Update: Three more Tech players suspended – for a half
John Dewberry helped Bill Curry win in Athens in 1984. The QB was no help in Birmingham in 1985. (AJC file photo)
Update: Georgia Tech announced Sunday that three more players — defensive Anthony Egbuniwe and defensive backs Michael Peterson and Louis Young — has been suspended for the first half of Monday’s Independence Bowl. They broke curfew in Shreveport, which I believe trumps John Dewberry’s curfew-breaking in Birmingham in 1985 for sheer ingenuity.
It’s that festive time of the year when Georgia Tech lets us know which of its players won’t be playing in a bowl game. The Jackets arrived in scenic Shreveport on Thursday, just in time to offer the following release:
Shreveport, La. – Georgia Tech announced today that four football players, including two who have already earned their undergraduate degrees, will not play in Monday’s AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl because of various academic issues.
Senior defensive end Robert Hall and senior linebacker Anthony Barnes are ineligible to compete in the game against Air Force under NCAA academic guidelines. Sophomore wide receiver Stephen Hill and senior safety Mario Edwards are both ineligible for not meeting Georgia Tech academic requirements.
Of the four players, Edwards and Hill were listed as starters on the Yellow Jackets’ most recent depth chart.
A few questions: How can you earn your degree and still be academically ineligible? Has any Jacket had a more disappointing season than Hill, who was touted as the next Demaryius Thomas but who hasn’t played well and now won’t play in the bowl game at all?
There’s a time-honored Jacket tradition of players getting docked for the postseason. Usually it’s the quarterback: John Dewberry was suspended for the All-American Bowl in 1985 for breaking curfew in Birmingham, which is tough to do, and in 2006 Reggie Ball was declared ineligible for the Gator Bowl, which brought a strange career to its inevitably strange end.
These latest suspensions constitute just another installment in an ongoing Tech saga. On the bright side, the Tech Four won’t be remembered as the most egregious college football development of Dec. 23, 2010. That dishonor belongs to five Ohio State Buckeyes, chief among them quarterback Terrelle Pryor, who were suspended for five games of the 2011 season — though not for the Sugar Bowl — for NCAA violations that include receiving improper benefits from …
A tattoo parlor. Seriously.
By Mark Bradley
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BoWeevil
December 24th, 2010
8:16 pm
Pefect ?
Paul Johnson cannot recruit at all
He never has been able to
Your players are QUITTING the team, dropping like gnats
flies
left and right
And, for the # 36 National University – you had four (4) players who signed up for enough classes to play in a bowl game
But all 4 did FLUNKED OFF THE TEAM
Did I mention Georgia tek is 6-6 and will LOSE to be 6-7
Or, that you have LOST every game of the Mark Richt Era 10-Years except 1 game long ago
Or, that you have not won a Major Bowl Game since 1955
# 35 in 1-A wins since 1959
Your program is in shambles and your men’s basketball program, even more so
Navigator
December 24th, 2010
8:57 pm
Guys like you BoWeevilbrain, who chastise Tech when your pathetic team had to beat Tech just to get into a bowl. Either you’re drunk now or you should be.
still@the bar
December 24th, 2010
9:11 pm
Boweevil
Are you wrapping your PBR for Christmas? I bet t is a 10 pack too.
big daddy bee
December 24th, 2010
10:30 pm
Bradley you are a disgrace to journalism. You are hired to report facts, not biases. I remember another so called journalist named by a first name of Terrence, who was a racist who always drew the black card. Mark you need to report non biased opinions. You do have talent but unfortunately you throw it all away in your reporting. I come from the old school, Furman Bisher, Jim Mintor and the staff that wrote articles from the old journal and constitution, that meant something based on facts. Your reporting skills are skillful, but sorry to say are very biased. I go back to Bobby Dodd, and Wally Butts. I doubt that you have ever heard or appreciate the contributions these guys made to these great schools in Georgia.
Fact is, you just cannot get rid of your love for UGA and it is really sad, for so called professional to exhibit so much hate for a school that you really don’t know anything about.
Fan of the Game
December 24th, 2010
10:54 pm
Ohio State has won a NC with one of the most corrupt players in the history of college football. Clarrett was an embarrassment!
AFDawg
December 24th, 2010
10:56 pm
Bruce Mac, UGA beat Mercer for the 15th straight time. Mercer hasn’t beaten UGA in over 50 years. How is this comparable to Tech losing to KSU?
big daddy bee
December 24th, 2010
11:02 pm
Even though you are a hack and a limited time reporter for the AJC. Merry Christmas. Heard it from me first!! No one wants to hear slanted and hateful stuff that you spew.
