Comments on: Stanford-bound WR Tai-ler Jones says UGA was too late

By: billy

billy — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:22:03 +0000

stanford sucks, should went to toledo
this article sucks who cares

By: DC Dawg - WTF Are You Talking About

DC Dawg - WTF Are You Talking About — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:18:38 +0000

Is that the best you can do? Putting down kids on a board no one takes seriously. Life must be lonely. You can call him what you want, the world will call him a Stanford grad.

By: John13 - Not

John13 - Not — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:14:54 +0000

Maybe all of the spelling errors are due to football practice. Didn’t have time for spell check. Too busy making millions on game day. Go Dawgs

By: John13(-)10

John13(-)10 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:12:00 +0000

Sorry for all the spelling errors. I didn’t attend all of my classes due to football practice at UGA.

By: John13(-)10

John13(-)10 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:10:20 +0000

The average UGA football player has a 2.0 GPA and 16-18 ACT. Maybe you should talk to admissions. When the normal student can jump out the stadium, bring in millions in tv, so you can build more buidlings and dorms. Then maybe someone will give a dam(n) about your post. Not that I don’t agree in theory, but let’s keep things in perspective. Compared to his football peers, his academic success is far superior to the morm. Maybe your 4.1 GPA can bring $3M per home game after your board meeting at the fraternity house. Your comparison holds no weight or interest.

By: DC Dawg

DC Dawg — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:47:10 +0000

The Bulldog nation doesn’t want someone with such a pissy name as Tai-ler. What’s with that? Based on his parents’ spelling skills, I doubt that this guy has the DNA to pass a class at Stanford. Is that pronounced like Tyler or like Taylor? We don’t need any showboats on the UGA football team, just team players…

By: NelsonK

NelsonK — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:52:40 +0000

Funny , had he gone to UGA he would have been called wonderful and wise. Stanford as his choice and he wasnt that good anyway. So typical of those of you dog fans who never attended college. To all of you who say good call , you chose a great school, I commend you for your honesty and integrity. Obviously UGA is not what those who have never stepped on campus on a weekday think it is.

By: UGA Arrest Record Continues - Even After College - Must Be Something In The Water At Athens

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:39:24 +0000

Ex-UGA hoops star Cole fired, in jail
By MIKE MORRIS

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Tony Cole, the former University of Georgia basketball player who made headlines during his UGA career by accusing coach Jim Harrick and his son, assistant coach Jim Harrick Jr., of academic fraud, is in the news again – this time in Chicago, where he is being blamed for the resignation of the chief financial officer for Cook County, Ill.

According to reports in the Chicago Sun-Times, Cole was recently fired from his $61,000 a year job as a human resources assistant with Cook County after officials discovered he failed to disclose past criminal convictions on his job application.

Cole’s boss, county chief financial officer Donna Dunnings, was asked to resign last week after news broke that she had twice bailed Cole out of a Chicago jail following recent arrests for violating a protection order against an ex-girlfriend that he pleaded guilty to punching in the face.

Last week, Cole’s bond was increased to $200,000 and he was sent back to the Cook County Jail, where, according to jail records, he remains.

In 2004, the NCAA determined that Georgia’s basketball program provided recruiting inducements to Cole and committed academic fraud when Cole and two other basketball players were awarded “A” grades for work they did not do in a physical education class.

Harrick Jr. was fired and his father was forced to retire as basketball coach.

In 2002, a woman claimed that she was assaulted by Cole, former Georgia basketball player Steve Thomas and ex-football player Brandon Williams.

Williams was acquitted of any wrongdoing, and criminal charges against Cole and Thomas were dropped, but the woman filed a $25 million sexual harassment lawsuit against the university, claiming that UGA officials were slow to respond to the alleged assault.

That lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed amount in 2007.

In 2003, Cole was sentenced to three years’ probation after pleading guilty to writing bad checks.

According to the Sun-Times, Cole was arrested in March, 2008, for punching his former girlfriend with a closed fist.

