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‘Wrong number’ rings up recruiting violation for Richt

5:00 am January 19, 2011, by Tim Tucker

ATHENS –  Mark Richt returned a missed telephone call, thinking the number belonged to the mother of an East Hall High School football player Georgia is recruiting.

Instead, the number belonged to a younger football player at North Hall High School.

So what, you ask?

So the mistake constituted an NCAA secondary violation that resulted in Richt being banned from calling recruits for a week last September.

This glimpse into the minutiae — some would say silliness — of the NCAA rulebook was revealed in 40 pages of documents released Tuesday by UGA in response to an open-records request from the AJC.

The documents show that Georgia reported 14 secondary violations of NCAA rules in eight sports in the last six months of 2010.  (Secondary violations are defined as inadvertent rule-breaking that does not result in a significant competitive advantage. ) Richt’s phone call was typical of Georgia’s self-reported minor violations.

Here’s how it occurred, according to a Sept. 3 letter from UGA athletic director Greg McGarity to SEC commissioner Mike Slive:

… On Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 . . .  Coach Richt was on a call with a another prospective student-athlete (PSA) when he missed a call from a senior PSA’s mother (Mr. Sterling Bailey from East Hall High School in Georgia). The mother’s cell phone had a 678 area code. While he was checking the voicemail left by Ms. Bailey, Coach Richt missed another call from a 678 area code. After he listened to Ms. Bailey’s message, Coach Richt hit the send button for what he thought was Ms. Bailey. When a male’s voice answered the phone, Coach Richt was surprised and asked if it was Sterling, thinking he was calling Ms. Bailey and [her son] answered; however, the person answering the phone told him he had the wrong number. When Coach asked who it was, the individual said it was C.J. Curry (a junior PSA from North Hall High School in Georgia). Once Coach Richt realized who it was, he ended the call and self-reported the violation to the Compliance Office.

The NCAA determined that a violation, indeed, occurred because Richt’s call to Curry was placed prior to Sept. 1 of Curry’s senior year of high school, “which is contrary to the provisions of Bylaws 13.1.3.1 and 13.1.3.1.2.” The SEC and NCAA accepted Georgia’s proposed penalties: Richt was not allowed to call any recruits for a period of one week, and Georgia was banned from sending any general correspondence to Curry for 30 days and staff members will be banned from contacting him for the first 30 days after he otherwise could be contacted.

Both Bailey and Curry have verbally committed to Georgia, Bailey for the 2011 signing class and Curry for 2012.

Other secondary violations revealed in the documents released Tuesday include:

  • Assistant football coach Warren Belin sent a text message from his cell phone to a recruit when he intended to send an e-mail. (E-mails are permitted; texts are not.)
  • Assistant track and field coach Don Babbitt wrote on the Facebook wall of a recruit, seeking contact information. Babbitt said he thought he was using the e-mail feature rather than posting to the wall.
  • Head swimming coach Jack Bauerle and assistant swimming coach Jerry Champer made two separate phone calls to the same recruit on the same night after she called about her scholarship paperwork.
  • A volleyball staff member sent recruiting materials by priority mail, rather than regular mail.
  • A member of the equestrian team appeared in a congratulatory ad in a national equestrian magazine.

– Tim Tucker, UGA blog

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213 comments Add your comment

Much ado

January 19th, 2011
5:19 am

about nothing

Fulltime dawgfan

January 19th, 2011
5:37 am

Wow is this the best article you could come up with? Must be a slow day around the ajc this is terrible!

Top Row Dawg

January 19th, 2011
5:47 am

Next recruiting story needs to be Drew, Mitchell, Rome, Jenkins, and Crowell, coming on down. Let’s right this ship boys.

Alan

January 19th, 2011
5:54 am

This is news-worthy? Who gives…..

Nub

January 19th, 2011
5:59 am

Heard CMR has some firm out of Atlanta helping with the strength and conditioning program…..First work out was much more difficult than mat drills … Also hired a nutrionist from UF:)…… woof

Welcome home

January 19th, 2011
6:07 am

So, an inadvertent call or email results in a no contact period, and there is no rule against a parent from shopping his kid?

Brillant!

south

January 19th, 2011
6:10 am

Wow Tim…good stuff…sounds like UGA and CMR have just lost complete control…has the NCAA considered the DEATH PENALTY??…..

Dawg

January 19th, 2011
6:16 am

Mark needs to call the football coach over at auburn and see how they get away without being caught. Just a few pointers mind you.

1983 UGA Grad

January 19th, 2011
6:30 am

NCAA enforcement is like the cop that stops a business man in a hurry for speeding because that is easy enforcement. yet, the same cop can’t catch the thieves and drug dealers because it is hard work and requires effort. These violations are easy enforcement and makes the NCAA appear ro be enforcing the rules, yet let a dad shop out his sons services to the highest bidder and that is overlooked because enforcement is hard and costly and the NCAA is afraid it might upset one of the Conference heads or bowl committees.

Beast from the East

January 19th, 2011
6:34 am

I don’t know how any school can keep from getting the occassional secondary violation. How in the hell are they able to keep up with who phoned, texted, e-mailed, tweeted, etc……and when was it done?
These guys need to have law degrees!

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January 19th, 2011
6:34 am

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atltiger15

January 19th, 2011
6:34 am

or you just cant find anything

Beast from the East

January 19th, 2011
6:37 am

By the way, Tim, this Gator appreciates the article. It just goes to show us how silly some of these rules have gotten over the years. I don’t view it as an indictment of Richt or UGA. Some of you Dawgs need to get thicker (alliGATOR) skin!

Bulldog59

January 19th, 2011
6:50 am

The Barney Fife’s of the NCAA strike again. Great job guys. You really have your thumb on the pulse of the problems in NCAA football. Forget pay-for-play, pimping parents, and schools contracted to firms that represent legalized gambling, police those incorrectly dialed recruiting phone calls!

Maybe they should wait and restrict Richt during the first 5 games of the 2011 season. Oh, that only applies if you are Ohio State, sorry.

Joe B.

January 19th, 2011
6:52 am

Just another lack of attention to detail by Coach Richt. Why doesn’t he just plug Mrs. Bailey’s number into his phone? Then he can just tell his shiny Ford truck to “call Mrs. Bailey.” End of problems.

Bulldog Joe

January 19th, 2011
6:56 am

Why self-report this petty stuff?

Absolutely stupid on Georgia’s part for kneecapping itself again.

With the SEC and the NCAA, you play by how the rules are interpreted, not by the letter of the rules.

Everyone knows this except Georgia.

Georgia deserves what it gets.

Bulldog59

January 19th, 2011
6:57 am

1983 UGA Grad….all good points. The NCAA should make a movie and call it Police Academy XV. Start out with a cop writing a UGA student a ticket for illegal parking while the burglar alarm in the jewelry store next to him is screaming. Guys dressed in Auburn clothes come running out in masks, with bags of jewels, but the cop keeps writing the ticket.

The headline the next day reads: “Local Cops Cracking Down on Illegal Parking.” Everyone hails the NCAA for their fine work!

Pawsitive Panther

January 19th, 2011
7:12 am

@ Joe Do you have any idea how many Mrs. Bailey’s CMR has in his contact list? Geesh. I bet there’s at least 30.

