Georgia has to report more secondary violations due to inadvertent calls
ATHENS — Inadvertent telephone communication once again has forced UGA to report secondary NCAA violations to the Southeastern Conference office.
This time it involves Georgia running backs coach Bryan McClendon. According to Athletic Director Greg McGarity’s Aug. 1 letter to SEC Commissioner Mike Slive, obtained by the AJC via state and federal open records laws, McClendon thought he was calling a friend named Jay Harris when he accidentally called recruiting prospect Drew Harris instead. Harris is a four-star running back prospect from Exton, Penn.
What made this a violation is McClendon’s call was made on May 29, 2011. Fellow UGA assistant coach Scott Lakatos had made a recruiting call to Harris on May 3. Therefore the second call was deemed to be a violation of two NCAA bylaws that restrict telephone contact with recruits.
According to UGA’s report, “Jay Harris” appears right below “Drew Harris” in the speed dial directory in McClendon’s cell phone and he accidently hit the wrong entry. McClendon didn’t realize he’d called Drew Harris until his voicemail picked up. McClendon then left Drew Harris a message stating he had inadvertently dialed him and to not call back. McClendon then self-reported the violation to UGA’s compliance office, according to McGarity. Records show the call lasted 47 seconds.
UGA has requested relief from the mandatory two-week phone call ban to Harris and asked the SEC to not assess any penalties “given the mitigating circumstances” and because “no recruiting advantage was gained.” The SEC has not reviewed the case.
Inadvertent phone calls have been a problem for UGA athletics in 2011. The school has had to report more than a half-dozen incidents of “pocket-dialing” and sending impermissible texts rather than permissible emails due to cell-phone usage mistakes this year.
UGA also reported this week that gymnastics assistant coach Julie Clark violated NCAA phone contact bylaws when she called an unsigned prospect Brandie Jay to wish her “Happy Valentines Day” on Feb. 14.
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It's OK, Tech Cheats More
August 5th, 2011
2:21 pm
First
Old SchoolTechFanatic
August 5th, 2011
2:23 pm
Those who live in glass houses should not go throwing stones. How many secondary violations can you get without getting in troulble ???
Col Nathan Jessup
August 5th, 2011
2:24 pm
Is that all you & the AJC have got Chip? Seriously?
“Inadvertent phone calls a problem at UGA”? Heck this time last year we led the Fulmer Cup ratings.
This year tech gets probation for lying, cheating and covering-up and the AJC never sniffed it until the day the NCAA broke the story. Pathe-tech!
whatthewhat
August 5th, 2011
2:26 pm
get it together, uga, and learn to use cell phones!
urination police
August 5th, 2011
2:26 pm
Glad Chip is unearthing this groundbreaking scandal asap. Where were you when Tech was investigated for the last two years!
damngooddawg!
August 5th, 2011
2:28 pm
I suggest all staff remove all prospects’ phone numbers from their phones. Put a list in a lock box with only Richt and the compliance coach having keys which must be used simultaneously like missile launch codes. Dip wads!
Dog Gone Astray
August 5th, 2011
2:28 pm
After breaking secondary violations for so long don’t you think they just might be intentional if they keep happening ? Just saying .
zz_gator
August 5th, 2011
2:30 pm
LMAO @ UGA, one violation after another from your dumb coaches. Prepare to get waxed again on Oct. 29th in Jax-vegas!
JC
August 5th, 2011
2:32 pm
Wow what a pathetic excuse for a newspaper. I can’t wait for the day someone starts another paper so this rag will FINALLY go under. Also don’t give us “I’m just doing my job” BS either it’s quite obvious the agenda that’s being put forth by the higher ups and being parroted by you.
McDawg
August 5th, 2011
2:32 pm
Any word on Turene????
Troy
August 5th, 2011
2:33 pm
Chutem Lizabeth!
Dawg Gone It
August 5th, 2011
2:33 pm
Please buy these guys phones. These phones can only be used for recruiting.
Poopdawg
August 5th, 2011
2:37 pm
“inadvertent phone call have been a problem for UGA athletics in 2011.” Define PROBLEM. So Stanford didn’t have any? Was it a level 1 or a sub level 4? Is there a College athletic program that had zero inadvertent calls ?
Poopdawg
August 5th, 2011
2:41 pm
Zz, never made an inadvertent call? Dumb huh?
