Monetary gifts from Richt among secondary NCAA violations reported by UGA
Mark Richt has given more than $60,000 of his own money the last three years to current and former staff members when UGA's athletic administration refused to step up with compensation. (UGA photo)
ATHENS – Mark Richt’s generosity and compassion toward his staff has landed the Georgia football coach in hot water with the NCAA.
Richt made personal payments of more than $25,000 to coaches and support staff due to what he perceived as inadequate compensation for those individuals. Richt’s actions were determined to be secondary violations of NCAA rules regarding supplemental pay, according to a recent NCAA review of an lengthy internal investigation conducted by UGA.
According to those reports, obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution through the Freedom of Information Act, Richt paid former recruiting assistant Charlie Cantor $10,842 over an 11-month period through March of 2011, former linebackers coach John Jancek $10,000 in the summer of 2009 and $6,150 to director of player development John Eason in July of 2010. All of the payments were made by checks from Richt’s personal bank account after UGA’s previous athletic administration declined his requests for increased compensation for those parties.
However, Richt unknowingly violated the provisions of NCAA bylaw 11.3.2.2, which regulates supplemental pay for staff members. Both Richt and the staff members who accepted his payments received letters of admonishment from UGA and must undergo additional rules education, according to the documents.
Richt was unavailable for comment on Monday. Athletic Director Greg McGarity declined to discuss details about the case, but acknowledged that all the violations discovered were deemed secondary and that the NCAA considers it a closed matter as of Nov. 30th.
“The report stands on its own,” McGarity said on Monday. “There’s nothing to add. We’re moving forward.”
Richt’s unsanctioned payments were just a few of several violations discovered by UGA in an internal investigation led by attorney Mike Glazier of the NCAA-specialized lawfirm of Bond, Schoeneck & King of Overland Park, Kan. In all, the Bulldogs admitted to committing at least 10 secondary violations in separate reports submitted first to the SEC office in Birmingham.
The NCAA enforcement staff reviewed those reports and responded with its findings in a Nov. 30th letter to SEC Commissioner Mike Slive. In summary, the NCAA agreed with assertions of Georgia and the SEC that all the violations were secondary. As a result of actions already taken, “no further action should be taken by the NCAA in the matter,” wrote Christopher Stroebel, NCAA director of enforcement for secondary violations.
Also revealed in the report:
- Georgia was determined to have violated game-simulation recruiting rules during an unofficial visit last January by prospective student-athlete Marshall Morgan. Morgan is a place-kicker from Coral Springs, Fla., who has committed to sign in the class of 2012. Coaches played a video of the Georgia fans’ doing the traditional cheer, “Go Dawgs, Sic ‘Em,” on the Sanford Stadium videoboard, while Morgan pretended to kickoff. Richt self-reported the incident retrospectively after learning that the “missing man formation” the Bulldogs’ orchestrated for Isaiah Crowell last January constituted a secondary violation.
- Defensive coordinator Todd Grantham had impermissible contact with an unidentified recruit in May of 2010. After signing in at the front office of a high school, Grantham walked down a hall looking for the school’s football coach. Unable to locate the coach’s office, Grantham was approached by a young man who asked if he could help him find his way. As it turned out, that individual was the prospect Grantham was there to recruit. Their “small talk” on the way to the coach’s office exceeded the NCAA’s limits for “greetings” during a non-contact period and Georgia was found to be in violation of NCAA bylaws 13.02.4 and 13.1.1.1 regarding contact. As a result, Grantham was withheld from off-campus recruiting activities from Nov. 27-Dec. 3, the number of evaluation days for the football staff for spring of 2012 was reduced from 168 to 158 and Grantham was ordered to attend a two-day rules seminar next summer.
- An unidentified football prospect (his name was redacted because he is now enrolled at UGA) received impermissible overnight lodging and transportation during an overnight visit last year. The prospect was scheduled to spend the night with a student-athlete in a university dormitory, which is sanctioned, but made a “spur-of-the-moment decision” to stay with another student-athlete at an off-campus apartment. Off-campus lodging and transportation for which is impermissible.
- Last month, Georgia provided two free meals to Tyriq Gurley, the 5-year-old little brother of 2012 running back prospect Todd Gurley. Meals were permitted for Gurley and his parents but not for siblings on the official visit. The Gurleys reimbursed UGA $21.33 for the child’s meals and UGA reported a violation of bylaw 13.6.7.7.
