Dogs’ Bacarri Rambo calls truce in feud with Vols signee Da’Rick Rogers
ATHENS – Bacarri Rambo is ready to call a truce in his much-publicized war of words with Da’Rick Rogers.
“I’m going to try to be the better man,” Rambo said this afternoon, “and just let that die down and not say anything to him.”
UGA safety Rambo and Tennessee signee Rogers went at it on Facebook and Twitter earlier this month after Rogers, the heavily recruited wide receiver, reneged on his verbal commitment to Georgia and signed with the Vols. The exchange started with a Facebook update by Rambo, who wrote that it “is messed up how all of UGA high school commitments back out on us but I’m telling you now that when I catch you on the field I’m going to knock fire from you.” Rogers responded on Twitter: “Who is Bacarri Rambo?” Then Rambo returned the volley, and back and forth it went.
Rambo said today he didn’t intend the exchange to get personal.
“I mean, I wasn’t really directly talking to him,” Rambo said. “It was just something I was saying, like, I was shocked that you would say you were going to one school and then you change your mind at the last time and go to another school.
“It wasn’t directed to him. As a matter of fact, it was directed to no one. I was confused and curious why they do stuff like that. If he wanted to think it was him, well, I can’t stop him from thinking that. So it’s whatever.”
Rambo said most of his Twitter posts are uncontroversial: “I tweet everyday to tell people that follow me what I’m doing, like ‘I’m going to class,’ ‘I’m working out,’ ‘I’m about to go to sleep.’”
Back to football: Rambo spoke excitedly about his off-season work and Georgia’s new defensive backs coach, Scott Lakatos.
“I take notes on everything he says, know[ing] it’ll help me out in the long run,” Rambo said. “It’s a whole lot different, especially with the footwork Coach Lakatos is teaching us. Most of the people in the NFL run the same thing Coach Lakatos is teaching us. . . . I’ll imagine myself making more plays this year.”
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127 comments Add your comment
Louie
February 25th, 2010
5:18 pm
Well, where do I start.
jackhammer, looking for you son. Get your but in here.
Now, as I see it, rambo probably backed off Rogers BECAUSE he might not be able to back up his barking. You see, Rogers has the JETS to blow by rambo and leave him in the dust.
Smart move I think on rambo.
Wait and see.
STILL …
shane#1
February 25th, 2010
5:21 pm
I am glad to see a little attitude from a defensive player. It could be that penalties have been over stressed to the team as a whole. If so, it hasn’t worked, the penalties keep coming, but the team started playing soft. Not every penalty is a bad penalty. A player has to stand up for his teammates. In the USC North game a few years ago, a UGA LB was clipped right in front of their bench and no flag was thrown, yet no one did anything. Willie and half the team should have been in that Zebra’s face! Spikes hit Knowshon and laid on top of him for at least 10 seconds, where were the O linemen? Where were the linemen on all those borderline late hits on Stafford? Why didn’t a lineman or two get after Spikes after he tried to put out Ealey’s eyes? Part of lineman’s job is to protect the smaller players and it’s high time those 300 pounders started acting like linemen, on offense and defense. This team needs to develope a mean streak first, then worry about the penalties.
†ired of talkin
February 25th, 2010
5:24 pm
To S FL Chapter of the Bulldog Nation
Please turn on spell check and run some grammar checks before you hit submit, then maybe we won’t instantly know you’re idiot.
Louie
February 25th, 2010
5:26 pm
jackhammer—- ”Power’s not something you give, Power’s something you take. !!!!
I think Jaden was the quoter.
DawginLex
February 25th, 2010
5:34 pm
To the impostor, nice try but I assure you, I can count, I have a college degree from UGA and I’m smarter than the average nerd.
Yellow fuzz, is that you boy?
IDIOT whoever you are.
DawginLex
February 25th, 2010
5:36 pm
Bama stan,
Don’t need advice from you either. You couldn’t tell that was not me? You don’t pay very close attention do you?
