First of all, if Cade wants to go, that’s his choice. I can’t say I admire his taste in jersey colors, but I’m not going to knock a kid who wants to play somewhere else. Besides that, there was nothing stopping him from jumping into the portal before the bowl game; to his credit instead, he showed up and played hard. So, more power to him and good luck.
That being said, I’m really fascinated by the way his departure is being engineered to generate a greater likelihood of a transfer waiver request being granted by the NCAA. Remember, as Mark Schlabach explained yesterday when he broke the news, under SEC and NCAA transfer rules, Mays would have to sit out the 2020 season. He’s already a sophomore, so if he’s keen to get to the NFL, that’s counterproductive without a waiver.
And that’s where it gets interesting. First of all, his family has hired The Guy.
Mars is even more The Guy now than he was when Justin Fields retained him, because he’s currently associated with the NCAA. Which may seem strange to you and me, but it sure isn’t to Mars.
In essence, the Mays family has figured out how to weaponize Auburn’s approach to compliance matters in the realm of transfer waivers, which, quite frankly, is brilliant.
Mars or no Mars, though, you still need a reason to underpin the request, and that’s where things appear to be, um, more artificially induced than in Fields’ case, where Mars had the good fortune of another student-athlete making just the right kind of racial comments to fuel Field’s waiver request.
Here, instead, we’ve got the sudden, conveniently timed appearance of a family lawsuit against the University of Georgia.
In a lawsuit filed Dec. 5 in the State Court of Clarke County, Kevin and Melinda Mays, parents of Cade Mays, are seeking damages after the father’s right pinky finger was partially amputated on the hinge of a folding chair as he attempted to stand up.
The lawsuit is seeking $3 million for Kevin Mays to pay for bills, pain and suffering, lost wages and attorney fees, according to court documents. It is seeking another $500,000 for Melinda Mays for a “loss of consortium.”
Other defendants include corporate furniture retailer DeKalb Office and Mity-Lite, the manufacturer of the folding chair.
The incident occurred in Sanford Stadium’s club level when Mays’ parents accompanied him on an official visit on Dec. 15, 2017.
(As an aside, “The injury to the finger has kept Mays from work including duck hunting, real estate and hay businesses.” Mr. Mays has an interesting and varied career, to say the least. But I digress.)
I suppose we’re about to hear some fairly lame argument that the legal confrontation between his parents and the school makes Cade uncomfortable remaining with the Georgia football program. I say it’s lame because either there’s been legal maneuvering going on over the past two years leading up to the filing of the suit that presumably hasn’t bothered Cade, or the Mays family just decided all of a sudden to seek compensation for the injury, in which case we’re back to some remarkably convenient timing.
On one level, I really don’t care, because I think kids should be able to transfer freely once in their undergraduate career. But the rank manipulation of the NCAA transfer waiver process does rub me the wrong way, especially in like of how fickle the organization appears in cases like Luke Ford’s. If this works, and I’m pretty confident that Mars will succeed, it’s just going to open a whole new front of manipulation. Congrats to all involved for making that happen.
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UPDATE: Hoo, boy, shit’s gettin’ real now.
The lawsuit, obtained Wednesday by Knox News, was filed on Dec. 5 in the State Court of Clarke County in Georgia.
The Georgia Rivals.com affiliate first reported the lawsuit on Wednesday afternoon, hours after news broke about Mays’ transfer plans.
“The Mays family has never said a word to anyone about Kevin Mays’ lawsuit,” Mars wrote to Knox News. “The timing of the news stories about Mr. Mays’ lawsuit makes clear that UGA leaked this story to sports writers today after Cade delivered a letter to Kirby Smart late (Tuesday) explaining the reason he’s leaving Kirby’s program.
“In fact, one sports writer I spoke with earlier today confirmed that’s how he found out about the lawsuit. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that UGA is continuing to take the low road about the lawsuit, but in my opinion, directing sports writers to Mr. Mays’ lawsuit set a new record low for UGA Athletics.”
