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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Kirk Hilles
August 15th, 2011
10:04 am
What’s the deal with scooters!
JYD
August 15th, 2011
10:05 am
GATA
pdawg
August 15th, 2011
10:05 am
Once more reason why they should pay these student athletes
Really
August 15th, 2011
10:06 am
Man UGA needs to ban these things! Seriously, glad he’s not hurt too bad.
LowerAL Dawg
August 15th, 2011
10:07 am
Maybe UGA needs to have Scooter 101…
B
August 15th, 2011
10:08 am
“…because of they’re easy to park….” Might wanna fix that one.
Worm
August 15th, 2011
10:08 am
Get well soon big guy..With gas prices and the parking situation on campus, guys depend on scooters..
UGA Insider
August 15th, 2011
10:08 am
I hear Ray Drew is really making a big push to start.
Joe
August 15th, 2011
10:09 am
and so the debacle of 2011 begins……
TGT
August 15th, 2011
10:10 am
Get rid of the scooters and make them ride a bike! I made it through my time in Athens with my bike, and I never had a single injury.
Joey
August 15th, 2011
10:11 am
You mean, “WAS making a push to start,” Insider . . .
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 15th, 2011
10:11 am
I thought the same thing LowerAL Dawg. Sounds like we need some safety training or Scooters.
Big Dirty Dawg
August 15th, 2011
10:13 am
comical!!
murfdawg
August 15th, 2011
10:13 am
This sounds like the old Groucho Marx joke.
Cuz
August 15th, 2011
10:13 am
Ban the dang things before we can’t field a team.
chc4
August 15th, 2011
10:15 am
The only reliable things in our football program the last few years are green non-contact jerseys, no OL depth and scooter accidents. Pretty pathetic.
funny...
August 15th, 2011
10:15 am
The scooters are a sense of entitlement. It allows the players to park in front of all of the buildings and places that the other students aren’t allowed to park. They park them in motorcycle parking. It’s only a matter of time before other students catch on.
The problem with the scooters is that they are getting in the way of the buses, cars, and pedestrians on an already WAYYY overcrowded campus. Plus they’re football players and they ride around like they own the place.
DougsMugs
August 15th, 2011
10:16 am
arrrrggghhh
Bike, walk or jog around campus. Ban the dumb scooters.
funny...
August 15th, 2011
10:17 am
Georgia needs to pony up for an athletic dorm near the Dooley (Butts-Mehre) center. They’ve got enough money.
Gregg
August 15th, 2011
10:19 am
Can ANY student have a scooter on campus if they choose?
Red Fox
August 15th, 2011
10:19 am
Scholarship atheletes should sign contracts stating what is acceptable, risk averse behavior
schmeckdawg
August 15th, 2011
10:21 am
funny…
August 15th, 2011
10:17 am
Georgia needs to pony up for an athletic dorm near the Dooley (Butts-Mehre) center. They’ve got enough money.
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I wish that they could still have athletic dorms, but, the genius’ at the NCAA banned them many years ago. That’s where I think that if we could still have them, a lot of the problems going on like arrests’ would be culled!
schmeckdawg
August 15th, 2011
10:23 am
@DougsMugs
I’m with you 100%. Hell, walk or ride the damn bus like 99% of the other students do!
TTOUGH44
August 15th, 2011
10:24 am
Sadly one of my high school friends was killed in a scooter accident in Athens 1976. One can not be too careful while riding a scooter and certainly watch out for other vehicles!
tony
August 15th, 2011
10:24 am
Either Boise State is during a good job of keeping their team injuries and incidents behind close doors or the media in Idaho is protecting their team from outside criticism because I havn’t heard anything bad about their team.
UGA Insider
August 15th, 2011
10:32 am
I remember when Mushchamp would drive his little scooter by the KA House and he thought he was so cool. It is an entitlement thing and normally you don’t have a scooter unless you are an athlete. Normal peasants like us had to ride a bus or walk. Anyways, When Muschamp would ride his scooter to the frat house someone would always kick it over. Then after the UF debacle in which Chris Doering lit him up for about 200 yard recieving at Sanford Stadium we never saw him again on that scooter.
pfff much a do about nothing
August 15th, 2011
10:33 am
he will be fine, he has scooter 101 and basketweaving classes this semester—all is well, besides he wasn’t arrested
DawginLex
August 15th, 2011
10:33 am
Really schmeckdawg? Banned by the NCAA?
I hadn’t heard that.
UK has “Wildcat Lodge” where the basketball players live but there are some general population students in there. It sure helps having 1 place where the b-ball coaches can go to check curfews etc.
I guess having the general population students mixed in keeps it within NCAA guidelines?
D A DoubleU G
August 15th, 2011
10:33 am
Scooters are part of the culture in Athens.
Those of you who are so selfish that you expect these KIDS to live in bubbles so that you can be entertained by them 12 Saturdays every fall need to find a new hobby.
Get well soon Ray! Get back on that scooter and enjoy what makes your time in Athens so great!
GO DAWGS!!!
Go Dawgs!
August 15th, 2011
10:33 am
SHEESH!! Enough with the scooters already! How about a couple of athletic dept shuttle buses to keep all the athletes off these darn things! At the very least limit their use to off season time only.
anotherdawg
August 15th, 2011
10:34 am
What’s wrong with using bicycles? They would be easier to park, plus build those leg muscles for Joe T.
DawginLex
August 15th, 2011
10:35 am
What happened to Chance Veazey was no joke. We really don’t need to joke about this either because Ray could have been seriously hurt.
Hopefully he heals quickly and gets back out there
UGA Insider
August 15th, 2011
10:36 am
When is Cynthia Tucker going to get her scooter??? Mike Adams should be ashamed to hire such a hack.
LawDawg
August 15th, 2011
10:36 am
They drive scooters because UGA does not pay players. A similar story out of Tuscaloosa, Auburn, Miami, or Pasadena would have the player getting injured in an Escalade accident
Patrick
August 15th, 2011
10:37 am
Ban these athletes from using scooters… Get em bicycles!
Frank Lane
August 15th, 2011
10:37 am
I think that scooters make sense. They should ban all other vehicles on campus.
Nothing Could Be Finer
August 15th, 2011
10:38 am
Didn’t this guy play DE in high school?
Why are they trying him at LB?
Go Dawgs!
August 15th, 2011
10:41 am
Schmeck Dawg is right- worst move the NCAA made was the elimination of athletlic dorms.
Back in th day when they had “the Mac” (McWhorter Hall) there were a lot less incidents because there were grad asst’s and coaches performing bed checks and as I recall there were grad asst’s posted at the entrances to make sure athletes were following curfew rules and not sneaking out, and off campus living previledges were limited to Jrs and Srs only and even then they had to meet certain criteria for that.
Kind of hard for any coach to be responsible for the whereabouts of 85 players when they are scattered across multiple campus dorms and in apts around their respective college towns.
