UGA 5-star LB Ray Drew injured in Sunday scooter accident
Ray Drew poses for his AJC Super 11 photo last summer. (Photo by Jason Getz)
ATHENS – Another weekend, another scooter crash.
The latest victim is linebacker Ray Drew. The star freshman from Thomasville apparently wiped out on his scooter Sunday coming home from church and suffered a sprained shoulder as a result. UGA announced the accident in a two-sentence news release sent out at 9:01 a.m. Monday morning. The exact extent of Drew’s injuries is unknown but availability for practice is “day-to-day,” according to UGA director of sports medicine Ron Courson.
Drew was a five-star-rated recruiting prospect and high school All-American coming out of Thomas County Central. He’s currently running second-team weakside (or Will) linebacker behind junior Cornelius Washington.
Drew was not available for comment but sent out a tweet on Twitter.com indicating his was going to be OK. “I’m so glad I don’t look like what I’ve been through . . . praise God.”
Defensive end Derrick Lott suffered a gash on his right leg in a scooter accident earlier this summer and was sidelined for a month. Linebacker Chase Vasser had an accident with injuries in the spring of 2010. And, of course, baseball player Chance Veazey was paralyzed after a scooter accident in 2009.
Dozens of football players and other UGA athletes use the small, motorized scooters to zip around campus because they’re easy to park and inexpensive to operate. An area next to the Butts-Mehre football complex is known as “scooter alley” because of the dozens of scooters parked there daily.
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Bishop Cecil Newton
August 15th, 2011
3:34 pm
If this young brother had hired me to negotiate his signing bonus, he wouldn’t be driving some cheap scooter.
kevin
August 15th, 2011
3:35 pm
I like his quote about praising god for only having a sprained shoulder. Does he also praise god for causing the wreck in the first place.
AltamahaDawg
August 15th, 2011
3:35 pm
Wrong Cynthia there JB
schmeckdawg
August 15th, 2011
3:38 pm
Cyntia Tucker SUCKS……………………………she is one malignant human, but, with Michael Adams as President, what would you expect but a A Damn Sorry Dawg!!!!!!!
Von Trapp
August 15th, 2011
3:39 pm
Cynthia Tucker is probably the WORST person to put in our fine journalism school at UGA. I have never read such garbage from such a bitter writer in decades. She will give you one side all right. America sux is her mantra
In_the_cellar
August 15th, 2011
3:39 pm
I cant wait for football, and I got my fingers crossed that UGA will be SEC champs.
schmeckdawg
August 15th, 2011
3:40 pm
Dawg4Ever
August 15th, 2011
3:31 pm
Cynthia Tucker at UGA? That does it. I’m changing my handle to Dawg4OneMoreDay. Tucker is not a journalist. She’s a liberal idiot
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Putting it very kindly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UGA Alumnus
August 15th, 2011
3:40 pm
@savannahdawg
August 15th, 2011
3:33 pm
Why is it that the car (in the mind of the driver) gets the rule of the road in this backward country? There are way more irresponsible and dangerous car drivers on the road than scooter and bike riders. Automobiles kill more people in this country than anything else. The leading cause of death is the automobile. People hate bikes and scooters and pedestrians because they make you 60 seconds late to picking up your Big Mac and fries at the local grease hole.
Car drivers think they should be able to drive 10 mph over the speed limit on every road they’re on. Get use to it. Bikes and scooters have the legal right to the road… As much legal right, and more moral right, than cars.
AltamahaDawg
August 15th, 2011
3:41 pm
kevin, the way it works for most Christian is that they thank God when an accident caused by own negligence only amounts to minor injuries. It’s somewhere between devine intervention and just a common expression of luck. They don’t praise God for gravity.
gadawg
August 15th, 2011
3:42 pm
LowerAL Dawg, I’m a upperAL Dawg from Muscle Shoals. I lived in Lower Alabama (Daleville) for 17 years and I agree with you I almost killed myself on my scooter the first day I aquired it. UGA does need to provide training on how to operate a scooter and make them take a test to show they know how. GO DAWGS
crazy man
August 15th, 2011
3:46 pm
UGA—the nutt nutt school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!When are they going to change leaders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!This school is a joke!!
aladawg
August 15th, 2011
3:47 pm
Schmec Dawg, I agree with you and the others who have made statements pertaining to Cynthia Tucker. She is one of the biggest raciest in the world and is a left wing liberal idiot.
schmeckdawg
August 15th, 2011
3:47 pm
UGA Alumnus
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You are SO WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! People riding bikes have almost killed me on multiple occassions. And the reason that “automobiles” kill more people is that you have complete morons riding bikes and scooters thinking that they have complete control of the road. Not only to mention that hundreds of millions of people drive motorized vehicles instead of bikes (meaning cars, trucks etc.).