It is to laugh. First off, the lawsuit is a matter of public record. Second, the idea that Greg McGarity is directing a cabal of beat writers to embarrass Mars’ client is a real hoot. Third, “a new record low”? Buddy, you have no idea how low things can get in Athens.
That being said, I do wonder if this is a sign we’re about to usher in an era when McGarity doesn’t play nice. Whatever that might result in, it wouldn’t be anywhere near a record low. Probably not, though — more like Mars is trying to bully McGarity.
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UPDATE #2: Greg speaks!
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Oh sure he will get a waiver. It’s the bizzaro world of UGA we are living in.
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Really looking forward to whichever QB transfers here expressly NOT getting the waiver. That’d be some serious “Georgia Way” BS.
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I think the QBs we are looking at are graduate transfers, and I think they get to play without sitting, no need for a waiver. Cager is a recent example, but we also had a great punter from Columbia here as well. Probably more, but it is early for me. 🙂
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Yeah, good point. I was thinking more of Lawrence’s backup at Clemson. I think he’s still an undergrad.
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We’re going to build our line and make Georgia pay for it.
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The NCAA needs to change the transfer rules. Part of the excitement of being a fan of college football is pulling for your favorite players. If those players can transfer to a hated rival and suit up immediately fan loyalty is affected negatively. The suits are messing with things that go to the core of the game and are screwing things up.
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Wait… I thought it was what was on the front of the jersey that mattered.
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The “fault” system created by the NCAA is a big part of the problem. A player has to come up with something as an excuse to justify the transfer in order to play immediately so they manufacture a controversy causing hard feelings. The racial epithets BS used by Fields is a perfect example. Privately Fields, his family and his attorney used that as an excuse for the transfer to get a waiver while publicly denying that had anything to do with him leaving Athens. The fact that Fields’ sister still attends UGA shows that the real reason was playing time not some discomfort with having to attend school with racist pigs. Mays and his family have now come up with a litigation controversy as the pretext for him leaving—all in an effort to create some sort of nonspecific friction that must occur in order to get a waiver. This system is disgusting and forces players and their families into dishonesty. This is yet another example of the doctrine of unintended consequences so rife in recent NCAA actions which appear to not have been thought through before implementation.
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Nobody is “forced” into dishonesty. We all make those decisions individually. But I do understand what you’re saying.
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Blah, blah, blah.
Three of the four teams in this year’s CFP field have QB transfers. I’m not hearing any of those fan bases complaining, and if Georgia finds a QB for 2020 that way who works out, we won’t be either.
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Do you think we could get a NON grad transfer QB (via a possible waiver) ?
Personally, I’m all-for grad transfers and I’ve been convinced basically by this blog that NIL rights are the right thing to do, but I’m against a total free-for-all on the player transfer market (not having to sit a year). I just flat out don’t think making an early to mid-career guy sit one season of games (they can still practice and do everything else) is an unreasonable compromise for the stability of these programs. Think if a fan favorite coach like matt luke is canned and not a single player had a regulatory tether to the school. The defections could reach a critical mass where even more players, who might otherwise be indifferent, would start bailing what increasingly looked like a sinking ship. Could totally wreck a program worse than SMU. You can play the damn Belk Bowl without your coaches though.
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**meant to say “Player” favorite coach like Matt Luke
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Could? Maybe. But I’m not sure how great that would be from a roster management standpoint.
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Well, what if Fields came back? Would you want him? He’s still an undergraduate.
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Missing my point. If Kirby thinks he can make it work, fine by me. But it will take effort to fit; UGA is in on two stud QBs in the ’21 class right now.
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So what you’re saying is, There’s always next year. Great.
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Man, don’t include me in your wallow in misery tour here. I’m just saying I expect Smart to be careful with whom he offers at QB to fill Fromm’s slot.
