Georgia’s John Jenkins out for bowl game due to academics
Georgia will be without one of its most formidable defensive weapons when it plays Nebraska in the Capital One Bowl on Jan. 1.
John Jenkins, a senior who started all 13 games at noseguard for the Bulldogs, was unable to meet academic requirements to maintain his eligibility for the bowl game. Georgia coach Mark Richt shared that news with reporters after the team convened at the Renaissance Orlando Hotel Wednesday evening.
“John Jenkins will not be coming to the bowl due to an academic-related issue,” Richt told reporters. “I think John Jenkins has been awesome for Georgia. I’ve been really proud of what he’s accomplished for us and just really want to wish him the very best because he’s been a blessing to our program.”
Jenkins has sat out bowl practices and been listed with a concussion since the Bulldogs returned to action following final exams on Dec. 12. Richt was asked this past Thursday if the Bulldogs suffered any academic casualties after fall semester but declined “until we get to the bowl sight.”
The 6-foot-3, 358-pound Jenkins was named second-team All-SEC this season by both the coaches and media. A junior college transfer, Jenkins played both noseguard and end for the Bulldogs, amassing 50 tackles and two tackles for loss.
Georgia will start junior Kwame Geathers for the bowl game. Jenkins’ loss is somewhat cushioned by the expected return of Abry Jones for the bowl game. Jones, a senior starter, missed the last seven games of the season after having to undergo ankle surgery.
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Put in Timeout by Ken Suguira,Filtered by Mark Bradley, Banned by Bill King, Chip Towers & only slightly loved by Jeff Schultz.
December 27th, 2012
10:12 am
the Difference in a TECH fan compared to an SEC team fan…posted on a tech blog about Players on Dean’s List and players graduating.
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I want to win a national championship but that is a dream. I do want to see Tech win every game but I know that will not always happen either. I do Love that Tech is educating & graduating quality young men and putting a pretty good product on the court or field that I pay to see.
STUDENT athlete…………COLLEGE football…….those terms imply that SCHOOL & EDUCATION come before games & fans.
Thanks Coaches and Staff for getting good kids and graduating them.
Congratulations to the Players for Caring enough to give your very best in the Classroom and on the Field.
To the TECH fans that seem to think the only thing that matters is winning and want Johnson gone. I say to you go be a fan of any win at all cost SEC team of your choosing. Tech fans should want to win but not over having QUALITY Graduates worthy of a Tech Degree playing on the team.
Mathew Stafford
December 27th, 2012
10:20 am
It was a blessing that he and rest of the UGA front seven got ROLLED by bama for a record amount of rushing yards. Oh, and keep grantham.
DP
December 27th, 2012
10:21 am
JB, don’t be such a pathetic loser.
NCDawg
December 27th, 2012
10:25 am
I’m not worried. Maybe this will get a couple of the younger guys some game reps and a head start on spring practice. Big John had some pretty stout performances but not enough. Hopefully Geathers will get fired up about busting up some plays in the bowl game.
Hey JB
December 27th, 2012
10:27 am
Looks like Richt lost the paper work before the SECCG.
DP
December 27th, 2012
10:30 am
For JB the pathetic loser who tries to tear down Alabama because he can’t defend Georgia:
“Just before 1:30 p.m. on another summer day the Alabama coaching staff files into the conference room for the weekly academic review. Nine assistant coaches and the athletic department’s academic director sit around a long rectangular table while trainers and graduate assistants grab chairs on the edge of the room. One wall is covered by a large whiteboard showing high school players that the staff is recruiting, ranked and organized by position. The coaches joke and laugh with one another. Then the private door from Saban’s office opens — and the room immediately goes silent. Saban, reading glasses perched on his nose and his ever-present spiral-bound notepad in his hand, sits down at the head of the table. “What do we got?” he asks quietly, getting right to the point.
The academic adviser launches into an update of each player in the program who has any kind of academic red flag while Saban studies the information on a coded list, occasionally injecting questions. One player is struggling in math class but working hard. Another, his history professor reports, isn’t taking notes and didn’t bother to answer all the exam questions. “I want to talk to him,” Saban says a couple of times and makes a note. For the past three years Alabama has been second in the Southeastern Conference in the graduation rate of its football players — behind Vanderbilt — and last year set a conference record with 38 Academic All-SEC honorees, even while it was winning the national championship.”
ARdawg
December 27th, 2012
10:32 am
“I will put up my 2012 W-2 against Jenkins and I will bet you everything you own he didn’t make more than me.”