Lead, move, or get the hell out the way!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah, GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
schmeckdawg
August 15th, 2011
3:50 pm
@: aladawg
Thank you! Not really looking for a pat on the back…just stating the facts!!!!!!!! She is a miserable human being!!!!! Bitter, and filled with hate, and, I have absolutely no use for her or her freaking opinion!
aladawg
August 15th, 2011
4:00 pm
UGA Alumnus, if you beleive that this is a backwards country go live in Somalia for one month and you crawl on your hands and knees to get back to Georgia.
MaxxDawg
August 15th, 2011
4:05 pm
What ever happened to bicycles?
Dogs Smell
August 15th, 2011
4:06 pm
If they cant ride a scooter what makes you think they can block?
boots
August 15th, 2011
4:10 pm
If Ray Drew ran in to my car, he would win. Dude is built like a rock. Ray, hope you get better. Praise the Lord you are safe. Nice job to the team for staying clean all summer.
Joey
August 15th, 2011
4:18 pm
“Get use to it. Bikes and scooters have the legal right to the road… As much legal right, and more moral right, than cars.”
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UGA Alumnus, what the hell is a moral right to the road?
Malcolm X
August 15th, 2011
4:18 pm
Darwin at work
Bang Bang Out goes the Lights
August 15th, 2011
4:21 pm
Once again, a report on how a young man ( who is a good guy) has an accident. Those things happen. Get over it.
However the Dawgsinlexs, Altamahadoggies, and others who come on here and spout off dribble they have read at everything dawgs.com spews as the gospel, and that all things UGA are greater than everywhere else are just full of garbage fit for the landfill.
4 YEARS of pitiful play from our team and we just keep sucking on the teat from the nuggets that CMR hands out, and we are suppose to keep buying his used car salesman routine and wimpy sandwich of buy my thoughts today and I will repay you on game day.
Same old song and dance.
MT Dog
August 15th, 2011
4:24 pm
Maybe richt can invite cynthia tucker to the Ramsey Center pool when he takes the players swimming–I heard she has a great body!!
Snoop Dawg
August 15th, 2011
4:24 pm
Here we go again…
david
August 15th, 2011
4:32 pm
make them ride tricicles
tell me again
August 15th, 2011
4:34 pm
These guys need to realize that little scooters and big people are a bad match – those things are not safe. As for Cynthiqa Tucker – the fact that she won a Pulitzer prize says more about the fall of that award than anything else I can imagine. Her writing is hardly what I would call upper tier and I make that comment without regard to her questionable logic concerning politics.
BigTimeTechFan
August 15th, 2011
4:40 pm
Glad Drew seems to be ok.
dog fans better hope Ray Drew doesn’t take one of Cynthia Tucker classes, she may fail him just for being a Christian.
RedandBlackDAWG
August 15th, 2011
4:58 pm
Does a visiting professor get paid full time or only when she teaches? She can not gain tenure can she? I bet the article saying that AJC let her go to do this job, really meant to say, they were so glad to give her away, they paid for her move there. I wonder if the subscriptions t AJC will go up, now that she is away from the paper.
TTOUGH44
August 15th, 2011
5:05 pm
I hope there is a scooter school for safety purposes! I work for a retirement community, and we have a policy that even the seniors have to attend scooter school for safety on their inhouse scooters! And, if not , there should be a requirement ( nationwide!) for riders safety and awareness!
AltamahaDawg
August 15th, 2011
5:42 pm
Did you disagee with something specific that I said , bang, bang?
NCBulldawg86
August 15th, 2011
5:44 pm
Ummmm… a 290 lb man on a tiny scooter, going down a hill. Hmmmm… Let me guess. I bet he had braking issues. Kinda like trying to break a ten speed, or whatever speed bike when it rains. This accident was not due to stupidity, but because these scooters, and big football players is not a match made in Heaven. Quite simply, get these guys to make sure they have a scooter rated for someone of their size, if such even exists. If not, and all scooters are the same, then maybe scooters aren’t the best mode of transportation for some of the bigger guys on the team.
East Repeat
August 15th, 2011
5:56 pm
All right thinking football fans are outraged about the liberal Cynthia Tucker. Puts UGA in a bad light. As for scooters and bikes having the right of way, I believe that is what they put on your tombstone when a car driver does not respect your “rights”. Here i am 6 feet under, but I swear I had the right of way. Yes, a moral victory only. I prefer to stay on top of the dirt rather than have a moral victory. Those guys are way to big and way to VALUABLE to ride scooters.
