Sophomore safety Marc Deas latest Bulldog to quit, seek transfer
ATHENS — Georgia’s roster took another hit on Saturday.
Marc Deas, a redshirt sophomore safety from Kississimee, Fla., has decided to quit the team due to lack of playing time and is seeking a transfer, coach Mark Richt said after Saturday’s scrimmage.
“I talked to him yesterday and he said he just wasn’t getting the opportunity for playing time he’d hoped for,” Richt said.
Deas joins defensive lineman Derrick Lott, who made a similar decision on Friday.
That makes 11 players who have quit, been dismissed or are facing suspension since Georgia’s Jan. 1 bowl game.
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161 comments Add your comment
william cranman
March 31st, 2012
1:14 pm
This is truly unbelievable!
Adam
March 31st, 2012
1:17 pm
another gone…i don’t understand, he’s a safety! suspensions in the secondary + most of the defense leaving after this season = more playing time
TybeeDawg
March 31st, 2012
1:19 pm
not really…..it happens everywhere…dawgs will be fine. If we get past the second game, it will be fine…..if not we have lost one game…big deaL.
BigDawg
March 31st, 2012
1:21 pm
We need players for the scout team, walk-ons welcome!
douglasville dawg
March 31st, 2012
1:21 pm
Let them go. We want guys that will work hard and fight for playing time. Every year good players are going to come in, but not all of them are going to earn playing time. If they want to leave that great. It give us room to bring better players that might earn playing time.
BigDawg
March 31st, 2012
1:22 pm
We need to over sign this coming year!
PTCDAWG
March 31st, 2012
1:23 pm
If they don’t want to be here, let them go! I don’t know of a team in the country
that going to just give them playing time without competing for it!
RHall55
March 31st, 2012
1:24 pm
Is Coach Scott Lakatos running them off? CMR, get to the root of the problem!! Do not bury your head in the sand like you did with Def CO Willie Martinez and S&C Coach Dave Van Halenger!! Two coaches that were over their head in their positions or become outdated!! CMR take a look @ C Mike Bobo and C Rodney Garner!!
dawgfan
March 31st, 2012
1:24 pm
what is going on in athens, someone with greater control has to be brought in that these kids WANT to play for, where is the pride we use to have?
HD27
March 31st, 2012
1:26 pm
JHC is officially a safety, I don’t care what anyone says!
Roy
March 31st, 2012
1:28 pm
These kids will always be quiters there whole life, good bye!
Frank Lane
March 31st, 2012
1:28 pm
Players see handwriting on wall. Want to play more than they want to help the team. Best they leave. Makes room for more scholarships 2013 as well as for walk-ons.
Paddy
March 31st, 2012
1:31 pm
Inflated idea of playing time once they get to the SEC and what it takes to get on the field. I wish him well. Probably a good idea. Nobody wants to wait their turn any longer in this “me first, me always” attitude that is in our society nowadays!
Augusta dawg
March 31st, 2012
1:31 pm
Mark who?
Paddy
March 31st, 2012
1:32 pm
We should be able to sign 43 guys next year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bh
March 31st, 2012
1:34 pm
how does this compare to other SEC programs? just curious. what kind of kids are we recruiting? this is almost to the comical point. hard to believe.
HD27
March 31st, 2012
1:38 pm
Corey Moore, Sean William, Connor Normon, JHC- VS. Buffalo and Missouri
Sander Comming, Sean William, Corey More, Connor Normon, JHC vs.FAU and Vandy
Full strength the rest of the way. The only game of concern may be Missouri because they are usually a pass happy team. Although I know they are tweaking their offense to suit their quarterback who rushed for over 900 yards, who btw is out this spring with a shoulder injury.
nobody
March 31st, 2012
1:40 pm
We all know they also failed a drug test and rather than be suspended and it being publicized, they quit.
HD27
March 31st, 2012
1:43 pm
@bh
None of these guys saw the field last year. They are making personal life decisions. If you are unsatisfied in your career are you not entitled to move on to somewhere else. The only theme here is that none of the players had a true impact on UGA. If they fill like they can make an impact somewhere else then best wishes to them! This only going to help the program.
Georgia Tide Fan
March 31st, 2012
1:44 pm
Isn’t this just Richt getting rid of players so he can sign better ones? That’s what UGA fans always say about Saban when Bama has a player leave. LOL.
NewYork1
March 31st, 2012
1:44 pm
Roy your stupid
NewYork1
March 31st, 2012
1:46 pm
Georgia Tide Fan your stupid too
ClinchCountyDawg
March 31st, 2012
1:48 pm
A lot of players come in with dreams of being a starter and getting drafted.All of a sudden they are juniors and third on the depth chart with more talented freshman coming in . A smaller school would offer the chance to get on the field and challenge for a starting position.
William
March 31st, 2012
1:50 pm
Georgia tide Fan, it is not the same at all. Your god Saban deliberately oversigns and has to run players off to get from 95+ after signing day down to the mandated maximum 85 players on scholarship at the beginning of fall practice. Georgia, on the other hand, chronically undersigns and doesn’t have a need to run players off to make the numbers work.
Vinning Dawgs
March 31st, 2012
1:54 pm
Well, if you leave because you can’t get on the field tells me that, you are not as good as you thought or there more better players ahead of you. So if you go to the next place and you don’t get playing time , then what? You quit playing? There is competition anywhere you go in life. Good luck guys.
bubba4dawgs
March 31st, 2012
1:55 pm
Some players make it and some don’t! There’s no room for those who have the “quit” attitude anyway! Good luck to them! Chances are, they will be quitters in the future. They must not be as good as the starters or they would still be there! Go forward! GO DAWGS!! Actually, this is good news! UFA is not handing on to players who aren’t good enough to play or simply don’t want to play!
