Georgia notified Penn State of its interest in 19 players
ATHENS — As it turns out, Georgia informed Penn State of its interest in 19 of the Nittany Lions’ football players. That’s according to a letter dated July 23 and sent to Penn State’s associate athletic director for compliance Matt Stolberg by UGA director of compliance Steve Flippen. The letter was provided to The AJC in compliance with an open records request.
The Bulldogs informed the Big Ten school of their “intent to contact” the student-athletes, then listed the following players in alphabetical order:
Adrian Amos, Deion Barnes, Justin Brown, DaQuan Davis, Jake Fagnano, Khairi Fortt, Jordan Hill, Gerald Hidges, DeQuan Jones, Eugene Lewis, Angelo Mangiro, Pate Massaro, Michael Mauti, Jamil Pollard, Silas Redd, Donovan Smith, Matt Stankiewitch, Trevor Williams and Michael Zordich.
Georgia had to send a written request to remain in compliance with NCAA bylaw 13.1.1.3.3. That rule states:
“An athletics staff member or other representative of the institution’s athletics interests shall not make contact with the student-athlete of another NCAA or NAIA four-year collegiate institution, directly or indirectly, without first obtaining the written permission of the first institution’s athletics director or an athletics administrator designated by the athletics director) to do so, regardless of who makes the initial contact. If permission is not granted, the second institution shall not encourage the transfer and the institution shall not provide athletically related financial assistance to the student-athlete until the student-athlete has attended the second institution for one academic year. If permission is granted to contact the student-athlete, all applicable NCAA recruiting rules apply.”
Georgia coach Mark Richt abruptly pulled the Bulldogs out of the Penn State transfer sweepstakes this past Friday. Just four days after telling reporters at a big alumni gathering in Atlanta that Georgia was scouring the Nittany Lions’ depth chart, Richt issued a statement saying it would no longer be pursuing any Penn State players.
There’s hardly been a mass exodus. Tim Buckley, a backup redshirt freshman safety, became the first Penn State player to bolt Monday when he announced he would be transferring to North Carolina State. On Tuesday, news broke that running back Silas Redd, who rushed for more than 1,200 yards as a sophomore last season, is transferring to Southern Cal. Special NCAA rules stipulate that Penn State players must transfer before practicing with the current team.
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Spanky
July 31st, 2012
4:43 pm
Might be just me, but I don’t see anything wrong with opening up opportunity to PSU players…just sayin..
Taco Meat
July 31st, 2012
4:53 pm
I’m still scratching my head as to why CMR backed off of his pursuit. With the amount of attrition we’ve faced and the shortage of players on scholarship for the upcoming season, we should have had a recruiter camping out behind Penn State athletic dorms! Just doesn’t make sense to pass up on the opportunity…
Really?
July 31st, 2012
4:53 pm
Good Grief…. Where’s the southern hospitality? 19! Why not invite the entire team?
That’s about as sleazy as it comes.
Road Scholar
July 31st, 2012
4:54 pm
Vultures! If the student-athlete had second thoughts, let them contact the schools. Easy enough?
Road Scholar
July 31st, 2012
4:57 pm
Taco: UGA fans were salivating over getting offensive linemen from the gitgo. Trying to pick the carcass clean? Disgusting.
hammerhead
July 31st, 2012
4:59 pm
Georgia did what, I am sure, most other schools did… They went through the proper channels to open up an opportunity for a kid to transfer who might help UGA and help himself. I think it caught everyone by surprise by how open and honest Richt was about it and, of course, the AJC has to file an Open Records request to try to make a story out of a non-story. Pays the bills, I guess.
Moses
July 31st, 2012
4:59 pm
To hell with 18/19 players. Silas redd is who we need after crow go. Go dawgs!
Nate the Great
July 31st, 2012
5:02 pm
What was the position breakdown of those 19?
dawgfan
July 31st, 2012
5:03 pm
Um, okay. Thanks for that Chip. It looks like UGA inquired, nobody was interested and then everyone moved on with their lives. It would appear that the AJC needs to do the same thing.
LOL @ the open records request. Unbelievable.
Joey
July 31st, 2012
5:03 pm
NERDS! NERDS! NERDS!
Dawg Whisperer
July 31st, 2012
5:05 pm
Oh, the horror of it all. The unmitgated gall…. Road Scholar try investing your passion in something more important than the nuances of college football.
