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Georgia football freshman arrested on DUI-related charges early Sunday morning
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Georgia football freshman arrested on DUI-related charges early Sunday morning
A Georgia freshman from Memphis, Tennessee, was arrested and booked on Sunday morning on charges relating to DUI and underage possession of alcohol
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Let's hope this young man will learn and mature from this. Not excusing his behavior at all but I went to college and am very much aware, even way back then, that the number of college students that drink (and drive, many times) is not a small percentage. What he "allegedly" did (not convicted yet) is wrong, dangerous to himself and others and can't be excused by "everybody else does it". This must be a "once and done" problem for young Mr. Norton and he will, I'm sure, pay a painful price extracted by Kirby and his teammates, deservedly so.
I pray Mr. Norton learns MANY valuable lessons from these poor choices and matures from the pending discipline and wisdom that will be gained from it. "Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom."
Well said Bro...big %...nowdays these kids have so many options they should never be the headlines in these stories!
DAWGNATION has better stories about these young studs to share!!
To me how punishment should be done by everyone:
for freshmen:
1st in house punishment
2nd 3 games
3rd 6 games
upper classmen
1st 6 games
2nd whole season
3rd you are off the team
Kid made a mistake that Millions of college kids do every weekend. They get drunk (underage) have fun and party He was lucky no one was killed or injured.
He has a great chance to learn and grow into the man he will become from this with very lil personal cost. **** it up pay the fine, Do community service and take your football punishment and never drink and drive again …….. as for the underage drinking and partying Come On Man he is at college
Since he likes being out and about at 4 in the morning, I'm sure Sinclair and staff will accommodate him. Yes, Norton made a common freshman error in judgement, but he isn't a common freshman. He is a scholarship player at UGA, and the spotlight is on you from now on.
hopefully, he'll learn from this and never endanger himself and others like this again.
My kids, from the time they are sophomores in high school, have accts with Uber and Lyft with my credit card on the accts. I have a no punishment policy when they use it as I know each time is a potentially fatal accident avoided as well as a costly DUI charge. I get notified every time it us used so I can talk to them if there seems to be excessive partying but they have all been extremely responsible. There is no reason to drink and drive these days. Almost any Uber ride in Athens is going to cost $10 or less. Come on kids, it's not worth it!
Mistake one, strike one! Let me say this if you get arrested at 4:44 AM. and get released at 5:25, that's only 1 hour and 19 minutes. What have you learned in that short of time? Why not at least 12 hours to think and reflect what you did wrong, and how it could have been so much worse. You are not injured or dead, and no one else is injured or dead. If you are going to drink, don't drink and drive. Too many people think, well I have special abilities, I can drink and drive very well, better than most people drive sober. No one drives better while drinking, it just doesn't happen.