NCAA notice to UGA: One Bulldog under scrutiny (UPDATED)
(Updated 6:50 p.m. )
The NCAA has informed the University of Georgia that investigators will interview one UGA student-athlete “to determine his knowledge of or involvement in, directly or indirectly, any violations of NCAA legislation,” according to a document obtained Monday by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The athlete’s name was redacted before the document -– a copy of an e-mail from the NCAA to UGA -– was turned over to the AJC in response to an open-records request.
The e-mail was sent by NCAA Assistant Director of Agent, Gambling and Amateurism Activities Marcus M. Wilson to UGA Assistant Athletic Director of Compliance Eric Baumgartner shortly after the NCAA informed UGA by phone last Wednesday that investigators would come to the Georgia campus to conduct an “inquiry.”
The probe is believed to be the latest in a series of investigations of possible improper benefits received by college football players from sports agents. Investigations also are underway at North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Alabama.
UGA said it removed the athlete’s name from the NCAA e-mail because of a federal law, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which protects the privacy of student education records.
UGA said the NCAA requested an interview with only the one Georgia athlete.
The top NFL prospect on Georgia’s football team, junior wide receiver A.J. Green, said last week that he was asked by UGA officials about an agent-affiliated party in Miami that triggered the NCAA investigations at North Carolina, South Carolina and Alabama. Green said he told UGA, as he told reporters, that he has “never” been to Miami.
Green declined to answer other questions about the matter because of instructions from UGA officials, who said the NCAA requested that the school’s officials, coaches and athletes not comment on the investigation.
“In order to protect the integrity of the investigation, please refrain from disclosing the details of the investigation as we discussed with anyone except your athletic director and/or president,” Wilson wrote to Baumgartner. “Should you decide to speak with them, please inform them of the necessity of protecting the integrity of the investigation as well.”
Georgia coach Mark Richt, in an interview Monday night, declined to comment on the NCAA e-mail.
With preseason camp starting next Monday — and with NCAA investigations typically protracted processes — Richt was asked if he is concerned that he might not know the outcome of the probe when practice begins.
“As usual, I’ll worry about things I can control,” Richt replied. ” I can’t really control it, but I’ve got no indication at all that there’s any reason to believe that all of our guys won’t be practicing Day 1. So that’s my expectation right now. If something changes, then we’ll adjust.”
In the e-mail, Wilson asked Baumgartner to have the student-athlete “review and sign” an attached “NCAA Interview Notice” before meeting with investigators. The e-mail, which did not say when the interview would be held, said the athlete “may have personal legal counsel present.”
The “NCAA Interview Notice” cautions that refusing to provide information or providing false or misleading information could violate NCAA ethical-conduct legislation.
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nickj0321
July 26th, 2010
5:21 pm
a school who won their last championship 30 years ago…
nickj0321
July 26th, 2010
5:22 pm
a school where your most looked up to man, vince dooley, own son goes to coach your retard cousin, TN…..
Ed
July 26th, 2010
5:22 pm
wut
nickj0321
July 26th, 2010
5:23 pm
a school where your 1st qb coming into the season feels women up in bars and gets arrested….
Sue
July 26th, 2010
5:23 pm
Nice little Aaron Murray preview on Them Dawgs is Hell Dont They
http://ijustwanttofitin.com/category/sports/
Bama Boy
July 26th, 2010
5:23 pm
Hey nickj0321….bring it down a little bit…sounds like you have too much caffine going in your system. Try acting your age little boy. 30-24…live it…hate it…
nickj0321
July 26th, 2010
5:25 pm
i graduated from UGA…i think i know
nickj0321
July 26th, 2010
5:25 pm
a school where they brag about winning 30-24, when just the season before their PRESEASON #1 team went down to the same team…
Still@theBAR
July 26th, 2010
5:26 pm
nickj0321 you graduated from uga? I bet you think you know. I do KNOW.
