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Kirby Smart: Georgia football at forefront of collectives NIL fines, driving-related suspensions
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Kirby Smart: Georgia football at forefront of collectives NIL fines, driving-related suspensions
Kirby Smart said Georgia players have been receiving fines through Classic City Collectives over the past year
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This is a good response to NIL.
Agreed on the fines part. But I think proactive counseling and awareness may be more important, and also kicking a pretty important player of the team. THAT’S a consequence!
Hate to see DDS gone. He seemed on the cusp of being an important contributor, and he’s worked hard (like the whole team). But this is what taking the problem seriously looks like.
Fining a player or even suspending a player for reckless driving and/or racing on the streets of a small college town is unsatisfactory. Any player arrested for such crimes must be permanently expelled from the university immediately. If they are found innocent later, then they can always be reinstated. We have already lost a young promising UGA football player and a young UGA football recruiter because of this while another young recruiter has suggered massive and permanent injuries. The team is deep enough to absorb any single loss. Let's do the right thing and hold our standards high, folks.
Used to be you had to drive in downtown Atlanta on a late Friday night to see fools behind a wheel.(Really driving outrageous) Now I see it daily, even though I live in a small central Georgia town of less than 15,000 folks. Stoplight to stoplight with doubles lanes full of cars and nowhere for any lane changes to occur I still see idiots who honestly believe their stuff doesn' t stink and will ride your bumper and cuss you out and flip you off if you don't get out of their way, even if theres no place to move to . It's a different world. If your're under 45 you probably don't understand the difference.
I can’t begin to understand all the down votes your getting. These are Serious issues. But I think the punishment needs to be commensurate with how bad the infraction was. I agree with kicking DDS off the team. I mean Wow he tried to flee the law enforcement which resulted in high speed pursuit, Further endangering lives.
So on infractions like that YES boot them off the team first time. Other infractions of a lesser severity should be in my humble opinion a Combination of penalties. I think a third strike and your Out type scenario. First two infractions carry Severe punishment, third one your Gone, unless the very first one is as severe as DDS did then your gone without further chances.
But I would incorporate the fines along with punitive extra physical punishment like running gassers etc. make them stand up and apologize to the team, make them at Their expense run ads in the school and local newspapers With their picture offering their apologies to the team, UGA, and the community at large, also make them do community service projects on Their time. I would couple All these things together.
Being Shamed in front of your team, family, and community is a powerful tool I believe, and Again coupled with all these other penalties. I did utterly s t u p I d things in my youth to, BUT I paid the Very painful consequences. I just Praise and Thank God that I didn’t harm someone else with my s t u p I d antics !!! We All need to share in your passion that these things have no place at UGA or really anywhere !!
I think about a good friend of mine whose 15 year old son was walking home along side the road from his job when a drunk driver swerved over and killed him. There’s Nothing funny about a young life or Any life snuffed out by I d I o t I c behavior behind the wheel of a vehicle. Driving is a privilege Not a right. Go Dawgs !!
@navydawg You're wasting your breath, though you're right. Times have changed. Seems like with each passing generation discipline is being diminished. I didn't discipline my kids as much as my dad disciplined me(it would be considered child abuse probably)and his dad disciplined him more severe(definitely be at risk for child abuse) than he disiplined me. Don't get me wrong, my dad was no military drill sargeant, but he was someone I respected and didn't want to get on his bad side. Don't remember ever back talking or sassing my dad. With my kids, though they are great kids, they came up in the every one gets a trophy generation and you just nurture them and as a result they are alot more open and expressive with their "feelings." And their feelings get hurt alot.