Richt on taxi incident: ‘I hope in the future people just reserve their opinions’
ATHENS — At his post-practice meeting with reporters Tuesday night, Georgia coach Mark Richt reacted at length to Monday’s statement by Athens-Clarke County police that UGA football players were not involved in an alleged March 28 attack on a married couple in an Athens taxi van. Police said the only UGA player in the cab acted as a peacemaker.
Richt’s reaction:
“I’m just glad that it all came out and that none of our guys were a problem. . . . The thing that is hard to take is just all the time and all the speculation and everybody just assuming it was our guys and assuming they would do these things.
“That’s just the thing about the Internet and police reports and all that kind of thing. It’s hard for anybody to really know what the reality is, but your mind starts racing and you start assuming things that may or may not be true. . . .
“That [why] the first time [reporters] asked me about it, I was, like, ‘I don’t want to underreact, I don’t want to overreact, because I really don’t know.’ Even me as a coach, I could assume that thing is true and get all bent out of shape and make myself crazy. But then on the other hand you don’t want to act like there’s not a possibility it could be. You don’t want to underreact or overreact. . . .
“I’m just thankful the news came out the way it did. . . . Let’s say it had taken another week or two. Who knows how much longer people would be forming their opinions on our guys when, in fact, they weren’t involved in this? That’s just kind of the way it goes. . . .
“I just hope that as much time as everybody spent reporting that, I hope they spend as much time reporting it was not our guys. If anything, somebody [the player who police said acted as a peacemaker] was trying to help out some people who needed help. . . . I hope in the future people just reserve their opinions and their posts and whatever they may have and just wait until you find all the information before you start throwing stones, you know.”
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cb
April 6th, 2010
9:35 pm
first, amen brother.
Popi
April 6th, 2010
9:46 pm
I just have a nagging feeling that we haven’t heard the full story.
Time will tell.
td
April 6th, 2010
9:46 pm
Let me add what you really wanted to say coach: I wish all these people that do not know their A** from a hole in the ground would just shut the F*** up and mind their own damn business.
SE GA LADY
April 6th, 2010
9:46 pm
You know the AJC is the first to criticize UGA and Tech is second to do so. You’ll never get apologies from either of them.
If I had money....
April 6th, 2010
9:47 pm
I don’t understand why anyone would jump to a conclusion????
2nd
Thirty Points To Your Twenty-Four Points
April 6th, 2010
9:56 pm
{{{{{30-24}}}}}
Just Sayin’
Greene Hornet
April 6th, 2010
9:59 pm
A very good tempered comment from the coach. I hope the players appreciate it and show that in practice and on the field with their play.
dixie
April 6th, 2010
10:02 pm
don’t worry, more arrests coming soon!
Bright Idea
April 6th, 2010
10:03 pm
This comes with the times but the internet makes it really bad, especially the AJC headlines. Clearly the folks at the AJC have been instructed to write them with a negative slant. That’s what attracts the mice! Many folks won’t read past the first sentence of the story before they are commenting.
Jimmy
April 6th, 2010
10:07 pm
Let’s see coach, you get paid millions a year because it’s FANS(like the morons who have been formulating opinions and posting them on blogs like these) who pay your salary. So if I were you I would appologize to them and be on my merry way.
Coaches and athletes love the money they make, but when it comes to hearing from the fans(as stupid and misinformed as their opinions can be) who pay their salaries they want no part in it. You can’t have it both ways coach.
merbertmoover
April 6th, 2010
10:08 pm
i think it was members of the tennis team, just using uga football players as a scapegoat, you know what im sayin?
Reuben Houston
April 6th, 2010
10:09 pm
Taxi incident? Thats nothing, I.ve got a 150 lbs of dope in my trunk.
Randy McMichael
April 6th, 2010
10:16 pm
And a recent member of this year’s team is still in jail….
Thanks for the input, Reuben!
Cherokee
April 6th, 2010
10:17 pm
Jimmy…my guess is that most of the people that post on here are not season ticket holders. Which would mean they don’t donate money to the Hartman Fundor the athletics dept so no they do not pay his salary.
Where there's smoke there's fire!
April 6th, 2010
10:20 pm
You sound a little uptight Markie. The incident was reported because it was more than likely true. Guess you lucked out on this one. It’s only a matter of time before the story is actually true. Team is a bunch of degenerates.
acstas87dawg
April 6th, 2010
10:24 pm
Hopefully in the future, stories like these will be false more often.
Face it fellow dawg fans, that FSU influence in Richt has led to an grossly unacceptable level of arrests and legal troubles.
What is the point of winning when your team is a bunch of outlaws?
Joe Hamilton
April 6th, 2010
10:32 pm
Houston…um…you holdin??
paul
April 6th, 2010
10:38 pm
Amen, preach it Coach Richt.
Some people like to throw them old stones.
Look Alive
April 6th, 2010
10:40 pm
It seems as if the vultures that get on these blogs are very disappointed that there is no bad news just good news from this ajc blog. I bet they have their beak up their arse trying to find something dirty. Just look in a mirror and you will find all the vermin you are looking for. cheer up guys there is plenty of bad news around the country can you say the recently passed health care debacle.
Old Dawg
April 6th, 2010
10:52 pm
At least CMR didn’t threaten any sports writers that they’d lose their ability to cover the team like someone we all know and don’t love. It’s difficult taking the high road with a situation like this, but CMR displayed a lot of class, unlike the special someone in Florida, whom we all know and don’t love.
Reality
April 6th, 2010
10:53 pm
How many problems can Richt sweep under the rug? How many players of his will be “falsely” accused? What other group of guys get into so much trouble – and then suddenly they are innocent?
UGA is now officially worse than FSU or Miami in terms of players wannabe thugs.
Slim
April 6th, 2010
10:53 pm
UGA will only win two games this year. Mark it down! Georgia is on its way down…..
A...Blank
April 6th, 2010
10:55 pm
someone should demand an apology from “The sporting News” that rag was all over the story and printed an article about UGA players basically made them guilty from the beginning
Iraq Dawg.... HOOAH!
April 6th, 2010
10:56 pm
Amen coach….. HOOAH!
UGA Alumnus
April 6th, 2010
11:02 pm
Jimmy you don’t pay our Coaches salary, I do with my donations to the athletic association, my ticket purchases, and the enourmous amount of apparel I buy every year. You should worry about your sorry coach, Paul “Man Boobs” Johonson! The people who do pay CMR’s salary are, for the most part, extremely happy with the integrity and honor he brings to our program. Most of the Klans man who were posting their ignorant comments on the AJC blogs about this situation are not contibuting to our Athletic Departments 6 million dollar surplus. I’m sorry Tech’s is going bankrupt!
UGA Alumnus
April 6th, 2010
11:04 pm
The Sporting News should be sued for slander!
Reality
April 6th, 2010
11:13 pm
I never get in trouble because my mom makes me be at home by 10:30 pm each night, including weekends. I can then wake up every morning and vent my fustration by writing on any BLOG about UGA. I hate UGA and my life so much that I live for these moments.
col fot
April 6th, 2010
11:14 pm
you can bet techie tucker will not let it die[ taxi cab incident at Georgia], he wants to slam the university Georgia players any way he can. What bull…. reporting. What he needs to focus on is academic fraud, drugs and weapons at that school on North Avenue, but he won’t, because he hates Georgia to much. Who the hell allowed him to do Georgia reporting anyway?
Where there's smoke there's fire!
April 6th, 2010
11:17 pm
I guess what I am saying is crime is a lot worse around the gt campus than is being reported.
UGA Alumnus
April 6th, 2010
11:19 pm
Slim, if we do only win two games you can bet that one of them will be against the North Avenue Nerds! Mark that down!
Popi
April 6th, 2010
11:21 pm
My mistake, that nagging feeling I was talking abot was (((((30-24)))).
DollarDawg43
April 6th, 2010
11:30 pm
It is interesting to see the number of posters here who have no connection to UGA and/or are not fans or supporters of the program. For those who continue to wish the football program was in decline: sorry, not happening, we are headed the other way. Yeah, we had a bit of a down year last season but we started another winning streak against our in-state rival and will win another seven out of ten, just like we have done for the last four decades or so. We also addressed personnel changes relative to the coaching staff and we will see immediate improvement there.
For the other segment that somehow believes March Richt is on thin ice at UGA: More errant wishful thinking. I won’t lie and write that I am a major contributor but I know several who are and am fortunate to attend many functions and games with them (I’m a third generation UGA man and a consistent contributor but not one at that level). The vast majority of these folks are extremely satisfied with Coach Richt so, if you are concerned with his future employment possibilities, please put that thought out of your mind and go worry about something else. This one you can check off the list.
HanDAWG
April 6th, 2010
11:39 pm
Coach Mark Richt is great man first and football coach second. http://www.bighairyblawg.com
rekingball
April 6th, 2010
11:55 pm
oh yeah!
LCDawg
April 6th, 2010
11:57 pm
The “tech” fans who post on here are pathetic. Go to your own sad little blog world and cry about how playng UGA isn’t fair…blah, blah, blah
rekingball
April 7th, 2010
12:02 am
Info for some of the idiots on this rag. You’re innocent until proven guilty.
10:24pm post — Congratulations, you win the MORON OF THE NIGHT award for-CMR has brought criminal influence from FSU.
Ramma Bama
April 7th, 2010
12:11 am
Richt’s program is out of control with all these stories, peacemakers at 2AM in taxis, arrests, etc. He needs to call Nick Saban for advice on how to run a clean program and win national titles. Look for title #14 next season—Bama’s better than ever! Their offense is loaded, D is filled with top talent and no team in the SEC can match up—mark it down—bama wins it all again!!!
BuLLdawg
April 7th, 2010
12:26 am
Should we all reserve all of our opinions on this Number 90 arrest / suspension of a Georgia Bulldogs’ Football Player in the Coach Richt Era, without so much as an explanation how 4 were picked up by the Taxi and 1 of them an UGA Football Player ?
It remains not a pretty picture for a football program who has lost 10 of the last 20 games vs SEC East teams, while leading the nation in interceptions, fumbles and penalties the last 4 consecutive seasons as well.
