Despite latest arrest, Georgia insists it doesn’t have discipline problem
Note: There will be a “Ten at 10″ this week but it has been moved to Wednesday . . .
ATHENS — After having one of their better years in a while in regard to off-field problems for players, trouble is starting to stack up a little for Georgia.
Branden Smith’s arrest for marijuana possession in South Alabama Sunday night represented the second arrest of UGA football player this year — cornerback Sanders Commings was arrested for a domestic violence incident in January — and third if one counts tight end Orson Charles’ arrest for DUI last week (Charles declared for the NFL draft and not an official member of the team).
And that’s just players who have run into trouble from the law. Head coach Mark Richt dismissed three players from the team in January for stealing from a teammate.
But Richt doesn’t believe there is a lack of discipline in the program and contends that the Bulldogs are stricter than most programs when it comes to keeping players in line.
“When guys do make mistakes, two things are very important: How we handle it and how he handles it,” Richt said. “Are we going to discipline our players the way they ought to be disciplined according to what they’ve done? I think we do that. I think we do that more strictly than most people do. If you look at other people’s policies, ours is much tougher than just about anybody other’s pocliy I’ve seen. So because some of our guys end up with a game suspension or whatever it may be, a kid at another school may do the very same thing and their policy doesn’t say that it has to be that way. I mean, I don’t care what they do. All I’m saying is I think it’s important how you handle it.”
Unlike many programs, UGA’s punishments are written down in black and white in the Student-Athlete Handbook. For instance, in the case of Smith’s arrest for marijuana possession, that falls under UGA’s codes for “alcohol and drug-related misconduct.” That means an automatic suspension from 10 percent of competition dates (in this case one game), future drug-testing, education and counseling and additional discipline as determined by what’s called the “Comprehensive Action Plan Committee.”
Said Richt: “Our goal when our guys make mistakes is to find out the truth about it and then discipline it properly. The second thing that is important is how they respond to it. If they learn from their mistakes and become better people because of it, then that’s a positive thing in that guy’s life. If he’s not truthful about it and acts like he didn’t do anything wrong and his behavior isn’t going to change in any way shape or form, then he’s probably not going to be at Georgia very long. That’s just kind of the way things go. To think every single guy is not ever going to make a mistake and be perfect, I don’t think is realistic. It’s certainly what we search for. Is it frustrating? Yes, it is.”
Adding to Richt’s frustration was the timing of the Smith’s incident. Just last week, Athletic Director Greg McGarity assembled every UGA student-athlete at the Georgia Center for Continuing Educaton to talk about the importance of good behavior during the upcoming spring break (which began this week). The football team followed that up with a separate meeting of their own. So it’s not like the issue wasn’t addressed.
“Oh yeah, we always do,” Richt said. “We ought to video those [meetings] just to make sure everybody knows we do that.”
Ultimately, it comes down to the character of the players the coaches recruit to campus. I asked McGarity how much he held coaches responsible for their players’ behavior.
“Accountability is a foregone conclusion,” McGarity said. “You hold coaches accountable in every sport for their entire program. That’s just part of the deal, just like I’m accountable for every employee. I’m accountable for 250 full-time staff members. So we’re all accountable to someone and that language is currently in [Richt's] contract right now.”
– Chip Towers, The UGA Blog
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The Tide is rolling and nothing can stop it
March 13th, 2012
10:05 am
Thank you Dawgs, for extending Richt’s contract. Bama, Aub, UT, SC, and all the other schools who cherry pick your talent rich state while Richt is fishing love you for doing this.
And a big thank for extending Grantham. You’ve actually recruited well in defense the last couple of years, but having a coordinator who averages 39 pts to ranked teams will help the rest of us as well.
Bryan G.
March 13th, 2012
10:08 am
It’s disappointing to see the lack of judgment from a guy who knows that he plays the most important position for UGA – a position where we simply COULD NOT afford any more attrition.
Is it that UGA is recruiting the wrong types of players or is it that we are not scaring them straight?
BigTimeTechFan
March 13th, 2012
10:12 am
How loud was the laughter in the press room when he made that statement.
RedandBlackDAWG
March 13th, 2012
10:12 am
Another topic, made to increase readership, as all of the negative commentators on this blog can have a field day with this one Chip. With so much other news that could have an article written up on UGA, for instance recruiting news and the such, you chose to write articles, you know will lead to a lot of web hits, most of which will be from negative people.
flo-ri-duh
March 13th, 2012
10:13 am
Dope smoking DBs have a serious problem covering receivers and maybe that’s why Smith has trouble in coverage. Evidently there is a discipline problem when you get 5 players either kicked off the team or suspended in a period of 2 months. The players should be drug tested EVERY week until the season starts if that is what it takes to get this under control. They also had a problem with Crowell last year. Hopefully, the new recruits are dope free. This is a mess and Richt needs to get it under control.
georgedawg
March 13th, 2012
10:18 am
Tide Roll You’re hard to believe. Thanks for caring about Georgia football so much. You are obviously a very intelligent person so your insights are very valuable to us.
Just Sayin'
March 13th, 2012
10:22 am
Under Coach Saban’s tenure at Alabama 6 players have been arrested from the football team. During the same time frame, 35 football players, and one AD, have been arrested from UGA.
Yet they continually complain about oversigning when half a football team has been dismissed from UGA since 2008.
I will take the ove-rsigning nonsensical charge any day over a crime ridden program.
Judge Dawg
March 13th, 2012
10:22 am
What about the disciplline problem on the Tech basketball team? How about writing how bad it is that Tech’s sanctions were affirmed by the NCAA?
Big Earl
March 13th, 2012
10:25 am
Did he say ONE game suspension? I thought it would be 2.
Are any of you getting a stupid State Farm add on toolbar at the bottom of AJC? Can’t disable it either. Stinks!!!!
The Tide is rolling and nothing can stop it
March 13th, 2012
10:29 am
Seriously, as much as I like to poke at Dawgs concerning their football program vs. their expectations, this is not a football problem. You’ve got AD’s getting DUIs, doctors giving out illegal prescriptions, entire school systems caught cheating… Everyday on the news is something new about a city/government official acqused of wrong doing. The football program is just the tip of a criminal state iceberg.
Big Crimson 75
March 13th, 2012
10:30 am
What do you expect?
When you had an AD that had a chance to make History in the SEC – instead He chose a different “path” entirely.
These off field problems @ UGA are as much Evan’s fault as Richt’s.
Players looked up to the guy & the next thing you know — BOOM — red panties &
blow!
Branden Smith
March 13th, 2012
10:31 am
Hey Judge Dawg, can you get me and Crowell off the hook? We’re too stoned to go to court. With someone to take our drug tests for us how are we getting caught? Contact buzz for our designated cup pee-ers?
Football Guy
March 13th, 2012
10:35 am
Enter your comments here
Trey Mehrebutts, UGA Alumnite
March 13th, 2012
10:36 am
They don’t have a disciplein problem and they don’t have a problem beating good teams. That’s the story and Richt’s sticking to it. Keeping Grantham around also speaks volumes about the type program and image projected. Some say he’s tough. Others might say he is undisciplined like his players. Richt dresses up and talks pretty but he’s an empty suit.
evil empire
March 13th, 2012
10:38 am
the running joke that is uga athletics continues….every time i see a fat redneck climb out of his raggedy chevy lumina adorned with “G” stickers…well, i just have to smile…the species is alive and well…IDIOTS…
Moobs Johnson
March 13th, 2012
10:39 am
For Richt it wasn’t a problem at FSU either. Amazing how a man of his character allows undisciplined behavior on and off the field.
CharlestonDAWG
March 13th, 2012
10:41 am
Saban had 10 football players get arrested during his first 18 months as the head coach at Bammer
Trey Mehrebutts, UGA Alumnite
March 13th, 2012
10:41 am
I am proud to be an alumnite of Georgia and we get some of the best education there is and still have a SEC football. But I don’t like the players being arrested every weeks and lsitening to Coach Richt put a spin on it to make it sound like boys will be boys and we love them and have a little talk with them and put them back in the game. Felons will be felons is more like it and if they can tote the ball they will be between the hedges on game day. Richt is a hippocrite.
ugab
March 13th, 2012
10:44 am
Oh well.Uga’s policy is tougher than other schools… Why??? MR is on vacation..MR does not care about the players.. He is enjoying that new contract… 4 bad years, not fired!!! One good season with an easy schedule=Contract… Oh Well.
ugab
March 13th, 2012
10:44 am
Oh well.Uga’s policy is tougher than other schools… Why??? MR is on vacation..MR does not care about the players.. He is enjoying that new contract… 4 bad years, not fired!!! One good season with an easy schedule=Contract… Oh Well.
Colonial Dawg
March 13th, 2012
10:44 am
Big Earl, over to the right there is a “hide” button so that you can at least hide the State Farm ad.
GTBob
March 13th, 2012
10:46 am
I seriously wonder what would have to happen to make him think it is a problem. How many incidents by different players need to happen before you realize that something isn’t right?
beanster
March 13th, 2012
10:46 am
18 comments so far and two of them are actually Dawg fans. Obsessed much rival fans? Don’t your teams have blogs? (Bama fans needn’t respond…we know the internet has yet to make it there)
Fill Fulmer
March 13th, 2012
10:46 am
Can we please change the name to the Richt Cup now. Richt, doing less with more for over a decade,
jerry
March 13th, 2012
10:48 am
Yeah, that ad bar sucks.
Trey Mehrebutts, UGA Alumnite
March 13th, 2012
10:49 am
A lot of the coeds when I was at UGA were farm girls out on their own for the first time and they would come to the games and eat jerky and drink beer and sometimes get sick and throw up and we had the best time watching them and rooting for the Dawgs. We’d bark and crawl around in the stands and that was when the players weren’t probates and hardly any of them had convictions. Now, you go to a game and the girls are drunk by the 2nd quarter and you never know if there’s going to be a running back eligible to play and now it looks that way with the DBs to. I am proud to be a UGA alumnite just the same.
George Stein
March 13th, 2012
10:50 am
Young guys are getting in trouble? Who could have imagined! The only crime here that should be concerning is the DUI, because you put other people at risk. But seriously, who cares if a 20 year old is smoking weed on spring break.
