AJC: No need to panic St. Richt's here...just kids havin FUN!

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Well as if it didn't sound silly enough with yesterday's article....how about a follow up by Chip as he trys to sugar coat it...."awh they're just kids....." he more less writes it off as "everyone/everywhere doing it.." & then commends Richt on his "team arrest policy & quick response to the issue". What a joke...he wasn't cited for public drunkeness???? Explain that one to me?
No need to fret over recent UGA arrests

By Chip Towers | Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 01:01 PM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
OK, first off you just have to laugh. As Larry Munson would say, get the picture:
It’s 3 o’clock in the morning and a cop is driving down Milledge Avenue in Athens when a huge guy leaps off the sidewalk in front of the police car flailing his arms wildly as if trying to flag him down. Turns out that the man was Georgia fullback Fred Munzenmeier, who had been drinking, and he thought the cop car was a cab.
Munzenmeier was hauled off to jail and cited for underage consumption and pedestrian walking in the roadway. Miraculously, he was not charged with public drunkenness because, scientific field sobriety tests aside, the fact that he thought a police cruiser was a taxi is a pretty good indication Munzenmeier had a buzz. In retrospect, I guess Munzenmeier DID get the ride he sought.
Almost simultaneously, on another side of town, defensive back Donovan Baldwin was being pulled over for DUI. Nothing funny at all about that. But imagine each player’s surprise as they ran into each other in a holding cell.
But here’s what I wanted to say about all that: It always amazes me when these kinds of things happen and fans of different schools start jumping up and down and pointing fingers like a bunch of kindergarteners going “na-na-na-na-na-na” and claiming Georgia or whatever U is has an out-of-control discipline problem and recruits a bunch of thugs.
The truth is, the same type of incidents happen everywhere there are college campuses and bars and it doesn’t make said school a gathering place for heathens.

link:http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/uga/entries/2008/01/22/no_need_to_fret.html

Quick everyone pull up your pants leg b/c it's getting deep! Some things are just better left alone...
 
That's great....thought a police car was a cab. :laugher:

Actually, my freshman year at GT, I took a trip down to Statesboro to visit some of my high school buddies. We (me and another guy, probably 2 sheets to the wind at this point AND underage) were walking from the house where we were staying to a party in an apartment complex fairly late one night and a cop stopped us. We tried to play it cool knowing about the whole age thing - he didn't give us a hard time but asked where we lived (or where we were staying) and offered to give us a ride back. So we hopped in and directed him to the apartment where the party was being held. Statesboro's free taxi service.
 
Isn't the AJC the one that started the original article with:

The first clear signal the offseason has begun for Georgia football has arrived: Two Bulldogs football players were arrested and jailed early Sunday morning.

And he's complaining...
 
Allen Koholic said:
Isn't the AJC the one that started the original article with:

The first clear signal the offseason has begun for Georgia football has arrived: Two Bulldogs football players were arrested and jailed early Sunday morning.

And he's complaining...
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Yes to both questions....guess it's a close second to a retraction...LOL:laugher:
 
The "it happens at every college" argument implies that UGAy is a college, which couldn't be further from the truth.
 
I think the fact this sorry excuse for a journalist is allowed to put an article with such indifference to the consequences of drunk driving is insulting and downright irresponsible. Reading comments to the article as well disturbed me in how those people (presumably dawg fans) turn a blind eye to the DUI itself and the possible injuries/death that could have resulted. The AJC does have the tendancy to favor the dawgs but to do so in this way and allow an employee to question the seriousness of driving under the influence is an insult. If anything this should solidy the paper's status is nothing but a propaganda rag which glazes over the true issues at hand trying to disguise it as a question of whether or not you support a coach for his action. Pathetic!
 
GTatUSC said:
I think the fact this sorry excuse for a journalist is allowed to put an article with such indifference to the consequences of drunk driving is insulting and downright irresponsible. Reading comments to the article as well disturbed me in how those people (presumably dawg fans) turn a blind eye to the DUI itself and the possible injuries/death that could have resulted. The AJC does have the tendancy to favor the dawgs but to do so in this way and allow an employee to question the seriousness of driving under the influence is an insult. If anything this should solidy the paper's status is nothing but a propaganda rag which glazes over the true issues at hand trying to disguise it as a question of whether or not you support a coach for his action. Pathetic!
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He never said any of that. His point was that while we are all laughing and pointing fingers at the two U[sic]GA football players, the same stuff is happening on our campus and other college campuses around the country, which unfortunately is true. And the thing about the guy thinking the cop car was a taxi WAS pretty funny...in fact I think we have a thread on the front page full of jokes about it.
 