PMC
July 31st, 2012
5:06 pm
So, why withdraw it? They went through the proper channels and did things above board.
I wonder if none of the players expressed any interest.
Mark (another one)
July 31st, 2012
5:06 pm
The school was notified, and I bet the players were notified internally by Penn State. Nothing wrong with any of that. The players decided to stay put and UGA backed off. Nothing wrong there. This is trying to make something out of nothing. No story here.
RTR22
July 31st, 2012
5:07 pm
No one knows roster management like CMR
PMC
July 31st, 2012
5:07 pm
No, its not disgusting. It’s college football.
If you like college football you like a lot more disgusting behavior than contacting players that are eligible to transfer.
AltamahaDawg
July 31st, 2012
5:10 pm
So with the possibility opening up a couple of weeks ago, we were inquiring about any transfer possibilities. Then, satisfied that there were none and camp about to start, we announced that we were no longer looking into that. So that is the story in a nutshell, correct?
Moobs Johnson
July 31st, 2012
5:10 pm
Richt whiffed on 19 players? Given the low player numbers, opportunities for immediate playing time, and a trip to Shreveport or Memphis in December – it is absolutely amazing that NONE of the players had any interest in playing for UGA.
Tampa Gator
July 31st, 2012
5:10 pm
They were waiting on the mighty gators to offer!
Freehawk
July 31st, 2012
5:12 pm
What the Bulldogs need to do is sign Nkemdiche. He would bring 18-19 of his friends along, and et voila! Roster problem solved.
Just Asking
July 31st, 2012
5:17 pm
Why not ask to see the records of Alabama, Florida, LSU, etc… Why stop at just Georgia?
tmgotech
July 31st, 2012
5:19 pm
CMR:
1) “Yes we would be interested in speaking to them”
2) “No, we are not interested in speaking to any of them”
3) “Here’s a letter saying that we are interested in speaking to them”
4) ????
Tampa Gator
July 31st, 2012
5:20 pm
Tmgotech: Please post when your team becomes relevant!
Tehj
July 31st, 2012
5:26 pm
Saban have seen all of Penn State’s talent first hand for the last two years. He didnt even attempt to pick up the phone… CMR should have followed suit. This tells me all I need to know about UGA football.
Shawn
July 31st, 2012
5:26 pm
Saban had interest in 20-25 of them too. He just couldn’t figure out how to get rid of enough of his own guys to bring them in.
tmgotech
July 31st, 2012
5:27 pm
Gator, you do the same
RichRed
July 31st, 2012
5:29 pm
Per the AJC, UGA is short at least 9 players starting fall practice. I guess it’s better to give a scholarship to a PSU player than a walkon. CMR has a habit of giving scholarships to walkon’s because he typically has scholarships to give away once the season starts. Simple math.
Joey
July 31st, 2012
5:34 pm
“it is absolutely amazing that NONE of the players had any interest in playing for UGA.”
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Yeah, did you hear? All 19 decided to transfer to Ga Tech, a school of more honorable distinction than most (according to dumbass commenters). Then they Googled “Ga Tech,” and found out the Jackets have been on NCAA Probation for most of a decade, and so they decided they may as well stay in Happy Valley . . .
7576DAWG
July 31st, 2012
5:35 pm
Georgia did nothing wrong in letting Penn State know they would be interested in talking with 19 of their players if THE RECRUIT was interested in getting into contact with UGA. It is left up to the recruit to contact Georgia but Georgia had to let the school know who they were interested in. If none of the recruits contact Georgia then no harm. How do you think Southern Cal let Redd know they were interested in talking to him.
Aunt Bea
July 31st, 2012
5:40 pm
Auburn did, too. Spent two days evaluating them. If the NCAA has no problems with it, I don’t see why people should care. Folks, it’s fair game. Just like a business.
trueblueeagle
July 31st, 2012
5:41 pm
Joey
They must not have like the clark County Jail that is why they did not want to come to UGA .
kingdaddy
July 31st, 2012
5:42 pm
Tamp
tmgotech just got the nerve to put his schools name out there and you have to embarrass him. Guess he’ll have to act like he’s from Bama again, lol…
Beast from the East
July 31st, 2012
5:44 pm
The NCAA botched this whole thing. Richt wasn’t the only one to try and poach players from PSU, but he’s sure taking a beating over it. Fair? Probably not, but he should have taken the high road from the beginning. Do unto others….
kingdaddy
July 31st, 2012
5:49 pm
Yeah, it’s all blue sky’s on the Penn St. Campus right now. At least they know there’s an option available to them…
Damon
July 31st, 2012
5:50 pm
What comes around goes around.
