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@MikeGriffith
Mike...why didn't you add the following, from the report...
They responded to reports of a man wandering in the neighborhood...blah, blah, blah...they smelled alcohol on him and arrested him for his own safety as he didn't know where his friend lived.
He was lost...and I guarantee you...if I dropped you off in "a friend's" neighborhood and you had the wrong address...I challenge you to come up with a phone number, without your phone. I couldn't do it...I rely on my instant Rolodex. Lol
Illegal...NO.
Poor Judgement...YES.
Alcohol involed...MAYBE
End of story. Lol
"wasted young man"? SBIV is 25 years old. On the verge of the biggest challenge and job interview of his life. He is either extremely immature, not very bright or has a problem with alcohol. Nothing else explains it.
Someone else said something "it happens to every typical college student". Yes you could write it off for most 18-22 year old college students. How many college students are 25?
"He went out w/o his cell phone". Interesting in that no one goes anywhere w/o there cell phone these days. Maybe the TN fans were blowing it up?
If you are inebriated, alone and in an unfamiliar place in any city these days you are absolutely in danger. The only thing he had going for him was that it was 6:30 AM. By 6:30 AM all the bad guys are home sleeping it off.
It is a bad look for SBIV. It will be discussed ad nauseum at the combine. Not what he wants his interviews to focus on I'm sure.
I guess I’m being selfish, and I’m not trying to diminish the loss of the two young people, No Way !! But I’m sure looking forward to G Day when there will be Happy and Positive things to talk about, and Football to discuss. It just seems like every thing of late has been so sad and bad. Again I’m certainly not trying to trivialize recent events. And I apologize if I come off as being selfish. I just look forward to G Day for all the things I referenced And to hopefully pull us back together as a fanbase. Tensions and negative emotions and stress are pretty intense among us right now. Maybe G Day will be a bit of a healing balm. I sure Hope so. I say this from deep within my heart and I Mean it, May The Lord Bless and Protect You All. And to those who I got in heated debate with in recent times, and I made **** comments to, I’m Sorry and offer my sincere apologies. Life is so short. The Holy Bible says that our lives are as a vapor on this earth, meaning our time is so short. I’m a Very opinionated person, and as the ole cantankerous feller I am I can and am many times pretty stubborn. I’m very set in my ways. But I’d a thousand times over prefer making a New Friend, and really regret making an enemy. To many times I let my temper get out of hand, and say things that probably would have been better left unsaid. I know a few things about life, but there’s a whole lot more that I Don’t know. But I do know This at least speaking for Me, we are living in some Very trying and stressful times. In my humble opinion we are living in some very dangerous times. Coming here is an escape from all that. It is SO Great to be able to come here and talk football among like minded people. And though I’ve been a fan of the game most of my 66 years, I learn from Yall all the time and I’m thankful for that. Also and I say this in a Good way, many times Yall will make me laugh or smile about something. In other words Yall brighten my day !! I Know there have been To Many times that I came on To Strong on different subjects. And/Or over reacted to a comment made by another poster and replied with mean spirited comments. As I said earlier I apologize for that. And I’ll try harder to do better in controlling that. There’s really no suitable excuse but I suffer from chronic physical pain, sometimes pretty excruciating, as well as some mental health issues, now those are My problems, but I hope Y’all will appreciate that those issues make maintaining my composure Sometimes quite a bit more difficult. To close this novel, To Me as my fellow Dawgs Fans I see Y’all as a great big extended Family of sorts. So in my heart contrary to how I behave sometimes, Im always Praying and Hoping the best that life has to offer for All of you !! Y’all know if we Really want to be Bashed on all we have to do is go to a rival site and tell Em we’re Dawgs fans and they’d immediately open fire on us !! Just Pity Em cause it’s hard for them to talk to Fans of Back2Back soon to be 3Peat National Champs !! I Love Yall !! Spring is coming soon !! Enjoy Life !! Just Be Safe !! Go Dawgs !!
" All he has to do is mention SB and some people are screaming like they got slapped"
MG has earned every bit of criticism he gets with his biased reporting and interviews for the last year and a half.
" I am starting to believe that some of the trolls on here are actually SB with made up accounts"
I have been thinking you're actually MG for a few months now.
"@MikeGriffithisnt a “homer” like the other writers thus his unbiased style does stand out"
I don't know what you're reading but MG is very biased. Easily seen in his writing and heard in his interviews.
"wasted young man"? SBIV is 25 years old"
That is still a young man and what he did is hardly jaw dropping. Get a grip.
Learn to troll better. 🤣
Handcuffed for a misdemeanor? And, this story is reported over and over and over?
Nope hardly jaw dropping. Just really dumb for a 25 year old under the microscope trying to get a multi million dollar job. Questionable decision making? Have we heard that before? Probably written in every SBIV combine player evaluation.
But, based on your posts, I wouldn't expect you to understand when something is dumb or smart.
So, if you're drunk and hide when you see the police coming, it's a crime now? Wow, I had no idea. I was extremely lucky back in my day - the 1970s.
Athletes drink-duh, athletes drink too much at times-duh. Most 25 yr.old NC winners, don't get arrested at 6:30 in the morning, in a strange neighborhood banging on doors, and when the cops show up, they hide from the police. It's like, he just can't handle his business. I love SB. But it's just a really bad look as to personal responsibility when you're about to, in essence, apply for the biggest job of your life.
Think in terms of yourselves graduating with your degree and you're appying for your dream job and then you have to answer for this. Face palm.
If not for that, if not for him being arguably "the face" of the Dawgs, then it's not news worthy. Just some regular Smoe not handling his business. SB screwed up a couple of times in recent days. Not as bad as JC did, but as has been stated, he is a few years older.
Just my opinion, but I hope that I would have been advised to come out publicly and explain the situation, say how wrong I was and I will learn and grow from this experience and wham, it's over. Just confess over celebrating with friends and you're sorry for what you did. It's over.
The silence does more harm than good, IMHO.
What difference does it make, if he's 20 or 25? He doesn't have anymore true "life experience" than ANY of his teammates. He's been going to College, for 5 yrs...living in a Football cocoon, with tunnel vision and going to class. Which is what's required, to get your team 2 Natty's.
Where's the support and gratitude?
The kid was 19 when he graduated HS and turned 20 before he played the part of Baker Mayfield, in the 2017 CFP Bowl preparations. He's a late bloomer as most small town, South Georgia students ARE.
His life experience isn't yours...so, don't judge so harshly. He just took your team to the Promised Land, two years in a row. How about getting in Bennett's corner, for a change? You know...actually provide the same "benefit of the doubt" you would want for your kid.
Ask yourself this...What do I benefit from Bennett's failure? If the answer is..."it would prove me right about him, all along"...then I question your motivation for leaping to worst case conclusions.
I'm sure, most of these accusations will be put to bed, when we get the whole story...IF we get the whole story. We are not "entitled", but, he would be well advised to get out in front of this ASAP. There may be a reason, of which we are not aware, that he hasn't done that yet.
It's possible, he was involved with this "racing thing". It's also possible, he's morning the loss of 2 very close friends. We all deal with death in our own way. I say...wait till all the smoke clears and allow these boys to deal with their feelings...BEFORE we start piling-on. It will keep some of you from having to "eat crow", later. Lol
Based on your posts, I'm sure you believe you have all the answers. Shame you don't know how arrogant and dumb you sound.