You've got to be kidding me

January 19th, 2011
7:14 am

So I suppose, if he went to Chick-fil-a and made an order, and the kid who served them, was a junior football player at Athens-Clarke County…. before his senior year…..is this also a violation..?

Hmmm?

January 19th, 2011
7:20 am

I wonder if she wears red panties?

Bulldog Joe

January 19th, 2011
7:25 am

Going to Chick-Fil-A is only a violation if you are stupid enough to self-report it.

JB

January 19th, 2011
7:29 am

The LEAST of Mark Richt’s problems.

89Eagle

January 19th, 2011
7:32 am

NCAA is a JOKE. Richt and uga have alot bigger problems than calling a wrong number.

Trojan

January 19th, 2011
7:34 am

Why not write about the major issues at Auburn?

Dawg Days

January 19th, 2011
7:35 am

Boring….

Dawg in Malta

January 19th, 2011
7:36 am

If UGA doesn’t land all those big name recruits, Richt can blame it on that week of being unable to call.

RussDawg

January 19th, 2011
7:38 am

This is nonsense (NCAA is also nonsense)
CMR is toast. AJ Green gone, Justin H gone.
next season is 7 win with a little luck
UGA scored 6 pts against C-USA in a bowl and CMR says Bobo and OLine are great ? !!!
They think 6 pt will beat Boise St and SC ?

Gatorsam

January 19th, 2011
7:38 am

Wow, you write for a tough audience. Ga. fan: “if you can write something good don’t write!” Gator fan:
Hey Dawgs! Do something good! Chomp! Chomp! Three out of 20, not so good!”

jim

January 19th, 2011
7:40 am

A volleyball staff member sent recruiting materials by priority mail, rather than regular mail. – wow

Bodda Getta

January 19th, 2011
7:44 am

Clearly a Lack Of Institutional Control here. No one is surprised.

Gator Mike

January 19th, 2011
7:46 am

This proves how stupid the SEC and NCAA leadership are these days. Mark Richt did nothing wrong except return a call. However, Newton gets suspended for 1 day for a “potential” violation, and the NCAA clears the jokers at Ohio St. to play in the Sugar Bowl and start their penance for their violation next season.
I am a Gator, but I am in UGA’s corner on this one. Slive continues to be a pompous dictator. It is little wonder that there is so much “apparent” cheating in major college football.

Worn and Weary

January 19th, 2011
7:53 am

Yawn…

doggie

January 19th, 2011
7:53 am

Mark is too honest for football in the south. Saban, chizik, Meyer all know how to bend and break the rules and get away with it and……win as a result. It’s cut throat and CMR is not cut throat. Mark actually thinks that, because of his honesty and integrity, that he’ll somehow come out on top one day. As a person, yes he will come out on top. As a football coach, he will not. I’m a CMR fan but unfortunately, this is the truth. It’s a slimey business and CMR is not slimey enough.

Dawg '94

January 19th, 2011
7:56 am

Who cares?

NFL Bound

January 19th, 2011
7:57 am

Sounds like the cheating paid off. What a great Christian man he is!!! Violating manmade rules and laws is also sinful unless you are reading a different version of the Book than I.

skydawg

January 19th, 2011
7:57 am

Hey Timmy. You want to report violations and have a real story. Start in the state just to our west where Bama and AU are full of them. Reporting on a minor secondary violation like this for the sake of a story is idiocy at best. Have a nice day.

Dawg 1

January 19th, 2011
7:58 am

Slow day at the office – for everyone.

Paul in RDU

January 19th, 2011
7:59 am

CMR called someone he shouldn’t have by accident – UGA self-reported it to the NCAA – UGA recommended the penalties and the NCAA and SEC accepted. This kind of thing happens at most schools.
It is very different from systematic rule breaking contact with recruits and then lying about it, as practiced by Bruce Pearl.

crossdawg

January 19th, 2011
8:01 am

And CMR/UGA decided that the public didn’t need to know so they didn’t mention it??

Ted Striker

January 19th, 2011
8:02 am

Thanks for the article and keep up the good work.

It does indeed illustrate some of the frivolousness of the NCAA rule book. The NCAA rule book should be burned — not modified — and they should start anew.

Hmmm?

January 19th, 2011
8:03 am

Wonder how many people who are complaining about this article clicked on it real fast when they read the headline?

Goldtimer

January 19th, 2011
8:03 am

Richt should be fired for such blatant disregard for the rules.

Hairy Reid

January 19th, 2011
8:03 am

THUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brucerugby79

January 19th, 2011
8:07 am

Some of you just don’t get it.Why are you jumping on Tim? The point of the article was how silly the NCAA is and how honest Georgia is.The Senator had same info yesterday without the backlash-sorry Tim you fish in rougher less intelligent waters.

Bremen Dawg

January 19th, 2011
8:08 am

Very useless information, I feel stupid now for reading it.

JB

January 19th, 2011
8:10 am

Question of the day. How much unemployment do you get weekly from being let go from a 3 mil dollar a year job? Is is the standard $250 a week?

JB

January 19th, 2011
8:12 am

We play at Bama 2012…. Kirby will get to sleep in his own bed that night.Selling a house is tough these days.

Davis

January 19th, 2011
8:15 am

Even this GaTech fan calls that BS..!

Neon Bordeaux

January 19th, 2011
8:17 am

I always knew the equestrian team was dirty…

J. Edgar Hoover

January 19th, 2011
8:19 am

Inadvertant text messages, emails, and returned phone calls. Evil this is. UGA is out of control and they are desperate. ANyone that belives this nonsense is dumb enouhg to think that the US Gov cvan provide safe, solid health care and a sound retirement. AHAHAHAHAH

FBI is interested in Victoryland dog racing track and the connection between that facility and its owner, already indicted on bribery charges of a AL politician, Milton McGwirk and AU. Now, THAT IS a story.

Go Dogs.

JB

January 19th, 2011
8:21 am

Kirby has learned well…We sign 45 his first year.

Bill King is a..............

January 19th, 2011
8:21 am

And Auburn pays Cam Newton’s dad 180k and gets no punishment from NCAA or SEC. Richt makes one mistake in accidentally calling the wrong person and gets suspended for one week in calling recruits. This is HIGHLY SCREWED UP