Joe
August 5th, 2011
2:46 pm
GEEZ…its always something…..I guess I would rather have inadvertant cell calls that players being arrested……
UGA '05
August 5th, 2011
2:52 pm
DEATH TO NCAA
UGA '05
August 5th, 2011
2:53 pm
NCAA=Nazi’s of College Athletics in America
JB
August 5th, 2011
2:56 pm
This is a joke. They need to lighten up on a few of these rules….Although I agree it protects the HS kid and their families. Reporting something like this is dumb………..But, if THEY find out and you haven’t, you would get TECHED………….( new word: The process of being put on probation by the NCAA for ignoring a rule or contact from the NCAA as to a possible rule violation…….Or just doing as you please)
Wolfman
August 5th, 2011
3:00 pm
Maybe hire a consultant from AT&T or Verizon???
Stinger2
August 5th, 2011
3:00 pm
Why is this story going to become such a big deal. A coach makes a mistake dialing a phone number. So what. Its something we all may do. Hardly news shattering. I am a GT fan but I don`t think this is even newsworthy.
D
August 5th, 2011
3:01 pm
Dang, three minutes of my life I’ll never get back…….
BANKS
August 5th, 2011
3:01 pm
Funny, Gaytors on here commenting about this, when they just had another player (4 since Spring) busted for smoking dope! Sounds like a “real” problem down there!!
Trojan
August 5th, 2011
3:02 pm
I wonder if Auburn would self report the Cam and Auburn calling each other. Oh, I forgot that was his Dad.
AdMan
August 5th, 2011
3:05 pm
I love all the BS everyone is throwing at Georgia on here. I’d be willing to bet everyone on here has butt dialed someone on their cell phone call list at least five times…..Gotta love the Tech smack talkers…they need to worry about thier own team and the current NCAA probation thier on…plus their football team sucks…..zz_gator…Know where I can get a hold of a stolen credit card that one of your athletes took off their dead girlfriend?
Excuses and Lies
August 5th, 2011
3:05 pm
Who in their right mind would ever believe such an out and out lie? Prospects names and phone numbers in a cell phone? You have to inviting trouble and violations by doing such a dumb thing.
This phone call stuff is going to cost UGA some scholarships and reprimands. This is not funny anymore, it is downright comical and someone needs to held accountable.
And for any UGA fan making excuses, grow up and realize that this staff is desperate to save their jobs and shortcuts are being taken.
Spike 80DF
August 5th, 2011
3:06 pm
So UGA sent the NCAA everything they came up with on the Jarvis Jones situation. Should only be bowl season before they make a decision on eligibility.
SportsByBrooks
August 5th, 2011
3:09 pm
Meanwhile you have Bama players signing autographs in exchange for suits and probably money, sCam getting paid by Auburn, UNC’s coach resigning and the NCAA dropping probation on Tech yet again.
Even in the face of all this the desperate AJC has to print this drivel to drive folks to the blog. Sad, really.
SOCAL Dawg
August 5th, 2011
3:16 pm
Who cares!?
Troy Landry
August 5th, 2011
3:18 pm
We gon cook us up some good gata stew soon, Liz!
Dazed and Confused
August 5th, 2011
3:20 pm
This is all Nick Fairley’s fault. And Cecil Newton.
JDawg1785
August 5th, 2011
3:20 pm
Oh, the horror! Might as well forfeit the whole season now…
Vain Jangling
August 5th, 2011
3:22 pm
An inadvertent speed dial with no direct contact results in an NCAA recruiting violation? That’s absolutely absurd. Talk about form over substance. Whatever happened to good old cash payments to recruits? Now THAT’S cheating!
AdMan
August 5th, 2011
3:24 pm
Gotta love how stupid the Auburn and Bama fans are who showed up thinking they’d won two tickets to the Iron Bowl and got arrested for delinquent child support payments….considering the make up of thier fan base it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone.
7576DAWG
August 5th, 2011
3:33 pm
If this type absent minded thing continues the NCAA will eventually penalize us. Georgia needs to have a training class for all the coaches and especially the head coaches on how to use a cell phone and a class on compliance with the NCAA rules. Then the coaches need to have the patience to use it correctly and prove they have the intelligence not to make a mistake.
If I was the NCAA I would send a registered letter to every college stating this type violation will not be considered minor any longer and treated as serious. Then, I bet the colleges would treat it as serious too, which they are not doing now.
7576DAWG
August 5th, 2011
3:36 pm
I know we have classes on NCAA rule compliance on a regular bases now but it is obvious that the people in attendance are not listening and giving it any respect.
Dirty Dawg
August 5th, 2011
3:39 pm
Hey oldschooltechguy…how many ’secondary violations’ before being penalized? Oh about 350-something dollars worth…and a couple of ‘turning a blind eye’ to academics fraud.
GTBob
August 5th, 2011
3:42 pm
Not that I think this is a big deal but are UGA coaches really that dumb that they keep false dialing/texting recruiting prospects? Seems more likely they are just doing whatever they want and reporting it because it doesn’t matter anyways.