G'Vegas Dawg
August 15th, 2011
10:41 am
Here’s an idea. At the beginning of every summer have someone from cycle world come in and do a scooter safety class. I’m 100% serious. The reason there are so many accidents is becuase these kids don’t know how to ride them properly. It wouldn’t count as a practice, and I’m sure it could be arrainged for free.
carrie
August 15th, 2011
10:44 am
UGA Insider, this is not the forum for cheap political shots. Cynthia Tucker is a Pulitzer Prize winner, and whether you agree with her politics or not, she will be a fine addition the the Journalism School. After all, students need to have all sides of issues represented. That’s called an education.
Now to the matter at hand, scooters should probably be banned for athletes, but, Patrick, even bikes can cause serious injuries so I don’t know where you draw the line.
jarvis
August 15th, 2011
10:44 am
It’s official: “sense of entitlement” is the new “outside the box”
Buzz words suck worse that Buzz himself.
jarvis
August 15th, 2011
10:45 am
or “than”
What's it gonna take??
August 15th, 2011
10:46 am
I guess we’ll have to wait until some poor kid is catastrophically injured on one of these things until the coaches finally wise up and ban them.Honestly – how many brushses with disaster is it gonna take? I saw Aarron Murray tweet about being on a scooter Friday and almost passed out.
jarvis
August 15th, 2011
10:46 am
I’m with carrie. I can’t stand Cynthia Tucker, but why would the Journalism School be embarassed to have landed a Pulitzer Prize winner?
Dawg1959
August 15th, 2011
10:47 am
Yeah, this Cynthia Tucker to UGA thing sickens me. Michael Adams must have a pair of her Red Panties. Old Lewis Grizzard would be rolling over and jumping out of his grave right about now but If I am not mistaken he was creamated.
jarvis
August 15th, 2011
10:47 am
@What’s it gonna take??, I think you mean ANOTHER one catastropically hurt. We’ve already had a young man paralized.
gt2012
August 15th, 2011
10:47 am
dawginlex – Bingo. You can’t designate any building as “athlete” housing, but by mixing in general population students, you can still keep all of these athletes in the same area without making the NCAA angry. I believe that is the situation at UGA with the apartments by Ramsey. The same holds true with the apartments on our west campus near the pool.
SE GA Fan
August 15th, 2011
10:48 am
That Cynthia Tucker hiring was TOTALLY wrong!! She is so far left – I wouldn’t want her teaching my child. Does anyone know how to email or write to UGA about this hiring?
Spanky
August 15th, 2011
10:48 am
Nothing Could Be Finer – He did play DE in high school, but in the 3-4 defense, the “Will” LB is positioned a few feet behind where he’d normally line up. I’m pretty sure I’m right on that…fellas?
schmeckdawg
August 15th, 2011
10:48 am
@DawginLex
Yeah, the NCAA banned “athletic dorms” many years ago. I think they gave some BS reason that they didn’t like having the athlete’s separated from the regular student population.
All I know, is that back when we had McWhorter and these guy could be monitored much better, we didn’t have hardly any of the problems that we’ve had since the NCAAholes made yet another brilliant decision.
RedandBlackDAWG
August 15th, 2011
10:49 am
Accidents happen. Perhaps the athltic Dept. needs to conduct some type of safety class before allowing these scooters to be ridden by the guys. hopefully, the young man will be back on the field soon and helping the team get prepared fot the season.
jarvis
August 15th, 2011
10:50 am
“I only want right-thinking journalists working at the school”. Where exactly are those found?
Pound Dawg
August 15th, 2011
10:52 am
No big deal–he’ll be ready to inflict pain on the boise st. offense in the dome.
AltamahaDawg
August 15th, 2011
10:52 am
Coming home from church guy. We don’t own these kids.
AltamahaDawg
August 15th, 2011
10:52 am
guys
schmeckdawg
August 15th, 2011
10:52 am
Cynthia Tucker SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a malignant b yatch!!!!
Nothing Could Be Finer
August 15th, 2011
10:53 am
He did play DE in high school, but in the 3-4 defense, the “Will” LB is positioned a few feet behind where he’d normally line up.
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Is that a good move for him?
Or is it that Ga coaches are yanking their players around again?
Bulldog38
August 15th, 2011
10:53 am
To “Nothing Could Be Finer”. Because Georgia runs a 3-4 defense. A kid that plays DE in a 4-3, plays OLB in a 3-4. A player that would play DT in a 4-3 plays DE in a 3-4. Then, you have to have a mountain of a man at NT like Mount Cody. Georgia has two of those this year.
Cell phones and scooters
August 15th, 2011
10:54 am
I suspect that the problem is not scooters alone. I am guessing that cell phone uesage AND driving a scooter is THE problem. I see pedestrians talking on two cell phones often, I see motorists driving with a cell at their ear and see cells in use all over, even on golf courses.
I suspect that UGA football players are no different than these examples and that in Athens scooter accidents are happening often ………………… some plain UGA student will not garner the news like a 5 star frosh would.
For accuracy …………..sure would like to learn the total accident number for UGA students, including jocks. UGA campus police keep these stats as does the Athens PD. Merge the numbers and there you have it.
DawginLex
August 15th, 2011
10:55 am
Ray Drew was recruited by Grantham to play OLB in the 3-4.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 15th, 2011
10:55 am
24/7 access to these kids gives us much more access than we had to athletes 30 years ago. Athletic dorms may haved curbed it to a degree but if you are 20 and wanna go get into some stuff in downtown Athens you would be able to find a way. They just did not have Twitter, Facebook or TMZ back then to update your status at that juncture. Young men today are just like they where 30 years ago, they just cant sneak by with 85% of the B.S. they try and pull like they could in the past.
rduck
August 15th, 2011
10:55 am
Gees… might be time to think about trading the shoulder pads in for Hans Devices like the Nascar boys wear… just kidding of course. Glad to hear the kid is ok. as a tech fan i wish no harm on any player. hopefully he will have a speedy recovery and will be back soon. best of luck Ray, except the Sat after Thanksgiving… go Jackets
DougsMugs
August 15th, 2011
10:56 am
Everyone talks about Richt having to have a great season to save his job, but regardless of season, if one of these young men gets killed on a scooter, he will loose his job and will likely be sued by the young man’s family.
There has been enough warnings through incidents, that this is now negligence on the Athletic staff.
Nothing Could Be Finer
August 15th, 2011
10:56 am
Ray Drew was recruited by Grantham to play OLB in the 3-4.
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Does he have mobility?
DREW GODWIN
August 15th, 2011
10:57 am
PLEASE TAKE THE SCOOTERS AWAY FROM THE ATHLETES!!!!!!!!!!! THERE HAVE BEEN TOO MANY ACCIDENTS AND NOW IT HAS CAUSE ONE OF OUR BEST ATHLETES TO GET HURT. PLEASE TAKE AWAY THE SCOOTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 15th, 2011
10:59 am
NCBF,
He is 6′5 253 and runs a 4.7. His athletiscm is not questioned. He was recruited by several colleges that run a 3-4 to specifically play wis his hand off the ground.
