Another no-show for UGA’s Caleb King, who’s a bowl no-go
This remains the highlight of Caleb King's UGA career. (AJC photo by Brant Sanderlin)
Caleb King won’t play in the Liberty Bowl due to academic concerns, which means the Georgia tailback will complete 2010 having missed five games three different ways — two with an injury, two more due to suspension for failing to appear in court regarding a speeding ticket and now this latest suspension, incurred for missing at least five “academic-related appointments.”
Caleb King, it would seem, isn’t particularly skilled at showing up. He needs to remedy that. Because it’s clear even the endless patience of Mark Richt is nearing its end. Speaking of King, Richt told reporters in Memphis on Sunday: “We’ve played some games without him before, and we’ll do it again.”
It’s not as if King has been indispensable: He has had two 100-yard rushing games in three seasons. The first was his 166-yard showing against Georgia Tech in 2009 on a night when Washaun Ealey gained 183. This season King gained 100 yards at Colorado on a night that will be remember for his strange spin-around fumble at game’s end.
It has been a while now since King caused a stir by leaving Parkview High to play his senior season at Greater Atlanta Christian. He was a big deal then — the No. 1 player in Georgia who was bound for UGA. He hasn’t been nearly as big a deal since, and his time’s almost up. He’ll turn 23 next month. He needs to start showing up.
By Mark Bradley
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Eddie the Bruiser
December 27th, 2010
3:17 pm
Caleb pounds the rock.
Vick=Dog killing thug
December 27th, 2010
3:17 pm
Caleb has made his mistakes but to call him a worthless SOB is dead wrong. Let us real dawg fans stand behind our players even when they goof up. I hope to see Caleb back next year with all you short sided people cheering his every touchdown. Hunker down dawgs…
JB
December 27th, 2010
3:18 pm
Where the Tech fans gathering?……..
Sal
December 27th, 2010
3:18 pm
Richt coaching UGA is like Pavorotti performing Puccini.
jarvis
December 27th, 2010
3:18 pm
No Eddi, it’s not.
It’s your ability to continue to take a pounding and eat up clock, not fumble with the games on the line, and not miss three f’ing games because you’re a numbskull.
Justin
December 27th, 2010
3:19 pm
The Alabama program is more than its’ AG emphasis, but as an AG grad, I can say, it is tops.
St. Clarkston
December 27th, 2010
3:19 pm
Best thing king can do is leave! Make room for a back who wants to play. Free up a scholarship
Don't worry, be happy!
December 27th, 2010
3:19 pm
Caleb King may be a decent (not great) tailback but unfortunately (and more importantly), he is a wretched failure as a human being. Goodbye, Caleb. Don’t let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya.
Paul in RDU
December 27th, 2010
3:19 pm
I can’t believe that some of you guys are falling for the troll (posting under many names).
jarvis
December 27th, 2010
3:20 pm
JB, you’re relentless. Keep poking em’ with a stick.
Eddie the Bruiser
December 27th, 2010
3:20 pm
King ain’t there to graduate, he’s there to get to the NFL. Wise up naive one.
Eddie the Bruiser
December 27th, 2010
3:21 pm
Marcus couldn’t hold Caleb’s elbow pad.
Yellow Fuzz
December 27th, 2010
3:22 pm
Yellow Fuzz 196
georgia dog fans 0
FishyBusiness
December 27th, 2010
3:24 pm
Wonder why we have a former receiver coaching the running backs??
Bama Roll Tider
December 27th, 2010
3:24 pm
AG program is not all Bama is none for, but it’s a big deal. Great facility and state of the art equipment.
Mark Bradley`s Booster
December 27th, 2010
3:24 pm
Caleb King has made some mistakes. We all make mistakes
except those who do nothing. Everyone would be perfect if they did not do something. Which is worse, a perfect world
that does nothing or a world full of people who do something and make mistakes?
UGA76
December 27th, 2010
3:25 pm
King has been a bust. I won’t be sorry to see him leave the program.
