Comments on: UGA releases LB signee Dexter Moody

By: Former Georgia signee Dexter Moody lands at Kansas junior college | AJC College Sports Recruiting

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:00:04 +0000

[...] recall, Moody was a heralded member of the Bulldogs’ 2009 recruiting class. However, he was released from his scholarship by Georgia in March after getting into some trouble at his high school. It wasn’t the first time he’d run [...]

By: Dawgfan8694

Dawgfan8694 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:15:39 +0000

INSIDE SCOOP: You are spreading lies. Do you know these people personally? Have they told you this from their own mouths? No, in fact they haven’t. You are spreading information purported by people that are jealous and whose life isn’t fulfilling enough without extra drama…. I am not saying that everything is perfect in ECI-land- yes Moody has had the grade/behavior issues, but the stuff about being caught and the coach’s wife buying him a cell phone – that a bunch of lies……Speaking of reaping what you sow….. I hope none of this ever comes back to bite any of you.

By: Paddy

Paddy — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:32:07 +0000

GOOD JOB….Hang in there Dex??? WOW. The people who should have hung in there was his parents. No discipline at home will not translate to discipline at school. Hope it works out for him some day but it sounds like he has some life changing decisions to make first. I am afraid this story will not have a happy ending.

By: Techster

Techster — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:34:13 +0000

Why are all of you dogbuttsniffer motor mouths, who posted negative comments about UT’s signing of the nations top recruit and his “possible problems”, so invisible today about your thug boys problems,lol,lol? I see no other SEC school losing a recruit so soon after signing day.

By: Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:53:04 +0000

WE WILL TAKE HIM!!!!!!!! GO CRIMINOLES

By: old schooldawg

old schooldawg — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:20:54 +0000

If Moody was such a bad kid why did the school put up with this for so long.I’ll tell you why, they used the kid to try and win another championship.And when the season was over he was a marked man. For you who don’t know this has been going on at ECI for decades. Someone needs to follow up on this situation. A coaches wife corrupting a teenager at such an important time in his life.Maybe AJC needs to take a trip to twin city and find out the truth.

By: gadawg5

gadawg5 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:23:44 +0000

What is the deal if he comes to school you tech fans say CMR only plays thugs we kick him off the team and thats still not good enough what do we have to do to please you please let me know

By: South GA Dawg

South GA Dawg — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:02:16 +0000

Dexter Moody is getting what he deserves. Milan Turner is a great guy, just like Mark Richt. We don’t want this trash anyway.

By: Inside Scoop

Inside Scoop — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:48:09 +0000

The real deal is that Moody got caught sexually with the head coaches wife and after that the head coach had it out for him. The coaches wife bought Moody a cell phone was paying his bill and everything. She has resigned from ECI and now ECI’s coach has applied for the West Laurens head coaching job. Moody was already getting in trouble and that is when Georgia set those academic & behavior guidelines for him. He probably will not graduate on time from ECI anyway. With him bucking against teachers & thinking he is MR. ECI it was easy for the head coach to inform Georgia that he bucked on Friday against his Chemistry teacher and that was the last straw. He has a troubled past and being a young star does not help. He wants to go to Florida but I do not know if they will touch him. Central Michigan is his other D-I possibility but I look for him to have to go to prep school because he is going to have a hard time just graduating on time from ECI much less qualify academically.I hope he gets him self together because he is an heck of a player. All the above facts are true even though ECI tried to sweep it under the rug. Good luck Dexter.

By: shane#1

shane#1 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:29:47 +0000

Champ. You have to realize that a lot of twelve year olds post on here. Too bad for the kid, but it seems that CMR and co spelled out in black and white what had to be done to become a member of the Bulldogs and the kid didn’t perform. Chances are that if he couldn’t meet the standards set for him long enough to make the team he wouldn’t have lasted in Athens anyway.

By: JustCallMeChamp

JustCallMeChamp — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:36:42 +0000

Man, you Uga and Tech fans are brutal! I used to think that way about my Gators and FSU. We’re kind of like Democrats vs Republicans but you guys…you’re more like Isreal vs Palestine!

By: brick

brick — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:44:57 +0000

I really enjoy how Tek fans talk about low character UGA football players with the number of drug dealers that have graced their sidelines. Lets not forget all the academic issues the Tek athletic program faced a couple years ago, but UGA kids are high risk and low academic achievers? Bottom line is UGA will take some risk on a kid, GT will take some risk on a kid, every D1 program will take a risk on a kid if it things it can help it win.

