Two other UGA players named, not charged, in police report (UPDATED)

I was hoping CMR would kick their A$$es off the team.enough already. first?

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Okay, maybe third.

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Jackson should be gone, but King deserves second chance. MIP is not that bad

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As a Georgia Grad these incidents are an embarrassment to the school. Jackson should be kicked off the team or suspended for the year. King’s one game suspension seem fair, but it should be three for being an idiot.

CMR needs to get control of the players. He has turned out to be a phony like Bowden when it comes to institutional control. I hope the next AD has some some cajones to actually take steps to end this consistent embarrassment every year. Being the champion of the Fulmer cup is nothing to brag about.

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Right on Taylor…kick Jackson’s @$$ off…you think these morons would learn from Damon’s screw up last week

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Tavarres will have hell to pay when his Daddy gets a hold of him. That’s a fact.

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These athletes are given full rides, provided by taxpayers, and should be released from the team just like any other empolyee of the state if they were to be arrested for DUI. Enough of this crap in our society for suspending them for a few games. It is time we get tough and make our future generations grow to appreciate the things they have been given! They don’t understand gifts for their accomplishments and hard work and how they can be taken away. It is our fault as grown adults for not having a back bone to deliever the correct punishment to our youth and start to build an appreciative generation who understands hard work and the correct way to live. It is ashame when it begins at the top (UGA’s AD) and how our youth see them do the same crap. I’m tired of this heartless generation of how we give in! Enough Said!!!

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I love how people pretend they never drank before they were legal. DUI is serious, MIP is not.

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I hope Marlon Brown sees this as his chance. Jackson won’t be missed either way.

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And the “SOAP OPERA” continues.

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With schools like FSU, Miami, and Tennessee cleaning up their act, UGA is now standing out like a sore thumb as the new “criminoles.”

It’s Mark Richt. He spent so much time immersed in a thug system in Tallahassee that he can’t change. Or won’t change, to be correct.

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@ Bradley… sure, let’s make UGA the most draconian school in the NCAA. That’ll get those top recruits in here. Knowing that they’ll lose a scholly and a year of eligibility for, essentially, acting like the 20 year olds that they are.

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Good gosh, when will this crap end? And why are they not booted off the team? I am constantly embarrassed by these thugs wasting the air at my Alma Mater.

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It appears that even Tennessee knows how to discipline, but UGA still has yet to learn that one judging by the events of the past two weeks.

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which one was wearing the red panties??

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You got to start somewhere.Richt should start right now. I love the DAWGS,but, i’m tired of every time i hear or read the news a couple more idiots have been arrested.

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Isn’t it about time Richt put “character” a little higher on his list of selection criteria when recruiting these kids. It’s a joke. Sheds a bad light on the school, the football program, and most importantly the good kids that are at UGA.

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Enough is enough. Richt needs to punish the entire team when someone screws up. Have them all running stadium steps at 5AM. This will produce enough peer pressure and locker room beatdowns to put a stop to this crap. If they aren’t worried about what Richt is going to do to them maybe they need to be worried about their teammates.

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FSU The U enough said it’s CMR’s blood.

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Yes, the DUI(just days after Damon’s troubles) Jackson needs to be gone. MIP is happening all the time but you could make it more than a game against La-Laff. I now know why UGA doesn’t really want to play in the Chic-fil-a Kick Off Classic. Who knows who will be able to play in a REAL Game for the First game of the season. UGA needs to play a real first game every year and that would force the coach to make sure his players are not getting in trouble in the off season.

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Additional penalties at a later date, so what? Punishment needs to be swift & certain. GONE from the get-go! Don’t wussy around!

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barneyb – at your current age, you wouldn’t screw it up. maybe at 20, you wouldn’t screw it up and there are plenty of athletes at UGA who DON’T screw it up. However, since most 20 year olds have a tendency to think like 20 year olds, it’s a little silly to A. Think you can judge who will and won’t drink from a few conversation with a 17 year old… and B. Impose penalties that could potentially eliminate a large portion of the players that you have invested in, knowing that the next guys you sign won’t really be any less likely to screw up since… they’re still going to be KIDS.

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I agree with Bradley. I am sick and tired of these kids thinking they are ENTITLED! That generation is in BIG trouble if things don’t change. Gettign back to the football team… It’s time for a few mature senior players to call the entire team in and get on some a$$. What were they thinking after what just happened to Evans and the UT players?

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Red Pants Dawg,that’s my thinking.we need to get serious. tighten up coach.

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By the way… with all this talk of taxpayer subsidies, is there any concern to the massive profit the department makes that will disappear when we start recruiting at comic book conventions?

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How many plays will they be suspended? Two, maybe 4 or 5??? Just wondering how strict CMR will be with these two bumbs.

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They ought to be kicked off the team, if for no other reason, they’re too immature and dumb to be away from home.

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And you’re all still looking in the wrong place: What’s different about UGA is that it’s in Athens. Athens cops are a different breed… like the lap dogs that yip at you and don’t shut up. If Athens cops were universal, MIP arrests wouldn’t be news. And these columns wouldn’t exist, because we wouldn’t be pretending that drinking at 19 makes you Charles Manson.

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Bradley sounds like he needs a few drinks. Their scholarships aren’t paid by taxpayers, but by the athletic association, which is a private organization. College kids drinking? Unbelievable!!!

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Buzz is Wiser – you’re not paying attention. The backup tailback who’s out for a minimum 6 games got a DUI. The starting receiver who only got 1 only got a charge for underage possession. I really think there’s a world of difference between those two charges.

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Let’s accept the first fact. KIds in college drink. They need to have a small group who can be called to help these kids out. Meetings with the team about drinking. So maybe some of this can be nipped in the BUD before it becomes front page . Just start talking to these kids and figure out how to handle it.

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UGA coveted the success of the Criminoles, hired their coach and became the Criminoles. CMR has been a joke holding players out of the Western Kentucky-type games for being arrested over the years. The AD, head coach and even President Adams need to be removed or UGA will continue to be the laughing stock of college athletics and academics.

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Kris G how old are you? A Police officer is a police officer n o matter where or what town. Some are better than others, but if you don’t give the police a reason to mess with you then you will be fine. The hazing work during my years in Military High School and College. Our teachers and coaches didn’t have to mess with 1 kid. The teacher F..ed with the whole class or team and that trouble makers bed, brass, or drill would be better by the next morning thanks to some ENCOURGEMENT for other members of the class, team, or squad.

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Once again. Anyone who is drinking and driving while on an athletic scholarship needs to be dismissed from the team. It only takes once to drink, drive and then kill someone. In this case, one player was driving and the other player was letting him drive his vehicle. What would have happened if he would have killed someone? Would you be arguing to not let either of them off the team? When it comes to drinking and driving their is no reason for it. To many families in this world have been heartbroken by a 20 year olds stupidity. Once you become one of those families you will never understand. And to sum it all up we are talking about kids on football scholarships. It wouldn’t be the end of the world for them to lose their scholarship and learn a lesson and then maybe begin to understand the meaning of work by earning their way back. There are thousand of other athletes who would die to have that spot and they would do a better job. If the talent drops then I would approve considering we have better quality people that will mean more in the long run.

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The culture at UGA, as displayed by Evans, Jackson, King and countless others, was not created overnight, and it won’t be solved overnight, least of all by a softie like Richt.

UGA has had National Championship calibre money, facilities, lack of scruples and fanbase for decades now.

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Randy Marsh, I think the point Bradley was trying to make was those kids on a full athletic scholarship should appreciate what they have. I am paying for my second kid to attend UGA so lets see…that’s about $17,000 a year times 8 years…you do the math, but it’s a lot of $$$. And I know all to well a soph is going to drink, but these knucklehead football players should understand the will be held to a higher standard, and they should! Just use some dang comman sense is all I ask!

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Love you, Bradley! Amen, brother! 20-year olds or not, they have no business getting the gift of a free ride when they act like this. Period. Contrary to some posters here, not all colllege kids drink or drink & drive. Give somebody a $100,000 college education, they darned sure better live up to it.

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Of course we who went to collage did take of the spirits and yes, many of us drank to much at frat parties, etc. BUT, as in my case (and many, mny others) I dared and feared) not let my drinking get out of hand that I might be kicked out of school for partying (drinking and other unhealthy things), ’cause I knew what my old man would do. I still be standing up in stead of sitting down. My generation respected our parents (and 95+% of my schoolmates had two parents to contend with). The sheer embarrassment to my parents in front of their friends in church and elsewhere would be too much for them.
Times (and youth) have indeed changed.

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D GURL jones,

Ya gotta B kiddin me! You dork!!!

You think the problem is there is no more special treatment for a bunch of entitled drunk punks who dont care about living by the rules the rest of us live by!?!?

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It appears that even Tennessee knows how to discipline, but UGA still has yet to learn that one judging by the events of the past two weeks.

That’s really scary. And sickening.

One more reason why Richt has to go. he should have left when Damon Evans did. Until Richt goes, be prepared for a lot of bad publicity and continued headlines you don’t want to see.

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While it hurts the players and their team mates; in the long run it hurts every fan of college football.

Did they just give up thinking anymore? Does it take dismissals to get the players attention regardless of what team they play for?

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What on earth is a nice Lebanese girl doing hanging out w/ trash like this???

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Send them both home, maybe they will learn enough to prevent the worst possible nighmare from actually happening in their future. The Dawgs have enough talent to do without anybody and the problem will have an immediate new dynamic. Caught in any alcohol offense with a car(riding or driving) and you go home for one season.

