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By kool$kat

June 4, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

nothing new in the AJC. Smoltz hurt, UGA athlete arrested…same ol’ same ol’

By shane #1

June 4, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

Another BS charge from the Athens police. Before all the haters jump on board with Their “thug” comments, I have a.45 under the front seat of My car and I have been pulled over with said weapon in the car. I told the officer that the weapon was there and We had no problems. The Officer told Me that he Himself always had a weapon in His car when off duty. If Lomax is a “thug”, then so am I!

By Bee Proud Bee Loud

June 4, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

Is it wrong to always bring up Reuben Houston? Boys will be boys but I do believe it is wrong to just be that easy going…. it will result eventually in a tragedy, like Hutts.

There has to be coaching accountability, to some extent, which will be determined.

By Barney Fife

June 4, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

I agree with Shane, the Athens Police Department has nothing else to do. With that said, when our the kids going to learn they are dealing with Barney Fife everytime on of Athens finest pulls them over. Stay your a$$ in the apartment complex, dorm, etc on a Tuesday night. What the hell are you running around at 1am in Athens doing on a Wednesday night?? Lomax you deserve the punishment just for being stupid!

By Russ

June 4, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

Well, this is pretty mild compared to daily gang-rapings that occur at the hands of UGA athletes.

By Dave In Tampa

June 4, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

Sorry Fellow dawgs folks, but enough is enough. Lomax needs to be kicked off the team and anyone else breaks not only a team rule, but a city law of that magnitude.

Speeding is one thing. It’s wrong, but it’s a speeding ticket. Carrying a gun…. Sorry, no excuse for that. Get rid of him! Bad example for the younger players. He is suppose to be a Senior leader. Act like it. Make an example out of him coach. I could not carry a gun(or did I want to) when I went to College.

By Dawg Fud

June 4, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

Everyone makes mistakes.

I agree with Shane #1 but if you are a student-athlete at Georgia, you are going to be held to a higher standard. Fair or unfair, don’t put yourself in these situations.

If you don’t want to go to jail for a concealed weapon then don’t get pulled over doing 25 miles over the speed limit while in posession of a firearm. It’s actually a fairly simple concept to grasp and when one ruins his chance at being a starter because you have to sit out the first few games of the season, maybe the lesson will be learned. That’s life.

By 9-3 Season

June 4, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

This will just be another reason the Dog fans use to explain why their “Dream” season turned into another 9-3 season. You guys suck.

By Russ

June 4, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

Well, this is pretty mild compared to the daily gang-rapings that occur at the hands of UGA athletes.

By MOTDawg84

June 4, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

Chip, your comment that “I’m told there’s no truth to the rumor this is why UGA schedules light at the beginning of the year” is absolutely ludicrous. We started with Oklahoma State (hyped in the preseason as the “World’s Greatest Offense”) and South Carolina last year and will do the same in 2009. Except for this year, South Carolina is always second, and we also started with Boise State in 2005 (who was actually ranked higher than we were before the game).

By Gen Neyland

June 4, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

shane #1

If said pistol was visable, would that have altered things..? Pistols under car seats in the proximity and the knowledge of people without a Firearm License raises questions with law enforcement. Now if Lomax had a permit, then alls well…I understand the officers concern. I too, carry. I have the license. Still wouldn’t stop many officers from pulling theirs and asking me to step away from the truck when I tell them ‘I’ve a pistol under my seat’. Then when they have control of the situation, it’ll be resolved and I’ll be on my way with a ticket for a cracked windshield and my pistol back under the seat…

By Obnoxious Georgia Fan

June 4, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

YAWN. Wake me up on August 30th.

By BJohnDawg

June 4, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

Having a gun in your car or truck is a crime? Geez get ready to lock up most of the people in this state, the South, heck the good old US of A.

Speeding..Yeah he is REALLY a criminal now.

This is petty BS. Did he use some elses credit card. Was he popping drugs? Was he robbing people or molesting people? No

He was going to fast on the loop. Every time Tech loses in Athens I bet most of their fans are doing 80 in the 55 trying to get out of Athens.

As for him out an 1 am on Wednesday. Well its no school time, maybe he was at his girlfriends for a quickie and decide to head back to the dorm and not sleep over. he is an adult over 18, it is his right to be out if he wants at 1 am. OR do we live in Saudi Arabia.

I think I will head over to Sonic for a burger. Guess I better get my UZI out of the car and put it in the house.

Geez give the guy a break.

By Paul

June 4, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

Come on for God sake. I guess you were going deer hunting with your hand gun at 1:00 in the morning. I bleed red and black, but at some point someone needs to be made an example of. Let him play after a few games but take away his scholarship. NCAA…don’t let them have one from another school. When the free ride stops you will see who wants to live right. If this are any others mess up next season…I will be p**.

By AltamahaDawg

June 4, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

As always, there are going to be details. I have driver 80 mph, but try not to get caught at midnight doing it. i dont carry a gun, but have several freinds that do. As I understand it, the thing to have done was to have place it in clear sight, somebody correct me if not.

The frustrating thing to the staff HAS to be that these minor and yet embarrasing incidents happen to the boys who actually stay on campus for the summer. I’d understand more if they were away.

NOBODY can possible blame the patrol man here.

By gatorman770

June 4, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this

What are the facts. If Lomax was off campus and his pistol was loaded and in a case or holster under the seat or anywhere else in the vehicle it was not concealed and he should not have been arrested regardless of whether UGA rules wrongly disfranchises students of their constitutional rights while a UGA student.

Go Gators!

By Brandon

June 4, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

This arrest was crazy. All americans have the right to bear arms. This should not have even made the news!

By jon

June 4, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

Dave in Tampa…are you serious????? It is not uncommon for individuals to carry a weopon under the seat of their car. It was not even loaded!!! Russ…gang rapes???? These are good kids who make mistakes. To make ignorant comments like that just shows your level of maturity!

By DemDawgs

June 4, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

Coach Richt needs to get a handle on the offseason antics of his team. Ask Bob Stoops, he knows that fudging hours on your time card is far worse than a DUI or driving wrecklessly while carrying a concealed weapon without a permit. He booted his starting QB for that heinous crime.

By Tim

June 4, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

I have to give it to Mark Richt. He’s recruiting some high class, high character criminals to Athens. I heard the kid had to carry a Glock just to feel safe in the locker room. Goooooo Dawgs! Shoot em! Woof, woof, woof… I hope you lose to GA Southern you cry babies.

By Mr. Ed

June 4, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

Shane i was wondering if you had some resentment because you got “gang-raped” by the equestrian team? Lomax was wrong but its not like he was robbing anyone, and everyone speeds on the loop.

By sobedawg

June 4, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

These are all MINOR infractions that will be swept under the rug by the time we smack the COCKS in the FACE. Florida’s Hornsby spent over 3 grand on a dead woman’s credit card…now that’s much, much worse! SobeDawg :D

By mdawg

June 4, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

Didn’t the State of Georgia just pass a concealed weapons Law making it Legal. I am not a believer in Guns at all, but give me a break, sounds more like he was arrested for speeding and being a Student athlete than anything else.

By GATORZONE

June 4, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

Well Well Well… Looks like Saint Mark and his choirboys have just as many issues as everyone else.

By Nichole

June 4, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

Plain and simple…don’t break the rules and nothing will happen. We ALL know how Athens police are…and we all know better than to speed on the Loop and think we are gonna get away with it. But at the same time, the question is, did he have a weapon for the gun? Either way, A law is law and just because you are a Georgia Bulldog football player, doesnt exclude you from any punishment……

By MOTDawg84

June 4, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

Dave in Tampa, what about Lomax’s Second Amendment right to own a weapon?

By quaildawg

June 4, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

Between semesters, Clarke County budget is under a crunch (see AB Herald front page today). My garbage, water and sewer fees have been increased. Gotta get revenue where you can!!!

By Ed Tolley

June 4, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

Don’t worry boys. I will get him off clean as a whistle…no paper trail.

By Mr. Ed

June 4, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this

Sorry shane i ment russ…. and Tim just shut up and go vent on Oprah.com i hear the topic today is “I have herpes, and my partner doesnt”

By bello3

June 4, 2008 1:18 PM | Link to this

wow, alot of peoples assumptions on what someone else did or didn’t do. for all of you who don’t know you can have a license for a gun and still be charged with a concealed weapon if it is not placed in a glove box or center console. It doesn’t say he had a loaded gun, and offered the information to the officer that the gun was in the car and that he did have a license for it. Maybe MOST of you should think and do some research before speculating.

By bello3

June 4, 2008 1:18 PM | Link to this

wow, alot of peoples assumptions on what someone else did or didn’t do. for all of you who don’t know you can have a license for a gun and still be charged with a concealed weapon if it is not placed in a glove box or center console. It doesn’t say he had a loaded gun, and offered the information to the officer that the gun was in the car and that he did have a license for it. Maybe MOST of you should think and do some research before speculating.

By will in greensboro

June 4, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

I met Lomax at the hotel in New Orleans and he was SUCH a nice and polite young man. Players, this is the last thing the program needs. You’re hurting the team before the season even starts, not to mention you give all the opposing fans fat to chew, which is what they live for. Underage drinking is not a big deal to me, everyone in college does it. Just be smart and don’t get caught. There is no excuse for DUIs!! Sht call me and I’ll come and pick you up, as would any fan. As far as the gun goes, it was unloaded and he willingly admitted it to police. Whether he had a permit for it was not disclosed, but I’m not going to judge anyone for carrying a gun these days. A lot more people would be alive if they’d only had a gun in certain situations. Thanks for mentioning that he was cooperative and polite, Chip. If you hadn’t all these a*hole opposing fans would be saying he threatened the officer. Bottom line, Players: Don’t make dumb decisions!

By Gen Neyland

June 4, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

mdawg

You may want to read up on the new law before you decide to walk the street with one tucked in the small of your back…

Off to the Waffle House now with my 9mm beside me…

By 89EAGLE

June 4, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this

I am glad to see that some dawg fans think this is bad for their university. It amazes me how fans support bad behavior. It bothers me anytime a player from my university gets in trouble with the law. I don’t believe that that Athen PD is out to bite the hand that feeds them. Hard to Believe

By Rules are Rules

June 4, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this

This guy should be kicked off the team period! A Mistake? Give me a break DAWG Fud. This guy was speeding and willfully carrying a gun without a permit. In other words he was BREAKING THE LAW. Shane # 1 if you are doing the same thing then yes you can call yourself a thug. The next thing we will hear is racial profiling of student athletes. So if the gun is hidden is this an honest mistake or a careless mistake Dawg Fud ? Doing 80 mph in a 55 mph zone an honest or careless mistake? Could someone answer?

By stoned

June 4, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

Another example of a Dawg jock not having any common sense! Well, he’ll still get his diploma thrown through his open car window on graduation day!

By SickAndTired

June 4, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

Hey Brandon, let me ask you this, shouldn’t he put the gun in his locker when he goes to practice so no one can steal it out of his car on campus? Now that would be responsible. Maybe they can put a gun locker in the Butts-Mehre building for those athletes that choose to pack heat.

By Carter the Short-Timer

June 4, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this

“Making it oh, so sweet for most of the 3,518 fans inside the park and the hundreds of others outside, it came against archrival Georgia Tech, 18-6 Monday night. For those counting, and surely all those in red and black who can are, Georgia has a 6-2 record against Tech in the NCAA tournament this decade.”

Jeez, I crack myself up.

Toodles, poodles!!

*

By HiawasseeDawg

June 4, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this

What he got arrested for is being an honest person. If he had kept his mouth shut he would have gotten a ticket and been on his way. The merits of having or not having it is not a major issue. It was unloaded.

By Festus

June 4, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this

Aw Shucks I dont see wart all the fuss is fer. I kerry my raffle in the baick of my pik up truck up here in Waste Virginny. She wont do but 35 mile anower though. Caint git me fer speedun.

By Ryan is the next Brady

June 4, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this

The reality of it is, is that Lomax has to be smarter than that. Driving WAY above the speed limit w/ a concealed weapon (Loaded or not..no excuse) is asking for trouble.

This appears to be his first spat with the law so community service and probation is likely in order-law wise. I am sure CMR will absolutely lay in to him and suspend him for a couple of games. In todays society athletes need to be more sensitive to the publics perception in the wake of VT and N.Illinois incidents. This is nthing close, but the University has a responsibility to fellow students to ensure their safety.

GOOO DAWGS!!!

By Rules are Rules

June 4, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this

Hiawassee Dawg…… Why did the cop ask him if he had a weapon in the first place. Seems to me the cop had some sort of suspicion to search the car. So if he had lied he would have been in more trouble or would it have been another honest mistake when the cop found the weapon?

By sobedawg

June 4, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

My God there are so many LOSERS that are JEALOUS of the UGA football program right now. I can’t wait to sit back and watch their teams lose 3, 4, and 5 games next year. Lomax is a terrific gentleman when I met him 2 years ago…and the same goes for MOST players. If you’re a student-athlete you are a more likely “target” than the everyday joe this day and age. I’m sure Bear Bryant had plenty of DRINKERS and GUN-OWNERS back when he was coaching.

I know PLENTY of people at my corporate office that carry guns in their car…usually in the trunk. In South Florida it’s the SMART THING TO DO with all the CRACKPIPES, METH ADDICTS, and CAR-JACKERS that shamelessly wipe out innocent lives on a yearly basis!! You did the right thing by being honest, Mr. Lomax! Dr. SobeDawg

By Dawg4Life

June 4, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this

This puts everyone in a quandry huh? I feel that a concealed weapon, loaded or not, is pretty serious. I do, however, know a few people that do carry guns in their car that are definitely not “thugs”. I myself am ignorant on the weapons laws involved in this situation. Is the issue that he had the gun, or that it was considered “concealed”? The things that he has going for him and that I feel might offer some redemption is that 1. There was no drugs or alcohol involved, and 2. That he was honest, cooperative, and respectful with the officer. My first reaction was that he should be kicked off the team, but as previously stated, I am out of the loop on the weapon laws. After giving it some thought, expulsion from the team might be severe. I am glad I don’t have to make the call on this one. At the least, there needs to be some sort of example made to the young kids just getting to campus that this isn’t tolerated. It is a shame that no matter how you toss it, the UGA program gets a black eye from this.

By reservoirDAWG

June 4, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this

There’s just as many douchebags as normal online today.

By shane #1

June 4, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

Gen., Lomax is a Senior, thus probably over 21. A person has a right to carry a firearm in plain view in Ga if that person is not a convicted felon. One must be over 21 to carry a handgun. On the seat or anywhere in plain view the pistol would have been perfectly legal. Of course, anyone that carrys a handgun legally in a car is asking to have Their window smashed and the gun stolen if They don’t hide it, which is illegal, before They exit the vehicle. To be honest, a middle age White Man or Woman will probably not be bothered for having a handgun under the seat, at least outside of Fulton County. A young Black Man could be in trouble. The Supreme Court has declraed that “profiling” is un-constitutional, and therefore illegal. But it is still practiced by many police officers. Had I been the Officer making the arrest, a large young Man, Black or White, and that late at night, I would have been nervous too. But back at the station after the identity of the suspect had been established, the hanggun would have been returned and a lecture on firearms law given. Speeding would have been the only charge filed.

By sobedawg

June 4, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

I’m also starting to question the AJC. Are YOU trying to blow everything out of proportion for the Dawg’s this upcoming season? I read “tiny news briefs that are buried on the back pages” (of South Florida sports sections) about the Gators, Canes, and Noles…and whenever they have drinking infractions, or any minor offenses. They’re usually dealt with in-house, and nobody makes THE BIG RACKET about it down here like the AJC does. Really surprised that the AJC uses these journalistic tactics. Shame on You!

By Bryan G

June 4, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

What a dumb a$$. Let me give you guys free legal advice from an attorney: if the cops ask to search your car, tell them to go pi$$ up a rope.

By T.I.

June 4, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

y’all arrest for having a gun and lament rappers/pro athletes gun charges, but when it is one of your own then you say “Boys will be boys” or “everyone has a gun” or “it is in the Constitution”. pot and kettle.

By Rules are Rules

June 4, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

Oh yeah… he was honest alright after being caught. If you want to be protected from these idiots Sobe Dawg, then dont be one yourself and get a permit and obey the LAW!I have a permit and carry a weapon for my protection its just that simple.

By Rules are Rules

June 4, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

Brayan G…… You must be a sorry attorney if you dont thinks cops cant search your car after being stopped for another infraction.

By nola dawg

June 4, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this

Instead of debating gun laws on this space, can we focus on the real issue. I’m sure he knows he made a mistake and will run until he pukes. Plus he has to face his teamates. The more interesting issue is how long will he be out?

In so far as we can tell, Lomax will be subjected to similar discipline

Chip - can you find out if the 10% of games rule applies to this charge as well? And do they always round up in that case…ie 10% is 1.2 games. So is that a 1 or 2 game hit? Thanks

By Fort Worth Dawg

June 4, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

The answer to “Can we search your house/car/whatever?” is always “you need to get a warrant”. I heard a Criminal Procedure Professor at a Texas law school once say that the police ask if they can search and the innocent people say “get a warrant” and the guilty people say “sure, go ahead”. He said the police don’t mind if you say “get a warrant” because it’s almost always the innocent who say it, and the criminals are usually dumb enough to think saying “go ahead and search” is enough to convince the cops that you’re innocent and then the cops will move on.

By I-DOG

June 4, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

I’d like to see a 2-3 game suspension for Lomax. That is a real shame, but he has to pay the price for not being smart. I don’t know the laws in Georgia, but I’m guessing that carrying a concealed weapon is illegal even if unloaded.

I think he could have pushed for a starting position this year. Last year, he had some games where he exploded through the ball carrier and looked as quick as anyone we have in the front 7 (in those cases). Hopefully, he can serve the suspension and get back on the field to help the Dawgs!