Typical Bama Fan
March 13th, 2012
10:52 am
Georgia is a joke. Their football program is a joke. The entire state is a joke full of redneck morons. ADs getting DUIs, illegal drugs handed out like candy, entire schools systems cheating. etc….
Oh, where do I live? In rural Georgia.
RxDawg
March 13th, 2012
10:54 am
I don’t see a problem either. Except that any minor mishaps are on the world wide news. A college kid got caught with a bag of weed. Dish out his 1 or 2 game suspension, give a stern talking to (mostly about how he’s letting down his fellow teamates) and move on. When we have football players beating up people downtown, or breaking and entering with armed robery then I’ll start saying we have a discipline problem. Now all we have is a party problem. Eh, don’t sweat the small stuff.
“our starting 2 corners just got suspended, what did you expect richt to do? Guys this wasn’t just the right move, this was the only move.”
As for Mitchell moving to DB? That statement on another blog pretty much sums it up.
Trey Mehrebutts, UGA Alumnite
March 13th, 2012
10:57 am
They named me Trey because I was the third Mehrebutts to go to Georgia and I did it without a scholarship because daddy used to give a lot of money and get some of the best seats in the stadium and it also got me into school but I had to study agricultore because that’s where the opening was when I was a freshman. I will always remember going to the games on Saturdays and leaving afterwards and all the trash on campus to where you couldn’t recognize where you were until the tractors come through and push it all into a pile and pickit up later. That’s why I am glad to see Coach Richt is accountable now for actions surrounding his football program and I think we are in for better days ahead. Plus, Coach grantham is back and that means we will be mean and respected for our defensive and our choking signs to the players on the other side.
Trey Mehrebutts, UGA Alumnite
March 13th, 2012
11:01 am
Mehrebutts is an old UGA family name and we had pictures made of all the Mehrebutts under the UGA arch. That arch has a pole in the middle of it which makes it a unusual arch but we would always just stand in front of that pole for the pictures. Sometimes it would look like we had a pole growing out of the top of our head. That’s why we started wearing game caps. Go Dawgs!
RedandBlackDAWG
March 13th, 2012
11:02 am
Go to MSNBC.com and read the days without an arrest in college football, and you will see that it is 25 pages long or more, and very few entries about UGA. As I predicted, this column would turn into a bunch of negative bloggers bad mouthing UGA, as do most of the articles written for web site publication by the AJC. So much immaturity by supposedly so many mature individuals. It is a shame.
elistoned
March 13th, 2012
11:03 am
Evidence suggest that “The Dawgs” have a drug problem.How can you explain so many going to the NFL ?
George Stein
March 13th, 2012
11:05 am
It’s a non-issue, RedandBlack. Young guys get in trouble and the sun rises in the east. Even this Tech fan sees that.
GTBob
March 13th, 2012
11:06 am
I don’t see a problem either. Except that any minor mishaps are on the world wide news.
So it’s not a problem that two players are off the team, another is suspended for the first two games and another will be suspended for at least one game? It’s not even spring practice yet and 4 players are already out. Combine that with the past few years of similar numbers and most would conclude that is a problem.
LA Dawg
March 13th, 2012
11:06 am
Dear Tide is rolling,
nice grammar and spelling. Your third grade reading level provided by your Mobile County high school education comes shining through. What a typical Bama block head. Thanks for the laughs.
Big Crimson 75
March 13th, 2012
11:07 am
According to Gary Patterson — TCU head Coach — the South has an advantage over the rest of the Country, including Texas, b/c of the “gene” pool down here!!
I’m only the messenger!!! — cbssports.com
Way to go Jimmy “the Greek”, Coach Patterson.
beanster
March 13th, 2012
11:07 am
@ elistoned — Because half of the NFL smokes pot on a regular basis.
LA Dawg
March 13th, 2012
11:10 am
Tide is rolling,
the word accused is not spelled “acqused” although you obviously think it is. You are a barrel of laughs.
greg
March 13th, 2012
11:15 am
I think they should drug test every player in the SEC!! Chances are 50% would pass!!!
beanster
March 13th, 2012
11:15 am
BC — if that’s true, why does Bama have to recruit more than half its roster from the state of Georgia? Nevermind, I know. There’s a gene pool in Georgia. Florida, and Texas — in Mississippi and Alabama, it’s more of a puddle.
DYNAMICBIGBOY
March 13th, 2012
11:17 am
In case you didn’t know Orson Charles has left the program. Secondly Sanders Commings has not been convicted of anything. The people there the night of the incident have a totally different recollection of what happenned. UGA is much stricter than most SEC schools. It this had happenned at UF we would not have been talking about it because it most likely would be covered up. Hey Trey, I am sure you never drank or smoked while you were in collecge, oh sorry, you weren’t smart enough to get in, we understand.
Big Crimson 75
March 13th, 2012
11:18 am
beanster — half it’s roster???
HALF OF IT’S ROSTER?????
9% of Alabama’s Players from 2011 were from GA. 9.2% to be exact.
Hope you got that LA DAWG — there’s your GA public system working in conjunction with the Alabama’s.
Dick Gizinia
March 13th, 2012
11:18 am
Charleston
Saban had 10 football players get arrested during his first 18 months as the head coach at Bammer
Most of them weren’t his players, he’s recruited much better student atheletes since then
Big Crimson 75
March 13th, 2012
11:19 am
9.2% = half the roster!
PRICELESS!!
Now that is a barrel of laughs.
beanster
March 13th, 2012
11:20 am
HALF OF IT IS ROSTER?
Whose public education system are you ripping?
LA Dawg
March 13th, 2012
11:23 am
Calm down, Big Crimson. Momma’s almost got your biscuits on the table. Clean those nails good and dig in. And keep your mitts of little sister’s pretty knee. You and the Tide nation are pure comedy.
1eyedJack
March 13th, 2012
11:25 am
Trey butts, I’m sure it will be a proud day when you graduate from the special needs class and get off that little yellow bus for the last time before you start your new job bagging groceries.
DYNAMICBIGBOY
March 13th, 2012
11:25 am
How come UGA players ALWAYS make the front page of sports for any infraction but TECH players are shooting gunss out of the car and it’s burired in the sports section?
Delbert D.
March 13th, 2012
11:29 am
Bad news is news. That’s why the AJC writes articles about it.
ole dawg
March 13th, 2012
11:30 am
@ The Tide is rolling: THANK YOU for opening that big fat mouthj of your’s and showing us your ignorance. If you’ll learn to keep that trap shut we wouldn’t know how ignorant you are.
GTBob
March 13th, 2012
11:32 am
How come UGA players ALWAYS make the front page of sports for any infraction but TECH players are shooting gunss out of the car and it’s burired in the sports section?
That incident did make the front page when it happened and Rice didn’t shoot a gun, some moron in the backseat did. Either way he should be kicked off the team.
Big Crimson 75
March 13th, 2012
11:35 am
beanster — You said it — not me.
Out of 120 Players on the Roster — including walk-ons — 13 were from GA. That’s 9.2%
Look it up — I’m not your search engine.
Burdell
March 13th, 2012
11:42 am
Sure am glad I never got pulled over on my way to college Spring Break…just sayin’…I’d have been in a little more trouble than this kid.
Remain calm, all is well!!!!
March 13th, 2012
11:45 am
A few isolated incidents. No pattern here.
Remain calm, all is well!!!!
March 13th, 2012
11:48 am
We won 10 games in a row last year. Things are good.
GTBob
March 13th, 2012
11:50 am
Sure am glad I never got pulled over on my way to college Spring Break…just sayin’…I’d have been in a little more trouble than this kid.
I love how every UGA fans excuse for player arrests is to point out how much worse they were when they were in college. Next week there will be a story about a UGA player robbing a convenient store, which will be followed by blog posts bragging about how many stores they robbed when they were young.
Dick Gizinia
March 13th, 2012
11:52 am
How come UGA players ALWAYS make the front page of sports for any infraction but TECH players are shooting gunss out of the car and it’s burired in the sports section?
Its those darn 4 star athletes that Uga gets. They come to Tech wanting to buy some Tech Lab Experiment crippy, and during the bag for money exchange they grab the bag and run without paying. Of course there’s gonna be gunfire. Just another typical bulldog degenerate criminal!
Nic S.
March 13th, 2012
11:57 am
A few isolated incidents you say. Well, that would be true if this was the first time this had happened, but when it happens year after year after year, then I believe that would qualify as a definate pattern. CMR gets a big fat extension for being an underacheiving head coach who does less with more than any other coach I can think of, and who has a huge disclipine problem within his program. It is sad to see this happen each year.
1 4 GT
March 13th, 2012
11:59 am
Really stupid. Pulled over for tailgating and tag light not working. Really stupid if you’re smoking weed or even drinking beer. Cop smells weed. They had to have been smoking it for the cop to smell it. REALLY stupid. Smoking weed messes with depth perception (voice of experience). Tailgating anyone? Alcohol in excess impairs driving. Two guys smoking one doobie impairs driving as much as blowing .09 for alcohol. That’s why we should care. Don’t be STUPID! Get there then get wasted. REALLY!
RxDawg
March 13th, 2012
12:01 pm
“Next week there will be a story about a UGA player robbing a convenient store”
Nice jump from a misdamenor of possesion to armed robery. Bob, your intellegence is strong in some areas but lacking in others. But I understand you wanting to associate college players and illegal weapons being a Tech fan and all.
Rusty
March 13th, 2012
12:03 pm
Hey Tech and Alabama Bloggers,
Go find your own blogs.
No one cares about Tech-PERIOD. A Tech fan making fun of UGA is like a special ed kid making fun of you, it’s tough to figure out why they are making fun of anything but whatever….
And Alabama people, we are all so impressed with your superiority to us all and how great everything is over there, I’m sure this good run ya’ll are on will last forever and ever.
what of it?
March 13th, 2012
12:05 pm
I honestly don’t think Richt understands discipline. Discipline can be punishment, but the whole point of discipline is to train players and instill pride and respect. it starts on the field before problems occur, and judging by our on-field discipline, there is none. Disciplined players and programs don’t disrespect themselves and their program the way these Georgia players do every year.
