UGA linebacker will transfer
Georgia inside linebacker Marcus Dowtin has played his final game for the Bulldogs.
Dowtin, a junior from Upper Marlboro, Md., has been granted an unconditional release from his scholarship to transfer to another school, UGA said Tuesday without further comment.
Reports surfaced last week that Dowtin had faced a second-degree assault charge stemming from a Maryland bar fight last May. The case was resolved in December, but Georgia coach Mark Richt did not learn of the incident until last week. (See this AJC story for more details on the case.)
Dowtin, who appeared in 11 games and started two this past season, didn’t play in the Liberty Bowl on Dec. 31 because of what was described a coach’s decision unrelated to the Maryland matter. He was fourth on the Georgia team in tackles for the season with 57.
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North Georgia Dawg
January 11th, 2011
5:45 pm
1st – Another big loss for Mark Richt and Staff! Why don’t we just sweep this stuff up under the rug like every other program in the SEC. Look at UT and the bar fight up there!!!
North Georgia Dawg
January 11th, 2011
5:45 pm
2nd – I would like to know more about this issue!!!
42-34 Dawgs STILL Run This State!
January 11th, 2011
5:48 pm
Richt needs to tighten up his ship!
Goodbye to Dawgs top 3 tacklers this season (Dent, Houston and now Dowtin).
ConyersDawg
January 11th, 2011
5:49 pm
Wish Marcus the best, he has a wealth of talent.
Greg Talley (Ho)
January 11th, 2011
5:49 pm
Kicked Dowtin off the team. Great move. Look the guy beats up another person in a bar fight, doesn’t tell the coaches, it is about time we kicked these types of players off the team
TW
January 11th, 2011
5:52 pm
Time to turn the Dawgs off until they dump Richt.
It’s over.
We’re now a basketball school!
Character Matters
January 11th, 2011
5:53 pm
Good riddance, does not matter about the talent he has. I am sick of the thugs, constantly dragging this program down.
Character does matter, wait to go CMR and staff!
Word Smith
January 11th, 2011
5:53 pm
There’s no doubtin’ the wisdom of this move.
Willl
January 11th, 2011
5:54 pm
This young man was arrested last summer and Coach Richt claims he knew nothing about it.
How can that be? If it is true, the young man should have been removed from the program for witholding this information from the coaching staff.
D A DoubleU G
January 11th, 2011
5:57 pm
I applaud Richt for having him transfer. I hope it was because he was asked to leave.
The same people who will criticize this are the same people who would criticize Richt for keeping him. There’s no pleasing some.
If you want to know the true state of mind of Dawg Nation, please do not read the comments here.
Go Dawgs!!!!!!
Bulldawg1444
January 11th, 2011
5:58 pm
TW you have no clue.Dowtin was a cancer to the team.He is the underachiever here.It is time for UGA to get rid of anyone who is not willing to pay the cost of winning.People like you want to blame everything on a coach when the players involved have character issues.I am glad we are taking a stand against players and recruits who have an entitlement mentality.Our ship will be righted with or without cancers like you
Another Thug bites the dust
January 11th, 2011
5:59 pm
Good riddance of a trouble maker at the party school !
south
January 11th, 2011
6:02 pm
Hey WiIIII- he was removed from the program you dumb ass
Tell the truth
January 11th, 2011
6:02 pm
There are times when an example does wonders for discipline.
Freddy
January 11th, 2011
6:05 pm
Opens up another spot for recruiting
Ga Dawg 97
January 11th, 2011
6:05 pm
Get Richt out of here and go get Gary Petterson! NOW!!!!!
get real people
January 11th, 2011
6:05 pm
You people saying the UGA program is full of thugs have no idea what you’re talking about. It’s almost as if you have no idea what goes on at other schools. Or maybe you do and you want us to try and be Stanford for some reason. And if that’s the case, you better get used to losing…or convince a Jim Harbaugh type to come coach here.
North Georgia Dawg
January 11th, 2011
6:05 pm
If you think UGA is the exception rather than the rule than you are a complete fool! This type of crap goes on everywhere. Unfortunately for us UGA fans we don’t sweep it under the rug. Alabama and Tennessee are the worlds worst at sweeping incidents like this under the rug and you never hear another word about it. Please see the Bar Knoxville incident for UT. They (Several Members of the Team) put an off duty cop in the hospital. One player got dismissed because it was his second maybe 3rd infraction and he ran from the cops too. The others involved didn’t pay the type of price that Dowtin is paying. Just Saying….!
Paul in RDU
January 11th, 2011
6:06 pm
This is the best move for all concerned and there is no point in dragging Dowtin through the mud.
It will be interesting to see where Dowtin resurfaces since, unusually in a transfer, UGA has done it unconditionally allowing him to go to another SEC school.
Brainiac(Dawg for life)
January 11th, 2011
6:06 pm
Bulldawg 1444:You said for most of Dawgnation in your 5:58pm post.
Brainiac(Dawg for life)
January 11th, 2011
6:07 pm
You said “it” for most of Dawgnation.
SE Dawg Fan
January 11th, 2011
6:08 pm
I was disappointed that Chizik did nothing to Fairley when he obviously turned the facemask of an Oregon player. I didn’t want Oregon to win, but I didn’t want Auburn to lose. Strange feeling for a lot of SEC fans last night. Now we know how Auburn punishes “In-house.” I’m glad Richt has more morals than Chizik.
DawginOH
January 11th, 2011
6:08 pm
It’s a shame we lost a talented athlete, but good for Richt for making a statement about off-the-field conduct!
Good luck to Marcus in all his future endeavors.
makes a lot of sense
January 11th, 2011
6:09 pm
So what are we down to now? About 70 scholarship worthy players and 15 walk-ons with scholarships?
You kick a guy off the team for getting in a bar fight 8 months ago, which has since been resolved? You gonna kick the next guy off the team for coughing in a team meeting?
Bigdsel
January 11th, 2011
6:10 pm
Sad that this happened, But hopefully that will let other players know that if you mess up, your gone. But then people like Fran T. get mad Because we lost another good player.
BostonDawg
January 11th, 2011
6:11 pm
Yes, they are setting examples–but shouldn’t the previous examples have also made an impact? Mettenberger? Montez Robinson? How many examples will it take before the team is made entirely of walk-ons?
SE Dawg Fan
January 11th, 2011
6:11 pm
There’s probably a lot more to this situation than we’ll ever know. I don’t think it’s just because of the fight, but maybe that Dowtin wanted the coaching staff to not know about it.
Saben
January 11th, 2011
6:11 pm
And the wheels fall off the cart again.
Boise State by 50
Brainiac(Dawg for life)
January 11th, 2011
6:11 pm
Maybe he will join Derek Dooley since fighting and beating and kicking law enforcement personnel unconscious or any other person is NOT against team policy.
Vince you must be proud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the SEC West has some fine institutions
January 11th, 2011
6:13 pm
So which SEC West school will Dowtin end up at?
south
January 11th, 2011
6:13 pm
he covered it up and probably lied to coaches…then he needed to miss practice time to resolve it…
Mitch Cumstein
January 11th, 2011
6:13 pm
Get Real- That is the idea… to get a Jim Harbaugh!!!!!!! Stanford has third rate talent and would wipe the floor with our first rate talent. Don’t you people understand that the coaching is the problem? We recruit players who perform on the feild, but not in the classroom nor in society and they aren’t coached up, rthus loser attitudes which is reflected on the feild. Well, that and an imbecile calling plays from the sideline!
Vance Duuley
January 11th, 2011
6:14 pm
Dowtin should have been dismissed when Richt first heard about the barroom brawl.
One less thug in Athens for now, but Saint Mark will undoubtedly recruit more of these punks.
thuggie
January 11th, 2011
6:15 pm
Not talking about everybody – but this guy – has been, is and will be – bad news. Ga deserves some picking at on this guy.
woodie
January 11th, 2011
6:16 pm
He only started 2 games but was 4th on the team in tackles…hmmm.
Thuga
January 11th, 2011
6:16 pm
SE Dawg Fan – don’t be a hater! Just because Fairly can handle his business and get in the other teams head you leghumpers want to cry and whine. Georgia doesn’t have anyone who can even carry his jock! And don’t give me the “dirty player” story. Georgia has been the leader in dirty players for years. Their coaches teach it just like everyone else.
Keep loving on CMR, it will pay dividends in the future.
We RUIN this state!
Vain Jangling
January 11th, 2011
6:16 pm
Getting in a bar fight? That’ll get you in some serious hot water with the coach. Getting in a bar fight and not telling the coach about it? That’ll get you kicked off the team. After all the hullabaloo in the past year or so about such off-the-field issues, Richt had no choice. Me? I still think it points to a fairly significant recruiting problem (that is, someone keeps green-lighting offers to these numbskulls).
TW
January 11th, 2011
6:17 pm
Bulldawg1444 -
Yeah, you keep apologizing for Richt. That was a 2 yr coach who won the BCS last night. Guys like you are why we’ve turned into Kentucky/Ole Miss.
We know jack squat about running the ball, or stopping the run. It takes stones to compete in the SEC, and the only stones Richt had left with Van Gorder.
Bobo and his sissy flag football offense are a joke – and the recruits have finally figured that out.
We wasted 4 yrs of Stafford, 2 yrs of Green, and God knows how much more talent. Georgia football players are studs in high school, and then again when they hit the NFL. Why? Because their college coach sucked.
Here’s a reality check for you tinkerbells…
1. Auburn
2. Alabama
3. Fla
4. Arkansas
5. LSU
6. South Carolina
7. Miss St.
8. Tenn
9. UGA
10. Kentucky
11. Ole Miss
12. Vandy
Let those who are happy about this continue to blow Richt’s whistle…
That Guy
January 11th, 2011
6:17 pm
@SE Dawg,
You equate assault to facemask? That alone discredits anything you say.
get real people
January 11th, 2011
6:18 pm
I agree to an extent Mitch but you need both if you want to CONSISTENTLY play at a high level. Stanford had a great season this year but their records for the 3 prior seasons were 8-5, 5-7, and 4-8. Even if Harbaugh would have stayed at Stanford, they would have had a difficult time consistently competing for a BCS slot.
Buh Bye
January 11th, 2011
6:18 pm
A few salient comments:
1. Four different SEC teams have won the last five BCS championships.
2. UGA was not one of those teams.
3. During that period, UGA did not win the SEC championship.
4. During that period, UGA did not even win its SEC division.
In other words, UGA has sunk into total irrelevancy both regionally and nationally.
