College recruiting

By Urban The Messiah

January 22, 2009 10:27 AM | Link to this

It seems that recruits who were not interested in the Vols before are now having second thoughts after Kiffin was hired———NOT the head coach but Papa Kiffin,lol.

By baloney

January 22, 2009 10:39 AM | Link to this

Hopefully they can pull in a few more good uns. If they could have got that GarDner guy (as the dumb UGA fans call him) they would have a whole staff of recruiters.

By Rumor

January 22, 2009 10:42 AM | Link to this

Rumor is that this kid and his dad have their hand out looking to get paid. Georgia didn’t want anything to do with him.

By Geori

January 22, 2009 10:59 AM | Link to this

What top 100 recruit doesn’t expect to get paid? Do you think Knowshon Moreno didnt get paid?

By reservoirDAWG

January 22, 2009 11:05 AM | Link to this

Good luck wherever you end up kid.

By The General Feeling

January 22, 2009 11:13 AM | Link to this

If payments to players really mattered then Alabama would have the best recruiting class every year. Huh? What’s that? Alabama DOES have the best recruiting classes every year. No kidding?

By baloney

January 22, 2009 11:18 AM | Link to this

UGA not wanting anything to do with paying a kid? Are you kidding me? Heck they have been right in the mix for guys like Albert Means etc. Do you not remember the big recruiting battle between Bama and UGA? I know that UT pulled out of that WAY early in the process. I remember the player waffling back and forth tween UGA and Bama with each school reporting to the paper that he had signed with them. Of course that resulted in Bama nearly getting the death penalty and the two guys “selling” the player getting jail time, and alas UGA getting some scholarship reductions in their part. So I would not say UGA is beyond paying for a player they want. Direct or indirect.

By gt4ever

January 22, 2009 11:36 AM | Link to this

UGA not paying players…. That’s funny. All you uga fans always make fun of O’leary’s lack of institutional control, but the bottom line is that was the first time, in my memory that GT has ever been sanctioned by the NCAA. On the other hand, UGA has been investigated and sanctioned more times than I care to remember. Once a dirty program always a dirty program….. When a UGA fan talks about backing away from a recruit because of money, well that’s just ABSURD! UGA will do anything to win football games! Period!

By Doug

January 22, 2009 12:02 PM | Link to this

baloney you’re full of something that smells a little more rank than baloney. Jim Donnan actually left a meeting with the means people and stated while going out the door that the kid had his hand out. And that ended UGA’s recruitment of Albert Means.

By GWB

January 22, 2009 12:06 PM | Link to this

You got that right gt4ever. Rape. Felony drug trafficking. Dope smoking, drunk driving coaches. Heroin overdoses. Academic fraud. Yep. GT is definately the cesspool of the ACC. Once dirty, always dirty, huh, gt4ever? You guys have a run going that would make Barry Switzer blush.

By baloney

January 22, 2009 12:14 PM | Link to this

Doug, were you in that meeting when Donnan left? I can tell you that I was NOT. I can tell you though that UGA was reporting right up during the day that Means was signing with UGA. Bama was also stating right up during the day that he was signing with them. Now, again I was not present in such meeting, but what I do know is that Means signed with Bama, and BOTH Bama and UGA were citied for recruiting infractions.Add to that it was pretty soon thereafter that Donnan was no longer the coach at UGA (or anywhere else for that matter) Very similar to Switzer not coaching in college since Oklahoma. See the relevance?

By Doug

January 22, 2009 12:23 PM | Link to this

That comment also came out in the grand jury investigation into the Means recruitment and was reported on ESPN. Google it dumbazz.

By Jerry

January 22, 2009 12:36 PM | Link to this

Don’t you just love it when sanctamonious Tech fans put on that holier than thou act. Rueben Houston, Jarrard Tarrant, Joe Hamilton, heroin ODs…..

Maybe when you guys get an honest drug testing program that protects your athletes instead of the sham you have in place now you can begin to wash off the stench that’s been emanating from your athletic department since the days of POS O’Leary.

By baloney

January 22, 2009 12:59 PM | Link to this

Google? ESPN? Internet? Heck, I guess if it is on either of those sites it must be like the bible. Has to be an accurate account of the happenings.That being said I wonder why UGA was put on probation as part of the Means recruitment?

By gt4ever

January 22, 2009 1:07 PM | Link to this

Ha, you guys are so funny….. The truth hurts, don’t it, dawgy’s! Facts are facts, maybe some of you UGA students can goolge NCAA recruiting infractions, and see that you are close to number 1 in that category……… Man, It’s great to be a Yellow Jacket!

THWG

By Carl

January 22, 2009 1:14 PM | Link to this

And what exactly were the penalties imposed baloney? Did they even come close to the ones handed down to the GT cesspool for that little academic malfeasence thing? Would you care to compare the seriousness of the two violations?

