Jakar Hamilton Announces Transfer
by Ludakit on Sep 20, 2011 3:13 PM EDT
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PrintEarlier this afternoon, Jakar Hamilton announced via Twitter that he was transferring due to needing "a fresh start." Hamilton, who was injured with a broken ankle and was expected to redshirt this year, would have been a redshirt senior next year. Hamilton played in all 13 games in 2010, totaling up 27 tackles and an interception. He was a JUCO transfer in the 2010 recruiting class, coming over from Georgia Military College.
Hamilton stated to the AJC that Bacarri Rambo and Shawn Williams were playing well this year, which makes one assume he thought the chance for playing time next year was going to be very slim. He also said that he met with Coach Mark Richt and both agreed that the fresh start was a good idea. Hamilton says that at the moment, he hasn't made a decision on where he'll be transferring, but indicated it would be an FCS school.
So what does the transfer mean in the bigger picture? Well, as we have been reminded all too often this season, depth isn't exactly a strong suit anywhere on Georgia's team, but Hamilton wasn't going to be on the field in 2011, so it's a wash in that area.
On a positive note, it speaks volumes towards the development of the Bulldog Secondary, and more specifically, guys like Corey Moore and Nick Marshall. It also indirectly confirms that Bacarri Rambo and Shawn Williams look to be the starting Safety tandem at least until the end of 2012.
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I'll take North Alabama players for 200 Alex
And good luck to him.
by Mark Mandingo on Sep 20, 2011 3:15 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Hats off to Jakar.
I wish things had worked out, but best wishes to him. And I’m glad we worked it out now to make the best use of the limited scholarships we have to hand out this year.
Good luck to Hamilton, too bad it didn't work out...
Hopefully it’s a testament to the young talent we have & that he thought his best shot at the next level was to go in another direction to showcase his talents…
So much for the HIT MAN
Wish him luck, but he sure was a bust for us.
"A bust for us" Muckbeast, sir, with 27 tackles for us last season ?
26 Players supposed to have for 2011, no longer here
GREAT EXODUS :
ADDITION BY SUBTRACTION :
Half the Starters on Offense and Defense left to the NFL :
1.Clint Boling – Cincinnati Starter at Guard NFL
2.Akeem Dent – Atlanta active Linebacker Falcons NFL
3.Kris Durham – Seattle active Wide Receiver NFL
4.Kiante Tripp – Atlanta Defensive End cut last cut NFL
5.Darryl Gamble – San Diego active Linebacker NFL
6.Demarcus Dobbs – San Francisco active Defensive Tackle NFL
7.Josh Davis – Chicago Offensive Tackle cut last cut NFL
8.Shaun Chapas – Dallas Cowboys Fullback practice squad NFL
LEFT EARLY as Juniors :
9.Justin Houston – Kansas City several tackles Linebacker NFL
10.Caleb King – Minnesota Running Back practice squad NFL
11.AJ Green – Cincinnati Wide Receiver 41-yard TD catch NFL
Of these 11, the last 3 are supposed to be here :
1.Justin Houston – DISNEYdawgs.com said he would be great 2011
2.Caleb King – DISNEYdawgs.com said he would be great 2011
3.AJ Green – DISNEYdawgs.com whined kicking he should stay 2011
4-Brandon Burrows RFr waited until Fall Camp for surgery lost for year
5-Dontavius Jackson great RB transferred out, leading RB UAB
6-Lonnie Outlaw – failed Qualify 2010, 2nd leading WR Ga Military
7-Walter Hill Wide Receiver – kicked off team or would be Senior 2011
8-Chris Little – # 1 OL in state of Ga, transferred out
9-Ben Harden – OG played 3 games 2010 would be Senior 2011
10-Jonathan Owens – OT Redshirt Junior 2011, medical disqualification
11-Logan Gray-12 games 2010, Senior Transfer Colorado made catch
12-Montez Robinson – would be redshirt sophomore 2011, kicked off
13-Zach Mettenberger – LSU,would be redshirt sophomore 2011, kicked off
14-Deion Bonner that was this year stealing in locker room
15-Chris Mayes – Dream Team 2011 failed Qualify, MS Gulf Coast Nose Tackle played several games, made several tackles 2011, more than ours have here
16-Kent Turene – Dream Team 2011 failed Qualify, top Linebacker # 18, Jireh Prep NC
17-Jalen Fields top DE nation Dream Team 2011, failed to Qualify
18-Jakar Hamilton – Senior Free Safety injured, transferred
19-Nick Williams – could be Senior 2011, transferred North Alabama Strong Safety
20-DE Jeremy Longo, Jr. — Medically disqualified
21-OL Tanner Strickland, Sr. — graduated with eligibility remaining
22-OL Trinton Sturdivant, Sr. — knee injury, career over
23-OL A.J. Harmon, Jr. — Transferred to Alabama State
24-TB Washaun Ealey, Jr. – Transferred to Jacksonville State
25-LB Marcus Dowtin, Jr. — Transferred to North Alabama
26-OL Brent Benedict, RFr. — Transferred to Virginia Tech
THE GREAT EXODUS
ADDITION by ATTRITION
Mismanagement by the “coaching staff”
by Thomas Brown UGA on Sep 21, 2011 5:40 AM EDT up reply actions
What are you talking about, exactly?
