Dome is destination for Lee brothers, Dallas (UGA) and Dillon (Bama)
Divided loyalties can't divide the Lee family, which includes Georgia guard Dallas Lee (L), Alabama linebacker Dillon Lee (R) and Lisa and Robert Lee. (Lee family photo)
ATHENS – The Georgia Bulldogs were scheduled to play Alabama in Tuscaloosa on Oct. 6th of this year until Missouri and Texas A&M accepted the SEC’s invitation to join the expanding conference last fall. That meant league schedules, booked years in advance, had to be reshuffled. The SEC replaced Alabama with Missouri on Georgia’s slate.
Nobody was happier about that change than Georgia alum and longtime fan Lisa Lee. Never mind win-loss implications.
Lee is the mother of Dallas Lee, who is the starting left offensive guard for Georgia. She’s also mom to Dillon Lee, who is a freshman linebacker at Alabama. She was sweating out that Oct. 6 date since the spring of 2011 when it first became apparent that her youngest son was not going to follow his big brother’s footsteps.
“We were relieved,” Lisa Lee said of the schedule change. “Lauren Murray (mother of Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray) had already made me a shirt that had ‘Heart Divided’ on it, with Alabama on one side and Georgia on the other and a big split down the middle.”
Her sons hope she still gets to wear it.
Georgia and Alabama could still meet. If they do, it will be on Dec. 1 in the Georgia Dome — in the SEC Championship game.
The Bulldogs, ranked No. 6 in both The Associated Press and USA Today/Coaches’ polls, can return there if they repeat as SEC Eastern Division champions. Alabama, ranked No. 2 in both polls, is favored to get there from the West. The Lee boys both plan to be there.
“It’s still our goal to play,” said Dallas, a 6-foot-4, 300-pound junior. “It’s just going to be a little later in the season.”
A request to interview Dillon was denied by Alabama, citing coach Nick Saban’s policy for true freshmen.
Lisa Lee is not particularly enamored about sitting through a championship game with her sons on opposing sidelines either. Though her Georgia roots have been growing longer than she has been alive, she can’t say for certain she’d be cheering for the Bulldogs or what she might feel.
“I’d root for everyone to stay healthy and for it to be decided on something other than Dillon’s defensive assignments or Dallas’ offensive assignments,” she said. “I would probably be in the bathroom freaking out anyway.”
If it were up to Lisa and her husband, Robert, they wouldn’t be facing such a dilemma. She and her parents have been sitting in the same club level seats in the East end zone at Sanford Stadium for 35 years. Her family was actually voted “Best Dawg fans” one year and featured on The Mark Richt Show. Robert was also a lifelong Bulldog fan, too, and played for Erk Russell at Georgia Southern.
So when Dallas began to draw interest from colleges, his was a relatively stress-free recruitment. Despite offers from Florida State, Tennessee, Georgia Tech and others, he committed to the Bulldogs in April of his junior year.
Naturally, they thought Dillon’s recruitment would be much the same when he came through Buford High three years behind Dallas. Dillon had been raised the same way as Dallas and, since his big brother first became a recruit, he’d literally been to Athens 100 times.
“He was staying with me pretty much every summer and every Saturday,” Dallas said. “He always had a blast hanging out with us. He’s friends with everybody here. The more he came, the more I was thinking he was going to come here.”
Turns out, Dillon likes to go his own way. “A typical last born,” his mom says. Saban and defensive coordinator Kirby Smart came after him hard and he was quickly swayed. Dillon committed to Alabama in May of 2011.
“You know, it’s kind of like when you’re 16 and you want a Mustang, but your parents could only afford a used truck,” Lisa explains. “Then you start driving that and you realize, ‘OK, I actually love a truck.’ . . . Dillon’s always surprising us.”
Now comes the hard part. Instead of their sons playing major college football together 40 miles away, they’ll be playing 275 miles apart. That has created some logistical challenges.
So Lisa and Robert Lee will be driving all over the place this fall in their Infiniti FX. You’ll recognize it from the No. 64 Georgia helmet sticker in the lower left corner of back window and a No. 25 Alabama “A” in the right.
“We’re doing it more based on big-game environments,” Lisa said of what games they’ll attend. “The first game was either Buffalo in Athens or Alabama versus Michigan in Texas Stadium. So we’ll be in Texas. The next week, Georgia goes to Missouri for the first time in SEC history, so we’re going there. And it just kind of continues on from there.”
And if all goes to plan, it will end in downtown Atlanta.