STEINER

January 19th, 2011
8:23 am

MAN, THIS IS A BIGGIE….TIME FOR A CHANGE WITH THE NCAA….FOR A WRONG NUMBER, THE HEAD COACH CAN’T CALL FOR A WEEK….BUT OHIO STATE GETS TO PLAY 5 IN A BOWL GAME WHEN THEY HAVE BLATANTLY BROKEN THE RULES….IF THE PLAYERS DON’T COME BACK NEXT YEAR, THEY GET NO PUNISHMENT….CECIL ACTS AS AN AGENT TO SHAKE DOWN MISS. STATE, BUT ALAS, SCAM KNEW NOTHING ABOUT IT SO HE IS FREE TO WALK AFTER 1 DAY OF INELIGIBILITY….AND IF ANYONE BELIEVES THAT CECIL GAVE UP ON HIS SHAKE DOWN TACTICS AFTER MISS. STATE, YOU’RE NOT LIVING IN THE REAL WORLD…WASN’T IT SCAM THAT TOLD THE COACHES AT MISS. STATE, “I’M SORRY, I CAN’T COME TO MISS. STATE, THE MONEY IS JUST TOO GOOD…” NOW FIGURE OUT WHAT INSTITUTION THAT WAS, PROBABLY WHO, SAVANNAH STATE….NCAA REALLY OPENED UP SOME CANS OF WORMS THAT NOW THEY WILL BE READY TO CLOSE AFTER LETTING THEIR GUARD DOWN SO THAT THE BCS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME COULD BE PLAYED WITH THE HEISMAN TROPHY WINNER THERE….AND THE GUYS AT OHIO STATE, AFTER READING ABOUT AJ GREEN, REALLY WEREN’T EDUCATED BY THE UNIVERSITY THAT IT WAS A RULE THAT THEY COULDN’T SELL THEIR OHIO STATE STUFF…..THESE EXCUSES ARE REALLY UNBELIEVABLE, BUT THE NCAA SWALLOWED THEM, HOOK, LINE AND SINKER…..WHAT A JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JB

January 19th, 2011
8:23 am

You are so right Hoover. The U S Government is raping my check weekly and making my employer match it, and will tell me to pound sand when I’m ready to draw. I’m preparing now to not expect this robbery to pay off.

BAMA FAN #2

January 19th, 2011
8:23 am

Richt is a good man and hope the best for him and his program but he needs to get the
program back to where it was just 3 years a go!!! RTR

Auburn pays more.......

January 19th, 2011
8:24 am

I have read in more than one publication about Newton’s reply that he chose Auburn because it paid more. How could the NCAA overlook this response and honestly believe Newton knew nothing about his dad shopping him around, electing to walk away from $180,000 at Mississippi State, and signing to play at Auburn instead? Because it paid more…..in Cam’s own words.

The NCAA is more concerned about mailings that go out by Priority Mail, rather than First Class? What a crock of kaka. There is little wonder the NCAA has little sympathy or respect.

Yellow Britches

January 19th, 2011
8:26 am

Gosh, I’m an Tech guy so bad news about UGA usually is good news for me but this is just plain stupid. Is this what happens when Richt uses that sync system in the Ford 150 pick up?

JB

January 19th, 2011
8:27 am

This punishment is laughable. AU and Cam vs Mark Richt. Cam suspended 24 hours. Mark a week. Maybe the biggest story ever in college football cheating vs hitting a wrong number. Sounds about right…..Geez.

UGAFan

January 19th, 2011
8:27 am

So what was Curry doing calling Richt first?

Big Deal

January 19th, 2011
8:29 am

I think it is interesting to see this stuff just to illustrate how stupid some of these NCAA rules are and how much time is wasted monitoring and reporting these types of infractions.

I’m a Tech man and wouldn’t for a second think that anything less happens at Tech or any school for that matter. I feel for Mark Richt and every person in these various scenarios that has to waste their time dealing with this secondary stuff.

Given the pressure a coach is under to win games and deal with this degree of trivial stuff it s a wonder anybody wants the job – regardless of how much they get paid. It really is a sad state of affairs.

JB

January 19th, 2011
8:31 am

Bama Fan #2….you know after our AD gets told no 2-3 times, we’re bringing Kirby home. I’m not saying that is good or bad for us, and a lot of Dawg fans won’t like it, but our President at UGA will not allow our AD to lay out a big contract and reel in a big name. It will not happen. Kirby will likely get his big shot. They’ll pay him about 1.7 mil per. My thinking his, at least he’s seen how it’s supposed to be done. Go Dawgs.

AltamahaDawg

January 19th, 2011
8:32 am

If he had used that sync option in his Ford truck, that never would have happened.

GT GRAD

January 19th, 2011
8:34 am

The part Mark Richt failed to mention is that the duration of the “wrong number” telephone conversation was 24 minutes!! Ha Ha

Teams that self-report ALL known violations are not the problem AND the NCAA recruiting rules are a superb example of Government type regulation going WAY too far!!

Bulldog Hairy

January 19th, 2011
8:35 am

Wrong number goes with wrong coaches at UGA. Mark Richt = Mark Fox and its time to Fire’m all. Losing to an assistant coach at home was the last straw for me with Fox. Lets FACE IT… UGA is a GYM school.

Whatever

January 19th, 2011
8:35 am

You can tell football season is over….

JB

January 19th, 2011
8:35 am

Gt Grad…..I don’t think the NCAA is connected to the Feds ? It it were, I doubt Cam would have played in the title game.

JB

January 19th, 2011
8:37 am

My Bad GT Grad….you said government TYPE……

RambleOn84

January 19th, 2011
8:39 am

Stupid…if the kid called him, why should Richt be restricted from talking to him?

Boy George Dawg

January 19th, 2011
8:40 am

I’LL Tumble For ya! Roll out the mats and go GYM DAWGS!

Woodstock Dawg

January 19th, 2011
8:40 am

That’s it. The equestrian team will never see another dime from me until they clean up their act!

Do some real reporting!

January 19th, 2011
8:41 am

If the AJC hacks don’t get off the back of Richt and UGA I am going to be forced to reveal some BIG news that happened to a player from another state school this past weekend. Trust me, if it had happened to a player from UGA it would have already made AJC headlines. I have read these stories for 2 years wondering what Richt had done to you guys to make you continue your childish vendetta. I now have PROOF that you go out of your way to embarrass Richt and UGA (AJC open records request) and will not lift a finger to actually do any real reporting against other local schools.

Lipstick on the Stegosaurus

January 19th, 2011
8:42 am

Fire FOX because he is a clown too.

Damon Evans

January 19th, 2011
8:44 am

Must have been that Ford Sync

marchto85

January 19th, 2011
8:44 am

Tim, I sure wish you’d spend more time covering the cheating ways of the teams across the border to the West. This is what I’m talking about…..

http://newsok.com/alabamas-nick-saban-visits-barry-sanders-says-he-believes-mark-ingram-will-go-pro/article/3529693

JB

January 19th, 2011
8:45 am

I think the Attacks on Richt are for Ad revenue because of the traffic it drives on these blogs. Most Tech and Falcons blogs Average about 40-50 hits. A juicy Richt piece gets 500-800. Bottom line, Anti Mark Richt stories sell.

SouthGA Dawg

January 19th, 2011
8:47 am

lets hear it

nerds! nerds! nerds!

January 19th, 2011
8:48 am

Richt should have offered him $180,000. That appears to be legal according to the NCAA.

RambleOn84

January 19th, 2011
8:49 am

Relax, guys…Tucker is reporting a story that happened.

It really isn’t a big deal…if anything, it’s just an example of NCAA’s stupid rules.

No one thinks less of Richt for this stupid story, so don’t get your panties in a bunch.

dawgster

January 19th, 2011
8:50 am

So thats a violation…but nothing that Mr. Cecil Newton attempted to do with his son Cam is not even a secondary violation according to the NCAA…at some point the NCAA needs to be overhauled or these conferences should come together and form a fair and just institution that could actually oversee College athletics with some common sense…what a waste or an article on something that is absolutely absurd

Punchy

January 19th, 2011
8:51 am

Alert the media !!!