GT GRAD
July 31st, 2012
5:54 pm
I don’t see anything wrong with UGA looking into the possibility of Penn State players transferring to UGA……… the problem was with the countless number of delusional UGA fans who were absolutely convinced several Penn State players would jump at the chance to play football at UGA.
If you are one of the fans who expected a number of the Penn State players would transfer to UGA; take a good long look in the mirror, this is probably an indication that you are one of the many over-the-top delusional UGA fans. Stop embarrassing the University of Georgia (a good school with a solid football program……… not Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, USC (california not south carolina), Ohio State, Miami, Florida State, Virginia Tech, Notre Dame, etc.).
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July 31st, 2012
5:56 pm
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DAWG POUND
July 31st, 2012
6:01 pm
Take it from me, as someone who played ball in college, these NCAA member universities and colleges don’t own these players. These players have the right at anytime they want to transfer…Penn State or No Penn State. Any program, as many of you don’t understand, has the right not to renew your scholarship offer each year. These are ameature football players and not NFL contracted players. Learn the difference!
kingdaddy
July 31st, 2012
6:04 pm
Gt grad
What about all the other delusional schools fans besides UGA that were interested? USC delusional too, oh yeah, they’ve got DisneyWorld…
GoForTwo
July 31st, 2012
6:04 pm
Chances are after sitting home and watching the Bowls on TV this year and thinking I’m going to miss the next two or three years of Bowl games, there may be a call or two to Richt.
Joey
July 31st, 2012
6:05 pm
Go work on that sentence and get back with me, trueblueeagle.
Seriously, isn’t my scenerio a little more believable than yours?
Joey
July 31st, 2012
6:10 pm
“the problem was with the countless number of delusional UGA fans who were absolutely convinced several Penn State players would jump at the chance to play football at UGA.”
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“Delusional” fans like those who keep yapping on the blogs about the “new sheriff in town (PJ)?”
GT Grad, for every dozen clueless Bulldog fans who expect a NC, there are a dozen Tech fans who expect to beat UGA . . .
kingdaddy
July 31st, 2012
6:11 pm
Richt
I’ve already raised two children. I’m not interested in being your daddy. Grow up…
Smitty
July 31st, 2012
6:12 pm
I see that the gutter people are out tonight like derennie. You have your opinion, even if no one agrees with you
Joey
July 31st, 2012
6:16 pm
Who embarrasses the state of Georgia?
UGA under Richt – 0 NCAA Probations.
Tech under Gailey and New Sheriff – 2 NCAA Probations.
Clean up your program, Tech!
Smitty
July 31st, 2012
6:19 pm
richt…keep your sick comments to yourself….nothing funny about sandusky
Joey
July 31st, 2012
6:19 pm
You are nasty idiot, “Richt.” You need to get some help.
Chip will kick your classless butt off of here real soon . .
OctoberDawg
July 31st, 2012
6:25 pm
Derennie….you are a complete moron. Please list the “sleazy incidents” you are referring to. Oh…whats that…..you can’t? Is that because your a blabbering mouth-breather? Calling UGA and Mark Richt an afront and embarrassment to the people of this state could be the most idiotic statement ever to grace the AJC’s website. Please do not attempt to breed.
Dawghater
July 31st, 2012
6:32 pm
Gee surprising UGA would stoop this low and raid a PSU program. But I guess I can’t blame them. UGA is looking for some kids that won’t get arrested for a felony or some other drug charges.
What goes around comes around!
kingdaddy
July 31st, 2012
6:33 pm
The AJC blogs have been hi-jacked by some of the most immature posters recently. They don’t want to talk about football. They just want to start a blog riot. They certainly don’t want to talk about their schools problems. I guess if they can’t beat UGA on the field, they’ll attack the Doggies on the blog where they won’t get another nerd beat-down, lol…
Joey
July 31st, 2012
6:33 pm
“Please do not attempt to breed.”
