Georgia DE Derrick Lott out 4-6 weeks after injuring leg in scooter accident
Once again Georgia has suffered a scooter casualty.
Derrick Lott, a sophomore defensive end from Kennesaw, suffered a “lower leg injury” while driving his scooter Friday afternoon.
Lott
“There was an accident around 3 or 3:30 p.m. yesterday on Butts-Mehre property,” UGA Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said Wednesday. “The driver of a scooter made contact with a fixed object and suffered a non-serious injury. The accident scene was completed by police but no citations were issued.”
Lott was taken by ambulance to St. Mary’s Hospital where surgery was performed by Dr. David Sailors Tuesday night. Lott is expected to be out four to six weeks, according to Ron Courson, UGA’s director of sports medicine.
Lott is a 6-foot-4, 303-pound sophomore out of North Cobb High School who is currently listed as the backup to DeAngelo Tyson at defensive end. He was redshirted as a freshman in 2009 following ankle surgery and played in three games last season, finishing with seven tackles and a tackle for loss.
Georgia has had more than its share of scooter incidents. Players have received all manner of citations over the years and baseball player Chance Veazey was paralyzed from the waist down in an accident with a car in 2009.
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UGA Alumnus
July 13th, 2011
2:32 pm
@3 + 4 = 0
July 13th, 2011
12:46 pm
“What is really wrong with walking?”
I bet you don’t say that to yourself every time you get in your car.
gomdawg
July 13th, 2011
2:32 pm
UGA is big as most town, so there will be accidents , people get over it DAMN
3 + 4 = 0
July 13th, 2011
2:36 pm
That is all I’m saying … get use to your environment … when I was taking my boys to baseball … footbal games … we’d turn off the AC so they could get climatized …
UGA Alumnus
July 13th, 2011
2:37 pm
@JOE T’S NEW PROGAM.
July 13th, 2011
1:00 pm
Do you have any idea how big campus is? It is physically impossible to walk campus and make it to all your classes and appointments on time.
Can’t even take the bus and get there on time if you have to go across campus.
I’m a walker and cyclist so I advocate it, but I find it hard to believe that all you on here saying “make ‘em walk” ever actually walk ANYWHERE.
3 + 4 = 0
July 13th, 2011
2:39 pm
UGA Alumnus – I’m lucky enough now to walk to work … and walk 4-6 miles everyday … even in this heat … car … yes I have one but doesn’t most eveyone dive it on the weekends … Hey, the UGA campus is a friendly place … to walk and run … ride the bus … your a student … one doesn’t need the various “rides” … man-up
McDawg
July 13th, 2011
2:39 pm
what happen to nebraska? talk about decline and then running off to an inferior conference
Lawrence Phillips
July 13th, 2011
2:40 pm
Thank you Tom Osborne for allowing me to continue to play football and win National Titles for you even though I beat up women. You really are a class act.
UGA Alumnus
July 13th, 2011
2:40 pm
@Jeff
July 13th, 2011
1:00 pm
Have you ever priced a scooter? The scooters these players are riding cost, at most, $1000. And you can finance them. So you pay $50 a month, at most. And you basically don’t have to pay for gas cause they get 100 miles to the gallon.
99% of UGA students drive a car. Do you think UGA is paying for that?
Athletes ride scooters because it’s what they can afford.
SSIgator
July 13th, 2011
2:43 pm
Time for another episode of Mr. Richt’s Neighborhood
It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood
A beautiful day for a neighbor
Would you be mine
Could you be mine
Won’t you be my neighbor
Oh look, here comes Mr. McFeely the postman with a package. Uh, oh. It is a notice from the scooter repair service. It says that we have to increase our line of credit with them because we have no more available. I’ll call Geg and have him take care of this. Maybe we should give these kids classes on how to ride the scooters. I’ll call Mike Bobo and have him draw up a game plan for scooter training. Sure hope we have enough players around by the time the season starts. Oh well, this will give me more wiggle room when the season falls apart and they are calling for me to be fired. I can’t help it if if ours players are not very bright. I only recruit them. Oh well, enough of that. What should we do today kids? I have a good idea. Let’s go swimming! It will help take our minds off of football.
Jeff
July 13th, 2011
2:45 pm
@Lyle: a cheap Vespa starts around $2-3k, even when you have everything paid for that’s still a good chunk of change for many student athletes (remember Tony Cole barely able to buy food? He had a full ride too). I don’t know why so many student athletes ride scooters, but I just hope the athletic department regulates this and is on top of keeping UGA out of hot water with the NCAA.
Also, good point about scooters not being the only big ticket item these guys roll with. I’ve seen football players with plenty of other expensive equipment that members of the general student population do not own. This includes brand new escalades, electronics, etc. I understand some of these items are bowl game gifts, so I’d hate to make any sweeping guesses as to whether or not rules are being broken, I just hope they aren’t.
Birrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd Man
July 13th, 2011
2:46 pm
Ban hacky sack too.
UGA Alumnus
July 13th, 2011
2:48 pm
@3 + 4 = 0
July 13th, 2011
2:39 pm
glad to hear you’re a walker. I don’t own a car. I bike and walk. And that’s what I did when I was a student at UGA.
But I think people hold student-athletes to different standards than they hold other students or themselves.
I’d rather them drive scooters around than cars.
UGA is larger than most cities in the state of Georgia (in terms of population).
As was pointed out, with a population that size, accidents happen. Some of them are going to involve student-athletes.
You can’t imagine how many accidents, traffic violations, DUI’s, etc. occur among a student body of almost 35,000.
UGA Alumnus
July 13th, 2011
2:54 pm
@Jeff
July 13th, 2011
2:45 pm
They aren’t driving Vespas. They are driving a brand you’ve never heard of, and they buy them off Baxter street for very cheap. I actually ran into Branden Smith and 5 or 6 other UGA players in a scooter shop on Baxter St. the summer before Smith’s freshman season. They were shopping for CHEAP scooters.
Vespa is one of the most expensive scooters you can buy.
I know it was Smith cause I talked to him and he told me his name. Didn’t talk to any of the others.
Jimmy Crack
July 13th, 2011
2:55 pm
4-6 weeks, which is the end of August, is no big deal. That gives him a month and he knows the scheme. If anything it will get him away from that conditioning tyrant Tereshinski.
DawginLex
July 13th, 2011
2:59 pm
SSI
Working on my signs for jville
GOLDEN DOMERS FOR GEORGIA
NOTRE DAME THANKS FLORIDA FOR REMOVING CANCER FROM OUR PROGRAM
CHARLIE WEIS-DESTROYER OF BUFFETS AND COLLEGE FOOTBALL PROGRAMS
whadda ya think????
Impressive huh?
Dawg Gone
July 13th, 2011
2:59 pm
Jeff I have a buddy just bought his kid a scooter for 800 bucks, for college..I have another friend that bought one for 3 grand..but he can if he’s wacky enough he could drive that one on 285..it will run 80mph. So there is cheap and expensive so maybe there is no vast conspiracy at UGA vis-a-vi football players illegally owning scooters.
Snoop Dawg
July 13th, 2011
3:01 pm
Here we go again, folks.
These athletes should be running to classes with ankle weights so that they don’t pass out in the fourth quarter like they have been doing the past few years. Does Dr Richt have any rules about riding on cycles?
Maybe when these players take themselves out and let down their team with stupid accidents, their athletic scholarships should be pulled for a year. How about that?
BTW, let’s get rid of da Preacha Man before the season starts, OK? At least then we’d have a fighting chance this year…
SSIgator
July 13th, 2011
3:13 pm
DawginLex -
Very good. You are either going to need very large signs or reduce the font size. Remember to use waterproof crayons in case it rains and color inside of the lines.
JP
July 13th, 2011
3:14 pm
Football players ride scooters more than the general student population because: (1) they usually live on campus longer and it isn’t a short walk from ECV to Butts; (2) it’s WAY cheaper than owning a car and, for most of them, it’s the only vehicle they own (remember Mudd Cat’s car?); (3) there is no bus service to Butts-Mehre; (4) even if they own a car, there isn’t enough parking at Butts-Mehre for more than ten of them to drive over.
It isn’t a conspiracy…it’s convenient.
Mr. SEC
July 13th, 2011
3:16 pm
Dumb Ass!
JP
July 13th, 2011
3:17 pm
@ Jeff
Escalades? You must have been at Falcons camp, most of these dudes have busted rides.
DawginLex
July 13th, 2011
3:18 pm
Black and red permanent markers
Helluva Engineer
July 13th, 2011
3:19 pm
At Tech, we ride HoverBikes™ that we invented.
Troll Power Ratings
July 13th, 2011
3:20 pm
@Jeff: welcome to the real world. Life just ain’t fair, sport. Get use to it. Maybe owning a scooter will be incentive for you to get in that 1%. Or, you can sit around and wait for your “entitlements” to come through. Most of those rich kid’s mommies and daddies worked their a***** off to get that way.
PMC
July 13th, 2011
3:32 pm
They don’t seem to have problems with the busses that run all the time, just scooters.
I’m all about the liberty and the freedom to ride whatever you’re legally allowed, but seriously, perhaps the athletic department should limit scooter riders to people with a valid motorcycle license.
Inexperience and youth are large factors in student accidents.