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Thinkalittle
August 26th, 2012
6:49 pm
First
Thinkalittle
August 26th, 2012
6:50 pm
Holy crap, always wanted to do that. Out of my system now. Never again.
just a fan
August 26th, 2012
6:52 pm
first
Thinkalittle
August 26th, 2012
6:53 pm
As a parent, I would have to root fot UGA in the game simply because, as a freshman, Dallas probably won’t be playing in it. Would be a great story though.
Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson
August 26th, 2012
7:02 pm
Me thinks momma lee is one hot mommy!
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 26th, 2012
7:10 pm
That should be WE and Jesse & Al you need to clean your glasses.
Georgia Fan
August 26th, 2012
7:11 pm
Wonderful family, best of luck to both of their boys!
UGA football fans
August 26th, 2012
7:25 pm
facebook.com/ugafootballfans Like this page now
Game Changer
August 26th, 2012
7:29 pm
One is playing for the national title each year, the other is playing for respect.
Lets see how 2012.
Other than Kublanow at the georgia dome last night UGA did not get much for the 2013 commits. I am worried that the running back may be swaying kublanow to alabama.
Frank Lane
August 26th, 2012
7:31 pm
Very cool split family but I wish Dillon were in Athens also.
Score Check
August 26th, 2012
7:34 pm
Coach Sick Satan = SCUM
Coach Sick Satan = SCUM
Coach Sick Satan = SCUM
Twist your knee and he leaves you twisting in the wind.
Big Crimson 75
August 26th, 2012
7:50 pm
I vote all goes well & they end in Atlanta!!
With a trip to South Beach for #15 following.
Dillon has been quite impressive at Bama in Camp.
sandiegodawg
August 26th, 2012
7:50 pm
not so fast uncledaddy- GA meets ALA on 12/1 and Dawgs take the trophy. Book It.
Gamechanger is clueless
August 26th, 2012
8:14 pm
There he goes again, Brice Ramsey ,JJ Green,Shaun Mc gee, along with KublanowGeorgia probably had the most recruits playing at the dome, but the clueless wonder gamchanger is unaware, just doing his normal drivel , idiot troll that he is rears his stupid head a gain.Will Trent Brown be too big too compete? Gamechanger thinks so. John Jenkins is still practicing gamechanger , you said he would be ineligible. JHC still at Georgia you said he was leaving.Go troll elsewhere. Quit posing as a Georgia fan, troll.
RHall55
August 26th, 2012
9:04 pm
Game Changer….what are you talking about…I’m normally critical of UGA recruiting (too many horror stories of CRG not getting out of the vacinity of Athens)…but, a lot of the UGA recruits played well last…now, the article on Dallas Lee does show UGA dropped the ball on his recruiting…do you think AL would have let that happened to them…no way…thanks, CRG, for dropping the ball on Dillon Lee!!!
Diamond Dawg
August 26th, 2012
9:17 pm
Game Changer as usual is clueless.
JB
August 26th, 2012
9:31 pm
No way that boy should be at Bama. He should be in Athens. Yep, mom is ok
Gamecock in Georgia
August 26th, 2012
9:35 pm
Just goes to show that Dillon is the smartest member in the family
OkieDawg
August 26th, 2012
9:50 pm
How did this happen? In future years, who will give a crap about Dillion. He will live in Atlanta and on game day, he will be all alone. While everyone in Atlanta goes to Athens (except for the GT LOSERS) he will try to get people excited about Tuscalooser. And all eyes will be on UGA!
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 26th, 2012
10:04 pm
OkieDwag but nobody gives a crap about you now.
chuck
August 26th, 2012
10:05 pm
UGA screwed up in being late recruiting Dillon. The Lee’s are a great family.
Preacher Dawg
August 26th, 2012
10:15 pm
got to love SEC football!!!
OkieDawg
August 26th, 2012
10:27 pm
I dropped my fried twinkie…are you a GT fan, Bammer fan, or just totally irrelevant? WPOS!
Shawn
August 26th, 2012
10:39 pm
Dillion would be disowned if he were my kid.
HABDAWG
August 26th, 2012
10:49 pm
good luck to both. hope they meet in dec.
Knute Rockne
August 26th, 2012
10:57 pm
Unfortunately for young Dillon, he will be sitting with his momma and daddy on December 1st watching his big brother playing LSU.
Dawg-Gawn
August 26th, 2012
11:33 pm
Charlie Daniels lyrics to the song “The Devil went down to Georgia” fit best with this story, unfortunately this time… granny’s dawg does bite back!
It’s okay… everything going to be alright! (*_~)
The chapel bell is “fix’in” to be rung!
“Fan-Up!”
