Georgia football signee Chris Mayes heading to junior college
Georgia can now expect 25 football signees to enroll in camp this summer instead of 26.
Chris Mayes, a 6-foot-5, 295-pound defensive tackle from Griffin, will be heading to junior college instead. Mayes has accepted a scholarship offer from Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Spalding High School officials confirmed.
Mayes
“Yes, he’s going to Mississippi Gulf Coast,” said Jeff Hyland, athletic director at Spalding. “That’s what the plan is. They’re going to try to get him in summer school. He’ll play his freshman and sophomore years, he’ll graduate in December and be at Georgia that spring. That’s the plan. That’s what they try to do down there.”
Mississippi Gulf Coast is the same school that produced fellow Georgia signee John Jenkins and former Alabama star Terrance Cody. It’s actually good fortune for Mayes to be able to get into the school because it offers only a very limited number of scholarships to out-of-state players.
“They’re only allowed so many out-of-state players the way the Mississippi junior college system is set up,” Highland said. “Most have to come from a particular area of that state. They decided to take Chris and we’re happy about that.”
Mayes was considered a longshot to qualify even before he signed with the Bulldogs back in February. He was a four-star prospect, according to Rivals.com and ESPN.com, and a three-star according to Scout.com. He recorded 34 tackles, nine tackles-for-loss and two sacks as a senior on a struggling Spalding team last season.
Though he was not like to compete for playing time as a freshman at Georgia, he was one of only two defensive line signees for the Bulldogs in this class, with Jenkins being the other.
Mayes is the first member of the 2011 class to fall short of academic requirements. It is not known at this time if there will be any others. Most high school seniors are currently negotiating final exams before graduating. The Bulldogs signed 26 players to national letters-of-intent on Feb. 2.
By Chip Towers, The UGA Blog
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118 comments Add your comment
BYRDDAWG
May 4th, 2011
2:31 pm
DARN!!!
BYRDDAWG
May 4th, 2011
2:31 pm
& FIRST!!
dawgrific
May 4th, 2011
2:34 pm
Third!!!! Woo-Hoo!!!!!!!!
dawgrific
May 4th, 2011
2:34 pm
Now, he will be fine, and we will be fine, especially on the D-Line!
WOW
May 4th, 2011
2:35 pm
Wonder how much the good folks at MS Gulf Coast were paid to take him.
Top Row Dog
May 4th, 2011
2:37 pm
Come on back to UGA next few years Mayes, can’t have enough Griffin men!!!
BG
May 4th, 2011
2:55 pm
WOW,are you slow??
78 DAWG
May 4th, 2011
2:56 pm
How many won’t qualify this year?
Maybe the coaches raises should have been bigger, since they’ve done so well since the SI #1 ranking!
What happens for 4 years
May 4th, 2011
3:04 pm
We get top 5 recruiting classes, they average 8 wins a year and then they are top NFL draft picks?
George
May 4th, 2011
3:05 pm
Education comes first when will they ever learn.
LOL
May 4th, 2011
3:06 pm
Guess grades arent too important to the kid…least not in High School. No wonder Tech didnt recruit him.
LOL
May 4th, 2011
3:12 pm
Not that he would go to Tech. Because he was a 4 star recruit and we can only land 2 and 3 star guys!
Jesse Jackson
May 4th, 2011
3:12 pm
George
What do you mean by “they?” Hmm?
Reaper
May 4th, 2011
3:13 pm
These kids need to learn what’s important. Hope he learns the value of an education while he’s there.
BYRDDAWG
May 4th, 2011
3:14 pm
LOL, tech did sign Reggie Ball & he couldn’t count to 4….LOL LOL LOL
Tobias Funke
May 4th, 2011
3:17 pm
So in 2 years we will have another guy ala Cody, Jenkins. Fine by me. Good luck young man.
Study!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tobias Funke
May 4th, 2011
3:19 pm
Don’t pick on Reggie. He just thought he had a 5th down.
Tobias Funke
May 4th, 2011
3:21 pm
I heard Paul Johnson has this Tuba player in Snellville ready to commit. Great job.
D-Dawg
May 4th, 2011
3:21 pm
Does this free up another scholarship for our 2012 recruiting?…17 now Chip?
Chip Towers
May 4th, 2011
3:24 pm
D-Dawg: Yes, if you can get a midyear enrollee.
Wolfman
May 4th, 2011
3:25 pm
Hey.. If he can get his academics in order and get a Cam payment to join a DIV I school it will work out fine.
Wolfman
May 4th, 2011
3:26 pm
@Tobias Funke: They gave Colorado 5 downs, didn’t they???
