ a felony at UGAY to get a 10 game suspension and then Father Mark would probably just say that he came from a rough childhood and didnt know any better. Thats what Bobby would have done…
bowman
March 29th, 2010
3:20 pm
Thanks for exposing these opinions to your readers. It’s simply amazing that Adams has kept his job at UGA. Let’s hope his self-serving ineptitude is confined to Athens. Considering the integrity of the late Myles Brand, former NCAA president, Michael Adams is no Myles Brand.
bowman
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“Art will always be Art.” – Goethe
Frank Lane
March 29th, 2010
3:20 pm
I consider Michael Adams the most embarrassing thing to ever happen in Athens. He has made me reluctant to say that I am a graduate even though that was in 1966.
Michael Adams
March 29th, 2010
3:20 pm
Need I remind you Bradley of the rules that were dictated to the media representatives in our last meeting at the Commune Club? I told you 6 years ago that this type of criticism would not be tolerated. If I were my own kid, you and I would be going at it right now. You are a “bad guy.” Why don’t you try explaining this to my parents. Looks like Liver & Onions for you next time. That is if I do not issue a Royal decree mandating that your employment be terminated.
To the loyal UGA fans and Alum….I offer this. I am the President of the University. I run the show. Who are you and what role do you play? What revenue stream do you bring to MY University? (This is not directed to anyone that donates in access of $50K a year) I am the King. You are the subject. Yes, subject to my rule. You are fortunate that I allow the middle and lower class to sit side by side with the genteel aristocracy on Autumn Saturdays. Actually, that will be changing soon as well. Effective in 2011, only season ticket buyers with a verified income of $500,000 a year will be allowed to sit in 100 and 200 level sections. That is with a minimum contribution of at least $50,000 a year. Only late model luxury vehicles with a blue book value of $50,000 or more will be issued University parking spots. All others will be required to park at new dirt lots behind the Wal-Mart on Epps Bridge Road. Older, non air-conditioned school buses will be provided to ferry the lower class fans to and from the stadium. However, the lots will be gated. That is…with 12ft tall chain link fencing and razor wire on top. See….we only want you in the stadium to provide noise. This location will provide you a shantytown like experience that is befitting of your station in life. For this reason, you will not be allowed to enter the stadium until one hour before kickoff. This will insure that you, the undesirables, are incapable of ever trashing MY beautiful campus again. As an added incentive, the University will supply military style latrines and a First-aid tent at the gated dirt lots for your use. Plus, access to your favorite shopping venue will be steps away.This really is the best compromise for all involved. It includes elements of both class seperation and equal access. I hope you all can see the wisdom of my vision. If not….oh well, eat it. I hold a straight flush in my hands and you are sitting on a two of a kind. Feedback and opinions are welcome.
gdawginkalamazoo
March 29th, 2010
3:22 pm
Dawgwild, Mark simply cannot reveal what was said at the lunch meeting. The 3rd life of his pet cat named “Blue” was probably threatened. Plus he doesn’t want to admit that he had to kiss Adam’s Pepperdine Chancelor ring at the conclusion of the meeting.
Fed Up With Fed Up With Wren (Again)
March 29th, 2010
3:25 pm
He’s kinda bug-eyed too.
OpenMinded
March 29th, 2010
3:26 pm
Just why does UGA keep the SOB ?
OpenMinded
March 29th, 2010
3:28 pm
Answer: Same reason they tolerate thugs onthe FB Team
FWIW
March 29th, 2010
3:31 pm
If you lie down with dawgs, you get fleas.
Shane
March 29th, 2010
3:32 pm
Answer: Same reason they tolerate thugs onthe FB Team
Huh?
Jack Hannah
March 29th, 2010
3:32 pm
Why is Mike Adams face the same color as the backside of a redass baboon?
FWIW
March 29th, 2010
3:33 pm
Not surprised the “cesspool” of the South extends ALLLLLLLLLL teh way into Adams’ office.
Afterall, it extended ALLLLLLLLL the way into Fred Davison’s office too.
Nothing new here. Move along.
Dawgs73
March 29th, 2010
3:34 pm
Uh….Ok.
Name (required)
March 29th, 2010
3:36 pm
It’s not like UGA is all that great of a school to begin with. Be happy you found someone that would actually take the job.
Michael Adams
March 29th, 2010
3:36 pm
Where is my support? Henceforth, negative comments will result in penalties. Guess what? No more Coca-Cola for the lower classes. You can now drink Rite-Aid brand cola…at the same price as the good stuff. I can make this as bad as you can imagine people.
Just more dribble
March 29th, 2010
3:37 pm
Hey, ugaaccountant. You should check your own spelling before you critique somebody’s writing. Since we’re already there, alumni is plural, the word your looking for is alumnus. And you meant heartedly not heatedly. Which begs the question, are you sure you graduated?
Dr. Warren
March 29th, 2010
3:39 pm
Forget the NCAA. Sounds like Adams’ style would be a perfect match for the country where I live–
THE PRC.
uga_b
March 29th, 2010
3:41 pm
Matt, kudos to KSU and all, but the overall academic quality of UGA has gone up. It is like you said: they do get better inputs now due to Hope. But why do you think KSU was able to grow? GT’s status has stayed the same and they really aren’t anymore accomplished in atheletics than before. On that front, UGA is still a top 10 athletic school. I guess it’s harder to improve from that.
Adams is a A#*hat. The day he leaves will be a cause for celebration, but I don’t wish that abomination on anyone else.
Maccadave
March 29th, 2010
3:41 pm
Adams is why I’m an LSU fan now. Sorry Mark……
collegeballfan
March 29th, 2010
3:41 pm
I do not have a problem with a “non academic” being president of a University. The president of a university manages people. Adams appears to be very good at that.