So why is UGA paying Mark Richt millions of dollars a year?
jasont13
January 11th, 2011
6:19 pm
I agree with the other posters who say that things are not thrown under the rug in Athens. Case in point up in Knoxville with the bar fight, over in Tuscaloosa with one of the players being shot in the arm be a known drug dealer (it was reported in self defense) or with Ryan Mallett being taken home in Fayetteville by police officers on more than one occasion after being pulled over for DUI. How do I know? Because I live in Fayetteville and just happen to work for the FPD and have seen the footage and spoke with the some of the officers.
south
January 11th, 2011
6:20 pm
I think UGA should just go the SMU route….give itself the death penalty….and come back in 2013 with all Freshman team
BostonDawg
January 11th, 2011
6:20 pm
Thuga, you’re a moron. I watched every Georgia game this year and not once did I see a Georgia player put his helmet in the middle of the opposing team’s QB’s back 2 seconds after he threw the ball. However, I saw your boy Fairly do it multiple times. He is most definitely a dirty player. If you can recall a time Georgia players were dirty I’d be happy to listen…
Freddy
January 11th, 2011
6:20 pm
Bring in Jim Donnan as the head recruiter. He is still in Athens
Mirk Racht
January 11th, 2011
6:21 pm
Boise State 70, GeorgIa 17.
The start of a loooooong season for dawgtard fans.
playing time
January 11th, 2011
6:21 pm
Ladies and Gentlemen your new AD at work!
jasont13
January 11th, 2011
6:22 pm
TW, your an idiot non fan. If you were you would understand that Stafford and Green were there 3 years. And how do you put Tennesee ahead of UGA when they were destroyed in Athesn this year. Oh maybe because your a UT or a Tech fan posing as a UGA fan. You can tell the poser fans because they can not spell the players names correctly or have zero idea how long they were there.
suwaneedawg
January 11th, 2011
6:22 pm
TW, you are a nerd in bulldog’s clothing. If you are not, please feel free to transfer your alligience to their school. They need all the fans they can get.
LakeDawg
January 11th, 2011
6:23 pm
This is actually good news. CMR is finally holding these players accountable instead of “sweeping it under the rug.” It will do wonders for team discipline.
Sammi
January 11th, 2011
6:24 pm
“I think UGA should just go the SMU route….give itself the death penalty….and come back in 2013 with all Freshman team.”
Amen to that. And come back with a new coach who doesn’t recruit the illiterate thugs and goons that Richt does.
south
January 11th, 2011
6:25 pm
I forgot UGA had the # 1 defense this year…get real people….Dowtin was a decent player, but there are more just like waiting…I am all for getting some fresh new bodies on defense like Jarvis Jones and Samuels….I’m sick of watching the defense over last couple of years
BostonDawg
January 11th, 2011
6:26 pm
Thank you, South. Bring on Jarvis Jones!
glsjunior
January 11th, 2011
6:27 pm
Come to Georgia State!
Monkey says
January 11th, 2011
6:28 pm
Let him go and become someones else’s problem.
This is second run in with TROUBLE while a Bulldog.
Have no problem giving someone a second chance, but as Gomer Pyle would say
” fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
The Ghost of Wally Butts
January 11th, 2011
6:33 pm
This linebacker is just another Rodney Garner recruiting success story.
Not only do we recruit thugs. We lose them due to transfer prior to their crimes helping us in our 2011 FULMER CUP championship defense.
Billy Bob Mohammed
January 11th, 2011
6:33 pm
Reading this stuff you delusional turds write here is very entertaining. Fairly plays like the dogs did the last several years. This year though, there were nothing but sissies on the field. A personal foul would have gotten that ass kicked. Y’all suck forever!!!!!
Some lame name here
January 11th, 2011
6:35 pm
None of your thoughts matter
thugs
January 11th, 2011
6:35 pm
only thugs i saw last night were the classless tigers. man, an intentional knee to the head. . .punk. i hope somebody takes out that boys acl. he deserves. and for fairley (ironic name!). . .word is someone will be taking out his knees in the nfl if he continues that junk. POS loser. he may have talent but no class.
thugs
January 11th, 2011
6:38 pm
some of you idiots post that uga recruits thugs. hmmm….you know nothing about recruiting. so if uga didn’t offer dowtin or some of the others scholarships than no one would??? bull$hit. every program has some. . . nature of the beast.
NOBODYYOUKNOW
January 11th, 2011
6:39 pm
Is anything known about these recruits chracter before they sign on the dotted line? I know this happens at other programs but it seems to be prominent at UGA.
Pope UGA XXIII
January 11th, 2011
6:42 pm
A M F
thugs
January 11th, 2011
6:42 pm
yes. . .it’s called Atlanta. In Tuscaloosa, Gainesville, Knoxville, etc, the issues are handled differently. Listen, I agree, throw them off the team. I am just tired of idiots who think these players are pulled straight from the Atlanta Penn. We need to run a tighter ship but kids will be kids.
Skitty Fritty
January 11th, 2011
6:45 pm
I am confident he will transfer to Auburn and play immediately. His major will be Sociology and he will graduate with honors but none of his professors will ever see him in their class.
Mountain Dawg
January 11th, 2011
6:49 pm
Good riddance! Did he take Rambo with him???
Bear
January 11th, 2011
6:55 pm
The way I used to do it was kickum off the team if they lost a bar fight.
UGA 92
January 11th, 2011
6:58 pm
At least some schools remain honorable. Dowtin is granted his walking papers, AJ Green sits 4 games, Joker Phillips sits his starting QB for the bowl, Ohio State risks a losing season next year over that same crap AJ did, yet the current BCS Champs come from a corrupt institution. CMR may be treading rough water right now, but no one can ever say he embarrassed the Dawg Nation. PS: let’s start the clock and see how long before Auburn has to give the title back.
jbb
January 11th, 2011
7:02 pm
The player should have reported the incident to his position coach. Since we do not know how the incident was resolved it is useless to speculate about whether he would have been punished. Can we stop acting like we are surprised when this type of incident occurs? I do not care which team a player is on. These are young very physical men with enough testosterone to fuel a small city. If possible, I would rather see rehabilitation for players who commit smaller infractions and when possible minimize the media treatment. Not many of us would our children to receive this type of media coverage when they make a bad decision.
Mike
January 11th, 2011
7:04 pm
Glad he’s gone, Coach Richt continues to deal approiately with these young men! Thanks Coach!
GA Shawty
January 11th, 2011
7:05 pm
This happens to be Dowtin’s 2nd barfight during his time at UGA. Refer back to summer 2008 when he and Donovon Baldwin (a former player who subsequently got kicked off at the fight bc of a DUI) were involved in a barfight in an Athens’ bar. Dowtin was bust in the jar and required wiring and Baldwin got slashed in the neck with a bottle and almost died bc of the proximity of the wound to a major artery. Dowtin isn’t an angel at all. Just know, this latest bar fight isn’t his first or second violation while at UGA.
Vain Jangling
January 11th, 2011
7:06 pm
Bear @ 6:55 p.m.
Now that’s funny.
Preston
January 11th, 2011
7:06 pm
UGA 92, I’m afraid you’re right. Every time Auburn goes undefeated, they get caught doing something wrong. The Cam Newton sweepstakes scandal isn’t over yet. And after listening to the defensive MVP in his post game interview, there’s no way in hell someone that can’t speak English can be earning a degree at a major university. It was painful listening to him try to draw a cheer from the Auburn fans in the crowd because they were silent because they couldn’t understand a damn thing he was saying. Hilarious and painful at the same time.
Coach D
January 11th, 2011
7:09 pm
Bottom Line: The Dawgs won’t miss him a BIT! The USC transfer and Richard Samuel are going to be a part of a good linebacking corp.
Am thinking next year it’s LSU’s turn to win the BCS championship & then it will be UGA’s turn when A. Murray is a junior.
haters are skaters
January 11th, 2011
7:11 pm
dowtin will end up starring some where else. he was very under-utilized at uga!!!
we’ll see him in the nfl…….probably starting.
haters are skaters
January 11th, 2011
7:12 pm
coach d, you have no idea what you’re talking about. ever hear of the concept of “depth.”
finlo
January 11th, 2011
7:14 pm
GOOD MOVE!! Dowtin was SOFT!!
finlo
January 11th, 2011
7:23 pm
Never looked at him the same after that fat running back from LSU (Scott) broke Dowtins ankles for a 45 yard td run to win the game.. REMEMBER THAT DAWG NATION?! Future NFL Player huh??? More like Future Pee wee football coach!! GOOD MOVE CMR!! Get rid of the weak links! GO DAWGS!!!
TW
January 11th, 2011
7:25 pm
No serious football school would still employ Richt.
Certainly not:
Auburn
Alabama
Florida
Ohio State
Michigan
Miami
Oklahoma
Texas
Nebraska
USC
Perhaps it’s because those schools have fans who know it’s not freakin’ rec league ball.
Any Dawg ‘fan’ without a brown bag on their head ain’t no Dawg fan anyway.
It’s over. The longer you apologist stay curled up in Richt’s lap, the farther away the BCS gets.
Fire Mark Richt!
January 11th, 2011
7:25 pm
Can’t wait until next season…getting beat by Boise State, South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Auburn…and perhaps a host of other teams! Fire this coach…
ugab
January 11th, 2011
7:26 pm
Why couldn’t he play in the bowl game? Dawgs sure needed him!
dawgster
January 11th, 2011
7:32 pm
You know it saddens me to see many dawg fans not giving Coach Richt the benefit of the doubt no matter what he does…Had he let him stay on the team, we would have been keeping a thug to some of you…if he dismisses him as seems to be the case, its that why did he take so long or why is he doing it now..well the bottom line is was kept from the coaches and UGA..it didn’t happen locally so the athens police dept or AJC couldn’t be all over it…
@Jason13..good comments, and you are correct in showing that alot of this gets swept under the rug at other schools…to me the situation at Tenn is one of the worst i have seen in how that was handled…not picking on Tenn, but when an officer, off-duty or not lands in the hospital and its a known fact that your players were involved but the punishment or non-punishment seems absurd in my opinion..look at the Gators..and Mr. Rainey…still on the team…there are many examples of this…I watch the BCS last night and saw continued dirty play by certain players on Au..but hey unless its the dawgs, lets just look the other way…it appears that the dawgs are changing their approach to some of the disciplinary problems and i applaud that, maybe it should have been done sooner, but bottomline they are taking the steps to get the ship righted…the shame in some of these incidents and that these guys will turn around and sign with other schools and they wont blink an eye…See Ole Miss, LSU, Au, Tenn, USC,Fla, and others…and i will say this if we sign players that have gotten in trouble at other schools then i will have a problem with that at UGA also…
Dawgs Run This State!