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
March 31st, 2012
2:03 pm
makes me wonder if the last 2 are related to the drug suspensions??
evil empire
March 31st, 2012
2:13 pm
the ship be sinkin…hahahahahaha…losers
Lilburn_dude
March 31st, 2012
2:16 pm
They failed the drug test and quit the team rather than be suspended people. That is all.
The Bear
March 31st, 2012
2:17 pm
@William please explain the factual difference not your personal opinion. I would love to here it.
Oh Yea ROLL TIDE
The Bear
March 31st, 2012
2:18 pm
Sorry “Hear it”
dawgie
March 31st, 2012
2:20 pm
Right on Lilburn dude. This has nothing to do with playing time!!! They leave with a clean record.
WnE
March 31st, 2012
2:24 pm
Something is fishy here.
The 1st four games there’ll be plenty of PT for guys in the 2ndary (due to suspensions), makes no sense to leave for PT, all you have to do is make your mark during that 4-game tryout at the start of next season and then make yourself irreplaceable to the coaching staff.
That makes much more sense that starting over somewhere else at a lower level since you have already used a RS year.
7675DAWG
March 31st, 2012
2:25 pm
Before Grantham became defensive coordinator if was a policy that if you worked hard and was a DGD that you would be the starter your junior year and for sure your senior year even if their were better players on the bench but were only Freshmen or Sophomores as long as you were at least decent. When Grantham became Coordinator he made it real clear that the best will play and I am one who says it’s about time somebody used some common sense. I don’t care if the entire starting lineup are Freshmen the best players should always be out on the field. To he@@ with this entitlement mindset.
I think CMR is also being forced to play his best by McGarity after the 2010 disaster. McGarity isn’t saying play this guy because he is better , he is just putting pressure on Richt to win and THAT is forcing Richt to play the best all the time.
DEAS and Lott both apparently could care less about graduating or getting a degree , all they want is that easy money in Pro ball. Both are frequently beat by our opponents when they do play and are not entitled to a free ride into the NFL. They are slow and get out maneuvered a lot when they play. This is on them not our coaches. Some players have a hard time accepting the fact that they fit into the 90% of all college football players that end up with a job other than being a football player.
Brainiac(Dawg for life/Richt fan for life)
March 31st, 2012
2:25 pm
@ Georgia Tide Fan:
Not only are you stupid, your whole family is Dumba$$_ s
MJ
March 31st, 2012
2:28 pm
The lower the standands…the lower the character!
Just quit baby!
The Bear
March 31st, 2012
2:31 pm
@7675DAWG very true! Some of these kids don’t know how to react to playing against folks that are equal to them or better. That is why I put no stock in these rating services. They have very little idea what all the intangibles’ with these kids are or the competition that played against in High school.
rogeriter
March 31st, 2012
2:31 pm
I think college football should go back to the way it originally was—no athletic scholarships. Just post a sign saying “Football practice starts on Monday. If you would like to try out, be there.” Then you wouldn’t have these prima-donnas that feel they should be guaranteed playing time. It’ll never happen…but I can dream, can’t I?
evil empire
March 31st, 2012
2:35 pm
great analysis MJ…who wants a stinking uga degree??? it won’t even get you an assistant manager job on third shift in a convenience store…uga…where losers go to master the art…of losing…
Bubba J.
March 31st, 2012
2:39 pm
I agree with Lilburn dude,
If anybody thinks these kids are leaving for playing time are kidding themselves. Something obviously happened and Richt is kind enough not to publicize what they did. Signs point to a drug test failure but it could be something else. Either way they messed up and the coaches probably made it clear they should find somewhere else to continue there career. We’ll be ok. And why is nobody mentioning Jordan Jenkins stepping in for Alec Ogletree during his suspension? That kid is a beast, won’t surprise me if he’s starting game 1. Go Dawgs. All the Bama and Tech fans on here bashing need to get a life.
Frankly
March 31st, 2012
2:42 pm
What ever happened to the big TEAM, little me mentality. I swear now it has become all about “ME”.
evil empire
March 31st, 2012
2:43 pm
it’s gotta be energy vampires i tell ya….it’s gotta be…
evil empire
March 31st, 2012
2:44 pm
maybe coach could dive off the big board again…yeah that might do it…
the gift that keeps on giving
March 31st, 2012
2:47 pm
bwahahahahaha, you cannot make this up, I repeat you cannot make thiis up, I guess the Dream Team realized this is an actual Nightmare on Elm Street
Choke on This
March 31st, 2012
2:50 pm
Maybe Grantham is giving his own players the CHOKE HOLD, temper headed moron
Monkey
March 31st, 2012
2:50 pm
UGA fans should be very thankful. With all the suspensions and jumping ship, any other normal year the UGA program would be looking a some early season losses. However with the EASIEST schedule for the second year in a row( Mulligan II) one loss early is now seeable.
That UGA program is a mess, no matter how you spin it or turn it in UGA soft serve ice cream.
Coach
March 31st, 2012
2:54 pm
If a starter fails a drug test or gets arrested they get the minimum required suspension.
If someone down the depth chart does the same, they are kicked off the team or “decide to transfer,” i.e. run off. Similar to what Saban does, just freeing up the scholarships of those who aren’t contributing.
DawginSewer
March 31st, 2012
2:56 pm
Yeses Is gets hises underears and hses bicyecke abdses hises purses.
