Team leaders preach accountability as Georgia loses another player to transfer
ATHENS – The hits just keep coming for the Georgia Bulldogs.
For the second time in as many days, a player informed coach Mark Richt he was unhappy with his role on the team and is seeking a transfer.
Deas
Marc Deas, a redshirt sophomore safety from Kissimmee, Fla., has decided to quit the team due to lack of playing time and is seeking a transfer, Richt said Saturday. Deas joins junior defensive lineman Derrick Lott, who made a similar decision less than 24 hours earlier.
“It was really an almost identical situation,” Richt said. “[Deas] felt like he wasn’t going to get the opportunity to get the kind of playing time he was hoping for at Georgia. I think both kids love Georgia, and we love them. They just didn’t feel it was going to happen for them during the time frame that they were here. So they decided to move on and go where they feel like they’re going to have a better chance of playing. That’s their choice to make.”
Their choices came on the heels of news earlier this week that at two of Georgia’s star defensive players – linebacker Alec Ogletree and safety Bacarri Rambo – are facing multiple-game suspension after failing a UGA-administered drug tests. Alan Ingram, Rambo’s coach at Seminole County High School, confirmed that Rambo is expected to miss four games due to marijuana use and said as many as five UGA players, includingOgletree, flunked surprise post-spring-break drug screenings arranged by the athletic association.
Richt and Georgia officials have refused to confirm or deny those and other reports, but have acknowledged they’re in the midst of “a process that has to run its course.”
Richt insisted Saturday the decisions of Lott and Deas have nothing to do with any ongoing disciplinary matters.
“There was no discipline issue, there were no problems, no academic issues,” Richt said. “They were just looking for an opportunity to play. . . . I’m telling you that straight up.”
Georgia has incurred an alarming rate of attrition in 2012. Since the Bulldogs returned from their Outback Bowl loss to Michigan State on Jan. 3, 11 players have either left the Bulldogs, been dismissed from the team or are expected to miss games due to disciplinary suspensions. In addition toOgletree and Rambo, fellow defensive starters Sanders Commings and Branden Smith are also facing suspensions. Tailback Carlton Thomas and cornerback Jordan Love each quit due to a lack of playing time and three other players were dismissed in the wake of a dorm-room theft.
All this negativity is occurring at a time when Georgia is being mentioned as a national championship contender for next season. That’s starting to grate on the Bulldogs’ players that have managed to stay in line.
“We’re going through some stuff and, as a team, we have to work together to solve those issues,” said linebacker Christian Robinson, a senior from Norcross . “We have two weeks left of spring ball and then we’ll have a break. We’ll definitely sit down as a group and lay down what our expectations are as far as holding each other accountable. We have such a great opportunity. We don’t want to throw it away. At this point it’s about grabbing whatwe’ve got left and dealing with it.”
Said senior defensive end Cornelius Washington: “There’s a whole lot of distractions. But, you know, you’ve just got to bring the guys in and tell them, ‘look, you’ve got to eliminate the outside distractions and focus in on what’s most important, which is try to get to Miami next year.’ So you’ve got to keep instilling the idea of what we’re trying to get done around here and just make sure they keep pushing.”
In the cases of Deas and Lott, it doesn’t appear that their losses will profoundly impact Georgia’s ability to compete. Deas (6-foot-1, 197 pounds) had three tackles last season playing mainly special teams. Lott (6-4, 303) appeared in five games in his career and recorded a total of 10 tackles.
But the sum total of the Bulldogs’ attrition is starting to stack up. Including past signees that failed to gain academic admission and players that have had to leave the program for any reason, Georgia is up to 30 players that could have had eligibility for the 2012 season.
“You definitely need as full of a boat as you can have,” Richt said. “You want to make sure you have enough guys out there to do all of your special teams work and everything. But that’s part of the reason we’re making sure that every guy, from the starters on offense and defense down through the scout team, are getting work [on special teams].”
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01HAWK
March 31st, 2012
4:40 pm
SHIP is sinking fast. Yes it is………………………………..CMR
01HAWK
March 31st, 2012
4:40 pm
Oh, I was first. LOL
01HAWK
March 31st, 2012
4:41 pm
Speaking of BOATS……………………..The TITANIC at UGA is sinking fast.
01HAWK
March 31st, 2012
4:42 pm
ATHENS – The hits just keep coming for the Georgia Bulldogs.
I could not have stated it better.
david p
March 31st, 2012
4:48 pm
Ouch. Athens, we have a problem
Dawg Haus
March 31st, 2012
4:50 pm
Robinson hit the nail on the head. The players need to hold each other accountable to keep the off-the-field shenanigans under control. In terms of the guys transferring, there’s not a whole lot than can be done other than wish them well. If their hearts weren’t in it at Georgia, it’s best for both parties to sever ties.
Dawg Haus
March 31st, 2012
4:52 pm
*that can be done…
sogadog
March 31st, 2012
4:59 pm
Ok thats it. Between the end of recruiting and fall practice, there is never any good news concerning UGA football. The only headlines are about players goofing up and leaving the team.
Therefore I resolve not to read the sports page until August.
Adios everyone, see you this fall. GO DAWGS!!
Fan of the Game
March 31st, 2012
5:01 pm
Just a sign of the times, no matter what school. Many players don’t want to try to stay, work hard and beat out anybody so they hit the road. Now if they flat can’t beat out the next guy, they don’t stay and be a good team guy so they hit the road. Just like high school, they just quit or go play another sport.
Fan of the Game
March 31st, 2012
5:03 pm
Also the character and integrity of NCAA athletics, particularly football and basketball is going downhill.
*SlowClap*
March 31st, 2012
5:05 pm
This is getting absolutely hysterical.
01HAWK
March 31st, 2012
5:06 pm
CRICKETTS
Vance Duly
March 31st, 2012
5:15 pm
Well — hopefully, we’ll have at least 24 scholarship players on the roster (including a punter & kicker) by the time the season arrives……… It seems logical that there might be something more behind the scenes, especially with Deas, since our depth there has already disappeared due to suspensions and other guys leaving….. Maybe I should abandon my usual “GO DAWGS” and say “STAY, DAWGS!”…
Clifton Crowsummore
March 31st, 2012
5:18 pm
How soon can we get Da’Rick on the field?
ScoutDawg
March 31st, 2012
5:19 pm
Wow, A whole lot of nothin’ blown up into a non-story. Good job Hawk, at least you have something to be proud of, “cricketts”.
01HAWKisTECHfan
March 31st, 2012
5:21 pm
No one who actually pays real attention to the Dawgs reads this rag so 01HAWK you are only hearing Crickets because no one cares. GTech is gonna suck again, and its funny we got to keep our sec east champ what happened to tech acc champ? oh ya you lost it from cheating, im sorry.
Hilton Head, Jr.
March 31st, 2012
5:23 pm
If you pick up Da’Rick, do you have to take Nance too?
ScoutDawg
March 31st, 2012
5:23 pm
Yes, what he said. +1 DAWGZILLION.
