JUCO team in Kansas welcomes Mettenberger
Former Georgia quarterback Zach Mettenberger has a new team: the Butler Community College Grizzlies, a perennial power in junior-college football. Butler is located in El Dorado, Kansas.
The Wichita Eagle reports that Mettenberger is on the Butler roster and quotes coach Troy Morrell from Jayhawk Conference Media Day: “We did our research on Zach. We feel like he can be a great asset to our team, and it’s widely known that he paid the price for what he’s done and he’s trying to move on.”
Mettenberger was dismissed from the Georgia program in April, shortly before pleading guilty to two counts of misdemeanor sexual battery in Valdosta. He was sentenced to 12 months probation, 80 hours of community service and a $2,000 fine.
Butler is ranked No. 6 among the nation’s junior-college football teams in the preseason poll. The Grizzlies have won five JUCO national championships since 1998, including titles in 2007 and 2008. Butler starts practice Thursday and plays its season opener Aug. 26 at home against Navarro College.
Mettenberger, from Oconee County, was redshirted at Georgia as a freshman last season.
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ECHO
August 4th, 2010
4:01 pm
He got thrown off the team b/c of his ethnicity. Always got to placate the loud, obnoxious minority that lives to play the race card ad nauseum. If he were another ethnicity, he’d merely been suspended for the first quarter of a meaningless D-2 game.
Matty Dawg
August 4th, 2010
4:14 pm
You can’t call that a mistake! Getting kicked off a football team and paying a fine and being on probation is not good enough. He should have had to went to jail and let men sexually assault him!!! Hope the punk falls on his face!
Delbert D.
August 4th, 2010
4:36 pm
So is everybody going to be Butler CC Grizzlies fans now?
Dwayne
August 4th, 2010
4:41 pm
Zach and a bunch of guys were partying at a local establishment when some little hussy(yes, I said it, what was she doing there, underage drinking) recongized that Zach was going to be annointed the next great QB at UGA. You know, following, Quincy, Joe, Bobo, etc. Any way, she made googlie eyes at Zach, lead him on, let him cop a little feel. But here is where the trouble starts, Little hussies boyfriend finds out, starts a fight and well….now you know the rest of the story. How do I know this ??? I was there.
I will not be the next head coach at Alabama. I am the head coach of the Miami Dolphins
August 4th, 2010
4:42 pm
Best of luck to Zach. What he did was very poor decision, and he has paid a high, public price. To those critical, what would you like to share about your activities in college?
Mett's Fake ID
August 4th, 2010
4:47 pm
Don’t grope anyone out there Mett
Auburn DVM in Colquitt Co.
August 4th, 2010
4:57 pm
TDawg, I do not have a dog in this fight. We have our QB, but I must say that I am black and I have read many stories on this blog where a black player was kicked off of a team and the comments are like night and day in comparison to this story. I wish the kid the best, but your comment about blaming Bush really shows where your thought process is. Remember, It took more than the black vote to put our president in office. If you don’t agree with his policies, perhaps you should run or better yet continue to speak out of your “so ecclesiastical neck”. I would also like to say that “if there was never any racism, then no one could question it!!!! Once again, I hope this kid gets his life together and may God be with him!!!!
anybody but GT
August 4th, 2010
5:08 pm
My only prayer will be, someday CMR will be, GONE. I hope it is not only make believe. Platters.
The Truth
August 4th, 2010
5:38 pm
He is a creep.
El Dorado, Kansas
August 4th, 2010
5:40 pm
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Nesbitt for Heisman
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go johnny go
August 4th, 2010
6:00 pm
Good luck to the kid. SECond chances are a one time thing….3rd and “You’re Out”.
Boca Baby
August 4th, 2010
6:09 pm
Several present and former players at UGA have discovered that if you want to play for the Dawgs character matters. In the meantime I wish only the best for Zach.
jerry
August 4th, 2010
6:13 pm
After all the sh-t that has gone down at UGA and a 18 year old kid gets the boot. God has spoken.
H2
August 4th, 2010
6:19 pm
Team mates contributing to this blog, it dosen’t matter your color or allegiance at this point…here’s a young man who was in trouble; fortunately, things were halted before they [potentially] could’ve worsened. Look, as much as we want to send praises Zach’s way or tear him down, the kid will have to live with this horrible mistake for the rest of his life. Even if all the riches of the NFL fall into his hands someday, he’ll still need to explain to and justify to someone what he did that unforgetful day over and over again; maybe even his own daughter…talking about a “tough moment.” As someone stated earlier in this blog stream, we all have things in our closets…maybe we just haven’t been caught yet! I wish Zach the best – but I never want him to forget his actions and the pain it caused him and others…especially the victim! So for those of you (black or white) who want to make this an issue of “race” here…don’t, because it’s counter-productive. There are real issues of race out there, team mates, but this “ain’t” it!
Jim007
August 4th, 2010
6:28 pm
Kids make mistakes
They derseve another chance
Good luck Zach
Good'ol Boys
August 4th, 2010
6:35 pm
Wow…white kid commits sexual assualt and the whole state wishes him luck…man if these posts don’t show you the true nature of folks around here…nothing will. People are on here saying that grabbing a women’s breast is no big deal…huh? Let someone grab the breast of your wife or daughter and let’s see how you feel about it then. Glad the kid is getting a second chance. I just hope you all remember that the next time someone who doesn’t look like you makes a mistake.
Trumpet Pitcher
August 4th, 2010
6:43 pm
he left uga to attend a dismal junior college in the middle of nowhere? What a moron.
