Former UGA defensive back Chris Sanders dismissed at GMC
Former Georgia defensive back Chris Sanders has been dismissed from Georgia Military College, which will permanently block his passage back to Athens.
Sanders
Sanders, a cornerback from Tucker, had expressed his desire to return to play for the Bulldogs next season. He was dismissed from Georgia along with two other players in late January for his involvement in an alleged theft from a teammate.
Bert Williams, head coach of GMC’s junior college football program in Milledegville, confirmed via text message Wednesday that he had dismissed Sanders from the program. Other than a violating of team rules, Williams would say only they that Sanders was kicked off for a “continuation of old ways.”
“Extremely sad,” Williams said.
Sanders came to Georgia with great promise. A two-way star who earned all-state honors at Tucker High, Sanders played in three games for the Bulldogs as a true freshman before a shoulder injury sidelined him for the season. He was expected to compete for playing time this coming season. Sanders was Georgia’s first commitment of the 2011 recruiting class.
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GT71
July 26th, 2012
7:41 am
Jeez, guys, a young man possibly ruins his life and it’s spread across AJC-land (mid-week papers have pretty much nothing to say) and all you want to do is hate on each other about a college football team or who’s a ‘jerk coach’?
Get a life, yall.
graphite
July 26th, 2012
7:45 am
as a Tucker alum, I,m disgusted and embarassed. First,Patrick Pass now this street punk. It didn,t used to be this way.
Butter Bean Floyd
July 26th, 2012
7:48 am
Mark Richt and his coaching staff is weak as Baby Tee Tee when it comes to recruiting. Dumbo Weenie at Cempson has even out recruited UGA. It time to rid these clowns who recruits nothing but a bunch of hooligans.
Sj
July 26th, 2012
8:00 am
Off to auburn
Sj
July 26th, 2012
8:01 am
Off to Ubuntu with tyler bray
Strange Murphy
July 26th, 2012
8:03 am
Auburn or UT will sign him.
DawginLex
July 26th, 2012
8:15 am
So let’s recap
1.)Coach Richt was right to kick him off the team
2.)Despite what the idiot racist tide roll says, this was not about race but about the kid being stupid
3.)Derek Dooley is desperate to win and that is why his drunk “face of the program” will suffer no punishment for throwing beer bottles and golf balls in retaliation for being evicted from his apartment
Dirty Dawg
July 26th, 2012
8:16 am
has anybody heard whether the Dawgs will dress in their jet suits this year. They are so sexy and watching them pile on players already down gives me gushy feeling all over. The schedule gives the Dawgs a 10 win season this year. But hey better watch out in Mizzou. maybe the jet suits will give them extra incentive to win in this hostile environ.
flo-ri-duh
July 26th, 2012
8:36 am
God bless Chick – Fil – A…… and our right to have our own opinion. Unfortunately there are those that insist we don’t! Those negative on UGA are either jealous or ignorant. Which are you?
Half Century Dawg
July 26th, 2012
8:46 am
“So the bottom line is that Georgia Tech – win or lose – does so with honor and integrity, while the lowlife punks, woman beaters, drug users, and drunks in Athens continue to embarrass us all.”
So Roxy, tell us why with all that integtity, is GT on probation.
Jborodawg
July 26th, 2012
8:48 am
GMC obviously has a discipline/punishment problem. And…what’s Burt Williams record over the last 10 years against ranked (Div III) teams? Keep drinking the Kool Aide and being a Williams tool.
flo-ri-duh
July 26th, 2012
8:51 am
Just the past two weeks players either left or were suspended by the following schools: Georgia Tech, Alabama, Florida, Clemson, Miami, Auburn, South Carolina, Mississippi, Penn State, LSU, Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan, Ohio State, Tennessee, Florida State, Virginia Tech, Southern Cal, Arkansas, UGA, Notre Dame, Missouri, Texas Tech, West Virginia, UCLA, Kentucky, Oregon, Oklahoma State, Wisconsin, Clemson, N C State, North Carolina, UCF, Nebraska, Michigan State. If I missed anyone I apologize.
