The Junkyard Blawg

By pvbeachdog

July 20, 2007 10:27 AM | Link to this

Bill,

Always enjoy your common sensical approach..Good message…The summer is way too long…it’s time for some football…still find it hard to believe that 3 players have been ARRESTED while either walking or riding a moped.

By George

July 20, 2007 10:58 AM | Link to this

YOU ARE AN IDIOT AND A DISGRACE TO THE AJC. There is a reason the drinking age is 21 and last time I checked driving with a supspended license even on a moped is breaking the law. The only reason these are in the headlines so much is because the puppies have had more off season problems this year than any team in the country. Maybe if they would stop recruiting from jails around the country they would not continue to have this problem. GET A CLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By George

July 20, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this

p.s the presason sec all team rankings could not be more accurate. It is about time that someone does not COMPLETELY OVERRATE the puppies. Fact of the matter is they dont have that much talent and that will show come September 1st.

By Renegade

July 20, 2007 11:49 AM | Link to this

George, your the type of individual that the ACC and UGA Police forces recrtuit…hard d#$ks with an attitude. These are teenagers getting busted for pointless BS. These rent-a-cops have a chip on their shoulder because they were never the big star. Everybody just relax and let these kids enjoy the college experience. Take your blood-pressure pill George!

By baker

July 20, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this

yeah, what is your problem george? are you having a case of the mondays? you need to relax.

By NASCARfan

July 20, 2007 12:05 PM | Link to this

Hey Georgie, why don’t you go take your personal brand of idiocy and join the Carter Strickland Fanclub. You and Carter (the only two members) can talk about how much you hate Georgia football there. Get the hell off of our blogs, you retarded Bug!!!

Bill, I can’t help but think that this is a direct slap at that huge piece of crap and notorious hater of all things Bulldog, Carter Strickland. He is the man who writes every single negative article. He goes out of his way to find negative things to write about the Dawgs. He even fabricates negativity from something as simple as a misdemeanor traffic violation. He is a plague to the Bulldog Nation and he must be dealt with and dealt with now!

Bill, you are in a position to do something about this. At least, your position is better than out own. We have a blogger I’m sure you know, Hunker Down, who has PROOF positive that this snide, sarcastic piece of crap is a plagiarizer and has tried to inform the AJC about it many times, yet he is getting stonewalled. Hunker Down has proof that Carter Strickland is a plagiarizing SOB, and the AJC won’t do anything about it.

Bill, I know you can’t say it in so many words, but this article tells me you’re just as sick of Carter Strickland and his negativity and his snide, backhanded remarks, and the joy he seems to take in every real and fabricated “failure” that befalls the Dawgs as the rest of us are. Please, get into contact with Hunker Down and help us be rid of Carter Strickland forever.

The Bulldog Nation deserves so much better than this piece of crap. We’re sick and tired of Carter Strickland. Help Bill… you’re our only hope!

By NASCARfan

July 20, 2007 12:21 PM | Link to this

And Bill… REMEMBER CLIFTON GEATHERS!!!

That single blog alone should have gotten Strickland fired. It was simply mean-spirited, unprofessional, unethical, and border-line evil.

FIRE CARTER STRICKLAND NOW!!!

By Matt

July 20, 2007 12:53 PM | Link to this

I could be wrong, but I don’t remember getting alot of preseason All-SEC love before the 2005 season either. It was Jean-Giles and that was about it. We all know how that season turned out.

By cooter11

July 20, 2007 12:54 PM | Link to this

dog days = spooning days?

By P-Dawg in Tulsa

July 20, 2007 1:08 PM | Link to this

Well statesd Bill. Great Blog.

By puppydawg

July 20, 2007 1:19 PM | Link to this

Hey Boy George, we already know that you are an idiot. You don’t have to go out of your way to prove it. I, for one, could not be happier that my dawgs aren’t getting any preseson love. By New Year’s Day, you and a bunch of others are going to have a lot of chicken embryos on your face.

By cooter11

July 20, 2007 1:28 PM | Link to this

does dog “daze” remind you of the second Vol half this year?