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It’s all about a complete lack of integrity. Fields, Mars, Mays, and the NCAA are all guilty. I get that they are looking for an “out” to serve their best interests but the lack of doing so by looking for loopholes in a broken system is a brilliant tact that I personally despise. Take your lumps, transfer on the merits of wanting to go elsewhere for whatever reason, but don’t manufacture an “offense” to make it happen. Just my .02
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My very point sir. The NCAA rewards dishonesty therefor people do dishonest things in the system the NCAA created.
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What is that famous Seinfeld line? We’re all just cheering for laundry…
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NEWMAN !!!
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Soooooo you wouldn’t accept a talented QB who transferred to play at UGA right now? Whole tainting the “purity” of college sports thing? Right, that’s what I thought. It’s only a problem when it inconveniences youm
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You gotta fight Fire with Fire. I don’t like it but if that’s the system now Georgia has to do it too or fall behind other teams that use the new rules to their advantage. That said, I wish the transfer rules were different and I’m guessing that secretly you do too your protestations to the contrary notwithstanding.
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I think kids should be able to transfer wherever and as many times as they want with no restrictions. Because that’s what any regular student can do. Frankly, that’s what any employee (which these kids are) can do. I do mind the NCAA making the archaic structure where kids like Mays and fields have to concoct some bullshit hardship in order to pursue what they and another school have determined is a better opportunity. The only justification that should be required for transferring is “I’ve determined that school abc is a better fit for me” because when one quits his job or transfers to another school as a regular student that’s all justification one needs. It’s called being intellectually consistent.
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I think the intellectually consistent think would be to pay them BUT keep the non-compete clauses (transfer restrictions / sit out a year). The 1 year ineligibility rule is really just a 1 year non-compete. Many employees have them.
Buttttt……you know what kind of people employers make sign non-competes ? People who bring lots of value to the company. Ruhhh-Rohhhh.
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Never thought about it that way before Tony but you are right. The one year sit out is really a one year non-compete clause.
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What I don’t get is why he is transferring. He is risking sitting out a year instead of making NFL money to play at Tennessee? Does he hate his teammates? I generally understand when kids transfer for business decisions, but this one makes zero sense as a business decision. The only answers are he hates his team mates or his dad is using his playing at UT to leverage something else.
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Why is he transferring? He grew up in Knoxville rooting for the Vols. He committed to them until Pittman convinced him to attend UGA. Now, that Pittman is gone, Cade wants to play where his heart has been his whole life. I don’t knock him for that at all; however he needs to sit out a year. This is a very lame excuse to gain immediate eligibility. Luke Ford had a better case than this.
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He loves the Vols so much more than he loves the guys he has been with for 2 years? He loves the Vols so much he will risk sitting out a year?
What he is doing is a total dick move to his former teammates, and that’s personal. I get it when guys make a business decision and it appears that their teammates support them, but this?
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Some of the rumblings in the dawgosphere have been to the effect that he really wants to be a tackle (maybe specifically a left tackle even) and that by deductive reasoning maybe he was unhappy in the jack-of-all-trades role. I’m no NFL scout, but it seems like there couldn’t be too much terribly wrong with rolling in and out among positions. Aren’t we always told that the best lineman are the ones that instinctively understand what every other position on the line is trying to accomplish in every given scenario ? Seems like the NFL would salivate over a guy who could play anywhere and play it well.
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What did he play in the Sugar Bowl?
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Left tackle. He also struggled a lot with the outside speed rusher- taking into account that the left guard missed some plays as well to back him up.
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Left Tackle I believe.
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There is a real difference in the skill sets between tackles and guards. Mays isn’t a tackle and certainly not a left tackle. But he is a damn good guard and a high draft pick NFL prospect at that position.
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So if you leave your teammates for money, it’s all good.
But if you leave them for personal reasons, it’s a dick move?
Why?
“Honey, I’m sorry I screwed around on you, but he has a bigger house and more cash. It’s the right play for me. I’m sure you understand. I’ve given you three good years. I’m a DGWife.”