01HAWKisTECHfan
March 31st, 2012
5:27 pm
UGA will surprise everyone with the play of their backups this year, and everyone will see what a real coach like Coach Todd Damn Grantham can do with football players. Coach Fatty Tubbs over at Tech is gonna get crushed again this year. I can’t wait to beat Tech every year, and its funny because if Tech fans weren’t such jerks I would actually feel bad for them. Get ready world! The Junkyard Dawgs are back.
Paddy
March 31st, 2012
5:28 pm
I really wan’t to read some good news and soon. this is wearing me out!
Dawg Haus
March 31st, 2012
5:30 pm
Probably a good policy, sogadog. I just can’t help it. We’ll see you in August, brother!
RiverDawg
March 31st, 2012
5:32 pm
Keep positive people, this stuff happens at other schools as well. Making negative comments do not help.
01HAWKisTECHfan
March 31st, 2012
5:32 pm
The problem you have SOGADAWG is that you read this rag for Dawg info. http://www.thedawgbone.net is the best site for bulldog news. All sides of the story, not just the negative ones, like this free blog we are seeing now
evil empire
March 31st, 2012
5:35 pm
let me give yall a heads up…at wrestlemania tomorrow night, cena beats the rock, with help of rome, georgia’s own arn anderson…you heard it here first…go dawgs!!! remember when rome was the bad boy in georgia high school football??
bkbroila
March 31st, 2012
5:35 pm
LOL…who cares…good thing we don’t play SC in week 2 anymore…we will be missing some starters in week 2 against Mizz and Vandy, but we can handle them…boy, oh boy…Rambo is gonna be fresh for the second half of the season…he’s gonna be a worldbeater when it comes to catching INTs thrown right to him without a receiver within 10 yards and man, oh man….I’m gonna miss him getting toasted on the double triple quadruple halfback passes that he gets burnt on every 2 games….NFL roster is 60 or so….UGA will be just fine…Just think, 8 of the returning starters were thinking of going pro…look on the bright side….
Dawg Haus
March 31st, 2012
5:35 pm
Dawg Sports is a good one, too: http://www.dawgsports.com/
Gatohater
March 31st, 2012
5:37 pm
I was hungry and ate some brownies if found on the counter has got to be the most bogus response I’ve ever heard…who be leaves that?? That’s right up there with.. Ops.. I just slipped and my johnson ended up in your girlfriend! Sorry dude!
bwell
March 31st, 2012
5:43 pm
what ahole at uga decided to give a drug test after spring break. how about after spring practice is up. Really. I understand the reason behind it; but darn the coaches couldnt have said hey you may be tested after spring break be careful. This is sad. They didnt leave b/c of not having any playing time. Thats bs. they left for other reasons. Hopefully we can rebound from this and make good on the upcoming season. And all of this cant recruit a player because of charcter, feed that crap to someone else. The kid that stole something from the locker room last year that is now at tenn. wow he looks like a saint now.
Dawglasville
March 31st, 2012
5:48 pm
Gatohater – Can’t believe that got through.That is funny.
It is time for the seniors on this team and to read these guys the riot act. Some of this behavior is just so unbelievably selfish.
Benchwarmers
March 31st, 2012
5:49 pm
Let me see. People who do not play or no chance of really playing leave. And you nitwits say the ship is sinking? Maybe you have never played sports. Atheletes want to play as racehorses like to run. If you cannot run, go to another pasture, time is short. It is not a crime to go somewhere where you can live a dream, go, have fun, and these guys are smart enough to read the tea leaves. If anything, it shows CMR is bringing in better players than what is on the roster. Fire CMR? That is idiot talk.
BamaTrash
March 31st, 2012
5:50 pm
hay we dont drug test come play fer us
BamaTrash
March 31st, 2012
5:52 pm
evil u sownd like a butt hurt tek fan
ugalee
March 31st, 2012
5:52 pm
Mark Richt is always preaching love together ness etc. But in the end, it doesnt seem like the players really buy in to all of his feel good BS. Ultimately they do whatever the heck they want. Really, does anybody reallliy believe that the players respect CMR or are they just glad that hes a gullible bible beater that wont hold their feet to the fire. There is no way that this leaderless outfit is going to win anything of consequence next season just like in 08. History just keeps repeating…………
BamaTrash
March 31st, 2012
5:53 pm
war eagle yall
LakeDawg
March 31st, 2012
5:53 pm
The attitude at UGA has to change NOW! It might already be too late for next season. The overarching theme at UGA the past 5-6 years is the players aren’t ALL IN! There’s plenty of blame to pass around. Senior leadership, current culture, parents, etc. Bottom line, however, when it becomes the culture of the team for a long period of time it is the fault of the coaching staff.
Say it ain't so
March 31st, 2012
5:56 pm
say what? I thought the Parade was today. You know the one to show off all the Dream Team members from the last 4 years. You know, the ones who were going to bring up the national championship. I realize we say that every year for the last 32 years but CMR you promised. Or those idiots on sports radio in Atlanta did, cannot remember now.
Anyway, I’m standing here on Peachtree Road waiting for the hawg dawgs to come by on a float beating their chest how great we are and we don’t even have to play Bama or LSU to prove it.
Wow, all I see is some idiot with a bumper stick that says Honk If a Dream Team member hauled arse out of Athens today.
U=DUMB
March 31st, 2012
6:00 pm
Why isnt anyone mentioning the absolutely BRUTAL schedules we had all the previous years? Cuz it proves your point worthless?
Do these morons think UGA or any other school picks their schedule?
evil empire
March 31st, 2012
6:03 pm
no bama, not a tech fan..if you cross me however, you’ll be recognized as butthurt bama trash…you can believe that boy…
Macclenny_dawg
March 31st, 2012
6:08 pm
Just another reason we should sign a full 25 scholarships. Its called insurance 4 problems like this. Also Uga should lower their standards on their policy 2 match other SEC programs. This is just another reason we cannot win a NC!!! Sick and tired of everytime u read about Uga its negative!!! I am sick of the Preaching of excellence its time we demand it!!!
SayWhat
March 31st, 2012
6:12 pm
Who did USCe play last season that the Dawgs didnt? Ark? Dawgs played LSU in Dome.
UGA had same or harder schedule. So why all the hate on Georgia……lol
U=DUMB
March 31st, 2012
6:13 pm
intranet theats LMAO @ u watertrash
BamaTrash
March 31st, 2012
6:15 pm
evil u reetard come too bama an see wut happens
pj
March 31st, 2012
6:18 pm
From the football side of things – we are about to not have a 2 deep. We can put our starters out there and look great, but when south carolia and florida take us deep into games – we won’t have the gas because all of our backups are gone.
I always look at things half full, but the only thing half full here is a cup of cloudy urine…
BamaTrash
March 31st, 2012
6:19 pm
im senior dis yaer and jus moved to riverside ill be the won wit my foot up yer butt
UGADawg91
March 31st, 2012
6:20 pm
Sounds like 2 more scholarships for the 2013 class. Any JC DB’s around that can be picked up this late? Not too worried about losing Lott because there is plenty of DL depth. But the secondary is really thin already and losing another guy has to hurt.
