UPDATED: Georgia NG Kwame Geathers, SS Shawn Williams, Vandy player get half-game suspensions
Geathers
As expected, Georgia’s Kwame Geathers and Shawn Williams were handed down half-game suspensions Wednesday for their actions during last Saturday’s game against Vanderbilt. Commodores center Logan Stewart was also levied a half-game suspension in the wake of the Bulldogs’ 33-28 win this past Saturday in Nashville.
The suspensions of the players were based on NCAA rules and handed down by Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive in consultation with the respective schools.
Williams
“I did have the opportunity to speak to the Commissioner and discuss the incident,” Georgia coach Mark Richt said. “It’s certainly not representative of the Georgia way. I have always trusted the Commissioner’s judgment and understand and accept the decision. We’ll learn as well as grow from this situation and now turn our attention to preparing for Florida.”
Following is the news release from the SEC, which explains its ruling in each instance:
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Upon review of game tapes of the football game between the University of Georgia and Vanderbilt University, played in Nashville, Tenn. on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011, Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive has announced that Vanderbilt sophomore center Logan Stewart, Georgia sophomore defensive lineman Kwame Geathers and Georgia junior defensive back Shawn Williams have been suspended for the first half of their team’s next football games.
Vanderbilt hosts Army this Saturday while Georgia plays Florida in Jacksonville on Oct. 29.
Geathers’ action was in violation of NCAA Football Rule 2-32-1-a for fighting. By NCAA Football Rule 9-5-1-b, the penalty for violation of the rule in the second half includes suspension for the first half of the team’s next scheduled game.
On the same play, Stewart’s suspension is the result of a flagrant personal foul which occurred at the 13:09 mark in the fourth quarter. The action is in violation of Rule 9-1 of the NCAA Football Rule Book, which states that a flagrant personal foul offender shall be disqualified.
Williams’ suspension is the result of a flagrant personal foul which occurred at the 2:08 mark in the third quarter. The action is in violation of Rule 9-1-4 of the NCAA Football Rule Book, which reads, “No player shall target and initiate contact to the head or neck area of a defenseless opponent with the helmet, forearm, elbow or shoulder.”
This action is taken in accordance with Southeastern Conference Constitution, Article 4.4.2 (d), which states that a student-athlete may be suspended if it is determined that the student-athlete has committed a flagrant or unsportsmanlike act.
Geathers, a redshirt sophomore from Georgetown, S.C., has started three games at noseguard for the Bulldogs and alternates regularly with junior John Jenkins. He has seven tackles, a pass break-up and a quarterback pressure.
Williams, a junior from Damascus, has started every game this season, including one at inside linebacker. He is the Bulldogs’ third-leading tackler with 34 and has two interceptions, including one against Vanderbilt this past weekend.
Saturday’s game, clinched by Georgia in the final seconds, was extremely emotional. The night ended with Franklin and Georgia defensive coordinator Todd Grantham a shouting match at midfield. The SEC asked for reports from both schools but about that incident but indicated Wednesday that the is being “handled internally between league office and schools,” spokesman Charles Bloom said.
Here’s video of the hit that resulted in Williams’ suspension:
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dawg258
October 19th, 2011
1:19 pm
1st and BS
Bobby Joe
October 19th, 2011
1:20 pm
First….the SEC is turning into a league for little girls.
db
October 19th, 2011
1:22 pm
Vandy player’s should have been for a whole game. He intentionally clipped Geathers.
Tech Fan
October 19th, 2011
1:23 pm
The Vandy player should have been penalized at least a game. The UGA player reacted to a dirty play and should not have been penalized.
scdawg
October 19th, 2011
1:23 pm
bs
Dbalcer
October 19th, 2011
1:24 pm
I hope the refs get in trouble for their part in this happening.
Harry from da Burn
October 19th, 2011
1:24 pm
Fourth..and its not the SEC turning into girls, ITS THIS BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY!
norris
October 19th, 2011
1:24 pm
What a joke! Yes Kwame did violate a rule but it seems like the SEC turns a blind eye(no pun intended!) when a Florida player tries to gouge out someone’s eye or a Nick Farley late hits anyone he can!
reebok
October 19th, 2011
1:24 pm
Grantham needs to grow up and be a mentor to these kids instead of acting like a punk.
Slive is a clown
October 19th, 2011
1:24 pm
What a joke…FLA had a linebacker, Jon Bostic, take a swing at an Alabama player and the SEC didn’t see fit to suspend him. Slive is running this conference into the ground. Between the cheating and blatant preferential treatment that his office doles out, he will be the undoing of this conference.
And Vandy’s player has to sit against Army while UGA loses 2 starters in an SEC game. Yeah, thats equal.
Indian Dawg
October 19th, 2011
1:24 pm
Absolute horse dung. Notice how Vandy plays a non-conference, while we’ll playing the nemesis of the East. Sure that’s 100% fair. Not.
SSI
October 19th, 2011
1:25 pm
What about Franklin? He started the after game “incident”.
dawg258
October 19th, 2011
1:25 pm
Funny how Auburn didnt get a suspension for the SW hit last year…. what a joke SEC…. regulate it across the board.
UF how much are you paying for this ????????????
outkasted
October 19th, 2011
1:25 pm
ok so now that its over can the ajc finds something else to talk about? its wednesday and this is still being talked about…
Joe
October 19th, 2011
1:25 pm
Here come the HOMERS!
We did nothing wrong, it was justified, they did it worse, blah, blah, blah
AL Dawg
October 19th, 2011
1:25 pm
Hope his Dad can afford to hire a lawyer, blatant attempt to harm, one Retaliatory punch is not a “fight”. Jeez, SEC punishes UGA but never AL or AWburn.
Tom
October 19th, 2011
1:25 pm
db, the suspension is consistent with the haf-game suspension of Ben Jones in 2010, for a similarly malicious clip.
3 + 4 = 0
October 19th, 2011
1:25 pm
I guess that if Geathers had been wiped out by the clip … had busted his knee up, then Stewart wouldn’t have been suspended at all … All the attention was on Geathers and the swing …
The Ghost of Wally Butts
October 19th, 2011
1:25 pm
Hell, where was the SEC Commissioner when Brandon Spikes was gouging eyeballs?
GEORGIA D
October 19th, 2011
1:25 pm
will be on fire after this! GATORS, This was your worst nightmare
tony
October 19th, 2011
1:25 pm
now uga has an excuse when they lose to the gators again this year
NOT SO WELL DONE
October 19th, 2011
1:26 pm
UGA is #386 out of 400. What a joke. No limit on number of bars in Athens. I’m not sure if this is funny.
Ted
October 19th, 2011
1:26 pm
The block on Kwame was beyond dirty. I would have reacted the same way
UGA '05
October 19th, 2011
1:26 pm
This makes me hate Mark Slive. Total B.S!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ryan
October 19th, 2011
1:27 pm
Stay classy UGA. You can’t punch people on the field. Quit trying to defend the indefensible.
AL Dawg
October 19th, 2011
1:27 pm
and why no punishment for the Coach with the “thumbs up”. Jeez
DunwoodyDawg
October 19th, 2011
1:27 pm
I agree with DB. There doesn’t need to be balance here on the punishment SEC. Stewart should be out for a full game. I know this. If the Dawgs get the opportunity to really clock Vandy next year, they should run it up.
Over it Dawg
October 19th, 2011
1:28 pm
The whole system is a sham, from the top down.
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
1:28 pm
Now I can quit asking, I know what Georgia’s excuse will be when they lose to Florida as usual. Does it even count as a fight if it’s with Vandy? Go Gators – continue to dominate the Pups! 18-3, not too shabby!
Ryan
October 19th, 2011
1:29 pm
How can you expect your players to have any discipline when Grantham is your DC?
db
October 19th, 2011
1:29 pm
Tom: Then Geathers should have gotten nothing. My point is they are not equal. One was intentional, one was an emotional reaction.
Mel
October 19th, 2011
1:29 pm
Should have been a full game suspension. Half a game is barely a slap on the wrist. Discipline comes from the top!
Hunting Dawg
October 19th, 2011
1:30 pm
Why don’t we just ban contact football and just play flag football instead? This just way to violent. We can be the follow Goshen College in Indiana which has banned the “The Star Spangled Banner” at all sporting events because school’s president considers the National Anthem’s words to be too violent.
schmeckdawg
October 19th, 2011
1:31 pm
What a f’*&^%$g joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL
October 19th, 2011
1:31 pm
Here come the idiotic whiners like Joe
Whaaaaaaa, Whaaaaaa………UGA fans are homers and are mean people…..Whaaaaa, Whaaaaa!
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
1:31 pm
^that’s what she said
Ron Swanson
October 19th, 2011
1:31 pm
47-40. Still on top
DC
October 19th, 2011
1:32 pm
haha 2 game suspension…
ugaDAWG
October 19th, 2011
1:32 pm
SEC: strongest conference on the field in college fooball. SEC: weakest conference in college football in on-the-field and off-the-field officiating. And if they accept Missouri, it may become a joke on the fieid.
7GATOR
October 19th, 2011
1:32 pm
Not sure I see it that way King? it may light a fire under those boys?? We need to get up early for sure.Man I don’t even know if we will have a kicker and that was our only pts last week.Not much to this one this yr but I will be there.Go GATORS!!!
robsc1981
October 19th, 2011
1:32 pm
Here we go….whining about something that happened a couple of years ago, whining about it not being fair……what, no whines about how crappy Richt is as a coach? If these things had been done AGAINST the Dawgs, a whole different story would have emerged or nothing would’ve been said at all. I’m not a big Gator fan, but I can truly say I hope they stomp GA into the turf at the end of this month.
Ralph
October 19th, 2011
1:33 pm
@Ryan…little short on the brain power, eh matey:-)))).
JC
October 19th, 2011
1:33 pm
Unreal….. UGA administrators need to grow some cajones and stand up for their University. Of course that’ll never happen with Adams running the show. Gutless cowards….
Mark Bradley
October 19th, 2011
1:34 pm
Coach Grantham should be fired immediately!!!
Tobias Funke
October 19th, 2011
1:34 pm
This is total BS.
DawgInaTruck
October 19th, 2011
1:34 pm
Based on precedent, this is what I expected. I don’t believe either coach should be punished. A (short) shouting match after a football game? Come on! They will probably both be reprimanded so the SEC can document some kind of action but that should be it.
Nik Fairly
October 19th, 2011
1:35 pm
I didn’t be get suspended 4 nuthin lasts years. Not me or Scam.
Mtn Dawg
October 19th, 2011
1:35 pm
If the refs had been on their game they would have thrown Stewart out of the game right then. It’s bogus for Gearthers to be suspended. Does not instill much confidence in the SEC Constitution. TOTAL BS!!!
Lost Gator Fan
October 19th, 2011
1:36 pm
Is that you John Wayne, is this me?
straitroad
October 19th, 2011
1:37 pm
The SEC and Mike Slive have no credibility. We can all point to countless examples of incidents such as these taking place over the past few years (Brandon Spikes, Cam Newton’s punch on Rambo following a run, too many Fairley hits to list). Slive got caught up in the frenzy created by the two blogger chicks (Bradley and Shultz) at the AJC and reacted to it.
E-Dog
October 19th, 2011
1:37 pm
You UGA fans are just a bunch of whinny babies. If they did the crime then do the time. I am so tired of everything UGA does to another team it is suppose to be ok. But if a team does something to your sorry team the officials are suppose to throw the book at them.
Missing starters over VANDY
October 19th, 2011
1:37 pm
Vandy? For a Florida game.Lord how mercy! Put on your thinking cap dawgs! dang!!!!!!!!!!!
Dawson Dave
October 19th, 2011
1:37 pm
Coach Richt continues to recruit only the finest student athletes…he is truly a character guy.
dawgustus
October 19th, 2011
1:38 pm
Total garbage. Slive and the SEC are doing their best NCAA imitation here with this moronic ruling. The Vandy player intentionally tried to take out the knee of Geathers from behind. Could have ruined a career. And the SEC says the punishment for that is the same a Geathers punching the guy in the side in reaction??? And how in the world did they rule that Williams’ hit was intentional. I’ve watched that play over and over and it’s clear Williams had lost the ball and didn’t see the receiver didn’t catch it. Late hit/personal foul, sure, the flag was thrown. But intentional and flagrant foul? Give me a break. Richt and McGarrity shouldn’t take this laying down.
formergaresident
October 19th, 2011
1:38 pm
@Ryan, you’re wasting your time trying to inject class and reason into this group. The rest of the world is wrong and UGA is right. Always. Excuses and justifications. Always. This whole fiasco is laughable to the masses. The UGA fans don’t get that they have become a joke with their poor sportsmanship and attitudes.
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
1:38 pm
It’s like 2 small scooter accidents.. get over it! Go Gators!
MY.Dawg
October 19th, 2011
1:39 pm
Wow,a flagrant clip, that could have ended Geathers career gets 1/2 a game!? I can’t say I blame him for throwing the punch. He was whipping Stewart at the line, so what better way to get a competitive advantage than a clip? Williams is just fall out from the b.s. with Franklin and Grantham. If you play the game full speed contact is going to occur, and yes sometimes it will be to the head and neck area. If the Grantham/Franklin altercation doesn’t occur, do any of the suspensions occur? I guess being the premier league comes with consequences….Let em play the game,and next time Kwame, the bottom of the pile is a much better place to take care of business!
OkieDawg
October 19th, 2011
1:39 pm
INCREDIBLE! The Vandy player intentionally tried to chop/clip Geathers. Geather’s reaction was a spontaneous emotional reaction. The Vandy player’s actions could have resulted in a severe injury. Geather’s punch to the side would not cause an injury of any kind. So why doesn’t the Vandy player get a more severe penalty? He should sit for a full game while Geathers did break a rule and should get the one half game. I didn’t see it in the clip, but it was reported the Vandy player gave a thumbs up to his coach on the side line. Maybe, Coach Franklin should apologize for his player’s action to intentionally hurt a player.
bob
October 19th, 2011
1:39 pm
What bothers me more than the half game suspension is how Coach Richt has yet to stand up ( at least nothing i have seen on tv or type) for his team and his coaches but I have seen several articles of how Richt told Franklin after hearing Franklins side that yeah that’s what I thought happened. Stand up for your team, and your coach. The least you could have said in the interview is I am waiting to talk with Coach Grantham and get his side instead of throwing him under the bus by saying Yeah thats what I thought to Franklin. Grow some gonads Richt and stop worrying about kissing theirs. Also in the Gawga Tenn game did not a Tenn player in front of a referee throw a punch to the face of a Gawga player and not a flag was thrown or a penalty handed out. Makes me think Slive and the sliveettes think Gawga has a shot of playing for the title and goodness forbid my actually upset an unbeaten team from the west and thus ruin another shot at a national championchyt.
DawgInaTruck
October 19th, 2011
1:39 pm
Consider this too, though. We will have two very fresh, very talented and very motivated defensive players for the second half against UF.
ryan
October 19th, 2011
1:40 pm
Its John Jenkins and Ray Drew time i think this could be good motivation SEC = NCAA = Fed Gov .
SouthSide Dawg
October 19th, 2011
1:40 pm
I would like to see Geather’s father organize a campaign to have Mike Slive removed and get the SEC office out of Birmingham.
Red Fox
October 19th, 2011
1:40 pm
Quit your bickering, flags were thrown, rules were broken. Although, I do think no one would have been suspended had the idiot coaches not made a hot mess out of this on TV. The next opponents are irrelevant.
Alabama Jack
October 19th, 2011
1:40 pm
Payback is a beitch, ain’t it dawgs?
Joe 's Top
October 19th, 2011
1:40 pm
Joe I will not tell you again to get back to bed and quit posting on the blogs. Put on this ball-gag now
chg
October 19th, 2011
1:41 pm
Here we go again with the UGA whiners and complaints about “NOT FAIR” UGA fans are the little girls and spoiled rotten brats. Still complaining about last year’s games. Grow up and accept responsibility. Ever heard of good sportsmanship? No, apparently not.
Jim S.
October 19th, 2011
1:41 pm
Like others, I would comment that it seems unfair that Geathers is punished equally to the Vandy player for a reaction to his blatant and potentially career threatening dirty personal foul. The punishment for the Williams play seems legit to me given the current state of the rules. I hope Franklin doesn’t simply skate on this while Grantham gets popped. Franklin and Vandy had won the PR war up to this point. At least with the suspension of the Vandy player, it appears that the actions on both sides are being scrutinized. I’m not pleased with the Grantham reaction, particularly given the choke sign in Jacksonville last year, but Franklin has a bit of a history as well. For my part, I would rather see UGA’s players and coaches conduct themselves with class.
Calhoundawg
October 19th, 2011
1:42 pm
Since when does a mere “clipping” penalty warrant a 1/2 game suspension? Just sayin’ …
I’m still looking for an AJC writer to address Head Coach Franklin’s role in the altercation after the game. Oh well, maybe I’ll just go out and buy a National Enquirer instead. Morons.
IF UGA was in the top 5-10
October 19th, 2011
1:42 pm
The SEC and Mike Slive never make this call.And I’m not even a UGA fan.
Blue
October 19th, 2011
1:42 pm
wow…let me call the “wahmbulance” for all you “yeah, that’s fair” and “what about so and so” guys. Time to put on your big boy pants. As one of my old coaches once told me when I said “that’s not fair”, “who the hell ever told you life was fair”.
Bobo is Not the Problem
October 19th, 2011
1:42 pm
All those crybaby “that’s not fair” punks from my childhood grew up and became posters on AJC blogs. Wah, wah, wah. Shut up, already.
Alabama Jack's top
October 19th, 2011
1:42 pm
AJ I will not tell you again to get back to bed and quit posting on the blogs. Put on this ball-gag now
Blue's top
October 19th, 2011
1:44 pm
Blue I will not tell you again to get back to bed and quit posting on the blogs. Put on this ball-gag now
dAWG
October 19th, 2011
1:44 pm
Wow,
Where were the suspension last year for the fl or auburn games?
Short Memory
October 19th, 2011
1:44 pm
Dawg fans seem to have a short memory… Two Auburn linemen were suspended for the first half of the Alabama game last year after throwing punches in the UGA game. Ben Jones did not get suspended for punching Nick Fairley which actually started the fracas where the other two punches were thrown. He wasn’t suspended because no flag was thrown on his actions for a personal foul. Calls are missed every week, but the punishment for personal foul penalties called for punches seems consistent.
NewnanDawg
October 19th, 2011
1:44 pm
Well, at least Richt now has a lame excuse for losing to Florida again this year.
Dap01
October 19th, 2011
1:45 pm
The SEC is becoming a joke like the NCAA. Why was the Florida player not suspended? Why was Steward not punished more than someone who simply retaliated?