Gator
March 31st, 2012
2:59 pm
Rhall, Your a joke tecj fan.Latkos running them off? Latkos is one of the best around. Rambo went from 3 star to 1st team all american , Boykin was 2nd team all sec.
evil empire
March 31st, 2012
2:59 pm
since uga has so many football players jumping ship, maybe they should introduce a new “cruiseship hospitality studies” program in athens…the curriculum would require that you be a current or past member of the uga football program, because of your experience with abandoning ship…
Big Daddy G
March 31st, 2012
2:59 pm
All you UGA haters can say what you want.
One of the richest men I know personally graduated from UGA.
He hands out $100 bills to servicemen being deployed at the airport.
I am a Bulldawg fan through and through….I bleed red and black win or lose.
Even though I hate the Gators, Yellowjackets, and Auburn – I still respect true fans of the teams as long as they aren’t bandwagon fans. Any true fan of any team should be commended
Stop the bashing….geesh…. grow up
Brian
March 31st, 2012
3:00 pm
Maybe he was going to be suspended for smoking weed too… or else maybe he realized that even with all of the suspensions, he still wasn’t good enough to start for UGA. My opinion is we’re going to have a really hard time beating Missouri now, even if Branden Smith is back for that game. UGA should have everyone back for South Carolina though and that will be huge.
Brian
March 31st, 2012
3:01 pm
Well said, Big Daddy! Bandwagon fans are the worst!
Dawg ish
March 31st, 2012
3:02 pm
The Hits just keep on coming.
Brian
March 31st, 2012
3:03 pm
While Ogletree is a great player, Herrera was really good as a true freshman last season so it may not be much of a drop-off. Gilliard and Robinson are solid as well. No one can replace Rambo more than likely though so that sucks to lose him.
Brian
March 31st, 2012
3:04 pm
The front seven should be nasty, with Jarvis and Jenkins returning, as well as Garrison Smith, who I think is a rising star. And I’ll be interested to see how Ray Drew and Harvey-Clemons play this season.
Some posters
March 31st, 2012
3:07 pm
are saying they “know” they failed a drug test and are therefore transferring. Forgive me for not taking your word as gospel. Exactly how do you know this? The most logical answer is that these guys are upperclassmen and see little chance of getting significant playing time, so are going to a place where they can get that time. As a Georgia fan, I wish them well and will not be calling them names. Evidently, even with the depleted secondary for first few games, Deas had been surpassed by Connor Norman.
Richt now has the coaching staff that will get the job done, and the recruiting train is rolling. This year is shaping up as a monster class. Keep updated on LHB for the recruiting news, and enjoy Dog conversation there without trolls, namecallling and those jealous of UGA.
kingdaddy
March 31st, 2012
3:11 pm
To each and every quitter leaving UGA
DON’T LET THE SCREEN-DOOR HIT YA, WHERE THE GOOD LORD SPLIT YA…
TampaGator
March 31st, 2012
3:13 pm
Seems like Richt is going to have the roster depth issues Muschamp had last year.
Is Richt and Grantham promising these players too much when they are recruiting them? The players that are suddenly transfering right and left seem like they are expecting to play at Georgia instead of earning playing time on the practice field. Just wondering.
P.S. Some of you (not all of you) Dawg fans who were ripping Muschamp earlier for some Florida players transferring (players who obviously did not fit the system or who had attitude issues), what do you say now? Again, just wondering.
Erk Russell's Dog
March 31st, 2012
3:18 pm
@7675DAWG
These kids may get their false sense of entitlement from the top of the program. CMR and the football program at best was in a declining mode during the ‘09 and ‘10 seasons. CMR take advantage of a weak SEC west schedule and injuries to the Carolina team to back into the SEC east title.Richt takes advantage and gets a new 5year contract,the program is still in decline. If you don’t believe it wait until the western rotation changes and the Dawgs have to play Bama ,LSU or A&M. This years dream may turn into a nightmare as quick as a trip to Columbia Missouri ,much lees a trip to Columbia ,SC.The expectations of the fans and the easiest schedule in SEC history may turn on Richt quickly, but he still has his money an new contract,we are all suckers on that one.
evil empire
March 31st, 2012
3:20 pm
Richt now has the coaching staff that will get the job done…
really?!!?!?!!!!
UGAgrad'71
March 31st, 2012
3:21 pm
GTH fool!
dawgfan2003
March 31st, 2012
3:23 pm
I think it is time we put the restrictions on the transfer policy. The philosophy of sign with us and if it doesn’t work out then you can just go somewhere else with no restrictions needs to stop. And do we really have to let them leave? I mean, Joe Pa wouldn’t let that Bolden kid go at QB. He made him stay.
Lakedawg
March 31st, 2012
3:25 pm
Erk’s dog is talking through his butt.
These players are not good enough for playing time and are leaving period. Great opportunity for new guys to get valuable playing time in 2012 for 2013 when they will really be needed.
Also more opportunities for early enrollees in this years class, should be huge class quality and quantity wise this year.
Lakedawg
March 31st, 2012
3:26 pm
Evil, just remember Dawhs have beat your sorry bunch 10 out of last 11.
Gator
March 31st, 2012
3:29 pm
Coach , And you know this how? Richts going to run off a player at a position of need ? Pretty shallow gene pool blogging today.
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evil empire
March 31st, 2012
3:31 pm
not a tech fan lakedawg…but even if i was, we ain’t talking about tech…this is a uga story, and i’m all over it..hahahahahaha…
Monkey
March 31st, 2012
3:33 pm
These blind UGA fans really know how to spin bad news.
What may be happening
March 31st, 2012
3:35 pm
These UGA blogs are filled with posters who cannot carry on a civil conversation about the topic. The bitterness and vitriol expressed leads me to believe some of you (or a family member or close friend) were denied admission to Georgia and maybe had to go elsewhere to a school with slightly lower academic requirements. That is fine, since you can get a good education at any SEC school if you work at it. It is hard to explain such whacko posts otherwise.