WDE
March 13th, 2012
12:06 pm
@Fill Fulmer hey its your trophy to lose every year, none of our bunch have put any cops in the hospital or knocked off a 7-11 or a entire trailer park….so get back to me when we top that .
beanster
March 13th, 2012
12:09 pm
Look Douchy, your 9.2% figure doesn’t jive well with my sole intention which was to insult the state of Alabama (in retaliation, see comment #1, same story different day). I am glad you have a calculator nearby.
Any time I think of a Bama fan, I can’t get the picture of the O’Doyle family in Billy Madison out of my mind. Big ol fat morons that all have red hair (see limited gene pool) who walk around beating their chests spouting their slogans (but instead of ‘O’Doyle Rules’ it’s ‘Roll Tide’).
I particularly like the last scene with the O’Doyle family: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsNgRmsx-14
PhD in History
March 13th, 2012
12:09 pm
1980
•Failed U.S. Rescue Attempt to Save Hostages in Tehran
•John Lennon Assassinated
•Mount St. Helens Erupts
•Pac-Man Video Game Released
•Rubik’s Cube Becomes Popular
•Ted Turner Establishes CNN
1 4 GT
March 13th, 2012
12:10 pm
BIG CRIMSON—-dummy. 12 would = 10% of 120! DUMMY!!
1 4 GT
March 13th, 2012
12:11 pm
13 = 9.2% of 120! DUMMY!!!!!
SEC Observer
March 13th, 2012
12:13 pm
Georgia seems to always have a player in the news. This just doesn’t happen as often at other schools.
Obviously Richt’s leadership is not resolving the discipline issue.
WDE
March 13th, 2012
12:13 pm
@Nic S.hey didn’t you just have a player declare for the draft and get busted for pot the next day….brick meet glass house…
PhD in History
March 13th, 2012
12:14 pm
1980
Average Cost of new house $68,700
Median Price Of and Existing Home $62,200
Average Income per year $19,500.00
Average Monthly Rent $300.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas $1.19
Average cost new car $7,200.00
Men’s Casual Shirt $14.00
GTBob
March 13th, 2012
12:16 pm
Nice jump from a misdamenor of possesion to armed robery.
It was an analogy that was highlighting the ignorance of UGA fans who think they can excuse the unlawfulness of football players by talking about how bad they are or were. I’m sorry you missed it.
Tossed Salad
March 13th, 2012
12:17 pm
Actually, Dynamic, the PD in Gainesville has been pretty consistent when it comes to football players not getting special treatment. The boys in Tuscaloosa, though, have made sweeping things under the rug an art form. More power to them.
Red Stick
March 13th, 2012
12:18 pm
PhD, I think you need to add Ronald Reagan being elected as President a significant event in 1980.
FWIW, I thought Mizzou had no chance of beating the Dawgs but if Branden Smith is out I would start to be concerned as UGA will be awfully thin in the secondary.
1 4 GT
March 13th, 2012
12:18 pm
1980=bag of weed=$40 for 1 oz. Panama Red or Maui Poui or $50=1 oz sensamia=great highs!!!!!!!!!!
UGASlobberknocker
March 13th, 2012
12:19 pm
It must be tough living in or being from a state where there is absolutely NOTHING going on except football. Forget the kids (Bear and Bama are their names), forget the job at the chicken plucking factory..forget Ole Blue and the rest of the dogs under the porch of the double wide. By God only one thing matters:
“We is Bama and Bama is all that matters”. It is pathertic.
Do you morons realize that 49 states find your football obsession not only weird but a little creepy? You Bama fans are the butt of jokes and you dont even know it. You are probably proud that Forrest Gump was portrayed as a Bama player when the rest of the country laughs as that is the only place Forest could get in.Even the national commentators on the news speaking of the Alabama primary were making cracks about the place. Isnt that embarasssing to you people?
I want the Dawgs to win as much as the Tide does, but if it comes with the repuation of the people who pull for the Tide..No thanks.
Bammer
March 13th, 2012
12:19 pm
“The boys in Tuscaloosa, though, have made sweeping things under the rug an art form. More power to them.”
Ahahahahaha!!!! It took almost two whole pages for someone to trot this excuse out. What took ya so long?
UGA: Where deflection, denail and rationalization are taken to never before seen levels!
Remain calm, all is well!!!!
March 13th, 2012
12:20 pm
Nic, it was meant as sarcasm.
Bammer
March 13th, 2012
12:22 pm
Slobberknocker this is a FOOTBALL blog. Did the all-caps help you understand? When we want to comment on the situation in the MIddle East we’ll go to another blog. Pretty simple, huh?
1 4 GT
March 13th, 2012
12:24 pm
denail??? What does that mean??? Is that how bamalamadingdong says “the nail”??? DENIAL!!!!!
BiggDawgK
March 13th, 2012
12:24 pm
The ajc is notorious as being the worst site for anyone who actually wants to discuss sports. It is the 4chan of “sports” sites.
Bammer
March 13th, 2012
12:26 pm
Always a powerful comeback with the spelling critiques…on a blog. Guess that’s why ya’ll think you’re the “Harvard of the South”. What a joke.
Mike Bianchi
March 13th, 2012
12:27 pm
“The problem is this: Georgia fans have way too high of an opinion of their program. In fact, I believe an argument could be made that Georgia is the the most overrated program in college football history.”
1 4 GT
March 13th, 2012
12:28 pm
Bit dog barks 1st.
1 4 GT
March 13th, 2012
12:30 pm
If the shoe fits wear it!
7576DAWG
March 13th, 2012
12:31 pm
I can’t talk about other schools because I did not go there but I did graduate from UGA in the mid seventies and I may have been the only person around me that didn’t smoke pot. Both of my room mates smoke daily. Every apartment that I visited had pot in it . I was good friends with a few fraternities brother and frequently went to parties on the week-ins. There was more than a little pot smoking going on.
The problem exited in the seventies and they exist today. Don’t think I am condoning it because I just chose not to do it but I didn’t judge my friends if they want too and certainly didn’t stay away from them because they chose to smoke. Drugs at Georgia as well as other schools are a widespread problem so if some on here want to condemn the football players when they get caught because they are all under a microscope then you need to include the majority of the entire student body. Right or wrong those are the facts.
beanster
March 13th, 2012
12:33 pm
Mike Bianchi? You mean the loud mouth Yankee transplant whose ilk have consumed the state of Florida from Gainesville southwards (that is until you get to S. Florida which may as well be Cuba)?
How many pairs of jean shorts do you own, Mike Bianchi?
Snoop Dawg
March 13th, 2012
12:36 pm
Keep drinking that Koolaid, zombies. You have no choice now, at least through 2016… Tastes good when you drink it, but the morning after will wish you didn’t…
GTBob
March 13th, 2012
12:38 pm
Both of my room mates smoke daily. Every apartment that I visited had pot in it .
Here we go again. The everybody I ever knew was a pot head therefore the players didn’t do anything wrong excuse.
Rusty
March 13th, 2012
12:40 pm
GTBob,
Go away. If you really did attend GT you know nothing of real college life so shut up. If you didn’t, you’re an idiot for liking GT so shut up.
In Australia....
March 13th, 2012
12:44 pm
….the UGA program circles the drain in a counterclockwise direction. LMFAO!!!!
Concerned
March 13th, 2012
12:46 pm
Until the coaches, and more specific the head coach gains respect from the leaders on the team, this will continue.
Here is a way to handle this type of thing. Call all players back from Spring Break, and give them 24 hours to be on the field. Have a team meeting, and let them know that there will be no more 2 games suspensions for STUPID & DUMB. Tell them they will have to deal with this as a team, and if it means policing their own from within, then that is what needs to happen. The punishments are nothing for the guys that are dumb, but penalities for all since this is a team sport would open more eyes, and therefore the real leaders would clean house themsleves. When we reach that type of team, it will be then that Georgia can really contend for a Championship. I do not mean a East Crown, or an SEC Crown. I mean the Big Dance where the team is first, and the STUPID & DUMB boys are home on the sofa or in their hood doing what they do best, being real DOGS.
Now after several years of this………….yes Georgia does have a behavior problem, and it is on the HC who was just awarded FIVE MORE years. Why no respect or very little from so called student/athletes? The leaders know why, and find them and you will find your answers to why since we were pre-season # 1 it has really not worked.
It takes Couageous Men to lead, and ones who could care less about being liked. Is the HC liked or is he respected? You tell me……………….
old dog
March 13th, 2012
12:49 pm
7576 DAWG,
Not changing my tune, but you are right; I was there then, too, and Cheech and Chong woulda been happy for sure. Not condoning it now, just sayin’…………I think worse than the smoke tests is the cruddy behaviour and attitudes.
Joey
March 13th, 2012
12:54 pm
UGASlobberknocker, you have to admit, some of us Bulldog fans would probably get a little more obsessive and enthusiastic about UGA football if we had hired the best coach in the country, who started filling up the trophy case, instead of the guy we have . . .
Dick Gizinia
March 13th, 2012
12:58 pm
If you lived in the UGA dorms to play football http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.geekologie.com/2008/07/11/redneck-1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.rednecks.tv/redneck-trailer/gallery&h=300&w=450&sz=46&tbnid=aVJojCyyVt16sM:&tbnh=88&tbnw=132&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dredneck%2Btrailer%2Bpictures%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=redneck+trailer+pictures&docid=ZLpwG4_lXaPH5M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RnxfT6jfGcn2ggf27PT1Bw&sqi=2&ved=0CDkQ9QEwAQ&dur=2857
You would want weed to make it all good Dawg the other 7 months a year!
ChrisATL
March 13th, 2012
12:58 pm
Why is it that I see the same posters trashing UGA in the comments section of UGA articles? I’m sure there are some UGA fans that do the same but just doesn’t make any sense. Its tough for me to find enough time to read all I want about my school. How do these people find time to read articles on other schools and constantly post in the comments section? If you have so little going on that you spend that much time reading articles and commenting about schools you’re not a fan of then I would highly suggest finding something a little more productive to do with your time. You’re not going to have any constructive discussion on AJC comments sections.
K.Conway
March 13th, 2012
1:02 pm
Alabama has to come to Gerogia to recruit because most kids in Alabama can’t write or read!!
GTBob
March 13th, 2012
1:03 pm
Its tough for me to find enough time to read all I want about my school.