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You are assuming a lot, OctoberDawg.
Like, Derennie is interested in a female?
Derennie?
frank
July 31st, 2012
6:34 pm
so Mark rick was interested in them until he was rejected?
Anyone know when the annual skip-a-valuable-day-of-practice-and-go-high-diving is?
cdpridg
July 31st, 2012
6:37 pm
GT grad…historically UGA is considered better than all the ACC schools you mentioned..FSU..UM..and VT……VT…really?? ND is considered better historically but they have been so bad for so long it makes folks look silly to mention them anymore in cfb discusions
Joey
July 31st, 2012
6:38 pm
Yeah, frankfurter, it’s the same day as PJ’s fish fry . . .
BigTimeTechFan
July 31st, 2012
6:39 pm
Richt wasn’t the only one to try and poach players from PSU?
Correct, Richt and Lane Kiffin are of the same mold
whatfor
July 31st, 2012
6:50 pm
Once again – CMR is a liar. He said he wasn’t going after any PSU players – but all along he was. Saint Richt is nothing but a liar. Just as he is critical of players who switch their commitments (he has said several times that he doesn’t think he wants a player playing for him who couldn’t keep a commitment) – but yet he still goes after recruits he have already committed to another school. As a clarification – I’m not referring to PSU when he talks about going after recruits. In my opinion – PSU players are fair game because PSU LET THEM DOWN – and thought they would be playing for Joe. But it’s the fact that Richt has to even lie about that.
jbdawg
July 31st, 2012
6:55 pm
I don’t understand why this is so hard to understand. I also do not understand all the criticism for CMR’s actions. This was an unprecedented event with a short window of time to evaluate the possibilities. As stated in the article, the players can not transfer this season, without sitting out a year, if they have participated in the preseason camp. CMR had what, 8 days to handle the situation. I would have handled it the same way. Why did he close the opportunity Friday evening? Because it was three days before camp started. I’m sure he had enough going on sat-monday and didn’t need the distractions. I’m guessing CMR sent the notice with more of an intention to attract the kids after this season rather than expecting the players to transfer I mediately.
OkieDawg
July 31st, 2012
6:58 pm
CMR was for it before he was against it…oh wait, this is not poliitics. Sorry.
Joey
July 31st, 2012
7:00 pm
jbdawg, the PSU players can transfer and play this season. The NCAA made an exception for them.
LogicalUS
July 31st, 2012
7:00 pm
“still scratching my head as to why CMR backed off of his pursuit”
Ugh, ha…Richt didn’t “back off”, none of the players were interested in coming to Athens so the backing off was just to save face after the rejections.
Most likely, they told Richt that they wanted to play major college football so if he could pass their names along to Bama\LSU they would apprec….
kingdaddy
July 31st, 2012
7:11 pm
Except for one saftey, so far the Penn St. players have turned “everyone” down. Not just UGA, but then idiots ignore that and just want to troll on…
Delbert D.
July 31st, 2012
7:13 pm
This article isn’t worth serious discussion. I’ll leave, now.
Ol' Timer
July 31st, 2012
7:20 pm
If CMR was involved, half of them would be arrested on the flight down to Athens.
Douglas
July 31st, 2012
7:20 pm
GT Grad: You are the one who is delusional — you keep thinking you have a real football team.
Dawginit.
July 31st, 2012
7:31 pm
Wow, you can have racist comments on here, personally attack coaches and players but please don’t comment on the ajc.
tjhook
July 31st, 2012
7:48 pm
I think the Dawgs are going to get a couple of players from Penn State in the next two weeks. There is a lot of emotionally charged actions going on at College Station still and I think some players are trying to find out what direction is in their best interests. I BELIEVE Coach Richt was attempting to be sensitive to this; he simply did not express this clearly. He was attempting to be sympathetic and ended up looking hypocritical. If he is smart , he will look hypocritical again and get players to come into the program. People will have something to say about the Penn State issue but the whole thing is a mess. As long as the players think Georgia is a place they can succeed that should be the priority. The Georgia faithful will not convert for a verbal transgression.
funny how that went....
July 31st, 2012
7:49 pm
lmao.
publicly richt says he will not be kissing huggin singing or swimming with an psu players but privately they try to groom 19.
me thinks that richt did the denial thing AFTER he found out none of them were interested in being involved with any more creepy coaches.
after all, uga cant have anybody think that any sane player would turn down the opportunity to play for such an illustrious program like the dawgs.
uga fails again. dontcha just love it.