“Our Team, Our Time, No Regrets”
“Make Russ Official Uga IX”
Believe in the “G”
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
August 26th, 2012
11:57 pm
@ Game Chikun in Ga:
He may be the smartest now but after getting one of those “Mail order” diplomas from Bammie he won’t be able to find his a$$ with both hands in his hip pockets…………………………much like you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
August 27th, 2012
12:01 am
@ RHall55:
I guess we got to blame somebody so let’s blame George Bush. Barrack Hussein Obama blames all his failures on Bush!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7576DAWG
August 27th, 2012
12:06 am
There must be a ton of animosity and jealousy with Dillon against his older brother. For him to be raised as a Dawg, visit his brother 100’s of times at Georgia, know all the players and love being there and still go to Alabama makes no since at all. Dillion is a very spoiled , self centered little boy who didn’t have the intelligence to see that him picking Alabama over Georgia was a spiteful, deliberate way of saying “It’s all about me now and not Dallas, I have been in his shadow long enough”. ‘ I am going my own way.”
All of that is okay but when you come to Georgia it should be for the TEAM not to bring recognition to yourself. I can tell Dillon this if you were at Georgia you would have to earn everything you get . Because you have a brother at Georgia it would have only helped you get in. Now prove we did not make a mistake in bringing you here.
There is no way that Alabama showed him a fraction of the love that the Bulldawg Nation , coaches and players showed him before he decided to go to Alabama. Georgia not offering him until after Alabama should not have mattered any, but all the exposure Dillion got from all those visits did not matter one bit and he took it as a bitter insult that Georgia didn’t offer before Alabama. I’m sure Dillon is very happy at Alabama but he would have been a legacy at Georgia and 40 years from now he would have people coming up to him at the Georgia games , shacking his hand and reliving the days that he was a Dawg.
DILLON WANT GET THAT RECOGNITION AT ALABAMA WHEN HE GO’S BACK FOR GAMES.Nobody will know who he is or care. He will be living in Georgia and raising a family here not Alabama. The point of this is Dillon is going to Alabama for the wrong reason.
7576DAWG
August 27th, 2012
12:11 am
should have been shaking his hand, sorry.
William
August 27th, 2012
5:43 am
You raise kids the same, give them everything they want and look what happens. Absolutely no reason for Dillon to go to Alabama but spite. My son was raised as a bulldog and there is no way he would not go if he was good enough to. Something is wrong here, either Dillon is off mentally or Georgia dropped the ball recruiting him. You be the judge.
Destin Dawg
August 27th, 2012
6:06 am
Dillon will not get the love after he graduates… probably won’t get to play as much either… bad choice .. must be ego ??
Vince
August 27th, 2012
8:17 am
Good article. Good family. They both seem like fine boys. Go Dawgs, but the best of luck to both of them !!!
WtfWruthnkn
August 27th, 2012
8:43 am
Bunch of idiots on here this kid owes uga nothing…..and btw it was bush’s fault
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 27th, 2012
8:47 am
A bunch of hurt dWag fans must have crystal balls that tell the future. The same people that KNEW Crowell was the NEXT great thing too.
gt4ever
August 27th, 2012
8:53 am
@William
Are you serious ??? and people wonder why dawg fans are the WORST! Just typical…
a.p. dawg
August 27th, 2012
8:54 am
Not trying to trash the kid, he may have just had a bad day, but I saw Dillon outplayed by all 3 of Calhoun’s linebackers in last yrs state championship. None of them even got any D1 offers.
One of the most telling things was I saw Lee try to run around a block from one of Calhoun’s receivers who might weigh 180 lbs dripping wet. This receiver is now a walk on at UGA. I also saw Lee taunting the Calhoun sideline during the game.
Big Crimson 75
August 27th, 2012
8:55 am
Twink — unbelievable posts coming from some of these so called dog supporters.
Some of y’all are beyond saving.
gt4ever
August 27th, 2012
8:56 am
Oh and 7576Dawg is another COMPLETE idiot! But hey, your fanbase is full of them….
McDawg
August 27th, 2012
8:56 am
can’t see Bama beating LSU
the story will be Mettenberger v Murray (with the blog sub plot being how CMR ran Mettenberger off the team etc.. blah blah blah in favor of Murray)
McDawg
August 27th, 2012
8:57 am
Dillion Lee going to Bama was no great loss
ole dawg
August 27th, 2012
8:58 am
Last year I went and watched Buford play and I could not pick out Dillon by his play. Someone had to tell me which player he was… and the game was close until the 3rd quarter. That is not good when you are planning to make an impact at a major D1 school. Hope Dillon proves me wrong and I wish him the best but it looked like the kid was a little over hyped to me. I wish him the best at Alabama!
McDawg
August 27th, 2012
8:58 am
the Pink Tide
RTR22
August 27th, 2012
9:09 am
Great looking family and best wishes to both kids for continued success. DL rolling with the Tide and the next 2 yrs open the season at the Ga Dome against VaT in 13, and WVa in 14.. Saban aint
scared lol…..
