Might Mettenberger play against the Dogs in Sanford Stadium next year? (UPDATED)
(Updated 5 p.m. Wednesday)
Former Georgia quarterback Zach Mettenberger hopes to play football at another college. And Louisville is one place he’ll look, according to a website that covers the Cardinals.
After pleading guilty to misdemeanor sexual battery charges in Valdosta on Monday, Mettenberger said in a written statement that he hopes for “a second chance to compete at another university in the nation.” The Scout.com site that covers the Louisville program, InsideTheVille.com, reported Tuesday that its sources say Mettenberger is expected to visit Louisville later this month.
This could get interesting, if anything comes of it.
Mettenberger would be required to sit out the 2010 season under NCAA transfer rules, but do you know who Louisville is scheduled to open the 2011 season against?
Georgia.
In Sanford Stadium.
The Dogs and Cards also are scheduled to play in 2012 in Louisville.
UPDATE: Former Georgia football player Kelin Johnson reports on his website, kelinjohnson.com, that Mettenberger said he has scholarship offers from Louisville and Cincinnati as well as “heavy interest and calls from other colleges and universities, including the University of Tennessee, USC, Texas A&M, UK, Troy, Memphis and Colorado.” Johnson’s website is here.
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Former Georgia safety Reshad Jones made a good first impression in the Miami Dolphins’ rookie mini-camp, according to this story in the Palm Beach Post.
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If you missed it, Georgia’s men’s and women’s tennis teams yesterday learned their first-round draws for the NCAA Championships. The men’s team will open against UNC Greensboro on May 15 in Athens and the women’s team against Harvard on May 14 in Clemson, S.C.
Second-round winners on the men’s and women’s sides will converge in Athens from sites around the country for the round of 16 through the finals.
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Georgia is nowhere to be found in SI.com’s Andy Staples‘ post-spring college football Top 25. Nor are the Bulldogs in his five who “just missed the cut.”
And in yet another post-spring Top 25, Georgia is No. 23 in ESPN College Football Live’s ranking.
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co dawg
May 5th, 2010
10:03 am
preseason polls are part of the problem with college football.
ask auburn.
and staples is more inflammatory than informational. sports illustrated is like looking at the sun. yes, we all know that you shouldn’t look but everyone does it.
Delusional Dawg
May 5th, 2010
10:11 am
Metts was not only underage drinking but he was carrying on a sexual assault. You may not think so but in the eyes of the law that’s what it is. Then when it was time to put all of his cards on the table and get a real second chance, he lied boldfaced to the head coach about all that actuallly happened. And some of you still think he should be on the team?? Man, all I can say is that you have some low standards! But unfortunately, from player behavior to expectations on the football coach and program itself, that is what it’s become…low standards.
How2fish
May 5th, 2010
10:11 am
Odell T. CMR let him take part in spring practice after Mett told him his side of the story and the POLICE were still looking into the matter and had not YET issued their findings etc..Once they did and CMR found out that Mett had lied to him he had no choice but to dismiss him..that was after the spring game..if you don’t like the timing talk to the cops and tell them to hurry the investigation..and Odell its character …of which I suspect spelling it is not your only problem with it.
BigDawg
May 5th, 2010
10:15 am
Folks we lost to UT and KY last year! Why should we be ranked in anyone’s top 30? The SEC West will be brutal this year and has 4 quality teams that should be ranked (Bama, Ark. LSU, and Aub) while the SEC East has only 1 (UF) and maybe another in South Carolina. UGA will lose to SC, UF, ARK, and AUB…the only hard teams we face all year. We could end up dropping another to a lesser program like the two we lost last year and obviously we could lose the Yech game. Thus, UGA will lose 4 and as many as 7 this year. Likelihood is we finish 7-5 and head West again. It’s a shame since the East is down so much this year. Could have been UGA’s year if our coaches were only as top notch as our recruiting and fans are.
How2fish
May 5th, 2010
10:18 am
Look Alive you need help and I will pray you get it.
Tom
May 5th, 2010
10:19 am
Fat chance Mett will be playing somewhere worth talking about. He’s a huge risk!
Mr Cvs Jr
May 5th, 2010
10:24 am
@ Odell T. If you’re going to use a word to make a point, please spell it correctly. It’s Consigliere and not congigliari!
SEC observor
May 5th, 2010
10:25 am
How2fish,
I seriously doubt the Bammers fear playing Georgia. Heck the Kentucky mildcats don’t fear playing Georgia.
What the bammers and the mildcats probably do fear is leaving a daughter in a room with a UGA qb. What a fine upstanding Christian program Mark Richt is running there.
Are the dogs also still the runaway winner over the last several years in number of players arrested? I think in that regard the dawgs have clearly separated themselves from the rest of the sec pack.