GTBob
July 31st, 2012
7:51 pm
Good for the players for not falling for Richt’s slimy pouncing after a horrific incident. There is no reason why a player should go from a team whose coaching staff is criminals, to a team whose players are criminals. Good luck to all of them on their new beginnings or on their decision to stick it out at Penn State and still get a quality education.
Genius Dawg
July 31st, 2012
7:51 pm
astute observation there ‘funny how’.
bitter vince dooley
July 31st, 2012
8:05 pm
just another —BAD APPLE—————USC—THIEFS IN THE NITE
Doug
July 31st, 2012
8:05 pm
Typical DWAGS (spelled the same way a “DAWG” fan showed his sign in Athens btw)….more of the “but we are Georgia syndrome”…interest in 19 players? PAHLEEZ! And not one of those players had ANY interest in the DWAGS…..love it! CMR would do better recruiting state prisons.
BIG BEE
July 31st, 2012
8:08 pm
TAMPAGATOR, not hard to tell that you are actually a DAWG and not a salamander.
kingdaddy
July 31st, 2012
8:14 pm
Gt ba-bob
Your team off probation yet. Been quite a while since UGAs been on probation. I don’t think CMR has been on probation yet. Come to think of it, it’s been a while since CPJs been off probation. Like I said before, you can’t beat UGA on the football field so you beat you gums on the blog. Nothing changed there, lol…
a country boy can survive
July 31st, 2012
8:16 pm
hey, where’s brainiac?
cdpridg
July 31st, 2012
8:27 pm
kingdaddy…he cant win on a blog either. He would be ignorant to think otherwise…..he would do better to drop the GT and just go with Bob. He has already lost before typing a word. I have come to the conclusion that ignorance maybe his forte since his name shows up daily
kingdaddy
July 31st, 2012
8:33 pm
cdpridg
I gotta give him credit for having the stones to put GT in his name. Most of the frat nerd-boys try to act like they are (AB-UGA). Can’t blame them for attacking a school that beats them like a drum though. It’s pathetic really…
Ghost
July 31st, 2012
8:40 pm
@bigtimetechfan,Wouldn’t the Lane kiffin analogy better fit a program on probation for the 2nd time in 7 years,(like tech) can you say repeat offenders.
105 players report for Georgia’s preseason football camp | UGA sports blog
July 31st, 2012
8:41 pm
[...] Georgia contacted Penn State about 19 players [...]
Ckgator
July 31st, 2012
8:43 pm
Its befitting that Kiffin would land their best AWOL player. So much for loyalty to your teammates.
Sorry, but poaching from PSU says a lot about the character of college football today. Muschamp and Meyer already said they weren’t interested. Muschamp because he knows what a late transfer could do to team chemistry. Meyer because he disagrees with recruiting an active player on another team.
And to think that 19 (!) players were being considered by Richt? What will the UGA players in those positions think when they see this? Very self-serving. New commits should think about this before deciding to pay for Richt or UGA.
a country boy can survive
July 31st, 2012
8:46 pm
kiffin would be working on his second natchamp if he were in athens…and you losers know it…
AltamahaDawg
July 31st, 2012
8:54 pm
This story really seems to be a big deal to the tech fans. I wonder why.
Tito93
July 31st, 2012
8:55 pm
interested in 19? Thats hilarious!!!!!!!! The current UGA football players must be like WTF?
DawgNole
July 31st, 2012
8:55 pm
Ckgator
July 31st, 2012
8:43 pm
And to think that 19 (!) players were being considered by Richt? What will the UGA players in those positions think when they see this? Very self-serving. New commits should think about this before deciding to pay for Richt or UGA.
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How much are they gonna pay for Richt or UGA?
wreckmaniac
July 31st, 2012
9:07 pm
None of the 19 had an arrest record and were thus rejected.
villedog
July 31st, 2012
9:12 pm
Hoping one CMR will learn that an offence is built up front. Great to have skilled players, but we are not getting the top linemen and that is what it takes to have a great offense.
uncledaddy
July 31st, 2012
9:14 pm
Ask me no questions and I’ll tell you no lies. Flippity-floppity-floo.