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ALL of UGA has a drinking problem, its not just the players. DRUNKS, DRUNKS, DRUNKS!

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/Athletic Director.

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Richt simply lacks the integrity and fortitude to tell his players “Shape up or ship out.”

It’s that simple.

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Well when new AD gets here wither its Mcgarity or Hart if CMR does not clean this up or get to the Dome his job is overe because the new guy will bring in someone who will fix the problem.

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Why do players take so many risks with alcohol. There is alot of people who would give anything to be on a the team and they go and risk it like that. Even the AD how stupid was that? If they are that dumb they shouldn’t even be in college.

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CMR doesnt have dawg nuts to discipline these thugs. He is gone after this season. Mark it down!

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Just shut the program down.You are the laughing stock of America.

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The interim AD needs to overule CMR on this one. Jackson needs to be dismissed or Hire back Damon Evans as AD. Such hypocrisy !

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You can’t really expect Richt to suspend a starter for a game that counts can you?

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How is Richt not being on the HOT SEAT looking right now? I hear smoe true Dawg fans are real MAD on this and other blogs too.

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To some of you on here that think they know it all and want to throw stones at Coach Richt need to cool it and wait and see what the final decision is as it was stated that “Coach Richt wast gathing additional information and there could be additional penalties”…If you remember QB Mett, the possible starting QB for the dawgs was kicked off the team, after additional info, so give it a rest and lets see what takes place…Some the comments about what happened and what you would or would not do are laughable…Maybe they should be kicked off the team, a DUI is a very, very serious offense and thank goodness nobody was hurt…Football players are not the only ones that drink and drive as we all know and way too often it ends in a tragedy…I don’t at all think Coach Richt or the staff are taking this lightly but you gather all the facts and then you make appropriate decisions as warranted…That is what my parents did and thats how i think most parents deal with their children as they grow up and become young adults…Now with all that being said i believe the dawgs need to look at all the avenues available that can address the continued problems, and hopefully it will start taking hold…but who knows these are 18-20 year old kids that think they are invincible…Again, these kids are extremely fortunate that so far they are dealing with suspension and not dealing with injuries or deaths involving an accident..We all can be thankful for that….

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40 arrests since 2007. 40…

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Someone needs to take the wheel up there….maybe the AD, oh, wait….sorry….

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STFU dawgster you blind homer !

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Why do we act as if we are appalled that college students are underage drinking & why are we not concerned with the thousands who are not athletes. What about the thousands of UGA students on the Hope Scholarship that are underage drinking & some driving. What about the scholorship math, english, oe education major who is arrested in downtown Athens for unsdetage drinking or public drunkenness every weekend. What about the frat house keg parties where almost everyone in under 21!!! why are their names not on the front page of the AJC? In addition to Coach Richt suspending these 2 players, he should also be launching an investigation into why are athletes the only students being publicized by the AJC!!!

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And I thout just maybe 2010 would be a turnaround year in Athens. It would be great to have a year with more wins than DUIs. Looks like we will have to wait until 2011.

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Jacket Fan. WGASA about simple possession underage (King, not Jackson). Seriously. Make him run the stadium steps and let him play.

If y’all really ran this state, the failed 21 drinking age would no longer be an issue.

http://www.chooseresponsibility.org

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Jane…. The Academia side needs to deal with it as well. Send their azzes home too.

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NOOOOOO- everyone let’s chill here. How many of you actually take time to pray for Richt and the team. Instead of all the bashing going on why not try some prayers. Richt cannot hold their hand 24 hours a day. We all have our own choices, no matter what we are told. Some make wise ones and others not so. We, as UGA fans, need to band together and pray and great things will happen. How many will be willing to do that???

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If you really are a UGA grad and or buy tickets, etc. then write the University and I guaranty you they will respond and they care what you think. I have done it several times and always get a response. If you are a fan of Yech or UF or UT, we don’t care what you think. We respect our coach and support his decisions. Minor possession is consistant with a teenage mistake and anybody that thinks he should be kicked out of school is an idiot.

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Dawgster Mett is the only player to ever get more punishment after an internal investigation. All coaches say that but Richt has just once done it. I think Mett thought he was going to get buy because his mom works for the athletic depart and he heard all the stories before. He just knew he would skate until CMR put his First foot down. Yes, we can wait and see but we have been there done that. Maybe CMR will do more I don’t know. I do think the rules need to be like from God to Moses ie Written in Stone.

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m……. we’ve been a prayin and a hopin and a wishin for years now. The rod shall not be spared no mo! The chilldrens are a spoilin !

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my vote for dumbest response to a post, dawgfan…..you must be one of those drunk undergraduates. Congrats

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DawgFan, Jane’s post was dumb, but m….whoaa. Dawg fans get together and all pray. Yup that will work.

You better pray the Jackets don’t score 40+ on your prison inmates in late November, that is if any THUGA inmates are on parol and avaialble to play.

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Jane … go take a ride with Damon……

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With all that has gone on in College drinking & driving, I’m shocked that this happened. Coach R has always bent over backwards to help his players and you shouldn’t expect anything more. He had his Dream Team to think about.

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Hahahahaha…A Gator piece of white trash talking smack about DUI’s. At least Jackson wasn’t passed out in the middle of an intersection like a certain piece of Gator trash was last year.

I would like to revise my vote for dumbest post of the day. Wow.

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Boy……….no excuses for the guys but the Athens police sure throw the book when they get a chance it seems!

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Big Boy Don’t Cry,,,,I will as soon as you get your red panties back from him…..

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Things at UGA haven’t changed. Back in the 60s, several football players would go to the VFW on Saturday nites, liquor up, and usually end up in a brawl with other students and/or locals. I won’t name names. I miss the athletic dorms where an assistant coach would check on the players. Too bad they were outlawed. I saw a bullet hole in a dorm room door. Those guys had all the fun!

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1st – not one penny of our tax dollars goes to UGA Athletic scholarships. The Athletic department more than supports itself and gives back to the University.

2nd – I believe that King will never find himself in that position again. If he is punished and stays on the team and graduates, he will become an asset to society. Without a scholarship, he’ll struggle his entire life for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Those stone throwers drank in their teens but were fortunate to not be in the public eye or get caught.

3rd – 1/2 a season is pure torture. Again, Jackson finishes his degree he’ll become an asset to society. Without it, he’ll struggle.

Richt made a promise to look after his players and attempt to teach them to become young men. I trust his level-headed judgement much more that the those screaming “fry-em”.

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Eat, drink (booze), smoke (da herb) and be merry co-eds for tomorrow you may die…..

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Follow Fr. Garducci’s BS and you just may die sooner.

Adams has a big problem on the campus and he needs to deal with it.

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There should be a law (maybe there is?) called Failure To Do Right (FTDR). There could be a 3rd degree for being stupid and getting arrested the first time for things like MIP. The second offense is the second degree and the 3rd time is the 1st degree. As Jackson and King proved, being guilty of FTDR can get you suspended. For more serious offenses, we’ll them Stupid Off Campus (SOC). First degree SOC will get you arrested, fired, likely divorced and probably convicted of DUI, especially if you are an AD. Second degree of SOC will get you get kicked off the team, especially if you are a QB and it has to do with grabbing a young lady inappropriately. I am a Dawg fan living in Knoxville and there is a lot of FTDR and SOC going on with the Vols, too.

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Remember they did nothing different than what 80% of the student population does at most schools.They should be delt with in a serious manner,but it’s not like tennessee where they gang banged an officer of law and kicked his head in until his brain bled and so far one out of seven has been dismissed from the team.Keep things in perspective.

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I doubt if they went through a lot of risk vs. reward math calculations.

I’d still like to know how King got a Chevy Avalanche when he was 18 and I had a beat up, $75 1958 Simca. With a rag for a gas cap, ’cause I couldn’t find a metric gas cap.

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I’ve been reading some of the comments and some are saying that if Richt does’nt have anymore control than this he should be fired. Well, all of you who are saying this must not have any teens. And especially don’t have any teens that you did’nt raise. Listen, all the man can do is try to teach them that certain things will not be allowed and punish them when they do them. The next time one of your teens go out and get into trouble maybe someone should fire you from your job and take your kids away.

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I could have written this article before Richt ever announced his decision.
Starter=suspended for game against Little Sisters of the Poor
3rd string hack=”suspended” (wasn’t EVER going to see the field) for a few weeks.
Richt is a HUGE red panty wearing hypocrite.
40 arrests in 2 plus years. My goodness what and embarrassment to the state.

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What is the penalty at any of the Georgia Colleges for MIP or DUI for students on the HOPE scholarship? I think I read last year that the players commit the same number of offences % wise as the total student population. Should not they all receive the same penalties or do we just discriminate on the athletes?

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Kerry, I agree. A lot of these kids were drinking before they got to UGA and it’s not just the athletes. Colleges have a problem & we can act like it’s only football players but that is not going to deal with the ACTUAL problem. So, if Richt is responsible for the athletes drinking, why is Adams not responsible for the non-athletes?

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“My goodness what an [poster's correction] embarrassment to the state.”

No, GreenJacket. That would be your team’s record in bowl games.

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Where is Bradley’s outrgage?

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Dawgster….. Feeling is mutual my freind. Jackson needs to be kicked off. The police report bares the facts my friend. My opinion is mine and yours is yours but dont tell me and others to cool it when we disagree with Richts handling of the situation.
CMR has laid out the punishment already and if he wanted to wait and see if more punishment is needed then he should have waited till everything is final.

