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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UGASlobberknocker
August 15th, 2011
8:34 pm
I’m surprised the Athens Po Po didnt swoop in and give him a ticket for negligent scooting.
Augustajacket
August 15th, 2011
8:35 pm
Tell Rambo to help him, Mabe Rambo could sleep with him tonight Rambo would love that.
How bout them BEES!!!
August 15th, 2011
8:35 pm
UGA needs to offer a scooter class. Scooter 101.
Dostoyevskiy
August 15th, 2011
9:04 pm
How’s about 3-wheelers?
Mobile Dawg
August 15th, 2011
9:09 pm
Maybe Cynthia Tucker could be talked into riding a scooter?
MarineDog
August 15th, 2011
9:23 pm
For the posters that think that UGA should not have hired Cynthia Tucker because of her liberal views; I think that she has as much right to freedom of speech as anyone else. How is it any different from each you stating your opinion? This is a free country. I have spent my entire adult life defending those exact . In fact, I have lost some good friends who have died defending that right. That’s what so special about being an American. We can’t just ban something that we don’t like.
Mobile Dawg
August 15th, 2011
9:38 pm
I don’t think they should have “not” hired CT just because of her liberal views, I think they should have just not hired her because she’s not a good fit for UGA. She can voice her liberal, racially biased opinions all she wants, just don’t think UGA should have hired her, she would fit in well at say, Columbia. Now on the other hand if she were a caucasian journalist voicing similar opinions she would be crucified. Unfortunately your “admirable” efforts have enabled our great nation to become extremely vunerable. For that I don’t have a good solution.
Dumb Jean shorts
August 15th, 2011
9:49 pm
Hey Tony!!!!!
Uhhhhh…. Boise just fired the AD, they
are about to get some big time sanctions, some other problems going on up there too. Its on espn everyday. Nice post dummy!
Hairy Perry
August 15th, 2011
10:18 pm
Can we get roll cages installed on these things!
Hairy Perry
August 15th, 2011
10:21 pm
I’m glad he’s ok.
Hairy Perry
August 15th, 2011
10:21 pm
GOODNIGHT!
dawg in the west
August 16th, 2011
12:05 am
Glad he’s ok too. Ray Drew’s gonna be a great one.
dawgs66
August 16th, 2011
3:07 am
begeez – just buy them cars, like Ohio State, and be done with this scooter disasters
DAWG 73
August 16th, 2011
6:32 am
President Adams is well aware of the issue having visited Chance Veazey @ Shepherd Center. He, Greg McGarity, Ron Courson and the entire sports staff have ratcheted the program of Scooter safety. You can never get inside all those 18 to 20 year old heads. Some accidents are simply the fault of others which was the case with Chance Veazey.
(and I know all this from talking with Adams, McGarity and Courson. Why bother with email when you have their cell numbers)
Jay
August 16th, 2011
7:20 am
I went to UGA. A scooter is the easiest way to get around that campus. You can pull up to the front door of your class most time instead of a 30 minute bus ride. Just be glad they aren’t riding motorcycles like the rich kids from Buckhead.
RGP
August 16th, 2011
7:47 am
Maybe UGA needs to add a Scooter 101 class to their curriculum. It would give the athletes additional credits and may cut down on the accidents.
kool$kat
August 16th, 2011
7:52 am
Who’s paying for the scooters? Is it in the athletic dept budget? Do athletes from other sports have access to them? What about your average student? Whats the average cost of the scooters, I may want one? Are they required to have tags? Do you have to have a valid driver’s license to operate them?
AltamahaDawg
August 16th, 2011
8:18 am
I think there is a bit of an over-reaction to the Tucker hire. I personally wouldn’t hire her to clean my pool (depending on what she wore to do it I suppose) but I don’t run a J-school. I’m guessing she would have to stand in a pretty long line to qualify as the most liberal professor on that campus.
She “should be able to teach how to produce an article, film a story, even write an incredibly biased editorial if a student got a job to do that, without corrupting clear minded young adults in the process. I am fully confident that my kids wouldn’t come home with her view from taking her class. In fact, I believe she would only prove to be a stark contrast is she tried. Plus, I actually think boundaries have been set..
(just doesn’t seem like a PR smart hire to me)
ncaa says
August 16th, 2011
8:54 am
Those players use to all have cars, but we stopped that. Now they have to carry those signed jerseys to the tat parlor on those scooters.
misunderstood
August 16th, 2011
8:57 am
Hey coach are you sure that what you actually said was ” I get to ride all the “scooter” I want on campus”?
VoyeurDawg
August 16th, 2011
9:25 am
On the hiring of Cynthia Tucker, if you didn’t already know that M. Adams is a left-wing nut job, who is unable to walk out on the field in Sanford Stadium without being booed and cursed, then you might not understand. I am told that the UGA School of Journalism did not have anyone to teach Commie 101 and Cynthia applied for the job.
Regarding the Pulitzer Prize, the list of winners looks like a Who’s Who of Failed Socialist Governments we have known and loved…, and would include the one Jimmy Carter. When they hang Cynthia’s photo on the Socialist Wall of Let’s-Try-This-One-More-Time-Surely-It-Will-Work-This-Time, her photo will be just to the left of Jimmy’s and Barack’s…
Stick
August 16th, 2011
9:53 am
We have to pay so much tuition. I hate having to pay for my kid to listen to American Hater: C Tucker,but with Adams in charge,this doesn’t shock anymore. C.Tucker, my kid will carry a recorder in your class…….You trash my country too much and I will do all in my power to kick your axx out.
Tard Dawg
August 16th, 2011
10:14 am
Must not be that great of an athlete if he can’t even ride a scooter without falling over.
Tard Dawg
August 16th, 2011
10:15 am
pdawg – these student atheletes are paid with a free education. Its up to them to take advantage of it.
Tard Dawg
August 16th, 2011
10:27 am
I guess its hard to take advantage of a free education at UGA. maybe you’re right and these idiots should get paid.
Jborodawg
August 16th, 2011
11:16 am
Seems that every other post is an over-reaction to the scooters. Three football players in two years…far as I can tell. I bet there’s been WAY more injuries to the student population overall on bicycles during those two years. I’d even bet there’s been people injured on the campus buses.
Chance Veazey was paralyzed after a scooter accident in 2009. That’s sad and terrible. But banning scooters is a little overboard. Someone also seems to think the ath-a-letic dept pays for the scooters. Not.
One of the funniest is, “…they get in the way of buses and cars…on an already overcrowded campus…” Oh, the irony!
I’m just saying, don’t over-react. Just wish Mr Drew well and a speedy recovery. (And…how’d C.Tucker get mixed up in this?!)
Jborodawg
August 16th, 2011
11:19 am
Said Richt: “It’s very difficult for some of these guys to get where they have to get because there is such a short window of time in between class and the tutoring and the study hall and lunch and getting here for treatment and taping and all that. The scooters have allowed those guys to get around, so I’m not ready to say no scooters. But they do need to be careful.”
go gators....
August 16th, 2011
12:00 pm
we gators have decided to help out with the uga slush funds and start taking contributions to help buy all dumb dawg football players scooters.
have to ask though…. what is the deal with 5 star athletes not being able to chew gum and drive a freakin scooter at the same time. only a dawg would have that problem.