Not Disappointed!
February 25th, 2010
5:38 pm
Rambo be the better man…. Good Luck young man.
Ramblin Wreck!
Paul The Vol
February 25th, 2010
6:02 pm
Blah, blah, blah. If there was a screening filter on these blogs that only allowed original, unique comments instead of the same tired, old stuff (fat, trailer, momma. teeth, we gonna whip your butt, Tech sucks, etc.) then this blog would consist of about two posts – and that would be refreshing!
DawginLex
February 25th, 2010
6:04 pm
Screening filter not really needed, the moderators handle that. What we need is the ability to have a unique blog handle supported by a single e-mail address so idiots can’t steal your handle and post crapola.
Debose
February 25th, 2010
6:10 pm
He shouldn’t have said anything to begin with.
http://www.webwiseforradio.com/site_files/323/Image/SFR_Pics/1102_Richt_Bird.JPG
Herschel Walker could whip your ass right now at 47
February 25th, 2010
6:15 pm
Trash talking…..I agree, lets win the battle ON the field, not off it.
Go Dawgs!
cbo
February 25th, 2010
6:16 pm
Have seen Rambo hit anyone yet
cbo
February 25th, 2010
6:17 pm
havent that is
GO VOLS!
February 25th, 2010
6:30 pm
Hey, just because we’re paying a coach who couldn’t cut it as a lawyer and used his dad’s connection to get himself a football job and then wound up finishing 4-8 last year in the WAC $1.8 million after we had gotten used by another guy who used his dad’s connections to get himself a football job doesn’t mean we’re a complete, utter joke. Come on, guys. Play nice.
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
February 25th, 2010
6:32 pm
per Rambo- they drew first blood. save it for the field my friend, hit’em with your body not your mouth. GO DAWGS!!!
jackhammer
February 25th, 2010
7:14 pm
Louie, I’m in. Are you still ‘on the air?’
jackhammer
February 25th, 2010
7:18 pm
Louie,
Missed all the hot air about Rambo and whoever. There are a lot more pressing things going on than the fued between a Tennessee player and a Furman reject who ended up with the pups.
jackhammer
February 25th, 2010
7:22 pm
Louie,
Power is something I take over ‘her.’
St. Hustler near Epps Plaza then
February 25th, 2010
7:35 pm
How about this then?
DawgInLex
February 25th, 2010
2:58 pm
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2:58 pm
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February 25th, 2010
2:59 pm
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February 25th, 2010
2:59 pm
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February 25th, 2010
2:59 pm
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February 25th, 2010
3:00 pm
that’s as high as I can count
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Louie
February 25th, 2010
7:37 pm
jackhammer.. still there son?
You’re not aksking the right questions.
You gotta be kidding !!
Louie Jr.
February 25th, 2010
7:50 pm
My son is a bigger loser than my father!
Louie Sr.
February 25th, 2010
7:51 pm
My grandson is a twit!
BIG DEE DEE DAWG
February 25th, 2010
7:58 pm
Roland Martin will show you where he goes , Roland Martin will show you what he knows.
Saint Richt
February 25th, 2010
8:00 pm
Rambo running scared…..what a B……..
Iraq Dawg.... HOOAH!
February 25th, 2010
8:03 pm
VolNation, dont call us puppies when your mascot smokey is a puppy himself comapared to our beloved UGA.
Eat and Tweet
February 25th, 2010
8:04 pm
Looks like Vandy is gonna put the dawgs 2 games below .500 as the threes are raining in. Guess Moreno didnt tweet about punching out a little ole nerd in a Athens bar brawl the other night . Guess he got away on a scooter just in time.
Floundering Fox Hounds Batman!
February 25th, 2010
8:14 pm
Vandy hit a killer backdoor alley oop on the dawgs…..
Tailback U
February 25th, 2010
8:15 pm
I am all for Rambo bringing down the rhetoric but let’s be clear.