By: TRUE BLUE

TRUE BLUE — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:31:24 +0000

PEOPLE NOBODY HAS SAID ANYTHIHG ABOUT HIS GRADES. I HEAR THAT HE MAY HAVE TO GO PREP SCHOOL OR JUCO. DO THE CLASS OF 2009 UNDERSTANDS “STUDENT ATHLETE”. THIS KID PLAYED IN UNDER ARMOUR ALLSTAR GAME IN FLORIDA, BUT HE HASN’T QUALIFIED YET FOR THE NEXT LEVEL. HE,WASHAUN EALEY, ERIC FIELDS,JOHNATHAN DAVIS,AND GREG REID HAD GRADE ISSUES. I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY PARENTS DON’T INFORMED THEIR KIDS THAT SCHOOL WORK COMES FIRST. ALL YOU HEAR ABOUT IS THAT THEY PLAY FOOTBALL BETTER IN THE SOUTH,BUT ONE THING WE DO IN THE NORTH IS QUALIFY FOR THE NEXT LEVEL. WE DO OUR SCHOOL WORK FIRST THEN FOOTBALL. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW MANY SUPER 11 AND TOP PLAYERS IN THE STATE HAVE QUALIFIED FOR NEXT LEVEL.

By: WatsonOne

WatsonOne — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:01:29 +0000

There are lots of opportunities for comments here. Some comments are good, some show uneducated, moronic, infantile tendencies. Let’s be fair when we judge. Dexter is young but old enough to know right from wrong. We all make mistakes. Who will “cast the first stone”?

Coach Richt is a good coach and a good man. He teaches his players that they have to be accountable. Dexter has to be held accountable.

By: 803Dawg

803Dawg — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:35:32 +0000

ya know whats funny? I have two relatives that have gotten their Phd from uga…Both of them teach at both schools. And apparently alot of their co-workers do too. I’m starting to wonder if all this “College Athlete” vs “Chaingang Dawgs” is actually fans who have never seen the inside of a Tech classroom

By: UGAfans=lozers

UGAfans=lozers — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:18:55 +0000

Ha Ha Ha!! So Redneck Jr. College lost a recruit Shocking! That football factory will take anyone. And their inbred fans, most of whom have never set foot in a UGA “classroom” – and I use that term loosely – can prepare for another disappointing fall!!

By: 2N4YEARS

2N4YEARS — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:52:30 +0000

And NOBODY knew this BEFORE he signed??? This should be one of the first questions the coaches ask BEFORE they spend countless hours recruiting a player!

By: DawgBite

DawgBite — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:40:54 +0000

Joe GT Grad, you are one ignorant dumbazz. He’d still be at Tech if he’d signed with you guys. Can you say Rueben Houston moron? Reggie the idiot Ball can totally lose it and assault visiting coaches and you want to talk all that sanctimonious smack? And let’s not forget the 2 tech players that beat up that 100lb girl and broke her nose in the infamous pizza parlor assault right before a big game in 1990 and not only didn’t draw a suspension but started the game. Tech’s a cesspool. FSU can barely give you guys a run for the dirtiest program in the ACC. And by the way. Think you can get through a whole year without an OD? Georgia Tech! LMAO!

By: Craig Meadows

Craig Meadows — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:54:08 +0000

Man, steroids does a body no-good. Anger, baby. Florida will take them and Brandon Spikes will slap some sense in him.

By: Keeping It Real

Keeping It Real — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:40:37 +0000

Keeping It Realer,

Good comments and I am not an idiot for stating a fact. I am not blaming the “man”. Like everyone else on this blog, we do not know what the kid did or what his true temperament is. None of us know anything about his previous troubles. Evidently, Jawja did not see anything that would prevent them from offering him a scholarship. I am not making excuses for the kid. I do know that you must have some meaness and swagger to play football today. Despite what you want to believe, athletes are different from the rest of us side line do-gooders. They are being recruited as early as middle school. What middle schooler from a poor environment would not be suscepitble to bad behavior and a sense of onipotence. I don’t know about you, but I had many fights when I was in school. That did not make me a bad person.

By: Dawg Fud

Dawg Fud — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:23:05 +0000

ditto GA Tech Insider.

By: Keeping it Real-er

Keeping it Real-er — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:18:10 +0000

Holy Cow–When will you idiots stop blaming ‘the man’? I agree that everyone deserves second, third, even forth chance (wasn’t it 7 times 70 times or something?). Let’s keep it really real though. He has apparently already received several chances and the last one was a set of behavioral guidelines. What reasonable person needs a set of behavioral guidelines at 17 or 18? If you don’t know how to follow the rules by then maybe prison is the place for you. It is so simple: don’t break the rules in High School, prove to a University that you can read ‘good’ enough to play football for 3 or 4 years, don’t break the rules in college for 3-4 years, play hard, then get rich playing a game. The problem is that these atheletes think that they are different. Sure they have athletic talent…but who threatens a teacher for walking up behind them? Uh…teachers are allowed to do that! Many times there job requires them to walk up to students from all different angles…even from behind. I would like to know exactly what happened, as the other rumors are even worse than this report.

