Arrested tailback will transfer from UGA
ATHENS — Georgia backup tailback Dontavius Jackson, arrested on DUI and other charges last weekend, has decided to transfer to another school, UGA said Wednesday night.
The latest development came three days after Jackson, a redshirt sophomore, was suspended for at least the first six games of the 2010 season by Georgia coach Mark Richt.
Jackson will leave UGA after summer semester. He played in four games last season, rushing for 38 yards on four carries. He was well behind Washaun Ealey, Caleb King and Carlton Thomas on the Bulldogs’ depth chart at tailback.
Jackson was arrested by UGA Police early Saturday and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, underage possession of alcohol, leaving the scene of an accident, following too closely, violation of the move-over law and violation of learner’s permit.
He is the fourth player to leave the Georgia football program after arrests this year. Richt dismissed linebacker Montez Robinson, quarterback Zach Mettenberger and backup punter Trent Dittmer from the squad.
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ryan
July 15th, 2010
1:02 pm
if you look at it Athens and Atlanta are not to far apart both have high crime areas.
PMC
July 15th, 2010
1:02 pm
Thugs are people who beat other people up generally because they hope to rob them.
I’m not sure where the term fits for most people discussed on most sports topics.
Dawghater
July 15th, 2010
1:06 pm
He’d fit right in at S. Cal! Now that UGA stopped two a days the kids can make to to Happy Hour!
Kerry in Douglasville
July 15th, 2010
1:13 pm
So long, and good riddance! Get rid of all the other UGA thugs while you’re at it.
Marco
July 15th, 2010
1:16 pm
Glad CMR is not playing around this year.
At this point, nothing at UGA would surprise me.
Nesbitt for Heisman
July 15th, 2010
1:22 pm
Coach Richt knows best.
Appalachian Dawg
July 15th, 2010
1:24 pm
Wow I can’t believe I am about to say this.
All Vol classy post, I feel the same about Tennessee, even though I hate you all.
Good stuff man. And all those people callin out Duh’Rick is just cause we wanted him to play opposite the great AirJ Green.
DawgGonit
July 15th, 2010
1:29 pm
I heard he was transferring to Dui School? lol
Jerry McGuire
July 15th, 2010
1:30 pm
It’s a cynical world we live in.
St. Richt
July 15th, 2010
1:31 pm
Wake up Georgia fans: this has nothing to do with CMR and him getting tough with his players. The article says he is transferring, not that he was dismissed from the team. This was Dontavious Jackson’s decision. And your coach is still the sackless leader he always has been.
TampaGator
July 15th, 2010
1:34 pm
Funny….guys say…”Don’t let the door”…and “Thank you for not playing around, Mr. Richt”…concerning the fourth-string Jackson….and talk about a just a “couple of games” suspension for the first-string King….funny indeed….let’s get tough and glad your gone applies…only as long as you aren’t first string.
Joe
July 15th, 2010
1:37 pm
“As far as King goes he should be suspended for more than one game.”
Are you crazy? For a simply underage possession? Every underage college student in America has been guilty of that before. Not to mention King has never been in trouble with the law before.
Johnny3Steps
July 15th, 2010
1:57 pm
Jackson……………….Good bye NEXT!! pack your bags if you think about getting in trouble at UGA…………….Good JOB Coach!!
How2fish
July 15th, 2010
1:58 pm
All Vols great post we let the children drag us down to their level at times. I was born in TN and started school in Knoxville before moving to Atlanta 45 years ago. I’m a Bulldog fan and proud of it but always been a big UTfan except when they play UGA. I think both teams have good men running them, if Dooley can show some success this year and next he should be well on his way to removing the stain that was Lame..
AltamahaDawg
July 15th, 2010
2:07 pm
Tampa gator, so is it your opinion that penalties should have connection with the actual offense? Or was that just the gratuitous “let me pipe in on the UGA blog with no appearant point to make” for the day?
St. Richt
July 15th, 2010
2:21 pm
Again, stop congratulating your sackless coach here. He did not dismiss him from the team- the kid is transferring on his own. CMR is still looking for a pair.
Ron
July 15th, 2010
2:41 pm
Why is it that when there is trouble or an arrest in college or pro sports they are black 99% of the time? Amazes me.
VolzRool
July 15th, 2010
2:44 pm
Have him come to Nocksville. He and daFreak can be roomies.