January 11th, 2011
7:35 pm
Cecil wasn’t at the game last night because… AU knows more is about to come out and they are trying to distance themselves in hope of avoiding sanctions.
Dogpoop
January 11th, 2011
7:35 pm
Good move CMR. Now send CTG to Vaughters house and tell him we have plenty of room for his talents.
Nobody Wants to Be in The Nick Saban Dog House
January 11th, 2011
7:38 pm
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Larry Burton (Syndicated Writer) Last week Kevin Norwood snagged a pass, dodged the defenders and somersaulted into the end zone. Bad move Kevin.
You just earned an all expense paid trip to Nick Saban’s dog house.
Did anybody see Kevin Norwood after that?
The old saying among coaches like Saban is simple. When you score, act like you’ve been there before.
Something tells me Kevin will remember that the next time he scores and simply tosses the ball to the ref and trots off the field. The question is, when will he be allowed to do that?
Eddie Lacy was having a wonderful first game, He was running hard, scoring and looking like the back of the future that most had predicted he would be, and then he fumbled at the goal line.
You didn’t see much of Eddie in the second game.
On Saban’s team, you protect the ball and you don’t showboat. Doing those things earns you a trip to the doghouse, and this one isn’t like the air conditioned one that the University of Georgia gives to UGA, the team mascot.
Chance Warmack has three penalties last week including a rare holding penalty. I wonder if he’ll have the same amount of playing time this week or what penalties he may have faced in practice this week.
Accountability is all part of Saban’s system, and the players all know it.
These are but minor infractions though.
Break a team rule or NCAA violation and the trip may be longer and much more severe. Some players like Prince Hall, who violated a team rule never really got out of the dog house and left the program.
There have been other such examples. Hall was a starter as a freshman but on Saban’s team it doesn’t matter if you’re a starter like Hall or an up and comer like Norwood, breaking the rules earns you a trip to the dog house no matter who you are.
Because this is a group of young men who have bought in to that program, such problems are now rare cases instead of the norm.
Team discipline problems that plague Florida and Georgia are all but non existent these days in Tuscaloosa.
One team member last year told me that they fear Saban’s punishment much more than anything the police would do to them.
To me, that sounds like Saban’s dog house has accomplished its purpose.
i have watched a few dawg games
January 11th, 2011
7:42 pm
i have not noticed the helmet in the back thing but what i did notice is….
more than one dawg lineman or linebacker grab an opposing players foot and roll. this happens multiple times a game.
that they did the same thing josh nesbitt in fact and put him out of the game. way to go cheating dawgs.
sorry but this fan does not go along with putting out an opposing player via injury for one down let alone a game.
lets face it. espn being the fund raiser for the sec is not the only reason that the sec wins. the sec cheats and stretches the ncaa rules as much as possible. see saban an vince probation every 4.2 years dooley for instance. And…
they do not graduate their players.
they are nothing more than a bunch of gt basketball teams playing football. ie. semi pro developemental league for hs players who have no intention of ever graduating.
is it any wonder that the other leagues can not keep up with the lying cheating dirty playing win at all cost sec teams?
UGASlobberknocker
January 11th, 2011
7:48 pm
This blog is so depressing. Is there anyone out there with anything good to say about anything?
Rick
January 11th, 2011
7:54 pm
What a surprise. Another bright shining star richt has recruited!
Dawg 1
January 11th, 2011
7:54 pm
Please… Without even looking. Post are about doing what other schools do (hide it) like ‘Ohio State’ for instance. Or need to tighten up. (Georgia just dropped one of the best Wide Receivers in the Southeast due to his grades and off field issues) or it is shots from clowns from othe schools, where they ALL have their own problems.
CMR is cleaning it up. He gets one more year. Recruits coming in are ‘right now’ a pretty good group with ‘upside’ from the kids still out there.
It is what it is. Suck it up and let’s see what happens. If they win the SEC East and maybe the Conference next year, almost all of you will ‘love the guy’. If he makes it through this and starts winning at a high level again, he could be here 10-15 more years – another Vince Dooley with a BETTER record.
Jan Kemp
January 11th, 2011
7:55 pm
Send that Yankee back north!
Ed
January 11th, 2011
7:56 pm
slobber
your team beat kentucky on sat and all your beat writers and bloggers were writing about football that day.
i have watched a few dawg games...wearing panties
January 11th, 2011
7:56 pm
lets not facts get in the way of a few good untruths
Pox
January 11th, 2011
7:57 pm
He was just trying to keep uga from winning the fulmer cup.
harold
January 11th, 2011
7:57 pm
GEORGIA IS NOW KNOWN AS THE NEW MIAMI…..THUGS
harold
January 11th, 2011
7:58 pm
and I’m a gay porn star
Dirty Harry
January 11th, 2011
8:01 pm
Rick.. Tw .. you other sissy punks! All you whining crybabies are losers! Y’all didn’t even play football and you think you know something! You don’t know nothing ..you whining punks!
Richard Cranium
January 11th, 2011
8:01 pm
Yes, people notice the thugs on the UGA team.
Of course.
Dixie Redcoat Band
January 11th, 2011
8:02 pm
Can’t understand why you wish this thug best of luck, why, because he’ll come back beat and the Dawgs!
Rick
January 11th, 2011
8:06 pm
What does playing football have to do with your players getting arrested? Keep supporting this joke of a coach.
Dumbass.
Vol fan
January 11th, 2011
8:08 pm
AU has the most thugs in SEC. What I saw last night was a disgrace to all decent football fans. I look forward to day when this fictional title is stripped away from them
Dr. Phil
January 11th, 2011
8:26 pm
Richt learned to bury his head in the sand from his mentor, Bobby Bowden.
ColumbusSquareMallDawg
January 11th, 2011
8:27 pm
Every time a kid screws up, whether CMR is aware or not, it is always CMR’s fault.
The last 6, or 7 incidents, he has done exactly what is right. In fact, he has been over-the-top, with discipline.
Fran being upset over Mett is a joke. You get a case for something like that……….it’s time to roll out.
He made it sound like LSU was better than us for accepting a kid with a rap like that.
Beat a coach up for losing, or beat a coach up for letting the program get out of control, but when a coach lets a problematic kid go, cuz he’s a cancer, don’t rake him over the coals cuz the program is out of control. CMR is reeling the program back in right now (or McGarity is).
Poopdawg
January 11th, 2011
8:28 pm
Dowtin was the best LB on the team . After last years performance he was the one I thought that could make a difference in 2010. He didn’t get much PT until very late in year but was 4th on team in tackles. If he was a cancer then good riddance. Robinson’s path to the ball was usually the long route. Hopefully he improves next year. Go Dawgs! Is Francis really that bad?
ugapip
January 11th, 2011
8:30 pm
Good for Coach Richt getting him to transfer.Although he was good, you have to have players who want to be there and do things the right way. You play with who you got!! Looks like Richt is trying to right the ship. To all of you Dawg fans who are talking bad about UGA, you are only hurting the recruiting process. BTW, you can transfer with Dowtin!
Dalton Dawg
January 11th, 2011
8:38 pm
Macon Telegraph reports Nick Williams released of his scholarship as well. Looks like Grantham is cleaning house and addressing issue of talent or lack there of…….
bwell
January 11th, 2011
8:39 pm
I’m a devout Dawg fan, be real, kicking him off the team? really let it go and start fresh I understand the trust factor and he didn’t (Dowtin) tell his coaches, but man if you do it for one then do it everyone, you kick a recruit off the team but didn’t kick Lemay off so what’s the reasoning
ColumbusSquareMallDawg
January 11th, 2011
8:40 pm
Dowtin was not the best LB on the team and we will see that next year when Jarvis is knockin’ people silly.
Our LB’s will be better next year than this, due to recruiting some absolute studs at OLB and getting Jarvis and Richard Samuel back. There is a chance that Mr. Robinson will just be a good special teams player next year.
Lets see how it plays out…..but look at the measurables of the OLB’s we have inked in the last 2 hauls…..dang!
beansandriceandriceandbeans
January 11th, 2011
8:45 pm
hahahahaah!! this is so funny for tards in Georgia!! First the jackwagons at GT become a try joke and UGA has there 30th arrest in 2010!! Mr. LB, please bring ut talents to Jacksonville ST!! You will have a fun last year!!
Paul Johnson fat and slow, Coach Markey Mark, MAKING UGA LOOK LIKE A JOKE!!
ray
January 11th, 2011
8:49 pm
UGA is one of the best coaching jobs in the countrry – no need to win. All you got to do is have Rivals rank your recruiting class high, and then sit back and let the fans run their mouths.
UGA football: All pre-season talk – no football during the season
What a bunch of posers!
ray
January 11th, 2011
8:51 pm
UGA FOOTBALL:
ALL BARK – NO BITE!
LOL!
Jonkdawg
January 11th, 2011
9:01 pm
There goes again another idiot Gt fan……..
Boise state 7.0 Georgia 17……Dumass!!!!
Au in AU
January 11th, 2011
9:02 pm
After living in Atlanta, GA for over 10 years I got the chance to move to Auburn this summer and took it. I never read UGA blogs before because I liked my UGA friends and the excitement around SEC football. The AU/UGA weekend was always the best SEC weekend. Man, you people (me included tonight) that sit behind a keyboard and still talk about the Auburn game really need to get over it. UGA is in trouble, and Auburn will be next year, but we’re not gonna sit behind a computer and blame the best offensive and defensive player and coach of the year your loss. You lost because CMR has no heart. Didn’t it seem during you bowl game that he was asleep? No emotion, no fire, no energy, no TEAM! That’s what we did this year. Probably won’t happen again, but it was a fun, great year. By the way, you can smash each player behind your keyboard if you want, but I welcome you to come on down and see Cam, Zach, Nick and the boys come tutor kids at our school each week. I welcome you to come to campus and see the volunteer work these “stars” do. I welcome you to the barber shop that Gene let my son sit on his lap to get a haircut. Yeah, these guys are trash… Was a UGA guy, but now we are home in Auburn! By the way, I went to Kansas on a scholarship – I was the only “black sheep” that did not attend AU in my family.
bwkdawg
January 11th, 2011
9:04 pm
Either there are people on this blog trying to start something or there is just a lot of idiots on here these guys that attend our program are grown men and are responsible for their own actions. I hate people on here that try and put the ownership on CMR. He is not a babysitter, yes he is the head football coach and the overall team is his responsibility, but he can’t be with these guys every minute of the day. When they’re in the recruitment process the only time Richt sees them is either at their parents house, official visits, or at their highschool there is no way Richt can tell what this person will do years down the road. You people act like you have done background checks on the individuals on the team and they all have prior criminal history. Not trying to make excusses for these guys but they are young and have a lot of growing up to do, and you guys on here are quick to label someone thugs. Some people on here might be surprised if they found out what their own kids are really doing when they are not around them. You can’t hold Richt responsible for the actions of eighty or so grown men when they are own their free time. You can only judge Richt by how he handles the situation and if he gets rid of the player than obviously he’s not condoning this type of behavior. When I was off in college I meet so many prep type kids who were doing things you prabably could’nt convince their parents they did even if you had pictures does that make them thugs. You can only teach someone so much than it’s up to them to make the right decision. Holding CMR responsible for grown men’s actions is simply not right.