DawginLex
August 15th, 2011
11:01 am
NCBF
Trying to find a chink in the armor of Mr Ray Drew is a waste of time
Nothing Could Be Finer
August 15th, 2011
11:01 am
He is 6′5 253 and runs a 4.7.
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Can he handle a speedy slot receiver that runs a 4.4?
Vince Dooley
August 15th, 2011
11:02 am
Was he driving on a suspended license?
DawginLex
August 15th, 2011
11:02 am
Hey lowcountry
I went back and looked on the Friday blog about IC’s injury and saw where Chip took down the comment from the idiot troll about my kid
Then the idiot troll turned me in to the moderator for my comments.
Brainiac(Dawg for life)
August 15th, 2011
11:02 am
Mike Adams hiring Cynthia Tucker-McKinny was a natural for move bird-brain Adams. We can all recall Adams’ booting Vince out the door and hiring Egghead-Evans(Better known as Red Panties Evans). Given enough time Adams will do to the UGA what Obama is doing to the USA.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 15th, 2011
11:02 am
Yeah he has five yards to put him on his arse if he comes across the middle.
Devil's Advocate
August 15th, 2011
11:03 am
Safety class? Really? So are we suggesting that anyone who has ever passed a driver’s education course has never had an auto accident? And to the guy who said he made it through his time in Athens on a bike without incident, no one else has ever wrecked a bike in Athens?
This is along the same lines of people who favor not hitting in practice because a player might get injured in practice. Remember how that worked out for us in 2008? Accidents and injuries happen people.
Patrick
August 15th, 2011
11:04 am
Nothing Could Be Finer… you’ll find out the answers to all of these questions on 9/10…
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 15th, 2011
11:04 am
DawginLex,
I believe it should have been made public by Chip.I also would like to know the other handles that guy has used.
AltamahaDawg
August 15th, 2011
11:04 am
And let’s ban overly minty toothpaste while we are at it.
Brainiac(Dawg for life)
August 15th, 2011
11:05 am
Oops. Make that “a natural move for”.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 15th, 2011
11:05 am
Altamaha,
On the mint kind with Crest.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 15th, 2011
11:06 am
*only*
Nothing Could Be Finer
August 15th, 2011
11:07 am
you’ll find out the answers to all of these questions on 9/10…
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I’m thinking that he can’t handle WR Damier Byrd, who has been clocked at 4.26.
Indian Dawg
August 15th, 2011
11:07 am
We have a bus transit system that covers virtually every street on campus and quite a bit of off-campus terrain. Be like Kwame Geathers and ride the freaking bus! Sure the man takes up two seats, but at least he isn’t injured!
DawginLex
August 15th, 2011
11:07 am
Since Drew’s primary job will be to sack your drunk QB, I’m thinking he will do ok with that.
JB
August 15th, 2011
11:08 am
This is pretty boring. Where can we go read about Tech’s probation troubles ( again) and how Florida’s lost about 15 players since the cheerleader took over…..and how about a list of the 94 offers Bama has out. You know, something interesting !!!!!!!
JDawg1785
August 15th, 2011
11:09 am
I was fine taking the bus when I was at UGA. I don’t see why they need these dangerous things.
farawaydawg
August 15th, 2011
11:09 am
The reason the football team members ride scooters is that there is NO PARKING at the Butts-Mehre for the team. The only way to get there is the bus or scooters. Given the number of hours and odd hours they are there, the bus is very inconvenient. Hence the scooters, which are DANGEOUS! Wake up, UGA and give those kids some parking!
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 15th, 2011
11:10 am
Yeah but whats 5 yard 40 time? Thats how long it will take for him to be picking himself up off his backside by getting slammed trying to go get that slant route pass.
I will give you props though you try your digs, but they really are funny.
Wait till next year...
August 15th, 2011
11:11 am
the scooter is the official vehicle of the dream team!
Nothing Could Be Finer
August 15th, 2011
11:12 am
Since Drew’s primary job will be to sack your drunk QB
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I don’t see him making too many sacks vs SC.
He’ll still be adjusting to the new position on the field.
Plus, he’ll be missing valuable practice time after this scooter accident.
Brainiac(Dawg for life)
August 15th, 2011
11:12 am
How many 4.4 “speedy receivers” are you going to see in the SEC on any given Saturday? Hopefully our LB’s won’t have the coverage on those guys.
AltamahaDawg
August 15th, 2011
11:14 am
I’m pretty surprised we haven’t heard the suggestion that a ban on traveling to church would have prevented this.
Alabama Jack
August 15th, 2011
11:16 am
The scooter – one of Georgia Tech’s greatest inventions.
JDawg1785
August 15th, 2011
11:16 am
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if most of the players live on campus these days? When I was at UGA (2003-06) a lot of them lived in East Campus Village, which is a pretty convenient walk to Butts-Mehre.
NC-Dawg
August 15th, 2011
11:17 am
Enter your comments here You guys are getting too slow. This has been out since early this morning. Come on AJC get it togeather!!!!
AltamahaDawg
August 15th, 2011
11:17 am
Good thing Ogletree loaned him a helmet.
Patrick
August 15th, 2011
11:18 am
Nothing Could Be Finer… you may be right about not being able to cover that WR. But, I’m not sure he’ll be asked to do that since his main job will be to get into your backfield. I guess we’ll find out in a few weeks…
UGA Insider
August 15th, 2011
11:20 am
Does anyone have a email for Mike Adams? We must voice our opinion on Cynthia Tucker.
PMC
August 15th, 2011
11:20 am
sigh…..deep gashes, sprains, paralysis….
It’s an epidemic, when are they going to address the scooter crisis in Athens?
Get a freaking motorcycle license or WALK.
WDE
August 15th, 2011
11:21 am
Ray glad you weren’t hurt badly, the rest of you Ban the Scooter movement need a life..if the kid was on a bike you’d want to ban bikes..if he has gotten hurt on a bus it would be “why was in on a bus in the first place he should have had a scooter..if he was walking to class, you’d pointing out that UGA has the money to pay for cabs for players…your knuckleheads but you do make me smile…bless your hearts..
PMC
August 15th, 2011
11:22 am
Bicycles work too. Cheap, no gas, park anywhere, relatively fast and convienent.
Pound Dawg
August 15th, 2011
11:26 am
Bikes in Athens? Forget that—too many steep hills.
Randall "Pink" Floyd
August 15th, 2011
11:26 am
Frank Lane is on to something. Ban cars from campus, not scooters. Scooters are very practical on a campus like UGA’s. However, Richt should prohibit players from riding scooters anywhere OFF campus, as the risks associated with them is exponentially higher. Drew was hurt coming or going to church. This was off-campus injury and more than likely involved a car to some extent.
Randall "Pink" Floyd
August 15th, 2011
11:28 am
Pound Dawg I rode a mountain bike in Athens every day for 4 years. Can’t imagine NOT having one. It was perfect for navigating that city and campus.
*All-Involved
August 15th, 2011
11:29 am
LawDawg, you took the words right out of my mouth. Especially *Awbarn!
what_what
August 15th, 2011
11:29 am
Let’s assume these are 49cc scooters, so that the riders don’t need insurance, plates or a motorcycle license.