Mr Cvs Jr
May 5th, 2010
10:27 am
I know this is off topic. Just wanted to say this
Lemay will sign with us and the recruiting dominioes are falling into place with the de from East Hall coming next week. I referee h.s. football and I have officiated two of Justin Scott games. He is a gamechanger. I know Rashad Greene who play’s wr at St. Thomas Aguanis, but he started at Westover H.S. in Albany, and hopefully he will come into the fold and bring a couple of teammates.
Pretty much what I am getting is that. Within the next 3-4 yrs we need to be competing for NC and BCS bowls and not Capitol One, Outback, and these other 2nd and 3rd tier bowls. Have a good day everyone.
ARdawg
May 5th, 2010
10:29 am
collegefootball fan
Doesn’t matter that he was let go from which team. What matters is the NCAA eligibility rule. He qualified at a Div 1 school for the 2010 season. He can go down and play right away to a Div 2 or 3 school or wait out a year and play at a Div 1. It is a good rule, designed to keep kids from school hopping to play sports
Tim Tucker
May 5th, 2010
10:31 am
collegeballfan: NCAA transfer rules apply to any student-athlete who previously was at another school.
Porshe
May 5th, 2010
10:40 am
Richt could block Mett from going to a school Georgia plays or force Mett to pay his own tuition for one year if he doesn’t comply, like Dooley just did at Tenn to one of his transfers, but since Richt chose to let Mett go, I doubt he’s worried about Mett as a competitor. Richt saw him as a #3, behind Murray and Gray.
SEC observor
May 5th, 2010
10:44 am
Tom,
The young man made a huge mistake one night where alcohol was involved. Don’t know why you single him out as a huge risk. You could apply that label to the a lot of the Georgia football team since this program seems to be the run away leader in players getting arrested. No one else is remotely close to the dogs as far as arrests go. You can try and excuse it by saying that most of the arrests are minor but the bottom line is that with the incredible number of arrests over the last 3 years Georgia certainly has to be considered a rogue, lawless program.
Cory
May 5th, 2010
10:49 am
Ohio State’s schedule is easy? What other school has the gall to schedule a home and home with the nations elite on a yearly basis. Texas, USC, Miami, Oklahoma, Tennessee. Name a school administrator in the SEC that has the ball$ to schedule any school outside the South…can’t find one, can you? Even your precious Georgia Bulldogs were scared to play a home and home with OSU. They wanted a game in Athens, but not in Columbus. Once again, proving the point that Georgia football is the Wisconsin of the SEC
Gator Girl
May 5th, 2010
10:54 am
Ohhhhhh….Him and Charlie Strong would mean plenty of trouble for the Dawgs, even without him Louisville means trouble in a game that when scheduled was probably looked upon as a sure win. On another note, Mettenberger……Bad Dawg, Woof Woof.
How2fish
May 5th, 2010
11:01 am
SEC observor last 4 meetings we are 3-1 with Bama and its one thing to take the heat for Gator fans and we do because they have proved it on the field and quite another to put up with Bamaites that we own a winning record against in recent history. Got a great idea you worry about your program we will worry about ours…we are moving in the right direction IMHO and we pray Bama gets in front of this train….I don’t do predictions but know this if we did get to the SEC championship and played Bama this year…we will beat them like rented mules..it’s a real long shot that we can or that they can but if it shakes out that way the one SEC West team we have nothing to fear is Bama.
1eyedJack
May 5th, 2010
11:01 am
I beleive that it would be possible that Lt. Dangle would arrest a football player for spitting on the sidewalk in Athens (I know they arrest football players for urinating on the sidewalk). How else do you raise enough cash to keep the Athens PD in business. There are not that many murders and armed robberies to keep them busy, unlike our red-headed cousins to the west.
rduck
May 5th, 2010
11:05 am
Where were all the Dawg fans calling Andy Staples an idiot when SI had Georgia #1 a couple years ago. Oh how short the memory…
ozzfest
May 5th, 2010
11:06 am
Zach, meet Quincey.
How2fish
May 5th, 2010
11:08 am
Cory the Big Ten is so weak the only way Ohio State has a shot to a BCS is to schedule outside the big ten…we play UT,Tenn,UF,Auburn, Ga Tech every year and then go play the OSU’s etc…if the big ten were any better OSU would stay home more…oh and we get to play the best teams in our league before we even get to go to a BCS who does OSU have to beat to go…Michigan..LOL..
How2fish
May 5th, 2010
11:09 am
rduck that is exactly why we call him a idiot…I prefer moron but each to his or her own.
