The Junkyard

Bro you're just making and excuse for the players. We all know our drug policy is tough, and so do our players. If they know it, why even chance it? We have struggled with drug suspensions for years, and we as fans are fed up with the players being irresponsible and selfish. These kids just don't play football, they play at UGA and for the UGA nation and that's bigger than them as a player. Fans should stop using our drug policy as an excuse and hold the players responsible bc in the end, they are the ones responsible for their own actions.

Well it's Rambo's 2nd offense so that takes him out of the arguement. I don't mind our drug policy and it seems like only the football team has a problem with it. And if you're the one that gave me a downvote, i appreciate it!!

It sounds a whole lot like an excuse to me. We all, including the football players, know what the UGA policy is. It does not matter how tough it is compared to other SEC schools. It is our policy. They broke it, and now the team, fans and university suffer for it.

KSLD...I'm glad someone "gets it". Whether some of you like it or not, our own policy puts us at a huge disadvantage, period.

So you mean to tell me that when saban recruits a kid he tells them they are allowed to smoke weed? let's put it like this saban has won THREE NC since richt has been the head coach. And he even took a couple years off to test the NFL. The difference is kids respect saban and his program. Wish I could say the same for our guys. If this were any NFL team. The reports would say that the coach has lost control. Obvious his message isn't getting a cross to them.

Did you even read the link? When Rambo was suspended last year for the Boise game, Saban's players wouldn't face the same suspension for the exact same issue. For the second offense, they would miss 1-2 games, not 4-6. Third time is a season vs. dismissal. I can't help you if you can't see that this is a distinct disadvantage.

I never said they encourage weed smoking. However, Kirby does in fact use our stricter policies against us on GA recruits. If you can't come to grips with that, it's on you.

How many people here once made a derogatory comment, statement, or post (or thought) with regard to the Stephen Garcia handling by South Carolina.

People are taking liberty to blast another school when they aren't harsh enough, but in the next breath complaining about how much more severe the penalties are when our own guys are having non-police incidences.

Right is right. Wrong is wrong. I'm not going to blame our policy on the kids making poor decisions. 100% of the blame is on the kids for their choices. The good news for them is that their lives ARE NOT over. They have an opportunity to do their pennance and become better men, dads, husbands, employees/employers. But that opportunity rests on their shoulders. Not the coaching staff or the university.

Did you read anything that was said?

Other schools have THE SAME AMOUNT (if not more) of players failing drug tests. Its NOT more prevalent at UGA.

Its just that we actually punish our kids... And for that, you're blasting them.

Its turning everything upside down on its head. UGA is the most respectable program in this regards!

Wrote this in November ...

It's 2012. You are living in a fantasy if you think it's possible to have a football team on which nobody is smoking weed. Not just football players, anybody in that age group. The fact that such a large percentage of young people use it makes it virtually impossible that a student-athlete can go four years on campus without coming in contact with it, a lot.

It's weed. It doesn't make you a bad person or speak to poor character. It's just weed, and not even the government cares enough to prosecute for such minor incidences, so why does UGA give it the same aspersions as they would for beating a woman or getting a DUi? The law doesn't view those as equal offenses so why do we?

Great analogy there. Our drug policy essentially states that 3 failed drug tests throughout your career is equal to any other crime committed in which a student was kicked off the team. Those issues aren't even remotely similar, yet we self impose these sanctions for no good reason.

The kids ARE at fault here, they knew the rules. However, this is a non-issue if we adopted a more reasonable drug testing policy. We would have never heard about Tree's failed drug test (along with potentially first failed tests for others), and Rambo would be facing AT MOST a 2 game suspension.

There is a simple solution to all of this - make the rules uniform and no one will have a problem. Whether it's dismissal for the first offense or a single game suspension after your 3rd offense, the rules need to be made uniform. We are putting ourselves at a competitive disadvantage, and that's just plain dumb.

Who gives a flying f@&$ about any other program and there policy. When your kid gets in trouble in school over and over again. Does the teacher say. " it's ok the other class does it to. But they're teacher let's them get away with it" no they tell everyone else that there must be an issue at home. Do other school have these problems. Maybe. Do I care about other schools. No! Stop trying to point fingers to other programs and worry about correcting your own. Ever hear the saying don't throw stones in a glass house. That's what you guys are doing. In the military if you fail a drug test. You get discharged. Dummies still do it. But I guess they shouldnt be kicked out because the Canadian military doesn't have as strict rules