Atl.Dawg1

January 19th, 2011
8:52 am

You mean to tell me you actually reported this. You totally have no clue, this happens at every school. You are the main reason why there is so much hate towards the UGA program.PHONE CALLS………………..WERE TALKING ABOUT PHONE CALLS…

icallbs

January 19th, 2011
8:52 am

This is an example of what giving power to bureaucrats leads to. These are small people with no lives, no common sense and who completely miss the point of what they are supposed to be doing. Much more egregious harm to “student-athletes” occurs by over-signing and misleading recruiting tactics, coaches leaving but the recruits not able to if the coach that recruited them is the one that leaves. I could go on and on but this is life and life ain’t fair. The NCAA is comprised of clueless morons.

dawgster

January 19th, 2011
8:53 am

Its time the AJC use some common sense in their reporting…good grief are you that desperate for news…what a joke of an article…I’d like to see some fairness by the AJC in reporting other schools secondary violations…then i will say you are being fair in your reporting…unitl then i have very little respect for AJC..

Medical Hardships

January 19th, 2011
8:55 am

should be thoroughly reviewed by the NCAA. It is unfair to a veteran player when he is bumped from the team to make room for a prized prospect, seeks a transfer to another school and have the team doc for that school declare a play is fit to play at say, Georgia State, while the team doc at say, Alabama, declare he is not fit to play to open the scholarship for the prized prospect.

These instances should be carefully investigated, and where warranted, become NCAA violations. After all, the supposedly injured player and unfit to play for U of A again, is the one being severely harmed by the desires of the head coach.

Why sign 25 recruits when there are only 10 openings for the upcoming season, and then have to trim the roster to 85 by August of each year?

I suppose the motivation for over-signing prospects is to keep them from signing and playing for a competitor. In the meantime, the player effectively cut from the team by being offered a medical hardship, is egregiously harmed and has no remedy except to lose a year of eligibility by transferring to another Division 1 school.

A school should be limited to signing the number of prospects for which they have openings on the roster.

This should be tightly monitored by the NCAA, with appropriate penalties for cutting players who are declared fit to play by an independent medical staff.

RambleOn84

January 19th, 2011
8:56 am

icallbs,
I agree with you on all of your points, but I happen to agree with the NCAA that you need to limit when and how much coaches can contact kids.

I think this particular ruling is stupid because the kid called Richt first.

nerds! nerds! nerds!

January 19th, 2011
8:56 am

Fire Fox? Really? Just shut up!

Punchy

January 19th, 2011
8:58 am

Thank goodness for Open Records Requests. If it weren’t for them, you guys at the AJC wouldn’t have jobs. Thanks for being on top of the story. I had no idea this type of abhorrent activity was going on right under our noses!

nerds! nerds! nerds!

January 19th, 2011
9:00 am

How about a story on Oversigning???????????????? Come on AJC.

Nate

January 19th, 2011
9:02 am

Just shows how screwed up he is

Barack Dawg

January 19th, 2011
9:04 am

More useless reporting. Thanks for nothing.

saban

January 19th, 2011
9:13 am

Just the tip of the iceburg.

Red Panties, Choak Dawg, Parties at Clarke County Correctional. The list goes on and on.

LOL

January 19th, 2011
9:18 am

I’ll be waiting for the next story about EVERY other school doing things like this soon then. Cause if this is “news” around here, then start looking for this crap with every other school and stop getting one of the few programs that actually follow these rules ethically in trouble. Saban probably does this crap every day, yet I bet he is not reporting him self.

LOL

January 19th, 2011
9:22 am

You guys forget though, since Georgia is a clean program, they get in trouble. Saban and Chizik run obviously dirty programs, and so they hide these things so they can continue to win. Scam gets to play despite getting paid to play, yet georgia gets in trouble for returning a phone call. Yeah, screw college football. Done with it.

Pago Pago Dawg

January 19th, 2011
9:24 am

Now you know why the NCAA employ so many $300.00 an hour lawyers.

GT

January 19th, 2011
9:31 am

Does any rule violation go uncontested by Georgia or are all of them “silly”. It is this attitude not only by the program but by the press towards the NCAA when it pertains to Georgia that positions Georgia for the trouble they get into. Maybe being isolated in the “party school” of the nation causes immaturity in the thinking not only of the players but of the coaching staff as well. I think the NCAA gives the benefit of the doubt to some schools on these things, but Georgia is in the principals office far too many times. I think that violation for excessive celebration against Florida years ago now, was the product of the trash talking personality this team was and still is. If you win like the Jets have at it, the world is against you and you are better than the world. Georgia does not have that benefit of running a winning program either on or off the field.

mcdaviddawg

January 19th, 2011
9:32 am

Richt is a wrong number.

Hector

January 19th, 2011
9:34 am

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

BG

January 19th, 2011
9:37 am

Wow these are small violations. I want to see Alabamas and Auburns!!!

Mike

January 19th, 2011
9:37 am

This gets an article? Must be a slow news day.

dawggone

January 19th, 2011
9:38 am

AD needs to give him more time to make calls…are let his wife just say..”Go Dawgs!”……

WDE

January 19th, 2011
9:38 am

You clowns are hilarious… you think Mark Richt is the only person who self-reports these things? All coaches are more than willing to self-report these things because it advertises that they respect the rules and are gentlemen… I commend him for reporting them, but if you think other coaches around the league don’t also report these self-incriminating things just because you didn’t see it in this article, you are lost.

Simple Jack

January 19th, 2011
9:39 am

How much did Ms. Sterling want for her son to come to UGA?

gbal

January 19th, 2011
9:44 am

Chill out folks – Tim got what he needed today… a headline (though a non issue) that generated some blog hits.

The rules are a joke but the NCAA is not out there trying to dig up missed dialed phone calls. UGA self reported these violations!!! And they should, given that these crazy rules exist! There is no real punishment here that puts UGA at a disadvantage in recruiting these kids. If the rules have to exist I think it is in the coaches best interest to report these minor violations knowing there is no real consequence. Better than having the NCAA stumble on the info and find out it had not been reported. Penelty would be more severe.

The biggest disgrace here is that ..

1- These nit pic rules exist
2- Someone had to take the time to write the NCAA report and meet to discuss self impposed punishment. What a waste of time.
3- Tim takes the time to request open records and write a story with a somewhat misleading headline. Its a slow time in NCAA football right now but geesee… find some real material and dont bash the home team with negative misleading headlines. The AJC hurts the UGA program more than any other school in the confrence with their constant negative coverage.

Got an idea Tim, Bradley, Shultz…. Focus some press time and investigation on violations at other schools and print them in your paper….Might actually help out home team with image and recruits for a change. Try it!!

Moron Dawg Fan

January 19th, 2011
9:44 am

I keep meening to get a sell phone for my 1980 trans am

Recruit Talk

January 19th, 2011
9:56 am

Richt’s on thin ice with the ncaa already–he better watch his step or he’ll be suspended for a few games.

Do some real reporting!