Clarke County College for Girls and Effeminate Boys
March 31st, 2012
3:35 pm
ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS GO DAWGS!!
bucket
March 31st, 2012
3:37 pm
Wow, while I have been out enjoying a beautiful Saturday in the great state of Georgia I see the Gator, Tech, and Bama fans who have “UGA obsession syndrome” have been trolling the UGA SPORTS BLOG and trashing UGA. Yet you say UGA is irrelevant. Kind of ironic don’t you think?
Erk Russell's Dog
March 31st, 2012
3:39 pm
Lakedawg
Tell me how you feel in October when the Dawgs are heading to Jacksonville needing a win to stay at .500 in the SEC.I could care less about a 19 year old kid getting disappointed and wanting to transfer ,they are immature children who do not know any better. But what gets to me is the coaches who recruit these kids as so called 3 ,4 or 5 star talents and watch them under perform and wash out of the program.Are the scouting services all wrong or is their something amiss with the way these kids are being coached.Lakedawg if we are handing out insults I bet you are dumb enough to believe that idiot Rambo’s story about somebody giving him tainted little debbie brownies.Of course his high school coach believes him ,what a joke.And watch Rambo ditch the Dawgs for the NFL’s supplemental draft.
IT IS WHAT IT IS
March 31st, 2012
3:42 pm
Its ok Bulldog Nation, we will be fine!!!!!!!!!!!! Don’t forget about all the 2012 recruiting class that will be coming in this summer!!! I know these guys will not be experienced in the sec league but they will have no problem playing against these lower class teams in our 1st 4 games!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have JHC that could come in and play @ line backer or safety if needed, Sheldon Dawson who can hold it down @ corner, Jordan Jenkins who can play D-end or Line backer and hold his own, Josh Dawson, Leonard Floyd, James DeLoach, John Atkins!!!!!!!!!!! Trust me, If we are lacking depth on our defense in the first 4 games our man Todd Grantham can plug these guys in and we wont have a fall off!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whats going on sucks but we will get through it!! GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
chilidawg
March 31st, 2012
3:43 pm
We should get a BUNCH of early enrollees next year, Then fill the 2013 class.
Spring Break
March 31st, 2012
3:46 pm
Last UGA player left on the practice field, please lock the gate.
kingdaddy
March 31st, 2012
3:46 pm
Look at it this way, if you can’t wait your turn like everyone else did, why did you waste our time? Maybe now is a good time for CMR to clean house. It’s just a shame these kids are throwing their teammates under the bus…
blazer
March 31st, 2012
3:48 pm
They run off all the third and fourth stingers so they can load up on offers next year.
Brian
March 31st, 2012
3:50 pm
To the guy who said “wait until UGA plays Bama, LSU and A&M” have you watched A&M play the last few years? An average UGA team in ‘09 blew out the Aggies in the bowl game and this season the Aggies were a joke. I don’t consider them a threat to UGA at all, Missouri maybe because of the suspensions. Go Dawgs.
evil empire
March 31st, 2012
3:55 pm
hey bucket, let me tell you why the uga blogs draw so much “outside” interest…tech knows who they are, and you won’t see much delusional talk there, so not much to challenge the contrarian view…can’t go to Lsu, bama, florida, arky, or auburn blogs because they are, will, or have backed up the talk very recently…south carolina is a stock on the rise, but they understand their place in sec history…ut is in shock and doesn’t dare speak of a bright immediate future…the rest of the conference is what it is…uga, however is ALWAYS running their blow hole about how great they are, we’ll go 13-0 next year, the sky is the limit…yada yada yada…haven’t won a nat champ in 30+ years, only sec titles are when everyone else is down…if you are gonna talk trash, you are gonna have to put up with some flies…
Erk Russell's Dog
March 31st, 2012
3:58 pm
Brian have you watched the Dawgs play lately they should have lost to Vandy last year if two Commodores did not tackle each other trying to run in that blocked punt.Forget A&M ,the Dawgs have enough trouble beating Tennessee and Vandy.
abominable snowman dawg
March 31st, 2012
4:00 pm
Texas A&M was better that any of the 10 teams Georgia beat last year.
ole yeller
March 31st, 2012
4:00 pm
Coach “R” may have a new contract, But he still must produce, He understands that. This year is for real for the Dawgs. They may have a few players screwing up but some of the guys coming in are better than those leaving for what ever reason. I don’t listen to much of the negitive commets from some of our blogers. Sometime I don’t understand where they are coming from. Some of you guys think the dawgs will roll over, I don’t think so. I think LSU, Bama, & Ark want be what they were last year, especially Bama too many loses to the NFL.. Dawgs days are here again.
ole yeller
March 31st, 2012
4:06 pm
The Dawgs will Produce EARLY in the season or they will be changes EARLY in the season. TOO much talent getting splinters in the A$$ riding the beanch not to come out early if needed. Coach “R” understands that and the offence must go early or they will be chnge….count on it.
Terry
March 31st, 2012
4:17 pm
evil empire,You, and your Troll buddies, are sad pathetic loser’s, who are obsessed with Georgia, that is all there is to it, you can try to explain it another way, but the fact that your on here, proves what you are, and the fact you try to justified it, after being called on it, makes you sound that much more, like a pitiful ignoramus.
BobDawg
March 31st, 2012
4:26 pm
7675DAWG… you are spot on my friend… remember last year during spring ball… several boys saw the handwriting on the wall and bolted when they thought it was their time and others had passed them by….
Paddy
March 31st, 2012
4:26 pm
ole yeller……I hope Arkansas does not win a game while “that coach” is still there. I have noticed he does not recruit Georgia. Smart move, who would play for that coward!!!!!!!!
