Expect to hear more of this ($$):
Georgia football players arrested this year for speeding are being punished, coach Kirby Smart said Tuesday, but he declined to announce what that punishment entails.
“Everybody wants to know what the punishment is. Well, the players know what the punishment is,” Smart said while attending SEC spring meetings. “And that’s important for our guys to acknowledge that and understand it. But I want to educate further, I want to make sure they understand.”
He’s right, you know. I don’t care what the punishment is. I just care whether it works.
Get The Picture 
All we need to know is that it is being addressed. Unless your the kids parents, it is none of our fucking business.
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When I have two young drivers in Athens, and people are driving impared and going 90 in a 45 on a highly crowded road it’s a little bit of my business. In fact, every Athenian’s business.
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i have two as well in athens
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Plus this same issue is happening elsewhere it just does not have the microscope on it that there is at UGA.
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I blame it on the low rolling hills of the Piedmont. Undulation encourage pedal to the metal.
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WE 100% agree!!!- Bo and Luke Duke
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As did Billy Sunday Birt and AD Allen 🙂
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I tend to agree with the Senator here. I don’t care what the punishment is. I hope that it works. Why would Kirby want to share the punishment so that the media and other fanbases can apply their subjective determinations of whether or not the punishment is too lenient?
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Short of suspending them long enough for whatever game they play us in, the punishments will never be enough.
I’m guessing each guy is spending some extra time getting in condition with Scott Sinclair in Sanford Stadium this summer.
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“This is gonna’ hurt you more than it does me”….
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He also mentioned how upset Rosemy – Jack Saints folks were with their son. Which I saw as a good sign.
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I suspect that will have more of an effect than anything Kirby can dish out. When I was that age, I was much more concerned with having to face my VERY old school parents than any legal authority.
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I had an associate professor threaten me with calling my father as it was an easy course and I dropped in just for the tests.
I gave her Dad’s card. Told her he could use a good laugh. He was old school as I was over 18 and on my own.
Maybe that’s why I didn’t fuck up as many my age.
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We are probably the same age. It was not anything that he would have done other than the verbal tongue lashing for me being an idiot and the disappointment that my mother would have expressed.
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I had an opportunity to fail at West Point and turned it down as I was a Dog. The old man said if I was rich enough to turn down a free education I didn’t need any help from him. He was correct. I made it on my own. My HS guidance counselor or someone should’ve told me how to klep the basic classes.
You damn sure can’t pay your way through working part time these days.
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This is a bit off-topic, but since you mention the changing cost of higher education…. I’m so old that I attended Emory because I couldn’t afford UGA. At Emory I lived at home, had a needs-based scholarship and worked part-time. Cheaper back then than having to pay room and board and tuition in Athens (no Hope Scholarship then either). After saving up for two years after graduation, I did finally make it to Athens for law school.
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PCD, for me it was less expensive to live off campus in Athens than the dorms and meal plans. It was only 35 miles to home but neither dad nor I was having any of that. I was able to skirt the freshman requirement to live on campus rule as I went to basic and AIT fall quarter.
I had every intention of going to law school after my post graduation tour in the yankee Army. Hahahaha. No way my wild ass was going back to class with all y’all gotdam hippies.
😉
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After taking 9 years to get an associate degree, my Dad almost fainted when I told him I wanted to finish at Mercer….
Hs reply – “You can’t dick around at Mercer like you did at Middle Georgia.”
I made Dean’s List from then on….
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I dicked around the first couple years. Had a lot of fun and no “regerts”. Got a commission at the end of my sophomore year. Tightened my ass up and enjoyed school. Hell, I’ve enjoyed myself ever since I got to UGA. Life has been good to me. Been really good last couple years.
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As long as the NIL money keeps flowing, and they keep making Hemi Chargers, we haven’t seen the last of this. Gird your loins.
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Let’s hope they don’t discover Teslas.
I also got curious about which cars various players choose to buy. Imagining hot rod pulling up in his new Prius gives me a chuckle.
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The Chargers/Challengers are a lot of horsepower for the money.
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Indeed!
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Eh, I dunno. I think Smart and Co. should at least come out and say that street racing is a major offense and punishable by multiple game suspensions.
If they never say what the punishment is and it happens again, then everyone will say “UGA doesn’t do shit about reckless driving”.
There is no downside to laying out the punishment for this kind of behavior in plain and simple language.
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There is huge downside. If Kirby publicly establishes the punishment for a certain behavior, it makes it much more difficult for him to not apply that punishment if the behavior happens again involving a player it is more costly to so punish. This is just good ceo strategy, be vague on downside risk, avoid painting yourself into a corner. Kirby has reduced the chances of a star player being suspended from a meaningful game in the future.
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“More costly to punish”. So you are suggesting favoritism? That’s a great way to ruin morale in any business.
I don’t care about a star player either. I care about not having people kill other innocent people by racing on the roads. If that means suspending a star player then so-fucking-be-it.
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Shouldn’t you really be griping to the ACC Sheriff and the local DA ? Kirby Smart is a football coach and college football players are hardly the only ones drag racing.
I’m sure he’s meting out tons of punishment, but i don’t think we have to have a collective public flogging just yet.
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How hard is it to say “You drag race or recklessly drive and you get X games suspensions”?
There is literally zero downsides for this.
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And yet there is literally zero chance that Kirby does that…
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As I always heard – the ass is connected to the brain – right before I got my ass tore up…
Slow learner, ya know….
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When you think about what can and too often does happen to young’uns that haven’t had it dawn on them yet that they are mortal, any effective punishment, even if means benching a star player for a game/games, should be applauded.
I’m still thanking the Lord that I never hurt or killed anyone or myself when I was young and (I believed) invincible.
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Punishment is reactive. What’s the proactive?
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They need to be watching Red Asphalt.
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It is shocking to learn that underage drinking, speeding, pot smoking, ignoring rules and “adolescent behavior” is happening on college campuses these days. It sure was different in the 60’s and early 70’s.
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I think Kirbs doesn’t want to give anyone more reasons to bitch, moan, and lie about than what’s already out there. That’s why he doesn’t say what the punishments are. I don’t blame him. If he says he’s handling things, then, he’s handling things. I wouldn’t want him pissed at me! I bet his punishments are hell! His hell is worse than being stupid!
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