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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dawg48
April 18th, 2011
10:52 pm
its sad to see that these kids throw thier lives away for a phone. if you are lucky enough to get offerd a scholorship to any school and you throw it away for a phone. i hope this kid can wake up and see how he is throwing his life away and stand up and be a man
Paul in RDU
April 18th, 2011
10:52 pm
Go Dawgs – thanks for the clarification on the legal definition of an adult in GA.
Jock itch w/ pinch of secondary violation
April 18th, 2011
11:00 pm
It is unfortunate that this happened while at UGA because the headlines read “UGA” recruit. He is a national recruit plain and simple. Would he have done this at a school that he really wanted to play for???
This definitley would not have happened at AU or UA as iPods, iPads, and iPhones are included with the recruiting visit a swag to go with the bag of money.
I guess these guys just felt slighted by UGA.
sports
April 18th, 2011
11:03 pm
These look perfect for the Auburn Correctional Institute. They will fit in fine with the departure of “scam” newton an thug fairley.
Nick Rails
April 18th, 2011
11:06 pm
Bradley you never cease to amaze me…saw several of you’re repost and you’re pinning the blame on UGA as usual…geez do you not understand that these kids are being recruited by EVERYONE in the SEC…but somehow you blame UGA for both these kids actions
Sir Barks A Lot
April 18th, 2011
11:17 pm
Bonner will wind up at Auburn, Ole Miss or Clemson.
hungry dawg
April 18th, 2011
11:21 pm
this will help their street cred at uga—grantham likes the bad boys with a few arrests and suspensions to run his 3-4 D and justify his $750,000 salary! Bring in home—they’ll fit right in.
Ga Alum 79
April 19th, 2011
12:55 am
Unreal, you just can not make this stuff up….and I couldn’t believe the situation the AD got himself into last summer…
It Ain't Rocket Science
April 19th, 2011
3:58 am
CrimeDog,
He was part of the package for Crowell. I assume, you have proof of that. Certainly, I would expect such an expert as yourself, to be honest rather than as usual, shooting off that big mouth of yours. Go make your momma proud and go play in traffic some place. Preferably a high traffic area.
Tony Geinzer
April 19th, 2011
4:30 am
I wonder if the fact is, people are sick of these Georgia Mutts thinking their Top Dawg, and I think Richt is facing a public storm and I say, if Georgia and Florida aren’t halfway to Atlanta by Halloween, I’d feel the South is in for a shock.
t-rex man
April 19th, 2011
5:02 am
I really think that Mark Richt is snake bit———every year is just like the other—-arrests, arrests========i think somebody over there at UGA needs to lay the law down for good———and that goes for idiots and losers too. We is doin the best–es we cans————————-never mind——-half a——-s dont cut it anymore. I am really over UGA football and their inability to cope with reality.
trupert
April 19th, 2011
5:43 am
It is hilarious how these Auburn fans and fans of other SEC teams with coaches of more than questionable character are reaching for straws with this kid and his stealing actions and trying to tie it to UGA, as though it is anything like what $cam Newton did while at Fla. Bonner is not a UGA recruit, he’s being recruited by many schools including UGA.
At this point he’s not a UGA recruit but he will still be on the boards at many SEC schools, with Auburn at the top of the list.
Bonners future’s well in hand, Cheezy Chizik will still offer Bonner and will perform the same miracle cure that he did with $cam Newton. When Bonner gets to Auburn, he will get paid and the local police will get a special hand$hake every time Bonner would get in trouble in a system that was not corrupt.
I see Bonner instantly becoming a model student athlete, all he needs to do is have a good senior year and make it to Auburn where they know how to coverup these kinds of things.
SanDiegoJacket
April 19th, 2011
6:30 am
Way to go Ugagers, your graduates make a 20 (thanks for signing your name) on the NFL intelligence test and your recruits and players are bereft of a moral compass. Wow, now what does your degree feel like. Garbage in garbage out.
TO HELL WITH GEORGIA, EVERY DAY IN EVERY WAY!!!
Buckeye
April 19th, 2011
6:31 am
SEC! SEC! SEC!
Buckeye
April 19th, 2011
6:35 am
Nice headline………………
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Georgia-recruits-charged-as-Georgia-locker-room-?urn=ncaaf-wp813
Joe Pa
April 19th, 2011
7:20 am
Saban will take all of them, just like Duron “Doo Rag” Carter, who flunked out of Ohio State.
Buckeye
April 19th, 2011
7:27 am
Joe Pa,
I had high hopes for Duran. I’m sure no one was more dissapointed than his father in his freshman academic performance. He showed great promise on the field too.
Who knows what the underlying issues were. I, for one, will root for his success, Saban or otherwise.
Candela Ross
April 19th, 2011
8:18 am
Spokesman Claude Felton said UGA Athletic Association is “declining comment at this time.”
I’ll bet they are.
Thugs are attracted to UGA like flies are to honey.
UGA, winner of the Fulmer/Richt Cup and known worldwide as The Cesspool of the South.
King Gator
April 19th, 2011
8:21 am
Nice to see some high schoolers taking on “college level’ work while on a field trip to UGA. Go Gators!