Integrity? Now that is a different matter.
zulucanibal
March 29th, 2010
3:46 pm
all I know is tailgaiting anywhere near campus has sucked ever since he became president….
IlliniDawg
March 29th, 2010
3:56 pm
As an alum, I have told the poor kids who call every year from the UGA Foundation that I have suspended my annual donations until that arrogant a** is fired. As a B-school professor at another institution, all I’ve heard from my colleagues at UGA is that Adams is a condescending and conniving p**** who has zero credibility and respect. I cannot fathom how and why the Board of Trustees has not run him out of town long ago. But he must have them under his spell as well.
ugaaccountant
March 29th, 2010
3:58 pm
Just more dribble:
Dribble? You sure you’re willing to trash talk spelling when you’ve misspelled your name?
The point regarding the Arch at UGA is it’s not multiple arches, and thus has nothing to do with McDonalds as Coastdog was implying. The joke doesn’t work, because it’s not the same thing.
mcdaviddawg
March 29th, 2010
4:00 pm
Maybe when we get a new govenor something can be done about Adams. The gov has protected Adams at every opportunity. It’s a high price to pay for super tailgating by our chief politician.
DAWGRUN
March 29th, 2010
4:05 pm
send him away in chains for all the above mentioned grievances, and more! He’s also the reason why UGA hasn’t closed in the other end of the stadium so it seat over 100k. He’s opposed to expanding it. Send him on to the NCAA. Heck, at least he’s for a playoff system. Right?
Todd Blackledge
March 29th, 2010
4:06 pm
No more of my alumni money to UGA while Adams is there.
NRBQ
March 29th, 2010
4:10 pm
Dribble:
When correcting others’ spelling, one is advised to spell correctly while doing so.
“You’re looking,”
not “your”.
Badams
March 29th, 2010
4:11 pm
Adams’ hair looks like a blonde version of the killer’s hair in No Country For Old Men
UGAGrad99
March 29th, 2010
4:12 pm
Hell, let them take him off our hands. I’ve wanted that clown gone since I met his smug arse back when I was working for the University while still in school there. He is a moron and the sooner he leaves, the better off UGA will be.
messin with sasquatch
March 29th, 2010
4:13 pm
Paul Hewitt would be good for this important sounding job!!
Diamond Dog's Parole Officer
March 29th, 2010
4:20 pm
I believe ugaaccountant was probably an English major….
ugghh.
March 29th, 2010
4:22 pm
Matt the Brave…Could it be that the quality of student enrolling at other State Universities has increased BECAUSE of the fact that UGA can be more choosy? Many of the students denied admission to UGA would have left the state for college previously but stay now because they can get free admission thanks to the hope scholarship.
Jeff
March 29th, 2010
4:27 pm
I will take a dead Fred Davidson over Michael Adams.
ugghh.
March 29th, 2010
4:33 pm
…and for the record, I really think that Betty Seigel and Michael Adams would make a lovely couple. Those are two faces only a parent could love.
Dawgdad
March 29th, 2010
4:37 pm
Get the loooooser out of here! Maybe we can offer to pay his moving expenses if someone will take him off our hands. As an alum, I am ashamed of the fact that he leads my beloved university. If he had an pride or self worth he would resign today. I encourage everyone to do as I do, refuse to donate to the University until he is gone and give that reason when the calls come in.
Lindsey
March 29th, 2010
4:38 pm
Michael Adams is a CROOK!!!! I wish he would have nothing to do with the University of GA ever again!! GO DAWGS!!
ugghh.
March 29th, 2010
4:38 pm
I would take former game show host John Davidson over Adams.
Titus Andronicus
March 29th, 2010
4:42 pm
Just ask some of the UGA journalism department what they think of Adams.
I hope Mr. Adams now understands that when trying to fire someone that obviously not having a legitimate reason can backfire on you.
Socal Dawg
March 29th, 2010
4:49 pm
About time you post something else besides the several weeks old wild cats story.
Michael Adams
March 29th, 2010
5:14 pm
All beef franks have just been down-graded to multiple unknown parts franks and the aluminum seats are history. You can now sit on concrete.
Al
March 29th, 2010
6:04 pm
The University of Georgia has become one of the premier public universities in the country under Michael Adams. Fundraising has been strong. The campus has gone through numerous building projects and is absolutely beautiful and exceptionally functional. The academics are outstanding, as numerous programs are nationally ranked. The athletics are prospering, as nearly every sport is extremely competitive except men’s basketball, and even that now is looking positive with Fox in as coach. Let’s face it. Individual decisions (i.e. Dooley contract non-renewal or any financial decision) are going to cause problems along the way, but a good executive takes the heat and makes the important ones anyway. Look at the overall return that Adams has provided, and one cannot deny that the University has prospered under Adams. Adams has done a great job as head of the University and has reaped the benefits of being able to put together outstanding administrators, faculty, and students. The University is a great place to be!!!!!
WestOfAthens
March 29th, 2010
6:21 pm
A writer embracing the others opinion. Ryan referenced the book, what a souse. And this guy gets paid to be repetitive?
Do these situations occur at the ajc? Hmmmm….
Michael Adams
March 29th, 2010
6:55 pm
Thank You Al. All of the wonderful praise that you published about me is true. I have single handedly executed all of the aforementioned accomplishments by myself. I, and only I,could have insured strong fund-raising. None of the modern and beautiful buildings would ever ever been built without my vision. Academics and athletics are indeed prospering under my guidance. Because of your lavish praise, all of the never attended a class at UGA fans shall have all beef franks as an option at the lower class concession stands.