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I’ve got no problem with the manner in which coach Richt is handling this situation. He doesn’t have the luxury of those who prefer a knee jerk reaction of tossing the players onto a dung pile. Instead, he is taking the practical approach of fully investigating the facts which is in the best interests of the school and the involved players. An informed decision is a prerequisite before dispensing the proper punishment. Sometimes these blogs read like a lynch mob mentality. I do like the suggestion of meting out team punishment when one of the team members violates the rules. Team peer pressure is an awesome tool that could be very effective.

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We are seeing there are rotten apples in the Georgia football program. They are spoiling the image of the program. CMR needs to bear down, set the rules and clean up the program. I am tired of being a UGA alumni (class of 69) who is made the laughing stock of other teams. People think we have classes like Drinking 101, driving without license 102, how to whip up on a female 101 and how to hold red panties between your legs 202. It’s time to clean it up and get the bad apples out. There are some great young men on the UGA team but the thugs are being allowed to give everyone a bad name. I would prefer to lose with integrity and quality than win with low-life morons who can’t put words in a sentence together and don’t think a thing about getting drunk out of their mind and getting behind the wheel of a car. My children are in Athens and I cringe to know UGA football players are loose in Athens. When someone dies at the hands of a drunk football player, maybe something will be done. Come on Mark, get it done and clean up the mess NOW.

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thUG’s male mascot cannot naturally fertilize an egg – here’s the proof – dawgs arent woth a ____-

It’s good to be A Drunk at thUGA, you ge a bonus for behavior otherwise considered well thUGish.

And now this – consistency – Congradulations NCAA record for thUGnis.

Must make dawgs proud of that diploma.

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At least make ‘em finish practicing in the summer heat and two-a-days. THEN tell them they’re suspended.

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Some of you like to use the analogy that everyone does it. Well many people speed pn the highway but do they all get caught ? Nope but the ones that do has to pay the fine….. Its called consequences. Live it, learn it and embrace it!

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Am I the only one who see’s the hypocrisy in all these athens arrest of college athletes and students? The city of Athens issues all these permits to these local bars to serve alcohol to whom? College students! Then the athens city police go out and arrest students for alcohol related charges after the students drink in the bars that the city allow to operate. If all the under 21 quit drinking then 75% of the bars would go out fo business. And don’t me tell that the city officials don’t know this to be true. Most college students today are no different than other generations. I know a bunch of older gentleman who attended UGA back in the sixties and they were crazy as hell. You would not believe some of the stories they told me. But they didn’t live in a police state like we do in today’s society. College kid’s today are no worse than past generation’s but it is so much easier to get into trouble. In today’s instant twitter/internet generation athletes can’t break wind without the whole world knowing about it. Back in the old days football players in Athens went out and got drunk and got into fights. The only difference is you would never heard a word about it.

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Father garducci, having read your comments, I now know that ignorance is bliss. I didn’t realize how dumb following God’s word was until you enlightened me. Thanks, I’ll pray for you.

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All you guys calling for these kids to be kicked off the team are idiots. I guess no one has ever gotten drunk in college while under the age of 21. Remember, these are kids under the age of 21. They are going to do things like drink alcohol.

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Burn’em at the stake ! ! !

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Why do some of you keep blaming Coach Richt? He can only discipline these kids up to a point. The rest is up to the players as to whether they abide by the law or suffer the consequences. You all think Coach Richt is enjoying seeing these kids make poor judgment? You guys are such morons. Just get off the UGA forum.

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Here’s another fallacy in the NCAA rule doing away with athletic dorms! It was much easier for the coaching staff to account for everyone being where they were supposed to be. This didn’t happen nearly as much when everyone lived in McWhorter Hall. Granted there were no internet blogs, 24-hour news cycles, and the cops didn’t go out of their way to bust players (and trust me…you didn’t ever want to be summoned to Coach Dooley’s office for the ), but there has to be a better way. At the end of the day, it still boils down to these young men taking personal responsibility for their actions without their parents or coaches looking over their shoulders 24-hours a day.

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I think the one game suspension is about right for King. Plus, he will run a lot, and his own family will deal with him. The number of ANY college with underage drinkers is about 85%. For those few people on this board who actually went to a university, I’m laying down $ that almost all of you drank like Otis on Andy Griffith. Now, for Jackson, it is likely that he will end up red-shirting, if he still can, and be done for the year. You don’t sit out six games and then break in to the starting line-up anytime soon, especially during the time of the year when we start the heart of our schedule.

I’m still wondering why ZERO out of the “ten to twelve” Vols players involved in the bar fight got an underage possession charge. Come on – at least the Athens and UGA police are not looking the other way like they do at other schools. Of that, we can be sure.

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There are quite a few things finer in the land than a drunk obnoxious Georgia fan, by the way. Always hated that chant.

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Let me first say that most everyone on here talking bad about CMR are a bunch of Fleas from Atlanta! I went to a Frat party out there one time and to tell you the truth I couldn’t drink enough to make the girls pretty and the guys (I could only tell them a part because they had pocket protectors) were standing around talking about school… true story.

As far as these two knuckleheads, CMR will take care of the issue; he has always been fair even when everyone else wanted to kick players from the team, like say the incident with the cab!
Besides, its not like anyone here really makes a bit of difference when it comes to the program and the decisions it makes.

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Anyone who thinks Richt does not have integrity is not very smart. He has his own family to worry about, he can’t be with all of his players 24/7 so don’t blame him. I am a grad and grew up in Athens…it is not fun to read this type of story…BUT, we are talking about kids. People, please relax…it is not the end of the world and Richt is still who I want coaching our football team.

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GJ – I didn’t say I wasn’t embarrassed. I also know enough that this happens at every school. So, you better move out of the country. So long, farewell, auf weidersehen, good bye.

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You cant spell UGA without TH…..

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Innocent until proven guilty. Let’s negotiate. No blimish on their records. Let’s play ball. Call the Ad at Boise State, he’ll school you on two things (1) How to win. (2) How to control your student athletes.

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Hey, AJC, don’t worry about a headline for tomorrow. Here is a scoop, just between us… A UGA swimmer just had a beer about 90 minutes ago while hanging out with some friends. I’m pretty sure she was 20 and was wearing some underwear that might have been red. Stop the presses – this is going to be BIG BIG BIG! Close down the sports programs. Alert the GBI. Send the few remaining AJC reports all to Athens. We are on the case!

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did they tell the police they were uga football players?

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I don’t think it is CMR’s fault the kids act the way they do, but it is his job to lay down the LAW and make sure it doesn’t continue. We all know Athens has more bars than the legal age patrons can support. Everybody wants their shot at the money and LEEBURN the Big Booster for UGA provides most of the Alcohol to the bars in town. The School gets money, the bars get money, the jail, Lawyers, abd Bail bonds men get money. The only people that lose are the Parents whose money is going to pay for it all. In the 80’s we went to UGA to party because it was so easy to drink and that has never and is never going to change. When a person is killed by an UGA Athlete I hope the family sues the Georgia Athletic Association for some of that 84 million dollars they have. It is obvious there is a pattern that the players don’t feat drinking and driving because the Money behing the UGA sports teams don’t care because tha money keeps coming in. Myabe the Gov. needs to pass a law is a student at a public college in Georgia gets a DUI they lose any public assistance they get ie the HOPE scholarship.

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It doesn’t matter how many of us have drank underage when we were teenagers. We did not play sports for UGA where these players are always under a microscope for their behavior. Why can’t they learn from other incidents with their fellow athletes about drinking, driving, drugs, etc. How stupid are these athletes! It is embarrasing that Richt cannot get thru to these athletes about staying out of trouble. Your are right, he can’t be with them 24/7 but he should put the fear of God in them so these incidents stop before someone gets killed.

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DAWG GONE IT, ease up on Richt. You are way too worked up over something that has absolutely zero to do with you. Richt can only do so much for these kids, he can’t live every second of their lives with them. If the time fits the crime, that is all he can do. RELAX

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As a GT fan, I used to wish Richt would be booted out. Now, I hope he stays forever because uga will never win a MNC with him, and probably not even the SEC East, as long as Myer is at FLA. As obnoxious as some dog fans were while whipping boy Gailey and Reggie Ball were making Richt look good, I cringe to imagine the arrogance if they actually ever won something of significance.
So, with uga’s normal schedule of 5 or 6 GIMMEE wins, and 4 or 5 ’should’ win games, the puppies under Richt will continue to show 9 or 10 wins per year. There’s probably 20 – 25 teams every year (maybe more) that could match uga’s win total if playing uga’s schedule!

By the way, Richt’s discipline is so predictable. Back ups get multiple game suspensions, starters rest up during the first game against the sacrificial lamb team of the year. Just like Dooley did…a great uga tradition!!

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More of the same with Richt. One game Richt, is what they should call him. No wonder there is no discipline in Athens, and why this so called “university” is an embarassment to all Georgians. Look, the UGA diploma is only regarded in this state, because you are applying to someone who has the same. UGA is a “joke” of a school to the rest of the nation. It is known as a drunken football factory and that is all it will ever be known for until someone really tries to clean it up.

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DAWG GONE IT, WHAT DOES RICHT’S RELIGOUS BELIEFS HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH AND STUPID TEENAGER DECIDING TO DO SOMETHING STUPID. MAYBE YOU SHOULD BE YELLING AT THEIR PARENTS FOR NOT TEACHING THEM RIGHT INSTEAD OF THE COACH. MAYBE YOU SHOULD BE YELLING AT ONE OF THEIR PROFESSORS. IT’S JUST AS MUCH THEIR FAULT AS IT IS RICHTS. GET A GRIP MORON.