I can suggest some reading programs that can enhance your speed if you would like. Reading a blog that is less then a page isn’t exactly a time consuming process.
K.Conway
March 13th, 2012
1:04 pm
No Bama will notice my spelliing!
AthensDawg
March 13th, 2012
1:09 pm
Extending Richt was a dumb move. If you want Mediocrity then Richt is your man. Another 10-3 year to UGA again next year. Same old Sh*t every year from him and his team. An ALRIGHT year!!!!
LSU # 1
March 13th, 2012
1:10 pm
Bama, can we get a rematch? we did win the sec……
kybodawg
March 13th, 2012
1:15 pm
right now there are no players at ala, aub, fla, tn, or tech that smoke pot, drink or do any of the other things that 17, 18 yr olds. do ga. prolbem is that we dont have police who look the other way. winning in bama is everything.
The news about Richt's Extension
March 13th, 2012
1:15 pm
Gives encouragement to the rest of the SEC East.
GTBob...
March 13th, 2012
1:17 pm
If you really did attend GT you know nothing of real college life so shut up. If you didn’t, you’re an idiot for liking GT so shut up.
__________________________________________________________________________________
Nice, actually, I didn’t go to Tech or college. Do you think I’d have time to write on these blogs if I did? But I do come on here to rile things up by making UGA sound like the only school that ever has problems…it makes my day go by quicker. Yesterday I was on a different UGA blog talking about coaching because my existence influences blog content…therefore, I am important.
Referee
March 13th, 2012
1:17 pm
How come this UGA blog is visited by so many Alabama and Ga Tech fans? Don you not have a blog of your own? Have any of you noticed that there are many more students on every campus that are arrested for being an 18 year old away from home for the first time. The reason you don’t is the average student is not under the microscope like athletics are. Athens police go out of their way to make examples of any football player that the can. And the media loves it.
Albert
March 13th, 2012
1:17 pm
Legalize pot in Georgia and we won’t have this problem.
ga gator
March 13th, 2012
1:20 pm
kybodawg
March 13th, 2012
1:15 pm
right now there are no players at ala, aub, fla, tn, or tech that smoke pot, drink or do any of the other things that 17, 18 yr olds. do ga. prolbem is that we dont have police who look the other way. winning in bama is everything.
Kybo I can only speak about UGA because I live here now and UF because that is who I follow and I can assure you that Gainesville police arrest UF players. Muschamp booted 6 players from the team since he arrived including the top CB in the SEC for 2010. As for Bama, who knows what Tuscaloosa Police do but I would bet you Bama players are more afraid of screwing up and facing Saban than UGA players are when facing Richt.
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1:22 pm
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tardawg
March 13th, 2012
1:30 pm
typical tide fan I will take a character coach any day over one that has no honor or character all he cares about me, but if you don’t like the Way things are in GA move back to AL.
BG
March 13th, 2012
1:33 pm
Chip, Name on school in the SEC more strict than UGA.
G-Dawg
March 13th, 2012
1:35 pm
Who cares!!!!! Life moves on…and players will step up!!
RxDawg
March 13th, 2012
1:42 pm
“Slobberknocker this is a FOOTBALL blog.”
Actually Bammer, this is the UGA sports blog. But thanks for caring =D
And Bob, I didnt miss your analogy. I just didn’t follow it. Seeing how you completely made it up and jumped from a misdamenor to a serious and violent felony.
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dawginduluth
March 13th, 2012
1:48 pm
5 more years of this crap. We reap what we sow. I hope all you Richt suck-ups are happy. Pathetic.
Rationale
March 13th, 2012
1:57 pm
It is not a discipline problem. It is an image problem. These kids do not care about their own image.
59bulldawg
March 13th, 2012
2:00 pm
OK . . . I agree that Richt can’t be with each player 24/7. I also agree that if we didn’t sign these talented but “pain in the butt” players, our rivals probably would. I agree that Richt and McGarity have tried to be proactive in trying to prevent problems. So why does it keep happening??? I humbly suggest that if Richt can figure that out he’ll be competing regularly for SEC championships again. Hey I’m sick of this crap too. How many years running now have we had players suspended for the first few games of the season? The problem, in my opinion, is the players don’t respect Richt. Sure they “like” him but they sure as hell don’t fear him or else they would obey him. I wonder what a little peer to peer pressure might do if the entire team was punished each and every time someone stepped out of line. Yeah I know it’s unfair but if I had to run extra windsprints everytime some goofball messed up, I think I’d be looking to try to personally correct the situation . . . along with the rest of the team. It might help some of our “me first” athletes better understand the concept of team and perhaps even a few consequences when the team is not happy.
T
March 13th, 2012
2:02 pm
So Richt thinks his discipline is tougher than most? The guy who had the option of suspending Crowell for the Florida game but chose to delay the punishment until New Mexico. You could call that kind of punishment a lot of things, but tough? Situational punishment yes. Tough, no.
Rooty Tooty
March 13th, 2012
2:04 pm
Enter your comments here
Hahahahahahahahaha, say it ain’t so coach
superBee
March 13th, 2012
2:05 pm
we is some cheatin mo fo’s and ain’t that good at it.gt bob thinks we is a clean program.butt we ain;t.
Time for other SEC teams to man up
March 13th, 2012
2:07 pm
UGA and UK are only SEC teams that require game suspensions upon first failed drug test. We need a uniform NCAA policy on drug testing and punishments to level the playing field. We don’t know how many drug violations there are on other teams because the player would have to flunk two drug tests to lose playing time.
Any one that doesn’t believe these things are happening all over, probably believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
Terry
March 13th, 2012
2:26 pm
ga gator, Bama had one of their RB’s caught just last year with marijuana, does that mean he’s not afraid of Saban? Please, it has nothing to do with a discipline problem, its the individual, I had one of the strictest dad’s growing up, and me, and my brother still did thing’s that were wrong, it had nothing to do with my dad, it was that me, and my brother wanted to do it, and we would risk a butt kicking just to do it, some kids will do what ever they want, and there is nothing a parent, or coach can do.
UGADawg83
March 13th, 2012
2:28 pm
I must say that Smith’s arrest is a clear case of bad judgment. He knows who he is and what he represents. The thing is if he were Branden Smith, non-athlete UGA student this isn’t news.
1 4 GT
March 13th, 2012
2:32 pm
Dick Ginz—-does that photo depict a student dorm in Athens or Tuscaloosa??
Trey Mehrebutts, UGA Alumnite
March 13th, 2012
2:35 pm
My time at UGA was some of the best time of my life and i will ALWAYs be a Bulldog in my heart and on my biceps where I got the UGA tattoo and Uga tattoo combined so nobody else has one just like it. If we could tattoo our players with tattoos that reflect school pride instead of gang tattoos I think they would be better citizens and better future alumnites. Also, I don’t care for all the bling on the field I think that looks tackee and out of place on the football field. We are having to many arrests but Coach Richt thinks things are not a problem and he’s getting the big bucks so I guess he’s right and even Coach Grantham is probably making more than the $750,000 a season now so I guess he can buy anything he needs to for recruiting purposes like a fax machine or a car phone or a sports car. Go Dawgs! Hairy Dawgs! We rund this state!
Trey Mehrebutts, UGA Alumnite
March 13th, 2012
2:41 pm
I don’t go to all the games but the ones I go to are usually victories because home fans get to see such weak teams now and we whip them pretty bad even when the running backs can’t play for suspensions or arrests or whatever. Good old southern rivalries seem to be a thing of the past now that we schedule junior colleges and barber colleges and we almost always whip ‘em and send ‘em home. Being a UGA alumnite makes me proud as punch and I think I may run down to Walmart and buy some official Bulldog memorabilaiai like caps and shirts and belt buckles and mugs to drink out of when you are thirsty.
1 4 GT
March 13th, 2012
2:51 pm
Concerned—-I like your ideas for solving these type problems. I believe it would work. Since I was not in the USMC, I don’t know how true “code red” from the Tom Cruise/Jack Nicholson movie is, but I can envision that being very effective. I would guess that the team captains are most likely the team “leaders”, let them mete out punishments to the offenders. If the “crime” is severe enough, punish the entire team. Sooner or later, the “bad boys” will get the “message”. The coaches might have to turn an occasional “blind eye”. Yeah, I can see this working really well.
Pulpwud Smiff
March 13th, 2012
3:07 pm
Missouri 34, Georgia 17
Trey Mehrebutts, UGA Alumnite
March 13th, 2012
3:10 pm
When I was at UGA I didn’t play football but I went to all the games and I can tell you it is some kind of fun up in those stands when the coeds are getting a little tipsy from the beer and jerky and some of them will sometimes get sick and we would bet on who they would get sick on sitting in front of them or on one of the sides. We also watched the games but all we did back then was hand the ball to the tailback and we can’t do that now because all our tailbacks are suspended or in jail on most game days.
G-Dawg
March 13th, 2012
3:10 pm
A Code Red should be enforced on the field throughout Spring Practice on all violators…maybe that’ll curb this nonsense!
Butt Smear Building
March 13th, 2012
3:10 pm
Any more arrests for DUI, beating up women, or illegal drugs this week?
dawgfan
March 13th, 2012
3:30 pm
I used to buy Richt’s line on this but now I’m starting to think there is a correlation between this stuff and what happens on the field. When these guys get arrested it tells me that they don’t take their position on the team seriously and if they don’t take it seriously how would they be giving their best effort on Saturdays? And let me tell you one thing about these arrests: where there is smoke there is fire. We only hear about the ones that get caught. I don’t believe for a second that Brandon Smith is the only one that smokes up or that Sanders Commings is the only one that roughs up his girlfriend. Maybe that’s not fair but its also logical. There are simply TOO MANY of these stupid arrests for these to be isolated incidents. I’m tired of it. If Richt’s discipline procedures aren’t working then maybe he is recruiting the wrong kind of guys to begin with.
No SEC Title since 2005. No victories over an elite opponent in years and years and years. Meanwhile, the embarrassing arrests and suspensions continue to mount. At what point do we stop the madness people?