I am disapointed to read that D. Baldwin only got a 1 game suspension for a DUI. Is that correct? I consider DUI to be a serious offense and would have liked to have seen a 3 game suspension or maybe even more for Baldwin.

By 89EAGLE

June 4, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

Sobedawg, The AJC is located in the same state as uga and most of the readers are here in the state. If it were in FL I would amagine FL and FSU would have the headlines. If you want to carry a gun legally,get a permit. NO PROBLEM if there is nothing to hide.

By Roswell Ed

June 4, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this

What is up with all the excuse making?

Did he break the law or not?

And for the morons who blame the AJC.

I never hear u complain when you get* half of all* college football coverage in the paper.

What a bunch of freaking crybabies.

Never forget Richt learned from the master

Aw Shucks, boys will be boys.

Where does this put UGA in Fulmer Cup points?

WDE

By Proud dawg

June 4, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

I understand many wanting to defend this kid, and its only because he wears a helmet with a G on it! I spent 10 years in athens, went to every bar and nightclub there was, yet I never needed to carry a weapon! Those that I knew had them also had permits for them! That is not illegal (if you have the concealed permit) The fact though is that if you have a gun you are likely to use it! Why waste a free education and a potential opportunity for 7-8 figure salaries for the chance to prove your the bigger idiot punk? I say kick him off the team, send him back to the streets of his mommas basement and let him pretend to be the gangsta that he really desires!

By nola dawg

June 4, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this

Roswell Ed - why don’t get the heck off this board and go post on the Opelika daily fish rag.

Remember Dawg fans, any AU grad who is from Atlanta only went to AU b/c they couldn’t get into UGA. And now they have a MASSIVE inferiority complex.

WDE that busta.

By ronald

June 4, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

you know some people just don’t want to learn what right and what is worn to care a gun and knowing what position you are in seem like I don’t care was on his mind grow up…

By Tiger1

June 4, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

I guess he was listening to the “thug” music they played at Sanford stadium and was dreaming about taunting and dancing next year. Thug is right. Actually, the coach has let a lot of things go lately. 1 or 2 game suspension. boy, that’s tough.

By AltamahaDawg

June 4, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

Its a “fact” that gun owners are likely to use it for wrong? Really?

By Tiger1

June 4, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

Actually Nola Dog, Some people from Atlanta want to go to a university that isn’t turning into a “Miami or FSU” type atmosphere.

By Zeb

June 4, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

Every officer is different. As being an ex law-dawg, if you were cool with me, I was cool with you. It’s usually a generally asked question about the weapons when you work the night shift.

And shane you’re right, the officer could’ve handled it differently. I got stopped last year. I keep a Glock-40 cocked and locked hidden in my console and I don’t have a permit anymore. He asked me if I had a weapon, I told him where it was, I got out, he got in and took it back to his car with him. He wrote me a ticket, handed it back and nothing was ever said about it.

Young cops care about making numbers. Us old farts hated doing all the paperwork, and believe me, a concealed weapons charge is quite a bit.

By Bryan G

June 4, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this

“Rules are Rules”…was that English?

Police can’t search your car after they pull you over for speeding unless they get your permission or you tell them you have contraband. Lomax didn’t assert his fourth amendment right. You should work on learning English before you question someone’s professional ability.

By sobedawg

June 4, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

Rules and Rules — You’re the IDIOT. Where did I mention anything about gun permits? I was talking about the South Florida newspaper briefs! DUH! Dr. SobeDawg

By train

June 4, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

C’mon it’s not like he threatened a teacher that was going to turn him in for cheating. Oh wait, that was last season wasn’t it? I don’t know what the gun laws are, all I know is I don’t carry a glock around with me, and I don’t know anybody that does. Don’t worry, there is still time for some more arrests before the first game.

By uthug

June 4, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this

Let’s see Richt played at Miami and coached at FSU in the ‘90’s. The resemblance of the three programs are uncanny. Except of course the lack of national championships at UGA.

By Ol' Dawg

June 4, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

I think the Athens-Clark County police get extra feathers in their bonnet if they arrest a jock. They must spend an inordinate amount of time after their shift high fiving in the locker room.

I’m a retired cop. I say make the traffic stop, write the ticket and get back in service. If Lomax had the gun in the glove box, loaded or unloaded, it would have been perfectly legal. Cop should have told him, “Here’s your speeding ticket. Slow down. Put that gun in the glove box before you get in trouble.”

By UGA VII in '08

June 4, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

Just another Georgia Thug

By GeoffDawg

June 4, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

Rules are Rules, you are such a freakin hypocrite. He did break the law for which he will be dealt with within the confines of the judicial system. Anything that the Georgia program chooses to do will be above and beyond what the typical person facing similar charges would experience. If you were arrested, would you want your employer to automatically fire you? Or would you think it was none of their business? He was off-campus when this occurred and should really only face internal discipline if this violated a “team rule”.

By Gene

June 4, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

Why does a 300 pound lineman need to carry a Glock .40? Richt should perform some missionary work in his own athletic dorm. Four “student athlete” arrests and the summer arrest season hasn’t even started. The problem children will all be rehabilitated by the first real game of the season.

By SteveO

June 4, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this

HE WASN’T “CARRYING A GUN” you flippin moron! He had an unloaded gun in his car.. If it were locked in the glove box we wouldn’t even be having this discussion..

By Proud dawg

June 4, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this

AltamahaDawg, I didn’t say gun “owners.” I was referring to gun “possessors!” Gun owners have permits and maintain their firearms responsibly (as per their second amendment rights) Gun possessors usually obtain their firearms illegally, do no have permits, scratch off serial numbers, and use them for crime and status! Come to Dekalb county if you dont believe me! Now, if Mr. Lomax has a registered weapon and a concealed permit, then I retract my entire previous statements and apologize wholeheartedly! However, if that were the case, I don’t think this would have ever made the paper…

By Cmon

June 4, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this

YES, YOUR’E WRONG. DEAD WRONG. Quit being such a cheerleader for the program, Chip, and look at it objectively. There’s no positive spin on this, no matter how hard you try. Cover the team like the rest of the beat writers on the staff, not with the red-tinted glasses you have on. A Glock? I’m a UGA fan and I’m disturbed by this. Shame on you and the paper for not being outraged. This is bush league journalism.

By Sanjeev

June 4, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

You uga nut huggers do know that he could have been arrested and charged with wreckless driving? At officer discretion 20+ over you can be hauled off to jail. Carrying a weapon with no license? If I did that while employed at my current job at a big Pharma I’d be fired no questions asked.

Do you all assume the cop knew he was a uga student athlete? Just because he is in athens doesn’t make the cop a football fan.

By Roswell Ed

June 4, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

nola dog:

Make me.

I hardly ever come into this bastion of UGA circle jerking but I read the article and was interested in UGA fan’s opinions.

I knew it would be the, its no big deal, response that I’ve come to know and love about the Dawged nation.

As for not getting into UGA in ‘85.

Are you kidding me?

They wouldn’t let in a 3.5 GPA 1200 SAT, Math Club, Spanish Club, varsity football/basketball player, AP calculus, AP History student(only 2 AP classes available in ‘85 we were the very first class able to take those courses)?

Yeah right dude.

I bet CTT would suspend this guy for at least 6 games or let him go.

Let’s see what Richt does.

By shane #1

June 4, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

Rules are Rules, asking to search the car is SOP in any arrest, and 15 MPH or more over the limit is an almost automatic arrest in Ga. Roswell Ed, as of yesterday UGA stood at # 21 with 6 cup points, this will probably move them to 14th or 15th. Any good lawyer should be able to get that gun charge dropped, and Boling will fight the DUI charge in court so UGA could drop back to 29th or 30th. I don’t understand why the kid had an unloaded gun, that will only get You killed! Mr Ed, apology excepted, though I wouldn’t mind being gang raped by the Ladies Gymnastics Team, and Their soon to be ex Coach!

By Erk

June 4, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

While I understand they are 18-22 years old, I never have understood why college athletes can’t stay out of trouble. As for that being the reason they schedule “weak” opponents early in the season…South Carolina, Oklahoma State, Boise State, are not exactly weak teams.

By GATOR CHOMP

June 4, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

Well Well Well if it aint the flead out mutts back in action “again” when are u loosers going to learn i guess Mr Lomax just ruined your perfect season come on im dieing to hear the excuses u know u guys are a joke cant wait to see SAINT RICHT explain this one see u thugs in Jacksonville GO GATORS!!!! TEBOW REPEAT HEISMAN WINNER “BOOK IT”

By Authentic Frontier Jibberish

June 4, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

At least it’s not a Bama player this time.

By Roswell Ed

June 4, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

Maybe you’re right nola now that I think about it.

I’ve never had an arrest record.

By Jim

June 4, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

It is true, the Dawgs are gunning for a National title…Lomax has confirmed the rumor!

By DawgSheet

June 4, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this

Who cares? Look at it for what it is. 1 out of 7 Americans see the inside of a jail cell in his lifetime. That equates to ~ 12 scholarship players. Quit bashing the Athens PD because you are wearing red and black panties. Kids make mistakes and will have to pay for them. This doesn’t make Mark Richt any more or less of a disciplinarian than Nick Saban, Tommy Tuberville, Urban Meyer, etc. I get tired of UGA/Mark Richt apologists. You’re no better/no worse than the other 11 SEC teams and coaches or the other 119 NCAA FBS schools. Well, maybe with the exception of a Dennis Erickson-coached team.

By DawgSheet

June 4, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

Roswell Ed, you’re an idiot. Please recap for us Tommy Tuberville’s discipline policy for Trey Blackmon. He conviently comes back from suspension the week of the Florida game, etc. As I mentioned before, no coach is any better or worse than any other in the conference. Ears has booted a few and has allowed a few to rape his wife. About par for college football.

By GeoffDawg

June 4, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

Gator Chump - reinforcing the illiterate gator fan stereotype.

By reservoirDAWG

June 4, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

Roswell Ed, you hardly ever come on this message board? Are you friggin kidding me?

By Every team has so called Thugs!

June 4, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this

Hey at least he wasn’t drunk! This will result in 1 to 2 games suspension unless the charges are dropped which is a possibility.

Go Dawgs!

By Cuz

June 4, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this

Impeach Richt for High Crimes and Misdemeanors. We will try him in the Georgia State Senate with Vince Dooley presiding. Vince you need to get a nice black robe with red rings on the sleeves for each of your SEC titles and yes you can have a gold one for your NC.

Impeach Richt Now!

By shane #1

June 4, 2008 4:23 PM | Link to this

The fans that call another team’s athletes “thugs” are the real idiots. Counting walkons a Div 1a program has 99 football players. Most are teenagers, many away from home for the first time. So when You make fun of another school’s athletes legal troubles you are setting up Your own team. Call it college football karma. Gator Chomp,at least He didn’t run up 3000 dollars on His team mate’s dead girlfriend’s stolen credit card!

By Ludwig von Koopa for 08

June 4, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this

At least he didn’t make it rain.

By DawgCrappy

June 4, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this

What’s the big deal here? Another UGAy Illiterate Thug has been arrested. Only this time, it was a football player instead of one of UGAy’s typical dumbed-down students.

By Roswell Ed

June 4, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

DawgSheet:

Blackmon was suspended for 6 games

for

underage drinking.

Games missed while on suspension.

LSU, USC and ARK

Know of what you speak before you open your PIE HOLE.

By GW

June 4, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

Lomax is from Jonesboro. Maybe he needs to pack to safely return to Clayton Co. for visits.

By GATOR CHOMP

June 4, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this

GeoffDAWG IM JUST CALLING IT HOW IT IS DUDE U GUYS ARE ALLWAYS ON HERE CRITICIZING THE GATORS FOR OUR OFF THE FIELD INCIDENTS BUT U CANT TAKE IT WHEN THE SHOE IS ON THE OTHER FOOT YOUR A LOOSER DUDE STOP DISHING IT OUT IF U CANT TAKE IT UGAy IS QUITELY BECOMING THE NEW THUG U!!!!! GO GATORS!!!!

By 'ol sport

June 4, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this

Chip,

You have become another Carter Strickland. Usless, no talent, make a story somehow. What has happened to the abilities like Furman Bisher has and Jesse Outlar had. Sport stories. The crime page should be elsewhere, but it seems the AJC isn’t about journalism anymore. Pretty sad to generate controversy instead of reporting.

By Ted Striker

June 4, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

The people always posting to the AJC using the word “thug” are the same folks using the “N word” around their friends.

Them: Where am I going to get a derogatory term about African American athletes that won’t be censored online…out here in cyberspace…at this hour?

By JCSmalls

June 4, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

GATOR CHOMP Wow…you have a lot of nerve talking about UGA guys dorking out, when you had a player run up a girls credit card that another one of your players killed in a motor cycle accident….Karma is a Bi*%ch my friend, so you better be careful. As for Lomax and the other guys, of course I am disappointed, but I bet you can’t name one team in NCAA Football that has not had any off the field issues this off season. Go Dawgs….Tebow for Home Schooled Heisman!!!

By leland

June 4, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

Dear Mr. Chip Towers—don’t forget the examplar, Richt, provided a clear example of outside-of-the-rules behavior with that illegal stunt in Jacksonville last year. Monkey see, monkey do. Your pal, Leland

By Roswell Ed

June 4, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

Reservior:

Don’t get this blog and Tony’s mixed up.

I don’t even read this blog.

You just think all the blogs in the AJC that have to do with football are UGA Blogs.

I bet in the last 6 months I haven’t read or commented on this blog more than the number of times. that UGA players have been arrested.

I apologize. You may have a point.

Ne seriously I’d over/under it at 3 including today.

I’d bet under.

By Joe Hamilton - A Tech Alum

June 4, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

Man, the way people are jumping on Jeremy Lomax, you would think that he overdosed on heroin.

By Cuz

June 4, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

Roswell, why do you constantly take the bait. If you were a Catfish you would already have been filleted, battered and fried.

I for one pull for our Cousins on the Plains when we are not playing each other. Both Vince and Erk came from Auburn and that is all I got to say about that.

By GeoffDawg

June 4, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

Gator Chump - Loser is spelled with one “o”. The only thing that is “looser” is your mom.

By Dawg Fud

June 4, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this

seriously, Roswell Ed. you love this blog.

By Cuz

June 4, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this

Sport, did you even read Chip’s blog commentary? If he had not mentioned it, the anti-UGA crowd would be saying he is trying to sweep it under the rug. He said he thought it was no big deal and I agree.

By Ted Striker

June 4, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

I’m still laughing at the “looser is your mom” comment from GeoffDawg to Gator Chomp

By Dawg Fud

June 4, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

GATOR CHOMP

get back to the Gator blog before Mr. Lomax pistol whips you.

By Cuz

June 4, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

Joe, not funny. Your post just reinforces the sterotype that Techies have of the Dawg Nation.

It is almost like grade school in here some days, Chip can we get a hall monitor.

shane, I believe the equestrian team is female also if that helps with your insult earlier. Just stay away from those horses. I think they use geldings though.

By Really?

June 4, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this

GATOR CHOMP- Are you kidding me? I will stay away from the fact that you can not spell very well. But you need to realize that your Gators have had plenty of off the field problems themselves. I have to assume that you aren’t much of a Gator fan because if you were you never would have opened your mouth about off the field issues.

How about Jamar Hornsby who used a deceased women’s credit card 70 times after her death. Not to mention that the lady died while riding on the back of another gator football players motorcycle.

Here are some of the arrests of Gator football players in the last year….. Seems a little worse then a few DUI’s….

• S Tony Jonier -we all know what this idiot did

• OG Ronnie Wilson -two felonies and one misdemeanor - gun in a parking lot near campus and assault with a deadly weapon

• RB Brandon James - one felony and one misdemeanor - purchase of a controlled substance and possession of >20 grams of marijuana

• S Dorian Munroe - one felony -theft of a police metal parking boot from his car

• CB Jacques Rickerson - one misdemeanor -possession of marijuana

• LB Dustin Doe -one misdemeanor - disorderly conduct for parking garage brawl

• S John Curtis - one misdemeanor -probation violation

Here are some more from The Saint Urban Meyer era….

-DT Marcus Thomas - (violating probation stemming from multiple failed drug tests)

-DE Jarvis Moss (suspended one game for failing drug test)

-WR Nyan Boateng (suspended after incident where he was stabbed by his girlfriend)

-CB Avery Atkins (too many legal issues to name)

So as you can see your Gators are no angels. My point is every school has issues big and small. I look forward to your response I am sure it will make a lot of sense.

By hunterj6

June 4, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

To those who got in trouble this summer…Go get disciplined and then come back to the team and kick some gamecock butt! Go Dawgs!

Oh by the way…What are the chances any of these guys were ever spanked as children by their parents?

By nola dawg

June 4, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this

HAHAHAHA

Roswell Ed… I think it is hilarious (and sad too) that you are so insecure that you had to list your HS resume on a freakin college football discussion board! “I was in the Beta Club, had a 3.513323 GPA…” HA!!

You just made my day pal…

By Bubba Gump

June 4, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this

Doesn’t it violate the Adams’ behavior policy to tote a Glock 40 on campus, or does this guy need to protect himself from basketball players?

By bug

June 4, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this

If I lived in Athens, I’d have a gun too! LOL

By ramble on!

June 4, 2008 5:52 PM | Link to this

I can always depend on the AJC to “make noise” about any UGA athlete that gets in trouble. Without the AJC we’d never know if a UGA athlete put their sock on backwards. Thanks AJC!

By GURU

June 4, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this

Speeding in your car and carring a weapon in your car is so rare in the country. Telling the cop the truth, about having a gun in the car is just what we do in this country.

Maybe this young man should have thought about where we are in this country and what is at stake everytime he walks out of his door as a athlete. You are not of the public, you are not a regular JOE. You have to understand you are under a microscope my brother. Take “CAUTION”.