RichmondDawg
May 4th, 2011
3:29 pm
Would love to see Keith Marshall as that midyear enrollee…but who wouldn’t. Might just shift that scholly over to jalen or lonnie, open up another space for a high school kid. We only have what, 17 or so to give this year?
TennesseeDawg
May 4th, 2011
3:32 pm
Tobias, it’s a package deal, they also had to offer his trumpet playing best friend to get him
VixDawg
May 4th, 2011
3:35 pm
Miss Gulf Coast = beast farm
RomeDawg
May 4th, 2011
3:48 pm
I always struggle to understand this. These kids tend to know pretty early in high school if a college scholly is gonna open up for them and they goof around and have this happen. WTF?? I went to school with Brian Smith at Pepperell, man, he was one heckuva ball player. We joked as freshman he was gonna go pro (which he did, played for the Falcons, but tore his knee up in NFL Europe) but there we were the last day of school waiting to see if he passed an English class so he could graduate on time. His problem was that all the so-called adults in the school bowed to him and never held him accountable. He roamed the halls, skipped class and done pretty much as he pleased for most of the time. The problem is that these guys leave high school thinking the world revovles around them.
Coaches, do your stud players a favor…hold them accountable as young men and students as well as football players!
shane#1
May 4th, 2011
3:49 pm
Who coaches the defense at that school? They seem to have a knack for working with bigs. There might be an assistant with major college potential, say as a defensive line coach.
kerryb
May 4th, 2011
3:50 pm
This will be good for him. He’ll get a lot of playing time at a school that turns out good DT’s. He wasn’t going to get much in the first two years at UGA. His Junior year he’ll be ready to step in for Big Jenks.
WOW
May 4th, 2011
3:54 pm
Miss Gulf Coast = Plantation-type development system
Let’s review the immortal words of
Dr. Leroy Ervin, “former” Dean of Developmental Studies at UGA:
“Now, you talk about [how] these kids are not taught in high school. They aren’t. We try to teach them here, but there is no way to do it. The majority of these kids are black that are coming in, and it kind of rips in at me at the insides, and I take it very, very personal. I know for a fact that these kids would not be here if it were not for their utility to the institution. There is no real sound academic reason for their being here other than to be utilized to produce income. They are used as a kind of raw material in the production of some goods to be sold…and they get nothing in return….”
Read that quote again:
“There is no real sound academic reason for their being here other than to be utilized to produce income.”
Generate Income for who you ask? The UGA Athletic Association. Thats who.
Now le’ts review the equally immortal words of that other
bastion of integrity, UGA Alum/Attorney Hale Almon, as stated in Federal Court:
“We may not make a university student out of him, but if we can teach him to read and write, maybe he can work at the post office rather than as a garbage man when he gets through with his athletic career.”
And there you have it. UGA: Then and Now.
The General Feeling
May 4th, 2011
3:57 pm
UGA signs a top 10 class of high schoolers every year and sends many of these kids to the NFL, in fact , more than most. So why can’t they win while in Athens?
UGA Poofer
May 4th, 2011
4:00 pm
RomeDawg “and done pretty much as he pleased ” I bet he did better in English than you.
HECKLE
May 4th, 2011
4:04 pm
No connemt!
Larry
May 4th, 2011
4:05 pm
Ok, two things. These high schools and coaches are not doing their jobs by allowing these kids to get to this point with their grades. There are alot of really good players with great grades that get overlooked every year in favor of the one that might run a little faster or be a little bit bigger, but can’t he write his own name. Stop wasting scholarships and bring in real student athletes.
cadawg
May 4th, 2011
4:10 pm
mayes is raw, and they clearly have something in the water down at MGC JC. i hope he uses his time to develop his technique and comes back to athens ready to wreak havoc. go dawgs!!
Beast from the East
May 4th, 2011
4:13 pm
Every big signing class is going to have a few that don’t qualify academically. For his sake, I hope he learns to put school first so he can get a degree.
GoDawgs
May 4th, 2011
4:26 pm
I am amazed how many of you fans had it all together when you were 15-16. Most of these guys screw up early and don’t realize it until it is too late. Doesn’t mean he wasn’t trying his junior and senior year. However, the NCAA rules have changed a lot over the last few years and it is hard to make up for lost time.
Captain
May 4th, 2011
4:28 pm
WOW I have no idea whose axe you are grinding but whoever it is, their situation is no different than the one at The Univ ofGeorgia. Perhaps you could do us a favor and declare an allegiance.