Thanks.
pj
March 13th, 2012
3:34 pm
20 years ago, the same # of kids got drunk and drove, smoked a little pot and got in bar brawls. Only difference now is smart phones, social media and a desperate press corps that has seen its bottom line plummet and will print anything to sell the newscasts or newspapers.
blah
March 13th, 2012
3:41 pm
test
CasualObserver
March 13th, 2012
3:44 pm
The other kid in the car had the drugs. Only in Alabama would two black kids be pulled over and searched for a tag light being out and “following too close”. The real “crime” was DWB.
CND
March 13th, 2012
3:44 pm
EVERY team has players who get in trouble. Everyone always acts like UGA is so bad with discipline but the truth is, everyone has these problems. These kids are young and are going to get in trouble. Some won’t and some will. That is college kids for you. A head coach can only do so much. The rest is left to the players. All you haters can go worry about you own teams. The only reason we don’t know about your trouble, is because we don’t read your blogs!
trupert
March 13th, 2012
3:53 pm
Half of these Alabama fans actually believe that Saban runs a clean program, his number of players arrested are lower because he magically wills his players to never drink or smoke, and he didn’t lie when he said ” we don’t cut players and I don’t know anybody who does”, etc, and the other half know the truth and pretend or just go along with the lie.
Which one are you? How can any Alabama fan actually come on here and spout this smack against Mark Richt when it should be obvious that Saban’s running a dirty program and not suspending players for doing the same things that Richt is suspending players for.
I don’t know which is more deplorable and pathetic. The one who buy Saban’s lies or the one who promotes Sabans lies as truth.
How did Saban handel his starting player who got arrested for Domestic Violance? He called a press conference the very next day after the player was arrested and announced that Courney Upshaw would not be suspended and he would not miss any practice or game time.
“This is as fine a young man as we have in the program,” Saban said. “Really a great person. Really works hard academically. I couldn’t ask anybody to be a better representative of the organization than he is. He really overachieves as a football player”. And the Alabama fans all said, I don’t care what he did, just don’t let him miss any playing time , I’m all in coach!
Montgomery
March 13th, 2012
3:56 pm
not just in Alabama CasualObserver…
reid
March 13th, 2012
3:57 pm
The most shocking part of this story is that you can get ARRESTED!?!?? for having marijuana? Maybe I’m just old, but I can’t believe it’s not just a citation
CND
March 13th, 2012
4:11 pm
I get tired of hearing that Richt is recruiting the wrong type of players. We recruit the same ones that everyone else does. Branden Smith was a 5 star recruit wanted by every program. What would you have wanted him to do, not recruit him. Then you would have went on and on about how we miss out on the top talent in the state. Quit being such hypocrits and let the coach do his job. 10 years from now kids are still going to be smoking pot and getting arrested. It’s just the way it is
Andrew
March 13th, 2012
4:19 pm
Hey The Tide is rolling and nothing can stop it,
Don’t you have some trees to kill our some passed out guy to put your junk on?
realisticfan
March 13th, 2012
4:24 pm
Chip, how disappointing that you and all the sports talk guys and the columnists at the AJC constantly want to blame Richt for college kids doing stupid things. Are you suggesting that Tech and Bama and Fla and every other school in the South didn’t recruit Smith or Orson or Sanders Cummings? And if you put the arrest record of other SEC schools in your colum would it be any different. Betting Tenn and Fla and Ala and Clemson and SC , etc. would be all the same. Now Tech has had a recent athlete involved in shooting out of his car, another shoot and kill a young woman on the street, have had arrests for selling pot and rape, and OD of a baseball player, yet there is never anything about Tech having problems. And if I am not mistaken they are on probation for the second time in 4 years for Cheating and now lying about it. So why all the articles about Ga. Don’t think we have had any arrests for shooting guns, Rape, selling pot. But yes, a lot of arrests for drinking and speeding. Things all college kids do.
285exp
March 13th, 2012
4:25 pm
CasualObserver,
Since the arrest was made late at night, I rather doubt that the officer pulled them over because he saw a couple of black kids. In case you didn’t notice, spring break has been going on the past couple of weeks, and the road they were traveling is a popular route to the coast. I know this may be hard to believe, but the police tend to patrol that area a little more closely when they know that lots of college students are passing through. It is wise for the students to avoid doing anything to attract undue attention to themselves by driving carelessly, committing traffice violations, and drinking and smoking dope. It would also appear that Mr Smith should choose his traveling companions more carefully, that one is unlucky.
Montgomery
March 13th, 2012
4:26 pm
That’s done in leisurely hours…
Montgomery
March 13th, 2012
4:27 pm
Andrew…
Techfanimpersonating whoeverisontop
March 13th, 2012
4:33 pm
I have nothing going for Georgia Tech, so I’ll pretend to be Florida, Bama or whoever else happend to be on top so that I can take cheap shots at UGA. What fun!!!
nick saban
March 13th, 2012
4:46 pm
Smoking weed stunts your growth
headley lamar
March 13th, 2012
4:51 pm
Chip, Name on school in the SEC more strict than UGA
There isn’t one. UGA is the toughest school in the SEC and has one of the toughest drug policies in the Nation.
1eyedJack
March 13th, 2012
5:09 pm
If you’re going to smoke weed, maybe it’s a good idea to roll down the window.
T-Dawg
March 13th, 2012
5:11 pm
Why would anyone want to play on a team where you can’t count on your teammates to stay out of jail? On the other hand, I guess that’s one way to crack the playing rotation… Perhaps some second-team cb incited this behavior from Smith?
GTBob
March 13th, 2012
5:14 pm
There isn’t one. UGA is the toughest school in the SEC and has one of the toughest drug policies in the Nation.
They have to. They are one of the few teams with a drug problem.
Bob
March 13th, 2012
5:26 pm
While I’m not currently a Richt fan, I do think he’s doing all he can. But, there is too much wiggle room…how ’bout one and done? With Smith’s two game suspension, he’ll be football effective for maybe half the season.
KBP
March 13th, 2012
5:49 pm
A discipline problem at UGA would be CMR failing to punish kids for their infractions. Arrests are a behavior problem. CMR, Saban, Miles, Chizik, Meyer, nor any other coach can control a kids behavior. Why not interview the parents/guardians of these kids and hold them accountable, if possible? Not lay this at the feet of coaches who did not raise the kids nor establish their value system. Let’s hear what Orson Charles’ and Branden Smith’s parents have to say.
1 4 GT
March 13th, 2012
5:51 pm
If you roll down the window while smoking pot, the smoke/scent still permeates the fabric of your clothes & the upholstery.
William Smith
March 13th, 2012
5:53 pm
I don’t blame Mark Richt for these problems. It seems unusual that every time one of these players gets in trouble his high school coach tells how great a kid he is. Don’t believe for one minute he wouldn’t the same way in high school. College players get away with everything in many respects due to the power of the alumni. If he had been caught in Athens Georgia this would have never been known about. This is not only Georgia but every college program. Back to high school I learned one thing in life. It is a lot easier to be strict and ease up than the other way around. Don’t worry though all this will be settled at many college players last stop the prison system.
Gwinnett Fred
March 13th, 2012
6:13 pm
UGA might not have a dicipline peoblem, but their players seem to have a SELF-DICIPLINE problem.
I’m also glad the latest arrestee was nabbed outside Athens/Clarke County – or the woofers would all be screaming (once again) that the local gestapo has it in for their boys (child please)
UGASlobberknocker
March 13th, 2012
6:34 pm
This blogging is great. I come on at noon, make a few points about Alabama and their overly obsessive fans..then for the next 6 hrs those morons have proven me right. Maybe now that their possum dinner is cooked we can get some peace while Mom and them sit down for some vittles.
UGASlobberknocker
March 13th, 2012
6:35 pm
@ Bammer
Run Forrest!!!
This is an outrage!!
March 13th, 2012
6:39 pm
Wow. a car full of colege students heading to spring break included one guy who had some weed. Please someone pick me up off of the floor. I am shocked.
This is an outrage. They will probably be doing heroin by midnight tonight!. Kick them off of he team and send them to boot camp.
Then go pound down 10 or e12 beers..after all thats legal so its fine, right?
Gwinnett Fred
March 13th, 2012
6:42 pm
@ this is an outrage:
Not if he’s behind the wheel while smoking or drinking stupid – like his fool was!
johnny cash
March 13th, 2012
6:45 pm
i will be singing at all county jail houses where dawgs are locked up .
collegeballfan
March 13th, 2012
7:12 pm
If it is not the rules and the policies, then the only other answer is the people. Mybe UGA needs to recruit a better class of people.
Just suggesting.
LCDawg
March 13th, 2012
7:46 pm
Legalize marijuana already…what a joke.
Mako
March 13th, 2012
7:46 pm
1 Question for Techies…how come whenever something happens at MidTown High, good old Sugura won’t allow comments……why?
wezzie
March 13th, 2012
8:11 pm
How in the world is Richt responsible for a teenagers behavior. What did you do on spring break as a teenager? I bet some pretty stupid stuff-enough said!!!!!!!!!!
San Diego Steve
March 13th, 2012
8:12 pm
these problems would all go away if student athletes were forced to live on campus in supervised athletic dorms with curfews.
Dawg89
March 13th, 2012
8:15 pm
So, Chipper, why would you count OC as the third arrest when as you point out he is no longer on the team? Are you trying to sensationalize the story to make your weak point?
Apostle
March 13th, 2012
8:18 pm
Richt is way too soft his player and it may come back to bite him in the rear.Alabama does not have these problems.
Chris
March 13th, 2012
8:22 pm
COACH HE ONLY DESERVES A 1 GAME SUSPENSION!!!!!
tape worm
March 13th, 2012
8:23 pm
In order to change the discipline problem at UGA, you would first have to change the inherent culture of the players who receive a scholarship.
Well
March 13th, 2012
8:32 pm
it’s a story
Smitty
March 13th, 2012
9:08 pm
Blair…..you don’t have a clue as to what goes on with young people anymore.
Fulmer award committee
March 13th, 2012
9:26 pm
Loooks like the dawgs are picking up where they left off in their quest for the Fulmer cup. If you can’t be champions on the field you might as well be number one in something. Its gotta really suck to be a dawg fan.