Those minor violations were added to a list that included Crowell’s “the missing man formation,” the impermissible participation of football lettermen Randall Godfrey and David Pollack in the commitment announcement ceremony of then-prospect, and the routine overpayment of four graduate assistants due to a clerical error last spring, and several instances of inadvertent “pocket dialing” of prospects during impermissible periods earlier this year.
While all the violations are minor and seem trivial in nature, McGarity was profusely apologetic in his seven-page letter to Slive.
“I want you to know that I am disappointed and embarrassed to be reporting multiple secondary violations in our football program,” McGarity wrote. “It is my hope, however, that after reviewing our self-report of each of these matters, you will come to the same conclusions that I have.”
Ultimately, Slive and the NCAA agreed with Georgia’s assessment. But McGarity is vowed to step up the Bulldogs’ educational efforts regarding NCAA policy. In addition to regularly-scheduled classes, he has instituted monthly and quarterly meetings for coaches and support staff.
Clearly the most intriguing findings were those that detailed Richt’s under-the-table payments to staff when the previous administration refused his requests. Not only does it illustrate Richt’s determination to do what he perceived as right for his staff members, it offers a glimpse into the dynamics of the relationship between Richt and former AD Damon Evans.
- Richt decided to pay Cantor money out of his own pocket after determining that Cantor was underpaid for his position compared to comparable programs against whom Georgia competed. Richt asked for a $10,000 raise. However, the University was in the midst of a campus-wide pay freeze and was experiencing furloughs, so Evans declined. Richt subsequently paid Cantor $834 a month over 13 months via personal check.
- Richt did the same thing in the summer of 2009. Richt asked the administration for a raise for linebackers coach John Jacek after he was offered the coordinator’s position in the summer of 2009. Richt’s request was declined, so he wrote Jancek a personal check for $10,000 on June 30, 2009.
- Eason received a $6,150 pay cut when Richt moved him off the coaching staff into an administrative role. Richt wrote a personal check for that amount to Eason in July of 2010.
McGarity contends it wasn’t rogue behavior on Richt’s part. The UGA AD included exhibits in his report of instances in which the athletic department sanctioned monetary gifts from Richt.
In December 2009, due to “difficult economic conditions being experienced by the University,” the athletic department decided to not provide “bowl bonuses” to non-coach staff members. Richt went to senior associate AD Frank Crumley and asked him to provide a chart of who would have normally received bonuses and in what amount. Crumley provided that list and Richt paid 10 people – sports medicine director Ron Courson, video coordinator Joe Tereshinski, strength and conditioning coaches Keith Gray and Clay Walker, football operations manager Josh Brooks, high school relations director Ray Lamb and four administrative assistants — $15,227 out of his own pocket.
Richt also paid the $15,337.50 five-year longevity bonus to former assistant Dave Johnson when Johnson left Georgia in 2008 just short of his fifth anniversary and the administration refused to pay. Richt paid $6,000 to Jon Fabris in December of 2010 when Fabris was unable to find a job after his UGA severance package expired.
In each case,the payments were not considered against NCAA rules because they were done with the knowledge of the athletic administration, according to the report.
McGarity wrote in the report that he included details of those actions by Richt because “the University believes Coach Richt acted out of a generous heart and certainly without any intent to violate NCAA rules.” McGarity explained that Richt and his wife Katharyn maintain two checking accounts, one that is used primarily by his wife for household expenses. The other, monitored by Richt, is what they call their “Giving Account.”
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MIKE MCINTYRE
December 21st, 2011
6:07 pm
Coach Richt is a GODLY man and gave from his heart,and own pay check that was his own money. Thats a good man. Now he is punished for this. Does the NCAA FOLKS have rules that above GOD”S laws????????????? is this a real crime??? com’on man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CTG Punches Himself in the Face
December 21st, 2011
6:24 pm
Does CTG get a bonus for how much blood he shows on TV? Is it like wrasslin’?
RedandBlackDAWG
December 21st, 2011
6:37 pm
CTG Punches,
There are some pretty juvenile folks on these blogs at times, that say some pretty stupid things. You my friend have just set the standards for stupid remarks. It doesn’t even make sense. I would say that maybe you had been drinking too much, but I can’t even imagine you being out of middle school, after reading your input (?).
Stinger
December 21st, 2011
7:23 pm
Death Penalty is due.
TaxTreatment
December 21st, 2011
7:48 pm
Gifts are not included in gross income, but Richt will have to file a gift tax return for any gift over $13,000 (Form 709). He will not have to pay a gift tax, since individuals get a $5 million gift tax exclusion over their lifetime, in addition to $13,000 per year annual exclusion per donee.
meandog
December 21st, 2011
8:08 pm
much ado about nothing…South Carolina, on the other hand, has real worries regarding the Whitney Hotel incident.