Oh and Cam did not know anything about being shopped around. And Bill Clinton did not inhale. And Obama never listed to Rev. Wright’s sermons of hate. What is the meaning of is?
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
1:45 pm
Life isn’t fair, move on! Go Gators!
hornblowermg
October 19th, 2011
1:46 pm
does the stewart brat also receive the nick fairley award for most plays performed in the classic chicken-crap manner of auburn and vu ? and how ’bout them refs !!?
Saban
October 19th, 2011
1:46 pm
Imagine Richt will have to hand over his purse and make up.
The REAL PHIL
October 19th, 2011
1:46 pm
When did we become a society where the effect was given just as much weight as the cause?
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
1:46 pm
Oh and Cam did not know anything about being shopped around. And Bill Clinton did not inhale. And Obama never listed to Rev. Wright’s sermons of hate. What is the meaning of is?
——-
Don’t forget the WMD in Iraq…
Wrong AU
October 19th, 2011
1:47 pm
paid the price last year too and we were ranked high.Our 2 guys had to sit the 1st 1/2 of bama
boss dawg
October 19th, 2011
1:48 pm
Mark bradley should be fired and have his crayons tossed out of his crib.
Jim Mora Jr.
October 19th, 2011
1:49 pm
They should contact the Players Association and appeal.
Just kidding.
In all seriousness- the Vanderbilt player should have to serve a one game suspension. That was a flagrant attempt to injure Geathers.
01HAWK
October 19th, 2011
1:49 pm
JOHN JENKINS………………………………YOU BIG TUB OF LARD………………………You had better get in shape because Florida is going to run the ball.
McDawg
October 19th, 2011
1:49 pm
so we move Commings back to safety and maybe get Thorton some reps at nose
move on bring on the gators -i’m sure the lawyers in Birmingham can justify this anyway they want
That endzone dance
October 19th, 2011
1:49 pm
bit you again pups.Never should have done that one since it had never been done in College Football.You want flags,we got your flags for years to come
45ACP
October 19th, 2011
1:50 pm
What did Shawn Williams do? I must have missed that. This is not for that tackle where he threw that guy to the ground is it?
sandra horton
October 19th, 2011
1:50 pm
all guilty parties should be out for a whole game
they need to learn sportmanship
OkieDawg
October 19th, 2011
1:50 pm
Florida starting CB Roberson was arrested. Bet he does not get any bench time against UGA. Hope Rainey doesn’t threaten any young ladies this year, he may have to sit out the UGA game. Oh wait, he was allowed to come back against UGA because he was doing everything the Florida way.
Smokewagon
October 19th, 2011
1:51 pm
KingGator is right. Get fired up and mean as hell and whip Florida.
sogadog
October 19th, 2011
1:51 pm
Suspending Geathers is wrong. He just reacted instantly to the Vandy center’s clip which could have caused serious injury. No way he deserves the same punishment as Stewart. I hope there is some way UGA can appeal.
Thomas Brown
October 19th, 2011
1:51 pm
It is still not right.
DawgnMD
October 19th, 2011
1:51 pm
GOOD! Now we can get on with the business at hand. OH GAYYYYYTORS….COME OUT AND PLAY YAAAAY!!!!
Tech '10
October 19th, 2011
1:52 pm
UGA got what it deserved, Vandy got off a little easier than it should have. I would be surprised if Grantham got anything seeing as how he made a public apology for his behavior. Franklin, I would not be surprised simply b/c of the stance he took and public statements he made, regardless of whehter he actually did anything wrong.
boss dawg
October 19th, 2011
1:52 pm
Sandra, Go knit someone a hat and let the men worry about football decisions .
jbgibson
October 19th, 2011
1:52 pm
So of you people who come to these boards are so stupid, and I mean STUPID. People here are not upset over the suspensions, you jackhole’s, they ticked off over the fact that right now the SEC is showing a complete lack of consistency. All the dirty hits from players from other teams in the past on OTHER teams and no suspensions.
Do Geathers and Williams deserve the suspension? Yes, no one is really denying that. Stewart though, deserves worse for a hit that was blatantly late, on purpose, and after the play had ended. Watch the video, that’s what happened.
Then as far as Grantham and Franklin goes, as a coach from an opposing team, you don’t go after an opposing player and yell at him like you’re his dad. No, you let his coaches know how disappointed you were in his playing and let them deal with it. Grantham was right in standing up for his player(s), he should have just handled it better.
Then as far as all you FLA fans who come here, shut it. How pathetic do you have to be to go to another team’s articles and spout nothing but vitriol? That’s just sad beyond belief…
Strange Murphy
October 19th, 2011
1:53 pm
And what Nick Fairley did to Murray last year was okay! But we all know Auburn can do anything they want and not suffer any punishment.
DawgFan
October 19th, 2011
1:53 pm
What a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!
Double standard. You either hold the same standard to all players within the SEC or not. The SEC “reviewed the UGA-Auburn game last year also and determined Nick Fairley didn’t commit the fouls, yet he was flagged multiple times.
Double standard joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
C from Marietta
October 19th, 2011
1:54 pm
I agree King Gator. With the life isn’t fair. Move on. Stuff happens.
To the trolls coming here and trashing UGA. Coming here and insulting UGA fans blowing off steam is classless. You need to look in the mirror. It is time to put this behind us and move on with our life. I never get the pile on mentally when another school has something bad happen to it. I have friends from AU, FLA, Tech, Bama and other schools. Just b/c someone when to a rival school, does not make them a bad person.
LOL
October 19th, 2011
1:54 pm
And screw the SEC – done with college football. Slimiest, shadiest sporting organization in the world.
Mtn Dawg
October 19th, 2011
1:54 pm
where in God’s name was this bunch who handed down these bullcrap penalties last year when Nick Fairley nearly ended Aaron Murray’s career. Oh, that’s right. That was Auburn.
You talk about a joke. This is no better and maybe worse than the NCAA Infractions Comm. decision making. Totally out of balance, and unfair. They better go after those feaking coaches.
Smokewagon
October 19th, 2011
1:55 pm
The Man is against us. Let’s show him what we can do by wiping out his favored teams.
DawgFan
October 19th, 2011
1:55 pm
What a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!
SEC does not hold the same standard across the league. They pick and choose depending on the team.
JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
D Fence
October 19th, 2011
1:56 pm
Dont get too excited Gators – we still have Ogletree and hopefully Washington coming back for you guys…in the end…..we’re gonna get you this year ala George “I guarantee it” Zimmer…Lets hope both teams have their stable of horses for most of the game as is.
DGA
October 19th, 2011
1:56 pm
I understand the Geathers suspension, regardless of whether I agree with it or not. What I don’t understand is the S. Williams suspension. I’m a Georgia fan, but I’m not one of the people that was lambasting Fairly last year. It’s football, and while the NFL has gone to great lengths to protect players, never in my life have I heard of a COLLEGE player being suspended for “the result of a flagrant personal foul which occurred at the 2:08 mark in the third quarter. The action is in violation of Rule 9-1-4 of the NCAA Football Rule Book, which reads, “No player shall target and initiate contact to the head or neck area of a defenseless opponent with the helmet, forearm, elbow or shoulder.”
I really didn’t think Williams played the “dirty game” everyone is making it out to be. You can call him unsportsmanlike for taunting or whatever alleged trash-talk he was saying at the end of the game, but as far as his play on the field went, I didn’t think it was bad (and I thought one personal foul was bogus). Call me a homer if you want, but as I said, I wasn’t all over Fairly last year either.
At least it’s not a full game, but flags were thrown on EVERYONE involved in this suspension, and I personally think it should have just been left at that.
brick
October 19th, 2011
1:57 pm
I can somewhat understand the Geathers suspension, if you call that a punch, but the Williams suspension is complete BS. SEC better get consistent and start handing out suspensions for late hits and apply it to ALL teams, including the teams they are protecting to get them into the BCS championship game/
TrishaDishaWarEagle
October 19th, 2011
1:58 pm
@strange murphy
Thats right, we got the NCAA, SEC, and FBI in our hip pockets..just like UGA fans theorize
Hahaha
War Damn Eagle
King Gator s top
October 19th, 2011
1:58 pm
Come back to bed and take your pounding
Blue Ridge Top Dawg
October 19th, 2011
1:58 pm
It is what it is…. doesnt matter what us fans think… BEAT FLORIDA!
Auburn
October 19th, 2011
1:58 pm
We don’t do nuthin wrong at Auburn y’all quit whining. Our boys jus play hard.
PS:Does anyone know if Cam has cousin that’s daddy needs a few thousand.
baby you can get away with anything
October 19th, 2011
1:58 pm
in Alabama.And that is a fact of life.Been that way since the 50’s.But you either need a gun or money.
UGA Poofer
October 19th, 2011
1:59 pm
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aisi4130
October 19th, 2011
1:59 pm
All this energy focused on Auburn’s team last year for a fight at Vandy this year. You would have thought Auburn was responsible for all 7 of UGA’s losses last year and that Chizik had a time machine that enabled him to convince Hershel Walker to sign with an agent before his senior year. Perhaps some of you should read the parable of the two monks and the stream. Take a deep breath; it’s gonna be alright. Big mean Mr. Nick can’t hurt anyone this year (especially on the DL) and Mr. Newton is gone. Have a lollypop – you’ll feel better.
we beat vandy
October 19th, 2011
2:00 pm
I heard a GA player tried to run over a Vandy player with his scooter but missed– wide left!!
UGA Poofer's top
October 19th, 2011
2:00 pm
What did I tell you about posting on those boards, get off that computer and clean the house like I told you
TrishaDishaWarEagle' sister
October 19th, 2011
2:02 pm
I’m waiting for you in the closet
Sensational Journalism
October 19th, 2011
2:02 pm
Who writes the caption below the headlines on the front page of the AJC?
“Two UGA, one Vandy player face half-game suspensions for fight after Saturday’s game; no word yet on coaches’ fate.”
The suspensions have nothing to do with after the game. The suspensions are for plays throughout the game. Just goes to show you how AJC wants to play up this story even though they cannot get the facts straight.
evil empire's sister
October 19th, 2011
2:02 pm
Come back to bed brother
Sunny
October 19th, 2011
2:02 pm
Didn’t one or two Auburn players get suspended for throwing punches at the end of the Georgia game last year? I think they had to sit out the first half of the Iron Bowl. They got the exact same punishment Geathers got. They all threw punches, they all received well-earned suspensions.
luxomni
October 19th, 2011
2:03 pm
Georgia should withdraw from the SEC. No reason to take this kind of crap. Who does Slive think he is? This would never happen to another school. Mean ol’ Vandy was ugly to us. This is unfair and my buttocks hurt. Sniff.
AltamahaDawg
October 19th, 2011
2:03 pm
You know what..forget about the fairness of the SEC or who else did what and when, and just let’s put the focus on us. I believe this will motivate thier teammates in their absence and them upon thier return.
As ugly as that whole Vandy game was, it will turn out to have been a better turn of events than a boring 20 pt. win.
Alphare
October 19th, 2011
2:03 pm
SEC should have a provision that says no UGA players should ever be punished.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
October 19th, 2011
2:04 pm
It will probably be moot to mention to the conspiratorially challenged, that AU did have two players who were suspended the first half of the iron bowl because of the GA game, one by the SEC and one by Coach Chizik..
So stop whining about a double standard..pretty please..it’s just gotten so old and tired…If the world +dog really was out to get a program, don’t you think it would be a relevant one?
RawDawg
October 19th, 2011
2:05 pm
I suspect these suspensions only came about because of the fracas at the end the game and all the attention it has drawn. Shame, UGA was looking to have all of its weapons back and healthy against FLA. I feel like we have the depth at those positions to make it through a half against what should be a still depleted FLA team. But, then again, it is FLA.
GoDAWGS
UGA Poofer
October 19th, 2011
2:05 pm
UGA Poofer’s top Sorry must mop first, whole place wet from dog crying.
SLIVE IS A CROSS DRESSER!!!!!!
October 19th, 2011
2:06 pm
Could see this crap coming a mile away—SEC has to CYA.
Get a backbone Slive.
Dr. Death
October 19th, 2011
2:07 pm
I agree Slive sucks but somebody has to monitor the play on the field and it has to be his office. Otherwise, the Th”uga”s would take over. The players were guilty so they must “do the time” . Hope the Dawgs pound the Gators.
Blind Homer's Odyssey
October 19th, 2011
2:07 pm
I didn’t see nothing from these fine upstanding gentlemen. Of course I’m a blind homer. Did hear a few things from Mr. Williams though, actually a lot of things, and likely the real reason for his short vacation. Note that there is a guy wearing a SEC or Walmart vest, (couldn’t tell which as I’m selectively blind don’t you know), standing next to Franklin in the little after game discussion that took place.
pdawg
October 19th, 2011
2:08 pm
Move Tree back to safety for the first half…..we shd. be fine. We will be more than fine guys. More motivation for the boys to play lightsout for the rest of the season. I am glad we have TG…it is apparent the boys are playing for him
Football Ken
October 19th, 2011
2:09 pm
This non-sense has got to stop. For anyone, particulary ex o-lineman and d-lineman, we all know what the Vandy kid did was dirty. Geathers re-acted as all of us would. All of these non football playing people are in chrge and don’t have a clue about real football (between the white lines). SEC commish got this way wrong. As for Grantham, as a ex-player and coach, if my coaches doesn’t stand up for me, i”d be looking for the door as a player. Coach Richt is straddling a thin line on his obvious non support of Grantham and his players…I wouldnt want to play or work for a coach who doesnt support me at least publicly…..excuse the spelling.
VANDY PANZIE
October 19th, 2011
2:09 pm
Hope all you Vandy engineers are happy–because I know your trolling.
wreckbuzz
October 19th, 2011
2:10 pm
I understand UGA fans being upset at Logan Stewart. It was a dirty play. But you can’t expect a punishment for Stewart and then criticize the punishment for Kwame Geathers. He decided to punish Stewart himself by punching him. There’s no place for that either. Let the referees and then the conference handle Stewart. He went vigilante and that’s always going to be punished.
Washuan Ealey got his eyes poked by Brandon Spikes. Ealey didn’t get up and try to kill Spikes. Spikes got punished after the game. That’s how to handle it.
Pitbull
October 19th, 2011
2:10 pm
Face it, Alabama and Auburn have Slive in their hip pockets. Those schools always benefit from ref calls and the team they play always suffer to the point that bad calls and no calls determine the number of wins those 2 schools get.
Slive is dirty and the Tech grad in charge of the refs is bad. Any time that ref team that cheated Georgia out of the win against Tech in 1998 with the fumble that wasn’t a fumble refs a Georgia game I just hold my breath. I think a guy named Penfors was the guy in charge who made the bad call that day. He should have been let go, but since it didn’t cost Alabama or Auburn a win, Slive let it go.
Don’t for get the bad calls against LSU against Alabama and against Miss State against Florida a couple of years ago when it was uncertain if it would be an undefeated Alabama or an undefeated Florida that would play Texas for a NC. All that was certain was that Slive was going to get an undefeated SEC team through the season to play undefeated Texas for a NC so the SEC could make more money.
Slive is dirty and the SEC office and refs are dirty. They all need to go and they need to go now. The presidents of the 10 other SEC schools need to vote them out and get fresh blood from outside the conference with no SEC school affiliations.
SIC THIS
October 19th, 2011
2:11 pm
Good point Ken
G-Dawg
October 19th, 2011
2:11 pm
I feel sorry for Vandy…they just made that star on their jersey’s much bigger for the game in Athens. They’ll end up having to change team colors from gold and black to black and blue!! and i feel sorry for the Gators center, after Kwame comes outta the locker room at halftime!! Someone will end up paying for it!!
pdawg
October 19th, 2011
2:12 pm
Very disappointed in CMR handling of the situation….at least publicly. I have been his ardent supporter but this very much disapoints me.
G-Dawg
October 19th, 2011
2:13 pm
This has probably unleashed the beast….#99! Bad news for the rest of the SEC teams!!!
Native Atlantan
October 19th, 2011
2:13 pm
Hopefully all players involved learned that with actions come consequences.
UGA’s lack of discipline under Richt has continued to astound!
01HAWK
October 19th, 2011
2:13 pm
Pitbull…………………………….Face it, Alabama and Auburn have Slive in their hip pockets.
DUH…………………………..The SEC OFFICE is in Birmingham………………………………What did you expect.
Gators...it's time for your whoopin!
October 19th, 2011
2:14 pm
Jax this year…UGA is gonna put a beatdown on Gators and Musloser!
Chanticleer
October 19th, 2011
2:14 pm
Grantham
deserves five hundred thousand dollars a year for this junk?
Dawg Fud
October 19th, 2011
2:14 pm
Okay, great. Can we move on with life now?
straitroad
October 19th, 2011
2:14 pm
Wreckbuzz,
You are mistaken, the SEC office did not hand down a suspension on Spikes. That was done by Meyer, and only after he took heat for it.
Mtn Dawg
October 19th, 2011
2:14 pm
All you AU AL FL fans. Why don’t you just shut the HELP up. If this had happened to your team, you’d be singing a different tune.
CAN’T WAIT TO KICK SOME GATOR BUTTOCKS!!!!!! IT’S GOING TO BE SO SWEET!!!!
Dan
October 19th, 2011
2:14 pm
Sounds like a fair punishment to me.
rally
October 19th, 2011
2:15 pm
Go DAWGS…… out of the SEC. We don’t need your mangy criminal carcass here. You puppies are yelping as usual. The Sun Belt Conference might take you if they can stand the smell of an unwahed toothless dawg.
H
October 19th, 2011
2:15 pm
Slive is a joke….time to go pal.
First
October 19th, 2011
2:17 pm
I would be fine with this if I had seen consistency from the SEC. Why didn’t Fairley get suspended last year for his late hits to the spine or knee of Murray or Spikes of Florida get suspended for trying to gouge the eyes out of Caleb King? Both of those actions could have resulted in much more long lasting injuries (potentially permanent) than what a little rabbit punch to the gut from Geathers. Could it be because Auburn and Florida were both competing for National Titles that year while Georgia is not this year?
gomdawg
October 19th, 2011
2:17 pm
AND AUBURN PLAYERS LAST YEAR GOT NOTHING UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
TrishaDishaWarEagle
October 19th, 2011
2:18 pm
These comments are as funny as last year when bama fans said the SEC office MADE saban throw the game in the second half so AU could get to the BCS championship game.
gdawginkalamazoo
October 19th, 2011
2:19 pm
Okay get it over with and play football. I’m taking bets that cheapshot artist #60 feigns illness come game time in Athens next year.
UGA Crybabies
October 19th, 2011
2:20 pm
@gomdawg
Nothing is two key players suspended for the first half of the Iron Bowl?