Froude
March 31st, 2012
6:21 pm
Said senior defensive end Cornelius Washington: “There’s a whole lot of distractions.”
The pot calling the kettle black.
don4654
March 31st, 2012
6:27 pm
This is why Saban signs all he can every year.Guys flunk out,guys transfer for playing time ,guys get into trouble,guys get hurt.Happens to every team every year
And you're paying Richt how many million a year for this crap?
March 31st, 2012
6:28 pm
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see through Richt’s lies and figure out that Lott and Deas failed the drug test.
Will any of Richt’s goons still be around by September?
GSUBB
March 31st, 2012
6:53 pm
We will take your cast-off over at GSU. Keep them coming.
Jason
March 31st, 2012
7:03 pm
Nobody wants to go to bama. It’s a wasteland. There are 7 months of the year when football is not being played. Tuscaloosa really? Besides forest gumps hometown of greenbow which dosent even exist Alabama has nothing to offer so you can hang you’re hat on that all day long if you want. So excuse me while I go enjoy a concert in downtown Atlanta while the Alabamians crawl back to their shanties in a drunken stupor.
Kingdaddy
March 31st, 2012
7:17 pm
Good riddance to bad trash. All we lost was dead-wood. All the Trolls want to CROW because they’re to dumb to realize the quitters have helped our team in the long run. Hey trolls, would you want these quitters on your team? This doesn’t include GT fans, we know you would. It’s just addition by subtraction. The players that remain can handle the pressure and be remembered as DGDs. All this sh*t because of f-ing Brownies. LOL…
bama smells
March 31st, 2012
7:20 pm
Is it true that Saban once stepped over a player who what having a heat stroke?
Vorizon
March 31st, 2012
7:23 pm
Players leaving because not enough playing time, even when others don’t deserve to be in front? Lott, getting bumped by Drew, who did nothing last season. Ealey getting benched when Caleb couldn’t score. Mettenberger not getting reps even when he crushed Murray over Spring scrimmages. Deas not getting reps, even though the guy in front of him gets suspended? Don’t blame thse guys for quitting/transferring. Richt runs a favoritism program, instead of a merit based program like Spurrier.
Hugo
March 31st, 2012
7:23 pm
Those that think these recent transfers are going to hurt this team are blinded by their ignorance. Gee, that is a shock, ignorant UGA haters. Who would have thought?
Vorizon
March 31st, 2012
7:24 pm
Where’s Aaron Murray’s leadership? Why is this team falling apart?
Vorizon
March 31st, 2012
7:25 pm
Carlton Thomas left because he was getting the reps he eanred, by averaging more yards per carry than injury prone entitled Crowell.
Hugo
March 31st, 2012
7:26 pm
Vorizon, you just proved my point, you are a moron. Spurrier does not run a favoritism program? How many chances did Garcia get dumbsh*t? Damn son, ignorance must be your hobby. And you are good at it, be proud.
icedawg
March 31st, 2012
7:32 pm
Don’t blame the young men. If they want to play they need to find the place in which that can happen. It is great that UGA allows students to go anywhere. If these players were not going to get much playing time what loss is there to us?
Bam a mike
March 31st, 2012
7:35 pm
How sweet. Coach Richt still loves them. Tanning bed is ready for you Coach.
Just so I get this straight; we lose another player for the 2012 season down to 76 on Scholarship now, and that is good news ?
March 31st, 2012
7:37 pm
Just so I get this straight; we lose another player for the 2012 season down to 76 on Scholarship now – including 3 Walk-Ons who never play Offense or Defense, and that is good news ?
Were that in fact, true, then :
(1) Why is it the players are saying : “There’s a whole lot of distractions” ?
and
(2) Why is the Coach is saying : “You definitely need as full of a boat as you can have,” Mark Richt is saying. “You want to make sure you have enough guys out there ”
Well, yeah coach and team : The SEC is a long season. And, after our 12 cupcakes, only 1 of whom made any top 25, there is Arkansas, or LSU or Alabama to play in The SEC Championship Game and you don’t want to go 10-42 against them. Then, there is the bowl game and you don’t want to go to 7-5 in bowl games.
This is getting so old.
And, it has been so long since we beat a team who made it to either the top 10 or even made it to the top 25 of any poll anywhere.
76 on Scholarship – really only 73. Self-Imposed Double PROBATION for us 2012, and to think as Chip Towers says we are Starting Out # 6 in all the polls 2012.
73 of 109 left standing.
Signed 109 Scholarships Mark Richt has toward his 85-man limit.
73 of 109 remaining.
Nah, attrition is not an issue around here.
FLA DAWG
March 31st, 2012
7:51 pm
I don’t know. Maybe in the end this will pull the team together – that is if we have enough players left to field a team.
Eleven…………..I mean ELEVEN Players and we are still FIVE MONTHS AWAY from kickoff.
How many more?
Sickening.
sapelodawg
March 31st, 2012
7:56 pm
The “key” word in your headline was preach. I am sick and tired of preaching. How ’bout a little “coaching for a change. Maybe even a dash of “leadership”. Get rid of the damned preacher and get a coach ! ! ! ! ! !
Beast from the East
March 31st, 2012
7:59 pm
Looks alot like what we endured last year at UF with all the players leaving for various reasons. If your team can stay relatively healthy, then it won’t be that big of a deal. If not, then it could be a tough season. Truth be told, if they don’t want to be there, then you’re better off without them. Look how well Jarvis Jones has performed since he transferred to a place he really wanted to be at.
Kingdaddy
March 31st, 2012
8:11 pm
I believe the new strength and conditioning coaches are finding out who’s a man and who’s a boy. The slackers can’t handle this new system. IT’S TOO HARRRRDDDD!!! WHAAAAAAA!!! It’s OK, the REAL MEN will stick it out…
slawdawg
March 31st, 2012
8:17 pm
It’s real simple……..You don’t want to be here…….LEAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kingdaddy
March 31st, 2012
8:19 pm
I will be p*ssed if Richt allows any of these losers to go to a team we play on a regular basis. It’s time for him to show he’s got a set and liberate these jerks to an NON-SEC TEAM…
Kingdaddy
March 31st, 2012
8:24 pm
I guess it didn’t bother LSU that Mett was a Sexual Predator. That’s serious sh*t…
Dawg gone it
March 31st, 2012
8:26 pm
Funny how all the haters are obsessed with everything Uga! Go Dawgs!
jaxdawgfan
March 31st, 2012
8:32 pm
It has been my experience that, when unhappy people leave an organization, the organization is the better for it. People who put themselves first will never really contribute to any team.
diggs
March 31st, 2012
8:33 pm
Smart move Deas leaving Richt in the dust. Word on da street, Deas wern’t happy he didn’t get more reps after Rambo got busted. Richt betta figur out what goin on, and start being mor fair, or he ain’t gonna have nobodies left.
diggs
March 31st, 2012
8:35 pm
wonda how long Hutspn mason stik around, he do better than Murray, and don’t get no playin time….