It does not exclude the 2 arrests of 2 Georgia Bulldogs’ Football Players since Spring Practice began, including picking a girl up and repeatedly throwing her to the ground April 2 – after 2 previous arrests by the same Georgia Bulldogs’ Football Player. This included beating up the University of Georgia coed the first time October 20. You suspended him for Shreveport Bowl Game. Then bashing her vehicle November 30 another 2 game suspension to begin the 2010 season. All of these events happened when he was a Georgia Bulldogs’ Football Player. 3 arrests by Montez Robinson as a Georgia Bulldogs’ Football Player. Montez Robinson 20 played as a true freshman last year after being ranked the Number 8 best at his position in the nation, and the top football player at all positions in his state. Montez Robinson’s Arrest for beating up a girl, repeatedly picking her up Friday and slamming her repeatedly into the floor at McWhorter Hall is the Number 90 Arrest / Suspension by a Coach Richt Georgia Bulldogs’ Football PLAYER. This follows the March 7 arrest of one of the leading candidates to be in fact the Starting Quarterback this up-coming season. He by the way would have been a better option than playing flu-ridden sore shoulder Joe Cox against Oklahoma State. This is Zach Mettenberger 18 Georgia Bulldogs’ Football Player arrested for obstruction, disorderly conduct and underage alcohol. The 1st Georgia Bulldogs’ Football Player arrested since Spring Practice began has been suspended for at least 1 game, so he cannot be the Starting Quarterback for that game. The 2nd Georgia Bulldogs’ Football Player arrested since Spring Practice began previously was suspended for the Shreveport Bowl Game when it was determined that he had beat up a girl. And he also already was suspended for both the 1st game next year AND the South Carolina game already for bashing her vehicle lights. Now he has been kicked off the team, as he remains in jail with family member in Alabama saying he would pay the bond but has not been allowed to pay the bond until the previous Judge who gave Georgia Bulldogs’ Football Player Montez Robinson Probation, determines his punishment for violation of his Probation for previously beating up a girl.
Not a good start to this year’s Spring Practice. Summer looms.
C from Marietta
April 7th, 2010
12:29 am
Ramma Bama,
You can’t be serious. Can you? Bama “invented” cheating in college football.
Big D Dawg
April 7th, 2010
12:31 am
rammaaa bammma, we’re watching the next fall from grace, lets see…. 21 victories vacated, 3 yrs probation….. NEXT
UGA Alumnus
April 7th, 2010
12:32 am
BuLLDawg: Will you please come out of the closet already and quit claiming to be a fan of my Alma Mater?
C from Marietta
April 7th, 2010
12:34 am
BuLLdawg,
Look around. It’s not only UGA. Other schools have these problems too. Tenn., Florida, and even Tech have had these problems. As Rossi would say. I am sensing a pattern in your blog. Hint Hint. Your no UGA fan. Your a Tech fan posing as a UGA supporter.
Big D Dawg
April 7th, 2010
12:37 am
according to a friend of mine in gainesville ga, who is a supposed friend with buLLdawgsass, he is a very bitter dawg who thinks he’s a coach and as Tiger says entitled
so buLLdawgsass, are you exposed now?
Don'twastepisson tech
April 7th, 2010
12:40 am
Just wondering when does the “Thug” label apply…. Resisting arrest? Drunken disorderly conduct? Under Age Drinking? Falling off balcony while threatening someone while under age drinking? Getting into drunken fights while underage drinking or drinking period? or just doing any of the above while being black at the same time? I just need to be clear on this for future reference.
BuLLdawg
April 7th, 2010
12:46 am
“Look around. It’s not only UGA. Other schools have these problems too. Tenn., Florida, and even Tech have had these problems.”
You are NO University of Georgia graduate. I don’t give a flip if Tennessee had 9 arrested in 1995 and 20 arrested 2004 to 2006 under Phil Fulmer. I don’t give a flip if 24 were arrested since Urban Meyer was made head coach at Florida. I do give a flip that Georgia tek played Reuben Houston against UGA AFTER he admitted to the AJ-C that he held his child on his lap on Georgia tek’s campus with the 90 lbs of drugs he was attempting to set up a sale of before he leaped from the van and ran across Georgia tek’s campus.
I also give a flip that The University of Georgia continues to have our good name smeared. You don’t. I do.
RED DOG 77
April 7th, 2010
12:54 am
Ah, yes………another exciting episode of ” YeLLow JAckET “……..aka……..” Little Miss Debbie Downer “……..aka……..” Miss BuLLdawg “………….Well, ” Miss BuLLdawg “………I’m so dadgum proud of coach Mark Richt…….I could just punch a GT yellow Jacket right square in the nose……………Now post a response “BuLLdawg”, but please, please, please, please….Don’t write a book about it………Please?
BuLLdawg
April 7th, 2010
12:58 am
90 arrested / suspended University of Georgia Bulldogs’ Football PLAYERS documented on The Internet in the Coach Richt Era
AND
Losers of 10 of the last 20 football games against just SEC East teams while we have averaged in these 4 years of 10 SEC East LOSSES alone 21 fumbles a year all 4 years 14 interceptions a year all 4 years and averaged the NCAA # 96 in Penalties all 4 years of 10-10 SEC East Record.
90 arrested / suspended in the Coach Richt Era AND LOSERS of 10 SEC East games the last 4 years.
It is 1 problem to have LOST 10 SEC East Games ALONE the last 4 years now. It is altogether quite another to LOSE 10 SEC East Games in our own Division of our own Conference, removing us from the national STAGE, and quite another problem ALTOGETHER to ALSO have 90 arrested / suspended in the 9-year Coach Richt Era WHILE we have LOST 10 SEC East Games of the last 20.
A theme ?
Duh.
UGA Alumnus
April 7th, 2010
1:00 am
BuLLDawg: Who should replace Mark Richt? What should he do differently? How could our program meet your expectations? You only post negative comments about our school while conviently leaving out any solutions. You must be a very miserable person whose own team, GT, sucks so bad that the only thing you can do to deal with your pathetic life is pose as a disgruntled Georgia fan. What a sad, lonely life you must live!
BuLLdawg
April 7th, 2010
1:09 am
I don’t want to replace Coach Richt. I want him to (1) Fire Rodney Garner (2) Fire Mike Bobo (3) Fire the RB who is our WR coach (4) Fire our WR is our RB coach (5) Fire the QB who is the TE coach. (6) Beat the vols not be 1-3 the last 4 vs vols (7) beat Florida not be 1-3 the last 4 vs them too both in our own Division (8) run the football (9) have Todd Grantham determine EVERY PLAYER on EVERY DEPTH CHART offense, defense and Special Teams (10) spend at least $750,000 a year on Offensive Coordinator and more than that on the rest of the Offensive staff so that Coach Richt can be the Head Coach not the Offensive Coordinator QB coach, RB coach, WR coach, TE coach and try to figure out why UGA is in decline these last 4 years of 10 SEC East LOSSES alone.
Amazing
April 7th, 2010
1:09 am
Sorry Coach Richt, people are NOT going to reserve their opinions. I’m sure there are alot of jerks very disappointed that this story wasn’t true. No matter how much class you display, there are some that will criticize you because you haven’t won a N.C., or you’re too nice a guy, or you’re too religious, etc. Fortunately, most real Ga. fans know you are a !st rate coach, as well as a 1st rate person. Looking forward to G-day and the up-coming season. Go Dawgs!
Amazing
April 7th, 2010
1:19 am
BuLLDawg, I don’t know what you do for a living, probably nothing. I can’t imagine anything worse than having you for a boss, or an employee for that matter. You really need to seek help! You must have had a bad childhood or something. Seriously, get some counseling. I hate to see anyone that unhappy!
BuLLdawg
April 7th, 2010
1:23 am
I was convinced this was never a story, and reserved my opinion on it until now that a Georgia Bulldogs’ Football Player was out at 2 am drunk according to the reports hanging out with 3 others who very clearly did assault and commit battery both a woman and a man, whom he then had to defend as the 3 guys he was picked up with at 2 am Sunday night a week ago (Monday 2 am) made it quite clear that he knew exactly whom it was he The Georgia Bulldogs’ Football player (obviously the 1 recruited LAST YEAR) was out on the town with. Thugs of this obvious nature were not just all of a sudden this way with the woman and the man in the Taxi. They always are this way. And, he had to be peace maker. By the way, he did a fine job of being peace maker with his 3 buds, who by the way will be in prison for quite some time to come for that which they did do.
BuLLdawg
April 7th, 2010
1:42 am
You see ?
You are supposed to be 2-faced if you want to be a University of Georgia Bulldogs’ fan. You are supposed to say how horrible the vols were under Phil Fulmer getting 20 arrested / suspended in a couple of years before he was fired, how horrible Urban Meyer was having 24 arrested / suspended as soon as he got to Florida, how horrible Alabama is having NCAA take away their wins for allowing their football players to get books and then sell them for cash and play their players, and saying how there is NO EXCUSE for ACTUALLY PLAYING Reuben Houston the whole entire football game against UGA after his Felony Arrest / Suspension; but when our own players are LOSERS of 10 of the last 20 games against SEC East teams alone the last 4 years and have now 90 arrested / suspended, you are supposed to make up EXCUSES and say oh we kicked him off the team never mind he was arrested 3 times as a University of Georgia Bulldogs’ Football player for beating up a girl repeatedly, and he was only on a side alley on a scooter and it’s not bad that an 18-year old is drunk, obstructing the police in the 1st place which is why they figured out he was drunk and disorderly conduct yelling at the police who were trying to break up a brawl, and now reserve opinion on a 2 a.m. drunk football player doing such a fine job of defusing the situation in the Taxi with his 3 thug hoodlum friends he is out on the town with that they ONLY told the woman that she would love her some of his big … that they ONLY slapped the man and hit the woman.
That’s how you be a good Bulldog fan, while we are in decline LOSING 10 of the last 20 SEC East games. You certainly cannot be a good Bulldog fan and say this is all just excessively much.
Mark Fox
April 7th, 2010
2:27 am
Tweet!
None of my players get arrested! Oh wait…nevermind.
Terreal Bierra
April 7th, 2010
2:31 am
Yo Reuban ain’t got nothin on me.