Ole Yeller Dawg
January 11th, 2011
9:06 pm
Nick Fairley = Aunt Ester on Sanford and Son!
SEC1
January 11th, 2011
9:12 pm
think he will join up with Mettenbeger and whip us in a few years?
BigDawg
January 11th, 2011
9:13 pm
Good for you Richt. Get rid of the thug. I do not care if he is Mike singletary. If he breaks the law he goes. Dowtin best of Luck in the GA. State Penn.
Ole Yeller Dawg
January 11th, 2011
9:15 pm
Same crazed look on his face! Could Aunt Ester and Nick Fairley be the same person?
Bob
January 11th, 2011
9:22 pm
Good move, Coach. I hope Marcus straightens up and finds is way.
Ole Yeller Dawg
January 11th, 2011
9:23 pm
Aunt Ester had a “Mean Streak” in her too! Knew how to play dirty also!
Wes Durham's Gigantic Bottom
January 11th, 2011
9:27 pm
Although he had some decent moments, Dowtin was another out of state linebacker (see Charles White, Akeem Hebron) who did nothing at UGA….Garner really missed on a lot of guys going out of state when he could have just stayed at home….it sounds like Dowtin had a lot of attitude problems as well, and Richt has learned that you cannot be tolerant about discipline….Richt should be commended on this one.
gadawgfan0711
January 11th, 2011
9:35 pm
If Richt punishes a player too hard, he catches sh*t. If he goes to soft, guess what, he catches sh*t. He can’t do anything right for some of you guys.
dawg2
January 11th, 2011
11:00 pm
How many more before Richt is gone…………..
an inside source
January 11th, 2011
11:28 pm
predicted to me that the change in S&C coaches would have a few of the “lazier” players quitting the team. Apparently, these boys don’t want to go to boot camp with Coach T and K. Expect a few more….
oh, and koolaiders….don’t get too excited….Club Richt still has its staff in place for another year of mediocraty.
boise bulldog
January 12th, 2011
12:43 am
Regarding Stanford. As long as the big $$$ alums support the program they will be at the top. it takes a bad coach to screw up that situation. Look at their recruiting-nationwide, as not a lot of their starters come out of California. Plus what they have to offer players and grads in the long run. Hope they get Belotti to continue with the good teams. Now back to the Richt hating. Heard via Mojo Nixon that Richt is the evil anti-Elvis.
7576DAWG
January 12th, 2011
1:22 am
CMR will alway’s give a player a second and sometimes a third chance but the one thing he will not tolerate , and I agree , is for one of his players to be dishonest or to lie to him. You get no chances for that. You can teach a kid better ethics, integrity, and morals but if you are dishonest and are a lier at 18 years old it’s hard to change that behavior.
7576DAWG
January 12th, 2011
1:26 am
I hope that CMR know’s something the rest of us don’t and that the real reason Dowtin is leaving is because UGA needs his scholarship with so many recruit’s that will be signing up in the next few weeks.
Tallahasseedawg
January 12th, 2011
1:46 am
Typical idiot uga fans.I’m wondrering why yall idiots keep calling these players thugs,why can’t they just be , less say KIDS!! making mistakes in life.I am still trying to figure who on this blog didn’t make mistakes as KIDS! The idiots making these thug assumptions sound like guys that didn’t play sports or use to get beat up alot.Remeber idiots this is somebodys child.(WOW)
BoWeevil
January 12th, 2011
3:09 am
Auburn should have had someone talk to the Arizona Cardinals about what type cleat to wear on that horrible field.
The PAC-10 had exactly 2 Top 25 ranked teams. Stanford got to play an ACC team oh great. An ACC team who by the way lost to Boise State and lost to James Madison. Stanford beat no one. Oregon therefore beat no one. Auburn has 7 wins over Top 25 final AP Poll teams. Oregon 1 Stanford 1.
Mark Richt is 2-11 vs Top 25 teams final AP Poll 2008, 2009 and 2010. Michigan State 2008 and Georgia tek 2009, with none this season at 0-5. 1-3 for 2008, 1-3 for 2009 and 0-5 for 2010 is 2-11.
Former players saying Mark Richt is not getting the job done :
HERSCHEL WALKER : recruiting in-state, losses, no discipline
FRAN TARKENTON : losses last 3 years, arrests / suspensions, Mark Richt not spending time on football, preacher’s son saying Mark Richt is really a missionary, signing recruits who go on to not play for Mark Richt going on forever, and Mark Richt lies (spins) cop-outs.
Another example of what Fran Tarkenton is talking about – MARCUS DOWTIN Mark Richt recruit from Fort Union Military Academy in Maryland.
BoWeevil
January 12th, 2011
3:10 am
Aaron Murray :
# 62 in nation at getting sacked
1.9 yards per carry 87 carries
# 55 in nation in 3rd down conversions
# 56 in nation total offense
# 72 in nation 1st downs
lost to 2 not Top 25 final AP teams
lost to all 5 Top 25 final AP teams
lost most games since lost 7 in 1957
beat 6 teams ALL with LOSING RECORDS
Mat"T"
January 12th, 2011
5:48 am
In response to Einstein Georgia Fan-”North Georgia Dawg Fan”
If UT “swept it under the rug” then how does the entire free world know about it, and half the football team served suspensions, two players were kicked off the team, and the others were forced to do Community hours? Hmmm? Hmmm?
Richt=Fulmer. Both are/were great coaches who are experiencing the same fan base frustration that will ultimately cost Richt his job in a 24/7 SEC media monster driven world.
Stinger2
January 12th, 2011
5:56 am
CMR did the right thing. The UGA fans who constantly put him down will someday realize their mistake. Not one blogger who says he should be fired has a solution therefore, each critic is a part of the problem at UGA. Either support your coach and program or find another one.
Oak Island
January 12th, 2011
5:58 am
AU AU, must be a bunch of dumb kids in Auburn if Fairley is tutoring them.
Jim
January 12th, 2011
6:01 am
What a bunch of idiots we have making posts on this article! Idiots, idiots, idiots.
buckeyedawg
January 12th, 2011
6:41 am
blah blah blah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Isnt this the clean up of the program i have been reading about for a long time that people wanted? I can see where cmr didnt know due to out of state incident. Now your complaining about 4 and 5 star players being gone. When you were stating you wanted players that wanted to be here giving it there all for Ga. TCU and Stanford dont have the big number of star players like other programs due. Give cmr a chance to do what he and ad AD are working on.
Reality Bites
January 12th, 2011
6:45 am
Guys, the problem isnt Richt. Its ur RC Gardner gettin these thugs in the first place. Fire Gardner, not Richt and hire former RC for the Jackets under Gayley, Giff Smith. Look how well we did with him. Go Jackets!!!!
Paddy
January 12th, 2011
6:54 am
North Georgia Dawg””””””””UGA should just sweep these type of issues under the rug!!!!! What a fine administrator you would make. Why not give each player brassknuckles and a switchblade to be on the safe side!!! Maroon!
Gibster
January 12th, 2011
6:59 am
Auburn will probably pick him up. They like thugs who constantly play dirty.
bosshawg
January 12th, 2011
7:07 am
good ridunce
Stu Padass
January 12th, 2011
7:11 am
Bring on Rich Rodriguez to coach UGA and things will get done and cleaned up.
Dawglasville
January 12th, 2011
7:11 am
If the event went down the way it was reported then Dowtin had to go. They said the video showed that he grabbed a girls arm. Another guy told him to let go of her arm. Dowtin punched him. The day of the Teflon athlete has to end in Athens. Players actions have to have consequences that stick to them. As I see it, Richt has been paying the price in the court of public opinion for what these boneheads have been doing.
Boobie Bowden
January 12th, 2011
7:20 am
Morals, schmorals. Richt is fighting for his job – and losing. Right now, he would throw his wife under the bus, if she were arrested for something.
TW
January 12th, 2011
7:29 am
Mark Richt has a team loaded with future NFL players, and George O’Leary whipped his tale with a JV team.
Who’da thought the top five sports at the University of Georgia would NOT include football?
1. Tennis
2. Gymnastics
3. Men’s Bball
4. Women’s Bball
5. Swimming
6. Mark Richt’s candy-a$$ flag-football team
The bleeding stops when we hire a new coach.
Snake Doc
January 12th, 2011
7:39 am
So if the player has character issues, whose job is it too know this before the playa is recruited? THE COACH and his BooBoo’s!
All MR wants to do is run a Boys town. He care nothing about football, as per his closing presser, “Now I can focus more on football.” What a joke!
What the Frack was he focusing on? Mission work to help wayward youths and thugs come to UGA to play a little football and get religion. Thugs and bone heads is what he recruits. The level of players and their character has dropped severely since all of Donnan’s boys left.
UGA is now the biggest joke in football and you bonehead CEO supports are dragging us all down with you!
tc
January 12th, 2011
7:42 am
I am not sure what the right action was, but all I know is this program is getting less and less competitive. I don’t believe that we have any more thugs than any other school. I think the difference is that CMR can not manage these players. He can not manage anything for that matter. The players have no respect for him.
tc
January 12th, 2011
7:43 am
Snake Doc as I said it is not a character issue, It is a leadership issue
Snake Doc
January 12th, 2011
7:48 am
tc – You are so correct!
DawginLex
January 12th, 2011
7:49 am
So much for the haters saying we only kick off players that don’t play.
Snake Doc
January 12th, 2011
7:55 am
MR – Cleaning up the program? His biggest recruit for this year is a kid who was suspended for his entire senior H.S. season for some type of sex violation/crime… the only reasons the kid isn’t in jail is his Daddy is a preacher, He’s a 5 star recruit and he was underage when this went down. Great character recruit!
And all the boneheads, if you read the blogs can’t wait for the sex deviant to come and save UGA. Speaks volumes about the boneheads and their hero, the Tanned CEO of UGA.