Gator
March 31st, 2012
8:35 pm
Just so I get this straight; we lose another player for the 2012 season down to 76 on Scholarship now, and that is good news ? Thomas Brown with a new name. Biggest joke on any blog.
diggs
March 31st, 2012
8:36 pm
don’t foget about when logan gray transferred because richt announed murray as starter before spring started….
diggs
March 31st, 2012
8:37 pm
favoritism is a sin.
the book of james.
diggs
March 31st, 2012
8:41 pm
da word is clear, jsmes 2:9
play favorited, you sin, you reap what you sew.
playa’s not stayin for Richt, Richt ain’t got no cred, Richt lost da locker room now.
"The Georgia Way"
March 31st, 2012
8:43 pm
The energy-vampire bus is filling up, and guess who is driving it.
diggs
March 31st, 2012
8:43 pm
ain’t gonna be nobodies left cept richt’s favorites, a bunch of guys who never earn it on da feild.
diggs
March 31st, 2012
8:45 pm
when you a cam newton, if ya coach won’t play ya, you gotta leave, and go to a coach who will be fair….
worked out good for cam leaving florida….
just sayin’…
Bam a mike
March 31st, 2012
8:51 pm
Nick Saban after today’s scrimmage. “I was pleased with the physical play of our defense” The
“Process” continues.
Lakedawg
March 31st, 2012
8:51 pm
@diggs–Man were yo learn to talk an spel like dat? gotta be fom la, dont no nutting bout ga football.
Lakedawg
March 31st, 2012
8:52 pm
Thanks Bama Mike, we were breathlessly awaiting that update. Dipstick
diggs
March 31st, 2012
9:02 pm
can’t wait to see hutson mason on g-day gonna throw some bombs, not that it will matta, neva do
my boy mettenberger threw 2 bombs td’s today for over 270 yards….just like myt bo did qwhen he was at uga, miss ole mett, boy can play
Some good news for UGA fans
March 31st, 2012
9:03 pm
Jay Rome, Ray Drew, and Corey Moore all looking good in spring drills. Moore’s performance may have been the deciding factor in Deas transferring in hopes of playing time (also think Connor Norman has passed him on the depth chart).
I think we have enough talent to survive Missouri, and then get to full strength for the stretch run and head to Atlanta (much to the consternation of many posters on this board).
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. Note to critics- this does not count cupcakes.
Looks like the Dogs will get Brendan Langley and JJ Green for our secondary, and the main problem with our offensive line haul will be which player who wants to be a Dog does not get an offer. This is shaping up as a monster year and we have the scholarship numbers to really load up and rebuild our depth.
Ex-Contributor
March 31st, 2012
9:29 pm
No sense flushing good money down the toilet. Wonder if Richt knows the words to the Missouri Waltz? Now how many years was Richt’s contract extended? Three? Keep up the good work McGarity.
Doug
March 31st, 2012
9:33 pm
Jason…………Really? Forest Gump was a novel (not real) about a person who lived in Alabama. IT WAS FILMED IN GEORGIA…………Jackass. I’ve lived in Atlanta for 15 years BUT NEVER have I been embarrased about growing up in Alabama. You sir…….live in a state that if it WEREN’T FOR ATLANTA………..IT WOULD BE JUST ONE BIG MISSISSIPPI…..IDIOT
phil
March 31st, 2012
9:37 pm
Fire CMR!!
Dawg Whisperer
March 31st, 2012
9:42 pm
Thank you, Beast of the East, for lending occasional sane comments from a non-UGA supporter. This board is loaded with immature comments from Bammers. They are drunk with their recent success and think they will live in Candyland for ever and ever.
Dawg Whisperer
March 31st, 2012
9:47 pm
Doug, and where would the state of New York be without NYC? Would it be Maine? The difference is that if you take Birmingham out of Alabama, it would still be Alabama. No change.
fat alligator
March 31st, 2012
9:50 pm
Ha Ha
1953dawg
March 31st, 2012
9:52 pm
Why are people crying about 2 guys that would never contribute, deciding to leave the program? Deas was never an SEC safety prospect, and why UGA offered him is the real problem. Richt and his boy Garner were so desperate to sign players that they offered marginal talent. Same can be said about Lott. The only thing this guy could do was fall off of a scooter. He was demoted to 3rd team after Drew and Washington moved to D.E. behind Smith and Abry Jones. Then Thornton has been moved to D.E. and he had 3 sacks in scrimmage. Add Sterling Bailey when he returns, and Lott would be lucky to play a single down this year. That makes 6 quality D.E’s ahead of Lott, so the kid made a good decision. However, if he can’t compete at UGA for playing time, and he quits, where does he think he will earn playing time? Probably a division 2 school like Ga.Southern. Bottomline is Deas will never play at a division 1 program and Lott will be a backup his whole career. If anything this shows how GOD awful UGA’s coaches are at evaluating high school talent. They have missed on some many prospects, and it is showing now on the field. 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 you can’t evaluate high school talent, you can’t recruit, and 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. No ability to evaluate players or coaches. Sorry UGA fans,but the truth hurts, and this guy has shown his total lack of ability to manage a program
Kingdaddy
March 31st, 2012
9:57 pm
Candyland, La-La Land, Disneyland. Nothing’s stopping them from moving except maybe probation. If they don’t like GA. why do they talk about us so much? Go home losers…,
Dawg Whisperer
March 31st, 2012
9:58 pm
‘53…. you’re welcome to express your opinion but I trust McGarity’s opinion more. He has much more to lose than you and BTW, more expertise has a sports athletic administrator.
S.E. Dawg
March 31st, 2012
10:07 pm
Chip, it’s also grating on the Bulldawg Nation too.
Huh?
March 31st, 2012
10:17 pm
So two players have left due to playing time? Really? Don’t they know that half the team is suspended? Sounds like there is more to the story.
Kingdaddy
March 31st, 2012
10:19 pm
Its only the Trolls making a big deal about Deas just so they can bash Richt some more. You can only play 11 at a time, so what’s the problem. If we lose game because of the lack of a couple part timers, then we should worry, but I don’t see this impacting us much. There may be a few more that needs to hit the road too as in also…
Kingdaddy
March 31st, 2012
10:30 pm
I believe there’s some kind of connection to this rash of suspensions and these sissies leaving…
E
March 31st, 2012
10:39 pm
Richt’s still cleaning house after taking all the criticism in 2010. The preacher finally understands how the real world works. Instead of sending up another prayer petition for things to go well, he’s now actually taking action on his own to make it happen. Took him a long time to figure out that’s how you get things done , but better late than never.
OkieDawg
March 31st, 2012
10:40 pm
Wow, all signs point to a very deep and talented team. When former 4 and 5 star recruits are leaving the team because they can’t crack the lineup, you know things in Athens are headed in the right direction. This is all very positive news and when our starting D gets back on the field…look out. I can’t remember an offseason when all the stars are starting to align so early. Go Dawgs!!!! Just a tribute to what CMR has been able to do for our Dawgs. Go Coach!!!!
