more arrests *sigh*

Buc wrote: Purposely stayed away from the latest on our football players messing up. Seems most outlets have some of the details.

This really disappoints me. Thought that Bellamy was going to be a serious football player at Georgia. Davin is a young man, but it just blows my mind away when I look at the “stupid mistakes” the football players make.

Example . . . . Georgia is trying hard to get rid of the reputation as the “party school of the South”. Seems to me the message is not being accepted by the players.

So, what is the answer? Beats the hell out of me. Tired of blaming it on “youth”.

If I have focused in properly on the way the defensive side of the ball is going to work. My guess is that contrary to what some in the media are saying about Davin sitting the first two games in 2014 will cost him and the team much more than that. Like yd1 says often, appears to be another "ME".

This is another case of a player that has been on campus, not a “newbie” coming in. Has seen everything that has happened prior to “his” mistake.

Would be surprised if he (Davin Bellamy) was not looking over his shoulder. Lorenzo Carter is on campus, and he came to play. Hard sometimes for young players to realize that to play SEC football is an ongoing task. It is not what “you did yesterday” . . . . It is “what you bring today”. Do I really believe that a "super jock" on campus caused this, hell no, first mistake Davin has ever made. BS.

Going to be hard for Davin to work his way back into the regular rotation, if I understand what our new defensive coaches bring to the table. That my friends is on Davin, not the coaches, or the university.

Have read on the internet the many excuse makers. Other schools have players doing the same thing and they cover it up. Makes me scratch my head and say . . . . “What the hell difference does it make, you are all for someone driving under the influence and . . . . What? Did Davin Bellamy not understand the chance he was taking? Does he not understand that those in charge of our streets don't or should not give passes to "stupidity".

I am one that is on the program of “cleaning this spit up in Athens”. Not going to knock drinking or smoking, but I do have a problem with “stupid”. Taylor, Bellamy, Matthews and others . . . . “stupid”. All of you are going back to the “street or corner” if you can’t recognize “stupid”. Have to say this again . . . . Reading some of the “stuff” on the internet, reinforces what the word “stupid” truly means. Refuse to believe that there are not “solid” young men playing football that do not fall into the category of “stupid”. I said that.

Past time to "quit" excusing "youth". Said that also.

Geez Buc, at this rate Pruitt won't have anybody to coach.

wlayton wrote: Geez Buc, at this rate Pruitt won't have anybody to coach.

It's looking much the same as years past. I have been reading on this board and other sites about the changes Pruitt and Rocker were bringing that were going to return UGA to the promised land....how there were no more "ME"s on the team, new attitude, newfound discipline, respect for authority and no more screw ups, etc, etc, all because these two saviors were on board.
As I thought when Pruitt was brought on--I think our defense may be a tick better, but overall I don't think much will change this year from last.

sadlerdawg wrote:

wlayton wrote: Geez Buc, at this rate Pruitt won't have anybody to coach.

It's looking much the same as years past. I have been reading on this board and other sites about the changes Pruitt and Rocker were bringing that were going to return UGA to the promised land....how there were no more "ME"s on the team, new attitude, newfound discipline, respect for authority and no more screw ups, etc, etc, all because these two saviors were on board.
As I thought when Pruitt was brought on--I think our defense may be a tick better, but overall I don't think much will change this year from last.

At this point I will take a tick better.

sadlerdawg by the tick better are you thinking we might win 9 games in 2014?

When I look over the 2014 schedule, don't think I see too many pushovers.

Talking heads and other boards that I have paid attention to seem to think that Georgia will either win the East or come in behind South Carolina.

Auburn is the only team from the SEC West that causes me concern as far as the SEC. Florida is not a pushover in the East, regardless of what some want to believe.

Won't be too long before all of us know a lot more.

Not necessarily talking about a win/loss number as being a tick better and otherwise staying the same, Buc. I'm thinking the D will be a bit better statistically, but by overall staying the same I'm talking about the same stuff we've been talking about for years--losing some we should win, playing games too close we should be blowing out, arrests, injuries (I know some injuries are unavoidable, but the vast number of catastrophic injuries we've had recently points to something else..S & C maybe?) and other problems we've discussed over the years.

Have read an interesting article recently (in the past couple of days) about our head coach changing the training regimen. That has happened more than once in the last few years.

One thing I do understand. Mark Richt is going nowhere. Anyone that thinks differently, put your money where your mouth is.

At some point we can either accept that or go elsewhere. I left the Falcons for some of the same reasons that I now see happening in Athens.

I do believe what Ramik Wilson and others have recently had to say openly about the defensive coaching change. Took a while, slowly but surely the players feelings have been surfacing.

Soon we will know who is running the defense as well as the offense. You and I have some differences along the Mike Bobo play calling. It is what it is.

Defensively, been around football for a while, I know when I see "players give up". I also know when I see "coaches give up". That has been the case for far too long with our football team.

I was on board with the coaching change that brought grantham in. We know how that turned out. Hard to be 100%. I am on board with Pruitt/Rocker and Company on board. Know a lot more about the recently hired defensive coaches than I knew about martinez and grantham.

If nothing else, and I will debate this with anyone . . . . our recruits thus far would not look as they do now as far as commmits, had not Pruitt/Rocker and Company been in Athens. I have said it, will say it again . . . . Mark Richt needed Pruitt/Rocker and Company, not the other way around. I can scream, jump up and down, Richt ain't leaving. Best solution is for him to do the PR work and leave the coaching to those that are up on today's game.

How we get there, don't give a spit. Just want to get there. Going to be tougher now that the playoff format is 4 play, rest go play bowls. Biggest mistake made was not having 8. That way urban has to play a better team than his. My opinion.