January 19th, 2011
10:03 am

These type articles actually do hurt recruiting. UGA is locked in a real battle with Auburn for some of the elite recruits in this state. Everybody knows that Auburn should be in trouble for the Newton, McGregor, Lowder crap. So what does the AJC do to help the Auburn recruiters out? Put out a silly story about some secondary viloations that don’t amount to a hill of beans. But the Auburn recruiters get what they need to go running to these kids and parents and say, “See UGA has recruiting violations, too!” Mission accomplished. UGA and Richt get embarrassed, UGA doesn’t get recruits they need to turn the program around, Richt gets fired. Maybe when the vendetta against Richt has been settled the AJC writers will stop biting the hand that feeds them.

schmeckdawg

January 19th, 2011
10:08 am

The NC$$holes are a freaking joke!

MikeP

January 19th, 2011
10:14 am

Auburn pays more…….
January 19th, 2011
8:24 am
“I have read in more than one publication about Newton’s reply that he chose Auburn because it paid more. How could the NCAA overlook this response and honestly believe Newton knew nothing about his dad shopping him around, electing to walk away from $180,000 at Mississippi State, and signing to play at Auburn instead? Because it paid more…..in Cam’s own words.”

No, you haven’t read that. What you read was a tale by a writer that claimed to have a single, anonymous source that heard that. When the investigators showed up the alleged source denied ever saying anything like that. You got duped by some low class writer trying to increase hits on his website.

These “secondary violations”, every school has them, every school reports them. 10 to 15 a year is about normal and most major newspapers report them for schools in their state..

Selective journalism ...

January 19th, 2011
10:16 am

Tim, why don’t you report on secondary violations by Auburn, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia Tech, Florida, Tennessee, L.S.U., Florida State, Miami, Clemson and other schools? What about oversigning, especially at Alabama. How about playing stupid about father’s shopping their kids for a couple of hundred grand? Instead, you make Coach Richt looking like a big-time violater when I suspect he’s the most honest head cooach in the S.E.C. Others probably would not have reported their violations as he did? Equalize the playing field here, please.

Jason

January 19th, 2011
10:20 am

I hate everything about college athletics now… officiating (last night was a joke) to this kind of bullsh!t to the NCAA and the media and the big bowls perpetuating what amounts to a circle jerk enterprise of biblical public indecency proportions. i wish the whole system would come crashing down.

RAID

January 19th, 2011
10:26 am

I thought the Ford F-150 that CMR drives has the hands free device to avoid such mistakes…….LOL….anyways, this is a whole lot about nothing……..go dawgs

schmeckdawg

January 19th, 2011
10:27 am

@Jason 10:20 am

I am with you 100%!!!!! Nice job!!!!!!!

DawginLex

January 19th, 2011
10:31 am

We might as well start using the recruiting philosophy of some of our opponents;

1.) Free tattoos for each recruit and a phone number to call to have your picture taken so you can sell the photo. $$
2.) Have your father/aunt/uncle/mother shop you around for $180,000 to the highest bidder and get them in trouble. Then sign with UGA.
3.) Sell all of your stuff related to football to agents, fans etc. We will make you sit out against Coastal Carolina, Vandy and New Mexico State but you can play in all the other games.
4.) Get verbal commitments from 50 players and kick off the team those that are currently there who aren’t worth a crap.

That should get us right in the BCS title picture.

Bodda Getta

January 19th, 2011
10:34 am

Thank you Tim.

It is important for these self-righteous Georgia fans to see just how dirty their program is.

You can add this to the long list of recruiting violations, personal fouls, unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, late hits, use of ineligible players (AJ Green’s amateur status was a joke), head coaches starting fights, goon plays, chop blocks, choke signs, player arrests, suspensions, and athletic director arrests and you clearly have a Lack Of Institutional Control.

It is time for the SEC and NCAA to step in and punish them severely – scholarship reductions, forfeiture of games, loss of recruiting access, loss of post season participation, and removal of TV exposure and revenue-sharing privileges.

It is time to save the integrity of the game.

just sayin

January 19th, 2011
10:38 am

Dial the wrong number, no contact for a week. Sell your jersey on ebay, miss 4 games. Daddy gets $200K for shopping you around, daddy can’t come to the game.

Only corrupt fools would call this oversight. Hence the NCAA is run by completely corrupted ciminals.

DawginLex

January 19th, 2011
10:42 am

bodda getta,

Has your boyfriend told you how dirty your breath is?
Have you checked the air in your blow up doll date for tonight?

I can smell it from here. Your upper lip.

Go somewhere else and bash away with your inane drivel.

bjohndawg

January 19th, 2011
10:49 am

In my business I send the wrong email, or text or dial wrong number about once a week.
If I were a coach, I would by NCAA rules never be allowed to call or text or email a PSA.

good job CMR. Now lets not wallow in this recruiting violation( if you must call it that) and work hard to right the ship called UGA football.

Pope UGA XXIII

January 19th, 2011
10:59 am

B – F – D

Coach Grohbo

January 19th, 2011
11:02 am

I’m also hearing rumors that the UGA equestrian horses are selling their poop for fertilizer.

It’s time for the SEC and NCAA to step in with some suspensions before this gets out of hand.

SKB

January 19th, 2011
11:10 am

Is it against NCAA rules for breathing?

Gainesville Dawg

January 19th, 2011
11:11 am

This is the only blog that I can find from UGA to comment, Tim.
I was at the basketball game last night. UGA encountered the poorest officiating that I and many other fans have seen. Even ESPNU said that the call at the end of the game was wrong. they commented that UGA got robbed but it still counted on the books.
What is with SEC officials and UGA? UGA’s players were battered all night by Tenn.and no calls.
UGA seems to get in foul trouble the first quarter with the officials. It is becoming a pattern.
I was soooo impressed with the fans last night. a sell-out go Dawgs!!!

Joe Dirt`

January 19th, 2011
11:11 am

I can’t believe Mark Richt is such an idiot. He’s gotta be the dumbest yahoo coaching anywhere this side of the Mississippi . Assuming the number was Ms. Bailey. You know what they say about people who assUme. Mark Richt is good at that. He’s been doing it to UGA for going on 3 years now. Time to move on this D A and find a football coach and not a good will ambassator.

Einsteindawg

January 19th, 2011
11:12 am

Thanks Tim…when are the big schools going to tell the NCAA to GFY, and let the BCS manage their sports affairs? The only consistency about the NCAA is their inconsistency. What a waste of money.

Carlton

January 19th, 2011
11:21 am

@just sayin

I completely agree with you-but you forgot that Cecil Newton actually WAS at the National Championship game, haha!

College football has become b.s. In between self-reported secondary violations, the lack of clarity on suspensions given for differing violations, the pompous arrogance I’ve seen every year in recruiting with these high schoolers. Did you know that now, the #1 overall recruit Jadeavon Clowney will now sign when he wants to sign? Nearly 2 WEEKS after National Signing day. The sham that is the BCS, the ability of

Carlton

January 19th, 2011
11:22 am

sorry, computer messed up. I’m done with the post though-I think I made my point..

Trojan

January 19th, 2011
11:24 am

Why was this outdated article written? This is recruiting season, no one at the AJC could find any relevant story to write? It is almost like there was a motive involved.

Captain

January 19th, 2011
11:35 am

I read quite often about AJC Open Records request seeking information from The University of Georgia Athletic Association. Information such as contained in this story.