OrlandoDawg
August 27th, 2012
9:12 am
Great story! Dallas will kick lil bro’s butt…tee it up between the hedges!
DawginLex
August 27th, 2012
9:37 am
game changer you are seriously embarrassing yourself every time you post
Bobby
August 27th, 2012
9:47 am
It’s sad that there’s grown up bashing a kid for choosing a school that probably best fits him. He’s probably a dawg at heart but felt Alabama was a better fit. May of liked the coaches
more or loved the school who knows but I doubt it was to go against his parents. If it was to go against his parents he would of gone to GT or Flordia. We’re talking about an 18yr old kid when you were 18 did you follow your siblings foot steps or did you decide to do what best for you?
UGA Insider
August 27th, 2012
9:56 am
The blood between Kirby and UGA runs really deep. Kirby has been telling kids CMR was going to get fired each season and scares them to Bama. He wanted Dillian just to piss us off and really went after him hard. However he NEVER thought he would lose Jordan Jenkins because of it. Hilarious how it worked out. Kirby is a slimeball on the recruiting trail and really does his best to hurt UGA. Kirby is good friends with Bobo but hates CMR and Garner.
dawggirl
August 27th, 2012
10:07 am
Why does Kirby hate CMR and Garner so much, Insider? Why are these grown men such babies?
Delbert D.
August 27th, 2012
10:34 am
Looks like Dillon got more of Mom’s genes, and Dallas got more of Dad’s. Check the eyes.
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
August 27th, 2012
10:44 am
@ Delbert D:
Mom has eyes????????????????
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 27th, 2012
10:54 am
They all look like they never saw a MEAL they didn’t eat.
Cy Young
August 27th, 2012
10:56 am
It looks like Roger Clemens and Mindy McCreedy between the 2 boys.
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
August 27th, 2012
10:57 am
@ Dawg Girl & Insider:
If you will recall in 2011 we had a lot of TROLLS and Dawg Fans In Name Only and even some who insisted they were true Dawg Fans, were on EVERY BLOG yelling to fire CMR and/or his staff. It was brutal even after UGA won 10 straight and the SEC East. All Smart was doing was using those people’s negatives and badmouthings to illustrate his points. It has cost Dawg Nation a number of highly ranked recruits as was deminstrated on 2012 Signing Day. Jordan Jenkins verified all this when he switched back to UGA before Signing Day.
Needless to say UGA has been hurt significantly by those people!!!!!!!!!!!
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
August 27th, 2012
10:59 am
@ Twinkie:
Is Fried Twinkies considered a meal????
You better check!!!!! All 4 may have been in your Fried twinkies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
August 27th, 2012
11:09 am
@ GT4ever:
Apparently you are an authority on “Complete idiots”. How do the OTHER 8 members of the GT Fan Base feel??????????????
DawginLex
August 27th, 2012
11:12 am
How many more cities in addition to Memphis TN and Waco Tx is the NCAA looking into recruiting issues with Auburn?
How many players suspended at Auburn in the last week? I know of 2.
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
August 27th, 2012
11:17 am
@ Ole Dawg:
You never can tell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When Bill Stanfill was a senior and his team played Douglas County for the State Championship, Bill was drunk according to players from BOTH teams!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DP
August 27th, 2012
11:21 am
7576Dawg can always be counted on for a rambling, idiotic post about any in state kid who turns down UGA. Of course he and the rest of Dawg Nation don’t mind it when out of state kids like Stafford, Green and Murray come to UGA. Thankfully the Lee parents are a lot more mature about their sons choosing what they want to do with their lives than many of the UGA homers on these boards.
With regard to those who are posting that Dillon Lee didn’t impress them that much while playing at Buford, it’s worth bearing in mind that (a) Saban and Smart are pretty good judges of talent, (b) Richt and Grantham thought he was talented enough to offer him and (c) reports from Alabama’s spring and fall practices are that Lee has impressed and is likely to be a key special teams player this season like Trey DePriest and Vinnie Sunseri were as true freshmen last year before becoming defensive starters this year as sophomores.
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 27th, 2012
11:23 am
Somebody needs to get the WHOLE LIST of suspended players from all the FBS teams and for how many games.
I know Tech has 2 players out for 1 game.
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
August 27th, 2012
11:24 am
@ Dawg In Lex:
Apparently those being suspended now were not as important as Cam(The Scam) Newton because they were not being “auctioned off” by Daddy Newton!!!!!