nickj0321
July 26th, 2010
5:27 pm
on the other hand…a school that has a bunch of hot women and cool bars and an unusul sewage smell as you ride down college station…see there you go, UGA DOES have something
nickj0321
July 26th, 2010
5:28 pm
yep…graduated in 2006, lived in the polo club, most of my major classes were in baldwin hall, sociology major, yes I was in the classes with the thugs and they actually gave me the answers to some of the tests that they already had before it started…
cdog
July 26th, 2010
5:47 pm
THE NCAA NEEDS TO DISBAND.THEY SERVE NO PURPOSE.ITS A STUPID ORGANIZATION OF WANNABEES THAT COULDN’T PLAY SPORTS SO THEY FEEL SUPERIOR BY CONSTANT HARASSMENTS.THE SCHOOLS NEED TO BOYCOT THE NCAA THEN THEY WILL SEE THEY HAVE NO POWER TO RUN ATHLETES LIVES.SO WHAT IF AN ATHLETES GOES TO A PARTY OR A COACH PICK UP AN ATHLETE AFTER PRACTICE AND RIDE HIM.THIS A REAL STUPID ORGANIZATION WHO IS SERVING NO PURPOSE.NOBODY CARES ANYTHING ABOUT THE NCAA.THEY ARE NOBODIES
ugag is irrelevant
July 26th, 2010
5:56 pm
one thing for certain …. ugag won’t be playin bama this year
Bubbi
July 26th, 2010
6:04 pm
Get used to the idea that Green is history. One more UGA thuggo who lied when he was caught.
albert
July 26th, 2010
6:05 pm
Why hire an agent, players are making enough at uga. Cant be for academics at uga.
albert
July 26th, 2010
6:07 pm
cdog, you hate the NCAA, because they wont let the UGA’s and Bama’s get away with illegal stuff.
mark
July 26th, 2010
6:36 pm
I think the NCAA should be investigating the SEC offices for crooked officials!!!
dawgdawgdawg
July 26th, 2010
6:51 pm
i wish you guys would get off of AJ’s case….I live in Athens and see him quite often, and he is anything but a thug – the kid is a down-to-earth young man who loves the game of football – he’s not your typical thug superstar athlete that you guys are trying to make him out to be. i think its funny how 99.9% of the people posting lies about him have never even had a 5 second conversation with him
Jeff Dantzler
July 26th, 2010
7:18 pm
I think generally speaking we must have pretty good kids because I know (and anyone who went to UGA knows) that the Cops aren’t going to let our players or anyone else slide. Maybe we’re just “fortunate” that our guys get scooter violations and MIPs before they can get into a bar and start a fight.
tom
July 26th, 2010
7:25 pm
I love reading all the uga fans comments. If its another school’s player they are guilty and cheating. If its Uga player then its nothing and he’s a great guy…what a crock. Oh yeah, and Mark Ricth is a good man…I forgot that one.
We Drink This State
July 26th, 2010
7:43 pm
Can’t have an off season story about our school without alcohol in the mix. Agents, smagents…….let’s go drankin’ !!
UGA Forever
July 26th, 2010
7:44 pm
Grow up speculators. It is AJ which is being investigated. Does any other True UGA fan worry that all AJ said was that he has never been in Miami? I believe him. I wish he had claimed not to have violated any NCAA rules. I know he has been muzzled from making any comments at this point in the investigation. Great kid. I hope the “pimps” don’t bring him down.
tim
July 26th, 2010
7:59 pm
vids and pics of Green at Frank Gore’s party nortn of Miami, but not Miami reportedly puts A.J. there. Don’t think for a second that the NCAA goes on fishing expiditions…most of their investigators are former FBI agents and they don’t talk to you unless they have evidence
The Ginger Ninja
July 26th, 2010
8:13 pm
Man the Ga. fans are ill today! If AJ did go to the party he will get off with a game or two suspension. He’s a big time player and he will play for the doggies this year. Everybody needs to relax! Both Tech and Uga fans are way too strung out and its not even august yet!!! I predict both teams will go 9-3 this year. Dawg fans no need to worry about Murray, Joe T. and I have been working with him everyday this summer!!!
dawgster
July 26th, 2010
8:50 pm
Tim..give it a rest, you know nothing about what you are talking about and are trying to spread false information,…When this gets resolved are you man enough to come on here and report that you made it all up…I doubt.it, but hey anyone can type like a big man behind the computer…FBI agents huh?
thuGT
July 26th, 2010
8:54 pm
Robert Hall gets a whooping one game suspension from Coach Johnson for aggravated assault against his girlfriend. All football programs are run the exact same way. If you can play ball, you can get away with just about anything.
