AUC worried about laws are TOO strict on ugag players...

[law_bee]

http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/uga/entries/2007/07/30/ugas_top_cop_de.html


are we headed back to Herrrshhhalllll days?

we they bring back Jan Kemp?

 

[dodd_54]

In a sense, I think our campus and its location in Atlanta provides our student athletes a better chance of having a meaningful college experience, not to mention the opportunity to obtain an excellent degree. When one of their cellebrated recruits, driving a moped while 300 lbs, pops into an Athens downtown bar for a beer with fake id; it's not hard for the police officer to make the arrest. It kind of makes you wonder if the cops over there are playing spades with a deck identifying all of the underage football players -- kind of like the Iraqi playing deck. Here, we don't have that problem. Our players can blend. Don't get me wrong, I'm not for underage drinking. But part of me feels bad for all the college kids. When I was in school (way back then) the drinking age was 18. Folks had come back from conflicts over seas. There wasn't all this sneaking around. Hell, we didn't even have a picture on our driver's license. It looked like the carbon copy you get from the dry cleaners. Anyway, my point is that in Atlanta with all it has to offer, our players aren't under a microscope and I think that's a good thing.

 

[techfowl]

That's an article actually accusing the police force of "picking on" UGA athletes. As if the police should stop arresting them when they break the law because they are UGA athletes. The implication of a state newspaper writing something like this is absolutely horrible.

When I read that, all I could think about was the movie, "Liar, Liar"

"I'm in jail again. What should I do?"
"Stop breaking the LAW, @$$hole!!!"

 

[Essobee]

When I was in school (way back then) the drinking age was 18. Folks had come back from conflicts over seas. There wasn't all this sneaking around. Hell, we didn't even have a picture on our driver's license. It looked like the carbon copy you get from the dry cleaners.

I remember my freshman room mate doing some artistic design (red outline of Georgia) on a blank driver license form. I asked him what was he doing and he replied, "Making a drinking license." :laugher:

 

[gth816f]

I must have missed the part where the author of the article gave any of his opinions at all. The whole thing is just an interview with a cop brought on as a response to readers' comments, and at the end he asks his readers if they agree. They actually took the time to read the comments on their articles, then followed up with an interview regarding them. The AJC gets a really bad rep, and it's times like this when I just don't understand it. How is the AJC worried about laws being too strict on players?

 

[gtyellowjackets]

The AJC gets a really bad rep, and it's times like this when I just don't understand it. How is the AJC worried about laws being too strict on players?

The AUC chooses which articles to run and which ones not.

Clearly, there is an attempt to bring to light the controversy that maybe the authorities are being to harsh on UGA SA's. Maybe it's right, maybe it's wrong.

But there's no question it could become a bigger issue than if it had not been reported on. Certainly the Athens/Clark Co PD will be feeling more pressure now that it's been in the AUC...

 

[mm42]

I must have missed the part where the author of the article gave any of his opinions at all.

"So do you guys buy what Williamson is selling?"

This is not the language of an unbiased reporter.

 

[gth816f]

"So do you guys buy what Williamson is selling?"

This is not the language of an unbiased reporter.

But the whole article was a response to readers who had expressed statements directly contrary to what the cop had said. That wasn't the reporter expressing skepticism towards the cop, it was him expressing skepticism towards his readers. And this isn't an article...it's a guy's UGAblog on AJC. Even if this guy came right out and spoke in defense of UGA players, would you expect something different from the UGAblog?

Is this even printed in the paper or just online? I could see your point if this was printed in the paper, took the side of UGA more, and was presented as a factual article rather than an editorial(the whole purpose of which is to give the author's opinion, kind of like a blog)...but honestly, I don't see how this is any issue at all. Especially when it's on a blog whose whole purpose is to talk with the readers(AJCSportsTalk).

 

[mm42]

...it's a guy's UGAblog on AJC.

Chip Towers is not "a guy", he is an AJC reporter. And there is no difference in their responsibility for what their professional writers put on their website vs. in the printed paper.

Plenty of what Chip Towers writes IS in the printed paper and it is just as biased.

Funny, on the Hive the response to a complaint about the AJC ignoring the Jenkins commitment was "... but they put it on the website". And now you are trying to say that the website doesn't count and it is OK for it to be biased.

 

[gth816f]

It wasn't so much the fact that it's on the site...it's that it's in a blog on the site. That's why I mentioned the editorial thing when referring to the printed paper.

 

[mm42]

More on the AJC Bias Watch.

They have had not one, but two different UGAy stories on the front page of the web site today. The front page of the whole thing, not just the sports page.

First there was a horrid thing about UGAy fans' barks, and now there's yet another story on their flea-bitten mascot.

Then there is Barnhart's story on Early Heisman Watch. If some random national reporter lists his Heisman Top 10 and doesn't include TC, no problem, I understand. But really, is there anyone here who believes he would NOT mention a UGAy senior RB who had nearly 1500 yards rushing last year? Only 2 Georgia players have ever rushed for that many yards in a season, Her$hel Walker and Garrison Hearst.