Bang Bang Out goes the Lights
August 15th, 2011
6:04 pm
Nothing directly…just the fact you continue to drink this Kool Aid and it gets very very old. Stop before you are talked off the edge from jumping.
Dixie Highway
August 15th, 2011
6:09 pm
Most of these UGA dummies simply don’t have the brains to operate a motorized vehicle. And most of them don’t have a valid driver’s license anyway.
Who cares, after they leave Athens, they’ll be pushing a shopping cart or a broom, neither of which is motorized.
wherewhenwhy
August 15th, 2011
6:11 pm
to Carrie – no disrespect to you – but there have been many idiots who have one a Pulitzer Prize, I guess many of the players drive scooters because they either don’t have a licenses or have suspended licenses.
Mikey
August 15th, 2011
6:22 pm
Cynthia Tucker at UGA. She will bring in the EPA and have the grass and hedges removed. We will all be between Barock and a hard place.
Malcolm X
August 15th, 2011
6:29 pm
I heard he was leaving Cynthia’s Tucker’s apartment in Athens at the time of the accident.
Midland Dawg
August 15th, 2011
6:30 pm
I will carry these guys on my back for a $1.00. Come on guys take a biking class or something.
Von Trapp
August 15th, 2011
6:55 pm
Mikey ain’t that far fetched in his assement of Madam Cynthia Tucker……………………She is nuts……….Don’t be surpised if she doesn’t want Black taken out of the Red and Black newspaper and change it to das RED & AFRICAN-AMERICAN newspaper……….Laugh comrades,but you vant be laughing when der Tucker gets through with her radical agenda
Sharkman
August 15th, 2011
7:03 pm
Okay…so WHY are they still allowed to ride ‘em???
King Gator
August 15th, 2011
7:07 pm
Skip the 2 a days, give these guys a lesson in motor vehicle safety before they lose anymore players. War falling from the super high dive fully dressed and td celebrations! Go Gators!
Delbert D.
August 15th, 2011
7:07 pm
Political correctness has gone way too far when the British press blamed the riots over there on “African-Americans.” Stupid, stupid stupid.
bardawg
August 15th, 2011
7:13 pm
As to the Cynthia Tucker hiring, one of the earlier posters attempted to portray anyone opposed to her hiring as being against education has her views confused with indoctrination. Ms. Tucker will most assuredly do her utmost best to fill journalism students heads with her liberal tripe.
Richt the EXCUSEMAKER
August 15th, 2011
7:15 pm
Every year we get bombarded with offseason problems or injuries to justify the underperformance by the team that follows. If it happens again…Its time to injure Richts feelings by showing him the door. Sick and Tired of these articles at the start of every season the past 3 or 4 years. Fine publish them but these should not be used to excuse anything!!! Every team in the nation has such problems. Get over it and GATA on gameday or take the excuses to Western Carolina or somewhere.
Lakedawg
August 15th, 2011
7:18 pm
Many students ride scooters other than atheletes. Hope he gets well soon and learns from this incident.
Remember Cynthia Tucker from many years ago when she first worked at AJC, she covered an incident at my workplace and the article was completely one sided and the same agenda she has continued. Shame on Adams for such a hire. Would never happen with the opposite agenda.
Tdawg
August 15th, 2011
7:19 pm
Come on guys. They may be kids but they are also grown men. If they want to ride a Harley or a Scooter is none of our affair. You’re only young once so I say have the time of your life while you still can. If I were an athlete and a school told me that I couldn’t ride this or that, then I would say goodbye. Sure there are schools out there that wouldn’t mind me riding my scooter.
Tdawg
August 15th, 2011
7:22 pm
bardawg, don’t you mean that, that Tucker idiot will try to feed her readers with her racist veiws?
Tdawg
August 15th, 2011
7:26 pm
Wow, I must have tee’d the journal off when I call the lovely mrs Tucker a racist. I see that you didn’t post my last comment that I posted about her. I now know what political party runs the Atlanta Journal. No wonder you guys are losing people.
Tdawg
August 15th, 2011
7:28 pm
I do apologize there Atlanta Journal. Seems you did post my thoughts on mrs Tucker.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 15th, 2011
7:31 pm
Yes Von Trap by allowing her we are getting closer to that? I dare say by NOT allowing her we are getting closer to it. We in this country cannot afford censorship whether we agree or disagree with it. Sme for the whole SCOOTER crap. We cannot go around censoring who can and cannot ride them. I disagree with Tucker completely but I am far from censorship. When we begin that, Von Trap, is when we begin down the road you insinuate.
GA Girl
August 15th, 2011
7:46 pm
Russ, the Temporary Mascot-you are the best commentator on here. Keep the comments coming!