Delusional Dawg
May 5th, 2010
11:14 am
Here’s the thing about Mark Richt and the program and all the bad behavior and many will not like what I’m going to say. Richt declares his spiritual beliefs and doesn’t try to make it a secret. For instance, when he’s out recruiting, he uses it as a major recruiting tool (see Christian LeMay) and has even said as much. Now, when it comes to actually running his program, by and large he has been lax on real discipline. You would think that a man who makes such spiritual claims would be, lets say, much less tolerant of some these behaviors. Now with all of the publicity that’s out there, a coach almost has no choice but to come down hard on many of these players. Bottom line…Richt reminds me of the Preacher in church who preaches against the false worship of material things and against excess and then at the end of the day when it’s time to lock up the church and go home, hops into his Mercedes 500 series sedan isntead of a Buick.
Its me Glynn
May 5th, 2010
11:15 am
Mark Schlabach is a UGA grad and a Georgia homer. He votes the dogs number 1 every week. always has. consider the source. oh and don’t forget he hates the Jackets. So thats all there is to that.
TheItaliandawg
May 5th, 2010
11:18 am
Folks, Andy Staples is an idiot,plain and simple! I have no idea how is he still keeping his job? it is not the first time though he has done a crappy job. he ranked Boise #2 which means (and dont tell me not necessarily crap!) that Boise should play for the NC! which is absolutely by all means is impossible to happen.his ranking is rubbish to say the least. Georgia and LSU are not ranked!! huh!
Tide Roll
May 5th, 2010
11:19 am
Roll Tide!! We’ve been on NCAA probation twice in the past 10 years. Once for paying recruits and the second time for academic fraud resulting in 21 forfeited football games! We have so much character and dignity don’t we?
Dear Cory
May 5th, 2010
11:21 am
Ohio State flat refused Damon Evans offer to play UGA!!!!
1eyedJack
May 5th, 2010
11:21 am
Mark Schlabach is NOT a UGA grad………some people.
Reality Check
May 5th, 2010
11:22 am
Ohio State = gets blown out by the SEC 100% of the time!!!!
BG
May 5th, 2010
11:23 am
Something is wrong with this picture. UGA kicks this guy off of their team and another major college will pick him up.
BG
May 5th, 2010
11:26 am
Delusional Dawg what are you smoking partner?? I want you to name one coach in the SEC that is more strict than Mark Richt.
droopydawg
May 5th, 2010
11:28 am
collegeballfan: he still is a student at UGA even though he is not on the football team. You transfer from one school to another, not one football team to another.
San Francisco Dawg
May 5th, 2010
11:31 am
I agree with a number of people here by saying that any team picking up Mett this soon should be considered a poor move. I don’t see Richt taking a flyer on a kid with this much baggage if the roles were reversed and neither do I feel that the Louisville Alum will put up with a decision like this…go to a junior college, stay out of trouble and then become a “free agent”!
Delusional Dawg
May 5th, 2010
11:35 am
BG, OK…how ’bout any coach in the SEC who has had fewer players in trouble and arrested in their program. That kind or narrows down the field, doesn’t it? Now whose smoking what partner?
AltamahaDawg
May 5th, 2010
11:35 am
Schlabagh is a UGA homer? Good lordy! Could you be more backassward on that?. The man in the antithesis of a Dawg Homer, he goes to great lengths to be anything but. I guess he could hate tech. Thier fans being so completely uninformed as to say such a thing would be as good of a reason as any.
Les W. Moore
May 5th, 2010
11:36 am
At first read, I thought Mettenberger was going to either Georgia State or Georgia Southern. You mean to tell me that UGa is actually playing a D-1 school in the early season? Wow. Pigs are flying.
Besides, Louisville will be an improvement over the ever-under-achieveing UGa. And, Mettenberger won’t have to perform that silly and oft-failed fake hand-off play-action that Richt and Bobo seem to beat to death.
fishtales
May 5th, 2010
11:38 am
How2fish – Yeah Bama is reeeeeal scared of the Bullpups. Just please whatever you do don’t bring out those scary black jerseys again ok? That’s not fair to frighten and intimidate us like that. I sure hope we don’t have to face your freshman QB and that juggernaut building in Athens. Whoa. And please continue to use creative math when discussing the series…whatever math gets the stat that you want. Let’s not include the all-time series or what we did to you in the 90’s.
And Tide Roll? This link is for you. Please see where UGA and Bama are on this list mkay?
http://blog.al.com/bn/2008/03/SECcheatinghall030908. jpg
AltamahaDawg
May 5th, 2010
11:41 am
I’ve never quite understood. YOU are a dawg fan that is delusional? If so, why would you choose to be delusional about anything?
-Or-
you are accusing US Dawg fans of being delusional? If so, why do you care?