Bama=home of the T-bag special
March 31st, 2012
10:43 pm
Something I’m having a little trouble understanding…..how in the world do all these Bama trolls get the idea any of us give a rats ass what they think about any damn thing??
dustbucket
March 31st, 2012
10:45 pm
out of a potential 85 scholarships, right now, at spring, we are down to 57, has to be lowest in the sec?
OkieDawg
March 31st, 2012
10:50 pm
dustbucket, What’s the proble? We only need 22 and a couple kickers. We have an excess of players.
michael
March 31st, 2012
10:54 pm
I’m failing to see what the big deal is regarding the players who are leaving for “more playing time”. Love, Thomas, Daes, and Lott weren’t going to see the field in any significant way anyway. So take off guys. Who cares? And the 3 willing to steal from fellow teammates were rightfully told to take a hike as well. And with the defense we have, none of those guys were going to see lots of action either. It’s much ado about nothing. Chip has to fill a certain amount of column inches, so he drags these non-stories out ad nausem.It still won’t change the fact that the team will be 4-0 when it gets back to full strength to face the meat of the schedule.
OkieDawg
March 31st, 2012
11:00 pm
I wish all these guys good luck and hope they find playing time at schools like Troy, N. Alabama, S. Alabama, Jax State and Georgia Tech. After all, they could be famous…GT’s first commit of 2013. But I’m sure CPJ has bigger fish to fry.
Arizona Dawg
March 31st, 2012
11:01 pm
You may ask yourself, where does that highway lead to?
You may ask yourself, am I right am I wrong?
You may say to yourself my God what have I done.
Same as it ever was, Same as it ever was, Same as it ever was.
ugalee
March 31st, 2012
11:04 pm
this program has officially become the “Drama Queen” of the sec. Thank you Mark Richt for turning a traditional Southern power into a gangster as the world turns
Bama=home of the T-bag special
March 31st, 2012
11:09 pm
@ugalee damn Suzie you don’t like it take a hike..
Kingdaddy
March 31st, 2012
11:46 pm
Nothing to see here folks, move along.ugalee go bash your own coach. Richt must scare the h**LLC out of you for you to be so worried about him.
hee haw
March 31st, 2012
11:55 pm
Let the drunken wife beating begin early.
NoBrownies4u
April 1st, 2012
12:07 am
Lol @ all the little butt hurt AJC Georgia boys who will find a way to pin this last departure on Saban and the Alabama institution…
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hind tit
April 1st, 2012
12:22 am
Now were down to demanding excellence and lowering our standards to other schools in the same paragraph. What a bunch of redneck fans. And we wonder why the world is so sick. This is about a stupid game not the end of mankind.
Bama=home of the T-bag special
April 1st, 2012
12:25 am
@NoBrownies4u nope we don’t care what Saban does except that part where he continues to get his drones at the SEC to not schedule UGA…. @hee haw drunken wife beating is the Saturday nite tradition in Bama..
LakeDawg
April 1st, 2012
12:36 am
The issue isn’t if UGA has the players to win the East. They do. The issue is the team doesn’t have the mindset to win a championship. I smell a disappointing season on the horizon.
gt4ever
April 1st, 2012
12:43 am
Well, why don’t we give both Richt and Grantham another RAISE! Yeah that’s it…. What a JOKE UGA football has become…
7576DAWG
April 1st, 2012
12:58 am
What amazes me the most is how many 3rd , 4TH and 5TH string players are a legend in their own mind. They have a real problem accepting the fact that they are not good enough to be a regular player and instead of accepting their role of getting the best ready to contend for the SEC title and possibly a national title they would rather play for some 1-AA team that want even get them a scout to their games.
If it was me the possibility of getting another SEC ring and a National Title RING would be well worth staying on the team and admitting my lesser role but very important role.
chuck
April 1st, 2012
1:03 am
Time for a new head coach.
Torching a Blunt with the bulldog nation
April 1st, 2012
2:20 am
Last year I grew a nice red radish in my garden. He is now a SO. on the Dean’s List at UGA and says there are a lot of friendly blondes there.
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
3:03 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. Note to critics- this does not count cupcakes.”
____________________________________________________
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”
_____________________________________________________
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.”
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
3:10 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.”
____________________________________________________
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
________________________________________________________
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”
_____________________________________________________
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.”
_________
Kingdaddy March 29th, 2012 3:57 am
“Coach Mark Richt, your team is an embarrassment and a laughing stock to NCAA football.”
Hairy Dawg
April 1st, 2012
3:18 am
The people complaining is just the bad fans that looking to lynching Coach Richt after the hot siting failed and he gots a new contract. Instead this here is just example of roster manegement where Coach Richt is casting outs the stinkys that turns out not to have or expose SEC talents. That way we frees schollies for new recruits and can signs new Dream Team.
That how Sabans builds team at Bammer by cutting the non-performers. You either earn your schollie by playing good football or you hit the road and don’t let door knob hit you where God Lord split you.
That way we get more open schollies for good recruits and remaining players know they have to win to keep schollies cause this aint no kiddies league. You either play well and expose talents for NFL by displaying SEC speed. Or we cut you loose as stinkys and bring in new player to replacing your sorry rear. Its is as simple as that.
The only complexing is Adams and his pointy heads but McG gots to set Adams straight.
GT is a 4th rate high school team
April 1st, 2012
3:35 am
@Say it ain’t so, who is the DREAM TEAM member involved in this recent suspensions and leaving. you should be a North Ave trader or Aubum as you know who the dream team are. You rate just like you team.
Dream Team
April 1st, 2012
4:18 am
DREAM TEAM speaks for itself, it was # 6 class nationally according to Scout.com when it was signed. And, what have they done these 2 years ? Not a thing. Nothing. They have LOST every game against every team who made any top 10 and they have LOST every game against every team who made any top 25.
Mark Richt Signed Scholarships for 2012 to :
1.AJ Harmon SR # 10 OT nation 5-Star, academic failure transfer
2.Dontavius Jackson SR # 23 TB 4-Star, DUI transfer
3.Carlton Thomas SR TB suspended 3 times 2011 alone, 1 of the 3 times Isaiah Crowell, Ken Malcome, and Carlton Thomas were all 3 suspended the same game 1 game after the Florida game for failing a drug test on Thursday two days before the Florida game, now he transfers – is he one of the 5 who failed the drug test, not disclosed ? Isaiah Crowell ? Ken Malcome again ? Aaron Murray who has been given byes for all his transgressions including a sex photo him with glasses on spring break with 3 men in his motel room ?
4.Brent Benedict SO # 10 OT 4-Star, transfer over S & Cond
5.Nick Williams SR Safety, transfer could’ve redshirt 2011, should’ve been suspended for late hit, dirty hit trying to hurt star player Tim Tebow, also had Todd Grantham grab him up by the scruff of the neck near end Todd’s 1st G-Day Game and drag him off the field for a similar hit then too.
6.Marcus Dowtin R SR # 7 LB nation 4-Star, transfer could’ve redshirt 2011, charged with second-degree assault in his home state of Maryland in 2010, suspended by coach Mark Richt for the Bulldogs’ bowl game before he transferred, now hopes to be drafted by NFL in 5th round.