By Gena

January 22, 2009 1:17 PM | Link to this

By GWB

January 22, 2009 12:06 PM | Link to this

You got that right gt4ever. Rape. Felony drug trafficking. Dope smoking, drunk driving coaches. Heroin overdoses. Academic fraud. Yep. GT is definately the cesspool of the ACC. Once dirty, always dirty, huh, gt4ever? You guys have a run going that would make Barry Switzer blush.

The above very accurately sums up the sanctity of the GT athletic department. When you live in a glass house you shouldn’t throw stones.

By ShooterSam

January 22, 2009 1:24 PM | Link to this

By GWB

January 22, 2009 12:06 PM | Link to this

You got that right gt4ever. Rape. Felony drug trafficking. Dope smoking, drunk driving coaches. Heroin overdoses. Academic fraud. Yep. GT is definately the cesspool of the ACC. Once dirty, always dirty, huh, gt4ever? You guys have a run going that would make Barry Switzer blush.

Care to comment gt4ever, baloney? Make an excuse? Whine? Or would you care to let your silence be your acknowledgement that GT has become the cesspool of intercollegiate athletics? You gotta admit that it would be hard for anyone to gloss over the above indescretions. And yeh, we know. Drinking beer is bad the above is to be ignored. You techmites are collectively one funny piece of work.

By baloney

January 22, 2009 1:35 PM | Link to this

I have no idea about Tech (I’m an SEC guy). My point was at the very outset of this thread, and that is that UGA is not nor has it ever been immune to paying players. That comment was backed up by the fact they have been in a few documented sweepstakes for players.They of course are not the only school in the country that does it, but to think they haven’t or that they don’t would be wrong.Just look at the facts and the history.

By 1eyedJack

January 22, 2009 1:37 PM | Link to this

Why would anyone want to go to a school that is located smack dab in the middle of the slums of Atlanta? You can smell the urine from the campus.

By gt4ever

January 22, 2009 1:55 PM | Link to this

Shooter and all you other Wiz kids from UGA. The record is very clear that UGA athletics owns GT on NCAA investigations. Listen, GT has one in it’s history! That’s ONE… I know you guys can count to ONE! Well maybe I’m stretching it a tad… UGA has a grocery list of investigations that validates everything I have said about your intent to win at all cost. You can’t deny this, it’s public record. The fact that you talk about a kid who has been “accused” of rape, not “proven” makes you look even more ABSURD! I’m sure that none of you have ever been accused of something that wasn’t true… If this kid did rape this girl, he will be punished, and it wont be a 1 or 2 game suspension, against some of your lessor opponents. Yes, Rueben was caught screwing up his life, and had it not been for a judge he would have never played another down of football at GT. Kids make bad choices, as can be noted every summer at your clarke county jail house. Just face it, once again UGA rules the day over GT in their never ending pursuit of winning! A football factory that can never seem to win the BIG one!

By Fred

January 22, 2009 2:15 PM | Link to this

Ok moron gt4ever. And I guess Rueben didn’t deal dope,(and STARTED the next game) lil Joe didn’t drink, toke, and drive, that kid didn’t OD on heroin because the sorry sham of a drug testing program is designed to keep dopers eligible, and that Tech didn’t play 17 ineligible players in a well orchestrated academic fraud schemme that landed GT on the most serious academic probation in ACC history. Man up wussy boy! Own it.

By the way idiot child. You have to get to the big game to win it. Tech doesn’t seem to be able to even reach that level..But while we’re on the subject, how about that ACC title game that Tech lost in front of what…25 Tech fans in Jacksonville. The whole world knows that your athletic department is not only a joke but also the sewer hole of the ACC.

By gt4ever

January 22, 2009 2:24 PM | Link to this

Fred, Just by your comments make me VERY glad to be a Jacket FAN! BTW, we have more NC… You guys are so funny!

By Danny

January 22, 2009 2:27 PM | Link to this

So gt4ever, how do you explain the fact that UGA didn’t get anywhere near the sanctions for the Jan Kemp thing that Tech did for that recent probation. That tells me that the NCAA saw far greater seriousness in the academic scam that Tech was running in their compliance department. And then when it came to light Tech tried to cover it up because Chan Gailey stated, “I can’t stand another academic incident during recruiting”. Some integrity you guys have on the flats. Tech fans are the biggest bunch of hypocrites. Of course Tech “fan” is a misnomer so maybe a better term might be Tech jackas3es.

By gainesville trailer trash

January 22, 2009 2:27 PM | Link to this

Urban the God pays for nothing !

By Fred

January 22, 2009 2:38 PM | Link to this

I’m glad that 1/2 NC and all those no name leather helmet era titles elevates that techmite self esteem. Now if you could just get over that little sister syndrome that is so epidemic with you techies.