Discipline
March 13th, 2012
9:33 pm
Its all about discipline. A bama fan posted earlier that in Saban’s tenure he has had 6 players arrested which sounds about right since you never hear of their players getting arrested. In the same time frame UGA has had 35 players arrested and an AD. That is why we are not winning championships. We field a team that completely lacks focus and discipline and this is readily reflected in all the arrests. He may be a jerk but that jerk fields well oiled, disciplined football teams that are more like well trained armies then kids who would rather drink, smoke weed, steal from fellow players, etc. While our guys are headed to the beach to drink and gets stoned as this one players was thier players are hitting the weights in offseason conditioning work. Is it really any wonder that Alabama is where they are at and why we are where we are at?
waynedawg
March 13th, 2012
9:44 pm
You know Bama fan’s have always been the biggest hipocrits.They’ve had more sanctions put on them than any other school and they’ve been ranked the #1 party school forever.At on time they could’nt stand their coach when he was an LSU’er,but now they love him.At least UGA can handle the dirt thats slung around at them.If your going to throw rocks make sure you have plenty of them.
Chip Towers
March 13th, 2012
10:17 pm
BG: I don’t think there is a school with a more strict student-athlete conduct code than Georgia.
Dawglasville
March 13th, 2012
10:25 pm
Chip – people are going to believe what they want to believe. You will never hear someone blog, “Wow. I never looked at it like that.”
Dawglasville
March 13th, 2012
10:27 pm
Whoops! BG is one of the good guys. My bad Dawg.
Score Check
March 13th, 2012
11:47 pm
Coach Sick Satan = Scum
Tweak your knee and he leaves you twisting in the wind
Tree Rollins
March 14th, 2012
12:36 am
UGA recruits some of the best axe murderers, car thieves, and drug dealers available! Then Mark Richt “heals” them!
Tree Rollins
March 14th, 2012
12:38 am
It’s the UGA way!!
Tree Rollins
March 14th, 2012
12:40 am
As Chip notes, UGA has rules like “no rapes after 12 midnight” Team rules – very strict.
Mountain Dawg
March 14th, 2012
5:16 am
The Trade School Nerds have a drug problem. They keep getting ‘drug’ up and down the field.
SEC Football Daily: March 14th | Saturday Down South
March 14th, 2012
5:24 am
[...] Georgia still insists it does not have a discipline problem. This off-season, Georgia has had two (or three) players arrested. Sanders Commings and Brandon Smith were both arrested from next year’s team, and former tight end Orson Charles was arrested for DUI. The Georgia AD holds the coaches accountable for the players and himself for the coaches. [AJC] [...]
Thomas Brown
March 14th, 2012
6:38 am
“The thing to keep an eye on when Georgia releases all the particulars of Richt’s new deal is how much the buyout has been tweaked. In other words, extensions in the world of the SEC are merely window dressing unless they’re backed up by guaranteed money.”
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Chris Low, ESPN, on the part of his article today no one wants to talk about.
Thomas Brown
March 14th, 2012
6:48 am
Chip Towers, states :”Ultimately, it comes down to the character of the players the coaches recruit to campus. I asked McGarity how much he held coaches responsible for their players’ behavior.”
“Accountability is a foregone conclusion,” Greg McGarity said. “You hold coaches accountable in every sport for their entire program. That’s just part of the deal So we’re all accountable to someone and that language is currently in [Richt's] contract right now.”
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That’s clear enough. The coaches, who are given credit for recruiting the players here, are held accountable for their actions on and off the field, and given credit for what their recruits accomplish positively as well.
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As for the Discipline Policy at UGA, whose fault is that that we’ve had to implement the toughest Discipline Policy in the nation ? Did we just come up with that from above, or was it in fact in response to the on-going 12-year now history of what has become a total embarrassment to The University of Georgia both on the field and off the field.
Neutral
March 14th, 2012
7:04 am
Hear we go again
Thomas Brown = Mr Negativity = Techie (posing as a Dawg fan)
Thomas Brown
March 14th, 2012
7:07 am
Discipline March 13th, 2012 9:33 pm
“Its all about discipline. A bama fan posted earlier that in Saban’s tenure he has had 6 players arrested which sounds about right since you never hear of their players getting arrested. In the same time frame UGA has had 35 players arrested and an AD. That is why we are not winning championships. We field a team that completely lacks focus and discipline and this is readily reflected in all the arrests. He may be a jerk but that jerk fields well oiled, disciplined football teams that are more like well trained armies then kids who would rather drink, smoke weed, steal from fellow players, etc. While our guys are headed to the beach to drink and gets stoned as this one players was thier players are hitting the weights in offseason conditioning work. Is it really any wonder that Alabama is where they are at and why we are where we are at?”
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What ? You mean no lame excuses ? No other rendition of how to count-up the recruits Mark Richt signed here and which – according to his contract words – he is held accountable for their actions on and off the field :
This is the last couple of weeks, now, weak ? :
(1) Nick Marshall, Cornerback
(2) Chris Sanders, Defensive Back
(3) Sanford Seay
(4) Orson Charles
(5) Sanders Commings, Cornerback
(6) Branden Smith, Cornerback
Next ?
RHall55
March 14th, 2012
7:08 am
I see this as a Coach Scott Lakotos problem also!! He is the position coach where all these issues are happening; each postion should be accountable for his players problem: Sanders Commings suspended; Chris Sanders and Nick Marshall kicked off the Team; and now Branden Smith arrested!! C’mon Man!! Add to that, you only signed one DB in last year’s class and no in-state DB’s: losing out on Geno Smith to AL, Josh Holsey to AU (he stated he would have committed to UGA if he had been offered in April ‘11), and Chaz Elder to SC; not only did we lose them but will have to play against them; CSL where are these northern connections you should be bringing to the table? Lost out on Yuri Wright and E Shumpert!! C’mon Man!!! You are a very good Coach but you must be a recruiter as well as keeping your position players on the roster!!! “Win, Baby, Win!”
Thomas Brown
March 14th, 2012
7:42 am
Mark Richt’s 2011 Contract, since there is not 2012 Contract yet :
SECTION 1, PART C :
“Mark Richt’s duties include that his student-athletes shall have the personal characteristics necessary to be well-regarded representatives of The University.”
King Gator
March 14th, 2012
7:57 am
Roll one, smoke one and we all just having fun!
dagrapevine
March 14th, 2012
8:12 am
well at least it wasn’t a drive by shooting at a bar or stealing a laptop.
GT
March 14th, 2012
8:50 am
Blind leading the blind and then reported on by the blind, there has to be a tax benefit to this somewhere.
True Dog Fan #3
March 14th, 2012
8:53 am
Hey “Trupert”, if Saban runs a dirty program and he has no more control of his players than Richt does, then explain why BAMA wins all the time and Georgia does not?
Neutral
March 14th, 2012
9:00 am
Thomas Brown is a Techie trying to tear UGa down. He has never had a positive thing to say about the Dawgs……just non-stop venom. I guarantee he is either a Tech fan or the worst UGa fan in history!!!! He is poison
Thomas Brown
March 14th, 2012
9:07 am
Oh, Georgia does win. We beat Alabama when they were no good. We beat everyone when they are no good. Well, sometimes we lose to no good teams such as Vandie who was 4-8 yet beat us and South Carolina who was 6-6 yet beat us etc., but with 3 wins in 11 years against teams who finished in the Top 10 out of 16 games, 3 such wins – is winning, you see ?
10-win season 2011 is winning. Forget that 27 other teams in 2011 alone all had 10-win season 2011. Forget we lost the most games of all 27 of the 10-win teams 2011, with 4 losses. We won 10. We will be fine. We have an even easier softer schedule in 2012 than we had in 2011. So, we will win 2012 as well.
It is important to listen to both sides of this.
We do win.
Well, over the Current 4-Year Period we are # 32 in won/lost record nationally and # 8 of just SEC teams 2012.
But, that is “just fine,” you see ?
That is all to which we aspire to around here.
We’re just fine.
T Kyle King this morning says that Mark Richt is not performing up to his standards.
And, the vast majority of the posters to this blog say the same.
Then, we have a vocal minority who want everyone banned who think this is not winning or not fine.
They don’t wish to discuss it.
Just don’t let anyone say it.
Bama’s program is dirty because they are better than us.
Auburn’s too.
NCAA says otherwise, but don’t tell that to the clique.
They will not discuss it.
We’re just fine.
Thomas Brown
March 14th, 2012
9:15 am
I quoted you correctly, stating you are a soldier, drive a red Ferrari and no one should ever criticize the Bulldogs’ football team. Then, you added all these :
“OL still needs to improve
quit worrying.
Oh I forgot, you aren’t worrying because you are the enemy.
We need to get our offense cranked-up to give the defense a rest.
Be patient
take the pressure off Murray.
give Murray another season
I feel your pain
Yes indeed we need to improve”
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Are you seriously attempting to state that these are not ALL
NEGATIVE ?
Neutral
GT
March 14th, 2012
9:31 am
I wish Tech was Georgia’s problem. I wish Georgia players was Georgia’s problem. You could just about take a group of none UGA , but born in Georgia, players every year and beat the players that go to the state school. Not even putting Tech in the mix. You laugh at Tech but Calvin Johnson and Demaryius Thomas are pretty good receivers. They either are not as talented as advertised going to Georgia or you aren’t developing them and other schools are developing theirs. You were going to make a receiver out of Cam Newton, tight end. Nuff said.
monty
March 14th, 2012
9:38 am
The problem is that you don’t just suddenly become a recreational dope smoker. You may decide to get drunk on SB when you ordinarily wouldn’t, you may be enticed to smoke dope when it’s passed around on SB, but IMO you don’t decide to pick up a bag of weed before you leave town headed for the beach if it’s not something you’re unaccustomed to. Just doesn’t happen that way.
Pdogg
March 14th, 2012
9:44 am
Well here goes Thomas Brown spewing his garbage again… All true dawg fans please know that Thomas Brown is NOT a uga fan, He does NOT know what he is talking about, and he does NOT speak for anyone but his own stupid self. Lets support the dawgs, enough of this negativity. GATA
MIKE
March 14th, 2012
9:50 am
LA DAWG..WHICH IS SPELLED WRONG…..I GUESS OF MUST MEAN OFF…CAN TELL YOUR A GA FAN FORSURE..CHECK YOUR SPELLING THERE BOY YOU NITWIT 2ND GRADER
Thomas Brown
March 14th, 2012
9:51 am
“trust me i’m not satisfied”
“is what is wrong with UGA’s football program”
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PDogg, sir, you are saying (1) that there is something wrong with UGA’s football program, and (2) trust you you are not satisfied.