7.Bryce Ros JR # 22 TE listed med disq like Jeremy Longo
8.Johnathan Owens SR # 39 OT listed med disq like Jeremy Longo
9.DE Jeremy Longo SR with Sanders Commings when he beat up girl
10.Xavier Tyrone Avery SR RB, signed 2009 UGA instead baseball
11.Toby Jackson SR # 9 DE 4-Star failed qualify transfer
12.Makiri Pugh SR Safety CB, transfer Suspended Colorado 11/10/11
13.Montez Robinson SR # 10 DE 4-* beat up girl transfer
14.Washaun Ealey SR # 15 RB nation 4-Star, suspended 1 game hit and run driving suspended license car owned by Jakar Hamilton, also suspended again later undisclosed not Georgia way, transfer
15.Lonnie Outlaw JR WR failed qualify, transfer
16.Jakar Hamilton SR Safety 4-Star, allowed Ealey drive suspended lic transfer
17.Derek Owens JR CB, Academic Failure suspended bowl transfer
18.Demetre Baker JR # 23 LB 4-Star, kicked off DUI transfer
19.Jalen Fields JR DE 4-Star, failed qualify, transfer
20.Kent Turene FR LB failed qualify Dream Team # 1
21.Chris Mayes SO DT failed qualify Dream Team # 2
22.Chris Little SR # 12 OT 4-Star transfer, ruled ineligible what ? Steroids ?
23.Orson Charles SR DUI TE said NFL who don’t accept DUI either
24. Derrick Lott, JR DE, fine looking young man, transfer
25.Marc Deas SO DB transfer
26.Zach Mettenberger JR # 14 QB 4-* sexual battery, transfer
27.Jordan Lawrence Love JR 12/31/90 # 21 CB 4-* arrested didn’t know middle name or birthday, transfer
28.Sanford Seay RFR SE theft transfer Dream Team 3
29.Chris Sanders SO DB theft transfer Dream Team 4
30.Nick Marshall SO CB theft transfer Dream Team 5
31. Sanders Commings SR CB Suspended simple battery girl
32. Branden Smith SR CB Suspended Buffalo only ?
33.Alec Ogletree JR LB Should be Safety failed drug test
34.Bacarri Rambo SR Safety 2nd of 5 failed drug test, other 3 ?
more BAD PRESS for Mark Richt on his Scholarships he gave out for 2012 none of whom are playing vs Mizzou.
We don’t cut dead wood here. We do it the right way. Only scum Saban does that.
57 on Scholarship with
+16 coming in in the Fall.
=73 Scholarships remaining of the 109 Mark Richt signed to his 85-man limit.
Dream Team
April 1st, 2012
5:09 am
Here is what I like most about NCAA Basketball where a school can put 6 guys maybe 7 on the court and do well, not that we have a gym selected for a post-season NCAA Tournament in 41 Years so we can recruit top women and men players here in this state :
http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2012/01/18/011812-NCAA-Cheerleaders-G6-AA_20120118215854277_600_400.JPG
ACC ? Basketball ACC ? Huh ? Has it really been since 1998 that Kentucky won the NC?
Dream Team
April 1st, 2012
5:23 am
2011 UCON
2010 DUKE – ACC
2009 NORTH CAR – ACC
2008 KANSAS
2007 FLORIDA – SEC
2006 FLORIDA – SEC
Since we started being bad at football, and we really haven’t beat the top teams in football the entire Mark Richt era, but since we started really being bad in football after 2005 at # 21 in the nation and # 6 of just 2012 SEC teams in wins after 2005 :
SEC playing for NC # 3 Monday night
ACC 2
Big East (of 16 teams) 1
Big XII I guess they are the Big X now huh ? one
Of course, the ACC has been out of this March Madness for some time now.
How is the ACC the top conference in men’s basketball ?
ANSWER : They are NOT.
# 3 of SEC coaches in win % vs teams finishing over .500 all 11 years
During this same half a dozen current years :
AFTER 2005 :
# 21 wins Mark Richt
# 6 of just 2012 SEC teams in wins Mark Richt
# 4 best coach in all of America
SugarHillDawg
April 1st, 2012
8:06 am
I like to hear the players talk of big things next year then I remember CMR is their coach and it’s impossible.
Lakedawg
April 1st, 2012
8:12 am
What the heck?? Some Techiiee with way to much time on their hands.
This from the real Lakedawg, I feel an excellent year this year a lirrle more concern withthe number of young but good guys playing in 2013.
SEC champs this year beating LSU in title game.
BullDogMike
April 1st, 2012
8:16 am
I just wish everybody would stop talking about winning the mythical national champ. Start talking about something at least attainable. I’m talking SEC champ at dome. You don’t need to be sqawking about anything until we can prove we belong on same field as Bama and LSU. Which so far, we have not.How about we see if Murray can beat a team ranked in the top 20 before we have him going down to Miami.. MNC talk right now! What a joke !
ozzfest
April 1st, 2012
8:18 am
Funny the MONEY for season tickets was due LAST week….and now more of Richt’s failures emerge.
You know EVERYBODY on the team was going to get playing time this year
BUFFALO
FLORIDA ATLANTIC
GA SOUTHERN
OLE MISS
VANDERBILT
McGarrity is KING WIMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Black Mountain NC Bulldog
April 1st, 2012
8:47 am
I hate to say it, but as long as Saban is at Bama. They will be hard to be both on the field and in recruiting. UGA needs to sign a really great class, and use every available scholly, this year.
tell me again
April 1st, 2012
9:04 am
If the rest of the teams in the SEC did as many surprise drug tests as UGA there would not be any football teams north or west of Athens……UGA has been proven to have one of the strictest disciplinary and drug testing approaches in the nation – we pay a price for doing it right…..I can live with it – it’s just a game and these young mens lives are at stake with some of these risky behaviors. Good job RIcht for doing it the Georgia way.
TigerinGA
April 1st, 2012
9:16 am
Beat LSU in SEC championship??? Man, you must be smoking same stuff as your suspended players, or eating the same brownies!
ugab
April 1st, 2012
9:22 am
Here we go again… and again,, and again and again.. every season, every year it is the same ole sht …with CMR.. Go to church, quit coaching for good.. I do not see MR taking these players to church with him, so why preach to parents about your own belief if ur not going to install it into your program..