By Cindy

January 22, 2009 2:45 PM | Link to this

And you gt4ever do nothing but avoid discussion of Tech’s documented sorry history of late. It’s all on record. Tech has rolled in the gutter ever since that cretin O’Leary brought his brand of ethics and integrity to the flats. Maybe PJ will set it right again, but the facts are in the open gt4ever. Tech got dirty. And for what? Consistent mediocrity. How bad could it have been if O’Leary hadn’t been so dirty and if the Gailey crowd hadn’t kept it going?

By Urban The Messiah

January 22, 2009 2:59 PM | Link to this

Let your kid go anywhere except FSU! B. Bowden is probably having a fit over these socialist admins. Fla. Univ. Pays Terrorist Thousands, Bans Protestors Fri, 01/16/2009 - 12:44 — Judicial Watch Blog A major public university paid a renowned domestic terrorist—who proudly admits planting bombs in several U.S. government buildings—thousands of dollars to speak on campus this week and administrators violated academia’s sacred free-speech policy by forbidding protestors.

Claiming that Vietnam-era radical William Ayers, once a fugitive from U.S. justice, is an “education reformer,” administrators (whose salaries are financed with tax dollars) at Florida State University enthusiastically lured him to their sprawling Tallahassee campus with a $5,000 reward to spread his radical agenda.

They also protected the terrorist by ordering campus police to usher protestors away to a “free speech zone” far removed from the auditorium where he spoke. One local newspaper columnist highlights the school’s flaw in considering the harmful educational notions of a man who hid from the law after bombing the buildings of our nation’s police, elected officials and military personnel protected speech that public money should fund. Yet protestations against Ayers’ ideas don’t deserve similar protection.

As a member of the domestic terrorist group Weather Underground Ayers and his fellow radicals planted bombs on the Capitol, Pentagon and other government buildings to protest U.S. policy. For years he was a fugitive from U.S. justice and, to this day, he publicly says that he doesn’t regret setting bombs and that in fact his group “didn’t do enough.”

Even Barack Obama, a close Ayers associate, distanced himself from the aging radical who teaches at a public university in Chicago. Ayers has long supported Obama’s political career by donating money to his campaigns and hosting fundraisers at his Chicago home and for years the two men hung out in the same political and social circles.

But the relationship proved damaging during Obama’s presidential campaign and he worked hard to censor television ads highlighting his decades-long ties to Ayers. Team Obama even demanded that the Justice Department intervene to block stations from airing the damaging commercials. http://www.judicialwatch.org

By GTgrad02

January 22, 2009 3:00 PM | Link to this

gt4ever, we have been screwing up of late. UGA has it’s past but you really have nothing to pound them with during the Richt era except some guys drinking a little beer. We have had some very serious issues but PJ can straighten it out. For us to make excuses and deny what is documented fact is kind of ridiculous. How about letting our probation get a little farther in our rearview mirror before you start popping off and proslytizing about how virtuous we are. You look kind of stupid even arguing this topic to tell you the truth. Sorry.

By gt4ever

January 22, 2009 3:14 PM | Link to this

Danny, Do you seriously believe that the Jan Kemp debacle was not more serious than the institutional control issue we faced. Good Grief, you dawg fans need to stop drinking so early. I would say that the NCAA would have given UGA the death penalty, had it not been for the good ole boy dealings that went on during that time, between the NCAA and the Institutions in question. You guys settled for millions of dollars….. Come on, Danny, surely you jest….

By gt4ever

January 22, 2009 3:23 PM | Link to this

GTgrad02

This is all so surreal. Even a GT grad or so he says… My point has never changed. We have ONE violation in the history of the institution! ONE GTgrad02….. There is NO comparing UGA’s record in this respect.. They have always been a FOOTBALL factory, they always will be a FOOTBALL factory…. GTgrad02, your really not a GT fan are you… HAHA, you almost had me. NOT!

By GTgrad02

January 22, 2009 3:32 PM | Link to this

And a very serious one at that gt4ever. Combine that with the felonies, the doping, the ODs, and it’s hard to compare them to us over the same time span. Their last probation of any consequence was in the late 80s and that was Jan Kemp’s deal. We got slapped a lot harder. You can argue all you want about 1 time. So what? It’s recent and all of it was very very dirty. Probably no other program in America with the exception of maybe Florida and Oklahoma can touch the string of offenses at Tech over the last several years. To deny that is to look stupid. So how do you want to look gt4ever?

By Bobby Jenkins

January 22, 2009 3:36 PM | Link to this

So gt4ever, you deny that recently Tech has suffered a series of very serious incidents despite all documentation to the contrary? Is your IQ even above room temperature?

By Smyrna Man

January 22, 2009 3:40 PM | Link to this

Come to UT Myles, learn from the Best and be a part of something Special!!