Believe it or not, it isn’t clear.
Who are these “DisneyDawgs,” exactly? And, what joy do you get out of bitching and moaning about this kind of thing right now, with the season barely 1/4 over. Dude, it’s great to be a Georgia Bulldog, and you will receive no bonus prize for not being a “Disney” Dawg. You are trying to win a game that nobody else wants to play with you.
Nice Xon
Thank you, sir. That all you got to say about Jakar Hamilton to be the latest among all this group to leave the school with a Scholarship mismanaged ?
by Thomas Brown UGA on Sep 21, 2011 6:49 AM EDT up reply actions
I read as far as "Caleb King – DISNEYdawgs.com said he would be great 2011."
At that point, I collapsed on the floor with laughter and couldn’t proceed. The next sentient being I meet who ever suggested Caleb King “would be great” this season will be the first one. (By the way, your URL is wrong. There is no website called “DISNEYdawgs.com.” Please check all links before posting.)
Yeah, we got it. Jakar Hamilton is transferring because he got injured and has a wealth of talented guys in front of him, so the sky is falling and everyone ought to be fired. Next. . . .
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Sep 21, 2011 7:33 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
If you stopped there, you missed this gem...
I don’t know whether to feel bad for Gray or laugh at TBUGA…
Logan Gray-12 games 2010, Senior Transfer Colorado made catch
“Made catch”?
http://sportsandgrits.com/
I loved all of it. One guy, OL Tanner Strickland, Sr, "graduated with eligibility remaining".
DAMN HIM FOR ACTUALLY GRADUATING! We should have held him back so he could keep playing.
WTFO?
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
That SNL skit-Really? Really??? REALLY????
14-Deion Bonner that was this year stealing in locker room
http://sportsandgrits.com/
Stealing in locker room is that old Beastie Boys song, right?
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
by chuckdawg on Sep 21, 2011 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Alabama's Nick Saban has been mismanaging too!
THE GREAT EXODUS – Alabama has lost TEN players since February!
JUNIORS who left early:
1. Mark Ingram (RB) – DISNEYElephants.com whined that he should come back for a second Heisman
2. Julio Jones (WR) – DISNEYElephants.com whined that he should have stuck around for 2011
3. Marcell Dareus (DL) – DISNEYElephants.com said he would be great in 2011
TRANSFERS:
4. Darrington Sentimore (DL)
5. Robby Green (DB)
6. B.J. Scott (DB)
7. Petey Smith (LB)
8. Corey Grant (RB/WR)
9. Demetrius Good (RB)
10. Brandon Moore (DL)
GREAT job of roster “management” by the “coaching staff” at Alabama! FIRE COACH SABAN! #RonP4Bama
by Spears on Sep 21, 2011 8:18 AM EDT up reply actions 6 recs
We have 26 and 2 are from injuries and 1 a recruit stealing from our lockerroom
And, Nick Sa(t)ban has 10 ?
WTF ?
by Thomas Brown UGA on Sep 21, 2011 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Saban has 10 in the last 8 months (really the last 6), and
that does not include injuries or recruits who failed to qualify (or were greyshirted) and who will spend a year at a JUCO. Last year, for example, they lost 3 or 4 DBs alone. If you added up all of the players that could have played for Alabama this year but are no longer on the roster, you almost certainly would get more than 20.
There are plenty of valid criticisms of this coaching staff, but I do not see any context in your post to show me why no longer having these 26 kids on the roster is necessarily a bad thing. Is that higher than the national turnover average? Do we have more kids failing to qualify than other schools? Are we signing more kids that get into trouble with the law than other schools’? Are our kids more injury prone than other schools’?
Clearly, you've never seen Jakar on the field....
After talking a big game before coming to UGA, it was clear from the beginning that the “Hitman” had terrible coverage skills and couldn’t live up to his nickname either, constantly throwing shoulder blocks instead of tackling to the ground. I guess your comments shouldn’t surprise me if you are the same Thomas Brown UGA as the poster on the ESPN message boards.