Hairy Dawg
April 1st, 2012
9:25 am
@Dream Team at 4:18 AM
The Dream Team 1 has only been on campus 1 year and some was red shirtted. They not been having chance yet to show how they winning SEC and that means BSC. Still in that one year as true freshmens they wons East. And they even won half a game against undefeated LSU before not having depth to keep playing. But that will be changing this year cause Dream Team 2 wlil be on field to helps Dream Team 1. But people trying to hot sit Coach Richt knows they not worrying about true facts.
ugab
April 1st, 2012
9:28 am
If you were a coach, and had an easy schedule coming up. with a talented defense. Would you let the players get tested for drugs after spring break.. Other schools are not trying to catch the players with drug test. they are letting them know when a test is coming../????????????then if the player is dumb enough to fail a drug test, suspend them.. I have a feeling this is going to get worse, before the season starts. MR is going to be playing with walkons.. IT IS THE SAME OLE SHT EVERY SEASON WITH CMR. CMR NEEDS TO PUT THE HAMMER DOWN ON THIS DRUG TESTING THING… IT NEEDS TO BE TODAY..ON SUNDAY..
ugab
April 1st, 2012
9:30 am
I KNOW PLAYERS ARE NOT GOING TO CHOOSE UGA,NOW… WHY WOULD YOU GO TO A SCHOOL WHO IS GOING TO DRUG TEST YOU AFTER SPRING BREAK.. NO WONDER ALL THE PLAYERS ARE GOING ELSE WHERE.
ugab
April 1st, 2012
9:32 am
why is everyone going by MR’s winning percetage.? LOL
Hairy Dawg
April 1st, 2012
9:38 am
Why you think it Coach Richt that called surprise drugs test. Adams done it I am sure cause he want to keep pointy heads pretending to be incharge.
tripledart
April 1st, 2012
9:46 am
Who really cares anymore.Monkey see Monkey do.Hell pay them they don’t care about a education
when they get locked up fire their ass’s and bring another one in the gate.The streets and jails are full
nor shortage on college football player’s.
Thomas Brown = Mr Negativity = 13-1 East (blogger) = Techie
April 1st, 2012
9:47 am
I’m ecstatic that these 2 players elected to leave UGa. In 5 years they accounted for 13 tackles so give me a break…..they would have left Bama, UT, UF, etc with so little playing time. It is good for them and good for UGa. We have 2 additional scholarships that we can offer to players who can handle competition and who don’t quit when the going gets tough. Go Dawgs!!!
Thomas Brown = Mr Negativity = 13-1 East (blogger) = Techie
April 1st, 2012
9:58 am
@psycho Thomas brown
We all know you are posting under new names like “dream team” and long winded names at 3:03 and 3:10 am. P.S. No one reads your manic ramblings and we all know when it is YOU so we skip on to the next blog. Please take your meds Techie!!!!
cliffclimber
April 1st, 2012
10:04 am
Carlton Thomas led the team in yards per carry, like Ealey did, and still couldn’t get his fair share of reps.
No wonder they transferred.
cliffclimber
April 1st, 2012
10:07 am
Mettenberger has looked great, ever since he transferred from playing for Mark Richt, a coach, everyone knows, who plays his class favorties, instead of top performers. Mettenberger went out and led his team to the National Championship once he found a coach who rewarded performance.
Ealey ran for over 1100 yards, and over 6 yards per carry this year.
Cam Newton won the Heisman at Auburn once he transferred.
Some coaches just play favorites, that’s the label on Mark Richt.
And players continue to drop like flies.
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DawgByte
April 1st, 2012
10:27 am
This is no big deal. Coaches like Nick Saban forceable weed out players that don’t make the grade, which opens up more scholarships. No offense to Deas, but he’s not a SEC caliber defensive back. With Drew and Washington moving to DE, Lott saw his PT falling off the table.
Like I said, this is no big deal!
logical jacket
April 1st, 2012
10:33 am
I was gonna fuss about Fudge and Tree,
but then I got high…
Gonna complain about the lax SEC,
but then I got high…
Now we have no depth on D, and I know why….
(Why, Dawg? Yeah-hay!)
Because they got high, because they got high, because they got high….
NoBrownies4u
April 1st, 2012
11:04 am
Man you ain’t got nothing to do and it’s Friday! We’s gona’ get high high!
bigtime
April 1st, 2012
11:32 am
It’s funny how when the exact same thing happens at Bama, all of you UGA fans are quick to point the finger and accuse “Satan” of being an oversigner. You losers are the biggest hypocrites in the history of mankind. Mark Richt is running players off at an alarming rate, and all you guys do is blame the poor players??? What a joke.
Charlie Daniels was right. It looks to me like the devil has went down to Georgia, and he’s lookin for some souls to to steal.
joe in tucker
April 1st, 2012
11:35 am
maybe we need a better head recruiter who can chose not only talent but also character!!
Snoop Dawg
April 1st, 2012
12:42 pm
Only an imbecile would mention UGA as a national championship contender with incompetent coaches like Richt and Bobo running the program into the ground…
They provide absolutely no leadership, no nothing…
Snoop Dawg
April 1st, 2012
12:45 pm
If Mettenberger gets a chance, he will single handedly annhiliate what these days impersonates as the UGA football team.
michael
April 1st, 2012
12:56 pm
Mettenberger? He couldnt get on the field last year for LSU, and their QB play in front of him was horrible at best! Nice try, Snoop Dummy!
Hairy Dawg
April 1st, 2012
1:04 pm
This makes me sickening how so many bad fans is a trying to hot sit Coach Richt. We knows Coach Richt is casting out the players that no good and stinkys. If we don’t cut loose the stinkys boys as part of roster manegements then we stuck with the sorry freeloaders for 4 years and that keeps schollie taken up by stinkys instead of talented recruits.
The only way to fixes it is to cast out the stnkys players that not exposing talents. If they not exposing talent on field then they don’t deserve access to the parties and ladies in Athens. But you have to do like The Book says and cast out those that not exposing talents to play with SEC speed.
LogicalUS
April 1st, 2012
1:35 pm
Who besides the homers at the AJC was mentioning UGA as national championship contenters?
I haven’t heard any such nonsense besides the beaners at the AJC who make their livings boosting UGA from February to August as the preseason MNC. Then of course the “greatest team ever” actually has to play a game and the collapse occurs.
Top Dog 34: 2012 will be an instant replay of 2011 at best.
April 1st, 2012
5:55 pm
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TigerinGA
April 1st, 2012
9:41 pm
Snoop, Zach IS the LSU starter and he will light up UGA should they be lucky enough to make it back to the SEC championship game this year.
Bama=home of the T-bag special
April 1st, 2012
10:28 pm
We are the Bull Dog Nation…..we are coming get on the train or prepare yourself to be road kill..Go Dawgs!
Bama Roll TR
April 1st, 2012
10:38 pm
No transfer problems at Bama–Saban’s loaded up the roster for another title run!!! 14 titles, going for 15!!!! RTR!!
DawginTX
April 1st, 2012
11:06 pm
Oversigning?
Hairy Dawg
April 2nd, 2012
12:35 am
You Bammer trolls get off our blog and keep your filthy Sabans away from GA recruits. We own state and recruits and that means this site to. Go back to bed with your sisters tonight.
And Zach Mettenburger was a second rate hack that beat out by All-SEC Murray. That why we gave Zach the Hack his releases.
tape worm
April 2nd, 2012
7:28 am
What baffles me the most is that the athletic department had a meeting with all student athletes before spring break. Did these players not understand that they would be tested when they returned from spring break? How stupid can some people be?
Brown Dog
April 2nd, 2012
7:36 am
Hairy Dawg,
The “we own this state” spiel doesn’t stand up to the events of Feb. 2, so save it for the Techies. To the kids in Georgia now gazing westward: I-20 is ready when you are.
What an extra special time to be a walk-on at UGA. Plenty of scholarships available.