TrishaDishaWarEagle' brother
October 19th, 2011
2:21 pm
Me and sis are waiting on you, come back to bed and get off that silly ol typewriter thing
gdawginkalamazoo
October 19th, 2011
2:23 pm
Rules are rules break them and you pay the fine. I don’t like getting speeding tickets but I can’t argue that the other guy was going faster when I am the with the blue lights behind me.
Lucky that he is sitting out just half a game for the punch and not the rest of his career with a blown knee.
um....right
October 19th, 2011
2:23 pm
Still getting blocked?
UGA Poofer’s top
October 19th, 2011
2:23 pm
You better gather some of them tears up, I told you bout that back talk. Your gonna need em for lube
gomdawg
October 19th, 2011
2:23 pm
cRYBABIES what the hell is a iron bowl toilet or something
TOO TOUGH44
October 19th, 2011
2:24 pm
our Dawgsare the whipping boys for sec ..Dawgs are always made an example of unfairly I believe!
UPDATED: Kwame Geathers’ father upset over his son’s half-game suspension | UGA sports blog
October 19th, 2011
2:25 pm
[...] Both players were assessed half-game suspensions by the SEC on Wednesday afternoon. Georgia strong safety Shawn Williams was also levied a half-game suspension for an illegal hit he made in the game. [...]
NCDAWG
October 19th, 2011
2:25 pm
Instead of wasting time on the ajc, I invite everyone to get on the SEC website and barrage them with well thought out comments on the disparity in punishment for flagrant fouls on these players as opposed to Nick Fairley and Brandon Spikes or any others with flagrant fouls who have not been punished by the SEC with suspensions. Write away guys!!
um....right
October 19th, 2011
2:25 pm
Hey UGA bashers, is Vandy now a “t h u g” program? After all, “Stewart’s suspension is the result of a flagrant personal foul which occurred at the 13:09 mark in the fourth quarter.”
ozzfest
October 19th, 2011
2:25 pm
GEORGIA JUST GOT ONE UP THE BACK SIDE.
…at least if the Dogs don’t make it to the championship game…I will make $800 off of the SEC for the 2 tickets they are mailing out next week.
fayncdawg
October 19th, 2011
2:25 pm
Let’s play the race card! The SEC definitely payed the race card by suspending the two black Georgia players and not suspending the white Vandy player for that blantant clip!
Half Time Show
October 19th, 2011
2:26 pm
Enter your comments here
Swarles Barkley
October 19th, 2011
2:27 pm
I saw nothing flagrant in the personal fouls from Williams. It looked like a legit, late hit. There was no helmet to helmet or excessive force. He just hit the guy late. I’ve never heard of a half game suspension for a regular 15 yard personal foul. If it was a different play than the one I’m remembering, please feel free to enlighten me, but I have no recollection of a flagrant foul on the part of Williams.
G-Dawg
October 19th, 2011
2:27 pm
Wonder how much Slive was charged for his services by Trooper??
Slive Sucks!
October 19th, 2011
2:27 pm
This is BS! Slive sucks!! I hope Williams comes in at the half and lays someone out! UGA is still going to beat Floriduh’s sorry a$$ this year! HAHAHAHA!
Tallahasseedawg
October 19th, 2011
2:28 pm
This is what happens when one man (Slive) has to much power.What a idiot,i am so disturbed about this one, it doesn’t add up.CMR needs to step up for his players(publicly),but he want.
BS SEC RULES
October 19th, 2011
2:29 pm
Bostic of Florida takes a swing at Alabama player, no suspension. Upshaw of Alabama kicks a Vanderbilt player and is not suspended.
Slive is a tool.
um.....right
October 19th, 2011
2:29 pm
fayncdawg
October 19th, 2011
2:25 pm
Good point. I wonder if Bryant Gumbel thinks the SEC “is a ‘plantation overseer’”?
gomdawg
October 19th, 2011
2:29 pm
fayncdawg don’t go there that is un called for
TrishaDishaWarEagle
October 19th, 2011
2:29 pm
Slive is a retired Federal(re: lifetime apointee) judge..I am pretty sure the SEC is a stepdown in power
Summary
October 19th, 2011
2:30 pm
Logan Stewart: prick center who will have his career ended in Athens 2012(sweet thumbs up to the sideline asshat)
Franklin: Whiny Bitch, w no cajones who will be out of a job in -4yrs
Richt, McGarity, Adams: Pussies and Pushovers
Grantham: Man amongst the pussies
Geathers: shouldve beat the living hell out of the kid if he was gonna be suspended
Williams: dumba$$
UGA: 5-2
AJC sports writers: just plain awful at everyting they do(reprise)
Carvell: blows
AltamahaDawg
October 19th, 2011
2:30 pm
The problem is that while Geather’s action probably would not have got him suspended after the fact on it’s own, it was tied to the “incident”. Compoinded by the coaches deal, which brought all the scrutiny .They HAD to suspend the Vandy kid for that, so there really wasn’t anything the SEC office could do but suspend Geathers too. Not sure what Williams did, but I’d bet it would not have drawn a suspension without the rest of this stuff.
G-Dawg
October 19th, 2011
2:30 pm
Slice and Beebe….the two worst crooks in college football!!
MY 2 cents
October 19th, 2011
2:30 pm
Mark Richt needs to walk up to slimmy slive and slap him like a be-atch!
7576DAWG
October 19th, 2011
2:30 pm
From what I have read the coaches face no action from the SEC . Their fate will be handled internally at their schools.
TrishaDishaWarEagle' brother and sister
October 19th, 2011
2:31 pm
Would you please get off that do hicky and get back in bed.
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
2:31 pm
If your fan base is this whinny about a couple of half game suspensions I’d hate to be your boss.. wait I am your boss, get back to work you cuberats! Go Gators!
AltamahaDawg
October 19th, 2011
2:32 pm
surprised we dont have the 13:09 video up yet.
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
2:33 pm
CMR will be punished by Georgia, he will be forced to remain as head coach of the Dawgs..sorry no time served. Bonus, trip back to the Liberty Bowl to lose to UCF! Go Gators!
george
October 19th, 2011
2:36 pm
ABOUT DAMN TIME!!!!!! After 3 fights/skirmishes in 8 games including 32 players storming the field to fight and ZERO consequences this is a long time coming. Hopefully grantham is next. Could the Uga program be any more of a joke?????
Summary
October 19th, 2011
2:39 pm
King Gator can you explain why your team remains the most penailized team in the SEC (not including Bostics punch during UA game) o how about this one
The Orlando Sentinel reported Wednesday that true freshman cornerback Marcus Roberson was arrested and charged with underage alcohol possession Sept. 14, the week of the Gators’ game against Tennessee. Roberson was the second Floriday player arrested by the University Police Department that week, following now former Gator linebacker Dee Finley’s misdemeanor arrest two days earlier.
Roberson was arrested outside a campus residence hall after police officers reportedly spotted him with a can of Four Loko. He is being represented by Gainesville attorney Huntley Johnson, who (per the Sentinel, in a bit of an understatement) “frequently represents UF athletes.” Underage alcohol possession is a misdemeanor charge.
Roberson is the seventh Gator arrested this calendar year and the second to be cited for underage alcohol possession.
Chip Towers
October 19th, 2011
2:39 pm
AltamahaDawg: 13:09 video is linked at end of this article. Can’t find the 2:08 3rd hit. Please point me to it if anyone runs across it.
coach C
October 19th, 2011
2:39 pm
Beat Florida and Auburn and roll on —-this is just a bump in the road=========get mad and HIT somebody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
2:39 pm
^pipe down and look at our BCS rings! Go Gators
Buck Blew
October 19th, 2011
2:40 pm
suspend a player for a whole game for clipping? this is football, not gymnastics. geathers is the one who should be suspended for throwing the punch.
Bama in Atlanta
October 19th, 2011
2:42 pm
To quote Russell Zisky from “Stripes”:
“I’ve always been a pacifist. My father once told me to never, ever hit anyone out of anger unless you’re absolutely sure…..you can get away with it.”
UGA Crybabies
October 19th, 2011
2:43 pm
This is the sort of crap that makes Georgia the laughingstock of the SEC. When you’re whining that the SEC office is propping up Vandy over you, you need to reconsider your outlook.
7576DAWG
October 19th, 2011
2:44 pm
I’m not going to say that we didn’t deserve suspensions because if you apply the rule to what our players did we certainly broke them. But, I sure wish that McGarity would make a statement that there are a lot of inconsistencies as far as the SEC applying the rules. That we aren’t whining about getting punished but are complaining about some teams ,especially from the state of Alabama NOT getting punished. Maybe it’s time that the SEC headquarters moved out of Birmingham.
Ginger
October 19th, 2011
2:44 pm
Just did not like Vandy player going for Kwame knee…Kwame just react and defended himself…If Kwame did not punch him—he might have tried again…Kwame had to show that he was not going to take it.
The Vandy player should get a full game suspension…if Kwame gets 1/2 game.
JDawg1785
October 19th, 2011
2:45 pm
Not crazy about the suspensions, but it is what it is. Keep your heads up, guys, and dominate in that second half in JAX!
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
2:47 pm
I’d settle for a 1/2 sandwich or a full one, your choice. Go Gators!
RamboDog
October 19th, 2011
2:48 pm
King Gator…enjoy the 2 rings that Florida won…looks like they will be your last. UF headed back to being UGA’s Beaaach like they were for Many , many, many years. By the way, you didn’t get a ring but I see you have one around your lips. Looks like milk or “something”. Get back on that pipe…!
JRW7
October 19th, 2011
2:49 pm
MIKE SLIVE, you are a joke to the SEC!!!
jj
October 19th, 2011
2:49 pm
How long was Nick Fairley’s suspension after his multiple flagrant penalties vs UGA last year?
DAWGtired
October 19th, 2011
2:49 pm
This is a crock. Geathers and Stewart-totally acceptable. The fact that they searched additional gametape to get williams for a non-mandatory suspension is clearly bias. Do they review every game and hand out arbitrary suspensions league-wide for personal fouls of the same ilk? Absolutely not, otherwise Fairley would have been suspended half the season last year. Jenkins, Ahmad Black, and Major Wright were NOTORIOUS for those exact kind of plays…as were Greg Blue, Boss Bailey and Sean Jones. This is one of the worst micromanagement decisions that I have ever seen. The SEC just gave itself a major black-eye in lieu of enabling the decisions to be handled by the Coaching Staff and Athletic Directors, which is what they should have done. Pure garbage.
Summary
October 19th, 2011
2:49 pm
and yet Grantham remains a target while Muschump huffs and puffs his way up and down the sideline with clear audio of him cursing up a storm? Guess he just needs to fingerpoint more and defend his player against a joke of a coach to be thrust into spotlight(or have the AJC writers in Gainesville)
PS, i believe your former guy Jenoris “Just 1 mo Puff” Jenkins got booted out of his North Alabama game for fighting the other day
Brian
October 19th, 2011
2:50 pm
I agree with Geathers and Stewart getting suspended 1/2 game each, but NOT Williams!
Let me get this straight- Nick Fairley hits Aaron Murray in the back AND the knee and gets no suspension, but Williams’ hit gets him a 1/2 game suspension. Slive is a joke! I bet if last year’s Auburn team was only as good as Georgia is this year, Fairley would have gotten a full game.
DAWGtired
October 19th, 2011
2:51 pm
REPOSTED-so that I can get this point across clearly. Geathers and Stewart-totally acceptable. The fact that they searched additional gametape to get williams for a non-mandatory suspension is clearly bias. Do they review every game and hand out arbitrary suspensions league-wide for personal fouls of the same ilk? Absolutely not, otherwise Fairley would have been suspended half the season last year. Jenkins, Ahmad Black, and Major Wright were NOTORIOUS for those exact kind of plays…as were Greg Blue, Boss Bailey and Sean Jones. This is one of the worst micromanagement decisions that I have ever seen. The SEC just gave itself a major black-eye in lieu of enabling the decisions to be handled by the Coaching Staff and Athletic Directors, which is what they should have done. Pure garbage.
um.....right
October 19th, 2011
2:51 pm
I guess the beloved “Joe Pa” has been running a disgraceful program at Penn State since he ran down and angrily grabbed a ref after a game about a decade ago. What a “t h u g”.
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
2:52 pm
We actually have 3 national championships and 18-3 v. the Pups in last 21 years; not to mention SOS running it up on yall in between the hedges. Put that in your pipe and smoke it Ramboob!
7576DAWG
October 19th, 2011
2:53 pm
Good news is OGLETREE will be back and maybe will get 15 tackles. Jenkins needs to hold up covering the middle until the second half. I’m sure Geathers will be more than ready to help in the 3rd quarter.
UGA Crybabies
October 19th, 2011
2:54 pm
@JJ
Fairley only received one penalty, for the late hit against Murray. Georgia got called for chop blocking Fairley in that game, by your logic, that player should have been suspended too. Why didn’t that happen? None of this matters now. It’s not as if Fairley is still under the purview
of the SEC. If you’re still bitching about him now, it’s sour grapes.
CDAWG
October 19th, 2011
2:54 pm
I like CTG, I am so glad to see a Coach with passion and when you stand up for your players, they stand up for you! Who was the player for Florida a couple of years ago caught on tape gouging our running back in the eyes after the tackle. What about that SLIVE? I totally disagree with Geathers suspension. I just had lunch today with and Oklahoma LB from several years ago and he told me we are supposed to act like warriors on the field and now we get penalized for everything.
um.....right
October 19th, 2011
2:54 pm
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
2:52 pm
“We actually have 3 national championships and 18-3 v. the Pups in last 21 years;”
We?
Wow, you’ve played college ball for 21 years? Dude, you rock!
01HAWK
October 19th, 2011
2:55 pm
Stat of the Week
For the third straight year, Auburn leads the SEC in personal foul and unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, according to cfbstats.com. The Tigers have committed 15 in 2011 and average 1.9 per game over the past three seasons. The next most-penalized teams since 2009 for personal foul/unsportsmanlike conduct infractions are Florida (1.6 per game), Georgia (1.5) and Tennessee (1.3). Alabama has the fewest with 0.9 since 2009.
Summary
October 19th, 2011
2:55 pm
Since we’ve lost 2 games its OK to dole out suspensions. If your 7-0 and in the SEC, Slive isnt gonna touch that(re: Upshaw). He already knows one team out of LSU/UA have to lose. Cant ruin HIS chances of having a team from HIS conference, not in the BCS cashcow championship. :grabs pitchfork and marches on Slive:
DAWG08
October 19th, 2011
2:55 pm
Even if we do lose on 10/28 we’ll still be in front of the Gators for the east race there King Gator.
You guys had your run lately like we had a few years back. We just didn’t get the breaks FL and LSU got with other teams losing late to give us a chance at the NC game. FL is on a downward spiral now. Why do think Meyers left? He saw it coming.
Mama Dawg
October 19th, 2011
2:55 pm
db
October 19th, 2011
1:22 pm
Vandy player’s should have been for a whole game. He intentionally clipped Geathers
Geathers INTENTIONLLY threw a punch.
da name if mistuh spikes
October 19th, 2011
2:56 pm
CDAWG
Dat be me. an it wuznt a fowl cuz corch meyers sait so.
Mean Machine
October 19th, 2011
2:56 pm
Kwame getting suspended is total BS! He actually showed a lot of restraint after taking that cheap shot. If that happened to me, I would have broken that center in half, damn punk!
Brian
October 19th, 2011
2:57 pm
King Gator, congrats on your team’s accomplishments, but none of that matters for this year’s game. Goergia is notorious for choking against Florida and I get that, but that doesn’t matter once this game gets here. Maybe you should be a little worried considering your Gators lost to a bad Auburn team and got spanked by LSU and Bama.
TampaDawg
October 19th, 2011
2:57 pm
george
October 19th, 2011
2:36 pm
ABOUT DAMN TIME!!!!!! After 3 fights/skirmishes in 8 games including 32 players storming the field to fight and ZERO consequences this is a long time coming. Hopefully grantham is next. Could the Uga program be any more of a joke?????
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Could you possibly fabricate more crap? 32 players storming the field to fight? 3 fights in 8 games? Dude, step away from the computer, your bong is ready.
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
2:58 pm
Sorry, please replace “We” with “my alma mater” or “the University of Florida” – still doesn’t change the results..
sad for the pups. Go Gators!
beyond ready for a change
October 19th, 2011
2:58 pm
Last I heard Mike Singeltary was lookin for a coaching job…think Franklin would buck up to him….and what about that Gruden guy he’s got a pair and a ring…..bet he wouldnt have scouted Scam out to be a TE
UGA Crybabies
October 19th, 2011
2:58 pm
@Mama Dawg
It wasn’t intentional! That Vandy player ran into Geathers fist!
PR
October 19th, 2011
2:58 pm
Where was the “FIGHT” after tge game that the AJC talks about. Sure there was arguing, but no fighting. Sensationalism at it’s best (worst). More of the same from the AJC…
UGA Poofer
October 19th, 2011
2:59 pm
UGA Poofer’s top, Talk talk Talk, and never any action!
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
2:59 pm
Brian,
I’d be worried against anyone else, but lets face it – the Gators own Georgia and almost always win – I’m sweating the Vandy game more than this one. It’s a helmet game, Georgia runs out of the tunnel sees the Gator helmets and that’s all that needs to be said. Go Gators!
King Gator
OkieDawg
October 19th, 2011
3:00 pm
Based on the way the SEC dishes out punishment for punches, it looks like UGA will have a couple of free swings in the Florida game. Any suspensions would be applied during UGA vs. New Mexico State. Florida on the other hand will have to play Vandy. They may not be as willing to take a couple of swings. I like the way this fight is shaping up. Thanks to the suits in the SEC office.
TampaDawg
October 19th, 2011
3:00 pm
Mama Dawg (probably not a dawg at all) “Vandy player’s should have been for a whole game. He intentionally clipped Geathers
Geathers INTENTIONLLY threw a punch.”
He sure did and most everyone on here if someone went after their knee probably would too if they were being honest with themselves. Easy for people to sit back having never taken a field, having never had someone try to injure them, possibly on a permanent basis, and pass judgement. Especially that King Gator knucklehead. Time for UF to remember the 80s for a while.
Summary
October 19th, 2011
3:00 pm
In Honor of UA v Tenn
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Brian
October 19th, 2011
3:00 pm
Something to keep in mind dawg fans- I’m hoping our team doesn’t have the mental mistakes that we had in last year’s game… otherwise we probably will lose. But part of the reason for us being 1-5 in the last 6 is because of Meyer’s coaching. He was one of the best coaches in the country and in my opinion, a lot better coach than Richt. He is not at Florida anymore, so that advantage seems to be gone.