dawgster
July 26th, 2010
8:55 pm
Some factual info now…Check out the AJC link regarding a Fla State linebacker charged with some serious alleged charges…Check out the police statement and also the coach’s reaction to these issues…Not throwing stones here but you see everyone that wants to throw stones at our program, well it happens at many schools, just not with coverage that we get regarding the dawgs…Dont really know anymore on the alleged charges except they appear serious…
dawgster
July 26th, 2010
9:05 pm
Just to add a little info to the above…I have visited several newpaper sites that cover many of the schools and have found small articles regarding arrests and other issues but not near the coverage that we see here on the AJC regarding the dawg program or any of our local teams….Just to give you one for good measure, a gator player received probation for a DUI arrest back in june…By no means am i picking on this player or any other program, i just think sometimes we have blinders on and think the dawgs program is the only one that has issues…it happens everywhere, doesn’t mean i excuse, i certainly do not, and punsishment should be as the coaches deem neccessary, but i just wanted to point out that what is often pointed out in our program is somewhat skewed when comparing our program to others..Again, i’m not excusing any of it and yes we do need to resolve these continued problems…
Jeff Dantzler
July 26th, 2010
9:08 pm
I don’t doubt they’re talking to AJ. He’s the #1 prospect in the Southeast and almost certainly knew about this party whether he went or not. I don’t think he went but they original main guys were both from the Carolinas and AJ probably knows them well.
dawgster
July 26th, 2010
9:36 pm
I don’t thin AJ was there and he has said as much and has never given the coaches any reason not to believe him;….
dawgster
July 26th, 2010
9:37 pm
okay….I don’t think…sorry
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Jesse James
July 26th, 2010
9:44 pm
I hope AJ threw his invitation away. Just another sign of all this corruption in college athletics, especially football and basketball. No matter what happens but the student athlete is the one that is accountable. He has got to make smart choices.
Bimini Bill
July 26th, 2010
9:54 pm
Green voted for Obama, so blame everything on him.
Seriously, Green is lying.
Another Dawg
July 26th, 2010
9:56 pm
It’s AJ and he was home over that weekend. Pictures to prove it.
Pulaski Dawg
July 26th, 2010
10:17 pm
Why the incessant babbling? The truth always comes out. Do you people really think you play a part. Get a clue.
How long will we be on probation? (Hypotheticol)
July 26th, 2010
11:38 pm
So let me just play devil’s advocate and say that AJ or someone else took the all expense paid trip to Miami. What is our likely punishment…. how many games do we forfit?
How many skolarships do we loose?
Does this knock us off TV or do we not get to go to postseason bowls?
I mean, how serious can it get…. I don’t think much at all, but am wondering. I am a dawg fan in NC and they are talking like the TarHeels are going to be on probation up here and the dawgs are apparently tied to the same event.
Social Circle Dawg
July 26th, 2010
11:48 pm
TO: How long will we be on probation?
Go ask USC…. but it is never good to have NCAA investigating you. My uncle is a big UGA booster and he told my dad that the focus is not the trip to Miami, but accepting a gift from the same agents that were involved with the party at the Fountainbleau. My uncle also said that is a really nice hotel BTW, used to be the Vegas Hotel of the south with the Rat Pack staying there.
Banned by Mark Bradley
July 26th, 2010
11:49 pm
Tim can I talk back to Tech fans on your blog? I have been banned by Mark Bradley.
GO DAWGS!
cdog
July 27th, 2010
1:05 am
NO ALBERT, THATS NOT THE REASON.IF THATS THE CASE THEN GA TECH HAS BEEN CHEATING FOR YEARS.HOW DO YOU THINK OVER THE YEARS THEY GOTTEN TOP BASKETBALL PROSPECTS?THE NCAA THINKS THEY RUN PEOPLE’S LIVES. THEY ARE NOT NO GOD.THEY HAVE THE PICKEST RULES AROUND.ALBERT, YOU NEED TO SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND THINK BEFORE YOU WRITE SOMETHING.DON’T GUESS BUT GET THE FACTS.I WAS NOT TALKING TO YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE.THATS STUPID WHAT YOU’RE SAYING BUT I GUESS THE STUPIDNESS OF THE NCAA HAS RUBBED OFF ON YOU.