I straight up murder people! Drug dealing is for pansies. Woof woof woof!
http://www.ajc.com/sports/former-uga-player-charged-167891.html
BuLLdawg
April 7th, 2010
2:33 am
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barneyb
April 6th, 2010 11:30 am
“I hate to agree with Saint Simons. I’m an alumn, but there is some truth to UGA becoming Thug U. CMR better grow a set and come down hard on these young men. Building character? How? When a team depends on you and you pull the stupid stunts and criminal acts that some of them have, one has to wonder if the inmates are running the institution. This has been a perfect storm brewing. If you gave me a free ride to UGA, I wouldn’t be getting tanked at downtown bars or beating up women. Disgusting.”
Arrests from 2005-2009
April 7th, 2010
2:43 am
Michael Lemon (aggravated battery)
Justin Anderson (simple battery)
Trinton Sturvidant (simple battery)
Blake Barnes (furnishing alcohol to a minor)
Tripp Chandler (minor in possession of alcohol)
Brandon Wood (DUI)
Kelvin Perez (DUI)
Vince Vance (knowingly driving with a suspended license)
Donovan Baldwin (DUI, reckless driving)
Fred Munzenmaier (underage possession of alcohol)
Jeff Henson (public urination)
Clint Boling (DUI)
Jeremy Lomax (reckless driving, possession of a concealed weapon without a license)
Matthew Prick (underage alcohol possession)
Tanner Strickland (fake identification)
Paul Taylor (battery)
Shane McCleskey (battery)
Akeem Hebron (underage possession of alcohol)
Antonio Sims (DUI)
Ian Smith (public intoxication)
Marquis Elmore (driving with a suspended license)
Dannell Ellerbe (DUI)
Kedrick Golston (disorderly conduct, bar fight)
Derrick White (disorderly conduct, bar fight)
Tavares Kearney (simple battery)
Derrick White (DUI)
Zeb McKinzey (underage possession of alcohol)
Darrius Swain (driving with a suspended license)
Michael Turner (possession of less than an ounce of marijuana)
Rennie Curran (theft, taking a parking boot worth $350)
Mark Richt (stealing Helen Hunt’s face)
BuLLdawg
April 7th, 2010
3:09 am
That’s 91 arrested / suspended in the Coach Richt Era. I did not have him on the list of 90 when he was arrested January 2001. I said I don’t have all of them. I know that I recall that there was quite a storm from the day we hired Coach Richt 2 am December 20, 2000. As a matter of fact, it was so bad that Vince Dooley had to FORCE Coach Richt to show up. Coach Richt said that he wanted to go a coaches’ convention, and Vince MADE HIM come here instead. You recall he wanted to stay at FSU and coach them in that LOSING horrible offensive performance for FSU’s “potential national championship.” After the blow-out loss, he still did not come here. And, like I say wanted to then even go to a coaches’ convention for assistant coaches. Coach Richt was our head coach, and Terreal Bierria was our leading tackler for Coach Richt 2001. That’s 91 arrrests / suspensions documented on the Internet in the Coach Richt Era.
There is only 1 Derek recruited here last season. He then would be underage. 2:04 a.m. they waited until Wednesday to come forward on the assault and battery multiple counts. 1 of the witnesses said the 4 were drunk, right ? I am thinking this is brewing into 92. And, still the number is higher.
BuLLdawg
April 7th, 2010
3:23 am
Your list sucks.
You list 30 of the 56 University of Georgia Bulldogs’ Football Players arrested / suspended starting 2005 and ending 2009.
AMSTERDAM SAM
April 7th, 2010
4:19 am
It is amazing how you barely ambling wrecks as Georgia VO-Tech refuse to let sound reasoning enlighten you (no Georgia player involved) and just drop the subject as the police have and move on with your pitiful little lives and buzz away. I guess winning only one game every ten years does that. Are there no Wrecked-Tech blogs you can go to, or is the attendance there the sam as at your games – nonexciting and virtually nonexitent. And why don’t you change your mascot to what it should really bee – bumbling bees? Shoo off our blog.
JJ
April 7th, 2010
4:38 am
Atleast UGA students aren’t idiot astonauts, stupid fighter pilots or anti-American terrorists.
Brenda
April 7th, 2010
5:15 am
hey CMR, get with it. if we heard “coach richt was arrested for starting a fight in a taxi” we would have doubts because that would seem out of the ordinary, right? but because you have created FSU-North-Thug-U in Athens, it doesnt seem to hard to believe. Was I wrong to think “I bet Montez beat her ass” when I saw he had been arrested again? dont be such a baby, CMR. this is bigboy football, not prayer circle 101.
bob
April 7th, 2010
5:21 am
We also found out that Tiger’s wife was using the golf club to save him after the wreck. You bloggers jumped to the wrong conclusion there as well.
Who cares? Hey Richt, how about playing for a SEC championship sometime.
Notso Fast
April 7th, 2010
5:27 am
Coach R makes a good point. Why would anyone jump the gun and think a Bulldog player might be involved with legal problems? Look at the record and I think you can understand. I’m still not real sure that they weren’t and that is bad.
dagnabit
April 7th, 2010
5:51 am
Let me get this right; a press conference to whine about football players not being involved in breaking the law. Is this a slow day for Mark? Or is Mark just slow.
DawgNation
April 7th, 2010
6:00 am
BuLLdawg,
You must have been tired tonight just staying up till 3.23 am after coming home from you night shift job. I am assuming you are not allowed to talk much less express your insane opinions at work and you have to run home and jump on the AJC to get all your frustrations off. Do you pre write all that cr@p? You really have nothing to add to any subject here. Please find another team to be a so called fan of and post on their blogs. You obviously have no clue about what you are blabbering about.
God bless him....
April 7th, 2010
6:04 am
Richt is a good guy, but he sure isnt the sharpest knife in the drawer.
dc
April 7th, 2010
6:22 am
Why do athletes put themselves in situations where things like this are beleiveable??
jerry
April 7th, 2010
7:04 am
Once again, how did the police come to the conclusion that the player was a “peacemaker”? Did they ask the player what his role was and he said “peacemaker”?
Dixie=Idiot
April 7th, 2010
7:14 am
Yeah Dixie! More arrest to come after the Dogs slam, and I mean slam GT this year in Athens. It will be such a brutal beatdown….y’all might need to call law enforcement to stop the slam down that will occur ‘tween the hedges.
Mark
April 7th, 2010
7:22 am
don’t usually agree with BuLLdawg but his post at 1:42 AM has ALOT of truth in it
AltamahaDawg
April 7th, 2010
7:25 am
The guilty parties seem to be tripping over each other to raise thier hands in here this morning.
Let it be
April 7th, 2010
7:38 am
its over move on! GATA
dawgma
April 7th, 2010
7:39 am
Yeah – the dawgs may have jailbirds BUT we still beat the dope smuggling, credit card stealing Jackets!
Nativebird
April 7th, 2010
7:39 am
CMR, it’s tough being a major college HC with all the money and fame that comes with it…isn’t it. We’re all just broken hearted over ya buddy. Really. (sniffle).
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April 7th, 2010
7:46 am
Just recruit players with better character and start beating Kentucky and Florida like CMR is paid to do. Stay off the front page news and get back on the front sport page in wins!
Bwaaaahhhhhhhh
April 7th, 2010
7:47 am
CMR ony needs to blame himself for this mess.
Bwaaaahhhhhhhh
April 7th, 2010
7:51 am
CMR hasnt handled off field problems as well as he should have. One game suspension for you know who… Really?
buzz
April 7th, 2010
7:57 am
This is good news and I am happy that the truth prevailed and that these young mens lives were not ruined by false accusations.
Dawg Tired
April 7th, 2010
7:59 am
I’m just gald BuLLdawg is not our coach.
Paddy
April 7th, 2010
8:06 am
Jimmy………if you don’t like paying for part of CMR salary, stop donating to the Assn. You can contain your anger by just withholding your own money. Case closed. Don’t you feel better now?
shreveport
April 7th, 2010
8:10 am
{{{shreveport}}} just sayin’
17 of 20
April 7th, 2010
8:16 am
Ya’ll get off the coaches back. I think he is doing a great job.
dap01
April 7th, 2010
8:19 am
Imagine what Urban Myers reaction would have been. It is nice to have a balanced coach like CMR.
Tim Teblow
April 7th, 2010
8:25 am
Can someone please not allow “BullDawg” and “Reality” to use this blog anymore?? It’s obvious that they are unstable and need counseling. I feel like they may kill themselves if the Bulldogs lose to Tennessee or Florida! Come on guys, it’s just a game. I love the Dawgs too but at the end of the day, they just played a football game!
Gen Neyland
April 7th, 2010
8:25 am
Tune up your harp, polish your old halo…In a mad rush to become the ‘first’ to break yet another big story regarding student-athletes gone wild, somebody fumbled..?
We're still here
April 7th, 2010
8:25 am
45-42 in the Greatest Game Ever Played. It was magical that November evening in 2008. The glow continues.
Jim n Buckhead
April 7th, 2010
8:38 am
The Sporting News was the worse one but I doubt that there will be a correction….
9 of 10
April 7th, 2010
8:38 am
(((9 out of 10))) just sayin’. Thanks for all the wins!
Georgia Fan
April 7th, 2010
8:40 am
“Greatest Game Ever Played” ?!?!?
BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Blue
April 7th, 2010
8:46 am
I’ll “reserve my opinion” when he stops giving breaks to kids like Robinson that have already proven that they are not worthy of the school giving him a scholarship for ANY reason.
Gen Neyland
April 7th, 2010
8:46 am
BuLLdawg says :”I also give a flip that The University of Georgia continues to have our good name smeared. You don’t. I do.”
BuLLdung, if UGA wasn’t on the ’smeared list’, they would be Vandy…
UGA89
April 7th, 2010
8:58 am
I call BS. Richt has to take some responsibility because of the type of athlete’s he has been bringing in over the last few years. When was it, less than two years ago, when there was a stretch of time where about a dozen UGA football players –not UGA athletes– but specifically UGA football players were arrested for one thing or another.