Jimmy Crack
April 2nd, 2012
8:05 am
This is not a problem, although Lott seemed to be destined for rotational work. There are plenty of players waiting in the wings. Our main problem with competing for any title is Aaron Murray. He has got to cut down on interceptions. He can’t even make it through a scrimmage game without throwing a pick. Ball security is the most important issue with our offense. We will score plenty, no doubt. We just can’t give anything away.
DawginLex
April 2nd, 2012
9:01 am
01HAWK
If you are interested in hits, I’m sure we can all arrange some for your ugly face
Hairy Dawg
April 2nd, 2012
10:07 am
That is why Saban is scum. Not cause he over signing and roster manegement. But cause he comes into GA to try to steal GA players that is supposed to wear red and black for Dawgs. Saban tries to get them to be traitors to home state by playing for Bama instead of a helping Dawgs win BCS. Sabans is trying to get the GA young mens to be Beneditcs Arnolds against Dawgs. Thats what not fair.
The oversigning problem is an Adams problem not a Saban problem. Adams and his pointy heads has been applying all the restrictoins that keep Dawgs from effective roster manegement like Sabans. Adams is the problem there’s.
Case of the Mondays - Friends of the Program
April 2nd, 2012
10:15 am
[...] Everybody is getting the hell out of Athens for some reason [AJC] [...]
Dawg Tired
April 2nd, 2012
10:53 am
Surely the kid would play in light of all the suspensions IF HE WAS ANY GOOD. If he would not have been palying in light of all this attrition one wonders why he was ever given a scholarship in the first place.
AltamahaDawg
April 2nd, 2012
11:46 am
Why are folks arguing about Mettenberger being a starter one way or the other? He was good enough to get a SEC scholarship out of HS. He’s a big kid, with a rifle arm, a RS Junior, who had a year of starts at a JC in between. You would think it’s about time for him to be a productive player. Looks to me as if Miles saw the exact same thing as Richt. Good to have him as a back up, but not ready for a starting role, until Maybe now. But if LSU had a 3rd yr returning starter, Zack would still not be the automatic starter. He is by default now. Not to say he won’t do a great job, but clearly he didnt “take” that job away from anybody. I think he is finally a true passer they haven’t had, but yet to be seen if LSU is really a true passing team around him. We will see, and best of Luck to him, unless we play em.
What exactly is the issue here? I’ve never understoood how just mentioning “Mettenberger” was some dig at Georgia.
UGA Football
April 2nd, 2012
12:17 pm
We must stay positive people. We have been doing ok for many years with bad coaching and all that. I think we have always had the problem of people being unhappy playing for UGA… This isn’t Bama or Auburn or Tech or LSU or Florida. We have always had a poor attitude with our players but we have always made it happen. GOOOO DAWGS!!!
"dawg-hater" hater
April 2nd, 2012
12:35 pm
“good call UGA football…seems our “dawg fans” are major major bandwagon fans, which makes me sick to my stomach! all things aside we do seem to have an underlying issue, but i have complete faith in the dawgs and the coaching staff…we WILL be fine! whatever the problem is “this” season will be resolved and we will improve on our record from last season. “DAWG FANS”…stop criticizing “YOUR TEAM” and start feeding on the positives at UGA. theres going to be negativity at any school, ours just seems to be building up around the same time…the team leaders will step up, the selfish teammates will hunker down and join the group, and we will do some amazing things this year. I dont expect to hear anymore negativity coming from our beloved dawgs this season, and Lord willing a lot less next season. Go Dawgs and someone please put me in a coma and wake me up when sept. 1st gets here
flo-ri-duh
April 2nd, 2012
1:24 pm
UGA has the strictest drug policy and drug testing in the NCAA.
Truth. Go Dawgs!!!
April 2nd, 2012
1:27 pm
I totally agree with “UGA Football”. UGA has never been a school with good players or coaches but they still make it through and have done fairly well in the last 15 years. UGA fans need to quit complaining about their team. UGA is not bad and has a long history in College football with many successes. UGA will never be a great team but they can keep being a good one. UGA has always lacked coaching and talent but they can still make a difference in an effort to win close games against other SEC schools and close games against Tech for the fans. Go Dawgs!!!!
Bama Hater
April 2nd, 2012
1:38 pm
Bama sucks. When you really think about UGA we have done more with less. Bama has had way better coaching and talent but UGA has done better without it. Sometimes attitude, talent and coaching doesn’t win games.
Brown Dog
April 2nd, 2012
2:37 pm
Bama Hater,
Please say you’re joking. And please stay on the line so we get medical help to you as soon as possible.
LHardingDawg
April 2nd, 2012
2:57 pm
I think Georgia and Coach Richt finally has it right. If a player breaks the rules, he accepts the consequences. It might mean running steps or missing four games. If he don’t have the sense to do the right things, he will be caught and punished. EVEN starters.
If a player is not good enought to start and wants to transfer. Coach Richt doesn’t hold it against him and even helps the player to get to another school where he can get playing time.
Like I said, Georgia finally has gotten it right, and the Georgia Bulldogs will be just fine this fall.
The Tide is rolling and nothing can stop it
April 2nd, 2012
3:18 pm
It’s a good thing Richt doesn’t oversign…
Bulldawgman46
April 2nd, 2012
5:28 pm
Well this is getting out hand , The bad apples are showing there ugly head and I am not liking it at all . There are guys on this team that give 110 % and they aren’t talked about there has to be some guys that are giving back the to community and don’t get talked about. I guess the world we live in is
the only thing that sells is negativity but can it so bad as it looks ? This Dawg Fan is getting frustrated !!!
REALLY?
April 3rd, 2012
9:12 am
I’m so disappointed in these young men. Unfortunately for UGA these guys sign with them in hopes of only going to the next level. It’s rare to catch a Thomas Brown, David Pollack, David Greene and a Brandon Boykins type player to fill your roster. Most of these kids fail to get their College Education and leave empty handed. If they are lucky enough to make it to the next level they end up broke and mismanaging their money. UGA does not recruit character or players who are academically sound so I will suggest that they hire some more physically abled assistant coaches to keep these guys in line. Hell… most of these guys had behavior issues in high school.
William
April 4th, 2012
12:39 pm
The problem is that Athens more heavily policed than any comparable town in the country. I am UGA fan, but if I was a recruit, I wouldn’t go to Athens for the simple fact that you get arrested for jay-walking – and that is not a joke. You can’t jay-walk in Athens. Lets be real, a young kid, age 18, away from home for the first time, and praised by the students is going do something stupid his freshman year. That does not make it right, but neither should it suprise any one that these kids are getting caught. These is nothing really wrong with MOST of these kids, the program, or CMR. It’s Athens.
chief 1
April 7th, 2012
11:13 am
Georgia has good football player BUT! they [Some] doesn’t have Much when it comes to Character your word is what you are these players that are leaving thier word didn’t mean a lot because they wasn’t much in keeping there word they ride on a freeride for a time the up and RUN Quit now Quit on the team and on the Field, Run, Run,Run. NO>>>>CHARACTER………!