You scour the ESPN message boards?
“You’re braver than I thought.”
Success is never final. --Winston Churchill
which explains why he had to make 27 tackles for us last season alone ?
I must have missed that huh GShock ?
What is that Sherlock ?
by Thomas Brown UGA on Sep 21, 2011 4:21 PM EDT up reply actions
27 tackles?
In one season alone? You shut your lying mouth, sir, that is not possible. That has never been done.
Now you’ve convinced me. We should fire everyone. The janitors. The concession vendors. We should track down everyone who worked on the last round of stadium construction and sue them for punitive damages retroactively. We should tattoo “I’m right and it feels so good” on our foreheads, and we should smile and watch it all burn.
by Xon on Sep 22, 2011 2:15 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Clearly the UGA coaching staff is at fault...
for not predicting Trinton Sturdivant’s knee injuries or for Lonnie Outlaw being too dumb to qualify for school.
Many of those people you listed (Jakar Hamilton included) weren’t going to be major contributors. Those scholarships will be more valuable when they’re given to incoming players with potential than guys who are just enjoying the last year or two of college and maybe seeing the field on the punt team. I’m not in favor of Saban-style cuts, but if a guy like Jakar Hamilton wants to transfer to a smaller school for playing time, should our coaches go out of their way to stop him?
On one hand, it seems like you’re bashing the coaches for not predicting poor academics or motivation problems or sexual batteries. On the other hand, you’re complaining that some of the guys we signed are doing well at UAB or GMC and not for UGA. What exactly is your problem with scholarship management other than “these guys aren’t here any more”?
by FisheriesDawg on Sep 21, 2011 9:16 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
To use an analogy well-suited to FisheriesDawg's moniker...
… sometimes you have to be willing to cut bait and move on, both from the player’s and the program’s perspective.
by vineyarddawg on Sep 21, 2011 9:24 AM EDT up reply actions
Not major contributors ?
Then, why did Mark Richt give 26 of his scholarships out to these nobodies whom we are all so much better without ?
With his 13-13 record vs SEC East after 2005 ?
DISNEYdawgs.com post that is, sir, with all due respect. Either, (1) Mark Richt gets credit for recruiting them all here, all 26. Or, (2) he wasted the scholarships.
Your reply ?
He (2) wasted the scholarships.
I think I just said that. Help me out now. I might not have said that, ok ?
by Thomas Brown UGA on Sep 21, 2011 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Sometimes kids don't pan out.
Do you think UGA is the only program that recruits kids that are busts?
There are arguments to made against our coaching staff for recruiting the wrong kids or putting them in the wrong places. Most of them are coherent and don’t read like someone throwing darts at a wall, though.
Besides, if you’re going to bash the coaches for recruiting the wrong players, what is the point of listing the 11 that went on to the NFL in one capacity or another?
by FisheriesDawg on Sep 21, 2011 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Jalen Fields is a 2010 kid.
He’s in Outlaw’s class.
by first and thom on Sep 21, 2011 9:19 AM EDT up reply actions
2010 got it. Thank you.
Jalen Fields recruited here for 2010 and given great credit to the coaching staf here for bringing him here with our rankings based on Jalen Fields in 2010, and recruited here in 2010, he is not 1 whom we could have had playing the 1st two games this season ?
Missing your points.
You guys dish it out, but what do you say ?
Oh, Jalen Fields was recruited in 2010. Thank you. Got that. Now, would he have been here 2011 ?
Answer is yes.
Next…
by Thomas Brown UGA on Sep 21, 2011 4:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Not sure you are realy driving home that point that you think you are...
… if you look across the country, what you are harping about being a Georgia Bulldog football coaching problem happens every year, in every program and in all sports within those programs. This goes for 5 star recruits and the like. What is your aim here? Mark Richt sucks? Just say that and move on.
"Uvarum, Uvarum Fit, Uvarum.... double Fit..."
- Augustus "Gus" McCrae
by Munson's_Marbles on Sep 21, 2011 4:38 PM EDT up reply actions
He didn't qualify. That's on him. We lose him for two years...
… and then he comes to Athens. That’s college football and it happens to every program.
by first and thom on Sep 21, 2011 6:02 PM EDT up reply actions
One more thing:
The scare quotes around “coaching staff” remind me of the opening lines of the epic chewbacca defense: “Ladies and gentlemen of the ‘supposed’ jury…”
by first and thom on Sep 21, 2011 9:24 AM EDT up reply actions
first and thom
Nice name 1st Down.