Sid
July 31st, 2012
9:17 pm
Don’t fall for the attention grabbing byline.
Just Saying
July 31st, 2012
9:27 pm
It will be interestIng to see if USC signing Silas Redd from Penn State has an impact on USC’s recruiting. According to Scout.com……USC has a commitment from the top 2 TBs in the nation.
Just Saying
July 31st, 2012
9:30 pm
Pretty hysterical how bloggers are calling CMR a “vulture”, “sleazy”, etc……..while more than likely these critic’s college of choice has done the EXACT same thing. You guys are the sleaze bags, not CMR.
laughing at ga
July 31st, 2012
9:33 pm
Not my college of choice . Our coach made a stand.
NCAA Coach
July 31st, 2012
9:43 pm
It is like this. There is NO four year scholarship. It is a one year scholarship four times if the kid can continue to earn it. He can also walk at anytime.
Ckgator
July 31st, 2012
9:48 pm
“play”
It lacks honor at best to recruit existing PSU players. You become one of “those people” when you kick someone when they are down.
I honestly thought more of Richt.
Mobile Dawg
July 31st, 2012
9:53 pm
Nothing wrong with opening the door to Penn State players. It’s all in the presentation, and Richt botched that royally. That’s why he’s gettting the criticism.
Bo in North Carolina
July 31st, 2012
9:59 pm
Chip, would it be possible for the AJC to get a list of all schools that have made inquiries to PSU about their players.
richt do you have the stones to post your school by your name?
L. Kiffin
July 31st, 2012
10:03 pm
Richt’s trying to out do me.
Michael
July 31st, 2012
10:09 pm
Lol…someone named “Joey” is calling someone else a nerd
tom
July 31st, 2012
10:09 pm
those that will be freshman recruits are next to stupid if they still go to Penn State. JoPa is gone and they destroy their future football aspirations by attending Penn State.
CitizenK9
July 31st, 2012
10:14 pm
GT trains terrorists. Thank goodness the Feds caught and convicted him. But to GT he was just another one of their gentleman-scholars. I know they’ll never drop the “holier than thou” routine (all they have) but it is beyond laughable.
NCAA FAN
July 31st, 2012
10:16 pm
Hilarious article! UGA needs players and is way below on scholly limits but not even the scandal ridden PSU program players want to come play in Athens!!! LOL
Chip Towers
July 31st, 2012
10:19 pm
Bo in North Carolina: it could be done. Don’t know what Pennsylvania sunshine laws are but you could FOI all the notifications PSU received, which I’m sure somebody up that way will do eventually.
bubba4dawgs
July 31st, 2012
10:20 pm
This is classic Sabinism! If you can’t recruit, go get’em from another team! It’s doubtful any of the Penn State players will consider UGA. Redd is on his way to USC, that is if Sabin doesn’t call him.
Rev. Richt
July 31st, 2012
10:36 pm
I loves me some Jesus!
Can I get an amen?
Butter Bean Floyd
July 31st, 2012
10:42 pm
If you wanna get HIGH , Get HIGH on Jesus!
Monroe's First Redcoat
July 31st, 2012
10:44 pm
Not a dan thing wrong with rolling out the welcome mat. I’d be willing to bet that nearly every other D-I coach in the country did the same. Come on down, boys! The weather is FIIIINE!!!!!!!
Ralph
July 31st, 2012
10:46 pm
Wow at Richt circling the carcass…..Seems kinda classless for such a respectable coach….From a Clemson fan…..
kingdaddy
July 31st, 2012
11:13 pm
i dont think we have any players on probation from the law.
question is…. how many players will ugay lose before the first game to some kind of run in with the law.
next time we have a robbery on campus we may have to roadblock the road to athens and see who we catch.
Flying Tigrers
July 31st, 2012
11:13 pm
Classy, real classy there uga. Mr. Hypocrite strikes again. Even with all 19 he would waste the talent and still not get to the big game. All you can say is real classy…lmao, oney a real tool and a joke of a university would pull such a sorry stunt. He Richt you out recruiting the Crowell:s, the Washuns or claeb Kings…insn’t that whats put you in this mess….what a joke of a so called school…join the pitiful acc…maybe you could win something over there
Bo in North Carolina
July 31st, 2012
11:14 pm
Chip, thanks.
Really?