By Bryan Carver '97

July 20, 2007 1:37 PM | Link to this

Here’s were George loses all credibility: “The only reason these are in the headlines so much is because the puppies have had more off season problems this year than any team in the country.” Now I know he’s just stirring the pot, but at least he could be a bit more intelligent/researched in his insults. Seems to me that UF has had up to 7 arrests (for far worse than underage drinking). Illinois, Penn State have had multiple athletes with runins. And somehow Minnesota’s players who take pictures of sexual assault ranks lower too…

By johnnie ringo

July 20, 2007 1:51 PM | Link to this

Hey George you are letting those losses that UGA has put on your Bugs get to you. It must be terrible to be a Tech nerd like you. I bet the school yard bully whipped your tail in school everyday and took your lunch money. Why don’t you grow up and maybe just grow a pair. Oh by the way - I forgot to tell you - Tech still SUCKS!!!!!!

By BullDawgBorn

July 20, 2007 2:00 PM | Link to this

Yawn! How many more days to 9/1?

Come on Coutu…kick the ball already!

By gdawginkalamazoo

July 20, 2007 2:22 PM | Link to this

Bill, I was getting worried about you. I thought FSU inks Rose” was a long layoff.

I bet Mikey and Couto think the pre-season All-SEC is important and congrats to them. They are very good at what they do and deserve the ANY recognition that they get. I don’t have a bone to pick about not having anybody else on there. I can’t think of anybody who earned it over the guys that did make it. We are young so wait till 08 and 09 to it loaded with dawgs. I didn’t care for Carter’s headline of “shut-out” that was just complete idiocy but I guess consider the source.

By cooter11

July 20, 2007 2:44 PM | Link to this

no allsec means little???

Some of you dogs had Staff allPro already! LOL!

By Luda

July 20, 2007 3:06 PM | Link to this

George was obviously a nerd in college. Hey Bill, a few weeks ago there was a story about how Coach Van took the boys out to run some 40’s and some of the numbers were impressive. If you ever get the chance I would love to read about some of the all-time weight room records for the football team. I imagine I am not alone.

By Renegade

July 20, 2007 3:29 PM | Link to this

Luda, the football program can’t disclose weight room records or feats anymore. I too am disappointed.

By shane

July 20, 2007 3:31 PM | Link to this

bill,good blog,i too would like more info on the players, and what difference we might see in coaching this year with bobo as oc. i don’t care if some walk on yells at other kids in a melee,and i dont care if some freshman that hasn’t even put on the pads yet goes the wrong way on a mo-ped for cripes sake! we have a lot of new kids starting this year,i wish you guys would do some interviews with them because i know little about them, other than their brief bios on scout.com and rivals. in other words i want HARD info,not reports about minor infractions that don’t affect the team at all.

By Pitbull

July 20, 2007 3:56 PM | Link to this

From my perspective that UGA police officer was angry at Caleb for having a moped. The officer had to peddle his little UGA patrol car as hard as he could while mouthing the siren sound and flashing his blue flash light to pull Caleb over. He was probably very tired as most of those cops are overweight fat butted good old boys. I hope the cop has a heart attack from too many doughnuts and cups of coffee.

I also hope the UGA cops never have to actually handle an actual crime like a panty raid or something.

PS I loved the Barney Fife picture. I wondered when one was going to appear in the press over the story. Perhaps they should change the name of Athens to Maybury and deputize Floyd the barber.

By yellowblood

July 20, 2007 4:17 PM | Link to this

These guys can always play for the Falcons if they can’t behave at UGA. Dawg Days ? I’ve always believed that the greatest time anyone can have is to be a Dawg fan in the 30 days before the season begins. Its the coming down after the season starts that must be tough.

By ATL Dawg

July 20, 2007 4:18 PM | Link to this

Hey Georgie,

BOTTOM LINE: TECH IS FOR PU$$IES! (including you)

By stuntinlikemydawgie

July 20, 2007 4:35 PM | Link to this

Yellowblood,

That name fits you cause you most likely are Chicken $##t. Oh yeah, while it is great to be a bulldawg preseason, it’s even better come Thanksvgiving when we smack you in the mouth. Sincerely, dawg nation.

By NASCARfan

July 20, 2007 4:43 PM | Link to this

Yeah, Yellow$hit… coming down in 2002 and 2005 sure was tough.

Coming down off of beating three top-16 ranked teams in a row, including no. 5 Auburn in Auburn, sure was hard to do.

