Real Talk-Can Richt run a clean program?

[Kcdawg34]

Just to piggy back on this, here are the arrests and major disciplinary actions that hit the team from 2010 until the end of 2013. As you will see, the majority are for either smoking dope, underage drinking, and DUI. While these might be nothing to sneeze at, they are also not any different from things that any standard college student might get arrested for while enjoying the college life. As 83dawg notes, football players (and athletes overall) get NO special privileges in Athens, and are instead targeted by a school police force under the direction of a Barney Fife zealot intent on proving that he is "in charge." From an internal standpoint, a past university president forced the team to drug test the entire team THE DAY AFTER SPRING BREAK. As you can imagine, a number of kids were suspended (UGA's drug policy is the strongest in the SEC - first time: miss 10% of season; second time: I believe 40%; third time: kicked off team).

You will also see the number of kids that were kicked off the team that played in other big time programs (Zach Mettenberger, Nick Marshall and Justin Scott Wesley) or currently start in the pros (Isaiah Crowell). Another poster is correct in that UGA is not - or at least has not been - like any SEC program. Our rules have been stiffer and we have not operated at the same level (averaged 7th in football spending during this same time) as our SEC competition (spent $50 million less on football than 'Bama over a 5 year period). How Coach Richt did as well as he did is amazing.

- Justin Scott-Wesley: Arrested in Nov. 2013 for marijuana possession
- Ty Flournoy-Smith: Arrested in Summer 2013 after marijuana incident
- Marshall Morgan: Arrested in June 2013 for BUI
- Matt Stagg: Arrested in Nov. 2012 for DUI and underage alcohol possession
- Isiah Crowell: Dismissed June 2012 after arrest for felony gun possession
- Chase Vasser: Arrested in May 2012 for DUI; suspended 2 games
- Carlton Thomas: Three suspensions in 2011; quit before Spring 2012
- Nick Marshall: Dismissed in Jan. 2012 for dorm room theft incident
- Chris Sanders: Dismissed in Jan. 2012 for dorm room theft incident
- Sanford Seay: Dismissed in Jan. 2012 for dorm room theft incident
- Cornelius Washington: Suspended 2 games for DUI Oct. 2011
- Marcus Dowtin: Transferred in Jan. 2011 after team learned of incident at MD
- Caleb King: Suspended 2 games for failure to appear in court Oct. 2010
- Jordan Love: Arrested in July 2010 for obstruction, charges dropped, left team in 2012
- Tavarres King: Arrested in July 2010 for underage alcohol possession
- Montez Robinson: Dismissed after arrest on domestic violence charges
- Demetre Baker: Dismissed from team following arrest for DUI
- Dontavius Jackson: Transferred after DUI suspension
- Zach Mettenberger: Dismissed after arrest and conviction for sexual battery
- Washaun Ealey: Transferred to Jackson State after disciplinary run-ins
- Branden Smith: One-game suspension for arrest for marijuana possession
- Sanders Commings: Two-game suspension for simple battery
- Bacarri Rambo: Multi-game suspension for failing a drug test
- Alec Ogletree: Multi-game suspension for team rules violations

Dog Fan checking in.

Since some incident (i don't remember what started it), the Athens Police Chief has had it in for UGA football players.

UGA players get zero tolerance, plus aggressive policing. Anyone they can arrest, they do, even if no charges are filed later.

I mean, driving a scooter with a suspended license doesn't get you a ticket and a court date--it gets you arrested.

Passing on the right on a scooter? Arrested.

"Emerging from an alley" (no joke, that was the official police report)? Arrested

Not being able to spell your middle name, when you are a pedestrian, and give the cop your correct first and last name? Arrested.


So the arrest numbers are pretty high for UGA...

 

[Tad Footeball]

Btw, *** kinda question is this from the OP? We should only answer it when he addresses when he stopped beating his wife.

 

[M3N]

Need to start getting more goons and thugs on this team ASAP.

 

[GonzoCane]

No, but all of those years in the SEC I figure he's learned some ways how not to get caught. The SEC boys are pros at cheating. Make Miami look like a bunch of rubes.

 

[Canedog]

Don't want a clean program; I wants a championship program.

 

[CTCANE]

Don't want a clean program; I wants a championship program.

I rather we never win again that have that happen. There is no reason why we can't have both a clean and a championship program. I can tell who the Alums are and who isnt in this thread.

 

[Ray Ciss]

3rd most arrests over the last 5 years-behind UF and Washington state. 22 guys in 5 years... (Over the same time period Miami had only 7)

Could this ever become an issue at Miami?

most arrested college football teams in country | FOX Sports

It's a joke to single out any D1 team for arrests; they all recruit the same type of 'characters' .... because we demand it. 90% of these black players grow up in single family homes with little guidance or supervision but we expect them to suddenly go on the straight and narrow when they become 'student' athletes? Hilarious.