What a load of Bull Dung!
And those of us who want the CEO removed from his lofty perch have offered many solutions to the issue of replacing Mr. “Now I can focus more on football”. You boneheads just love the faked tan one too much and are scared and are making excusing, in case you haven’t learned this about life yet – excuses are for losers, red pantie wearing wimps!
crossdawg
January 12th, 2011
8:08 am
boom, boom, boom another thug bites the dust
DawginLex
January 12th, 2011
8:09 am
snake doc,
Dowtin-bar fight and assault
Lemay-getting some BJ action from a girl at school
You don’t see a difference?
Ed F
January 12th, 2011
8:10 am
Be glad when we get the Kids to use all that energy on the field rather than off the Field. Seems like late in the game they are talking about where they are going that night. Focus is on other things than Football!!!!
Steve
January 12th, 2011
8:10 am
You idiots blaming Richt for this are just absolute biased haters. Do you expect him to restrict travel on all these kids? Do you expect him to tell them they have to go straight from the dorms/apartments to class to the practice field and back? Do you expect him to hire a gestapo like control squad to enforce this?
Richt did exactly the right thing. Dowtin cheap-shotted someone after being told not to touch a lady in that persons group. He then decided not to tell the Georgia staff because he knew he would get thrown off the team immediately. This guy has lifetime criminal written all over him.
I will say one thing that bothers me. The kids being recruited these days seem to be far more morally bankrupt than in years past. I don’t know if it’s the divorce/single parent rates or just parents that just don’t drive home the correct values. Maybe it’s the culture in the areas they grow up in, or peer influence .. I don’t know. All I know is these kids seem to think the world owes them something just because they are a little better athletically. Unless all coaches start taking the stand that Richt is taking by dropping them immediately and also not picking up anyone who left another school due to problems (cough .. Cam Newton .. cough), these kids will never clean up their act and more victims will be hurt in the process. Maybe this is just the overall turn that society is taking, but it’s getting really old.
Cvill dawg
January 12th, 2011
8:15 am
Why do some fans say CMR needs more discipline and then when he shows it you bash him for it! Their are to many double minded dumb dawgs!
Ron
January 12th, 2011
8:17 am
If you kick all the thugs off the team. There will be no one left but UGA
BobbyDawg
January 12th, 2011
8:20 am
I can’t understand why people hold MR responsible for what a player does when he is off campus and away from Athens. Every time a UGA player has a little scrape with the law the fans and the Media get all bent out of shape at MR.He is only there to coach football not babysit. The problem with Dowtin falls solely on Marcus Dowtin and nobody else. MR has to enforce the rules that are handed down to him by the school, the SEC, and the NCAA.
In_the_cellar
January 12th, 2011
8:21 am
There is something wrong in the HOUSE of THE DAWGS!
Meh
January 12th, 2011
8:32 am
Not worried…Jarvis Jones is going to be a Beast next season and Samuel is more than capable of stepping into Dowtin’s shoes…I do think it is sad that UGA haters have nothing better to do then troll UGA boards and try start stuff. Especially Tech fans…..Tech can’t beat us at anything so they have to troll the boards looking for “bad” news and then remind us how “other” teams beat us….Get a life techies and just think what would happen if you put as much energy into getting laid as you do trying to put down UGA
Triple Dawg
January 12th, 2011
8:32 am
I remember the good old days when an 18 year old could get in a bar fight and do another shot of jack before moving on to the next watering hole. The good ol days. Don’t think we didn’t take your daughters back to the Mac just cuz they wanted to see the athletic dorm either. In fact, if there were camera phone in the early 90’s the entire Bulldog team would be suspended and I’m including Will, Kirby, & Eric on that deal. Friken homers…
bigdawg
January 12th, 2011
8:34 am
Maybe it’s time for UGA to stop recruiting off the wanted posters at the Post Offices. Good riddanced to this thug and any other. Clean the program up and make us a proud BullDawg Nation once again.
BobbyDawg
January 12th, 2011
8:38 am
What kind of team would UGA have had in 2009 if UGS star players hadn’t copped out to the NFL draft. Put yourself in MR’s place. You’re supposed to have a powerhouse capable of winning the SEC, instead you’re rebuilding due to the NFL draft.
Snake Doc
January 12th, 2011
8:42 am
You sure it was just BJ action? And yes there is a difference. However, both obviously have character issues and all the boneheads and the CEO are waiting on a kid who hasn’t played in over a year to come in and save them all.
How stupid is that? What does it say about boneheads?
Boneheads make more excuses than should be allowed. Why do the boneheads love the CEO so much? If you don’t perform in your job, no matter how many years you were successful at it, might you get canned for failing to perform up to expectations?
DawginLex
January 12th, 2011
8:45 am
MR – Cleaning up the program? His biggest recruit for this year is a kid who was suspended for his entire senior H.S. season for some type of sex violation/crime… the only reasons the kid isn’t in jail is his Daddy is a preacher, He’s a 5 star recruit and he was underage when this went down
Dumba$$ snake doc compares a bar brawl and arrest to a kid getting a blow job at school.
Nice analogy einstein.
Snake Doc
January 12th, 2011
8:49 am
More lame observations and even lamer excuses from the DawginLex!!!! Waiting for the morally repugnant sex deviant to come in and save his heroes arse.
The only comparison is that they both have character issues and that is what your hero recruits because he wants to save their souls, not make them football players!
You ain’t got the brains God gave a gnat!
DawginLex
January 12th, 2011
8:49 am
Dowtin got arrested
Lemay got suspended for a portion of the season and chose to not play at all
There is a big difference.
And please don’t tell me it would be OK to fire Richt now like freaking Michigan did.
I’m not happy with 8-5 and 6-7 but McGarrity has decided to let him try and fix things. All this negative crap and idiots like Tarkenton spewing their pie holes are only going to make things worse.
There is a time to fire the coach if needed and now is not the time.
Snake Doc
January 12th, 2011
8:50 am
And statutory rape, even a BJ, is a crime…. Bonehead! He’s lucky the girls parents didn’t press charges!
collegeballfan
January 12th, 2011
8:51 am
Scout.com had Dowtin listed as a 4 Star in the 2008 recruiting class.
Tough to lose a 4 Star out of the program.
TW January 11th, 2011
6:17 pm
Excellent point. Facts are facts. Spin is spin. There is a lot of spinning going on in Athens.
cedric
January 12th, 2011
8:51 am
See ya later. C’mon, all this for a fringe player. We did not win with him and our best defenders played scout team last year. See ya later. I can not recall one play he made all season. Bye bye…
DawginLex
January 12th, 2011
8:51 am
They are both underage and it was consentual. It was not a crime. Stupid, yes but not a crime.
high school hormones
I have yet to see or hear anything that labels this kid a “sex deviant”.
You must be queer.
Snake Doc
January 12th, 2011
8:52 am
And you are correct. Nothing will change until after next year… And we won’t know until then who is correct… Just don’t come to me next year after a 7-6 season and some piddly little bowl win and tell me all is right with the world!
Hmm...if only
January 12th, 2011
8:52 am
If only I could remember a time…
Ben Jones vs. MSU when he almost cripped a player by chop blocking
Ben Jones vs AU when he chopped blocked 2x and punched Fairly
In 2008 when UGA led the country in personal fouls
In 2009 when UGA led the country in personal fouls
In 2010 when UGA was in the top 10 in personal fouls
Or the display of class before games like vs. UF a few years ago and before the AU game this year.
Or in any one of the 13 arrests on the team, an SEC record!
Snake Doc
January 12th, 2011
8:53 am
First off, you don’t know it was only a BJ… Secondly it is a crime… If the girls parents had filed charges he’d be in jail!
He is stupid, and has no morals… Can’t you understand that? Yet he is the kid you’re pinning your hopes on? What does that say about you? Even more excuses…. Excuses are for losers!
DawginLex
January 12th, 2011
8:54 am
I want 10 wins minimum.
He could get fired before the season is over although I doubt that is McGarrity’s style.
The pressure is on and Richt and Grantham know it.
Richt will never throw Bobo under the bus in public but I guarantee you Richt will be calling plays.
DawginLex
January 12th, 2011
8:55 am
Lemay won’t start over Murray.
Murray needs to play great to get this turned around.
and take off those Michael Jackson gloves
mark twain
January 12th, 2011
8:56 am
ALL OF THIS LOSING WAS CAUSED BY GLOBAL WARMING AND EL NINO, JUST ASK paul hewitt. SURE RICHT AND BOBO AND ALL THE REST NEED TO RESIDE OUTSIDE OF ATHENS. WE NEED VAN GORDER BACK AS HEAD COACH. NOW LET US ALL GET BACK TO STUDYING BECAUSE WE NEED TO CATCH UP WITH THAT GREAT SCHOOL IN ATL, JUST ASK paul johnson.
DawginLex
January 12th, 2011
8:58 am
You think the Auburn people care that Cammie was getting trim all year?
You bet they don’t.
They don’t care if Cammie got paid and laid.
They have a crystal trophy.
That they are going to have to give back.
“Live in the moment” they say.
Neal Perry
January 12th, 2011
8:59 am
You have got to love those that say that UGA recruits these thugs, like every other coach in the SEC and a lot of other out of conference coaches never recruit these same folks. You either recruit them and hope they will behave and grow up, or another coach recruits them with the same hope. Personal responsibility is what is needed. Also, quit putting these kids up on a pedestal just because they are good at a talent that was God given. If they lack the morale fiber, or upbringing to succeed at the college level, and they are recruited by a school; You get what you asked for. CMR did the right thing. This kid caused a man to have a concussion. You simply can not have it both ways, but for logical reason alone, do not condemn the coach for doing the right thing, and in the same breath, condemn him for not recruiting the kid, because he has a questionalbe past. Decide what you want, and yes, there are enough good morale charactor kids out there, that will keep you competitive in the SEC or any other conference.
Snake Doc
January 12th, 2011
9:02 am
No one cares if a kid gets trim…. Unless he gets caught, besides Scam is over 18…..
Quit peeing on my roof and telling me its raining outside….
I like your point though… 10 wins minimum and play for the SEC championship, anything less than that and he should be gone. But if UGA wins 8 all the lovers will be wanting one more year….
Snake Doc
January 12th, 2011
9:04 am
The part I hate is that Scam was probably getting paid… Still, AU does have the crystal trophy in Chizik’s second year. The tanned one, hasn’t even sniffed one in 10 years!
DawginLex
January 12th, 2011
9:04 am
He could win 9 and lose to Florida and Tennessee and get fired.