JB
August 5th, 2011
3:49 pm
GTbob…………you think hitting a errant button on your phone makes you dumb. I’m thinking ignoring a letter of a possible violation from the NCAA…….and playing the players anyway makes you……..as you say…….dumb.
Mad Dog One
August 5th, 2011
3:49 pm
@ Excuses and Lies You are so full of it your eyes are turning brown.
DoubleDownDawgFan
August 5th, 2011
3:55 pm
WE ARE NUTHIN BUT A BUNCH OF CHEATS!!!!
Vince Lombardi
August 5th, 2011
3:55 pm
UGA; king of the secondary violations. There’ll be even more next week.
.
August 5th, 2011
3:57 pm
This issue reveals:
1.) If UGA was wilfully “cheating” they would not self-report — this shows aggressive compliance action by the Athletic Dept
2.) Highlight’s the trivial and mis-guided nature of NCAA by-laws
3.) Demonstrates the absurdity and embarassingly poor job that the AJC did on the GT investagation — the AJC continually spams UGA w/ FOIA requests trolling for any possible nugget while GT receives a Letter of Inquiry from the NCAA is under investigation for over a year. Outstanding work guys!!
greg
August 5th, 2011
3:58 pm
good thing the ajc is using the open records act to such great success. To bad they failed to do it in Tech’s case and never knew they were under NCAA investigation. This paper has become so bad that it’s comical.
Where is the story on the 4th arrest this year of a UF football player for pot?
Where is the story about the Auburn player who was kicked off the team for selling his BCS ring for $500?
No instead we get this little nugget above about an (1!) butt dial, and then the nonstory about Troupe earlier in the week.
Stay classy AJC, and make sure to continue to use your powers of the press for such needed work!
hammerhead
August 5th, 2011
3:59 pm
I pocket-dialed a client once while taking a leak. Talk about embarrassing!
NOTSO FAST
August 5th, 2011
3:59 pm
The only thing that jumps out at me is that it took him 47 seconds to realize that he had called the wrong number.
Mark (another one)
August 5th, 2011
3:59 pm
The real question is why the personal and business numbers are on the same phone. Do they make personal calls on a University phone, or does the school not provide business phones to the coaches? The separation would make them stop and think, and avoid personal use of state assets.
JT DAWG
August 5th, 2011
4:00 pm
Really? This gets a blawg? Really? Bye AJC! We are no longer in a relationship. Bye Bye forever! Shameful! When did this become journalism? TMZ is more credible than this garbage!
GTBob
August 5th, 2011
4:03 pm
you think hitting a errant button on your phone makes you dumb.
Yes, I do. There is only about 1000 ways to avoid this. They could just not keep the recruits numbers in their cell phone, separate them into different folders, use a different phone for contacting recruits, look before they press buttons, etc.
JT DAWG
August 5th, 2011
4:09 pm
GTBob said,”Yes, I do. There is only about 1000 ways to avoid this. They could just not keep the recruits numbers in their cell phone, separate them into different folders, use a different phone for contacting recruits, look before they press buttons, etc.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! WHAT A NERD!!!!!!!
ugakev
August 5th, 2011
4:09 pm
notsofast, how about read the article! It took 47 seconds because he left a voice mail telling the kid not to call back. Maybe you can learn some reading comprehension when middle school starts back next week.
@GTBob
August 5th, 2011
4:10 pm
You are not very bright and obviously have never used or owned a cell phone.
PR
August 5th, 2011
4:10 pm
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Please wake me up when there is real news being reported
258DAWG
August 5th, 2011
4:11 pm
GTbob needs to wake up – it’s 2011 not 1984 when you had your g/f sister name and number written on your hand…..
seperate them in folders……… I just picture some dork trying to be organized with folders and sticky notes everywhere…….. Leave it to tech fan!
FYI, where are the other 998 ways bob?
UGA Insider
August 5th, 2011
4:11 pm
To AJC:
I DO NOT blame Chip Towers one bit! I do blame his bosses who are trying to make themselves look better in lou of the GT debacle. Which by the way should have been an embarrassment to everyone who works there.
Anyways, I know some liberal elite is busting Chip’s balls to dig up dirt and probably to just go ahead and send a open records letter to UGA every week to see what’s new.
I got your back Chip but those liberal elites you work for suck.
Destin Dawg
August 5th, 2011
4:15 pm
no story here.. but good things happening in Athens.. go dawgs !! can’t wait !!
Jimmy Crack
August 5th, 2011
4:18 pm
Interesting, making a speed dial entry for a number that you’re not supposed to call.
reebok
August 5th, 2011
4:20 pm
tech fan here. this is lame. the ncaa needs to find something worthwhile to do. good luck until november 26th.
charliedawg
August 5th, 2011
4:21 pm
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ…some print worthy news please.