The most moronic post of the day goes to..
December 24th, 2010
11:53 pm
BoWeevil @8:16PM
—Or, that you have LOST every game of the Mark Richt Era 10-Years except 1 game long ago—
So according to BoWeevil long ago = December 2008, but the 7 years before that is part of the current era
BoWeevil
December 25th, 2010
12:18 am
Georgia tek played the # 99 Official NCAA Strength of Schedule this season.
http://web1.ncaa.org/mfb/2010/Internet/toughest%20schedule/fbs_9games_past.pdf
You won 6 games and lost 6 games
We beat you
And, yes, you have won 1 game of the 10 in the Mark Richt 10-Year Era. Your win was not this season, nor was it last season.
Georgia tek has not won a Major Bowl Game since 1955.
Georgia tek is # 35 in 1-A wins since 1959.
Paul Johnson cannot recruit his way out of a wet paper bag
4 of your players FLUNKED OFF THE TEAM
They all 4 took enough classes to play
Only they FLUNKED THEM
macrotech
December 25th, 2010
2:16 am
Yeah, BoWeevil, perhaps we should create classes with tough questions like, “How many points do you get for making a 3 point shot?”. We’re in shambles?! How is it that the great uga ONLY has half the national championships as our little wannabees? Since CPJ, we’ve had one average season of 6-6…uga just finished their second bad season in a row…and WE’RE in shambles?
BoWeevil
December 25th, 2010
6:33 am
Georgia tek has won 1 final AP Poll national championship in girls’ tennis
Georgia tek has 6 national championships by the SAME POLLS who have Georgia national champions 6 times, too – only Georgia has an AP Poll National Championship in football.
Georgia tek has NEVER won a national championship in the Final AP Poll, NEVER.
Georgia has.
And, we have 6 national championships in football in the SAME DAMN POLLS who have Georgia tek ranked with 6 national championships in football.
Georgia tek has NOT won a Major Bowl Game since 1955.
Topp Dogg
December 25th, 2010
9:01 am
Just another Bowl breakdown in a long string of losses for CPJ and his Nerds.
superDawg
December 25th, 2010
9:03 am
tek ain’t s–t never has been!
jim 70
December 25th, 2010
9:15 am
santa did not bring me my xmas wish – GT firing Drad or Drad firing PH. Would not have been nice for either of them, but a very merry present for lots of GT fans.
Pago Pago Dawg
December 25th, 2010
9:26 am
It does seem that every play, penalty flag, time out, score etc., now has a $ponsor….
Logan Booker
December 25th, 2010
9:30 am
JB, the word on the street is that Caleb is ineligible for your Dawgs and there are possibly others so just remember that when the story break.
Barnes and Hall have used up their eligibility and have already graduated, so they are academically ineligible as a result. You said you can’t wait to see how it is “spun” but those are facts. Obviously they were in academic good standing to receive their degrees so it’s not what you and Mark Bradley are trying to spin. Mark, it appears that you’re behind your hit quota due to your absence and this is your desperate attempt to catch up. Just sayin’.
dawgfan
December 25th, 2010
9:30 am
Wawawawawawawa…..cry Techies cry. Bradley is being a big fat meanie and said something we don’t like. Where’s my mommy?
Techies have no problem throwing around the “thug” label for UGA football players. They have no problem making up a bunch of lies about how they are all illiterate and can’t do anything but play football. They have no problem calling us all rednecks and thumbing their snotty noses at anyone who doesn’t cheer for their piece of crap football program. But say one thing negative about their precious Yellow Jackets and they cry like girls and run straight to mommy. LMAO @ these hypocritical clowns.
Merry Christmas Techies. My gift to you is your 6th straight bowl loss and a 6-7 losing season. Paul Johnson is a genius!!!!
LMAO.
dominobeer
December 25th, 2010
9:35 am
Do three cited instances over a 25-year stretch really qualify as a “tradition”?
LGBee
December 25th, 2010
10:21 am
Bradley you are a biased idiot. How can you call 3 or 4 occurences in 30 years tradition. The tradition might be the annual parade of UGA players through the Clarke County court system. Now that is something you can count on every year.
Dumbo
December 25th, 2010
11:42 am
UGH…..I was under the impression that all Techies were supposed to be Academic All Americans and are you sure Hall wasn’t banging his girlfriends head again. Go have fun in Shreveport Techies, maybe some of you will actually show up, what with tickets selling for $14.00 (bet Tech AD department loses it’s butt, having to supplement the cost a ticket and what RAD is selling ‘em for). Is the Heisman Joke gonna play or is his best days behind him!
STING'EM!