VolzRool
July 15th, 2010
2:44 pm
Ron
July 15th, 2010
2:41 pm
Maybe it’s cause 99% of all afaleets are black.
I Could Have Put Some Lame Name Here
July 15th, 2010
2:50 pm
That about sums it up!
rogeriter
July 15th, 2010
2:58 pm
Do any of your bloggers have a life outside of blogging about UGA? Do you not have jobs? I am retired but I never had time before to sit and criticize 18 year old kids…Or their coaches who are making a darn good living, while you sit and criticize everyone and everything…except your self…and are doing nothing to better yourself!
Ron
July 15th, 2010
3:04 pm
Volz are you sure about that? May want to go check the numbers. Pro and college football is about half and half moron.
yawn
July 15th, 2010
3:15 pm
boring … just like everything else coming out of the cow college … totally irrelevant
bugsquacher
July 15th, 2010
3:29 pm
see ya later….. dont let the door hit you in the ass…….. (by the way, we dont need you anyway)
'94 UGA Grad
July 15th, 2010
3:30 pm
good riddance.
gdawginkalamazoo
July 15th, 2010
3:32 pm
TampaGator, I bet you were hoping for a 1/2 game suspension which is called layin’ down the law in Gainesville.
Octavius from Night of the Museum
July 15th, 2010
3:35 pm
Dontavius,
You have shamed the entire Roman Empire with your behavior!
Fat Guy who got kicked by the Vols and got a new truck for his silence
July 15th, 2010
3:37 pm
Huh? What bar fight? Where’s that gas card you promised?
gdawginkalamazoo
July 15th, 2010
3:41 pm
Joe,
“Every underage college student in America has been guilty of that before.”
Funny thing, of all the alcohol that I ever consumed while underage, I never felt guilty. I am of the school that you are only guilty if you get caught. I often felt like crap the next day or so but never guilty.
Fat guy who got kicked by the Vols and got a lifetime supply of Buddy's BBQ
July 15th, 2010
4:06 pm
Man this concussion makes me hungry.
How2fish
July 15th, 2010
4:12 pm
gdawginkalamazoo that response to Joe mad me LOL ! Too true !
dog789xyz
July 15th, 2010
4:23 pm
Ga State is THE GSU. Google GSU and verify. Ga southern has only had one positive in the entire history of the school, UGA’s Erk Russell. What a man. Too bad he got mixed up with GA Southern.
Mark Richt needs to go. UGA needs to go to 3 a days, not reduce to one a days. Are we really happy with eternal 1,2. or 3 loss seasons with no chance of championships?
oconeedog
July 15th, 2010
4:24 pm
Okay, unless you’re going to have the players all move into the Richt house, which I doubt the water girl would go for, I can’t see how you can blame their non-team activities on CMR. I hate it as much as anyone, it is embarassing no doubt. But if they know that their punishment will start out at a 4 a.m. appointment at the track to run steps for an hour and be suspended for part of the season, and then escalate to possible dismissal from the team if the behavior continues, and still go out and do boneheaded things, I really don’t know how that becomes CMR’s fault. The alternative is to have a 24 hour monitor on them, and lock them in their rooms at the appointed hour. I mean, it’s emabarassing but at some point the kids’ have to be responsible for their actions.
Aladawg
July 15th, 2010
4:31 pm
Ryan, it just aint right for that kid to put a pair of his mama’s panties on his head, it just wouldn’t aint right.
Tech Lifer
July 15th, 2010
4:32 pm
I hope UGA doesn’t embarrass the state of Georgia this season. AGAIN!
Snoopy
July 15th, 2010
4:32 pm
Get your life together.. The next time you might kill someone or yourself!! Take advantage of the second chance you have…
Snoopy
July 15th, 2010
4:33 pm
Tech Lifer – Let’s hope Uga Tech doesn’t embarass themselves again in Nov!!! LOL
Kirk Frentz
July 15th, 2010
4:36 pm
Tech Lifer, You should worry about Tech not embarrassing the State of Georgia. Hahahhahahahaaaa! Wake Forest wannabees!