Yellow Fuzzy
December 27th, 2010
3:25 pm
My backs been bothering me. Mistress has been playing rough lately.
Hill
December 27th, 2010
3:25 pm
Wonder why we have a QB coach running the offense in the SEC where the conference can only be won by a rushing game?
Yellow Fuzz
December 27th, 2010
3:25 pm
dog fans have NEVER made a mistake
Don't worry, be happy!
December 27th, 2010
3:26 pm
Yellow Fuzz, that sounds like the score in a fellatio performing contest.
Hill
December 27th, 2010
3:27 pm
Thos of you talkin about 3000 yards rushing, and 25 td’s, in one season, how do you see that?
still@the bar
December 27th, 2010
3:27 pm
I understand TECH doesn’t put out enough Engineers. The reasons are varied, but #1 is the State of Georgia’s Public School system is a JOKE. Most Ga high school grads can’t handle the math and science to be engineers. Tech get students from all over the world and they in turn go back to where they came from. Many Tech grads do not stay in Georgia. That is a reason why Tech doesn’t fill Bobby Dodd too. If you want more Engineers from the state then we have to fix the GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM in the state. Our Government High Schools and Parnets are failing the students in the state.
Yellow Fuzzy
December 27th, 2010
3:27 pm
Does anyone have a home rememdy for covering up bruises? Mistress has been pulling the scarf a little tight lately.
Tom
December 27th, 2010
3:30 pm
Escort Mr. King to the door.
JB
December 27th, 2010
3:30 pm
still@the bar…..@3:27…..amen bother……I agree 100 %
Jerry
December 27th, 2010
3:30 pm
Hill-
Here’s how it breaks down.
You win the SEC by rushing the football (see Florida in 08, Bama 909, Aub 10).
So, get King & Ealey 20 carries each.
Both average 5 ypc.
25 carries a game x 5 yards a carry = 100 yards a game per back
125 yards a game x 2 rb’s = 250 yards a game
Ealey & King also need to each get a td a game, or 12 per year.
Yellow Fuzz
December 27th, 2010
3:30 pm
Hill
December 27th, 2010
3:25 pm
Wonder why we have a QB coach running the offense in the SEC where the conference can only be won by a rushing game?
Why don’t you ask the last FIVE QB’s he has signed or convinced to comit to your dumb azz school. Sheeze. Some of you dog fans would complain with a 12 incher in your mouths.
Redding
December 27th, 2010
3:31 pm
Got to get em both 25 carries a game.
Shawn
December 27th, 2010
3:32 pm
UGA also needs to move to a hurry up offense like Auburn runs so defense can’t rotate.
still@the bar
December 27th, 2010
3:32 pm
JB Going to Mom and Dads. We are havein friends over for a Crown Roast dinner part Dux. Watching Tech and the Falcons while enjoying good friends and fellowship. The Cancer is not doing mom well so Dad & I didn’t go to the game. He doesn’t want to be that far from mom for too long.
Hill
December 27th, 2010
3:33 pm
Let’s get an ex-RB for OC who will pound the football. Frget this passing garbage, you don’t win the SEC throwing the football.
Yellow Fuzz
December 27th, 2010
3:33 pm
Hahahahahaha. I play you dogs like a drum. See ya later 45-42 haters.
JB
December 27th, 2010
3:33 pm
Bobo and Richt run a “scripted” offense, unless we are behind 3-5 TD’s, which is often. Hurry up is not in the game plan. The SEC has left us behind.
JB
December 27th, 2010
3:35 pm
Good luck still@the bar…….
Hill
December 27th, 2010
3:35 pm
You hire a QB to run the offense, don’t be surprised when he wants RB’s to pass block instead of run the ball.
Yellow Fuzz
December 27th, 2010
3:35 pm
BJ:
The SEC AND the ACC have left you behind
jarvis
December 27th, 2010
3:35 pm
45-42? Really?