I’m sick of all these football players in the news about what-ever. From high school all the way to the pro’s. Enough is Enough.

When it’s raining, you grab an umbrella. When its sunny and hot you dress accordingly. When is cold and windy you grab a coat. Understood right?

Wrong! When you are a celebrity figure with money, nice car, big house, etc. you are a target for all the jealous and envious people in the world. Take your gear with you. Leave no room for mistake or misunderstanding. The media feeds off negative press. That’s the reality of it, understand what you are going into, what kind of weather it is.

Football is the greatest sport of them all. The SuperBowl is the greatest sporting event in the World. Let’s not mess up a wonderful thing by all the negative press. Walk the life of the righteous and lets teach our youth the same.

By Hunk Erdown

June 4, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this

I predict the gun charge will be dropped. Perfectly legal if it had only been in his console or glove box. The cop should have wrote the ticket for speeding and told him the correct place to store the gun.

Even cops don’t want folks riding around with a pistol laying on the seat or in plain sight.

Yes to all the brain surgeons who believe that people that carry guns are more likely to use a gun than people who don’t carry a gun…. Geeeeez!

Its also true that if your parents didn’t have any children it is likely that you won’t either.

By Aubrey

June 4, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

People who flippantly defend Richt’s non discipline policy should consider VA Tech. The parents of the 30+ dead students would not think this incident to be a non-issue.

By reality check

June 4, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

Under Georgia law it is legal to have a loaded firearm in the glove compartment of your car on public roads. It is also legal to have a loaded firearm in plain view in your car. It is not necessary to have a license for the firearm. Under Georgia law your car is considered an extension of your home for purposes of possessing a firearm.

I will be very surprised if the court finds it is illegal to have an unloaded firearm under the seat.

By Gene

June 4, 2008 6:14 PM | Link to this

Serenity? There is nothing serene about Georgia sports. Everyone from Adams to Richt to fans are either boasting, whining, or defending criminal behavior by “student athletes.”

By BigGator

June 4, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this

Yep,

It keeps happ’nin’ because Herr Richt and the “No Nuts” crowd let da n**** run wild in the kennel. One day one of those gold-toothed, so-called student athletes will hurt someone of prominence, then the real sh** will fly. Where is Barbara when she is needed? Oh, I think I hear Mun-son(of a b***) making excuses.

Big Gator

By Munson

June 4, 2008 6:32 PM | Link to this

I resemble that remark. Let the bruthas strut their stuff. Keep ‘em happy - that means more TDs for you and me!

So, we catch some flak when the blue gums drink too much King Cotton peach wine. That’s not a big price to pay when you co(o)nsider it. Jes’ keep ‘em away from my love interests.

Off the record, Herschel dropped by the other day - I swear to gawd, that boy has the biggess’ pecka’ I’ve ever seen. Gotta go to the Men’s room.

Papa Dawg Munson

By AltamahaDawg

June 4, 2008 6:41 PM | Link to this

proud dawg, all the guys you knew in college with guns had concealed weapons permits? And you are confusing the issue here. How did it become an issue of him stealing a gun and filing off the serial #? You said: “The fact though is that if you have a gun you are likely to use it!” But you were refering to criminals in Atlanta and not the guy we are talking about, right? The point?

Aubry, tisk tisk, needed to make up some point that bad? Thats pretty sad. BTW exactly what “non disclipine policy” would you be refering to?

By Zeb

June 4, 2008 6:48 PM | Link to this

Reality Check, you are absolutely right. But like I posted earlier, this cop could’ve handled this SO much differently. It’s ridiculous how some of these officers have a zero tolerance mentality. A good attorney should make this azzhole cop look stupid on the stand, if it goes that far. And I’m a retired cop. Any of you Athens PD guys care to chime in here, go ahead. We’ll rip you a new one. Don’t be scared to say what you do, be a freakin man.

By Paddy

June 4, 2008 6:54 PM | Link to this

It is not a mistake to carry a gun in your car. It is premeditated. A senoir who flaunts the rules needs a very harsh pently. CMR, send a message, please. This is not a “kid”, he is 22 yrs old. An adult.. Parents of future recruits will be watching.

By Paddy

June 4, 2008 6:58 PM | Link to this

“Gunning for a National Championship”… priceless

By GATOR CHOMP

June 4, 2008 7:00 PM | Link to this

OK PUPPIES WHAT ABOUT BALDWIN, MUNZZENMIER, BOLING, THURMAN, JEREMY 9MM LOMAX U GUYS REALLY DONT WANT TO GO THERE DO U? AND BY THE WAY GEOFFMUTT IS IT REALLY THAT SERIOUS DUDE I DONT THINK U REALLY WANT TO GO THERE A##HOLE BELIEVE ME DUDE!!! AND THANKS FOR THE SPELLING TIP LOSER GOOD TO SEE THAT UGAY DEGREE PAYING OFF FOR U SON! JC SMALLS GROW UP AND GET OUT OF YOUR GRANDMA’S BASEMENT U JERK!!! GO GATORS F##K THE PUPPIES

By Capt Caveman (the original Dawg)

June 4, 2008 7:05 PM | Link to this

russ

Daily gang-raping?? What an absurd and ludicrous remark. The fact that the AJC is allowing that comment to appear is offensive enough.

Is there a blog monitor here???

Chip Towers?? Are you even reading this after you post it??

By Really?

June 4, 2008 7:11 PM | Link to this

BigGator- I assume you didn’t read my post a bit earlier to one of your fellow Gator fans. Here it is again. I look forward to your respone

GATOR CHOMP- Are you kidding me? I will stay away from the fact that you can not spell very well. But you need to realize that your Gators have had plenty of off the field problems themselves. I have to assume that you aren’t much of a Gator fan because if you were you never would have opened your mouth about off the field issues.

How about Jamar Hornsby who used a deceased women’s credit card 70 times after her death. Not to mention that the lady died while riding on the back of another gator football players motorcycle.

Here are some of the arrests of Gator football players in the last year….. Seems a little worse then a few DUI’s….

S Tony Jonier -we all know what this idiot did

OG Ronnie Wilson -two felonies and one misdemeanor - gun in a parking lot near campus and assault with a deadly weapon

RB Brandon James - one felony and one misdemeanor - purchase of a controlled substance and possession of >20 grams of marijuana

S Dorian Munroe - one felony -theft of a police metal parking boot from his car

CB Jacques Rickerson - one misdemeanor -possession of marijuana

LB Dustin Doe -one misdemeanor - disorderly conduct for parking garage brawl

S John Curtis - one misdemeanor -probation violation

Here are some more from The Saint Urban Meyer era….

-DT Marcus Thomas - (violating probation stemming from multiple failed drug tests)

-DE Jarvis Moss (suspended one game for failing drug test)

-WR Nyan Boateng (suspended after incident where he was stabbed by his girlfriend)

-CB Avery Atkins (too many legal issues to name)

So as you can see your Gators are no angels. My point is every school has issues big and small. I look forward to your response I am sure it will make a lot of sense.

By Rules are Rules

June 4, 2008 7:13 PM | Link to this

So GeofDawg and Sobedawg….. Close your eyes and look the other way. He broke the law, firstly he was speeding, secondly he was carrying a weapon without a permit. Lomax attends and represents the University of Georgia. If you want protection , then get a permit. There is no more personal responsibility in our society anymore. Yeah… lets blame someone else for our own faults because everyone else does and label folks hypocrites who call their hands on folks who breaks RULES. Student athletes should understand by now that they will need to think and be responsible , particularly after what happened at Va.Tech last year.

By tee

June 4, 2008 7:15 PM | Link to this

Unfortunately or Fortunately (for the AJC)the article did not say if he has a permit or license for the weapon. It is not illegal to carry a handgun under the seat if you have a permit (according to the new Ga. State law that was signed in May). Until we find out the details, we should hold judgement on this kid. Of course all the “lunatic fringe” for/against will blow things out of proportion but that is what they do. If the kid did end up doing wrong other than a speeding ticket then a one or two game suspension should be in line for his mistake and move on. Until then…Go Dawgs!

By Really?

June 4, 2008 7:21 PM | Link to this

GATOR CHOMP- You are a moron! I was trying to say that UGA doesn’t have off the field issues. My point was that every school has off the field issues even your Gators. I know it is hard to believe but it is true. Also Odell Thurman has been a big time trouble maker in the NFL but not at the college level. And the other 3 UGA players incidents were very mild compared to your Gator players.

Still waiting for your comment as to why so many of your Gator players have ended up in trouble with the law. Could it be because they are thugs or just a bunch of young kids making bad decisions? I am listening!

By georgiagirl

June 4, 2008 7:22 PM | Link to this

You have to love the other fans that call the UGA players thugs.

Fla player uses dead woman credit card 70 times.

Tenn kicker DUI king, how many does he have now. How many arrest for drugs.

USC- Can’t keep your Quarterback out of trouble. Auburn player Tray Blackman (the greatest) could not stay out of trouble long enough to play for Auburn.

All you God given souls that think you are so much better than any of these kids, no matter where they play. I wonder what sh!! we could find hidden in your closet. You sit all high and mighty, as if you are perfect, sorry but everyone makes mistake small or big.
So now go and clean up around your own back door. That’s whats wrong with the world today everybody wants to be the judge. People who live in glass houses would not throw rocks. Every college has their own problems. All you fans are so fast to judge someone, h!ll where you there NO NO. Get a life. Theres not one damn thing wrong with being a UGA fan. There nothing wrong with being any team fan. I have had many other fans call me a sorry Georgia fan. But I see the redneck that they are so I don’t let it get to me. I LOVE UGA GO DAWGS.

By ObamaDawg

June 4, 2008 7:31 PM | Link to this

We need to Change speeding laws and have no gun laws. We need to change how rules are enforced and that student athletes are always above the law. What we need is Anarchy!

By Patrick

June 4, 2008 7:36 PM | Link to this

I cannot believe some of what I am reading, The MAN is over 18 which he can kill someone in War.

By Patrick

June 4, 2008 7:36 PM | Link to this

I cannot believe some of what I am reading, The MAN is over 18 which he can kill someone in War.

By Really?

June 4, 2008 7:37 PM | Link to this

Rules are Rules- before posting about rules. Please learn the rules/laws. You do not need a permit to carry a gun in your car in the state of GA. The issue here is that he didn’t have the gun in plain view or in his glove compartment. If he had it lying on the seat then this would be a non-issue. But since it was under the seat that is why they police made a big deal about it.

I would recommend not posting on this blog unless you know what you are talking about.

Thanks!

By AltamahaDawg

June 4, 2008 7:43 PM | Link to this

OK folks, first of all, who said anything about looking the other way. Lomax broke civil laws, is dealing with the civil consequences, and eventually because he embarassed his scholarship, he will pay the predetermined penalty for that. Please quote anyone saying differently. A couple of “kick him off the team” comments are so over the top, you really cant even debate it.

But good lord. What happened at VT was about mental disorders and bad intentions, NOT filing of proper paperwork.

By Really?

June 4, 2008 7:43 PM | Link to this

sorry, regarding my earlier post to GatorChomp I meant to say “I was not trying to say that UGA doesn’t have off the field issues”

By JCSmalls

June 4, 2008 7:44 PM | Link to this

GATOR CHOMP I don’t need to say anything to you “DUDE,” you just emberassed yourself and the “GAYTORS.” 42-30

By Waiting

June 4, 2008 7:47 PM | Link to this

Patrick, and your point is?

By GATOR CHOMP

June 4, 2008 7:49 PM | Link to this

HEY REALLY NO U ARE A MORON DUDE!! AND TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION I DONT KNOW WHY KIDS MAKE DUMB DECISIONS BUT U NEED TO TAKE THOSE RED AND BLACK GLASSES OFF OPEN YOUR EYES AND FACE IT SON JEREMY “SHOOT EM UP” LOMAX IS A THUG AND HE NEEDS TO BE KICKED OFF OF THAT SORRY A## TEAM OF YOURS AND TELL THE PUPPY NATION TO GET READY 4 ANOTHER BEATDOWN THIS TIME TEBOW WILL BE HEALTHY GO GATORS!!! TEBOW U DA MAN “BOOK IT”

By Rules are Rules

June 4, 2008 7:54 PM | Link to this

Really?…… Is it correct in the th State of Georgia that if you have a COCEALED Weapons permit, then you can Conceal a weapon? Know the law bud!

By Really?

June 4, 2008 8:05 PM | Link to this

Rules are Rules- You said “secondly he was carrying a weapon without a permit”. All I was stating is that he doesn’t have to have a permit to carry the gun in his car. The issue is Mr. Lomax unfornately placed the gun in the wrong spot of the car. Had it been sitting on the seat this wouldn’t had been an issue. Got it?

By georgiagirl

June 4, 2008 8:10 PM | Link to this

GATOR CHOMP

JUST REDNECK THAT ALL JUST REDNECK TEBOW IS NOT THE WHOLE TEAM AND HIS THROWING ARM WAS NOT HURT, WHAT’S YOUR POINT. THE GAME AS BEEN OVER FOR A WHILE YOU LOST END OF STORY, GET OVER IT. STOP CRYING. STOP LIVING IN THE PAST. THERE ARE OTHER PLAYER ON THE FLA TEAM, BESIDES SUPERMAN. STOP MAKING EXCUES FOR LOSING THE GAME.

By sobedawg

June 4, 2008 8:11 PM | Link to this

Rules and Rules — Do the world a favor…and go back to KINDERGARTEN! SobeDawg

By Rules are Rules

June 4, 2008 8:12 PM | Link to this

Sorry about the misspelled word CONCEALED for all the Spell Check CZARS!

By Really?

June 4, 2008 8:16 PM | Link to this

GATOR CHOMP- I know this may be tough for you but just for a second try and think logically. So you are saying that Mr. Lomax is a as you say it a “Thug” because he was carrying a gun in his car which is not illegal in the state of Georgia, but since he placed the gun in an incorrect spot inside his car he is a thug? Or is it because he was speeding?

By Rules are Rules

June 4, 2008 8:21 PM | Link to this

Really?….. I made an honest mistake, I misstated. Secondly he was concealing a weapon without a permit. So I would think this is why he was arrested even though he could have been taken in for his speeding violation.

By georgiagirl

June 4, 2008 8:21 PM | Link to this

GATOR CHOMP TAKE A CHILL PILL YOU GET MORE REDNECK EVERY TIME YOU WRITE SOMETHING.

Oh and by the way Thurman has been gone from Georgia for a few years, we are not talking NFL.

I guess you never had a drink or two in your life, must be perfect. And most people that call other people gay are gay. Now make sure that you come back and call someone else a few names I know it makes you feel like a man or woman. Everything goes around come around, you’ll get yours for all your bad mouthing. Got to love it.

GO DAWGS!!!!

By Roswell Ed

June 4, 2008 8:27 PM | Link to this

Tray Blackmon?

Please please please expond on his transgressions and tell me his punishment.

Maybe I missed something.

He was an underage drinker suspended for 6 games. Tell me what was wrong with any of that?

How many games would Richt or Fulmer or any of the other coaches have suspended Blackmon for underage drinking?

Make a list of AU trangressions. PLEASE

CTT runs the cleanest program in the SEC bar none.

Don’t be shy you hacks. Let’s read it.

UGA fans are the freaking worst.

Bring it on you punks.

What a bunch of friends of Dorothy.

By Festus

June 4, 2008 8:32 PM | Link to this

Youins oughta know down in Georgee thait them thare librals frown on guns. They thinks yall will be a bunch of vigilantees. Yall need to put them thare governers on yalls pik up trucks so youins caint git cawght fer speedun liks ups here in Waste Virginny.

By cdawg

June 4, 2008 8:34 PM | Link to this

What is wrong with bearing arms? Did he not tell the officer he had a weapon? Can any pigs or ambulance chasers confirm this?

By Savant

June 4, 2008 8:43 PM | Link to this

This has been blown WAY out of porption. No way he should be suspended, even for one game!!

Below is law as it is applied to weapons and motor vehicles..

This code section does not forbid the carrying of a loaded handgun in any private motor vehicle by a person who is not licensed, but also who is not prohibited from possessing a firearm, in an open manner and totally exposed to view. For those who are not listed as ineligible for a license (found below in the “Firearm License Carrying” section) may also place the gun in the glove compartment, console, or any other similar closed compartment. A person who has a license issued under code 16-11-129 may carry a loaded handgun in any location, openly or concealed, in the vehicle.

By Need a man for a coach

June 4, 2008 9:05 PM | Link to this

this has been blown way out. What a joke!!!!! As big as this man is and he needs a gun. Give me a break. Keep making excuses for the bad apples that mark gets. By the time football starts half the team will miss the first two cup cake games. UGA WHAT A JOKE OF A SCHOOL.

By Need a man for a coach

June 4, 2008 9:16 PM | Link to this

Also I need a man for tonight. I love guy on guy!

By FL DAWG

June 4, 2008 9:18 PM | Link to this

The second ammendment grants citizens of the US to keep and bear arms. States have written laws that make it illegal to carry a concealed weapon. You can still carry one, you just have to obey the law.

As for Lomax, he made a mistake and will learn and pay for the mistake. Probably for both the goverment and Coach Richt. At least he was polite and honest from what the police report said. Hopefully, other players at UGA and other schools will learn from Lomax’s mistake.

By S.E. Dawg

June 4, 2008 9:25 PM | Link to this

Chip you’re right, they’re on their soap box pointing fingers. Now, please everyone excuse me while I put up my Ruger 9mm.

By Hunk Erdown

June 4, 2008 9:35 PM | Link to this

I didn’t know there were so many French-Canadiens interested in hating UGA.

By Dog Lover

June 4, 2008 9:37 PM | Link to this

Typical Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Miami, Florida, etc.

By Dog Lover

June 4, 2008 9:37 PM | Link to this

Typical Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Miami, Florida, etc.