Black Mountain Bulldog
July 13th, 2011
3:41 pm
D Lott get well soon man. I have had bad accidents on a bicycle, accidents happen.
I am glad like an earlier poster, that our guys are staying ‘knock on wood’, out of the Athens-Clarke County police blotter.
Also glad Anderson passed summer school classes!
Lowcountry Bulldawg
July 13th, 2011
3:43 pm
What about those hover skate boards from Back to the Future II? Those may be a option, just need to remember to charge them up. ECO friendly also.
gdawginkalamazoo
July 13th, 2011
3:45 pm
Herschel Walker rode the bus. Try going through him to get on board.
ARdawg
July 13th, 2011
3:47 pm
DawginLex
That’s just damn funny, I don’t care who you are
Tobias Funke
July 13th, 2011
3:50 pm
Scooters are cheap as dirt. Bunch of trolls.
That being said, ban them.
@ Helluva Engineer
July 13th, 2011
3:56 pm
UGA women are fat & ugly? It’s way past time to update your Rx for eyeglasses, boy! And this time, don’t get the kind that have a piece of tape holding them together. I know you nerds think that it’s fashionable but that look went out of style in the 50’s.
UGAG is gitting the ncaa death penalty, he he ha ha
July 13th, 2011
4:00 pm
Who paid for the scooter? Someone call the NCAA!
Still@theBAR
July 13th, 2011
4:07 pm
a non-serious injury.
Lott was taken by ambulance to St. Mary’s Hospital where surgery was performed
I don’t think Surgery is preformed if there is not a serious injury of some type.
RedandBlackDAWG
July 13th, 2011
4:12 pm
Well, this is one thing you can’t blame Coach T, lack of motivation to study or practice and CMR for. I am sure somebody on this blog will try and find a way to do it though. Sure hope he recovers fully and didn’t do a lot of damage to himself. Fast recovery, young man.
Cletusdawg
July 13th, 2011
4:12 pm
UGA has lost 5 starters or at least major contributors to injury, academics and personal reasons. Boise State………has lost ZERO.
This is past being a problem now…..it is critical.
Golf Ray
July 13th, 2011
4:15 pm
Find out who bought that scooter for Lott.
Not Impressed
July 13th, 2011
4:18 pm
The kids that CMR recruits are certainly not gifted students – most of them have a hard time spelling their name right. Just another loser making another mistake in CMR’s grand program – Dogs one the way to another dismal season.
BuckheadBill
July 13th, 2011
4:24 pm
TAKE AWAY THE SCOOTERS.
gdawginkalamazoo
July 13th, 2011
4:26 pm
I hear that at the Jim Tressel Vespa dealership they practically give them away. Along with a rack that mounts on the back of your free silver and scarlet Escalade.
phil
July 13th, 2011
4:37 pm
7 whole tackles? Impressive…
Man, are we in for a long year….again.
Dawg Droppings
July 13th, 2011
4:37 pm
A 300 lb. lineman on a scooter. Over capacity I’d say. It broke apart and landed Lott into the side of Bare Butts building.
Muchimproved Dawg
July 13th, 2011
4:41 pm
Hey Mark, outlaw scooters, alcohol and dummies and then see what kind of team you’ve got mister.
Patrick
July 13th, 2011
4:42 pm
All these Dawg haters on here are both hilarious and pathetic.
Coed Dawg
July 13th, 2011
4:44 pm
I don’t really know alot about Lott but the picture looks kinda goofy.
Darkside Dawg
July 13th, 2011
4:49 pm
The guy is 6′4″ and when riding a scooter must stick those long legs straight out to keep them from dragging. He’s bond to hit something sooner or later.
Stinger2
July 13th, 2011
4:49 pm
Sorry that the young man hurt himself. Although it is not right to make fun of this incident, I see that many of the UGA fans have done so. GT fans would show sympathy with class in a similar situation.
Kuntry Dawg
July 13th, 2011
4:50 pm
Reckin’ the poor guy is laying in a hospital bed reading all this?
Kuntry Dawg
July 13th, 2011
4:52 pm
Now that there’s funny. I don’t kere who you are.
tell me again
July 13th, 2011
4:56 pm
The kid will heal fast – he’s young. If I had access to a scooter when I was an undergrad I would have been on one. I am an avid motorcycle rider – touring. I just rented a scooter on a vacation – those things are hard to handle and very quirky, especially the ones with the small front tires. – I can see where an inexperienced rider THAT BIG could EASILY have lost control of one of those things. As for Nebraska……who REALLY cares. Nobody on this board.
Kuntry Dawg
July 13th, 2011
4:56 pm
Hershel had a Smokey and the Bandit car. You’d never see him on the bus. He drove it real fast on weekends to pulpwood country.