Tim
March 29th, 2010
7:05 pm
Mark,
You have been Anti-Adams and didn’t fall for that athletics-over-academics baloney, but the AJC in general did. The AJC still hasn’t called for Adams to resign or be fired, although the members of the newspaper’s brass finally called for Don Leebern to not be reappointed as a regent. The paper should call for Adams and Leebern to both be removed from their UGA and UGA System posts.
Frankly Dawged
March 29th, 2010
7:09 pm
FWIW, please do not try to equate Dr. Adams with Fred Davison. I knew Dr. Davison when I was a student, and he was one of the classiest people I have known. Also, during most of my time at UGA, the drinking age was 21; and there was none of the overzealous attitude toward underage drinking that there is now. I say, as long as students are not behind the wheel or causing a disturbance, give them a warning and find someone to get them home rather than punishing them just because you can smell alcohol. That is the way it is handled at most campuses in the South, but Dr. Adams apparently wants to make a “statement.”
Buckhead Bulldog
March 29th, 2010
8:26 pm
Thank you Mark Bradley for having the cohunes to write that!
I despise Adams with a passion. Snake!!
lgadawg
March 29th, 2010
8:28 pm
I was 11 years old when he made the horrible decision about Coach Dooley. I told him via email that he was the worst thing that ever happened to UGA and plenty of other things. You just don’t do that to a CFB legend who invested his whole life in the University of Georgia. We saw the same thing with FSU and Bobby Bowden. Just dirty no good politics. I remember at the 03 UAB game at halftime we booed him like crazy when he was on the field. I really don’t know what the Board of Regents sees in him.
Douchbagger Vance
March 29th, 2010
9:05 pm
he is a disease on our athletic dept. and a big part of the reason we havn’t been to a NC yet.
Old Dawg
March 29th, 2010
9:53 pm
The fact that Darth Adams remains a candidate for the NCAA position is proof enough that it is much sicker than most of us thought. I truly believe the definition of arrogance should be a simple statement: Darth Adams!
bbdawg
March 29th, 2010
9:59 pm
Thank you Mark. You are the only AJC person who got it right. I wrote to the Editor right after Behind the Hedges was published and the reply was that it was an Athletic issue. I hold the AJC responsible for the fact that UGA has had to put up with him so long. A regular contributor before the debacle, I haven’t given a dime to UGA since and won’t until he is gone, gone, gone. I have begged people to read the book. The author was a Pulitzer Prize winner who is a member of the UK Journalism Hall of Fame.(He had no “dawg” in the fight, which gives him even more credibility.) His research was extensive and there are some great quotes from Barbara Dooley. If he had only lived to promote and defend the book, Adams would have been gone a long time ago and theh AJC would have had Mud on it’s face. It you are a DAWG, READ THE BOOK!!! You won’t find it at the UGA Bookstore but I saw it at Barnes and Noble on Peachtree and it is on Amazon. Oh, and one of the reasons Adams has been here so long is that Leeburn financed Sonny Perdue who would not let Thubert Baker investigate. Leeburn and Adams were friends and Leeburn is responsible for him being here and kept his fist on the Bd of Regents so they didn’t do their job either. The book is better than a novel.
Top Dawg
March 29th, 2010
10:27 pm
Whoever is posting as “Michael Adams”, thank you sir. You are giving us ALL pure gold, I feel as though you know him firsthand. And I get the impression Michael Adams would fit well as an evil villain in ANY Mel Brooks film, does that sound like a pretty good description?
hind tit
March 29th, 2010
10:41 pm
if the truth was known adams is the trouble georgia football instead of mark richt.think about it.
Hill Dawg
March 29th, 2010
11:32 pm
A retired fund raiser, who had worked for the University of Florida and for one of the wealthier ACC schools, told me personally that not using an icon like Vince Dooley as a fund raiser for the University of Georgia had to be one of the most ridiculous decisions any university president has ever made. It has cost UGA millions of dollars. Only a very small man could make such a foolish, self centered decision.
RED DOG 77
March 30th, 2010
12:48 am
As a UGA grad, The only thing I despise about my beloved university, is…………..Michael Adams
Darth Vader
March 30th, 2010
1:32 am
Hey, Old Dawg! Easy! What did I ever do to be compared to Mike Adams?
Darth Vader
March 30th, 2010
1:36 am
Can I suggest Saddam Adams?
Buckskin
March 30th, 2010
5:48 am
It would be great for UGA if he took the job. It may be UGA only hope of getting rid of him. Let the NCCA have him and UGA comes out as the winner.
GoDOGS1
March 30th, 2010
6:39 am
Why doesn’t BuLLdawg comment on the Adams fiasco? Maybe, he never set foot on campus for classes and it would kill his argument that IT IS Adams who is the problem and not CMR.
One only needs to look at CMR’s face to see the stress that this overblown, egomaniac President puts on employees. People want to know where Mark’s passion is? Well, I have an opinion of who has sucked the life out of him. The POS Adams has!
Michael Adams
March 30th, 2010
6:55 am
I am aghast at the venom that is being thrown torwards me in this public forum. Blasphemy! Do any of you realize how much power I possess? I can giveth or taketh away with the snap of a finger and the UGA fans criticize me at their own peril. This should be obvious…as I have taken away the all beef frank option and restored it to its prior position within a 24 hour period. Power!!! As furthur punishment for the insubordination displayed by UGA fans, the introduction of Uga VIII to the lower class will be withheld until a time and place that I deem appropriate. Only the aristocratic class, the upper echelon, will be allowed to view the new Uga as he temporarily resides in the special access club level at home games. It is shameful that you bring this upon yourselves. You will learn to grovel at my feet….one way or another.