December 25th, 2010
12:06 pm
F**k You Mark!!!!!
The most moronic post of the day goes to..
December 25th, 2010
12:23 pm
BoWeevil @6:33AM
—Georgia tek has won 1 final AP Poll national championship in girls’ tennis—
There is no such thing as a “final AP Poll championship in girls’ tennis”. As in every other sport apart from Div 1 CFB, there is an NCAA championship in women’s tennis and it was indeed won by GT.
GT-Armchair-QB
December 25th, 2010
1:37 pm
IT’S CRAP LIKE THIS THAT MAKES QUALITY COACHES LIKE PAUL JOHNSON JUMP SHIP, FOR PROGRAMS THAT ARE EASIER TO WIN AT.
Racer X
December 25th, 2010
2:01 pm
Whining Tech maggots can’t handle the truth so they have to bring up something about UGA. Your UGA obssession is showing, losers!
Rock The Casbah
December 25th, 2010
2:38 pm
I am stunned! I thought all GT football players graduated and went on to become captains of industry!
After all, they attend the best academic institution in the country. Just ask any Techie and they’ll tell you. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
superDawg
December 25th, 2010
2:56 pm
Merry Christmas macriod.
superDawg
December 25th, 2010
2:58 pm
Merry Christmas MB.
ww
December 25th, 2010
3:06 pm
If you only need two classes to graduate, but need more than that to be considered a full-time student, then you might only take the two classes. After all, graduating from The Georgia Institute of Technology is much more important than playing in a bowl game.
Cardinal Sin
December 25th, 2010
4:56 pm
“A Tradition Continues” Seriously Mark???
You had to go back 5 years – Reggie Ball
And you had to go waaay back 25 years – John Dewberry
Quite a stretch Mark, “ongoing Tech saga” – if there was any merit to this story, one could dismiss your hatred for all things Georgia Tech.
Now if you want to talk tradition. why not write a column on Kentucky’s basketball history of scandals and how John Calipari is adding to that saga.
And if we really want to stretch the saga let’s talk about Adolph Rupp’s 1952-1953 basketball season???? That would be the great innovator “Baron of the Blue Grass”, “Man in the Brown Suit” introducing college sports to something new “The Death Penalty”. That would be tradition.
So a couple of guys didn’t pull grades and a couple graduated – to try to put this in the same light as true infractions by the Ohio State players is deceptive, dishonest and unprofessional and seems to reveal an underlying agenda on your part – it is not an infraction to fail to make grades (unfortunate, but not a breach of NCAA rules) – why not try being a journalist.
Fan of the Game
December 25th, 2010
5:38 pm
Some of you Tech people blasting Bradley are the same ones that praise him when he writes about negative articles about Coach Richt and UGA.
vamosjackets
December 25th, 2010
5:54 pm
It happens every year at Tech. We always have football and basketball players who end up on academic probation. But, it’s not just them, it happens to plenty of regular students also. Tech is a hard school. That’s the thing – there are no cake majors for athletes. They have to put in the academic work like anybody else, and if they do, they get a real (and valuable) degree. 2 of the players had actually already graduated and just didn’t take enough credit hours in the fall to qualify. They were moving on after this semester anyway, so that’s not news. The other two didn’t meet TECH’s standards, not the general NCAA’s. Tech has more stringent requirements for its own athletes than the general ones. The fact that we do have athletes and regular students to NOT make it through Tech academically makes me respect the institution and the ones that do make it even more. It says “You have to earn this; it’s not just given to you. And if you do persevere and earn this degree, you will be better for it.” This country should be more like Tech.
When was the last time a Uga athlete was held out due to an “academic” issue??? Not just Uga, but any of the other football factories?
bob
December 25th, 2010
6:04 pm
The NCAA yarn is slowly unweaving. The world is not flat, and these kids are not amateur athletes. You selfish schools just want slave labor. period. They keep hauling these kids off with broken necks, concussions and knees that will not work right every again. The schools profit millions and the kids get ridicule for selling an autograph for a free tattoo.
Dumbo
December 25th, 2010
6:06 pm
Rather insecure aren’t we Techies!!!!!!!! Get off your high horse, Techies. Unless your education taught you a new way to crap and a new way to put on pants…then you education isn’t any more holier than mine.
General Studiies Dawg
December 25th, 2010
6:46 pm
The reason that Tech players seem to flunk out more than other teams like UGA is – it is hard for a UGA Dawg player to become “academically ineligible” when they take such Dumb-a** majors such as General Studies, PE, Housing (and NO, not construction – but Public Housing, which includes a third of the UGA football team), African-American Studies,Social Studies, Pre-School Majors, Insurance, Recreation Majors, etc. It’s hard to flunk when the vast majority Dawg players take these majors. No such majors at Tech. I know – I am one of those former Dawg athletes who graduated from one of those useless majors where I can’t find a descent job.
