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I'm getting news in drips and drabs here---have I mentioned that I'm on vacation?---but SB Nation Atlanta is keeping on top of the situation. It appears that Michael Adams asked for and received Damon Evans's resignation. I'm guessing this was a "negotiated resignation" that will involve Evans being paid not to be athletic director, but that's just speculation on my part.

This was a sad waste of a promising career. No decent human being could celebrate this, but no decent human being could deny its necessity.

For the record, Michael Adams is about to replace an athletic director, and no one in Bulldog Nation thinks he had any choice. That really is news.

Go 'Dawgs!

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The question is, who?...

do we replace internally, as there are a couple qualified candidates. Do we make a beeline for the man who either he or Evans were the choice of the vast, vast majority if memory serves correct, Greg McGarity? What about the rumor of Il Duce requiring an AD beholden to him, and that he can control? I guess we’ve got a storyline for the summertime.

by Mr. Sanchez on Jul 4, 2010 10:29 AM EDT reply actions  

Wait, wait, wait

Don’t rush to replace. It is July and we’re less than two months from the start of the football season. Bring someone on from the inside who is with the gameplan for all the things that go into putting on this show while a legitimate search is conducted. Do not run out and just hire someone and for God’s sake do not shoot for one big time candidate and if he passes just hire a guy from “the family.”

The Evans situation is bad all around, don’t make it worse by rushing to put someone in place before the school year starts.

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by InTheBleachers on Jul 5, 2010 6:23 AM EDT up reply actions  

If only we could figure out a way for someone

to parlay this into a Michael Adams resignation, too. I’m probably asking too much for Adams to fire himself, huh? On the other hand, I have no confidence in MA making a good decision on our next AD. I just hope he doesn’t have Mike Garrett’s number…

"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell

by DavetheDawg on Jul 4, 2010 11:20 AM EDT reply actions  

Sadly

I think we lost our best chance to be rid of him when the NCAA turned him down for that leadership position. Ce la vie.

by blackertai on Jul 4, 2010 12:03 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

have I mentioned that I’m on vacation?

quitcher whinin.

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by kleph on Jul 4, 2010 5:56 PM EDT reply actions  

There are, however, some UGA fans celebrating this...

…the ones who are living in a fantasy land where Vince Dooley is still the AD.

by georgiadawg85 on Jul 4, 2010 8:53 PM EDT reply actions  

Get rid of Michael Adams? Huh?

So our endowment can go back to flat growth and we can have Ray Goff as our football coach?

This trendy, lockstep, clueless, baseless Michael Adams hatred on the UGA sports blogs is retarded.

by Muckbeast on Jul 5, 2010 1:26 AM EDT reply actions  

Do you mean so we can go back to not being the subject of . . .

. . . massive audits revealing financial mismanagement, full-length books about said mismanagement, and nationwide columns about Michael Adams’s unfitness to lead the NCAA? So we can go back to not hiring Jim Harrick, making secret deals for the retention of Jim Donnan, hosting foundation-financed graduation parties for the president’s son, and lowering faculty morale?

While I don’t fault him for failing to extend Vince Dooley’s contract, the disdain for Il Duce is far from “baseless.”

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Jul 5, 2010 8:29 AM EDT up reply actions  

Muckbeast

You are certainly entitled to (and generally encouraged) to render an opinion, although in Adam’s case you’re opinion is a minority one around here. But I’m hardly clueless and baseless in expressing my disdain for our President. I am the son of a retired professor who devoted 30 years to UGA and who generated hundreds of thousands of grant dollars for the school during his tenure. And my father saw first hand many of the shady policies and procedures that began to occur several years ago. Ultimately, it affected his ability to not only teach, but to do what he enjoyed the most: research. Do I have an axe to grind? You’re damn right I do.

And it isn’t muckraking, either. Adams is not good for my Alma Mater. Never has been…never will be.

"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell

by DavetheDawg on Jul 5, 2010 9:25 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

Muckbeast, rename yourself clueless....

There are plenty of reasons to question Adams and they don’t start with the Dooley situation, the Harrick hire and now the Evans hire. I suggest you familiarize yourself with the claims of corruption levied by the Foundation and confirmed by an independent audit just for starters. Adams runs UGA in the same way Blago ran Illinois…corrupt as possible and for his own personal monetary gain.

Here, I will make it easier for you to start….
http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/articles/2010/03/28/ncaa_should_use_a_presidential_veto_here/

by rxmaster on Jul 5, 2010 2:13 AM EDT reply actions  

Bob Ryan? Really?

Come on. You can do better than a Bob Ryan opinion column, can’t you?

Here’s the D&T report: alt.cimedia.com/ajc/pdf/adams/adams.pdf

Everyone has their own opinion about Michael Adams. That said, I would be hard pressed to rip him for the Evans hire. The bottom line is that Evans basically did a very solid job in his time here. His one big hire — Coach Fox — appears to be working out relatively well. He did an excellent job with the AA budget and appears to have made some grave personal mistakes. I’m not saying he shouldn’t get axed, but I don’t think that Adams necessarily made a mistake in hiring him.

Also, having resided here in Chicago for a few years, I don’t think Adams’ level of corruption quite rises to Blago’s. That man is in a league of his own.

by WindyCityDawg on Jul 5, 2010 3:20 AM EDT up reply actions  

Further reading for clueless - AKA Muckbeast

Got that read yet? Track this book down if you can…

"Behind the Hedges: Big Money and Power Politics at the University of Georgia’

In the future, I suggest you do not comment about something you clearly have no understanding of unless you actually have something to add other than calling the rest of us “clueless” and “retarded”. I have been around UGA for over 30 years and I have never been more embarrassed than by the sewage we have occupying the President’s office now. It’s not about money, it’s about integrity…and Adams has none of it as he has proven time and time again.

by rxmaster on Jul 5, 2010 2:22 AM EDT reply actions  

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