I still say that the Newton fiasco will bring The BARN to it’s knees(Not what you’re thinking) one day when the BARN high rollers get tired of anteing up and no championships!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gt4ever
August 27th, 2012
11:38 am
@Brainiac… Pretty much the same….
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
August 27th, 2012
11:43 am
@ DP:
What is your problem with 7576 Dawg???
Doesn’t he have the same right as you to speak freely about his thoughts and analyses on the subject at hand?????
He is a severely disabled Vietnam Vet with little mobility, a ton of medals to his credit and was personally responsible for saving the lives of more than 30 Americans while ending up an invalid in order to preserve your right to say anything about anybody whether it be true or accurate. I don’t recall this American hero ever saying anything to deserve being treated like you are doing.
Have a nice life and continue enjoying the freedoms provided for you to degrade the very people who have continued to provide these for you!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
August 27th, 2012
11:46 am
@ GT4ever:
Just kidding dude!!!!
I pull for GT MOST of the time except the Saturday after Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
August 27th, 2012
11:50 am
@ DP:
Never heard of Trey DePreist or Vinnie Sunseri !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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August 27th, 2012
11:59 am
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DAWGMAN
August 27th, 2012
12:02 pm
Children, please. Anybody know if all the Dawgs are ready to play on Saturday? How about the O-line? How about the D-line for that matter? Smarten up you knuckleheads! Can Russ get a few extra 20 pounder bags of ice? What if he were to be asked to make a victory stroll all the way up to the chapel bell? Heaven forbid! Don’t let the ASPCA hear about that!
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 27th, 2012
12:12 pm
Get you one…….
http://www.englishbulldogpuppychase.com/english-bulldog-puppies-for-sale/index.htm
Uga of your own. great pups and family.
I dropped my fried twinkie
August 27th, 2012
12:17 pm
It looks like ISSAC is going to flush the NoLa toilet again.
Big Crimson 75
August 27th, 2012
12:49 pm
Brain — Brief bio on Sunseri & DePreist.
Vinny “the missile” Sunseri will be taking Mark Barrons spot @ SS. His father is former Tide LBs Coach & now the DC for the Vols.
Sunseri can play.
Trey DePreist is a LB from Ohio. Similar build & abilities as recently departed Dont’A Hightower. DePreist likely backs-up Nico Johnson & CJ Moseley in the middle. Saban has said we basically have 3 starters @ ILB. Man, We are in-deed Loaded!!!
Let me know of any other Bama players you’d like to know about Brain — I’ll help if I can!!
Lex — you do know the Barn Center got popped this week-end for public drunkenness. Suspended for the Clemson game.
DP
August 27th, 2012
12:55 pm
Brainiac, if what you say is true about 7576Dawg, that still doesn’t give him the right to run down a kid who turned down UGA to go somewhere else without a response. I’m an Alabama grad and fan but I wouldn’t think of running down Alabama high school players who turned down UA to go out of state, like JaMarcus Russell years ago or the Winston kid who is a freshman QB this year at Florida State. Where a kid wants to go to school, provided it is on the up and up (i.e. not being paid or induced with girls, etc.), is his own business. Sometimes a younger brother wants his own identity instead of riding his older brother’s coattails, having the same friends, etc. Maybe Dillon Lee sees a difference in work ethic and fewer off the field incidents among the players at Alabama versus Georgia. Maybe it’s because he’s seen a bunch of Alabama linebackers under Saban and Smart going to the NFL. Whatever the reason, it’s a credit to the Lee parents that they’re supporting Dillon at Alabama even though they’re long time UGA fans.
If you’re going to run down Georgia kids who turn down UGA to go out of state as turncoats or worse, doesn’t fairness dictate that you also run down A.J. Green for turning down South Carolina, Matthew Stafford for turning down Texas, Keith Marshall and Todd Gurley for turning down UNC, etc.?
DP
August 27th, 2012
1:01 pm
Big Crimson 75, from what I’m reading DePriest will probably start at one of inside linebacker spots ahead of Mosley. That doesn’t mean much as Mosley plays more on passing downs. I’d guess those two and Nico Johnson will get roughly equal snaps. If anything, even without starting Mosley might get the most snaps because he figures to play more than the other two in the nickel and dime packages with only one ILB on the field. As you say, having those 3 guys for 2 ILB spots is a luxury.
HoneyBadger Has the Munchies
August 27th, 2012
1:02 pm
So you see….UGA does NOT get to pick or make its schedule. Bama was in place to play and then the SEC…not UGA dropped in Mizzou in place of Bama. All you schedule haters send your cmplaints to the SEC commissioner. Not too many years ago the East was stronger than the West…now the shift in strength resides in the West.