Has anyone ever looked at the weight limit of these things? They’re usually around 220lbs or so. Of course a heavier rider can use it, but performance (speed, handling, etc…) will be diminished.
Sure these people need Scooter 101, but also, they just might be too big for their little scooters.
Harry from da Burn
August 15th, 2011
11:32 am
Hey don’t forget the late great Caleb King driving on the wrong side of the road on a scooter…
Bruce
August 15th, 2011
11:34 am
Wonder if they all have a motorcycle license? We were told at my son’s orientation at UGA in July that if the scooters were over 50cc and went over 30 mph they were classified as motorcycles and required a motorcycle license. We had thought about getting my son one before we found this out. Kinda doubt a 50 cc engine would propel these big guys. LOL.
AltamahaDawg
August 15th, 2011
11:34 am
An email address to Dr. Adams? I don’t think that would too difficult to find out. Come on dude, no need to flex in front of the crowd.
Morgan Kemp
August 15th, 2011
11:34 am
I’m very glad Mr. Drew was not injured! He will be a STAR for Georgia! And what an outstanding young man!! At a minimum, I hope the UGA AD requires head gear, pads, etc when riding these scooters. I don’t argue their appeal to get across the large, beautiful UGA campus…but let’s be safe and vigilant! Looking forward to Boise State on SEPT 3!
harley davidson
August 15th, 2011
11:35 am
What happened to walking to class or riding the bus. I was there 3 yrs and did fine walking. Might help out with us running out of gas in the 4th quarter too.
JohnFromMilledgeville
August 15th, 2011
11:39 am
What happened to buying these kids new vehicles with airbags? What in the world is college football coming to? This puts us at a total disadvantage with Auburn, Alabama, Florida and LSU. J/K Drew, Hope you get back on the field real soon!! God bless you….John
The General Feeling
August 15th, 2011
11:39 am
Are you mutt fans really blaming the scooters?
carrie
August 15th, 2011
11:40 am
I’m finding it hard to believe all you people are opposed to McKinney at UGA. As a parent, I want my child to be exposed to all points of view. If I’ve done my job as a parent, they will adhere to my values, but they deserve to hear all sides of an issue. Again, that’s what a good education is all about. I don’t agree with her politics either, but I want my child to hear all sides of an issue. You must not have much confidence in your kids if you think one journalism professor is going to make them a liberal. That’s just stupid. If you want your kids to receive a one-sided education, send them to Bob Jones University, Liberty University, or Oral Roberts University. UGA is a state institution and should reflect all views. There ARE liberals in GA, after all who want their side represented just like conservatives want their side represented. If our kids are going to compete nationally and internationally, then they must receive a well rounded education. I can’t imagine an intelligent person thinking anything less. Go Dawgs!!!
TossSweep
August 15th, 2011
11:41 am
Why scooters? Just get ‘em golf carts!!!!
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 15th, 2011
11:41 am
I would think a UGA Insider would not need to ask for the email address of Dr. Adams.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 15th, 2011
11:43 am
Carrie agreed 100%
New Rule
August 15th, 2011
11:45 am
The football players are only allowed to ride a scooter wearing full football gear including helmet, knee and shoulder pads, and gloves. Problem solved…
Les W. Moore
August 15th, 2011
11:45 am
4-3 or 3-4 does it really matter? The base defense is irrelevant. Richt better be teaching tackling and blocking to all those 4 and 5 star high schoolers.
Paddy
August 15th, 2011
11:47 am
Patrick…..the Athletic Dept. can’t get them bicycles. It breaks NCAA rules big time. Good thought though!
Tobias Funke
August 15th, 2011
11:48 am
Ban these Scooters NOW! 260 lb man-children should not be riding these things.
Paddy
August 15th, 2011
11:48 am
Toss sweep…..same reason as above. It breaks NCAA rules to get athletes golf carts.
Joey
August 15th, 2011
11:48 am
As well as scooter fundamentals, Les . . .
Dubbayoo
August 15th, 2011
11:50 am
If you think a bicycle is much safer than a scooter I’ve got some news for you.
WOW!!!
August 15th, 2011
11:50 am
All it takes is a little common sense.
Just say NO
August 15th, 2011
11:52 am
The coach should make a rule that nobody rides scooters, period. If these guys can bench-press 800 lbs and run a 4 second 100 yard dash, I don’t think a little walk to class is going to hurt their tender little feet.
Smiling Jack
August 15th, 2011
11:57 am
You silly people who want to ban scooters and anything else because people are paralyized, killed or even hurt riding them. WOW!!! You must be one of those government provide safety and guanrantees of life and health, protectionists…for Heaven’s sake people…You might as well ban cars, buses, bicycles, running, walking, flying planes, riding trains, boats or you might just as well go ahead and die! Ban life! – - it happens folks! Each person is responsibile to live safely and not threaten the well being of others. The injured lad will hopefully be all right. If not, he will suffer the consequences of an accident, perhaps, not even of his own doing. Georgia Bulldawgs will play the season and hopefully win every game! God bless them! We’ll still be Georgia fans!
Bikes are safer than scooters
August 15th, 2011
11:57 am
On a bike you can’t hit 45 mph with twist of the throttle. Since it takes a lot more effort to get up to speed on a bike, a good bicycle will tend to pay more attention to what’s going on around them. I would doubt that these guys are the safest and most careful scooter riders..probably not wearing helmets. A 350 Lb guy on a bicycle is gonna hit maybe 20 mph on a bicycle while he’s gonna be going 50 on a scooter.
CreekDawg
August 15th, 2011
11:59 am
Timothy Road Baptist Church (where the Rev. attends) is a ways from campus and must be navigated on Timothy Road, which is a 4 lane highway and then onto 441 till you hit Milledge Ave. Get the Rev some decent wheels, or ban him from this church. Thats too dangerous of a journey for a 5-star bigtime recruit!!
LHarding Dawg
August 15th, 2011
12:00 pm
Come on people, it’s a scooter. Next thing you will want to ban atheltic shoes because someone tripped over his shoe lace.
As far as Tucker, she may be a liberal (which I can tolerate) but she is also a hater (which I can;t tolerate). She has no business at the UGA or any other university teaching young adults.
Jimmy Crack
August 15th, 2011
12:00 pm
Could we possibly hold off on all this “school” stuff until we start the frigging season?
John Galt
August 15th, 2011
12:01 pm
Sorry Carrie, Cynthia Tucker IS a left wing hack. I imagine that the left is already well represented in the Journalism school.
WDE
August 15th, 2011
12:03 pm
@carrie really there are many points of view on a college campus??..and then you noted “If you want your kids to receive a one-sided education, send them to Bob Jones University, Liberty University, or Oral Roberts University” carrie darling you could have just as easily said Harvard or Yale or NYU for one sided educations now couldn’t you have… McKinney is a cancer as she is as one sided as anyone in our country she makes David Dukes look like a centrist.