Floundering Fox Hounds Batman!
March 30th, 2010
7:13 am
Come on people ! Just look at the photograph of Adams above. This guy wants to be the new UGA Mascot. Look at those puppy dawg eyes,red jowls,white hair and that mean under bite. Its all right there in the picture before you!
Ferndolin
March 30th, 2010
7:56 am
I missed my opportunity to express my displeasure one-on-one with that SOB in an elevator. Just me and him. I’ve regretted it ever since. I guess my inter self just couldn’t bring me to stoop to his level. TIRED OF UGA/REGENTS POLITICS!! SHAKE IT UP!! But no one has the sinkers to do it.
BigGAdawg
March 30th, 2010
8:12 am
Adams sucks.
The most important part of this article is that you FINALLY wrote a new one. I was beginning to think you had really died, since that crap about Kentucky defeating Georgia in their last basketball game (big shocker) had been sitting on the GA section for a month. BTW too bad about KY and WV. Your hillbillies lost to the only state that is more hillbilly than KY. Yuk Yuk Yuk.
UGADAWG
March 30th, 2010
9:16 am
He’s totally right for the job. Actually, I dont really care if he is, just get him the hell out of Athens. I am a student at UGA and I can’t stand him.
Evansdawg
March 30th, 2010
9:21 am
Just get him out of Athens. I hate to do that to the NCAA, but I want him out of Athens much worse.
Old Dawg
March 30th, 2010
9:31 am
Vader: You simply do not have the powers of the Dark Sith Lord Adams. He, unlike you, is unable to smile, only frown. He, unlike you, corrects people for poor use of language in front of other people. He, unlike you, graduated from the unlikely hell hole of a high school, Chattanooga’s City High … a place so evil and corrupt, it is now closed. He, unlike most men over 50, has a perfect mop of hair like his brother Sith Lord, Jimmy Johnson.
Vader, perhaps you will no longer wish to be a Sith Lord like Darth Adams. He is, after all, the very definition of evil.
Michael Adams
March 30th, 2010
9:33 am
Mr. Floundering Fox. Do not allow the puppy dog eyed looked deceive you. The droopy, tired looked in my eyes is the result of years of dealing with the ignorant and public school educated masses that have never contributed one cent to MY University….yet show up on Autumn Saturdays wearing their blue jeans and Wal-Mart T-shirts feeling entitled to drink their pitiful sorrows away on MY lawn. And with low class spirits to boot! It is fine if these low rent fans indulge in the purchasing of UGA merchandise that greatly benefit the revenue stream of MY University. Just stay off of the grassy areas, close to the stadium, designated for the classy people and remain in the hot asphaltic areas more befitting your station in life….such as the Clarke CentralHS lot. Or better yet, park in locations so far away that the walking distance will serve to improve upon your obesity issues while simultaneously tiring you to the point that the true, cultured fans are given at least a brief respite from your native tongue and its propensity to scream drunken obscenities during the game. Please understand my vision. I am trying to make the game more enjoyable for a select few while also assisting the dis-enfranchised in accepting their proper role.
Darth Vader
March 30th, 2010
9:48 am
Dr. Adams, is it true that YOU are MY father???
BlackedOut
March 30th, 2010
10:04 am
It was Michael Adams fault that we lost to Florida, Oklahoma St, LSU, Tennessee, and Kentucky last year. He also forced Stafford and Moreno to leave, they would have stayed if Adam’s had not blackmailed them. Thanks Mike
Travis Hill
March 30th, 2010
10:34 am
Get Rid of this scumbag…or get rid of the board of regents that keep trash like Adams in place…
Travis Hill
March 30th, 2010
10:39 am
One last thing Adams…Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. It’s starting to get a little hot now eh?
gtdawg
March 30th, 2010
11:01 am
what kind of screwed up system is it that has allowed king michael to remain and embarrass our university?budget cuts,increased tuition, and he has a house in athens and lake oconee? if he does not like athens he should leave.
board of regents, and all associated with this travesty should be jailed for what they have done. you people and those like you are why people have given up on any honesty in government.
Bride of Chucky Knapp
March 30th, 2010
12:13 pm
Great! Now we’ll never get rid of Adams!
Bride of Chucky Knapp
March 30th, 2010
12:17 pm
Good luck trying to find a copy of Behind the Hedges. It seems to have disappeared, like several people associated with this scandal.
SEC East Headlines – 3/30/10 « MrSEC.com
March 30th, 2010
12:18 pm
[...] over much of the Georgia fanbase in his first season in Athens.9. Bob Ryan of The Boston Globe doesn’t think Georgia president Micheal Adams should be considered for the job of NCAA president. (This is a BRUTAL review of Adams and his resume. Wow.)10. [...]
Michael Adams
March 30th, 2010
12:30 pm
Many people falsely accuse me of wrong doing. That is one of the negative aspects of true leadership. But…I have the power. Let me see…hmmmm. Many of you are in favor of me allowing the expansion of the stadium in such a fashion as to close the west end zone and eliminate the traditional view of campus over the bridge. Many others are steadfastly against such a measure. I have reached my decision. There will never be another expansion and I am in the process of writing the order to dismantle the bridge. No expansion. No bridge. There will be a new guard station built in the location and nobody who earns less than $500,000 a year will be allowed to cross from north campus to south campus ever again between the hours of 7:00am and 11:00PM on gamedays. Attempts at doing so illegally will be met with stiff resistance by the Athens/CC Police Department. Sound like fun? I can do better and I will if I continue to be slandered in this forum.
robodawg
March 30th, 2010
1:22 pm
College presidents are typically not academics these days. They’re business managers, fundraisers, and, of course, politicians. Which is not to make any excuses for Adams, because they should still do their job with integrity.