I just want to be clear about what you are saying.
Now, if you didn’t intend to say that trust you you are not satisfied or that you know what is wrong with the program to the point that you are so dissatisfied, now might be a good time to say you didn’t intend to say either.
Because you said both, plain and simple. Do you somehow gain credibility by both saying that no one can say anything negative and in the same breath utter yourself that you ain’t satisfied ? Do you somehow think you’ve not both said that there isn’t anything wrong with the program you are not satisfied with and that you said again in the same breath that there is something wrong with the program ?
I guess my question to you would be ?
Which is it ?
DawgRoll
March 14th, 2012
9:52 am
smoking weed is no big deal–probably 90% of the team does it—it should legal anyway. the police should be looking at real crime, not this minor stuff.
MIKE
March 14th, 2012
9:52 am
YOU HAVE ONE WOMAN BEATER AND A POT HEAD IN A SHORT TIME AT GA. BUT THERE’S NO PROBLEM….MARK NEEDS TO WAKE UP AND GET THE BLINDERS OFF
MIKE
March 14th, 2012
9:56 am
DAWGROLL NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK I SEE IT’S YOUR NORMAL DAWG THINKING. WEED IS AGAINST THE LAW ( SO THAT MEANS YOU DON’T DO IT) AND IF 90% OF THE TEAM IS SMOKING IT WE CAN UNDERSTAND WHY TA’LL CAN’T BEAT THE GOOD TEAMS.
Pdogg
March 14th, 2012
9:57 am
Thomas Brown, I’m not satisfied because UGA can and will win a national championship and i wont be completely satisfied until we do. And i already told you what was wrong with UGA’s football program… people like you who claim to be fans but do everything in your power to put down your own team. You are either a techie or a complete moron and a disgrace to your own state and university, and either way you need to just shut it
Thomas Brown,"trust me i’m not satisfied”
March 14th, 2012
10:04 am
Ok, so you’re not satisfied either with the results.
But, you want everyone else to shut up – so only you, then, can say you’re not satisfied.
Too Funny
March 14th, 2012
10:06 am
All these UGA fans bad mouthing Alabama fans about their education like rural Georgia is so much smarter than rural Alabama. UGA is a good school but I wouldn’t say it blows Alabama’s education out of the water… Let’s get real, UGA is no Vandy or GT.
Pdogg
March 14th, 2012
10:15 am
TB You don’t get it man. There is a difference between wanting to be better and actively attacking and trying to destroy your own team. Every college football fan wants their team to win the national championship, especially in the SEC. I don’t think there’s anything out of the ordinary about that. What is strange is someone who claims to be a fan of a team, yet all he talks about is how awful the players, coaches, and administration is. We can talk about things UGA can do to get better, but spewing negativity constantly is not going to do anything but hurt the dawgs. You are a cancer to UGA
C'mon Man
March 14th, 2012
10:15 am
Dawgroll,
Mike has a point. It is against the law which means they don’t have any responsibility. It also means they aren’t scared of getting caught which can be a problem too. Never understood the concept of college/professional athletes smoking weed. I mean just imagine how good they would be if they didn’t smoke. Maybe they would be in the game 10% of more plays if they weren’t winded on the sidelines.
GT
March 14th, 2012
10:17 am
How can Thomas Brown be the problem? The real problem is that you just resigned a coach, for winning a rigged schedule with street gang players. A team that lost to Colorado, maybe the worst team in division one two years ago. You loss to any and all real challenges last year, South Carolina, BS which was not even in the championship game picture, and LSU who is in a totally higher division than you and still not the best in the SEC. If Thomas Brown did that we should stop wasting his talents where they obviously are not wanted though certainly needed, and send him to some foreign wars we are losing.
Instead of improving your team next year you improve your schedule. You get unhooked from Alabama, and replace it with Missouri like that is some equal and fair equation. Now you can brainwash yourselves with the help of AJC into believing once again you have arrived, over and over again, only to see a Vandy or a USC or a Miss. State float by you in your premature celebration that usually ends up with a full house at the Athens jail. That damn Thomas Brown how could he have done all this to you?
Pdogg
March 14th, 2012
10:20 am
haha GT you should probably just worry about Tech, because if UGA is as bad as you say, then Tech has got to be GOD AWFUL because we DOMINATE YOU EVERY YEAR
GT
March 14th, 2012
10:22 am
Pdogg is right, GT fans need to hop off of the trash talking when our football program has enough problems as it is. It’s sad that the whole state of Georgia has so much talent but can’t win. I can’t figure it out. UGA has a MUCH better chance at representing since they get all the talent. Tech just needs to rep the state in academics lol.
GT
March 14th, 2012
10:35 am
Did I write that? No. Isn’t that a NCAA violation to hijack a man’s handle. If Pdogg is right there are better days ahead for Tech, because Georgia is not getting any better than they were last year. Believe me I am happy you people are so stubborn it give us great hope and I am glad Bama and LSU are not in our state to have to compete against.
Pdogg
March 14th, 2012
10:40 am
GT you are delusional man. Whatever you’re smoking, pass it to T Brown cause he needs some of that optimism. GT needs to worry about being relevant in the ACC before yall can even try to come talk to us. Oh and UGA will definitely be better next year so count on us embarrasing you again in november, just like every year
Tech
March 14th, 2012
11:20 am
Lol Pdogg, you guys are better every year and besides last year we ALWAYS keep it close. I don’t understand how you can trashtalk so much when you guys haven’t beaten a top 20 team since 2009. Its people like YOU that give UGA fans a bad name. UGA thinks they are so superior because they can beat Tech but you guys recruit so much better talent! The fact that we keep it close is embarrassing! Time to humble yourself a little bit and realize that UGA may not be as good as it seems. Sure, you guys won SEC East but it can be argued that Florida had a very off season and USC had its problems with a top 5 RB out for the season and a starting QB getting kicked off the team. I’m glad you’re so optimistic though, hope it works out for you guys.
Thomas Brown,"trust me i’m not satisfied”
March 14th, 2012
11:21 am
2011 NC Alabama beat # 5 Arkansas # 2 LSU
2010 NC Auburn beat # 3 Oregon # 8 LSU # 10 Al
2009 NC Alabama beat # 10 VaTech # 3 FL # 2 TX
2008 NC Florida beat # 5 Oklahoma # 6 Alabama
2007 NC LSU beat # 5 Ohio State # 9 VaTech
2006 NC FL beat # 2 Ohio St # 3 LSU # 9 Auburn
2005 NC Texas beat # 2 Ohio St # 4 Southern Cal
2004 NC So Cal beat # 10 VaTech # 3 Ok # 9 Cal
2003 NC So Cal beat # 6 Michigan # 9 Wash St
2003 NC LSU beat # 3 Ok # 7 UGA # 7 UGA again
2002 NC Ohio St beat # 2 Miami # 9 Mich # 10 Wash St
2001 NC Miami beat # 8 Nebraska
National Championship for Mark Richt ?
Really ?
That is the DISNEYdawgs.com statement you want to make to me you bloody dreamer that Mark Richt who has played 16 games like these 29 games between teams who ended up in the AP Poll Top 10, and Mark Richt has won exactly 3 of the 16 games against teams who ended up top 10 his entire 11-year career.
But, drink the Kool-Aid you are GUARANTEEING a NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP for Mark Richt.
How do you figure that PDogg ?
You are exactly what is dragging this football program into the ground PDogg, that every off-season you run in here and proclaim Mark Richt will win his NC you are absolutely certain of it; yet, when we look at these 29 teams who ended up in the top 10 who they beat to be NC while Mark Richt has been here, Mark Richt has NOT beat these teams at 3-13. The 3 years he did, he was 4 losses, 3 losses and 4 losses those 3 years. It is what he does. But, you run in here proclaiming that he will be NC.
Yeah, right PDogg – DISNEYdawgs.com like you are ruining our program. When he loses the games against the teams who do end up in the top 10, all these teams BEAT them instead. That’s why their NC and Mark Richt NEVER WILL BE. So, you run in here and tell me to shut up. That you are a BETTER fan than I. Uh, no you are the cancer that is hurting our program. You don’t care if we lose to every team who ends up top 10 as long as Mark Richt remains here in this cushy easy job because you want my program to just be fine, whatever that is, PDogg.
Pdogg
March 14th, 2012
11:39 am
T Brown you are a joke. Some people are just going to be whiny little cry babies who waste all of their energy trying to destroy the very thing they claim to support, and if thats how you want to live your life, go ahead. Just know that you are a horrible representation of your university and are not even close to being a DGD, quite the opposite actually. For all of you true dawgs out there, don’t let losers like Thomas Brown get you down. Go Dawgs!
GT
March 14th, 2012
11:57 am
When Georgia beat us last year I didn’t think how good Georgia is, I was thinking how bad our defense has gotten. If Bama had beaten us or LSU I would say there are teams out there just better than what we can put on a field and really admire the art of football watching them. Kind of the way you guys felt losing to LSU on national television. I haven’t left a Georgia game feeling like you guys must have felt, it is hopeless, that SEC Championship night, in many years and I am the first to admit we could use some improving. But if we just stay the same which we won’t there is an even chance every time we line up with Georgia, that Tech can win. Now I wish yall were as good as Alabama or LSU because that would make us pretty good too. But you are not and we are not.
Pdogg
March 14th, 2012
12:03 pm
GT, it really doesn’t matter how you feel when we beat you. The fact is we do beat you every year. An even if you THINK tech has an even chance every time you line up, the stats (1-9 last 10 years) definitely don’t support it
Pdogg
March 14th, 2012
12:17 pm
Tech, we return almost our entire defense next year, have a 3rd year starting qb, not to mention lots of talented running backs and recievers, i think there is plenty of reason for me to think we will be better next year. and how do i give UGA a bad name? for sticking up for them when i hear a bunch of people bashing our program? and by the way most rivalry games usually are close, not just UGA-Tech. And how close they are doesnt mean a thing anyways, its who wins that matters, and thats us, every year
Dick Gizinia
March 14th, 2012
12:44 pm
Unfortunately, GT gets UCF, Middle Tennessee State type talent. I know it fits Moob’s system, but unless GT gets an O’ line that can move people or a passing option quarterback, teams will put 10 men in the box and you’re looking at a lot of 3 and outs.
