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This is a pretty good idea on your part. Make them sign legal documents absolving UGA, Kirby and everyone else of Any and All responsibility. Require them to wear a authorized racing helmet and of course seatbelts. Require that their vehicle be safety checked to the best extent possible.
Require that they have a current and valid Ga. Drivers License. Then let ‘Em burn the track up. Have them sign a letter of responsibility that if caught Again on public highways they will stop driving their car and put it up for sale Immediately, with At Least 10% of the sale going to the charity of their choice. Also must stand in front of the team and apologize. Run an apology Ad in the local newspaper With their picture.
Be suspended At Least one game ( more depending on how bad the charges are). These are Reasonable actions. Now their parents might not like the race track idea so much, but simply ask them Do you prefer he race in the streets with NO safe guards ?? Have Them sign a similar letter absolving Everyone of responsibility.
Do you know what I found embarrassing to the University? Ray Goff. Getting our asses kicked by Fla & Tenn every season & going 6-5. This is just kids being kids. Kirby will punish em….I trust him to do what’s proper. Without affecting our ability to win another natty. My goodness some of you guys don’t remember what it’s like to be 21 it seems.
You would think Kirby would just ask some of his fellow SEC coaches how they handle the problem because none of them have as many arrests. Simple, problem solved… Unless it's not the message/punishment that's making the difference.
Could it simply be that UGA has more arrests because the Athens Clark Co. PD doesn't look the other way as often as every other SEC campus - or county PD does. Richt also had more arrests. So many players and coaches have changed, yet the exact same problem exist. What hasn't changed? The policy of the Athens PD…
@UGADad20 and @MontanaDawg have it exactly right. We all share the opinion that Kirby is best college coach in America, and an admirable human being on top that. But he hasn't yet succeeded in getting this problem under control.
I agree that it has a lot to do with the hormones and personalities of 20-year-old super athletes. Of course, they're competitive risk takers. That doesn't change the fact that it's a particular problem for Georgia.
I don't doubt that police departments in some other SEC towns handle this kind of thing in the old, quiet way. But there's a reason that's the "old" way: It's ****, backward and corrupt. I'm glad they're handling it seriously in Athens. Reckless driving costs lives — and not just those of the perpetrators. Does any UGA fan need to be reminded of the painfully high costs of this behavior? Seriously?
In general, road racing has gotten OUT OF CONTROL since the pandemic. I don't anger very easily, but I've gotten so that steam comes out of my nose and my jaw clenches like a vice grip every time I see a young fool pushing it at 75 down the 35 mph zone on Ponce de Leon Ave. He's invincible until he crashes into a tree and kills himself, his passengers and whoever happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The fact that it's a national trend doesn't make of any less a UGA problem. For some reason, it's taken more of hold in the Georgia locker room than at other schools. It's damaging to the school's reputation. It's got to be bad for recruiting. And it's not unheard for this kind of thing to cause a program's downfall.
I'm sure it's not easy. NIL and transfers make it harder. I also doubt that anything Kirby and company have done anything to deserve this; it's probably just luck of the draw that for some reason it's running more rampant at Georgia.
But Kirby has got to do whatever it takes to end this problem — root and all.
Plateaudawg is part of the problem Cares more about wins and loses than the reputation of this great university. .Maybe should be a Bama fan
Plaetudawg. How many more irresponsible arrests will it take for you to get your head out of the sand?
Its gonna take a boot off the team to wake these people up.
"Do you know what I found embarrassing to the University? Ray Goff. Getting our asses kicked by Fla & Tenn every season & going 6-5. This is just kids being kids. Kirby will punish em….I trust him to do what’s proper. Without affecting our ability to win another natty. My goodness some of you guys don’t remember what it’s like to be 21 it seems."
Except when the next person dies, not so much kids being kids.
Smart needs to tell the team the next one is dismissed and they can enter the portal
Carson number1 Ratledge any of them
You’re gone
This is beyond pathetic and embarrassing
Very well said. I commend the A-CC police for being extra vigilant enforcing motor vehicle laws against students, especially football players. Being extra vigilant against this numbskull behavior and embarrassing the players, coaches, team and University has undoubtedly curtailed some of this activity and saved lives.
CKS continues to be embarrassed and cast in an unfavorable light because he has not been able to fix a problem that has already cost lives.
Best way to curb reckless driving is to just kick the offender off the team, permanently, after the first incident. We have already lost a wonderful football player and a young femle recruiter to this juvenile and dangerous behavior. Blame NIL or Little Boy Blue, but this offense should be an automatic permanent removal from the team after the first offense, period dot com. I hope Kirby Smart stands up on this. We have enough talent to do this…. It will save innocent lives.