Riddle of the UGA locker-room theft solved by … Facebook?
"You recruits: I'd better not see this picture posted on Facebook." (AJC photo by Curtis Compton)
As reported by esteemed colleague Chip Towers, three arrests have been made in the theft of iPhones and iPods from Georgia’s locker room. One of those arrested is a football recruits for the year 2012
A gentle suggestion: Were I Georgia, I would no longer recruit that player.
This isn’t to prejudge guilt or innocence as defined by our legal system. Due process will take care of that. But Towers quotes UGA police chief Jimmy Williamson as saying of his investigation: “Facebook is always a big help.”
(And this works … how? Jimmy Williamson sends a suspect a “friend” request?)
If I’m Mark Richt, my new list of guidelines for pursuing football talent would read thusly:
Rule No. 1: Do not recruit anyone who might have gotten arrested due to something posted on Facebook.
Rules No. 2-10: See Rule No. 1.
By Mark Bradley
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Thug City
April 18th, 2011
2:04 pm
UGA attracts thugs like a magnet.
But we’ve known that for years.
G8R8U2
April 18th, 2011
2:05 pm
DawginLex:
When has any of that mattered? UGA frequently has the better players, better coach, and/or better record… and UGA STILL loses to Florida like it’s going out of style. Florida stomps Georgia no matter who the coach is. Even Ron Zook went 2-1 against Richt and UGA. Richt didn’t finally beat Zook until the year Zook got fired, and even then it was only a 31-24 win.
You say you don’t see any domination? Try this: In the last decade, in the Big 3 sports of football, basketball, and baseball, Florida is 8-2 (football), 16-5 (basketball), and 21-11 (baseball), or 45-18 against Georgia. I don’t know about your definition of domination, but here in the real world, that’s it.
UF beats UGA like they stole something from the Gator locker room.
Dawghater
April 18th, 2011
2:07 pm
Dawglex, you can’t figure out that beating UGA year after year in J’ville isn’t domination. Last year was called UGA’s best chance to win and you still couldn’t pull it off. Year after Year UGA fans show up with great hopes and go home dissappointed, drunk and miserable. It’s my favorite time of the year.
DeputyDawg
April 18th, 2011
2:07 pm
Avion Lawrence: you do not seem to know much about this topic given our record. I am sure you would’ve characterized the captain of the Titanic as a fine man who just didn’t miss all the icebergs 100% of the time. When you get Mark’s richt out of your mouth, maybe you will realize that no one expects every single player to be perfect, but UGA under Richt has a poor graduation rate, a high arrest rate, and in case you missed it, they’re losing a lot of games on the field, too. That’s compared to the SEC and the NCAA.
Dorsey Hill
April 18th, 2011
2:09 pm
For gators trolling on this blog I have two words: Jabar Gaffney. Gators not only support locker room thieves, they coddle and revere them.
DeputyDawg
April 18th, 2011
2:09 pm
Gators just haven’t been caught yet. The Gainesville PD is a lot more player-friendly than the cops in Athens.
DeputyDawg
April 18th, 2011
2:10 pm
Trolling Gators? Seems backwards. Shouldn’t you troll FOR gators? Anyway, now that Muschump is coaching, we’ll see what a weiner Oscar Meyer was.
Bail Bonds R Us
April 18th, 2011
2:11 pm
Yes we have had some arrests in the past…
Some arrests? How about 45 in the last three years. That goes well beyond “some.” It’s why UGA is the perennial winner of the Fulmer/Richt Cup.
There’s a reason why UGA is known worldwide as The Cesspool of the South.
DeputyDawg
April 18th, 2011
2:12 pm
If Damon Evans was a Gator AD in Gainesville the panties would have been orange, not red, and he’d still be working. The cops in Georgia are anti-bulldog and anti-black.
Gwinnett Fred
April 18th, 2011
2:12 pm
Shows just how DUMB this recruit was. If he waited until he made the team – he could have stolen MUCH MORE.