Coming down off of beating Reggie Ball and the Bugs in what WAS Bugland’s best season in 16 years was hard to do. It was even harder watching Bugland’s season go in the crapper because of that game and y’all losing your last three games, finishing with a worse winning percentage in y’all best year in 16 years than we had in our WORST year under Richt.

Yeah, that was tough to come down off of.

In fact, coming down off of winning our last game of the regular season for the last 6 years sure is tough, too.

And coming down off of finding out that O’Liar cheated and you really didn’t win 3 games over us under his “leadership,” meaning that Tech has not legitamately beaten UGA since 1990, was really hard to come down from, too.

Yeah… all of these things are pretty hard to come down from when your football team actually matters.

By Kelly

July 20, 2007 4:46 PM | Link to this

Hey cooter11 don’t talk to much, because you know we play you guys up at sanford north this year and we own that place. As always smokey will be hanging by his coller of a road sign just acroos the state line. By the way has your nose ever recovered from that hop-nail?

By Born 2 Bark

July 20, 2007 4:55 PM | Link to this

Other than the assault charge on Taylor, the other incidents that have made the news were crap. Stafford hoisting a keg, 2 players with open containers….give me a break. If you didn’t know the joys of beer in college, I truly pity you! Taylor disgraced the team and shouldn’t be a part of it ever again. As far as the rest of it, just summer boredom and antidawg fans feasting on the bullsh*t, and the we’re smarter than you crap. Oh..so you went to tech, Do you want a cookie??? Tech and UGA are both excellent schools! The sport is college football and the best team wins on the field. 6 years straight we have been that team and we will be this year.

By TechIsGayl-ey

July 20, 2007 4:56 PM | Link to this

Yall, lay off Yellowblood and George. They’re real-life 40 yearold virgins. They don’t need this added criticism. Cut a nerd a break already…

By Techster

July 20, 2007 5:35 PM | Link to this

UGA people make fun of our Tickle Piles but at least they keep our kids away from the Police. Tickle Piles may not be for all students but they should be tried at least once. All this aggressive behavior would stop.

By Ernie

July 20, 2007 6:38 PM | Link to this

Why does cooter remind me of that idiot female named ramble ON? I followed the dawgpost link from yesterday and saw the poster there named ‘ramblinwoman’ and she sounds exactly like the ‘ramble on’ poster here. She must post on every single dawg blog on the internet.

By Buck in the NW

July 20, 2007 6:58 PM | Link to this

WAIT JUST A MINUTE! AFTER ALMOST 60 DAYS OF INVESTIGATION ALL THEY COULD CHRAGE TAYLOR WITH WAS A “MISDEMEANOR VERBAL ASSUALT”. GOT THAT? NO BOOZE, NO HITTING ANYONE , NO RUMOR OF HIM GIVING OUT BEER TO MINORS IN OTHER WORDS NO NOTHING. I’VE TALKED TO A JUDGE WHO’S, BEEN ON THE BENCH FOR ALMOST 20 YRS. HIS TAKE? THEY CHARGED TAYLOR TO FORCE HIM TO ROLL ON SOMEONE ELSE. WHEREVER YOU LIVE GO ASK A SITTING JUDGE OR ASK SOMEONE INVOLVED WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT. SO I WANT YOU TO TELL ME EXACTLY HOW HAS TAYLOR DISGRACED THE TEAM AND WHY SHOULDN’T HE BE A PART OF THE TEAM. IN FACT, THERE ARE REPORTS THAT TRIPP TAYLOR WAS TRYING TO BREAK UP A FIGHT. YOU’VE RIPPED SOMEBODY REPUTATION WHEN THE POLICE NOR ANYONE ELSE HAS SO BACK IT UP! PERSONAL DISLIKES DON’T COUNT.

By Born 2 bark

July 20, 2007 7:17 PM | Link to this

My bad Buck. I hadn’t heard all your info. The stuff I saw implied Taylor and the Murray State kid were the first two involved. If evidence shows what you said then I am wrong about the disgrace. thanks for your insight.

By NASCARfan

July 20, 2007 7:30 PM | Link to this

Hey Carter, go screw yourself. Because of your lazy, hateful reporting, you’ve ruined Tripp Taylor’s public reputation.