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I will agree with the masss that Jackson is an idiot ans should be gone. But in defense of T.K. To call him a thug is racist and more immature than any choice he made that night. For all we know he wasnt even drinking, maybe his worse decision was letting Jackson in the car with him with booze! It does not say underage consumption so get off of him on that! And as far as more deserving students with better credintials being passed over for him… I doubt it! Not many of these athletes could get in if it wasnt for their sport! TK graduated with a 4.0 and as many credintials as most regular students… So kick him off the team, as far as we know, bc someone snuck a beer in his car… Get real!

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These guys knew that they were breaking the law, but they thought like most people, that they could do it without getting caught. They were wrong. They thought that the momentary “fun” outweighed the penalty if caught. They were wrong again. There is no excuse for their conduct. They should suffer the appropriate consequence for their actions. What is more important is whether or not they will learn from this experience and make better judgments in the future. Being too permissive will not help them.

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Foster, you are just plain wrong. Many of the UGA schools are rated in the top 20 of public universities in the nation. Real estate, marketing, insurance and the law school are only a few examples that in the past few years have attained a high national ranking. If you throw it up there on the blog, it doesn’t mean it will stick.

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“Old Dawg Fan”, who would you like to have as our “NEW HEAD FOOTBALL COACH”, Vince Lombardi? Do you think this only happens in Athens with today’s student athletes? Richt is doing all he can do.

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Please stop reporting these stories about UGA’s blacks and their troubles with the po-leece. The racist just use news like this to enflame prejudice and hatred.

Whenever a black gets in trouble for “acting out,” please do the right thing and hide the story. You are aiding an abetting hate speech against the blacks.

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Richt is the biggest joke of a coach ever! Oooh King will miss the first game and possibly the belly diving pool activities that the AJC covers so well every year! What a freaking joke of a place the Cesspool is!!!!!
This is what you get when it’s ALL about winning!!! Woof Woof

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So much hatred and ignorance on this blog.

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1. These players were not given anything. They Earned their schoalarships. Take it away here and there are plenty of places that will be glad to have them.

2. Most of you were never athelets and if you were not good ones so how can you judge what you do not know. Players are the same today as they were 50 years ago news just travels faster now.

3.Your life is not perfect so how the hell would you know how to run a football team and you can’t get your toaster not to burn on one side.

4. Drug and alcohol use among suburban kids is at an all time high. The problem is not just the “Thugs” (you might as well say black because that’s what you mean) at UGA. Kids are rotten, spoiled and privledged these days and they feel they are owed something.

5. You are a fan and maybe a donor but that doesn’t make you a viable or valuable source of advice.

6. Ye without sin cast the first stone.

7. The world is not ending and it is not focused on un.

8. If you are a tech fan STFU we don’t care about you wearing, waving, or mentioning red panties just make sure they are not stained. It really isn’t that serious and we are actually used to them.

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Please chalk the typos up to bad/hurried typing and not my dual degree from UGA

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Foster Brooks,
Please tell us,do you really log on all by yourself,thought so.You must not read the AJC,because if you did, you would have saw the article about UGA being second only to Vanderbilt in academics.

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Awn’t thank emmar tech boyz dun sumpin lak ees. Jess thankin.

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Why is it that everytime a college athlete gets in trouble people are quick to label them thugs.Yea athletes are held to a higher standard than a regular college student but if this was a student who didnt play a sport would people be quick to label that student a thug.RJ how can you call these kids thugs,you have no idea who they are or their background.Or are you just calling them thugs because of the color of their skin.Im not condoning what they did,but having a DUI does not constitute someone as being a thug.

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Why don’t we just finally accept the fact that most college students, given the opportunity, are going to imbibe??? The state of GA should legislate a change to the current legal drinking age, dropping it from 21 to 18 (like it was when I was a student @ UGA), and let’s quit having to suspend and/or pull athletic scholatahips from student athletes who are just doing what the vast majority of other students do as standard practice! Not to mention the enriching of city & couny cofers across the country with revenues realized from the enforcement of current age-limit alcohol laws. I do get that MADD will have a total hissy fit over such a notion, but telling a college student to not drink is only slightly more moronic than telling them to not have sex – ain’t gonna happen!

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Bradley
7:52 pm

These athletes are given full rides, provided by taxpayers, and should be released from the team just like any other empolyee of the state if they were to be arrested for DUI.

This is so wrong on so many levels. Here are three:

First – “these athletes” are just one hit away from maybe never, you know, walking again? One hit from suffering permanent brain damage? Guess what – they do not get paid for taking this risk either.
Second – taxpayers do not pay for these scholarships.
Third – other state employees do not get fired simply because of a DUI.

sick of hypiocracy
8:15 pm

Whatever hypiocracy is – I’m sick of it too.

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The Dude abides, let ‘em smoke weed, drink moonshine, wear out the poon and suit up on Saturday….so sayeth the Lord.

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WOW their PAY for taking that risk is the Opportunity to get an Excellent Education & maybe play Pro Ball. Now, if they don’t get the education or major in some BS degree that is nobodys fault but the players. School Teachers have some very strng guidelines for what they can get fired for and DUI is one. Not all state empolyees but yes many will get fired for DUI.

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And what has Tennessee done about there drunks???

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How much would it cost the UGAA to make sure there was always TAXIes available to pick players up and take them back to their cars the next day? Sounds like a good investment about right now.

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St richster will suspend them until USC

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you can take the neg— off the streets, but you can’t take the street out of the neg—..or the a.d.

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cnn sux

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Glory, Glory to the drunken ugay player…

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St Richt suspends Adams….red panties are falling from the sky…lol

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It is easier for a camel to go thru the eye of a needle, then a slow-footed white dude to enter the kingdom of sec football…so sayeth the Lord.

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oops thats Chingy with all his bling !

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Nice play on words Jimmie you crackpot.

@KimZ it would run afoul of the NCAA. Unless they made it available to all students.

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Father Garducci: Raise up your child in the way of the lord and they will not stray. You do seem to know the Bible yet you bas..dize it. There is hope for you. You will return to the teachings of the Lord our God in the future I am sure.

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Old Gold those panties or your roomies boxers. there is a difference you know!

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I get so tired of seeing post like send them to Valdosta or Fortvalley, what makes you people think that Georgia is so much better than fortvalley or Valdosta State. I interviewed three graduates of University of Georgia and 2 from Valdosta and one from Fort Valley State and guess who got the job? The one from Fort Valley and I’m a graduate of Yale and the other two conducting the interviews were graduates of Sanford University and Georgetown and if we had to pick a second person to hire, the next highest score came from one of the candidates from Valdosta so people please stop thinking these aren’t good schools because there are some very intelligent students that are lucky enough to graduate from those schools.

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Its your daughters red panties….she was doin the dirty with Damon…GO Dawhs!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Old Gold, I like red panties personally…have you ever seen a pair other than your sister’s?

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KimZ’sPackage
10:45 pm

WOW their PAY for taking that risk is the Opportunity to get an Excellent Education & maybe play Pro Ball. Now, if they don’t get the education or major in some BS degree that is nobodys fault but the players. School Teachers have some very strng guidelines for what they can get fired for and DUI is one. Not all state empolyees but yes many will get fired for DUI.

Now now Kim…are you REALLY saying that they risk potential serious, LIFELONG injury just to get an education. Seriously?

BTW – I am a state employee also and I am perfectly aware of the standards.

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Thank God it wasn’t a fella from Tech she was stripping for.

Dude it doesn’t sting. Maybe if it had been a jock strap. But a dude havng a chicks panties in his lap is not that big of a burn.

But if you need to get it out of your system have at it.

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A couple of things or more that I don’t understand. First, peple are saying MIP is not serious but DUI is. These minors would not have DUI without MIP, so therefore MIP is very serious and the root of most of these problems we are having in colleges. Second, punish the players when arrested but what in the hell are the police doing about the people selling or furnishing alcohol to minors. Most of these bars and whiskey stores should have already been stripped of their license to sell alcohol. Police should be parked next to or drive by the whiskey stores and bars and check anyone seen entering bars and whiskystores that appear to be a minor and if they have alcohol on them then immediately return them to the scene of the crime and arrest the person selling the booze to kids and close down the establishment. You are not going to stop the drinking by minors as long as you say it is not serious because it is and you have to stop the MIP by shutting down the source. In other words Athens Police be as enthusiastic in shutting down the illegal sources of alcohol as you are in arresting the athletes.

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‘father garducci’. I see you’ve been looking through the bible and re-wording it for your own amusement. You’re a sad and pathetic low life. What about this simple phrase: “What goes around comes around”. Don’t pray to God when something bad happens to you. Just remember this day when you ridiculed someone’s belief.

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WHAT’S UP GATOR FANS?

All ya’ll comin on this blog, acting like a Georgia fan, like we don’t know you. Child, puleeze. Go worry about your own arrests problems and your own coaches issues, try to get him to sign that contract he’s been waiting on for 10 months.

Richt da’ man. 90 wins, 9 seasons. .769 win %. 18 Top 10 finishes in 24 years as a coach. Be afraid, schedule Richt for your bye week, in Florida, but your time is coming. Richt & Meyer bout equals in arrests over last 5 years. Florida’s much more serious.

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How many people in the Bible blew it big time? Moses? David? Solomon? Paul?