By reality check

June 4, 2008 9:45 PM | Link to this

Lomax is likely NOT to be convicted on concealed weapons charges. By the time it comes up in court it will be legal in the state of Georgia for anyone to carry a loaded firearm into any restaurant, whether they have a license or not. That law takes effect July 1. As it is now what Lomax did does not violate Georgia law if the reporting on the incident is accurate.

The officer who made the case is not the one who determines the law. The court almost undoubtedly will throw the charge out.

Clint Boling may have a very good chance of having his charges dismissed, depending on whether the facts in the case create probable cause for his being pulled over. Erratic driving is a very imprecise term that may not in fact constitute a legal violation. If there is no legal traffic violation to constitute probable cause for pulling him over the case will be thrown out.

As a former police officer I can tell you just because someone is accused of a crime does not mean they are guilty of anything. We have laws that must be respected and all this sanctimonious posturing means nothing until the legal process is completed.

By Ted Striker

June 4, 2008 9:46 PM | Link to this

“Gator Chomp” — you reek of rancid picklefish and carry the stench of fetid sturgin. Chomp elsewhere, unworthy amphibian. If you simply MUST return to this message board — at least bathe and use heavy mouthwash (3 swishes) before that uwelcome return.

“Roswell Ed” — point taken regarding Tuberville. I concur that Tuberville is a no-nonsense disciplinarian (just like Richt). Although I must admit that Coach T. also reminds me of Cyrano de Bergerac with prominent beak of his.

“Rules are Rules” — I just wish you’d been in my squadron over Macho Grande.

By Hunk Erdown

June 4, 2008 9:51 PM | Link to this

Read this blog carefully tonight.

Pay your NRA dues tomorrow.

By GET A LIFE

June 4, 2008 9:56 PM | Link to this

Have any of you ever met Mr. Lomax?? Do any of you know that he volunteers in his community and is truly a good young man! Reserve your judgment of him. He who without sin,cast the first stone. Some of you have nothing else to do but sit here and blog about someone else’s life.

By reality check

June 4, 2008 9:57 PM | Link to this

Zeb, I appreciate your comments.

When I was in law enforcement I had more important things to do than make cases that didn’t need to be made. As the officer reported Lomax was very polite and compliant, and it doesn’t look to me like the officer made a good case. Ultimately not making a good case reflects poorly on the credibility of law enforcement. When I came along we were told discretion is the better part of valor. Maybe I anm being harsh, but common sense is a valuable commodity that seems to be in short supply in the Athens police force.

It should have been handled differently.

By swampfrog

June 4, 2008 9:58 PM | Link to this

I have a glock 40 in my glovebox and it is loaded and ready. Before I bought it I asked a city cop, deputy sherriff, and a GSP and they all told me the same thing. They all said theat there is no such law as a concealed weapon. They told me that your car is considered an extention of your home and you can have a gun anywhere you want in it and they said that if I was going to have a gun in my car then it might as well be ready to fire!

By Thank you

June 4, 2008 10:01 PM | Link to this

To Reality Check, Thank you for your comments. Just when I thought due process had been thrown out with the baby. Someone still has some sense on this blog.

By dan

June 4, 2008 10:05 PM | Link to this

I graduated in 1969 and hung two hunting rifles in my dorm room in Russell Hall the entire time. I have no problem with an individual carrying an unloaded gun in his/her car. What I do have a problem with are fools like Boling and Joe Hamilton driving on the public highways while drunk. That’s when you infringe on my individual liberties and those of my family. If these idiots desire to kill innocent people, please do so within your own family circle!

By James

June 4, 2008 10:13 PM | Link to this

In response to Dave in Tampa..

You have to be an ignorant person. I am a 21 year old college student (22 in 4 days).. i have a 3.9 GPA and will be attending medical school starting this fall. For the past three years I have not left home without my Beretta 9mm under the seat of my car. Does that make me a bad person? A bad leader for wanting to protect myself? I live in Atlanta and I have been robbed before. Until you know what that feels like you have no place to comment or pass judgement on a story such as this. First off, the kid should be given props for actually having the courage to tell the officer he had the gun. He’s honest and obviously hard working. Had you been held to the standards that you obviously hold him to you probably wouldnt have come out quite as well as he has. First and foremost you need to grow up and learn not to pass judgement. You’re remarks are about as ignorant and asinine as they come.

By Come on!

June 4, 2008 10:20 PM | Link to this

dan- Boling hasn’t been proven guilty yet so don’t use him as an example. Try again!

By Roswell Ed back to AL

June 4, 2008 10:30 PM | Link to this

Hey Roswell Ed, if you want more War tiger news move your tail back down to Opelika. You live in Georgia. Deal with it. Just because you, like most Auburn grads, couldn’t get into UGA, don’t come back home after graduating from the cow college and spit your hate. Georgia must be good for something or you wouldn’t live here. I know it’s not to be closer to Tech so you can see your team get its butt whooped every so often in the ATL. Frankly I’m surprised that you would come down on someone for having a gun in their possession. You are a hypocrite.

By tiger1

June 4, 2008 10:34 PM | Link to this

Tray Blackmon’s arrest does not quite equal the multiple arrests GA has had in the last year. PLus he sat out at least 5 games, not 1 0r 2. GA had a lot of arrests last year. What happened? not much. The atmosphere comes from Richt’s legacy at Miami and FSU-thug music and dancing to taunt- not very classy.

By Denver Dawg

June 4, 2008 10:40 PM | Link to this

reality check:

So, ANYBODY will be able to carry a loaded firearm into a restaurant? YOU ARE A COMPLETE IDIOT. Georgia is not eliminating the concealed weapons permit law - one must still get a permit to conceal after said date. Also, restaurants will have the ability as they do now post that those who are carrying consealed weapons may not enter the premises. ALSO, fealons can’t even possess a weapon AND ON AND ON AND ON.

On Boling, he broke the law. If you’re going to carry around a deadly weapon you need to know the law. If you don’t that YOU’RE problem and CLINT’S problem. As he said, he’s frustrated with himself, not the police. He’s taking responsibility for what he did in violation of the law. He made a minor mistake and he’s willing to admit it. End of story. This does not deserve any kind of suspension talk (not even laps).

By tiger1

June 4, 2008 10:45 PM | Link to this

YOu don’t have to attend UGA because you live in GA! We didn’t WANT to go to UGA, that’s why we didn’t. We wanted to go somewhere better.Living in GA has nothing to do with getting a great education in Auburn and working in GA. That argument is weak.

By Poor little war tiger babies

June 4, 2008 10:45 PM | Link to this

Many apologies to the classy Auburn people on the blog. It’s seems that football is now about tea parties and doilies. You Auburn people need to grow a set. Maybe that’s what’s wrong with your program: no excitement, no energy. You want to come down on our guys for dancing on the sidelines during the game. Well do something about it! Bunch of whining pansies is what ya sound like! This ain’t golf.

By AltamahaDawg

June 4, 2008 10:51 PM | Link to this

HunkErdown, good to see you. You must be concealing a few more signed contracts under your seat lately.

By Duke in Tucker

June 4, 2008 10:52 PM | Link to this

Paragraph 4- shouldn’t it be be “whose” gun rather than “who’s” gun?

By tiger1

June 4, 2008 10:58 PM | Link to this

It still comes down to CLASS. You’re right, it’s not golf. I believe I was at a football game, not So YOu THink You Can Dance??? You don’t have to taunt and show your Butt to play football. (not golf, you’re confused.) No excitement, no energy?? We don’t have to depend on thug music to have it.

By Really?

June 4, 2008 11:00 PM | Link to this

tiger1- If my team got killed by a combined score of 82-35 by the Dawgs over the last two years like your Tigers did, I would probably try to find something to trash the Dawgs about too, like calling them Thugs. It is obvious that you still have some anger built up from the last couple years.

By Bad news Georgia

June 4, 2008 11:11 PM | Link to this

Looks like Richt has followed the example of his mentor, Bobby Bowden, and gone all out to recruit thugs. When these thugs (Odell) get to the NFL they are suspended. Richt keeps them out of the game with such as Western Carolina.

By Roswell Ed back to AL

June 4, 2008 11:13 PM | Link to this

Tiger, my point to Ed is to not complain about all of the UGA coverage in GEORGIA. Heck, I used to work in AL. Zero coverage of anything not alabama. Just asking Ediot not to whine about living in a state he obviously must love - seeing as his moniker is “Roswell”. If he wants more tiger talk, move back to L.A. OR DEAL WITH IT - and, Ed, if you go, take all the damn illegals with ya.

By tiger1

June 4, 2008 11:16 PM | Link to this

I’ve attended many AU-GA games at both venues. I’ve NEVER experienced an atmosphere like last year. THe rivalry had class in the past but last year was like nothing I’ve ever seen at UGA. There’s no anger, just shock. Yes, we’ve lost the last 2 years, but does that make it OK to act like heathens? The “Dancing with the Stars” would have bothered me no matter the score. Au and UGA have been playing a lot longer than you or I have been around. It’s always been a good rivalry. I just hated what happened last year because it changed what the 2 schools have always had in common-class. You have to remember-What goes around, comes around. If you think UGA will always win, you’re kidding yourself. What would happen if AU ? Hopefully, you’d be disappointed and not making excuses for poor behavior.

By sobedawg

June 4, 2008 11:19 PM | Link to this

Auburn handles a lot of their matters in-house, and LOTS of JUNK gets swept under the rug. I see it all the time here in South Florida…with UF, Miami and the NOles getting mini-briefs on page 17D. The AJC is obviously ANTI-UGA and wants to exploit all of these minor infractions. The Miami-Herald would never try to hurt those “holy” Canes as they are known in South Florida…SobeDawg

By roswell Ed back to AL

June 4, 2008 11:23 PM | Link to this

There you go tiger. Harness some of that anger and throw it to your team. Maybe they’ll have enough energy to pick their jock off the field next year when Knowshon dances past them again. And “thug music”? Sounds like you need a class in race relations. Or anger management.

By Bad news Georgia

June 4, 2008 11:23 PM | Link to this

Also I like big built men.

By Gen Neyland

June 4, 2008 11:27 PM | Link to this

Denver Dawg

The sign posted negating a legal firearm on any property is invitating the criminal to do his business ‘Here’…

shane #1

I don’t know the age or background of Lomax. To simplify things, he should have had a permit if he’s of age. Last time I renewed mine it cost 25 bucks. He’ll burn that in gas or legal fees lickety split… I’m a firm believer of CYA. The charge, although it may be dropped, will still have to be handled. The weapon will probably go through ballistics and if it’s clean, more than likely it’ll all go away…Saddest part is we’re just beginning summer. More to come from around the NCAA and college football…

By GATOR CHOMP

June 4, 2008 11:28 PM | Link to this

HEY GEORGIAGIRL YEAH I HAVE HAD A DRINK OR TWO AND HOW BOUT YOURSELF? I WOULD ASK U OUT 4 A DRINK BUT I DONT FK WITH STRAY DOGS GET A LIFE GIRL AND DONT FK WITH BIGBOYS “IF U KNOW WHAT I MEAN!!! NOW RUN ON BACK TO YOUR DOG CAGE BEFORE I CALL THE MUTT POUND!!!!! GATOR 4 LIFE

By Really?

June 4, 2008 11:34 PM | Link to this

tiger1- I can guarantee you that the day that Auburn beats UGA (whenever that may be)you won’t here a peep out of me or most UGA fans if your team decides to dance on the sideline and enjoy a big win.

By tiger1

June 4, 2008 11:35 PM | Link to this

roswell Ed back to Al- It sounds like YOU need a class in music, period. Please read my post about the history of the game. As i said, I’ve experienced a LOT of the games and I hate to see it come down to this mentality. Has NOTHING to do with race relations, just CLASS.One thing that disappointed me was Richt’s lack of control… From your post, you’d think UGA had a string of victories, when it’s not the case. The series is pretty even. I hope AU NEVER forgets the lack of class the coaches and players showed that day. Even GA people around me were being obnoxious, kinda being in Baton Rouge or obnoxious Gator fans. Surely, you don’t want to be compared to them. come on. Have you experienced that? Then you’ll know what i’m talking about.

By Roswell Ed back to AL

June 4, 2008 11:39 PM | Link to this

I’m not going to argue any more with these pansy Auburn fans. I have a great time going to the game and tailgating with Auburn folks, but to question our team’s class because we play with energy and celebrate amongst ourselves ON THE SIDELINES - not like we’re grabbing an Auburn DL facemask and spitting at him whiles he’s down, is ridiculous and comes off as sour grapes. People want to chastise Richt on this blog aren’t half the man he is. They should be ashamed of themselves. I’m done with you people until November. Ed go back to L.A. - make Roswell beautiful again.

By tiger1

June 4, 2008 11:40 PM | Link to this

By Really- So you’ll enjoy it when UF’s entire team storms the field when they score. I usually pull for UGA against the Gators but after that “lack of contol” and arrogancy, I don’t know.

By GatorBait

June 4, 2008 11:41 PM | Link to this

GATOR CHOMP, Please leave this blog! I to am a Gator fan and all of your post are really embarrassing the rest of us Gator Fans. Please try and show some class. Thanks!

By sobedawg

June 4, 2008 11:41 PM | Link to this

Gator Chomp — Go sip some beers and hang with your “poker” buddies…on Brokeback Mountain. That should solve some your angst and frustrations! :D SobeDawg

By tiger1

June 4, 2008 11:45 PM | Link to this

roswell Ed back, I,too, am calling it quite but 1 more thing. You were incorrect- There was a lot of”Dancing ON the field, too. So much for keeping it on the sidelines.

By AltamahaDawg

June 4, 2008 11:47 PM | Link to this

tiger1, nice try. Nobody in here believes for one second that had AU won in Athens last year, you would have given a second thought to what song was played. Outrage tends to be directly proportional to the outcome in football games I’ve noticed. Music on the PA during a break at a football game, my goodness! And a few player were dancing over by the bench behind the team…….yea right, you really hated to see that rivalry changed forever I’m sure. (even assualting fans with water cannons couldnt do that)

Or was it everyone wearing our other school color that ruined the tradition for you?

By altamaha dawg

June 4, 2008 11:58 PM | Link to this

Were you at the game? I was. and practically ALL the players on and off the field were dancing. What to you mean a few?? As to the SPRINKLERS being turned on. Were you at that game? Actually, I WAS. About 100 DRUNK ga fans stormed the field after being asked not to, and then asked to leave. They wouldn’t. They were tearing up the field. Have you noticed that EVERY school has all these Big, mean dogs surrounding their fields. Now those GA fans wouldn’t get wet, they’d get eaten. DId UGA make a practice of destroying other school’s property just because they won? hummmm AU had NEVER had that problem before UGA did it. Haven’t had it since.

By Get A Grip!

June 5, 2008 12:00 AM | Link to this

Thanks to Hunk ERdown, reality check, and Zeb for at least some sense on this blog.

Honestly, some of you must just be pulling our leg or just trying to get someone to rise to your bait. It must be a great place in your world!

The volunteered unloaded gun under the seat is a non-issue. Sure he should put it in the glove box (where I keep mine. He wasn’t brandishing it.

A college senior speeding on the loop. He is from the Atlanta area where you will absolutely get run over for driving the speed limit. But he should get the speeding ticket and suffer the appropriate penalty. But being suspended from a game or being kicked out of school?; are you kidding me!

Oh, and who the hell do you people think you are to tell a college senior that he has no business out driving at any time he feels like it as long as he’s not drinking or committing a crime. Is there a new curfew on adults in Athens?

You perfect snots! Those of you old enough to have children, I want to watch them for awhile. Those of you who don’t yet, WATCH OUT and remember your words.

By Openly GAY-Tor

June 5, 2008 12:03 AM | Link to this

HEY NICOLE, WHAT DO YOU MEAN “DID HE HAVE A WEAPON FOR THE GUN?” HOW STUPID ARE YOU GEORGIA FANS?

OUR QUARTERBACK, HEISMAN WINNER TIM TEBOW CARRIES A ROCKET WITH HIM EVERYWHERE HE GOES. YES, ITS HIS RIGHT ARM WITH WHICH HE WILL DISMANTLE THE DAWG DEFENSE THIS YEAR.

FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, THIS NEGRO HAS BEEN HURT FOR MOST OF HIS TENURE WITH GEORGIA, SO WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL?

YOU CAN GET ANOTHER ONE AROUND THE CORNER… PROBABLY SELLING WEED TO GEORGIA PLAYERS.

By Really?

June 5, 2008 12:09 AM | Link to this

tiger1- Correct! If the gators feel that they need to do that to get their team pumped up to play well enough to beat us then so be it. As long as they give us a full three quarters of football to make them wish they hadn’t rushed the field like we did for them then I am all for it.

Also Dawg nation could care less who you cheer for in JAX.

By Openly GAY-Tor

June 5, 2008 12:17 AM | Link to this

HEY GATOR CHOMP. I AGREE WITH YOU, BUT PLEASE LEARN HOW TO SPELL BEFORE YOU POST AGAIN. THE WORD PRONOUNCED (LOOZER) IS SPELLED LOSER, NOT LOOSER. WHAT YOU SPELLED WOULD BE USED IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. “WHEN GATOR CHOMP IS AROUND I LIKE TO MAKE MY PANTS LOOSER, SO HE CAN GET HIS HEAD IN EASIER”.

TAA-DAA, THERE IS YOUR GRAMMAR LESSON FOR THE DAY.

By Really?

June 5, 2008 12:17 AM | Link to this

Openly GAY-Tor- Do you think we could borrower some of your thugs to fill Lomax’s spot. You Gators have quit a list to choose from. Please respond to this!!!!

How about Jamar Hornsby who used a deceased women’s credit card 70 times after her death. Not to mention that the lady died while riding on the back of another gator football players motorcycle.

