Jarvis Jones Cleared to Play by NCAA; Eeyore and Chicken Little Cautiously Peer Out From Under Umbrellas
by T Kyle King on Aug 9, 2011 11:18 AM EDT
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Normally, I am very leery of public expressions of optimism regarding the Georgia Bulldogs; it has been my experience that evincing too sunny a disposition is followed frequently by rotten news, and this was supposed to be Slow News Day Tuesday. This week, though, I have shown increasingly unbridled optimism regarding the coming campaign, which has caused me to cringe in anticipation of the dropping of the other shoe.
Well, the other shoe has dropped . . . and the news is good.
As initially posted here by downindixie, Jarvis Jones reportedly has been cleared by the NCAA and the SEC to play for Georgia this fall. This is huge news, both because Jones figures to be a solid contributor in Todd Grantham’s 3-4 scheme, and because, frankly, it would have been neither surprising nor particularly unjust had the authorities ruled the other way. I’m glad the decision came down the way it did, but, really, I couldn’t have argued forcefully against the verdict had it gone the other way.
Yet go the other way it did not. I openly confessed that I was starting to feel good about the Red and Black again, and the next bit of news out of Athens was favorable. The sun is shining, and the energy vampires intent on sapping the Bulldogs’ positive mojo have been slain by its bright rays (no, they don’t glitter in the sunlight; these are energy vampires, not those silly teenage emo vampires), and it is, if not morning, at least no longer evening in Bulldog Nation.
Go ‘Dawgs!
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It's good news, indeed.
Shocked, really.
"Don't go ninja'n nobody that don't need ninja'n!" ~ Kung Fu Hillbilly.
Probably not
On the other hand, they are just animated lines gyrating.
"If there's one thing worse than chlamydia, it's Florida." ~ Emma Stone
...who has never played a down in the SEC.
I’m glad he’s cleared to play and I hope lives up the hype. But Houston’s shoes are pretty big ones to fill, especially for a new guy.
by first and thom on Aug 9, 2011 11:41 AM EDT up reply actions
Thank you!
This just means that we have another deck chair to rearrange on the Titantic. All of this unbridled optimism must not stand.
by Spears on Aug 9, 2011 11:44 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Agreed
down with the unbridled optimism – have you all forgotten last year???? We’re doomed! The fact that this is positive news for the Red & Black does not mean the end of our collective darknes, it merely means that something even more horrible is about to happen. We’re doomed i tell you!
I can bake like a demon.
by podunkdawg on Aug 9, 2011 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Cue report
Of the entire OLine being arrested by ACCPD for the capital crime of “spitting on the sidewalk while crossing inside the crosswalk, but while the hand was blinking.”
Or wait for all the RBs getting a season-ending case of Swimmer’s Ear after the team pool day.
by Just Some Dawg on Aug 9, 2011 1:23 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
rec'd.
All pessimism now earns an auto-rec from me.
Seriously, y’all… this optimism is going to kill us all.
They are huge shoes to fill
but at least we won’t have to wait until the second or third game of the season for him to start trying. Kudos to the NCAA (can’t believe I just typed that) for making this decision in such a timely manner.
"Man, is there gonna be some property destroyed tonight." - Larry Munson
But he has played downs
in the Pac-10, against a B1G Team (Ohio St.) and against Notre Dame.
I feel a lot better about putting him out there than a freshman in Ray Drew, no matter how highly touted and talented as Drew may be.
That's right
He’s the best we’ve got and I’m glad he’ll be able to suit up in the Dome – and especially in Athens the following weekend. But being our best option isn’t saying a ton. He’s the best unproven OLB on the team, which means he might be an All-American, but he also might be the best in the sense of the “best Chumbawumba song” or “best-looking East German female shot putter.”
by first and thom on Aug 9, 2011 2:15 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm all for playing the . . .
outside linebacker who reminds us of the good times, or the one that reminds us of the best times. As long as there’s no singing of Danny Boy.
by MaconDawg on Aug 9, 2011 3:50 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
He KTMFD...
and then gets up again. You ain’t never gonna keep him down.
by first and thom on Aug 9, 2011 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'm with Spears
That is all for now…
From one Murray to another.... BEAT UF!
A Bulldog will see this and get arrested . . .
this evening after demonstrating it to his teammates during mandatory study hall and accidentally clocking a university librarian in a scene straight out of the Britcom Guide To Unrealistic Physical Comedy. I know it. You know it. Crazy Old Testament God knows it.