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HAHA POAD, You are a loser in life and a loser on the blogs. Big John is a student athlete at UGA. Really, is there any question your W-2s from your grass and weed eating business might reflect more income than a college student playing football? JJ in a few months will have in one week eclipsed the amount you’ll make in your entire lifetime. Troll
WDE
December 27th, 2012
10:38 am
JJ best of luck to you in the NFL you are a DGD and thank you for your efforts.
Joey
December 27th, 2012
10:41 am
Geez, DP, and all that has what to do with a UGA Sports Blog?
Do your lips get tired from being afixed to Saban’s hind end 24/7?
DIT
December 27th, 2012
10:41 am
Some of you just need to get over the SEC CG……….a game. Some act as if nothing in this world matters to you other then winning a championship. Bama won, congrats Bama. If watching a bunch of 18-22 year olds win / lose football games is all you have in life then I feel sorry for you.
I hated losing that game, but was over it when I woke up the next morning. Let it go!
DP
December 27th, 2012
10:58 am
Joey, that comment wasn’t addressed to you, it was addressed to JB, another pathetic Dawg loser. JB tried to deflect the Jenkins issue by whining about Saban. Try to keep up.
5time
December 27th, 2012
11:08 am
sight?? wow… most teams go to bowl sites. This guy and his editor must have skipped grade school classes.
RealisticFan
December 27th, 2012
11:14 am
Put in timeout………..What you fail to mention in your gushing about Tech football players being not so good on the field, but how great they are as quality students is…..that they are in LAST place in graduation rates of their athletes in the ACC.
Joey
December 27th, 2012
11:26 am
JB’s witty, not a whiner.
Geez, you must be on Saban’s payroll, checking blogs for any slight of your hero . . .
Jim
December 27th, 2012
11:37 am
Total lack of responsibility.
gcs
December 27th, 2012
11:46 am
What do you bet he stopped going to classes around mid-October?
DP
December 27th, 2012
11:52 am
Given the low standards of Dawg Nation, JB’s whining probably does look like wit, just like a defense that gives up 300+ yards rushing in 3 consecutive games is regarded as great.
Deaf and Dumb
December 27th, 2012
11:53 am
A retarded blind student could get straight A’s in Athens.
Tommy
December 27th, 2012
11:54 am
He will not make it in the NFL and will be broke by Dec. 2013.
Walter
December 27th, 2012
11:57 am
Typical Georgia Bulldog disqualification. They are either getting jailed or are too stupid to go to class.
Paddy
December 27th, 2012
12:01 pm
Of course he should be drafted. But did any Dawg fan see high first round play out of Mr.Jenkins. I, for one, did not see that kind of ability, but admit,I am not a football scout.
GB's Hamburgers
December 27th, 2012
12:15 pm
Some are reviewing the rushing totals in the last 4 to 5 games with Jenkins and the rest of those acclaimed athletes playing. They wonder what Nebraska might do with Jenkins gone. The problem is not about the athletes, it’s the conflicting schemes run by the offense and defense. When the Dogs offense clicks they score with few plays and little time off the clock. This leaves the defense exposed to many more plays from their opponents. They habitually get worn down and gashed. Don’t believe me? Check the time of possession even in the games we win. To win a NC, you have to play as a team. The offense must compliment and support the defense. Our offense works against the defense.
Walter
December 27th, 2012
12:19 pm
Look up groid in the urban dictionary and there is a picture of John Jenkins in there next to it with the following definition:
3. Groid 468 up, 80 down
A darkly skinned male with minimal intellegence, yet strength and speed beyond the capacity of an average homo sapien. Likes eating chicken.
Joey
December 27th, 2012
12:23 pm
NFL Pro Bowler Starters who are DGDs:
AJ
Geno
Champ
Tim Jennings
Blair Walsh
Joey
December 27th, 2012
12:26 pm
Keep it going, Walter.
Chip will give you the boot pretty soon.
Thanks in advance, Chip . . .
docdawg
December 27th, 2012
12:31 pm
Wow there are a ton of idiots out there right after christmas, educate Yourself, you`re on time and accurate thank God, Jenkins an excellent player, the positon not made for stats but 50 tackles when you constantly draw double teams hugely productive, John will be taken high in the draft and have a good career, he`s a great kid and while all you jokers play games all day and live on your lappys, he`ll be making a difference with his life. some of you folks need counseling..