Mudcatjoe
December 21st, 2011
8:13 pm
Not to mention all the checks he wrote to recruits! They just refuse to follow the rules at that cow college! I propose the “Death Penalty”.
ColdTown
December 21st, 2011
8:24 pm
You know what? UGA only paid out $5.7 million to its football coaches.
LSU paid out $7.5 mill, Alabama $8.2 million.
McGarity really is cheap, and it’s costing UGA.
It’s time to give Richt a $7.5 to $8 mllion to gwet the kind of world class coaching staff he needs, especially on the offensive and special teams roles. The OC is not qualified, nor is the RB coach, and there’s been no money to pay a special team’s coach.
I’d get enough cash together to go get Warren Belin again, and let him coach ilb’s & special teams.
McGarity has got to be the worst AD in the SEC.
NOBODYYOUKNOW
December 21st, 2011
8:25 pm
CMR takes care of his people. How in the Gods world can doing something kind to a small child (players brother) be a violation of NCAA rules? That whole NCAA committe needs to get together and rewrite the whole damn book.
Jborodawg
December 21st, 2011
8:42 pm
“….AltahamaDawg….I actually agree with the NCAA about the “rule”…It’s not hard to imagine the potential for abuse if left unchecked…”
I almost agree with you. But, the money came from coach Richt’s personal funds; it’s his money and he’s already paid taxes, FICA, etc. I don’t think it’s any different than if he gave a poor family in Athens $6000; except for the fact that they were staff or coaches.
I think the NCAA is working on getting some of the petty stuff out of the books. It’s actually due in part to Slive’s recommendations.
All this stuff was self-reported. UGA was not particularly under NCAA investigation.
“…joseph…Classiest violation ever….”
Good one!
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Jeff Chandler
December 21st, 2011
8:51 pm
My gosh….at least 1 person still gives from the heart. THE NCAA rules are a little far fetched in some respects….I have said that for 47 years……for goodness sake….if he wants to pay his staff out of his own pocket…so be it……Obama should take a lesson from Richt..
TampaDawg
December 21st, 2011
9:22 pm
Mudcatjoe
December 21st, 2011
8:13 pm
Not to mention all the checks he wrote to recruits! They just refuse to follow the rules at that cow college! I propose the “Death Penalty”.
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Yeah!!! Give Auburn the death penalty!!! You were talking about Auburn right? I mean, if you were talking about UGA here, that would be one STUPID post so I am trying to give you the benefit of the doubt.
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lori nix
December 21st, 2011
10:19 pm
Why should this man be punished for helping other people out? That’s what christians do. He obviously thought he was just being fair and giving these people what they deserved. Good job Coach!
Fu*ck the ncaa
December 21st, 2011
10:45 pm
All the colleges needs to drop the ncaa. too many stupid itty bitty rules. Glad to see coach stand up for his asst coaches. The company I work for has not given us a raise in 3 years and they made 36 million dollars last year. Good for coach Richt.
AFDawg
December 21st, 2011
10:58 pm
CMR — DGD, that’s all there is to it. I hope he’s coach for as long as Vince was.
BullDawg Rick
December 22nd, 2011
12:07 am
Coach Mark Richt = Practices what he preaches… Class Man!!!
Thomas Brown
December 22nd, 2011
12:35 am
JayJay “Anytime money is used for ANYTHING in college recruiting, there will be a rule and bylaw for it.”
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There is NOTHING about what Mark Richt did, which in the least can be construed as pertaining to RECRUITING. – NOTHING. Why you would say it is JayJay, is a lack of control on your part in posting that it is even REMOTELY CONNECTED TO RECRUITING, sir.
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AltahamaDawg December 21st, 2011 3:44 pm
“I don’t know, according to SMART enough to know, who has a copy of John Jancek’s 2009 returns, it was a “tax free loan”.
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No, this is totally incorrect, AltamahaDawg; these monies involved here from Mark Richt to assistant coaches on his staff are not a tax free loan, but INCOME. There is no other interpretation of the funds paid for services rendered. They will have to amend their income tax statement to the IRS and pay the late-fee penalty if what they turned in for each coach is that it was a Tax Free Loan. In no way, do any of these monies represent monies that are a Tax Free Loan.
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olgator December 21st, 2011 4:14 pm
“That is the same thing that got UF sanctions and Galen Hall fired from UF.”