Being the ” better man ” will be determined by what’s done on the
field and in the arena of life itself. Good luck on that, we
believe in you and look forward to your success Bacarri. BTW one thing
we should all agree on is that both players have great role models
in their HC’s if they will just take advantage of that fact.
Butt Cuts Galore
February 25th, 2010
8:17 pm
CMR has no control over his thug players period.
Bill
February 25th, 2010
8:24 pm
#81…Sounds like Richt had a talk with the young man. About time ………go dawgs.
BOOGIES THE MAN FROM HARTWELL GA
February 25th, 2010
8:25 pm
CAN’T WAIT TO SEE RAMBO TAKE OVER FULL TIME FOR BRYAN EVANS. HE WAS JUST GETTIN IN STRIDE WHEN HE WAS INJURED AGAINST AUBURN. LOOKING FORWARD TO 2010 GEORGIA DAWGS !!
Home sweet home to meeeeeee
February 25th, 2010
8:26 pm
Rambo Bimbo needs to shut his trap because the mighty Vols will put a beatdown on him and the 3 – 4 defense at the cow field this year !
Ten-a-sissy Fan Here .........
February 25th, 2010
8:34 pm
I wish Lame would come home. I’m tired of getting all my sugar from Smoky.
tsk, tsk
February 25th, 2010
8:39 pm
congrats DawgInLex, you’re ready for UGA grad school
This just in... GT adds Joe Speed -D Coach
February 25th, 2010
8:39 pm
CPJ thrilled as he can be at hiring of Coach Joseph Alston Speed. ”Giddy” is the word he described his new coaching hire. Coach Johnson was impressed after sitting in on defensive meeting with the players and their new coach.
Goooh dogs!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stinger in Deep
February 25th, 2010
8:41 pm
oyeeeeee vayyyyyyyyy
Floundering Fox Hounds Batman!
February 25th, 2010
9:24 pm
Turn out the lights the party is ova ! Vandy in OT !!!!!!
Jimmy
February 25th, 2010
9:26 pm
I personally don’t care if Rogers changed his mind…especially if he did it to be with his friend. I do have a problem with his waiting until the last minute to do it. This is why we need to stop the recruiting circus. Give these kids five visits with prospective schools total.
Allow coaches only two visits into the recruits home.
Allow schools to do two camps with multiple recruits.
No other contact allowed. No twitter, no email, no text messages, no phone calls.
Disqualify kids who appear on TV shows to discuss recruiting until AFTER they sign.
Then move signing day up to December.
End this circus.
ASHEVILLE DAWG
February 25th, 2010
9:30 pm
no comments worth making
Floundering Fox Hounds Batman!
February 25th, 2010
9:33 pm
O – 10 in conference away games !!!!! Mark Fox sat on the lead like CMR !!!! HA A HA HA VANDY !!!!!!!! Sisters of the poor school !!!!
Floundering Fox Hounds Batman!
February 25th, 2010
9:34 pm
GO GYM Dawgs !!!! ha ha ha ON espn !!!!!
Dawg Fan
February 25th, 2010
9:39 pm
Did the basketball team play tonight?
Floundering Fox Hounds Batman!
February 25th, 2010
9:44 pm
Bring back Tubby Please !!! HA HA HA HA
Delbert D.
February 25th, 2010
9:47 pm
“I’m going to try to be the better man”
Them’s fightin’ words!
REAL FORBES MAGAZINE
February 25th, 2010
11:16 pm
“I was confused and curious why they do stuff like that. If he wanted to think it was him, well, I can’t stop him from thinking that. So it’s whatever.”
Got to love that UGA vocabulary. Where does Richt get these guys?
Jeff in Calhoun
February 25th, 2010
11:19 pm
Rambo has qualified and will play. Rodgers may not be so lucky.
Jeff in Calhoun
February 25th, 2010
11:22 pm
I’m wondering when Nance tranfers to a smaller school after 2 years on the bench if Rodgers will tranfer with him? I think this is the question the Vol fans are wondering.