Joey
August 5th, 2011
4:21 pm
Does McClendon have to give back any of that sweet $50,000+ raise?
atltiger15
August 5th, 2011
4:22 pm
greg
August 5th, 2011
3:58 pm
good thing the ajc is using the open records act to such great success. To bad they failed to do it in Tech’s case and never knew they were under NCAA investigation. This paper has become so bad that it’s comical.
Where is the story on the 4th arrest this year of a UF football player for pot?
Where is the story about the Auburn player who was kicked off the team for selling his BCS ring for $500?
No instead we get this little nugget above about an (1!) butt dial, and then the nonstory about Troupe earlier in the week.
Stay classy AJC, and make sure to continue to use your powers of the press for such needed work!
You mean the AU player that attempted but didnt go through with selling his ring that was immediately dismissed…Know the facts before you post, that usually saves you from looking foolish
Excuses and Lies
August 5th, 2011
4:24 pm
Mad Dog One
August 5th, 2011
3:49 pm
@ Excuses and Lies You are so full of it your eyes are turning brown.
—————————————————————————————————————–
The point is that according to some quick research, this is the 5th case this year alone where inadvertant phone or text messages were sent to prospects that violated rules.
At least be smart enough to use a pay as you go phone if you are going to store prospects numbers in a phone that is owned or paid for by UGA athletics and is reportable to the UGA athletic department.
Call me what you like, that is fine, but this whole case is going to cost UGA and when it does, none of you defense attorneys will have a case.
bk
August 5th, 2011
4:27 pm
Why is it that UGA is reporting inadvertent calls when no benefit gained yet Alabama does not report potential benefits to players via mens clothing store?
meh
August 5th, 2011
4:28 pm
it’s them new fangled touchscreen phones. they need some flip phones.
RabidDawgFan
August 5th, 2011
4:29 pm
NCAA has too many stupid rules
bulldogmaniac
August 5th, 2011
4:29 pm
nothing to see here….move along.
ugafan
August 5th, 2011
4:30 pm
Unbelievable that this is even news. Its on the scale of Obama going out to ask Iowans what they think about the job situation while things are crumbling on other fronts. The Techie who wonders how many secondary violations we can have its obviously more than 5 cause that is what you had with your coaches who got suspended for far far worse secondary violations.
Excuses and Lies
August 5th, 2011
4:32 pm
bk,
The largest, biggest and most obvious differenc is the fact that recruiting players to a campus is under a major microscope and players signing items is directed to a player not a coach. These are coaches who did not follow rules and gained an advantage if ANY contact is made.
Excuses and Lies
August 5th, 2011
4:33 pm
difference
GTBob
August 5th, 2011
4:34 pm
I’m a nerd because you guys don’t know how to use modern phones? Or maybe you guys can’t afford phones that have that kind of functionality. Either way, if you have phone numbers in your contact list that could get you into trouble with the NCAA if you call them, then you might want to take a little better precaution. Maybe UGA could create a how to use a cell phone class. It would be a little more advanced then housing but could prove worth it in the end.
ugakev
August 5th, 2011
4:44 pm
gtbob…i have a gf name samantha and a regular friend named samantha. I have accidentally called the wrong samantha before. That doesnt make me stupid. Things like that can happen outside of your perfect little bubble you must be living in. People get in a hurry sometimes and they glance down at a name and hit the send button to call. Most all of us have done it. I know I have and will prob do it again before I die.
UGA
August 5th, 2011
4:51 pm
Hate to say this…but a 47 second call is not inadvertent. Count it off…1-1thousand; 2-1 thousand; 3 1-thousand; 4 1-thousand; 5- 1 thousand; 6 1-thousand; 7 – 1 thousand; That is all it takes to make the comment listed above providing you are a real slow talker. So what was the other 38 seconds used for???? Amazed how this staff feels it must cheat to be successful at UGA. My goodness we own this state and almost everyone is a UGA fan. So why can’t we get enough recruits just within our own state to be win the weakened SEC EAST???? Past time for some new coaching blood to lead us to the promised land.
bk
August 5th, 2011
4:55 pm
Thanks for your thoughts Excuses and Lies. Does it not change things when the Alabama assistant coach is also seen in the store with all the autograph stuff behind him???
Frank
August 5th, 2011
5:01 pm
Based on recent penalties it will be necessary to have 4 actual human sacrifices
dawg from a distance
August 5th, 2011
5:09 pm
LB from Florida is a bigger story. Did he qualify?
Insanity!