S Tony Jonier -we all know what this idiot did

OG Ronnie Wilson -two felonies and one misdemeanor - gun in a parking lot near campus and assault with a deadly weapon

RB Brandon James - one felony and one misdemeanor - purchase of a controlled substance and possession of >20 grams of marijuana

S Dorian Munroe - one felony -theft of a police metal parking boot from his car

CB Jacques Rickerson - one misdemeanor -possession of marijuana

LB Dustin Doe -one misdemeanor - disorderly conduct for parking garage brawl

S John Curtis - one misdemeanor -probation violation

Here are some more from The Saint Urban Meyer era….

-DT Marcus Thomas - (violating probation stemming from multiple failed drug tests)

-DE Jarvis Moss (suspended one game for failing drug test)

-WR Nyan Boateng (suspended after incident where he was stabbed by his girlfriend)

-CB Avery Atkins (too many legal issues to name

By bird dog

June 5, 2008 12:42 AM | Link to this

HEY CUZ, YOUR RESPONSE TO JOE WAS PERFECT. THE ONLY THING IS, HE WOULDN’T KNOW A GELDING FROM A PHILLY FROM A STUD. HECK, HE’S PROBABLY A GELDING HIMSELF.

LEAVE THE LOMAX KID ALONE. HOPEFULLY, THESE ISSUES WILL BE DISMISSED, IF THEY’RE NOT HE’S GOT MORE TROUBLE.

WITH AS PERMISSIVE AS PARENTS AND COLLEGES HAVE BECOME, IS IT ANY WONDER THAT YOUNGSTERS FEEL THEY HAVE TO “CARRY”?

ALL SCHOOLS HAVE THESE TYPES OF PROBLEMS. WHY DO BLOGGERS FEEL THE NEED TO “JUMP” ON SOMEONES BACK WHEN THEY’RE DOWN? SOMEONE SOMEWHERE ELSE IN THE COUNTRY WILL GET LOCKED UP FOR SOMETHING BEFORE THE WEEK IS OUT.

AS THE COLORED FOLKS SAY “DON’T HATE ‘DA PLAYA, HATE ‘DA GAME”.

LET’S CONFINE OUR BERRAGES TO THE SCHOOLS AND RESPECTIVE PROGRAMS, NOT ‘DA PLAYAS. AS WE ALL KNOW ‘DA SCHOOLS JUST USE ‘DA PLAYAS, KIND OF LIKE SLAVES. I WISH ALL ‘DA PLAYAS COULD PLAY IN THE NBA AND NFL.

By Hunk Erdown

June 5, 2008 12:56 AM | Link to this

tiger1

There are some Real Auburn fans that frequent this blog that we welcome. We enjoy the banter and good discussion with them, and most of us pull for the other team when we’re not playing each other.

You are not in the category of being “welcome” because yoou have exposed yourself as a liar and prejudiced hypocrite.

If you can’t bring honesty to the discussion you will quickly be ignored by the adults on this board.

If you think you can justify the firehose fiasco the way you did, you stand alone among a bunch of respected Tiger fans and have placed yourself in the category of either a 12 year old or liar or both. I was at the game… up in the stands when the hoses were pointed and fired at hundreds if not thousands of us.

That self righteous soap box you stand on “because of some music?” makes you look very ugly and like your friend, “openly gay” tor, a huge bigot.

By Openly GAY-Tor

June 5, 2008 12:57 AM | Link to this

Hey Really? No need to get your briefs in a bunch,(unless its in front where I like it). I couldn’t tell you of a Div. IA school that doesn’t have off the field issues. I know that UF is one of the worst offenders. Actually, Georgia is one of the least “offensive” (no pun intended).

I think the school in the SEC with the least offenses is Vandy, imagine that.

But seriously REALLY? Is that a police blotter in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? What do you do to impress your friends, walk around with a RAP SHEET on athletes?

GET A FRIGGIN LIFE!

By Openly GAY-Tor

June 5, 2008 1:16 AM | Link to this

Hey Hump Erdown, what do you mean “There are some Real Auburn fans that WE welcome”? Who is WE? You got a rat in your pocket,(or are YOU just glad to see me?)

Did you ever hear of the FIRST AMMENDMENT? Neither I or anyone else has to be WELCOMED by the canine nation. I’ll spew my Anti “dawg” venom for all to read. So what if most ignore it, You read it!

And calling me a BIGOT! I love all races, I just don’t like all schools. If you knew me you would know.

It appears you are a Georgia fan, great. I’ve been to Athens many, many times. Probably had intimate relations with some of your friends.

I’ll be back in “HOTLANTA” for Openly GAY-tor PRIDE at the end of June. Let me know if you want to get together for a HOT ONE.

Toodles to the Poodles!

By shane #1

June 5, 2008 1:28 AM | Link to this

Cuz, You mean He wasn’t talking about the horses? Whew!!! Gelded huh? With My luck I would get one with fond memories!I don’t know about the horsey set, it’s hard to tell with those “habits”, but those little leotards are damn cute! And that coach! What was I thinking about? Oh yeah, since We are in the insult mode, Roswell Ed studied Sociology with the AU football team, Gene is a convicted pedophile, and Gator Chomp has a bolt cutter rental business for Gators that want to get Their car out of the impound lot, or just get a few cases of smokes from the wearhouse. Did I leave anyone out? Oh, sorry Rules are Rules, You just suck! Now, goodnight to all.

By Jay

June 5, 2008 1:32 AM | Link to this

Before you dead beats who wish you in his position to have a real shot at the league stop hating.Do your research and get the facts right before you start blogging about something you don’t know about. This is his first time ever being in trouble of any kind.He told the truth to the officer.He will have his degree this fall and will be working on his MBA during the season …a thug I thinks not…a kid in a hurry to get back to school for workouts in the morning…after being with family during his break…yes

By Really?

June 5, 2008 1:33 AM | Link to this

Openly GAY-Tor -actually I just googled Gator athletes in trouble with the law and it came right up and I did a little cut and paste and it set me back a whole 2 min. of my life. I have a friggin life but thanks for being concerned!

By Openly GAY-Tor

June 5, 2008 1:50 AM | Link to this

Hey Really? I’d like to GOOGLE some athletes in trouble like you did, but I probably can’t open that wide!

What a man!

Good Night Honey.

By brad

June 5, 2008 1:54 AM | Link to this

Is it win at all cost now i read the first post and here is a frekin guy in college with a glock. In school, and there they are defending him where does it end i wonder if the parents of theese recruits get to see the arrest videos on theese thugas win they come for a visit comparing contrasting with that facing the giants movie richt shows them.A senior at that.Georgia is at a cross roads they can continue to be the florida stae miami of the sec or they can vandy it down with richt at the helm withthe stupid decision last year with the pile on ordered by him one has to think with the dancing on the field at the auburn game and the list continues that Thuga will continue this trend of classlessnes

By brad

June 5, 2008 1:55 AM | Link to this

Is it win at all cost now i read the first post and here is a frekin guy in college with a glock. In school, and there they are defending him where does it end i wonder if the parents of theese recruits get to see the arrest videos on theese thugas win they come for a visit comparing contrasting with that facing the giants movie richt shows them.A senior at that.Georgia is at a cross roads they can continue to be the florida stae miami of the sec or they can vandy it down with richt at the helm withthe stupid decision last year with the pile on ordered by him one has to think with the dancing on the field at the auburn game and the list continues that Thuga will continue this trend of classlessnes

By Really?

June 5, 2008 1:59 AM | Link to this

Openly GAY-Tor- you are very strange you may want to get back on your meds

By brad

June 5, 2008 2:00 AM | Link to this

I like guys and love to take it in the JAW!

By sobedawg

June 5, 2008 2:14 AM | Link to this

One thing that sums up today’s posts…Gay-tors and Thugs!…(snicker, snicker, chuckles)…Dr. SobeDawg :D

By sobedawg

June 5, 2008 2:27 AM | Link to this

One “phrase” shall I say…

By Zeb

June 5, 2008 3:05 AM | Link to this

Hey Brad, I know you love it, but just put down the pipe. I don’t know how you even survive. Please just go to bed and don’t post anymore. Either you’re 12 or you’re lovin the ganja.

By ATL Gator

June 5, 2008 3:12 AM | Link to this

3-15

By shane #1

June 5, 2008 3:16 AM | Link to this

Chip, You have not written anything about the UGA football team in quite a while. I know You were busy because of the unexpected success of the Dawg baseball and basketball teams, but this is what You chose to write about? Then You pretend to be above it all by saying you refuse to “point a finger” at the UGA players or program. You knew that all the haters would posts idiotic attacks on the Young man and the other players at UGA and do the finger pointing for You. When Richt took 22 players on a mission trip to Honduras We had no chance to post. When Richt went on the Coachs Tour of the Middle East We had no chance to post. When it was anounced that UGA had the second highest APR in the SEC, higher than Tech or UF, it wasn’t even mentioned. You also failed to report that 45 UGA football players had GPAs of 3.0 or higher. Lomax was one of Them. You didn’t bother mentioning that either. We all know that bad news sells papers, and fill the comments section of football blogs. I believe that was Your purpose in writing this blog. You knew the haters would be out in force and that We stupid fans would jump to defend “Our” team. Well, Mark Richt needs no defense from Me. Neither does Lomax, any Young man that can maintain a 3.0 GPA and play Div 1 football at a high level is certainly no thug. I just hate that You used Him and had His name dragged through the mud just to get a few more posts. That was a cheap shot and lazy reporting, so drop the holier than Thou act. You knew exactly what would happen on this blog when You wrote it.

By Ted Striker

June 5, 2008 7:02 AM | Link to this

Show some love; hug a thug

By Dawg4Life

June 5, 2008 7:20 AM | Link to this

GATOR CHOMP- Do the world a favor and pull your bottom lip over your head and swallow. “Tebow will be healthy”… Give me a break, he still going to get flat-backed 6 times in another 42-30 thumping. UF players are 10 times worse than UGA’s. You guys just have Urban Cryer, who is the Devil’s advocate… Don’t make excuses because the only reason Tebow had the stats that he did is because he is the only player on the team that has a lick of talent. I am still confused how a bruised non-throwing shoulder effected Teblow sooooo much that FLA lost… The reason you guys lost is really quite simple, #24.

Remember Me???

By JDW

June 5, 2008 7:44 AM | Link to this

I will bet all of you railing on the guy for having a gun voted for Sonny et al who this year passed a law making it legal to carry concealed firearms in public places plus your car. The only this Lomax did not do was stand in line at the courthouse to get a rubber stamp permit. My guess is at least 85% of all other such offenses go unreported by the officer involved.

By bjones

June 5, 2008 7:47 AM | Link to this

Last time I checked we had the right to bare arms in this country. The conseled weapons is solely up to the disgression of the officer so even if the gun is registered and he has a permit he would have still went to jail. I know because this happend to my father who was licensed and authorized to cary a hand gun. You all are foolish for thinking that he is a thug because he carries a gun. You all dont live in athens and if you do then you know how it is near campus and how the locals that are in poverty treat athletes I would and will carry a gun too. Jermey is not just some thug I know him personally This is the first time he ever ran astray of the law. So for those who want to kick him of the team do us all a favor STOP cheering for UGA and DONT CHEER for Lomax when he plays well on Saturdays.

By bjones

June 5, 2008 7:48 AM | Link to this

Last time I checked we had the right to bare arms in this country. The conseled weapons is solely up to the disgression of the officer so even if the gun is registered and he has a permit he would have still went to jail. I know because this happend to my father who was licensed and authorized to cary a hand gun. You all are foolish for thinking that he is a thug because he carries a gun. You all dont live in athens and if you do then you know how it is near campus and how the locals that are in poverty treat athletes I would and will carry a gun too. Jermey is not just some thug I know him personally This is the first time he ever ran astray of the law. So for those who want to kick him of the team do us all a favor STOP cheering for UGA and DONT CHEER for Lomax when he plays well on Saturdays.

By SickAndTired

June 5, 2008 7:51 AM | Link to this

Boys, boys, this is just a little minor misunderstanding. As for the gun, “it wasn’t even loaded.” I mean come on. We all know our dawg players are good stewards of weapons and there’s never been a reported incident of a georgia player shooting another person. There’s been some fighting in the past but hey, you mix alcohol with college kids, things happen. Take his gun away for around two games and his ammo for three games. Then put the new slogan on the backs of the shirts instead of “Finish the Drill” put “If U gonna pack heat, put it on the seat.” peace

By Duluth Gator

June 5, 2008 7:52 AM | Link to this

By Really, your list is very accurate and it is obvious you don’t have much of a life. Florida has their share of problems I will give you that, but you failed to mention how many of those kids Meyer has booted off the team. Now, do your research on how many Dawgs have been booted off the team during the Richt era and post that the same amount of times that you posted the facts on the Florida program. Have a nice day.

By AltamahaDawg

June 5, 2008 7:52 AM | Link to this

And tell me the difference between “dancing” around and lets say high fives or pumping your fist? Waving your arm to fire up the crowd? Asking them to get loud. I assume that all to bring about some sort of artificial and I suppose by your definition “classless” excitement. Have you ever been to game when those things didnt happen?Taunting? To do a few dance moves? geez. You personally would have NEVER liked the opposing team doing anything sort of celebrating. Understandable. Neither would I. But be a man and admit you would have loved every minute of it had it been your boys ahead in the game. And like you really trully give a rats a* what kind of “control” some other coach has. Oh, so disapointed in him are you? Could you be more transparent?

I am so glad that the AU official, only concerned about the safety of 100 or so UGA fans, decided better to mist them a bit rather than letting the viscous dogs eat them up. Because I really hate reading about all those football stadium dog attack stories. It always tragic and happens way too often.

And while we are on it, If UF or anyone else wants to gets double penalties after every TD they score on us, I’d say bring it on. And kick off from the 7.5. Hopefully our boys won’t be so stupid to get an unsportsman penalty themselves negating that advantage.

By Gamecock Travis

June 5, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this

I hate to see a youth with such an opportunity be so stupid. But I love to see it happen to UGA and upset all you dawg fans because YOU FANS ARE ALWAYS THE FIRST ONES TO BASH ANOTHER SCHOOL AND IT’S PLAYERS WHEN THEY HAVE A RUN-IN WITH THE LAW! Alas, what effect will these suspensions (if any!) have when your first 2 games are against GaSou and Central Nowhere. Here’s hoping the first two games end up like App State/Mich game!

By JDW

June 5, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this

Another fact for all those that love to get up on their holier than thou soapbox anytime a player from any school gets arrested, according to the US Dept. of Justice about 1 in every 10 college age persons is arrested each year. Statistically speaking any college football team of 100 players that has less than 10 arrests is outperforming society at large. Go back to your jobs and leave the moral outrage to somebody more qualified.

By Doug

June 5, 2008 8:07 AM | Link to this

The Athens Harold (www.onlineathens.com) has the statement from the sheriff that if the gun had been in the glove box, it would have been ok by Georgia law.

This story is a mole hill turned into a mountain.

By CarolinaJacket

June 5, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

So what’s the score? Lets see: UGA 22; Aub 19; UF 18: UT 5; USC 3; Tech 1 (hell, Tech gets blasted once again) — these are rough estimates. What’s the game? Name calling and cheap insults. In another blog, when this news broke, I requested that we didn’t fall back into this “you are worse school in the history of the world” mentality. We have all seen enough evidence that each and every school has its strenghts and its problems. I’ll ask again that we cut out the crap and talk football. We’ll see.

By GeoffDawg

June 5, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

Gator Chump - I really don’t want to go there with your mom either. It’d be like throwing a hot dog down a hallway. What’s the point?

By Gen Neyland

June 5, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

This I believe : Had this incident broke anywhere else around the SEC, many posters would be all over the player and criticize the school involved. The incident wouldn’t have disected from top to bottom, it would have been a case of cut and dried thuggery and criminal intent. Shyt that develops in one’s own backyard will never stink the same as the pile in the neighbors yard. Like some friends of ours that raise chickens, they don’t smell foul fowl, they smell money…I won’t jump on the finger pointing towards UGA, CMR, Lomax or the Athens PD like some have over this issue. Insofar a I’m concerned, it’s a non-issue because nobody suffered personal injury. It’s simply a case for those involved to weed out, go on and if Lomax is clean and cleared, allow him to suit up and play ball. If the intent of the Athens PD is to follow the letter of the law, so be it…Now, had this been a Kennedy, I’m sure rehab would be the next stop for the accused..

By reality check

June 5, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

Denver Dawg, where did you get your legal training? You are really big on name calling but you don’t know Georgia law.

Lomax will likely not be convicted for reasons I have already explained.

You are very confused about Boling. He hasn’t even been accused of having a weapon.

Boling’s case will depend on whether his “erratic driving” violated a traffic law and created probable cause for the stop. If it didn’t the case will be dismissed. You can’t reach any conclusion yet on that one, but a high percentage of the time the defense prevails in such cases.

By GATOR CHOMP

June 5, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

GEOFFMUTT!! GET A LIFE DUDE AND GROW UP WHILE YOUR AT IT. GO GATORS!!!!

By Gene

June 5, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

What does Adams do if a student brings a handgun on campus? Suspend the student from the Georgia Southern game?

By UnderDawg

June 5, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

Morons.

By NorthGADawg

June 5, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this

I would carry a gun if I had to go to Jonesboro like he did…

By Chip Towers

June 5, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

Shane #1: All I can say is you are quite the conspiracy theorist… . By the way, this is a FREE blog, and I’m not talking about the price of admission. You can discuss anything you want in here, including APR, how many players had 3.0s or how good the hedges look this year. To say that a fourth player getting arrested since January and this time for a concealed weapon is not newsworthy is living with your head in the sand, IMO. And you guys tend to forget all the positive stories we do on players all year long and in the fall in particular. And we’ll do the same with Lomax if he ends up having a good season.