BobDawg
March 31st, 2012
4:28 pm
We won’t skip a beat… We have to play the best and we are “weeding” the riff raff out….
kingdaddy
March 31st, 2012
4:34 pm
Evil empire
Quit wasting our blog with your anti-Dawg garbage. How would you like it if some immature Ga.fans go into EVERY S.C. blog-site to tell you what eternal Losers you were,are and always will be? I’m sure you would think they were Tools. That’s excactly how we feel about your worthless opinion of us. Ga football is none of your f-ing business you no-nothing tool. You have nothing to add to this conversation, so shut both of your pie-holes and we’ll talk right before we play each other. Utill then, I’ll leave you with a song written just for you. WHY DON’T YOU MIND YOUR OWN BIDNESS, MIND YOUR OWN BIDNESS, WELL IF YOU MIND YOUR OWN BIDNESS, YOU’LL BE TO BUSY TO BE MINDING MINE…
01HAWK
March 31st, 2012
4:35 pm
The ship is sinking………………………….Do you have enough players on the scout team since they will have no choice but to play the SCRUBBS. LOL
kingdaddy
March 31st, 2012
4:39 pm
Terry
The reason E.E.is on our blog is there’s nothing to talk about on a loser S.C. blog-site. Never was, never will be…
MS. Bully
March 31st, 2012
4:41 pm
Who ever says this many players quitting is normal, must be nuts.
Tucker
March 31st, 2012
4:46 pm
It is time to give CMR another big raise and extension.
slydog
March 31st, 2012
4:46 pm
One day my fellow alumni will learn to listen to the “opposition.” There is a problem in Athens and it’s Coach Richt. CMR recruits and gets commitments from kids who expect a lot of “leeway.” He treats them like adults on campus from day one? Does Saban strike you as the type who lets players do what they want? Or choose which position they will play or when they will play? No, on all 3 counts. Neither will Meyer, or Muschamp, or Chizik, or Spurrier, or Petrino, or Miles. CMR has a discipline problem. 3 years ago, he let the program slip away from him. In order for him to get things back under control, he has to be something other than himself. The result: Players are either quitting or engaging in behavior which sets up the same scenario. The same coddled punks can’t take the new, stricter, policies. The new guys, like, IC, Mitchell, Conley, Marshall,etc., will accept these punishments because they came in with them. Not so with the “old” guys. So what I’m really saying is, it’s gonna take Richt another 3 years to get back control of his roster. Does Georgia have another 3 years to wait for some sign of stability? I’ll let the Richt lovers answer that question. Players know they can’t bullsh** Saban or Meyer when it comes to the football field. For some reason, players think they can bullsh** CMR. WHY?
evil empire
March 31st, 2012
4:48 pm
listen to the losers sing….hahahahahaha!!!!!!!! i swear, if stupid was a currency, you dawgdummies would be rich!!!!! …i’m not an sc fan…well, one week a year i am…spurrier gonna go three in a row over you stooges…try not to produce another pathetic bowl performance this season (if you are even bowl eligible…)
slydog
March 31st, 2012
4:53 pm
Why is anybody even paying attention to empty empire? The more you ignore the punks, the less they will visit. This includes GTBob, Crimson 75, Crimson Crush, RTR, and the rest of the trolls. Ignore them, ignore them, ignore them, and they will disappear.
evil empire
March 31st, 2012
4:55 pm
hey slydog…whats up brother?…
alpha male
March 31st, 2012
4:57 pm
Got to admit, evil empire can get on the nerves, but he does come up with some funny stuff too!
slydog
March 31st, 2012
4:58 pm
I just thought about something. Instead of the expected 10-2 or 11-1 finish we were all expecting, Georgia Football has just given us another excuse for losing 3-4 games again with another “manageable” schedule.
slydog
March 31st, 2012
4:59 pm
Evil Empire, what’s up bro?….lmao.
Clifton Crowsummore
March 31st, 2012
5:03 pm
Does anyone else find it a little troubling that we are in this situation with numbers 12 years in (for Coach Richt)? You see this kind of attrition in the first year or two of a new staff.
kingdaddy
March 31st, 2012
5:19 pm
E.E.
Why the constant anti-Ga. Rant??? You offer no constructive critisism, only juvenile attemps of humor. What are you like 14 or 15 and get bullied alot at highschool? Being as big a tool as you are has to take alot of practice. Grow-up boy and either add to the blog or STFU…
guy
March 31st, 2012
5:25 pm
Sooner or later,those that are left will understand the policy and penalties.Then UGA can move on! At least no one is holding these weaklings hands and begging them to stay.The same thing needs to be done with our wonderful government people in Washington,D.C. NOW!
GimmeAbreak
March 31st, 2012
6:02 pm
Are we seeing a pattern? If they can’t stay out of jail or stay away from drugs, they quit! How much longer does UGA recruit losers? I have been a supporter of the dawgs since before my college days (Class of ‘72) but I am sick and tired of this! I hear my friends say it’s “win at any cost” so we gotta recruit these players who have no loyalty, no class and no intelligence. If we are keeping up with that philosophy then where are the championships? It has been a long time since 1980.
Sure UGA put together 10 wins in a row last year but did we beat anybody? The best team we beat was UF with a one-legged QB and he damn near beat us! We opened with 2 losses and ended with 2 losses. And that got CMR a new contract! OMG!
We are looking like the only title we’ll have anytime soon is “Losersville” , just like the Braves, the Falcons and the Hawks. Yes, we will win 8, 9 or maybe 10 games in 2012 but again, any wins over anyone rated or maybe even with a winning record?