For the sake of argument let me assume you are one of those closet GT fans who love to hide in the shadows and hurl BS bombs. Tyrone Sorrells, a football player at Georgia in the early 80’s, was unable to exit those Dev Studies to which you allude. Tyrone, thank goodness, was fortunate and found another college where he could enroll. A school where he did not have to contend with the rigors and demands of Dev Studies. Tyrone earned his degree, didn’t play much football, but he had a degree. Tyrone Sorrells is a proud graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, played for Bill Curry. Guess the moral is Dev Studies at Georgia are tougher than all those engineering classes at Tech. You think? There’s also the examples of basketball players Sammy Drummer and Brooke Steppe, two masters of calculus who could add 2+2 and come anywhere near 4.
What about today? GT has one of the lower graduation rates for football and basketball in the ACC, hovering in the bottom 1/3. Georgia has one of themhigher grad rates in the SEC and both are higher than GT. This is the same GT which was placed on NCAA probation for playing “academically ineligible” players. Perhaps you should check the most recent APR scores. Again, you will find Georgia ahead of GT. Incoming SAT or ACT scores of freshman football players? About the same for the most recently released, however GT was behind Georgia in 4 of 7 yrs.
Please, the case you cite was before these young guys who will enter as Freshmen were born. It’s been 25 years. Times have changed, why GT broke through sexual barriers and allowed a male student to become part of its formerly all female flag corp in the band, Flag Boy (that’s F’l'ag).
UGA Poofer
May 4th, 2011
4:35 pm
Thank you Captain, Not everyone knows how hard our turf management course is.
WOW
May 4th, 2011
4:49 pm
It’s a fact that UGA’s APR rate is 2nd only to Vandy in the SEC.
However, that merely confirms that the UGA APR is a joke.
Its pretty easy to jack-up APR stats with a roster full of
“Housing” and “Leisure Studies” majors. LOL.
You say, “It’s been 25 years. Times have changed.”
In fact, at UGA, things havent changed at all in 25 years.
In fact, the “standards” are even lower now than before.
It is what is.
bruce mac
May 4th, 2011
4:55 pm
Prepare for the third ars whopping in a row by both Basketball and Football Dawgs you chump Yechies. You are UGA’s beeach now and forever. Deal with it.
The Ghost of Wally Butts
May 4th, 2011
4:56 pm
(FROM THE AJC HOME PAGE) WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has sent a pointed letter to the NCAA asking why there isn’t a playoff system for college football, saying “serious questions” continue to be raised about whether the current Bowl Championship Series complies with federal antitrust laws.
Okay…..here is my prediction….tons of federal lawmakers (and Obama admin staff) are now going to get free tix to the BOWLS…..and that will be the end of the Justice Dept messing with the BCS.
Bet on it.
Raoul Duke
May 4th, 2011
4:59 pm
UGA Poofer – C’mon Man! He said that he went to Pepperell – give ‘em a break!
Outside Observer
May 4th, 2011
5:21 pm
shane#1, Mayes went to Spalding High School. Same city as Corey Moore and Xavier Dickson (as well as the Clemons brothers, Toby Jackson, John Sullivan, etc) but different high school.
savannadawg
May 4th, 2011
5:22 pm
OK. Chip here is my two cents worth. UGA cannot AFFORD this. Coach Mark Richt can’t AFFORD this. WHY??? We are already on the brink of being illrelevent to the SEC and to a lesser extent, the CFA. We have too recruit kids that can play sooner rather than later and we cannot be scared to play them and this has to include good academic responsibilities. Coach Richts “The Georgia Way”, What is that? Will someone please explain to me, what that means? Surely it doesn’t mean loosing, because folks, rather we admit it or not, we are not as good as we should be! And that is the bottom line. We did a better job of recruiting this year via the athletic side but I don’t know about the academic side. But my point is, too me anyway, this class is still far from what we need to compete for a Championship within the next two years. We still don’t have enough depth on either side of the line of scrimmage. This is SOO embarasing too me, because I can remeber when opponents were scared to death to let UGA have the ball in the fourth quarter with 5 or less minutes on the clock, behind or in front, it just didn’t matter, we more than not found a way too win. I havn’t FELT this feeling in a long, long time.
BullDawg Rick
May 4th, 2011
5:32 pm
Chris Mayes will be just fine.. He’ll get real PT at MGCC because he was not going to get on the field as a FR.. I hope this young man gets his academics together for HIMSELF…
I agree that he should’va been hitting the books sooner, but if he gets his act together, he’ll be a better person for having gone thru this when he gets in the Red & Black!