July 31st, 2012
11:48 pm
What’s up with the moron pretending to be me at 4:53? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but those comments are uncalled for and shameful.
Really?
August 1st, 2012
12:25 am
Flattery???? I am a loser sorry mom,,,
zbulldawg
August 1st, 2012
12:48 am
These players & colleges have every right to do what ever they feel is right for them ! These players where recruited under false pretencies from Penn St. It is their right to have a chance to play for a championship National exposure & a honest insituition. UGA wasn’t the only one to make a move. What do you expect these schools or players to do? They don’t have much time to make a chioce in the matter.Penn St. MESSED up BIG time so Get over it & let every body move on. Be real people.
GT87
August 1st, 2012
3:41 am
All CMR did was protect the interest of the program for which he is responsible. If only the people at PSU had done as well..
To all the slanderers on each side:
Neither of our schools are with out issues, past and present. Neither program is where they want to be.
The W-L record is very one sided the past decade. But as fans we got to watch some great ball games in this time period. Several that could have gone either way. Including the Jacket win.
I hate losing. I detest losing to ya’ll. But I saw some exciting games played well amid great college football atmosphere. Yet on these blogs there is more mud slinging than football discussion. Sounds too much like Washington DC.
I hope some Thanksgiving weekend we both enter the day undefeated. May never happen. But that would be a fun day.
Each camp has a lot to be proud of and a lot to improve upon.
Crowell's Shooting Range
August 1st, 2012
7:00 am
Aw shoot
tardawg
August 1st, 2012
7:20 am
What a waste of newsprint, had to use the info act to get the info, I’m sure a lot of D-1 schools looked and inquired none of their newspaper thought it necessary to purse the story.
GT = 10 time loser to Mark Richt
August 1st, 2012
7:25 am
Another rehashed story
David
August 1st, 2012
7:34 am
It’s clear that Richt backed off when he realized that none of the players actually had a criminal record and therefore wouldn’t fit in with his program.
Fair n Balanced
August 1st, 2012
7:37 am
This does not sound right….does not pass the smell test.
Buckeye
August 1st, 2012
7:43 am
Now that would have been a dream team.
You dogs wanted 19 fat slow BIG 10 players?
Really?
Butter Bean Floyd
August 1st, 2012
7:54 am
Too bad that NONE of the Penn State players wanted to come to UGA and thats the real truth! I love how the sheeple uga fans try to spin this.
GameTime
August 1st, 2012
8:14 am
Comments from Dawg supporters which see no wrong in what Richt did are pretty stupid but not unexpected. They show no appreciation for the situation. Here you have a group of student athletes who’ve had their world turned upside down but the vast majority are rallying together to commit to PSU and to make the best of a bad situation. Then you have vultures like Lane Kiffin and Mark Richt making plans to INITIATE contact with some of these athletes. Richt (or more likely someone else in the program) realized this was not the proper approach and a statement was quickly issued distancing UGA from the whole situation. Being receptive to talk with a player who makes contact is one thing. Initiating contact with athletes in this scenario is just bad. Of course this is lost on die hard doggie fans who just have no clue on issues involving morals. But I guess one can’t be too critical. The leader of the Dawg Nation (Richt) had to have someone tell him it wasn’t the right thing to do!!
NoSpin
August 1st, 2012
8:17 am
They’d rather stay at PSU than transfer to UGA? Guess they realize UGA has as much chance of a bowl game as PSU the next 4 years.
Gator Mike
August 1st, 2012
9:11 am
All, I am sure you will agree that it is good that the season will start at the end of this month. We all need to get away from this Penn State and Paterno tragedy. Think about the real victims who sandusky abused. The Penn State situation is tragic from every angle.
The NCAA set the poaching drill in motion, and all schools had a right to play if they chose to do so. Team chemistry is very important to all of our schools; therefore, I applaud coaches who did not play in the poaching game (my opinion). I am not a Penn State fan, but I am hoping that Coach O’Brien and his team does well this year. I wish everyone the best this season.
Go Gators!
Lane Kiffen beat Richt Again!
August 1st, 2012
9:30 am
Hmmmm, St. Mark went O fer 19 including losing Silas Redd to So Cal…LOL!