August 5th, 2011
5:14 pm
These man made laws by the NCAA is insane. I promise you that if coaches had to take an assessment of their understanding of the NCAA Division I athletics manual that 75% would flunk it. It’s not because they’re not smart enough to pass it; it’s because it’s to darn complicated. Analogy: US Tax Code.
Matthews Dawg
August 5th, 2011
5:14 pm
Dawgs just received great news of another lineman coming in 2012!! Go Dawgs and he is huge!!
Matthews Dawg
August 5th, 2011
5:15 pm
It’s posted on UGASports.com
Matthews Dawg
August 5th, 2011
5:16 pm
here is the website: http://uga.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1248155
Stasi
August 5th, 2011
5:20 pm
I see a pattern here…not unlike the pattern of wins per season…11, 10, 9, 7, 6, can five be far behind?
Tampa Gator
August 5th, 2011
5:24 pm
dawg from a distance……
I would not hold my breath on Turene qualifying at this late date…….and I think he would be best served….academically……by going the JC route first and then come to Georgia better qualifed to be a college student…..but I understand that a kid’s educaitonal needs are not the primary concern to some…..but should be.
Columbus
August 5th, 2011
5:39 pm
Nothing here but UGA does need to be more careful. SO not matter what all the folks on here that are getting bent out of shape have to say, this is nothing. It happens to ALL of us and more than once and is very understandable. I am sure that it happens at every college and we hear nothing about it because it is so minor of a thing or the schools do not report it and try hold themselves accountable like UGA. This I am sure of. The rest of you: STOP getting worked up over NOTHING. How mature are you? Age is irrelevant because I know plenty of 12 year olds who are more reasonable and mature than some of you.
1,000 ways to avoid this GTBOB? Shutup. Just like there is 1,000 ways to know that your professors are pedophiles and carrying it out on campus while “working” for years but you Einstein’s did not utilize one of them.
Who is the bigger screw-up? Oh yeah the same school that is the 3rd best team in it’s own state but in a couple of years it will be the 4th best if Curry stays at State.
P. Bull Terrier
August 5th, 2011
5:41 pm
Those suggesting UGA coaches remove the phone numbers for recruits from their phones have solved one problem, but created another. Without the recruit’s name and number stored in the phone there is a chance a coach could answer a call from an unknown number and commit a recruiting violation that way.
The real problem isn’t UGA coaches’ cell phone usage. Imagine if we all had to report every single misdialed call we made or received and every inadvertent text message that we sent or received during the last year to the newspaper, along with the results of a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding the error. The problem is that the NCAA has so many rules that it’s almost impossible to avoid breaking one from time to time. The NCAA spends so much time dealing with reports of trivial matters like mis-dialed phones that they don’t have time to investigate the real cheaters who are giving players cash and other gifts under the table.
Likewise, the AJC spends so much time sending open records requests to UGA so they can report this junk and generate page views that they didn’t have time to find out that Tech was under NCAA investigation for the last year. I’m not sure which was worse: the over the top penalty that Tech received for a minor infraction, or the fact that the AJC had no idea there was even an investigation until it was over.
ugakev
August 5th, 2011
5:50 pm
uga….lmao at how stupid you are!! The phone counts the time while the phone is ringing so the 47 seconds makes perfect sense. it probably took 30-35 seconds for the voice mail to pick up. Some people dont use their brains.
WONDERING
August 5th, 2011
5:51 pm
How many times or how long can we say–woooops, an accident? JUST WONDERING.
P. Bull Terrier
August 5th, 2011
5:53 pm
47 seconds might sound like a long time for those who don’t understand how cell phone billing records report calls. It can take 5 – 10 seconds from the time the call is placed until the first ring tone. That 5 – 10 seconds is included in the call record. It can take another 15 – 20 seconds for the phone to ring long enough to go to voice mail. That time is also included in the call record. Add in the time it takes to listen to a message, listen for the beep, and then leave a quick apology for the mis-dialed call and 47 seconds seems like a very short amount of time to complete the process.
George O'Leary
August 5th, 2011
5:54 pm
I guess the University of Cental Florida gets to keep the Liberty Bowl Trophy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . after giving up two field goals and a cloud of dust to Bobo.
BG
August 5th, 2011
5:56 pm
Wow what a violation!
Delbert D.
August 5th, 2011
6:02 pm
No, not the Fulmer Cup. These count in the Alexander Graham Bell Derby.
Dostoyevskiy
August 5th, 2011
6:15 pm
Must be those fat, fleshy fingers.
Coach
August 5th, 2011
6:19 pm
Get them a Jitter-Bug phone. Maybe then they won’t have these “mistakes” (wink, wink)!!! Everybody believes that too right?