DawgT
March 14th, 2012
1:02 pm
how are those Ga Tech players affording expensive escalades, guns, etc. — they must be paying good over there!!!
guy
March 14th, 2012
1:33 pm
Young people as well as older ones make bad choices.Some don’t do it again and move on.Others refuse to change and pay a huge price.
Drug test athletes at random at other colleges too and you’ll see they have the same problems.Most of the time,there’s the caught and the uncaught.These things in life will surface sooner or later.GUARANTEED!
Taylor Wooten
March 14th, 2012
1:36 pm
Who us? A discipline problem? Nah….move along. No story here. Mark Richt is a great guy (sigh…)
Got that fat 3 year extension.
LOL
Walmartdawg
March 14th, 2012
1:47 pm
Got to keep that Fulmer Cup streak alive.
General Mills
March 14th, 2012
1:54 pm
Let’s do an article on how many AJC employees are disciplined or arrested.Just curious?
Fooball Guy
March 14th, 2012
1:58 pm
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahaha…………………
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UGA needs help
March 14th, 2012
2:22 pm
The entire athletic program needs a full review …in what sport or athletic endeavor is UGA good at ? Equestrian and ???? …
UGA from the early days … most every decade scandal
1. Wally Butts … throwing games – points shaving
2. Jan Kemp … academic scandal
3. Donnan … ripping former players off.
Need I go on ? … the in-breds need to quit because they can not perform without the drama …
just the truth
March 14th, 2012
2:30 pm
This is not about handing out discipline “after” the fact. The article says, Georgia insist it doesn’t have a discipline problem, which it does. Giving scholarships to the wrong types of players is the problem. You can’t always just look at there athletic endeavors and not care about the kid in general. Most times the ones that act up are the ones that barely got accepted in and were poor scholastically in high school.
dogSTILE
March 14th, 2012
2:34 pm
The word via the ‘internet dirt sheets” is that UGA was worried BIG TIME about Richt packing up and leaving Athens. The thought was his wife was tired of him getting beat up over every Tom, Dick and FELONY. The word was he was considering a move back down south and the powers that be at UGA were scared sh____ they would loose him! Suprised the “usual suspects” like dawginLEX, Hornydawg. and bamadawg have not been ALL OVER THIS hot story.
Hart Co. Dawg
March 14th, 2012
2:38 pm
The only people that see it as a problem are the talking heads here on the AJC and the idiot Tech fans that think they are holier than thou. When problems arise, Richt deals with them quickly and appropriately.
Ubob
March 14th, 2012
2:52 pm
You guys need a life. Guess you were never young. For the most part the problem issues with the Dawgs are petty. Same thing I watch many of my friends get busted for when I was in school, and that was 35 yrs ago….in a time when no one care about pot and we all drove drunk @ 18 yrs old. Young people don’t make the best choices, that why they are considered young! In today’s microscope watching these kids it amazing that they are this good. Bama & others, believe me when I say,” Your no better”….just wait a bit, some of your young men will make mistakes too.
Les W. Moore
March 14th, 2012
2:53 pm
Please rename the Fulmer Cup after me, “The Less with More Award” and make Mark Richt the permanent owner.
Drunk frat boy
March 14th, 2012
2:54 pm
Thomas Brown,”trust me i’m not satisfied”
You need a girlfriend bad!
Albert
March 14th, 2012
2:59 pm
Why are all the gay Tech and Tide people on here? Are they getting up a big ” Tickle Pile? “
AltamahaDawg
March 14th, 2012
3:39 pm
frat boy, you must really hate “a girlfriend”.
Dawghater
March 14th, 2012
3:48 pm
CMR must be dreaming! Tougher than most. Heck what Tech just did with Glenn Rice Jr., CMR would sit a kid for a quarter against the Univ of Noboby!
JC
March 14th, 2012
4:08 pm
Big Difference betweeen Tech and GA as to how they handle problems. Tech dismisses players–GA suspends them for Div 1A games!.
HARDY DOG
March 14th, 2012
4:14 pm
Richt doesn’t have a clue, he has more drug problem on his team than any other d 1 school. He recruit’s bad players thank to the sorry recruiter R. Gardner. The program is in a downward spiral!!!
the old coach
March 14th, 2012
4:17 pm
Just one comment. Having been a High School coach for forty years I can tell you no matter what your policy is you are going to have a few to test the waters. I did when playing college football back in the early sixties. I know Mark Richt personally and can tell you that he is much stricter than some of the other SEC coaches that I also know. Do you think Alabama, Florida,LSU and many of the other schools don’t have these problems. They just don’t make the headlines like the Athens Banner Herald, AJC and other news media. Tennessee is a prime example. It appears some of the other state news sports doesn’t relish the thought of reporting a story to bash their sports program.
AltamahaDawg
March 14th, 2012
4:39 pm
Didn’t all the teenage girls prety much run that term “doesn;t have a
AltamahaDawg
March 14th, 2012
4:40 pm
clue” into the ground about 20 years ago.
AltamahaDawg
March 14th, 2012
4:46 pm
Yea, thumbs up to releasing a serial trouble maker who couldnt get along with 2 different coaches, often benched, suspended, and obviously going nowhere. Oh yea, and a little thing called criminal weapons charge.
They really set the bar high with that move.
Ellis
March 14th, 2012
4:49 pm
Looking at these Tide fans comments.. i agree. we should all be such diehard, fanatical alum’s that we go and attempt to destroy a rival school traditions… oh wait… that one hasn’t worked out so well.
DYNAMICBIGBOY
March 14th, 2012
5:01 pm
Hey TREY, we all know you are a bumblebee fan, and boy I sure do wish we had that great D-Coordinator and defense you have over at the high school stadium on North Avenue.
Ga.Tech #1
March 14th, 2012
5:02 pm
Convict U.
billcanoe
March 14th, 2012
5:07 pm
Georgia doesn’t have a discipline problem, because Mark Richt doesn’t understand the meaning of the word DISCIPLINE. His suspension of players for openers against Podunk U is a joke. He hasn’t done anything in the way of meaningful discipline since he has been at Georgia.
TOO TOUGH44
March 14th, 2012
5:31 pm
I believe the players should remember…”YOU ARe the Driver of Your Bus!” Those kids that stole from teammates…they had a choice to steal or not to steal! CMR cant control character! Smoking dope…BSmith, he had a choice…CMR cant control that….basically, there comes a time in life when you have to take responsibliity for your actions.
I commend CMR…Glad he is our Coach…Every Dawg Has His Day! Go Dawgs!
blue708
March 14th, 2012
5:33 pm
Seems he cares a lot about people and not just winning a championship. And most people don’t fall into that category . Easy to attack somebody like that . They make themselves very vulnerable . Who cares about winning more than the people and there education ? Answer that question if you really have some balls.
kingdaddy
March 14th, 2012
5:38 pm
The Alabama Trooper who pulled Brendan over for the Dastardly Charge of NO TAG LIGHT…LOL AND EVEN WORSE FOLLOWING TO CLOSE. .(PROFILING)(GA.TAGS), had to ask if Brendan was an Alabama Football player before he started to write the ticket. He found out they weren’t Bammers and found the dope. If. Brendan had of been a Bammer, the Trooper would have de-seeded and rolled it for B.S. That’s why they say ROLL TIDE.
BCS Tiger
March 14th, 2012
5:43 pm
All the more reason hot seat Richt needs to over sign. Is this the 1st year his lack of bowl control has taken place? The list is as long as my leg.
Shameful university. No wonder he can’t recruit a lick instate.
Pdogg
March 14th, 2012
5:45 pm
old coach, you are dead right man, well said
realitycheck
March 14th, 2012
8:25 pm
At least 3 more years ahead for UGA with zero chance to sniff a NC. Will that clown get another extention after that? Everyone else in the SEC hopes so!
THE TIDE BLOGGERS
March 15th, 2012
12:11 am
90% of the TIDE fans here are kids wearing the cap of the latest MNC Champ and that is Alabama and that is the way that it is.
Caps in the closets of most of the bloggers on this site are many. They wear what makes them look cool ( they think) at the local mall. Diplomas? Ahhhhhhhh, ahahhahahahaha
RTR55
March 15th, 2012
5:00 am
Richt needs to call Saban and get some advice on running a clean program without problems. Nick doesn’t put up with all the stuff that happens at ga which is why alabama players aren’t getting arrested all the time for weed, dui, assault, etc. like ga players.
dogSTILE
March 15th, 2012
9:12 am
And the hits just keep on coming..
Mike Hunt
March 16th, 2012
8:52 pm
Well why wouldn’t you all believe it when they say they don’t have a discipline problem? Most of you believe the rest of the crap they feed you.
Sting Time
March 17th, 2012
8:20 am
The Dawgs are just trying to bring a trophy (Fulmer Cup) to our great state. Can’t blame them for wanting to win. Never thought I would say this but…..Go Dawgs! Do us proud. LOL!
Joseph
March 17th, 2012
9:00 am
I have an idea, let’s do what Bammer does and get law enforcement on board so they will stop harassing our players! Think about it, do we ever hear about Bammer cops arresting Bammer players? But then again our players need to avoid Bammer when going to the beach! Just sayin.
LogicalUS
March 19th, 2012
9:44 am
UGA- the university of a thousand excuses.
Before September, there will be more suspensions and losses from the preseason 2012 MNC champion, UGA Bulldogs, but you can be sure that there will tons of beaners on the forum with new excuses.
flo-ri-duh
March 19th, 2012
10:40 am
At least Tech is #1 at something. According to Newsweek Magazine the Tech campus has the highest rate of violent crime of any college in the nation
Todd Wade
March 20th, 2012
2:29 am
Dear Chip Towers,
Georgia doesn’t have a discipline problem. I don’t understand why Chip Towers even writes these articles. Some people are sooooooo stupid. These guys are going to do what they are going to do. I guess you can threaten to castrate them or life in prison and maybe they won’t do stupid things. But thats not going to happen. Georgia goes above and beyond. So Pleeeease stop writing these stupid articles.
Thank You , Todd Wade aka: Dawg Monster