Russ, the Temporary Mascot
August 15th, 2011
12:03 pm
Those of you on campus know that I travel by scooter all the time. I have done so without incident. Scooter riding is a lot like anything else on campus. Ride smart and stay alive. Don’t drive drunk. Never carry multiple passengers. Don’t bring home your groceries on a scooter. If you get beat up in a bar blame it on your scooter. This will get you through the season.
WDE
August 15th, 2011
12:04 pm
@CreekDawg let me know how banning the Rev Drew from his church of choice works out for you…
Ga DOT
August 15th, 2011
12:06 pm
Two words ….. Training Wheels.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 15th, 2011
12:07 pm
Ban McKinney from the Journalism school…
Ban Drew from his church of choice…
Bama in Atlanta
August 15th, 2011
12:09 pm
S – Something
C – Created to
O – Offer
O – Optimal
T – Transportation but
E – Enhances
R – Roadrash
Tech '10
August 15th, 2011
12:12 pm
Ahh yes, Cynthia Tucker… what a clown, sorry fellas. Also, scooters are fine as long as you know how to ride them, might want to start with the basics, as a few have already pointed out.
Buck Swindle
August 15th, 2011
12:14 pm
Me and Kent Lawrence used to always ride the ol’ North-South back and to to class and we got along fine for four years.
— Buck Swindle
clickit
August 15th, 2011
12:16 pm
the dawg fanatics and the lunatic fringe neo-cons go hand in hand don’t they? you people are pathetic. any university in the country would kill to have tucker on their staff – go back to watching fox news and memorizing more right wing talking points..
" HOT " seat
August 15th, 2011
12:18 pm
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. . . gotta beat boise state in the air conditioned GEORGIA dome . . .
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mgdawg
August 15th, 2011
12:19 pm
Maybe UGA should do like peachtree city and get golf cart tracks for athens, surely they can’t get hurt in a golf cart.
Dawgy Style
August 15th, 2011
12:19 pm
Maybe a scooter IQ test?
PMC
August 15th, 2011
12:22 pm
Training Wheels are an excellent idea
ATL Sports Fan
August 15th, 2011
12:23 pm
What Chip and the AJC fail to mention is if there was a game this week, he would be able to play. Same with Samuel and Crowell. More gloom and doom from the AJC.
WDE
August 15th, 2011
12:23 pm
@clickit, please you heart then let some other college have her…perhaps somewhere with Bill Ayers on staff.
Tech '10
August 15th, 2011
12:24 pm
click-it, have you ever read one of her articles??? Jay Bookman (for the ajc) is very liberal and 1000 x’s better at preseting points that make sense. Sorry, she was not a good hire…
now back to football…
'94 UGA Alumni
August 15th, 2011
12:27 pm
It looks like we need to start using some of our practice time learning how to drive a scooter. Here’s a breakdown of our next practice:
8:00 – 8:30 Making a Turn
8:30 – 9:00 Signalling
9:00 – 9:15 Break (this is mentally exhausting for most of the players)
9:15 – 9:30 Keeping proper distance between scooter in front of you (most likely a fellow teammate)
9:30 – 10:00 Braking (and not waiting until the last second!!!)
10:00 – 10:30 Signalling (most players have forgotten how to signal by now)
10:30 – 11:00 Review (most players need to have everything repeated – several times)
Dawg Gone It
August 15th, 2011
12:33 pm
Was probably excited about lunch.
Eat and Tweet
August 15th, 2011
12:34 pm
Ok whats the real story here? Was Drew texting and operating a scooter at the same time? Inquiring minds wanna know the real truth….
Tdawg
August 15th, 2011
12:34 pm
Scooters are no more dangerous than bikes. I rode a bike to and around campus because it weas the fastest way to get from class to class. Parking was so far away and the buses were slow so weather permitting the bicycle was the way to go. I still ride and have had 2 pretty good wipeouts over the years that caused minor injuries like with Ray Drew who I am sure will be more careful and learn from this mistake like all young people learning to drive. He’ll be fine and let those scooters roll and the Big Dawg Eat. Part of college life.
same ole same ole
August 15th, 2011
12:36 pm
If players at UGA are not getting injured on the practice field they seem to do it elsewhere. Let the excuses begin for the injury bug.
schmeckdawg
August 15th, 2011
12:37 pm
Just say NO
August 15th, 2011
11:52 am
The coach should make a rule that nobody rides scooters, period. If these guys can bench-press 800 lbs and run a 4 second 100 yard dash, I don’t think a little walk to class is going to hurt their tender little feet.
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Well said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GT4ever
August 15th, 2011
12:38 pm
LMAO can’t heal stupidity/laziness.
'94 UGA Alumni
August 15th, 2011
12:38 pm
Here a look at Practice # 2:
8:00 – 8:30 What to do after the Accident (since it’s a foredrawn conclusion)
8:30 – 9:00 Escaping before the police get there (Run Forest Run!!!)
9:00 – 9:30 Dealing with the media (I swear I didn’t see the semi pull out in front of me)
9:30 – 10:00 Making you court date – Write the date on your forehead (or your scooter if it’s still driveable) so you don’t miss it!
scooters galore
August 15th, 2011
12:40 pm
any stolen riding helmets this year? …….. its not too late and btw keep them lockers secured!
Devil's Advocate
August 15th, 2011
12:40 pm
Forget the indoor practice facility, we need cedar chips on all surfaces used by the football team including existing practice locations, Sanford Stadium playing surface, classrooms, and all pathways and walkways used to transverse these locations. Also, UGA should lobby for the redesign of the modern football field. We must remove sharp edges created by yard lines intersecting at 90 degree angles with boundary lines of the field. I have no idea what the solution should be but we must find an answer before it is too late!
mdr
August 15th, 2011
12:44 pm
SERIOUSLY…..Can we stop with the F-ing scooters now!?!?!?! Ride the friggin bus like everyone else, OR WALK!!!!!
Loser on a scooter!
August 15th, 2011
12:47 pm
He is from south Georgia….he is better suited for a Tractor.
chickenman
August 15th, 2011
12:47 pm
getting kinda ridiclous… walking isnt gonna kill ya… baxter street will though
Contractor
August 15th, 2011
12:49 pm
“Dozens of football players and other UGA athletes use the small, motorized scooters to zip around campus because of they’re easy to park and inexpensive to operate”
Well apparently the medical bills these guys incur aren’t inexpensive, and it would be hard to park a totaled scooter. Get them a tank since they can’t seem to navigate a tiny scooter without getting hurt.
scooters galore
August 15th, 2011
12:49 pm
I bet Drew was head bobbing listening to his ipod for the new hip hop “Go georgia bulldogs ” song.
Joey
August 15th, 2011
12:54 pm
More likely Drew was listening to gospel music on his ipod.
He’s a preacher, Dufus.
Loser on a scooter!
August 15th, 2011
12:55 pm
The scooter was part of his signing bonus! Give the guy a break. Scooters are easier to hide from the NCAA investigators.
schmeckdawg
August 15th, 2011
12:55 pm
mdr
August 15th, 2011
12:44 pm
SERIOUSLY…..Can we stop with the F-ing scooters now!?!?!?! Ride the friggin bus like everyone else, OR WALK!!!!!