LogicalUS
December 27th, 2012
12:42 pm
“he`s a great kid ”
Little hard to follow as the “great” kid stopped going to classes and bailed on is team before the end of the season?
Having an undeserving UGA team playing vs ND might have been worth it just to see the implosion of the local UGA fans if the the “great” kid was ineligible for the MNC game. But most likely, Saint Richt would have a “re-test” of results scheduled with the results to come back the Monday after the MNC game, then Jenkins would be suspended for a game to be determined later.
WDE
December 27th, 2012
12:44 pm
Walter = another tough guy with a keyboard. Anyone think he would talk to JJ like that in person?
dawggie
December 27th, 2012
12:45 pm
Could be that he “failed” a class so he wouldn’t have to play and potentially get hurt in the bowl game and therefore hurt his draft status, as it’s pretty much a guarantee he’ll be drafted pretty high based on everything he’s already done. Think about it…millions waiting for you if you stay healthy or a bowl game against Nebraska? Has happened before, no doubt.
Joey
December 27th, 2012
12:57 pm
“just like a defense that gives up 300+ yards rushing in 3 consecutive games is regarded as great.” – DP.
Are you that stupid, or just seem like it?
We also held all three of those opponents to 19 completed passes – COMBINED. No wonder they decided to run the ball. UGA blew out Southern and Tech, then battled Bama to 4 lead-changes in the 4th quarter alone.
Oh and go look up how many yards rushing Ga Southern got on Bama’s #1 defense in 2011, and get back with me.
DP
December 27th, 2012
1:23 pm
Joey Boy, that “19 completed passes” is funny. Alabama made plenty of yardage on its completed passes, enough to have over 500 yards of total offense with the 350 rushing.
Alabama’s 2011 defense gave up over 300 yards rushing to Georgia Southern, but Saban and Smart held out all 3 nose tackles with minor injuries so they’d be at full strength for Auburn the following week. And that defense led the nation in every major statistical category, pitched a shutout against LSU and held them to less than 100 yards of total offense in the BCS championship game. This was in the game following LSU running it down Georgia’s throat and hanging 42 points on them.
Typical Dumb Delusional Dawg. Does the fact that bulldogs are among the dumbest dog breeds rub off on the Georgia fan base?
McDawg
December 27th, 2012
1:35 pm
does he get to play in Senior Bowl?
WDE
December 27th, 2012
1:45 pm
DP do you not even listen to your own coach? Saban said after the game that the reason they went to the running game was that their line couldn’t block our rushers off the edge, to his credit Saban saw the weakness in his team and turned it into a plus.
Joey
December 27th, 2012
2:08 pm
WDE, my daddy always said, “don’t waste your time arguing with an idiot.”
Anybody who brings up dog breeds on a football blog, and makes a big deal of Southern and Tech getting over 300 yards rushing, WHEN ALL THEY DO IS RUN THE BALL, well, let’s just say he is wasting our time.
Eric Cartmen
December 27th, 2012
2:12 pm
Looks like Jenkins stole my line. “Screw you guys, I’m going home.”
DP
December 27th, 2012
2:12 pm
Anything to deflect from defending that Georgia defense Grantham is so happy with, right Joey Boy?
DP
December 27th, 2012
2:17 pm
WDE, Alabama’s offensive line didn’t have any trouble giving McCarron plenty of time to throw on that touchdown throw to Cooper that won the game did they? They spent the better part of 3 quarters running it down the throat of Jarvis Jones and made his a$$ quit.
Mountain DAWG
December 27th, 2012
2:48 pm
Maybe I’m wrong, but I though Tech had the nation’s top rushing offense when we throttled them in November. Bobo will have us in the end zone more often than the Huskers. If defense can get a couple of stops and slow their offense down, we’ll outscore them. Just like the Tech game, get a couple of touchdowns ahead and force them to throw the ball and the rout will be on.
Sven Ottke
December 27th, 2012
2:50 pm
Further proof that fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life. Family and Childhood Development caualty? That is hilarious.
WDE
December 27th, 2012
2:55 pm
DP funny in the 4th quarter with the game on the line and all Bama needed was one more first down to seal the deal, Jarvis was still playing and help make the Tide punt all they needed was 10 yards and the drive down the field never happens…no no little fella Bama line did a good job the RB’s did a good job but no one got the UGA D or Jarvis to quit.
what of it?
December 27th, 2012
2:59 pm
Way to finish the drill! At least this doesn’t get reflected on the field in any way whatsoever.