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BOLD-FACED LIE. Galen Hall was FIRED as Florida Gators’ Football Head Coach prior to Steve Spurrier replacing him because he PAID MONIES TO HIS PLAYERS and funneled said monies through his coaching staff to do so.
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NCAA PROBATION “The committee found that the former head football coach was involved in arrangements to provide a student-athlete
with the resources to extinguish a delinquent child support debt. The committee also found that a former assistant football coach was
involved in an arrangement for a student-athlete to receive a loan of cash from a representative of the institution’s athletics interests in order for the young man to travel to his home during a vacation period.penalties include: a two-year probationary period; a prohibition of postseason competition in the sport of football during the 1990-91 academic year;On January 8, 1987, during a meeting in the office of the then head football coach, the then head
coach provided an envelope to a then graduate assistant football coach and instructed the graduate assistant coach to drive a then student-athlete to the county sheriff’s department in the young man’s hometown where the student-athlete used the contents of the envelope (the contents of which had been provided by the then head coach) to satisfy the young man’s delinquent child support debt. A then assistant football coach provided a loan of between $70 and $100 to a then student-athlete to pay for the balance of an airline ticket that the young man utilized to travel home for Christmas; further, a representative of the institution’s athletics interests provided this cash to the then assistant coach, and, finally, after the student-athlete returned from the Christmas vacation, he repaid the money to the then assistant coach who subsequently returned the money to the representative.”
S. David Berst, NCAA Assistant Executive Director for Enforcement
Galen Hall denies this; but, I provide to you the facts only of why the NCAA put Florida on PROBATION in FOOTBALL and forced the firing of Galen Hall, which is the statement you made.
We therefore find your post WITHOUT MERIT, and 100 percent directly in contradiction with the facts of why Galen Hall was fired at Florida.
WHAT GALEN HALL DID has NOTHING to do with Mark Richt. Nice 6-6 season there Florida, worse than any Florida team since 1979.
What’s an AltahamaDawg ?
Hadenough
December 22nd, 2011
1:08 am
As i said yesterday non-story.
Thomas Brown
December 22nd, 2011
1:16 am
Burma Shave December 21st, 2011 10:27 pm
“Richt will lie
And cheat to win
But he should know
That’s a sin
BURMA SHAVE”
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BURMA SHAVE, It is a SIN to say this BURMA SHAVE as a total and utter lie without recourse. Cheat to win by paying his staff what they are worth on the open market in free America by a Taxpayer in Good Standing who can either claim the expense as legitimate business expenses for said months of said years, or if he so chooses, then he may elect to not claim the legitimate business expenses as a deduction. In either case, Mark Richt did NOTHING WRONG and he did EVERYTHING RIGHT. There is NO CHEATING HERE BY MARK RICHT AND THERE IS NO SIN. You will FOREVER be remembered by ALL OF US for this post BURMA SHAVE, pos.
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TaxTreatment December 21st, 2011 7:48 pm
“Gifts are not included in gross income, but Richt will have to file a gift tax return for any gift over $13,000 (Form 709). He will not have to pay a gift tax, since individuals get a $5 million gift tax exclusion over their lifetime, in addition to $13,000 per year annual exclusion per donee.”
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TOTALLY 100 PERCENT IN-CORRECT. There is NOTHING about paying sums of monies to a person or to persons on your staff that can remotely be construed as a GIFT, when what they are is simple enough : Payment for services rendered to the boss to make the pay equitable as requested of the University of Georgia by said coach to said staff of his.
THIS IS NOT A GIFT and use of Form 709 would be in DIRECT VIOLATION of the Tax Code in these cases. It is payment for work to the employee by his boss when the company refused to give them the raise the boss requested in good conscious. If you don’t know what you are talking about, preface your post with “I don’t know.” This is INCOME to the staff, that’s period – NOT A GIFT. Jeez, how simple can all this be ?
TampaShave
December 22nd, 2011
1:39 am
Burma is still an idiot
Who hasn’t made a point
Been voted most likely
To be sucking on a joint
TAMPASHAVE
TampaDawg
December 22nd, 2011
1:43 am
Thomas Brown, don’t give Burma that kind of attention. He never responds with anything intelligible .. he just continues to post his mindless rhyming that is so bad, my 7 year old comes up with better stuff.
aladawg
December 22nd, 2011
1:51 am
btg69, hey ass hole suck an egg.
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Buck Blew
December 22nd, 2011
6:04 am
It’s funny how Mark Richt is being praised for paying coaches out of his own pocket and Galen Hall was fired at UF for doing the same thing. And UF got probation and a bowl ban as a result.