It’s a little difficult to ‘reserve your opinions’ on a UGA athlete being reported as in trouble with the law when you’ve seen it so many times before. Perhaps Richt should check his opinions of the type of athlete’s he’s bringing in to my alma-mater –he’s failed too many times in terms of what a ’student’athlete’ is supposed to be.
Lake Oconee Dawg
April 7th, 2010
8:59 am
Jimmy:
Coach ain’t living on your money, Jimmy…Just cause you pull for the dawgs, probably only when they’re winning, you have no rights here…
Bulldawg: YOU’RE THE ONE WHO NEEDS TO BE FIRED….GO BACK ANOTHER TEAM, YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO BULLDOG FANS, PLAYERS, COACHES, AND EVERYTHING BULLDOG….YOU PROBABLY A TECH GUY IN DISGUISE….
Barack Dawg
April 7th, 2010
9:00 am
Jimmy – Mark Richt nor any other high paid coach gets paid to hear from the fans. They get paid to produce results and win. He has done his job. The worst year he has had 8 – 5 last year.
Now the issue is exactly as he pointed out:
1. You morons get on the blog and start spewing what you think the situation is.
2. The media is an entertainment business not a news business so they don’t report the whole story on anything and always slant it to what is going to get people interested.
The problem is the fans / people / society because they are only interested in the negative not the positive. If that was not the case, then the entertainment industry would not have to slant it that way to get people to read.
Likewise, American Society has ADD and can’t focus for more than 30 seconds anyway and could not gather a real collective thought without having the media tell you what to think so just go back to the North Ave Trade School blog and stay off the UGA blog.
Bama Fans need a Reality Check
April 7th, 2010
9:05 am
Ramma Bama,
CLEAN PROGRAM & Alabama, NEVER go in the SAME sentence unless the word NOT is also included. Tell us how clean ol’ Nicky is running the program when he keeps 15 coaches on his staff, 6 of which are disguised as “graduate assistants” since the legal maximum is 9. Tell us about how the same guy who was the key cog in landing UCF in hot water for recruiting violations which lead to 2 years probabtion for their football program is now the SAME guy who is Alabama’s DIRECTOR OF PLAYER PERSONNEL, one Ed Marynowitz, aka “YOUR CHEATING HERO”. Bama never has & never will run a “CLEAN program”, you know it, I know it, we all know it. That said, you and the rest of your blind-homer, hypocritcal brethren can keep on yelling RTR but the only time Bama is playing by the rules is when the NCAA steps in, slaps em’ with probation and oversees the criminal operation that is the Alabama football program. My advice to you & all other Bama blowhards, truly relish & enjoy your football success while you can, ol’ NCAA investigation committee is just a phone call away from putting your cheating program back under the microscope where they have proven time & time again, is exactly where they belong!
Roll CHEATING Tide Roll!
DawginLex
April 7th, 2010
9:09 am
Bulldawg,
Your constant bashing does no good other than to raise your own blood pressure. The only thing Ray goff ever said during his tenure as head coach worth quoting is this “if you are pleasing everybody, you probably ain’t doing nothing”.
If you want a perfect world where everybody behaves, you aren’t going to get it. That extends to the world in general and to the football team at UGA.
Coach Richt is probably a much better man than he is a coach but he is still a pretty darn good coach. He has made tough decisions and will continue to make them. He is an honorable God fearing man and I’m proud to have him as our coach.
Go spew your venom somewhere else because all of us are sick of reading it.
Georgia Fan
April 7th, 2010
9:12 am
I agree with other Dawg fans’ sentiment that it’s difficult to not jump to conclusions when it’s been a regular occurrence the past few off seasons for a slew of arrests/incidents to occur. There in fact was a UGA football player involved, thankfully not in the light that was originally cast. Sports writers should be held to a higher standard, but can CMR really blame fans for assuming the worst? Get real, Mark…or better yet, go a few seasons with ZERO arrests and then tell fans to lay off.
Second, why does CMR give a hoot about posts on pages like this and others that are critical of his program? The proverbial “opinions are like a-holes” applies — if I were CMR, I would tell all of my players that I prefer them not to read the blogs but if they choose to do so, take everything that is posted with a grain of salt because the opinions are likely misinformed at best.
He sounds a little like Tiger did at the 1st press conference — the private one. You get paid the big bucks to stand in the limelight — sometimes the heat is turned up but hey, that comes with the territory. Deal with it.
Yellow Cab
April 7th, 2010
9:17 am
We like a peacemaker riding in our cab at 2:00 a.m. on a monday before PRACTICE !
SEC links: Archie denied sixth season at USC « MrSEC.com
April 7th, 2010
9:20 am
[...] Mark Richt reacts to taxi incident aftermath, reports Tim Tucker of the AJC. [...]
24 Florida Players Arrested...
April 7th, 2010
9:21 am
Every team in the SEC has players arrested, nothing new reported on this thread at all.
For those who havn’t seen it yet, unlike others on this thread hwo make claims but don’t back them up, Meyer has had 24 players arrested during his run at Florida, here’s a breakdown of the 24 arrests:
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/sports_college_uf/2009/06/janoris-jenkinscharge-misdemeanor-affray-and-resisting-arrest-without-violence-for-his-role-in-a-may-30-fight-outside-a-down.html
Gators Break Law 251 Times
April 7th, 2010
9:24 am
In another area, Florida Gator football players have broken the law an additional 251 times during Meyer’s BRIEF stay at Florida, about 50 per year.
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2009-12-22/sports/os-uf-traffic-tickets-1223-20091222_1_dui-charge-charges-don-t-result-traffic-citations
Me
April 7th, 2010
9:25 am
And as long as we’re banishing “BuLLdog” and “Reality” from these blogs can we nix “Tim Teblow” as well. Low class and disrespectful is the person behind that moniker… plus the guy doesn’t even play for the hated Gators anymore. Get a new line, pal.
Stone Thrower
April 7th, 2010
9:25 am
We throw them cause they are an easy target and usually correct.
Delusional Dawg
April 7th, 2010
9:26 am
When did patrick get out of rehab??
Joe
April 7th, 2010
9:28 am
I like it- the first time out of literally a hundred times the “public” is wrong my main man Richt feels a need to chastise- what is really like to live in a glass house?
Checker Cab
April 7th, 2010
9:30 am
“Peace”………. at 2:00 a.m. in a cab full of thugs from Heard County.
Southside
April 7th, 2010
9:30 am
As long as you recruit thug like athletes, you will get this conduct. The University should address the taxi cab procedures. How come the driver picked up 4 guys who had been clubbing when he already had a couple in the cab? Worse still is why the player was clubbing with these guys who hit a woman. You can bet it hasn’t been the 1st time
jimbo dogs
April 7th, 2010
9:34 am
Please share the link to ALL the websites of all journalists who say Georgia has had 90 players arrested under Richt. I havn’t seen those links yet. Thanks in advance for sharing this evidence of your accusations. I’m sure that will be quick and easy for you to pull up.
Taxi Driver
April 7th, 2010
9:36 am
His Mo-Ped broke down and I gave him a ride at 2:00 a.m.
Give our players better treatment
April 7th, 2010
9:39 am
A Limo would have been more appropriate.
McDawg
April 7th, 2010
9:42 am
moped alert moped alert another player arressted
Georgia Fan
April 7th, 2010
9:42 am
See “Southside” comments for a perfect example of a misinformed opinion. “The University should address the taxi cab procedures” What in the hell are you talking about? There are PRIVATE cab companies in Athens that shuttle Athens area residents around town. It’s not like it’s a friggin school bus.
Also, the cabs in Athens are BIG VANS — like a church van that can hold 15-20 people. Especially when the bars close at 2:00 a.m., there is a mad rush to get in a cab as fast as you can. The drivers let as many drunks as can squeeze in then make the rounds at $4-$5 a piece, only to return downtown to fill up another load. Sometimes you wait for 30-45 min for a cab to show up, depending on the size of the crowd downtown. While you wait, it isn’t uncommon to grab a hot dog or a bratwurst from the Grill. Bottom line is that you will go to jail if you try to drive from downtown after the bars close so the cabs (a.k.a. VANS) are really the only option.
10% of Gator Players Under Meyer Get Arrested
April 7th, 2010
9:43 am
Accoring to the Orlando Sentinel, under 5% of the general population get arrested, yet 10% of players Meyer recruits get arrested. What does this say when Meyer’s arrest rate for his players is 2X higher than the general population’s?
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2009-06-06/sports/collegeinsider_1_number-of-arrests-urban-meyer-uf
OVER-RATED
April 7th, 2010
9:43 am
Richt is already making excuses for another losing season.
DawginLex
April 7th, 2010
9:43 am
HEY OVER-RATED,
DawginLex
April 7th, 2010
9:44 am
LIST THE PREVIOUS LOSING SEASON THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOOTBALL TEAM HAD UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF COACH MARK RICHT.
DawginLex
April 7th, 2010
9:44 am
I WILL POP SOME POPCORN AND AWAIT YOUR RESPONSE
wes
April 7th, 2010
9:44 am
Sorry, Mark. Typically where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
Run a clean program and folks will stop assuming the worst about your boys.
OVER-RATED
April 7th, 2010
9:45 am
I stand corrected, playing in the New Orleans Bowl last year was a highpoint of his career.
DawginLex
April 7th, 2010
9:47 am
OVER RATED,
YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY A CONFUSED CHILD.
YOU ARE THINKING OF MTSU
Either you are an idiot of the highest level or you are horrible at trying to be funny…………………..
Urban
April 7th, 2010
9:48 am
I see that both of those articles on UF arrests (??) linked to articles written by a Jeremy Fowler of the Orlando Sentinel…why does that name sound so familiar??
OVER-RATED
April 7th, 2010
9:49 am
I CAN TYPE IN ALL CAPS TOO LEXINADAWG.
The Orlando Sentinel
April 7th, 2010
9:52 am
The TMZ of sports “reporting”.