Blind Homer's Odyssey
October 19th, 2011
3:01 pm
I guess I really am blind as it just now occurred to me that the bug-eyed temper tantrum just elevated Grantham past St. Richt’s sainthood to deity? I must have missed the meeting. The majority of the perspectives apparent of us blind homers is that God Grantham was sacrificing his dignity, such that it is, in protection of his poor little defenseless motormouth and enforcer. Of course perspective is a narrow thing with us blind homers. We don’t see the just to the brink of flag dropping celebrations and exuberant dances after tackling a guy downfield as either offensive or ignorant. We also don’t see the jaws working and all of the other after whistle shenanigans as anything other than God Grantham’s inspiration. Of course, if a ref finally gets enough of the cumulative effect and finally drops his hankie it is only because Richt has always had a discipline problem.
Then in the end God Grantham gets to increase his legend with the blind homers by justly dispensing his wrath upon a vicious attacker to his flock. Never mind that the receiver of the attack had kicked sand into the eyes of the Great Satan Franklin. Never mind that he had coached and turned a blind eye himself to his own defensive player’s post-whistle handiwork, actually even blessed it by not even pulling the player for receiving the wrath of the referee. All can see that this is all the pretender St. Richt’s fault for not excusing these sinners and the newly deified Grantham’s star is on the rise.
Head Coach Grantham, Georgia’s Grantham, the taunting terrorists’ champion, all being whispered and bandied about. A fine representative of a fine institution.
AltamahaDawg
October 19th, 2011
3:02 pm
I’d rather have players suspensions for reacting to a shot at the knees than the ones for running from a parking garage Barney Fife.
george
October 19th, 2011
3:02 pm
dawg 258 can you really be that dumb?????? I Guess you forgot about the 32 players AND coaches uga sent on the field to fight and according to the bylaws every single one of them should have been suspended but how many were???? ya that is what I thought ZERO.
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
3:03 pm
I’m old enough to remember the whipping the Dawgs put on the Gators back in the day, which is also why I so enjoy the 18-3 run the Gator’s are on v. the sad sack Pups. Go Gators! If only you guys could get Herschel back…
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
3:04 pm
Brian,
Zook was 2-1 v. CMR/Georgia while at Florida – exlpain that?
King Gator
I-DOG
October 19th, 2011
3:04 pm
I originally thought that Geathers should be suspended for the punch, but after seeing what the Vandy center did to him, I can’t blame the guy at all. Geathers was well behind the play and it was one of the cheapest shots that I have ever seen after watching it on the videos on the AJC site. A swipe at the Vandy player might have hurt it if connected, but it wouldn’t end his career. Geathers is lucky that his life wasn’t forever altered (NFL career)by that cheap shot.
That being said, I am fine with Williams suspension and actually think that Washington shouldn’t play against FL due to his DUI. If he does play, two games is just too little and is the minimum imposed by UGA for any alcohol infraction (if I understand that correctly).
It is one thing if a guy is just drinking underage. I think the drinking age should be 18 anyway, but that doesn’t put the public in danger. Washington put lives in danger by driving 90 miles an hour at 3 AM and his blood level was well over the legal limit. He could have killed or maimed someone and 2 games isn’t enough (if that is indeed the punishment).
RamboDog
October 19th, 2011
3:05 pm
King GaY Turd, you are right…doesn’t change the fact that you are still 7 games down after winning 18 of 21??? Man, we were so far ahead of ya’ll it wasn’t a rivalry anymore. Time to change gears and start kicking that arse again…starts in 10 days. See you there.
Hope you are on here that Sunday, but I DOUBT it…probably crawl back in the mud hole like you have been in for last 3 weeks….If Auburn beat UF,,, just imagine what is in store for you end of October. It will be like a Friday the 13th sequel …body bags with UF players everywhere.
Wells
October 19th, 2011
3:05 pm
All this whining you would think that the Georgia player didn’t do anything. He punched the guy and he received a half game suspension. Doesn’t matter why he did it. It’s the correct punishment.
Georgia and Vandy fans have their coaches to thank for having these young guys suspended. If the coaches would have been able to keep their cool then the issue would not have been reviewed like it was.
Brian
October 19th, 2011
3:07 pm
King Gator, understood. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that Georgia will play scared this year. Last year, we came back and almost won despite committing a ton of turnovers. Murray was a freshman and had to do almost everything himself because of our lack of a running game. Crowell is definitely an upgrade over King or Ealey, so if he is healthy, I like our chances on offense more than last year. The main problem I would see against Florida is big plays on special teams by Debose and Demps, if they are healthy and play.
Dirty Dawg
October 19th, 2011
3:07 pm
The thing that got Willliams was the second personal foul he had picked up during the game. This one, I think did occur in the fourth quarter and followed a late hit from a Vandy guy following the tackle – might have been on a kickoff return (one that didn’t go for a touchdown) – followed by a retaliation from the Georgia guy…followed by Williams jumping in and taking a swipe at another Vandy guy that had retaliated to the Georgia retaliation (by the way yet another Vandy guy, number 15 if I recall, but it might be someone else, also took a swing at Williams as he went by but that wasn’t called at all.
All in all, it was an ugly game and I’m afraid that both sides have to share the guilt. You can’t make me believe that all the cheap-shots that Georgia was receiving weren’t part of a plan to ‘bait’ us into just this kind of reaction. At the same time, we’ve got to just stop this ‘jaw-bonin’ crap, it’s classless and will only serve to get us in deeper she-ite with the Conference.
AltamahaDawg
October 19th, 2011
3:07 pm
my bad chip. wrong timeframe. the Williams infraction is what I meant. I’m sure it’ll surface.
True Dawg Fan
October 19th, 2011
3:08 pm
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
2:59 pm
Brian,
I’d be worried against anyone else, but lets face it – the Gators own Georgia and almost always win – I’m sweating the Vandy game more than this one. It’s a helmet game, Georgia runs out of the tunnel sees the Gator helmets and that’s all that needs to be said. Go Gators!
King Gator
Hey Retard whats the overall record?????? Yea thats what I thought. Idiot
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
3:08 pm
http://media.photobucket.com/image/Grantham%20choke/sicemdogs/choke1.jpg
Oops DC G – better luck this year! Go Gators!
say what
October 19th, 2011
3:09 pm
I dont remember the guy Ben Jones took out the exact same way last year at Miss St. punching him afterwards
Markman
October 19th, 2011
3:09 pm
UGA always plays dirty…..it’s about time they finally got penalized for their dirty antics!!
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
3:10 pm
Figures a Georgia fan would lead with the word “retard”, you guys deserve what you get year after year. I guess that’s all you’ve got left to hold onto, memories of when you were good. Go Gators!
kevin
October 19th, 2011
3:11 pm
King Gator,
All you have as memories too. Yours are just slightly more recent.
Brian
October 19th, 2011
3:11 pm
Brian,
Zook was 2-1 v. CMR/Georgia while at Florida – exlpain that?
King Gator
I’m aware of that. But we had a chance to win all three games. We just came up short. I admit a mental thing sets in a lot of year, but it was the same way with Notre Dame and Navy and then Navy won 2 of 3. So you never know. I just feel like Florida isn’t as good as they normally are and because of that, we definitely have a chance of winning… but I could be wrong. We’ll see in about a week and a half.
True Dawg Fan
October 19th, 2011
3:12 pm
I love how there are so many people coming on here and saying we have no class. Have you read your own posts???? Get over yourselves. Alabama, Auburn, Florida, LSU, USC, UT, MSST none of which have any more class than UGA.
Every single school outside of maybe Kentuck, Ole Miss, and Vandy before UGA game, has had issues like this. So dont come on here and act all innocent and that UGA is the Devil. It just shows how ignorant and stupid you are.
And to the redneck comments, guess what??? We are all in the South East, everyone has rednecks.
So once again all you ignorant retards should think before you post.
SLC Dawg
October 19th, 2011
3:12 pm
don’t you think Franklin new any suspensions his team received would be in next game against army when he came up with this strategy?
MY 2 cents
October 19th, 2011
3:13 pm
Buck blew, your an absolute moron. Apparently you didnt see the video.
True Dawg Fan
October 19th, 2011
3:13 pm
Markman
October 19th, 2011
3:09 pm
UGA always plays dirty…..it’s about time they finally got penalized for their dirty antics!!
O really please fill us in on how we ALWAYS play dirty??? We will wait for intelligent response
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
3:13 pm
Brian,
I think Georgia actually had a better team last year and this year, but for some reason they just can’t put it together v. Florida and usually find away to the lose against the Gators. If Brantley plays the Gators win, if not.. probably still find a away to slip away with the victory; but I’ve been wrong before. I’ll stick with the Orange & Blue in this one. Go Gators!
King Gator
TampaDawg
October 19th, 2011
3:14 pm
King Gator “If only you guys could get Herschel back…”
Dude, he has one more year of eligibility, he came out as a junior (joking of course), be careful what you wish for.
Mama Dawg
October 19th, 2011
3:14 pm
LSU loses 3 starters for smoking weed.
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
3:14 pm
UGA always plays dirty…..it’s about time they finally got penalized for their dirty antics!!
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They all play dirty it’s the SEC – and by dirty I mean physical, hard hitting, do anything to win on Saturday – that’s what makes the SEC the best conference in the country. Go Gators!
True Dawg Fan
October 19th, 2011
3:14 pm
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
3:10 pm
Figures a Georgia fan would lead with the word “retard”, you guys deserve what you get year after year. I guess that’s all you’ve got left to hold onto, memories of when you were good. Go Gators!
hahahahaha, im sorry is retard to sophisticated for you??? how about moron, is that simple enough for you. Yea and the Gators have been so superb post Tebow era hahahahaha what a joke.
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
3:15 pm
LSU doesn’t lose 19 starters that also smoke weed!
Mad Dog One
October 19th, 2011
3:15 pm
Queen Gay Turd we whiped your a$$ before H.W. ever played for UGA. That said I have been a CMR backer but if he doesn’t back his players & coaches in this sh!& storm then he can kiss my a$$. If he wants to preach take it to church we need a coach that has his staff & players back. As always GO DOGS & GATA
P.S gators eat buggers.
Summary
October 19th, 2011
3:16 pm
Here ya go King Gator
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King Gator
October 19th, 2011
3:16 pm
Queen Gay Turd?? folks these are your fans, and you wonder why we so enjoy beating the snot out of Georgia year after year. Go Gators!
TampaDawg
October 19th, 2011
3:16 pm
King Gator, you’re right when it comes to lately UGA not being able to get it together against UF. That’s why I always say, records don’t matter in games with UF, UT, AU, UGA (combination there of). But to say that if they have Brantley, they win might be overdoing it a bit. Brantley is as mediocre as they get. If you guys have a healthy Demps and Rainey, it’s a game for sure. Either one of them is missing and the Dawgs win in a lock.
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
3:17 pm
hahahahaha, im sorry is retard to sophisticated for you??? how about moron, is that simple enough for you. Yea and the Gators have been so superb post Tebow era hahahahaha what a joke.
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We didn’t lose to UCF!
True Dawg Fan
October 19th, 2011
3:17 pm
Yes bc gator fans are the classiest ppl on the planet hahahahahahaha. They never says crude things to opposing fans or anything right??
Mama Dawg
October 19th, 2011
3:17 pm
Ware, Matheau, Simons….breaking…
AltamahaDawg
October 19th, 2011
3:17 pm
That was scales they were smoking.
Boom Boom
October 19th, 2011
3:18 pm
Mike Slive’s got an issue with UGA for whatever reason. What a joke for Geathers to be suspended, I would be under the jail had that happened to me. Keep it fair in the SEC and F- Slive
True Dawg Fan
October 19th, 2011
3:19 pm
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
3:17 pm
hahahahaha, im sorry is retard to sophisticated for you??? how about moron, is that simple enough for you. Yea and the Gators have been so superb post Tebow era hahahahaha what a joke.
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We didn’t lose to UCF!
Really? you didnt?? Dang for some reason I thought you did? Got any other golden nuggets for us? or are you tired of pretending to be a gator you little nerd??
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
3:19 pm
If Georgia could play to it’s potential v. Florida it would be alot closer (W/L record lately), but now it’s mental and that gives Florida the edge most years when it’s even or s/b in Georgia’s favor. Go Gators!
TampaDawg
October 19th, 2011
3:19 pm
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
3:16 pm
Queen Gay Turd?? folks these are your fans, and you wonder why we so enjoy beating the snot out of Georgia year after year. Go Gators!
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Not that we haven’t heard as bad or worse from Gator fans on GEORGIA blogs. I mean, how many times do we have to hear UF fans uttering things like rednecks (takes one to know one), inbred (refer to previous comment), drunks (been to Gainesville many times, one of our games is “Spot the Hammered Dude”) and trailer whatever (yes, there is none of those down here in Florida.
Eaassyy
October 19th, 2011
3:21 pm
congrat 01hawk on having .6 less personal fouls/game than UGA. best stat ever
Mama Dawg
October 19th, 2011
3:22 pm
Don’t blame Mike Slive for enforcing the rules. It makes you look weak and clueless.
01HAWK
October 19th, 2011
3:22 pm
Will be a fight in Florida with 2 of the top 3 teams leading in personal fouls in the SEC.
DawgBreath
October 19th, 2011
3:23 pm
The whole world is against us Dawgs! It’s not fair that the Vandy player got the same exact punishment as our guys. This is just one more case of how the SEC, All Refs, and the MEDIA hates UGA.
True Dawg Fan
October 19th, 2011
3:24 pm
Mama Dawg
October 19th, 2011
3:22 pm
Don’t blame Mike Slive for enforcing the rules. It makes you look weak and clueless.
Dont comment it shows how stupid and uninformed you are
True Dawg Fan
October 19th, 2011
3:25 pm
DawgBreath
October 19th, 2011
3:23 pm
The whole world is against us Dawgs! It’s not fair that the Vandy player got the same exact punishment as our guys. This is just one more case of how the SEC, All Refs, and the MEDIA hates UGA.
It really shows that Silve thinks that UGA has a better shot at beating the West Champ then FLorida. Gotta keep his undefeated team and spot in NC.
Mtn Dawg
October 19th, 2011
3:26 pm
They call him ‘MIKE SLIME’!
King Gator
October 19th, 2011
3:26 pm
TampaDawg-
I agree with you, which is why I try not to let it degrade to that level in my posts or when I’m at the games. Plenty of that nonsense to go around for both teams. Go Gators!
King Gator
TampaDawg
October 19th, 2011
3:26 pm
Mama Dawg
October 19th, 2011
3:22 pm
Don’t blame Mike Slive for enforcing the rules. It makes you look weak and clueless.
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Enforcing the rules? Nice come back tech fan. If Kwame was going to get a suspension for “fighting” he should have fought the guy and got his money’s worth. The other kid getting the same suspension is a horrendous decision and illustrates the problem with the lack of knowledge about what is going on during the game. And the suspension of Williams? Really? That one boggles the mind.
Blind Homer's Odyssey
October 19th, 2011
3:27 pm
True Dawg Fan
October 19th, 2011
3:12 pm
I love how there are so many people coming on here and saying we have no class. Have you read your own posts???? Get over yourselves. Alabama, Auburn, Florida, LSU, USC, UT, MSST none of which have any more class than UGA.
Every single school outside of maybe Kentuck, Ole Miss, and Vandy before UGA game, has had issues like this. So dont come on here and act all innocent and that UGA is the Devil. It just shows how ignorant and stupid you are.
And to the redneck comments, guess what??? We are all in the South East, everyone has rednecks.
So once again all you ignorant retards should think before you post.
A nice cogent defense of fans with no class. Speaking of class, which one were you in? Are you indeed a true dawg, or simply a true dawg fan?
Mama Dawg
October 19th, 2011
3:27 pm
True Dawg Fan
October 19th, 2011
3:24 pm
Mama Dawg
October 19th, 2011
3:22 pm
Don’t blame Mike Slive for enforcing the rules. It makes you look weak and clueless.
Dont comment it shows how stupid and uninformed you are
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You just showed EVERYONE how ignorant you are. READ the Article. IT STATES THE RULE.
Un-Tank
October 19th, 2011
3:28 pm
I guess if Kwame’s career was ended on the play the SEC would notify him of his suspension while he was laid up in the hospital.
Kendell Jones
October 19th, 2011
3:28 pm
Georgia going back to Florida again next week to play the gators. Playing the gators in Fla always gives them an aedvantage. They travel a maximum of less than fifty miles to get to Jacksonville. Ga. travels about two and half times that far every year. Lets get this series on a home and home basis.
Dallas
October 19th, 2011
3:28 pm
1- Why doesn’t Slive just give Florida the game, seriosuly, the anti UGA bias is at all time high. I wonder how many “flags” will be thrown on UGA this year in the UGA-UF game? 10? 15? 20?
2- Greg McGarity just isn’t helping this team. First, he can’t get AJ Green’s 4 gamesuspension reduced last year when Alabama got Darius’ reduced to 2 games. Now, he fails to get these 2 PLAYERS clean in the BIGGEST GAME OF THE YEAR? Seriously?
TampaDawg
October 19th, 2011
3:28 pm
Got that right King Gator. That crap gets old. And then we get Tech fans on here trying to post their freaking GPA and SAT scores as if that is the overall secret to success in life. Not sure there are many wealthy people walking around with engineering degrees from GT.
True Dawg Fan
October 19th, 2011
3:29 pm
Mama Dawg
October 19th, 2011
3:27 pm
True Dawg Fan
October 19th, 2011
3:24 pm
Mama Dawg
October 19th, 2011
3:22 pm
Don’t blame Mike Slive for enforcing the rules. It makes you look weak and clueless.
Dont comment it shows how stupid and uninformed you are
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You just showed EVERYONE how ignorant you are. READ the Article. IT STATES THE RULE.
And you just once again showed you are clueless about the game of football and how the SEC works. Keep being Naive retard
gdawginkalamazoo
October 19th, 2011
3:31 pm
King Gator, yes congrats on a tremendous run against us in the 90’s and this decadeand just about everybody else too. I hope we have some fight in us by the you guys even the series up. You are getting very close to doing that.
TampaDawg
October 19th, 2011
3:31 pm
Mama Dawg, it can state the rule all they want, that doesn’t mean that’s what happens, it just means they have to have some black and white text to justify their actions of suspending players. I guess you just take everything the media says at face value and you certainly take everything the SEC office says at face value. Now get back to work, the Varsity is getting busy now.
Mama Dawg
October 19th, 2011
3:32 pm
Get back on that hind teat and stop whining.
True Dawg Fan
October 19th, 2011
3:33 pm
Mama Dawg
October 19th, 2011
3:32 pm
Get back on that hind teat and stop whining.
Prime example of why women dont know sports. Thanks for that!
Summit Dawg
October 19th, 2011
3:34 pm
This is football, isn’t it?? ……or Tiddly-Winks????
LkB
October 19th, 2011
3:34 pm
What a JOKE– Slive is nothing more than an idiot.