I mean 1st and thom.
Seeing as how we are # 72 in the nation at making 1st Dows all of 2010 and more of the same again for 2011.
Pardon me, but when you get finished making fun of me, we still have Mike Bobo as the OC.
Or, are you now voting FOR Mike Bobo on this “supposed coaching staff”
?
by Thomas Brown UGA on Sep 21, 2011 4:28 PM EDT up reply actions
You should rec it.
It’s a funny joke, and it’s yours.
by first and thom on Sep 21, 2011 7:04 PM EDT up reply actions
I think "dude" replaced "totally surprised" this year
Because I don’t think much of anything could really truly be a surprise at this point.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
by chuckdawg on Sep 21, 2011 7:18 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
"totally surprised" is the sound of falling
“dude” is just wallowing back and forth at rock bottom.
by first and thom on Sep 21, 2011 8:30 PM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
GREEN THIS POST!
Carry on.
Success is never final. --Winston Churchill
by Inteljumper on Sep 21, 2011 10:02 PM EDT up reply actions
I have tried to respond to you reasonably and calmly so many times in the past, more than many.
I have politely asked you to write paragraphs for example. Apparently in this case, you think it’s bad that players went to the NFL. I don’t think anyone can explain to me how that is bad.
So, perhaps this time, I will just leave it at this, this time and maybe forever,
“Dude”
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
by chuckdawg on Sep 21, 2011 11:02 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
SB Nation . . .
. . . needs to add a “Dude” button.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Sep 21, 2011 12:14 PM EDT up reply actions
Agreed
"Uvarum, Uvarum Fit, Uvarum.... double Fit..."
- Augustus "Gus" McCrae
by Munson's_Marbles on Sep 21, 2011 1:11 PM EDT up reply actions
Our coaches...
should be able to predict if a kid, while a high school junior (or earlier) is likely to start for four years and potentially make All-American. If he:
-Is good enough to leave for the NFL early
-Is borderline on grades or SAT/ACT scores
-has ever gotten into trouble or potentially could while at UGA
-might find out he likes sorority girls and drinking while in college
-might get homesick
-has ever had a traffic violation
…then the UGA coaching staff just needs to steer clear. After all, that recruiting philosophy has worked swimmingly for Georgia Tech over the past decade, hasn’t it?
by FisheriesDawg on Sep 21, 2011 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Leave it as you like tankertoad
The 8 in the NFL are NOT counted in the 26.
Sir.
by Thomas Brown UGA on Sep 21, 2011 4:29 PM EDT up reply actions
LOL there, tankertoad.
Thanks. Some people can only be addressed with minimal gestures and extended laughter.
""A bust for us" Muckbeast, sir, with 27 tackles for us last season ?"... What?
Are you saying that Muckbeast had 27 tackles for us last season?
This entire comment has really confused me… not so much a “lost” and “disoriented” kind of confused but more like an “agitating itch” or “chaffed crotch” kind of confused. I don’t really want to understand it I just want it to go away.
"Uvarum, Uvarum Fit, Uvarum.... double Fit..."
- Augustus "Gus" McCrae
by Munson's_Marbles on Sep 21, 2011 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions
This is a problem with Thomas Brown, and I dont mean this personally,
he has the data to provide some good arguments. But the lack of “verbs” and “paragraphs” makes it very, very hard to read his work. I have tried in the past to nudge him towards any kind of writing style that wasnt bullets, not only bullets, but bullets without an intro or conclusion, it hasnt worked out.
And I am saying this in all honesty, some of his first posts got my attention as part of the early on as I agreed with what he was saying, however, you have to make some sense of the data and your point.
Their is an perception out there, as I argued with the BSU crowd at OBNUG, that players are “leaving in droves” as they said and I think it is something we can look at. But this data has to be filtered and analyzed, not just lumped together. CMR didnt nothing wrong in recruiting Zach Mettenberger for example. In fact, it was the tough call of kicking him off the team I found impressive, not the fact he was kicked off. So we do have a lot of players that have left, but we must highly filter them case by case and be careful of the lump sum.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
Oh, is that the point of his comment?
Or is this some sort of poem that was just entered into the wrong thread and his inentionis that we are just to interpret meaning within our own inner self. You know, “what does this say to you?” kind of thing. If his aim was to point to flaws within the program that are sending players "leaving in droves", then how and/or why would he include those that are now playing on Sunday’s? This would reflect very positively on our coaches at UGA, would it not?
"Uvarum, Uvarum Fit, Uvarum.... double Fit..."