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AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UGA must ban scooters, 5-Star prospect injured | TheMatadorSports.com- College Football Headlines, News, and Rumors
August 15th, 2011
12:57 pm
[...] running his scooter into a wall and injuring his right leg. Now, UGA 5-star linebacker Ray Drew crashed his scooter on Sunday suffering a sprained shoulder sidelining the young super [...]
Loser on a scooter!
August 15th, 2011
12:57 pm
Has anyone else noticed, that since mid July the number of issues that keep coming out of the football team? Everyday another setback or troubling issue, or injury or bad news. And yet we have all these bloggers spinning everything in a positive way. Mark Richt has spun his mastery web over our football family.
Toccoa Dawg
August 15th, 2011
12:58 pm
Because they are so easy to CRASH. enough with the scooters.
WDE
August 15th, 2011
1:09 pm
@GT4ever you can’t heal probation either can you now?
Tech-nically Speaking
August 15th, 2011
1:10 pm
Our athletes ride tricycles so you won’t see this problem at Tech.
Just the muggings and armed robberies, but those aren’t a big deal.
AltamahaDawg
August 15th, 2011
1:11 pm
What list of setbacks, troubling issues, or bad news?
I recall this being a pretty good month so far with most news unusually good, including about some things that we expected the worst. Not freaking out over a few sprains that will be fine in a few days is hardly spinning it.
Even the troll count seems to be up a bit.
you guys act like every player is owned
August 15th, 2011
1:12 pm
just because they are on scholarship doesn’t mean jack. hundreds of other kids are on athletic scholarships and they can do as they darn well please.
kids are kids. these guys are enjoying their college years. 95% of them WILL NOT GO PRO. these guys deserve to be as normal as can be on and around campus, and that means getting rid of much of the special treatment. no dorms, no tutors, no easy credits. do them a service and challenge them and let them learn to live in a society that mimics the real world as much as possible. football is not their eventual vocation
ARdawg
August 15th, 2011
1:13 pm
Scooters are a setback and troubling issues?
Loser, you obviously don’t get out much, do you?
Dawg Days
August 15th, 2011
1:14 pm
Apparenlty there are no scooter safety classes for the atheletes. Get rid of the scooters.
We all should be pretty familiar with how shoulder sprain injuries have limited one former UGA QB in the NFL and ended the college career of another at Oklahoma. These should sprains become chronic. Those guys don’t have to deliver blows. Does anyone know if this is a grade 1,2, or 3 sprain?
Dawghater
August 15th, 2011
1:16 pm
A UGA player that can’t drive. Now that’s a shocker, NOT!
AltamahaDawg
August 15th, 2011
1:16 pm
One thing that being on scholarship means is that you could not have a scholarship.
AltamahaDawg
August 15th, 2011
1:17 pm
….checking my text alert for the grade right now.
Jacket Man
August 15th, 2011
1:18 pm
Ray was injured on his way home from Church, so this leads one to believe that he isn’t some speed demon or some player with a sense of “entitlement,” as some of you have indicated. If any of you had followed Ray’s recruitment, you’d know that he’s a humble, polite, young man, and I can assure you that if he had a choice, he would never be involved in an accident and miss practice and an opportunity to play with his team.
Ray has been driving for several years, so if he felt comfortable driving the scooter, the I suggest everyone give him the benefit of the doubt and just call this an unfortunate accident; wishing him well; hoping for a full recovery and speedy recovery so he can rejoin his team mates. I certainly do.
Rodster
August 15th, 2011
1:19 pm
How painfully ironic for UGA. The kid was on his way home from church!
DawginLex
August 15th, 2011
1:19 pm
loser on a scooter has us confused with other SEC schools
Arkansas-DUI
Tennessee-arrested player
Auburn-4 felonies and 2011 Fulmer Cup champions
We have a kid wreck a scooter and this loser wants to compare us to DUI’s and felonies.
Must have gone to school at Bama
Taco
August 15th, 2011
1:20 pm
Somebody buy a damn car for these homies!@%$#
schmeckdawg
August 15th, 2011
1:20 pm
WDE
August 15th, 2011
1:09 pm
@GT4ever you can’t heal probation either can you now?
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CLASSIC WDE!!!!!!!!!!!
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 15th, 2011
1:22 pm
If he ell down on th esidewalk while walking and injured his shoulder, would we be saying off with his legs? Just wondering…
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 15th, 2011
1:22 pm
*fell*
AltamahaDawg
August 15th, 2011
1:23 pm
here it is: the grade of Baldwin street is about 6.5.
Mr. SEC
August 15th, 2011
1:24 pm
Can scooters be banned from athletes using them at UGA? At least Waswhan was in a car with no license, but he did not wreck! Coach get these guys a ride to church and back or they might have to accept $180,000.00 from somebody to pay a taxi. This is crazy!
AltamahaDawg
August 15th, 2011
1:25 pm
They don’t have amny of those in downtown Thomasville.
ColumbDawg
August 15th, 2011
1:27 pm
Do our players really ride around on scooters? That’s sort of weak imo. We wonder why we cant complete with Bama and Florida, maybe its because our players are a bunch of sissys riding around on scooters. Seriously? This really makes me wonder about the environment that Coach Richt is promoting.
AltamahaDawg
August 15th, 2011
1:28 pm
WOW
Russ, the Temporary Mascot
August 15th, 2011
1:29 pm
Why does Ray look so grumpy in the picture? I like happy players. Happy players play happy ball. Happy ball is more fun to watch. We have not played happy ball in awhile. I think it is because Coach is unhappy. If he’s unhappy now, just wait. When I was a pup I learned to be happy with what you have. I had a brown a$$ and was happy enough until they decided to paint it white in Shreveport before the “big” game. They wanted me to look good on television. I was not the one that needed the help. I am rambling now and that happens to little dogs when they blog.
DawginLex
August 15th, 2011
1:31 pm
Auburn just lost half of its famed “best in the SEC” running backs since Dyer is ineligible
Dawgs1
August 15th, 2011
1:33 pm
Are you kidding me with the scooters? WTH is going on? We get a baseball player paralyzed on a scooter which is horrible; then, all these stupid things like emerging from an alley, wrong way, no scooter license, and now….
WDE
August 15th, 2011
1:34 pm
@DawginLex sorry but you forgot the drunken QB and QB coach at USCe…..as well as what a few dozen pot smoking issues at UF….and well that whole we just won’t listen to the NCAA stunt that Bugville pulled to land on probation…
Russ, the Temporary Mascot
August 15th, 2011
1:35 pm
Being a little dog and being the best speller on the UGA blog should tell us something. I work my a$$ off on game days and what do I get? Still a Temp. They are trying to get another inbred bulldog ready to take my place. Remember Big Bad Bruce? He was a wetter. He would wet the floor and roll around in it. He couldn’t ride a scooter, either.
JimtheDawg
August 15th, 2011
1:35 pm
Check the latest video of downtown Athens. Scooters, Scooters, Everywhere..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIFc6RmKUWU&feature=related
Delbert D.