The same day he pleaded guilty to that charge in DuPage County, Ill., he was hit with new charges that included violating his bond, obstructing a police officer, resisting police and battery.

Cole was at the Wheaton, Ill., courthouse waiting for the domestic battery case to be called when he allegedly cornered the woman, kept her from going into the courtroom and asked her to drop the charges against him, the newspaper reported.

By: Sesame Street, which one does not belong?

Sesame Street, which one does not belong? — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:08:22 +0000

Stanford, Georgia, Cal, UCLA, Notre Dame and North Carolina

Tick Tock Tick Tock

Times up….. Alex what is… a child’s pick because of the cute puppy mascot?

By: Tyler

Tyler — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:03:36 +0000

Enter your comments here

By: Tyler

Tyler — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:03:10 +0000

It’s bulldog, not bulldawg!

By: The Voice of Reason

The Voice of Reason — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:44:46 +0000

People people. The key sentence from the article is “Neither of the players’ commitments will become binding until they sign national letters-of-intent next February.” I’ll put a dozen Kristy Kremes that he’s not going to Stanford.

And I agree with this statement but after the love he has gotten from GA fans I know where he WON”T be going. Recruiting Skeptic you are not correct with how the Roswell WR depth chart worked. The senior you mentioned graduating this year and the rising senior you mentioned rotated in the same postion. There was another smaller receiver on the the other side of the line who Roswell was trying to make their primary receiver. The 2 big receivers were 2nd or 3rd options all in the name of making the smaller receiver the primary downfield weapon. You are correct when you state that none of “daddy coaches” sons were receivers but one is a QB coach and the QB delivers the ball. Roswell is not the only school in that area with the parent/booster ruled programs. Which is why Tai-ler left Roswell. You do not lead the state in receiving regardless of clssification and not be able to play the game. This notion that he was not good enough to play ahead of the guys he left at Roswell is ludacris. Just a bunch BS being spoken because he proved everyone wrong at Roswell wrong. And to hear how some in the Hornet nation dogged this kid out after his family remained at Roswell and worked with the boosters in the concession stands after he was enrolled in Gainesville is even more painful. If you are going to tell the story….tell the story right. Don’t pick bits and pieces to share and not tell it all. By the way…..the kid at Oregon is there because his individual talent and his father’s marketing of him. Roswell’s staff had nothing to do with it. And 1 more question how many kids from Roswell signed LOIs for any school at any level this past season?

By: Dawg Drool (BaseballVol13)

Dawg Drool (BaseballVol13) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:06:10 +0000

Only Georgia puppies can lose to VANDY and KENTUCKY in the same year!

By: Dawg Drool (BaseballVol13)

Dawg Drool (BaseballVol13) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:01:01 +0000

Only georgia puppies can lose to VANDT and KENTUCKY in the same year.

# 1 preseason, yea right!

By: Tidefan00

Tidefan00 — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:36:08 +0000

I wish Mr. Jones was a tyrant to my three kids. Maybe all of them would have let home and been Stanford grads. They all went to UGA and now all three live at home. I need a break!! Do you know if Mr. Jones is single. I would love for them to get heXX out of my house.

MamaDawg Needs a Dawg Catcher!!!

By: Southside Drug Rep

Southside Drug Rep — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:44:04 +0000

By the way, I love how each thread becomes Dawg and Jacket fans bashing each other. The best thing about last Thanksgiving’s game is that a new generation of Bulldog fans remember that Tech is THE team to hate. Period.

The original Stanford mascot was “Indians.” The correct-minded(sic) people involved with Stanford had to change it. Now they have a tree dancing around during the games. A tree. If your team is Indiana State and called the Sycamores then a tree makes sense. Otherwise you’re just trying too hard not to offend.