Ain’t no perfect people walkin this earth. Welcome to the human race.

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Look Alive
11:10 pm

Police should be parked next to or drive by the whiskey stores and bars and check anyone seen entering bars and whiskystores that appear to be a minor and if they have alcohol on them then immediately return them to the scene of the crime and arrest the person selling the booze to kids and close down the establishment.

This one does not need more comment. In this world, there would be a policeman parked outside every bar and liquor store.

Just Wow!

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Barry…are you for real? tennessee is doing what? LMAO!

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Richt suspended both, and say both will pay a stiff price. That’s good for Richt.

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Once again – the AJC must be part of the good-ole boy system that I was posting about = because my post didn’t get posted. So I will try it agian. UGA and coach Richt have proven once again that it is racist. If these boys had ben white they first of all would not have been pull-over (DWB?) 2nd – if they were pulled over – coach richt would have winked at the cops and they would be released. 3rd – even if the first 2 would have happened – they would not be suspended – if they was white. Early last week – UGA and coach Richt conspired to have Evans arrested and the evidence falsified so that a black man would not have such a high position at UGA and the boss of richt. No – can have a black man in charge.
You see, richt has to keep on the good side of the good-ole boy network – like those redneck boys from south Georgia – who drive them big 0ld pickup trucks that are jacked-up with a big G on the back and on the front license plate. They yell “how abt them dawgs” while flying there Fu$$ing rebel flags. Yep – they are all racist. UGA and coach richt uses the black players as a sort of legal slavery – where they have the black man doing all there work while coach richt and UGA alums make millions. Just legalized slavery. It’s time that the black players boycott UGA and go to traditional black schools – can you imagine what would happen if they did that?? Where the so-called BCS is played between Grambling and Mprris Brown?? I say – turn the college football world upside down and do it – ALL you black players – you have the power. The Slave system would be busted.

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Richt fan,

Nice stats on Richt. Now let me give you some of my own regarding the Urban Legend’s career at UF. 4-1 vs UGA. 2 bcs national titles, 2 sec titles in 4 years. Three 13 win seasons in 4 years. Did I mention 4-1 vs UGA? Oh, I almost forgot. The #1 ranked freshman recruiting class which many consider the greatest single recruiting class ever will be reporting in the fall. What was the dawg’s current freshman class ranked? 16th? I’m looking forward to Urban putting his boot(hobnailed one) on the throat of Richt for another few years before Richt gets fired.

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uhhh WTF are you talking about. I would bet everything that you are not Black!

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Hey Gator Nation

What ya’ll doing bashing Richt on this blog all day? Think we don’t know what you doin? We ain’t blind.

Gators footballers get arrested like krazy.

Thanks for all the blogging and postin on here today.

Shows Richt how skeered you are.

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It would be funny as hell if La-Laf. beat UGA with players sitting out and hurt Murry so Logan or Hutson had to play at USC. That would be so freaking funny. All the keep the kids vs all the kick the kids off would all over each other. The Blogs would EXPLODE.

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Hahahaha. King will be suspended against Louisiana-Lafayette. THAT’LL TEACH’EM RICHT!

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Unbelievable, this make me sick. As a out of state parent with a son starting the honors college in the fall, I’m scraching and clawing to pay nearly 40k per year to send my son to UGA. These guys don’t deserve have a scholarship. We were told because of the economy they cut the Out of State Regents waiver from 150 to 57 and we got these two atheletes taking scholarship away from a kid that scored over 1350 on the SAT (32 ACT) and couldn’t get any money for academics
As a lifelong UGA fan growing up with parents in Athens etc. I am really frustrated with this continued news. If the news over the past few months had happenned before June 1st (college committment deadline) I just might have insisted he go to USC fo 5 k per year after scholarship. RL Lexington SC

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@ SCDAWG
Their scholarships had nothing to do with your kids.
They come from the atheletic fund so unless Jr. was up for a football scholly he would have been in the same boat no matter what.

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“UGA and coach racist”: Are you kidding me? As a fellow black man, I can’t believe what I just read. Please go back to school and educate yourself for the sake of all African Americans. It’s people like you who spin the situation by playing the race card. Damon Evans was UGA’s AD since 2003 and you’re saying it was a setup? Yes sir, a white man put a gun in his head and made him drink all that liquor.

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Coach Richt been tough this off-season when it comes to discipline. Sooner or later, this guys gonna figure out, they ain’t gonna see the field if they get arrested. If Richt keeps cracking down, people gonna stop testing him. These guys want to play in the NFL, they don’t like sitting on the bench and losing their position on the depth chart like Tavarres just did. Depth chart and benchtime is best way to communicate with these guys. They understand that. If they don’t get that, let em’ run some stadium steps at 6a.m. bright and shiny.

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@Seeing Black
I would bet the house the guy that posted that wasn’t Black. He was just trying to stir the poverbial kool-aide.

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SCDAWG – over 60 million a year profit from athletics, and a lot of that gets put back into academics. Take a step back, and get some perspective. If watching mathletes made 60 million dollars a year, I’m sure your son would have gotten the scholarship you were hoping for. But all those “thugs” from the football team bring in so much money, not only to they pay for their own scholarships, but they pay for a heck of a lot of other scholarships. And they risk grave injury doing it. Be respectful of what athletics does… especially football. That’s why they say football pays the freight. You sound like one of those “Why does LeBron make more than my kids teachers” yahoos.

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Gator Nation:

Go worry bout your coach and his health issues. Try and get him to sign his contract. Try and get him to keep his players from getting arrested. Meyer’s had dozens of arrests at Florida.

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I can understand Tech fans bashing coach Mark Richt, thats what they do best, they certainly don’t have a football team that can compete with what Richt puts on the field . But Georgia people screaming about underage drinking ? really ? aw come on people !!!! I think I turned out to be a fairly well adjusted adult, and hell, I drank beer before I was of legal age !…………..Now a DUI ? thats a different story, coach Richt by suspending Jackson for 6 games pretty much said ” take a red shirt and sit for a year, then we’ll see if you’ve grown-up “………that is what he did with Bruce Figgins last year, and from all accounts Figgins has “grown-up ” and is ready to be a productive member of the team. To those of you who would throw these kids to the wolves for a bad case of “Stupid”………Remember you had to grow up yourselves, and perhaps you did a few things and got away with it. Or perhaps…………………You have no faults………..Regards, RED

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kris G UGAA gave like 2 million to the academic side of UGA this year. UGAA doesn’t give their money to UGA for educational purposes. You are a fool if you think that happens.

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BTW those “THUGS” pay for the other NON-Thug Student Athletes to be able to play baseball, ride horses, soccer, volleyball, swim, etc etc

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They play the game because it could kill them? that makes no sense.

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like drinking and driving could kill them too. Notice the IT COULD not that IT WILL. If you are stupid enough to risk Death doing 1 then why not risk your life doing the other. I guess the leson might get learned.

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Gator Fans:

While you’re hatin on Richt, and acting all high and mighty, take a look at your players rap sheets, some pretty serious stuff these footballers at Florida are doing under Meyer, the list is now 28 arrests under Meyer’s short reign as head coach, and traffic violations is approaching 300 under Meyer’s leadership:

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

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So I get caught drinking and driving. The coach makes me run stairs in 95 degree weather with 100% humidity and I die. It served me right?

I was with you earlier but you lost me on that one.

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UGA is no worse than any other school and better than most.
I can’t think of any reason why opposing team’s fans would want us to kick players off the team. Oh wait could it be it gives their team an afvantage?

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If I lost a family member to a DUI driver it might not be right but it would feel a little good to some I am sure.

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The UGA Athletics Department takes another hit. An AD, and within a week 2 football players who by all accounts are going(were going) to participate as starters or immediate backup.

One could sit back and count the number of arrest, charges, allegations against football players at UGA an say ” these are young men and youngster make mistakes”. However at most institutions a tighter grip by the Head Coach would lay the hammer down and provide some internal mechanisms to curb inappropriate decision making by his players.

Lets look back at other programs that have been at the top and with a few issues have fallen off the charts:

Florida State; a rash of arrest, and run in’s with the law in the early 2000-2005 years created a conception as a program run with little or no guideance.

Miami, another program that brought in a ton of talent from the Miami-Dade area and allowed a free run of boosters and program malcontents to tarnish the line of rules and arrest.

Oklahoma, a program that was truly a dynasty in the making and the head coach allowed his players to treated like “rock stars” and paid thru the nose with probation.

Alabama, allowed boosters to provide players with extra benefits and over the top recruiting practices. Probation soon followed.

Everyone of these programs required a coaching change to right the ship. I am not saying Mark Richt needs to be replace, however his disciple program needs some new direction.

The past 18 months has shown us that over 20 Football players have been arrested, charged or accused of character issues through the law enforcement of various departments. Time has now come and soon it will go and if the program at UGA does not correct this pattern of behavior, one can be rest assured the only out will to be clean house and with a President like Michael Adams in charge you can be on the look out for a new leader on Sanford Stadium sidelines.

Too Many Arrest will lead to a lack of program direction.

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No offense but if you haven’t played you can’t understand.

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There is a big difference between running stairs and playing where you get small and immediate breaks in action. A chance to rest, drink, pull your self out, take a knee etc etc

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These players are just simply being coddled nowadays. Im ashamed of UGA.

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I played all my life through college. When I was younger I would have followed my coach till I puked, but knowing what I know now there is no way I would trust or respect a coach that tried to punish me in that fashion. There are stories every year of kids that die from heat stroke from just that sort of thing.