Mama Dawg
October 19th, 2011
3:35 pm
True Puppie and Tampa YBOR Dog,
You both are upset because our asst. coach and players showed little to no control and it is being replayed daily.
gdawginkalamazoo
October 19th, 2011
3:36 pm
Kendell, we have the lead in the series which has mostly been played in Jacksonville. It isn’t the location, it is the team playing against UF. Granted Spurrier is a very good coach who ripped most of the league while he was at Florida. Meyer was great with Tim Tebow. But the rest of the games we lost we didn’t want it as bad as the other guys. Just have to man up and play better.
Location has nothing to do with it IMO. Of course you are entitled to your opinion and I respect that.
daslicksta
October 19th, 2011
3:37 pm
Which half of the game is the suspension for and do they get quiet time for the other half?
Dirtyred
October 19th, 2011
3:37 pm
WOW, micro-management at it’s best. Why is the SEC sticking their nose into personal fouls. Dude, that’s part of football!
Native Atlantan
October 19th, 2011
3:40 pm
@Dirtyred you’re an idiot
Neither clipping someone in back of the leg or punching someone in the face have any part in football.
gdawginkalamazoo
October 19th, 2011
3:41 pm
I would like to take this time to thank ESPN. IF not for the Muschamp cussing article today, Grantham probably would have been suspended for the UF game. By pointing out Muschamps similar behavior they couldn’t very well suspend Grantham without suspending Muschamp for cussing out the refs. Thank you ESPN.
RICHTANDMCGARITYAREWIMPS
October 19th, 2011
3:41 pm
My name says it all…….
TampaDawg
October 19th, 2011
3:42 pm
Mama Dawg
October 19th, 2011
3:35 pm
True Puppie and Tampa YBOR Dog,
You both are upset because our asst. coach and players showed little to no control and it is being replayed daily.
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First, Ybor is a freak show and I wouldn’t head that way without good reason. Second, I think I am ore upset over a disguised troll named Mama Dawg coming on here just to stir the pot that she is smoking with a weak analysis of the situation. Williams shouldn’t have been suspended because the play doesn’t fit the flagrant foul rule. Geathers getting the same suspension as a guy who played the little sissy role and instead of just playing football man to man, he tried to take out a guy for a long long time.
DAWG with two bags over head
October 19th, 2011
3:42 pm
Slive is slime! I guess if you play for AU or UF you just get a pass. If UGA’s involved he throws the book. Shameful.
AltamahaDawg
October 19th, 2011
3:46 pm
jorts
RICHTANDMCGARITYAREWIMPS
October 19th, 2011
3:48 pm
We will never be on the same level playing fields as long as Mark Richt’s candy crack is our head coach. Do you honest to God believe this would have happened with Alabama or Auburn or Florida. This would have been a non issue that would have been “handled internally.” We do nothing at UGA but eat our own, and at the slightest bit of controversy, Mr. Goody Two Shoes Richt calls the frigging SEC office and politely allows UGA to fall on the sword. He will not stand up for his players or his coaches because he is a passive poontang. We need someone with a sac to be our leader, not a puss like Richt. If I were Grantham, I would kick mr spray tan Richt in his vagina!! Jus saying
Vandy candy coach
October 19th, 2011
3:50 pm
Look out Gators we play you on 11/5 and we are not going to take it anymore!! Watch your mouth and your back!!
CECIL NEWTON
October 19th, 2011
3:51 pm
If you can’t do the time, do not commit the crime!
Airdawg
October 19th, 2011
3:51 pm
Florida CB Marcus Roberson facing underage drinking charge
true dawg fan
October 19th, 2011
3:51 pm
Mark Bradley is a sissy.
TampaDawg
October 19th, 2011
3:55 pm
Seriously, for you Gator fans, don’t be shocked to see Rainey or Demps at the bottom of a pile in the Vandy game getting their knee twisted up when “no one” is looking. I guess Coach Franklin’s version of “we’re not going to take it anymore” is “we are going to hurt the other team with some cheap career ending shots”.
Honest Bulldog
October 19th, 2011
3:59 pm
WaaaaWaaaaaWaaaa! Our fan base is the biggest lot of crybabies I have ever heard!! Get over the Auburn thing already! That was a year ago! Grow up! UGA Vandy was embarrassing on both sides of the ball! Just admit it!
cmac22
October 19th, 2011
3:59 pm
Glad to see williams is gone for 2 qtrs … could have done ugaly fans a big favor & sat him for the whole game! He is terrible!!!
Ricky
October 19th, 2011
3:59 pm
How can Williams be susp[ended for a play the refs didn’t even throw a penalty on? If every game went back and suspended players for 1/2’s for plauys, you’
d never field a team.
its ok
October 19th, 2011
3:59 pm
chill out. Big John will handle things in the first half against florida. Geathers has only had 3 tackles so far this year.
Vandy candy coach
October 19th, 2011
3:59 pm
You are right TampaDawg! Everyone is going to fear the Commodores when they play us now. The Bama blowout made something in me snap!! Muwhahaha!!! Coming for you Army, Razorbacks and Gators so be submissive or I will tell Slive on you!!!
its ok
October 19th, 2011
4:03 pm
what did Williams do? geez.
RICHTANDMCGARITYAREWIMPS
October 19th, 2011
4:03 pm
Richt is so stupid and caught up with “doing the right thing” and “being classy.” He is so blinded by his faith that he is slitting his own damn throat!! Good!!! He probably will suspend Crowell and Murray if they use profanity at practice. Richt is a joke and I will up my contributions to UGA when his candy a$$ is gone from Athens, GA. I have no respect for Richt, or McGarity for that matter, for not taking up for their players and this program. I would atleast appleal the suspension of these men or pull a SOS and suspend them for the New Mexico St. game. The Dawgnation and the family of these players are the ones that are suffering. Richteous Richt and Mr. McGoo gets to protect their big fat bloated paychecks. That is all they are concerned about. My check will no longer go to UGA until something happens and Richts arse is handed his walking papers. He sucks as a coach as evidenced by his record the last few years. Why dont you do every one in the Dawg Nation a favor, pretty boy Richt and you go take a dam dive on a sword. You freakin weenie loser.
Big Jacket
October 19th, 2011
4:04 pm
Look out Gators.The following game for the Dawgs is the ever tough New Mexico State, so the guys may feel free to unleash their full fury.
Lee Ziemba
October 19th, 2011
4:05 pm
Looked like a good take down block to me.
UGA Fans to Mike Slive
October 19th, 2011
4:06 pm
We’re not gonna take it
No we ain’t gonna take it!
We’re not gonna take it – anymore
We’ve got the right to choose and
There ain’t no way we’re lose it
This is our life, this is our song
We’ll fight the powers that be just
Don’t pick our destiny cuz-
You don’t know us, you don’t belong.
We’re not gonna take it
No we ain’t gonna take it!
We’re not gonna take it – anymore.
Oh, you’re so condescending,
Your goal is never ending,
We don’t want nothing – not a thing from you
Your life is trite and jaded – boring and confiscated.
If that’s your best, your best won’t do!
rogeriter
October 19th, 2011
4:07 pm
Based on the way the SEC submitted punishment after aa Vandy player dangerously cut block Geathers and Geathers retaliated, If the SEC had been in charge, when the japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, The USA should have been punished for retaliating. Stupid, stupid, stupid!
meh
October 19th, 2011
4:07 pm
the tool from Vandy should suspened 2 games at least. It was a blatant attempt to injur someone. and could’ve been a very seriour injury too. That have should have a more than just a half game suspension. Geathers threw a punch which is against the rules but circumstances should be looked at so he just have one quarter suspension. Shawn Williams suspension is fine. standard personal foul, standard suspension. There shouldn’t be any punishment for the coaches. they yelled at each other and looked ridicoulous. let’s just move past it.
Vandy candy coach
October 19th, 2011
4:07 pm
@ RICHTANDMCGARITYAREWIMPS Yes my evil plan is working!! They are turning on their own again even with a 5 game winning streak and tied for first place in the East. I will soon have all the top recruits in GA playing for me!! Muwhahaha!!
LMFAO
October 19th, 2011
4:09 pm
GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS
LMFAO
October 19th, 2011
4:10 pm
What makes this hilarious is that it was vs who? VANDY “F” IN VANDY LMFAO
Mike Slive
October 19th, 2011
4:13 pm
Go gators!!!!!! I will try and make up a punishment so that tech will have a shot to win also.
Mark PRicht
October 19th, 2011
4:13 pm
sad day when your players, AD and DC start acting like your fans…the rednecks are loose in Athens and there’s no stopping them
mikedog
October 19th, 2011
4:14 pm
Is it just me or do all of you think the AJC tries their best to only report bad things for UGA. I think if all UGA fans cancelled their subscription, this might send a signal to them.
dawgs66
October 19th, 2011
4:16 pm
Go Dawgs!!! Screw Richt’s politically correct comments. Now beat the snot out of the Gators!!! This is football. Didn’t you see the Gator coach ranting on the sidelines – they’ll be ready and so will THE DAWGS!!
rally
October 19th, 2011
4:16 pm
I am not sure there is any conference desperate enough to house a mangy homless DAWG. I guess the SEC will just have to keep pulling the leash until the puppies learn how to act.
1eyedJack
October 19th, 2011
4:16 pm
Well, this just sux.
DDPO
October 19th, 2011
4:17 pm
It’s certainly not representative of the Georgia way…
CMR should have added “if it doesn’t get the right end result”
CMR had no problem instructing his entire team to rush the field after a 1st quarter TD against UF a few years ago.
Pot….Meet Kettle
BCDawg
October 19th, 2011
4:18 pm
So, last year against Auburn, Nick Fairley spears Murray after the play, and gets flagged for it, but Slive doesn’t suspend Fairley, and Williams supposedly hit someone, DID NOT GET FLAGGED for it, and gets suspended by Slive?
OUTRAGEOUS!
Dr. Morpheus
October 19th, 2011
4:24 pm
Enough of Vandy, let’s move on and focus on the next game, which happens to be critical to the success of UGA’s season.
TampaDawg
October 19th, 2011
4:24 pm
DDPO
October 19th, 2011
4:17 pm
It’s certainly not representative of the Georgia way…
CMR should have added “if it doesn’t get the right end result”
CMR had no problem instructing his entire team to rush the field after a 1st quarter TD against UF a few years ago.
Pot….Meet Kettle
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Yeah, and the two are so comparable. Get real dude! A bunch of players celebrating a TD, which drew two flags by the way, versus someone going after another kids knee? And you are calling it the same? Are you high?
RedNblack
October 19th, 2011
4:25 pm
Gathers does not hurt so much with it being only one half. But Williams has been playing his rear end off, Mike Slive screwed this up.
bobby
October 19th, 2011
4:25 pm
UGA WILL BE ALRIGHT FOR THE OPENING HALF. WHAT THEY’RE GOING TO DO IS START BRANDON SMITH AT CORNER AND MOVE SANDERS CUMMINGS TO SAFETY AND JOHN JENKINS WILL START AT NOSE TACKLE SO THEY’RE IS’NT NO DROP OFF THERE.
bucket
October 19th, 2011
4:27 pm
Just saw a video of Upshaw from Alabama kicking a Vandy player on the ground. I guess Commissioner Slived didn’t see that. Just saw a video of Bostic from Florida throwing a punch at an Alabama player a couple of weeks ago. I guess Commissioner Slive didn’t see that.
Gainesville Dawg
October 19th, 2011
4:28 pm
Chip, you have become the only AJC columnist that is factual. Appreciated!!!!! You do not bleed insignificant rumors. so glad to have you at AJC.
Lee Ziemba
October 19th, 2011
4:29 pm
I’m an idiot!! Good take down block, C’Mon Man!!
Mark Richt
October 19th, 2011
4:29 pm
But I’m a good guy, I spoke at a Church one time.
Gary
October 19th, 2011
4:33 pm
Joke. The SEC F***ed this one up.
bucket
October 19th, 2011
4:35 pm
I have stood up and defended Coach Richt in good and bad times, but if he can’t come out and defend his players and coaches, then I am done with him. I don’t expect him to condone bad behavior, but providing some context publicly would go along way to restoring my respect for him. Like last year Dareus for ALA takes $10,000 and gets 2 games and Green takes $1,000 and gets 4 games. The Vandy center clearly tried to hurt Geathers and he gets the same suspension? Since Slive loves the rule book so much the rule regarding the centers behavior is that the player should have been disqualified. Why wasn’t he? Why were the officials not penalized for not getting the call correct? Slive is playing favorites and it’s time for Richt to call him out on it. Richt should say, “We danced in the freaking end zone against Florida in freaking 2007. We embarrassed the SEC, Florida, CUM, and ourselves. We have already freaking apologized for it and we have already been abundantly penalized for it. It’s time for Commissioner Slive and the SEC officiating crews (Penn Wages) to get over it!!!!!!!!!!!”
Gary
October 19th, 2011
4:38 pm
I do think the coach should have done more with the SEC. Mark is wrong on this one. He needs to come to the players defense. The action of the player was a reasonable reaction to the action of the Vandy player. He should be playing. If nothing else Mark should just say that.
Mark Richt
October 19th, 2011
4:41 pm
You people are a bunch of meanies. I will pray for everyone on this board. I am fixing to go lay in the tanning bed and go count my money. After this season you want have to worry about me any more. I have already accepted a position at Holy Cross because you people here in the south are just too mean and all you want to do is cuss. Amen.
BurytheBone
October 19th, 2011
4:43 pm
Don’t look now but the wheels are coming of @LSU. I said it two weeks ago. Strange how rumers have a way of coming true. Bama is next. NCAA is on a witch hunt.
Gatormeat
October 19th, 2011
4:46 pm
georgia always takes cheap shots, they just cry when teams hit back, like the cowards georgia people are. We have not forgotten your ignorant coach threatening to choke our kicker, murray won’t finish the game. Talk your stupid smack now mutts, like always, after the game you will be crying and making excuses. Again
Mark Richt
October 19th, 2011
4:47 pm
Bobby……Our depth will be an issue because my sorry a$$ offense can stay on the field. Our defense will be so tired by halftime that there tongues will be hanging out. Maybe that will teach that meanie Grantham a lesson…………
The Truth
October 19th, 2011
4:52 pm
WAAAAAAAAAA WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Nobody likes us. Everybody else cheats but us WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Football Fan
October 19th, 2011
4:53 pm
Both the UGA players acted stupidly. Particularly Geathers. I’m sure he’s played enough football to have been coached to not retaliate. Their dumb choices jeopardizes UGA’s chance to win this week.
bucket
October 19th, 2011
4:53 pm
Yeah, Gatormeat. Like when Spikes tackled Moreno and danced on top of him like he wanted to make love and Penn Wages stood there and watched and didn’t throw a flag. Of maybe when Spikes tried to gouge Ealey’s eyes out and didn’t draw a flag or an SEC suspension? Since you apparently know nothing of the current culture, the choke sign was not a threat, it was CTG desire for your kicker to choke like he did a couple of times last year. He didn’t against the Dawgs and good for him, but Grantham was not threatening to choke him. You guys have won plenty in the series lately, but I promise we are still planning on showing up! BTW, how is the investigation going into Easley’s alleged assault on an ex-ALA player going? Guess the UF police are covering up another one for you guys. Congratulations, we don’t get that kind of treatment in Athens or in the offices of the SEC.
TampaDawg
October 19th, 2011
4:54 pm
Gatormeat
October 19th, 2011
4:46 pm
georgia always takes cheap shots, they just cry when teams hit back, like the cowards georgia people are. We have not forgotten your ignorant coach threatening to choke our kicker, murray won’t finish the game. Talk your stupid smack now mutts, like always, after the game you will be crying and making excuses. Again
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Ok, that was the dumbest thing on here today .. BY FAR. Our coach threatened to choke your kicker? You idiot, he was taunting him to choke on the kick.
Fact is, that is the best you can come up with about us, but you know full well, you can’t say the same (the name Brandon Spikes tops the dirty list). Finger bending and eye gouging at the bottom of a pile are just part of the qualities being taught at UF right gatormeathead?
Gatormeat
October 19th, 2011
4:56 pm
The Truth is telling the truth. That is all dog fans do is cry. Their team takes more cheap shots than anyone in the SEC and they are just too big of cowards to take it when it is thrown back at them. Screw georgia, the SEC needs to get rid of its trash, georgia needs to go
TampaDawg
October 19th, 2011
4:56 pm
Football Fan
October 19th, 2011
4:53 pm
Both the UGA players acted stupidly. Particularly Geathers. I’m sure he’s played enough football to have been coached to not retaliate. Their dumb choices jeopardizes UGA’s chance to win this week.
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Come on! Really? Let’s take the holier than thou approach shall we and say that we all after getting our knee crashed into by a big dummy going full bore that we would just endure the pain and walk away, if you even still have the ability to. It’s a weak argument to pretend you would do anything different than Kwame did in that exact situation.
TampaDawg
October 19th, 2011
4:57 pm
Gatormeat
October 19th, 2011
4:56 pm
The Truth is telling the truth. That is all dog fans do is cry. Their team takes more cheap shots than anyone in the SEC
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Where’s your proof meathead? Nice to just sit at your computer and rant about it but there is video of your players trying to hurt people. Where is your proof you hypocrite?
Jalex49
October 19th, 2011
4:58 pm
Coach Richt stand up for your player! Appeal this decision or at least say something about the incident.
If you look at the video you see the intent of the Vandy player and for him to give a “thumbs up” to his sideline? Are you kidding me?
The Commissioner got this wrong!
TampaDawg
October 19th, 2011
5:00 pm
I agree with those calling for CMR to stand up to the SEC for his players. Problem is, even if he does, or even if McGarity does, we may never know and if nothing changes, most on here will just assume that no one pleaded the case.
Hotdawg
October 19th, 2011
5:01 pm
How ironic that Gatormeat is taking cheap shots at GA people! His application for enrollment must hagot been refused in our state.
The Truth
October 19th, 2011
5:02 pm
Tampadawg said, “It’s a weak argument to pretend you would do anything different than Kwame did in that exact situation.”
So that make it right? You are a stupid loser idiot.
Hotdawg
October 19th, 2011
5:02 pm
Dang iPad -”must have been refused”
Gatormeat
October 19th, 2011
5:04 pm
Tampadog, this is not your mom you are talking to so cut the idiot talk, or the skank talk for that matter. Fact is, pictures of your uneducated ignorant coach threatening to choke our kicker are all over campus, there will be no mercy for your punk players. Quit crying and get your excuses ready, the Gators are going to stomp georgia all the way back to georgia. Where you all belong, the worlds largest trailer park. The only question is how many georgia girls get beat up in their doublewides by their drunk unemployed men after georgia gets beat down a week from Sat?
SanDiegoJacket
October 19th, 2011
5:04 pm
What’s news here?