August 15th, 2011
1:37 pm
Unless the “scooters” are 50cc and under, you have to have a motorcycle license (class M) in Georgia. Little scooters and big people don’t make a good combination. My 250cc Honda scooter has a total load carrying capability of 350 pounds (the vehicle itself weighs 370 pounds).
schmeckdawg
August 15th, 2011
1:40 pm
Mr. SEC
August 15th, 2011
1:24 pm
Can scooters be banned from athletes using them at UGA? At least Waswhan was in a car with no license, but he did not wreck! Coach get these guys a ride to church and back or they might have to accept $180,000.00 from somebody to pay a taxi. This is crazy!
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Don’t mean to be picky; however, Washout did wreck. Remember he got popped for a hit and run in an on campus parking garage.
UGAY " Nuff Said"
August 15th, 2011
1:40 pm
So the mutts are so dumb that they cannot properly handle a scooter either? Wow… Looks like another worthless course ‘Scooter 101″ will be in the criteria shortly… Stay tune
DawginLex
August 15th, 2011
1:41 pm
Apparently the whole Michael Dyer is ineligible thing was cooked up by some bammers on 24/7 sports.
My bet is it is a lie
S.W. Ga. Dawg
August 15th, 2011
1:42 pm
What about scooter training for these non-riders ?
DC
August 15th, 2011
1:45 pm
it is a lie dawgin…those bammers are always in need of attention…
Dyer did miss practice due to injury this past friday..but he will be ok..
Tech '10
August 15th, 2011
1:45 pm
@WDE: ha, touche.
Auburn looks to be in some trouble with that, DawginLex.
Tech '10
August 15th, 2011
1:46 pm
ok, comment about Auburn retracted..
bubba4dawgs
August 15th, 2011
1:47 pm
Hey Big Ray! Bring your mule up from South Georgia…..forget that scooter! Sooooo glad you’re here! Please be safe! We need you and about 2 dozen more like you! GO DAWGS!!
wes
August 15th, 2011
1:48 pm
True athletes don’t fall of scooters.
This kid only had 4 sacks his senior year. Not surprising he’s a clutzy idiot.
Whiskeydawg
August 15th, 2011
1:49 pm
I’m convinced a Tech graduate opened the scooter franchise in Athens.
doug dawg
August 15th, 2011
1:51 pm
times have changed, for sure.when i was a frosh a uga, a ‘rule’ known as in loco parentis held sway.
that meant ‘parent in the location.’ the university was ‘parent.’ freshmen men and women had to live in a freshman/woman dorm. for men it was reed hall or the dorm next door. no apartments; no cars. women had to be in their dorm by 1030 pm on weekdays and, as i remember, by midnight on weekends. house mother stood at the door; lateness meant grounding for some period of time. women could not wear shorts on campus. athletes lived in what we called the ‘animal’ house dorm over on ag hill. mcwhorter. not in regular dorms. dean tate knew every man, and transgressions of a serious nature warranted a call to parents, or worse. in loco parentis went the way of the dodo bird looooooooong ago. for better or worse. now anything goes. mr. richt and his staff have really only limited powers to control the lives of their players. they are still teens, most of them, but are assumed to be adults. they aren’t, of course. but that is the way it is. like it or lump it.
LogicalUS
August 15th, 2011
1:52 pm
Exactly how long is he supposed to miss and how long before he is back out of a green jersey? I wonder how much he was really going to contribute? Sprained shoulder doesn’t sound to bad except he is a LB.
This is another small hit in that he is a young player who will miss practice reps, so I suspect that any of his contributions for this season will be postponed to later in the season.
Brian
August 15th, 2011
1:52 pm
well at least we know that UGA players are not being paid off.. they ride scooters!
GET DOWN BIG MAN
August 15th, 2011
1:53 pm
I think the coach should tell every player they are welcome to ride their scooters –as long as they wear their fotball equipment.
AltamahaDawg
August 15th, 2011
1:57 pm
SC secondary was a trainwreck at the scrimmage. Much worse than last year’s squad (which was worse than the year before). LBs not particularly impressive.. D-line looking good. O-line officially “very thin”. Lattimore deemed already in good enough shape, didn’t even carry the ball. AKA, he IS the team. Garcia, not holding his job.
Delbert D.
August 15th, 2011
2:02 pm
Make them ride tricycles like Georgia Tech does in their homecoming races.
BG
August 15th, 2011
2:03 pm
Every team in the SEC has players using scooters to get around campus and town.
Chuck Allison
August 15th, 2011
2:05 pm
Scooter operation is far too complicated for a UGA football player. For that matter, a 10 speed bicycle is also too complex. UGA needs to provide shuttle service to protect their players and keep them from having to try to figure out how to ride scooters and bikes.
Wreck 'Em
August 15th, 2011
2:08 pm
Wow. Seriously, walk like everyone else. I do hope he’s ok, I wouldn’t wish physical injury on any player.
DD
August 15th, 2011
2:12 pm
Was it HOT!
bulldogmaniac
August 15th, 2011
2:16 pm
at least he was on his way back from church and not from a bar.
PS – we need to require training wheels with scooters.
HECKLE
August 15th, 2011
2:18 pm
Cynthia Tucker!! Just what UGA needs….another far-left winger on campus!!!!!!!!!
Stinger2
August 15th, 2011
2:18 pm
Too much said about something that was not really newsworthy.
WDE
August 15th, 2011
2:23 pm
@Stinger2 I could not agree more…
AltamahaDawg
August 15th, 2011
2:28 pm
Uf had a linemen injured on a Scoooter not too long ago. I guess they didn’t get the sissy memo.
Dem Dawg
August 15th, 2011
2:30 pm
OK you bike and bus proponents. How many of you get up at 5 AM for workouts, then go to practice and beat one another up, then take a mid day break, then go back out in 100 degree heat to beat one another up again, then run gassers till you puke while still taking some classes so you can play a game that entertains the masses and brings in multiple millions of dollars to your university while you get a few lousey bucks a month and the use of a scooter to help your tired and beat up legs. What do you bikers do? Ride your bike to class, study hard, take naps, chase chicks, and drink beer the rest of the day? Yeah, that’s tough. Get real. The players work hard for UGA and have earned the stinking scooters, and accidents will happen.
Joey
August 15th, 2011
2:36 pm
If Drew had fell in the shower, would you “ban scooter!” folks want to ban showers?
7576DAWG
August 15th, 2011
2:40 pm
I have known a lot of journalist in my life and most are very liberal and are never middle of the road . They are far left or far right. I don’t know anything about Tucker but I support her being on campus because not one student is forced to take her class and I am 100% for freedom of speech. This is 2011 not 1900. I may or may not support what she thinks but I do support her being able to say it.