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Just wait…… I am telling you the judge for DAMON EVANS trial delayed said trial until after the start of football season. The judge is a friend of that mega booster Wilson. UGA brass is scared that EVANS is going to blow the lid on known violations and they do not want probation to happen this year…..

Just wait and see….. NCAA regulations don’t allow them to penalize a team until the season after the probation is announced….. this is why there is a delay. Bad times ahead for UGA….

Just wait…..

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but more likely they are delaying so they can pay Evans to keep his mouth shut.

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Wait until: Didn’t delay the trial just didn’t make him show for the formal reading of the charges and to say NOT GUILTY. Most Trials in Fulton County will take 12-18 months to get a trail date if the person is out on bail. If Evans gets a trial date faster than 12 months then he is getting special treatment. If Damon was sitting in a POD then he could request a speedy trial and get a date maybe sooner.

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All you UGA fans better get to bed…. first shift starts at 6AM and I expect you to be on time for work.

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Everyone in the world knows why UGA always schedules a cupcake for the first game. Get arrested – you get suspended for the first game. Murder or rape someone – then you may be suspended for at least 2 games.

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Kim Z, look into the “donation” that athletics always makes to the Dean. Regardless, you can’t fault a self-supporting scholarship because you want a free ride for your mathlete.

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ABSOLUTELY….give these kids their marching orders…..if they can’t appreciate what has been given to them….they certainly do not deserve it….we want athletes who can not only win games, but also can be rote models for our kids…

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(3) THUG Georia tek DE Robert Hall ARRESTED put in Fulton County JAIL for pushing girl into a bathroom, slamming her into door, and into a wall. The girl got the crap beat out of her, her head bleeding with blood on her shirt, treated by Grady EMS. This was June 2010.

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David Hale had a few other choice comments about all the arrests before he announced that he was leaving as Bulldogs’ Beat-Writer.

It remains at a very high rate, more than all but 2 schools in 2010 and more than all but 2 schools since the inception of the Fulmer Cup in 2006. This is NOT the same as at every other school.

“Is it fair to say there’s a real problem with behavior on Georgia’s football team?”

“I probably wouldn’t argue much if you said there was.”

“Regardless of the explanations or justifications, Georgia’s image problem in this regard is largely self-created, and it is something that needs to be addressed and resolved rather than simply explained.”

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Maybe I missed something….Race?????? Has not Mark Richt dismissed two white players from the team since the Spring Game. Look at the numbers….How many Black players and White players are on the team…. Look at the ratio and then make some comment….If there is more than 80 per cent of one race on the team…quite possibly there may be more arrested in that group than the other……Nothing Racist here just statistics of numbers happening…..These kids are BULLDAWGS together forget what race they are more than 100 on the team and only seven have been arrested???? Someone talk about the good the other 93 plus have done. Also punishing the whole team is the worst possible non-solution.

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1-game suspension for Tavarres King. B.S. Coach Richt. B.S.

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Please insert EXCUSES that 1 of every 5 players including walk-ons are ARRESTED / SUSPENDED. This is why we are # 3 All-Time in Fulmer Cup Standings which started 2006; this is why we are # 3 this 2010 season in Fulmer Cup Standings. And, you JT run in here and announce that we are GREAT, that very few get ARRESTED / SUSPENDED according to you.

Are you out of you ever-loving mind, JT ? The other 93 are great. Look, this B.S. on being the third worst college in college football for being Arrested / Suspended reflects on The University of Georgia. It is a Team Distraction. It is reflected on the field averaging # 96 in Penalties EVERY YEAR for the last 4 years. And, it COSTS US GAMES as the # 11 All-Time Program in 1-A Wins yet only # 19 in won / loss record over the last 4 years.

IT IS USED AGAINST US in recruiting.

It is basically all anyone thinks about when they think of The University of Georgia Bulldogs’ Football TEAM.

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No, it is not; not with being # 3 this year in Fulmer Cup Standings, and not family values being # 3 All-Time in Fulmer Cup Standings too, which started 2006.

The real distraction of this all is that Coach Richt has been only 38-14 the last 4 years – good for # 19 in the nation in won / loss records while averaging 21 fumbles a year every year over the last 4 years, averaging # 96 in penalties every year over the last 4 years, averaging 14 interceptions a year every year over the last 4 years and for # 3 in Fulmer Cup Standings as the third worst college in football arrests / suspensions over the last 4 years.

This is WAY TOO MUCH. As much as I and everyone else loves Coach Richt; this will be HIS DOWNFALL for the lack of control of this football team from recruits to daily flub-ups. Our execution performance on and off the field has become the distraction this football program and University no longer can put up with.

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ugag is all about sports not academics and they will let things like this slide. There should be 0 tolerance.

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If we don’t get a new coach in here to create a culture change in our players, our program is going to hit rock bottom!

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Coach Richt is doing a fine job. Seriously. He is responsible for 100 plus student athletes who are living away from home for the first time. Every time one of them breaks a rule, there are endless reporters begging for the details so they can write an article for the AJC, etcetera, so they can sell you a paper for $0.50, and get you in a self-righteous uproar. I suspect the behavior of the football team is better than the overall student bodies of most major universities. Granted, the young men will have to face the consequences for their actions, but let us be realistic. Coach Richt will handle this appropriately. The rest of us should mind our own business, and take care of our own lives.

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I heard GA’s new AD may apply for a liquor license for the UgA Butts Mehre Building, so the players can drink there and not have to drive. That could work if he also has some good music and a lot of hot chicks around to get the players “attention.”

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Hey UGA look on the bright side at least yall still got a chance at Da’ Rick Rogers. If Tennesse lets him go. Under yalls rules he will only have to sit out 1 game !!!

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Lets face it CMR has become a joke and so has UGA. CMR has not done anything much without Donnan Players and the departure BVG.. Please dont even bring up 2007 which really was a farce which really revealed itself the next year and the next. Its time to tell CMR adios!….. UGA needs new ideas and new blood.

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The only way to stop these kids from getting introuble is start putting them in athletic dorms and give them a curfew. If you let them stay in their oun apts. this will continue to be a problem.

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[...] Tim Tucker of the AJC on the Georgia suspensions: “Jackson and King were arrested early Saturday after their vehicle was pulled over by UGA Police. Jackson, 20, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, underage possession of alcohol, following too closely, leaving the scene of an accident, violation of the move-over law and violation of learner’s permit. King, 19, was charged with underage possession of alcohol. The alcohol-related arrests of the two players came just days after UGA athletics director Damon Evans resigned in the aftermath of his June 30 DUI arrest in Atlanta.” [...]

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Our drunks can beat your drunks

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It’s so obvious. There’s no such thing as responsible drinking. Bars with parking lots should be illegal. All vehicles should have ignition interlock to stop drinking and driving. It’s not the drinking — it’s the driving.

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They both should be gone.If coach Richt would spend more time doing his job and not spend most of time doing tv ads.Ga will never be a power house until they get rough with the players.Between thugs and tokens can we get a break.
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What we have here is failure to communicate. Mark Richt cares about Mark Richt. He is too nice, he’s too pretty and dog gone it, he’s just sucking as a leader and football corch.

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1980 dawg…… how many beer can pyramids you have going now in your moms basement? 1980 ? Its been a while huh?

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I love all the comments about the 1 game suspension being enough for MIP. Obviously, it isn’t enough when it continues like it does here at Georgia. King is a starter and it’s more important to get him back into the line-up for South Carolina than it is to make a statement to the entire team that we are fed up with this lack of discipline we have on this team. We will lead the league in stupid penalties again this year.

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Hey, whats the problem? These players just look up in the stands and see all the slobbering, immature, drunken adult morons and think they should follow suit to be a good bulldog,lol,lol,lol!

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Tavarres King was charged with underage possession of alcohol. Richt suspended him for 1 game. I suspect that is more punishment than would happen at other ACC/SEC schools. If an athlete at other schools has ever been suspended past one game for that single charge, please document on this site.

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Drinking age should be 18. So the MIP shouldn’t even be in play here. DUI is another story.

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Backup tailback Dontavius Jackson and starting split end Tavarres King have been suspended indefinitely from all team activities, Richt said.

How can you say indefinitely when in the article Richt spells out when they will come back to the team and suspension dates for playing time?

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Call Damon for the punishment ? Shambles of a program.

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Moms, think twice before you let your sons go to UGA. A DUI stays on your record FOREVER. It can keep you from getting a job way after your college days are over.

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I personally see nothing wrong with guys having a good time.

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Here is the solution:

Make it mandatory for all UGA football players to take a DUI course
in the first semester. At least they might have credits for their
future use.

Gators swim in water. Dogs swim in booze.

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Long Gator …my how short of a memory you have…wasn’t a UF player found pasted out at a red light just days before the SEC Championship game???

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We should lower the drinking age so that all adults can drink if they so desire. No more age discrimination.

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Sad thing is, “UGA Players Arrested” isn’t even big enough news anymore to last on the front page of AJC.com at this point…..

….nor big enough news for the columnists to linger on anymore (Bradley is already off the NBA off-season junk)….

…Yes, the real sadness is that “UGA Players Arrested” has become as common as “drive-by shooting”….or “apartment fire in Dekalb”….or “Rev Jesse Jackson demands (insert latest demand)”…

..that is the TRUE sadness in how far morals and standards have fallen in Athens at the Leeburn Athletic Association.