OrlandoDawg
July 26th, 2012
8:51 am
LSU will pick him up…
kingdaddy
July 26th, 2012
9:01 am
Chip
I don’t want to bash this young man, he has enough problems. Maybe he should try LSU…
Is there anything encouraging to report as far as CMRs approach to Special Teams? Also do you think some of the jr./sen. may be intimadating the underclassmen at Penn.St. into staying? It could get ugly if you said you wanted to look around. Nobody is talking about this factor…
kingdaddy
July 26th, 2012
9:04 am
Coach Richt, fix our pitiful special teams play or we will lose at least 2 games we should win…again…
ARdawg
July 26th, 2012
9:09 am
GT71
Apparently Sanders made that choice. He has no one to blame but himself. Your pity is wasted on him as he has wasted opportunity of a lifetime. Yes, there are some flakes on the blogs and it’s team oriented. Mostly useless dribble and vitriol but occasionally a decent discussion will break out
Joey
July 26th, 2012
9:11 am
Whatever the mayors of Boston and Chicago are banning, I’m gonna frequent even more.
Eat mor chikin!
GTDog
July 26th, 2012
9:11 am
@Roxy. Your data is off a bit…
UGA football team has 94% Special Admissions, Tech has 9%.
As a Tech Alum, I don’t like the 9%, and as a UGA fan I HATE that 94%. Can you imagine that? The term “Student-Athlete” is a joke. But before you start crowing Tech faithful, it’s hard to claim academic integrity when one in ten players are hired guns. And that’s what they are, these kids who can’t get into a particular school without the special treatment.
Also, your info on SAT scores and GPAs is deeply flawed, re-check please…
James
July 26th, 2012
9:12 am
Rick James, You,,,Have no clue!!!!!
01HAWK
July 26th, 2012
9:14 am
Derrick Dooley might as well hook up the U HAUL and leave. From grades of his players to just about anything you can think of is happening in Knoxvulle. Look at the latest.
University of Tennessee quarterback Tyler Bray has been accused of throwing beer bottles and golf balls at cars from his apartment balcony.
Bray, 20, has offered to pay for the damages he inflicted to one of the cars, so he will not be charged in that incident, police told the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
Joey
July 26th, 2012
9:28 am
01HAWK, apparently Bray made a good choice going to UT, as did his fav target Da’Rick, who got arrested for assault, resisting arrest, evading arrest, only to have the charges dropped later.
Those two wouldn’t be treated so favorably by the Athens PD as they have with the Knoxville PD.
bucket
July 26th, 2012
9:41 am
Putting aside the fact that UGA has lost out on a player with talent, this young man is throwing away his chances to have a better life. That is the real tragedy and I hope someone close to him can shake some sense into him fast before he totally screws up his life.
pbt dawg fan
July 26th, 2012
9:53 am
Roxy
I can remeber a time where tech went after these same dummies that UGA went after. Go check the roster when Chan Gailey was the coach. During that time TECH had some of the best talent in school history, but Tech did have some problem childs, that also could be said for the George O’leary time as head coach. Have Uga made some mistake on players yes, i wouldn’t call them dummies because if you ever played football before, learning all those plays and formations take a little intelligence. I will say this, when UGA was trying to recruit more smarter players, that closed off recruiting to certain areas, people called UGA racist for not recruiting inner city kids. Those inner city kids went to other schools(Tennesse, Florida, Auburn, Florida State) and they all won championships. UGA is damned if we do recruit those palyers and damned if we don’t recruit those players. Another note, UGA has one of the highest entry level requirements in the SEC( only behind Vanderbilt,and Florida) thats why some players we recruit end up at South Carolina, Tennesse and others. The NCAA has a minimuim requirements and some schools in the SEC elect to have their requirements above the NCAA requirements Uga is one of three schools in the SEC That does that. (Because of Michael Adams)
JOE T 4
July 26th, 2012
9:55 am
DREAM TEAM BABY!!!!! You pooch humpers remember that motto?
Alphare
July 26th, 2012
10:06 am
that just shows you, once you’ve got the smell, you cannot get rid of it no matter where you go afterwards.