Gatormeat
October 19th, 2011
5:06 pm
No wonder georgia football is so crappy, just look at the lack of intelligence of their fans in here. The players are probably too busy hitting that crack pipe and collecting their welfare checks to learn anything about football.
TampaDawg
October 19th, 2011
5:06 pm
“The Truth” has resorted to the name calling. Nice comeback. And since you want to call people stupid and loser and idiot (wow, dig deep dude .. must have thought for a while and used a dictionary to come up with those), maybe you should try to GET THE POINT FIRST. The point being that no one on here has room to judge the kid for what he did as a reaction because you can’t say in a similar situation that you would do any different. Right or wrong! Eat that “The lie”
SickandTired
October 19th, 2011
5:07 pm
This horse crap with the SEC completely screwing us over year in and year out has got to stop. Someone has got to take a stand or this is going to go on forever. The SEC loves sticking it to us because they know we are a bunch of pusses and gift wrap everything for them. The whole frigging world new that Auburn cheated. Alabama consistently breaks the rules and old Nicky just dares them to frig with his program. Florida has murderers and felons on their teams gauging players damn eyes out. Vandy coach goes crying because his sorry ass team couldnt cheat and lose and we agree with Vandy!!! UGA makes the SEC and Mike Slive look tough and allow our program to be hosed so they no one will look at them for overlooking the teams that are really cheating. I am sick of it. I had better not run into that SOB Slick Slive in Jax. Gonna pull a Toomer Tree trick on his ass
RedandBlackDawg
October 19th, 2011
5:10 pm
I think we will be OK with Geathers sitting for a half game, but Williams suspension stings a little, even though a half game is not a lot. Don’t worry though Slive, Florida is still going to find it hard moving against UGA’s defense, so your symbolic gesture of showing leadership in the SEC, will not destroy the game being played. It will be a good game despite your attempt at making it less. Now, get back to your job, of bringing in schools, that discount the great tradition of the SEC, and make the title insignificant. It is suppose to stand for the South East Conference, a conference, with a long and storied history of fine sports, not a conference that gets two teams from the west and mid west and still tries to hold onto the name and history of the conference.
GO DAWGS and GATA
AngryDawg
October 19th, 2011
5:11 pm
The officials need to be suspended for allowing Vandy to play so dirty the entire game.
Hotdawg
October 19th, 2011
5:12 pm
Tampadawg just ignore them they are just mad that we have a better record than them this year and they know we are going to kick their tail this year in Jacksonville. You won’t find them trolling on here in about a week and a half. They will be crying and styling their mullets again.
TampaDawg
October 19th, 2011
5:14 pm
Gatormeat
October 19th, 2011
5:04 pm
Tampadog, this is not your mom you are talking to so cut the idiot talk, or the skank talk for that matter. Fact is, pictures of your uneducated ignorant coach threatening to choke our kicker are all over campus, there will be no mercy for your punk players.
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You really are that unintelligent I guess. You really think that was a threat to choke the kid? Unreal. I mean, EVERYONE else knows it wasn’t but if you want to think so, then go for it. Even other gator fans on here know it but somehow that one slipped by you.
Now, as for that other stereotyping trash talking garbage that you spewed out (keep in mind there scooter that I live down here in Florida and you just described a lot of this state. We see towns like Umatilla, Apopka, and Gainesville on the show Cops quite often), keep it to yourself because you can’t say any of it without it describing what’s in your mirror. It was classless, baseless, and lacks any shred of character. If you want to have a football debate (this kind of goes back to what King Gator and I were talking about earlier), then have the debate. But don’t go talking crap on here that you can’t back up. You sound like a little teenager that hasn’t learned how to keep his dignity in a debate format yet. All I have said to you was this, you can’t back up the accusations of dirty play so why say it. And to think that our coach was threatening your kicker when it’s WIDELY documented fact that he was trying to get in his head to “choke” on the kick is just not even a debatable thing. Just you trying to make it something that every other gator fan knows it’s not.
TampaDawg
October 19th, 2011
5:15 pm
Hotdawg, you’re right and yes, let the teenage troll get to me. But I also think they are scared because things have gone south fast and they know Vandy will do the same thing to them right before the FSU game.
beachdog
October 19th, 2011
5:17 pm
>>>Slive got caught up in the frenzy created by the two blogger chicks (Bradley and Shultz) at the AJC and reacted to it.<<<
Was Fairly suspended for the Iron Bowl? Did Bradley and Schultz whine about it?
Help me out, did I forget?
Spineless Head Coach
October 19th, 2011
5:18 pm
Have you watched the video of Richt and Franklin after the game? The real issue is not the player suspensions. It’s a head coach (Richt) who lets the other head coach disrespect a player and RICHT AGREES WITH HIM ON THE SPOT calling Williams an __hole. Then, Richt apologizes for Grantham. And you Dawg fans expect Richt to stand up to the SEC??? C’mon…Richt cowers before the wrath of the mighty Vandy coach! What player would want to play for Richt? I’ve been a coach. Rule #1: You give your OWN PLAYERS, not the other team’s coach, the benefit of the doubt. Spineless.
01HAWK
October 19th, 2011
5:21 pm
OXFORD, Miss. — Mississippi coach Houston Nutt says receiver Melvin Harris has been dismissed from the football team.
The 6-foot-6, 210-pound junior from Buford didn’t see much playing time this season with two catches for 21 yards and a touchdown. As a sophomore, he was second on the team with 30 catches for 408 yards and three touchdowns.
Dawgbreath
October 19th, 2011
5:22 pm
Spineless – Richt knew Franklin was out of control. The last thing he wanted to do was start a fight with him and then start a brawl and lose half our team and coaches before the Florida game. Cooler heads prevail in that situation.
rally
October 19th, 2011
5:25 pm
For you Dawg fans that missed Williams’ cheap shot, you can view it here
Headline: The Play That Led to Georgia-Vandy Confrontation: Georgia Defensive Back Shawn Williams’ Cheap Shot
http://www.outkickthecoverage.com/the-play-that-led-to-georgia-vandy-confrontation-georgia-defensive-back-shawn-williams-cheap-shot-.php
The Ole Ball Coach
October 19th, 2011
5:26 pm
Silve is unbalanced NOT FAIR TO EVERYONE in his decisions ….. Why was Newton, Fairley, and Spikes not suspended?
Why are the refs allowed to make unjust decisions weekly, Muschamp mouth? Alabama allows their players to sale suits – No issue but don’t sale your own jersey ask AJ…… Tennessee allows its players to knock out cops but don’t defend yourself when the ref want in a game……. SEC has no leadership that will be fair and just. $$$$$$$$$$$$ rules Silve just pay him off.
dawgster
October 19th, 2011
5:27 pm
@Gatormeat…Your comments earlier calling Geathers and the dawg program trash is probably the most classless comments I have ever read on here…I’m the rest of the gator nation is proud of you…regardless of you hatred towards the dawgs, calling someone trash is about as low as you can get in my opinion…but hey sitting behind a compute and spouting off like that must make you feel really big…Its sad that people like you have that mindset…Its. truly sad but i’m sure you are proud of yourself…
Dawgbreath
October 19th, 2011
5:30 pm
Gatormeat is most likely an angry techie trying to get everyone stirred up!
SLC Dawg
October 19th, 2011
5:33 pm
yelling, taunting, gesturing, and even taking 180k to play college ball shouldn’t be treated as seriously as intentionally trying to injure another player.
Matthews Dawg
October 19th, 2011
5:34 pm
Tampadawg and Dawgbreath….you are both correct!
We will never know if McGarity or CMR says a word to the SEC. I find it hard to believe that some on here think CMR or McGarity won’t stick up for their players! That is crazy IMO.
Dawgbreath…you are correct IMO that CMR knew there was nothing to be gained at that point with Franklin! Some on here want him to be out of control and some want a HC with class! I personally like the class act that CMR is in all things! He has been that way for the last 11 years and recently that hasn’t been good enough. But, as we all know WINNING cures a lot of ills!! Go Dawgs
Matthews Dawg
October 19th, 2011
5:40 pm
rally…. point made with that video! His punishment looks to be deserved and I’m sure he will be dealt with or has already been dealt with by CMR and the other coaches. That was cheap!
But, the Vandy kids was cheap too and he got punished. I feel like KG punishment does not fit the crime! Maybe a qtr and that is all. I think he held it together well, because I would have tried to beat the crap out of the guy.
Both persoal fouls are bad by both teams! Let’s move on here and get ready for UF! Go Dawgs
Dawgbreath
October 19th, 2011
5:40 pm
Ok nothing is going to change the suspensions or consequences now. Can we focus on the Florida game and just wait until next year to pay back Vandy on the field without the personal fouls. Vandy will be under the microscope now so if the are having to play dirty to compete then they will start getting blown out again from here on out under the watchful eyes.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
October 19th, 2011
5:40 pm
the ole ball coach doesn’t even give UGA the respect of calling the coach by name, he calls him that GA coach.haha..he is not on your side
Click CLack
CoopDawg
October 19th, 2011
5:42 pm
I’m a Dawg fan and I say the suspension for Williams and the Vandy player are justified and probably should have been more games for both!! But Geathers’ got screwed!!
01HAWK
October 19th, 2011
5:47 pm
AUBARN may pu;; the upset. See below:
LSU has suspended top running back Spencer Ware and one of the best defensive backs in the country in Tyrann Mathieu for Saturday’s game against Auburn, the LSU student newspaper reported today. The AP reports a third player, starting cornerback Therold Simon was also suspended.
TowDawg
October 19th, 2011
5:47 pm
Yes, I’m a Dawg fan, but I’m trying to step back and look at this without that influencing my opinion.
I agree with the poster earlier said Geathers should not have any punishment because it was a reactionary action against a malicious, deliberate attack that was aimed to “take him out”. Shots at the knees from behind like that, very often end a players career, especially someone of size of Geathers. Stewart, in my opinion, should be suspended a MINIMUM of 1 game. Not to mention the fact that he made a thumbs-up gesture to the sideline and seemed to get approval from the coaches!
As for Williams, if the hammer is to be brought down on Stewart, it needs to be brought down on Williams as well. I missed it during the game, but watching the tape that Vandy submitted showing the hit, it was totally unacceptable. Granted, a shot to the head might put someone out for that game or the next versus taking a man’s knee out, but it was still a blatant attempt to hurt him. If you have watched the tape, you see Williams absolutley launch himself off the ground and the receiver’s head well after the ball had passed over and the receiver was slowing down.
If we are going to scream for Stewart to get punished, the we need to ackowledge Williams is guilty of the same.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
October 19th, 2011
5:49 pm
01Hawk..wooohoooo We got a outside shot maybe!!!
War Damn Eagle!
masivatack
October 19th, 2011
5:50 pm
OK so does that mean the AJC reporters will shut up about the “Incident”. I doubt it. 7 of the top 8 stories in this blog are addressing this BS.
01HAWK
October 19th, 2011
5:53 pm
TrishaDishaWarEagle …………………………………Those are two of their best players It must have been pretty bad what they possibly did.
Haha
October 19th, 2011
5:53 pm
Daniella did not get accepted to UGA. Hatred is such a terrible thing.
01HAWK
October 19th, 2011
5:56 pm
The report on the LSU players is possibly a failed drug test.
The Daily Reveille said the suspensions could be for longer than a game. LSU coach Les Miles will reportedly address the issue tonight.
I hope they are out for BAMA game also.
01HAWK
October 19th, 2011
5:59 pm
If LSU survives this weekend’s contest, all eyes will be on Miles to see if he reinstates this trio prior to the Tigers’ “game of the year” matchup with Alabama.
The AP did not go into details regarding the suspensions, but The Daily Reveille claimed Ware and Mathieu were suspended due to failed drug tests.
01HAWK
October 19th, 2011
6:03 pm
GAINESVILLE – Florida cornerback Marcus Roberson is facing an underage drinking charge following a September arrest.
Roberson, 19, was arrested by the University Police Department on Sept. 14 in the parking lot of the Springs Complex, which are residence halls on campus. According to the notice to appear, Roberson had a bottle of Four Loko. Roberson was 18 at the time of his arrest.
He was charged with possession of alcohol by a person under 21 years of age, a misdemeanor. Roberson is being represented by Huntley Johnson, a Gainesville attorney who frequently represents UF athletes. Johnson entered a plea of not guilty on Sept. 28. A pre-trial conference is scheduled for Nov. 7.
Roberson, a freshman from Ft. Lauderdale, has started all seven games for Florida (4-3, 2-3 SEC) and has 18 tackles. Rivals.com ranked Roberson as the No. 2 cornerback in the country coming out of St. Thomas Aquinas.
“The coaching staff was aware of the incident and it has been handled internally,” said UF spokesman Steve McClain.
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Video: FSU corner Greg Reid has put questionable arrest behind him
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He is the seventh Florida player to be arrested this year and second for underage drinking. Safety Matt Elam was arrested in July on the same charge.
Roberson was charged two days after teammate Dee Finley was arrested following a traffic stop at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Finley was originally charged with driving with a suspended license and resisting an officer with violence, a felony.
That charge was reduced on Sept. 13 to misdemeanor resisting an officer without violence. Finley was suspended for that week’s game vs. Tennessee. Florida announced last week that Finley, a reserve linebacker, would be transferring.
Finley is one of three players who were arrested that are no longer with the team.
RamboDog
October 19th, 2011
6:05 pm
Gator Meat, if Murray gets hurt, I am holding YOU responsible. I’ll be coming for you little man.
01HAWK
October 19th, 2011
6:06 pm
Richt mentioned on Sunday that he wanted his players to cut down on “chirping” at the end of plays.
Tight end Aron White said Richt “always says he wants us to go out and do our talking between the whistles and show people what we can do by the way that we play. He’s never been a coach that’s big on a lot of talking and taunting.”
SICK
October 19th, 2011
6:07 pm
Daniella, Your the cesspool on this board. Im embarrased enough responding to your ignorance. Take your hatred for uga to the Nerd board.
Swamp Thing
October 19th, 2011
6:08 pm
Enter your comments here:Suspended for 1/2 of the next game? WTF? Lets see, Brandon Sykes was suspended for gouging NoShow Morenos eyes – a penalty that wasn’t called and No Show said never happened. And then there was the late hit on Tebow by Smith that wasn’t called. Come On Dogs – Man Up..
If you think Grantham can pull his ego bloated BS on FLORIDA – welcome to Will Muschamp.
Georgia’s balls shrink again when they see the Orange and Blue come on the field. Please publish the W-L records of the SEC teams Georgia has beaten..They have ONE win and about 11 or 12 losses.
We’re waiting in Jacksonville – SOS said “how can we lose to Georgia in a bowl named for us and played in Florida” UGA: 3-18 in the past 22 years..
GATORBAIT…
01HAWK
October 19th, 2011
6:13 pm
Houston NUTT is as good as gone. Suspended players for BAMA game missed practice to go fishing are what the rumors are.. How do you miss practice and you have a game coming up.
OXFORD — Brandon Bolden said the weekend was “stomach-turning.”
Instead of being with his teammates, instead of playing on Saturday, Bolden was at A.J. Hawkins’ house.
The two, along with Alex Washington, sat and watched No. 2 Alabama beat Ole Miss 52-7.
All three, along with Philander Moore, were suspended for the game for a violation of team rules.
Bolden said the group missed practice.
SICK
October 19th, 2011
6:13 pm
Im looking forward to seeing Will Mushmouth make a fool out of all the florida family. I cant wait to see him curse and stomp at the officials all day long. What a great day to be a gator hator!!!!!!!
trey burton
October 19th, 2011
6:16 pm
I wish I wouldve went to UGA!
CoopDawg
October 19th, 2011
6:18 pm
Finally SOMEONE in the media had the balls to actually stand up and tell it like it is. Nick Cellini on sports night on CSS just said Vandy’s o-line was throwing illegal chop blocks all night and the block by Stewart was one of the dirtiest plays he’s ever seen.
dawgfan
October 19th, 2011
6:19 pm
Enter your comments here
CoopDawg
October 19th, 2011
6:22 pm
Honey Badger and Ward are suspended one game against Auburn for failing drug test.
Dennis
October 19th, 2011
6:24 pm
Please be kind to our widdle team. They is just trying to stand by they man. Is it try that Mr. Coach is taking the whole team to visit Soulja Boy in jail. Scared straight.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
October 19th, 2011
6:25 pm
What kind of ignorant, selfish, self entitled idiot gets a free ride at a University that , odds are, their SATs would not come within sniffing distance of getting into without football equilization, screws it up by taking drugs or violating other laws/ team rules…that mindset eludes me. As a female softball player i was grateful and protective of my 1/8th scholarship 2 years..
bitter taste
October 19th, 2011
6:25 pm
f@#$%——-mike slive———what a turd——-pick and chose who to hammer based on his
—————like of the football school——————-grantham rules
01HAWK
October 19th, 2011
6:33 pm
Coop Dawg……………………….Maybe more than 1 game if it is drug related per the story.
LSU has reached the top spot in the BCS rankings despite becoming Team Turmoil for the 2011 season.
* An offensive coordinator diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease
* A bar brawl before the season
* Two players — including the starting quarterback — arrested due to the brawl
* NCAA probation handed down
* More NCAA questions asked about street-agent Willie Lyles
And now — if LSU’s student newspaper has got the story right – two key starters suspended for failing drug tests.
The Daily Reveille reported this afternoon that bruising tailback Spencer Ware and star cornerback Tyrann Mathieu will be suspended for Saturday’s game with Auburn “after reportedly failing a drug test” according to a source.
LSU officials neither confirmed nor denied the report.
According to the paper, “The suspensions could turn into multiple-game suspensions as well.”
CoopDawg
October 19th, 2011
6:37 pm
01HAWK they just said one game on CSS so I was going by that and they also said they would definately be back for the Alabama game.
Ray Goff
October 19th, 2011
6:38 pm
Which SEC team located in Athens is consistently in the top ten or number one in the NCAA with personal foul penalties?
Runnin With The Dawgs
October 19th, 2011
6:40 pm
What’s the big deal? The players had a little scrap and the coaches had a few words. I’ve been to a lot of football games and I’ve seen a lot of this kind of stuff, and after it’s over everybody goes on. This is being blown way out of proportion.
Bill
October 19th, 2011
6:56 pm
Why does Slive let SC DE Clowney get away with grabing our QB in the back of his shirt sling him around that is a penality, that is a horse collar
Cliff Klaven
October 19th, 2011
6:59 pm
UGA is such a classless program!!!
Black Mountain NC Bulldog
October 19th, 2011
7:05 pm
OK we all knew what the biased Slive would do.
Thank our Lucky stars we get Tree, Mitchell, and Washington back, for UF.
If we don’t beat them this year. Will we ever, again?
Pray for cool weather Jon Jenkins.