Hard Truth Soldier
August 27th, 2012
1:09 pm
ALways One Bad Apple in the Crowd. ALABAMA BAD(:
Big Crimson 75
August 27th, 2012
1:13 pm
DP — I don’t like the idea of sitting Moseley.
Tit-for-tat, he’s our best LB.
The guy needs to be starting.
If anything, rotate Nico. DePreist was impressive last year.
I wonder if an are capable of playing outside?? That’s where we have inexperience replacing Upshaw & Harris.
I look for Sunseri to light it up this year. The kid brings it.
CJJScout
August 27th, 2012
1:23 pm
Wow, there mom is pretty cute!
DP
August 27th, 2012
1:36 pm
Big Crimson, I don’t think starting is a big deal if the players’ egos can handle it. My guess is that Mosley got a lot more snaps last year as a backup than Jerrell Harris got as a starter because he played on most passing downs and Harris often was off the field after first down if it resulted in second and long. Mosley, Johnson and DePriest are all effectively starters, just play in different packages. I haven’t seen anything about any of them playing outside. They’re expecting big things from Adrian Hubbard and Xavier Dickson, 2 more turncoats from Georgia, on the outside.
7576DAWG
August 27th, 2012
1:50 pm
Brainiac
I won’t take credit for being a Vietnam Vet , that would be an insult to the brave soldiers who did go to Nam. In fact being in college at Georgia in the early to mid 70’s is what kept me from being drafted.
DP
You completely missed my point. The Lee family situation is a completely different situation than any of the other examples when comparing kids that came to Georgia from other states. My point was the history the Lee family had with Georgia just doesn’t make any sense for Dillon to chose Alabama over Georgia.
His mothers family has had Club level seats, CLUB LEVEL SEATS for 35 tears. How many games do you think Dallas and Dillon saw in the years following their birth. The Lee family won Best Dawg Fans one year. How many thousands of families do you think was also considered , and didn’t win. Dillon loved Georgia or he would not have visited his brother hundreds of times . If he is as independent as he makes out himself to be, Dillon loved the kids he was hanging out with and wanted to be there. . His father was a big time Dawg fan even though he attended Georgia Southern. Then all of a sudden Alabama enters the picture and Kirby Smart brainwashes Dillon into thinking that Mark Richt was going to be fired so he chooses Alabama. After he decided on Alabama there was no way he was going to change his mind because that would have been too embarrassing.He threw away all the history that HE had with the Georgia program after a few visits to Alabama makes no sense.
Georgia has way more kids in Pro ball than Alabama and Georgia has had very good Linebackers in the past. With Grantham at Georgia that reputation will only grow. In fact as much as I hate Auburn , they have had a better reputation as Linebacker U , than Alabama or Georgia over the years.
Dillon can do what he wants I wouldn’t dare advocate anything different. He@@ only one of my own three kids went to Georgia and the other two had the grade to go there. I was just saying , this one case just didn’t make any sense because of the Lee family history.
DP
August 27th, 2012
1:54 pm
To UGA “Insider”, I’ve never seen anybody who used “Insider” or pretended to be an insider on a message board who wasn’t full of it, and you’ve certainly lived down to that. If Kirby Smart ever becomes head coach at UGA you and the other Dawg fans who lie about him and trash him will sing a different tune. Can’t get over him turning down a downward career move from Alabama DC to Georgia DC? I hope he stays at Alabama and becomes head coach when Saban retires. Wait a minute, I mean next year when Saban goes to the University of Texas or the Dallas Cowboys or whereever else it is he’s supposed to be going every year.
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DP
August 27th, 2012
2:33 pm
7576Dawg, I didn’t miss your point, which is that you think you know better than Dillon Lee what the right college decision for him was and throw around terms like “brainwashed” and lie about Smart running down Georgia when you have no idea of what Smart said to Lee or any other recruit. Of course it’s an entirely different situations for the players who turn down their state universities to go to UGA.
With regard to the lie about Kirby Smart claiming Richt was going to be fired, Smart went to Georgia, Dillon Lee’s brother was at Georgia, Dillon Lee had attended Georgia games all his life with his parents who were huge Georgia fans and you think Smart is going to denigrate Georgia to recruit Lee? There was no real serious discussion about firing Richt during Dillon Lee’s recruitment. Do you think Dillon Lee wouldn’t have told his brother and parents about this negative recruiting had it happened, and do you really think he would have ended up at Alabama with the support of his parents?
Why I Read This Blog!
August 27th, 2012
2:50 pm
“Kirby has been telling kids CMR was going to get fired each season and scares them to Bama.”
“Kirby is a slimeball on the recruiting trail and really does his best to hurt UGA. Kirby is good friends with Bobo but hates CMR and Garner.”
LMAO!