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Mars is a lawyer. What else do you need to know?
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Yep. No offense to some of you here personally, but in the general sense, fuck lawyers.
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Do you two even know who writes this blog?
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Yes, we know and no offense, but I agree with abides…fuck lawyers.
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In my experience, people who lay blanket statements like “Fuck lawyers” or “lawyers are evil” are usually people who have been smacked down by one when someone they were trying to take advantage of lawyered up.
It’s a profession. Get over it.
Mars on the other hand, is attacking the credibility of UGA and trying to bully our school. So fuck him in particular.
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57 members of the US Senate are lawyers.
168 US HoR members are lawyers.
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Until you need one right?
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The NCAA created a system begging for manipulation. So it gets manipulated.
How much money are the Mays spending to get that year? Mars’s fees, lawsuit fees. Geez. Are they bankrolling all of that?
Side note: did I read that Evans has been released? Off to LSU?
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Every system of governance begs for manipulation. There are always rules some people are going to push to their limits in any attempt to inhibit human behavior.
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I have no personal knowledge of this, but I’ve seen on twitter it being heavily insinuated that the Mays family is very well off.
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Don’t coaching changes affect waiver requests too? Maybe the fact that Pittman left would help Mays get a waiver.
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Now, of course, all is forgiven by the fickle fanbase: https://www.rockytoptalk.com/2020/1/8/21057114/tennessee-vols-football-cade-mays-transfer-georgia-bulldogs
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Yeah, I was wondering about that. They raked him over the coals when he flipped to UGA, but now he’s the second coming.
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This kind of stuff, too bizarre to make up, is part of life at UGA.
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If the NCAA grants immediate transfer with no sitting out for such a spurious claim as this, it’s Katie bar the door.
Every good player will be on the market and all teams will go through feast or famine or famine and famine seasons
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I thought Mars came out with a statement that he was getting out of the waiver representation business
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Thanks for posting your thoughts on this Senator. Everything you said feels right to me as well. I’m no lawyer but if there’s anything that gets my dander up it’s frivolous lawsuits, and this is what it feels like to me. It’s hard to be critical of a kid that works hard enough to play football in college, but man, Cade and his family are behaving like they’re on the Soprano’s. Manipulation, betrayal, speculation.
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You really got to hand it to Fulmer on this one. He’s even out-maneuvered Nick Saban.
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The point everyone seems to be missing is that the SEC rule is a player (non grad transfer) transferring to another SEC school has to sit for a year. There is no waiver or wiggle room in the rule that supersedes the NCAA. The very few conditions that do exist are not remotely met by Mays or his family’s bullshit lawsuit. If he somehow wins this and gets to play next year it opens up a can of worms the SEC doesn’t want to deal with. It truly will be free agency in CFB.
There is a part of me that hopes he does win and gets to play so Olujari and Nolan Smith can abuse him in Athens next year. Kid is not a LT no matter how much he may think he is.
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I agree Mays is not a left tackle but he is a damn good guard with NFL potential.
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There was an SEC rule against allowing a player to continue to play when a family member solicits funds from an SEC school as a condition of enrollment too. That rule just miraculously disappeared during the $Cam Newton controversy. I expect the “in-conference sit out a year transfer rule” to get the same short shrift.
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I sincerely doubt that anyone called Cade’s daddy a racial slur while he was bleeding on the Sanford Stadium carpet.
I’m mostly open to giving players as many rights to control their destiny and earning rights as they can get. This situation has me angry enough, though, to have me going back against my usual stance on these issues. This lawsuit from the family is nakedly hot garbage and it’s just gaming the system. This finger thing happened on an official visit in December. If the family had such a problem with how the situation was handled, they had ample time to change course in Cade’s recruitment. And to have him go to a division rival with freaking Thomas Mars’ help, well… I’ll be honest, I want the kid to have to sit a year. Dammit, if Luke Ford had to sit out at Illinois, then Cade Mays damn well has to sit out at Tennessee.