The San Clemente Clinic
April 7th, 2010
9:53 am
Paging patrick…
Urban Meyer Goes Off on a Reporter
April 7th, 2010
9:55 am
Who is Jeremy Fowler? He’s the guy Urban Meyer went off on, here’s the video for those of you who missed it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgqQshESm8s&feature=related
jimbo dogs
April 7th, 2010
10:00 am
Hi UGA Richt Stone Throwers-
Still waiting on ALL those links about ALL those (90???) arrests under Richt? Please pull ALL those links up real quick, since so many journalist have written about it. I’m sure you’d agree this is a reasonable request.
Cherokee
April 7th, 2010
10:04 am
Where is…. For dawglessville he needs to read the above stories on his beloved Gators. Maybe now he will see they are not as perfect as he thinks they are.
OVER-RATED
April 7th, 2010
10:04 am
Jimbo – 70% of all stats are made up on the spot half of the time everytime.
SaintsLSU
April 7th, 2010
10:05 am
Is that true, 10% of UF recruits have been arrested under Meyer? Wow! I am not naive, and I do realize many SEC players get arrested, like LSU’s Terrance Toliver in a bar fight. But man, this outbreak is crazy. You have to wonder about the discipline of UF. I mean, Dunlap getting arrested a few days before the SEC CG. I am not saying Florida would have beaten Bama with him, but I’m sure that was a distraction.
sling blade
April 7th, 2010
10:10 am
Urban Meyer Goes Off on a Reporter, Good morning Patrick. A day without Patrick is like day without sunshine!! I am sharing him with all of you.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1158327737&ref=name
Bleacher Report Says Meyer Vying for Lead in Player Arrests
April 7th, 2010
10:10 am
Bleacher Report is also saying Meyer is vying for the lead in player arrests. Not a good thing to show leadership in.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/128766-a-full-line-up-22-florida-football-players-arrested-under-the-meyer-regime
Odell T.
April 7th, 2010
10:13 am
Admittedly the thugs were in the company of the “peacemaking football player” at 2 o’clock in the morning. Richt’s spin on this incident is worthy of Michael Adams. It looks like it will be another year of off field arrests and thuggish penalties on the field.
sling blade
April 7th, 2010
10:13 am
I am Patrick but dont have the balls to post so I blog like this:
Bleacher Report Says Meyer Vying for Lead in Player Arrests but this is what I look like:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1158327737&ref=name
sling blade
April 7th, 2010
10:15 am
The funniest was on page 1 where someone said that Richt was guilty of stealing Helen Hunts face. hahahahah I am still laughing.
Helen Hunt
April 7th, 2010
10:16 am
Jerk
sling blade
April 7th, 2010
10:17 am
DawginLex
April 7th, 2010
9:44 am
LIST THE PREVIOUS LOSING SEASON THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOOTBALL TEAM HAD UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF COACH MARK RICHT.
If your program didn’t have such low expectations, I would say losing to Kentucky at home and going to the weedeater bowl would be losing.
59bulldawg
April 7th, 2010
10:22 am
I hear ya coach. And I’m glad this turned out to be a non-incident. But I’m going to speak to you as an alum and fan and supporter of the University of Georgia. The numerous run-ins with the law of your players over the last several years have gotten you to this point. When incidents happen every year . . . when players are suspended virtually every season . . . people are naturally going to think the worse. I know you can’t be with each of your players 24/7 but I’m really getting sick of hearing about the stupid things our players do to jeopardize their playing time and the team’s chances of winning. For instance this year so far our young quarterback fighting for a starting job who will be suspended for one or two games at the beginning of this season and the linebacker we just kicked off the team even though we are short on outside linebackers. I’m not saying they didn’t deserve the discipline they received. But why do we keep shooting ourself in the foot and do it pretty much every year. Hence the negative speculation! You’re either not getting through to all of your players or some of the players you’re bringing into the program should not have been recruited. People used to poke fun at Florida State when they had these types of problems and now we have them at Georgia. Hope you’re not the common denominator! If you want a change in public perception, then the ball’s in your hands coach. Figure out why these incidents keep taking place and find a way to stop them. Sure this kid in the taxi was innocent but why was one of your players out at 2:00 AM? I know athletes have freedom too but they also have a responsibility to the program . . . especially when it provides them an education that is increasingly becoming out of reach for many without their athletic skills. Perhaps instead of circling the wagons and getting defensive, an honest evaluation of what you’re doing to stop such incidents from taking place would be a more appropriate response. I know it’s a difficult assignment coach but it’s your program and ultimately your responsibility. That’s why you make the big bucks.
Over Rated
April 7th, 2010
10:22 am
HAHAHAHAHAHA
sling blade
April 7th, 2010
10:27 am
59bulldawg, all of your ideas are admirable, but all programs have problems because of the types of atletes required for success. That is all but 3: West Point, Annapolis and the Air Force Academy.
RRG
April 7th, 2010
10:28 am
BuLLdawg, you fail to mention two other requirements you want from Coach Ritch: Hire only black coaches and recruit only white players. Then you and your other klanmen will be very very happy even if UGA didn’t win any games. Why don’t you break down the incidents along racial lines and see who are the “real” thugs.
Homer
April 7th, 2010
10:29 am
59bulldawg, Georgia isn’t poked fun of like FSU used to be; because unlike FSU used to be, Jawja is not relevent.
...what REALLY happened
April 7th, 2010
10:30 am
The young “peacemaker ” was up studying late at 2:00 a.m. and needed a cab ride back to his dorm from the library.
Chris Hansen
April 7th, 2010
10:35 am
It’s kind of creepy when men 30+ obsess over 18-20 year olds playing sports.
A fine upstanding young man.
April 7th, 2010
10:35 am
The UGA player plans to join the PEACE CORP and work the ” graveyard ” night shift.
Homer
April 7th, 2010
10:36 am
Hi Chrisie, glad to see you join us.
Sun Sentinel Wonders: Is Florida "Thug U"?
April 7th, 2010
10:38 am
The Sun Sentinels David Hyde makes a strong case that Florida, under Meyer, is Thug U. Miami had 40 players arrested to get that moniker, Meyer has already had 24 players arrested in just 5 years.
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2009-05-28/sports/0905270362_1_miami-player-florida-players-miami-fan
Billy Bob Thornton
April 7th, 2010
10:38 am
I’ve only broken the law a couple of times, think I could make the Dawg roster?
Patrick
April 7th, 2010
10:39 am
Sun Sentinel Wonders: Is Florida “Thug U”? = me!!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1158327737&ref=name
Patrick
April 7th, 2010
10:42 am
I scour the internet to get anything on that evil Gator program to make my beloved Helen Hunt, excuse me, I mean Mark Richt look better.
Litter Dawgs
April 7th, 2010
10:43 am
It’s kind of creepy when adult UGA fans trash the campus during football games, like a bunch of heathens.
Waste that people UNLAWFULLY dispose of outdoors.
Cullowheedawg
April 7th, 2010
10:43 am
I wonder if any of us remember the Duke Lacrosse team and what they went through. Yes we all “assumed” the worst and we got the worst as our assumptions did exactly what our mothers told us assumptions would do.
While we may want to defend our “team” against all accusations, we need to also not jump on other teams so fast, just because they the “others”.
I think that Coach Richt has done an excellent job in this and other situations. It is not a win/lose situation as we all lose when something really bad happens, but it is still a lose when the accusations are proved false, as the smear is never fully erased.
Cullowheedawg
59bulldawg
April 7th, 2010
10:45 am
RRG . . . I’ll put this as delicately as I can! You’re a freaking moron!
Ramma Bama
April 7th, 2010
10:45 am
UGA “peacemakers” at 2AM, after a hard night of partying downtown, in a cab full of thugs! Nice spin UGA—those people in sports marketing are really paying off–maybe they should go into politics next!!!!
Dawglasville
April 7th, 2010
10:45 am
Maybe if we stayed off of their blogs, they would stay off of ours. If you’re happy with Johnson, Meyer, Saban, Dooley then great, go support them. We are happy with Richt and we will continue to support him on Georgia blogs. Doesn’t the day in and day out of stereotypes and name calling ever get old?
Homer
April 7th, 2010
10:46 am
59bulldawg, no make that a racist freaking moron!
slingblade
April 7th, 2010
10:47 am
Dawglasville, this blog is on the AJC not the jawja newsline. I agree though we shouldn’t bash CMR, we hope he stays forever.
ESPN Video Compares Meyer to Miami
April 7th, 2010
10:49 am
ESPN’s reporters see the arrest under Meyer as VERY SERIOUS.
Excellent ESPN video about Meyer’s 24 arrests during his 5 year’s at Florida:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5_HtTQPWFg
houndstooth
April 7th, 2010
10:49 am
Just glad none of our guys were a problem.
Bear Bryant would kick some a$$.
Richt Speaks About Taxi Incident « MrSEC.com
April 7th, 2010
10:50 am
[...] practice yesterday, Mark Richt finally gave his take on the taxi incident that turned out to be a lot less football-related than initially [...]
Richt Speaks About Taxi Incident « MrSEC.com
April 7th, 2010
10:50 am
[...] practice yesterday, Mark Richt finally gave his take on the taxi incident that turned out to be a lot less football-related than initially [...]
Stinger
April 7th, 2010
10:56 am
Nice cover up Mark. I didn’t expect anything different.
Outstanding Young Men of America
April 7th, 2010
10:57 am
The young man deserves a pat on the back for making peace at 2:00 a.m. when all the other players were asleep getting ready for monday practice.
Stinger
April 7th, 2010
10:57 am
You people are fools if you believe this was not a cover up.
Stinger
April 7th, 2010
10:58 am
They were having breakfast with CMR @ 2am once he paid off their bond.
superDawg
April 7th, 2010
11:00 am
I hate to say it, but I have to agree with Stinger. We covered this up and we know it.
Mr. ACC.com
April 7th, 2010
11:03 am
This “breaking” news is great for police reports and all that internet stuff people read.
slingblade
April 7th, 2010
11:05 am
ESPN Video Compares Meyer to Miami, Please get Patrick his meds.
WR Carl Moore--Florida Cover Up?
April 7th, 2010
11:07 am
Speaking of cover-ups, anyone ever find out the REAL reaosn why Carl Moore, the Florida WR, abruptly walked off the field during practice, left for several days? Was it something Meyer or another Coach said to him? Why did he leave the team in the first place specifically?