7576DAWG
August 27th, 2012
2:58 pm
DP
I do agree that Smart will get the Alabama job when Saban leaves. He made his choice when he turned down Georgia. All bridges have been burnt as far as further consideration at Georgia as far as I am concerned.
indianman
August 27th, 2012
3:02 pm
uncledaddy dont bet your farm on south carolina playing alabama because you lose your money it going to be georgia and alabama
pbt dawg fan
August 27th, 2012
3:25 pm
Has landon collins mom recieve her tickets to the BAMA games yet!
DP
August 27th, 2012
4:24 pm
7576DAWG, I doubt your views on Kirby Smart have anything to do with whether or not he would be offered the Georgia head coaching job at some point, given that you wouldn’t be involved in the decision. My guess is you and the rest of Dawg nation would take about 30 seconds to get over him turning down the Georgia DC job previously, saying “why would he have left Saban and Alabama with all the talent they had?” and be thrilled that you got him. Besides, you guys got Todd Grantham, the guy who taught Nick Saban defense according to the most delusional of Dawg Nation, so Smart turning down the UGA DC job worked out for everybody.
As far as the lies about Kirby Smart badmouthing Georgia when he recruits against them, how about one of you Delusional Dawgs putting up a link to a legitimate newspaper article quoting an actual current or former high school recruit who has made that claim. Note, a legitimate newspaper article doesn’t mean some other anonymous Delusional Dawg Blogger who says he has inside sources who talked to a high school recruit that told him so.
Kirby Smart was one of your own, a “DGD”. Is this how Dawg Nation treats its own? If so, it’s no wonder so many Georgia kids turn down UGA to go out of state.
UGA Insider
August 27th, 2012
4:37 pm
Dawggirl,
Kirby was the DB coach at UGA when VanGordor asked for a raise. When CMR said no to raise it pissed Van Gordor and Kirby off and they left. As a result the UGA stunk in the coming years and cost CMR a mythical national championship in 2007.
UGA Insider
August 27th, 2012
4:40 pm
Kirby didn’t’ take the UGA DC job because CMR wouldn’t change the strength program or the nutrition program at that time. Kirby thought we were at a disadvantage at that time and didn’t want to hurt his career by risking it.
Chip Towers
August 27th, 2012
4:42 pm
UGA Insider: That’s complete bunk about Kirby Smart re: strength program.
DP
August 27th, 2012
4:47 pm
“UGA Insider” is not just some anonymous guy on the internet. He knows everything you know about what has gone on at Georgia, what Kirby Smart says to recruits, just about everything other than how to spell the name of the former Georgia defensive coordinator. And Kirby Smart and Mark Richt hate each other because Richt allegedly turned down Smart’s request for a raise, which is why a few years after that Richt offered Smart the defensive coordinator job.
DP
August 27th, 2012
4:55 pm
Thanks Chip. It’s pretty obvious everything “UGA Insider” has to say about Kirby Smart and probably just about anything else is complete bunk. As if UGA doesn’t have the money to do whatever Smart or Grantham or anybody else thinks is necessary to keep up in strength and conditioning. The “UGA Insider” is just making it up as he goes along.
Chip, I’m sure you talk to a lot of high school recruits and players at UGA and elsewhere. Have any of them told you that Smart speaks negatively about Georgia in recruiting and/or tells Georgia recruits that Mark Richt is going to be fired? Why would Georgia have offered their DC job to somebody who trashes them on the recruiting trail? Obviously, they wouldn’t and he doesn’t.
DP
August 27th, 2012
4:58 pm
Chip coming in here to point out that “UGA Insider” is full of it is like the scene in Annie Hall when some guy on line in front of Woody Allen is blabbing about Marshall McLuhan. Woody tells him he doesn’t know what he’s talking about and the big mouth says he teaches a communications course in college and is an expert on Marshall McLuhan. At which point Allen brings in McLuhan who says “I’ve been listening to what you’ve been saying. You know nothing of my work.” Allen turns to the camera and says “Don’t you wish real life was like this?”
DP
August 27th, 2012
5:04 pm
And to the another Dawg fabricator on here, “Brainiac”, pretty funny that after you came up with your story about 7576DAWG being a Vietnam War hero who saved over 30 lives, he, to his credit, says he didn’t serve in Vietnam because he was in college. Two Dawg fabricators called out on one thread, I love it.
Drago
August 27th, 2012
5:22 pm
No worries for Mrs. Lee.Georgia will be playing LSU on December 1st in the Georgia Dome.
Dawg Haus
August 27th, 2012
5:57 pm
Although the last time I stepped on a football field was in middle school, I can relate to this story. I am the only Dawg in a family of Bama grads. We don’t have any problems getting along during football season because we hate the same teams. Best of luck to the Lee family this year!
