Georgia OL Devin Willock, recruiting staffer die in car crash [Developments at #68 -- #283 -- #289]

SMU was punished after UF.

 

I remember seeing nice cars in the player’s parking lot but the St Pete Times was doing their own investigation and discovered nothing egregious, but a 100 something tickytac BS.

players were selling the allotment of tickets, but big deal.

 

sure in reality this is true but when you make up your own facts it doesn't matter.

 

I stand corrected. I confused the violations with the penalty time frame. Most of SMU's violations were 1980 - 84.

 

Break.

 

UGA Athletic Association faces allegations of staffers driving under the influence

Allegations in the lawsuit of staffers drinking while driving recruits around after partying with the head coach. Also, cash involved.

 

Zero chance the powers that be haven't been aware of Bama and Georgia doing whatever they want the past 10 years or so. They know...

 

The first step is to can UNC and their egregious handling of basketball players' academics.



But first, they have to DESTROY Montana State University for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind for reaching out to the potential Assistant Janitor in Charge of Cleaning Dormitory Toilets and buying him a Happy Meal at McDonalds. Bastards!!!!

 

Remember when Richt had more players arrested than Meyer but the media was radio silent on them then too?

 

I would be surprised if UGA was the only NCAA school guilty of this activity.

At the same time the NCAA does not have compliance officers monitoring the activities of its member schools athletic programs.

Here is the third priority of NCAA Division ": "Institutional control and compliance. Each Division I member school is responsible to monitor and control its athletics programs, staff members, representatives and student-athletes to ensure compliance with the NCAA constitution and bylaws of the Association."

The monitor/investigation happens when the NCAA has enough information to take the appropriate action.

In this incident, it appears that the the UGA Athletic Department violated some NCAA rules. Rules concerning the use of alcohol and money spent some on site recruiting events.

The NCAA had enough prompt and ample knowledge of the January 15, 2023 fatal car crash soon after the Athens/Clark County Police release the crash report. This report was released on January 17, 2023 (two days later). Thus, it would of been proper for the NCAA to be more than curious on what happened at UGA on January 15, 2023.

The following is from Chapter 1 of NCCA DIVISION I internal operating procedures:

"Information Gathering. If the enforcement staff receives or develops information indicating a potential NCAA violation and that information is believed to be reliable, the staff may conduct an investigation pursuant to Bylaw 19.5 and these procedures. The enforcement staff has a responsibility to gather information regarding possible violations.
In doing so, the staff may employ the following investigative tools:
(a) Letter of inquiry to the institution; (b) Interviews with prospective student-athletes, enrolled student-athletes, current and former institutional staff members, third parties or other individuals who may have relevant knowledge; (c) Document and records requests; (d) Review of publicly available information; (e) Observation of public places (on or off campus); (f) Research; (g) Communications between departments of the NCAA national office; and (h) Communications with sources.

The question that a lot of us have is "Has the NCAA opened an investigation on UGA for possible violations related to the fatal January 15th, 2023 car crash?"

One possible answer is No. Because the NCAA was/is waiting for the legal/law suit processes to play out. The recent press releases of the law suits partially revealed what is going on with this incident.

On a side note: It was recently announce that the NCAA is investigating the UF Athletic program on the recruiting of Jaden Rashad. The Rashad story was big news about one year ago. The recruiting of Rashad got messy and complicated because multiple colleges recruited and signed Rashad. Also multiple NIL entities were involved too. To make matters worse, at least one slime ball (John Ruiz, a Miami Booster) has muddied up the waters too. I can imagine that the NCCA had a lot of garbage to sort out before it notified the Gator Athletic Department of the investigation.

 

sacred cows for $1000 Alex

 

Been ignoring their immoral actions since the 1940's.

 

Yeah, UGa in football is kind of like LSU in basketball, nouveau riche. LSU got "dinged" somewhat whereas UGa is mostly unscathed. What is the difference?


Basketball is THE funding source for the NCAA whereas football is ancillary. And so, LSU, BAD (sort of). UGa, how about them cute cat videos on YouTube?

 

The media was much more quiet but under Richt the police at least did their jobs. Now they’re clearly complicit under Smart.

 

the ncaa turned a blind eye at all kinds of egregious behavior and now suddenly they are on a mission

 

Also Richt at least punished them as well. Kirby otoh..... complete opposite.

 

There has never been a public admission to this that I know of. If so, it certainly didn't get as much coverage as the number of Florida arrests. I mean the stats were available to be found but for some reason the ongoing story was about florida and our rogue program while Georgia did indeed have more arrests at the time.

 

Not only that ours were for the dumbest shit imaginable, while they had some pretty wild felonies. How the media & our own conference treats UF is actually sickening.

 

UF is looked at as the better than thou university and it hurts us at times.

 

Agree of course, but I'll add that the media hated Meyer and our team.
As long as I've been a Gator (83) the media hasn't been kind. Whoever was our coach almost always got bad publicity.
So there was that- but then also Meyer went off on that reporter in winter 09 I think.
That made Meyer public enemy #1 to the media- and they were determined to take him down.
They also were determined to get at Tebow, and Tebow didn't give them that chance.
So the next best was to magnify all the problems on the team around TT.