Way to go, @$$hole. It’s Clifton Geathers all over again.

By Buck in the NW

July 20, 2007 7:31 PM | Link to this

BORN 2 BARK, I APOLIGIZE FOR LOSING MY COOL. I’ve TALKED WITH SOME GUY IN THE AJC SPORTS DEPT. AND ASK HIM WHY THEY DIDN’T PUT THE RIGHT CHARGE, HE SAID “NOT ENOUGH ROOM” SO THEY JUST LET THYE WRONG CHARGE HANG OUT THERE. I’VE TRIED 3 TIMES TO TALK WITH THE REPORTER WHO WROTE THE STORY. HE HAS THE GIRL MAKE UP EXCUSES LIKE , OH, HE JUST STEPPED OUT BUT HE HAS YOUR INFORMATION AND WILL CALL YOU BACK. PHONE HASN’T RANG YET. I HAVE BEEN PRO-ACTIVE IN TRYING TO FIND OUT WHAT REALLY HAPPEN BUT i COULD HAVE REPLIED TO YOUR POST IN A MORE MATURE WAY……BILL, GREAT BLOG

By S.E. Dawg

July 20, 2007 9:01 PM | Link to this

Thanks for the info Buck. You always have good information.

By Pitbull

July 20, 2007 9:38 PM | Link to this

I get verbally assaulted on ajc blogs just about every day but no one gets arrested. Of course I am not on the UGA football team.

By NASCARfan

July 20, 2007 10:50 PM | Link to this

But just think, you could walk over to Vick’s house and get electrocuted or slammed to the ground until you die. So verbal assaults aren’t too bad.

By yellowblood

July 20, 2007 11:11 PM | Link to this

NASCAR FAN: Calm down. Any team that loses to Vandy and Ky and lucks out against Colorado is pitiful.

By NASCARfan

July 20, 2007 11:21 PM | Link to this

Hey, Yellow$hit, how many times have you lost to Duke in the last few years?

Twice.

Must suck to be a Bug, but I’m glad I’ll never know.

By AltamahaDawg

July 21, 2007 12:17 AM | Link to this

I cannot for the life of me figure out how a tech fan continues to make fun of Vandy and Kentucky. Somebody please correct my linear logic here. We lost to them, making us pitiful, but then tech can’t even beat our pitiful team, So tech would be one step below pitiful, in their glory year????? 2 steps below the very teams you make fun of? Explain that please. Are you just that desperate the slam the hometown team, so completely out of anything legitimate to say, that you will degrade your own school to take a shot a UGA fans?

(oh and by that way, how did we “luck out” against Colorado, by scoring more points to win that one)

By Jeff

July 21, 2007 7:49 AM | Link to this

Freshman year at UGA. “Socially awkward” guy on our hall was picked on alot but some guys. 4 years later I see the guy driving a UGA police car, wearing a gun and uniform. Typical UGA cop…their way of revenge against the “jocks & frat boys”. The athletes are singled out any time there is a UGA policeman around. Will it change? Doubt it. The guys will just have to realize that they are not going to be treated like normal college students by the rent-a-cops in Athens.

By raymond

July 21, 2007 8:16 AM | Link to this

Police Officers, campus or municipal, are hired and given the responsibility to enforce the law. As long as the arrests they make are good cases, I have no problem with what they do. It is the players fault for not following laws they know exisist. The people who come down on officers for making these arrest are immature fans who worship these so called celebrities and want to find someone else to be mad at or to blame for the kids actions.

By Lamar

July 21, 2007 8:30 AM | Link to this

Actually, I think you are too hard on Andy as a Sheriff — I think he would give them a warning — show some mercy — and tell them not to do it again. Not arrest them. I don’t condone breaking the law but these are young college students still learning about life and mistakes. Punish them by citing them and have them show up in court — but arrest them and throw them in jail? Sounds pretty harsh to me. I wonder what these law enforcement officers would think if THEY were placed in the similar situation and caught — I bet they would hope for some mercy and compassion.

By Cuz

July 21, 2007 8:47 AM | Link to this

Dateline Spring Qtr 1978.