However, what I don’t recall seeing are those same Open Records requests being sent to nor information published as regards the Georgia Tech Athletic Association.

Would the AJC please advise us of their Open Records requests from the GTAA? We will look forward to a full report, along with watching pigs fly across the Atlanta skyline.

girldawg

January 19th, 2011
11:35 am

Auburn gets away with pay for play players, late dangerous hits, unncessary roughness on a weekly basis by the SEC and NCAA and they are worried about this???? Have some guts take care of the true violations or go home. Sounds like a bunch of girlie men running the show.

Delbert D.

January 19th, 2011
11:36 am

McGarity needs to take the operation of equipment in today’s complex cellular/internet cloud/social networking off Coach Richt’s plate. That should greatly help him in his study of why footballs go farther when they spiral.
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Just kidding.

TigersNow: Wrong number rings up violation for UGA – Michael Burns on Recruiting

January 19th, 2011
11:46 am

[...] led Georgia coach Mark Richt to be barred from making recruiting calls for a week last September, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Richt thought he missed a call from the mother of an East Hall High recruit, but the number [...]

TheItalianDawg

January 19th, 2011
11:50 am

Tim, why dont you write something about the officiating crew of last night game between Georgia and Tennessee, they did terrible job

Bank Walker, Texas Ranger

January 19th, 2011
11:58 am

I knew that Sync System on that new Ford Truck was going to get him in touble. Honey say Go Dogs…..”Go Dogs”

Whisky Breath

January 19th, 2011
12:00 pm

Now that is some significant news to talk about! This has to be brought out.

Bank Walker, Texas Ranger

January 19th, 2011
12:00 pm

I think the football operations should be taken over by the AD so CMR can concentrate on how to operate a cell phone

Coach Grohbo

January 19th, 2011
12:02 pm

Oh the sound of whining UGA fans again is music to my ears.

Listen to your coach.

He knows more physical contact is allowed at the end of the game and fouls are almost never called.

UGA got outhustled last night, especially during crunch time.

Tennessee outfought you for the rebound and earned a solid road victory.

Deal with it.

dawgfan

January 19th, 2011
12:07 pm

“A volleyball staff member sent recruiting materials by priority mail, rather than regular mail.”

This one literally made me LMAO.

gbal

January 19th, 2011
12:07 pm

Good tatic there AJC — Post another headline on the exact same nothing topic….. The exact same article in fact….. to get a few more blog hits.

I really think it would be e great benefit for UGA to boycott the AJC wherever they can possible do it to avoid this type of negative media treatment.

secbama

January 19th, 2011
12:10 pm

Big deal. Everybody knows Mark Richt is not a cheater. He is a class act. I wish him the best except for when he plays Bama. UGA is my favorite team in East.

You guys take Ray Drew and Jay Rome.

Let Bama have Malcolm Mitchell and Isaiah Crowell.

gbal

January 19th, 2011
12:11 pm

And TIM TIM TIM —- Answer this – Why post this now, 4 months after the incident??? In the middle of recruiting season??? Auburn send you a payoff??

TTOUGH44

January 19th, 2011
12:14 pm

NCAA has lost any and ALL respect from me due to this past years double standards and no backbone to enforce the rules across the board the same for all.
NCAA has no merritt in my opinion. I truely believe, the colleges need to just dump the ncaa and form a new governing body that watches over the collegiate sports that means buisness! Whether the conducting the buisness means not allowing the star player to participate in a bowl game, or selling a jersey, or daddy shoping kid around to the highest bidder, or actually getting on a plane flying to a party with strippers,(you only are suspended 2 games for that! Because that had to be fun..! give ma abreak! NCAA no more! Lets come up with a new governing body as I said USCAA, united states collegiate athletic asso. revamp the rules and regs. and enforce them!

Delbert D.

January 19th, 2011
12:15 pm

“recruiting materials by priority mail, rather than regular mail”

I guess Pony Express or Western Union telegrams are out.

Atl_Dawg

January 19th, 2011
12:16 pm

Wow, this is news? No one cares. I’m sure this kind of stuff happens all the time… c’mon Thursday..

Dawghater

January 19th, 2011
12:22 pm

Wow, I’m just impressed UGA coaches even know how to text, use facebook or use a cell phone. What an article!

Andy in Blairsville

January 19th, 2011
12:25 pm

Wow. These coaches are as stupid off the field as they are on the field. If they don’t know the difference between a text and an email, how could they begin to keep their kids out of jail? Wait a minute…

Spivedog

January 19th, 2011
12:33 pm

Great job sensationalizing Tim!

al.com

January 19th, 2011
12:34 pm

There are a lot of GA. fans that wish they could have Auburns success.What is that called ?

how2fish

January 19th, 2011
12:39 pm

al.com this UGA fan calls it one and done…

dawgs

January 19th, 2011
12:40 pm

I heard CMR called a recruit and another player at his house answered the phone and this is a violation.. Doesn’t the NCAA have anything of importance to do like maybe cleaning their own house ??? Maybe CMR should have to stay in his office with no supper tonight…

Dr. Phil

January 19th, 2011
12:41 pm

Richt is self-reporting improper phone calls and winking at player arrests.

UGA89

January 19th, 2011
12:46 pm

Oh! i see… if the athlete claims “he didn’t know…” then no penalty.
If a coach who most likely takes phone calls from thousands of people, doesn’t know and returns a phone call THEN PUNISH HIM TO THE FULL EXTENT!…

NCAA = HYPOCRITES!

Big-EasyDawg

January 19th, 2011
12:50 pm

If you want REAL news on UGA recruiting, go to UGASports.com Much better than this Mickey Mouse organization.

just sayin

January 19th, 2011
12:56 pm

Can we look forward to a similar article from Tim on AL, AU, GT, FL, TN?

just sayin

January 19th, 2011
12:59 pm

Dr. Phil
January 19th, 2011
12:41 pm

Richt is self-reporting improper phone calls and winking at player arrests.

Any facts to back up your claim, or are you just a stupid sob?

Lakedawg

January 19th, 2011
1:15 pm

Just wait until next week and Bradley or Shultz will make it another headline. Do not understand being in state and having such vendettas against the state university?

Mike

January 19th, 2011
1:18 pm

Amazing. They get 7-30 days of no contact for this type stuff but somehow the NCAA can’t do anything about Cecil even after he admitted what he did. The NCAA is so hypocritical.

funny...

January 19th, 2011
1:35 pm

Hey Gatorsam: in regards to three out of twenty isn’t good.

forty out of ninety isn’t good either. You needed 17 out of 20 to get within a decade. LOL at you.

AUaccountant

January 19th, 2011
1:35 pm

Glass houses…..throw stones…LOL! Sweep your own porch before sweeping someone else’s uga.

Walker

January 19th, 2011
1:36 pm

This is a joke! What does this have to do with anything. All you try to do is bring up negative things about UGA. We need to close the deal on these top recruits and it will mean everything to our State and the # 1 school in our State. Regardless of your negative reporting and what you think it want take but several of these recruits to get together and really turn Georgia Football around. Let’s show some Pride in our State.