In all seriousness though, you have to wonder just how much background checking goes into a recruit (or even more telling, how much a bad background is ignored by the school!)
Larry Bird
April 18th, 2011
2:13 pm
DeputyDawg,
The grass is always greener huh? Kirby Smart wouldn’t put up with this crap. Arrests would drop to 0, and grad rate would be 100%? Who else do you have in mind. Richt didn’t forget how to coach, and being a good christian man doesn’t mean he’s soft on his players. We don’t know everything he does behind closed doors.
tim
April 18th, 2011
2:14 pm
Merquise is the brother of Marqui?? With names like that, their parents should be the ones arrested.
DeputyDawg
April 18th, 2011
2:14 pm
He was only arrested because he had a white woman’s head in his lap and his fingers in her pie.
DawginLex
April 18th, 2011
2:15 pm
Yeah those gators are all class. Never get into trouble.
donovan got all his players out of jail yet?
BAIL BONDS-GET SOME NEW MATERIAL. EVEN THE TROLLS ARE COMPLAINING
Larry Bird
April 18th, 2011
2:16 pm
Cesspool of the south crap needs to stop. Only morons would say that bs. Athens is a beautiful city with beautiful people. As a top recording artist once said: “haters everywhere I go”
DeputyDawg
April 18th, 2011
2:16 pm
Being a Christian don’t make him a good coach either. Kirby Smart wouldn’t be any better, what we need is a real coach.
Beast from the East
April 18th, 2011
2:16 pm
DeputyDawg,
Troll for Gators at your own peril, sport. LOL!
Larry Bird
April 18th, 2011
2:18 pm
No, I would say his 96-34 record with two SEC titles makes him a good coach. Maybe we should have a couple more but those things don’t grow on trees. I’ll still take my chances with Richt.
MiltonDawg
April 18th, 2011
2:19 pm
Maybe we can get Spurrier after this year, I don’t care what anybody says, I like that guy.
Beast from the East
April 18th, 2011
2:21 pm
MiltonDawg,
No way Spurrier would ever coach UGA. He still hates them from his playing days. The guy holds a grudge like no one else. He’ll retire from South Carolina in a few years and play golf full-time.
Dorsey Hill
April 18th, 2011
2:25 pm
GAINESVILLE — Jabar Gaffney has caught more passes than any freshman receiver in Florida history, but not enough, apparently, to make people forget.
Gaffney continues to pay the price for a nearly year-old indiscretion, stealing jewelry and cash from the UF locker room in December.
phil
April 18th, 2011
2:30 pm
Wasn’t this latest arrestee a Fraudburn Tiger to be? Coach Cheatzik will be proud, once again, and will deny everything….And we used to think Pat Dye ran a suspicious program?
crossdawg
April 18th, 2011
2:31 pm
Good work MR. Keep bringing those thugs. Ever considered background checks?
Beast from the East
April 18th, 2011
2:32 pm
Doresy Hill,
What year was that? Wasn’t it around the time of the Jan Kemp scandal? LOL!
UGA1985
April 18th, 2011
2:37 pm
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. ~Confucius
Crim
April 18th, 2011
2:46 pm
I see uga still recruits garbage thugs.
UGA1985
April 18th, 2011
2:48 pm
This is just a few immature kids showing what they’re made of, nothing more. Cross em off our recruiting list and let’s move on. They’ll get another chance somewhere, who cares. They’re not our problem. Don’t let em step foot on the UGA campus ever again.
Ralph
April 18th, 2011
2:50 pm
thUGA still recruiting the scum of the earth. Nothing new here, folks. The administration, coaches, teammates, and alumni don’t care if these non-student thugs can produce without TOO many unsportsmanlike shucking, jiving/ dancing, late hit, fighting penalties. “Too many” is only defined if by a close loss.
Larry Bird
April 18th, 2011
2:50 pm
Yeah Crim,
And they still let morons like you post on the blogs.