For other schools, these things are aberrations and embarrassments.

For Georgia, it's damn near policy.
 
gth816f said:
His point was that while we are all laughing and pointing fingers at the two U[sic]GA football players, the same stuff is happening on our campus and other college campuses around the country, which unfortunately is true.
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Then his point is wrong. If Tech players were being arrested as commonly as UGA players, AJC would have it plastered on the front page (not just the front page of the sports section). When's the last time you read about a Tech player being arrested and missing games? Reuben Houston is the only one I can remmeber - and look at how we punished him (granted a judge overturned it).
 
GTWannaBee said:
Then his point is wrong. If Tech players were being arrested as commonly as UGA players, AJC would have it plastered on the front page (not just the front page of the sports section). When's the last time you read about a Tech player being arrested and missing games? Reuben Houston is the only one I can remmeber - and look at how we punished him (granted a judge overturned it).
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I would say it probably happens a lot less at Tech due to the fact that we're in a city, and I would say the same for most other schools in cities. However, if you go to a Clemson, Auburn, etc., set in the middle of nowhere like U[sic]GA is, I think that stuff is very common. It probably also depends a little on the coach, but honestly I don't know how much effect a coach can have on his players' behavior in the off season unless it's at a service academy.
 
Richt put up a good front but FSU had a revolving door of top athletes going into jail and out of jail for game day. It seems the same thing is happening at UGA. Actions always trump 'the good front' he tries to maintain. Didn't He lower the UGA standards to minimum NCAA requirements and was quoted " we must compete in the SEC?" UGA has several basically non-academic JOCK degrees and uses these degrees to keep A's (I didn't say SA) in school for football. Only 2% of SA's make the NFL, so it is Immoral in my opinion to do this for a coach that says he is so moral.
 
Good story:

Before I even went to my first class at Tech I went to that "Connect With Tech" thing - basically a sleepover during summer semester when you're supposed to stay with a Tech guy in his dorm for a day and tour the campus / etc. Well I had a friend already enrolled, and when nighttime came around and they had the EXTREMELY LAME "Connect With Tech Social Gathering" with Kool Aid and Nutter Butters, I called my friend up and said "Pick me up, this sucks, I'm in some place called 'Sack.'"

So he picks me up at the student athletic complex, and we go back to his dorm in Towers and get drunk with two other dudes and two chicks, and decide to go clubbing. We pile into his car (can't remember what kind of strings he pulled to get a car on campus as a freshman) - one of the old style Camarys that was built for 4 Japanese people, not 6 American college students, and go to some club with the girls in our laps to make room. Can't remember where. Continue to drink / etc (can't remember how we pulled that one off either) and drive back to campus (drunk) at about 3am. None of us 21.

...And we get stopped by an APD RED DOG UNIT roadblock on North Avenue about 50 feet from Techwood Avenue.

So I'm soiling my pants over getting kicked out of school before I ever actually get *in* school in the first place, Jason starts trying to smooth talk the cop, and the absolute drunkest of his friends (in the back) leans over all of us and starts yelling "Hey! Hey!" to the cop. Now we're really F'ed, right? He goes "Hey! Don't I know you? Are you from <insert some small south georgia town>?" The cop replies, "Yeah, hey are you <insert some dude's name>'s kid?" Drunk replies "Yeah, I'm in college now!" Cop says, "Where are you guys headed?" Jason says, "Right around the corner, about a half a block from here, I live right over there in Towers dorm." Cop says "well move along and have a good night. And don't drive anywhere else."

APD Red Dog unit.



I got pretty lucky in college.
 
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Remain calm! All is well!
 
Richt getting tough and doubles the suspension :eek: Oh wait nevermind he is still only going to miss the GSU and Central Mich games nothing important!

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How is it congruent to give a underage player double the suspension while keeping Baldwin's suspension at one game for a freaking DUI? A DUI in my line of work would have the distinct possibility of getting you disbarred - loosing your livelihood - and yet this guy gets 1 game against gsu.
 
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