Just some articles read today
Recruiting: kd will like this guy
By Corey Long
ESPN Recruiting
One guy I really like is defensive tackle Chris Mayes (Griffin, Ga./Spalding), a 6-foot-4, 290-pounder that recently made a verbal commitment to Georgia. He's a real athletic young man and he's got a nasty streak that I can see when he tackles people. A kid that's going to be 310-315 pounds on the defensive line with a nasty streak is something the Bulldogs desperately need. In most years, Mayes would be a big name but with so many great defensive linemen in the Southeast this year, he hasn't gotten as much attention as he deserves.
Sleeper
By PeteFiutak FoxSports
Team that will surprise
Georgia is going to be really, really good, but this doesn’t appear to be a team ready to go on an unbeaten run. The same goes for LSU, Ole Miss, Arkansas and Auburn.
Georgia – If any coach in America actually knew the name of the Georgia starting quarterback, the Dawgs might have been given more respect in the early coaches’ poll. The preseason No. 21 team has top-10, possibly top-five talent, with the deepest, and possibly best, offensive line in America, a loaded defensive front seven, fantastic running backs and receivers, and the best kicking game in college football. If Aaron Murray is merely serviceable, the Dawgs might be playing in Atlanta in early December.
Chicken trouble? - last statement is interesting
By ajc tony barnhart
How many South Carolina players will miss the Georgia game on Sept. 11? It’s a pretty good bet that tight end Weslye Saunders will not play in the opener with Southern Mississippi next Thursday. The NCAA has had a couple of prayer meetings (that’s Southern for “serious conversations”) with young Weslye over several issues.
Now, thanks to some good reporting by Joe Person of The State newspaper in Columbia, we learn that a bunch of Gamecocks have been living in a local hotel.
Nothing wrong with that because they get a $500 monthly allowance to live where they want. The problem is that the Whitney Hotel is not a Motel 6. It has a limo service and whoever runs the thing was letting the players live there for $450 a month. Person’s reporting revealed that using the lowest possible discount rate the hotel provides, the value of the room was, at a minimum, $1,200 a month.
It won’t shock you to know that there is a rule against that. The standard punishment here is for the players to pay the difference in what they should have paid and what they actually paid PLUS a two-game suspension. That means several South Carolina players could miss the Sept. 11 game with Georgia.
Spurrier won’t make any excuses, he never does. His attitude will be that the players knew the rules and chose not to follow them. They get $500 a month for housing and they made the choice. Spurrier doesn’t believe in baby sitting players and he’s not about to start now. But if this blows up and a season with so much promise goes quickly south, I’m not going to be surprised if he walks away.