CarverClass
April 18th, 2011
2:51 pm
Didn’t Carver Coach McGee “ban” Richt from recruiting there a couple years back because they pulled a QB scholarship? I wonder if this is an indication of how McGee runs his ship or do you think he’s been nurturing some bad blood between the University and his players? McGee’s an Auburn man, isn’t he?
Mark Bradley`s Booster
April 18th, 2011
2:52 pm
Why are all these people saying not nice things about Georgia Tech? This Institute had nothing to do with these thiefs and is not involved in the subject of this story.
thwg
April 18th, 2011
2:53 pm
Sounds like they would fit in very nicely at UGA.
Larry Bird
April 18th, 2011
2:53 pm
McGee still has a ton of bad blood with UGA so he sent these 3 up there to loot the locker rooms, they got caught so he had to boot em off the team so nobody would catch on. You’re a genius to figure that out CarverClass!
Larry Bird
April 18th, 2011
2:54 pm
thwg,
43 people have said that before you. If you’re going to bash UGA at least be original.
Skitty Fritty
April 18th, 2011
2:55 pm
Looks like Ohio State and Auburn have started recruiting these kids again.
War Eagle
April 18th, 2011
2:58 pm
Bama Goos, Auburn withdrew Bonner`s offer two weeks before this incident. “Where there is smoke there is fire”, as in Brent Callaway. This is not the first situation for Bonner , Richt will overlook it and suspend him the first two games in 2013.
MiltonDawg
April 18th, 2011
3:01 pm
He’s still wearing a UGA jacket on his FB page! HA! They should go and take that jacket from him.
Athens Police
April 18th, 2011
3:01 pm
What’s up with the righteous troll police today?!?!?! Looking for friendly, go post on a dating site!!
MANLEY F. BROWN
April 18th, 2011
3:01 pm
“NOBODY YOU KNOW”: YOU NEED TO SEE A PSYCHIATRIST. SUCH A LAME BRAIN COMMENT. THE “SUCCESFUL” SON OF A SINGLE MOTHER
Interesting Dynamic
April 18th, 2011
3:01 pm
If these punks are banned from ever setting foot on our campus again, as they should be, would that mean that they can’t return as players on another team that is in Athens to play UGA?
money talks
April 18th, 2011
3:02 pm
does this mean UGA will pull the scholarship offers until they get out of jail? The dawgs need this talent bad!
Athens Police
April 18th, 2011
3:02 pm
@ MiltonDawg not only will they play, they wil START.
*boom!*
Buckeye
April 18th, 2011
3:03 pm
Skitty,
Take note of the recruiting list from the Ledger article…..Ohio State not to be found.
Locker room theifs are about as they go.
Warm regards,
Buckeye
UofAtideman
April 18th, 2011
3:04 pm
To War Eagle… If you comment saying”where there is smoke there is fire” Where does that leave Auburn ? They would be Burnt toast crumbs by now . This kid is now toast and no SEC team is going to touch him. He will probably wind up going JUCO or to So Cal.
Athens Police
April 18th, 2011
3:04 pm
Mark’s Booster: mutt fans like to feel better about themselves by inserting Tech where unwarranted. They should still feel pathetic despite these circumstances, as this is likely the most exciting thing to happen in Athens in a long time.
headley lamar
April 18th, 2011
3:04 pm
Bonner just signed with Auburn.
He is just following the same path as his hero Cam “Laptop” Newton
Shawn
April 18th, 2011
3:07 pm
The Gators don’t have to steal. They pay for all their stuff with dead girls credit cards!
DC
April 18th, 2011
3:08 pm
UGA fans cant help but bring AU up in conversation…its ok..you’ll win a NC title…someday….
Larry Bird
April 18th, 2011
3:10 pm
We’re trying to win one there DC, not buy one.
DC
April 18th, 2011
3:13 pm
proof Larry..oh wait…you dont need that right?..