The more things change the more they remain the same.
bitter coach grantham
March 31st, 2012
6:22 pm
will call this—-BROWNIE-GATE————–DOPEIE HEADS, GOT TO GO!!!!
————TO BAD MURRY DID NOT EAT A WHOLE BUNCH OF BROWNIES
—————————–MASON IS THE MAN
bitter coach grantham
March 31st, 2012
6:25 pm
YOU TROLLS THAT PANIC CAN GO f#$% YOURSELF’S
———————PLAYERS THAT FAIL drug test——GOT TO GO
———————START ASKING RECRUITS IF THEY LIKE BROWNIES
Al
March 31st, 2012
6:28 pm
Abandon the sinking ship before the titanic sinks!
Vorizon
March 31st, 2012
7:19 pm
I guess Richt never learns.
Mettenberger transfers, then Ealey, wow, losing guys right after left for Richt going with favorites and not playing other guys.
Hutson Mason had better numbers in the scrimmage, just like last year, guess who’ll get the start?
Oldetimedawg
March 31st, 2012
7:23 pm
Betewwen the supensions and these walkoffs, and the 6 to 8 more that we will lose before the summer is over…dad gum it we may be in serious trouble.But I do agree.. if these guys do not want to be here., send the over to Rambos place…feed them a few brownies , and send them on their way…
The Original Auburn Man
March 31st, 2012
7:28 pm
I guess these guys know more than their coaches. I guess they would rather play for a lesser team but want to be the big fish so bad they don’t care that they will be in a small pond. The same small pond that the NFL scouts sometimes overlook. Any kid who walks off the UGA team is getting very bad advice from someone that isn’t very sophisticated. Bottom line, good riddance. UGA is better off with less independent, “me, me” type players.
observer
March 31st, 2012
7:31 pm
Just THINK, these kids have been playing football since they were six or seven. Their talent and HARD WORK have always stood out among the rest. Their talent and HARD WORK were rewarded with a FULL scholarship to the GREAT UGA. Now, all of a sudden, they before QUITTERS and LACK DRIVE. So YOU GUYS actually believe this is the reason they are leaving UGA.
If you are a current student or an alum, do they not teach critical thinking or logical thinking at UGA?
joe in tucker
March 31st, 2012
7:32 pm
rats jumping ship rather than getting kicked off….
meandog
March 31st, 2012
7:35 pm
Gooood Gawd! This is unacceptable! I suppose CMR figures he doesn’t really have to care about winning seasons now that he’s nailed a big contract under his belt! And I wonder why this doesn’t seem to happen at All-Barn, Floriduh or Lamecrockville?????
sapelodawg
March 31st, 2012
7:45 pm
been a Dawg fan for well over 50 years …………. here’s hoping there never win another game til Richt is gone.
Tech Rules, you sissy boy mutts....
March 31st, 2012
7:54 pm
and the vote is in, signing with UGA is a BIG MISTAKE!
DAWGS WERE FINE
March 31st, 2012
8:03 pm
I just heard from a very reliable source that the other three players that failed the drug tests were none other than Jarvis Jones, Isiah Crowell and Aaron Murry. Has anyone else heard this? OMG
Spring Break
March 31st, 2012
8:13 pm
The pictures are going to get one of them. The testing is going to get 2 more players.
Recruits
March 31st, 2012
8:15 pm
If your kid has verbally comitted to UGA, you as a parent, if you are parenting, must surely wonder what going on at UGA and is it time to look at another offer.
Atlanta Native
March 31st, 2012
8:20 pm
Why is this news? I’ll bet plenty of UGA music majors don’t get much playing time, either. And when they leave, you never hear about it… yet the band plays on…
Gene
March 31st, 2012
8:32 pm
I have never heard of anything like this, with the possible exception of Penn State’s recent disintegration.. There is an absolute vacuum of leadership at UGA, starting with the head coach. He’s losing ‘em before he can coach ‘em down.
observer
March 31st, 2012
8:47 pm
What are the Vegas’s odds that Crowell will play another down @ the great UGA ??
bcall123169
March 31st, 2012
8:49 pm
I LOVE IT TO HELL WITH ga., HOWS THAT RECRUITING GOING NOW
bcall123169
March 31st, 2012
8:49 pm
WANT A BROWNIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Next
March 31st, 2012
8:57 pm
Who’s NEXT? Lets everyone make the prediction on who it is? Free Brownies to the Winner! (Existing and former UGA players are not allowed to play since they will have the inside track on the result and have already had their share of Brownies)
Tailback
March 31st, 2012
8:58 pm
It’s got to be one of us– Crowell
Offense/Defense
March 31st, 2012
8:59 pm
Did the offense go to Key West and the Defense to Pannama City (Brownie Town)? It appears now the Defense is winning?
HardTruth Soldier
March 31st, 2012
9:03 pm
Georgia State must be drooling right now, it’s the chance of a lifetime for them. I know Lott, and Deas aren’t thinking Alabama, LSU, Florida, Arkansas, or even Vandy. They are after all in the SEC. Georgia State may come up quick with Dawg cast offs.
Rick James
March 31st, 2012
9:03 pm
To all of you Tech fans who are hiding behind fake handles and pretending to be upset Georgia fans dont worry about a thing..The string of beat downs will continue in Athens next season even if CMR uses the scout team.
HardTruth Soldier
March 31st, 2012
9:07 pm
Tech Fans your team is so pathetic, you’ll never here a Dawg say he wants to Transfer to your High School . Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Valdosta State, West Georgia, but Please don’t send me to North Avenue Trade School.
HardTruth Soldier
March 31st, 2012
9:10 pm
O.K. who leaves next, Hudson or LeMay. Promise you LeMay won’t take the D.J. Shockley road.