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Nuff said:
UGA athletics director Damon Evans resigned in the aftermath of his June 30 DUI arrest in Atlanta.

Jackson and King are the sixth and seventh Georgia football players arrested this year.

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A while back an UGA Alum told me that they may not win a national championship under Richt but the players would become better people playing for him. My reply…you’ve got to be freakin kidding me! This program has had more arrest in the past 3 years of any other program in college football.

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TUSCALOOSA, AL (WBRC) – University of Alabama linebacker Courtney Upshaw and his girlfriend Kendall Lynn Gryzb have been arrested following an argument.

A University spokesperson says both were arrested Wednesday night following an altercation in the UA Student Recreation Center parking lot.

Upshaw and his girlfriend of three months were arrested and charged with third degree domestic violence/harrassment.

According to a police report Upshaw and Gryzb were arguing because Upshaw said Gryzb accused him of talking to another woman. A University police officer wrote in his report that he witnessed Upshaw chase Grzyb, grabbed her by the back of the neck and hair with his right hand, and pushed her downward in what appeared to be an attempt to push her to the ground.

The officer wrote that Gryzb then got away from Upshaw and tried to hit the six foot two, two hundred and fourty nine pound linebacker in the face. The report stated that Upshaw then grabbed her by the forearm and pushed her away.

According to Alabama law anyone charged with a domestic violence incident must be held for 12 hours in jail.

Alabama head coach Nick Saban has not yet made a statement about the arrest.

Filed under: Alabama Football, SEC, NCAA FB Recruiting, NCAA FB Police Blotter Over the weekend, Alabama defensive end Jeremy Elder was arrested for (allegedly) robbing two students: According to the UA Police Web site, two male UA students reported to UAPD on Saturday night that they were the …

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Tenth Arrest Under Saban’s Watch is a Doozy: Possession of Ectasy, Distributing Cocaine
The Big Lead — … —two were charged with felonies—and it looks as though nothing will stop Alabama from accruing more arrests than any other major program this offseason. Hell, this latest “issue” wasn’t even the worst arrest in the spring. Freshman Jeremy Elder was booked for first-degree robbery after holding up two fellow students at gun point in February.

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TUSCALOOSA | A third University of Alabama football player was arrested and is facing charges due to an altercation in front of a bar located just off campus early Saturday morning.

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Brandon Fanney runs through drills last summer.

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Two Alabama football players arrested over the weekend
Brandon Fanney, 21, was brought to the Tuscaloosa County Jail and charged with disorderly conduct. Bail was set at $300. He posted bond that sameday.

Brandon Deaderick and Roy Upchurch were also arrested in front of “The Legacy,” a bar along the Strip.

Deaderick, a sophomore defensive lineman, was charged with criminal mischief, resisting arrest and giving police a false name, and released on a $1,500 bond. Upchurch, a sophomore running back, also had his bail set at $300.

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http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=181&f=2339&t=1606678&sto=pagestart

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Should every Georgia student that gets stopped for underage drinking lose their HOPE Scholarship?
It’s a privilege, just like the “free” education the athletes get.
Why the double standard? Perhaps, many Georgians view the issue differently because:
a. Over 90% of UGA HOPE Scholarship recipients are white (and they drink a lot.)
b. Exactly 78.8% of ALL HOPE scholarships recipients in Georgia are also white (and they drink just as much).
But fair is fair. You should not condemn and punish these young black men unless you are prepared to punish young white men and young white women. According to http://www.stateuniversity.com/universities/GA/University_of_Georgia.html , the 695 black men at UGA compose only (2%) of the 33,959 students. So, just based on the percentages, these few (2%) black men are not doing nearly as much under-age drinking as the 82.3% White UGA Student-body.
Note: If we start cancelling these thousands of HOPE scholarships, we could literally balance the Georgia State Budget. In just 2 or 3 college football weekends, we could quickly “round up”, arrest and cancel the scholarship of every underage drinker at UGA, GA TECH, Georgia Southern, etc… It’s not a difficult task. Just pick them up before, during or after the games – right there at the stadium. I’ve been to enough GA-FLA games and UGA games in Athens to attest that every other student there (black AND white) is over the legal limit.
Or we could just send the police down to fraternity row (and don’t forget your darling white underage-drinking daughters on sorority row). And then punish them by taking their scholarships.
So I ask the question again – Why the double standard?

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WHERE ARE THE MUG SHOTS?

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Geesh, neither player deserves to be kicked off the team. Neither one showed the violent tendencies that some of our other SEC university atheletes have shown recently. Jackson and King couldn’t of gotten in trouble at a worse time unfortunately and some of you aren’t thinking clearly. They deserve to be punished, and will have to earn their way back into good standing.

For all of you “DUI IS NO JOKE” folks, your right. But keep in mind D Jackson is 20. That pretty much means a sniff of beer will earn him a DUI because he is underage. The same rule of greater than 0.8 blood/alch level do not apply to him (which is total BS by the way). So don’t be to quick to just throw him under the bus. Did they ever come out with a blood level anyways?

Bottom line is these two kids messed up at the wrong time and most of you sitting on your throne of purity are over reacting.

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Taxes don’t pay for athletic scholarships, the athletic department made money independently and gave the school money last year. MPI is not a big deal.

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And the beat goes on…..what a joke this school is becoming. But then again what do we expect. You are talking about a student body and fan base that prides themselves on how many bars they have, as if that is what makes a college town great. Keep thinking this UGA fans….it’s really working out for you. Maybe this is why you have 2 SEC titles in 30 years.

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RMP. Florida? Yes. Bama? Inexplicably no.

All SEC schools recruit the same kids. They all entertain themselves similar to the rest of the student body at the respective schools. Are you honestly saying that there is no under-age drinking in Gainesville and Tuscaloosa!?

There have been several posts here about how the Athens Clark County police used to look OUT for the players rather than look for them. I think this has to be the situation in Tuscaloosa. Have you been to Tuscaloosa? There is less to do there than in Athens. It is not like Alabama just happens to pick all of the good character guys out of the pool of 4 and 5 star recruits.

I am not saying what these kids did was right…but one poor decision (or 2 or 3 even) should not wreck a kid’s entire future. A real famous guy said we should “forgive seven times seventy times.” I am in no position to say that guy was wrong.

Many of you unsympathetic people out there should be ashamed of yourselves.

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That famous guy said forgive and he was right but he didn’t say not to punish the guility…eye for a eye

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uuugh, U believe OJ Simpson was innocent too? the 1st time not 2nd.

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And the beat goes on…..what a joke this school is becoming. But then again what do we expect. You are talking about a student body and fan base that prides themselves on how many bars they have, as if that is what makes a college town great. Keep thinking this UGA fans….it’s really working out for you. Maybe this is why you have 2 SEC titles in 30 years.

Kudos to Tom, he has it 100% correct!

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Agree with Erin and Tom 100%. The Title party school is a disgrace to the State.

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Editor, do you not believe in both? Do u just believe the parts u wish?

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There is a real market for implantable blood alcohol monitors. Hey, they could even include GPS locators.

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I think the issue here is that Coach Richt is too nice of a guy to hand down tough disciplinary action. He needs to have a disciplinarian on his staff that’s not afraid to put a foot up someone’s a$$ when they get outta line. That’s just my take on it.

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yawn

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I vote for some electro-shock proximity chips installed on signing day.

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Those two kids are alot of fun at happy hour.

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I hear people saying things like a Minor in Possession of alcoholic beverges is no big deal. Well, in one sense that is true. However, when you are a member of a major college football team you should be aware of the problems with players getting treated a lot differently than the rest of the student population. In addition, you should be aware of the public’s lack of tolerance for this kind of stuff. We are absolutely feed up with these kids making such poor decisions. It is time for it to stop.

These kids just don’t get it. We need to move to a zero tolerance rule. If these guys want to play college football, they need to toe the line. No under age drinking period. When I played high school football (before most on this site were born)anyone caught drinking was automatically thrown off the team. Guess what, most all of us decided that playing football was our top priorty and did not drink (even though many of the other students did). In my four years in high school, we had one player kicked off for drinking. He was a great player but we all agreed with the coach because we all knew the rule.

I repeat, these kids just don’t get it. Dismiss them from the team. Adopt a zero tolerance rule.

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My opinion is Jackson should get the boot. The other kid should get a suspension from 1-3 games. Depends on how remorseful Richt feels he is.
To all those Gator fans on here throwing stones, please use some common sense. We’ve had and will continue to have our fair share of players getting into trouble. No one is immune to it when you are dealing with young men that age.

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Find it interesting that Jackson was driving King’s car. It shows that King has a little bit of sense – suggesting(?)/asking(?)/cajoling(?)/forcing(?)/allowing(?) Jackson to drive so he wouldn’t get a DUI. Maybe they do teach football players SOMETHING at Athens.

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Altahama Dawg,
Carlos Dunlap was kicked off of the team the week before the SECCG for a DUI. I believe that’s the polciy at UF. To my knowledge, he was never in any kind of trouble before that. That’s why I say that Jackson should get the boot. Possession should be a suspension, but DUI is pretty serious….along with his other charges.
Once again, I’m not judging anyone at UGA becuase we at UF have our fair share of this, as well. Just stating my opinion.

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uuugh, lets say Jackson rammed into someone and killed them. Something that happens several thousand times a year in the US. Should he be kicked off the team? He made the same decision in both cases so should he just get a 6 game suspension? Afterall he is just doing what everybody does according to UGA fans.

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RedPantsDawg–great idea!