DawginLex
January 12th, 2011
9:05 am
They will have to give the trophy back one day. It took the NCAA 6 years to expose USC. With the FBI involved and the stupidity of the Auburn “family”, it won’t take that long this time.
BobbyDawg
January 12th, 2011
9:07 am
I’m waiting to see how we handle Boise St. in the opening game at the Ga. Dome next year. Boise St. has a great team, but UGA should be able to handle them with the talent that we have. It’s going to take coaching and training and this will be a good test for the Dawgs to see just how much MR has done to turn the program around. If UGA falls flat on their face in this game then it’s time to make some major changes.
ungawa
January 12th, 2011
9:09 am
Dowtin’s gone–that’s good, ’cause he needed to go. Now what about Caleb King? He seems to be a bit of a cancer as well. You can’t fault a coach for trying to drain the swamp. Open up another spot for recruiting.
DawginLex
January 12th, 2011
9:14 am
If I were Coach Richt, Caleb King would not be on my team in 2011
BobbyDawg
January 12th, 2011
9:17 am
I agree with Freddy in his 6:23 post yesterday. Get Jim Donnan involved with the recruiting at UGA. He’s still in Athens, and he is a winner, and he has the personality to attract good players. Plus if we end up with a gang of thugs like we did last year we can blame it on Donnan.
Dawg Fan
January 12th, 2011
9:18 am
AN UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE????? WTF!
Hey Richt, you panty waist, put those conditions in place FFS! This kid spent time in the program, got a scholarship, everything paid for, etc… he wants to be a moron (like a LOT of our players seem to be doing) then screw him!
No unconditional release for this loser…
Then again, maybe you could give YOURSELF an unconiditional release…..
I aint sayin, IM just sayin
January 12th, 2011
9:27 am
Those who want to really revel in the Auburn victory…and those who say “I knew it!!!” please take a read at this… consider the lights shined in your direction Aubbie.
http://bluetunatides.blogspot.com/2011/01/god-not-be-mocked.html
wildbill
January 12th, 2011
9:37 am
Gangbangers have got to go!
cosby
January 12th, 2011
9:38 am
Ahh…just follow Auburns philosophy..lets play all the crooks we can – see Newton!
Ted M
January 12th, 2011
9:38 am
so what’s the 2010 arrest account up to now 12 or 13?
Dawg H8R
January 12th, 2011
9:45 am
Typical of The Christian Mark Richt.Dirty as hell,but don’t change a thing buttsniffers,your fall makes for a better conference.
Dawg H8R
January 12th, 2011
9:46 am
TW is my kind of buttsniffer fan. No,out of respect for a scholar,I’ll call TW a Bulldog.
browndog
January 12th, 2011
9:50 am
CMR did the right thing!
Beast from the East
January 12th, 2011
9:50 am
Sounds like the kid needed to go but his production will be tough to replace. Are they really losing their top 4 tacklers from this year? That’s going to hurt.
drew not a dawg
January 12th, 2011
9:53 am
You know there needs to be an overhaul of a program when your 4th leading tackler has only started 2 games.
BIG BEE
January 12th, 2011
9:56 am
Sure are a bunch of GROWLEY BEARS on here. Don’t you guys have anything else to do? WOW Had you rather be a NERD or an EVIL ONE? If the later, you should transfer to SC and learn from the master of EVIL!!!
gdawginkalamazoo
January 12th, 2011
10:02 am
Oh well I guess you better go see the coach to clear the skeletons out of your closet asap. This happened last May got settled in December you have to figure the kid thought he was getting away with it. I hope the kid is straightened out by now and goes on to be productive elsewhere.
Dan
January 12th, 2011
10:04 am
Best thing for Georgia would be, for the fans to start fallowing Tech instead as, from reading post on on-line forums, most are dumb as sticks.
Fran is an idiot. Even if that’s what he thinks, and yes he’s entitled to his opinion, it does not help anyone at this time. It’s more of Fran the attention ho than anything else.
ChopblockU
January 12th, 2011
10:09 am
The jealousy coming from the thuga fans puts a smile on my face. AU wins the title and thuga loses to UCF in a meaningless bowl. Guess thuga’s center did not chop block and punch enough to get the W! War Eagle!!!!!
BadgerFan
January 12th, 2011
10:11 am
Just sayin’, welcome to the world of college football. To think the Auburn might be,if indeed one, the only of 119 Division I universities to tolerate this type of action would be naive. Interesting that the blog is written by one with “Tides” in his title…..give credit though….it is novel to utilize religion as a conduit to dig at a rival.
JoeFan
January 12th, 2011
10:13 am
UGA should aspire to be a top flight University on the level of Stanford or Virginia. The school, like Vanderbilt, has no buisness being in the swamp called the SEC. It’s time to clean house and change conferences.
Joey
January 12th, 2011
10:18 am
DawginLex sure uses the word “idiot” a lot.
Must have heard it an awful lot growing up . . .
Jborodawg
January 12th, 2011
10:19 am
“…That was a 2 yr coach that one the NC…”
Helps to have a Heisman winner on your team. See what happens next year without Cam and Fairly. It’s like Mussberger the other night saying “…Pete Carroll brought the Seahawks to the playoffs…” Heck no he didn’t; the SYSTEM allowed a losing team into the playoffs.
“…BostonDawg…Yes, they are setting examples…How many examples will it take before the team is made entirely of walk-ons?…”
However many it takes to get the point across.
“…Vance Duuley…Dowtin should have been dismissed when Richt first heard about the barroom brawl…”
What do you think just happened? Dowtin didn’t play in the Liberty bowl. CMR investigated further and now Dowtin’s off the team. CMR showed compassion letting him transfer.
“….Richt needs to tighten up his ship! Goodbye to Dawgs top 3 tacklers this season…”
That’s a little contradictory.
“…This young man was arrested last summer and Coach Richt claims he knew nothing about it…”
Maybe you can come up with a way to baby-sit 85 people 24/7, 365. And, what’s the process in checking police records in every town every player visits?
Contrary to what some of you commenters think and say, CMR HAS dismissed and HAS suspended several players. Some he has allowed to transfer; nothing wrong with that. Coaches are not baby-sitters. Nor are other faculty members. It’s quite myopic to think UGA has a “problem” vis-a-vis other schools. Players getting in trouble is a national phenomena. Sit down for one day and read newspapers from college towns (or college newspapers) all across the county. At the “Auburn Wins NC” articles, I’ve never seen so much vitriol aimed at another school (Auburn, Cam, and Cecil Newton). Most of it is misplaced, since Cecil Newton was dealing with a booster from Ms State; had nothing to do with Auburn. More might come out, but “that’s the facts” for right now. Sure looks like sour grapes from Bulldog fans; and it’s embarrassing we can’t be gracious in defeat and congratulate someone else’s success.
The use of the term “thug” is getting old. It’s just young people getting in trouble. Happens everywhere and with non-athletes alike. Not paying a traffic ticket does not a “thug” make. You’d think they were selling dope and running prostitution rings the way some of y’all react. Yes, there are too many arrests of UGA football players. Most of these young men seem upright/upstanding when the coaches visit their schools and their homes. Most seem to have fine parents. Most get glowing reviews and accolades from their HS coaches. Have you ever seen a comment at rivals.com or scout.com about character issues? I think the UGA admin and CMR are doing all they can. And, I think they are as perplexed as we are.
“How many examples..” indeed.
ugab
January 12th, 2011
10:19 am
Now MR is kicking player off the team for any reason. The dawgs can’t afford to lose anyone.
ugab
January 12th, 2011
10:24 am
This team is falling apart! The next head coach for ga is going to catch hell putting this program back together. MR get one more year to embarrass the dawg nation. If you look at MRs winning seasons, alot of his wins were sloppy. The only time MR had good players is when he had another coaches players
ugab
January 12th, 2011
10:25 am
Why be a Dawg fan? Watch the University pay a loser.
ugab
January 12th, 2011
10:26 am
We have to hope for a losing season to get a new coaching staff. That is so sad.
junkyarddawg
January 12th, 2011
10:26 am
DON’T let the door hit you in the @ss, Dowtin. If you kept your arrest a secret you don’t deserve to be a DAWG. I am sick of thugs wearing the Red & Black. Caleb pack your bags too.
ChopblockU
January 12th, 2011
10:31 am
JoeFan, you are too funny. To even mention thuga in the same sentence as UVA and Stanford is just too much! I guarantee there are no exams at those institutions with questions like, “how many pts for a three pt shot”? Thuga is a large state school with some strong majors and others that are a joke. Just look at the degrees offered. Thanks for the laugh joefan!
DawginLex
January 12th, 2011
10:32 am
Yeah Joey,
My parents always said, watch what you are doing and saying and don’t end up an idiot like Joey.
Ted M
January 12th, 2011
10:37 am
I find it equally as preposterous as Fran said. Come on, Richt actually said now that he doesn’t have to fuss with admin duties he finally has the time “truly” study the game of football. Richt thought admin duties were more important then coaching…WTF. Fans are supposed to ignore this out of blind loyalty, that’s crazy.
That whole scenario preposterous!
I guess it all started when Richt turned over the play calling and running the offense to Bobo. What was that 3 years ago? Anyway Richt’s quote then was “now I have time to focus on the big picture”. Little did we know “the big picture” was admin. That’s moment in time when Richt took winning for granted at UGA. Let’s hope he learned his lessen.
Richt dropped the ball…on purpose, holy crap.
Oconee Dawg
January 12th, 2011
10:38 am
North Georgia Dawg get a life!!!!! You do not understand how to deal with and make responsible young men. It’s not by sweeping all “that stuff” under the rug! You are a “low life individual” who only considers the game of football and not helping young men! Sweep yourself under the “rug” please!!!
Gatormeat
January 12th, 2011
10:41 am
What a mockery of an SEC team the dogs are. If the SEC had any sense they would kick georgia out and replace them with a team with more character. Florida St, Miami, Va Tech are just a few of the schools that would be a better representative for the conference. We are sick of the antics of the classless dogs, who can’t even beat a mid-tier football team to boot. The dogs are truly a disgusting example of what SEC football is about
knowitall
January 12th, 2011
10:42 am
TW – It tells me all about you that you did not know that Stafford was here only 3 years. Dowtin only has one year left. He has to sit out a year or go small school. I dont think we see him in the SEC.