HardTruth Soldier
March 31st, 2012
9:23 pm
No let me guess, Malcome leaves next
Brainiac(Dawg for life/Richt fan for life)
March 31st, 2012
9:41 pm
@ Sapelo Dawg:
Good luck and good riddance!!!
CMR is not going anywhere but you, my friend,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Delta is ready when you are!!!
chiefdawg
March 31st, 2012
10:17 pm
Don’t forget that the coaches recruited these quitters.
Fan
March 31st, 2012
10:27 pm
I think most people when faced with the prospect of not being used very much, work or play, will choose the path of least resistance, which these players obviously believe is somewhere else. Those mat drills must be tough or someone else has stepped it up and bypassed the two players in question. I’m just glad you nuts don’t sit near me at ballgames. Most of you have probably never been to one and you surely never attended college anywhere!!!
FANny
March 31st, 2012
10:42 pm
Come on FAN– U R an idiot. They left because the brownies caught up with them. Easy wway out–not mat drills
BigEC
March 31st, 2012
11:17 pm
Do any of you actually believe that any coach at UGA read this comment section? And if so, do you think that they would use any of these suggestions? If you can answer yes to either or both of these questions, please send money to East Fork Consolidated High School, Route 4, Liberty, Mississippi so we can build a new gymnasium with a roof and lights.
chuck
April 1st, 2012
1:10 am
IF UGA doesn’t sign about 10 early enrollment players along with however many open scholarship positions that have available to get our scholarship roster up to 85, CMR should be fired for incompetence. I’m sick of us playing with a roster of 65 to 75 players.
DAWGS ARE FINE
April 1st, 2012
1:22 am
Theres your answer mr steve supperior, thats what happens to all those 4 star recruits that rivals projected and that Georgia signed. What happens to all those 4 stars that ASC gets that leave like Garcia, etc? hahahahah
GOT BROWNIES???
April 1st, 2012
1:26 am
Glad they dont give spot drug tests to the entire student bodies at Georgia, Georgia Tech, Auburn, Alabama, South Carolina and Florida. Just the athletes so our fan base can be judge and jury.
1%
April 1st, 2012
1:31 am
Lott and Deas are part of the 99% that wanna be the 1% at Georgia football. The wprld of college football needs ditch diggers too.
Chuklin' Down South
April 1st, 2012
2:26 am
Yet more attrition. Just another off-season in Athens.
Hey-couldn’t help but notice but for some reason no comments are allowed on the Rambo piece from a day or so ago. Some Dawg fan at the AJC a little sensitive?
Most embarrassing quote in that story is from Rambos HS coach: “It’s stupid timing on the part of the University of Georgia if you ask me,” Ingram said. “I don’t know who’s policy it was to set that up after spring break but that’s crazy.”
Wow.
Maybe what explains a little about the problems at UGA, when you have “leaders” and “molders of men” like that enabling young men. “It’s UGA’s fault?!?” Great responsibility example there, Coach.
Mark Richt does not have the highest win % of any SEC coach against D-1 teams FINISHING with winning records. NOT. LIAR
April 1st, 2012
3:24 am
“In spite of a couple of rough years, Mark Richt still has the highest winning percentage of any SEC coach against D-1 teams with winning records.”
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LIAR
86% win% over .500 Chris Petersen 32-5
83% win% over .500 Dave Doeren 5-1
76% win% over .500 Pete Carroll 49-15
74% win% over .500 Jim Tressel 52-18
72% win% over .500 Larry Coker 35-13
71% win% over .500 Urb an Mey er 53-21
71% win% over .500 Bob Stoops 63-25
71% win% over .500 Chip Kelly 15-6
71% win% over .500 Dana Holgorsen 5-2
70% win% over .500 Mack Brown 59-25
69% win% over .500 Nick Saban 52-23
68% win% over .500 Gary Patterson 45-21
66% win% over .500 David Shaw 4-2
63% win% over .500 Mark Richt 60-35
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Doug March 31st, 2012 9:33 pm
“You sir…….live in a state that if it WEREN’T FOR ATLANTA………..IT WOULD BE JUST ONE BIG MISSISSIPPI”
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Let me jump in here please Doug, the city of Atlanta has the most SEC fans of every city in the world. This is the AJ-C, where you post this, and this blog has the more different IP Addresses typing their opinions on college football from The SEC perspective than all the other UGA blogs combined. Doug, this post is like the ones from RICHT-0-PHILES saying that if we had not have lost to every team who made the top 10 and not lost to every team who made the top 25 all these years, then Mark Richt would have the best record in The SEC vs winning teams. Of course, he hasn’t which is why they don’t provide a URL Link to it. And, of course the city of Atlanta does exist, all 6 million of us. If Atlanta did not exist ? It does, doesn’t it ? Try to wish it away – like RICHT-O-PHILES try to wish away all the losses to the top teams.
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1953dawg March 31st, 2012 9:52 pm
“They lack of talent on the O.L. is a total joke. Yet, Richt and his terrible coaching staff all get raises. The problem at UGA is McGarity and the athletic board for giving Richt an extention and these average coaches raises. My GOD, how do you get a raise when you have proven over and over again that when you do get kids on campus, you can’t coach them up. That is the problem at UGA, and it will never change as long as Richt is the coach. He never, ever, holds players or coaches accountable for their performance, and that is a total lack of leadership. That sums up Richt’s whole career. Sorry UGA fans, but the truth hurts, and this guy has shown his total lack of ability to manage a program”
LakeDawg April 1st, 2012 12:36 am
“The issue is the team doesn’t have the mindset to win a championship. I smell a disappointing season on the horizon.”