Good Luck to you Chris
King Gator
May 4th, 2011
5:32 pm
Mayes is the first member of the 2011 class to fall short of academic requirements. – FIRST!! Nicely done Mr Mayes. Go Gators!
dawggone
May 4th, 2011
5:42 pm
Don’t worry, this is just the first of many more not to qualify. We will take anybody, we dont care bout no stinking grades, he aint ever going to go to class anyway.
WOW
May 4th, 2011
5:44 pm
Bringing up “Reggie Ball” means nothing. Every school has there “reggie ball” type player who was brought in just to help the football team, knowing that he wasn’t going to learn anything in class. My point is that UGA has a lot more “reggie ball” types than Georgia Tech.
savannadawg
May 4th, 2011
5:45 pm
I WOULD MUCH RATHER BE GOOD THAN LUCKY. This posed to Erk Russell one year before a season. His response! THE HARDER WE WORK THE LUCKIER WE GET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If the Lord gives you lemmons, make lemmonaide. Coach Richt, you’ve been a head coach at UGA for ten years now. I like you, but you have got to learn how to keep it loose, OR hire someone that can. A magnetic outstanding man that these kids can gravitate too. It has too be someone who will treat every kid like a man and not show any favoritizim. A man that can look in the mirror and just start laughing at himself but yet loves too teach young men out of love and respect not fear. Someone these kids will literally run through a burnning house to find. Someone they are so frieghtened too lose they start crying when the thought arises. Who can do this anymore? Anyone?
Chuck
May 4th, 2011
5:49 pm
How stupid do you have to be to try to use the number of football signees that can’t get into UGA right away as a sign of low academic admissions standards?
I guess the answer is “almost too stupid to use a computer.”
Must be an academic abortion or something
May 4th, 2011
5:50 pm
It really says something that a guy can’t get into an SEC football school, and has to go to JUCO. These are the kind of mental midgets a “school” like Uga recruits. An abomination really.
Sven Ottke
May 4th, 2011
5:58 pm
Hey Captain, considering Sammy Drummer has passed away try to stay classy and not speak poorly of the fellow. RIP Mr. Drummer. And Sorrels wanted to get out from under the thumbprint of Vince “the Teflon Prince” and actually earn a degree instead of being stashed away in Remedial Studies earning zero credits to a degree. The kid should have been saluted for actually having the desire to get a worthwhile degree and not something in Parks & Recreation or Tourism.
M Holland
May 4th, 2011
6:04 pm
Mayes was not the only other d-line recruit…Ray Drew (Thomas County) was recruited
as DE, and Sterling Bailey was also recruited as DE.
Emanuelle Chriqui
May 4th, 2011
6:09 pm
Chip::
Have you been watching me on The Borgias?
BYRDDAWG
May 4th, 2011
6:11 pm
WOW, we don’t try to throw up our academics everytime we lose like tech does!!!! Queen gaytor, Janoris Jenkins and his 3 arrests for WEED in the last 12 months….LOL LOSER
Atlanta Dawg
May 4th, 2011
6:12 pm
Some of the comments on here indicate a lack of thoughtfulness and thoroughness required for a post to be good.
@WOW – I did not go to UGA, but I feel the standards have changed significantly in 25 years. The acceptance rate has gone down as it has gotten harder to get in and the average SAT score has gone up. Also, UGA has a much stricter policy on academic attendance and accountability than other SEC universities. Though generally kept from the media, there are other colleges where athletes are not required to attend class as they are at UGA. And, leisure studies might sound like an easy major, but it requires an English course, two math courses, 3 science courses, 1 quantitative reasoning course 4 humanities courses and 3 social science courses, which doesn’t sound nearly as much of a joke as your sophomoric mockery suggests.
@Jesse Jackson “they” means the students who don’t take school seriously enough. UGA and all teams have strong and weak students of all races. If you want to read further into “they” you are looking for racism rather than looking for truth
@The General Feeling – defense, defense, defense. Defense wins championships. Since Van Gorder left our defense has suffered under Martinez’s leadership and it takes more than one year to right the ship. I feel very good about the cultural and statistical improvement on defense under Grantham and just like at Alabama, the first year is an adjustment and the second year of the 3-4 it is very effective translating to more wins.
JDawg1785
May 4th, 2011
6:14 pm
Sorry to hear this young man has had some trouble qualifying, but good luck to him at MGC. I look forward to seeing him in red and black in the near future.