I’m sure he won’t, though, so I guess we’ll have to hope that our defensive line figured out how to beat him at practice. Baylor’s certainly did and they didn’t get to see him every day.
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I would personally like to give the Mayes family ,Tom Mars and UT THE FINGER! Go Dawgs!
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$3.5M?? Hell, I’d chop the end off my pinkie myself for half that.
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I’ll represent you in your lawsuit against yourself and take 1/3–of the money, not the finger.😉
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I’m sorry, in this case, none of us can, as I believe they said Pittman had already given it back to them!
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The fact that his family is suing UGA would put him in a really bad spot – this may be his argument.
On a related note, only a Tennessean cuts off his finger in a damn folding chair! Ya can’t fix stupid.
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Actually, the facts are more compelling when you dig deeper.
Pittman kept the pinky finger and Kevin Mays as ransom for Cade enroll at Georgia. Cade received the pinky finger in a jewelry box with some cotton wadding.
During Sugar bowl practices, Cade and Ben Cleveland discovered that the kidnappers were really a group of German nihilists all along.
Waiver granted.
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Now it all makes sense!!
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“I will NOT abide another finger…!”
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Hah, if you script this Big Lebowski sequel I’ll watch the hell out of it.
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I can get you a finger, Dude. There are ways… you don’t wanna know about ’em.
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So, Cam Newton’s Dad should have just slipped and fallen at MSU and “settled” for $180,000? New frontier. When is an inflated settlement paid to keep a player from transferring an “infraction” that could entangle Mr. Mars?
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I feel like it’s always UGA suffering the growing pains while it drags the sport towards progress.
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They aren’t growing pains, they are lashes….
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I have to admit I’m curious what papa mays did with his pinky that was worth five hundred grand to Mrs Mays.
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That thought crossed my mind also.
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You can file a civil lawsuit against anybody for anything whether the claim is valid or not. Sure it may get tossed later but you can still file it. I can allege that UGA served me a hot dog at Sanford Stadium that was spoiled and made me throw up at halftime. I threw up so hard that I had to leave the game after I pulled an abdominal muscle dry heaving in the bathroom. I incurred medical bills as a result, couldn’t work for a time, and also couldn’t duck hunt. My wife suffered loss of consortium. My young daughter has PTSD from being exposed to my pain and suffering and is now in therapy as a result. My son also happens to play for UGA and wants to transfer to UF and play immediately. Did it happen? Maybe, maybe not, but who knows. I can choose to withdraw the suit anytime I want to. I firmly believe Mr. Mays lost his finger, but this tact for gaining Cade immediate eligibility stinks.
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More artificially induced? Are you kidding me?
Dude’s father literally had his finger cut off. The other case had some drunken 19-year-old allegedly use a racial slur.
These aren’t even in the same realm of legitimacy.
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Dude literally chopped the end off of his pinky because he was a dumbass. Oh and it happened before the kid even signed with Georgia.
Yep, made up and flagellant.
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So the dumbass dad doesn’t know how to operate a stadium folding chair and that’s grounds for a lawsuit against the Athletic Dept. more like natural selection. Unbelievable. We need to fight this. No one should be rewarded for manipulation,
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The Mays situation wouldn’t bother me too much if it weren’t for the way they are going about it. If what I read is accurate, the lawsuit wasn’t filed until January 6th and the incident occurred two years ago. In my eyes it appears they are doing this to create a case for him not sitting out a year. He is going to say his position coach left and use the lawsuit as a reason for an uncomfortable environment.
It is total BS that Luke Ford wasn’t granted a waiver when he was genuine in his reasons to transfer but they deny it on a lame distance technicality. The NCAA then turns around and grants waivers for others when the reasons are inflated, distorted, or half truths.
BTW, if his reason for wanting to leave UGA is that Pittman is gone, why doesn’t he follow him to Arkansas?
