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AJC Pulls the curtain back on Kirby & UGA "Reckless Culture"

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Rellyrell said:
I wanna be mad and point fingers, but man when I was at this age, I was burning rubber, doing street races down The Shaw, doing donuts hanging out the window, & filming chicks twerking on my car. Sooooooo while I don’t condone any of this, I do know how I got down at that same age.
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I was absolutely off the chain most of the time at that age as well, but I can't stand UGA. I worked at a place until recently that was 80%+ Dawgs fan. Insufferable, so it's personal for me.
 
I find these amusing…

CIS: Let them get away with everything…

Also CIS: Glad we have Mario, need a culture of discipline…

Also CIS: if Miami does anything, they’ll make us shut down the whole school…

College kids ******* around is college kids ******* around…. Multiple motor vehicle incidents, including deaths …. Time to settle the **** down
 
So, in the very sensitive times we live, a Southern college football coach has players “run steps in front of select audience of donors to Georgia’s athletic department.”
The image of said players having punishment witnessed by wealthy donors is incredibly difficult to imagine in 2023. Can’t imagine Kirby & UGA faithful are pleased seeing this reference in print.
 
L A M P said:
Probably true but after what AJC did to Richard Jewell they have some balls to call others “reckless”.
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****, Jewel fiasco was almost 30 years ago . . . 3-4 publishers ago & massive turnover of editors/staff. AJC is basically a progressive newsletter these days, but it’s always been friendly to Georgia football as it helps drive what remains of circulation. This wasn’t a sports department effort, either. Case of an obviously out-of-control issue that the paper couldn’t ignore after tragic deaths.
 
Hoyacane1620 said:
More recently, Kenny MacIntosh had multiple run ins with the law.

No one knows for certain how fast Kenny McIntosh drove through a residential neighborhood one Sunday morning last year. To the Athens police, though, it was too fast. McIntosh’s speed, an officer noted, posed “an immediate threat to public safety.”

Two miles south of the University of Georgia, where McIntosh played on the national-champion football team, his high-performance Dodge Charger struck an Uber driver’s Kia compact SUV with such force that it ripped wheels off both vehicles. The police arrested McIntosh on charges that included reckless driving — his third traffic offense in less than six months. A judge later fined him $685.

Any penalty imposed by McIntosh’s coaches apparently was far less severe.

McIntosh, a running back, played in all 15 of Georgia’s games last season, amassing more than 1,300 yards of offense, including 126 in a national semifinal game against Ohio State. His value to the team outweighed the gravity of his offenses.
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Surprised they didn’t find a way to link McIntosh to Miami.
 
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Hoyacane1620 said:
"Since Kirby Smart became Georgia’s head coach in late 2015, dozens of players have engaged in reckless, often lawless behavior that put them and others in jeopardy: excessive speeding, street racing and driving under the influence, among other offenses. Players have illegally brought weapons onto Georgia’s campus. They’ve gotten into bar fights. They’ve been charged with domestic violence and sexual assault."

-But Smart almost always lets athletes continue playing despite their off-field transgressions. Suspensions are unusual, dismissals from the team even rarer.

Exactly how Smart punishes players is unclear. In one instance, in 2019, he ordered six players who had been arrested over the previous six weeks to run the steps of Sanford Stadium in front of a select audience of donors to Georgia’s athletics department. Otherwise, he routinely declines to disclose disciplinary actions after players break team rules or the law.

“Everybody wants to know what the punishment is,” Smart said after a recent string of arrests. “Well, the players know what the punishment is.”

The football program’s tolerance for risky behavior was laid bare by a tragedy that rocked the team and the university alike: a fatal high-speed car crash on Jan. 15 that followed celebrations of Georgia’s second consecutive national championship. The team’s star defensive player, Jalen Carter, later pleaded no contest to reckless driving and racing charges in connection with the crash. He paid a $1,013 fine and is serving 12 months’ probation.
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Shall we look into our past.... Wow. He without stone cast the first stone.
 
Rellyrell said:
I wanna be mad and point fingers, but man when I was at this age, I was burning rubber, doing street races down The Shaw, doing donuts hanging out the window, & filming chicks twerking on my car. Sooooooo while I don’t condone any of this, I do know how I got down at that same age.
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You guys are crazy, when I was their age, I was volunteering to read colorful pamphlets to orphans, calling numbers for bingo at the local senior center, and in my spare time I was a champion speed knitter................
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Hoyacane1620 said:
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Lol 300 known traffic offenses is not really significant for 80+ k people on the team over 7 years. Someone correct me but that seems like way less than one offense per year per person

Not discrediting the whole story but that isn’t very shocking to me. Young men speed a lot more than old ones that’s why insurance rates go down as you grow up
 
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