LawDawg
August 15th, 2011
2:40 pm
Nothing Could Be Finer: Dude, you need to learn a little about football before you post. WLB (in particular) and SLB in a 3-4 is sort of a tweener position between a 4-3 DE and OLB and often play more of a rush end position and often even have there hand in the ground (see, e.g., almost every play by Justin Houston last year). They rarely, if ever, guard a slot receiver. In a 3 receiver set, you will likely see a 3-3 or 4-2 front (with Drew or whoever moved up to 4th DL) and an extra CB. If not, it will likely be a zone look or the FS covering.
LawDawg
August 15th, 2011
2:41 pm
7576 DAWG: I am going to call BS.
george
August 15th, 2011
2:44 pm
how many more students have to have life changing injuries before these death traps are banned?
ARdawg
August 15th, 2011
2:45 pm
Wrecked the scooter on the way home from church. We’ll take this news and be thankful Jay wasn’t badly hurt. AJC is just reporting and not making up any accusations. It is a no news item
In_the_cellar
August 15th, 2011
2:45 pm
Well when they graduate from UGA in journalism taught by Cynthia Tucker, they will learn the scooters are made by the white man and stop riding them.
Not Impressed
August 15th, 2011
2:47 pm
Another knuckle brained dimwitted athlete gets hurt on a scooter – when is CMR and the rest of you athletic dolts going to learn – if you can’t walk, stay off the dang scooters….What a freaking bunch of idiots!!!!! CMR you might as well get on the fastest scooter out of town because this will be your last (partial) season at Georgia and it can’t happen too fast for me.
DC
August 15th, 2011
2:51 pm
ok now people are comparing taking a shower to driving a scooter…
Melee in Memorial Hall
August 15th, 2011
2:55 pm
Let’s just face it. Anything related to scooters and UGA Football Players just don’t mix. Riding scooters the wrong way down one-way streets, riding scooters without helmets, riding scooters without a license, stealing scooter helmets (sorry abt. that Tree,) and now wrecking on scooters. Please guys…for the love of the Bulldog Nation, stay away from all things SCOOTER!!!!
BiggdawgK
August 15th, 2011
2:56 pm
No scooter problems at bama or the barn or gaytorville or tech because they are paying their players and they can afford a car. Yet another necessary drawback to having an upstanding man like CMR run a clean program.
Sad but true that tech runs a program rife with lieing and cheating and they are still so pathetic.
Joey
August 15th, 2011
2:57 pm
Not comparing – just poking fun at those who think you can ban or legislate accidents away.
ATL Sports Fan
August 15th, 2011
3:00 pm
Funny how the AJC seems to report on every little thing out of Athens. They blew the whole Richard Samuel and Isaiah Crowell injury out of proportion and now this. AJC, you are aware if UGA played this weekend, all three players would be able to play.
Kerryb
August 15th, 2011
3:01 pm
Coach, Please ban the scooters now! Obviously these guys do not know how to ride them safely.
Dawg1958
August 15th, 2011
3:03 pm
Jake Scott rode his motorcycle over the top of Stegeman when it was under construction. Ban the stinkin’ scooters!
Will
August 15th, 2011
3:05 pm
The ONLY thing I can guarantee about Athens this upcoming fall will be that Widespread Panic will be fking awesome on October 9!!!!!!!!!!
7576DAWG
August 15th, 2011
3:09 pm
Drew has way to much to lose to be doing anything that is dangerous. He is plenty old enough to drive a scooter if he wants but the question is should he take that risk. I majored in Risk Management at UGA and depending on what is going on in my life presently sets what my priorities are and will do things or stop doing things depending what take precedence. I know it saves a lot of money and totally makes sense but it’s one thing that you have no control over your outcome of getting to one place safe or not. Too many variables too have to negotiate and if something happens you have no protection.
WDE
August 15th, 2011
3:09 pm
@Not Impressed I’m sorry I’m doing my best to give you the benefit of the doubt..oh well I tried your a knuckle head if ever there was one, in a free country a young man has a minor accident while driving a legal vehicle in a perfectly legal manner (no tickets given) and LO and behold your 3rd world stupid self wants to blame in on CMR…… what next you knuckle dragging moron, are you going to lay the hiring of Cynthia Tucker at his feet too?
Ace
August 15th, 2011
3:09 pm
Its the kids, not the toys.
schmeckdawg
August 15th, 2011
3:09 pm
Joey
August 15th, 2011
2:36 pm
If Drew had fell in the shower, would you “ban scooter!” folks want to ban showers?
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Are you a complete idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sherry
August 15th, 2011
3:11 pm
Maybe it the way they drive the scooter. Wiping out sounds like maybe he was going to fast.
seabass
August 15th, 2011
3:11 pm
Have you ever walked around the UGA campus! Man its the size of a city. And you have 15 minutes to get to one class to another, which may be a mile or more away.
In_the_cellar
August 15th, 2011
3:18 pm
Well hiring Cynthia Tucker limited the college disciplines to sports. If you graduate with any kind of academic degree, you are mostly likely a racist.
Joey
August 15th, 2011
3:20 pm
Probably no more than anybody else here, schmeckdawg.
However, I am quick enough to spot sarcasm when I read it . . .
JB
August 15th, 2011
3:21 pm
Cynthia Tucker pls stay in Iran. Mike Adams > seriously????
UGA Alumnus
August 15th, 2011
3:27 pm
@funny…
August 15th, 2011
10:15 am
Get real. Other students do ride scooters. The idea that scooters “get in the way of buses, cars” etc. is absurd. Cars get in the way on campus. There should be more bikes and scooters and less cars and trucks on all of Athens’ roads, including UGA’s campus. How could a scooter possibly be “a sense of entitlement?” So riding a lowly scooter puts students above the rich kids in their BMWs and SUVs?
Learn the rules of the road. Bikes and scooters have as much right to the road as cars and SUVs. It’s gas guzzling cars that are destroying the planet and causing oil dependency to terrorist nations.
The players are doing us all a favor by riding scooters (whether they realize it or not). But these young kids clearly need to take a course in scooter safety.
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.
savannahdawg
August 15th, 2011
3:33 pm
I see it here in Savannah all day long. These kids on these scooters driving like idiots, not being safe. Traffic laws not being obeyed, speeding, taking corners too fast, assuming the car coming at you will see you and simply stop, etc, etc., and of course not wearing a helmet. You guys need to be smarter and stop thinking you’re invincible, before someone gets killed. Because it’s going to happen sooner than later.
When are you guys going to stop acting like idiots already. It’s always something with you kids. Legal or not, you all seem to enjoy finding ways to be stupid!
Enough damn it! Grow up and act like responsible adults!!!
UGA Alumnus
August 15th, 2011
3:34 pm
@schmeckdawg
August 15th, 2011
10:23 am
The vast majority of other UGA students drive the nice cars their mommies and daddies bought them. The students whose parents didn’t buy them a nice car either bike, use the bus, walk, or use a scooter – non-athletes included.
I never had a car at UGA. I walked and biked. I had non-athlete friends who rode scooters.
You people seem to think that anything that jeopardizes your chance of a football win on saturday in the fall is an evil.
How would you feel if your boss stepped in and told you what you could or couldn’t use as a mode of transportation?
The fascist rednecks always raise their uneducated heads when these articles get written.
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!
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.