Bob
August 5th, 2011
6:50 pm
I think the self-imposed penalty should be the immediate dismissal of McClendon…what value has he added the past three seasons? And he just received a raise, too! What a comedy of errors…who’s in control in Athens?
Burma Shave
August 5th, 2011
7:06 pm
Richt is a cheater
And a phony saint
He’s so overpaid
I think I’ll faint
BURMA SHAVE
Bob
August 5th, 2011
7:13 pm
Burma…LOL, good one. I think Richt came to UGA with good intentions, but was corrupted by the money and blinded by unfounded friendships. Just my opinion.
dawgfan
August 5th, 2011
7:22 pm
A couple of UGA coaches accidently butt dial some recruits and the AJC is on it like flies on you know what with all of their open records requests. Meanwhile, the Techies are being investigated by the NCAA for nearly TWO YEARS and it goes completely unnoticed. Has any AJC windbag ever attempted to explain this blatant double standard? I doubt it.
J Clay
August 5th, 2011
7:34 pm
The real story is the gym coach wishing another lady Happy Valentine’s Day…um maybe she should not be in the locker room, know what I mean?
GATA
August 5th, 2011
7:45 pm
NCAA IS WAAAAAAAACK!!!!!
longdog
August 5th, 2011
7:57 pm
GT Bob your professors must not know how to use a computer as he got caught with kiddie porn what a hack
GTBob
August 5th, 2011
8:03 pm
Is attacking some ex associate professor the best you guys have? Maybe if he would have shot his wife and a few other people he could have taught at UGA.
dawgfan
August 5th, 2011
8:08 pm
GT Bob, is one win in 10 years the best your piece of crap football program has?
UGA Law Dawg
August 5th, 2011
8:08 pm
Our coaches are coaches for a reason! They are not very bright.
ole yeller
August 5th, 2011
8:10 pm
My goodness, how can any school keep up with the inane efforts of the NCAA to cause pain to schools. Minor or major these clowns are out to press charges against anyone to get power over the breadwinners that pay their salary. The NCAA and its leadership will eventually pay the price. Members will one day say enough is enough. I am a Tech fan but in fairness to UGA this is crap.
Hot Dawg
August 5th, 2011
8:15 pm
With player’s sending death threat’s on cellphone’s, throwing stolen laptop’s out of dorm window’s (same player’s pop shopping him around to the highest bidder ) Q.B. playing after being suspended multiple time’s ,etc. etc. why is this news worthy ?
GTBob
August 5th, 2011
8:27 pm
Yep dawgfan, that is the best we have. If we had any better then we would have won more then one. Personally, i’m shocked that we even won one. 9-1 is not a good record against us. If you had a better coach you would have been 10-0 without even playing your starters.
Win P.
August 5th, 2011
8:28 pm
To: GTBob @ 4:03pm..You only listed 4 ways to avoid the misdial problem. Where are the remaining 996 ways to avoid. You are guilty of the same thing that many are complaining about..AJC’s reporting and NCAA’s “ruling”…slightly excessive.
RedandBlackDAWG
August 5th, 2011
8:29 pm
Dog Gone astray,
A 47 second inadvertent phone call, and to top it off, no real contact, was made and you think this is somehow deliberate? Might have been different if he had talked to the kid and even more different if he had actually offered him cash or something. There are so many little stupid rules, that accidents will happen. At least UGA reports them.
Beast from the East
August 5th, 2011
8:30 pm
47 second accidental phone call?
I say give ‘em the Death Penalty!
LOL!
dawgfan
August 5th, 2011
8:35 pm
Nobody said it was a good record. Vandy has the same record. Kentucky has done better. Obviously Georgia Tech is a complete joke. You’re preaching to the choir there bro. You asked a question if references to your kiddy porn professor was all that we UGA fans had on Tech. I answered it for you with big fat resounding NO. That is not all we have on Tech. We beat you like a rented mule on a football field without even breaking a sweat, as you just pointed out.
You’re welcome.
deaddog
August 5th, 2011
8:37 pm
Wait till the operations done at the medical center become public.
GTBob
August 5th, 2011
8:39 pm
You absolutely do dawgfan, kudos to you for being able to beat one of the worst teams in the country on a regular basis. That puts you up there close to Virginia I think. It’s too bad you can’t beat anyone else, and your school is an embarrassment in just about every other way.
Thanks.
What this really exposes
August 5th, 2011
8:42 pm
GT lost their pathetic ACC trophy, resting now in the basement of the Waffle House corporate offices ……………for systemic cheating top to bottom in the ADM offices at the Sledge Building AND they had to write a check for $100,000.00 skins paybale to the NCAA.
