Report: Alec Ogletree, Bacarri Rambo suspended for multiple games
ATHENS — The Georgia Bulldogs may have lost two more front-line defensive players to suspensions.
The website Dawgpost.com, citing “multiple sources inside the Bulldogs’ football program,” is reporting that All-American safety Bacarri Rambo and starting inside linebacker Alec Ogletree have been suspended “two to four games” for an unspecified violation of team rules.
Georgia Athletic Director Greg McGarity refused to confirm or deny the report. “No comment at this time,” he said Thursday morning.
If true, that will make four defensive starters who are suspended for early-season games for the Bulldogs. Starting cornerback Sanders Commings already has been suspended for first two games after his conviction for simple battery and disorderly conduct. The other starting corner, senior Branden Smith, is facing a suspension of at least one game for his recent arrest for marijuana possession.
Three other players — including two more defensive backs — were dismissed from the team in January for stealing from a teammate.
It would be the second suspension of Rambo’s career. The 6-foot, 218-pound safety sat out the season opener against Boise State this past year for an unspecified violation of team rules. Rambo was voted an All-American after starting 13 games and leading the SEC with 8 interceptions.
Ogletree, a 6-3, 236-pound junior, also has been suspended before. He missed the season opener of his freshman season following his arrest for misdemeanor theft. Ogletree missed six games this past season after breaking a foot in the first quarter of the first game. He finished with 52 tackles, three forced fumbles and six quarterback pressures and is considered one of the best overall athletes on the team.
Head coach Mark Richt, defensive coordinator Todd Grantham and team spokesman Claude Felton have not returned phone calls seeking comment. Felton, responding later to an email, said he did not have any information regarding Wednesday’s report.
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Choke
March 28th, 2012
11:20 pm
@ chem. +1.
Red&Black
March 28th, 2012
11:20 pm
Move ALL of the scholarship atheltes back into one dorm with a strict curfew and close supervision. It is clear some of the players are not mature enough to be on their own in a college enviroment …
Bama 4 life
March 28th, 2012
11:20 pm
@choke -Herrera is slower than my great aunt running backwards in 3 foot of water. Alec ogletree is the best athlete on the field and MVP of that defense of yalls. & it might not be the end of the world but the 2012 uga seasons over b4 it starts. Dorial
Green-Beckham will have his signature game in Columbia
Cmdawg99
March 28th, 2012
11:20 pm
Well at least they will be back and fresh for South Carolina
Bama 4 life
March 28th, 2012
11:24 pm
Cmdawg the season will be in flames by south Carolina. Hate to tell you. You gotta take in to account the possible suspensions between here and September at this rate
Tossed Salad
March 28th, 2012
11:26 pm
How nice it must be to sit and judge as a fan of a school that would never let this become public lest it put football results in jeopardy. Ignorance is bliss.
Bama 4 life
March 28th, 2012
11:29 pm
Then after jarvis, tree, rambo, branden smith, Washington, Murray, king, Shawn Williams, and company leave for nfl or graduation the 2013 seasons gone. So uga fans don’t have much to look 4ward to til at earliest, 2014
Roadrunner
March 28th, 2012
11:30 pm
These aren’t under-age juveniles, they are supposed to be young men at this point in their lives. Men that are responsible for their own actions. That’s what they’re supposed to be, but obviously not what they are. The behavior of these college athletes reflect the decline of our civilization in general. When you have government telling you that you’re not responsible for your own success, your own well being, that’s what government is there to provide for regardless of what poor choices you might make, well hech why should these young men feel any different. That’s why they can thumb their nose at the school and the team that allowed them a free education, because they were owed that anyway, right?
Bama 4 life
March 28th, 2012
11:30 pm
Who puts their name as Tossed Salad? Really
Dawson Dave
March 28th, 2012
11:32 pm
Mark Richt doesn’t not recruit “student athletes” He wants people who can run fast and jump high. I don’t think we’ll see too many future leaders of America with a Georgia football background.
g8r h8r
March 28th, 2012
11:34 pm
This blows my freaking mind! I hope Jarvis Jones lays them both out at practice tomorrow!!
Bama 4 life
March 28th, 2012
11:34 pm
Roadrunner I agree. The problem is these “men” are pampered like juveniles (especially scholarship players) unbelievably more than necessary. They are incredibly talented and deserve to be recognized for it but they are not being instructed on how to be responsible young men.
Tossed Salad
March 28th, 2012
11:36 pm
The greater disservice is being done to the young men for whom a blind eye is turned regarding their exact same actions. Yes, this means the players on your team. Keep living in denial, Updykes.
QB
March 28th, 2012
11:37 pm
I hope Coach T run the hell out of them until they throw up.
DC
March 28th, 2012
11:40 pm
The Mizzou game is gonna be a lot like the Oklahoma State game at Stillwater in 2009. Same result,too.
Ha
March 28th, 2012
11:41 pm
Ok…officially changing the name from the “Fulmer Cup” to the “Richt Cup”
Dawg Rage
March 28th, 2012
11:42 pm
Tossed Salad you sure aren’t very knowledgeable about “your team”. Shame
F in A
March 28th, 2012
11:44 pm
Can we just sweep this stuff under the rug like the rest of our SEC brethren, or are we holding ourselves to a higher ideal?