Aladawg
July 15th, 2010
4:40 pm
Ron, it is because of the enviorment they come from. They come from thug ghettos, single parent homes. If the great Rev Al Sharpton and Rev Jessee Jackson and the NAACP would come out about this the problem could be decreased. When your mama is on crack and your daddy is out selling drugs, robing convient stores or car jacking you get no supervision.
dog789xyz
July 15th, 2010
4:48 pm
eagledawg, isn’t there a Div IAA blog you could go to? You are not worthy of being in a big time blog. Please leave and take all 37 fans who do not reside in Statesboro with you. Ga Southern is insignificant. No one cares. Few even know you have a football team. Also, Paul Johnson is exactly what GT deserves. He is a lying, dishonest, rude person who is full of himself and never misses an opportunity to say something bad about UGA. He was a big time cheater at Ga Southern.
GT
July 15th, 2010
4:52 pm
I was listening to sports radio about how hard it is to recruit at Vanderbilt. In the real world the choice would work from Vanderbilt down to Valdosta State as far as where you are going to school. You wouldn’t have to beg real students into going to Vanderbilt, most of them are turned down at the get go. Then you give some kid an opportunity to come there that doesn’t deserve it and you have to beg him to just look at the school. Same thing happens at Georgia. Most of these trouble makers couldn’t pass in high school more less understand what a college education can do for them. We as a state or even a region need to get our priorities straight. Stupid ain’t good no matter what some one told ya.
BUZZ SAWYA
July 15th, 2010
4:53 pm
Aladawg, you need not make those type accusation about these kids, everyone gets on here and throw jabs for laughs but you just showed no class by making that comment. “GET A LIFE, AND ALSO A JOB!’ YOU STINK BASTA.. !!’
SickandTired
July 15th, 2010
5:07 pm
Georgia is so proud to have a head coach like Mark Richt, who took Donnans players, turned them over to Brian VanGorder and parlayed a $700,000 salary into a $3,000,000 dollar salary and he owes it all to BVG, David Greene, and David Pollack and the rest of the players Donnan left him. It’s been 5 years since the Dawgs went to Atlanta to play in the SEC Championship game. The incoming class was in middle school when that last happened. Georgia fans can’t see the real problem with the arrests and it’s the fact that Mark Richt’s recruits don’t or won’t respond to his leadership on or off the field. The Dawg Nation is so happy that Mark Richt is not Ray Goff they are in denial. Fire him now, or fire him later, but fired he must be if Georgia ever wants to get past Florida and Alabama in the near future. Maybe Hershel’s grand children can straighten it out.
Georgia: The Wisconin of the SEC
Georgia deserves better.
dog789xyz
July 15th, 2010
5:17 pm
Amen and double Amen to what SickandTired said. CMR is not the Coach/Leader we deserve. Fire him now! Please do not waste a few more years then fire him. UGA fans you cannot be happy as a middle of the pack, mediocre team with a nice little coach. There are coaches out there that could make UGA champions now.
mkdawg
July 15th, 2010
5:43 pm
I think CMR should put a ban on alcahol. It could also be that there is too much to do in Athens and Atlanta.
yogi
July 15th, 2010
5:49 pm
derrik dooley is considering suspending D’Rogers for one Quarter in the first game.Will decide on which Quarter during the game.
lawdog
July 15th, 2010
6:28 pm
To win in the SEC all of the players must be focused and dedicated to the TEAM! DUI and breaking TEAM rules is focusing on self. No matter how good an individual athletic may be, focus on self, and not the team…the team will lose! If those who remain do not understand, sent them on their way, those who remain, and are dedicated to the team, will win.
TOPDAWG
July 15th, 2010
7:41 pm
To all of you bloggers that are so high and mighty: Please support another team and go to their blogs and spout your garbage. College kids drink and sometimes do stupid things. The fact that we live in an age that every transgression is instantaneously transmitted via the media only perpetuates the fallacy that student athletes are perfect. Go dawgs! Don’t let the haters take you down to their ignorant and self righteous level. GATA in September and all of you doubters, see you in the Dome. BOOK IT!!!
SickandTired
July 15th, 2010
8:39 pm
TOPDAWG the only thing that we seem to be able to BOOK is our players at the police station.
clickdawg
July 15th, 2010
9:19 pm
aladawg and ron, 1st you are no dawgs period. aladawg you’re a coward hiding behins a keyboard just spewing venom, I don’t even think you’re a fan of any team,university etc, your comments are down right stupid and no one can fix that. stink f–k.