UGA’s issues? They will not take back out last SEC Trophy or our Sugar Bowl ( 3 in the last 10 yrs) win. THAT is the difference folks. They will slap us on the hands on this minor issue in a climate of strong NCAA sanctions.
Watch it and weep GT fans. Um, ah, did your check clear yet???
southgeorgiadawg
August 5th, 2011
8:48 pm
does uga offer a course called how to use a phone 101 ???? get all the coaches to take it, please !!!!
Win P.
August 5th, 2011
8:51 pm
With Tech’s inclination to ignor NCAA’s rules, I would not expect to find Tech reporting a misdial. This rule is one that deserves beening ignored. I beginning to think UGA is overly sensative to the NCAA and these violations fit into a category I would label…”don’t think I would have reported”.
Tech Guy
August 5th, 2011
8:53 pm
So what was it that toppled your empire, former coach richt?
Cellphones and them dadgum motor scooters. We never could figure out either one of them, so its back to cow tipping and hog calling for us….
BobDawg
August 5th, 2011
9:04 pm
GTBob, I do agree that with the Iphones and other gadgets out there that Dawg coaches could separate recruits into folders and or use a different phone..This is getting old…
I guess the rule is you can’t call twice in the same month after the 15th day of the 3rd Thursday until midnight of the 4th Tuesday shows up with a Full Moon!
CAN WE JUST START PLAYING FOOTBALL???
hind tit
August 5th, 2011
9:25 pm
Why don’t we just do away with cell phones and computers. Have we forgot what a wondeful world it was before they apeared.
Win P.
August 5th, 2011
9:39 pm
To: Tech Guy @ 8:53pm..You do make a good point. UGA should have courses on riding scooters and using cellphones, or perhaps it could be one course. Tech on the otherhand should have a course on the proper way to be mugged on North Avenue.
BobDawg
August 5th, 2011
9:51 pm
…. I was wrong above… You can’t call twice in the same month after the 15th day of the 3rd Thursday until midnight of the 4th Tuesday shows up with a half Moon unless there is a haze around the moon which means that major storms are about to enter the area which could cause cell phone interference which means that no cell phone calls can be place to a potential recruit…..
Just Think About It...
August 5th, 2011
9:52 pm
Win P.-Good one. The only problem I see is that, while a course on riding scooters and cellphone usage would be beneficial to UGA’s football team, a course on how to be mugged is not beneficial. A course on mugging prevention would be more suitable for Tech students.
Anyway, while I do believe that he gained no benefit from dialing this Harris kid, I have to agree with an earlier poster as to why this kid’s number was in his speed dial? In most every phone I have seen, contacts are organized (in the regular contact list) by first name, not last, so Jay and Drew would not be near each other.
84@74sborohasbeen
August 5th, 2011
10:20 pm
This accidental call S### is way out of hand on the NCAA side. If the NCAA powers that be have nothing better to do, they might as well go to Washington and join in with the restof the idiots tryingto ruin anything worth a damn. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
What one person asked
August 5th, 2011
10:30 pm
The inadvertant call is a non-issue.
What one person has asked, and no one has answered is why is an assistant gym coach calling a potential recruit to wish her “Happy Valentines Day”?!?!?! I could understand a Happy Birthday maybe, but Valentines Day? That’s just creepy.
ole yeller
August 5th, 2011
10:51 pm
Hey guys I tried to be civil up to now, but you have football players caught for urinating on the streets and not showing up for court dates that’s the latest even before practice starts. Just a long line of the past. These kind of moral issues will haunt your team until some discipline is demanded out of your leader. So far no good. I remember back to FSU when Bobby Bowden and Mark Richt ran the program, nothing has changed and sad to say, UGA is now the FSU of Ga. God forgive me I just posted on a Ga. blog.
drbasic
August 5th, 2011
11:44 pm
old yeller
your a moron. Civil? Peeing behind some bushes…big friggin deal! Its not a moral issue and if YOU see it as such you have major issues….your right stay off the GA blogs. Worry about real issues not non issues that this paper has to dig up. Geez
bardawg
August 5th, 2011
11:46 pm
I accidently made an inadvertent call to a business accociate today because of the stupid , stinking redial button on my cell phone . ( which I keep in my pants pocket) . How in the world could this totally innocent act be construed as a violation of recruiting is beyond me. Love ya NCAA , you folks are the cheese!
bardawg
August 5th, 2011
11:54 pm
Old Yeller , If you feel uncomfortable posting on a UGA blog , please let me invite you not to screw up and do that again. Stay your littlepuppy butt off the porch with thebigdawgs and we’ll see how things shake out thisyear.
whatever
August 6th, 2011
12:14 am
Yea, right – “inadvertent calls” – sounds like UGA (Sir St. Mark) is trying to pull one on the recruiting front.
