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It's pure BS, ain't nobody who doesn't have a job gonna stick around all this time and say I never was given a fair shot, or someone treated me so bad that I just thought about leaving. This whole give everybody a free pass is only gonna get worse.
Over the last couple of days I've read the post of others and find it shocking that we as Dawg fans find it hard to believe this young man when he speaks about possible racism on our campus. Clearly everyone can't have their heads buried in the sand to think that it doesn't happen. It would be on thing if the current players on the roster aren't supporting his claim but that's not the case and these are current leaders of the team. Shame on Mr. Reese if his claims are baseless and he is using it as a way to play and shame on the adults who are influencing him to do as they are just as guilty. However, as the saying goes, where there's smoke, there's fire and I think the University needs to investigate this to the fullest. I do believe Coach Smart has the best interest of the players but also think that sometimes we fail to address issues head-on hoping they will simply go away.
One other point I want make is the fact that the NCAA can bend the rules for some and not others when it comes to transfers. My take is if the coach can leave , go to another school and coach immediately and make more money in the process, why can't a student athlete??Maybe the receiving schools should be forced to pay the old university for portions of the requesting transfer students costs. If they truly want him, they will pay and the portal will be easier to manage.
GO DAWGS!!! Let's have a hog roast on Saturday at 4pm....
3 total tackles in 14 games. LOL!
I agree with WayxATLdawg89 - I’m pretty disappointed by the comments on these posts. As Dawgs fans of course it is natural to feel defensive when we hear allegations like this against the team we love. But why lash out at Reese like this? Do we have actual knowledge that his accusations aren’t true? No - in fact one of our current players says he remembers one of the incidents...Why the animosity against Reese? Why is there no outrage against the individuals using the N word? Against the police baselessly assuming they were using drugs? I for one don’t doubt Reese’s claims - they are completely believable.
If the outrage is because he is using this claim as leverage, I don’t understand that either. Of course one of the reasons he is transferring is probably because he wants to start. But does that make what he said untrue? I’ll answer that - no, it doesn’t. I think the appropriate response to this situation is sorrow that Reese had this experience at UGA, wishing him well with the rest of his career, and having dialogue about how we can change students’ experience at campus so this doesn’t happen again. Instead, most of what I’ve seen on this thread are baseless assumptions and petty defensiveness. It’s pretty depressing to see - so much so that after reading this site for years I finally made an account to comment. Let’s grow up and put life - including the actual presence of racism and other people’s perspectives and experiences - ahead of football. You want to hope that racism doesn’t exist at UGA, but that would simply be untrue - racism takes many forms and can be found everywhere.
I think one of the underlying issues is that Reese planned his transfer to Ole Miss in January of this year. His statement and concerns could have been brought up and addressed at that time. Let the "system" work through things from the beginning. Instead, his public statement came out last week when it was apparent that his waiver may not be granted. It should also be noted that inter-conference SEC rules require an undergraduate SA to sit out for a year. This has nothing to do with the NCAA.
Not saying anything about what Reese experienced at UGA, but based on timing and trying to push a waiver through the NCAA, it does appear as leverage on it's face. It won't work for the SEC.