GaRedneck81
July 26th, 2012
10:08 am
I hate to admit this; but Darth Visor was right in his comment: Every year UGA seems to have a top 5 recruiting class; but what happens to them ? We all know what happens to at least 50%……
UGA Insider
July 26th, 2012
10:13 am
The AJC can save this story and interchange the same of I.C. in a month or so.
DawginLex
July 26th, 2012
10:21 am
Darth visor?
The same idiot coach who protected a drunk QB?
The same idiot coach who blew his chance at winning the East by playing the drunk QB against a pathetic auburn team and lost?
Richt actually has the guts to kick players off the team including potential starters like Mettenberger, Crowell and Ealey.
PMC
July 26th, 2012
10:23 am
Milledgeville, probably not the best place to restart your life on the good path…. just sayin.
zbulldawg
July 26th, 2012
10:26 am
YES another blown chance ! That’s two only one left ! He can go to Bama state.
anon
July 26th, 2012
10:28 am
Never expected him back anyway.
UGA Insider
July 26th, 2012
10:28 am
I have a small test for you numbnuts.
Name the program NOT on NCAA probation……
A.) USCe
B.) LSU
c.) Tenn
D.) UGA
Answer will not surprise true UGA fans.
MS Bully
July 26th, 2012
10:29 am
I guess he will end up at Ole Mess. I forgot, Houston “No” Nutts got out of the People Helpin business!!
UGA Insider
July 26th, 2012
10:31 am
Name the program who has been on the NCAA “habitual violator” list for 15 straight years…
A.) Auburn University
B.) UGA
C.) USCe
D.) University of Alabama
We all know the answer of that I hope. If you don’t please take a hammer and hit yourself in the head.
Chip Towers
July 26th, 2012
11:02 am
HomeDawg: No. Saw twitter posts that Sanders apparently had been dismissed and re-tweeted crediting rivals and 247sports. Got message into GMC coach Bert Williams, whom I have known since he was a GA at UGA, and reported it after Bert confirmed what had happened. We always independently confirm news.
Pitbull
July 26th, 2012
11:10 am
And this is newsworthy because?
Jake from State Farm
July 26th, 2012
11:11 am
Uuuhhhmmm……khaki’s.
UGA Insider
July 26th, 2012
11:17 am
Any news if Nick Marshall is coming back?
Fair n Balanced
July 26th, 2012
11:24 am
They (football players) just don’t learn lessons too quickly do they? Too dumb for college.
damngoodawg
July 26th, 2012
11:24 am
What these haters know deep down…if they’re smart enough….Well, anyway, UGA doesn’t let violations/arrests slide and neither does the Athens PD. I don’t believe for a minute that there are more violations committed by Georgia athletes than other schools in the SEC or ACC. And neither do you’ve got any sense…..oh…..never mind….
Taxi Smith
July 26th, 2012
11:25 am
Sad, but not sad. How much do you owe a fool?
damngoodawg
July 26th, 2012
11:27 am
Oops…I left out the “if”. Oh well.
pcb mike
July 26th, 2012
11:28 am
Give em hell, Moobs, the Crime Dawgs can’t handle it.
Neutral
July 26th, 2012
11:53 am
@Roxy at 8:05 am
What is GT’s grad rate? Are you enjoying your ACC championship trophy? Are your coaches still lying to NCAA investigators? Wow, so many issues and so little time!!!! Enjoy your SAT scores since that is literally all you have to brag about!!!
Chip Towers
July 26th, 2012
11:54 am
UGA Insider: Good question. I’ll check.
Neutral
July 26th, 2012
11:56 am
@GA Insider
You forgot GT, you forgot GT, you……..!!!!
NerdPuncher
July 26th, 2012
11:57 am
Which school is on probation AGAIN, Tech or UGA?
Neutral
July 26th, 2012
12:01 pm
Not UGa for sure and did you know that Bama can match every NC with 1 or more probations? Fact!!!
Bulldawgman49
July 26th, 2012
12:19 pm
I guess growing up the hard way is all he knows . Or he is just plain DUMB !!!!
'94 UGA Alumnus
July 26th, 2012
12:39 pm
Great post Kerryb. It’s time to start holding these kids accountable for their actions and not blame the coach.