Suppertime and my buddies and I have just left Russell Hall to go try and find something that resembles food at Revoltin Boltin Food Hall. Halfway there every campus cop car comes screaming up blue lights and sirens going crazy. What is it? A cook has finally gotten a knife stuck in him by a patron. A student has strapped a TNT belt to his waist and demands real Pizza not the Chef Boy R D rejects. No, it was a protest food fight.

When we got there, the keystone campus cops were handcuffing and throwing any student they could grab up against the wall of the cafeteria. We left the madness before we could be arrested after the fact and went to the Krystal across the street, better grease anyway.

Nice to know that the more things change, the more things remain the same with the Barney Fife Corps in Athens.

By AVinnieD

July 21, 2007 8:55 AM | Link to this

As someone who has lived in and enjoyed the nightlife of Athens and Gainesville FL, I can tell you there is quite a bit of difference. If the UF players were in Athens, the entire team would have been arrested. Their basketball team would have never won a national title due to being kicked out of school. The police in Athens can be quite the prudes and downright D*cks!! Gainesville’s police would never arrest a Florida player unless they were forced to do so. Heck, one of them bought marijuana from a police officer and they are thinking about dropping the charges due to the size of weed sack (20 grams). How many times have I seen Joakim Noah at the age of 19-20 bust his a* on the sidwalk WASTED in front of cops? MANY!! What happens? Nothing. I think there needs to be a median between Gainesville’s PD and Athens’. One gives athletes special treatment while the other…gives athletes special treatment in a bad way.

By reality check

July 21, 2007 9:09 AM | Link to this

I was a City of Atlanta policeman between the Marine Corps and graduate school. I can tell you laws have become much more rigidly enforced over the years. I do not think that is necessarily a good thing. There is no requirement for discretion and common sense, but by not using it the credibility of law enforcement is eroding among those of us who are otherwise inclined to be its major supporters.

Buck is right, in general the probablity of convicting someone for a charge like verbal assault after an 8 week delay is pretty remote.

By Buck in the NW

July 21, 2007 10:02 AM | Link to this

I’m posting here because Bill was and is a writer. Would you like to have some fun and see just how words can mean so much? Go to ….macon.com…and read the article about Taylor written by Josh Kendall. he say that taylor faces Misdemeanor CHARGES. NOTE THE PLURAL USE OF THE WORD. He also says that Taylor “REPORTEDLY” ATTACTED THE H.S. STUDENT”. Nowhere, and I do mean nowhere has any other report said a single word about Taylor reportedly attacked the teen except for a verbal assault. Read Kendall’s column and see what your impression is. You can compare columns by going to the ….cherokeegazette.com….There the word verbal is written at 1st but the term ….charge…is use as it should be, that is in the singular and nowhere does the reporter imply that Taylor went after the H.S. kid. These two columns show how the usage and placement of words can be so important. Off to an early Tour but have some fun. Read the article and draw you own conclusions.

By boots

July 21, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this

Ok, let’s not tarnish everyone who has ever worn a badge because of a few over zealous officers. There have been a lot of good guys on the police force and some of those might have even handled things more quietly in the past… Anyway, if they break the law, they should get a ticket. However, what should NOT be done is for it to be front page news or have someone like CARTER STRICKLAND (punk) turn the player in to Al Capone.

Is Carter Strickland off today so he can plagerize more articles? If those complaints are true, Carter Strickland should resign. THE AJC SHOULD INVESTIGATE THESE CHARGES AND TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY.

By I-DOG

July 21, 2007 10:35 AM | Link to this

George,

I’m so sorry that your life is going the way that you want it.

If it helps to hate UGA to ease the pain and get you through your day, then we support you.

Get well soon!

By AltamahaDawg

July 21, 2007 10:48 AM | Link to this

The Barney Fife reference is funnny, but come on guys, be fair. King was not arrested for making a wrong turn down a one way, he was somple stopped for doing so. If im a campus police and see a moterized verhicle doing so, I would be compelled, if only for safety sake, to stop that indivuldual. I feel pretty certain an explainaton that he is unaware of the seldom known Sanford directional change at that intersection, and a thanks for pointing that out WITH a valid DL prabably ends that story, maybe a warning, worst possibly maybe a simple ticket. BUT he had a suspended DL. Laws for DL under 20 dramatically changed a few years a go. Is a moving voilation with a suspended DL at 18 automatically an arrest? Must be. Now that being said, as I’ve said before, if thats his worst offence, I’m ready to adopt him. I agree with the campus cop, I disagree with the media circus over it.