T Knight
May 4th, 2011
6:22 pm
Yiiiippppeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Another rocket scientist headed to UGA!
savannadawg
May 4th, 2011
6:24 pm
And one more thing. This is not about Chris Mayes. I wish him all the well, well can get. But he is no longer a bulldog untill he wears it. Lets move on. This is about a community. A long line of faithful yet urning people. People so excited about THE University of Georgia, that there expectations and exzilleration for it, runneth over. The anticipation, the commroderie of battle, the hits….. and the misses. What enthusiasm we have. What honor we bare. Lets stay in the fight, lets win, win, win, fore I hate too loose. Lets plead to the GOD’s of football let our men stay healthy to carry the fight. For we are The University of Georgia. So now….. lets go lay wast to those that would dishonor us and try to steal our land and take our women.
Chuck
May 4th, 2011
6:26 pm
Yeah right, Ty Sorrells flunked out of UGA because he was so eager to learn – LMAO.
Tech fans can spin anything dizzy.
UGASlobberknocker
May 4th, 2011
6:35 pm
You Tech fans who criticize UGA academics ..dont forget,,you guys accepted a player recently who COULDNT GET INTO AUBURN!!!!
thus proving the academic myth that is Ga Tech.
Now thats funny
WOW
May 4th, 2011
6:45 pm
We accepted a “player” who couldn’t get into auburn because he is a “player”, not because he is a student. The actual students at GT are always smarter than uga
Warren Russell
May 4th, 2011
6:55 pm
Solid info! I wonder if this’ll show up on CoachWatcher. CW is the place to go for all the latest coaching info, news, and rumors. http://www.CoachWatcher.com
footballfan-365
May 4th, 2011
7:19 pm
with a 43% graduation rate tech fans really think they have room to talk. I get it now its a big deal to get accepted but once you are on campus you either sink or swim.
footballfan-365
May 4th, 2011
7:22 pm
@ugaslobberknocker that kid was also denied at tenn st.
Saban
May 4th, 2011
7:24 pm
Can`t blame the kid.
Too many cops in Athens.
Saban
May 4th, 2011
7:26 pm
On the positive side Richt has an excuse for the 50-8 beatdown by Boise State.
Two responses
May 4th, 2011
7:49 pm
A number of posters using “We” in reference to UGA, are obviously fans of other schools.
UGA will be administering the beatdowns, Mr. Saban, not taking them, starting in 2011.
Dawg48
May 4th, 2011
8:14 pm
Look at vandy! If Georgia bama auburn lsu Florida or any major team just got the smart kids fans would be calling for their heads to be fired you can’t get it both ways! And don’t give me Stanford as a school cause they play in the weak PAC 10
Dawg48
May 4th, 2011
8:20 pm
And if a coach wins his conference title every year no matter what he does the fans want to keep him! Look at our buddy buckeye for that example
Captain
May 4th, 2011
8:22 pm
Nice try at revising facts Sven, but that is simply not factual. TS was dismissed because he could not exit remedial studies. Bill Curry sought him and was able to gain an exception from the GT Pres to allow him to enroll. TS was no high achiever in the classroom and it continues to be a mystery as to how he flunked out at Georgia then graduated from GT, amazing I would say, amazing.
I am aware Drummer is deceased, however that alters nothing about his days at GT. A few who were involved in the Kemp situation are deceased.
I find it quite amusing when you GT folks, most of whom never set foot in a classroom there, are so insistent on using the academic argument. GT athletes are no more academically proficient than those at Georgia. GT offered virtually every instate signee in our 2011 class. The average SAT scores are very similar, ours have been higher than GT’s as often as not. As for the majors you cite, I can’t speak to those being any easier than I can as to why 92% of GT players are Industrial Management majors. Must be difficult to put down yellow tape for walkways or orange cones on the highway.
Matthew
May 4th, 2011
8:26 pm
One more dummy-athlete for the dawgtards.
Captain
May 4th, 2011
8:34 pm
BTW – for your loyal and proud yTech apologists and supporters, how’s Flag ( with an “l”) Boy?
Buckwheat
May 4th, 2011
8:54 pm
Forget JC….just go to Auburn now……
Delbert D.
May 4th, 2011
9:27 pm
Pretty good deal, getting the state of Mississippi to pay for the first 2 years of college for non-qualifiers.
IL Jacket
May 4th, 2011
10:20 pm
I agree that Tech’s graduation rate for athletes is abysmal both for football and basketball players. We can and must do better, hopefully CPJ coming from the Naval Academy will do better. Based on what I have read seems like he is making it a bigger priority.