In the end this foolish kid will get free college anyway. Another school will swoop in, let him play, and not require him to attend class. I ask you, obviously the smartest people on the planet, what is the real lesson the kid should take from this?

…and before you clowns even start, I have been in trouble and I had to bust my a$$ to put it behind me. Will this kid need to put in the same effort? Not likely.

By: Comin' Down The Track

Comin' Down The Track — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:00:15 +0000

Does anyone else find it amusing that most of the “comments”, for lack of a better term, on this blog are from Tech “fans”, for lack of a better term?

By: 1eyedJack

1eyedJack — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:57:20 +0000

It’s good to know that not all GT fans are immature snot-nosed booger eaters. Thanks Ga Tech Insider.

By: JustCallMeChamp

JustCallMeChamp — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:55:07 +0000

As long as you have solid facts, it is almost always better to just part ways with a player before he has a chance for further mischief or to further embarrass your school and program. I commend UGA for doing it the right way. The most significant thing you accomplish is that you send a clear and simple message to the rest of the team…don’t screw it up! Unlike many Gator fans, I thought Urban made a mistake a couple of years ago by not suspending Tony Joiner when he broke into an impound lot to retrieve his girlfrieds car instead of just punishing him and stripping him of his priviledges of being a captain. Quite frankly I think it hurt the team a little. Other than that, I think he has made mostly the right decisions on players and tries to give a legitimate second chance where warranted. I don’t know about everyone else out there, but I’d rather lose a game then have your school be embarrased and the target of ridicule!

By: altom

altom — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:49:54 +0000

Tampa Gator:

“If you come to Florida, you have to not only be the 1 percent of the 1 percent…”

Seriously? One example: Meyer signed Percy Harvin. A player who because of various confrontations, including fighting and spitting, with referees and opposing players was BANNED from VA high school athletic before signing with Meyer. Top 1% of the top 1% of what? Give us a break!

By: Roger Daniell

Roger Daniell — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:32:30 +0000

I agree with GA Tech insider on this one , but I also want to add that a lot more Coach’s at a lot more schools need to do this as well. These young men need to learn and understand that there are consequences for their actions and that they have to start taking responsibility for their actions.
On another note I think the biased media reports the bad things that happen before they will report the good, dirty laundry is what sells papers, makes people tune in, whatever. This holds true in everyday news as well as sports and business. Good luck to Mr. Moody where ever he ends up in college footbal, I sure hope he doesn’t go to Florida though!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Keeping It Real

Keeping It Real — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:24:05 +0000

Good foot ball players are tough by nature. A black player in south jawja will be labled a troublemaker just because he is black(yes I am playing the race card and it does trump everything in our society). I hope he goes to Tennessee or Florida so that he can tee off on some Bull Dawgs until he goes to the NFL and gets paid like the pompous Mr. Richt. Ha! Ha!

By: SEC1

SEC1 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:36:38 +0000

Ramble On:

you look like a dude, so what’s the problem?

By: J Dub

J Dub — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:04:59 +0000

What’s interesting to me is that when a Dawg fan comments on the Tech board, we are accused of being “so afraid of them and they have such a mental hold on us that we can’t stay off of their blog.” Yet, a story about a bulldog comes up and where are 90% of the posts coming from????? The Tech School!! Pot?? Kettle??

By: PMC

PMC — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:04:27 +0000

Very Disapointing he’s an excellent football player, hopefully he will mature and start acting like a man instead of bowing up on teachers. Central Florida and Coach O Leary could be a good combination for him. I’m sorry it didn’t work out for Georgia but I hope he gets his life strait and learns some dicipline.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:57:32 +0000

make that “recruiting”. more coffee, please.

By: Rabun Dawg

Rabun Dawg — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:53:24 +0000

Thank you GT insider, and Tampa Gator for your posts. Too bad many come on here and throw insults at the individual and the University. We should all be praying that this young man can get his problems worked out, not throwing insults his way. When most of us were teens I am sure we all made some bad decisions or did things that we later regretted, so lets give him a chance to get his life in order and move on.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:51:34 +0000

There’s a reason all the news about the recruting classes at Georgia Tech ends with signing day. Down on The Flats, spring and summer simply don’t have the suspense and anxiety they do in Athens….where wondering which signees won’t be on campus in the fall (for whatever reason) is an annual ritual.

By: 38-3

38-3 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:05:27 +0000

RAMBLE ON, why SO UPSET DUDE? Oh yeah, STILL WAITING on those CHICK FIL A BOWL rings! How’s that working out for you?

Pathetic how many NERD Fans are here at a UGA blog/story and commenting away…must SUCK to have just the 5 of you contributing to your own Tech related blogs, so you came here to talk SH8T as usual.

Oh and UGA owns RAMBLE ON’s SMIPLE MIND. LOVE IT.