The General Feeling
May 5th, 2010
11:41 am
Delusional Dawg is right, I’m afraid. Richt is too lose with his players because he prays for their divine guidance instead of providing it. It’s a major flaw in his leadership.
How2fish
May 5th, 2010
11:42 am
Delusional Dawg you didn’t answer the question did you ? Who in the SEC is more strict than CMR? The only way he could be more strict would be to either kick them off the team before they do anything..or never give a kid a 2nd chance if he deserves it…but I guess only you have the moral wisdom to make that call?
collegeballfan
May 5th, 2010
11:44 am
Thanks for the reply on the NCAA transfer rule.
ugaaccountant
May 5th, 2010
11:46 am
Les W. Moore – Umm, UGA opened on the road to a top-10 opponent in 2009. But don’t let facts get in the way of your oh so clever posts.
Delusional Dawg
May 5th, 2010
11:48 am
Oh, I answered the question…you just didn’t want to hear the answer.
joe
May 5th, 2010
12:00 pm
Interesting radio sports talk question for today. What sports figure would you most like to see get tazed?
Here are my top 3- Urban Meyer, Lane Kiffin and Jon Kincaid
Who would you add to the list?
AltamahaDawg
May 5th, 2010
12:02 pm
I don’t know if he is too “lose” (does lose with those player too much but thats another issue) which causes them to go out and get in trouble in a college town. I don’t have that kind of inside knowledge plus I can’t imagine what you can do up front any differently, and I am sure they have tried it all. It’s not like they don’t understand the consequenses. Maybe he doesn’t do whatever you do that makes football player want to play football and not want to NOT play football more. I guess that just seems to me that would be a given. I guess he could sign a different set of footbal players. All of our signees seem to have a long list of offers from other schools behind thier name. Maybe he is just damn unlucky we got them, and other’s didnt.
But I do know this: as a fan, as tired of reading about it as I am, I cannot name an instance where he failed to take the appropriate action if a player did get in trouble.
As I have stated before , I do wish UGA was a hellova lot better at sweeping some of the silly BS stuff under the rug. Nobody is better served with that stuff going public. And don’t freaking tell me there aren’t any football players driving scooters on the orange sidewalks.
Pope UGA XXIII
May 5th, 2010
12:03 pm
Andy Staples works at an ofice supply store. His ad is a
regular insert in the newspapers. This imminently qualifies him
to be a football prognosticator.
Bama fan
May 5th, 2010
12:04 pm
How2fish,
Bama has won 4 of the last 7 vs the dogs and leads the overall series 36-25. Richt has in fact won 3 of 4 against Bama but 2 of those wins were way back in 2002 and 2003 against Bama teams on probation. Newsflash- Mike Shula is no longer the coach and Bama is no longer playing with 21 fewer scholarship players. Against Saban at Bama Richt is 1-1 including an overtime win against Saban’s first Bama team which was 7-6. I realize you guys like to go back into the past, pick a point in time, and make some kind of strange argument that Georgia or Richt is somehow better based on the particular point in time that you want to pick. If you want to live in the past then live in the complete past in which case Georgia as a program is nowhere near the stature of the storied Alabama program. Not even remotely close and you d@mn well know it!
jzdawg
May 5th, 2010
12:05 pm
I imagine if every coach kicked off of their team all of the young kids who messed up a time or two then they would not be a very good coach or even Christian coach in my mind – probably would not have many players left either? These young kids are human and in a town where the parties, alcohol and beautiful women are in excess. So if any of you feel you are without sin or temptation then keep casting the stones – I’m sure you would all be angels and stay in your dorm drinking cool-aid and reading your Bible. Also, if you have ever played football you will understand that most of these young guys full testosterone are trying to one up each other on how studly they can be and sometimes take it a little to far!
1980 Dawg
May 5th, 2010
12:05 pm
Some of you folks are being too critical of Coach Richt. He is an excellent football coach, and is a first class person. For the record, I would not trade Coach Richt for any other coach in the United States. His winning percentage is stellar. He is a man of strong character. Richt will win a National Championship at UGA. My biggest concern is one day he may decide to walk away from all of the negativity associated with the job.
Bama fan
May 5th, 2010
12:08 pm
ugaaccountant,
Georgia opened 2009 against a top 10 ranked opponent? Who dat be? Okay State? Are we talking about the same Okay State that has never even won its division and which did NOT finish even in the top 25. The same Okay State that got thrashed in their bowl game by Ole Miss of all people? Is dat the powerful Okay state program that you speak of? Nice try though.
Delusional Dawg
May 5th, 2010
12:10 pm
Tazed?? How about 1) Rothleisberger (sorry about spelling): for obvious reasons. 2) Tiger Woods: for having to listen to all that crap for 5 months 3) Mel Kiper Jr: for having to listen to him every year and every year he’s wrong.