Dawg fans are oxy morons. Richt broke a ncaa rule that has been on the books for decades. It’s not relevant that you agree with the rule. What is relevant is that he broke the rule along with many other violations.
The football program should count their lucky stars that they got off as light as they did for the plethora of violations.
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-10-11/sports/sp-380_1_assistant-coaches
tim
December 22nd, 2011
7:09 am
Hey UGA you h ave nothing to apologize for!! Imagine buying lunch for a 5 year old or talking with a young man in the hallway while he is leading you to your destination, why you should have your program shut down. Someone needs to stand up to the NCAA these types of violations are absurd. How dare CMR give money out of his pocket to his assistants what a dirt bag. As a college football fan (gator) I am offended by these offended that they were made public. I would hope that the coaches at my school Florida would act the same way.
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Buck Blew December 22nd, 2011 6:04 am
____________________________________________________
NCAA PROBATION “The committee found that the former head football coach was involved in arrangements to provide a student-athlete
with the resources to extinguish a delinquent child support debt. The committee also found that a former assistant football coach was
involved in an arrangement for a student-athlete to receive a loan of cash from a representative of the institution’s athletics interests in order for the young man to travel to his home during a vacation period. Penalties include: a two-year probationary period; a prohibition of postseason competition in the sport of football during the 1990-91 academic year;On January 8, 1987, during a meeting in the office of the then head football coach, the then head coach provided an envelope to a then graduate assistant football coach and instructed the graduate assistant coach to drive a then student-athlete to the county sheriff’s department in the young man’s hometown where the student-athlete used the contents of the envelope (the contents of which had been provided by the then head coach) to satisfy the young man’s delinquent child support debt. A then assistant football coach provided a loan to a then student-athlete to pay for the balance of an airline ticket that the young man utilized to travel home for Christmas; further, a representative of the institution’s athletics interests provided this cash to the then assistant coach, and, finally, after the student-athlete returned from the Christmas vacation, he repaid the money to the then assistant coach who subsequently returned the money to the representative.”
S. David Berst, NCAA Assistant Executive Director for Enforcement
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Now, how is this like Mark Richt Buck Blew ?
Thomas Brown
December 22nd, 2011
7:55 am
tim December 22nd, 2011 7:09 am
“I would hope that the coaches at my school Florida would act the same way.”
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tim, nice post. Thank you, sir. Unfortunately for Florida, you don’t have any coaches at Florida whom your head coach can pay more money to. They either jumped ship after 6-6 season to-date, or U r ban M ey er hired them to Ohio State those few who were remaining. There’s no one to pay any additional monies there on Will Muschamp’s staff – they are all gone. Maybe if he had ?
Ronnie Sheffield
December 22nd, 2011
8:20 am
You’ve got to be the biggest turd at the Atlanta Constapation can’t wait until this POS paper fails….
Reid in EAV
December 22nd, 2011
8:43 am
Every overpaid numbskull at the NCAA should be forcibly dragged from their offices and thoroughly beaten. Ironically, that wouldn’t be a rules violation. So what are we waiting for?
!!!
December 22nd, 2011
8:57 am
GT guy here, this guy has done nothing wrong. I cant think of a time this “rule” could ever be useful. The staff is already paid.
Bid Bad Buford
December 22nd, 2011
9:24 am
That’s minor but will be major once the IRS get’s involved. No such thing as good deed with IRS.
Bid Bad Buford
December 22nd, 2011
9:31 am
Enter your comments here
AltamahaDawg
December 22nd, 2011
10:44 am
jboro, you sort of cut out a selected part of that quote. The point I have made several times is that some intentions are good, some intentions are bad. That’s why i’st simply a procedural rule so that there is some record of it.
There is absolutely NO NCAA rule that prevents giving money to an assistant out of Richt’s pocket “same as giving to a poor family”. He has done it before and was perfectly fine. THIS was simply a case where the documentation was not handle properly. I would say thats why the NCAA so casually dismissd it.
But surely we all can envision a case of some HC having paid under the table coaches to gain some competitive advantage, (in some manner other than this) and I think we would all want that to at least “be acknowledge” by the school. That’s the only requirement in this rule.
AltamahaDawg
December 22nd, 2011
10:49 am
BuLLdawg, have you just completely given up finding something that I actually meant, to correct me on?
Obviously I was making fun of -SMART enough to know- for saying that. Further evidence would be me disagreeing with him on that a couple of days ago, (at length that you made a point to mention already).
btw, nice slap down on the Hall deal.