By I-DOG

July 21, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this

Yellowblood:

I think your trying to say that UGA is always highly ranked pre-season and then doesn’t live up to those expectations, right?

Unfortunately for you, just the oppposite is true. Did you see the Sports Illustrated article last year that ranked all the underacheiving and overachieving teams? SI proved that UGA is one of the most OVER acheiving teams in the nation during the last 10 years.

UGA FINISHED in the top 10 in 02, 03, 04, and 05. In 06 the Dawgs had a “down year” and lost to KY and Vandy. However, even in this down year UGA (this down year at UGA equals the highest # of wins for a tech team in 20 years!) rallied to beat a #5 ranked Auburn at their place, 6th straight against hapless tech, and a win against V-Tech.

If you look at the facts under Richt, UGA finishes higher in the polls than their pre-season ranking.

By Lee

July 21, 2007 11:58 AM | Link to this

Money may not grow on trees, but the Athens / Clarke County police have found something almost as lucrative - that is, the UGA student.

Don’t believe me? Look in the Yellow Pages under Attorney. Athens probably has more lawyers per capita than any city in the USA. Go down to the Magistrate court when it is in session. Hundreds of UGA students lined up waiting to get run through the sausage grinder. Most are there on trumped up alcohol related charges. If they were to lower the drinking age back to 18, Clarke County would probably lose half its revenue.

Best advice you can give the UGA student:

Don’t get between a cop and a $100 bill. You’ll lose every time.

By Carter Strickland Fan - Not

July 21, 2007 1:01 PM | Link to this

Carter Strickland does appear to plagerize other writers’ articles and he should resign. If he were working for the New York Times he would have already been gone. Of course the Times would never have him in the first place. He is AJC material

By tom johnson

July 21, 2007 4:02 PM | Link to this

I have written many times that we have personally witnessed the campus police intentionally overlook cases of near-alcohol related poisoning in Athens by students who were passed out on the sidewalks. The UGA police force is definitely more interested in getting into the headlines than actually being a positive/protective force on for the students. Is is a sad and shameful mess within that department. Could someone not investigate all that is taking place within the ranks? Dr. Thomas Johnson Class of ‘74

By Cuz

July 21, 2007 4:06 PM | Link to this

This just in. UGA Campus Police Chief Barney Fife announces the arrest of starting quarterback Matthew Stafford on an open container voilation. Fife states that Stafford is being held in the maximum security wing at the Dean Tate Memorial Jail and Student Center. Stafford was caught on Sanford Bridge by Chief deputy Gomer Pyle and charged with having an open container of beer.

“What brand of beer?” asked intrepid reporter Carter Strikland of the Atlanta Journal. “Coors, Budwieser, Miller Lite, our readers deserve to know every lurid detail.”

“A and W.” fired off Chief Fife. “Next question.”

By Michael

July 21, 2007 6:07 PM | Link to this

A lot of college towns turn like this. They try to milk the golden goose too much. These officers owe their paychecks to UGA and to be out to get UGA students is not productive. These three police stops are just about nothing compared to Vick, Ray Lewis, and the shoe steelers down at F$U.

By HOUDAWG

July 21, 2007 10:05 PM | Link to this

Born in Athens ….. grew up in Atlanta…. been in Houston now for 29 yrs ( 55 yrs young now). I’m a hard-liner when it comes to discipline …. think most kids have it much TOO easy ! But, I do think those UGA players linked to all these ” crimes ” in recent months is WAY overboard !! Bustin’ some college kids for an open can of beer is insidious ….. and NO, I’m no liberal. Yeah GEORGE …. it IS illegal if you’re under 21, gotcha. But the DEGREE of these BS Barney’s around campus is concerning. AND hey GEORGE …… your comment about UGA players ” have had more off-season problems than any team in the country ” is PURE & ABSOLUTE IDIOCY !!!!