Joey
December 27th, 2012
2:59 pm
“”I’m going to tell you, I think it’s a crying shame Georgia doesn’t get to go to a BCS bowl game,” Saban added. “They should get to go to a BCS bowl game. They played a tremendous game out there today. That was a great football game by both teams, and they could have won at the end just as soon as us. It came right down to the last play.”
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Seems your coach had a lot different interpretation of that game than your silly ass does, DP.
You jackasses told UGA fans for a month we didn’t have a chance in the SECCG, then you all about poop your little-boy pants, until the last play of the game is over, then, hell, a month later, just proceed with history-revisionism:
Bama stomped us – beat the mortal hell out of the Dawgs! Wasn’t even close! We just dreamed that the game ended on the 5 yd line, after we drove 80 yards, with no timeouts.
You and your ilk can kiss our Bulldog asses – you are of the bragging, idiot, breed – you know, like the kind that poisons 300 year old trees – just for spite. Beat your wife and kids if the Irish somehow wins. Sound like you? Of course it does.
Go stick your lips back on your coach’s butt-cheeks.
Enjoy the sensation, freak . . .
WDE
December 27th, 2012
3:05 pm
Joey it sound like your Dad was a smart man. It seems to me that the loudest of the Bama fan base is the scariest. I think they are concerned and hear “foot steps” after all Joey. LSU should have beat them on the scoreboard as badly as they did on the field, they ran all over the Tide D until even the play by play guys were talking about how “gassed” they were. Then a first year SEC team lead by a freshman QB DOES beat them, and then to make the Bamaities even more nervous is that the worst team in the country to hear them tell it, and Joey I mean the WORST team in the NATION not just the SEC , worst players,worst coaches just worst program from top to bottom takes them to the last play of the game , Joey did you notice Saban didn’t take a breath the entire 4th quarter? So they are having trouble sleeping and it makes them cranky on the blogs so we should forgive them cause all they can think about right now is how can they go on if Notre Dame beats them?? And after they run the season thru their minds for the 10,000th time they realize that could happen……easily.
Richard Cranium
December 27th, 2012
3:27 pm
Family and Child Development…. wow.
Yea, those finals are really tough.
Pffft.
DP
December 27th, 2012
3:28 pm
“DP funny in the 4th quarter with the game on the line and all Bama needed was one more first down to seal the deal, Jarvis was still playing and help make the Tide punt all they needed was 10 yards and the drive down the field never happens”
Yeah, Georgia gave up 350 yards rushing but with under 2 minutes left in the game and with it clear to even John Jenkins that Alabama was going to run the ball 3 times to make Georgia use up their timeouts, Georgia was able to stack 9 in the box and stop them from making a first down. Congratulations.
“the worst team in the country to hear them tell it, and Joey I mean the WORST team in the NATION not just the SEC , worst players,worst coaches just worst program from top to bottom takes them to the last play of the game , Joey did you notice Saban didn’t take a breath the entire 4th quarter?”
Not much hyperbole there WDE. Could you reference a post by anybody calling Georgia the worst team in the country?
“You jackasses told UGA fans for a month we didn’t have a chance in the SECCG”
See if you can find a post from me saying Georgia didn’t have a chance against Alabama.
Have fun playing a team that just had 70 put up on them, and try not to embarrass the rest of the SEC as you’ve done so many times over the last few years.
omg
December 27th, 2012
3:50 pm
So if UGA had beaten AL…..
Jeff
December 27th, 2012
3:51 pm
I am a Tech fan and know a lot of Tech fans. I do not know anyone who wishes for an injury to another team’s player.
dawgfan
December 27th, 2012
9:14 am
All Tech fans can do is hope that some kind of calamity befalls our players, be it injuries, suspensions, arrests, etc. Sadly, its all they have. Look at how they jump all over stuff like this like flies on you know what. Meanwhile, the average UGA fan would have hard time naming more than 2 or 3 players on Tech’s roster. We don’t wish them any harm. To the contrary, I think Georgia Tech football players all deserve a freaking medal just for playing for the worst group of crybaby worthless fans in college football. I am totally serious.
john
December 27th, 2012
3:52 pm
how does one fail dodgeball and PS3?
WDE
December 27th, 2012
3:55 pm
DP embarrass the SEC …see that you don’t screw the pooch with the Irish..you know its possible.
Joey
December 27th, 2012
4:01 pm
“and try not to embarrass the rest of the SEC as you’ve done so many times over the last few years.”
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Hopefully we’ll do better than you boys did vs the mighty U-U-U-U-Utes . . .