Thumper
July 27th, 2010
1:55 am
Geez……what the hell will the next AJC headlines be……
“NCAA accuses Mark Richt of being the anti-christ and the Pope declares all Georgia Tech people to be the most intelluctually superior species in the solar system.”
There. You win. Now can we stop all this 12 year old bullsh!t and just talk fuhking football?
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12-2
July 27th, 2010
4:21 am
Cesspool ?
What UGA is known for is beating the crap out of Georgia tek 8 of the 9 years of the Coach Richt Era.
That’s it.
I don’t want Coach Richt fired, but for him to FIRE Mike Bobo.
Nick 10:33 pm last night, sir :
+ 20 points scoring advantage
How can you have a plus + 20 points scoring average when :
2002 we only scored :
27 pts vs Alabama
26 pts vs FSU
24 pts vs Auburn
18 pts vs vols
13 pts vs crocodiles
13 pts vs South Carolina
6 games in 2002, we averaged 20 points on OFFENSE and Nick wants us to average more than + 20 points ADVANTAGE ?
12-2
July 27th, 2010
4:23 am
What do you expect us to do on Defense Nick ?
Hold the other team to MINUS SCORE ?
Admittedly, we played a soft schedule in 2002, with Auburn # 15 the only other SEC team ranked in the Final Coaches’ Poll 2002.
The SEC was DOWN in 2002, and still Georgia AVERAGED only 20 points in half our football games 2002. And, you want us to average more than + 20 points ADVANTAGE.
We didn’t do that in 2002.
We will not achieve that in 2010, even with this soft easy schedule we enjoy 2010, as well – like we did enjoy the soft easy schedule in 2002 and could not accomplish it.
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Coach Richt’s Offense has AVERAGED the # 52 NCAA Total Offense all 9 years of the Coach Richt Era.
12-2
July 27th, 2010
4:25 am
2007 Georgia scored only :
12 pts vs South Carolina
14 pts vs Tennessee
26 pts vs Alabama
24 pts vs Kentucky
20 pts vs Vandie
13 games 2007 we played and 5 of the 13 we averaged again 19 points.
What do you expect of our Defense to hold the other team to MINUS points again Nick ?
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This makes NO SENSE Nick to talk about the Offense in 2002 and 2007 and say we must be + 20 points again this year as we were in 2007 and 2002.
We averaged only 12 points advantage in 2007. We did not achieve your goal of + 20 points Advantage 2002 or 2007.
12-2
July 27th, 2010
4:26 am
4-Loss Auburn and 4-Loss Florida were the best teams we beat in 2007 and for those also rans as our best wins 2007, we LOST to South Carolina a 6-Loss team that did not even play in a bowl game and we LOST to the vols another 4-Loss team. Who in the hell did we beat in 2007 Nick ? # 19 Hawaii, that’s who we beat. That’s really great.
NOT.
+ plus 12 points advantage in 2007 with Knowshon Moreno and Matthew Stafford.
We did not beat ANY great teams in 2002 or 2007. And, as for the National Stage NICK, we beat # 24 Final Poll FSU a 5-Loss team in our 2002 bowl game and in 2007 for our bowl game on the National Stage (not), we beat # 19 Final Poll Hawaii.
If you want to be relevant, play a Top 10 Final AP Poll team in a bowl game and WIN, something Coach Richt has NOT ACCOMPLISHED YET now in his 10th season.
Instead, Coach Richt is 3-8 vs Top 10 Final AP Poll teams in his 9 years at the helm, 1 in 2001, 1 in 2005, and 1 in 2006 – that’s it
Nick
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Remember
July 27th, 2010
8:08 am
Remember The Alamo!
Remember the Maine!
Remember Pearl Harbor!
Remember Shreveport, 42 arrests, ans red panties!
Georgia
July 27th, 2010
8:48 am
we dont need AJ Green to beat Gatech
Bride of Chucky Knapp
July 27th, 2010
8:52 am
Yeah, why does everyone assume this is a draft eligible player? These agents start circling kiddie flag football games and may have been pursuing a kid for years. It could easily be an underclassman, which is really scary for the Dogs.