Want more, Eat Less

January 19th, 2011
1:36 pm

How is it that a coach commits a secondary rule violation, whether intentional or not, depending on what version of the story is actually true and on the other hand a player is shopped around, bartered, and has a history of illegal activities and yet he is ineligible for less than a day?

Folks learn from Auburn, keep your mouth shut, deny everything, tell no one anything and say you saw nothing. Then if all else fails, hire a better University attorney and say “no comment” to everyone including the NCAA.

Bodda Getta

January 19th, 2011
1:45 pm

UGA is the biggest outlaw program there is, worse than Alabama.

Every day there is new fact-based evidence of why this is true.

UGA fans continue to deny this as the evidence piles up.

Go ahead and recite the same fairy tale about Cecil Newton. It has already been fully investigated and you have nothing.

You are out of straws.

collegeballfan

January 19th, 2011
1:51 pm

I agree that the NCAA rules tend toward silly on both ends.

But! But, the rules exist because coaches have been caught cheating.

If coaches did not cheat the rule book would be real thin.

Says a lot about the character of coaches as a profession, does it not?

Sponder

January 19th, 2011
1:52 pm

A very very very s…l…o…w…. news day at the AJC…

steven

January 19th, 2011
2:00 pm

Let it go.

Pay The Man

January 19th, 2011
2:01 pm

How dare he. Follow the leaders of the SEC and just pay players like the Scamster at Auburn. That will show em…..

Bodda Getta

January 19th, 2011
2:01 pm

collegeballfan,

This is not a “character of coaches” issue, this is about the cheating that goes on at UGA.

The moral equivalency card is always played by the guilty.

Dirty Dawg

January 19th, 2011
2:15 pm

What’s the deal, is Don Leeburn payin’ every-damn-soul under the sun – including Francis Tarkenton and the AJC – to come up with anything they can ‘pin’ on Mark Richt? Seems to me that that ‘bootleggin’ bully ought to be arrested for livin’ in sin with Suzanne instead of calling the shots on UGA’s Board.

Trojan

January 19th, 2011
2:16 pm

This article is basically a reprint of what was reported months ago. What is your motive for this blog? Misleading headlines. Poor sports coverage!

ryan

January 19th, 2011
2:16 pm

BFD

Cecil Newton

January 19th, 2011
2:26 pm

UGA is a bunch of cheaters!

SEC Football

January 19th, 2011
2:36 pm

Big Boss must have been in the Office, so everybody is trying to look BUSY….. Can’t wait to see new young “HOT” chick taken your job away and AJC forces early retirement because you have maxed out your times.

Bill Curry

January 19th, 2011
2:40 pm

Once again, we will bring those cheaters to their knees!

Sleepy Dawg

January 19th, 2011
2:47 pm

This would never happen if we had a black coach. He would be well versed in running scams, and being clandestine. Trooper taylor is what we need to right the ship, that dude is one slick operator.

Alabama | MrSEC.com

January 19th, 2011
2:49 pm

[...] Backup offensive lineman Tanner Strickland is ending his Georgia career early.5.  Georgia had to report a pretty small secondary violation in football recently.6.  For you animal lovers out there (and I am one, too), Uga VIII is [...]

Still@theBAR

January 19th, 2011
2:56 pm

If it was MISTAKE then give me a break. If it was not a mistake then fine.

Bodda Getta

January 19th, 2011
3:02 pm

Leave it to UGA fans to play the race card again.

You are out of straws.

Lester Miles

January 19th, 2011
3:03 pm

TIM Did the AJCs open record request include GT, Auburn, Alabama. Tenn or SC. Hopefully not LSU. Is the info for these requests coming tomorrow or was UGA the only school targeted by the AJC (All Jerk Columinists)? If only UGA was targeted then why? Don’t say it is because most of the readers are UGA fans because most of the real UGA fans want to know about the other schools too. Included Fla in your requests. LSU is clean..You have my word. Have a great day.

WVMtnDawg

January 19th, 2011
3:04 pm

It’s very relevant:

http://blutarsky.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/the-difference-between-ignorance-and-inadvertance/

dawgster

January 19th, 2011
3:39 pm

Tim will not respond to the bloggers..at least from what i can tell…the AJC is a pitiful excuse for a newspaper…i have no problem with reporting news, if you call it that, but where are the articles about the other schools…please don’t tell me that they didn’t have secondary violations…oh wait they probably were cleared just as Mr. Newton and others were by the NCAA…go dawgs

dog2

January 19th, 2011
3:43 pm

The Atlanta fish wrapper at its best, no wonder you circulation in dwindling… report something with substance…

Dawg Squeeze

January 19th, 2011
3:45 pm

UGA Football…..30 years and counting

Flat Tire on I-95 In Jacksonville

January 19th, 2011
3:48 pm

Wish he would make a call to some offensive coordinators that can coach

DawginLex

January 19th, 2011
3:54 pm

bodda getta must be trishadisha’s male prostitute she picked up in glendale.

Does it itch and ooze or just itch down there?

Better get it checked out by a doctor or go let Rev Cecil heal it for you.

Mr. SEC

January 19th, 2011
3:54 pm

The NCAA Rules Committees are a joke. Everybody should be treated the same, but they are not. They do not much to do, so they have to show their power every now and then! ALL schools violate rules every year in every sport, they (NCAA) need to get on the same page.
Here is a good example of having nothing to do. Recently the NCAA Softball program released a “Legal Bat” chart to be used in the 2011 season, it must be in the dugouts of both teams; the document is 33 1/2 pages long! Why not just just ask the coaches if their players are properly equipped, then if a bat is in question, go to a document of “ILLEGAL BATS”! Put the burden on the coaches to prove that the bat is legal. I grant you, different teams will get treated differently than others when it comes to this rule.
Again, the NCAA is a joke; maybe there needs to be an independant clearing house for all sports and do away with the NCAA’s B___ S___!

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman

January 19th, 2011
4:05 pm

Typical stupid dawg fan…”The AJC is so mean to us (even though everyone there is a UGA grad). They investigate us and don’t always say nice things…..that’s why the AJC makes me sad :( ” Have a tissue crybaby!

Kendawg

January 19th, 2011
4:07 pm

This seems to be “Much Ado About Nothing”. Have we stooped to this level in society?

Thwg

January 19th, 2011
4:08 pm

I’m calling BS on this Richt story. He knew exactly what he was doing. NCAA needs to investigate. No program is as corrupt as UGA. Which is funny since they can’t even cheat and be any good. I’ve never made that mistake and continued with the call. Sure, we’ve all dialed a wrong number” but usually catch the mistake on a ‘callback’ before completing the call. What a hypocrite. Can you say Tuitt!!! The next Fairley. When we add Vaughters UGA is gonna be cringing!

Stinger2

January 19th, 2011
4:10 pm

Not even worthy of reporting. The AJC was obviously hoping to find something negative about UGA that they could blow up into a big deal. Instead nothing…pitiful.

Coach Grohbo

January 19th, 2011
4:22 pm

UGA is GUILTY!

henry

January 19th, 2011
4:25 pm

Seems like coach Richt forgot to make a $180,000 offer

Snake Plissken

January 19th, 2011
4:29 pm

Seems fair to me…CMR was not permitted to make calls for 1 week…after all $cam Netwon was suspended for almost 24 hours…yep, the NCAA sure is consistent

Punchy

January 19th, 2011
5:54 pm

No more $$$ donated to the swim team until they clean up their act! I knew they were dirty.