Why not post the score to the 58′ game?
Jerry
December 27th, 2010
3:36 pm
Why can’t Bobo figure out a way to average 215 to 280 rushing yards a game like the last 3 SEC winners have done?
Yellow Fuzz
December 27th, 2010
3:36 pm
BJ:
The comittments you have now were offered by more ACC than SEC schools. And you guys are buying into it being another “dream team” class. HAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Yellow Fuzzy
December 27th, 2010
3:37 pm
Why can’t I masturbate without shame?
Quarter B
December 27th, 2010
3:37 pm
Alabama is a great place for future farmers to attend. State of the art AG program is best in class.
sally
December 27th, 2010
3:38 pm
yall’s a bunch of old farts. i ain’t to far removed from 22 and i’m still buck wild. downtown athens is sin-a-palooza…
JB
December 27th, 2010
3:38 pm
Yellow, are you m ? Your sophomoric quick responses to everything on here reminds me of that fool, who Tech folks even hated?
Dave
December 27th, 2010
3:39 pm
I’m on the King Ealey bandwagon.
3000 yards & 25 td;s.
Yellow Fuzz
December 27th, 2010
3:39 pm
Read it and weep dog nation. Only Bill King could see a top 10 recruiting class forming here. Hahahahahahaha.
Nick Marshall (4 stars)-legit)
Christian LeMay (4 stars)-legit
Amarlo Herrera (4 stars)-legit, but not recruited by Alabama)
Sterling Bailey (4 stars)-legit but not recruited by Alabama)
Zach DeBell (4 stars)-Not recruited by Alabama and not offered by Auburn or Miami
Corey Moore (4 stars)- Not recruited by Alabama or Florida. Was recruited by Oregon but not offered.
Justin Scott-Wesley (4 stars)-Not recruited by Florida or Auburn and not offered by Alabama. Was offered by East Carolina and Vanderbilt
Chris Mayes (4 stars)- Not recruited by Alabama or Florida and not offered by Auburn or Tennessee. Was offered by Kentucky, Maryland, Memphis and Vanderbilt
Devin Bowman (3 stars) Not recruited by Alabama, Auburn or Florida
Watts Dantzler (3 stars)-legit but not recruited by Florida)
Chris Conley (3 stars) Not recruited by Alabama or Florida and not offered by Auburn or Florida State. Was offered by Maryland, Vanderbilt and Wake Forest
Zach Witchett (3 stars)- Not recruited by Alabama, Auburn or Florida and not offered by Clemson, Miami, North Carolina, Tennessee or Virginia Tech. Was offered by Maryland and Toledo
David Andrews (3 stars) Not recruited by Alabama, Auburn or Florida. Was offered by Duke, Michigan and Vanderbilt
Hunter Long (3 stars)- Was not recruited by Alabama, Auburn and Florida. Was not offered by Arkansas, Mississippi STATE< OR North Carolina. Was offered by Arkansas State (not to be confused with Arkansas), Memphis, Middle Tennessee State, Murray State and Tennessee-Martin.
Chris Sanders (3 stars)-Not recruited by Alabama or Florida and not offered by Tennessee or South Carolina
Nathan Theus (2 stars)- Not recruited by Alabama or Auburn and not offered by Florida. Was offered by Florida Atlantic.
Dirk
December 27th, 2010
3:41 pm
225 yards rushing a game might seem like a lot, but it’s not. You just go for about 55 yards a quarter, King gets 25 yards, Ealey gets 30, and you keep doing that 4 times over a 4 quarter game. Requires 5 hand off’s to King, 6 to Ealey.
JB
December 27th, 2010
3:41 pm
Tech would take ANY of them
Ricky
December 27th, 2010
3:42 pm
UGA don’t need no more top recruits. Just need to run the ball for 250 a game.
JB
December 27th, 2010
3:42 pm
Tech had all these on there board as “NCIH”………………………………………………………………………………………That’s no chance in hell.