/Forecast: Partly cloudy with a 60% chance of smiting. And locusts.
by MaconDawg on Aug 9, 2011 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
As famed golf coach Harvey Penick once said . . .
“optimism is that feeling you have before you know any better.”*
Of course he made a distinction between “optimism” and “confidence”, saying that confidence was the belief that you were about to hit a good golf shot because you’d done it before and knew you could do it again, while optimism is the belief that you can pull off a great shot even though you’ve rarely made that shot before. Scratch golfers are confident. Everyday hackers are just optimistic (that’s why they keep playing).
*Might need to go on the Goat Roast teeshirt design I’m working on.
/golf nerd, out.
//drops the microphone.
Draw a yellow flag in the hand
and it will be an artist’s rendition of the refs we usually have.
by Cherokee's Grip on Aug 9, 2011 4:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Great news for us and bad news for Boise State and South Carolina
The only guess I have is that the NCAA felt since they put Southern California on such steep Probation already, why punish UGA and him. The evidence was fairly clear.
I presume the question not discussed here is why not disclose at the same time about a basketball player and just a football player ?
by Thomas Brown UGA on Aug 10, 2011 12:14 AM EDT reply actions
My guess is
The relationship with the coach/father figure provided the NCAA with sufficient cover to hand down this decision on Jarvis. We all know that the NCAA is less concerned with doing what is right than with how they look.
"If there's one thing worse than chlamydia, it's Florida." ~ Emma Stone
by RedCrake on Aug 10, 2011 12:48 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Yes, the NCAA hasn't looked very good recently
This decision on Jarvis Jones, is more bad publicity for the NCAA everywhere but here too, except for Southern California where the real blame belongs. I mean the father figure is a crook, right ? He ensnared the top basketball and football players added to our 2 teams to start up and the NCAA still hasn’t given us any clue about Kentavious Caldwell-Pope – other than the crook Adams cannot be the father figure to both. This is really bad, then, for the basketball team.
by Thomas Brown UGA on Aug 10, 2011 7:24 AM EDT up reply actions
You're probably right; the "father figure" excuse won't fly for Kentavious Caldwell-Pope.
As for why both decisions weren’t made simultaneously, Greg McGarity said Jarvis Jones’s case was more of a priority due to the start times of the respective seasons, though I agree with you that, since both sets of benefits came from the same source through the same intermediary, and Caldwell-Pope’s apparently involved fewer and less complex transactions (cell phone bills instead of plane tickets and laptops), it would seem logical for both investigations to occur, and conclude, simultaneously, and certainly for Caldwell-Pope’s not to take longer. Of course, just as we learned about Jones’s laptop after the initial story broke, there may be more to the Caldwell-Pope story than we’ve heard so far.
Go 'Dawgs!
Two things...
can’t KCP use the “Cam and Cecil Defense” [patent pending]? As in, I never knew my mother had her phone bills paid.
Also, there may be more to the story, and a relationship established that would hopefully make the paying of the mother’s phone bill more palatable and not an NCAA issue.
http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/
by Mr. Sanchez on Aug 10, 2011 10:17 AM EDT up reply actions
I believe
the critical piece was this:
In its investigation, Georgia was able establish that Jones’ legal guardian, Shelley Stephens — who also worked for the rec department and flew with him to LA — had been in a long-term relationship with Adams.
"Based on the information that we reviewed, it was interpreted that it met the four-pronged test of an established relationship," UGA compliance director Eric Baumgartner said.
The main criteria for meeting the stipulations of NCAA Bylaw 12.1.2.1.6 (preferential treatment, benefits and services) is that a relationship was established before a prospects ninth-grade year.
I can bake like a demon.
Nice digging, but it makes me hate the NCAA still.
So, in the 9th grade, my Mom marries a booster. Booster busy me a plane ticket or gives me some money. That’s illegal. The book/movie Blind Side went into this btw.
The NCAA and tax code and Obama care should get together and have a party.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
It does make me feel a bit better about KCP
being that most basketball AAU stars are identified and “relationships established” prior to 9th grade.
http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/
I think AP just had a son
Lemme just go ahead and establish that relationship now so I can throw around some cash in about 17 or 18 years. Should I just start sending small checks now? UGA logoed, of course.
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