Old Dawg
March 30th, 2010
1:45 pm
Adams needs to go. He is the worst thing to ever, ever, ever happened to the University of Georgia.
UGAclassof2004
March 30th, 2010
2:24 pm
robodawg is right,
Universities have sold out to corporate business managers nationwide. Bob Ryan is right in his analysis of Michael Adams, but he shows his ignorance when he says that Adams isn’t an academic. So what?? Oh right, because Miles ” Mr. Zero Tolerance against Bob Knight” Brand was such a Rhodes Scholar!! Give me a break! What does being an academic have to do with being president of the NCAA? Absolutely nothing! The NCAA is ALL about politics and ALL about generating revenue. Given that criteria, Adams is a natural fit.
As for all of these supporters of Adams who say that he brought the university to prominence, it’s total BS. The HOPE Scholarship almost single handily kept the best students in state, and ALL of the state universities have benefited from an increase in revenue the last 12-13 years. Unfortunately, because of this legislation; the state schools have become more overcrowded than ever. And because of that the quality of education students recieve has declined. All the so-called measurables like high enrollment and new facilities don’t always tell the whole story.
Don Leeburn
March 30th, 2010
2:29 pm
Me and Suzanne Yoculan are getting our ” Swag on”!! Golly Gee, Soulja Boy is nifty!
Jim Harrick
March 30th, 2010
2:31 pm
Hey at least we were winning games when I was there! I’m just sayin…
Coon-Dawg
March 30th, 2010
2:43 pm
Bradley … I was just ruthless to you on your “Braves finish 3rd” story not even 5 min. ago. I consider myself a “Fair” man and a “person of dignity”. I must admit … This is a fine story sir ! “Buck Pres. Adams” !!! I personally hate his private politics as well … (Him being a Liberal and all) ! Go Dawgs !!!
74Dawg
March 30th, 2010
3:16 pm
Mark,that collumn mirrors a post I put on a UGA blog and a letter I sent to both Governor Perdue and the Board of regents at the time of the Dooley fiasco. Except he left out the parts about the condo in Costa Rica and the Gigantic and expensive parties for his son paid for by the University and other (personal) misuse of expense accounts and credit cards. The part about character,pettiness and being mainly a politician is right on the money. Faculty soon learned not to cross Addams. He’s a damn bad dawg,and his exit is long overdue.
egeagle
March 30th, 2010
3:34 pm
Adams is as bad as advertised, but when did he wet in Bahb Ryan’s cornflakes. I’ve heard and read enough of his bloviating through the years to know that he is no prize either. But wy the venom from Bahston? Must be someone from Hahvahd or MIT after the job.
PALADAWG
March 30th, 2010
3:50 pm
As a native Athenian and football season ticket holder for more than a quarter-century, I can assure Mr. Ryan’s readers that the ONLY positive thing Adams has done since occupying (and I use that term in the sense that the Federal Army occupied the South during Reconstruction) the president’s chair is to hire Damon Evans as athletic director. Coach Evans was Coach Dooley’s hand-picked successor, and he has proven to be an excellent AD. Further, since Adams spent much energy beating his breast over having hired the first African-American AD in Southeastern Conference history, he has made Coach Dooley’s choice virtually bullet-proof. Otherwise, he is a blot on the history of the country’s oldest state university. He should not go to the NCAA, he should go to the devil.
Bo
March 30th, 2010
3:58 pm
Regarding Al’s comments about UGA prospering under Adams: If it has done this well just think what it could have done during this same time if it had an ethical and principled leader who was not the handmaiden for some powerful piece of sleaze.
James
March 30th, 2010
4:02 pm
“Al” has to be Mrs. Adams’ pseudonym!
UGAclassof2004.
March 30th, 2010
4:08 pm
PALADAWG….
Eh…Evans is okay IMO. Unlike many UGA fans who worship the group that Vince Dooley walks on, I’ve never cared much for Dooley personally. But as an AD, Dooley was really pretty good. New facilities were built, the athletic teams were very good in a multitude of sports. Football went down somewhat in the 90’s, but reemerged under Coach Richt towards the end of Dooley’s tenure. Evans is a little too political for my liking which is why Adams hired him. He’s been pretty mediocre as far as I’m concerned. I think the overall sports program at UGA is down a little compared to where it was in the late 90’s-early 2000’s.
Pitbull
March 30th, 2010
4:24 pm
Oh how I wish the NCAA would hire Adams and we could get his butt face out of Athens.
He has done more to unite the Georgia Bulldog nation than any other individual I can recall – although it is in hatred of him.
I remember how he was booed out of Sanford Stadium after escorting the homecoming queen to the field the week he forced out Vince Dooley and then snuck in the back door of the President’s Office building to avoid the tailgaters in fron of his office.
And calling the cops on basketball players who went to talk with him! Dean Tate would have gone out and sat down on the steps and talked with them. But Dean Tate had class and a heart for the students. He cared for the students and Adams only cares about himself.
I still cannot believe he crapped on us and got away with in in the Jim Harrick, Jim Harrick Jr, Tony Cole episode. He sould have been fired then and there.
Let’s pary the NCAA is stupid enough to hire him and we can get him out of Athens.
And I hope the next president is a decent guy who is hired because he cares about UGA and it’s students and the quality of their education, and not because he is proported to be an excellent fund raiser.
UGA deserves better than Mike Adams.
PS The only thing I ever really liked that Mike Adams did was when he told Jeff Shultz where to stick it one time in a press conference. One butthole crapping on another even bigger butthole.