Hurt Kurbstreit
October 19th, 2011
7:10 pm
421st. That ruling by the comish is total BS. The Vandy player deserved a suspension for an intentional clip. Richt should have stood up for his players, at least for Gathers, who was doing what anyone would do.
Is Ogletree going to be back for the FL game?
gordon
October 19th, 2011
7:11 pm
Watching holier than thou UGA fans – absolutely priceless. And, Grantham should have been suspended. His actions nearly inspired a riot. What a clown.
kingster
October 19th, 2011
7:11 pm
Wow, you UGA fans cry about everything, but believe me things will change and get worst in the long run, try, please try to be honest with your selfs(lol) and Tech Fan, I’m surprise at you, what classes did you take, the Vandy kid was suspended for half the game also, learn to read before you back UGA, you sound like one of those R-necks.
The Ole Ball Coach
October 19th, 2011
7:15 pm
Silve is unbalanced NOT FAIR TO EVERYONE in his decisions ….. Why was Newton, Fairley, and Spikes not suspended?
Why are the refs allowed to make unjust decisions weekly, Muschamp mouth? Alabama allows their players to sale suits – No issue but don’t sale your own jersey ask AJ…… Tennessee allows its players to knock out cops but don’t defend yourself when the ref want in a game……. SEC has no leadership that will be fair and just. $$$$$$$$$$$$ rules Silve just pay him off.
Dave
October 19th, 2011
7:17 pm
Maybe its the culmination of the 12 off season arrests, at which UGA leads the nation
Stay classy UGA! Ready for the annual loss to UF? One great stat to remember, Auburn has beaten the Evil Genius more in 12 months+ (3 times) that UGA has in 20 years!!!!
Where the heck is Hershal?????
mountaindawg
October 19th, 2011
7:18 pm
my wife saw the “sack schultz” and said, i quote, WHAT YOU SHOULD DO IS PUT A SACK ON HIS FACE. HE IS UGLY”
Classless in Athens
October 19th, 2011
7:19 pm
Three Georgia schools are among the best 400 universities in the world, according to a new ranking released Wednesday.
Georgia Tech, ranked no. 84, is the leading school in Georgia, ahead of Emory at 114 and the University of Georgia at 385, according to the rankings compiled by U.S. News and World Report.
NOW WE KNOW WHY UGA is ranked at 385. CLASSLESS!!!!!!
Miss Bee
October 19th, 2011
7:24 pm
The problem is that you UGA FANS are worried about the WRONG THING. You should be worried about:
Three Georgia schools are among the best 400 universities in the world!
Georgia Tech, ranked no. 84, is the leading school in Georgia, ahead of Emory at 114 and the University of Georgia at 385, according to the rankings compiled by U.S. News and World Report.
KB
October 19th, 2011
7:26 pm
@Classless, Only on school in Georgia has been on Ncaa probation twice in the past 6 years.
Negative uga haters
October 19th, 2011
7:26 pm
Warcraft and porn are getting boring. Think I will go on the ajc blog site and trash uga. I am really a closet fan which Is why I love to comment on their articles.
Joey
October 19th, 2011
7:29 pm
AJC:
Yessssssss!!
We did it!!
KB
October 19th, 2011
7:29 pm
Dave, Your an idiot name the arrests, perhaps your thinking about Auburn. and to show your stupidity further Spurrier is 3-4 vs UGA while at South Carolina. What rock do you live under?
Chinny
October 19th, 2011
7:35 pm
I agree with the NCAA…Nick Fairly did the same things last year and was suspended for the next game….oh wait….nevermind.
icedawg
October 19th, 2011
7:35 pm
Way too much micromanaging by sports writers and bloggers.
Dawg
October 19th, 2011
7:40 pm
Georgia should move to the Big East. That would show that motherf@#$&%@ Slive that he can go f&$% himself. Georgia would play in the national championship every 3 or 4 years if they moved to the big east.
Chris
October 19th, 2011
7:44 pm
such BS like serioously like guy took a late cheap shot on a 350 pound man! it could have ended his career or season. And williams will be missed badly but kwame not as much because of the depth at dt with jenkins. But thats bs it suckscuz both guys were playing so wll
Jordan
October 19th, 2011
7:45 pm
http://isportsweb.com/2011/10/19/geathers-and-williams-out/
Amazing
October 19th, 2011
7:50 pm
It is amazing to me how UGA fans want to jump and scream like little kids when a player from another team plays dirty (Fairley from last year…Vandy player from last week’s game), but have nothing to say when it’s a UGA player doing the same thing. Ben Jones played dirty last year in the Miss St game….a UGA defensive lineman chopped a UT defensive lineman in last year’s game(the UT player was hurt on the play), Rambo cheap-shotted Da’Rick Rogers this year in the Tenn game…
Why is that? You are either ok with dirty play, or you aren’t. It shouldn’t matter what jersey you wear.
The Lyam Hound
October 19th, 2011
8:01 pm
Very good column Jordan.
LutzFLdawg
October 19th, 2011
8:08 pm
BS!
bulldawgbill
October 19th, 2011
8:10 pm
IF UGA OR VANDY WERE REALLY GOOD TEAMS AND EXPECTED TO PLAY IN THE SEC TITLE GAME OR A BIG BOWL GAME, THERE WOULD BE NO PENALTIES — SEE OHIO STATE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, AND FLORIDA IN THE PAST FEW YEARS.
THE NCAA AND THE SEC ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN THE MONEY AND ANSWER ONLY TO THE TV PEOPLE.
I AM BEGINING TO LOSE INTEREST IN COLLEGE SPORTS. AT LEAST THE PROS ARE HONEST IN WHAT THEY SELL.
ugab
October 19th, 2011
8:16 pm
I can understand why Geathers threw a punch. That clip could have cost Geathers his career. A smart team would have laid on the ground and faked an injury, giving Vandy the penalty. What does MR’s team do? MR should have done something to get these players heads back in the game. MR just sits there like a knot on a log. We needed these two players for the Fl game. MR needs to get these kids under control. Grantham has to lead by example. Grantham should have got suspended also.
Paul
October 19th, 2011
8:18 pm
You have to realize if the incident at the end of game and the media running it all in the ground, forced the SEC to make a decision. If he incident after the game did not happen the players would not have been punished further. All the media fuss forced the commissioner’s hand and no he did not do anything about Franklin and Grantham…..Kind of like punishing the little guys in life and not the top dawgs…….Way to go media….Now find something else to complain about for UGA.
Hit A Single
October 19th, 2011
8:23 pm
I watch all this other crap from other games and you hear nothing. Like when Garcia scores a TD against UGA and flips the ball at UGA player in the endzone. Just one example! Mike Slive is nothing but a puppett for a few. Kind of like the NCAA. Now maybe the media will end all this coverage of an event that got way too much coverage.
The Lyam Hound
October 19th, 2011
8:40 pm
So here’s what I’ve seen so far.
Wait… I should first mention that I probably wouldn’t have thought twice about the Vandy vs.Georgia game but for the heroic(?) actions of one Coach Todd Grantham after the contest had already ended.
Okay… Now back to the game. This outing wouldn’t have gone down as a particularly dirty SEC game. There were maybe a few personal foul calls. That typically happens in a game. Now that attention has been brought to the way the game ended, some are claiming that it was an extraordinarily dirty game, with the Vandy team committing chop blocks on a regular basis throughout the contest.
Well folks, I watched the replay on CSS today. I didn’t see any chop blocks and I didn’t see an unusual amount of cut blocking on the line either.
“So how about the youtube clips?”, you ask. Yes. I’ve seen those also. The block that triggered the punch from the Georgia player was close to being a clip. Perhaps it actually was. It appears as if the Vandy player got his head and shoulders in front of the Georgia player’s legs, but he was coming at an angle from behind. It’s certainly a close call. I wouldn’t consider that a block worthy of being called “dirty”, even if it was an illegal block. I don’t think this block would have triggered an SEC suspension, had it not been followed by the punch.
The other questionable block is less dubious. The Georgia player speared the Vandy player from behind. That was a dirty hit. It was clearly an intentional foul. There have been reports that this same player had, on multiple occasions, grabbed his crotch and made lewd exclamations toward the Vandy bench during the game, but I have seen no youtube video evidence of that happening. From reading reports of the incident, this is the same guy who was harassing Coach Franklin after the game.
If any particular football play (punching is not recognized as a “football” play) in that game brought the SEC into the picture, it was Georgia’s spear block from behind on the Vandy player. Still, I’m not sure there would have been a suspension handed down for that hit – had Coach Grantham not had to be restrained from engaging in physical violence in front of a national television audience after the game was already over.
doctor
October 19th, 2011
8:42 pm
GODAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!
RNB
October 19th, 2011
8:59 pm
Reprimand Muschump for what he is going to do in the UGA game. Wait he’s not the coach at UGA.
bucket
October 19th, 2011
9:00 pm
@ Lyam Hound – you need to take your “UGA hater’s” glasses off and rewatch the LATE hit on a defenseless player by the Vandy center. The Vandy QB was already out of bounds and Geathers had slowed up because the QB was running out of bounds and the only player who doesn’t slow up is the Vandy center who made an intentional hit to the knee of a defenseless player. What a crock!
CHDawg
October 19th, 2011
9:03 pm
OK, let me get this straight: two adults who are paid millions to coach, the head coach for Vandy and the Def Coord for UGA meet at the middle of the field. Franklin starts yelling, pointing and accusing, and starts a heated altercation that almost turns into a nasty brawl. He turned a calm Grantham into a profane basket case in five seconds. He must have been very nasty and caustic in his attacks. And nothing happens to the two adults–particularly to the guy who started the fight–Vandy’s head coach? This is the pinnacle of double standards. Punish the coaches Mr. Slive, particularly Franklin! Williams’ cheap shot wasn’t even flagged by the ref who was standing right on top of the play, btw. That tells us what we already knew–this stuff happens every single week in every game. But, Franklin picks a fight and they punish Georgia for it? Fairley used to do worse several times a game and he never got suspended. I wish they *would* start applying discipline uniformly, but they have to do it to every team, not just Georgia. I also wish they would start flagging trash talking and profanity from coaches. It is getting out of hand. Coaches get away with murder and the players get slammed. What would Slive do to a player who was yelling profanities at a ref? You just have to be a coach making millions to get away with it.
Dawgscrews
October 19th, 2011
9:05 pm
where can i view the hit on Geathers, anyone know ?
Muffican Jam
October 19th, 2011
9:07 pm
Why not show you really mean it CMR and suspend them for the second half of the next game? Sitting out the first half is silly. UGa continues to fall off the football map. What a joke of a program and some insane followers.
The Lyam Hound
October 19th, 2011
9:09 pm
“Franklin starts yelling, pointing and accusing”
That’s not accurate.
Jeff and the Camaros
October 19th, 2011
9:10 pm
Dirty hit, very dirty hit
The Lyam Hound
October 19th, 2011
9:12 pm
@bucket
What makes you think that I hate UGA? I don’t. I Don’t hate Vandy either.
I just thought you guys might like to know what this looks like from outside the bubble.
CHDawg
October 19th, 2011
9:16 pm
Lyam, that is perfectly accurate. Look at the tape.
CHDawg
October 19th, 2011
9:18 pm
Franklin started the fight and he gets off completely. Watch the tape. Grantham is as calm as a cucumber until Franklin begins the attack.
The Lyam Hound
October 19th, 2011
9:21 pm
@CHDawg
Officials miss calls sometimes. Just because a foul play isn’t flagged, doesn’t mean it’s not a foul play.
Believe it or not, the SEC officials aren’t sitting in a basement under the home office in Birmingham controlling the actions of the referees on the field with little joysticks.
I understand that some of the posters on this blog will find that hard to swallow, but it’s true.
The Lyam Hound
October 19th, 2011
9:24 pm
As I stated in what I thought was a comprehensive review of my observation of this story, I have watched all of the video clips very carefully.
Mudcatjoe
October 19th, 2011
9:25 pm
Oh no!!! 1/2 game suspension!! There’s that UGA favoritism again. The penalty could of only been lighter if that wuss Richt had been in charge!
bardawg
October 19th, 2011
9:26 pm
Don Leebern & some of the other UGA Alums/ backers of the program evidently need too get in lock-step with some of the other SEC Universities backers. You guys evidently ain’t putting enough grease in Mike Slime’s hands to get the favorable rulings .(I.E.) Bobby Louder greasing the correct palms that the criminal Fairly not dare be penalized for his minor indiscretions for blatantly spearing Aaron Murray in the back.Hey, no harm ,no foul if you’ve either been paid enough ! The UGA Nation ,because of the penalty handed down by Slime should call for,no demand Slime’s resignation
The Lyam Hound
October 19th, 2011
9:28 pm
I even watched the replay today, although I had seen most of the game (including the ending) while it was being played.
I’m not a Vandy or Georgia fan, but I like both schools. I have friends and family who have attended both schools. That’s why I was watching the game to begin with. I’m sorry that this happened – for both schools, and for the SEC.
CHDawg
October 19th, 2011
9:35 pm
Lyam,
that isn’t the point. Of course, calls will be missed, but the SEC has had a terrible problem with inconsistent calls, and the front office has a terrible problem with inconsistent discipline. I see spearing in almost every game, but they don’t call it, and the SEC doesn’t suspend anyone. I see players trash talking and showing terrible sportsmanship, and coaches screaming profanities at the refs, and the SEC does nothing. I’m fine with the suspensions, but they should have suspended Franklin and Grantham, and they need to start suspending other teams who commit these fouls. It happens on every team.
Old dog
October 19th, 2011
9:40 pm
Why has nothing been said about a pattern of unsportsmanlike play being promoted by Vanderbilt’s coaching staff? In spite of Coach Franklin’s righteous indignation, he needs to be called out for his player’s dirty play.
Shame on Vandy!
The Lyam Hound
October 19th, 2011
9:43 pm
“It happens on every team.”
That’s not accurate.
The Lyam Hound
October 19th, 2011
9:45 pm
Old dog
October 19th, 2011
9:40 pm
Why has nothing been said about a pattern of unsportsmanlike play being promoted by Vanderbilt’s coaching staff? In spite of Coach Franklin’s righteous indignation, he needs to be called out for his player’s dirty play.
Shame on Vandy!
That’s a very good question. Why has nobody complained about dirty play from this Vandy team prior to this game. You might want to think about that one for a while?
Smyrna Gold
October 19th, 2011
9:47 pm
How can Richt say? “It’s certainly not representative of the Georgia way,” Plz give me a break.
Dawg48
October 19th, 2011
9:49 pm
I still say if it was not for “gossip sports talk radio” and “gossip journalism” blowing this out of proportion this would have been forgotten and every one would have moved on.
Hit A Single
October 19th, 2011
9:50 pm
I just got my new 2012 College Football playstation game and on it Grantham beats the mess out of Franklin and even the Commodore fans cheer.
Hit A Single
October 19th, 2011
9:52 pm
In Franklin’s post game interview he said fight as many times as Iverson said practice.
SE GA Fan
October 19th, 2011
9:55 pm
@Ryan…Yep…You have someone try to take you out and end your life career. What would you do? Turn around and say, “Oh, I’m so sorry I was in your way while you were trying to repair the divot on the field?” Get real. I used to think Vandy was a classy team and school, but my thoughts have definitely changed in the last couple of years. Being an *** doesn’t turn a basement SEC team into a winner. Franklin is the one who needs to get some class.
bravos0516
October 19th, 2011
9:55 pm
Looks like Ogletree may be back at safety for a game to replace Williams. That will answer the question of keeping the linebackers, who have done well, in tact against Florida.
CHDawg
October 19th, 2011
9:56 pm
Ly’n hound, I guess we should just pretend this didn’t happen? Franklin is not even close to Williams as he comes out pointing at him and yelling at Grantham. I guess Geathers’ dad is lying when he says that the Vandy player gives a thumbs up to the Vandy coaches after he tries to end his son’s career with a cheap shot. He only spent 13 years in the NFL, so he probably doesn’t understand the game as well as you do? Your ability to deny reality is shocking.
FLA DAWG
October 19th, 2011
10:02 pm
Ants at a picnic.
Who cares?
SE GA Fan
October 19th, 2011
10:02 pm
Another thought…if nothing was really being called fairly, why not go out and do whatever. Where were the officials when all this trouble was occurring? Heading to an all-night diner? There really wasn’t much fair officiating in that game. Franklin reminds me of some of the little boys I taught in my 30+ years who initiated everything and then claimed someone else started it. Get a life.
The Lyam Hound
October 19th, 2011
10:05 pm
Franklin was not pointing. Neither you nor I know exactly what was said between them on the field prior to the confrontation. The physical confrontation is what triggered this media crap-storm, and that’s all on Todd Grantham.
I’m sure that Geathers’ dad is unhappy. So what?
no big
October 19th, 2011
10:10 pm
no big deal–florida’s terrible this year—Ga can beat them easy even with backups in the first half. Look for an easy Ga win this year: Ga 30 fla 10
Mr. SEC
October 19th, 2011
10:14 pm
I told you last night that this would happen; hell when Alabama and Auburn play, the next week both starting O’s and D’s for both teams will be suspended for one half for the next ball game I guess? Yea Right!
Anything to hurt UGA’s chances of beating Fla. and I grant you the NCAA and it’s bumbs called “Commissioners” is a joke.
Lets all go independent and do away with the NCAA!
The Lyam Hound
October 19th, 2011
10:16 pm
@SE GA Fan
“There really wasn’t much fair officiating in that game.”
That’s not accurate. Perhaps you can explain why the live blog during the game on this very website contains no significant complaints about either Vandy’s play or the officiating?
Here’s a sample post from the live blog:
“not a fan of williams…celebrates too much for me…just do your job and shut up…”
This is what you guys were saying about your player during the game. Now you tell a different story – but your words are recorded.
Here: http://blogs.ajc.com/jeff-schultz-blog/2011/10/15/live-another-win-keeps-georgia-in-sec-east-hunt/?cp=all#comments
CHDawg
October 19th, 2011
10:20 pm
Yes, he is pointing. Watch the tape. You are probably looking at youtube clips. Watch the game tape. Franklin is walking toward Grantham pointing at Williams and yelling from a distance. Grantham is calm, and double takes when he realizes what Franklin is saying. Grantham says he was defending his player. The next thing we see is the policeman trying to keep Franklin and Grantham apart, and Grantham screaming obscenities at Franklin. No, we don’t know what was said, but we do know that Franklin initiated the altercation. We know that Grantham was perfectly calm, and in “shake the other team’s hand” mode, when he was jarred into very uncharacteristic and foul behavior by Franklin. We know that Franklin was unhappy with Williams and that he said he wasn’t going to take it from anyone. I think it is very obvious that Franklin was attacking Georgia’s players, and if Geathers is right, his staff was directing cheap shots to injure Georgia players. Maybe he told Grantham that he tried to take Geathers out? Who knows, but it really made Grantham mad–whatever he said, and he felt he needed to defend his players. Spin it however you would like, but that is the evidence.