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/04/01/1558018/ufs-moore-is-not-at-practice-again.html
1eyedJack
April 7th, 2010
11:07 am
Looks as if BuLLdawg is off his lithium again.
Any fan of another team on here calling UGA ThugU is a hypocrit. Every college program has these problems. You try totally controlling 100 18-22 year old males raging with testosterone…impossible…somebody is going to take a drink and turn into an idiot. It doesn’t help though if you are an idiot in the first place (Montez). Alcohol is a helluva drug!
Richt is not the problem…society as a whole is the problem. A lot of these kids grew up with no “daddy” around and no father figures. They look up to and try to emulate their babysitters…professional athletes, many of whom have their own problems and rap artists who for the most part glamorize anything that is antisocial.
Jackson being out at 2 am may explain why his number is not getting called.
As for all you trolls on here…you’re whale sh*t…the lowest thing in the ocean…and you will never be comfortable in your own skins until you can bring UGA down to your level.
Go Dawgs!!!
slingblade
April 7th, 2010
11:08 am
You see jawja boys; we have to come onto your blog to talk to Patrick.
WR Carl Moore–Florida Cover Up? Here is video of mark richt
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1158327737&ref=name
Delbert D.
April 7th, 2010
11:09 am
‘I hope in the future people just reserve their opinions’
The AJC blog on the original report played a part in people ‘reserving their opinions’. Comments were closed.
Montez Mania
April 7th, 2010
11:09 am
Here is an opinion for Richt – He is 2-7 against Florida and that is just down right pathetic.
“Imagine what Urban Myers reaction would have been. It is nice to have a balanced coach like CMR”
CMR can keep the balance and Meyer can keep the Titles
TMZ
April 7th, 2010
11:10 am
So now we know the peacemaker is Jackson,
good report 1eyedJack.
Georgia Fan
April 7th, 2010
11:12 am
Here’s a newsflash to “Outstanding” and other MORONS who have posted similar idiotic remarks: When the clock passes midnight, for example 12:01 a.m., it is the NEXT day!! Get it?!? The taxi incident occurred on a Sunday because it was after midnight from the SATURDAY night that the player went out to the bars with his buddies from Heard County.
I know it’s difficult for you to understand … but please, try.
Gen Neyland
April 7th, 2010
11:13 am
The Fulmer Cup race hasn’t even begun. Is this just spring training stuff for when it starts to really matter..?
Cullowheedawg : Your post regarding Duke’s Lacrosse players and ‘all of us assuming the worst’ should read ‘all of us that believe half of what we see and all of what we hear and read’. Please exclude me from your list of ‘All’. Thank you…
Meyer 0-2 Against Auburn
April 7th, 2010
11:13 am
Why is Meyer winless against Auburn? Richt has an excellent record against Auburn in the last 5 years. Why can’t Urban win a single game against Aubrun? At least Richt has a win against any team he’s player twice. Why doesn’t Meyer?
gdawginkalamazoo
April 7th, 2010
11:17 am
Oh well, maybe coach Richt should have mentioned something about imposing some sort of curfew on the players during spring ball and that this kid will be internally disciplined for not following it.
BUT, if the player in question had been at Tennesee all he would have had to do is call up the helicopter that Kiffin no longer uses for a ride back to the football dorm (I think it has a helipad)….
OR, if he was at Auburn just dial for limo that they use for recruiting.
20/20
April 7th, 2010
11:17 am
The peacemaker was Dontaviius Jackson from Heard County High School.
The four thugs who hit the married woman at 2:00 a.m. just happened to be from Heard County by coincidence,…..right !
Washington Post
April 7th, 2010
11:21 am
This may turn into a Taxigate Scandal.
laughin larry
April 7th, 2010
11:33 am
the story here, is why it’s a story, when there is found out there in no story???
Georgia Fan
April 7th, 2010
11:38 am
By the way,
that was Palm Sunday.
Hoke1355
April 7th, 2010
11:41 am
Good for you coach. This time your players weren’t the ones actually in trouble. It was only their friends. Oh, and they did a masterful job of peacemaking.
PMC
April 7th, 2010
11:42 am
I want to reserve my opinion but Michael Adams has raised the prices for opinions and moved them far beyond the old opinion shouting areas.
Richt's Elephant
April 7th, 2010
11:45 am
richt won his only 2 SEC titles when florida and bama sucked with zook and shula. He didn’t win before and hasn’t won since. Richt actually lost 2 of 3 to the incompetent ron zook! Why is that Ga fans????? Where’s the accountability?????
AltamahaDawg
April 7th, 2010
12:11 pm
Stinger, as I said a few days ago, I WISH our staff had better cover up skills. 2/3 of the “arrests” we read about are minor B/S that deserves no publicity, and everybody would have been done a huge favor if it HAD been covered up. Nobody is better off with that stuff getting out. First of all, its a private matter in the first place, but even taking into account they are scholarshiped players, (presumable thats what makes it important) it’s still a waste of energy to talk about the majority of this stuff. The kid, the program, the parents, the fans, even from others school gain nothing from it.
Seriously, you can’t cover up a damn traffic ticket anymore?
Patrick
April 7th, 2010
12:16 pm
I honor of Mark Richt, I even bought my own tanning bed. I am now too such a handsome tan man.
reality
April 7th, 2010
12:21 pm
Just a bunch of Thugs…
Patrick
April 7th, 2010
12:30 pm
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1158327737&ref=name aren’t I pretty?
Cherokee
April 7th, 2010
12:37 pm
reality ….You are talking about the folks over on North Avenue correct?
Happy Dawg
April 7th, 2010
12:41 pm
amen brother indeed
gtfanfrom1951
April 7th, 2010
12:44 pm
Why is it that UGA players make the 6:00 news but not on the field?
reality
April 7th, 2010
12:46 pm
Richt can’t handle all of his thug players? He had plenty of practice at FSU..
DawginLex
April 7th, 2010
12:51 pm
sling blade,
Low expectations? Yes, that is why 3 coaches got fired after an 8 win season.
Idiot. Think before you type.
gdawginkalamazoo
April 7th, 2010
12:58 pm
General Neyland, So it is still called the Fulmer Cup?
For everybody on here harping about what players have been in trouble at Bama, Florida, UT, Tech etc. I don’t care what they have done, I care about what UGA has done. The trouble caused by their athletes have nothing to do with UGA players getting into trouble or “peacemaking”. Sure most of these are “minor” offenses, although there is nothing minor about a DUI. Richt needs to address these things start making these kids understand that they are blowing a chance at getting an education at minimum and possibly blowing a chance at the NFL. To say kids will be kids isn’t enough when you are on a full ride scholarship, these kids have a lot more riding on this for their future. There’s got to be a way to point that out. God’s knows we have seen a few cases at UGA to use as examples.
Bama fan
April 7th, 2010
1:19 pm
gdawgkalamazoo,
“For everybody on here harping about what players have been in trouble at Bama, Florida, UT, Tech etc.”
They can harp all they want about Bama players getting arrested. We’ve had one player arrested in the past year or so and the charges in that case were dismissed. It was basically just an argument after a player’s girlfriend bi@$ch slapped him for talking to another girl and then he had to hold her down to keep from getting hit more. A campus cop doing his rounds witnessed the argument and had to arrest both but overall this arrest was essentially for nothing.
2007 was a mess as Saban had to clean up all the lack of disciplined and unruly players Shula had but since then we don’t have that nonsense going on at Bama. If you start disciplining players and booting them from the team or forcing transfers for smaller things like breaking team rules then you never get to the point of having to deal with players after they’ve been arrested.
The reason a lot of people unfairly jumped to the conclusion that UGA players were involved in the taxi incident is because it is what people have come to expect of UGA players. Fair or unfair the now 20 or so citations and or arrests of UGA players over the last year and a half have generated a view of UGA players as out of control thugs. Not my personal opinion but it seems to be the opinion of a lot of other fans and all the UGA players do is keep giving them more ammo like with the recent Montez Robinson arrest.
Richt needs to get a hold of his program. If he wants his players to be disciplined on and off the field he needs to start cracking down hard on the smaller things like breaking team rules before it ever even gets to the point of player arrests. Otherwise the dogs are going to continue to have the newly found thug image that a lot of people seem to be attaching to the program lately.
Sling Blade
April 7th, 2010
1:22 pm
DawginLex, your the idiot; Richt fired them a year too late and only because the AD said it was him or them.
AltamahaDawg
April 7th, 2010
1:24 pm
I think he has tried. The question is, and do what exactly?
The point about most things being minor is in reality IF you took those out, and it was only the really bad things, the very few handfull of serious issues (which have seemed to have been dealt with in most cases as harsh as possible) then nobody is talking about “all” the times. It would be a case of a few bad apples and most rational folks can look around in life and see that just exist.
But you DO have those minor instances that get treated as big deals in the media/public skewing the perception. So ok if its case of cracking down on those, what is fair? what is the fair penalty for a minor traffic violation? is multiple games suspension called for? personally I dont think 4 games or 1 game is really going to stop any of that. First of all none of them thought they were going to get “arrested” for a suspended license, so a harsher penalty wouldnt change that. And they certainly arent saying, “well its just 1 game” so why not. Kicked off the team for traffic violations. That’s what it would take to trully say…..there, it’s addressed. Anything short of that is just varying degrees, and It seems like they juggle that about as well as they can.
savannahdawg
April 7th, 2010
1:24 pm
Hey “Jimmy,” No one, no matter how much money they make, should have to listen to any idot. People like you should just keep your mouth shut! If you don’t have an intelligent comment, shut the hell up!
Gatorzone
April 7th, 2010
1:26 pm
How many players are on a team? Over 100+, right? All 18-22 year old male, full of hormones trained to play a violent game. What do you expect a coach to do? There will always be some bad apples. Hell I have 2 kids (girls) and can barely control both of them. I could not imagine having so many men to constantly look out for. By the way, this kind of stuff has gone on forever. It just gets more exposure now. Who cares that there are punks on each team? That will happen in a diverse society, when many come from broken homes. I find it amazing that 20% of the players do not get in trouble on a regular basis.