By tech-hater

June 5, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

I guess you aren’t allowed to own or carry an unloaded firearm if you’re a football player in Athens. I suppose the cops thought Lomax was going to throw the gun at them or hit em with it or something, because an unloaded firearm is about as dangerous as a Pit Bull with no teeth. In each case, there is a potential for danger, but it’s not supposed to be “potential trouble” that gets you arrested.

I, too, am armed when I go out and about. If there is nobody but myself in the car, I keep that .40 caliber smoke-wagon right on the front seat in plain view and holstered to deter anyone who might decide they need my car more than I do. And guess what? I have been told by police at checkpoints that I am in compliance with the laws of the state as far as having a weapon in the car because it is in plain view, and because it takes two moves to fire it. One to get it out of the holster, and one to rack a shell into the chamber. I suppose if Lomax had kept the gun on the seat, he wouldn’t have gotten a charge. Or, if he hadn’t been a football player in Athens, maybe he wouldn’t have gotten stopped. Seems like the Athens PD and the UGA PD go out of their way to arrest a player so they can get press in the AJC.

By GeoffDawg

June 5, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

Yikes…I’ve been zinged. Well, there’s not shame in “loosing” to the best.

By Who's Your Daddy?

June 5, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

Leave it to Carolina fans to come in at the last moment with some words of advice??? We own you in everything that’s relative. Don’t come back with 16-12. Look up the number of wins against UGA over the years. You school is pathetic and you can’t keep your own athletes in state. The name AJ Green ring a bell? Your claim to fame is baseball and that isn’t going so well either for you. USC-Univerity of Shoulda, Coulda!

By Kevin T. Valdosta, GA

June 5, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

Let’s just get a few things clear on the incident. 1: You do not have to have a permit to carry a gun in a car in the State of Georgia, it is considered an extention of your home. You do though have to follow simple rules, the gun must be visible, or in a center console, or glove box. It can not be under a front seat or wedged between the seats and this is only because that gun in those spots can be accessed easily without a police officer seeing the movement. 2: It is not called a Glock 40, it is one of 4 models a G22, G23, G27, or G35. They are the Glocks sold in .40 caliber! Just a little insight. There are so many more non-athletes arrested at UGA than there are athletes it is not even a close comparison. We only hear about the players and that puts an unfair slant on the whole issue. Go Dawgs!

By Strickland fan

June 5, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

POSITIVE STORIES? THAT’S ALL YOU DO, CHIP.

It’s the least objective beat reporting of the entire staff. You should be on UGA’s payroll.

At least Carter plays it straight.

By Hunk Erdown

June 5, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

Chip

Is it just a student conduct thing about having a weapon on campus? I was thinking that weapons on campus, (even a knife with a blade that is 4 inches or more) was a State if not Federal deal. If Lomax had gotten busted on campus with the gun, this would be a huge deal.

General Neyland- I can assure you that I wouldn’t be throwing rocks about this happening at UT… I’m too busy hoping and praying our own guys stay out of trouble and make their grades to criticize anyone else. I may have made a comment or two concerning Garcia at USC, but he’s in his own league when it comes to trouble.

I’m afraid this is only the beginning, when it comes to the Athens Police blotter… hope I’m wrong, but for some reason the players and cops have a bad habit of crossing each other the last few years. And I’m sorry if I sound like a homer about it but I do think that the majority of the cases are blown out of proportion, either by the police and their choice of how to charge an offense or the press in baiting these types of dialogue, where they know that the UGA haters are standing by like Vultures near the gut truck.

I feel your pain Shane#1… Seems like a dream job to cover the Dawgs and make money for it, and I feel that we have talented people like Chip and Carter in place, but I feel like they could do a much better job of digging for some “meat on the bone” coverage and lay off so much of the sensationalistic drama over every hiccup. Sure, this story had to be reported, but the attitude of “If ya’ll want to talk about things that are important to you, go ahead, we’re not stopping you” hey, its a free blog. I know that more than once in the past few years we have been promised some in depth, daily reporting and it lasts for a few days at best.

But we have to be careful about any complaints, or constructive critisizing… Some folks are worse than my wife and her “Do these pants make my a$$ look fat” conversations. They want to hear it, but they don’t really want to hear it.

By Gen Neyland

June 5, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

Hunk Erdown

I know your style and I’m not refering to you. Mostly it’s the naysayers that will defend till the end a student-athlete from their campus of choice, right or wrong, all the while bashing another without any real facts.

A friend of the family will be laid to rest tomorrow. He earned 5 Bronze Battle Stars in WWII : Invasion of Normandy, Northern France, Battle of Ardennes (The Bulge), Rhineland and Central Europe…He was citied by Gen Omar Bradley for meritorious military service in 1945. This is a short list of his service record…Along with my Dad, Uncles and all that served in that era, plus before and after, makes one kid with a pisol under his seat from UGA or UAB seem so damn small in the big picture of it all…

By Gamecock Travis

June 5, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this

Garcia is not in “his own league”. He’s in the same league as these idiots from UGA. What Garcia has done pales in comparison to “defensive back Donovan Baldwin (DUI)” and is on the same level as “Munzenmaier (underage possession of alcohol, standing in roadway)”. You UGA fans need to realize that your crap stinks as much as anyone elses.

By Really?

June 5, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this

Duluth Gator- I wasn’t posting the blog for you guy! If you were reading all my post you would see that I only posted that list of UF players that have been in trouble with the law because a couple of your idiot Gator fans were on here calling UGA a bunch of Thugs and saying here we go again another UGA player getting in trouble with the law. So I posted the list to show those two morons that believe it or not UF players also get in trouble with the law.

As far as me not having much of a life. I spent a whole 2 mins. on that post. I just googled and then cut and pasted the entire list. It is pretty cool how little time it takes to put together a list like that when you know how to use a computer. And one last thing you are correct that Coach Meyer has kicked off way more football players from his team then CMR, but that is only because your UF players charges were way worse then charges against UGA players. Urban had no choice with some of the things those UF players did. CMR would have done the same to those guys had it happened at UGA.

Compare the UF list to the drunk in public charge, DUI, alleged DUI, and now having an unloaded gun underneath a seat rather then in the glove compartment. I mean Really?

Waiting for your response!

Thanks!

By Really?

June 5, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

Gene- not sure about that question about having a gun on campus. Because it hasn’t happened. Are you really on here playing the “What If” game.

By shane #1

June 5, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

Chip, I fail to see the conspiracy angle, since My post was directed to You, and a conspiracy, by definition, requires more than one person. I also never said that this story shouldn’t be reported, that’s Your job, and it would make You look bad to remain silent on a story that is in every sports section of every other newspaper in the state. Where We differ is in making this story open to comments from readers. Were this a forum where off field problems of college athletes, or quirks in ga gun laws, or profiling of Young black men by police, or anything else could be discussed in an adult manner, then by all means blog away! Unfortunately, We both know that threads like this become name calling contest where insult piles upon insult and inteligent conversation falls by the wayside. Now a young man that stayed out of trouble for four years and is as far from a so-called “thug” as You can get has had His name slandered from Tybee Island to Walla Walla. So Chip, report the news by all means, but save comments sections like this for the tabloids, I expect better from the AJC.

By Hunk Erdown

June 5, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this

Gen.

That “V” on the bronze star stands for a word that you don’t commonly associate with folks these days. I have a good friend that survived Okinawah, one of only a handful left. He is declining in health… probably won’t see 2009. We are losing some heroic SOB’s, and I would admonish anyone that has a friend or loved one still alive from that era, and a veteran, to break out the camcorder and interview them about their experiences… priceless stuff. That guy that does the PBS documentaries about wars has a website that has a guide to help with the interview questions, and makes the Vet feel more comfortable speaking about things they don’t like to speak of.

Its funny, but I got stopped in a roadblock yesterday and exchanged war stories with a couple of ex-marine GSP troopers (Desert Storm vets). Ironically, I had a Makarov 9MM that is a souvenier of Granada from Oct 1983, in my console. Great conversation piece for fellow vets.

They’re doing this deal tagged “rolling roadblock” out here and are going to be hammering people for the next 90 days. Traffic deaths are up 300% and they’re doing license checks, and saturating the area with law enforcement getting drunks, speeders, and non-seatbelt users… feels almost like Athens.

By Really?

June 5, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

Gamecock Travis- Answer these questions and then you may want to take back your earlier comment.

How many times has Baldwin been in trouble with the law?

How many times has Munzenmaier been in trouble with the law?

Now please answer how many times Garcia has been in trouble with the law?

I believe Garcia has had 3 or 4 incidents with the law since he arrived in Columbia. But you are the Cocks fan so maybe you know the answer.

Thanks!

By shane #1

June 5, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this

Gen, sorry for Your loss. We are rapidly losing “the greatest generation”. My stepfather is 92 and served as an officer in the Army Air Corps in WWII. He retired from the Air Force as a LtCol, having served His country for thirty years. My Stepfather, like most veterans of the big war, is a modest man and doesn’t mention his service unless asked. That is one reason that the sacrifices these Men made went unrecognized for so long.

By Gamecock Travis

June 5, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

Really?, Do you have any idea what those incidents are that Garcia has been involved with? I’ll tell you: 1. underage drinking 2. keying a car 3. underage drinking Now I’m not defending him. He broke the law. All I’m saying is that what he is done is no worse than what any of your “untouchable” dawg players have done. By the way, if you think the Athens PD is bad, try the cops in Five Points in Columbia.

By Buford

June 5, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this

Is it against the law to be stupid?

If so, look out BuLL! LOL

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By Really?

June 5, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

Gamecock Travis- I agree that any one of his three offenses are equal to the one offense of Baldwin and Munzenmaier. But my point is you can’t compare a habitual offender like Garcia to a one time offender like Baldwin and Munzenmaier. You can chalk it up to a kid making a bad decision after he has one altercation with the law but three!

By FootballGuy

June 5, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

By Gamecock Travis

June 5, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this

Really?

Unlike Baldwin, Garcia was smart enough not to drive. To me Garcia’s infraction pales to Baldwin’s. And if you think your boys just so happened to get caught the very first time they ever drank alcohol, then you need to get some new glasses because those red and silver ones are blinding you my friend. Otherwise you make it sound like it was worse that he got caught 3 instead the actual deeds. Maybe that’s how you dawg fans look at things.

By GeoffDawg

June 5, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

Gamecock Travis - Wasn’t Garcia also caught cheating by his professor which prompted the car keying in retaliation?

By Hunk Erdown

June 5, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this

To be honest and accurate, Garcia was charged with Drunkenness (a little different than underage drinking), failure to stop for a police officer, Malicious injury to personal property, then the last one was actually underage drinking. You can dress it up as a kid with an open container, but being drunk and failing to stop for a police officer is quite a bit more serious.

By Hunk Erdown

June 5, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this

Are we going to also mention Kendrick Ellis, Carlos Powell, Sam Muldrow, Devan Downey, etc. etc. etc.

Folks are calling USC the University of Smoking Cannabis. You can park your high horse in the last stall on the left. It is just stupid to try to defend Garcia being charged with 4 crimes within 1 year, not to mention the problems he had with the proffessor that led him to destroy personal property, but since I am the one that got your attention with saying he was in a league of his own, please accept my apology, he is obviously a model citizen.

By Really?

June 5, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this

Gamecock Travis- You said it yourself, “And if you think your boys just so happened to get caught the very first time they ever drank alcohol” So do you think that Garcia has never driven drunk before or has he just not been caught. Once again my point is Garcia has been arrested three times. Maybe Baldwin and Munzenmaier learned their lesson after their one offense and quit drinking all together. Neither of us knows if they quit breaking the law or not. But what we do know is that Garcia has decided to continue to break the law on a regular basis.

Also please explain Garcia keying a car!!!!! This can’t miss!!

By AltamahaDawg

June 5, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

Is all fairness, a radar gun flashing 80 mph at 11:30 at night hardly identifies the driver as a UGA football players. Handled the gun situation less than by the book, could have perhaps, that’s debatable, but he certainly didn’t go overboard, just absolutely no slack. And as is pointed out, that’s why we have a judge. But getting stopped was a certainty.

By Lomax da man

June 5, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this

Lawsy mercy bro’s…. I wuz polites and flashed my pearly whites to Mr pollice offcer. I wuz smarts and told hims I hads a gun. Homies , at least he didnts searchs my trunks and finds mys stash of Mary Janes unders the spare tire and my cracks pipe next to the tire iron. I likes to get crunks.

By I-DOG

June 5, 2008 6:09 PM | Link to this

Gatorzone:

Well….not really. Meyer played Joiner every snap the rest of the Gator’s season after he was arrested for a felony.

Richt will suspend this particular player, just like they suspended a 21 year old last season that was caught having a beer outside his Athens apartment last Summer. He was actually suspended for that, since he got arrested for breaking the open container law and Joiner got nothing for a felony burglary arrest…

I’d say there is a difference.

By Eddis Stevenson III

June 5, 2008 6:12 PM | Link to this

Student athletes must ascertain that they will need to be on their best behavior at all times. The magnifying glass is quite larger now since there has been great strides in communication technology. Our fine learning institutions and also alumni do expect up most positive behavior from these student athletes. I am confident that the law process will be fair and will take appropriate action on the student athlete that has been charged for his unfortunate shortcomings in obeying the law. Eddis Stevenson III. Rocky Top Forever!

By Hunk Erdown

June 5, 2008 6:38 PM | Link to this

That was a good point you made there AltamahaDawg. My nephew told me that the Police out there actually do a lot of looking the other way and show patience toward the players. He said that, many times, before they ever charge one of the guys with something they have already been warned a time or two. There are some police officers that don’t play favorites or give breaks at all, but for the most part the student atheletes get very fair treatment. He just called me a while ago and while we were on the phone he relayed this to me. He’s not a player but some kind of trainer or assistant something, and in a position to know.

By GATOR CHOMP

June 5, 2008 7:03 PM | Link to this

HEY U STRAY MUTTS HOW IS SAINT RICHT AND THE THUGS DOING TODAY? LET JEREMY 9MM LOMAX KNOW THAT ITS GOING TO BE OK SEE YOU COWARDS IN JACKSONVILLE FOR YOUR YEARLY A## WHIPPING BOOK IT LOOOOOOOSERS! GO GATORS!!!!!!!

By AltamahaDawg

June 5, 2008 7:18 PM | Link to this

chomp, I hope the heck you are 12 yrs old and not a grown man.

By Lomax da man

June 5, 2008 7:25 PM | Link to this

Lawsy mercy bro’s…. I wuz polites and flashed my pearly whites to Mr pollice offcer. I wuz smarts and told hims I hads a gun. Homies , at least he didnts searchs my trunks and finds mys stash of Mary Janes unders the spare tire and my cracks pipe next to the tire iron. I likes to get crunks.

By AltamahaDawg

June 5, 2008 7:48 PM | Link to this

I read that Coach Richt has now commented Lomax’s punishment. He is going to have to fight off the attack dogs for 10 minutes. You know, the ones like they let loose on opposing fans at all college football fields now.

By MasterCard

June 5, 2008 7:53 PM | Link to this

“We are sorry Mr. Hornsby, we are unable to process your application for credit at this time. Perhaps you could find a suitable co-signer.”

By CapeCodDawg

June 5, 2008 7:57 PM | Link to this

Why would Lomax feel the need to have a firearm in his possession? the fact that it wasn’t loaded doesn’t mean much to me. I understand that it’s fairly easy to get a firearm license,so why didn’t he get one? I looooove the DAWGS,but this kid should sit out no less then 4 games and if he’s had prior team offenses that we don’t know about then maybe he needs to get the boot. I’d hate to see a kid come so far only to ruin everything,but a weapon in the hands of young people is not to be taken lightly. I’m a Deputy and I see how these young guys can get caught up. If your in a bad situation without a gun most people beat a hasty retreat,but if you have a Glock 40 with you,all of a sudden you feel you have an equalizer and your not so quick to just walk away. Foolish peer pressure,embarrassment,pride all become big players when the fight or flight instinct kicks in. Come on Jeremy! I don’t think you really understand just how quickly your life can be changed FOREVER A young 20 yr old kid just got released from my prison,he worked for me,6 days after he was released I sit down and watch the local news and the first thing I see is this kid,in handcuffs, for MURDER! Figuring the 2yrs he did with me,he’s going to have a total of 6 days of freedom between the age of 18 and the day he dies…6 FREAKIN DAYS!!!! Often what seems like a good reason to a 20yr old is often a foolish one to a 30 yr old. The day he realizes this is the day his sentence truly begins. And it’s for life. Jeremy has a lot to live for and apparently doesn’t understand the leg up on everyone else in the workforce,that UGA is providing for him. Jeremy it’s time for you to grow up and be a man and take this opportunity and run with it. If not, your playing into the hands of ignorant bigoted,prejudice clowns such as Lomax Da man). ** you can still make things right..Go for it!!!

By Mr Hornsby

June 5, 2008 8:01 PM | Link to this

Ah! Dont you believe them, its just the way it is!

By Festus

June 5, 2008 8:17 PM | Link to this

Dayum… I wish ole Bessie could do 80 mile anower!

By Not Too Sure?

June 5, 2008 8:29 PM | Link to this

CapeCodDawg …….”I understand that it’s fairly easy to get a firearm license,so why didn’t he get one?” “I’m a Deputy and I see how these young guys can get caught up.” If you are a deputy Should you Know for sure that it is simple to get a fire arm license?

By Seriously!

June 5, 2008 8:40 PM | Link to this

CapeCodDawg, Give me a break! Not all young men who carry a gun in their car are going to shoot somebody like the 20 year old that you spoke of, who apparently had trouble with the law before(since you said he was just released from prison). I mean if I was Mr. Lomax I would be pretty upset that you were comparing me and what sounds to be a kid who is in and out of prison and a murderer. I am no expert on guns but I think that it would be pretty hard for Mr. Lomax to shoot somebody with a gun that has no ammo. You have no idea as to why the gun was under his seat. I don’t agree that Mr. Lomax should have had it under his seat but if he would have had it in his glove compartment this wouldn’t be an issue.