By Gen Neyland

July 21, 2007 11:29 PM | Link to this

The legal system from cop to judge now operates on a zero tolernace policy. There are and have been exceptions to this rule ( e.g., Any Kennedy from Massachusetts ). I believe some PD’s play a variation of the Fulmer Cup and officers are awarded points for who they catch for doing what. And lay off Barney. The crime rate in Mayberry was a shining star compared to Athens, pro rata…

By Gen Neyland

July 21, 2007 11:31 PM | Link to this

The legal system from cop to judge now operates on a zero tolernace policy. There are and have been exceptions to this rule ( e.g., Any Kennedy from Massachusetts ). I believe some PD’s play a variation of the Fulmer Cup and officers are awarded points for who they catch for doing what. And lay off Barney. The crime rate in Mayberry was a shining star compared to Athens, pro rata…

By wesley

July 22, 2007 12:24 PM | Link to this

hey georgie, get a life. What’s the matter, are you angry that your grades weren’t good enough to get into UGA or is it because you lost your pacifier and sippy cup while in a tickle pile???

By I-DOG

July 22, 2007 1:13 PM | Link to this

Michael,

You say in your post that ” a lot of college towns turn like this”.

Can you show me an article where ANY OTHER major college football program has suspended a real player from a real game for drinking with no other crime involved? I still have yet to find one.

I believe what is going on in Athens is unique

By Gators!

July 22, 2007 1:55 PM | Link to this

Gators! Gators! Gators!

Real shame that a supposedly credible newspaper put up that picture of Barney Fife to depict Athens Law Enforcement. They were, afterall, doing their job. UGA fans are such hypocrites.

By NASCARfan

July 22, 2007 2:30 PM | Link to this

AP Wire: Gainesville, FL

Tim Teblow [sic] is found face-down drunk on a downtown sidewalk. Gainesville PD picks Teblow up, brushes him off, and gives him a ride back to his apartment. Mayor says there will be no change in the daily butt-kissing contest where every day until kick-off, one lucky mullet-headed Gator fan wins the chance to kiss Teblow’s [sic] butt. Coach Meyer states, “Boy will be boys, and of course we’re not going to suspend Teblow [sic] for a game, are you insane? They only do that up in Athens, GA where the cops book football players for riding mopeds and walking across apartment parking lots with a can of beer.”

By Dawg Fan Too

July 22, 2007 3:38 PM | Link to this

Amen! Let’s all pay close attention to the fact that Caleb King was NOT drinking, and wasn’t even driving a car - he thought that a low-power scooter was alright, he was mistaken, but not malicious - he was not looking to hurt anyone or flout the law completely. It’s amazing to me that a kid on a motor scooter is even in the news.

By Cuz

July 22, 2007 3:48 PM | Link to this

Nice return there Nascarfan. Yours had much more of the ring of truth than mine.

General, I love Don Knotts. The man won five Emmy’s in a row playing Barney Fife. But you gotta admit his bud nipping tirade and the current state of atheletes getting charged for things that should just be dropped has certain similarities. As a student I watched many over-zealous campus cops go completely overboard in their semi-gestapo tactics. Case in point, the food fight. Make kids clean it up. Instead they handcuffed and brutaly I may add, threw the guilty and non-guilty alike into walls and squad cars. I wonder if they only have one bullet also?

By Yodellini

July 22, 2007 4:55 PM | Link to this

Buck in the NW is right on with Taylor. I’m very close to this case through a good friend and what he says is true. They don’t have anything to charge him with except for a verbal threat. And if you heard the verbal threat that was made, you would laugh at the absurdity of it. I don’t even know if it constitutes as a threat.

By ugasux

July 22, 2007 7:00 PM | Link to this

Dont disgrace Barney this way. He would have never even have visited the knuckle dragging STD infested town of Athens.

By Nathan

July 23, 2007 7:57 AM | Link to this

UGA HAS NO I REPEAT NO first team pre season all americans. I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IT. 7-5 for the pups this year.

By AltamahaDawg

July 23, 2007 8:39 AM | Link to this

Nathan never learned read very well appearantly. Thats got to be embarrassing.

By austindog

July 23, 2007 11:19 AM | Link to this

NASCAR, I read that news wire on Tebow, but I thought that Meyer was going to rest, ahem, “suspend” him from the second half of the Flordia Atlantic game on Nov 17 as punishment.