Also, all of you guys who have lived a perfect life, then by all means go ahead and criticize. Otherwise, Pot meet kettle.
just sayin
April 7th, 2010
1:28 pm
Have to wonder what the arrest record would be for the general student population. Bet the % would be at least as high as it is for athletes.
AltamahaDawg
April 7th, 2010
1:30 pm
Bama fan, I assume that you were making an ironic point that when people say things like “20 arrest in the past year” it distorts the perception of the UGA program, no matter how untrue that may be?
The Arse
April 7th, 2010
1:30 pm
Coach Richt, this is the liberal mainstream media you’re trying to apply journalistic ethics to. 99% of them checked their consciences and morals at the door the day they were hired. Nice try though.
Cherokee
April 7th, 2010
1:36 pm
Sling Blade …you got proof to back up your comments
Georgia Peacemaker
April 7th, 2010
1:36 pm
As a peacemaker, I like to ride in cabs at 2AM to keep my homeys from beating up other people in the cab. I do my job well.
Sling Blade
April 7th, 2010
1:38 pm
Cherokee, no proof. But then you tell me why he didnt fire Willie the year before? Or was it Richt is an idiot?
AltamahaDawg
April 7th, 2010
1:39 pm
Can anybody confirm that in 3 years there has not been one single traffic voilation issued to a Alabama football player? Not one single time is 3 yrs has there been a case of underage drinking. BS.
gdawginkalamazoo
April 7th, 2010
1:39 pm
Bama Fan, Good post, I can agree with that. Richt needs to pound these kids into making better decisions.
Bama fan
April 7th, 2010
1:40 pm
Gatorzone,
True enough. There are 85 scholly players and an additional 20 walk ons are allowed for a full 105 man roster by the start of the season. If the players are reflective of the general population of which practically every 18-20 year old engages in underage drinking at some point and in which maybe 10-20% of young men eventually get arrested for something stupid like public drinking/intox, driving on a suspended license, dui, etc. then at least several players a year would be getting arrested. I see and understand your point but I still believe a very disciplined program with few if any arrests can be established.
But as I pointed out in a previous post what I like about Saban is that he has instilled such an overwhelming sense of discipline and even a little bit of “fear” in our program that we’ve had only 1 player arrested in the last year or so. You start with running off players just for small stuff like breaking team rules. If you do that preemptively then you avoid the larger problems such as player arrests. Its kinda like the broken window theory and the difference between players getting in trouble under Shula vs under Saban is like night and day. Saban has been called militaristic, authoritarian, disciplinarian, etc. That’s fine with me as long as it keeps our players out of the police blotter and the headlines.
Sling Blade
April 7th, 2010
1:40 pm
Cherokee, He actually did a better job in 2009 than 2008 with 2 top 10 Draft picks. The whole staff should have been fired for underacheiving in 2008, especially bobo the clown.
Facts Are Facts
April 7th, 2010
1:42 pm
Excuse Saint Mark, but……….
hasnt UGA football players winding up in various forms of trouble with the law,
become a kind of……….ANNUAL event ??
So, wouldnt it be expected at this point ??
Sling Blade
April 7th, 2010
1:44 pm
Robinson was kicked off the team after being arrested Sunday on a misdemeanor charge of simple battery/family violence, his third arrest in five months.
Richt=younger version of Bobby Bowden. I can understand a kid getting a second chance, but he blew the chance, was arrested again with still not being kicked off the team did it a third time.
Bama fan
April 7th, 2010
1:47 pm
Altamaha dawg,
Absolutely. In the last 3 years we’ve had underage drinking problems, player arrests, duis, and 2 players with serious felonies, etc. In 2007 Saban had something like 8 of the Shula holdovers arrested and he started booting them. It took a year to fully institute his sense of discipline on the program and start getting rid of the bad apples which we all have and forcing transfers of problem players. He then started booting players and forcing transfers of players just for breaking team rules. The man is tough as far as discipline goes.
My point is that now that Saban has changed the whole culture of the team from a discipline and expectations standpoint that we no longer have the discipline problems we had under Shula or in Saban’s first year. The result of the whole change in culture and discipline is that we only have had one player arrested in the past year or so and that in that case the charge was basically dismissed because it was essentially nothing to begin with.
AltamahaDawg
April 7th, 2010
1:49 pm
He didn’t fire Wille the year before because he entered the season considered the (the team that finished playing as well as nay team/staff in the nation) and managed to win 10 game despite being the most injured team anyonje has ever seen. In short, no staff has ever done a betetr job with that many variables. Thats why. The next year, they didn’t live up to expectation, and he made a move.
Also I think its pretty clear NOW that his thought process was IF/WHEN he was going to do that, it wasnt just Willie, it would be a the whole (most) staff. And because he wanted to be able to ever hire any good coaches in the future, he wouldnt have done that after 2008 for the above reason.
Does that answer your question?
NewnanDawg
April 7th, 2010
1:49 pm
Sling Blade – please do a little research before posting. In the Robinson situation, the first two arrests were from the same incident. They just added a second charge later. So yes, Richt did kick him off the team at the appropriate time.
Go Dawgs!
sling blade
April 7th, 2010
1:52 pm
NewnanDawg I am truly sorry, I wouldn’t want anything to happen to your coach. He is the best thing to ever happen to the SEC East.
National Organization For Women
April 7th, 2010
1:53 pm
What was the first charge that Mr. Robinson was arrested on Mr. NewnanDawg?
AltamahaDawg
April 7th, 2010
1:53 pm
I would say that Richt also changed the culture and we no longer have the issue that used to exist under our last coach either.
Cherokee
April 7th, 2010
1:54 pm
sling blade …who is your team?
just askin
April 7th, 2010
1:54 pm
What issue was that AltamahaDawg?
Sling Blade
April 7th, 2010
1:55 pm
ABG Cherokee.
National Champ
April 7th, 2010
1:55 pm
Speaking of the future, why don’t you guys concentrate on not being overrated for once.
Cherokee
April 7th, 2010
1:56 pm
ABG??? Auburn?
Sling Blade
April 7th, 2010
1:58 pm
any body but jawja
Sling Blade
April 7th, 2010
2:00 pm
I will be a curious onlooker at Gday just to see how the nut fanbase see’s the team.
NewnanDawg
April 7th, 2010
2:00 pm
Hey – NOW – that’s Mrs. NewnanDawg thank you, and I believe strongly in second chances, even for people who have committed crimes against me or my family (I have forgiven). Coach Richt’s comments after yasterday’s practice regarding the situation are posted below. Sounds to me like a man handling the situation about as well as you can….
On the decision to dismiss Robinson…
“Montez had some things he knew he had to do, disciplinary-wise. Then there were some things he knew he couldn’t do if he wanted to stay. There’s some things I was expecting, there’s some things the Association was expecting, there’s some things the university was expecting, and the law for that matter. And he wasn’t able to live up to that. That’s why he is where he is now.”
On his feelings about what happened…
“I’ll say this about Montez – I really love that kid. I really do care very much about all the guys at Georgia, whether they’re on scholarship or a walk-on or whatever it may be. And when we sign a kid at Georgia and he becomes one of ours, I feel like it’s my responsibility to help him grow up into a man, and hopefully realize all his dreams athletically and academically, too. I take it seriously trying to help these guys make it in life. Some guys have farther to go than others, and if a guy makes a mistake or even a couple, you try like mad to find a way to keep them in the fold and hope that they can learn from it and become better for it in the end. But there are times when a guy does enough where he’s lost the privilege to play for Georgia, which is where Montez is at right now. But do we still care about him? Yes. Do we still want to make sure he lands somewhere where he can continue on and finish strong? If we remember Michael Lemon’s situation, Michael went through some things, and he got to the point where he couldn’t stay at Georgia. But we helped him get into junior college at Georgia Military College and he did a good job there. I’m thankful that Coach Bert Williams gave him a chance and when he left there, he was able to say this kid deserves another opportunity. I’m very thankful for Coach O’Brien to take a chance, because he had to stick his neck out a little bit to get him in there at NC State. But from what I hear, the kid is doing fantastic, and he’s got a chance to realize all the dreams he had. Even though he’s not here, we think about him and we want him to succeed, and we feel the same way about Montez.”
On his visit with Robinson in prison…
“He’s just hurting. He’s suffering right now. But we’re helping him understand that he can still have a bright future if from this point forward he does what he’s supposed to do, what he needs to do. He still has the goal of getting an education. He still has the goal of playing college football. And so I don’t think he’s been robbed of that opportunity. It’s just not going to be at Georgia. But he loved it at Georgia.”
Cherokee
April 7th, 2010
2:01 pm
So you don’t have a team…sounds like you belong to Tech
AltamahaDawg
April 7th, 2010
2:01 pm
Issue with discipline on the Donnan’s team? I assume that’s not a serious question.
BTW, I was around when coach Dooley was the HC, and IF we had the scrutiny then, that we do now…….oh man.
NewnanDawg
April 7th, 2010
2:01 pm
sorry – yesterday’s
keep on truckin' dog
April 7th, 2010
2:03 pm
The food at truckstops stink. Thank goodness for partners who drive so we can blog.
back to the story (now a non-story), if, then, if this, then that, all conjecture. The if and buts, came to naught here boys.
Sling Blade
April 7th, 2010
2:04 pm
When Dooley was coach, that was a different era altama. Things were swept under the rug then and the media was different + you didn’t have the internet. Boys will always be boys.
NewnanDawg
April 7th, 2010
2:05 pm
Altamaha – you got that right – can you imagine any team in the 80s from any big school having cell phone cameras and the internet? Every top 10 school in the nation would have been in trouble.
Go Dawgs!
Sling Blade
April 7th, 2010
2:05 pm
Out boys; had fun irritating you today.
Cherokee
April 7th, 2010
2:07 pm
Sling Blade off to your shift at the Varsity?
NewnanDawg
April 7th, 2010
2:07 pm
Sling Blade – if all you want to do is point out flaws, complain, and be negative, why don’t you go to a Congressman’s office somewhere so it will be put to good use. Talk about a bunch of criminals!
AltamahaDawg
April 7th, 2010
2:12 pm
You don’t have to watch the G-day game, I’ll go ahead and tell you how the fan base is going to act. We’ll be excited, supportive, informed and counting on a good year, just like any fan base of team, any year. I’ll save you the trouble.