Being that you are a Deputy you would think that you wouldn’t be so quick to want to convict a kid and want to suspend him for 4 games with out knowing the whole truth.

Let’s wait to hear the whole story before we drop the hammer on this kid. My opinion is that the charges will be dropped and he will be suspended for 1 game if that. Once again not everybody who carries a gun in their car plan on killing people.

By BuLL

June 5, 2008 8:45 PM | Link to this

Please come home!

By Mr Hornsby

June 5, 2008 8:49 PM | Link to this

“Its just the way it is!”

By shane #1

June 5, 2008 8:52 PM | Link to this

CapeCodDawg, Jeremy is an adult, and has a right to possess a handgun if He so chooses. Weapons are illegal on campus, but UGA has no say so in what an adult does off campus, as far as interfering with His legal and civil rights. Richt does not suspend players for traffic violations, and I think the gun charge will be dropped, or at least reduced, especialy if Jeremy gets a decent lawyer. IMO, He will be suspended for one or two games, unless the charge is dropped, then, no suspension. As far as giving Him the boot, to My knowledge He has never been in trouble, He maintains at least a 3.0 GPA, and plans on entering Grad school next year to work on a MBA. BTW, He said He doesn’t want the gun anymore and plans to sell it.

By Hunk Erdown

June 5, 2008 9:10 PM | Link to this

CapeCodDawg

When you became a deputy did you swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States? You must be a deputy in the Cape Cod area because you are ignorant to the law that Jeremy is governed by. Your comments smack of Ted Kennedy’s views of where gun laws should be, but he at least believes in a man’s rights as the law stands until he can pursuade the Country that we should be like Canada and register then ban firearms. You want to punish someone pretty severely based on your views instead of the law of the land.

I truly hope that you are up north with your heart felt convictions, which would be very scarey here where the only thing that Jeremy Lomax is accused of concerning the handgun is a difference of a few inches in where the gun was placed in his car. It p** me off that someone with a gun is automatically considered a danger to society or in your mind should have to have a license to carry, which is neither required nor necessary by law.

What a grown man like Jeremy is doing with a handgun is absolutely none of your business, as it his Constitutional right to have one if he so chooses. Bringing in a comparason of him to some convict that you are aware of that just got out of prison is way off base and as a law enforcement officer you should be ashamed of yourself comparing him to some murderer. Mr. Lomax is a real person with family, a clean record, good grades, and a good work ethic.

As a representative of law enforcement, I hope you will reflect on the total lack of responsibility in your comments, volunteering your judgement of punishment, quoting statistics that are based on your opinion and no where near factual, with a complete disregard for the basic principle that he is innocent until proven guilty.

When I was 22, (Jeremy’s age) I found myself crouched on foreign soil with an m-40 rifle and a spotter by my side waiting on a radio transmission to take a 400 plus yard, cold bore, head shot at an enemy of our Country. Maybe you were a child in adult clothing when you were 22, but don’t judge that the rest of us are/were. Jeremy is old enough to do most anything he chooses and be judged by the LAW. I would be willing to bet $500 dollars that the gun charges will be dropped or that he will be aquitted. Either way he is innocent until proven guilty. Thank God we still believe in that sacred part of the law here in Georgia, unlike your brand of justice up in Kennedyland or wherever it is you are employed.

In my opinion you are far more dangerous carrying a firearm along with a badge, given your disregard for the law and the protections that it affords.

By Eddis Stevenson III

June 5, 2008 9:17 PM | Link to this

Shane#1….. May I remind you that Mr Lomax is a student athlete at UGA and his behavior on or off campus does reflect the University’s Image. Therefore it is the students responsibility to represent the University well at all times. 80 mph in a 55 mph zone is a serious traffic violation. It could have endangered Mr Lomax and other lives. Mr Lomax has no other but to blame but himself and take responsibility for his shortcommings in this matter. You sir should truly try to understand what our police officers go through on a daily bases in protecting the public. I have the up most respect for law enforcement and Mr. Shane #1 you should appreciate what they do and what they go through. I think you and many others obviously have no idea what our men and women in law enforcement uniform deals with in protection for all.

By MasterCard

June 5, 2008 9:35 PM | Link to this

CapeCod you had to see that coming as soon as you said it.

The thing that struck me odd is that “it’s so easy to get a permit, why didnt he”. I do agree that would have saved him a LOT of embarrassment, but your follow up was as if, had he only done that, filed the paperwork, taken the safety class, maybe he wouldn’t be going down that dark path of bad intentions and criminal behavior, leading ultimately to murder. If only he had applied for that permit.

By Really?

June 5, 2008 9:39 PM | Link to this

Eddis Stevenson III- I couldn’t agree with you anymore. How dare a 22 year old man go 80 in a 55. He should get the electric chair or at least life in prison.

By Really?

June 5, 2008 9:46 PM | Link to this

MasterCard- or better yet if he would have just had the gun 3 feet to his right in the glove compartment then he would have ended up living a stand up life. But since he put it under the seat it is more then obvious to CapeCod that he is destined to be a lifetime criminal and a murderer!!!!!!!!!

By Eddis Stevenson III

June 5, 2008 9:48 PM | Link to this

Hunkerdown…… I would certainly hope the judge would have Mr. Lomax take a fire arms safety course for proper use and proper stowage. I think it would also be encouraging for Mr Lomax to go ahead and get a Concealed Weapons permit if he continues to have one in his vehicle. It would be in Mr Lomax best interest to view Highway documentaries provided by the highway department on Statistical data and results for traveling at 80 mph. It’s all about responsibility and it would greatly benefit Mr. Lomax. Eddis Stevenson III.

By Mr Hornsby

June 5, 2008 9:54 PM | Link to this

AH But Dont You Believe Them, Its Just The Way It Is!

By I Hate Snobs

June 5, 2008 10:17 PM | Link to this

Hey Eddis…… I think it would be encouraging to knock your a$$ of your high and mighty perch. Not to mention the a$$ whupin that the Dawgs will give your Tenn. Vols Between the Hedges!

By Hunk Erdown

June 5, 2008 10:18 PM | Link to this

EddisStevenson111

I would hope that before the judge does anything he would require the man actually be found guilty of something. Certainly if he is found guilty of driving 80 in a 55 he should pay a fine and have points on his driving record.

But given your obvious intellect, don’t you agree that Mr. Lomax should be afforded protection under the law, including but not limited to being considered innocent until proven guilty?

25 miles per hour over the speed limit is serious enough, but a weapons charge on his record is a very serious mark. My point is simply that no matter your stance or opinion of what the law “should be”, we are protected and have rights based on what the law actually “is”.

There are plenty of folks that would like nothing better than to ban our right to keep and bear arms. There are people who have posted on this blog who believe it is already necessary to register their firearms and put limitations on our ability to use our firearms with laws that do not presently exist. These folks are led by folks like Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, and even Barack Obama. The same folks that conversely believe it perfectly fine to take the lives of unborn children. I hope i am dead and buried by the time our rights deteriorate to the point that only criminals have the guns and I am left to protect my family, home, and pocessions with spit balls and squirt guns.

I have spoken my opinion on this subject and now retire from the discussion. Ya’ll have at it, I’m going to go roll Charleton Heston back over in his grave now.

By No.1Dawg

June 5, 2008 10:49 PM | Link to this

Chip, can you track down the rumors about Knowshon having some kind of run in and getting in a little hot water. Some of the silly boards are blowing up with these rumors. The official word, at this point, is that there’s nothing to it, but there’s a lot of obnoxious chatter. It’d be nice to knock all that down.

By AltamahaDawg

June 5, 2008 10:52 PM | Link to this

And another thing!…..baseball game tomorrow.

By AltamahaDawg

June 5, 2008 10:58 PM | Link to this

I understand they are circling Foley Field with “BIG, mean dogs”, just in case some of the NC State fans get a little out of line.

By Hunk Erdown

June 5, 2008 11:30 PM | Link to this

Altamaha

Have you ever seen a more mind boggling thread than this one? All Universities now surround their fields with attack dogs…

Problem: Young men around the age of 21 have no business owning a handgun.

Solution: Force them to get carry permits so that they can now carry their handguns concealed, pretty much anywhere they want to go; malls, bars, sporting events… except airports and schools.

Yeah, thats the ticket… catch someone with an unloaded firearm under their seat, force them to load that weapon and carry it concealed when they go in that grocery store, bank, or gameroom.

Is it just me or is that the dumbest idea in history? If I were a cop, it seems like it would be in my best interest to simply tell someone who is content to leave his firearm unloaded, but close by, to put it in the glovebox, rather than force the issue and cause that person to be more “compliant” by loading and hiding it in his boot or back pocket.

Oh well, guess I am just being illogical.

By shane #1

June 6, 2008 12:11 AM | Link to this

Eddis, there are forms of punishment other than suspension. Richt does not usually suspend players for traffic violations, He may well handle this manner privately, in house. Jeremy seems to be very contrite and apologetic, I don’t think draconian measures are necessary. You seem to imply that Lomax should be “made an example of” for the benefit of the other students. Such punishment is not only unjust, it is ineffective with most young people. Safe gun handling? The weapon was unloaded, You can’t get much safer than that. The model 191i .45 Colt that rides in a holster under My seat is loaded, cocked and locked. BTW, I worked for a while in law enforcement, and still count many officers amoung My friends, so I do have an idea what officers go through.

By shane #1

June 6, 2008 12:24 AM | Link to this

Hunk, m-40 huh, Marine Corps sniper. You must have been damn good! I would ask if you worked with the Spooks, but if You told Me You would have to kill me, right? I tip My hat to You Sir!

By Ghost of Erk Russell

June 6, 2008 1:34 AM | Link to this

For everyone who wants to raise a ruckuss over a rutabega, I got news for you — Jeremy Lomax isn’t losing any sleep over your name calling & finger pointing.

Some of ya’ll see things less clearly than a one-eyed possum in a pitch black pig pen.

That’s all I got to say about that.

By santa3247

June 6, 2008 3:23 AM | Link to this

Hi,I’m Seong-Ho,Yoon living in Jinhae City southkorea now.

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Something fraude exist I sensed and I want to send messege to people of Atlanta Braves.

1. I didn’t meet and talk with any people of USA from past to now for important things.

2. I didn’t receive any money from people of USA. Keep in mind.

3. Babylon now can threathen my families and relatives freely. Keep in mind.

May the force of Messiah be with you

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Freemason

Theseday it is easy for you to read articles about freemason ruling whole world in the web. But, really speaking, this is trick of the most malevolent Babylonian living in korean peninsla for the purpose of imputating their sins to freemason and the original culprit are Baylonian whose language is korean.

And what is Freemason?

[18Century passport of Freemason]

The painting upper direction was in the passport of Freemason in 1785. Look presicely.

1. In top-most, the world Justice exist. God is Conscience and Justice sense.

2. In the below, Someone’s face is painted like Sun, and the middle of his forehead is wide, dark eyebrow, nose a little wider than the white, and you can find this face is something like Asian. Yeh Solomon, Osiris, Messiah,Lion’s face.

3. In the below again, Isis and another wife exist, and in center of both located Pheonix which means the guardian of Isis.

4. In the left side, Pyramid is and in right You can catch the flags of Judah’s 12tribe.

5. The sentence of script I can’t read for this word I don’t know well. ^*^

After all, this Freemason meant that people who didn’t forget Solomon and waited Osiris, and they were connected with Judah’s 12Kingdum. They knew so well about reality theeseday I am writting over the world.

[Article about Messiah]

And upper document someone wrote I think you need to contact, but never easily you could meet with them I think. But, they don’t know this fact “Allah is Messiah” and they would be people of Judah. The good people have to hand in hand with them, and you can’t trust people who don’t want to meet and help me, if they would avoid me they must be slave or descendant of not Judah but Israel. Person who can’t talk about Neutron and Resonance Schumann would be like witches and wizards who can’t tell “Voldmort” and you can’t trust them all and unbelievable. Originally Freemason pursuited the whole kinds of Justice about history, laws, economy, etc, and Freemason who chase Common Sense Babylon made must be slave or hyperjesus.

This Freemason was started to be fully attacked by Neutron from 1880’, so they caught the information about Neutron by intelligence office, they informed this secret to Judahs’ 12tribe’s Kingdums, World War1,2 were occurred by very this information You exactly have to know I think. Freemason informed the King of Japan and Japan invaded korean peninsla and southchina, but the insufficient information couldn’t defend themselves from implanting spy, therefore Implanted inslaved bosses of Japan attacked Hawai Island by the order from Babylonian who was living in north china and southafrica.

If Freemason would dislike the war about Babylon, that is proof of inslavery, because they were people who named Atomic Bomb to Neutron Clear Bomb. This fact the kings of Judah’s 12tribe couldn’t tell a nation for poor scientific knowledge, and they didn’t want to make nation to be horrified.

Mr.Obama is Freemason 32th degree I found article about him theseday. And he quit Jesus Religion. This fact is enormous hope to the good people in Asia around.

May The Bright Morning Star be with you Real Freemason ^*^

By GATOR CHOMP

June 6, 2008 6:17 AM | Link to this

SANTA3247- YOU MAKE A VALID POINT. US GATOR FANS FEEL THE SAME AS YOU DO.

By Mr Hornsby

June 6, 2008 7:24 AM | Link to this

Mr Santa3247…. Ah But Dont you Believe Them, Its just The Way It Is, Some Things Will Never Change, Get A Job!

By College Football Fan

June 6, 2008 7:43 AM | Link to this

The AJC blogs and sports talk radio are doing more to destroy college football in the south than anything else. And, it is all about corporate greed fueled by the disire to increase readership by stirring controversy where there would normally be none.

Many of us dearly love southern college football and I call on the AJC to discontinue these horrendous blogs and I encourage my fellow fans to turn sports radio stations off.

By AltamahaDawg

June 6, 2008 7:54 AM | Link to this

I understand that Auburn has instituted a new policy during the 2008 season. Any players caught dancing, laughing, generally making any unauthorized movements causing artificial motivation, will be subject to immediate expulsion. There was some question as to if that was going to apply to the Auburn fans as well, but it was determined that none of them were likely to ever do anything so classless as show emotion at a football game. And of cource the opposing fans would be kept in check with the attack dogs. Thank goodness Auburn had the foresight to get all this excitment under control before any further aspects of the game are ruined forever.

Also every effort will be take to insure that no two adjacent persons sitting in the stands have on the same color appearal, as to offend the visiting team.

By Lowcountry Bulldawg

June 6, 2008 7:57 AM | Link to this

This blog has officially gotten completely sideways with some kinda Jap posting on here.

By AltamahaDawg

June 6, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

Lowcountry, appearantly all the gator fans, although couldn’t explain it to save thier lives, feel the same way.

By NCdawg

June 6, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought that in GA you could carry a concealed weapon. Maybe I heard that the State Government was considering such a law. Also, how many cars in Athens do you think have a weapon of some kind somewhere in them? I’m guessing 90%. But, with that said, slow your a$$ down.

By Hunk Erdown

June 6, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

You’re right Altamaha, but I understand that instead of beginning the game with the Chicken Hawk flying around they are going to run a public service announcement:

“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Jordan-Hare stadium, the game will start in five minutes; we ask you to please be kind to your neighbors by refraining from waving pom poms, holding up any kind of sign, or raising your voice high enough to be heard by the person sitting next to you. Also we ask that you remain seated at all times during the game, turn off your cell phones, and under no circumstance feed or tease any of our hundreds of attack dogs.

Please be aware that dancing, singing, and/or karaoke is considered a felony in Jordan-Hare Stadium and will be met with the full force of our water cannons, which are positioned strategically behind the mine fields just beyond the quick sand filled moats on the other side of the end zone stripes. We hope you enjoy the game, and ask you to hang on to those ticket stubs because two lucky fans will win a chance to challenge the president of the booster club and his mother in a game of checkers at Toomer’s Rest Home and Senior Center. If you feel yourself becoming excited during the game please feel free to visit one of our new methadone clinics located near each of the exits. Now please rise for what used to be the National Anthem, which we have done away with and is being substituted with World Renown Recording Artist, Beyonce, who will now recite the poem, “Trees”, written by Joyce Kilmer. Then, please remain standing for what used to be the controversal invocation, which we have replaced with an exhibition by Wilbur “Tater” Johnson and his blue ribbon, award winning, collection of Collosal Burpee Tomatoes.”

By Hunk Erdown

June 6, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

The preceding public service announcement was brought to you by the makers of Dickey Overalls, Vitalis, and Stringer Mountain inbred Chicken farms where we use no animal by products, anti-biotics, or drugs on our chickens. Take home some Stringer Mountain Chicken and feel that freshly plucked feeling tonight.

By shane #1

June 6, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

Hunk, firehoses and attack dogs? Are We talking about Auburn or Selma? I am having difficulty following this blog and I agree with lowcountry, this blog has gotten completely sideways. Chip, I told You this crap would happen when you opened this subject, {whatever it was}, for comment! In the future, when a young man has trouble with the law, just print the article! Save the threads for something having to do with football. Just a suggestion from Your on-line friend, Shane

By Hunk Erdown

June 6, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

Shane

Just having a little over-the-top fun at the expense of an Auburn poster yesterday that was making out like UGA’s little dance fit last year was a defining moment in ruining the “class” rivalry behaviour that Auburn has supposedly always adhered to. The dancing was uncouthe but their firehoses in 1986 were a neccessity since, according to him, no fans in the history of the sec had ever went onto the field of an opposing team to celebrate a win until we did it at Auburn.

hell, we didn’t even make it to tear down a goal post, before water cannons were being blasted at us. The gist of it was that because of that game, teams now line their sidelines with attack dogs to keep order with opposing fans. Isn’t that about it, Alt?

By the way Shane, I was a Navy diver not a marine, but thanks for the compliment.