Camden Mark
March 30th, 2010
5:26 pm
I still say sring em up and watch the carpetbagger kick till he kick no more,just for fun
Gen Neyland
March 30th, 2010
10:47 pm
Who’s Lane Kiffin..? America, we got a hot one here..! Bring it, dawg…
Monroe's first Redcoat
March 30th, 2010
11:00 pm
148th!!!
CitizenK9
March 31st, 2010
12:27 am
Where was the AJC’s investigative reporting back when the report was released showing improprieties in the Adams adm ? I believe Adams ” inoculated” himself from criticism and real investigation by the AJC. He did it by being an outspoken proponent of UGA embracing the affirmative
action/diversity/multi-culturalism agenda that infatuates the AJC-
namely Cythia Tucker. It was a smart move for Adams. It is hard to
see it as any more than political opportunism, given his supposed
belief in conservative Republican principles.
It was sickening to see the AJC dismiss valid criticism and
justification for investigation of his administration as the silly
product of hicks who care about nothing but football and how Coach
Dooley was muscled out.
former UGA president Charles Knapp
March 31st, 2010
7:57 am
For your information the drastic rise in academics at UGA happened while I was president. Dr. Adams has just done enough to hold on to the accomplishments of his predecessor while mostly enhancing his powers to a dictatorial level.
Jeff Fitzpatrick
March 31st, 2010
9:18 am
The truth hurts, doesn’t it ? Michael Adams, and his henchmen (The Board of Regents) are a disgrace to our state and our University. It shows just how backward the state of Georgia remains due to ” the good ole boy network” of managing our state university system. I’m a graduate of UGA, and sickened by all this. When are we going to take some action regarding this entire mess ?
UGA Slobberknocker
March 31st, 2010
9:24 am
Crap! Now the truth is out and we have no chance of getting rid of that SOB.
Adams $$$
March 31st, 2010
10:10 am
I heard adams is lobbying the board of regents for a huge raise, after “turning down” the NCAA job!!! What a joke! He will probably get it—he makes way too much as it is for doing nothing.
PALADAWG
March 31st, 2010
2:54 pm
Coach Evans has raised the overall athletic program at UGA since his investiture. Don’t forget that UGA led the nation two years ago in profit for athletics. That pays for all the so-called minor sports, in which UGA has won national championshipships, like equestrions (in which UGA won a national championship in its first year of competitionship) and gymnastics, getting into the finals of baseball. These are’t minor for the guys and womenwho bust their fannies participating in them. Damon Evans made all this possible. I love what Coach Dooley did for UGA, but he never put any emphasis into anything other than football. Coach Evans has done a better as AD. He is priceless.
There is no "A" in Academics at UGA
March 31st, 2010
6:18 pm
Georgia fans are just trashy.http://www.ajc.com/sports/uga/uga-tailgaters-warned-to-140564.html….
boots
March 31st, 2010
10:20 pm
The way he stole fraternity houses’ property was criminal. The way he bullied the teachers was shameful, as was the way he treated Coach Dooley. Adams is NOT responsible for the growth of the University. The factulty, students, growth of the state and Hope scholarship are. He should leave, and we will be the better for it.
akadimicks
April 1st, 2010
9:15 am
Fire Adams. Student atheletes don’t need none of that readin’ & ritin’ cramp. It’s a football skool!!!
JacketFan
April 1st, 2010
9:26 am
Had to share …
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f236/cow13/cow13/DOTWU/Adamsdouchebag.jpg
ds
April 1st, 2010
12:28 pm
Please let him leave UGA. I never liked him after what he did to Coach Dooley. It was uglier than many people know and Evans was a co conspirator. Although financially the department has done well under Evans, the ruthless term could have been applied to him also when he became the AD turning on the man who selected him for the job.
Dzerzhinsky
April 1st, 2010
2:18 pm
Ralph McGill was then and is now, so far as I am concerned, garbage.
realistic
April 1st, 2010
2:33 pm
people need to realize that academics come before sports. Uga class of 2009. He is not perfect, but the University has prospered under his leadership…
Hill Dawg
April 1st, 2010
7:18 pm
PalaDawg, you don’t need to get your facts straight, you need the get the facts. Vince is the one that brought in the Women’s Equestrian Team. Nobody else. It was all Vince’s idea and it was a wise decision. He had relatively little expense because of the Vet school and Ag school.It would also add a women sport to keep the Feds off our campus. For some reason I feel that you wouldn’t have given Evans credit for this if it had failed. Give Vince credit for the swim team,too. And diving. Vince did a fine job. Put some great coaches in UGA. Give Evans credit for running a tight ship and for the new basketball coach. Give Adam’s credit for a basketball coach, too. And his son, the professor of basketball. Evans jumped on Adam’s bus and trashed Vince. Hope some day he will try to pull Vince out from under the bus were he was pushed.
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April 2nd, 2010
12:23 am
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John Littleton
April 2nd, 2010
7:17 am
I think Condalina Rice should have the job at the NCAA..We need a new propective.
JOHNinGA
April 2nd, 2010
7:26 am
If it will get him the {H E L L} out of the great state of Georgia im all for it!!!
JOHNinGA
April 2nd, 2010
7:29 am
If it will get him the (H E L L ) out of Georgia im all for it!!!!!
college dude
April 2nd, 2010
7:59 am
Not sure why Bob Ryan would be “surprised” by the AJC just regurgitating what they have been spoon-fed. Hasn’t been any real reporting done in that paper in 30 years.
rightofcenter
April 2nd, 2010
10:34 am
Let’s not forget Adams most astounding feat – you know, looking the other way when your biggest booster (Leeburn) takes up residence with his girlfriend (as opposed to his wife back in Columbus) who happens to be the highly successful gymnastics coach. Family values, anyone? Oh, and did you hear about the big birthday party Suzanne threw The Donald, complete with strippers? Ask Dr. Adams – he was there, of course.