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Kingdaddy March 29th, 2012 1:57 am
“How can I keep defending this team when they don’t even seem to care about themselves. What a bunch of selfish, childish, idiots. If Richt can’t stop it, McGarrity has to step-in and put the shock-collar on these jail-birds. How do we always knock ourselves out of the fight before the bell even rings. This just makes Richts job that much harder. I just don’t understand …”
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Kingdaddy March 29th, 2012 2:15 am
“How can they not care? The blogs will run red with Dawg blood in the morning. True Dog fans are tired of excusing this kinda behavior.”
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Kingdaddy March 29th, 2012 3:57 am
“Coach Mark Richt, your team is an embarrassment and a laughing stock to NCAA football.”
Football Guy
April 1st, 2012
6:08 am
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aw
April 1st, 2012
7:34 am
wooof woof woof woof woof
Black Mountain NC Bulldog
April 1st, 2012
8:35 am
I am not concerned about the loss of third team guys. CMR knows these guys just want to go somewhere, and get playing time. Maybe Georgia State could pick some of these guys up. Bill Cs’ program could really use them.
Anyways; the pass rush is going to be relentless!!!!!!!!!
ugab
April 1st, 2012
9:08 am
Why is everyone so suprised?? Uga just signed CMR for 5 more yrs.????Expect the same ole sht every season.. What coach would ever let their players get drug tested after spring break..?? At his best CMR will lose 4 to 5 games every season. MR is out coached/ MR is not dedicated/ MR would rather be home.
Chicken Bone
April 1st, 2012
9:46 am
Georgia State is waiting for your transfers to come on over and play at the dome!
GimmeAbreak
April 1st, 2012
10:36 am
Rambo’s HS coach, an educator, said “I don’t know who’s policy it was to set that up after spring break but that’s crazy.”. So I guess it’s ok to get drugged-uo on spring break and not worry? Testing is supposed to be a measure of self-restraint, I doubt that many college student-athletes know that term but they can use a stolen laptop (Cam Newton can help) and look it up. If you know the test is coming and don’t know exactly when….
Andy
April 1st, 2012
11:48 am
I haven’t noticed all those Bama players jumping ship like the Dawg player. H**l man Their gonna run out of life boats pretty soon 1
"The Georgia Way"
April 1st, 2012
1:14 pm
Please stop saying, “drug test the student body.” Students on academic scholarships would certainly lose them for drug related arrests, much less, sexual battery and felony theft. Most students are paying their own way, which these entitled football players are not. In that sense, they are state employees. Adams instituted the drug testing program to increase his stature in the academic world, not realizing it would jump up and bite his biggest source of revenue. That being said, Richt has always followed a double standard with player discipline. He will love and coddle someone like Crowell, but send a third stringer packing for a lesser offense. If Richt tried to develop some of these back up players, he might be surprised.
Boston Dawg
April 1st, 2012
2:06 pm
I’m pretty sure I have some eligibility left…time to suit up.
yellowfever
April 1st, 2012
2:49 pm
you freaking jawga fans crack me up. I guess if it was Mr. Murray or Crowell you would be saying the same things, let them quit, we dont need them, they were loser’s anyway, yall really are full of Sh!t.
I think
April 1st, 2012
3:14 pm
Bobo needs to eat some brownies during games so we can have more creative play calling. Just sayin
Andy
April 1st, 2012
5:26 pm
Well I’ usually proclaim us preseason Natl l Champs about this time of year but, I will have to wait. Going to save my prediction that UGA will win the National Championship in 2012 until I see if if we are going to have enough players to field a team or if we are going to have to play seven man football this season.
mambo
April 2nd, 2012
11:03 am
Good riddance. What’s the saying … “quitters never win”?
Chip Towers
April 2nd, 2012
12:04 pm
TO: Thomas Brown, aka BuLLdawg, aka the “Mark Richt winning percentage . . .” handle:
You need to cool it. You crossed the line with your post that included misinformation regarding past players’ legal situations. I have fielded numerous complaints from readers of the blog about your activities and had discussions with management about the length, frequency and content of your posts. If you don’t refrain we’ll have to take action.
Charlie Hayes
April 2nd, 2012
5:29 pm
Chip-
What is the maximum number of players that UGA can sign in the 2013 class? Is it 28? Three towards the 2012 class and 25 towards the 2013 class? Is this the max?
Return to Glory
April 2nd, 2012
9:06 pm
Recruit somewhere other than the getto and they will be team players who do not or will not quit.
StackedDeck
April 2nd, 2012
11:53 pm
It’s pretty simple…these guys that transfered really just wanted a way out. Face it…they didn’t want to compete for their position. Let them go…we need players who commit…want to be a GA BULLDOG!! Hey! UGA will be just fine…weak links aren’t needed on this TEAM.
GO DAWGS!!!! hooorah!
UGA / ‘74
EB
April 3rd, 2012
7:24 pm
This is no shock, Richt seems to be losing his grip on the team more and more as the weeks go by. He has to learn he can’t promise these guys certain things if he’s not going to deliver! I question just how much talent we actually have on the field and off really. I think this has a lot more to do with all the other issues with this team than just lack of playing time. Looks like the players have figured out that UGA isn’t the powerhouse Richt would like them to believe!!
be
April 5th, 2012
3:43 pm
Quote from: DAWGS WERE FINE
March 31st, 2012
8:03 pm
I just heard from a very reliable source that the other three players that failed the drug tests were none other than Jarvis Jones, Isiah Crowell and Aaron Murry. Has anyone else heard this? OMG
Aaron Murr End Quote
To: DAWGS WERE FINE Your info. is unreliable based on the fact that you can’t spell and you need to go back to school. Aaron’s last name is spelled “Murray” Jerk!