QueDawg
August 4th, 2010
6:58 pm
I am really in awe in what I am reading here!!! Sexual assault OK! Dogfighting, electric chair. Sexual assault, give him another chance to play football. Dogfighting, take everything from him and let him rot in hades. Go to strip club for your bachelor party, get killed by off duty cops it’s ok because he should not have looked like he had a gun. Rape a girl in the back of a club 4 game suspension. Membership has it’s priveleges!
DAWG07
August 4th, 2010
8:24 pm
Good luck Zack.
Wish you the best.
Pulaski Dawg
August 4th, 2010
9:33 pm
Good luck Zack. Learn from mistakes and don’t repeat. Move on and I wish you the best.
dawg149
August 4th, 2010
9:54 pm
I’m sure I am not the first to think or say this, but what prevents us (UGA) from resigning Zack after JUCO? Just wondering……..he’s done his time, he turns out the stellar stats n juco, and is looking for a place to spend his last two seasons as a SEASONED veteran QB………just a thought….the feel good story of 2012-2013……
Pitbull
August 4th, 2010
10:37 pm
People get real. He hasn’t sexually assaulted anyone. The darn boy was drinking and grabbed some bootay playing around. They were in a bar for goodness sakes. You holy rollers ack like you haven’t ever got drunk before. The girl should have just slapped his face and that would have been that. Instead the police got a hold of it and made a federal case out it because it was a well known person. That’s BS!
James
August 4th, 2010
10:50 pm
He can come back to UGA after Richt gets fired in 5 months.
Zach Mettenberger
August 4th, 2010
10:54 pm
Watch out Kansas! Zach the Groper is on the loose!
Hey baby! You’ve got a nice rack! Come and let uncle Mett have a sqeeze!
Grope, grope, grope!
bitter buck bulue
August 5th, 2010
1:20 am
GUESS how many brest i had at uga??? ask hershall??? hypohracts, everything that is wrong with this country people that sleep with women half there age and slam mC for grabbing a brest, beats grabbing a co—- now just shut up and try not being so stupid!!!!, hahahahah
bitter race card
August 5th, 2010
1:24 am
poor kid i could help you butt yoo poo as– is white, tough luck sucaaa!!!!!
bitter old ball coach
August 5th, 2010
1:42 am
6′6″ throws 90 yards yep ill take him, hahahaha mutts
Jen
August 5th, 2010
4:43 am
I read half of the first page of this crap, could not go on.
It’s racial? ….politically divided?..libtards, you say….really?
Why are people saying Mett would want to come back at another SEC school to get back at UGA? WHY?…….What did UGA do to him?…………Mett did this to HIMSELF!!!!!
I don’t feel sorry for him but I do wish him luck….he just needs to remember all that he had, he threw away in one stupid night.
GOOO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GATA…..just not girls asses.
jbeggs
August 5th, 2010
9:01 am
TampaGator – try to follow this…IT WAS NOT A FELONY. No matter what you feel it should have been it was not a felony. He pleaded guilty to two counts of misdemeanor sexual battery.
Gatorbait 17-3
August 5th, 2010
9:25 am
I’ve got a feeling he will be back in SEC next year, Mississippi comes to mind and torments the dawgs for years to come.
Bleu_Bayou42
August 5th, 2010
9:28 am
dumb azz.
MOBADTHANGOOD
August 5th, 2010
10:10 am
Are you kidding? People on here are wishing him luck?
The Grizzlies say they fit their program?
Is the whole school or team all sexual predators?
What the hell?
Beside this crap I am a GEORGIA BULLDOG fan.
GO DAWGS!
Dwayne
August 5th, 2010
11:12 am
Vick lied to the Feds
Mett lied to a Coach
BIG DIFFERENCE
Everyone has there own opinion, and we all know what opinions are like.
I wish both of them well. By the way, I’m sick of hearing about Brett Farvvrvrrvee.
Hunker Down
August 5th, 2010
11:21 am
Wisdom comes from experience and typically making mistakes and trying not to repeat them. Zach has paid the price for his and I wish him a great career and best of luck.
Chris
August 7th, 2010
1:05 pm
Interesting. Concerned that everyone is congratulating someone after pleading guilty to a sexual battery charge (among other violations). I believe in second changes. I ask that you remember to forgive others who wear a different color uniform.
Jon A
August 7th, 2010
2:08 pm
Kids that can’t throw a football don’t get second chances like this.
itpdude
August 7th, 2010
3:00 pm
Hopefully this puts him on the right path.
Our O-line will Mow you down like Grass
August 7th, 2010
4:59 pm
Mett is s good kid, Bad decision. Too much drinking. I hope he gets his life back together.
Our O-line will Mow you down like Grass
August 7th, 2010
5:10 pm
So hes never gonna live it down?
What about the Tennesee team that Gang attacked a police office putting him in the hospital?
Or the GT players running from the police with deadly firearms after commiting Major crimes.
The Tennesee players are still on the team.
Listen he was drunk did somthing stupid but for you to judge him the rest of his life look at yourself first.
This kid if he stays healthy and straight WILL be in the NFL and there will be many girls who will want him grabbing their boobies.
Sick of This Racial Crap
August 15th, 2010
10:57 pm
Race-baiters: You’re making your own hell, seeing things like you do. Good luck with it. May you some day be free. You’re enslaved to your POV.
The kid is gone. Good riddance. There are more QBs out there. Georgia doesn’t have to be that desperate.
Where is our Ryan Mallet?
August 18th, 2010
4:29 pm
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