ED
April 2nd, 2010
10:37 am
UGA ALUM 1978, I CANNOT BELEIVE WE CANNOT GET RID OF THIS IDIOT! I TOLD UGA WHEN THEY CALLED FOR MORE MONEY, THAT I WOULD NOT GIVE ANOTHER PENNY UNTIL ADAMS IS FIRED. NOW HE WANTS TO RUIN TAILGATING. LET’S RUN HIS ASS BACK TO OHIO!!!!!!!!
J
April 2nd, 2010
10:42 am
Seems like Mr. Ryan from all the way up in Boston, Mass has picked up on 2 things most Georgians seemed to be complacent on: Michael Adams is a controversial and often arrogant abuser of power (a person who must see himself as the center of the universe in the realm of ethics – of which he doesn’t seem to have any) AND the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (aforementioned as the the paper of Ralph McGill) is genuinely blind on any issues in the State of Georgia, be it Michael Adams or the apparent blind abuse of power going on under the Gold Dome in Atlanta! Cudos Mr. Ryan, well said!
Robert Dunn
April 2nd, 2010
11:02 am
Fire Adams! Some of you webpage gurus need to start a Fire Michael Adams webpage.
HanDAWG
April 2nd, 2010
11:09 am
read http://www.bighairyblawg.com
mexdawg
April 2nd, 2010
12:30 pm
Hey Al what the hell.You must be on crack.This guy has become the most hated man in Georgia since Sherman.I’m an alum 78,my dad law school 56,my sister 79 and we all have one thing in common we hate this idiot.I say fire this bum now and if the regents won’t do it I say fire them too.Do you remember the reception he recieved at the Sugar Bowl.This guy needs to go NOW.No more of my money until we get rid of this jerk.
mexdawg
April 2nd, 2010
12:34 pm
Hey Robert I agree with you buddy.That’s a great idea.
OSCAR
April 2nd, 2010
7:17 pm
I LOVE MICHAEL aDAMS!!!!
dawgwood sandwich
April 2nd, 2010
9:39 pm
Why can’t we just have an idiot basketball coach like Tech? An idiot president is not good. And don’t look now, but by Monday there will be charges filed in the taxi-gate episode. At least one of the perps were on the varsity, according to a source in the police dept., but it’s not clear if the others are on practice squads, on scholarship, etc. The couple and one witness is reliable, but the taxi driver is not cooperating so far. It’s going to be bad, so we need to brace ourselves.
endoftheworldasweknowit
April 2nd, 2010
9:51 pm
Good riddance if Adams leaves. The NCAA is messed up enough already, he can’t do much harm there. Now we have bigger fish to fry. Richt or Evans or the Dir. of Football Ops or somebody has got to get a handle on the discipline problems in the football program. Word from Athens-Clarke Cty PD is that there will be charges filed in the taxi assault case. The four accused “have ties” to the football program including the varsity roster, though no names have been released yet. They basically bullied the couple and their friend and made a lot of sexually derogatory comments, including threats of sexual violence. Hitting and slapping the couple may not be the worst of it. Absolutely no excuse for UGA student-athletes, or even just UGA students to behave in such a manner. I am sure Richt will respond quickly and harshly, but it is just too damm late. Someone needs to put in a ‘lifeskills’ program to teach these boys how to become men without becoming a**holes.
2011Dawg
April 2nd, 2010
9:57 pm
I love the Dawgs, living in Athens, and the university. I am getting sick of these recurring, embarrassing criminal and behavioral episodes on and off campus perpetuated by the same athletes we cheer on gamedays. It is time to stop the entitlement and hero-worship of these immature bullies. They are not fit to wear the red and black.
2011Dawg
April 2nd, 2010
9:59 pm
Someone had better start talking (the taxi driver, the thugs, someone who knows who the thugs are) or this thing is going to drag out. It would look a lot better for the university to be ahead of the curve, to be ahead of the police and press for once, in addressing one of these events.
dawgwood sandwich
April 2nd, 2010
10:01 pm
It’s going down on Monday, if not before, and it’s not going to be pretty. The police did not report the incident until after someone who knew the perps came forward.
tienoggwad
April 2nd, 2010
10:06 pm
Society and young folks in particular are getting too wimpy. The white or asian kids who complained about the brothers having a little fun with them in the taxi is a classic example. More baseless allegations against athletes with better things to do than be nice to groupies.
2011Dawg
April 2nd, 2010
10:13 pm
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2011Dawg
April 2nd, 2010
10:14 pm
UGA is better and bigger than Michael Adams and 300-lb sociopaths in taxis.
Babsishot
April 2nd, 2010
10:22 pm
Let’s face it, people. We all see a lot of folks on autumn Saturdays who we tolerate or even indulge simply because they are wearing the red and black and will be cheering for our Dawgs. They weren’t students, much less athletes, and they generally act like the trash and drunken rednecks they are, including leaving a lot of debris around campus and treating our guests inhospitably. But that’s OK, they’re Dawg fans and we can pick up after them and clean up their mess and apologize for their crude behavior. What I can’t brook is when our coaching staff recruits criminal-athletes and bully-athletes instead of student athletes.
WinderDawg
April 3rd, 2010
9:16 am
Adams needs to go I can sum up Adams in two words NO CLASS! since the Dooley forced retirement his reign has had the Harrick scandal and has shut down the campus for alumni on games days. He needs to look at Dooley for leadership skills and CLASS.
