UPDATED: Dawgs suspend 3 players for skipping class
October 29, 2007 by Rich Carlson
Filed under Basketball
Unbelievable…(shaking my head back and forth). Another sports day, another story of college basketball players skipping school. Wow. I’m at a loss for words (well, not really…)
The University of Georgia suspended three players today for violating the newly instituted class attendance policy. Center Albert Jackson is suspended for six games, forward Takais Brown is suspended for nine games, and guard Mike Mercer will miss the Bulldogs first 15 games.
In an effort to raise their graduation rate, Georgia instituted a strict attendance policy that punished players with fines and game suspensions for unexcused absences.
Apparently, the Bulldog trio didn’t get the memo. Or maybe they did get they memo…they just couldn’t read it because of all the classes they’ve skipped.
I applaud the Bulldogs and head coach Dennis Felton for coming down hard on the truant players. Too many student athletes focus all their attention on the “athlete” part and not enough on the “student” part.
Monday October 29th – well, the saga involving the 3 suspended Georgia Bulldog players took another twist last Friday when Takais Brown was kicked off of the team for good.
Brown, the leading scorer for the Dawgs last season, was dismissed from the squad after violating unspecified team rules. While it may hurt the Dawgs in the short term, I applaud coach Felton for thinking of the long-term stability and character of the Georgia program. If you want to run a quality program, you need to recruit kids who are quality individuals, not just quality players.
This so dumb they didnt get suspended for class first of all it was for academic meetings with their academic advisor secondly most of the misses where not just their fault but poor communcation between the two parties but since they are the lesser its was deemed their fault. And Takais Brown is a quality person but he a the head coach never got along which is a big reason why he is gone so before you tell a story get all the facts I know all these guys and the coaches and they are all great people so stop trying to find a story and get a life