CTG Punches Himself in the Face
December 22nd, 2011
10:51 am
Does picking a fight with the Vandy head coach qualify for a bonus?
AltamahaDawg
December 22nd, 2011
10:57 am
And it’s very disappointing to me that of all my pals on here, BuLLdawg is the one that finally caught the play on my name..
john
December 22nd, 2011
11:05 am
i dont see what the big deal is since it was out of his own pocket.i would understand if he used money that belonged to the school,but it was from his personal bank account.its his money,he can do with it what he wants.maybe next time,he should wait til xmas and give them the checks,cuz then he can say they were gifts for xmas,lol.
Thomas Brown
December 22nd, 2011
11:31 am
Disappointing that I would find it ? I am the 1 who does all the research for all of us. Why wouldn’t I note that I was replying to not your handle ? We’ve all posted as several handles; that’s part of the charm of this site – that you can. No place else in the world allows that. So, you posted with several handle names in 1 blog. Ok. So, I said something in passing, in keeping with me being the 1 who always does the research of the items being discussed that day. I kinda enjoy that. It’s my hobby, and it’s part of my job being detailed in computers as I am and have been since graduating and getting all these computer offers. I tried to stay out of it, when I graduated telling them I didn’t know anything about computers. That didn’t get past them, not with my grades in the field. I had 4 Majors 239 hours, and that was but 1 of them. Sucked into this industry. Yes, I notice everything in detail. Sorry about that.
AltamahaDawg
December 22nd, 2011
12:24 pm
Ok………I am thrilled that you saw it, absolutely beside myself with joy to have been noticed by such a computer pioneer as yourself………… but.disappointed that you were the (only) one. Folks know my tendency for typos. I thought it was funny to misspell my name a couple of letters. Nobody (else) caught that..
Feel better now?
DawginLex
December 22nd, 2011
12:33 pm
Altamaha
Bulldawg/Thomas Brown must have invented the internet.
Changing blog handles and posting under numerous names is done by people ashamed to be known consistently as the same poster.
It is not a badge of honor. It is for idiots.
Since bulldawg has no honor, it fits his agenda.
And yes, under one of your multiple handles, you said something about one of my children.
Now you deny it.
So you have no honor and you are a liar.
And you bash one of the finest student athletes to come through UGA in Aaron Murray.
You are not worth my time and effort.
Enjoy copying and pasting my responses or whatever gives your life meaning.
DawginLex
December 22nd, 2011
12:47 pm
thomas brown/bulldawg had his comments deleted from the recruiting blog because he bashed a kid for going to syracuse instead of Georgia.
I’m thrilled Michael Carvell had the guts to shine a bright light on the classless punk comments of thomas brown/bulldawg.
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12:49 pm
[...] Chip Towers of The Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) reports that Mark Richt has incurred some seco…–for paying coaches and support staff members on his own football team. Richt felt they were not being paid enough by the University of Georgia for their contributions. Given the economic climate in this country over the past few years as well as the warm seat that Mr. Richt had been on this has to be considered the best violation in the history of University of Georgia athletics. [...]
Thomas Brown
December 22nd, 2011
12:53 pm
Well, yeah thanks for that.
I built my 1st pc in 1977. Ran Double-DOS on an AT. Had 2 BBS same time, just exactly like this blog with 2 separate phone numbers into it. I did not invent the Internet but I have been on Access Atlanta since that time. The Internet actually started a decade before that, and I studied it at UGA. In fact UGA was a big part of that early Internet – Arpanet – it was called. Later I worked on DOD projects. Been a lot of fun. Met some great folks. Did you know software bugs came from actual real bugs in our computer room ? They would fly into the cathode ray tubes and die in there and we had to have CE go in middle of night and replace the cathode ray tube. Thus bug in the stored program software. You should have seen the programming in that.
Thomas Brown
December 22nd, 2011
12:57 pm
DawgInLex,
Your replies are in THIS BLOG
http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/2011/12/20/uga-self-reports-numerous-ncaa-violations-including-monetary-gifts-from-richt/?cp=all#comment-231213
at 1:46 am yesterday morning.
TAKE YOUR PERSONAL PHYSICAL ATTACKS on me personally and SHOVE THEM.
DawginLex
December 22nd, 2011
12:59 pm
Merry Christmas Thomas
jaxjacket
December 22nd, 2011
1:02 pm
Hate to say good things about the Dawgs, but sounds like a pretty admirable deed on his part.