Atl_Dawg
January 12th, 2011
10:50 am
Wish you well, Dowtin. Don’t listen to the inbreds on this blog. The snow and ice has made them all go insane. As many fans have said on this blog – CMR can’t watch over players who are out of state. We also don’t know the whole story, and for those that are bashing CMR for letting this guy go are probably the same who squeal like a pig to kick him off the team if he had been allowed to stay. Lay off the meth and think before you start writing.
blazer
January 12th, 2011
10:50 am
wait until the problem child Lemay gets there
DawginLex
January 12th, 2011
10:57 am
gatormeathead,
Your school should be banned from every conference in America and from ever appearing on national TV just for having to look at all the mullet heads and the transplanted yankee snow birds now living in Flo-ri-duh doing the retarded gator chomp.
LCDawg
January 12th, 2011
10:57 am
Apparently Dowtin was a complete malcontent. He would pout and had a general bad attitude. read dawgpost etc… a lot of players and coaches coming out saying this is a great move for the team. Good riddance, we need team players.
Conspiracy Theory BS
January 12th, 2011
10:57 am
Wow ! Kick one of your best players off the team ? 5-8 looking UGA in the face next year…
TD
January 12th, 2011
11:09 am
I can’t believe coach Richt did not know about Dowkin until after the Liberty bowl. What was the real reason he did not play. If this event happened to Dowkin in May, why did the coaching staff just fine out about it. This shows just how out of touch they are with keeping up with their players. It shows up with the arrest of 12 players and King not being able to go and play the last game of the year. This is a direct responsibility of Coach Richt, who has to be in charge and the leader. This has not been the case. Fran is right on his assessment.
I-DOG
January 12th, 2011
11:11 am
Well that is one player already that won’t be playing in the Boise State game (or any other games for that matter) due to another UGA brain injury.
What is the over under on prominant players not being able to play in the opener due to these mental injuries at UGA. I think the line should be around 6 or 7.
I was ridiculed on these blogs after worrying what the storm would be like for Richt if we lost this opener. Many put me down saying “UGA will never lose to Boise State, there is just too much difference in talent.”
I think Central Florida showed us that this simply is not the case. Add in that the first game of the year is the most dangerous (less talented team has the best chance to win that game than they do any other since there is no pre-season to work out the kinks). Also add in that we will be without 6-8 significant contributers due to UGA brain injuries (suspensions) PLUS any real physical injuries that take place and Richt is literally coaching for his job in a single game playoff against a well coached team with UGA undermanned.
Does anyone believe that this staff INCLUDING RICHT could survive a loss to Boise State in the opener. I think he would be fired within 2 weeks if we lose that game as everything would come apart at the seams.
Cuzzo
January 12th, 2011
11:18 am
Goon up!!! thats why you guys are getting slapped all over the SEC!!!!
Defensive player of the year in the BIG EAST and soon to first round draft pick Jabbal Shread,…
GOON UP, you need a coach that can manage the goons plain and simple!!!
J Moore
January 12th, 2011
11:19 am
Does anyone screen these guys before they are shown a map to their classes? I know–how about looking them up on Ancestry.com?
Rabun Dawg
January 12th, 2011
11:20 am
Very well said jborodawg. Now, Caleb king. Probably a pretty nice young man, but not a “team” player. Need to give him his walking papers before he lets the team down again this coming season. As a comparison, look at Duke basketball. Coach K recruits mostly guys without all of the stars and they coach them up, and they stay the course. CMR and company need to get after those without all of the 4 or 5 stars, and coach them up. I know, easier said than done, and do we have the staff in place to do that? I would think that there are plenty of 1,2 or 3, star guys out there that are not the prima-donnas and just want a chance to play. The kid from Lee County is probably one of these type, and says he has always wanted to be a Dawg. Get after these types, and coach em up!! JMHO
playing time
January 12th, 2011
11:21 am
Who do you think made this decision, Richt or McGarity? Concidering Richt track record…..
William C Smith
January 12th, 2011
11:23 am
This is what I love about SEC football. Georgia player makes mistake and is allowed to transfer. Everyone starts telling about how sorry the other programs are. If it was discovered Jack The Ripper went to Georgia
they would claim Stalin’s brother attended another SEC school. HEADLINE
Lindsay Lohan says Charlie Sheen out of control. This is one player one school period.
McDawg
January 12th, 2011
11:24 am
both Dowtin and Christian are good LBs but instead of shedding blocks they look like they would rather be in a boxing match w/ whoever is blocking them which usually resulted in tackles being made from behind and thus the runner was always falling forward rather thean backwards-it was a huge deal on 3rd downs when we should have been getting off the field instead of having drives extended
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January 12th, 2011
11:47 am
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aprilglaspie
January 12th, 2011
11:48 am
Please you self-appointed pundits, retire the word “thug” at least until you can check a dictionary. A college student imbibing beer on a weekend night is not a thug, she’s normal. I’d imagine some of Coach Baurle’s and Coach Landers’ charges probably do the same, but they aren’t big black guys.
If selling a shirt that actually belongs to you or dinging a beat up pickup in a parking garage make one a thug, apparently, the word has become entirely meaningless. Pleas consign Mark Bradley to writing about UK losing to UGA in hoops. His comments on Mark Richt all come across as wishful thinking, when a reader can wade through the cutesy garbage.
SECfan34
January 12th, 2011
11:49 am
UGA is no different than any other SEC school. Many of the best athletes come from homes where disciple and obeying the law are not taught. It does appear that CMR gets more than his share of undisciplined football players. Character does not seem to be a consideration to CMR when making scholarship offers to certain players.
rebeldawg
January 12th, 2011
11:56 am
This is my last statement on preacher man.The fisrt time I had a comment goes back to us hireing a ast coach from fla state.IF ALA ,LSU FLA and others can hire a proven coach so can we.I AM SITTING HEAR LOOKING AT MY 2011 DONATION AMT.I dont know how long I can keep making out checks.35 plus years and I am feed up.BUT ALLWAYS A BULLDOG>
McDawg
January 12th, 2011
12:02 pm
King will have to earn it to get back in the rotation-obviously not reliable but picks up the blitz fairly well
aprilglaspie
January 12th, 2011
12:10 pm
Jborodawg. Guilty until proven innocent, right? Matter was adjudicated. Judge says Dowtin did nothing illegal. People like you deserve to get arrested and put in jail on trumped up charges, like being a big black college football player in a bar. Guilty. No due process required.And playing Time, “Concidering”? You thug.
UGAX
January 12th, 2011
12:19 pm
Just opens the door for the JARVIS JONES show in 2011. No loss with Dowtin. Jones, along with Richard Samuel, will rule the middle of the field next year. Of course, we have no Defensive Linemen to stop the run but we’ll have great linebackers and secondary!!!
big root
January 12th, 2011
12:22 pm
Coach Richt is quick to to release good players that is hurting the program but he won’t get rid of bad coaches that is hurting the program MIKE BOBO RODNEY GARDNER STACY SEARELS
aprilglaspie
January 12th, 2011
12:23 pm
When people that clearly don’t know diddley about a sport use the term “coach them up” I get the creeps. When I ran track in HS, no coach was capable of getting me to run faster than I could run. “Coach ‘em up” is really popular jargon, and, as such, it’s basically meaningless drivel. Awbuhn Tigers/Plainsmen/War Eagles proved this year, you just buy the best player from his dad, and make sure of plausible deniability. NCAA, wake up. Time to vacate. AJ Green dealt with an “individual determined by the NCAA to be an agent”. Anyone heard from that guy lately? And Cam Newton had no idea his dad was shopping him around. And Cecil was content with no cash from Auburn when MSU was entertaining demands of $180grand? Sure thing.
McDawg
January 12th, 2011
12:26 pm
i think the word “thug” has many racist connotations and the way it is often used on the AJC blogs is explicitly racist we could start calling white players big stupid rednecks
Bravedawg
January 12th, 2011
12:45 pm
“McDawg” – Don’t start the racist crap. Tired of hearing “Oh, woe is me.” This is about getting rid of players that don’t honor or respect the privilege of competing (under scholarship) for a top-level school. You certainly didn’t hear of this kind of crap, at least no where near as much, 5, 10, 15 years ago. Let’s set high standards, reward the achievers, and cut the ones that don’t measure up. Tired of hearing of the off-the-field issues. Dooley NEVER had this problem. We need to get back to the old days when kids actually appreciated their scholarship. Nowadays, it’s all about “Watch me make my decision on TV” or “I’ll just flip a coin” or some sort of self-indulgent crap like that. These kids need to show some signs of maturity, make their decision, honor their commitment, keep their nose clean, and prove the scholarship was not wasted on some “punk”.
Personally, I think Caleb should be the next to go. He was over-rated going from Parkview to GAC and has spent more time on the sidelines than between them. And his off-the-field issues don’t enhance his position.
Coach M. Richt
January 12th, 2011
1:01 pm
Why in the heck haven’t I kicked that troublemaker Caleb King off of the team yet ? I gotta go , man this new AD’s a pain in my tail. He’s got me watching like 2 hours of game film a day. Can yall believe that mess ?
FYI
January 12th, 2011
1:31 pm
Jborodawg
January 12th, 2011
10:19 am
“The use of the term “thug” is getting old. It’s just young people getting in trouble. ”
FYI…THUG is the new code word for N**ger, so anytime you see “thug” you know what the poster truly meant.
FYI
January 12th, 2011
1:43 pm
Bravedawg
January 12th, 2011
12:45 pm
“McDawg” – Don’t start the racist crap. Tired of hearing “Oh, woe is me.”
It’s not about anyone starting “racist” crap, it is what it is. “thug” is a code word period.
Funny I don’t recall anyone calling Metenberger a “thug”. Just sayin…
monty
January 12th, 2011
1:43 pm
Underlying message here is, don’t let the coach be the last to know.
Southy706
January 12th, 2011
1:46 pm
The move was clearly on dowtin not on the coaching staff he wanted to transfer and so he is going to.
Southy706
January 12th, 2011
1:49 pm
We did not kick Marcus Dowtin off the team, he wished to transfer because he felt like he wasnt getting enough playing time on the field. Please ppl do not jump to conclusions you have no info on..Notice the story says he was GRANTED a release he requested it people.
The Old Ball Coach
January 12th, 2011
1:53 pm
“and the beat goes on”……..
LOL
January 12th, 2011
1:54 pm
Nobody cares about the character of a recruit unless they get in trouble. You want character? See army, navy and AF football. Other than that, as far as the big schools are concerned, forget it. Maybe these young players will get some when they SEE some. It’s ALL ABOUT THE DOLLAR BILL folks. Anyone who looks at this industry….that’s right I said INDUSTRY AS IN BUSINESS can see that what is important to the college presidents and AD’s (men of character…lol) is $$$$$$$$$$. Oh yeah. if you want to get rid of non-winners, start with CMR>…LOLOLOL
DawginLex
January 12th, 2011
2:10 pm
I just heard a rumor that we just lost another player.