Dawg in gatorville

January 19th, 2011
5:58 pm

NCAA, They police like Barney Fife.

Denver Dog

January 19th, 2011
6:00 pm

I saw some pink elephants flying by last night, and then I saw a dog driving a car, and then I heard some Auburn fans saying nothing Cam did is wrong. Next thing that they will be saying is that Auburn didn’t know about whatever they find out.

LagDawg

January 19th, 2011
6:00 pm

This is what’s wrong with reporting on UGA. If the stupid UGA Police is not arresting a football player for any incident, then we are getting these kind of stupid reports. Focus on recruiting and what the coaches are doing to improve the team.

Sam

January 19th, 2011
6:26 pm

THE HORROR!!!!

mikey

January 19th, 2011
7:05 pm

The NCAA is a joke

dawg to the bone

January 19th, 2011
8:38 pm

Great story. Unlike Newton taking a cut in pay to go to the NFL.

old dawg fan

January 19th, 2011
9:03 pm

This is probably one of the “worst” articles I have ever red. Mr. Tucker-please find something more interesting to discuss.

1962 Dawg

January 19th, 2011
10:13 pm

Maybe some of these recruits will major in Sports Journalism.
One reason CMR can’t get any love from the AJC is he won’t give them an interview or what they want to hear. Therefore all the negativity.
A couple of seasons ago M. Bradley couldn’t even get an interview with Coach Willie Martinez.
When’s the last time you heard any of UGA’s coaches commenting in the AJC? Don’t happen very often.
Can you blame them???

Dawgster

January 19th, 2011
10:57 pm

What a bunch of crap. Scam newton gets $200k and gets to keep playing and Richt gets a week for nothing.

MikeP

January 20th, 2011
12:36 am

Dawgster
January 19th, 2011
10:57 pm
“What a bunch of crap. Scam newton gets $200k and gets to keep playing and Richt gets a week for nothing.”

Newton didn’t get anything. If you think he did, all you have to do is find the money. Teams of experienced investigators didn’t find any, but you’re smarter than they are, right? So show me the money. If you can’t you are nothing but a jealous fan of a rival team that knows nothing.

Money talks and BS walks

January 20th, 2011
7:33 am

Mike P.

…and Cam did not know anything about his dad shopping him around? Bobby Lowder probably did not know it, either? The NCAA is in it for the money, too. The BCS would have have been a flop it the NCAA had not reinstated. It was a smart move for Auburn to suspend Newton to clean their hands and force the NCAA to reinstate him for the big money maker.

The BCS is all about money to the NCAA. A smart move by Auburn.

GeoDawg

January 20th, 2011
9:10 am

Tell us again what Cam Newton did not do?

MikeP

January 20th, 2011
10:19 am

GeoDawg
January 20th, 2011
9:10 am
“Tell us again what Cam Newton did not do?”

Ok, he did not lose to UGA,. He did not ,lose to bammer. He did not lose the SEC or national championship games. In fact, he did not lose any game at all that he played for Auburn.

What hwe did do He and his entirwe family passed investigations from both the SEC and NCAA offices with flying colors. No extra benefits at all.

MikeP

January 20th, 2011
10:38 am

Money talks and BS walks
January 20th, 2011
7:33 am
“Mike P.…and Cam did not know anything about his dad shopping him around?”

You should do a better job of keeping current. It turns out his dad didn’t “shop him around.” Mississippi State ex player and general sleeze agent Kenny Rogers approached Cecil Newton about $200k for Cam to sign with MSU and Cecil listened, however briefly. That was in a Starkeville hotel lobby on November 27, 2009.
Of course, 20k of that money was going to Rogers for all his hard work. The problem was, Rogers, who was running from $11,000 in bad checks at the time couldn’t raise $20, let alone thousands.

There was no mention of money at Oklahoma, Auburn or Tennessee, three other places where Cam took recruiting visits so the “shopping around” didn’t happen.

No money changed hands and Auburn didn’t offer any. At no time in this entire saga has anyone involved, from Rogers to the president of the NCAA, ever even alleged that Auburn did anything wrong. There is not now and there has not been an investigation of Auburn. If there’s a problem, it’s Mississippi State’s problem.

You DulDawgs need to worry about Richt’s “Dream Team” sinking below the waves and get over the 49-31 beatdown.

Gatormeat

January 20th, 2011
10:56 am

You dumb dogs should be ashamed that even when you cheat the true SEC powers are getting all the good recruits. Just another example of how weak and foolish you are. A complete joke

hoochbear

January 21st, 2011
3:10 pm

The biggest bunch of S#%T I’ve heard of
since a dirt poor student lost his scholarhip at Tech when
he received a winter coat donated to keep his butt warm in winter and it was charged against him as a not reported donation that added to his income.
That was all he received.
Just a minimal delay maybe 1-2 days if at all, in recontacting THESE student athletes would be appropriate, all served concurrently. With UUGA’s self reportin

And the two dumbest: the wrong number, and a text message instead of another type of communication; well… they’re IDIOTS. I hope it erupts into a National Firestorm that shakes the NCAA’s booty.
The next time the NCAA committee gets a wrong number,they ought to be kicked out the door–into the cold cruel world of actuality–for a few days.
Amnd IF they return they should have their cell and office phones disconnected for a month.

hoochbear

January 21st, 2011
3:19 pm

It’s a good’un. Stranger than fiction. NObody but the NCAA committe could come up with this crock of _ _ i t. Dogs, put your law school alums to work on this one. TECH supports UGA. YES.
When the NCCA administrators/committe is finished,
they will not be worth asking a job at minimum wage to shovel cow manure out of the AG school barns.

hoochbear

January 21st, 2011
3:27 pm

Hope that ONE day the IRS will get one or more of the principal characters in this FUBAR. Preferably soon.

buckhead benny

January 21st, 2011
11:07 pm

Are you f””’ing kidding me? Why don’t the NCAA just hire private investigators to go undercover and really find the truth in colleges with athletes and alumni if they really want to clean this sh”t up. Otherwise this is a bunch of bullsh**t.

You think Hershel received any improper benefits in 1980-1982? Probably not.

And really who gives a sh*t if they did? I thought you went to college to earn a living when you get out. If you can earn it before you have a skill set others in college don’t have and that is not a reason to penalize in my opinion.

rabid dawg

January 22nd, 2011
12:24 pm

So let’s get this straight.

We cheat and yet we are still horrible. Face it…we are a basketball school now.

Gdawg

January 23rd, 2011
9:44 am

I agree that this artile is useless! Give us more details on UGA recruiting (accomplishments), and stop trying to discredit our program! It truly appears that CMR has received the message and has definitely turned up the intensity in the recruiting arena. I am very proud of his accomplishments this year, and most importantly, he accomplished all of this, while conducting himself at the highest level of integrity. Prediction: CMR and his Staff will finish with a top five “Dream Team” class, and will have addressed their most pressing needs (RB, DL, WR, and DB). Go Dawgs!!!!

John Mac

January 24th, 2011
1:06 pm

They need to end the NCAA.