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Well, scratch the Jan. 6 date I saw. I just saw the update stating it was file a month earlier. Still, that is several years later after the incident occurred and doesn’t really change my view of what the strategy is.
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Two year statute of limitations in Georgia for tort/negligence claims like this; very common to wait until close to the end of the period to file suit to “see what happens” – in this case, “seeing what happens” also conveniently included what happens with young Cade’s career.
The contributory negligence defense should be pretty stout in this case – can’t see how Mays the Elder isn’t at least 51% negligent for not knowing how to use a folding chair without chopping off the end of his own finger….
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Also, how much is the tip of a pinky finger really worth? Is the guy a concert pianist? A plastic surgeon? Violin player? Pro golfer? Nuisance value case IMHO.
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Agreed on Pittman – if that is the issue, where is the logic in going back to UT? Just like how Fields needed to transfer from our unsavory campus but the sister was still on scholly. Sadly when logic like that is ignored and Luke Ford with a 100% legitimate reason is denied… well, I’d bet loss of body parts and family members that Mays gets a waiver.
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Pittman’s announcement as Arky HC was 12/8/19 if I’m not mistaken. I assume he must’ve notified the players quite a while before the announcement date if Mays’s father had time to get with a lawyer and proceed with a lawsuit. I bring that up as most folks are saying Pittman’s departure is the reason for the transfer. Makes me think Pittman must’ve known about the new job and notified players quite ahead of the announcement date.
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Players didn’t know till the announcement. The fact that the suit was filed two days prior to the bowl when it could have been filed the Monday after the bowl is telling. Would love to hear Senator address this. This is more than just getting Cade a waiver. My opinion is it was designed to have maximum negative impact on Kirby and Georgia while still allowing Cade to play in the Sugar Bowl so that he would be mentioned as our starting left tackle… then leaves Georgia for Tennessee. And you know Kirby was aware on Friday that the suit was filed the day before.
If this was legit then Cade would have told his dad to wait till after the bowl for the sake of the team and his teammates. He didn’t.
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A friend of a friend who teaches at Mays’ high school warned me that he was a real prick when Kirby was recruiting him, but it seemed like he kept his head down and worked hard while he was at UGA. Apparently it’s his dad we should have been watching out for.
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The apple usually doesn’t fall too far from the tree.
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“The players are always oppressed victims!” Say it like a mantra, and it will make the cognitive dissonance dissapear until next year’s bowl game.
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Oh, boy. Somebody’s fee-fees are hurted again.
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Right, and I think they’re yours. Simplistic narratives can really cause an ouch when they collide. I’m sure you will find a way to reconcile them though. You always do!
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Mays should not get a waiver if Brenton Cox didn’t. Coaches leave all of the time. If that’s all it takes to get a waiver, then make it free agency.
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I wonder if UGA could force the NCAA to stop employing Mars to work with NCAA Enforcement. Just because his contract doesn’t expressly say he’s not prohibited from representing student-athletes against NCAA member-schools, doesn’t mean there might not be some conflict of interest issues there. While I don’t think UGA can force Mars to stop repping Mays, Georgia may at least take the issue up with the NCAA.
Also, as many of y’all know, the two year statute of limitations was about to run on Kevin Mays potential claim. My guess is that will be the reason given as to why suit was filed when it was. That said, plaintiffs’ attorneys tend to be very leery of filing suit so close to the tolling of SOL for fear that if they screw something up with the filing or service, the SOL will pass and they won’t be able to re-file, meaning their client’s claim will be gone and they will have committed malpractice. It’s especially true in a case like this in which multiple diverse parties, including corporations and a public university, are being sued. Of course suit could have been filed both to preserve Kevin Mays’ claim and to provide ammo for a transfer waiver.
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I know you are joking, but do remember who is the head of the athletic department? Mr, Bend over, come and get it.