Anybody know?
Al
January 12th, 2011
2:17 pm
Richt, don’t become Felton.
NORRIS
January 12th, 2011
2:28 pm
he would have been suspended anyways for most of the year. The best thing that could have happened was for him to transfer and let us use the scholarship on another recruit.
Paul N Destin
January 12th, 2011
2:41 pm
The Rev Chette at Auburn is much a much larger problem than Cam for pay. You will see in the coming weeks just why a lot of GA kids attend the plains and it’s not because Gene Cheezstraw is the reason. Using the Lord to recruit and funnel money to these kids is terrible but Auburn has no standards. Never have and never will and don’t wish to have any standards. When Alabama hired Saban that sent the banker,the woodman and the old coach into high gear. It’s coming and all the blowhard AU fans on this blog will never been heard from again.
One Hairy Dawg
January 12th, 2011
2:49 pm
I am blown away by the ignorance. Anybody that knows a thing about college football knows how cyclical it is. Look at the years Texas and Florida had. Urban could certainly still be there if he wanted to, and Mack Brown isn’t going anywhere. Stanford and Auburn are perfect examples of one player ( Andrew Luck, Cam Newton) making an average team with average coaches look very, very good. Mark Richt is the 5th winningest active coach in college football. A few key recruits and a very good young quarterback will turn this program back in the right direction immediately.
Also, Tarkenton is a moron. Even if were qulified to do so, you don,t take shots at your head coach or your program at the height of the recruiting season. Get your head out of your a$$ Sir Francis.
King Gator
January 12th, 2011
4:11 pm
Is he being transferred to a Min or Max security facility? Go Gators!
AFDawg
January 12th, 2011
4:17 pm
I’m sure he’ll transfer to Auburn — sounds like he’ll fit in good there. Auburn is a dirty program and their antics during the championship game are a disgrace to college football.
aladawg
January 12th, 2011
4:32 pm
I agree with TW Chizik national championshipin two years. We are at the level of Vandy, Ole Miss and KY. Richt refuses to fire his stupid no talent OC the OL sucks the DL sucks all we have are a bunch of incompitants runnig the GA program. I will say it right, now there will be little improvement next year.
True Dawg
January 12th, 2011
4:59 pm
Richt is not going anywhere and the REAL dog fans outside of the AJC blogs, support him. Look on the Ledger-Enquirer UGA blog and the other blogs in the state. When this all settles and everyone stops dreaming of another Saban who is not available, they will realize ALL coaches and programs go through ups and downs and it is not just because all of a sudden the coach forgot how to coach! This is Richt’s first time going through anything like this. This is his first head coaching job and will only be better because of it. Thank God none of you are in any position of authority and for the men who are in authority obviously not agreeing with you because Richt still has a job so like the A.D. said, get on the bandwagon or go root for another school because Richt is staying baby!
olddog
January 12th, 2011
5:28 pm
when UGA was on top and winning championships, it was these so called thugs that u people seem to want off the team that were on the field doing the dirty work. U name almost any player on the GA defenses that won championships and ill show u a so called thug. keep recruiting the guys from private schools that are apart of the good ole boy circuit and we will keep getting worse.
olddog
January 12th, 2011
5:29 pm
aladog ur an idiot… stay in the stands.. the same ol that allowed only 11 sacks a year ago and now u say they suck? thats why youre a pencil pusher
georgiabuckmaster
January 12th, 2011
6:14 pm
TW- your so full of stupidity, you need to change schools. I recall we ended up 2nd in the nation Stafford’s second year. An early loss to Carolina and we’re playing for title. What about the years before that with little Greene QB and overachieving players? Who coached them up?
It’s about getting football players and not stars .Real fans aren’t ( I ) people and work towards a goal as a team including fans. Saben lost three games? What about Spurrier, can he coach? What’s his record at SC? If you want to help the Dawgs say positive comments or shut up
Edward John Smith
January 12th, 2011
6:47 pm
The TRUTH is that this program is in decline. If you don’t admit it or just think that it is a normal decline that will correct itself on its own, then keep thinking that. But just understand that doing nothing will create the same results.
I appreciate the fact that Fran Tarkenton had the nads to speak up. Fran knows a whole lot more about football than any poster on this board – that’s for certain.
So, keep supporting CMR and we will keep seeing the same results. If those results make some of you happy then ok; I know our rivals (except maybe Yech) certainly hope that CMR stays at UGA. Why? Because their schedule just got easier with UGA in a downturn. CMR led UGA into this downturn and some of you think that he will right the ship. Frankly, the captain and owners of the RMS Titanic thought the same thing… that is until they were floating in the water! CMR’s press conference to placate the restless and to reassure fans that everything is ok reminds me of the band that played on the deck of the Titanic up to the very end. Yes, their music was lovely and it perhaps had a calming effect, but it didn’t stop the ship from sinking.
Coach M. Richt
January 12th, 2011
6:57 pm
Why don’t y’all get off my dang tail ? I’ve been studying football real hard since the end of the season. If we don’t get better next year it has to be Bobo’s fault, ok guys? When I fire him I figure that’ll get me another 2 years before I have to blame somebody else for my coaching disability.
King Gators
January 12th, 2011
8:14 pm
War Head Coaches jumping off the high dive fully dressed! Go Gators!
Dawg89
January 12th, 2011
8:16 pm
Good riddance. Maybe he can go play at LESU with Mettenmolester.
crabapplejoe
January 12th, 2011
8:36 pm
@olddog: Scott Woerner was a thug? LOL
VININGS DAWG
January 12th, 2011
9:03 pm
Reading comments on here shows the losers we are becoming. Complaing that other schools are sweeping things under the rug, the Gene Chizk has no morals….. What BS!
I am a Bulldog but my family is close to the Auburn program. Yes they do handle things in house, but they handle it. Kids know up front the consequences of messing up. And Gene Chizik is a great man.
As far as Fairley goes, I would take him on my team any day. He is the best player in the SEC. UGA tried chop blocking and holding and evey other thing in the book to stop them but couldn.t.
This Dowtin mess is another indication that program is out of control. Mark is out of touch and even a one year success next year is just a cover up of the overall condition of the program. There is no respect from the players to the coaches. There is no repsect of the red jersey and wanting to wear it, I really feel that we need to quit recruiting the stars and look into the hearts of the kids and find out who reallt wants to wear the Red and Black. There are way too many on this team that don;t reall y have it in their heart,
THE MAJOR
January 12th, 2011
9:05 pm
AFDAWG, you sure sound jealous,,,,,, remember that losers complain that winners cheat.
Headley Lamar
January 12th, 2011
9:20 pm
And Gene Chizik is a great man.
LOL. Got a good laugh at that one. Keep em coming.
Neal Perry
January 13th, 2011
6:43 am
Good on CMR. He did the right thing with this kid. He will end up in a smaller division college most likely, because I do not think there will be a lot of SEC teams that want his attitude problem. It is a shame that a kid would throw it all away because he thinks he is special because he can play football.
As for the folks that critisize this move. You should never complain about CMR being too soft anymore. You can’t have it both ways. I would much sooner see a more disciplined team, than a bunch of spoiled kids that can’t act civilized representing UGA. Of course, there will still be a certain amount of jokers that get on these discussions and critisize UGA no matter what, and all I can say to you children, is grow up. If all you can do is come on another teams message board and start with your childish, moronic comment, you must really be in need of some type of ego boost. UGA is going to be just fine, if the coach gets that old fire back and the players respond favorably. If they do not want to play like they should, let them transfer as well. UGA has plenty of talent. It is up to the coaches to utilize it effectively and the players to put in the effort needed.
DawginLex
January 13th, 2011
8:26 am
king gator,
Chris Rainey needs a cellmate. Oh yeah, I forgot, Urban bailed him out.
“Get ready to die!!!!”
that’s a flori-duh scholar athlete for you.
doug
January 13th, 2011
8:33 pm
Fact: These kids would still be in the program if Richt had not let them get to that point. They have no respect for him. That will never change.
Small potatoes
January 14th, 2011
12:45 pm
No big deal—he wasn’t any good.
FlaDawg
January 14th, 2011
2:31 pm
Really Snake Doc? Donnan’s boys? That’s laughable!!! He never brought in an RB the caliber of Knowshon, never a WR the caliber of Mohammed Massaquoi (much less AJ Green), and absolutely never had a QB the caliber of Matt Stafford. Richt has had two down seasons but Donnan’s last 3 years were 9-3, 8-4, and 8-4. Under Richt, the dawgs have had 6 10+ win seasons, an SEC Championship and finished in the top 5 twice. Sure, bring back Donnan so we can keep winning the crap bowl. Snake Doc is trying to lecture us about “life” when he sounds like a 14 year old who got sent to his room.
FlaDawg
January 14th, 2011
2:33 pm
@The Major – “Winners cheat” .. really? Integrity not your strong point huh?
HowboutDemDogs
January 14th, 2011
3:43 pm
This was a total over reaction by CMR!! By getting rid off dowtin takes some attention off of his losing season, he got rid of coach Martinez last year and that obviously was not the answer, its time for a change alright but with players!! Rather with the lack of leadership being demonstrated by the Head Coach on and off the field, its a shame that I have to endure atleast a half of season before the new AD finally fires him next year!!!! Winning changes alot!!
MLS
January 14th, 2011
4:15 pm
It is much easier to just keep your stupid nose clean then you don’t have to explain anything to anyone,,,, duh,,, How far did some of you folks get in school? Excuses just dont cut it. Leadership by example does! Some folks amaze me at all the excuses you try to make for these Saturday afternoon little angels. This goes for all conferences!!! Even the DAWGS.
Coach M. Richt
January 15th, 2011
1:32 am
No wonder he left
Coach M. Richt
January 15th, 2011
2:00 am
I’m late for another recruit
Coach M. Richt
January 15th, 2011
2:02 am
Gosh darnit
Another Georgia Criminal
January 15th, 2011
6:14 am
You can’t spell thug without UG.
BIG JOE
January 17th, 2011
6:58 pm
At this rate Drew Butler will be playing LB before the SCar game.
BIG JOE
January 17th, 2011
6:59 pm
Another Georgia Criminal, You must be a TECH grad.
Dowtin was from Maryland. Idiot.
BIG JOE
January 17th, 2011
7:04 pm
FlaDawg, So Donnan’s players overall were not as talented.. I’ll give you that. Which brings up this point: Richt won more with those 3-star players than he has with his own 5-star players.
Hhhhmmmmm…….