The thing that strikes me about situations like Mayes is how frustrating it must be for the coaches recruiting these athletes. They put so much time and effort into the process, literally hounding them for two years to get the commitment, putting up with their preening and inflated sense of entitlement and then the kid doesn’t take care of his end of the deal and fails to meet, quite frankly, very minimal standards. I’m sure it makes them want to pull out their hair. Also makes one wonder if this is the sort of kid you want in your program, even after two years somewhere else.
superDawg
May 4th, 2011
11:01 pm
il you nerd bast—-.UGA is on top of the situation and you do not need to concern your nerdismn self with it.He will be on the field next year or the year after to whip teks behind.NUFF SAID!
Chip Towers
May 4th, 2011
11:26 pm
Emanuelle Chriqui: I have not check out The Borgias yet, Sloan, er, I mean, Emanuelle. Is it worth a look?
icedawg
May 4th, 2011
11:45 pm
No worries. Good opportunity for the young man. Hope he gets the academics down and keep his fb skills up. Hopefully we’ll see him in a couple of years.
MS Bully
May 4th, 2011
11:57 pm
Bring yourself to Mississippi and maybe in 2-years the real Bulldogs will offer you a scholarship. Mississippi State is the team on the rise.
Team Dream
May 5th, 2011
12:06 am
@superDawg … wow! was that English?? me thinks there was an attempt at a retort there, but it is hard to tell.
@footballfan-365 … yes, once enrolled at GT you DO either sink or swim. There is no nurturing. There is no coddling. If you ask a Professor for help, or tell them you don’t quite understand something … they’ll probably tell you that you’re not smart enough to be there. That’s just the type of Academic environment that GT is. It is a tough school to get into and a tough school to graduate from. Spin it any way you want to, but that’s just the way it is.
Outside Observer
May 5th, 2011
12:46 am
Captain, here is that story you mentioned about SAT scores. The one where Georgia Tech football players have the highest of the 53 teams investigated, and the highest high school GPA. I promise I always try and stray away from the argument but you did bring it up…
http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/stories/2008/12/28/acadmain_1228_3DOT.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab
I can also tell you have never stepped foot in a Georgia Tech classroom before as you decided to call GT fans out for. Most football players are management majors (earning a concentration or certificate in fields like accounting, finance, information technology, human resources, etc). None of those result in the guys putting orange cones on the highway. Nice try though. Considering the huge majority of athletes who go into business after athletics, it’s a smart major for them. And believe me, it’s far from easy.
S'paw_99
May 5th, 2011
2:26 am
I’m a GT Management major, and I have gotten a chance to meet some of the athletes. Just like at any school, you can tell that some of them are smarter than others (a lot of that has to do w/ how much effort they’re willing to put into the academics).
I believe that the academics should be very important to the athletes, & I will try to tell some of the ones I meet that as a friend, my best advice is that you need to get your degree. I understand everyone has dreams of playing on Sundays (I’m sure a lot of us on this blog did as well), but very few are able to do that. So if you get your degree, you have something to fall back on, you can make a living w/ a business degree.
If I was a college coach, my goal would be to graduate 100% of my players, I believe it’s very important.
All I will say about the recruiting is that I have never heard of a GT commit not qualifying academically and going JuCo. I also know that Tech doesn’t recruit from the JuCo ranks, personally I think they should have this yr, to try to find a big 330 lber to play Nose if we’re gonna run the 3-4
joe suggs
May 5th, 2011
6:16 am
Hey Jesse , talking about athletes ! Play the race card idiot !
footballfan-365
May 5th, 2011
6:41 am
@team dream you may not be familiar with the benefits of being a student athlete. Every school including gtech provides an academic support system that includes tutors, mentors. At tech the average student may be left to figure things out on their own but thats not the case for athletes. While tech fans love to put their athletes up on pedestal they have the same resources as anybody else and with a 43% grad rate tech athletes simply do not take advantage of the help that they have.
Big Dawg
May 5th, 2011
6:41 am
Must be an academic abortion or something
You are an idiot and a closed minded and mean spirited bigot, You need to go look in the mirror and then pray to YAHWEH the Father through Jesus the son to soften your heart and truly start caring about your fellowman. You don’t know this young man or his situation. This gives him an opportunity to improve himself through an education that hopefully will make him a better, more responsible and dependable citizen. Which is something this country and world needs a lot more of. Anyway I wish this young man all the best and I hope and pray that he first finds salvation through Jesus, that he gets a good education and that he becomes succesful in life.
Go Dawgs
Paddy
May 5th, 2011
6:46 am
Larry…..I agree with you. But you are never going to get a college coach to take a good smart football player that runs a tad slower and is a little smaller. He will not risk his 1mil $ deal. This only happens in the movies and at Vanderbilt. Sorry
FanSince59
May 5th, 2011
8:11 am
Mayes probably won’t be all that Richt loses before the 2011 season is over.