Don Vito Leeburn
April 3rd, 2010
9:34 am
Bradley, never tell anyone outside the family what you are thinking again, ever.
You will sleep with the fishes.
Dr. Phil
April 3rd, 2010
11:33 am
While at UGA, Adams’ income has exceeded a million dollars a year plus all he could steal from the foundation and all the perks he could amass. I don’t know why this creep would need more money, but he certainly has his eye on NCAA $$$. Adams has just about done all of the damage he can do to UGA, and certainly an honest new governor will can him and purge the BOR of Lebron and Sonny’s stooge appointees. The NCAA actually deserves Adams, but maybe he will just slink away in the next year.
Snoop
April 3rd, 2010
11:36 am
I am sure that a one-game suspension (Louisians Lafayette) will put the fear of God into those puppies. It looks like another good year for orange jumpsuits.
Big D Dawg
April 3rd, 2010
12:25 pm
Paladawg, are you kidding? Vince hired Perno for baseball, the equestrian team was started while Dooley was AD. The expansion of facilities for all sports all started under Vince’s watch. what exactly has evans accomplished?
Tech fans
April 4th, 2010
5:07 am
Mark Bradley, what a liar.
You come running in here to tell us that Michael F. Adam$ was mad at you for what you wrote about him.
What the AJ-C said about Michael F. Adam$ is a matter of record, as the Boston Globe points out.
You told us the donations are up. You had a meal on Michael F. Adam$ with MY MONIES I donated to him to get DONATIONS to UGA, not to buy you a fancy butt lunch.
Chicken costs one dollar.
How much does Adam$’ expense report indicate it cost me for you to have it there ?
You faithfully toed the line, obviously.
You failed to make the point that the Boston Globe DID FOR YOU, that Adam$ is a cheat.
Conspire with him.
Vince was against going around the Admissions Office for Tony Cole.
Adam$ gave Tony Cole his Presidential Admit to UGA.
Vince was against and had already removed Jim Harrick Senior from his list of candidates for UGA men’s basketball coach.
Adam$ insisted Vince hire him because he had worked with Jim Harrick Senior at Pepperdine, where Adam$ was NOT president.
Vince refused to go against the state of Law of Anti-Nepotism for Jim Harrick Junior.
Adam$ hired Jim Harrick Junior then said at the Press Conference you did not report Mark Bradley, “How was I supposed to know what is going on in the classrooms at The University of Georgia.”
Mark Bradley you are JUST a liar.
You did NOT report on the real facts of this scumbag.
And, now today you try to make it sound as if you WISH you had said what the Boston Globe DID SAY about the sucker.
Who cares what the name of the Executive Search Firm is Mark Bradley.
The AJ-C most assuredly DID and still DOES toe the line on Michael F. Adam$.
If you want to read what an article looks like that proves that the AJ-C is NOT SOLD still on Michael F. Adam$, read the Boston Globe story, or any of mine by direct comparison.
Big L
April 4th, 2010
9:56 am
I’m glad somebody said that the academic standards at UGA are high. I have a friend who is designing bio diesel plants . He graduated with a degree in literature , with engineering as a minor. Those techtards sure do howl about something that is just as good from UGA. Ooooooooh, FACE!!!
Adams T
April 4th, 2010
5:27 pm
Adams get trashed more in the AJC than UGA’s North Campus after a big day of tailgating. What gives???
GoDOGS1
April 5th, 2010
7:09 am
PALADAWG: Really? Men/women’s Tennis…Womens gymnastics, swimming, and BBall..Men’s swimming, baseball, and BBall. ALL Vince.
Nothing personal against Damon, but he is under Adams’ thumb and realishes it for his career path. I’m pretty sure Vince presented Damon as the heir, and tutored him in the ADept.. Damon now has image of being Adams’ pet and throwing VD under the bus….whether that is accurate or not.
ozzfest
April 6th, 2010
8:10 pm
BOB IS DEAD ON ABOUT RUTHLESS & GUTLESS MICHAEL ADAMS….BUT HE ALSO CORRECT ABOUT THE AJC….EQUALLY AS GUTLESS.
Dixie
April 6th, 2010
9:15 pm
u(sic)ga and michael adams, a match made in heaven!!!!
Chiquita
April 6th, 2010
9:37 pm
Adams runs the biggest party school in the country, and the athletic office keeps busy full-time bailing out semi-literate thug-athletes who are out of control.
And someone thinks he can run the NCAA. Give me a break.
Wreckmaniac
April 7th, 2010
10:13 am
We may well be somewhat narrowminded as a group here, but I think the NCAA job would be right for Mike. You never read about him unless there
is something to do with UGA sports. Being pres of a major university has other duties dosen’t it? Do we ever hear about those. If Mike leaves, then UGA could get a real president which would be one that delegates the full atheletic program to someone else and spends his time on the right topics which are interfacing with key industry and govt figures to obtain more research grants, bringing imminent scholars to the faculty, critically reviewing the cirriculum so that improvements can be made. This group probably dosen’t want to read this stuff but a prominent pres concentrates on these matters. Dr Barker set the goal at Clemson 10 years ago to get Clemson into the top 20 public universities as rated by US News and he has done it. This is what the best presidents do.
Bigstack O' Pancakes. It is an Irish name.
April 7th, 2010
1:37 pm
Sure hope the NCAA takes him and then we can get a university president who isn’t a slimeball Boss Hogg ripoff.
The Boston Globe takes another swing at UGA's Adams | Mark Bradley
April 8th, 2010
9:22 am
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