Lame Lane whipped Richt 45-19 a few years ago…”"[Kiffin] basically made a promise to us that we wouldn’t lose to them anymore, forever or until he leaves,” Volunteers safety Eric Berry said. “He’s not going to let Georgia beat us.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Tennessee_Volunteers_football_team
USC TROJANS FAN
August 1st, 2012
10:35 am
so you same sec fans calling usc dirty and slimy for recruiting just 1 player, what the heck is georgia for recruiting 19 players. HYPOCRITES! FIGHT ON USC!
jalex49
August 1st, 2012
10:44 am
Who really cares? It’s time to play foot ball… Georgia is not doing any thing different than other programs.
Heals
August 1st, 2012
10:47 am
Really? NCAA is a joke! Aren’t they supposed to be about preventing competitive advantage on the football field, or any other athletic field for that matter?
By giving taker schools a one-year hiatus from complying with the 85-man roster, doesn’t that create a competitive advantage for any school that takes a PSU player? Okay, how bout this……next year, that same taker school now has to “make room” for the PSU player who transferred and stays because next year UGA or any other taker school would then have to conform to NCAA regulations and scholarship maximums. Now, what they’ve (NCAA) has done is taken away an educational opportunity from a young man because of their zeal to punish PSU. Nice job NCAA. Tragic situation at PSU, but all NCAA did was create a bigger mess! And if you think other big programs will somehow fall in line because of what happened to PSU, spell evian backwards.
Heals
August 1st, 2012
11:05 am
Again, watching all these vultures circle the carcass of PSU reminds me of what Emmert said when he levied the sanctions against PSU – “We have to change the culture of college athletics.”
You’ve got Richt, who couldn’t coach his way out of a paper bag cold-calling PSU players (19 of them and of whom NONE bought into UGA), you had six of Illinois’ coaches recruiting PSU players in parking lots around State College, Pa, and you have USC absconding with arguable one of the best RB’s in the east, while his own program is on probation!
So much for culture change ladies and gentlement. NCAA has only proven to me and several others just how out of touch and irrelevent they truly are today. By the way, how’s that investigation of Auburn and Cam Newton going NCAA? NCAA is concerned with academics in college sports? Explain how Okalahoma State can graduate a player who’s illiterate?
I am now the biggest USC fan if only so USC can rub into the NCAA’s and Emmert’s face come January. Maybe then they’ll be more people who will advocate for the dissolution of the NCAA and their hypocrisy.
Tito93
August 1st, 2012
11:22 am
@Heals
You hit it right on the mark! I could not write it any better. NCAA is controlled by idiots.
CB Greg Reid
August 1st, 2012
11:56 am
I heard y’all was looking for playas…holla at ya boy!!
fuzzybee
August 1st, 2012
12:23 pm
Any good ol’ Georgia boy should know you don’t tell your kinfolk you are goin’ huntin’ and then come back without some meat strapped to the hood of your Ford F-150.
Mudcatjoe
August 1st, 2012
12:36 pm
Those players were to smart to be interested in UGA! Richt is a lowlife.
And Tampa Gator, post again when your team can boast 4 National Championships!!!
Charles
August 1st, 2012
12:52 pm
Oh my word… HOW COULD THIS BE ? A mighty SEC team wants players from the lowly BIG TEN ????
What is the world coming to ?
Those boys up there are all SLOW, UNATHLETIC and just want to run Wall Street one day …
Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Charles Woodson, Eddie George… they could never have played in the SEC… Right ?
peter rice
August 1st, 2012
3:53 pm
Good to see the NCAA being fair about punishment to Penn. State. In theory one school could sign 40 players from Penn State who would be eligible to play immediately. Therefore, NCAA would let one school have a total of 85 scholarships plus the additional 40 from Penn State which equates to 125 on scholarships as none of the Penn State Players would count toward the original 85 scholarship. Suppose Georgia Tech signed the 40. Would this be fair to UG? Don’t think so.
charliedawg
August 1st, 2012
4:13 pm
Did anyone but me notice the change in headline from “Dogs Contacted 19 PSU Players” to “Georgia notified Penn State of its interest in 19 players”. A little bit of a difference……I guess the folks at the urinal constipation couldn’t prove that UGA actually contacted all 19 players. At least CMR did not pull a Lame Kitten and give a recruiting speech for the need of a tailback during an interview…he went thru the school.
WhyTheNorthWon
August 2nd, 2012
9:00 am
Scumbags.
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