ole yeller
August 6th, 2011
12:28 am
drbasic and bardawg please, both you are idiots. You attended school at UGA? I think not. Have either of you attended a game at Sanford Stadium? Next question, did either of you go to any college at all? I do not feel uncomfortable posting here just a little embarrassed that I could sink unto your gutter level. Just as a side note I will never sink to the level of posting on a UGA blog again. It’s immature and irreverent.
mo
August 6th, 2011
1:35 am
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mo
August 6th, 2011
1:37 am
um in the midst of all the football wrongdoings did anyone catch that the female gymnastics coach called to wish an underage recruit a happy valentines day, why?
65dawg
August 6th, 2011
6:46 am
Thank God we got another offensive lineman to commit! OOPS, wrong post. Hit the wrong key! Chip, better report me to your editor.
shoo
August 6th, 2011
9:18 am
you have adult gym dog coaches wishing underage kids a happy valentines day? not only is that creepy that is so inappropriate, why is uga allowing that to go on? or for that matter the clark county authorities? and why is all you poopdogs on here ignoring that? hypocrites
5$ Dawg
August 6th, 2011
9:48 am
Haha, I bet Chip wishes he had checked the “Close Comments on Blog” button before posting this. 80% of the comments are pointing out how weak the AJC’s reporting is on UGA and Tech.
RedandBlackDAWG
August 6th, 2011
9:49 am
Poor old “Ole Yeller”. Now you guys have hurt his feelings. He is never going to come back on this blog and play with you anymore, LOL. He took his toys and went home. A glass of milk and some of mom’s cookies should make him feel better.
I-DOG
August 6th, 2011
11:29 am
Old School Tech Fanatic:
Did you even read this brief article. The assistant coach self reported the inadvertant phone call to the NCAA. It was a 47 second phone call in which the coach told the recruit he dialed him by accident and because of limits on contact that the recruit should not call him back.
The key here is that UGA self reported this incredibly minor infraction unlike tech who has swept things under the rug and played academically ineligible players knowingly. If you can’t see the difference, then you can’t be helped.
DAWGMAN
August 6th, 2011
11:31 am
Coach McClendon,
STADIUM STEPS, NOW. Do not stop till I say to stop. cmr, you go,too. He’s yours.
I-DOG
August 6th, 2011
11:41 am
dog gone astray:
I’m sure that 47 phone call went something like this. “Hi Drew, it is coach Mac at UGA. listen, I am going to talk fast so that it looks like I am just leaving a msg saying that I called you by mistake, but we can match Auburn on the $40,000 offer to play for them just like the Newton deal. Also, if you get in trouble for firing an automatic weapon into a crowd like that Florida player did or if you break into a car impound lot like at Florida, we can get that swept under the rug and you will still play. If you are academically ineligible, we will still play you just like Georgia Tech,so you don’t have to worry about that. Also, if you savagely beat someone at a bar with your teamates within an inch of their life like at Tennesee, you won’t miss any playing time (I mean you might have to do some extra sprints or something, but we want you to play). Last, we can now suspend you up to 6 times during the offseason just like Garcia at South Carolina, so that you don’t miss any playing time.
Pay no attention to these reports in Athens about kids missing game time for something they do on their scooters. It can’t be that different at UGA than it is at all these other schools, right? You can’t possibly believe that can you? Alright, I’ll MISTAKENLY call you again real soon.”
RedandBlackDAWG
August 6th, 2011
12:09 pm
Shoo,
If UGA was allowing it to go on, they wouldn’t have self reported it now, would they?
Cheaters never win,
Guess what, people that post useless comments, and statements without facts, like you to, also seldom ever win either. What a groundless, stupid statement to make, but I suspect you are just a snert.
GO DAWGS
Ronnie
August 6th, 2011
3:04 pm
These men are in charge of a multi-million dollar business….football program…and dont’ know how to operate “smart” phones. You have to be smarter than what you’re working with. Come on guys.
Dawg1
August 6th, 2011
4:56 pm
140 comments?
Are you kidding me… It was a slow day – so this was written – this means “nothing”…
Mike
August 7th, 2011
11:43 am
It’s simple … UGA should give these guys a work phone (blackberry or something), and they should have their own phone. They should not be able to make personal calls on their work phones.
Just my opinion. Easily solved.
trey
August 7th, 2011
12:40 pm
Oh no!
But … are they on probation? Did they have to forfeit any wins? No? No? Not like the techmites did?
Next…
Mark Richt farewell tour
August 7th, 2011
9:09 pm
I’m not the only stupid UGA football coach that don’t know how to use a cellphone.