DC
April 19th, 2011
8:24 am
I love how UGA fans start off with facts…then as they continue their post they start going into gray area making it fact..and then finish on just making up stories about anything their fingers can think of…
DawginLex
April 19th, 2011
8:27 am
Get some new material Candela. The TROLLS are even complaining.
Bubba J. Dawgman
April 19th, 2011
8:43 am
Candela Ross:
“UGA, winner of the Fulmer/Richt Cup and known worldwide as The Cesspool of the South.”
Hey Candela, I don’t think around your trailer qualifies as worldwide, doublewide maybe.
Tosh.No
April 19th, 2011
9:05 am
So I take it Auburn will now be heavily pursuing these young men? Or maybe Florida? Oh wait, they didn’t threaten to kill anyone, so that may exclude florida from it.
Tosh.No
April 19th, 2011
9:07 am
Wow, lots of troll losers on here today. Man you guys got a hard-on for anything UGA I guess. Can’t blame you though, considering your schools are all full of retards like yourselves.
NCR
April 19th, 2011
9:16 am
Relax folks, it’s only mid-April, there’s at least 3 more months of unbelievable, never-a-dull-moment zany antics that’s gonna come out of the UGA football program.
Thug City
April 19th, 2011
9:20 am
Carver-Columbus is a breeding ground for thugs. Crowell won’t last a year before he’s arrested and suspended.
Looks like you’re back to Ealey and King, two more thugs.
the Truth
April 19th, 2011
9:35 am
Mark,
Were these guys part of Crowell’s posse? Do you know if they traveled to G-Day together?
DawginLex
April 19th, 2011
9:43 am
the idiot quotient on this blog regarding this topic is at an all time high
FACTS for the idiots:
1.)The kids were there for an open house and only one of them is a recruit
2.)The recruit in question is being recruited by multiple schools
3.)Georgia will no longer be recruiting him
4.)Mark Richt didn’t know this kid was going to do this act
5.)Carver Columbus is a high school, not a breeding ground for thugs
6.)There are bad and good kids in every school in the state of Georgia
Now, if you idiots can read and comprehend what you read, read my list slowly and absorb what you can.((that means to LEARN)).
Now, go on back to your school, jobs etc and quit posting idiotic statements to make yourself laugh and to make yourself feel important.
In other words, get a life.
It Ain't Rocket Science
April 19th, 2011
9:45 am
Funny how so many of you haters seem to ignore obvious facts. Read Carefully; This kid had numerous offers from lots of schools. He and the other two could have just as easily done the same thing if given the chance at any school they visited. He doesn’t represent UGA or for that fact, the majority of students at his high school. You all must feel really proud of yourselves, beating up on a bunch of high school students by bunching them up together and saying three kids that got into trouble doing a stupid act, represent their whole schools attitude. Tech fans: How many people from that school do you have on your athletic teams? How about all of you fans from other SEC schools? You offered this kid also. And Buckeye, lord knows you do not need to say anything about another college, given the recent events of your head coach, and his failure to tell the truth. You got a break from the NCAA with the Tatoo five but I think this mess might come back to bite you in your butt this time. For all of you perfect, schools out there; If you have never had any kind of violation and are perfect, I want to know what seminary you favor? He was not and will now ever be a DAWG. Get over it and post something objectively backed by facts, not opinions. You know what they say about opinions.
Gdawg
April 19th, 2011
9:45 am
North ave trade school, lets make it clear, the same crap happens at tech but nobody writes about it because noebody cares, doesn’t sell papers. I wonder if I can still buy from Ruben Houston, I bet lil Joe Hamiton did. Felonies at tech and misdemeanors at UGA!
Fiddy Scent
April 19th, 2011
9:52 am
“I’m betting this one is going to 10 pages of comments…”
It’s getting there.
Tech Buzz
April 19th, 2011
9:53 am
Ga’s recruiting criminals? Surely you can’t be serious! Richt doesn’t allow that in Athens! He wants honest men, with high character! Don’t bother him now–he’s working on a new endzone taunting scheme for the florida game, if they score.
NotinLex
April 19th, 2011
9:58 am
It’s true that Georgia Tech can’t compete with UGA’s thugs and morons, but Tech players don’t end up pushing shopping carts or riding the back of garbage trucks like UGA players after Mark Richt dumps them when their eligibility is up.
That’s just one of those inconvenient truths for dawgtards.
Gatorzone
April 19th, 2011
10:01 am
These boys sound like perfect fits for the fine institution up in Knoxville… Future UT players?
It Ain't Rocket Science
April 19th, 2011
10:15 am
Notinlex,
Man, you sure are orginal. I think you need to join the new club, that the AJC blogs made possible. It is called the “losers and babies crying” fan club. I think, if you checked, you might find out that a lot of these so called thugs are a product of the metro Atlanta area, so certainly, if you are so high and mighty at Tech. you should be able to straighten out what society is having a difficult time doing. They don’t choose tech. because they want to get away from Atlanta and therefore you don’t have a chance to recruit them. Don’t give me this bull about academics either, as I am sure Atlanta high schools are the best in the country. Lay off these kids until you have walked a mile in their shoes. Nobody is saying they are perfect but at least schools like UGA are willing to give them a chance. Not just throw them out in the streets. Try volunteering to help some of these kids change the course in their life, instead of always putting them down. Maybe they haven’t had as many chances as you have had in life, but they are part of society and putting them down all the times makes you appear to be a snob.