Poopdawg
December 25th, 2010
7:39 pm
Gsd, Your just a goober posing as a dawg. Merry christmas you slime ball!
Fan of the Game
December 25th, 2010
7:41 pm
General Studies Dawg – There is more that you are not telling us if you can’t get a descent job. Why didn’t you change your major? If you are capable of a descent job then you should have been able to pick and handle a major you felt would benefit you. You kind of sound like the athlete that uses the system and then comes back and squeals because somebody pissed you off. Kind of like a freeloader.
still@the bar
December 25th, 2010
8:05 pm
Man no Love or Joy in a Dawgs heart on Christmas. I guess a 6-6 season makes a Dawg even more bitter than just running out of PRB on Christmas Saturday Night.
BoWeevil
December 25th, 2010
8:11 pm
What the hell do you think Georgia tek football players take as their Major ?
It sure as hell is NOT engineering
NONE of them
Basetball players either at Georgia tek
Such B.S.
BoWeevil
December 25th, 2010
8:15 pm
Your men’s basketball players
ALL
FLUNK OUT
after
1 year
NONE of them are engineering Major either
BoWeevil
December 25th, 2010
8:18 pm
Georgia tek
football players
TOOK
enough credit hours to Qualify
They FLUNKED too many courses
You D.A.
BoWeevil
December 25th, 2010
8:29 pm
Tell AJ-C then
because the AJ-C posted the Final AP Poll in girl’s Tennis back when
Georgia tek won it
It is the ONLY AP Poll National Championship Georgia tek has
in
ANY DAMN SPORT
Dumbo
December 25th, 2010
8:39 pm
General Studiies Dawg…if you went to UGA, I’ll kiss Buzz’s ass on North Ave at high noon….try passing the Insurance course for Actuary….Techies on average only have 1 course in Statistics, check out 3 in this field…yellow turd
no thugs at tech!
December 25th, 2010
9:10 pm
O wait yes i guess there is. What is tech better at anyway? Sure is not football and it’s sure not basketball.
no thugs at tech!
December 25th, 2010
9:13 pm
It must really suck to be a tech fan.
big daddy bee
December 25th, 2010
10:23 pm
BoWevel, you need to check facts before you post idiot responses. You say GT has not played for a meaningful bowl since the 50’s check it out they won the national championship in 1990. That’s ten years after the over rated tu## sniffers won one. Hey pal we are both 6 and 6. How in the world can you guys claim a superior spot in college football this year. Guess what, it’s a good chance you may end up as 6 and 7 this year. That’s a lot to boast about. Big George has your number. I am amazed at the UGA fans that are on this blog spouting, I am better than you. If you went to school at UGA I would be hiding at the ineptitude of this so called highly rated team. Hey guys, drink and party hardy. That’s the problem, no discipline.
Bradley, hope you found someone to celebrate Christmas with. If you did I doubt they never read one of YOUR dumb a?? partisan articles..
Hope all had a very Merry Christmas.
big daddy bee
December 25th, 2010
10:43 pm
Hey no thugs at tech, I remember a score last year in Tech’s favor of a record score of about 42 runs scored against your mighty baseball team. Don’t post if you don’t know what you are talking about. It makes you look stupid.
Short Order
December 25th, 2010
10:50 pm
cam and cecil took $200,000 but he gets to play—the ncaa can’t afford to lose that ratings cash!!!!
Silver Britches
December 25th, 2010
11:41 pm
Happy Holidays Mark Bradley.
BoWeevil
December 26th, 2010
12:33 am
big daddy bee,
No, I did not say Georgia tek has not played for a meaningful bowl since 1955
I said Georgia tek has NOT won a Major Bowl since 1955
BoWeevil
December 26th, 2010
1:04 am
How can UGA claim to be Superior to Georgia tek in football this season with both at 6-6 ?
Georgia tek played Strength of Schedule # 97 in the nation and UGA the # 45 Strength of Schedule, and we beat your sorry butts – thus, Georgia tek plays its bowl game tomorrow at 5 pm no less in
SHREVEPORT.
All of the other bowl games have been and will continue to be on ESPN, except for lowly Georgia tek who plays your bowl game in SHREVEPORT on ESPN 2.
195-148-2
195 games Georgia has beat Georgia tek in BASEBALL and you come running in here to talk about Baseball with your only 148 wins against Georgia in baseball.
If George O’Leary has our number, why does he have a LOSING RECORD to UGA ?