By Gen Neyland

June 6, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

shane #1 & Hunk Erdown

…and all others. I awoke today expecting more out of this internet rag called the ajc.com…The homepage seems to have overlooked it. Maybe I expect too much, but let us not forget what this rag refuses to mention : 64 years ago today, American forces and it’s Allies set foot upon the beaches of France and jumped behind the beaches the night before in order to free an oppressed people…Let US not forget…God bless you both and all of you that have served…

By Ed Garvin

June 6, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

Lomax and Crew really are Soulja Boys, huh? Dogs gunning for a Nat’l Title in ‘08. Inmates running the joint in Athens. Some things never, ever change. Richt will do nothing to this kid. Sweep, sweep, sweep it under the rug. Ed Tolley to the rescue again and again and again…..

By shane #1

June 6, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

Hunk, when I read the m-40 rifle comment I assumed that You were a Marine, since I know that the m-40 is a custom model 700 built by Marine Corps Armorers for Their snipers. The only divers I know of that would have the training to use such a weapon are SEALs. I still think You must have been with the Spooks. It doesnt matter, if You were a SEAL or a member of the black helicopter crowd, or both, You wouldn’t put it out on the net, so I will never know. Anyway, if You were issued such a weapon You were damn good, and My cap is still tipped!

By tiger1

June 6, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

To Hunk Erdown First of all, let’s correct spelling—it’s THEIR, not thier. Secondly, let’s get some facts straight. I know your bravado is for effect but—-No other team’s fans had EVER stormed our field, tearing up chunks of sod and not listening to AU officials telling them to leave. How could a university be prepared if it had never happened. Therefore, there was practically no security there for that reason. What would you have done? Nothing, just let them have free rein and destroy your field? I think not. The cannons were actually the sprinklers so get the facts straight. As I stood in the stands staring in total disbelief, the only effects I saw were some wet, DRUNK college students wearing red and black, laughing as they ran by me with chunks of sod in THEIR hands. If AU had stormed your field in the 80’s, I wonder how you would suggest clearing it when you weren’t prepared for such an event. Or how would you feel NOW about the opposition tearing down the hedges and tearing up your playing surface. It seems you DO care and I don’t think you’d like it.
There is a thing as CAUSE-EFFECT. If you don’t storm the field, you don’t get wet with sprinklers. Thirdly, the dancing involved the WHOLE team. If you can’t remember, watch the youtube of the game.

By Bull-Spit

June 6, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

Typical. When other teams tear up part of the hedges at Sanford Stadium, tear up sod, (yes, I have seen this done, too)and dance a jig on the field after beating UGA, well, it’s just all “good clean fun.” However, the same bunch of fans that think the above behavior is just “good, clean fun” are the first ones to p1ss and moan over an end zone celebration, black jerseys, or players on the sideline dancing the same jig when UGA wins a big game. Maybe the attitude is a little less motivated by players dancing, and a little more motivated by the fact that your team just got a mudhole stomped in their arses by a team that was just better on that particular day. Grow up, build a bridge, and get over it. You’ve ALL done it on one occasion or another.

By Really?

June 6, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

tiger1- Get over it! Why can’t you accept the fact that your football team lost to our football team over the last 2 years by a combined score of 82-35. Quit crying about it…. Just youtubed the game and it was only a few guys who were dancing just so you know.

By Really?

June 6, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this

tiger1- Get over it! Why can’t you accept the fact that your football team lost to our football team over the last 2 years by a combined score of 82-35. Quit crying about it…. Just youtubed the game and it was only a few guys who were dancing just so you know.

By Hunk Erdown

June 6, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

Tiger1

It’s impossible to carry on an intelligent conversation with someone who just can’t muster the truth. About the only thing you got right was my misspelled word. Our field has been stormed by fans and teams who pulled off the upset. Our hedges were practically destroyed, our goal posts were tore down, and our “G” has been stomped on… Never did we escalate the affair to assaulting folks. I reread an article yesterday that names the guy behind the water cannon, (his words in the interview)he says that yes he fired on the fans on the field then claims someone from the stands threw a bottle at him so he turned his blast onto the stands. When these types of things happen in Athens, we let security and law enforcement handle it. In Auburn that night I was with a party of folks including speaker of the house- Tom Murphy and other dignitaries, not a bunch of drunk kids as you want to claim.

You really should stick to the truth… Google the name Kermit Perry… a UGA grad that happened to be working for Auburn and ordered the hoses/water cannons fired. You were either not there or a liar, because if you were there you would know it wasn’t “sprinklers”. You are the one and only one that has spewed that lie. I’m done with you now because it is impossible to win an argument with a fool, even harder to win one with a liar.

The thing is this: It wouldn’t even be an issue without your sanctimonious bs that UGA somehow ruined a good clean rivalry by allowing our players to celebrate a win by dancing. How about last year when you guys beat Fla in the last second of the game and went running around doing the gator chomp in front of the Fla bench. I don’t care about that, and I doubt even Fla cares, but it is worse than dancing on the sideline or even the middle of the field.

I purposely left you a few misspellings so that you can save face in the debate, and claim victory.

By TIGERS1

June 6, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this

Let me finish—my power went off and come back on—-I am sorry it happened because it wasn’t pleasant for anyone there. but I’m not ashamed. Let’s move on…..

By Cuz

June 6, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this

Next topic please.

How about will Stafford gain weight over the summer and be forced to do a slim fast commercial holding up Valerie Bertanelli on a surfboard.

By shane#1

June 6, 2008 6:03 PM | Link to this

Cuz, No. But I will! I will gladly volunteer to hold Val in any posistion They would like. You heard it here first. Now to the subject at hand, it is time for something new. Blogs like this always degenerate into pointless name calling, it is time for somthing new. I am sick and tired of all the PC bullcrap and holier than thou finger pointing. What it boils down to is this, if You want a good football team You need some mean a* boys. Mean a* boys tend to get in trouble now and then, pure and simple. Call Them thugs if You want, that just means someone that plays for the other side. Think of something else, crybabys! Complaining about dancing on the sidelines is BS, You got Your butt beat and mean a* boys rubbed Your nose in it. If You can’t take it put on Your dress and head for Sunday School, little Girl, because You ain’t a football player! It’s the same with running out on the field, that was a message to the UF football players. The message read, We are better than You are, prepare to get Your butt kicked! You either Man up and win the game or You lose, either way the challenge has been given. Auburn has this year to pay back for the dancing so We will see, UF had fifty five minutes to pay back for running out on the field, and got Their butts handed to Them. So We will see what happens this year, anyway, it shopuld be fun.

By CapeCodDawg

June 6, 2008 11:16 PM | Link to this

TO Mastercard,HunkerDown,Shane,seriously and not too sure

Boy oh boy!! You guys really lit into me on my last post..haha! I respect all of your views and appreciate your candor,but let me say a few thing here. 1) I do live in Ma. and our laws are diferent then in Ga. I cannot remember what Ga.’s laws are in particular,but i do know that it’s easier there then here.That was only my point of reference 2) I completely support peoples right to carry firearms,I only question why a student would need one. 3)Seriously I never said or even believe that he had the intention of shooting anyone,and the reference I made to the young man was NOT a comparison to Mr.Lomax…you said “if it was in the glove box there wouldn’t have been an issue” People have to be aware of the impression they give..why wasn’t it in the g-box?allof this would be a non issue 3)HunkerDown. YOU comments are beyond foolish. I NEVER said that this kid was a bad person,never said that he was dangerous and your comments about Kennedyland are uncalled for.By the way I’m in the very heart of Kennedyland..he lives about 1/2 mile away.And though he has an extremley large head,he’s very personable and kind to everyone..politics aside,so I have no venom for him..although i suspect he’s not well thought of in Ga. “As a representative of law enforcement, I hope you will reflect on the total lack of responsibility in your comments, volunteering your judgement of punishment, quoting statistics that are based on your opinion and no where near factual, with a complete disregard for the basic principle that he is innocent until proven guilt”-Please tell me what statistics did I mention? I said he should sit 4 games,but thats because he made a stupid mistake and caused the University and himself to be scrutinized. Maybe if you saw how many kids lives are ruined because someone had a gun,then you would ease up on me. I have 10yrs on the job and have seen enough situations where if there wasn’t a gun involved,then someone would be alive or not in a wheelchair.You talk like everyone with weapons are card carrying law abiding citizens and if thats how you think then your the irresponsible one.I never stated that Lomax had bad intentions. Buy the way,save your politics,this isn’t the place for it. 4) Mastercard said:The thing that struck me odd is that “it’s so easy to get a permit, why didnt he”. I do agree that would have saved him a LOT of embarrassment, but your follow up was as if, had he only done that, filed the paperwork, taken the safety class, maybe he wouldn’t be going down that dark path of bad intentions and criminal behavior, leading ultimately to murder. If only he had applied for that permit. Well not exactly,again I never stated he had bad intentions,but you seem to understand a little of what i was getting at. If he had everything in order then he would’ve got a speeding ticket or a driving to endanger or something,but not the weapons charge.Dropped or not,UGA and Lomax does not need to deal with this stuff. I’ll tell everyone here this. If i was a UGA football player I would not have a gun with me at any time because I wouldn’t want to have my coach answering questions about this stuff and I wouldn’t want ANYTHING to get in the way of a possible NFL career and certainly not the University. I understand that gun rights have a special place in peoples hearts,I don’t begrudge that.I UNDERSTAND THAT!!!!! How is it that you all cannot see that it’s just an unneeded risk to carry one around? I would rather walk away then shoot and hope that the judge or jury sees things my way because if they dont it’s my a$$ in more ways then one. Again,I support gun rights,but for the life of me I cannot see having one as a necessity for a student. I’m puzzled by the responses here I admit I did not see it coming. What really upsets me is that not one of the respondents had anything to say about the obviously racist comments made by the idiot Lomax Da Man:”Lawsy mercy bro’s…. I wuz polites and flashed my pearly whites to Mr pollice offcer. I wuz smarts and told hims I hads a gun. Homies , at least he didnts searchs my trunks and finds mys stash of Mary Janes unders the spare tire and my cracks pipe next to the tire iron. I likes to get crunks.”—That should p** you guys off more then my comments,why didn’t you guys respond to that one? Do you want idiots like this to start making comparisons to Miami and FSU back when they were having issues?..I’m sorry, I love UGA too much to want to have to deal with this stuff. It’s not needed and on the face of it ,it looks bad for UGA and CMR. so yes,I would suspend the kid for causing UGA crap. Maybe 4 games is a little tough,but it’ll send a message that UGA will not put up with ANYTHING of this sort. Arthur Fontaine is a TE UGA offered from Dartmouth Ma. and I’ll tell you this,here in Kennedyland as idiotface Hunkerdown put it,this situation will likely be a part of the family decision process and it shouldn’t be. Thats my point. Other then that I’ve said enough. GO UGA

By CapeCodDawg

June 6, 2008 11:42 PM | Link to this

POST SCRIPT: “I would rather walk away then shoot and hope that the judge or jury sees things my way because if they dont it’s my a$$ in more ways then one.” - I understand that people do find themselves in situations where walking away is not an option. If you break into my house your gonna have issues. I was speaking more from a social setting perspective.

By shane #1

June 7, 2008 4:44 AM | Link to this

CapeCodDawg, in no way did I mean to attack You as a person. I try to avoid that in My post, and if You have been on these posts for a while You know that. I don’t recall directing any venom at You at all, if I did it was certainly not My intention. I actually agree with You on a lot of points, what I was trying to say was that this kid did not deserve to be kicked out of school! Pure and simple. That and the fact that Lomax has been crucified on these blogs for three days. What in the hell has He done to deserve that?

By shane #1

June 7, 2008 4:56 AM | Link to this

CapeCodDawg, just read your postscript, and I agree, it is always better to walk away. There is a saying here in South Ga that You may be unaware of, “it is better to be judged by twelve than toted by six.” Retreat, by all means, but never turn Your back on trouble.

By AltamahaDawg

June 7, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

I’d like to hold Valerie Bertanelli on a board, no wait, surf her board and…uh, board her surfing………..ah shoot. I’ll come back.

By Hunk Erdown

June 7, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this

CapeCodDawg-

To answer your question concerning “LomaxDaMan”; he is an obvious moron who is not interested in intelligent debate so I ignore him completely.

I came down hard on you for opposite reasons; my recollection of your activity on this board has been that you usually have bright and interesting points, you support the program, and you are a fellow dawg.

Your opinion of me is that I am an “idiotface”… Lets just let that one go, you can call me whatever names you like, it doesn’t really bother me.

As far as the subject that was under debate, make no mistake about it, it is a political issue in addition to being a real life scenario that brought out a lot of people’s heart felt beliefs. Why this board and especially this subject is “no place for politics” is beyond my comprehension, we discuss things that are political in nature quite often, with no accustions that the discussions are somehow “off limits”.

You said something about my accusation about you and statistics; while it may be true, per se that you didn’t quote actual numbers, even in your reponse you say things like, “Maybe if you saw how many kids’ lives are ruined because someone had a gun …” “I have 10 years on the job and have seen enough situations where if there wasn’t a gun involved …” If we decided to explore these points you make as part of the debate, do you not see how those numbers are in fact statistics? Agree or not, imo opinion, “statistics” … whether you actually use them or not, isn’t really the heart of the issue. So if it is offensive to you that I falsely made such a charge, then I apologize.

I can see that I am not going to be able to cause you to see things from my point of view, and I can promise you that I will not see things as you do. My arguement is that Mr. Lomax is a grown man, his occupation is that he is a student. In Georgia, a grown man, regardless of his occupation, has the right to own and have with him, a firearm. Law enforcement officials, such as yourself, have no right to question why he has one or why, as a student, he has one. These are not loopholes in the law, these are “protections” under the law. Your arguments have no basis, because they infringe upon his rights under the Constitution. Period. I hope that under different circumstances and subjects that we can go back to being civil to each other. However, I happen to feel that you are way off base on this subject and some of your statements, like the one about “if we assume that people who carry weapons are “card carrying”, and law abiding citizens then we are irresponsible” is so “out there” that it borders on being communist.

I hope that I will always be willing to stand up for people’s rights and basic protections under the law, no matter who it is that demonstrates their willingness to stomp on them.

I hope that I will always be willing to engage in political debate, even when others engage in it then say I shouldn’t. You can because you’re law enforcement, and I can’t because I’m not? Sorry Bud, this is the USofA, and I have dodged bullets and also fired them so that you, I,and anyone else could engage themselves in a discussion of basic freedoms afforded under the Constitution.

By I-DOG

June 7, 2008 8:40 PM | Link to this

Ed,

Actually, H. Hebron a five star recruit was kicked off the Georiga team for the entire season for underage drinking (2nd offense). He missed the entire 07 season, had to endure a military academy, and is back for 08.

By I-DOG

June 7, 2008 8:45 PM | Link to this

Tiger 1:

I was at an Auburn game where your school officials turned water guns on us fans in the STANDS on a chilly night at your stadium. It was less than 10 minutes after the Dawg victory!

Your players can dance on the sidelines all they want, just dont douse me with water on a 40 degree night!

By Jim

June 8, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this

Dawgs and all SEC/ACC Fans-

It’s funny how if any school has 2, 3 or 4 arrest in a short period of time they become labeled as a “thug” school by rivals. On the other hand how the same fans can quickly empathize with the player or coach if it happens to their school by saying “he’s a great kid” or “it’s really a minor offense”. All in all very minor differences in the schools…with the exception of course of mine ;).

Can’t wait until fall.

By CapeCodDAWG

June 8, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this

Shane and HunkerDown. I again say that I respect your views and though we may not agree on some issues, I’d rather hash it out then harbor any kind of resentment. I apologize for the idiotface comment,that was classless and NOT what I come here for. Hunker I actually would like to have a conversation with someone who’s views are vastly different then mine, because I end learning a lot from these conversations,I may not switch positions,but I’d understand the other side a little better. A tough conversation is always better then senseless battles. So lets put all this crap behind us and remember why we’re here. We all love UGA football. GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Hunk Erdown

June 8, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this

Fair enuff Bro.

Go Dawgs!

By CapeCodDawg

June 8, 2008 9:20 PM | Link to this

I see some negative comments directed at Coach Richt. That is an admission that you have no point!. Take a look at what he’s one at UGA.Take a look at what he does in his community and around the world,take a look at the reasons players come to UGA and not other schools. I suscribe to Rivals and read it EVERYDAY,the reason they come to UGA?..”Coach Richt is like a father figure to me.He cares about me being a better PERSON not just a football player…”He’s a good Christian man”…”Coach Richt and the coaches played it straight with me,they didn’t lie or promise me anything”. THAT people, is the stuff great coaches are made of. When you try to slam CMR,your admitting that you have no talking points.

By DOGGIE

June 8, 2008 10:23 PM | Link to this

Let me see if I have this straight - It’s ok to have a loaded gun in the glove compartment, but against the law to have an EMPTY gun under the seat. You haters are morons! GO DOGGIES!

By T

June 9, 2008 8:17 PM | Link to this

* We know George athletes can drink alcohol and carry guns… but can they read or write??*

By T

June 10, 2008 7:02 PM | Link to this

I know that I can’t read or write! I had o have my sister type this for me.

By Suzy

June 11, 2008 11:43 PM | Link to this

Ok-the comment from Russ earlier in the blog about gang rapings is just disgusting-what in the world is he talking about??? As an insider to the UGA football program, I can tell you he is WAY off base-must be a fan of another school. Whatever!!!! As far as Jeremy goes, I have really mixed feelings…. I know him and he is a really good guy, but guns are just not something to take lightly. Not sure why he thinks he needs one, but this is not good for UGA football, not good for the younger players and not good for Jeremy. CMR will really need to take a strong stand here and make an example. If CMR feels Jeremy needs to leave, I stand by his decision… we all should. We do need to hold athletes to a higher standard..some things are acceptable, but guns are not.