By: GoTJGo

GoTJGo — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:53:02 +0000

I take some of these post as jokes…Lets see Stanford hasn’t won a National title and Georgia hasn’t won a title in 29 years, 30 years if you count the forthcoming NCAA season and another 3 or so losses this year to Alabama, Florida etc, etc. Stanford has more widely know legendardy INTELLIGENT NFL Stars, such as Elway, UGA has Walker. Stanford has sent approx 200 pros vs UGA’s 240 the last 7 yrs or so. Now what do we have left to compare oh yea, a UGA degree vs STANFORD degree……need I say more.
Lets say you get hurt and have to get a real job after your college career…What would you rather do make 35k a year starting salary with a degree from UGA or make 110k starting salary with a degree from Stanford and oh yea at Stanford you may actually graduate (92% athelete graduatiion rate)….GOOD CHOICE JONES!!!

By: GoTJGo

GoTJGo — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:46:59 +0000

I take some of these post as jokes…Lets see Stanford hasnt won a National title and Georgia has won a title in 29 years, 30 years after you count the forthcoming ncaa season and another 3 or so losses. Stanford has more widely know legendard INTELLIGENT NFL Stars, and has send approx 200 pros vs UGA’s 240 the last 7 yrs or so. Now what do we have left oh a UGA degree or STANFORD degree……need I say more.
What would you rather do make 35k a year starting salary with a degree from UGA or make 110k with a degree from Stanford and actually graduate (92% athelete graduatiion rate)….GOOD CHOICE JONES

By: Big Dawgie

Big Dawgie — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:07:54 +0000

Any player from GA that wants to play serious college football has to sign with Coach Richt. The Pac-10 is a joke, and this WR from Gainesville must not be up to the challenge of making it at a top quality football school in the SEC such as UGA.

By: Looking Outside In

Looking Outside In — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:25:26 +0000

Sounds like we should leave the whole grade issue alone. Every college in America use football revenue to drive their University Economics. People believe football players receive their scholarships for free, but they pay a hefty price. Physically, they are mangled after football. Football is modern day slavery. IF you want to be fair, you keep you scholarship, and pay each football player a percentage of the revenue generated each year. I’ll pay my own tuition, room, and board. Until then, stop crying about reduced entry requirements for football players, and other college sports, as without them, some of the science labs, dormitories, and classrooms you all are so fond of, would be non-existent. i haven’t heard one player yet, say he/she has shared in TV, gate, jerseys, posters, or any other revenue generating entity that the universities make by using their student personalities, to move merchandise sales.

By: Jimg & Georgia Grad

Jimg & Georgia Grad — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:15:13 +0000

Jones’grades compared to the average UGA player, makes him look like a rocket scientist. Most UGA players are 2.5 GPA’s and 16-18 on ACT, with 48% graduation rate on the football team. Stanford Football has a 3.5 GPA and 24 on ACT AVERAGE. Stanford has a 98% graduation rate on its football team Let’s be fair. Jimg, Georgia Grad, or your daughters would never be able to get into Stanford. Even the football players at Stanford have to go through the admissions process like normal students. Give me a break with the Holier Than Thou Speech. IF UGA football players had to go through the normal standards, you couldn’t field a intramural touch football team. 15 players arrested since 2008 @ UGA. Who are we kidding. I bet you that is one stat you’ll never see at Stanford. Don’t hate the player, hate the game. If your daughter was 6′4″ & 220 lbs, she to could entree UGA with reduced grades. Unfortunately, I don’t hear UGA grads complaining about UGA Football GPA’s when new buildings are built on campus from football revenues. If football players left UGA, or any majority university or college, and went to HBCU’s, you would see how fast UGA and other like institutions, would drop off the map. No one would care about UGA, but you and your daughter.