- Augustus "Gus" McCrae
by Munson's_Marbles on Sep 21, 2011 1:41 PM EDT up reply actions
*intentions are
very sorry… I shame myself
"Uvarum, Uvarum Fit, Uvarum.... double Fit..."
- Augustus "Gus" McCrae
by Munson's_Marbles on Sep 21, 2011 1:43 PM EDT up reply actions
My post was just as horrible. I really struggle with "their' "there" for some reason. Or poor comma or semi colon use.
My editor one day will hate me. Rather, I will likely hate him or her.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
Funny thing is...
… I have never really struggled with the “their” or “there” thing until I moved to Norway and joined a masters program at the university here in Oslo. Now I am making this mistake, among many others, that I have I never previously encountered. Literally, this blog is the only thing helping out in this regard. The worst part is that my English, after just three years of studying and speaking Norwegian, is becoming complete garbage. There is little worse than having your English grammar corrected by a guy that calls a “verb” a “werb”
"Uvarum, Uvarum Fit, Uvarum.... double Fit..."
- Augustus "Gus" McCrae
by Munson's_Marbles on Sep 21, 2011 2:16 PM EDT up reply actions
I like that, imma gonna blame it on all my time in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
A bunch of them!
"Uvarum, Uvarum Fit, Uvarum.... double Fit..."
- Augustus "Gus" McCrae
by Munson's_Marbles on Sep 21, 2011 3:51 PM EDT up reply actions
I got a verb for you.
Mark Richt’s coaching staff WASTES scholarships.
by Thomas Brown UGA on Sep 21, 2011 4:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Well, I got some input for you:
Write an actual article, one that contains paragraphs, sentences and some format. State your case, give evidence for your case and conclude it. Make a fanpost.
1) It would be a damn lot easier to read
2) It may actually make some sense
3) You won’t look like a troll
4) You won’t again, be threadjacking, which should be your real name.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
Thomas Brown UGA, we welcome your input.
We don’t welcome the bad attitude or the personal attacks. Currently, there is a fanshot on the front page that links to a posting published at SB Nation’s South Carolina weblog, in which the author offers a rebuttal to my position using facts, history, humor, and impassioned yet civil discourse. I disagree with him, but I am willing to listen to him because of the manner in which he articulates his point of view.
You’re obviously a very knowledgeable, intelligent, impassioned fan, but you seem more interested in picking fights and taking shots than in taking part in the conversation or engaging in a spirited yet respectful debate. That may be acceptable on the message boards you frequent; it isn’t acceptable here. We’d be most grateful if you could raise your level of discourse and dial down the attitude. Thanks in advance for your cooperation.
Go 'Dawgs!
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not a lot of Georgia football talk goin’ on!
just sayin’
by AthensHomerDawg3 on Sep 21, 2011 7:55 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
It's best to ignore him
He’s been spewing this crap all over UGA blogs for a couple years now.
Anyway I live in the neighboring town of Jakar’s hometown. I was a little more excited than most when he choose the Dawgs. He was a tremendous athlete in high school and I thought he would be a solid player for the Dawgs.. I’m disappointed he didn’t take advantage of this opportunity but I wish him luck.
I am seriously not trying to bag on T.B.UGA...
…but round these parts one gets spoiled by really well rounded and thoroughly fleshed out points of view (most of the time). Now I am not making bold claims to this on my own behalf. Lord knows I have a great deal of room for improvement in this department. That being said, I feel that these types of comments do very little in the way of generating good discussion. Like tankertoad alluded to, if he were willing to form at least some form of the narrative (beginning, middle, and end – yes, I know no one needed that, just wanted to be clear) to his points we might be able to actually see the value in his observations. As it stands it looks as if it is just a ploy to rattle some cages.
I guess it would appear that I am biting the bait here but in actuality I do want to be respectful of all those with an opinion on this thing an in this community. So with that said, I invite you Thomas Brown UGA to share with us in detail what you are trying to say. It is obvious that you put some effort into your post and I for one would like to understand where you are coming from. That is, unless you are an undercover troll. If that were to be the case, feel free to fade away.
"Uvarum, Uvarum Fit, Uvarum.... double Fit..."
- Augustus "Gus" McCrae
by Munson's_Marbles on Sep 21, 2011 4:04 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
This is why I come to DawgSports
You have a wide range of opinions but they are discussed in a very civil and thoughtful way. There is nothing wrong with being passionate or defending a point, but do it in a way that backs up your claim with facts and not personal attacks or incorrect narratives.
BTW If I am not mistaken this “Thomas Brown” fellow was banned over at GTP last season for spewing the same stuff.
by RocketDawg on Sep 23, 2011 6:58 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
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