By austindog

July 23, 2007 11:33 AM | Link to this

Wasn’t the Gator’s name Marcus Thomas? In trouble for drugs, reinstated for the brutal stretch against Bama, LSU, Auburn, and Georgia, then after the Georgia game he was dismissed from the team?

But in the end, a Gator was dismissed for drugs because Meyer is strict.

By Sam Cunningham

July 23, 2007 4:33 PM | Link to this

I like our Tickle Piles! It will help recruiting at UGA.

Even though I am a baseball player at Emory, they let me join in some times.

By daledog

July 23, 2007 4:43 PM | Link to this

You’re in luck Sammy, the tickle piles are just a few miles from Emory on North Ave. Vague but interesting history on ticklepile.com

By Sam Cunningham

July 23, 2007 6:22 PM | Link to this

Come see me play Emory baseball, daledog - maybe we can get a tickle pile started!

By gdawginkalamazoo

July 24, 2007 11:34 AM | Link to this

You guys know that Andy would have taken the kids home for some of Aunt Bea’s homemade apple pie to sober them up.

On a different note. How much trouble are the Falcons in now?. Joey Harrington is your #1 QB. At his last gig he got replaced by future HOFer Cleo Lemon. A Joey is a baby kangaroo. Only Joe’s can be NFL QB’s.

By Georgiadawg1969

July 25, 2007 4:27 PM | Link to this

There is a book that everyone should read and not just student athletes its called ‘How to Arrest Proof Yourself’ by Dale C. Carson and Wes Denham…The primary point the book makes is that police are hunters, end of story…They receive promotions and awards by how many arrests and citations the write…The student and student/athlete at campuses have big targets painted on their bodies for these officers…We can sit here and call them Barney Fife’s all day but still doesn’t diminish the fact of an arrest and in today’s internet world an arrest can haunt you for the rest of you life…Even if charges are dropped or the charges were bogus…The arrest will always follow you

By Nitetime

July 26, 2007 5:13 PM | Link to this

You UGA fans are really humorous. Keep feeding yourself all these lies about your storied program and great chances. It only makes it funnier when your guys leave Alltel drunk and mad and your girls leave crying in their prom dresses. Seriously, you can’t really think you’re going to win the SEC this year. You’re totally outclassed in just the east, and the Talladega spooner is your one bright spot. Call me when you: 1) have a playmaker outside of Spooner and Thomas Jones, 2) can beat Florida, 3) have fans that can count to the number of wins required to win the SEC without the use of their hands. Since all three would be required to actually win the SEC don’t hold your breath.

Come to think of it, if I had one wish, it would be that Florida moved to the SEC West and found themselves up against the puppies in Atlanta. The Jacksonville scene is fun, but nothing would compare to Georgia fans streaming out of the GA Dome and crying/making excuses all the way back to Athens and promising revenge ‘next year’.

Oh, almost forgot, I can be reached at 1-800-Defending-Champs (of pretty much everything right now come to think of it). And in case you forget the number, look for the soon to be released University of Florida license tags; I’m sure that’ll be printed on there somewhere.

We own UGA; in fact, the first is comin’ up so don’t forget rent is due…

By I-DOG

July 26, 2007 6:01 PM | Link to this

Nathan:

Your predicting 7-5 for the Dawgs and you may end up being right, but it is very unlikely.

The WORST record UGA had in the last 30 years was under Goff the year in the mid 90’s they were 6-6. Are you trying to tell yourself that this will be the worst team in the Richt Era and one of the worst 2-3 in the last 30 years for UGA? Really? Just because no UGA players made the pre-season first team All Sec list other than two special teamers?

I think as a Georgia hater, you are better off saying things like “UGA won’t win the national title this year” That way even if Georgia goes 10-2 or better and finished in the top 10 (as they did in 02, 03, 04, and 05… do you see any patterns here?)… you can still feel good about the fact that UGA underachieved from your point of view!

When you say 7-5 you have only about a 5% chance of that actually coming true!

By Carl

July 31, 2007 3:02 PM | Link to this

I DOG please get your facts straight before you start trying to argue. The pups were not in the top ten in 03 and they were worse than 6-6 three times since 1990. 4-7 in 90, 5-6 in 93 and 5-6 in 96. The only number that Really matters in the last almost 30 years is 0 and we all know what that represents for the puppies.