By: Jimg & Georgia Grad

Jimg & Georgia Grad — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:09:05 +0000

Jones’grades compared to the average UGA player, makes him look like a rocket scientist. Most UGA players are 2.5 GPA’s and 16-18 on ACT, with 48% graduation rate on the football team. Stanford Football has a 3.5 GPA and 24 on ACT. Stanford has a 98% graduation rate on the football team. Let’s be fair. Jimg, Georgia Grad, or your daughters would never be able to get into Stanford. Even the football players at Stanford havae to go through the admissions process like noral students. Give me a break with the Holeir Than Thou Speech. IF UGA football had to go through the normal standards, you couldn’t field a intramural touch football team. 15 players arrested since 2008 @ UGA. Who are we kidding. I bet you that is one stat you’ll never see at Stanford. Don’t hate the player, hate the game. If your daughter 6′4″ 220 lbs, she to could entree UGA with reduced grades. Unfortunately, I don’t hear UGA grads complaining about UGA FOotball GPA’s when new buildings are built on campus from football revenues. If football players left UGA and went to HBCU’s, you would see how fast UGA as an institution, would drop off the map. No one would care about UGA, but you and your daughter.

By: wreckmaniac

wreckmaniac — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:38:58 +0000

This guy, and I know nothing more about him that what is in this article, must have a lot going on. If a kid has a chance to get a degree from Stanford or Notre Dame or Tech or North Carolina he would be nuts to take a scholly from a football school. He can still get to the NFL from an academic school.

By: Denver Dog

Denver Dog — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:22:23 +0000

Like I said Mr. Ball, list your team next to mine. It looks like you can’t do that either becuase you don’t have a team, your team is terrible, or you just make up stats and don’t know at all what you are talking about. By the way, you left out Terrell Edwards too. You know what, there have are 40 something super bowl MVP’s having three of them and that one is a wide reciever is a pretty good stat. Make up what you want to Mr. Ball, but there have been serveral great UGA wide recievers in the pro game, wish this kid luck like I did, but don’t run down UGA in doing it. Oh yeah, who will be drafted number 1 this year? You forgot to answer that question.

By: Gerald Ball

Gerald Ball — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:49:25 +0000

Denver Dog:

I failed to list Andre Hastings because while he was one of the nine WRs that UGA has placed in 72 years of NFL drafts, Hastings was a good bit longer than 10 years ago. As a matter of fact, Ward was drafted in 1998, which was ELEVEN drafts ago, and twelve from this upcoming draft. So that cuts down the number of WRs that UGA has had drafted even further.

UGA has the most Super Bowl MVPs? Well, only one of those was at WR. 17% of the TEs in the NFL are UGA grads? Great, but this kid plays WR. There are a lot of reasons why a talented WR should choose UGA, but the idea that UGA will give him a better shot at the NFL is not one of them. If you are a WR who wants to go to the NFL, the place to be is Miami, Michigan, Tennessee and Ohio State, schools that send more WRs to the NFL in 5 years than UGA has in its entire history. If you are not a 5 star recruit, then head to Michigan State, Virginia Tech, Texas Tech, or any Pac-10 school save USC (where let’s face it, you are not going to get on the field).

By: Denver Dog

Denver Dog — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:17:34 +0000

That is why you are a writing on a UGA blog. Maybe you should learn to read and spell first

By: UGAY fan

UGAY fan — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:12:32 +0000

I thought he was bound for mars hills???

By: Denver Dog

Denver Dog — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:16:30 +0000

I guess if I really was to say anything about else recruiting it would have to be, did you get a good look at Aaron Murray? That is what recruiting talk ought to be about.

By: Denver Dog

Denver Dog — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:13:02 +0000

You know, based on the fact that the coaches seem to be doing pretty good with recruiting, and every year they get pretty much who they want, and that they may have as few as 9 scholarships to give next year, I’d say I understand that. Did this young mand pick any of the schools in the SEC, or Big 12, or Big 10? I think he picked what he thinks is the right deal for him, right now. When next February roles around, we will see who, what, when, where, and why.

At this stage, much ado about nothing!

By: Recruiting Skeptic

Recruiting Skeptic — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:00:58 +0000

To the person who inquired earlier, Tai-ler transferred from Roswell, which did have a few players whose fathers were coaches. However, none of them were receivers. Jones split time with several others as a sophomore, with the one senior WR that season getting a scholarship to Oregon.