Mershon Dawg
May 5th, 2011
8:55 am
I totally agree with the comment rendered by Rome Dawg. Your Education should come first!!!!!
Buzz Me
May 5th, 2011
9:12 am
guess he couldn’t meet the rigorous academic standards at uga!
1eyedJack
May 5th, 2011
9:14 am
This will continue to be a problem until a certain segment of society starts placing a premium on education and stops making excuses. The last two to three generations have been basically fatherless. If you don’t believe me ask Bill Cosby.
MikeP
May 5th, 2011
9:15 am
Quoting Chip: “Georgia can now expect 25 football signees to enroll in camp this summer instead of 26.”
That’s handy, since the NCAA limit is 25 enrollees per year. How were they going to enroll 26 anyway?
Jborodawg
May 5th, 2011
9:21 am
“savvanadawg” … what rock have you been under for the last 50 years? I started to say “every” school goes after marginally academically eligible players; but I don’t have the actual, written stats. So, it’s “many” or “most”. It’s also a fact that most years UGA takes someone who excels in the classroom but rarely plays a down of football. EG, ever heard of Josh Sailors? He’s been on the SEC Academic Honor Roll every year he’s been a Dawg. Ever seen him play Between The Hedges?
Just because one doesn’t have the grades doesn’t mean that person lolly-gagged. He might have worked very hard on academics but just could make the grades or “progress” required. There’s also plenty of examples in which someone with marginal HS academics actually ends up doing well in college and even gets a degree. Guess what? Yours truly was a “C student” in HS. But at Ga State I was on the Deans List every quarter and graduated in four years while working full-time jobs most of those four years.
Perhaps Chris Mayes is of high character and a great athlete; someone you’d want to give a chance. Good luck to him!
Ole Swole
May 5th, 2011
9:25 am
No one from Griffin ever qualifies.
Druid City
May 5th, 2011
9:26 am
After reading the article above, anyone who says Georgia does not oversign is feeding you B.S.
Bulldog Winner
May 5th, 2011
9:28 am
Once they sign with us, we should be able to squeek them in somehow. Everyone knows that these kids are in Athens for FOOTBALL, not school. I blame UGA for not making this happen somehow.
Disappointed. I really wanted to see this kid in red and black this year…
Georgia Fans Eats Idiots Sandwiches
May 5th, 2011
9:49 am
Just another dumb ase for UGA. Nothing new from Mark Richt.
bitter DA' slick rogers bigger orrannge vOOOls
May 5th, 2011
9:50 am
I should have went the way of J.C. and just maybe have gotten some play-in time!!!!–sux bee-in on the bench all the time!!!!!————-ole rocky top uu will all ways beeee
It Ain't Rocket Science
May 5th, 2011
9:51 am
Some of you still do not count correctly or things like simple addition confuse you. Of the 26 signees, two were from the prior year due to the fact that two of them were already in spring semester. What in god’s earth is it so hard to understand about that? You are so anxious to put down anything UGA that you do not even do your homework before you open yourself up to showing your lack of knowledge. 26-2=24, got it now? This translates to one lower than the maximum as dictated by NCAA rules.
As for this young man, I am only wondering one thing. How was he allowed to play high school football, if he was having trouble with his academics? Is it the fault of his parent(s), the fault of his coaches or just a fault of the low standards of education that allows him to become a great athelete but not a average student? We need to change the standards in what is required for high school kids academically. We pay the taxes that pay for most of the schools and if Georgia is ever to improve it’s academic standings in the high school education area, compared to other states, changes have to be made.
There are no Academics at UGA
May 5th, 2011
9:53 am
Heck everybody knows that !
Tobias Funke
May 5th, 2011
9:58 am
To all the Nerds on the Bulldog Blog:
Please go to the Academics Blog so you can brag all you want. These blogs are about SPORTS. Nothing to be proud of, right?
Movin on up
May 5th, 2011
9:59 am
No Georgia Military for this kid?
footballfan-365
May 5th, 2011
10:00 am
I wish people would take the time to understand what oversigning really is. At the start of fall camp you can only have 85 scholarship athletes. Its not about how many you sign on signing day its about how many scholarship athletes arrive for fall camp. In the case of lsu and bama they signed to many players knowing they were over the 85man limit and as result of this they had to trim the roster by any means necessery. Uga didnt oversign two players went to juco from last yrs recruiting class and two players enrolled early this yr so those scholarships count towards the 2010 class
Butt Smear Building Resident
May 5th, 2011
10:00 am
So he got into UGA?