Ghost
August 27th, 2012
6:14 pm
UGA Insider,Kirby Smart was not a DB coach a Georgia when Brian Van Gorder was at UGA, Van Gorder left after the 2004 season, Smart coached RB in 2005 then went on to Dolphins with Saban in 2006. So why would Kirby be mad that Van Gorder didn’t get a raise ? Did Van Gorder owe Kirby some money?
DP
August 27th, 2012
7:12 pm
Ghost, good job of blowing another hole in “UGA Insider”. What a pathetic liar.
Ghost
August 27th, 2012
7:25 pm
DP, My guess is UGA insider lives on North Ave.
Knows something you don't
August 27th, 2012
7:28 pm
Ummm…or MAYBE someone didn’t take a certain class he needed to attend GEORGIA… GEORGIA did NOT “drop the ball” on recruiting and young Dillon will be very happy at Alabama. He made his decision looong before anyone knew anything about it..
DP
August 27th, 2012
7:36 pm
Oh boy, another Delusional Dawg pretending he has inside information and making up stories. Isaah Crowell and Caleb King qualified academically to attend the Harvard of the South but Dillon Lee didn’t. Got it.
DP
August 27th, 2012
7:54 pm
Excuse me, that’s not another Delusional Dawg, it’s clear from the writing style that it’s “UGA Insider”, caught in enough lies to change his handle.
DP
August 27th, 2012
7:55 pm
Chip, do multiple handles on one thread from the same URL get somebody banned?
LHarding Dawg
August 27th, 2012
8:53 pm
They both look like good kids and both seem to have their heads on right. I know the parents are proud and they should be. Two kids in D1 SEC football. Good luck to the parents on all the travel.
Buffalo coach Jeff Quinn: ‘Really, we have nothing to lose’ against Georgia | UGA sports blog
August 27th, 2012
8:58 pm
[...] Dome is goal for Lee brothers, Dallas (UGA) and Dillon (Alabama) [...]
Chip Towers
August 27th, 2012
9:02 pm
DP, why yes they do. Have we an offender?
DP
August 27th, 2012
9:10 pm
Chip, my strong suspicion is “UGA Insider” of multiple posts and “Knows Something You Don’t”, of 7:28 P.M., are the same guy. The same “I’m in the know”, the same occasional words in ALL CAPS to emphasize that he really KNOWS what he’s talking about even as he’s MAKING STUFF UP and libeling KIRBY SMART and DILLON LEE and anybody else he decides is a target.
Lord Saban
August 27th, 2012
9:34 pm
Bunch of jealous dawg fans as usual. You need not worry. If UGA does make it to the Dome out of sheer luck a 2nd year in a row then we will deliver another blackout beating worse than the first one.
Respect Lord Saban
DP
August 27th, 2012
10:21 pm
To “UGA Insider”, aka “Knows something you don’t” and however many other handles you’re operating under, he who has been or is about to be BANNED, see ya. If you weren’t so transparently dumb you wouldn’t be getting the boot. But you are who you are.
RxDawg
August 28th, 2012
8:51 am
Dillon is a freshemen, more then likely to be redshirted, LB burried on the depthchart at Bama. Dallas is a starting offensive linemen for UGA. Is it really that hard?
Otherwise, neat story.
flo-ri-duh
August 28th, 2012
8:56 am
Dillon isn’t going to be facing anything but riding the bench this year. Dallas will be starting for the Dawgs. The only injury Dillon is likely to get is splinters in his back side.
NickTheSaint
August 28th, 2012
10:11 am
Yea, they’ll both be there, but Dallas will be sitting in the stands, lol.
RxDawg
August 28th, 2012
10:35 am
“UGA Insider: That’s complete bunk about Kirby Smart re: strength program.”
LLLLLLLLLMMMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOO
Way to set em straight Chip
Denyse
August 28th, 2012
3:59 pm
Great article I know you are proud of them both!!
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August 28th, 2012
4:27 pm
[...] Dome is goal for Lee brothers, Dallas (UGA) and Dillon (Alabama) [...]
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August 28th, 2012
9:16 pm
[...] Dome is goal for Lee brothers, Dallas (UGA) and Dillon (Alabama) [...]
v
August 28th, 2012
10:14 pm
All that travel, and neither will play
intheknow
August 29th, 2012
10:11 am
In the end Dallas will settle down with his family after his playing days are over and be surrounded by his family and loyal Dawg fans throughout the state, while Dillon will return home and be surrounded by his
family and wonder why no Dawg fan will give him the time of day and wonder why none of his old coaches and redneck trailer trash fans from Alabama don’t remember his name. As someone one said,”You reap what you sew”.