The senior from last season who was ahead of him is apparently not going to play football in college (his brother is a scholarship linebacker at UNC), and the other receiever who was ahead of Tai-ler will be a senior this season and will probably be offered a scholarship, not sure what level.

It’s possible that the Roswell coaches overlooked him for some reason, but it’s also possible that their evaluation of him was more accurate than that of the alleged recruiting experts.

Georgia signed a receiver from Tift who played Roswell in the state playoffs 2 seasons ago, and from seeing him in that game only, he did not appear to be a big time prospect. But the Georgia coaches thought he was. So far, he has not shown much to indicate that the coaching staff was right.

Assessing the abilities of high school athletes is an extremely inexact science, but way too many people live and idea with any piece of info about the recruiting wars. Can’t say that I understand that.

By: LSJU82

LSJU82 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:52:39 +0000

According to http://www.databasefootball.com, Stanford has sent 190 players to the NFL, Georgia Tech has sent 158, and UGA has sent 243. Want to compare Rhodes Scholars, US Presidents, and corporate CEOs? How about Directors’ Cups? The point is these are three great universities, and no one should take shots at kids who have chosen to attend any of them.

By: TrentG

TrentG — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:40:31 +0000

The young man was just trying to be polite. Fact is, he’s a very smart young man, which his grades and test scores reflect. If you are offered a free ride at one of the top academic schools in the country, you take it. The education and the career connections and the job opportunities you get from Stanford are far beyond what he’d get from any southern school, including even Vandy. Great players get noticed no mater where they play, but there’s always the chance of being injured as well. Not sure what he plans to study at Stanford, but he just maximized his opportunity for his long term future. Which is just another indication that he’s a very smart young man.

By: Denver Dog

Denver Dog — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:25:14 +0000

Gerald BAll, maybe you should check out and see who has the most superbowl MVP’s. List your team next to UGA and start your comparisons. Maybe you should see who is the #1 draft choice this year. You failed to list Andre Hastings, who played 7 years in the pro ranks. Which Tech player was taken number 1? That is what I thought. How about the tight ends, only 17% of the NFL tight ends are UGA grads. So why don’t you yahews; you half raised fools with no manners, go to your wonderful Tech, Bama, UT, and Gator sites? Oh yeah there aren’t any. Go home and tell your mommies! Oh yeah, true UGA fans wish the young man well, as I do and I have.

By: j

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:02:54 +0000

Where do they get these names from?????

By: The Voice of Reason

The Voice of Reason — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:30:42 +0000

Recruiting Skeptic

April 17th, 2009
1:24 am
Maybe Georgia didn’t offer earlier because their coaches didn’t think he was worth offering. He had to transfer from a AAAAA school to a AAA school that throws the ball a lot to get attention, and the numbers he put up were against inferior competition.

He was the No. 3 receiver at the school he left, and a senior ahead of him was not recruited by major schools. Either the coaches there completely missed on his talent, or maybe he’s not quite up to the hype he’s generated. He would not be the first high school prospect who was over-valued by the alleged talent experts.

From both academic and athletic standpoints, he is probably going to the right school.

Your assessmnet ranks merit and is damn near on point. The latter is true. The coaches at the AAAAA school were playing politics with kid.They did not miss the talent they took the talent for granted. His last school had several fathers of players on the staff. He was the only one last year that made transfered. Look for the exodus to continue this year where I know at least 3 studs are taking their services elsewhere.The was a starter as a sophomore. During the spring he became expendable due to some shady going ons. The kid can play. Playing in a lower classification does not mean that the talent is diminished. Washuan Ealy GA’s top running back recruit played “A” ball. I don’t care if you are playing rec ball if you can play you can play. Moving down in classification does negate that. GA screwed up thinking they can come in when they feel and get who they want. In the Metro Atlanta area there are alot of transplant with no loyalty to GA. The only die hard GA fans are those in rural GA. Those that live in Metro Atlanta are GA Grads from small towns in GA that live in Atlanta now. Ask them why did they not take their GA degree back home?