One of the better junior colleges in the state, in my opinion.
GO DAWGS< RUFF RUFF RUFF RUFF RUFF
Tobias Funke
May 5th, 2011
10:01 am
Trolls, Trolls, surrounded by Trolls.
RHALL55
May 5th, 2011
10:05 am
What happened to the “Ten @ Ten”?
Was this concept to another level also? JC?
mcdawg
May 5th, 2011
10:08 am
as a conversaltionist-i’m just saying how can you judge a man you never met
Georgia | MrSEC.com
May 5th, 2011
10:43 am
[...] will be heading to Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College after inking with the Dawgs in February.“Yes, he’s going to Mississippi Gulf Coast,” Mayes’ high school AD said. “That’s what the plan is. They’re going to [...]
alex
May 5th, 2011
11:32 am
He will come back to another school in the SEC….
Bama loves to take advantage of a situation like this…
but he could go elsewhere…..
It Ain't Rocket Science
May 5th, 2011
12:00 pm
Read the article Alex. I think it states what his plans are.
MikeP
May 5th, 2011
2:58 pm
It Ain’t Rocket Science is reading impaired. Read Chip’s opening line again: “Georgia can now expect 25 football signees to enroll in camp this summer instead of 26.”
It has nothing to do with early enrollees. Georgia oversigned by one, signing 26 for the 2011 year. Now, thanks to the academic gods, they won;t have to show one of them the road or tell him he has to take a grey shirt, which is Saban’s favorite trick..
If you don’t think UGA signed 26, check Rivals, Scout, 247 Sports or any UGA site that lists signees. They all show UGA signing 26 for 2011, as plain as day.
I’d say that in your case it’s a good thing it ain’t rocket science, that-there rocket would crash if building it required reading comprehension.
It Ain't Rocket Science
May 5th, 2011
6:07 pm
Mike P,
Are all of these 26 from the class of 2011 or do they all count for the class of 2011? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
You can not sign more than 25 for each year you dunce. 24 were signed for 2011 and two count for 2010, as early enrolls.
Now is that so hard for you to understand?
I have the NCAA rulebook in PDF form if you need to read it since, you obviuosly do not get it as I am explaining it to you.
MikeP
May 5th, 2011
11:31 pm
Quoting It Ain’t rocket science”
“Are all of these 26 from the class of 2011 or do they all count for the class of 2011? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”
Of course they all count for 2011.. Signees that counted back for 2010 would have had to enroll in school in January. They would have gone through spring practice and would not be enrolling for summer camp, as Chip clearly stated these are.
Quoting him again: “You can not sign more than 25 for each year you dunce.”
Wrong again. A school may sign up to 28. Only 25 may enroll on scholarship. How do you think the term ‘oversigning’ came into being? Richt signed 26. Now one won’t qualify so he’s down to the limit of 25 enrollees. Lucky him, now he won’t have to tell a kid he lied to him when he said there was a scholarship available.
If you do indeed have the NCAA rulebook in PDF form, I suggest that next time you read it before you make yourself look so foolish.
It Ain't Rocket Science
May 6th, 2011
2:19 am
MikeP,
UGA did have two in for the spring, Lemay being one of them.
You can still only have 25 per recruiting year. Your original statment was that UGA had 26 and would have to grey shirt or some other way, to be legal. This was not true as I showed you. I don’t give a darn if any other school signs 100 but UGA would have been fine had all 26 of those signed would have met all the requirement because they still only signed 24 for 2011. USC had the same condition as UGA did this year. No matter what you say and how much you hate UGA, facts are facts, so you willneed to find something else that you think CMR is guilty of and expound on that. You are an Auburn fan right?
MikeP
May 6th, 2011
8:56 am
Ok, Rocket Science: Scout, Rivals, ESPN and Chip are all wrong and you are correct. Gotcha.
Chip Towers
May 6th, 2011
9:38 am
Rocket Science, MikeP: Since Christian Conley and Christian LeMay enrolled in January, they counted toward the Class of 2010 and the other 24 signees counted toward 2011. Now that we know Chris Mayes is going JUCO, that means that 23 will count toward 2011 class, leaving two spots for early enrollees next January. Never can you bring in more than 25 in July/August or have more than 85 total.
Quid Pro Quo
May 9th, 2011
9:46 am
Dont forget:
Richt has guaranteed Mike Tamburo a scholarship by Sept 1.
NBANOTGOODNOMORE
May 11th, 2011
5:27 pm
He’s not the only one. Trust me there will be at least several others in this class that will not qaulify for sure. Its sad that these High School Coaches dont have the kids better prepared.