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Isn’t it true that whatever if any settlement is reached will likely be covered by insurance rather than hit the coffers of the AA? If that’s the case the case shouldn’t factor in at all.
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Apparently Kevin Mays can’t get his wife off without the tip of his pinkie finger. And her lack of orgasms is worth half a brick.
I guess it’s worth this kind of ridicule so their son can play with his brother in a loser program. Fucking hillbilly cult.
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No longer a loser program. 8-5 this season.
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UGA should fight this tooth and nail and just keep citing Luke Ford in every public statement they make. Whether that’s a successful tactic in keeping Mays from playing at Tennessee next year is almost beside the point.
The moral of the story: if you’re honest about why you want to transfer, you’ll get denied a waiver. If you lie about why you want to transfer, you’ll get one.
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I agree with what the Mayor said at top. Fans do pull for the individual players not just for the jersey. I’m an old guy. My memories of Dawg Football is about players that have worn the uniform. I would agree that something needs to change with the way the portal is set up now. Professional baseball shows us what can happen. It use to be that a city would have a team whose players would represent that city for decades. Now they move around so much, the teams are losing their fan base. Our kids aren’t turned into fans …. as the future of the sport is sacrificed on the alter of the immediate.
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Great analogy D. Hit the nail on the head.
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Only thing that could make this pinky story crazier is if Uga X had picked up the finger instead of Pittman.
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Like the cat in “The Ladykillers”. Great film….
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Gee, I hope that troublesome turf in Knoxville doesn’t cause a career-ending injury.
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Mayes’ getting to play early was actually, UGA’s investment for a future return. He’s taking our dividend and gifting it to Tennessee. So, I suggest the following new rules for the portal:
1. Eliminate the lawyers … everyone gets to play without sitting out a year.
2. But if they do play immediately, the school losing that player should be compensated with an comparable player from the receiving school’s roster.
3. If they sit out one year, that rule is waived.
How ’bout them apples?
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You’re going to make a kid who doesn’t want to leave his current school transfer out? WTF is with some of you?
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It seems only fair. Sorry, Netori we traded you Winston-Salem for their QB. The good news is you’ll get a better shot at starting there.
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We can’t make them give us a player, but we certainly can demand that we will be awarded a safety to begin the game next year if Mays plays. If they grant him eligibility, Tennessee starts the game next year down 2-0.
I’m kidding, but let’s propose it for real anyway.
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Can we retroactively get Juwaun James?
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I don’t think you could make them give you a player, but what if you got an additional scholarship to offer from that. Kind of like the MLB compensation when if the previous team makes an offer, any team that claims him, has to give a draft spot.
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Well, of course members of the orange shit show showed their real selves. Toothnation, who wished Cade all the torn ACLs he could stand, now opens their arms. Not a DGD anymore to me. He’s one of them. Good riddance!
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This gambit would blow up if ADGM just cut a check to settle the case. I know that seems like a ridiculous expense, but they waste money in all sorts of ways, and without a lawsuit it would seem to take all the wind out of Mays/Mars sails in the argument for a waiver.
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LOL
“Find The Georgia Offense” would be a good jumbotron game.
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Loss of consortium of $500,000 for the loss of a pinky finger. Do tell!!!!!
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Rest assured in #DECOMMITTINGFROMTHEG, we’re confident Mays’ father will accept our offer of eligibility for the Tennessee game, a free ticket, two hotdogs, and a Powerade.
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Like I said above, it means he couldn’t get her pinky humming without the tip of his pinkie. So not only is Kevin Mays missing half a finger, he’s not very dexterous AND can’t get it up.