NotinLex lives under a bridge
April 19th, 2011
10:21 am
Borrows computer from library.
LCDawg
April 19th, 2011
10:22 am
Anybody that blames this theft on youth is an idiot. I never stole anything least of all on a recruiting field trip for a College Scholarship from one of my possible future team mates???
LCDawg
April 19th, 2011
10:23 am
FYI…Saban will take him no problem.
More poison
April 19th, 2011
10:36 am
It appears that these kids had no plans of ever playing for UGA. This crap only poisons the water for them and the entire team ………….. especially the current UGA guys that invited them to come to Athens and hang out.
Since when do non players gain entrance to UGA’s locker rooms or any other school’s??
This has nothing to do with UGA ………………… or any CURRENT UGA player (s) I hope. It does have to do with thieves and they are everywhere …….. like at GT’s Ethel Street or in the US Congress and the White House.
Gooooooooooooooooo Dogs.
Their role model is Scam Newton
April 19th, 2011
10:38 am
Scam stole a lap top or lap ( tops ) while at Florida, so these kids want to emulate their role model…………….. Auburn’s Scam Newton. Animals they are when they do this.
BILLY JACK
April 19th, 2011
10:41 am
DEION BONNER WILL NEVER PLAY FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA I HEARD HE HAS BEEN KICKED OFF HIS HS TEAM BY COACH MCGEE AND MAY NOT BE ABLE TO PLAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL AS A SENIOR.HE WILL HAVE TO GO THE JUCO ROUTE AND HOPE PEOPLE FORGET.HE HAS EMBARRASED CROWELL JARVIS JONES AND MANY OTHER CARVER PLAYERS WHO HAVE PLAYED AND LOVE GEORGIA.I HEAR THESE TWO GREAT KIDS ARE VERY UPSET WITH BONNER.HOW STUPID CAN YOU BE TO STEAL AFTER BEING INVITED BY COACH RICHT AND TO STEAL FROM THE LOCKER ROOM 2 PLAYERS BEING ABRY JONES AND DEANGELO TYSON BOTH OVER 300 POUNDS -IF THEY HAD CAUGHT BONNER AND HIS THUGS IN THE ACT IT COULD HAVE BEEN VERY UGLY FOR BONNER.HE COULD HAVE BEEN BEATEN SEVERLY IN THE LOCKEROOM BY THE UGA PLAYERS.THIA IS ABOUT THE DUMBEST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD.I DONT THINK AUBURN ALABAMA OR FLORIDA WILL TOUCH HIM NOW.
Dawg H8R
April 19th, 2011
10:41 am
This guy is already perfect for jawja. Keep him away from the Gamecocks.
observer
April 19th, 2011
10:46 am
Speaks well to the intelligence level of the recruits and the judgment of the UGA coaches. I guess these recruits passed the admissions test and enrolled early…so UGA can count them toward next year’s Fulmer Cup, soon to be renamed the Richt Cup.
Here is another extreme .......... take a look
April 19th, 2011
10:47 am
There is a private, well known school in Buckhead and that school is not known for producing punks of thugs. They have extemely high academics and their students
( mostly ) are very, very well $$ off. They do however, lead the city of Atlanta and the metro area high schools for having kids in counseling. See? They just have different pressues on them and I am NO liberal. Regan and Cheney rule in my mind.
Economics drives the teen behavior, whether for issues like needed counseling or stealing. I am not saying give these thieves a pass but facts are facts. Kids do stupid things. I did, back in the day in the 60s.
Go Dogs.
DawginLex
April 19th, 2011
10:56 am
There is just as much humping and drug use going on at the rich private schools as there is at the inner city schools.
Just because the girl is white, blond and her daddy is Dr So and So doesn’t mean she is not skipping class in the middle of the day and going to her empty house and getting banged and smoking and sniffing.
It’s everywhere folks. And the guy doing her is most likely going to a major college on a football scholly.
Bodda Getta
April 19th, 2011
10:58 am
T H U G A is caught red-handed giving gifts to recruits!
NCAA: DO THE RIGHT THING AND CLEAN UP YOUR ACT – DEATH PENALTY FOR T H U G A !
shankit
April 19th, 2011
11:10 am
These kids should have gone to Gayfer’s in Tallahassee.
Preston
April 19th, 2011
11:40 am
Don’t think for a second that, if this kid is a blue chip recruit, he won’t be playing for Auburn or some other SEC school. He won’t be donning the red and black but he’ll sure as hell play against us!
Preston
April 19th, 2011
11:40 am
Bodda, you’re a dumbass!
SSIgator
April 19th, 2011
11:48 am
DawginLex -
Good Lord boy. You still wringing your hands over this article? Time to move on son.