The Lyam Hound
October 19th, 2011
10:23 pm
You assume a helluva lot. Can’t blame you. The truth is ugly.
CHDawg
October 19th, 2011
10:24 pm
Ly’n hound, nobody is defending Williams’ cheap shot that I see. The problem is the double standard. Fairley’s multiple cheap shots on Murray were much worse, but no suspension. I wish they would suspend all of the players doing this sort of thing. They don’t.
FLA DAWG
October 19th, 2011
10:31 pm
no big,
Yeah, The Dawgs should beat them – by 20, I don’t think so.
As a matter of fact, I don’t think we will beat UF.
Richt and his coaches always seem to find a way to lose a “big” game.
UF 13, UGA 10
The Lyam Hound
October 19th, 2011
10:34 pm
@CHDawg
I’m not arguing that something that happened last year should have gone unpunished. Only that it is not relevant to what happened in this year’s Georgia – Vandy game.
Now if Ted Roof had attacked Mark Richt after the game… Who knows?
CHDawg
October 19th, 2011
10:34 pm
No, I am looking at the evidence. You are the one assuming. You are assuming that you know that Franklin wasn’t pointing when he clearly was pointing. I suspect you are assuming what you see on youtube or on the AJC is all there is to it. Watch the game tape. You are also assuming Grantham went from happy Cub Scout to an angry bear protecting his cubs for no reason! What do you think Franklin said to make Grantham so angry? We know that Grantham said he was defending his players, so I think it is fair to assume Franklin was attacking Georgia’s players. I am also reading what Mr. Geathers said, rather than assuming your story line is true. I’m not defending Grantham. He should have known better than to get drawn into it. My beef is that the punishment wasn’t fair. Franklin should have been suspended for a couple of games, and Grantham should have been suspended for a game or two. The players were singled out. Think of the terrible fouls that have occurred in SEC and nobody got suspended. I am all for discipline, but they have to do it consistently. They can’t just suspend Georgia and Vandy’s players for infractions that occur almost weekly in the SEC.
SE GA Fan
October 19th, 2011
10:35 pm
How does “should be disqualified” for Stewart’s hit and Gaethers 1/2 game equalize each other? The SEC is just being weird. Are we sure the SEC Board and officials are not AJC sports writers? Both groups hate UGA, no matter what they say, and Mark Richt is only speaking for himself lately. This is the most unfair conference I have ever seen, and I watch college football each Saturday and have been for years. I am 64 and don’t like what I’m seeing in the SEC controlling cazrs plus in some of the coaches. Losing unnecessary games is one thing, but having your coach not defend his team is another. I don’t want Richt to be classless Franklin for sure, but defend your players and coaches. Franklin wasn’t looking for you; he was finding UGA players to antagonize. Don’t believe him.
The Lyam Hound
October 19th, 2011
10:35 pm
Gotta call BS on that and call it a night.
The Lyam Hound
October 19th, 2011
10:37 pm
Read your own live blog dummies.
You can’t hide from what you said while the game was happening.
CHDawg
October 19th, 2011
10:41 pm
Time to rack out, but I would ask you to watch the clip…Cub Scout to yelling vile obscenities at Franklin, and the two right at the point of a fist-fight, all in a split second after an angry and pointing Franklin meets Grantham. It was ugly. The ugliest part was that the coach who caused most of the problems got off completely–at least publicly. And the other coach who lost his temper got off, too. The players, otoh, got disciplined. I guess they should have known better.
The Lyam Hound
October 19th, 2011
10:43 pm
I watched it. Franklin stood his ground pretty well when Grantham came after him. He didn’t even flinch. Grantham is a nut-job. He needs professional help.
SE GA Fan
October 19th, 2011
10:49 pm
@ The Lyam Hound
Sounds like you are very strange tonight and must not be from Georgia. You would know Jeff Schultz hates UGA and will say anything negative about them if he can. Your other posts sound weird, also. As my mom always said, “Consider the source.” Obviously, you and Schultz are in the same boat and shouldn’t be considered. Give it up. Most of the readers have given up on Schultz already. Don’t know why he’s still at AJC. Must have some connection, but it’s not with the readers or bloggers.
SE GA Fan
October 19th, 2011
10:50 pm
@ The Lyam Hound… Go to bed… Full moon coming soon.
The Lyam Hound
October 19th, 2011
10:52 pm
I don’t know or care about Schultz’s opinion of UGA.
I do know this, Schultz didn’t create this story. Todd Grantham created the story.
The Lyam Hound
October 19th, 2011
10:52 pm
Ha!
I agree!
Good Night All
Always Right
October 19th, 2011
11:00 pm
Your an idiot. Both players were wrong. Both coaches were wrong. Penalties are fair. Geathers dad does have a point about career threatening play. Video does show vandy coaches clapping after the hit then getting angry their boy got socked. Bottom line vandy wants to be on the next level so bad and they were very close to beating uga. I cant believe franklin let a player get under his skin. Grantham is a hothead but i wouldn’t trade him for anybody.
#7
October 19th, 2011
11:11 pm
Starting DB from Florida gets arrested, how many does that make?
Thomas Brown
October 19th, 2011
11:17 pm
Without these actions by these two (2) coaches, their players would not have been suspended today – so, where are the leaders’ the role models’ the adults’ the coaches’ suspensions ? Hello, SEC, tell me would you really have suspended any of the 3 players had not James Franklin, smartly as it turns out, confronted Todd Grantham, both of whom wear their hearts on their sleeves ? Go ahead, it’s ok, you can tell us.
Mark Richt has maintained throughout that Todd Grantham is, also, Guilty.
ga gator
October 19th, 2011
11:20 pm
#7 is the correct answer; have we caught up to yours in 2010?
dirty ball
October 19th, 2011
11:37 pm
richt coaches dirty, just like he learned from bobby bowden at fsu. Hit late, twist knees in the pile, talk trash during the game and after the game, then act like some kind of preacher to the media! The SEC office doesn’t buy that BS act.
My God, a freshman!
October 19th, 2011
11:41 pm
ga gator, you are a born loser. You are clueless as to any football knowledge. And tell your mom to type you a better moniker you moron. I can’t wait to run over you freakin’ reptiles. And watch willie cry to the refs or cuss them out.
Shane
October 20th, 2011
12:05 am
I am just glad that the suspension wasn’t for the entire game. Regardless, I think we will walk away with a win in Jax. I think the bye will re-energize the team and they will play with intensity. I hope it’s not down to the wire like last season, that game gave me gray hair. GO DAWGS!
or give me south georgia
October 20th, 2011
12:07 am
I’m glad Geathers isn’t hurt. As others have pointed out, must be a slow week with no game this weekend…
or give me south georgia
October 20th, 2011
12:10 am
I hear Vandy just lowered the required SAT and ACT standardized tests scores for athletes… that, along with this story, tickles me.
Niceville Dawg
October 20th, 2011
12:13 am
Ahhh…..Georgia-Florida week(s)Let the mind games begin.
AtlAub
October 20th, 2011
12:23 am
Auburn released a press release tonight formally apologizing for playing football too “hard” and tackling in a rough manner in the game last year. We also accept Coach Granthams assertion that Cam Newton “is not that special” in his post game interview from the same game.
Bulldogs who played for the likes of Erk and Vince (both Auburn grads) understand why this team has not mattered in a while. You are soft and cry like a C-USA team when someone takes it to you. Take it like men and get better on the field instead of whatever this fan base has turned into over the past few years.
Dyed in the Wool
October 20th, 2011
12:58 am
I love all the Auburn fans coming out of the wood works (err … trailer parks) to comment on this story, like AtlAub and SCTiger. Really? We’re going to get lectures from fans of a school whose only pathway to winning runs through greasing palms with cash? UGA fans are the most hated in the SEC? … Puh-lease! Whatever … How’s it feel to return to irrelevance? You know, the place you’ve been for most of your pathetic excuse for a school’s existence. Yeah, that place. The one that sent me a letter in the mail saying I was accepted to Auburn … and I never even applied. Yep. No school in the SEC can disappear faster into irrelevancy than Auburn … until they find a way to lure players to their trash dump of a city and school with cash. Nothing like a legacy that not even a temporary halting of an NCAA investigation can erase.
And, oh, yeah. Can’t wait to pound you pathetic little sissies into the ground next month … even with our sorry team this year … that’s still going to win its division.
Preston
October 20th, 2011
12:59 am
Geathers shouldn’t even be disciplined for hitting someone that tried to tear his knee up. I’m proud of him for not killing the MF after what he did. That could’ve ended his career. I’m very disappointed in CMR for not publicly defending his player in this instance. Purely shameful. Put Grantham in there as head coach and put an end to this whimp ass attitude at UGA from it’s head coach. This is BS!
L.A. BULLDAWG
October 20th, 2011
1:13 am
I DON’T AGREE WITH COACH RICHT’S DECISION! KWAME IS ONLY HUMAN, AND REACTED TO A BLATANT CHEAP SHOT THAT COULD HAVE ENDED HIS FOOTBALL CAREER! JUST BECAUSE KWAME IS HUGE, SHOULD NOT BE A SCAPEGOAT OR VICTIM OF ABUSE BY AN O-LINEMEN WHO WAS CLEARLY OVERMATCHED! FORMER LSU D-LINEMAN, GLENN DORSEY ALMOST SAW HIS CAREER END AGANIST AN AUBURN O-LINEMAN 5 YEARS AGO IN A SIMILAR PLAY! QB’S AND WR’S GET PROTECTED, SO, HOW COME D-LINEMEN DON’T GET THE SAME PRECAUTIONS? KWAME HAS A BRIGHT FUTURE AT THE NEXT LEVEL! IT’S HARD TO TELL A BIG D-LINEMAN NOT TO REACT, WHEN BODILY INJURY WAS BLATANTLY THE INTENT BY AN INFERIOR OPPONENT! KWAME, YOU HAVE A LOT OF SUPPPORTERS WHO KNOW THE GAME, ESPECIALLY ON THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE! HOLD YOUR HEAD HIGH, BECAUSE YOU ONLYREACTED THE WAY A LOT OF US WOULD HAVE, WHEN A FUTURE CAREER IS THREATENED!
dbc
October 20th, 2011
1:41 am
Way to stand up for your players CMR. At least Grantham realizes the injustice of a possible career ending hit. More of the same from old bacon back Richt. When will someone, ANYONE in the UGA front office realize Richt is a spineless worm. Good luck getting your players to lay it on the line at Florida. You provided an example at Florida with the celebration a few years ago — now you want to go back to “shaking hands.” And then Meyer ripped you a new one and what did you do? Backed down with an apology… How can any player respect such a mealy mouthed coward.
DAWGMAN
October 20th, 2011
2:03 am
Tired of losing to Flawduh. Tired of bad coaching. Tired of the team playing and the fans acting like the first few games don’t count. Tired of counting on someone else losing rather than us winning. Tired of saying, ‘Wait till next year’. This is next year.
Unless all you Dawgs want to lay out on a 20 pound sack of ice and cool your privates for another year.
cmdawg99
October 20th, 2011
4:04 am
Well we ought to be able to challenge penalies now right..The previous
game is under official review.
Gatormeat
October 20th, 2011
5:58 am
Tired of losing to Florida or not, it is going to happen again next week. We will pound the dogs into the ground all day. No one down here is surprised the lowly dogs are in trouble, they have been a disgraceful program for decades run by disgraceful people. For example, what really happened between V Dooley and that lady cop in New Orleans back in the day?
The play that got Shawn Williams suspended | Get The Picture
October 20th, 2011
6:34 am
[...] Here’s what the SEC had to say about that: Williams’ suspension is the result of a flagrant personal foul which occurred at the 2:08 mark in the third quarter. The action is in violation of Rule 9-1-4 of the NCAA Football Rule Book, which reads, “No player shall target and initiate contact to the head or neck area of a defenseless opponent with the helmet, forearm, elbow or shoulder.” [...]
Not a Chop Block
October 20th, 2011
8:22 am
The Williams hit is the worst of the group. That plus the two personal fouls he was called for should have resulted in more than 1/2 game suspension. Yes, the cut could have hurt the player, but going at someone’s neck could put them in a wheelchair.
Niceville Dawg
October 20th, 2011
8:34 am
Gatormeat-head,isnt there anywhere you can go to discuss FL football other than here?I visit lots of other school’s blogs and I never see Dawgs stirring the pot.NEVER.But this site is always littered with trash from Tech and FL.I guess its because its free…..
TowDawg
October 20th, 2011
8:40 am
I have to disagree with “Not a Chop Block”.
You’re right that the hit from Williams was completely uncalled for and I have said the same. You are also right that the head shot “could” have put the Vandy player in a wheelchair, but look at the averages. 99% of the time, a head shot leads to nothing, out for the game, or maybe out for the next game with a concussion. Rarely does anything serious come from it.
The shot to back of the knees (espcially on a 300+ lb man) can lead to out for the season or the end of a career. Shots to the knees like that have a much higher chance of truly hurting a player.
Wow! Just... Wow!
October 20th, 2011
8:43 am
Are Georgia fans really this stupid, or does the state of Georgia drug the water supply?
trey burton
October 20th, 2011
9:00 am
Attention gator meat,
You disgust me. You make me wish I had come to Athens. You come to a GA board and embarrass me and the whole team. Take off your high top reeboks, jean shorts and tank top, and for Gods sake put the bottle down. You know your mommy will lock you the house. Again.
Tard Dawg
October 20th, 2011
9:22 am
Best part of all this is UGA is now rivals with Vandy. That program has really taken a tumble from mediocrity to irrelevant.
Gatormeat
October 20th, 2011
9:29 am
You have that wrong trey, it is your mom that has me locked up. She just can’t get enough. Go back to your doublewide, get drunk or methed up, and beat down your old lady like you dog fans do every year after the Mighty Gators have wiped the field with the mutts
MY 2 cents
October 20th, 2011
9:32 am
I think we have beat the horse to death on the Ga. vs Vandy game. Can we move on to something more entertaining?
Blind Homer's Odyssey
October 20th, 2011
9:39 am
In summation:
Georgia good. SEC bad.
Kwame was justified and should have killed the SOB….and his family.
Williams was also justified because everyone knows how dirty Vandy played. Vandy(?) LOL
Grantham was beyond justified. Heroic. Stepped up for his dumbass player by being more of one.
It’s all Richt’s fault.
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You guys make me proud to be a blind homer.
SE GA Fan
October 20th, 2011
9:50 am
Your title should have included the fact that a Vandy player was also suspended for a game. Also, Geathers “fight” as you call it was a slight punch — there was no fight. The dirty guys were Vandy’s Stewart and Coach Franklin. Grantham was defending his players after Franklin started yelling at him. Also, the officials should have still been around.
SE GA Fan
October 20th, 2011
9:51 am
I’m talking about the title on the front page of the online AJC. Lots of people won’t read the entire story and will think it was only UGA players.
Georgia Nation!
October 20th, 2011
10:19 am
Yay!!!
Ron Swanson
October 20th, 2011
10:35 am
Gatormeat must be a Tech fan. Never heard the Bulldogs referred to as “mutts” from a fan of any other school.
workinDawg
October 20th, 2011
11:54 am
I’m sure its been talked to death, but how chickenshat. Remind me how many games Auburn’s cheap shot specialist (and addmittedly heck of a football player) Nick Fairly received last year? Thats what I thought.
And the NCAA goes apeshat on fighting. I get it, but those guys couldn’t hurt each other fighting if they tried. What they try to do legally to each other for 60 minutes is far more violent than punching a dude who’s wearing a helmet.
DAWGBONE79
October 20th, 2011
12:50 pm
Geathers suspended for fighting? Really! Slive has clearly lost the ability to differentiate between reality and fiction. FIRE SLIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!
DAWGBONE79
mark PRICHT
October 20th, 2011
1:24 pm
UGA has problems from top to bottom and every fan in between…its a sad day when the coaches, players and Ad starts acting like their redneck fans
pcfootballhater
October 20th, 2011
1:38 pm
I hate politically correct football – can we just go ahead and abolish full contact football in the NCAA and go to flag football – then I can start watching mma or something real…
aprilglaspie
October 20th, 2011
2:58 pm
Obvious that Williams was attempting to knock the ball out of the receiver’s hands, and the “contact” was almost non-existent. Ref was wool-gathering.
winderdawg
October 20th, 2011
3:20 pm
The Vandy player should miss a whole game! The league creates all these rules to protect interior lineman from leg injury and then they allow this to happen? The Vandy player had just one motive – to injure Geathers! I really feel sorry for Stewart next year when he comes to Athens that first play will be worth watching!!!!
Same 'ol thing
October 20th, 2011
4:40 pm
Mark Richt = WWJD. Its the truth. Great man, turns the cheek way too much.
Harold Bare
October 20th, 2011
8:43 pm
If the dogs win the SEC East how in the hell can you say the SEC is the strongest conference.
workinDawg
October 20th, 2011
9:42 pm
Harold Bare because there is a “west”. Perhaps you noticed Bama and LSU? Heard they looked pretty good this year.
bennyhaha
October 21st, 2011
7:39 am
Video evidence proves UGA started the cheapshots, and started the fight on the field and Richt used profanity towards Vandy’s, coach end of story. Vandy will retaliate next time too. Just because you outnumber Vandy doesnt make you right. Go YellowJackets.
Buckhead Bulldog
October 21st, 2011
9:30 am
bennyhaha – we area shaking!
DJ Dawg
October 21st, 2011
1:44 pm
bennyhaha = IDIOT .
dc
October 21st, 2011
7:53 pm
half game suspensions for half ass ugay playas
LoveEmory
October 22nd, 2011
10:29 am
Bennyhaha is simply stating what the video evidence provided by the Atlanta newspaper proves, UGA fans knowing they cannot dispute the fact that UGA started the cheap shots, resort to name-calling, LOL
Gatormeat
October 22nd, 2011
12:35 pm
It is about time the SEC did something about the dirty play of georgia. Teams all across the league are getting tired of the garbage the dogs bring to the field every week. Cheap shots and late hits are their calling card, I would not have blamed that Vandy player if he did take Geathers out, he deserved it. It is up to the honarable teams like Florida, Alabama, and LSU to protect the integrity of the league apparently, at least we know how to win without playing dirty. Oh well, at least next week we get to pay georgia back for threatening to choke our kicker, I would not look for Murray to make it to halftime, you dogs have it coming. As usual, you dog fans will be talking smack before the game and crying and making excuses afterwards. Again. No wonder we mock you
DAWG in BAMA
October 23rd, 2011
9:18 pm
@ Gatorbait……as long as UF will allow Brandon Spikes to lead the campaign against our dirty play.
sic'em
October 23rd, 2011
9:36 pm
gatormeat, are you a girl?
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