BTW, obsessed troll is the term you were looking for, not curious onlooker.
Sling Blade's Bestest friend
April 7th, 2010
2:14 pm
Sorry, off to the clarke county jail to bring refreshments to the team.
Gatorzone
April 7th, 2010
2:15 pm
Bama Fan, that is really good. However, I would be careful about bragging too much about that and how Saban has the keys to discipline that no other coach has. It may be true, but then again it could come back to haunt.
I do not think Urban is a saint, nor does he recruit choirboys. By the same token… Saturday football aint not prayer meeting!!!
Just keep winning. That is all I care about. UF has plenty of scholar athletes, and plenty of punks. So does Alabama, and every team for that matter.
AltamahaDawg
April 7th, 2010
2:15 pm
Really, captain obvious! That was a different era, really? My fipping point exactly.
Bama fan
April 7th, 2010
2:16 pm
“if all you want to do is point out flaws, complain, and be negative, why don’t you go to a Congressman’s office somewhere so it will be put to good use.”
Newnan Dawg,
I get your point about sling blade’s negativity and complaining. Taking his complaints to his congressman would seem a good idea except that I doubt our congressman listen. Mine definitely doesn’t.
how2fish
April 7th, 2010
2:19 pm
Gatorzone as much as it pains me I have to say great post..and for the bama fans..2 of the wins vacated were on Saban’s watch by the way. My hat is off to him however up to this point he is the only Bama coach to win without cheating since the Bear.But there will be arrests at Bama too..wait for it.
Bama fan
April 7th, 2010
2:23 pm
Gatorzone,
I don’t mean to sound like I’m bragging. We all have our share of punks. I’m just saying that Saban seems to be nipping it in the bud most of the time by changing the culture of the new player and giving him a set of expectations that he knows he has to abide by. As for the players that won’t buy into the discipline of the program and continue to break team rules Saban definitely pushes these guys out the door. He has had several starters Brandon Fanney, Prince Hall, etc. that he forced transfers because these guys were continuing to break rules. I’m just sayin change the culture by punishing the small stuff hard like breaking team rules to begin with and you’ll have less problems with arrests on down the road. And the guys that won’t adhere to the discipline. Tell them to transfer.
But as happy as I am with the way Saban runs a disciplined program its only a matter of time before we get another player or a couple of them arrested. Its inevitable and as you aptly point out we all got our fair share of punks in every recruiting class that comes in. I just want to keep the punks to a minumum and get rid of the ones that won’t change. So far we seem to be doing a good job of this. Knock on wood of course.
we have heard that before
April 7th, 2010
2:26 pm
all the criticism of coach richt being a bad guy, we’ve heard all that before. Nothing new here.
Mrsec.com wrote a very nice article about Coach Richt today, you guys should check it out, couldn’t agree more with him THIS TIME.
Mrsec is exactly right, while Meyer goes nuts on reporters for the dumbest of all reasons, and Saban isn’t known as being “too nice of a guy”, richt’s biggest criticism is that’s he’s too nice.
I’ll take it. so was Tony Dungy as a coach.
2 class acts. 2 great successes, in the TRUEST sense of the word.
we have heard that before
April 7th, 2010
2:27 pm
oops, forgot to give you the link for the google impaired.
http://www.mrsec.com/story/richt-continues-to-show-that-hes-the-class-of-the-conference
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Russ
April 7th, 2010
2:34 pm
O.k. I’ve about had it with this you don’t buy tickets or contribute you have no rights crap. First let me verify I am not a Tech Alum but I did go to a Ga school where ther was no football. That being said, I do pay taxes in this state which does support the university system where where programs are being cut, majors are being done away with and good folks are losing thier jobs. I do understand that Uga’s athletics does support itself to a point but they do use school facilities. Why don’t they kick a little in to help offset the schools losses. I guess if they did they couldn’t give thier A.D. a huge raise and Mark Richt couldn’t build his vacation home on the lake (probably built with illegal labor). So just shut up please about people complaining. We do have a right as fans and taxpayer.
1eyedJack
April 7th, 2010
2:34 pm
These blogs are full of trolls that somewhat learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.
Title #14 in 2010!
April 7th, 2010
2:36 pm
Saban doesn’t put up with this stuff at bama–he runs a disciplined program and the players know what is expected. At schools like georgia, fsu and miami, the players run the team and do what they want.
Bama fan
April 7th, 2010
2:37 pm
how2fish,
I can’t blame Saban for the school doing a sloppy job of not monitoring the textbook distribution system. This was something that had been going on for years before Saban got there and nobody was paying attention to it. After the major probation of the early 2000s I think we did a good job of reigning in rogue boosters, educating the boosters overall, and avoiding major stuff. Its always the stupid little stuff like not monitoring how textbooks are distributed closely enough that can still get you in trouble though. Who really would think about something like that? Most of the violations were not intentional and although this happened during the Shula era I seriously doubt Shula or anybody else really intended to cheat through textbooks of all things.
As for winning without cheating since Bear the only real cheating was during the Dubose era. Stallings program was put on probation but that was because Antonio Langham signed with an agent prior to his senior season and never told anyone. It was only after his senior season that anybody found out that he had signed with an agent, thus losing his eligibility, and us forfeiting 9 wins from the 93 season and us getting our first probation ever. Its not as if the school cheated or had any knowledge that Langham had done this and thus jeopardized himself and the program. You really can’t do anything about one person making a poor decision under pressure from an agent.
As for arrests as I just pointed out its only a matter of time before one of our players or a couple get arrested again. Then everyone can jump on the bandwagon and call us thugs for a few days.
kingster
April 7th, 2010
2:40 pm
LCDawg, man you should check out Tech’s blog, there are more UGA fans dogging out Tech that TECH fans giving comments, you guys (uga) are just sick, if you want to read something and comment about it look a little futher in this blog on how many UGA football players had run in with the law, check out “Arrest from 2005 – 2009″ what do you think about that(thats a lot of stupid stuff), please clean up your own house before you start bad mouthing a team who doesn’t really care what you do.Come back now!!!
Cherokee
April 7th, 2010
2:44 pm
Russ ….I do believe they give several million to the school every year, when they don’t have to. Also look at the money that is made at the book store every time there is a home game. The athletics dept is not hurting the university or state. It would be more like they are helping both.
how2fish
April 7th, 2010
2:58 pm
Bama fan great post you make some great points…my point is that with soooo many “fans” today ANYTHING that happens results in calls for the HC’s head..he is a cheater, a manic , too hard ,too soft etc. It’s texbooks at Bama, tennis shoes at FSU or UM can’t even remember. We as a collective fan base of college football need to remember what our Mother taught us “if you can’t say something nice don’t say anything” I’m even alright with updated that to “if your can’t say something nice or INFORMATIVE don’t say anything”. We have the best talent and coaches and fans in the nation IMHO in the SEC..but we could be a little bit nicer to each other…we can hate each other on gamedays but we should retain a little civility the rest of the time..
Gatorzone
April 7th, 2010
3:00 pm
Bamafan, I thought the tide got on probation after Gene Jelks admitted to receiving illegal payments from a supporter that owned a car lot in Alabama. Didn’t that happen?
Gatorzone
April 7th, 2010
3:03 pm
How2fish, well said. THE BEST CONFERENCE IN THE COUNTRY!!!
SEC
SEC
SEC
GO GATORS!
Bama fan
April 7th, 2010
3:21 pm
Gatorzone,
I remember Gene Jelks and that was investigated by the NCAA and if I remember correctly nothing became of it although I could be wrong. The alleged problem was that he got cash and financing for a beat up $500 pinto circa 1985. This was in the 80s and our first probation ever wasn’t till the 90s like 94 and that’s why I don’t think anything became of it. The running joke around Bama was that if we were cheating we better do a lot better job of it since the beat up pinto in question was worth about $500. Everyone knew that herschel was driving a new trans am 2 years earlier at Georgia so we of course were shaking our heads as to how financing for a piece of crap car could be an allegation.
beatdowns galore
April 7th, 2010
4:22 pm
Fire Dave Perno!!!! This guy has rested on his laurels since his big choke 2 years ago . 15 – 5 to Clemson is unacceptable at home. Damon Evans is letting the big 3 sports program at UGA getting totally embarrassed with the frequent beatdowns and losses to Mickey Mouse Colleges. UGA please fire this clown in Damon Evans too !!!!
harvey wallbanger
April 7th, 2010
5:37 pm
we have heard that before,
the difference; Dungy won it all, Richt never will.
BuLLdawg
April 8th, 2010
6:30 am
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UGA89
April 7th, 2010 8:58 am
“I call BS. Richt has to take some responsibility because of the type of athlete’s he has been bringing in over the last few years. When was it, less than two years ago, when there was a stretch of time where about a dozen UGA football players –not UGA athletes– but specifically UGA football players were arrested for one thing or another.”
“It’s a little difficult to ‘reserve your opinions’ on a UGA athlete being reported as in trouble with the law when you’ve seen it so many times before. Perhaps Richt should check his opinions of the type of athlete’s he’s bringing in to my alma-mater –he’s failed too many times in terms of what a ’student’athlete’ is supposed to be.”
Bulldog59
April 8th, 2010
3:33 pm
This just in…..Urban Meyer has ban the reporter of the taxi cab incident from the state of Florida.
Bulldog59
April 8th, 2010
4:08 pm
BuLLdawg/UGA89, I agree CMR should take responsibility for the Robinson situation. But, be careful in your rush question the caliber of individual CMR is recruiting. He knew Montez Robinson was from a “Blind Side” background, growing up partially in a rough foster care system in Indiana. CMR knew there could be issues but gave Robinson a shot; it didn’t work out. But, CMR also rolled the dice on foster care kids, Demarcus Dobbs and DeAngelo Tyson, they turned out pretty good kids, on and off the field! I’m looking forward to watching both of them start on D line this season.
flagboy nation
April 10th, 2010
8:03 am
i think it was two baton twirlers from the train building school making out and posing as Tech players..getting ready for the GT baton twirling spring festival in Atlanta….lmfao…stay off our blogs tech fans your team is getting ready to scrimmage the frat boys in flagboy football