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We all do stuff that COULD have turned out worse. You don’t punish for what could have happened. If that’s the case we are all doomed. That stop sign you only paused at. Those tires you didn’t properly inflate, etc etc
And unless and until every college student is held to the same standard they should not be kicked out of school.

Isn’t the whole point of the NCAA to ensure that athletes do not get special treatment? That should go both ways!! Schollys are not free. I worked my @ss off for mine and these guys are doing the same thing.

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Thanks Jive. I hadnt read your post, so I wasnt picking on you specifically. More the the folks who seem to have an opinion oh how they think we need to do everything, everyday, every topic. facts be damn.

I know Richt kicked a couple guys offf the team with no prior issues (known) recently, so he obviously is willing to do that al ong with Meyer in some cases. I would be willing to bet that UF does not have a stated policy that any athlete charged with a DUI is an automatic dismiss though.

Although maybe it should be. There and here.

Now with Dunlap, the timing before the biggest game of the year is a different category of screw up. “kicking him the team” is really just defacto in that case. Thats basically a one game suspension. The bowl game is automatic for any little thing. Smart On Meyer’s case since he got to prove a valuable point with something that was really already the case. Dunlap wasn’t going to play another game in a Gator Uni anyway. And why would you want a guy standing around for no reason bad vibing everybody else at that point? Not sure Dunlap gets his career ended with UF if he had done that in the summer of his sophomore year, however.

Jackson may very well be dealt with more harshly when all the facts come out. Agree with you that underage drinking alone is a suspension. To me that is less of a menace to society than driving, or 34mph in the outskirts of a school zone, in which I doubt anyone would bat an eye.

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UGA is an educational institution not a football factory. CMR needs to emphasize that to the players, recruits and fans. He needs to recruit accordingly and point out to these kids that most will never play on Sunday and that their education is a priority. It is way past time for UGA to stand alongside the Vanderbilts and Virginias as institutions that put education first.

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BTW, a “slap on the wrist penalty from a directional U” would also have been from a national game last year. Personally I would like to see that 10% rule be enforced as 2 games in most cases. Actually of greater consequence to King than missing a cupcake is the interuption to his summer participation in drills and the how he would have normally got ready for the opener. This is really going to affect his starting status for more than one game anyway you slice it.

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THuga. All ya need to say. The rest of us laugh at your pathetic institution of higher drankin’

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Let’s get this out now…the B.S on here about “we all drank alcohol in college, it is college kids being college kids”..the biggest difference is now with the instant news coverage, de-regulation of college athletics( dorms, dining halls, limited practice time etc..) that decision made by these kids must be checked and re-checked, and verified and re thought about it. These kids are now on television every week, and with blogs, facebook, twitter, my space, camera phones….better decisions are now demanded…and expected….

When something goes against your school whether it be a recruiting violation, bad press, coaching issue, etc….excuses are made…..crying begans and rocks are thrown at every one else to make yourself feel better and make you feel like your program is doing fine…The problem with UGA is all the press since the season ended is ALL BAD PRESS…and it is self generated. STOP coming up with a fake CUP, TROPHY, HEADLINES to make yourself feel better.

UGA is in disarray and it starts with the Leadership at the top, we have seen what happened when the leadership make poor decisions at UGA…TOTAL CHAOS……

Instead of spending 3 hours on saturday BARKING AND WOOFING…hand out Alcohol Preventiveness and Drug Awareness literature…..do you UGA fans who bark all game long, pre-game, post-game understand how embarrassing you make the rest of us feel at bowl games, away games etc…..I am totally embarrassed by the excuses, leadership, failure to control the program, wins, losing attitude…..TIME to right this ship….We are now a middle tier program in the SEC…the truth hurts….

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Actually Joe, UGA is an educational institution, but UGA football team is a football (issue). Completely different issues here. They will deal with the regular punishment as a “college student” same as anyone else.
Are you saying that UGA (as an education institution) does not hold thier football player accountable to the same academic and behavior standards as every other student?

Admissions…. now there is a difference perhaps. But I don’t know if SAT scores and GPAs of incoming freshman has proven to be the leading indicator in drinking inclination. Do you have that research handy?

What exactly are you saying?

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……NESBITT for HEISMAN
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Let’s get down to the nitty gritty, children. My daddy can whip your daddy. Fu-king morons.

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Hugo…What if he did?

What if I win the lottery. What if ‘Press Your Luck’ wasn’t the greatest game show ever? What if the guy in the cubicle next to me suddenly explodes?

He didn’t…so your point is moo.

(moot is misspelled on purpose…before I see 50 Spelling Bee champions correcting me)

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Jackson should be booted from the team and King should have the 6 games suspense at LEAST!. Man, this is getting so old! These kids need to get their act together. It’s down right embarrassing. Living in Tampa, not only do I have to put up with losing to UF the past 2 years, now this.
To condemn the entire University on the behalf of stupid decsions made by football players is ludiris.

Now is the time that the incoming Seniors need to get off their tails and show some leadership.

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Here’s the police report, for anyone interested:
http://www.redandblack.com/2010/07/12/police-report-ugas-jackson-admits-drinking-downtown-hitting-car-third-football-player-in-car/

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Guys, I’m an FSU grad from the Dynasty years. We had isolated incidents that granted us various nicknames but NEVER the number of alcohol related incidents that have been rolling out of UGA for the past 3-4 years. DUI’s can kill somebody, getting free shoes doesn’t. Quite honestly, Thugs are guys that have power and abuse it. Punks are powerless and stoopid. That makes UGA players punks in my book

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UGA UGetArrested

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If these sorry morons played at a different school in this state, they would have been suspended indefinitely until the charges were resolved. This should be a complete embarrassment to the school and program. Chalk it up to youthful indiscretion and things incidents continue to happen.

Papadawg, your stupid. Girlfriend beater was immediately released from the team until charges are resolved, and by that I mean, off the team unless proven guilty. That would NEVER happen at your POS program! Remove the spec from your lens.

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Check this out, this is only from 2005-6/15/09.

GEORGIA (30 arrests)

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)

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We run this state, I believe there has been 10 more since that date in 09

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@ DurkaDawg

I’m sure you’re right, they’re hard to keep up with!

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So here is my favorite part…I’ve read several posts about all of UGA being drunks…quite the statement. I would like to examine that fine technical institute in Atlanta. Ive been to tech, in the middle of the afternoon, on a wednesday, and seen multiple people rip roarin’ drunk at about 2pm. Not just one but quite a few. There was no game to tailgate for no finals to celebrate being over etc. It was mid semester and mid day and they were plastered so before UGA gets called a bunch of drunks you best be examining your own institution. Jackson needs to be sent packing. DUI regardless of age is stupid and everyone knows it kick his sorry a$$ off the team. I have walked many a mile because I was to intoxicated to drive. King on the other hand, should be suspended for a few games maybe forced to do some comunity service and attend a dui class, but being busted for MIP at 20 is not so big of a deal. The drinking age should be lowered to 18 anyway or the draft age should be raised to 21, but thats for another day. Most, not all, 20-year-old college students will drink its part of the college experience. If you don’t believe me go to any state funded university on a thursday night and start checkin id’s. Its commonplace and generally accepted as a part of “the college experience”. Have a great Monday everyone and GO DAWGS!!!

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scott

July 12th, 2010
2:01 pm
I would like to examine that fine technical institute in Atlanta. Ive been to tech, in the middle of the afternoon, on a wednesday, and seen multiple people rip roarin’ drunk at about 2pm.

And you went up to each one you saw, and asked to see his GT ID, right? Give us a freakin break!!!!

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scott

your ATHLETIC DIRECTOR got a DUI and had the red panties of a woman who is not his wife in his lap

….and not even 2 weeks later UGA player gets a DUI and another gets a MIP…

Stop with your “Ga Tech has drunkards and inebriates too” argument. Just stop it. You’re embarrassing yourself even further.

UGA has their pants down and egg on its face…and red panties on.

There’s no comparison. Your university is a complete embarrassment..

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College students drink and drive? That is the craziest thing I have every heard of. Let’s be serious, if it were Joe Frat boy, they wouldn’t kick him out. People need to realize that these athletes are normal kids who make bad chocies…… they just happen to have more athletic skills than most of you guys. Let him serve his punishement and move on. Don’t throw the book at them. Some of these kids need to be part of GAfootball more than GA football needs them. If he messes up ahain…..time for him to go.

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Something has to be done to fix the DUI issue, its out of control. Thats the most important issue.

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*** THUGS is a racist word. ***

It’s no different than Negro.

But, those that used it already knew that, right?

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Outstanding Idea, Howtofish…… 18 years old is an adult….. It’s really this simple, if you drive and drink, your going home. Richt will not do this because he has NO spine….

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Uh, DurkaDawg, it’s ‘you are’ not your. And, I don’t think you know what race baiting means.

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The only way you will ever get the message across to these young players is to show their is zero tolerance for those that have no sense of what their actions do to the rest of the team. Kick them off the team. There is no place for these types in any program… Please spare me the ” They are only young kids and they should not loose their scholars.” As Harold notes 40 players have been arrested since 2007 and no one knows how many more have not been caught.

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Is Coach Richt’s Model Flawed?

http://gasportreport.blogspot.com/

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What’s a bunch of wusses at UGA- always getting in trouble for drinking alcohol. At Tech, we play hardball- we shoot smack, heroin baby!

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instead of comparing with real universities like UF and Bama, you bag-licking boneheads better size up your real competition, Louisiana-Lafayette

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