By DawgBite

January 22, 2009 3:43 PM | Link to this

Damn you’re dense gt4ever. Since 2000 GT has had:

A convicted felony drug trafficker A rapist A joint tokin, drunk drivin, hittin and runnin coach A heroin overdose AND the most serious academic probation in the history of the ACC

And during the Richt era UGA has what? Some beer drinkers?

Get a grip Jethro. You’re an idiot to even continue to argue. And we know. Your point is 1 time. LMAO! ROFL! Idiot tech fans like you are priceless.

By Dutch

January 22, 2009 3:49 PM | Link to this

The kid is going to ALABAMA. I go to church with him and he told me himself.

By Dutch

January 22, 2009 3:51 PM | Link to this

The kid is going to ALABAMA. I go to church with him and he told me himself.

By KennyBee

January 22, 2009 3:52 PM | Link to this

In actuality gt4ever, at the time of the Jan Kemp incident, the issue was the remedial studies program being utilized by every NCAA member in the country at the time. And UGA was never cited for any violation of NCAA rules regarding that program. The Jan Kemp situation led to the reformation of that program across the board. Tech got nailed for serious violations by the NCAA. In actuality Tech’s offense made the Jan Kemp deal look insignificant. Furthermore, the settlement was a little over 1 million dollars resulting from her wrongful firing suit. So no gt4ever it wasn’t “millions”. You have been way low on facts today. On top of that, you’re an idiot.

By t-ray

January 22, 2009 4:30 PM | Link to this

41-30

By Mike

January 22, 2009 4:45 PM | Link to this

Wow, we have a bunch of defensive dawggies on the board today. With their history of repeated NCAA sanctions, they are harping about Tech’s 1 and only ever problem in our history with the NCAA’s. There is no comparison, Tech runs a MUCH cleaner program than UGa, it just annoys all you rednecks that this is the truth.

The arrest record? LOL. You gottba be kiddin’ me, right? UGa has had MANY more players arrested than Tech has, especially in the last few years. You headline the one or two cases Tech has had (Tarrant’s case has never gone forward, and it’s beginning to look like there was never anything to it in the first place) so it is also hilarious that dawggies can try to argue with a straight face about all this.

Most fun I’ve had in a while, reading all this delusional garbage!! LOL

By Ima Ball Crook

January 22, 2009 6:09 PM | Link to this

Speaking of crooked programs, remember the Bammer program getting caught a couple of years ago and yelling like a 4 year old kid saying Fulmer turned them in and threatened him??? So, they then hired the lying Satan Sabin telling the nation that winning is everything to hell with ethics!!!

I say TO HELL WITH BAMMER!!!

By Larry

January 22, 2009 6:47 PM | Link to this

This kid is all SEC because he realizes that ACC schools are a joke when it comes to NCAA football

ACC = bottom dwellers of D-1 football

By Reality Yech

January 23, 2009 10:10 AM | Link to this

Sorry guys, I have 3 fingers in my bum, and it takes me a while to type. Im a pathetic loser. I don’t have anything good to say about my underachieving, THuga team, so I talk trash about the best school/team in the state. Im 19 and think im so tough and smart b/c I follow recruiting. I like to give you TECHIES a hard time b/c I know that i will never get a good job with my HORTICULTURE degree. I know that I will never leave athens (like so many uga grads) and will just end up working as a bar tender b/c 83.5% of grads from uga stay in athens, and make less than $38,750 a year. Look it up.

By MANO17

January 23, 2009 6:40 PM | Link to this

TRUTH BE TOLD I COACHED AGAINST AND GAME PLANNED FOR CARVER AND DARREN MYLES WASNT THEIR BEST DB. THE BEST PLAYER IN THEIR SECONDARY IS HIS COUSIN KEVIN MYLES HES A REAL PLAYMAKER AND MIGHT IN THE LONG RUN BE A BETTER FIT FOR TENNESEE OR ANY OTHER SCHOOL . CHECK HIM OUT

By Cindy

January 24, 2009 7:20 AM | Link to this

Rueben Houston, Jarrard Tarrant, Joe Hamilton, heroin ODs, academic fraud probation, beating up girls downtown……

Yeah moron mike GT is soooooooooo clean! LMAO!

By harry ewing

January 24, 2009 2:55 PM | Link to this

Tech a clean program? I recall the three Techers that beat up that small girl over in the pizza restaurant where the Tech Motel used to be. Jim Lavin, Kevin Salisbury and Jim Mooney. ALL HUGE linemen and then there is the dope dealer Ruenben Houston. See? tech has their issues too. Last year an incoming FROSH RAPED a girl. read and weep jackets. You know this is true.

Back off the nasty UGA stuff ……….I can keep these Tech names coming. Cast the first stone???