BuLLdawg
February 25th, 2010
11:45 pm
Last 4 years :
48 wins Florida
40 wins LSU
39 wins Alabama
38 wins Georgia Bulldogs
In the last 4 years, 14 losses by Coach Richt
In his last 4 years, 13 losses by Jim Donnan
And, we fired him for it.
Should we discuss Number 21 in wins the last 4 years right behind The Georgia Bulldogs ?
37 wins Texas Tech the last 4 years.
Texas Tech. That is who UGA is ahead of in wins the last 4 years as Texas Tech has 37 wins, one fewer than UGA.
DISNEYdawgs.com you wasting your time talking about Florida in the off-season with our 3 wins over Florida in the last 20 games two decades 3 wins, is like the Georgia tek Nerds coming in here and talking about UGA Bulldogs with Georgia tek’s 5 wins over UGA in the last 20 years with 4 of those 5 at Sanford Stadium.
Oh, now, we want to talk about Florida. I mean it is the off-season, right ? Time to discuss Florida.
Coach Richt beat Florida in 2004 finally in David Greene’s senior year by having David Greene throw the fewest passes he threw against Florida any year as UGA put up 31 points on Florida. But we still lost to the Tennessee vols with UGA scoring only 14 points and we still lost to Auburn with UGA scoring only 6 points.
Coach Richt beat Florida in 2007 in Knowshon Moreno’s first of only 2 years here playing when Knowshon had 33 rushes as we scored 42 points against Florida with Knowshon rushing for 3 TD and 188 yards. We lost that same year 2007 to the Tennessee vols with UGA scoring only 14 points on the vols when Knowshon was given only 13 rushes, and we lost to South Carolina the same year too with UGA scoring only 6 points when Knowshon was given only 14 rushes again.
2008 Knowshon got only 14 rushes against Florida in his second and last season for us to see him run. The final score was 10-49. Nice.
2009 well let’s not even go there 17-41 Florida.
2001 we scored only 10 points on Florida.
2002 we scored only 13 points on Florida.
2003 we scored only 13 points on Florida again.
2005 we scored only 10 points on Florida again.
2006 we scored only 14 points on Florida again.
So, now we come in here in February and talk about guess what ? UGA and our chances against guess who ? Florida.
53 interceptions and 82 fumbles the last 4 years on OFFENSE for UGA.
96 we have averaged NCAA Number 96 in the nation in PENALTIES the last 4 years too.
Now, I am quite certain someone has a list of excuses for all these 7 losses to Florida in the last 9 games against them, but as you can see the 7 losses to the Florida crocodiles over the last 9 years of the Coach Richt Era, have ALL been because of the Offense.
Do you think it might be ok, if we concentrate on our own OFFENSE and not focus on discussing Florida as either having a chink in their armor or not, when the issue very clearly is that UGA is in DECLINE and the reason for it is because of the CHINK in OUR OWN ARMOR on OFFENSE.
We are the 4th best team in our own Conference.
Only 3 of the astounding 14 LOSSES the last 4 years now have come against Florida; and now we field 3 freshmen quarterbacks who I am sure will all line up and run the plays without penalty, not fumble and not throw interceptions. Right ?
RED DOG 77
February 26th, 2010
12:01 am
Jeff in Calhoun, I was wondering the same thing. However, I’d like to see Rogers make it just long enough to run a crossing rout on that pretty green grass, ‘between the hedges’ this fall. I have a feeling a few wildeyed foaming at the mouth DOGS will have a word or two for him, with Bacarri Rambo leading the way with one of those RED helmets with the big ol “G” on it.
RED DOG 77
February 26th, 2010
12:07 am
Oh hell, BuLLdawg……….Go away, or go to bed, or go write a book, or go take your meds, or go fishing, or go do something productive for heavens sake man. Ther is not a person on here that reads your crap, so why write it ?