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Just as a side note to Thomas Mars’ bullshit, he absolutely, 100% is lying through his teeth when he claims a sportswriter confirmed to him that UGA directed them to the lawsuit. That is a naked, bold-faced lie. Reporters do not reveal their sources, and they certainly do not give up their sources to a lawyer involved in litigation with said source on the same story. That’s a complete fabrication, and it’s just a blatant ploy to try to get public opinion back on his side. Radi Nabulsi tweeted a little while ago that at least as far as his reporting goes, he found the lawsuit while searching online for ol’ 9-finger Mays’ contact information. This is certainly plausible because as others have noted, LAWSUITS ARE PUBLIC RECORD. Hell, the clerk of court where this suit was filed could just be a big Bulldog fan who saw the filing and called a reporter. They could have found it on their own. But one thing is for certain: no sportswriter talked to Thomas Mars and told him that he got the story from UGA. That did not happen. I promise you.
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This situation is starting to get GREASY.
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wow did Greg McGarity just find his balls? Not sure where this side of Greg has been all of this time but he actually just surprised me. Usually he is the first guy to roll over.
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Like Argondawg above, I’ve been known to mock McGarity, but whoever wrote that statement flat out nailed it, and good on ADGM for putting it out under his name.
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I will now root against Cade Mays along with every other Tn player and coach just as I always have because they are Vols. Pack your shit, Skippy.
Glad I do not have to make my money they way Tom Mars does- certainly he’s a big shot to some and in his mind but I wouldn’t want my wealth doing what he does.
Daddy Mays- obviously has no code. Fuck that guy.
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My GDFN Vol relatives (none of them Alumni of UT) have been crowing about this and Fromm’s departure as if the entire Georgia Football program had turned into Akron or Coastal Carolina overnight.
I heard a rumor that Cade did not want to transfer from Georgia. It was at his father’s insistence. I started talking to a woman in Kroger’s on Epps Bridge Road yesterday who told me that. I didn’t have a chance to ask her where she heard it. I haven’t it read it anywhere else so I don’t know if it’s BS. If true, it might explain why Mays played in the Sugar Bowl. You would think if there had suddenly been some bad turn concerning Daddy’s pinky he would have forgone the bowl.
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My source at Fresh Market says Cade Mays doesn’t even like football. I didn’t get a chance to verify.
Ah, the internet…
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“Kroger’s” LOL.
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I’m someone who believes a student-athlete should get one bite at the free transfer apple. Under the current rules, there is no way in hell Cade Mays should get an immediate release from the NCAA and the SEC. I don’t care what cock-a-mamie rationalization that shyster Tom Mars comes up with. I hope McGarity and Kirby fight this appeal tooth and nail.
I was pi$$ed at the Fields decision mainly because of the fact that the university did everything right in dealing with that jackass Sasser. Mars used that episode to attempt to drag my alma mater through the mud to get his client what he wanted whether that ever appeared in a filing with the NCAA.
This situation is 10x worse than the Fields situation. As others have stated, if Mays plays next year, I hope Nolan Smith, Jermaine Johnson, Azeez, and Adam Anderson make Mays’s life miserable in Sanford. Maybe Travon Walker and Nazir Stackhouse can run his @$$ over multiple times. Maybe we put Jordan Davis over Mays for a couple of plays just for the hell of it. I hope the student section gives him hell from beginning to end. If Mays’s father has the nerve to leave the visitor section of Sanford, I hope any Georgia fan who sees him gives him hell.
I never thought I would write this, but if Mays is eligible next year, I won’t be rooting for a meteor on September 26 in Kneeland … I’ll hope FU beats the holy hell out of them.
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OK so I didn’t think my portal reform through and Senator nailed me. And, all seriousness aside, he’s right of course. If we can’t get an unwilling player for Mayes, how one of their recruiting slots added to our NCAA allotted total and taken from them? Am I stumbling closer to a solution Senator?
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“As the Pinky Turns”…..😊
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(As an aside, “The injury to the finger has kept Mays from work including duck hunting, real estate and hay businesses.” Mr. Mays has an interesting and varied career, to say the least. But I digress.)…what does the tip of your pinky have to do with anything involving Duck Hunting, Real Estate, or the Hay business? What a clown ass law suit.
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